If unity can run, then other more windows-like managers might also. Say Mint's skinned version of Mate or Cinnamon. Might be an interesting way of evading the adverts plastered into the hackjob of the win10 start menu.
Some part of me sees this as the "embrace" stage of the dreaded trio though.
Does this have to be spelled out for you in black and white?
1) the DHS and its cronies want to have massive collection capabilities.
2) They want to deny all FOIA attempts and subpoenas against their archival audio recordings.
3) they behave as an unaccountable agency, that can do no wrong.
Taken together, they can straight up fabricate that you said something, you cannot challenge it in court, and unless you can prove a negative, you will go to jail.
That assumes only single microphones per car/train/etc.
Placement, and quantity can make up for ambient noise, and also permits big brother to know where exactly on said train you were standing when you discussed your seditious materials.
Small mics places every 3 feet would probably be sufficient to get most conversations.
Looks like it is time for widespread counter-actions, while we are still able to do so.
Microphones need wires leading to them, which means they will absorb/attenuate nearby EM fields. That means you can sweep for them with a fairly low tech detector. If they are not wired, they will actively emit a signal, which likewise can be detected.
Once you find them, pour superglue into them. Document their presence and location on your social media platform of choice, so that others can quickly sabotage similarly placed microphones.
Dutiful denial of service will make this too costly for the orwelian surveillance state to maintain.
That wont work with lots of traffic. The more pipes there are, the more you need to isolate traffic, otherwise the TCP messages alone will start to saturate the pipes.
It is important to remember that even with a fully meshed network, there will be sections of the mesh that have more traffic traversing it than others. The messages are not evenly and uniformly distributed-- and with wireless technologies being used as the medium, there is only so much bandwidth that the spectrum can provide you in a given locality. (You cant just add another line and isolate traffic, like you can with wired.)
This is further made worse, because as network conditions deteriorate from saturation, the number of TCP Retry packets and resends will increase, as all the user's systems try to assure data delivery-- on an already saturated pipe. It increases to nearly exponential levels, since the added retries and TCP messages about delivery failures cause more failures to happen through timeouts, because the packets dont get delivered, because the medium is busy.
This kind of thing happens when there are lots of connected users in close physical proximity to each other, all trying to make use of the mesh network.
Your ISP manages things with hubs (if cable), or loop management systems (if DSL), where each branch has traffic isolation, with progressively thicker and more bandwidth capable trunks leading to the global internet backbone. The thicker trunk lines can handle all that traffic from the combined last miles leading to and from people's homes. Without the traffic isolation, it would never work.
The exact tipping points are mathematically computable, if you know what the average data use per user is, what the bandwidth of the segment is, and how many users will be using the segment.
Long story short-- There's a reason why there are big fat cables handling internet traffic. You may not realize it, but the internet actually *IS* a giant mesh network. The "Backbone" is a bunch of high-availability, high-bandwidth trunk lines that have redundant interconnectivity. If a major trunk line goes down, other lines will handle a portion of the traffic, and route around the damage. The problem with oppressive regimes, is that they allow only ONE trunk line into and out of their country-- which they have a kill-switch on.
A bunch of small, low-fidelity pipes will saturate under the load of TCP messages in short order, and are NOT a substitute for a properly managed trunk. Some small amount of data can get passed the killswitch that way, but by no means could it replace the downed trunk.
There may be subtle means of embedding "seditious" signals inside benign sources of RF energy. Say, the energy leaking from a high voltage power line.
The speed wouldn't be too good, but when you just want to get your message out, the speed of delivery isn't so important.
Then there is your typical, ordinary steganography. You have a normal network connection transmitting seemingly ordinary data packets, but the packets have a very low bandwidth hidden channel of communication embedded in them using some clever crypto. Looks like you are looking at cat pics, etc- but are really sending a post about how you witnessed the secret police execute your neighbor.
How can they have a kanji for Privacy and "Confidential, private matters", if they dont have a concept for it?
Granted, the chinese government has been strongly trying to delete/revise/repurpose kanji for years now for purely political reasons-- so perhaps this is one of those they have tried to delete--- but still. China knows what privacy is.
There's also the winePPA you can enable in Ubuntu. That gives you bleeding edge WINE builds, with all manner of fancy new features. Even if he insists on using ubuntu 12.04, adding the PPA will give him "very very recent" Wine.
The thing to be aware of-- you WILL need to run WineTricks and install the MSCore Fonts package. Office does not compromise on that. It DEMANDS real Tahoma, and real Arial.
Limit the number of tickets you can buy per transaction.
If you can purchase thousands of tickets on one captcha, it defeats the purpose of the captcha.
