A couple years ago I searched intensively for anonymous networks that could candle a variety of traffic (as opposed to Tor, which handles little more than web) and came up with I2P. It is a FOSS darknet which means you're communicating anon only with other I2P users, but the good news is that the network has grown a lot in a past couple years. Another upside is that it is supposed to be more secure/anonymous than Tor by design and unlike Tor, I2P is much more decentralized and would be harder to take down.
The FOSS distributed filesystem Tahoe-lafs just got ported to I2P and there is more in the works. Right now iMule and ported bittorrent clients are the most popular P2P on I2P.
If speed is a factor, then none of the answers I read above apply to your issue.
Your el cheapo flash card has a temperature-sensitive hardware defect which probably turned into an inability to read at hi-speed when the unit heated up to a certain temp and caused some poorly-made part of the chips to act flakey or broken. At USB 1.x speeds, the flash unit remains cool so access to it remains OK. Consider returning that flash card.
Of course, there is another possible explanation: Your particular flash reader device has an incompatibility with your flash cards (possible but not likely). You could try different readers if you haven't already.
That is the proprietary magazine app that Apple was bundling with Macs for some years. It has the same animated page turning and a few other little touches. I think the sample issue that came with it was MacWorld.
AFAIK the 'rerouting around damage' process may only work in a net culture where most users are technically savvy. But it isn't 1997 or even 2001 anymore. Internet communications are driven by herd mentality, which I fear will result in a situation where anyone wishing to re-route around the damage will have to cut themselves off from now-essential services unless they want to foot the bill for both the megacorp and re-rerouted versions of the net at the same time.
I think if the populace were more keen to do word-of-mouth campaigns for protest votes, we could have a lot of people -- who otherwise wouldn't vote -- making their voices heard via write-in candidates.
The problem is, it worked and the corporate machine publicized a made-up scandal as if it were true. Now ACORN is defunct.
Any citizen-involvement drive in government will receive the same malevolent treatment, unless that drive is working to put more power into the hands of corporations and the wealthy few (e.g. teabaggers).
For all the NSA's scariness and bluster they can't slice and dice their way through AES256 for each and every citizen in real time.
Without getting lucky with weak keys, they can't do that period. The indirect evidence that they can't is everywhere.
NSA has decryption systems to handle weaker crypto that gets used a lot on cell phone networks and such. And they likely can get help from Verisign to assist with smoothly MITM https connections. But they cannot yet crack AES-128 or better when the keys are secure.
just wait until they end up having to pay extra to all the ISPs so that the voters can get to their own campaign websites.
If only relatively well-off voters can afford to keep tabs on congress, that will suit the congresspeople just fine. They don't even WANT our votes if we're poor; Who wants the burden of representing people you hate?
I was hoping for "Nudist Pride Day"
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...but "Towel Day" is pretty close to being the same sentiment.
And if it also prevents man in the middle hacking of web pages it's a good thing.
There has been some debate as to whether HTTPS should become the default for web sites. It would prevent all kinds of misdeeds, from sniffing and MITM on free Wifi networks to ISPs sniffing or "enhancing" the pages we view by injecting code. In the case of ISPs it allows them to eventually out-compete the independent sites we like.
But with a ubiquitous jumping-off point like Google serving up search results in HTTPS, it may influence other and varied websites to offer the same kind of connection.
Google's decision could have some positive knock-on effects... Or with Symantec buying Verisign, maybe not!
It may take the demise of normal Bittorrent before pent up demand for sharing leads people in a new direction.
In the case of I2P, at least its being steadily developed and has continued to grow for over 5 years now. I think this reflects the great care the devs have been taking to create something that is entirely decentralized, anonymous with encrypted onion routing, yet has acceptable transfer speeds.
I2P can reach speeds an order of magnitude faster than, say, Tor. You still have to have patience for large torrents, but they do get through just fine...and with a very high degree of anonymity.
Symantec are not Google or Apple or even Microsoft. They will not even be Verisign after acquiring that company. Not all corporations have the same work culture and Symantec in particular are a bunch of MBAs who are sucking the life out of the computing field. If they all spontaneously combusted today, they would not be missed by anyone but their shareholders for more than 5 minutes.
