"doesn't matter if you're not a terrorist or major criminal"
And, of course, nobody's ever been shot dead in their own home by out of control cops, in full body armor "by mistake" or "he/she made a threatening movement", buck naked at home/wrong address, elderly/crippled/blind, in the back, holding a vegetable peeler/crutch/golf club, 4" serrated butter knife?
The ONLY thing that can guarantee you safety is to give $100,000+ to your congress person/senator and to live in a RICH neighborhood!
I'm getting REALLY old, as this is the first I'm hearing this. It's tough when you're 70 and still trying to keep abreast of the open source movement! I think I will be going back to Slackware.
Dancing toddlers, Catholic 4th grade school girls, guy's doing the robot, all with this crippled, expensive, proprietary crap that nobody's gonna want when you can get an Android tablet at the drug store for $99.00!
"Terrorism" a tactic, NOT a thing you can fight a "war" against!
"Terrorism" with the exception of 911 is just background noise, it's been going on for hundreds of years, everywhere!
The government of these USoA's have joyously pounced on "Terrorism" as an excuse to radically seize/expand more power and destroy even more of the Constitution in the process! Wasn't it Bush that said "It's terrible to let a disaster go to waste" or something along those lines?
Everytime you drop a bomb, fire a missile, shoot a.50 and miss your intended target, and. You blow up some farmers hooch, kill a bus full of school kids, kill the village "holy man". The skinny farmer who in burying little bloody rags of meat that used to be his family, becomes a man filled with a kind of hate that very few of my fellow Americans (thankfully) can understand, and the only thing that can stop him is a bullet, he cannot be frightened, bribed or reasoned with, that errant bomb has created a "Terrorist"!
If you live in a condo complex/apartment building it's more than likely that the doorway to your unit/apartment is in a common (publicly accessible) hallway with Sheetrock walls that can be easily breached with a fist! Why have a heavy door with a Medico lock in a shitty wall? or between sidelights (flanking glass panels)? or an iron gate in front with ground level glass windows on the sides/sliding glass doors in back?
Why have a pick proof padlock when a cordless 4" angle grinder with a carbide cut off wheel can go through a boron shackle in seconds?
The people who are buying these $250.00 laptops probably would not know or care what the OS of their machine is, nor do they know what "OS" stands for!
And for most of these people $250.00 is quite a lot of money!
Some poor bastard in a village blacksmith shop who can't read or write can produce AK47 clones day in, day out, that work! Unless somebody "prints" a REAL rifle (one that can fire thousands of rounds of a useful cartridge (7.62x51) without a major failure I call this just more kids indulging in mental masturbation, trying to entertain themselves.
I really think that despite the quoted 40 ISP(s) serving the US's borders, the fact that our new "Emperor Obama" publicly announced that he wanted an Internet kill switch should be enough to put us all on notice!
You wrote & I quote, " this is Belize, not the states, if somebody high up enough says your guilty, the facts don't matter". And I scream in response, ARE YOU KIDDING! Did you forget the NDAA, the Patriot Act, secret grand juries, Guantanamo Bay, targeted assassinations, suspended Habeas Corpus, etc?
"What backup plan, if any, should the average nerd have for something like this?"
Encrypted backups to SDXC 1TB card(s) as they are very small, put them in small plastic waterproof/airtight containers and hide them in out of the way public places.
And as an aside do this sort of thing on an offshore COLO and communicate using a netbook running a read only distro like DSL.
When the world's biggest polluters (China, USofA) turn their backs on hard science (especially the USA) disaster will be closer/worse than anybody thinks!
When you can bend light in vacant 3 dimensional space with EM fields so as to conceal large moving objects you can bet your ass that we'll never hear a thing about it
So you are saying that the Chinese were communists in 1100/1200 AD?
And it is NOT "gunpowder" until you use it in a gun, the very first "gun" was produced in Turkey around 1300!
What the Chinese had was for small rockets, firecrackers, etc ANY other claims of "great antiquity" or the usual "first", "bigger", "better" from the Peoples Ministry of Dis-Information is just more Commie propaganda!
"appears to have (borrowed) (parentheses mine) features from the U.S. Air Force's twin-engine F-22 and U.S. Navy's single-engine F-35C" (I think you mean stolen)! The communist Chinese have always been short on originality and Long on thievery.
Do NOT use "Cloud" based services, is anybody stupid enough to think that a corrupt, authoritarian police state wouldn't read, poke into, go fishing into, etc ANYTHING that wasn't protected by encryption/steganography/hidden/obfuscated data!
Micro SDXC/SDHC Hollow coin Encryption/steganography full coin jar crowded dusty basement in somebody else's house
Some people revel in their ignorance, they proclaim loudly that the ONLY book they've ever read is the Bible and so as to prove it, quote from it endlessly!
If presented with a completely thought out, rational argument, backed up with well documented facts all "they" do is dig in "their" heels and angrily storm out.
They will continue to "catch" the same old dumbasses who like to take really cool sounding "hacker" names and let the people around them know how cool and powerful they are!
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"doesn't matter if you're not a terrorist or major criminal"
And, of course, nobody's ever been shot dead in their own home by out of control cops, in full body armor "by mistake" or "he/she made a threatening movement", buck naked at home /wrong address, elderly/crippled/blind, in the back, holding a vegetable peeler/crutch/golf club, 4" serrated butter knife?
The ONLY thing that can guarantee you safety is to give $100,000+ to your congress person/senator and to live in a RICH neighborhood!
