Almost every Linux OS offers a live CD version now. I used Mint and I do not like it. On 2 laptops I had upgrade issues and program crashes. This didn't happen for these top 3 picks:
1st: the most common one: Ubuntu is pretty good and has great support for 3rd party pre-compiled packages and support for proprietary drivers (which is important for beginners who didn't select their hardware for open source compatibility). This is #1 pick because it is easy and online support is vast.
2nd: Personally, I would choose Debian over Ubuntu. It's just like Ubuntu, but it's more secure because it doesn't contact Ubuntu in the background or provide closed source binaries.
3rd: If you want top notch security, then Tails is the easiest for private browsing, encrypted emails and chats. Tails OS is great because it is actually difficult to use it in an insecurity manner.
All of these options provide a "live CD" version, so you can try before you install.
Yes. Don't write any software for linux that is designed to eavesdrop on the user without their knowledge and their consent buried in an EULA.
I don't want Skype and it disturbs me that I might accidentally use a linux pc with that software installed. Please don't bring Skype to linux in any manner. Amateurs might actually install it.
Voice over copper wires was very strongly protected. It required evidence to support a wire-tap. VOIP and other internet traffic does not have those protections and mass surveillance is the result. Those who want to watch you and your family made sure those protections were removed in laws under the banner of your own protection.
Skype defeats the purpose of using linux. Why would you ever run that on a secure computer? A real linux user would dual boot into an insecure Windows partitions in order to run this eavesdropping software.
The docs are clear that they can update the software running on the TV using a USB drive. There's no evidence of them doing so remotely over the Internet. We can develop anti-virus and intrusion-detection signatures based on this information that will defeat much of what we read in these documents
The government is using YOUR PROPERTY to eavesdrop on you, your family and the ones you love to be used as testimony against you when required but without legal permission or accountability. And your response is to suggest that it doesn't matter because we can probably defend ourselves against it in the future?
I think gold is worth more than its market value. Most people don't even have gold, and instead have a piece of paper that represents gold that probably does not exist in reality. The true supply of gold is smaller than the market, so its value in the physical form should be higher than market rate.
Most cars already spy on me. Cars I get into trace my locations and often listen to conversations at all times and then broadcast this information to back to their surveillance hub. It's creepy.
Right. Because customers should have to call and complain in order to receive the service they asked for.
It seems pretty obvious that this company is intentionally selling one thing and then swapping it for something less. If you paid for high speed service but didn't receive it, then you should get money back from them for the service they did not deliver.
Everyone knows that a larger quantum computer already exists in a location in the US. But that was a private government construction and did not require public funding or press releases to be built.
I don't know where you live, but North America has the highest mobile rates. So over here, we are already paying for it, but instead that money is going into the pockets of owners and controllers instead of being returned as service to the people who paid for it.
Maybe the computer reads your mind 100% the first day and then spends the next day just sitting around flipping coins.
Or maybe it was right 100% of the first 20% and then only 90%, 80%, 70%... down to 0% on various ranges of percentages. And the total being correct 70% of the time.
Did you know a coin flip is not really 50/50, but rather it is always heads 25% of the time and only has a 1 in 3 chance of being heads in the remaining flips.
Or maybe your example and all of mine are wrong. (gamblers fallacy)
I used that solution and it worked ideally. I ran a laptop of an SD card and set RAID to mirror to a 2nd SD card. To make a backup, I just pull one card out and stuff a fresh card in. That's it. The new disk would automatically sync up and be ready for the next backup when I choose to pull that one out. To restore, I just shut down the computer, put in the last backup and boot up. My computer system was instantly restored back to the last time I pulled out that disk.
I didn't continue with this test set up because laptops do not have 2 SD cards and having a dongle hanging out of a laptop all the time is a recipe for loose and broken USB ports.
The sysadmins told me that RAID should never be used as a backup. But I found this set up dead simple and the backup restore process was instantaneous.
Perhaps RAID in mirror mode is not an ideal backup solution. But it is very close to the way backups should work.
I do that too. And I think it is a good way to get an idea of what average people are doing.
For example, I have been noticing that 60% to 80% of the people riding on my buses hold their cell phone in their hand at all times. That seems weird to me, like they are all sucking their thumbs.
Also, I did see a young girl wearing a watch on the bus today. And I though... that's weird who would buy a watch these days that isn't grandfathered in to that tradition.
That may be the reason that they hid it. Naive users might get worried about this sort of warning.