...into a black hole. These Symantec / Verisign / PGP mergers show how the utterly decrepit Windows PC market failure (desktop monopoly, plus a small handful of app vendors like Symantec) has made the Internet much more treacherous by failing to deliver reasonably secure systems. And now these incompetent and greedy beasts (who are in fact more interested in hobbling our computers to keep us on that 3-year upgrade cycle) are going to finish the job by devouring important Internet institutions.
Symantec: The gross Microsoft toadies who not long ago tried to scare Mac users into buying their crapware with fevered stories of impending viral doom. Their white papers have the tone of 'buy into our security model you little mislead Unix neophytes, or your computers are gonna get it any day now!'
I agree that drivers and access to hardware specs are critically important.
However the system developer culture may be at the root of why the whole Linux desktop/laptop thing doesn't work for most people --that includes highly technical people like me who can't recommend something like Ubuntu to most other people we know because of the software's shortcomings.
Few Linux devs fail to recognize most of the software that defines the core system (from a users POV) as actual system software. Instead they relegate most of that stuff like file managers to the "application" category. As a result, most of the burden for vertical integration is placed near the top of the software stack, on people who have little if any pull with the "real" Linux devs lower down the stack. Designers, who would be in charge at Apple and Microsoft, are relegated to the status of whiners in the FOSS OS world. The result is a very slipshod, inconsistent environment from the POV of both the end user and the typical app developer.
Video, audio, power and Wifi tend to work poorly on Linux-based laptops. These 'consumer' features are hardly ever used by Linux's core audience, the web sysadmins who are usually happy to use Windows and Mac systems to administer Linux servers. Yet plenty of consumer-class hardware types are well-supported by Linux if they overlap with the types used on servers: Ethernet, HD & optical disc for example.
All of this suggests that the problem lies at least partly within the FOSS community.
In the case of Foxconn, did the Linux Foundation threaten to drop their motherboards from a list of supported hardware because of the ACPI problem? Oh wait... there's no list of supported or recommended systems. You see-- The Linux devs pretty much believe that a user who is trying out Linux-based stuff can use less than ideal hardware and reap the whirlwind for all they care.
The Windows landscape is chaotic enough even with all the hardware being officially designed for that OS. Expecting users to cope with Linux-based stuff in that environment is downright cruel.
Methane is a big problem precisely because of time. The earlier in this global warming process a GHG like methane gets emitted, the larger its overall impact because of positive feedbacks, causing more GHGs to be emitted from the biosphere for instance.
There is also the other question of time which deals with unintended consequences. Language that does not focus on the essential problem is more likely to create loopholes where an industry could conceivably develop a new fuel or other desired product that isn't carbon intensive but still traps heat in the atmosphere. That is just asking for further drawn out, unproductive battles in the future especially when the powers-that-be use every technicality and excuse in the book to avoid making an effort.
...you could use a combination of NoScript and Privoxy. The latter should keep your headers nice and generic. You can even install TorButton (tell it you're connecting through Privoxy but don't config Privoxy to use Tor) and that will take take of things like screen size.
Then again, you probably have a home IP address and that can be pretty unique (ISPs like Comcast change residential IPs pretty rarely) and of course that's what Tor itself is for, anonymizing your traffic including IP address. I2P (which is intended to communicate with other I2P users) can do the same thing as Tor more quickly, but the outproxy is only considered a gift to users so a large demand for outproxy to the regular web would result in slowness, or a shutdown of the proxy site, or people having to manually erect more outproxy sites.
Does anyone else think that naming "carbon" is being overly-specific? I think "greenhouse gasses" provides the right scope and expectations to actually deal with the problem at hand: GHG Tax. Carbon is used constantly by the press as a symbol of greenhouse pollutants, but other gases like methane are a problem too.
But the fact that this is rarely the case for any Linux-based desktop system tells me why power-saving and other (usually audio) features don't work well.
Its interesting that most of the (few) brands that work well with a distro like Ubuntu off the shelf also tend to be companies that offer certain models with Linux pre-installed. They're not like Dell, who will design a prototype from available components, then go to the component OEMs and say "We're making 2 million of this new system, but some of your chips come with standard features we'd rather leave out or fudge in software... chop that stuff off your chips and drop your price if you want our business".
