What do you use your system for? If it's not gaming, then Linux will work for you. If it is gaming, then you might have to wait for SteamOS or make do with indie / old titles / clones / WINE headaches, but Linux will work for you.
Ubuntu is great if you've come from Windows 7 / 8; I've used it from 10.04, and it's gotten better in terms of hardware support and usability. I always pinned the taskbar to the left anyway, as it released precious vertical space on my 16:10 monitor. If you fancy a regular launcher menu (Start Menu) look at Mint. Both OSs have installers which will detect your Windows OS and leave it alone, and install Linux either alongside or on a different HDD. Safest bet is to buy a cheap HDD and just keep Linux on it. If you don't like, remove the Linux HDD and repair your Windows boot sector with the install media.
To make full use of that resolution ("Retina" quality, i.e. indistinguishable pixels) at a viewing distance of 10ft you'd need a screen 150" screen. That's 8ft wide 4ft6in tall.
How about suing? Did those who were hurt sue? I bet they didn't sue.
I'm saying that you don't have to wait for other people to do the right thing. In fact, I wouldn't wait at all. Go grab the appropriate paperwork and file a Small Claims case. At the 2,000 received court summons or so they'll just start settling as a default action.
I don't have anything that the NSA would find useful, or even particularly remarkable. I utterly disagree that they should be able to access my data at a whim, but in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't cause me any hardship whatsoever if they did. They have better things to do than look through my personal stuff.
I'm not protecting myself against the NSA, I'm protecting myself against the admin of the storage, or the hacker who access my account. Those guys might want to pull my personal details for some social engineering / identity theft, and to protect against them Truecrypt is absolutely fine.
You could achieve the same thing with a consumer-grade router and Open/DD-WRT. I have an OpenVPN server running on the router and a 1TB HDD attached to the router's USB port. The router, ADSL modem, and HDD must consume 20W max, so any home-grade UPS will give you days of service should the worst happen. I can access it from any computer, or even any device tethered to my mobile phone if necessary. My only issue is my upstream is pretty pathetic, so downloading large files from the NAS isn't really viable.
I don't trust cloud services either. That's why I only upload FreeOTFE encrypted containers. On my home PC I have two small batch files, one to copy the container out of the Dropbox directly, the other to copy it back. I run the first one before I want to work, work on the container outside of the Dropbox folder, then run the second script and let Dropbox do its thing. I can have as many containers as I want, as large or small as I want, and I can access them anywhere. It's a small inconvenience for a lot of piece of mind; Each one of your points is rendered moot by encrypting the data with a decent key.
I don't travel internationally very often, but when I went on holiday this year (through several countries including the UAE), I "drop(ped) my carry-on bags on a conveyor belt, and walk through the metal detector. No need to remove my (Kindle, Nexus 7) from my bag, pull out my toothpaste (shower gel, shampoo, packed as your TSA demands), take my shoes and coat off, etc. Basically the same thing that happened pre-9/11."
For a sample size of one, it's only the US that makes you do all that. Only the TSA. I went through the security checkpoints of four different countries on three continents; Not one made me remove my shoes.
It's only you guys who are inconvenienced; The rest of us are flying elsewhere.
I had this exact same experience going from the UK to Dubai, then on to Perth, from Melbourne through Singapore, Dubai again, and back into the UK. My shoes, belt, bag contents all stayed exactly where they were. The only thing I had to do was package up my shower gel in 100ml bottles, but again they stayed exactly where they were in my case.
The US is the exception, not the norm. The fact that this was such a great experience for you should give you a clear sign that this situation is FUBAR where you are.
I miss being able to revoke app permissions. Being able to deny location data, to WhatsApp for example, was A Good Thing for privacy. I know it is claimed that location data is only used if you choose to send your location to another party, but I'd rather be either notified each time access was requested to prove it, or deny it altogether.
I would go mental if any company in the UK, regardless of sector, used what amounts to a unique key as a password. It's an identifier which requires authentication, not authentication in and of itself.