I am a Naive user when it comes to SSL. But I Need to have the cert information so I can compare the fingerprints and hashes against my local copy when I access sites where I created my own private SSL cert. There is no other way for me to be sure the certificate does not belong to a MITM. But do tell me if I am wrong, I may just be Naive. I would imagine there is a way to generate client certs as an alternative, but this is not well documented for Naive users.
Throwing the SSL details into some obscure location in the browser to keep this information from worrying Naive users, makes the browser useless when they desire to securely communication with their own servers.
I don't use Chrome because it sucks for people who want to control their own security and remove trust from the makers of the browser. This is just another reason why I am happy to not be using Chrome.
Stop telling others to pay 200% to 1000% for cheap accessories because you are duped into believing that the problem is in the cable.
As the article says: "Type-A was never designed to handle the 3 amps of power a USB-C device needs to juice up". It's clear that USB-C is not backward compatible and that certain devices do not know how to detect that they are being powered by a Type-A connection and just suck up more juice that the old connector was designed to handle.
So this is a problem with USB design not the cable. They should have used a different name for their standard other than "USB-x" if they did not want their customers to assume that they are fully compatible the way previous USB standards were designed.
I took it to mean that him victims would not complain because he has wealth and is a voice in the media. So that if they were to seek justice for the crime, that they would be harassed for years by lawyers and there would be a campaign using Trump money to destroy their character in the media.
In many countries, "sexual assault" is the legal charge which encompasses rape. Because civilized countries know that a penis is not required for a victim to have life long trauma.
When someone tells you that they are being abused, do you reply that they should just take it because they are also being abused in other aspects of their lives?
All violations should be stopped. The significance of abuse is not reduce by packing on further violations.
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Almost every Linux OS offers a live CD version now. I used Mint and I do not like it. On 2 laptops I had upgrade issues and program crashes. This didn't happen for these top 3 picks:
1st: the most common one: Ubuntu is pretty good and has great support for 3rd party pre-compiled packages and support for proprietary drivers (which is important for beginners who didn't select their hardware for open source compatibility). This is #1 pick because it is easy and online support is vast.
2nd: Personally, I would choose Debian over Ubuntu. It's just like Ubuntu, but it's more secure because it doesn't contact Ubuntu in the background or provide closed source binaries.
3rd: If you want top notch security, then Tails is the easiest for private browsing, encrypted emails and chats. Tails OS is great because it is actually difficult to use it in an insecurity manner.
All of these options provide a "live CD" version, so you can try before you install.
Don't bother writing any software for linux
Yes. Don't write any software for linux that is designed to eavesdrop on the user without their knowledge and their consent buried in an EULA.
I don't want Skype and it disturbs me that I might accidentally use a linux pc with that software installed. Please don't bring Skype to linux in any manner. Amateurs might actually install it.
Voice over copper wires was very strongly protected. It required evidence to support a wire-tap. VOIP and other internet traffic does not have those protections and mass surveillance is the result. Those who want to watch you and your family made sure those protections were removed in laws under the banner of your own protection.
...cutting myself off from others based on principle would be more negative than positive.
Practice being a good steward and do not allow others to communicate with you in a manner that puts them in danger.
Well oracle gets it.
Skype defeats the purpose of using linux. Why would you ever run that on a secure computer? A real linux user would dual boot into an insecure Windows partitions in order to run this eavesdropping software.
I think the temperature at which water changes state is related to the pressure.
The docs are clear that they can update the software running on the TV using a USB drive. There's no evidence of them doing so remotely over the Internet. We can develop anti-virus and intrusion-detection signatures based on this information that will defeat much of what we read in these documents
The government is using YOUR PROPERTY to eavesdrop on you, your family and the ones you love to be used as testimony against you when required but without legal permission or accountability. And your response is to suggest that it doesn't matter because we can probably defend ourselves against it in the future?
I think gold is worth more than its market value. Most people don't even have gold, and instead have a piece of paper that represents gold that probably does not exist in reality. The true supply of gold is smaller than the market, so its value in the physical form should be higher than market rate.
well, not infinite.
Most cars already spy on me. Cars I get into trace my locations and often listen to conversations at all times and then broadcast this information to back to their surveillance hub. It's creepy.
Limit the number of times a home owner can rent out their home per year.
Right. Because customers should have to call and complain in order to receive the service they asked for.
