Perl programmers never put in profane comments, because cursing in Perl itself is much more satisfying.
I love Perl programs, like I love the Perl stack-traces. I have sampled every language, Perl is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. It's like wiping your ass with unix.''=~('(?{'.('/_)@){'^'_-@.][').'"'.('___[^'^'-*="|').',$/})'). I love it.
VOIP services are $11 per month and are unlimited, with more features than a landline. The only reason to have a landline these days is because you want the negligibly-lower downtime and because you want to pay more.
Actually, where I live, you can't even get landlines now. The phone company only offers VOIP, and the copper has been replaced with fiber.
You pay $300 per year to hedge against the scenario in which TWO cell phone networks go down at the same time, while nobody is nearby who can help you, while you are somehow prevented of contacting neighbors, while you can't get in your car and drive for help, while you immediately need 911 help, but yet while you are still capable of getting to and operating a wall-mounted phone. All of these things must happen simultaneously for your $300 bet to pay off in a given year.
You must have a peculiar approach to risk management. Might I interest you in purchasing a reinforced seat belt for your car? I'll install it for only $50k. There is a negligibly small chance that it will hold when your regular seatbelt won't, you know.
The part of your post that you decided to put in bold is insanity pulled from your rear. As confidently as you spout absurdities, you should look into a career as a Fox News commentator.
Do you think you are worth $100 to facebook? Do you know anyone who might be?
Absolutely. My supermarket has paid me hundreds of dollars in exchange for letting them get a little data about my shopping habits. This is proof that a little data is worth a lot. And facebook has quite a bit more than "a little" data for sale.
Nonetheless, Leia was right. In the wider context, the Death Star itself was destroyed. If they hadn't been so heavy-handed, the Empire would have survived. But they pushed people too far. The Empire caused the rebellion.
If you turn off the wireless, a Kindle can go for over a month without a charge. If you want to get information to people who lack reliable power, eink displays really do make a huge difference.
The Vietnam government can't legislate what people do online. Their attempts to do so will only push people to VPN services. Since you can get an offshore VPN fast enough to play games for just over $3 per month, the only thing Vietnamese gamers sacrifice will be a little bit of latency.
You can't control the internet. Someone needs to remind the government of Vietnam that the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems slip through your fingers.
If VPN and SSL become illegal in the UK they will have bigger problems to deal with... and any hacker with a packet sniffer will have an easy time grabbing whatever he wants.
As for today, however, there is no case in which any Western government has prosecuted someone for SSL or VPN, so I think you're being rather obtuse in suggesting a problem in this regard.
Since all SSL works this way, you are implying that SSL is illegal in the UK, or at least that the UK police could throw any citizen in prison at any time for the crime of using SSL.
A VPN generates a random encryption key for each session and forgets it afterward. A government cannot force you to divulge something you do not and never knew.
Linux support works, but is still complicated to set up, so we can't really support it. There will be a tarball available as soon as we have it polished... We're just going from most popular to least popular platforms, hoping to support everything eventually.
They only have data on you if you let them. If you VPN through an endpoint in another country, all they have on you is ciphertext. I've been working on an encrypted VPN service to allow people to choose which country their internet traffic routes through. Doing this protects your privacy and also prevents you from being locked out of some web sites based on IP address. Yeah, this is a shameless plug, but it is also very relevant: Bouncee VPN service
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Are you kidding? I would much rather have my government further its interests using words to using bombs.
That string of characters is actually an executable perl program. No joke.
I love Perl programs, like I love the Perl stack-traces. I have sampled every language, Perl is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. It's like wiping your ass with unix.''=~('(?{'.('/_)@){'^'_-@.][').'"'.('___[^'^'-*="|').',$/})'). I love it.
A bigger concern would be supporting translucent jellyfish.
VOIP services are $11 per month and are unlimited, with more features than a landline. The only reason to have a landline these days is because you want the negligibly-lower downtime and because you want to pay more.
Actually, where I live, you can't even get landlines now. The phone company only offers VOIP, and the copper has been replaced with fiber.
You pay $300 per year to hedge against the scenario in which TWO cell phone networks go down at the same time, while nobody is nearby who can help you, while you are somehow prevented of contacting neighbors, while you can't get in your car and drive for help, while you immediately need 911 help, but yet while you are still capable of getting to and operating a wall-mounted phone. All of these things must happen simultaneously for your $300 bet to pay off in a given year.
You must have a peculiar approach to risk management. Might I interest you in purchasing a reinforced seat belt for your car? I'll install it for only $50k. There is a negligibly small chance that it will hold when your regular seatbelt won't, you know.
The part of your post that you decided to put in bold is insanity pulled from your rear. As confidently as you spout absurdities, you should look into a career as a Fox News commentator.
Absolutely. My supermarket has paid me hundreds of dollars in exchange for letting them get a little data about my shopping habits. This is proof that a little data is worth a lot. And facebook has quite a bit more than "a little" data for sale.
A loaded Kindle is more akin to a library than to "a few books." Good luck fitting a library in the mailbox, bud.
Nonetheless, Leia was right. In the wider context, the Death Star itself was destroyed. If they hadn't been so heavy-handed, the Empire would have survived. But they pushed people too far. The Empire caused the rebellion.
Uptime shouldn't matter; availability should. Anyone who confuses the two is a noob sysadmin.
If you turn off the wireless, a Kindle can go for over a month without a charge. If you want to get information to people who lack reliable power, eink displays really do make a huge difference.
The Vietnam government can't legislate what people do online. Their attempts to do so will only push people to VPN services. Since you can get an offshore VPN fast enough to play games for just over $3 per month, the only thing Vietnamese gamers sacrifice will be a little bit of latency.
You can't control the internet. Someone needs to remind the government of Vietnam that the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems slip through your fingers.
Which countries? Is it reliable? Do they give you the bandwidth to stream video? Do you trust your exit nodes?
Yeah, so that's the problem with tor.
If VPN and SSL become illegal in the UK they will have bigger problems to deal with... and any hacker with a packet sniffer will have an easy time grabbing whatever he wants.
As for today, however, there is no case in which any Western government has prosecuted someone for SSL or VPN, so I think you're being rather obtuse in suggesting a problem in this regard.
Since all SSL works this way, you are implying that SSL is illegal in the UK, or at least that the UK police could throw any citizen in prison at any time for the crime of using SSL.
A VPN generates a random encryption key for each session and forgets it afterward. A government cannot force you to divulge something you do not and never knew.
Linux support works, but is still complicated to set up, so we can't really support it. There will be a tarball available as soon as we have it polished... We're just going from most popular to least popular platforms, hoping to support everything eventually.
They only have data on you if you let them. If you VPN through an endpoint in another country, all they have on you is ciphertext. I've been working on an encrypted VPN service to allow people to choose which country their internet traffic routes through. Doing this protects your privacy and also prevents you from being locked out of some web sites based on IP address. Yeah, this is a shameless plug, but it is also very relevant: Bouncee VPN service
I think you need to reread my comment.
Password complexity, not change frequency, is what stops brute force attacks.
If you wanted credentials you would host a free service. A commercial service would have far fewer users and a money trail to the person who runs it.
This is nice if your hardware supports it, but it still doesn't help with I/O.
Right now PC is supported, but mobile support is planned.