With modern Linux distributions you don't have to ever touch a terminal anymore than you do on a Mac - which for me is a lot because I'm a nerd but you catch my drift. Systems "just work" and installing software is no more difficult than looking for what you need in an "app store" just like on a phone.
I use Ubuntu and OSX every day and take exception to this. For 5 months, Ubuntu 13.04 lost the ability to accept external USB keyboard input on the unlock screen after waking from sleep on a laptop... I had to keep opening the laptop to use the built-in keyboard, or change to the user-switching screen to get back to the desktop.
Sh!t like that never breaks on OSX and Windows. Those OS's respect that the user needs the basic IO of the user interface (graphics, keyboard, mouse, audio) to stay rock solid. On Linux, only the wired NIC stays rock solid... a stark reminder its still a server OS with server-room priorities.
Audio is still problematic for Linux users from time to time, and bluetooth audio is still a complete mess... barely usable and requiring periodic system restarts to keep it working.
A fresh non-OEM install of either Windows or Ubuntu on a random PC will usually result in slightly more features working in Ubuntu than Windows. But the remedy in Ubuntu for the non-working stuff involves CLI work, whereas in Windows you can go to the system mfg website and download and install needed drivers using the mouse. OSX and Windows both let you get add-on hardware working by downloading drivers from each peripheral mfg website and install using a mouse. Also, some of the stuff that "just works" will not work correctly because the driver's default values aren't correct for the particular implementation of the chip family in question... more CLI work.
What has changed for the better since Ubuntu's introduction is graphics stability... after many years they finally got graphics to stop mysteriously disappering. Audio is marginally better than it used to be. IMO, that's insufficient progress.
BTW, Gnome 3 (actually, the loss of Gnome 2) was THE reason I had to move a couple users back to Windows. You should have those pom-poms bronzed, cheerleader.
With modern Linux distributions you don't have to ever touch a terminal anymore than you do on a Mac - which for me is a lot because I'm a nerd but you catch my drift. Systems "just work" and installing software is no more difficult than looking for what you need in an "app store" just like on a phone.
I use Ubuntu and OSX every day and take exception to this. For 5 months, Ubuntu 13.04 lost the ability to accept external USB keyboard input on the unlock screen after waking from sleep on a laptop... I had to keep opening the laptop to use the built-in keyboard, or change to the user-switching screen to get back to the desktop.
Sh!t like that never breaks on OSX and Windows. Those OS's respect that the user needs the basic IO of the user interface (graphics, keyboard, mouse, audio) to stay rock solid. On Linux, only the wired NIC stays rock solid... a stark reminder its still a server OS with server-room priorities.
Audio is still problematic for Linux users from time to time, and bluetooth audio is still a complete mess... barely usable and requiring periodic system restarts to keep it working.
A fresh non-OEM install of either Windows or Ubuntu on a random PC will usually result in slightly more features working in Ubuntu than Windows. But the remedy in Ubuntu for the non-working stuff involves CLI work, whereas in Windows you can go to the system mfg website and download and install needed drivers using the mouse. OSX and Windows both let you get add-on hardware working by downloading drivers from each peripheral mfg website and install using a mouse. Also, some of the stuff that "just works" will not work correctly because the driver's default values aren't correct for the particular implementation of the chip family in question... more CLI work.
What has changed for the better since Ubuntu's introduction is graphics stability... after many years they finally got graphics to stop mysteriously disappering. Audio is marginally better than it used to be. IMO, that's insufficient progress.
BTW, Gnome 3 (actually, the loss of Gnome 2) was THE reason I had to move a couple users back to Windows. You should have those pom-poms bronzed, cheerleader.
1. Tor used weak 1024bit encryption until very recently. I2P (a general-purpose darknet that uses onion-like routing) has used 2048bit ElGamal for many years.
2. Tor's relay patterns and referencing methods are somewhat centralized. I2P is less centralized and provides more cover, because every user acts as a router... spreading traffic over a higher proportion of nodes and more thoroughly keeping your traffic mixed with other stuff.
3. I2P is also open to less abuse because when everyone shares banwidth, then much like Bittorrent, being nice keeps you from being blacklisted or ignored.
4. Tor's community never paid proper attention to distrubuted versions of basic services like file storage, email, web, etc. I2P developed or borrowed these capabilities as users sought a less naive approach than Tor.
I'm not saying that Tor was the reason the Silk Road operator was caught. But if it was, I'm sure there is something in the above that contributed to his discovery.
So that the vote ranking doesn't merely get us another representative President blockaded by a nutjob UN-representative House Of Representatives.