It seems pretty obvious that this company is intentionally selling one thing and then swapping it for something less. If you paid for high speed service but didn't receive it, then you should get money back from them for the service they did not deliver.
...fills a whole building...first of its kind...
Everyone knows that a larger quantum computer already exists in a location in the US. But that was a private government construction and did not require public funding or press releases to be built.
War kills far more people than terrorist attacks.
Terrorism hardly kills anyone. Far less then auto accidents.
I don't know where you live, but North America has the highest mobile rates. So over here, we are already paying for it, but instead that money is going into the pockets of owners and controllers instead of being returned as service to the people who paid for it.
I don't know. Give it a gun and see what happens. It could be useful
Maybe the computer reads your mind 100% the first day and then spends the next day just sitting around flipping coins.
Or maybe it was right 100% of the first 20% and then only 90%, 80%, 70%... down to 0% on various ranges of percentages. And the total being correct 70% of the time.
Did you know a coin flip is not really 50/50, but rather it is always heads 25% of the time and only has a 1 in 3 chance of being heads in the remaining flips.
Or maybe your example and all of mine are wrong. (gamblers fallacy)
...they used the "mirror = backup" solution.
I used that solution and it worked ideally. I ran a laptop of an SD card and set RAID to mirror to a 2nd SD card. To make a backup, I just pull one card out and stuff a fresh card in. That's it. The new disk would automatically sync up and be ready for the next backup when I choose to pull that one out. To restore, I just shut down the computer, put in the last backup and boot up. My computer system was instantly restored back to the last time I pulled out that disk.
I didn't continue with this test set up because laptops do not have 2 SD cards and having a dongle hanging out of a laptop all the time is a recipe for loose and broken USB ports.
The sysadmins told me that RAID should never be used as a backup. But I found this set up dead simple and the backup restore process was instantaneous.
Perhaps RAID in mirror mode is not an ideal backup solution. But it is very close to the way backups should work.
I do that too. And I think it is a good way to get an idea of what average people are doing.
For example, I have been noticing that 60% to 80% of the people riding on my buses hold their cell phone in their hand at all times. That seems weird to me, like they are all sucking their thumbs.
Also, I did see a young girl wearing a watch on the bus today. And I though... that's weird who would buy a watch these days that isn't grandfathered in to that tradition.
That may be the reason that they hid it. Naive users might get worried about this sort of warning.
I am a Naive user when it comes to SSL. But I Need to have the cert information so I can compare the fingerprints and hashes against my local copy when I access sites where I created my own private SSL cert. There is no other way for me to be sure the certificate does not belong to a MITM. But do tell me if I am wrong, I may just be Naive. I would imagine there is a way to generate client certs as an alternative, but this is not well documented for Naive users.
Throwing the SSL details into some obscure location in the browser to keep this information from worrying Naive users, makes the browser useless when they desire to securely communication with their own servers.
I don't use Chrome because it sucks for people who want to control their own security and remove trust from the makers of the browser. This is just another reason why I am happy to not be using Chrome.
Stop telling others to pay 200% to 1000% for cheap accessories because you are duped into believing that the problem is in the cable.
As the article says: "Type-A was never designed to handle the 3 amps of power a USB-C device needs to juice up". It's clear that USB-C is not backward compatible and that certain devices do not know how to detect that they are being powered by a Type-A connection and just suck up more juice that the old connector was designed to handle.
So this is a problem with USB design not the cable. They should have used a different name for their standard other than "USB-x" if they did not want their customers to assume that they are fully compatible the way previous USB standards were designed.
...says the guy on the Internet who doesn't search it.
I took it to mean that him victims would not complain because he has wealth and is a voice in the media. So that if they were to seek justice for the crime, that they would be harassed for years by lawyers and there would be a campaign using Trump money to destroy their character in the media.
In many countries, "sexual assault" is the legal charge which encompasses rape. Because civilized countries know that a penis is not required for a victim to have life long trauma.
You're already being tracked.
It is an abuse of privacy.
When someone tells you that they are being abused, do you reply that they should just take it because they are also being abused in other aspects of their lives?
All violations should be stopped. The significance of abuse is not reduce by packing on further violations.
I think 3% after 2 weeks is BETTER than 13% retention rate after 1 week.
I believe that if you go from 100% to 13% in 1st week, and the losses continue at that rate, then retention will go from 13% to 1.7% in the 2nd week.
I just used 0.13^2 to calculate it and I don't know if that math is right. But if it is right, then the article is stating the opposite of the truth.