Limit it to a max of 5 tickets per transaction, with each transaction requiring a new captcha, and a restriction on purchasing more than 20 tickets per credit card.
I would question the legitimacy of the correllation.
Higher IQ scores (and higher testing scores in general) are already strongly correllated with affluence.
This result is like an artifact of affluence. Richer people tend to be better nourished and exposed to more novel stimuli as children, as well as getting better educations. They tend to score higher on standardized tests, and IQ scores are just results from standardized tests.
Richer people are better able to afford expensive software and media. As a consequence, the risk to reward ratio is different for them, than it is for somebody barely staying above poverty line.
That there is a correllation between IQ and Piracy, (as a reflection of the effect affluence has on IQ) is likely just an artifact of affluence. Correllation is not causation.
access to food/material wealth (while taking advantage of a captured population's women was often considered part of that material wealth, access to increased riches, increased access to food, better housing, and better quality of life were all themselves sufficiently powerful motivators for conquest, without having to include mass rape.)
There is more to life than putting your dick in (or getting a dick/whatever put in) something AC.
Sex is nice, but it is not the ultimate pleasure, and not what you should build your life around. Please stop fixating on it whevever you see word prefixes like "hetero" and "homo", m'kay?
As the article points out, the freebie elegability was PER LINE, not Per Subscriber. Most subscribers are not single people with only a single line: This means that 63million figure works out to over 120million, if we consider that most people with multiple lines will have more than two, and tha they will make up the bulk of the population of subscribers. (we give it at nod at averaging out to about 2 lines per subscriber.)
You can easily multiply that finding by at least 2.
OMG! Our beans and their beans got put into a newer, bigger pot! We cant trust those other bean counters, or their balance sheets! We have to recount all the beans!!
Nevermind the already outstanding obligations we have, or the cost studies conducted showing the upgrade would be fully funded, and would make us money in the long run-- Those could all be lies!!
We have to recount all the beans, first and foremost, then decide who gets what, and how many! That's what's really important here! Providing promised service comes second!........
There would just be something like cyanogenmod that hits less than a year later. in fact, CM would probably issue a statement that they wont include the back doors.
CM is based on AOSP, and is wholly open source. If your device supports it, then you can use real crypto, while everyone else in the US gets to enjoy fake crypto.
The issue of course, is that you would need to encrypt so much, (because GSM and other hardware assisted crypto would be backdoored, so you have to put real crypto on top) that your battery goes flat very fast.
IMHO, the solution to that is for eurozone countries to mandate denying US variant GSM devices from working in their countries as an issue of national security. The corporate backlash would be intense.
Emitted photons DO provide a thrust, but the thrust is very minimal, and only noticeable after long periods of time.
Several deep space probes have "anomalous" trajectories that have since been attributed to the IR photons being emitted from the heat sinks of their RTGs.
The EM-Drive is only generating all this press hoopydoo, because the thrust it exerts on the tortion pendulum is greater than that expected from this light pressure alone. If it could be explained handily by light pressure, it would have been swept under the rug years ago as uninteresting.
More, photons are massless, and only interact strongly with matter because they are the force mediating particle for electromagnetism.
Photons are their own antiparticle, so when they interact strongly with each other, the force drops to zero, so the pair doesnt interact with anything else. This allows them to pass through the wall of the cavity like it wasnt even there. They still have energy, and a mathematical equivalent of momentum, so when they leave the system, an equal and opposite change in momentum of the system occurs.
That's my layman's understanding anyway.
The problem is that this is just a convoluted form of light pressure. The thrust exhibited by the em-drive is supposedly higher than the expected momentum change from simply radiating the microwave photons, and only some of the photons bouncing around inside the cavity will perfectly pair up to form neutral photon pairs that can escape the system. That means this mechanism cannot explain the anomalous nature of the thrust.
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If unity can run, then other more windows-like managers might also. Say Mint's skinned version of Mate or Cinnamon. Might be an interesting way of evading the adverts plastered into the hackjob of the win10 start menu.
Some part of me sees this as the "embrace" stage of the dreaded trio though.
Sounds like a job for a simple sticker.
Round, has little black arrows pointing toward the center, says "Hidden microphone!" on it.
One can probably get these mass printed at cafe-press.
Detect the microphone, and put the sticker down (If you cannot sabotage the mic yourself) to alert others. Then use your white noise generator.
Good lord.
Does this have to be spelled out for you in black and white?
1) the DHS and its cronies want to have massive collection capabilities.
2) They want to deny all FOIA attempts and subpoenas against their archival audio recordings.
3) they behave as an unaccountable agency, that can do no wrong.
Taken together, they can straight up fabricate that you said something, you cannot challenge it in court, and unless you can prove a negative, you will go to jail.
So, yes-- it matters.