Yo dawg. I heard you like credit monitoring, so we hired a credit monitoring company to monitor our monitoring of your credit while you monitor the credit monitoring company monitoring our credit monitoring of your credit.
Off topic, but could you please tell me which of the seventeen different domains I need to whitelist in NoScript so the combo box page listing doesn't cover the top three paragraphs of text? Tomshardware.com didn't do it.
The economic downturn happened, meaning that if your company doesn't do well it's highly unlikely there will be a lot of competition to get another job.
Misleading figures. The majority of sales are to private users, not business. The majority of those will be people who don't know the difference between a computer and a monitor, let alone what Downgrade Rights are.
Saying that, I have recently bought Win8 Pro licenses for my workplace, sans installation media.
My most savoured memory of a recent trip to Australia was seeing Saturn through a telescope, rings and all. Second was seeing the Jewel Box cluster about 20 seconds later.
I can see this being useful where your physical location is already known, e.g. Online banking / purchasing. I don't care if my bank knows I'm signing in from my home; They already know where I live. I have a mortgage with them.
The Guardian reported on newspapers hacking in to private mobile phone voice message storage and directly profiting from that information. They also reported on information obtained by a third party, without the involvement of the Guardian, about a world-wide dragnet of surveillance of electronic communication by the US security services. The actors in either situation are completely different. The only similarity is that both involved "hacking" and that term is only applied loosely.
"TrueCrypt has been part of security-minded users' toolkits for nearly a decade â" but there's one problem: no one has ever conducted a full security audit on it except the NSA when they wrote it, backdoors and all.
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What do you use your system for? If it's not gaming, then Linux will work for you. If it is gaming, then you might have to wait for SteamOS or make do with indie / old titles / clones / WINE headaches, but Linux will work for you.
Ubuntu is great if you've come from Windows 7 / 8; I've used it from 10.04, and it's gotten better in terms of hardware support and usability. I always pinned the taskbar to the left anyway, as it released precious vertical space on my 16:10 monitor. If you fancy a regular launcher menu (Start Menu) look at Mint. Both OSs have installers which will detect your Windows OS and leave it alone, and install Linux either alongside or on a different HDD. Safest bet is to buy a cheap HDD and just keep Linux on it. If you don't like, remove the Linux HDD and repair your Windows boot sector with the install media.
To make full use of that resolution ("Retina" quality, i.e. indistinguishable pixels) at a viewing distance of 10ft you'd need a screen 150" screen. That's 8ft wide 4ft6in tall.
How about suing? Did those who were hurt sue? I bet they didn't sue.
I'm saying that you don't have to wait for other people to do the right thing. In fact, I wouldn't wait at all. Go grab the appropriate paperwork and file a Small Claims case. At the 2,000 received court summons or so they'll just start settling as a default action.
What, like Welchia?
Yeah, that went well.
I put installed IIS on my windows box and set wwwroot to write access to everyone. Amidoinitrite?
2.b If you're going to to something yourself, make sure you know what you're doing.
I don't have anything that the NSA would find useful, or even particularly remarkable. I utterly disagree that they should be able to access my data at a whim, but in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't cause me any hardship whatsoever if they did. They have better things to do than look through my personal stuff.
I'm not protecting myself against the NSA, I'm protecting myself against the admin of the storage, or the hacker who access my account. Those guys might want to pull my personal details for some social engineering / identity theft, and to protect against them Truecrypt is absolutely fine.
You could achieve the same thing with a consumer-grade router and Open/DD-WRT. I have an OpenVPN server running on the router and a 1TB HDD attached to the router's USB port. The router, ADSL modem, and HDD must consume 20W max, so any home-grade UPS will give you days of service should the worst happen. I can access it from any computer, or even any device tethered to my mobile phone if necessary. My only issue is my upstream is pretty pathetic, so downloading large files from the NAS isn't really viable.
