No, the browser in the Tor Bundle used to have NoScript enabled by default. They sometime since then changed it to be disabled by default. Last I checked it's still disabled by default.
The solution to this is to run Tor (specifically the Tor bundle) in a combination VM (or container, such as Docker) and AppArmor/SELinux profile. So no changes are stored; it reverts to the original image each time it's run. Furthermore, you can the restrict access of everything other than the tor daemon to only be able to access the tor SOCKS port on localhost, and block all UDP (no DNS).
That way even if rooted with a 0-day, it can't really give up your identity and it won't persist. Sure, they could probably chain 0-days together to try to escape the VM/container and sandbox, but it would certainly make it quite a bit more difficult for them.
There are pre-made Docker containers and AppArmor profiles for the Tor bundle already. They just need modified/combined to let you use both at once.
I don't think Chrome uses my Ubuntu keystore. It never asks for a password when opening Chrome, and it never requested access to the keystore. I'm using 12.04.
I had a 32GB card on my SGS4, but I quickly started running out of space from nandroid backups (the huge system image for the S4 doesn't help...I was running low on space with only 2-3 backups). Combined with TitaniumBackup backups and other data, and it just wasn't enough. Ended up having to upgrade to a 64GB card.
I'm usually the last person to speak out in favor of Comcast, but in SF my 30mbit Comcast internet just got bumped up to 50 down, 10 up. Definitely noticed a big difference (and that most servers can't keep up), but still a long way off from Google Fiber level of speed.
As one other comment suggested, get a cheap VPS and setup a VPN so that you can connect to your network. DigitalOcean has one for $5/month (I'm in no way affiliated) https://www.digitalocean.com/ and you can then have your router connect to the VPN. Setup the routes correctly and any VPN user can access every device at home.
However you won't always want to load up the VPN on your phone, and if there's just 1 computer you want to access you can use a VPS with a remote SSH tunnel. Have the computer on your network connect to the VPS and forward some high numbered port, say 4222, to port 22: ssh -R 4222:localhost:22 user@vps. Then you can ssh into your VPS on port 4222 and it will go directly to your home computer. Just made sure you add "GatewayPorts yes" to/etc/ssh/sshd_config or the remote port will only bind to localhost.
Couple this with autossh and the home computer will always keep the connection open and re-establish it as necessary.
Sure, there's a little overhead, but I've never really noticed it. I use this trick so that my phone and tablet can always ssh into my laptop no matter where the laptop is (home network, friend's house, coffee shop, etc)... no need to find the IP address and worry about port forwarding.
I created a special email address for Starbucks several years ago, starbucks@mydomain.com, and I started getting spam on it within weeks after giving it to them. And this wasn't just "legitimate" third party spam, but was penis enlargement type spam. I set a gmail filter to always trash anything coming to that address, and every time I check the trash there are still a bunch of spam emails coming in to that address. So I don't know whether Starbucks sold the address to a third party who may or may not have sold it to someone else, or whether it was stolen from Starbucks, or what.
You can call them and say you have your own router and that you want a regular pass through modem like the kind given to residential service. Say you have your own router that you NEED to use and that the integrated modem/router they gave you is messing it up since you can't disable NAT. They will come back and replace it with a normal modem, and they didn't charge me for the site visit. If the phone rep doesn't understand why, just say that you need to swap out the router/modem for a consumer model (they gave me an Ubee that supports IPv6) because they one they gave you doesn't work with the new networking hardware you just bought. I had to do this when I first got Comcast business service, and just explain you want a residental modem that isn't a router and they'll give you it.
What modem do you have? I've had dual stack on Comcast for about a year and a half in the Bay Area (since I signed up for service with them). My modem wasn't IPv6 capable when I lived in Pittsburgh so I don't know if/when it was rolled out there. Both my residential and business accounts use Ubee modems that I made sure supported IPv6. I have noticed more of a variance in IPv6 latency though (sometimes pings to google are up to 100ms vs consistent 20ms on IPv4), but that could just be my router since other people with Comcast in the area haven't reported the same issue.