Of course, the Linux drivers tend to be written for the OEM originals with their standard features intact, not the funky special-request variations made by Dell, Acer, etc. for their budget models.
What this translates into is that Johnny is perplexed as to why Linux has poor "PC compatibility".
Someone (that means us) needs to start insisting on systems that were designed with Linux or preferably a popular landmark distro like Ubuntu in mind. And we need to stop setting our friends and colleagues up for failed experiments when handing them discs expecting they can just run it on their PCs; It reflects badly on our judgment as individuals and on free open source software in general.
Any object that could tear a hole in a main-sequence star like the sun would probably be a compact star of some sort. See this summary of a Scientific American story from 2002:
When Stars Collide; The Secret Lives of Stars; Special Editions; by Michael Shara; 8 Page(s)
Of all the ways for life on Earth to end, the collision of the sun and another star might well be the most dramatic. If the incoming projectile were a white dwarf--a superdense star that packs the mass of the sun into a body a hundredth the size--the residents of Earth would be treated to quite a fireworks show. The white dwarf would penetrate the sun at hypersonic speed, over 600 kilometers a second, setting up a massive shock wave that would compress and heat the entire sun above thermonuclear ignition temperatures.
It would take only an hour for the white dwarf to smash through, but the damage would be irreversible. The superheated sun would release as much fusion energy in that hour as it normally does in 100 million years. The buildup of pressure would force gas outward at speeds far above escape velocity. Within a few hours the sun would have blown itself apart. Meanwhile the agent of this catastrophe, the white dwarf, would continue blithely on its way--not that we would be around to care about the injustice of it all.
I had read that original story and I recall they described a number of star-star impact scenarios (including black holes with main sequence stars).
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A couple years ago I searched intensively for anonymous networks that could candle a variety of traffic (as opposed to Tor, which handles little more than web) and came up with I2P. It is a FOSS darknet which means you're communicating anon only with other I2P users, but the good news is that the network has grown a lot in a past couple years. Another upside is that it is supposed to be more secure/anonymous than Tor by design and unlike Tor, I2P is much more decentralized and would be harder to take down.
The FOSS distributed filesystem Tahoe-lafs just got ported to I2P and there is more in the works. Right now iMule and ported bittorrent clients are the most popular P2P on I2P.
No, definitely use a thin USB cable and leave the computer outside the fridge. :)
AC is right that the freezer isn't a good idea.
But I might try it in the above-freezing part of the fridge.
If speed is a factor, then none of the answers I read above apply to your issue.
Your el cheapo flash card has a temperature-sensitive hardware defect which probably turned into an inability to read at hi-speed when the unit heated up to a certain temp and caused some poorly-made part of the chips to act flakey or broken. At USB 1.x speeds, the flash unit remains cool so access to it remains OK. Consider returning that flash card.
Of course, there is another possible explanation: Your particular flash reader device has an incompatibility with your flash cards (possible but not likely). You could try different readers if you haven't already.
That is the proprietary magazine app that Apple was bundling with Macs for some years. It has the same animated page turning and a few other little touches. I think the sample issue that came with it was MacWorld.
AFAIK the 'rerouting around damage' process may only work in a net culture where most users are technically savvy. But it isn't 1997 or even 2001 anymore. Internet communications are driven by herd mentality, which I fear will result in a situation where anyone wishing to re-route around the damage will have to cut themselves off from now-essential services unless they want to foot the bill for both the megacorp and re-rerouted versions of the net at the same time.
I think if the populace were more keen to do word-of-mouth campaigns for protest votes, we could have a lot of people -- who otherwise wouldn't vote -- making their voices heard via write-in candidates.
about voter registration?
The problem is, it worked and the corporate machine publicized a made-up scandal as if it were true. Now ACORN is defunct.
Any citizen-involvement drive in government will receive the same malevolent treatment, unless that drive is working to put more power into the hands of corporations and the wealthy few (e.g. teabaggers).