I don't trust cloud services either. That's why I only upload FreeOTFE encrypted containers. On my home PC I have two small batch files, one to copy the container out of the Dropbox directly, the other to copy it back. I run the first one before I want to work, work on the container outside of the Dropbox folder, then run the second script and let Dropbox do its thing. I can have as many containers as I want, as large or small as I want, and I can access them anywhere. It's a small inconvenience for a lot of piece of mind; Each one of your points is rendered moot by encrypting the data with a decent key.
W.O.P.R.
"Two words, Mr President: Plausible Deniability"
I don't travel internationally very often, but when I went on holiday this year (through several countries including the UAE), I "drop(ped) my carry-on bags on a conveyor belt, and walk through the metal detector. No need to remove my (Kindle, Nexus 7) from my bag, pull out my toothpaste (shower gel, shampoo, packed as your TSA demands), take my shoes and coat off, etc. Basically the same thing that happened pre-9/11."
For a sample size of one, it's only the US that makes you do all that. Only the TSA. I went through the security checkpoints of four different countries on three continents; Not one made me remove my shoes.
It's only you guys who are inconvenienced; The rest of us are flying elsewhere.
I had this exact same experience going from the UK to Dubai, then on to Perth, from Melbourne through Singapore, Dubai again, and back into the UK. My shoes, belt, bag contents all stayed exactly where they were. The only thing I had to do was package up my shower gel in 100ml bottles, but again they stayed exactly where they were in my case.
The US is the exception, not the norm. The fact that this was such a great experience for you should give you a clear sign that this situation is FUBAR where you are.
I miss being able to revoke app permissions. Being able to deny location data, to WhatsApp for example, was A Good Thing for privacy. I know it is claimed that location data is only used if you choose to send your location to another party, but I'd rather be either notified each time access was requested to prove it, or deny it altogether.
That has "Nope." written all over it.
I would go mental if any company in the UK, regardless of sector, used what amounts to a unique key as a password. It's an identifier which requires authentication, not authentication in and of itself.
pay for credit monitoring for those affected
Yo dawg. I heard you like credit monitoring, so we hired a credit monitoring company to monitor our monitoring of your credit while you monitor the credit monitoring company monitoring our credit monitoring of your credit.
I wonder how many of those 50% didn't disable or move virtual memory / swap.
Off topic, but could you please tell me which of the seventeen different domains I need to whitelist in NoScript so the combo box page listing doesn't cover the top three paragraphs of text? Tomshardware.com didn't do it.
The economic downturn happened, meaning that if your company doesn't do well it's highly unlikely there will be a lot of competition to get another job.
Misleading figures. The majority of sales are to private users, not business. The majority of those will be people who don't know the difference between a computer and a monitor, let alone what Downgrade Rights are.
Saying that, I have recently bought Win8 Pro licenses for my workplace, sans installation media.
My most savoured memory of a recent trip to Australia was seeing Saturn through a telescope, rings and all. Second was seeing the Jewel Box cluster about 20 seconds later.
I can see this being useful where your physical location is already known, e.g. Online banking / purchasing. I don't care if my bank knows I'm signing in from my home; They already know where I live. I have a mortgage with them.
Pfff. Just another one of these fancy knobs who likes to use words he doesn't understand in order to sound more "Cochon d'Inde."
There is no double standard here.
The Guardian reported on newspapers hacking in to private mobile phone voice message storage and directly profiting from that information. They also reported on information obtained by a third party, without the involvement of the Guardian, about a world-wide dragnet of surveillance of electronic communication by the US security services. The actors in either situation are completely different. The only similarity is that both involved "hacking" and that term is only applied loosely.
"TrueCrypt has been part of security-minded users' toolkits for nearly a decade â" but there's one problem: no one has ever conducted a full security audit on it except the NSA when they wrote it, backdoors and all.
FTFFY </tinfoil>
I say swap the education and defense budgets.