There are a couple ways to do this (create geometric rules for districts, or switch to proportional representation in Congress) and I read somewhere a Supreme Court decision in 1964 may make the prospect more probable than it sounds.
Much to the mods discredit, you're more ignorant than the GP.
Hydrocarbons are a highly concentrated and relatively easy to transport and store form of energy and ALL other forms of energy production are a lot less efficient in the long run to create the energy we need.
You seem to have driving range confused with efficiency. I should also note that what comes out of the tailpipe is polluting in ways other than CO2 emissions.
And "TheSkepticalOptimist" doth protest too much about CO2. Here is a sample of your concern over global warming:
OMG, Ice is 6th lowest since we decided to give a rat's ass about it. But hey, it was lower 5 more times than now but the green alarmists won't consider that an upward trend. Recorded history is only 0.00000000625% total of actual history, give or take a few zillionths of a percentage.
GP's confusion at least seems honest compared with the way you keep taking cheap shots at "greens"... even if they're peer-reviewed scientists.
If its like most algae biofuels, it takes CO2 from coal power plants or similar polluting source. It decreases overall CO2 impact per unit of production, but is not renewable per se.
I2P uses 2048bit encryption and every user defaults to being a relay, making it much harder to attack than Tor (which has a security model that's piecemeal). It also has a decentralized email service based on DHT and supports large P2P file transfers. If the people you're communicating with are willing to run it, I2P is definitely a better choice.
I should also note that I2P runs on Android devices so it can also be quite portable (although you would want to strongly prefer Wifi connections over cellular).
I2P uses 2048bit encryption and every user defaults to being a relay, making it much harder to attack than Tor (which has a security model that's piecemeal). It also has a decentralized email service based on DHT and supports large P2P file transfers. If the people you're communicating with are willing to run it, I2P is definitely a better choice.
Yes, when I saw this I thought that this was a reason to make motherboard IOMMUs a security feature. Also, the DMA destination memory pages should not have the executable bit turned on. Recent generations of Intel/AMD CPUs have provided the ability to turn that bit off.
Qubes implements this security feature. Pretty much every peripheral is isolated from the core system / hypervisor via the IOMMU, and it even runs X11 and the network stack in separate VMs. It is probably the only Linux (or Linux-ish) system to secure these known vulnerabilities.
You can also do the same for other hardware devices (assign hardware to certain VMs) using the GUI, along with a lot of other really nice point-and-click features. Security context is reflected in the GUI using window colors.
A final note: Multi-user is actually deprecated and security is all based on domains. The system is designed to function strictly as a single-user PC (in fact, the focus is more toward laptops), which I find refreshing. If you need multiuser you can always create an HVM to run non-native OSes.
the processes of financialization and growth through increased consumption. They will back these trends to the hilt until *after* they start seeing damage, and even then they will limit their cautionary guidelines to very specific circumstances (i.e. beachfront property, and now property with high fire risk).
They remain conservative and give not a damn about conservation, much less the plight of poor and normally uninsured human beings who are in the path of environmental destruction. The people who run and invest in private insurers would switch their operations over to profiting from climate distress tomorrow if the scientific predictions weren't so generalized. They are actively looking for ways to make this transition as we speak.
Why would you want to make things a *little* more complicated? These are not basement-dwelling hackers or even crime syndicates we're talking about. They can stride over your speedbumps while hardly noticing, and regular services have a tendency to ban Tor traffic when they start getting a lot of government inquiries about it.
The point is to deprive them of metadata, because metadata is our data.
A remailer like mixmaster is more robust, but very few use it and it doesn't have the benefit of being mixed-in with all the other types of anonymized traffic.
I just think that going piecemeal on encryption and anonymization is foolhardy. It makes the learning curve higher and creates a burden of having to remember to do the right things with the right apps that doesn't subside over time. We won't succeed in spreading robust encryption by dumping a pile of complicated half-measures on people who inquire; Its better to tell them that communicating within the darknet will do the "heavy lifting" for them as long as they don't make obvious mistakes.
Are we? Metadata is still accessible with PGP and OTR. Tor was recently revealed to have weak encryption and Tormail is now RIP.
There needs to be *one* general purpose crypto layer with *one* learning curve or else its not going to stick. I2P is the closest thing I've seen to that; You should check it out.
The move away from robust peer-to-peer to centralisation - esp. more points of failure at which all traffic passes/arrives - is absolutely undermining technical foundations.
The Internet could easily have become about all computers acting as peers, caching data for one massive net of networked data storage ("the network is the computer" taken quite literally). Instead, thanks to the desire of capitalists and governments (but I repeat myself) to control, it's very firmly split itself between producers and consumers - just the way the boys at the top like it.
