This already exists. It's called 'deniable encryption,' or more accurately, 'rubber hose cryptography.' You have two encrypted volumes, which cannot be mathematically proven to be separate, with two passwords; the real one, and the duress one.
Oh gods, this was something I went over, and over, and over with people when I worked tech support for an ISP, so many moons ago. People just don't get why the 'from' address isn't authoritative. I usually had to explain it like forging the return address on a physical envelope, then have them open Outlook Express, go to their mail account properties, and ask them what would happen if they changed the 'name' and 'email address' fields to something other than their own.
I'm assuming you're just being an asshole, but on the chance that you're not:
The case here is a surgeon, during an operation. It's rather suboptimal for him to deglove, wash, use a keyboard and mouse, wash, reglove, and get back to work. When he looks up at the big screen with some diagnostic images, and he can reach up, and swipe left to cycle through the set, that's awesome. And that's just one example.
Now, in ShadowRun 2ed, when the crew wanted to run a cube van full of plastique into a corp warehouse, five minutes with the core rulebook and a calculator enabled me to calculate exactly blast radii and the like.
Now, granted, under the straight rules, without the 'chunky salsa' rule codified in Fields of Fire, every single victim survived the blast.
I'd say it is, in fact, unusual for programs to keep ini files in Program Files these days. The registry, not so much. And yes, applications won't automagically reinstall.
Oh, and by the way, your website goes to a 'yay you installed apache on fedora!' default.
If it's backing up documents and settings, any program written for windows in the last, oh, five years at least, which follow the approved guidelines where to put stuff, will have no problem.
In other news, programs on Linux which store their config somewhere other than/etc risk losing their settings when/etc is backed up and restored.
No, I think this is different. He was issued a license to use the spectrum. The unlicensed equipment is specifically allowed to work only if and when licensed users feel like it. It's like accusing a guy with a car of being a dick for driving on the road with it, meaning all those poor pedestrians have to get onto the sidewalk.
Why aren't we seeing them? Or why aren't we capable of seeing them? We're just now, as a whole, beginning to take seriously the idea that 'life' could mean something other than 'earth like planet in the golidlocks zone of a star.' With the discovery of extremeophiles, the idea of arsenic-based life, and so on, we're getting the idea that we might not be looking for non-earth-based earthlings. "Where are they?" Who knows. "Why aren't we seeing them?" Well, maybe we're not looking for them. Same reason I've never seen, say, a real live scorpion, even though it would be a simple as jandering down to a zoo. Meanwhile, people within a three hour plane trip from here shake their pants out before donning them in the morning, to avoid scorpions.
Hey, I never said the analogy was perfect. All I'm saying is that a) absense of evidence is not evidence of absense, and b) given that even a hundred years ago, radio communication was considered a pipe dream, flight was considered a pipe dream, and so on, we shouldn't assume we're equipped to find extraterrestrial life.
Imagine a large city. Imagine within this city, a smaller city, in a dome which is visually opaque, but completely open to all other electromagnetic spectra.
Plop a scientist from, say, the 1800s into that domed city. Ask him to prove the existance of life outside the dome based on communications. Is he going to be able to intercept and decode NTSC? ATSC? 802.11b/g/n? CDMA? GSM? Hell, AM and FM?
Heh, we played something similar. We also had a variation of Frisbee we called 'Tron.' In a nut shell, if the frisbee hits you, then the ground, your opponent gains a point. Popular targets were forehead, knees, throat, ankles, bridge of the nose.
I'll be the first to admit that the Church actually did some great things in the advancement of science. But on the other hand, it's also done some pretty bass-ackwards things. Kinda like their stance on pedophilia.
The catholic church condemns pedophiles but not science
Well, the church has a history of condemning science, and implicitly condoning pedophilia via things like sheltering clergy.
Both policies changed, as Coyne pointed out, due to secular backlash.
H: Some scientists are religious, and some religionists are scientific. Therefore, religion and science are compatible.
C: By that logic, and given that some pedophiles are Catholic, and some Catholics are pedophiles, the Catholic Church and peodphilia are compatible. Isn't that a ridiculous assertion?
H: That's disgusting! How dare you attack the curch like that?
C: But what about the underlying assertion that....
H: That's ad hominem! That's horrible! I'm here for a reasonable debate! Good day to you sir!
C: But aren't you just proving my point that if my assertion is horrid, then changing just three words doesn't make it suddenly valid?
Ask your CIO which response he'd rather have when requiring support. a: "Of course, lets open a ticket." b: "lol n00b RTFM." c: "Bug report? Fuck you. Fix it yourself and submit the patch."
Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If th word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.
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This already exists. It's called 'deniable encryption,' or more accurately, 'rubber hose cryptography.' You have two encrypted volumes, which cannot be mathematically proven to be separate, with two passwords; the real one, and the duress one.
Hey, Denise Richards was using an iPaq to disarm nuclear weapons, what, a decade ago?