But OS/2 still works fine on my AMD 386DX40, just kidding!
I'm getting REALLY old, as this is the first I'm hearing this. It's tough when you're 70 and still trying to keep abreast of the open source movement! I think I will be going back to Slackware.
Dancing toddlers, Catholic 4th grade school girls, guy's doing the robot, all with this crippled, expensive, proprietary crap that nobody's gonna want when you can get an Android tablet at the drug store for $99.00!
"Terrorism" a tactic, NOT a thing you can fight a "war" against!
"Terrorism" with the exception of 911 is just background noise, it's been going on for hundreds of years, everywhere!
The government of these USoA's have joyously pounced on "Terrorism" as an excuse to radically seize/expand more power and destroy even more of the Constitution in the process! Wasn't it Bush that said "It's terrible to let a disaster go to waste" or something along those lines?
Everytime you drop a bomb, fire a missile, shoot a .50 and miss your intended target, and. You blow up some farmers hooch, kill a bus full of school kids, kill the village "holy man". The skinny farmer who in burying little bloody rags of meat that used to be his family, becomes a man filled with a kind of hate that very few of my fellow Americans (thankfully) can understand, and the only thing that can stop him is a bullet, he cannot be frightened, bribed or reasoned with, that errant bomb has created a "Terrorist"!
If you live in a condo complex/apartment building it's more than likely that the doorway to your unit/apartment is in a common (publicly accessible) hallway with Sheetrock walls that can be easily breached with a fist! Why have a heavy door with a Medico lock in a shitty wall? or between sidelights (flanking glass panels)? or an iron gate in front with ground level glass windows on the sides/sliding glass doors in back?
Why have a pick proof padlock when a cordless 4" angle grinder with a carbide cut off wheel can go through a boron shackle in seconds?
The people who are buying these $250.00 laptops probably would not know or care what the OS of their machine is, nor do they know what "OS" stands for!
And for most of these people $250.00 is quite a lot of money!
Some poor bastard in a village blacksmith shop who can't read or write can produce AK47 clones day in, day out, that work!
Unless somebody "prints" a REAL rifle (one that can fire thousands of rounds of a useful cartridge (7.62x51) without a major failure I call this just more kids indulging in mental masturbation, trying to entertain themselves.
I really think that despite the quoted 40 ISP(s) serving the US's borders, the fact that our new "Emperor Obama" publicly announced that he wanted an Internet kill switch should be enough to put us all on notice!
You wrote & I quote, " this is Belize, not the states, if somebody high up enough says your guilty, the facts don't matter".
And I scream in response, ARE YOU KIDDING!
Did you forget the NDAA, the Patriot Act, secret grand juries, Guantanamo Bay, targeted assassinations, suspended Habeas Corpus, etc?
More than likely everything there is extinct by the time it gets that far!
"What backup plan, if any, should the average nerd have for something like this?"
Encrypted backups to SDXC 1TB card(s) as they are very small, put them in small plastic waterproof/airtight containers and hide them in out of the way public places.
And as an aside do this sort of thing on an offshore COLO and communicate using a netbook running a read only distro like DSL.
Where have I heard that before?
A small company could solder these new CPU's to a daughterboard to allow it to be socketed!
When the world's biggest polluters (China, USofA) turn their backs on hard science (especially the USA) disaster will be closer/worse than anybody thinks!
Over 40 = Contract work only!
Over 50 = Independent "consultant"
Over 60 = Absolutly not gonna happen!
And since "retirement age" does not happen until 65/66, what homeless shelter will you stay at?
When you can bend light in vacant 3 dimensional space with EM fields so as to conceal large moving objects you can bet your ass that we'll
never hear a thing about it
So you are saying that the Chinese were communists in 1100/1200 AD?
And it is NOT "gunpowder" until you use it in a gun, the very first "gun" was produced in Turkey around 1300!
What the Chinese had was for small rockets, firecrackers, etc ANY other claims of "great antiquity" or the usual "first", "bigger", "better" from the Peoples Ministry of Dis-Information is just more Commie propaganda!
I am hoping that full body prosthesis happens in my lifetime (no organic parts left), just upload me into my shiny new body!
"appears to have (borrowed) (parentheses mine) features from the U.S. Air Force's twin-engine F-22 and U.S. Navy's single-engine F-35C" (I think you mean stolen)!
The communist Chinese have always been short on originality and Long on thievery.
Do NOT use "Cloud" based services, is anybody stupid enough to think that a corrupt, authoritarian police state wouldn't read, poke into, go fishing into, etc ANYTHING that wasn't protected by encryption/steganography/hidden/obfuscated data!
Micro SDXC/SDHC
Hollow coin
Encryption/steganography
full coin jar
crowded dusty basement in somebody else's house
Some people revel in their ignorance, they proclaim loudly that the ONLY book they've ever read is the Bible and so as to prove it, quote from it endlessly!
If presented with a completely thought out, rational argument, backed up with well documented facts all "they" do is dig in "their" heels and angrily storm out.
Some moronic little shit always loves to ridicule the disabled, usually by calling them fat or lazy!
I would love to get one of these exoskeletons to use instead of my scooter.
China is and has always been a totalitarian dictatorship, and in it's current form continues to be an abomination!
We (the USofA) are trying our damnedest to catch up!
IMHO!
They will continue to "catch" the same old dumbasses who like to take really cool sounding "hacker" names and let the people around them know how cool and powerful they are!