Everyone is both a peer and a load-bearing router for the network. This has the side effect of providing better protection from traffic analysis than Tor. And their new email system is based on decentralized DHT.
Fedora overheats my laptops and gets other hardware issues wrong besides. I wish Qubes weren't based on it, but the project leaders would rather have jobs/contracts with RedHat than Canonical.
The police do not need a search warrant to follow you around.
This is also the definition of stalking, which a number of states have outlawed. Our police are supposed to heed civilian laws, but this is one of those subjects where they can be shown to be above the law.
It's gonna take awhile for everyone to get upto speed on this whole 'spying on everyone' thing. Heck just 5 years ago if you made the statement 'the goverment is spying on all of us'. You'd get some sort of response involving tinfoil and hats even tho it was 100% true 5 years ago as it is today.
Yes, and we need a name for this kind of person with the very serf-ish, banal, pro-establishment social imagination. Denier seems almost too mild.
Additionally, my websites know when you're using Ghostery, NoScript, and AdBlock, or user agent spoofers, fingerprint normalizers, etc. Your use of these damn near perfectly profiles the kind of user you are... I just use the data to serve you the page for a downloadable game instead of the WebGL or flash version, but others could do much more...
Yeah, but people using the Tor browser bundle pretty much all look the same.
It was also a wise move on Valve's part to call it SteamOS; following the rule that Linux is only successful with consumers when you don't call it Linux.
People laugh but this literally seems to be true: If you call it Linux, consumers will try to draw on "Linux" resources (packages, howtos, etc.) whereupon they discover everything having to do with the user interface is fragmented. Most of the times when they have to resolve problems, they'll have to hit the CLI.
Linux is what's underneath. But the intellectually dishonest shortcut of lumping toolchain and userspace stuff under the kernel's moniker (as if Torvalds et al deserved direct credit for them) has garnered bad karma-- a social dynamic that prevents the formation of a readily identifiable, feature-stable OS design.
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With modern Linux distributions you don't have to ever touch a terminal anymore than you do on a Mac - which for me is a lot because I'm a nerd but you catch my drift. Systems "just work" and installing software is no more difficult than looking for what you need in an "app store" just like on a phone.
I use Ubuntu and OSX every day and take exception to this. For 5 months, Ubuntu 13.04 lost the ability to accept external USB keyboard input on the unlock screen after waking from sleep on a laptop... I had to keep opening the laptop to use the built-in keyboard, or change to the user-switching screen to get back to the desktop.
Sh!t like that never breaks on OSX and Windows. Those OS's respect that the user needs the basic IO of the user interface (graphics, keyboard, mouse, audio) to stay rock solid. On Linux, only the wired NIC stays rock solid... a stark reminder its still a server OS with server-room priorities.
Audio is still problematic for Linux users from time to time, and bluetooth audio is still a complete mess... barely usable and requiring periodic system restarts to keep it working.
A fresh non-OEM install of either Windows or Ubuntu on a random PC will usually result in slightly more features working in Ubuntu than Windows. But the remedy in Ubuntu for the non-working stuff involves CLI work, whereas in Windows you can go to the system mfg website and download and install needed drivers using the mouse. OSX and Windows both let you get add-on hardware working by downloading drivers from each peripheral mfg website and install using a mouse. Also, some of the stuff that "just works" will not work correctly because the driver's default values aren't correct for the particular implementation of the chip family in question... more CLI work.
What has changed for the better since Ubuntu's introduction is graphics stability... after many years they finally got graphics to stop mysteriously disappering. Audio is marginally better than it used to be. IMO, that's insufficient progress.
BTW, Gnome 3 (actually, the loss of Gnome 2) was THE reason I had to move a couple users back to Windows. You should have those pom-poms bronzed, cheerleader.
Scoobyyyy.... scooby-doo da doo-be-doo!
With modern Linux distributions you don't have to ever touch a terminal anymore than you do on a Mac - which for me is a lot because I'm a nerd but you catch my drift. Systems "just work" and installing software is no more difficult than looking for what you need in an "app store" just like on a phone.
I use Ubuntu and OSX every day and take exception to this. For 5 months, Ubuntu 13.04 lost the ability to accept external USB keyboard input on the unlock screen after waking from sleep on a laptop... I had to keep opening the laptop to use the built-in keyboard, or change to the user-switching screen to get back to the desktop.
Sh!t like that never breaks on OSX and Windows. Those OS's respect that the user needs the basic IO of the user interface (graphics, keyboard, mouse, audio) to stay rock solid. On Linux, only the wired NIC stays rock solid... a stark reminder its still a server OS with server-room priorities.