For all the NSA's scariness and bluster they can't slice and dice their way through AES256 for each and every citizen in real time.
Without getting lucky with weak keys, they can't do that period. The indirect evidence that they can't is everywhere.
NSA has decryption systems to handle weaker crypto that gets used a lot on cell phone networks and such. And they likely can get help from Verisign to assist with smoothly MITM https connections. But they cannot yet crack AES-128 or better when the keys are secure.
just wait until they end up having to pay extra to all the ISPs so that the voters can get to their own campaign websites.
If only relatively well-off voters can afford to keep tabs on congress, that will suit the congresspeople just fine. They don't even WANT our votes if we're poor; Who wants the burden of representing people you hate?
...but "Towel Day" is pretty close to being the same sentiment.
And if it also prevents man in the middle hacking of web pages it's a good thing.
There has been some debate as to whether HTTPS should become the default for web sites. It would prevent all kinds of misdeeds, from sniffing and MITM on free Wifi networks to ISPs sniffing or "enhancing" the pages we view by injecting code. In the case of ISPs it allows them to eventually out-compete the independent sites we like.
But with a ubiquitous jumping-off point like Google serving up search results in HTTPS, it may influence other and varied websites to offer the same kind of connection.
Google's decision could have some positive knock-on effects... Or with Symantec buying Verisign, maybe not!
It may take the demise of normal Bittorrent before pent up demand for sharing leads people in a new direction.
In the case of I2P, at least its being steadily developed and has continued to grow for over 5 years now. I think this reflects the great care the devs have been taking to create something that is entirely decentralized, anonymous with encrypted onion routing, yet has acceptable transfer speeds.
I2P can reach speeds an order of magnitude faster than, say, Tor. You still have to have patience for large torrents, but they do get through just fine ...and with a very high degree of anonymity.
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Symantec are not Google or Apple or even Microsoft. They will not even be Verisign after acquiring that company. Not all corporations have the same work culture and Symantec in particular are a bunch of MBAs who are sucking the life out of the computing field. If they all spontaneously combusted today, they would not be missed by anyone but their shareholders for more than 5 minutes.
...into a black hole. These Symantec / Verisign / PGP mergers show how the utterly decrepit Windows PC market failure (desktop monopoly, plus a small handful of app vendors like Symantec) has made the Internet much more treacherous by failing to deliver reasonably secure systems. And now these incompetent and greedy beasts (who are in fact more interested in hobbling our computers to keep us on that 3-year upgrade cycle) are going to finish the job by devouring important Internet institutions.
Symantec: The gross Microsoft toadies who not long ago tried to scare Mac users into buying their crapware with fevered stories of impending viral doom. Their white papers have the tone of 'buy into our security model you little mislead Unix neophytes, or your computers are gonna get it any day now!'
BE VERY AFRAID OF THIS MERGER.
I agree that drivers and access to hardware specs are critically important.
However the system developer culture may be at the root of why the whole Linux desktop/laptop thing doesn't work for most people --that includes highly technical people like me who can't recommend something like Ubuntu to most other people we know because of the software's shortcomings.
Few Linux devs fail to recognize most of the software that defines the core system (from a users POV) as actual system software. Instead they relegate most of that stuff like file managers to the "application" category. As a result, most of the burden for vertical integration is placed near the top of the software stack, on people who have little if any pull with the "real" Linux devs lower down the stack. Designers, who would be in charge at Apple and Microsoft, are relegated to the status of whiners in the FOSS OS world. The result is a very slipshod, inconsistent environment from the POV of both the end user and the typical app developer.
Video, audio, power and Wifi tend to work poorly on Linux-based laptops. These 'consumer' features are hardly ever used by Linux's core audience, the web sysadmins who are usually happy to use Windows and Mac systems to administer Linux servers. Yet plenty of consumer-class hardware types are well-supported by Linux if they overlap with the types used on servers: Ethernet, HD & optical disc for example.
All of this suggests that the problem lies at least partly within the FOSS community.
In the case of Foxconn, did the Linux Foundation threaten to drop their motherboards from a list of supported hardware because of the ACPI problem? Oh wait... there's no list of supported or recommended systems. You see-- The Linux devs pretty much believe that a user who is trying out Linux-based stuff can use less than ideal hardware and reap the whirlwind for all they care.