It sounds to me like you might have a corrupt profile? I've never had any of these issues with Chrome (on Linux) and I've been using it since the very first Chromium releases. Switched to the official Google version of Chrome a few years ago when it was released. It's pretty stable for me, but this bug did cause my profile to become corrupted and it would basically crash on startup. I just restored from my weekend system backup and everything was fine again.
I believe the argument against deflation is not that people will stop spending, but rather people will stop investing (including keeping it in a bank). With inflation there is an incentive to not let money sit around, and to at least put it somewhere where it gets interest (ie gets invested in something / loaned out). This would mean credit is harder to get (see post crash 2008 credit crisis) and slows down the velocity of money.
I refused to update for the longest time when Ubuntu switched to Unity, but then I got a new laptop and figured I'd give it a shot first. I was pretty set of just using Mint but really wanted to give Unity a try before switching. I was surprised that I actually sort of liked it, especially once I learned the keyboard shortcuts. My task bar always got cluttered with lots of windows in Gnome 2, and their order wasn't consistent which was a minor annoyance. Realistically, Unity feels a lot like Windows 7 to me (though I've only used Windows 7 briefly on other people's machines, I really liked the UI), and it got rid of all the clutter. I like that Gnome Do is essentially integrated into Unity, and there are some other nice features as well.
That said, I haven't seriously tried Gnome 3 yet. I installed it and loaded it up, and then did a wtf when I couldn't really figure out how to use it and wondered why it was so ugly before switching back to Unity. It felt like a very incomplete product. I've since read that you need to use a lot of add ons (or whatever the correct term for them is) to make it more usable, but at this point it's not worth the investment in time when Unity works well enough for me.
As others have stated, it affected apps on Linux desktops. For me it was Chrome using all the CPU which required me to restart the computer to fix, though it now seems that I could have just updated the time and fixed it that easy instead.
Nope, it went down right at 0000 for me. Interestingly, Chrome 20 on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 went to a crawl immediately at 0000 and was using 100% CPU (mostly Flash, but I killed that and other processes would just increase their load). It seemed to cycle through the Chrome processes, with each taking a turn of 20-40% CPU usage. It was during this time I tried to load Reddit and got the page saying they were down. Force killed Chrome, re-opened it, same issue. Tried 2 more times with kill -9 and it kept happening as soon as Chrome opened. I had to reboot to make it stop doing this.
Exactly. The 64-bit version won't even install on my 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04. It complains of dependency errors with ia32-llbs and how it can't install it or ia32-libs-multiarch. That said, the 32-bit version installs and runs just fine. It also finally fixes the nasty bug of using 100% CPU while on a video call.
Sure it is. You can still use their blocklists. I have a script on my NAS (running Transmission) to download them daily and tell Transmission to use them. Works perfectly other than having to automatically restart Transmission at 5am every day, which really isn't a problem.
If you're using a standard Linux with iptables (unlike my NAS which has iptables removed...), just use moblock. It handles getting them daily and blocking them at the firewall, though this won't really stop your torrent client from at least still trying to connect to those peers. Then again that's the same position PeerBlock users are in. Having the torrent client itself use them in probably more efficient, but this is easier.
You actually can setup GPG in Gmail's web interface, at least in Chrome: http://thinkst.com/tools/cr-gpg/. It seems that FireGPG was unfortunately discontinued for Firefox.
I live in a house with 4 other heavy use roommates. We have the medium tier of Comcast Business Class (ie no bandwidth caps). We broke 1TB transferred last month...
You should restrict it in robots.txt. I had to do it on my site because Google kept appending a character over and over to a variable in the URL. It would just add another character on and request again. It was a pretty weird bug and was generating gigs of traffic as well.
You can also restrict Google's crawl rate in Webmaster Tools.
I had a friend who was sued while we were both freshman at the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. I forget how many thousands of dollars she had to pay. I only found out about it several years later, but I'm pretty sure she was one of the people sued when the RIAA got on i2hub (internet2 only DC++ server)
GoogleTV doesn't support DLNA streaming, so there's no way to play content stored on your network. For me, this is a deal breaker and will drive me to Boxee (or Roku if they add DLNA support soon) when it launches. I was excited about GoogleTV until I learned this...too bad.
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No, the browser in the Tor Bundle used to have NoScript enabled by default. They sometime since then changed it to be disabled by default. Last I checked it's still disabled by default.