Audio is still problematic for Linux users from time to time, and bluetooth audio is still a complete mess... barely usable and requiring periodic system restarts to keep it working.
A fresh non-OEM install of either Windows or Ubuntu on a random PC will usually result in slightly more features working in Ubuntu than Windows. But the remedy in Ubuntu for the non-working stuff involves CLI work, whereas in Windows you can go to the system mfg website and download and install needed drivers using the mouse. OSX and Windows both let you get add-on hardware working by downloading drivers from each peripheral mfg website and install using a mouse. Also, some of the stuff that "just works" will not work correctly because the driver's default values aren't correct for the particular implementation of the chip family in question... more CLI work.
What has changed for the better since Ubuntu's introduction is graphics stability... after many years they finally got graphics to stop mysteriously disappering. Audio is marginally better than it used to be. IMO, that's insufficient progress.
BTW, Gnome 3 (actually, the loss of Gnome 2) was THE reason I had to move a couple users back to Windows. You should have those pom-poms bronzed, cheerleader.
1. Tor used weak 1024bit encryption until very recently. I2P (a general-purpose darknet that uses onion-like routing) has used 2048bit ElGamal for many years.
2. Tor's relay patterns and referencing methods are somewhat centralized. I2P is less centralized and provides more cover, because every user acts as a router... spreading traffic over a higher proportion of nodes and more thoroughly keeping your traffic mixed with other stuff.
3. I2P is also open to less abuse because when everyone shares banwidth, then much like Bittorrent, being nice keeps you from being blacklisted or ignored.
4. Tor's community never paid proper attention to distrubuted versions of basic services like file storage, email, web, etc. I2P developed or borrowed these capabilities as users sought a less naive approach than Tor.
I'm not saying that Tor was the reason the Silk Road operator was caught. But if it was, I'm sure there is something in the above that contributed to his discovery.
So that the vote ranking doesn't merely get us another representative President blockaded by a nutjob UN-representative House Of Representatives.
There are a couple ways to do this (create geometric rules for districts, or switch to proportional representation in Congress) and I read somewhere a Supreme Court decision in 1964 may make the prospect more probable than it sounds.
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20130930/OPINION02/709309932
Stop talking out of your butt.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/politics/cnn-poll-congress-approval/
Most of us did NOT vote for them. Republicans won the House with a minority of votes because of gerrymandered districts.
for putting a band of priviliged whackos into power in the House of Representatives.
They aren't representative of this country, and exist as a legal loophole that allows gerrymandering to be practiced.
Much to the mods discredit, you're more ignorant than the GP.
Hydrocarbons are a highly concentrated and relatively easy to transport and store form of energy and ALL other forms of energy production are a lot less efficient in the long run to create the energy we need.
You seem to have driving range confused with efficiency. I should also note that what comes out of the tailpipe is polluting in ways other than CO2 emissions.
And "TheSkepticalOptimist" doth protest too much about CO2. Here is a sample of your concern over global warming:
OMG, Ice is 6th lowest since we decided to give a rat's ass about it. But hey, it was lower 5 more times than now but the green alarmists won't consider that an upward trend.
Recorded history is only 0.00000000625% total of actual history, give or take a few zillionths of a percentage.
GP's confusion at least seems honest compared with the way you keep taking cheap shots at "greens"... even if they're peer-reviewed scientists.
If its like most algae biofuels, it takes CO2 from coal power plants or similar polluting source. It decreases overall CO2 impact per unit of production, but is not renewable per se.
I2P uses 2048bit encryption and every user defaults to being a relay, making it much harder to attack than Tor (which has a security model that's piecemeal). It also has a decentralized email service based on DHT and supports large P2P file transfers. If the people you're communicating with are willing to run it, I2P is definitely a better choice.
I should also note that I2P runs on Android devices so it can also be quite portable (although you would want to strongly prefer Wifi connections over cellular).
I2P uses 2048bit encryption and every user defaults to being a relay, making it much harder to attack than Tor (which has a security model that's piecemeal). It also has a decentralized email service based on DHT and supports large P2P file transfers. If the people you're communicating with are willing to run it, I2P is definitely a better choice.
Yes, when I saw this I thought that this was a reason to make motherboard IOMMUs a security feature. Also, the DMA destination memory pages should not have the executable bit turned on. Recent generations of Intel/AMD CPUs have provided the ability to turn that bit off.
Qubes implements this security feature. Pretty much every peripheral is isolated from the core system / hypervisor via the IOMMU, and it even runs X11 and the network stack in separate VMs. It is probably the only Linux (or Linux-ish) system to secure these known vulnerabilities.
