I don't know where to find good citations - but you can research easily enough.
Download not just TOR, but I2P, freenet, anonnet - search for more if you like. You WILL BE exposed to child porn. No questions asked, you'll be exposed.
It's safe to say that 2/3 to 3/4 of all the sites out there are trash that you don't even want to see. But - there are also some interesting things that are NOT pornography.
You can go explore, or not. It's slow, it's aggravating because all the CP gets in the way, there's not a whole LOT OF good stuff to find, but, go explore all the same. Make sure you read the documentation - you don't want to broadcast your IP across the dark web, with all your personal details. You think the regular internet is bad? LMAO
How about you let us know when Opera and Chrome catch up to Midori? In my experience, Midori beats them all, for speed. YMMV, and I haven't even looked for benchmarks - I'm just going by personal experience. Oh yeah - Midori has been passing the Acid tests for quite a long time. It was the first, as far as I know. http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/?action=view¤t=Midori_Acid3.png
And, my primary browser is still Firefox. Customizations are worth the loss in speed, IMHO
My biggest complaint with Firefox is that it freezes occasionally. Just kinda fades out, and hangs for awhile. After several seconds, it brightens back up, and away I go. But, speed? My ISP limits my speed more than my browser does.
Use your favorite archiver, extract it to your desktop, and run the "firefox" shell script inside the firefox directory. Few things could be simpler.
I started to reply to your post, downloaded, extracted, closed Swiftfox, and opened the new Firefox, and everything reloaded, including the partially completed response to your post.
Who could ask for more? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit.
Linux always has been, and always will be "free", as in "Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom to change the code to fit your needs."
Linux always has been, and probably always will be "free", as in "No charge to download and use the code".
Nowhere in that concept is the idea of payment for work and services precluded. Face it - professionals are generally better than enthusiasts in any field. Even when the enthusiasts are just as good as the pros, the volunteers can't always spend the time necessary to complete the job like an employee can.
Linux is free. That doesn't mean that Joe Blow can't start a business installing Linux on new and used computers, selling those computers to the Sixpacks of the world, then charge for ongoing support. There IS money to be made with Linux. It's not some communist plot to undermine American business.
Precisely. 40 years ago, I had "beefalo" from a restaurant near home which bred and raised their own "buffalo". The flavor was nearly identical to the beef that Mother bought at Kroger's. There was just a hint of something different about the meat.
Since then, I've eaten real buffalo raised in almost natural conditions on western ranches. The meat is quite different from what the supermarket sells.
Those Aurochs probably don't taste like bison - but I'm convinced that they'll be more like our buffalo than they will be like domestic cattle. ESPECIALLY if they are allowed to range freely, and choose their own diet.
You err. I routinely mount my NTFS partitions with read and write permissions under Linux. There are several Linux rescue disks (liveCD's) now which can mount the drive on which your Windows installation resides, scan for viruses, trojans, etc, edit the registry, delete the passwords, write new directories and files - anything you might wish to do. There are also several forensics suites for Linux that manipulate anything on an NTFS drive.
STABLE Version 1.0 (February 21, 2007) - Release Notes
* Change: document and release version update to stable status.
As jim_v2000 posted, I read what I thought you meant, rather than what you actually typed. Of course you're right - the cop needs no warrant to ASK if I mind if he searches me, or my vehicle, or my house, or anything else. It's up to me to deny permission, and make him get his warrant.
I've lived on the road almost all of my adult life. I drove truck for almost 15 years, worked construction, two enlistments in the Navy, among other things. The outsider is ALWAYS stopped for questioning before locals. When you've driven a million miles, complete with the log books to show where you've been, and when, come back and tell me how many times you've spoken to a cop. Of, if you've got the time and money to just go touring the country, take your out-of-state-plates through as many southern towns as possible. If you happen to be black or Hispanic, try East Texas.
Life on the road can be educational, aside from geography.
I won't fault your reasoning. But, I've also worn a uniform, and I see past the uniform, no matter which uniform it is. I don't see "a cop", so much as a see a man or a woman. Yes, I remember the days of my youth when all I saw was the uniform - I guess that's why I wanted to wear one.
Anyway - each situation is different. Each of these guys came across with different attitudes, which were kinda shitty, and I decided to make them WORK for whatever they wanted.