Oh gods, this was something I went over, and over, and over with people when I worked tech support for an ISP, so many moons ago. People just don't get why the 'from' address isn't authoritative. I usually had to explain it like forging the return address on a physical envelope, then have them open Outlook Express, go to their mail account properties, and ask them what would happen if they changed the 'name' and 'email address' fields to something other than their own.
By being a shrewd businessman with foresight, vision, and the ability to change direction when needed?
Ah, the US of A: Be sucessful, but not too successful.
Ah yes. Open Source: The freedom to use what we tell you to use. Sorry, Bazaar's full.
Why do you do monthly reinstalls?
I'm assuming you're just being an asshole, but on the chance that you're not:
The case here is a surgeon, during an operation. It's rather suboptimal for him to deglove, wash, use a keyboard and mouse, wash, reglove, and get back to work. When he looks up at the big screen with some diagnostic images, and he can reach up, and swipe left to cycle through the set, that's awesome. And that's just one example.
Now, in ShadowRun 2ed, when the crew wanted to run a cube van full of plastique into a corp warehouse, five minutes with the core rulebook and a calculator enabled me to calculate exactly blast radii and the like.
Now, granted, under the straight rules, without the 'chunky salsa' rule codified in Fields of Fire, every single victim survived the blast.
I'm such a nerd.
I prefer the Peasant Railgun. Google for details.
I'd say it is, in fact, unusual for programs to keep ini files in Program Files these days. The registry, not so much. And yes, applications won't automagically reinstall.
Oh, and by the way, your website goes to a 'yay you installed apache on fedora!' default.
If it's backing up documents and settings, any program written for windows in the last, oh, five years at least, which follow the approved guidelines where to put stuff, will have no problem.
In other news, programs on Linux which store their config somewhere other than /etc risk losing their settings when /etc is backed up and restored.
....poorly?
No, I think this is different. He was issued a license to use the spectrum. The unlicensed equipment is specifically allowed to work only if and when licensed users feel like it. It's like accusing a guy with a car of being a dick for driving on the road with it, meaning all those poor pedestrians have to get onto the sidewalk.
He has the legal right to use the spectrum. They get to use what's left. No dickery.
Why aren't we seeing them? Or why aren't we capable of seeing them? We're just now, as a whole, beginning to take seriously the idea that 'life' could mean something other than 'earth like planet in the golidlocks zone of a star.' With the discovery of extremeophiles, the idea of arsenic-based life, and so on, we're getting the idea that we might not be looking for non-earth-based earthlings. "Where are they?" Who knows. "Why aren't we seeing them?" Well, maybe we're not looking for them. Same reason I've never seen, say, a real live scorpion, even though it would be a simple as jandering down to a zoo. Meanwhile, people within a three hour plane trip from here shake their pants out before donning them in the morning, to avoid scorpions.
Hey, I never said the analogy was perfect. All I'm saying is that a) absense of evidence is not evidence of absense, and b) given that even a hundred years ago, radio communication was considered a pipe dream, flight was considered a pipe dream, and so on, we shouldn't assume we're equipped to find extraterrestrial life.
I've always found the Fermi Paradox amusing.
Imagine a large city. Imagine within this city, a smaller city, in a dome which is visually opaque, but completely open to all other electromagnetic spectra.
Plop a scientist from, say, the 1800s into that domed city. Ask him to prove the existance of life outside the dome based on communications. Is he going to be able to intercept and decode NTSC? ATSC? 802.11b/g/n? CDMA? GSM? Hell, AM and FM?
Heh, we played something similar. We also had a variation of Frisbee we called 'Tron.' In a nut shell, if the frisbee hits you, then the ground, your opponent gains a point. Popular targets were forehead, knees, throat, ankles, bridge of the nose.
Agreed, agreed and agreed. All of which goes back to the original comparison, which still stands.
Well, off the top of my head, and in Wikipedia form in response to your Wikiism, how about Galileo being branded a heritic and imprisioned for life for promoting heliocentrism in direct opposition to the bible?
I'll be the first to admit that the Church actually did some great things in the advancement of science. But on the other hand, it's also done some pretty bass-ackwards things. Kinda like their stance on pedophilia.
Well, the church has a history of condemning science, and implicitly condoning pedophilia via things like sheltering clergy. Both policies changed, as Coyne pointed out, due to secular backlash.
H: Some scientists are religious, and some religionists are scientific. Therefore, religion and science are compatible.
C: By that logic, and given that some pedophiles are Catholic, and some Catholics are pedophiles, the Catholic Church and peodphilia are compatible. Isn't that a ridiculous assertion?
H: That's disgusting! How dare you attack the curch like that?
C: But what about the underlying assertion that....
H: That's ad hominem! That's horrible! I'm here for a reasonable debate! Good day to you sir!
C: But aren't you just proving my point that if my assertion is horrid, then changing just three words doesn't make it suddenly valid?
H: I said good day!
Or go into the parental controls section of their iDevice, and disable in-app purchases.
Ask your CIO which response he'd rather have when requiring support. a: "Of course, lets open a ticket." b: "lol n00b RTFM." c: "Bug report? Fuck you. Fix it yourself and submit the patch."
Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If th word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.