Possibly, but when large numbers of people do it, then the buses will quickly run out of eligible fares.
Also, the sabotage can be done quite innocuously.
Where does "private" end, and "public" begin?
Is it in your home? Maybe not with all those smart TVs and the 3rd party doctrine.
Unless there is outrage, the line will vanish, and there wont be a private.
That assumes only single microphones per car/train/etc.
Placement, and quantity can make up for ambient noise, and also permits big brother to know where exactly on said train you were standing when you discussed your seditious materials.
Small mics places every 3 feet would probably be sufficient to get most conversations.
Looks like it is time for widespread counter-actions, while we are still able to do so.
Microphones need wires leading to them, which means they will absorb/attenuate nearby EM fields. That means you can sweep for them with a fairly low tech detector. If they are not wired, they will actively emit a signal, which likewise can be detected.
Once you find them, pour superglue into them. Document their presence and location on your social media platform of choice, so that others can quickly sabotage similarly placed microphones.
Dutiful denial of service will make this too costly for the orwelian surveillance state to maintain.
That wont work with lots of traffic. The more pipes there are, the more you need to isolate traffic, otherwise the TCP messages alone will start to saturate the pipes.
It is important to remember that even with a fully meshed network, there will be sections of the mesh that have more traffic traversing it than others. The messages are not evenly and uniformly distributed-- and with wireless technologies being used as the medium, there is only so much bandwidth that the spectrum can provide you in a given locality. (You cant just add another line and isolate traffic, like you can with wired.)
This is further made worse, because as network conditions deteriorate from saturation, the number of TCP Retry packets and resends will increase, as all the user's systems try to assure data delivery-- on an already saturated pipe. It increases to nearly exponential levels, since the added retries and TCP messages about delivery failures cause more failures to happen through timeouts, because the packets dont get delivered, because the medium is busy.
This kind of thing happens when there are lots of connected users in close physical proximity to each other, all trying to make use of the mesh network.
Your ISP manages things with hubs (if cable), or loop management systems (if DSL), where each branch has traffic isolation, with progressively thicker and more bandwidth capable trunks leading to the global internet backbone. The thicker trunk lines can handle all that traffic from the combined last miles leading to and from people's homes. Without the traffic isolation, it would never work.
The exact tipping points are mathematically computable, if you know what the average data use per user is, what the bandwidth of the segment is, and how many users will be using the segment.
Long story short-- There's a reason why there are big fat cables handling internet traffic. You may not realize it, but the internet actually *IS* a giant mesh network. The "Backbone" is a bunch of high-availability, high-bandwidth trunk lines that have redundant interconnectivity. If a major trunk line goes down, other lines will handle a portion of the traffic, and route around the damage. The problem with oppressive regimes, is that they allow only ONE trunk line into and out of their country-- which they have a kill-switch on.
A bunch of small, low-fidelity pipes will saturate under the load of TCP messages in short order, and are NOT a substitute for a properly managed trunk. Some small amount of data can get passed the killswitch that way, but by no means could it replace the downed trunk.
There may be subtle means of embedding "seditious" signals inside benign sources of RF energy. Say, the energy leaking from a high voltage power line.
The speed wouldn't be too good, but when you just want to get your message out, the speed of delivery isn't so important.
Then there is your typical, ordinary steganography. You have a normal network connection transmitting seemingly ordinary data packets, but the packets have a very low bandwidth hidden channel of communication embedded in them using some clever crypto. Looks like you are looking at cat pics, etc- but are really sending a post about how you witnessed the secret police execute your neighbor.
The analyst is full of bullshit.
They have a freaking kanji for it.
How can they have a kanji for Privacy and "Confidential, private matters", if they dont have a concept for it?
Granted, the chinese government has been strongly trying to delete/revise/repurpose kanji for years now for purely political reasons-- so perhaps this is one of those they have tried to delete--- but still. China knows what privacy is.
There's also the winePPA you can enable in Ubuntu. That gives you bleeding edge WINE builds, with all manner of fancy new features. Even if he insists on using ubuntu 12.04, adding the PPA will give him "very very recent" Wine.
The thing to be aware of-- you WILL need to run WineTricks and install the MSCore Fonts package. Office does not compromise on that. It DEMANDS real Tahoma, and real Arial.
MSoffice 2007 runs in WINE just fine.
No part of the EULA insists it be installed on a windows machine.
Office is not denied to you on Linux.
Limit the number of tickets you can buy per transaction.
If you can purchase thousands of tickets on one captcha, it defeats the purpose of the captcha.
Limit it to a max of 5 tickets per transaction, with each transaction requiring a new captcha, and a restriction on purchasing more than 20 tickets per credit card.
That would make a big dent.
I would too!