The Windows landscape is chaotic enough even with all the hardware being officially designed for that OS. Expecting users to cope with Linux-based stuff in that environment is downright cruel.
Methane is a big problem precisely because of time. The earlier in this global warming process a GHG like methane gets emitted, the larger its overall impact because of positive feedbacks, causing more GHGs to be emitted from the biosphere for instance.
There is also the other question of time which deals with unintended consequences. Language that does not focus on the essential problem is more likely to create loopholes where an industry could conceivably develop a new fuel or other desired product that isn't carbon intensive but still traps heat in the atmosphere. That is just asking for further drawn out, unproductive battles in the future especially when the powers-that-be use every technicality and excuse in the book to avoid making an effort.
I just pretend there's an FBI agent always watching over my shoulder. His name is Fred. I explain to him everything I'm doing.
That sounds like living in a mental prison. Or hell.
...you could use a combination of NoScript and Privoxy. The latter should keep your headers nice and generic. You can even install TorButton (tell it you're connecting through Privoxy but don't config Privoxy to use Tor) and that will take take of things like screen size.
Then again, you probably have a home IP address and that can be pretty unique (ISPs like Comcast change residential IPs pretty rarely) and of course that's what Tor itself is for, anonymizing your traffic including IP address. I2P (which is intended to communicate with other I2P users) can do the same thing as Tor more quickly, but the outproxy is only considered a gift to users so a large demand for outproxy to the regular web would result in slowness, or a shutdown of the proxy site, or people having to manually erect more outproxy sites.
Does anyone else think that naming "carbon" is being overly-specific? I think "greenhouse gasses" provides the right scope and expectations to actually deal with the problem at hand: GHG Tax. Carbon is used constantly by the press as a symbol of greenhouse pollutants, but other gases like methane are a problem too.
But the fact that this is rarely the case for any Linux-based desktop system tells me why power-saving and other (usually audio) features don't work well.
Its interesting that most of the (few) brands that work well with a distro like Ubuntu off the shelf also tend to be companies that offer certain models with Linux pre-installed. They're not like Dell, who will design a prototype from available components, then go to the component OEMs and say "We're making 2 million of this new system, but some of your chips come with standard features we'd rather leave out or fudge in software... chop that stuff off your chips and drop your price if you want our business".
Of course, the Linux drivers tend to be written for the OEM originals with their standard features intact, not the funky special-request variations made by Dell, Acer, etc. for their budget models.
What this translates into is that Johnny is perplexed as to why Linux has poor "PC compatibility".
Someone (that means us) needs to start insisting on systems that were designed with Linux or preferably a popular landmark distro like Ubuntu in mind. And we need to stop setting our friends and colleagues up for failed experiments when handing them discs expecting they can just run it on their PCs; It reflects badly on our judgment as individuals and on free open source software in general.
Jeff Han in 2006:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1901178468684079368#
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html
Any object that could tear a hole in a main-sequence star like the sun would probably be a compact star of some sort. See this summary of a Scientific American story from 2002:
When Stars Collide; The Secret Lives of Stars; Special Editions; by Michael Shara; 8 Page(s)
Of all the ways for life on Earth to end, the collision of the sun and another star might well be the most dramatic. If the incoming projectile were a white dwarf--a superdense star that packs the mass of the sun into a body a hundredth the size--the residents of Earth would be treated to quite a fireworks show. The white dwarf would penetrate the sun at hypersonic speed, over 600 kilometers a second, setting up a massive shock wave that would compress and heat the entire sun above thermonuclear ignition temperatures.
It would take only an hour for the white dwarf to smash through, but the damage would be irreversible. The superheated sun would release as much fusion energy in that hour as it normally does in 100 million years. The buildup of pressure would force gas outward at speeds far above escape velocity. Within a few hours the sun would have blown itself apart. Meanwhile the agent of this catastrophe, the white dwarf, would continue blithely on its way--not that we would be around to care about the injustice of it all.
I had read that original story and I recall they described a number of star-star impact scenarios (including black holes with main sequence stars).