You can also do the same for other hardware devices (assign hardware to certain VMs) using the GUI, along with a lot of other really nice point-and-click features. Security context is reflected in the GUI using window colors.
A final note: Multi-user is actually deprecated and security is all based on domains. The system is designed to function strictly as a single-user PC (in fact, the focus is more toward laptops), which I find refreshing. If you need multiuser you can always create an HVM to run non-native OSes.
the processes of financialization and growth through increased consumption. They will back these trends to the hilt until *after* they start seeing damage, and even then they will limit their cautionary guidelines to very specific circumstances (i.e. beachfront property, and now property with high fire risk).
They remain conservative and give not a damn about conservation, much less the plight of poor and normally uninsured human beings who are in the path of environmental destruction. The people who run and invest in private insurers would switch their operations over to profiting from climate distress tomorrow if the scientific predictions weren't so generalized. They are actively looking for ways to make this transition as we speak.
Why would you want to make things a *little* more complicated? These are not basement-dwelling hackers or even crime syndicates we're talking about. They can stride over your speedbumps while hardly noticing, and regular services have a tendency to ban Tor traffic when they start getting a lot of government inquiries about it.
The point is to deprive them of metadata, because metadata is our data.
A remailer like mixmaster is more robust, but very few use it and it doesn't have the benefit of being mixed-in with all the other types of anonymized traffic.
I just think that going piecemeal on encryption and anonymization is foolhardy. It makes the learning curve higher and creates a burden of having to remember to do the right things with the right apps that doesn't subside over time. We won't succeed in spreading robust encryption by dumping a pile of complicated half-measures on people who inquire; Its better to tell them that communicating within the darknet will do the "heavy lifting" for them as long as they don't make obvious mistakes.
ARE WE STUPID or what ?
Are we? Metadata is still accessible with PGP and OTR. Tor was recently revealed to have weak encryption and Tormail is now RIP.
There needs to be *one* general purpose crypto layer with *one* learning curve or else its not going to stick. I2P is the closest thing I've seen to that; You should check it out.
The move away from robust peer-to-peer to centralisation - esp. more points of failure at which all traffic passes/arrives - is absolutely undermining technical foundations.
The Internet could easily have become about all computers acting as peers, caching data for one massive net of networked data storage ("the network is the computer" taken quite literally). Instead, thanks to the desire of capitalists and governments (but I repeat myself) to control, it's very firmly split itself between producers and consumers - just the way the boys at the top like it.
http://geti2p.net/
Everyone is both a peer and a load-bearing router for the network. This has the side effect of providing better protection from traffic analysis than Tor. And their new email system is based on decentralized DHT.
Fedora overheats my laptops and gets other hardware issues wrong besides. I wish Qubes weren't based on it, but the project leaders would rather have jobs/contracts with RedHat than Canonical.
+1,000 Good day to you!
The police do not need a search warrant to follow you around.
This is also the definition of stalking, which a number of states have outlawed. Our police are supposed to heed civilian laws, but this is one of those subjects where they can be shown to be above the law.
It's gonna take awhile for everyone to get upto speed on this whole 'spying on everyone' thing.
Heck just 5 years ago if you made the statement 'the goverment is spying on all of us'. You'd get some sort of response involving tinfoil and hats even tho it was 100% true 5 years ago as it is today.
Yes, and we need a name for this kind of person with the very serf-ish, banal, pro-establishment social imagination. Denier seems almost too mild.
Additionally, my websites know when you're using Ghostery, NoScript, and AdBlock, or user agent spoofers, fingerprint normalizers, etc. Your use of these damn near perfectly profiles the kind of user you are... I just use the data to serve you the page for a downloadable game instead of the WebGL or flash version, but others could do much more...
Yeah, but people using the Tor browser bundle pretty much all look the same.
Speaking of... http://www.fairphone.com/
Seems none of the replies mentioned TiVOization yet, so I'll just throw that out there. SteamOS could very well go down that path.
It was also a wise move on Valve's part to call it SteamOS; following the rule that Linux is only successful with consumers when you don't call it Linux.
People laugh but this literally seems to be true: If you call it Linux, consumers will try to draw on "Linux" resources (packages, howtos, etc.) whereupon they discover everything having to do with the user interface is fragmented. Most of the times when they have to resolve problems, they'll have to hit the CLI.
Linux is what's underneath. But the intellectually dishonest shortcut of lumping toolchain and userspace stuff under the kernel's moniker (as if Torvalds et al deserved direct credit for them) has garnered bad karma-- a social dynamic that prevents the formation of a readily identifiable, feature-stable OS design.