Poison is a much better band. ;)
I would question the legitimacy of the correllation.
Higher IQ scores (and higher testing scores in general) are already strongly correllated with affluence.
This result is like an artifact of affluence. Richer people tend to be better nourished and exposed to more novel stimuli as children, as well as getting better educations. They tend to score higher on standardized tests, and IQ scores are just results from standardized tests.
Richer people are better able to afford expensive software and media. As a consequence, the risk to reward ratio is different for them, than it is for somebody barely staying above poverty line.
That there is a correllation between IQ and Piracy, (as a reflection of the effect affluence has on IQ) is likely just an artifact of affluence. Correllation is not causation.
No! We dont dare put the Dick in the Cunt!
That only makes more of them!
For much of human history?
access to food/material wealth
(while taking advantage of a captured population's women was often considered part of that material wealth, access to increased riches, increased access to food, better housing, and better quality of life were all themselves sufficiently powerful motivators for conquest, without having to include mass rape.)
There is more to life than putting your dick in (or getting a dick/whatever put in) something AC.
Sex is nice, but it is not the ultimate pleasure, and not what you should build your life around. Please stop fixating on it whevever you see word prefixes like "hetero" and "homo", m'kay?
Even higher than that even.
As the article points out, the freebie elegability was PER LINE, not Per Subscriber. Most subscribers are not single people with only a single line: This means that 63million figure works out to over 120million, if we consider that most people with multiple lines will have more than two, and tha they will make up the bulk of the population of subscribers. (we give it at nod at averaging out to about 2 lines per subscriber.)
You can easily multiply that finding by at least 2.
Heterodox has nothing to do with who or what you like to fuck. Hetero means "different."
eg,
"Heterogenous" means "different origins"
"heterosexual" means "sex with a different kind of partner"
etc.
"heterodox" is a related word to "orthodox."
That's your clue.
(jesus, why does everyone always think about fucking all the damned time?)
VC = Venture Captial(ist); Money, (or a person with said money) that is "ventured", with the hope of getting a large return.
IPO == Initial Public Offer; The intial sales price of a stock that just been registered on the public exchange market.
OMG! Our beans and their beans got put into a newer, bigger pot! We cant trust those other bean counters, or their balance sheets! We have to recount all the beans!!
Nevermind the already outstanding obligations we have, or the cost studies conducted showing the upgrade would be fully funded, and would make us money in the long run-- Those could all be lies!!
We have to recount all the beans, first and foremost, then decide who gets what, and how many! That's what's really important here! Providing promised service comes second! ........
God I hate corporate culture.
There would just be something like cyanogenmod that hits less than a year later. in fact, CM would probably issue a statement that they wont include the back doors.
CM is based on AOSP, and is wholly open source. If your device supports it, then you can use real crypto, while everyone else in the US gets to enjoy fake crypto.
The issue of course, is that you would need to encrypt so much, (because GSM and other hardware assisted crypto would be backdoored, so you have to put real crypto on top) that your battery goes flat very fast.
IMHO, the solution to that is for eurozone countries to mandate denying US variant GSM devices from working in their countries as an issue of national security. The corporate backlash would be intense.
Emitted photons DO provide a thrust, but the thrust is very minimal, and only noticeable after long periods of time.
Several deep space probes have "anomalous" trajectories that have since been attributed to the IR photons being emitted from the heat sinks of their RTGs.
The EM-Drive is only generating all this press hoopydoo, because the thrust it exerts on the tortion pendulum is greater than that expected from this light pressure alone. If it could be explained handily by light pressure, it would have been swept under the rug years ago as uninteresting.
The bible is very explicit on this!
The only reactions permitted are with the appropriate antipartner, and it must produce child particles!
Same-sign and self-interactions that produce no new products are strictly forbidden! They make pappa god angry!
It doesnt matter how frequently you do it, it makes pappa god angry all the same!
(Gawd, i feel dumber for having written this. I will abstain from entertaining this kind of stupid any further.)
More, photons are massless, and only interact strongly with matter because they are the force mediating particle for electromagnetism.
Photons are their own antiparticle, so when they interact strongly with each other, the force drops to zero, so the pair doesnt interact with anything else. This allows them to pass through the wall of the cavity like it wasnt even there. They still have energy, and a mathematical equivalent of momentum, so when they leave the system, an equal and opposite change in momentum of the system occurs.
That's my layman's understanding anyway.
The problem is that this is just a convoluted form of light pressure. The thrust exhibited by the em-drive is supposedly higher than the expected momentum change from simply radiating the microwave photons, and only some of the photons bouncing around inside the cavity will perfectly pair up to form neutral photon pairs that can escape the system. That means this mechanism cannot explain the anomalous nature of the thrust.