The solution to this is to run Tor (specifically the Tor bundle) in a combination VM (or container, such as Docker) and AppArmor/SELinux profile. So no changes are stored; it reverts to the original image each time it's run. Furthermore, you can the restrict access of everything other than the tor daemon to only be able to access the tor SOCKS port on localhost, and block all UDP (no DNS).
That way even if rooted with a 0-day, it can't really give up your identity and it won't persist. Sure, they could probably chain 0-days together to try to escape the VM/container and sandbox, but it would certainly make it quite a bit more difficult for them.
There are pre-made Docker containers and AppArmor profiles for the Tor bundle already. They just need modified/combined to let you use both at once.
I don't think Chrome uses my Ubuntu keystore. It never asks for a password when opening Chrome, and it never requested access to the keystore. I'm using 12.04.
I had a 32GB card on my SGS4, but I quickly started running out of space from nandroid backups (the huge system image for the S4 doesn't help...I was running low on space with only 2-3 backups). Combined with TitaniumBackup backups and other data, and it just wasn't enough. Ended up having to upgrade to a 64GB card.
Neat idea. How did you set that up? A custom fail2ban filter? Some other way?
I'm usually the last person to speak out in favor of Comcast, but in SF my 30mbit Comcast internet just got bumped up to 50 down, 10 up. Definitely noticed a big difference (and that most servers can't keep up), but still a long way off from Google Fiber level of speed.
As one other comment suggested, get a cheap VPS and setup a VPN so that you can connect to your network. DigitalOcean has one for $5/month (I'm in no way affiliated) https://www.digitalocean.com/ and you can then have your router connect to the VPN. Setup the routes correctly and any VPN user can access every device at home.
However you won't always want to load up the VPN on your phone, and if there's just 1 computer you want to access you can use a VPS with a remote SSH tunnel. Have the computer on your network connect to the VPS and forward some high numbered port, say 4222, to port 22: ssh -R 4222:localhost:22 user@vps. Then you can ssh into your VPS on port 4222 and it will go directly to your home computer. Just made sure you add "GatewayPorts yes" to /etc/ssh/sshd_config or the remote port will only bind to localhost.
Couple this with autossh and the home computer will always keep the connection open and re-establish it as necessary.
Sure, there's a little overhead, but I've never really noticed it. I use this trick so that my phone and tablet can always ssh into my laptop no matter where the laptop is (home network, friend's house, coffee shop, etc)... no need to find the IP address and worry about port forwarding.
I created a special email address for Starbucks several years ago, starbucks@mydomain.com, and I started getting spam on it within weeks after giving it to them. And this wasn't just "legitimate" third party spam, but was penis enlargement type spam. I set a gmail filter to always trash anything coming to that address, and every time I check the trash there are still a bunch of spam emails coming in to that address. So I don't know whether Starbucks sold the address to a third party who may or may not have sold it to someone else, or whether it was stolen from Starbucks, or what.
You can call them and say you have your own router and that you want a regular pass through modem like the kind given to residential service. Say you have your own router that you NEED to use and that the integrated modem/router they gave you is messing it up since you can't disable NAT. They will come back and replace it with a normal modem, and they didn't charge me for the site visit. If the phone rep doesn't understand why, just say that you need to swap out the router/modem for a consumer model (they gave me an Ubee that supports IPv6) because they one they gave you doesn't work with the new networking hardware you just bought. I had to do this when I first got Comcast business service, and just explain you want a residental modem that isn't a router and they'll give you it.
What modem do you have? I've had dual stack on Comcast for about a year and a half in the Bay Area (since I signed up for service with them). My modem wasn't IPv6 capable when I lived in Pittsburgh so I don't know if/when it was rolled out there. Both my residential and business accounts use Ubee modems that I made sure supported IPv6. I have noticed more of a variance in IPv6 latency though (sometimes pings to google are up to 100ms vs consistent 20ms on IPv4), but that could just be my router since other people with Comcast in the area haven't reported the same issue.
Isn't your bandwidth restricted by them though? I assume you're using he.net?
It sounds to me like you might have a corrupt profile? I've never had any of these issues with Chrome (on Linux) and I've been using it since the very first Chromium releases. Switched to the official Google version of Chrome a few years ago when it was released. It's pretty stable for me, but this bug did cause my profile to become corrupted and it would basically crash on startup. I just restored from my weekend system backup and everything was fine again.
