I'm more worried about secret NSA firmware that backs up all the data to a second set of platters in the bad sectors or something than I am about being able to recover past a round or two of shred. Which is to say, not really because I don't care about any data/that/ much. Keeping my nosy neighbor (granted, I'm at a nerd school) out is good enough for me. So cryptroot, full 33 pass of shred on LUKS storage, and a pass or two of shred on the full device followed by 0 is good enough for me.
Would mod you insightful but...yeah... mouse so far away.
Even zeroing the device in a single pass is enough to deter most criminals or dragnet methods, shred is enough to defeat all but the most expensive cryptanalysis.
There are levels of paranoia between strategic high-yield nuclear weapons and selling unwiped.
Not all X users are X fanbois. I have a ubuntu using friend who hates it. He switched away from windows awhile back. Why does he stick with ubuntu? It sucks less, in his estimation. And it makes more intuitive sense (He's a chemist without much computer knowledge, but still technically-minded.)
I love linux and think it will solve all the world's problems from swine flu to windows vista. I am a fanboi.
But very few windows users are fanbois. Only a few actually like windows. OS X, nearly all its users seem to be drooling fanbois, but as you say this seems to be changing, and this may just be the set I know.
Linux is somewhere in between I find, but I'm at a tech school, and around here linux outnumbers windows anyway with os x being a clear leader.
Um...so it's ok for random strangers to go snooping through your stuff but not if there are random strangers paid to do it?
People who think things like facebook are even remotely private make me lol.
Oh and I have a facebook. I consider it public info. You could probably even find it by googling my handle on slashdot. But you're too lazy aren't you?
True...until you start talking about targeted attacks. They don't want to break into your neighbor's house, they want to break into YOURS.
And against that, for a sufficiently secret thing, I'm not sure I'd trust out of the box Debian or other standard linux distros, let alone some snake oil from Redmond.
Just realized that could sound like a personal attack. the "propaganda zombie" was more people who confuse the terms. It's clear you know what you're talking in general; and I meant no offense.
The case in the courts now is whether it is a major amendment (gay rights activists' position), since it takes a right away from a minority to the constitution, and thus requires a 2/3 vote rather than the simple majority it barely received, or a minor amendment (gay marriage opponents' position), since it only clarifies a point already provided for in the constitution.
I don't know, one time I was writing a Huffman compressor for an applied information theory class and I couldn't find this weird bug where it would email racist statements to everyone in your address book every time you tried to compress a file larger to 50kb. Took me several hours to fix, and my solution was under 100 lines of Python.
I can fully sympathize with companies who have to deal with overly sensitive people who think that bugs like this, which emerge quite frequently in sufficiently complex systems, are the result of bad calls or poor intent, rather than the simple technical glitches that they are.
Perhaps there should be a finite supply of digital copies the company is allowed to sell. For every illegal download or sale, that number is deincremented. When it reaches zero, one is no longer allowed to buy or download illegally a copy. That's when market forces start to apply.
Laws of supply and demand don't apply when supply is infinite, except that the price converges to zero.
Probably buried in the contract somewhere, that 50 page (or whatever) monstrosity you agree to when you buy. Does it make it legal? Possibly. Does it contain a "binding arbitration" clause? Certainly. Is that legal? Possibly.
But is anyone really going to sue? Naah. If I did D & D, I'd just go back to bittorrent, or just stop playing altogether.
Who can afford litigation anyway, in terms of time if not money?
which seems counter-intuitive to the concept of an open platform
Not at all. Android can't have drivers for a technology if there's no way for its authors to get their hands on specs, short of reverse engineering each piece of hardware which is prohibitively time intensive.
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I'm more worried about secret NSA firmware that backs up all the data to a second set of platters in the bad sectors or something than I am about being able to recover past a round or two of shred. Which is to say, not really because I don't care about any data /that/ much. Keeping my nosy neighbor (granted, I'm at a nerd school) out is good enough for me. So cryptroot, full 33 pass of shred on LUKS storage, and a pass or two of shred on the full device followed by 0 is good enough for me.
Would mod you insightful but...yeah... mouse so far away.
Even zeroing the device in a single pass is enough to deter most criminals or dragnet methods, shred is enough to defeat all but the most expensive cryptanalysis.