I could tell you about the one real badass I met in a cop's uniform. He was going to beat my ass in front of a bunch of women, no matter what - and I was prepared to defend myself. Luckily, his watch commander showed up and defused the situation.
My dealings with idiots in uniform make me appreciate the good cops even more, believe me.;^)
Yeah. Whatever. I'm waiting for someone to clone NTKernel. Just think, Windows XP - Open Source version. Hey - they did it with NTFS, just a little more work, and we can have the kernel.
Seriously - XP might be a decent system, if it were released OPEN SOURCE, so that people are motivated to contribute vulnerabilities and fixes.
"Do you really think that the cop who pulls you over for a traffic violation really needs to call a judge to get approval to ask you if he can search your vehicle? That's ridiculous."
In the US? Yes, he does. I've denied permission to search my vehicle on three occasions, and got different answers each time. 1. "If a dog smells something, I can search without your permission." "So, get the dog!" 2. "I can arrest you, and take you jail, then impound your car and search it." "Arrest me on what charge? Failure to agree to be searched?" 3. "I can get a warrant." "If you have probable cause, why don't you already have the warrant?"
In short, my car has NOT been searched, because I DENIED PERMISSION. The moment you waver, and say something that might be construed as permission to search, you WILL BE searched.
No, you're confusing, or allowing others to confuse, real hunches with cover ups.
I've had hunches. Probably everyone has. You just KNOW something to be true, but you can't explain rationally how or why it is true. There's nothing illegal or wrong with a hunch - it's just not admissable as evidence. It DOES make a decent reason to investigate something, but it doesn't validate a warrant.
So - you get your hunch, you investigate as far as you can, and if you find evidence supporting the hunch that convinces a judge, then you get your warrant.
Let's not confuse this with a bad cop who breaks both of a man's knees to get a confession, then calls it a "hunch".
I'm saying that splitting hairs over risky behaviour and/or conditions is bullshit. You won't save money on the deal, it will only COST SOMEONE. The insurance company is out to make money, and like any good marketers, they'll use anything and everything to convince fools to part with their money.
Let's suppose that DNA profiling determines that one or two genes, or a pair of genes in combination, says that you are almost certain NOT to get cancer. Do you think that your rates will go DOWN? If so, you are very naive. Instead, they'll keep your rates the same (until the next regularly scheduled rate increase) but they'll charge everyone else MORE for being susceptible to cancer.
You don't win - you just lose a wee bit less than the other guy.
Yes, that sounds good in theory. But, wait til YOU find that you have a pre-existing condition. DNA profiling promises to give the insurance companies plenty of ammunition in that field.
A bit of data to add to all the correlations they are trying to do.
My interests include much of the world. I find things in Bangladesh as interesting as happenings in MessyTwoShits. But, worldwide, there are so MANY things happening, I can't even dream of keeping up with everything.
There are only 24 hours in a day - and I can't spend all of them reading news.
I scan headlines, choose the MOST interesting, and click those. When I've actually read somewhere between 6 and 30 articles. I've got tend to my own real life.
The Wall Street Journal may get 3 clicks this week, one next week, none the next, then 6 clicks the following week. So - how do they count me in their click-throughs?
Ehhh. If I find that the system actually takes my kind of news reading into account, I'll come up with something to throw another monkey wrench into the works.
"As long as Hollywood gives politicians glamour by attending fundraisers, and actual cold hard cash, you won't find anyone in the government willing to speak out against Big Content. The only thing that can change this is public opinion."
Which is the best reason in the world to boycott Hollywood, the record labels, and every other industry that advocates draconian copyright/patent law, with even more draconian punishment structures for violating unreasonable "law".
When all is said and done, it's the PUBLIC who funds all of this nonsense. Keep your money in your pocket - there's no better way of telling them all to get bent!
I like the MAD option. Someone push the button. I want to see the entire house of cards come tumbling down. And, let's pray that when the patents house of cards falls, it somehow undermines the copyrights house of cards too!!
Yes, people are different. And, the insurance companies want to know which differences are most profitable for them, so that they can drop everyone else.
"Ohh, see the ratios in size of these two lobes in your brain? We can't insure you due to preexisting conditions!!"
But, I am from the US, and I still like pissing people off. Especially MPAA, RIAA, and every politician sent to Washington who sells his soul to the devil -oops, sells his soul to the *AA's.