He said they're using Verizon, which uses 700Mhz for LTE
I believe the argument against deflation is not that people will stop spending, but rather people will stop investing (including keeping it in a bank). With inflation there is an incentive to not let money sit around, and to at least put it somewhere where it gets interest (ie gets invested in something / loaned out). This would mean credit is harder to get (see post crash 2008 credit crisis) and slows down the velocity of money.
I refused to update for the longest time when Ubuntu switched to Unity, but then I got a new laptop and figured I'd give it a shot first. I was pretty set of just using Mint but really wanted to give Unity a try before switching. I was surprised that I actually sort of liked it, especially once I learned the keyboard shortcuts. My task bar always got cluttered with lots of windows in Gnome 2, and their order wasn't consistent which was a minor annoyance. Realistically, Unity feels a lot like Windows 7 to me (though I've only used Windows 7 briefly on other people's machines, I really liked the UI), and it got rid of all the clutter. I like that Gnome Do is essentially integrated into Unity, and there are some other nice features as well.
That said, I haven't seriously tried Gnome 3 yet. I installed it and loaded it up, and then did a wtf when I couldn't really figure out how to use it and wondered why it was so ugly before switching back to Unity. It felt like a very incomplete product. I've since read that you need to use a lot of add ons (or whatever the correct term for them is) to make it more usable, but at this point it's not worth the investment in time when Unity works well enough for me.
As others have stated, it affected apps on Linux desktops. For me it was Chrome using all the CPU which required me to restart the computer to fix, though it now seems that I could have just updated the time and fixed it that easy instead.
Nope, it went down right at 0000 for me. Interestingly, Chrome 20 on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 went to a crawl immediately at 0000 and was using 100% CPU (mostly Flash, but I killed that and other processes would just increase their load). It seemed to cycle through the Chrome processes, with each taking a turn of 20-40% CPU usage. It was during this time I tried to load Reddit and got the page saying they were down. Force killed Chrome, re-opened it, same issue. Tried 2 more times with kill -9 and it kept happening as soon as Chrome opened. I had to reboot to make it stop doing this.
Exactly. The 64-bit version won't even install on my 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04. It complains of dependency errors with ia32-llbs and how it can't install it or ia32-libs-multiarch. That said, the 32-bit version installs and runs just fine. It also finally fixes the nasty bug of using 100% CPU while on a video call.
They still work if you know the URLs. Here are the ones I use:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/dshield.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/hijacked.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/proxy.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level2.gz
Sure it is. You can still use their blocklists. I have a script on my NAS (running Transmission) to download them daily and tell Transmission to use them. Works perfectly other than having to automatically restart Transmission at 5am every day, which really isn't a problem.
If you're using a standard Linux with iptables (unlike my NAS which has iptables removed...), just use moblock. It handles getting them daily and blocking them at the firewall, though this won't really stop your torrent client from at least still trying to connect to those peers. Then again that's the same position PeerBlock users are in. Having the torrent client itself use them in probably more efficient, but this is easier.
You actually can setup GPG in Gmail's web interface, at least in Chrome: http://thinkst.com/tools/cr-gpg/. It seems that FireGPG was unfortunately discontinued for Firefox.
I live in a house with 4 other heavy use roommates. We have the medium tier of Comcast Business Class (ie no bandwidth caps). We broke 1TB transferred last month...
You should restrict it in robots.txt. I had to do it on my site because Google kept appending a character over and over to a variable in the URL. It would just add another character on and request again. It was a pretty weird bug and was generating gigs of traffic as well. You can also restrict Google's crawl rate in Webmaster Tools.
I had a friend who was sued while we were both freshman at the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. I forget how many thousands of dollars she had to pay. I only found out about it several years later, but I'm pretty sure she was one of the people sued when the RIAA got on i2hub (internet2 only DC++ server)
GoogleTV doesn't support DLNA streaming, so there's no way to play content stored on your network. For me, this is a deal breaker and will drive me to Boxee (or Roku if they add DLNA support soon) when it launches. I was excited about GoogleTV until I learned this...too bad.