There are levels of paranoia between strategic high-yield nuclear weapons and selling unwiped.
Not all X users are X fanbois. I have a ubuntu using friend who hates it. He switched away from windows awhile back. Why does he stick with ubuntu? It sucks less, in his estimation. And it makes more intuitive sense (He's a chemist without much computer knowledge, but still technically-minded.)
I love linux and think it will solve all the world's problems from swine flu to windows vista. I am a fanboi.
But very few windows users are fanbois. Only a few actually like windows. OS X, nearly all its users seem to be drooling fanbois, but as you say this seems to be changing, and this may just be the set I know.
Linux is somewhere in between I find, but I'm at a tech school, and around here linux outnumbers windows anyway with os x being a clear leader.
especially if we're mentioning Ubuntu. Seems like windows is missing too.
A fanboi is a fanboi, even if their product actually is better.
Well shiver me timbers, this landlubber has yet to discover the bay.
Do that and I might start writing viri
Um...so it's ok for random strangers to go snooping through your stuff but not if there are random strangers paid to do it?
People who think things like facebook are even remotely private make me lol.
Oh and I have a facebook. I consider it public info. You could probably even find it by googling my handle on slashdot. But you're too lazy aren't you?
I suspect they spend more time viewing JEWS DID WTC than porn, but I don't know.
True...until you start talking about targeted attacks. They don't want to break into your neighbor's house, they want to break into YOURS.
And against that, for a sufficiently secret thing, I'm not sure I'd trust out of the box Debian or other standard linux distros, let alone some snake oil from Redmond.
They can see through that too, using the fluoride in our teeth.
Mmmmm...salt...
I have not a writing tool
Fixed that for you. Some of us installed one. Like you have to on windows, if you're willing to pay for onenote, that is.
Just realized that could sound like a personal attack. the "propaganda zombie" was more people who confuse the terms. It's clear you know what you're talking in general; and I meant no offense.
socialism is economic. capitalism is economic. facism is political. communism is political. democracy is political.
You can't compare apples and oranges. Comparing socialism to democracy makes you sound like a brainwashed propaganda zombie.
nitpick aside, good points.
If Michael Moore were given a license to kill he'd just suicide bomb Mt. Rushmore.
The case in the courts now is whether it is a major amendment (gay rights activists' position), since it takes a right away from a minority to the constitution, and thus requires a 2/3 vote rather than the simple majority it barely received, or a minor amendment (gay marriage opponents' position), since it only clarifies a point already provided for in the constitution.
I don't know, one time I was writing a Huffman compressor for an applied information theory class and I couldn't find this weird bug where it would email racist statements to everyone in your address book every time you tried to compress a file larger to 50kb. Took me several hours to fix, and my solution was under 100 lines of Python.
I can fully sympathize with companies who have to deal with overly sensitive people who think that bugs like this, which emerge quite frequently in sufficiently complex systems, are the result of bad calls or poor intent, rather than the simple technical glitches that they are.
Perhaps there should be a finite supply of digital copies the company is allowed to sell. For every illegal download or sale, that number is deincremented. When it reaches zero, one is no longer allowed to buy or download illegally a copy. That's when market forces start to apply.
Laws of supply and demand don't apply when supply is infinite, except that the price converges to zero.
Probably buried in the contract somewhere, that 50 page (or whatever) monstrosity you agree to when you buy. Does it make it legal? Possibly. Does it contain a "binding arbitration" clause? Certainly. Is that legal? Possibly.
But is anyone really going to sue? Naah. If I did D & D, I'd just go back to bittorrent, or just stop playing altogether.
Who can afford litigation anyway, in terms of time if not money?
Just don't try to blow up any buildings or take pictures of bridges...
Me too. See sig.
Clearly all computers sold with linux should include the price of a windows license to combat piracy.
which seems counter-intuitive to the concept of an open platform
Not at all. Android can't have drivers for a technology if there's no way for its authors to get their hands on specs, short of reverse engineering each piece of hardware which is prohibitively time intensive.
Does this mean the president could disable all Windows computers on April 1 to protect against Conficker?
Does anyone honestly believe this bill would have been vetoed by the other guy?
If so, then you are quite naive. Once you begin a slide into despotism your votes start to matter less and less.