Those international copyright laws favor my country over most other countries, but that doesn't make them right. I'd like to think that even if I personally profited from those copyright treaties and agreements, I would STILL recognize them as corrupt bits of nonsense.
Correct. And, it's time to make the decision makers understand that it's broken. If it isn't broken enough to convince them, then LET'S BREAK IT MORE!!
Most of the rest of what I read here today is just so much whining and sniveling, from one side or the other.
Platonic? What new form of deviancy is this? Next, we'll be hearing of platonic rights, and platonic marriages, and platonic tax deductions! There should be a law!
BTW - to all you virgins out there: THANKS FOR NOTHING!!
Seen many terrorists in your neighborhood? Don't count the ones in your family portrait now!!
So - you're willing to surrender your rights, and cower in fear of terrorists, and you've NEVER SEEN ONE!!
Cool.
Personally, I refuse to surrender my rights. Hell - every harbor town I've ever seen was populated by freaks of some kind or another, but I still walked the streets like I owned them. Chicago, New York, and LA are populated by thieves, robbers, whores, and worse - especially after the sun goes down. I should fear going out?
Funny - I don't fear what I HAVE seen, but you fear what you HAVEN'T seen.
Imagine that. Can I get you some more Kool-Aid, dude?
"China is currently at stage 2.5, building whatever the West can throw at it, and making gradual improvements. "
Citations? What have they improved? Examples, or it ain't so. There is NOTHING that China makes that I can't buy "Made in" India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Pakistan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil, or SOMEPLACE, better made. The ONLY thing China seems to have the corner on is CHEAP LABOR, and CHEAP PRODUCTS. They've not improved one damned thing that has been handed to them.
Why do people make such idiot comments, and launch me into yet another rant?
China has 1/4 the world's population, and I think they have the largest land mass of any country in the world. But, all of it together is worth about as much as the frigging Rhine Valley, or maybe the Missourri River Valley, or - I quit. Figure it out for yourself.
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I don't know where to find good citations - but you can research easily enough.
Download not just TOR, but I2P, freenet, anonnet - search for more if you like. You WILL BE exposed to child porn. No questions asked, you'll be exposed.
It's safe to say that 2/3 to 3/4 of all the sites out there are trash that you don't even want to see. But - there are also some interesting things that are NOT pornography.
You can go explore, or not. It's slow, it's aggravating because all the CP gets in the way, there's not a whole LOT OF good stuff to find, but, go explore all the same. Make sure you read the documentation - you don't want to broadcast your IP across the dark web, with all your personal details. You think the regular internet is bad? LMAO
How about you let us know when Opera and Chrome catch up to Midori? In my experience, Midori beats them all, for speed. YMMV, and I haven't even looked for benchmarks - I'm just going by personal experience. Oh yeah - Midori has been passing the Acid tests for quite a long time. It was the first, as far as I know.
http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/?action=view¤t=Midori_Acid3.png
And, my primary browser is still Firefox. Customizations are worth the loss in speed, IMHO
My biggest complaint with Firefox is that it freezes occasionally. Just kinda fades out, and hangs for awhile. After several seconds, it brightens back up, and away I go. But, speed? My ISP limits my speed more than my browser does.
Dude - you need not wait for updates.
Assuming you have a US English desktop, download http://mirror.netcologne.de/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.tar.bz2
Choose other languages here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Use your favorite archiver, extract it to your desktop, and run the "firefox" shell script inside the firefox directory. Few things could be simpler.
I started to reply to your post, downloaded, extracted, closed Swiftfox, and opened the new Firefox, and everything reloaded, including the partially completed response to your post.
Who could ask for more? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit.
There is "free", and there is "free".
Linux always has been, and always will be "free", as in "Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom to change the code to fit your needs."
Linux always has been, and probably always will be "free", as in "No charge to download and use the code".
Nowhere in that concept is the idea of payment for work and services precluded. Face it - professionals are generally better than enthusiasts in any field. Even when the enthusiasts are just as good as the pros, the volunteers can't always spend the time necessary to complete the job like an employee can.
Linux is free. That doesn't mean that Joe Blow can't start a business installing Linux on new and used computers, selling those computers to the Sixpacks of the world, then charge for ongoing support. There IS money to be made with Linux. It's not some communist plot to undermine American business.
Precisely. 40 years ago, I had "beefalo" from a restaurant near home which bred and raised their own "buffalo". The flavor was nearly identical to the beef that Mother bought at Kroger's. There was just a hint of something different about the meat.
Since then, I've eaten real buffalo raised in almost natural conditions on western ranches. The meat is quite different from what the supermarket sells.
Those Aurochs probably don't taste like bison - but I'm convinced that they'll be more like our buffalo than they will be like domestic cattle. ESPECIALLY if they are allowed to range freely, and choose their own diet.
You err. I routinely mount my NTFS partitions with read and write permissions under Linux. There are several Linux rescue disks (liveCD's) now which can mount the drive on which your Windows installation resides, scan for viruses, trojans, etc, edit the registry, delete the passwords, write new directories and files - anything you might wish to do. There are also several forensics suites for Linux that manipulate anything on an NTFS drive.
STABLE Version 1.0 (February 21, 2007) - Release Notes
* Change: document and release version update to stable status.
http://www.tuxera.com/community/release-history/
As jim_v2000 posted, I read what I thought you meant, rather than what you actually typed. Of course you're right - the cop needs no warrant to ASK if I mind if he searches me, or my vehicle, or my house, or anything else. It's up to me to deny permission, and make him get his warrant.
I've lived on the road almost all of my adult life. I drove truck for almost 15 years, worked construction, two enlistments in the Navy, among other things. The outsider is ALWAYS stopped for questioning before locals. When you've driven a million miles, complete with the log books to show where you've been, and when, come back and tell me how many times you've spoken to a cop. Of, if you've got the time and money to just go touring the country, take your out-of-state-plates through as many southern towns as possible. If you happen to be black or Hispanic, try East Texas.
Life on the road can be educational, aside from geography.
I won't fault your reasoning. But, I've also worn a uniform, and I see past the uniform, no matter which uniform it is. I don't see "a cop", so much as a see a man or a woman. Yes, I remember the days of my youth when all I saw was the uniform - I guess that's why I wanted to wear one.
Anyway - each situation is different. Each of these guys came across with different attitudes, which were kinda shitty, and I decided to make them WORK for whatever they wanted.
I could tell you about the one real badass I met in a cop's uniform. He was going to beat my ass in front of a bunch of women, no matter what - and I was prepared to defend myself. Luckily, his watch commander showed up and defused the situation.
My dealings with idiots in uniform make me appreciate the good cops even more, believe me. ;^)
Yeah. Whatever. I'm waiting for someone to clone NTKernel. Just think, Windows XP - Open Source version. Hey - they did it with NTFS, just a little more work, and we can have the kernel.
Seriously - XP might be a decent system, if it were released OPEN SOURCE, so that people are motivated to contribute vulnerabilities and fixes.
I'll put my bet on "wild and rangy" flavor. More like buffalo (American Bison) than like today's cows.
"Do you really think that the cop who pulls you over for a traffic violation really needs to call a judge to get approval to ask you if he can search your vehicle? That's ridiculous."
In the US? Yes, he does. I've denied permission to search my vehicle on three occasions, and got different answers each time. 1. "If a dog smells something, I can search without your permission." "So, get the dog!" 2. "I can arrest you, and take you jail, then impound your car and search it." "Arrest me on what charge? Failure to agree to be searched?" 3. "I can get a warrant." "If you have probable cause, why don't you already have the warrant?"
In short, my car has NOT been searched, because I DENIED PERMISSION. The moment you waver, and say something that might be construed as permission to search, you WILL BE searched.
No, you're confusing, or allowing others to confuse, real hunches with cover ups.
I've had hunches. Probably everyone has. You just KNOW something to be true, but you can't explain rationally how or why it is true. There's nothing illegal or wrong with a hunch - it's just not admissable as evidence. It DOES make a decent reason to investigate something, but it doesn't validate a warrant.
So - you get your hunch, you investigate as far as you can, and if you find evidence supporting the hunch that convinces a judge, then you get your warrant.
Let's not confuse this with a bad cop who breaks both of a man's knees to get a confession, then calls it a "hunch".
I'm saying that splitting hairs over risky behaviour and/or conditions is bullshit. You won't save money on the deal, it will only COST SOMEONE. The insurance company is out to make money, and like any good marketers, they'll use anything and everything to convince fools to part with their money.
Let's suppose that DNA profiling determines that one or two genes, or a pair of genes in combination, says that you are almost certain NOT to get cancer. Do you think that your rates will go DOWN? If so, you are very naive. Instead, they'll keep your rates the same (until the next regularly scheduled rate increase) but they'll charge everyone else MORE for being susceptible to cancer.
You don't win - you just lose a wee bit less than the other guy.
Yes, that sounds good in theory. But, wait til YOU find that you have a pre-existing condition. DNA profiling promises to give the insurance companies plenty of ammunition in that field.
A bit of data to add to all the correlations they are trying to do.
My interests include much of the world. I find things in Bangladesh as interesting as happenings in MessyTwoShits. But, worldwide, there are so MANY things happening, I can't even dream of keeping up with everything.
There are only 24 hours in a day - and I can't spend all of them reading news.
I scan headlines, choose the MOST interesting, and click those. When I've actually read somewhere between 6 and 30 articles. I've got tend to my own real life.
The Wall Street Journal may get 3 clicks this week, one next week, none the next, then 6 clicks the following week. So - how do they count me in their click-throughs?
Ehhh. If I find that the system actually takes my kind of news reading into account, I'll come up with something to throw another monkey wrench into the works.
"As long as Hollywood gives politicians glamour by attending fundraisers, and actual cold hard cash, you won't find anyone in the government willing to speak out against Big Content. The only thing that can change this is public opinion."
Which is the best reason in the world to boycott Hollywood, the record labels, and every other industry that advocates draconian copyright/patent law, with even more draconian punishment structures for violating unreasonable "law".
When all is said and done, it's the PUBLIC who funds all of this nonsense. Keep your money in your pocket - there's no better way of telling them all to get bent!
I like the MAD option. Someone push the button. I want to see the entire house of cards come tumbling down. And, let's pray that when the patents house of cards falls, it somehow undermines the copyrights house of cards too!!
Yes, people are different. And, the insurance companies want to know which differences are most profitable for them, so that they can drop everyone else.
"Ohh, see the ratios in size of these two lobes in your brain? We can't insure you due to preexisting conditions!!"
But, I am from the US, and I still like pissing people off. Especially MPAA, RIAA, and every politician sent to Washington who sells his soul to the devil -oops, sells his soul to the *AA's.
Those international copyright laws favor my country over most other countries, but that doesn't make them right. I'd like to think that even if I personally profited from those copyright treaties and agreements, I would STILL recognize them as corrupt bits of nonsense.
Wait - you say that like pissing off (or on) the US and the MPAA is a "BAD THING". I don't see it, myself.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it"
Correct. And, it's time to make the decision makers understand that it's broken. If it isn't broken enough to convince them, then LET'S BREAK IT MORE!!
Most of the rest of what I read here today is just so much whining and sniveling, from one side or the other.
Platonic? What new form of deviancy is this? Next, we'll be hearing of platonic rights, and platonic marriages, and platonic tax deductions! There should be a law!
BTW - to all you virgins out there: THANKS FOR NOTHING!!
Seen many terrorists in your neighborhood? Don't count the ones in your family portrait now!!
So - you're willing to surrender your rights, and cower in fear of terrorists, and you've NEVER SEEN ONE!!
Cool.
Personally, I refuse to surrender my rights. Hell - every harbor town I've ever seen was populated by freaks of some kind or another, but I still walked the streets like I owned them. Chicago, New York, and LA are populated by thieves, robbers, whores, and worse - especially after the sun goes down. I should fear going out?
Funny - I don't fear what I HAVE seen, but you fear what you HAVEN'T seen.
Imagine that. Can I get you some more Kool-Aid, dude?
"China is currently at stage 2.5, building whatever the West can throw at it, and making gradual improvements. "
Citations? What have they improved? Examples, or it ain't so. There is NOTHING that China makes that I can't buy "Made in" India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Pakistan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil, or SOMEPLACE, better made. The ONLY thing China seems to have the corner on is CHEAP LABOR, and CHEAP PRODUCTS. They've not improved one damned thing that has been handed to them.
Why do people make such idiot comments, and launch me into yet another rant?
China has 1/4 the world's population, and I think they have the largest land mass of any country in the world. But, all of it together is worth about as much as the frigging Rhine Valley, or maybe the Missourri River Valley, or - I quit. Figure it out for yourself.