You can't do anything with the encrypted data unless you decrypt it. Once you decrypt it, the host computer has full access to it and your encryption keys. Decrypting files on an untrusted computer is a big no-no.
The whole point of portable USB sticks is to access your data from strange computers. Plugging an encrypted USB stick into a strange computer completely defeats the point of the encryption. None of my USB sticks are encrypted; they don't need to be because they have no personal information on them.
The problem here is you have an inability to understand that not everyone sees things your way.
There's really only one way to see things, the correct way. The way I see things may not in fact be the correct way, in which case I invite you to correct me.
Your sig is a perfect example, you make blind statements of massive scope that are just utterly ignorant and then call others ignorant for not agreeing with you.
What in particular are you talking about? "Censorship is obscene" is as well supported as any other statement that "X is obscene". It's an opinion, and my opinion isn't any less valid than anyone else's. If you belive that the state should ban things that people find obscene, then you must believe that the state should ban censorship. What exactly is ignorant about this?
"Patriotism is bigotry", maybe could be better stated as "patriotism is prejudice". Which it literally is. Patriots pre-judge their country as favorable by definition.
"Slashdot is unusable without noscript."? OK, that one is hyperbole./. is usable without noscript, because people do in fact use it without noscript. However, disabling javascript is a big improvement, and I've had several people thank me for that information so I think it's justifiable hyperbole.
You seem to think that it is impossible for someone to have an opinion without pushing it on the rest of the world JUST because you have no ability to have an opinion without trying to push it on the rest of us.
What have I done to push my opinion on you? Posted on/. where you have every opportunity to rebut? Get a grip. You act like I'm after your children. On the contrary, I want nothing to do with them. The scouts on the other hand...
You are the exact type of person you're trying to call the scouts.
You're right. I'm intolerant. Specifically, I'm intolerant of intolerance. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Do you claim that the police are hypocritical because they lock people up for kidnapping?
The Scout Law explicitly states that a scout is reverent. The Scout Oath states that a scout will "do my duty to God and my country."
with this one:
There was no religious agenda being pushed upon any of us.
?
As far as the gays issue, would you want your daughter going on an overnight girlscout trip led by a male leader? Its the same issue.
Yes, I'd be just fine with that. Everyone should be just fine with that. Pedo paranoia stops kids from forming good relationships with adults. You should be ashamed of yourself.
There is, at the very least, a perception issue and at the worst there is a legitimate safety issue for the boys in the troop
Yes, there is a perception issue. The perception is that the Boy Scouts are bigots. There is a safety issue too. You're sending your kids off to be indoctrinated by bigots.
Sure they will. I've read all the dark matter/dark energy/string theory pop-sci I can stomach. There's not much point in reading another one until the issue is settled. A pop-sci book titled something like "Wild Goose Chase: The Debunking of Dark Matter", would definitely sell.
I'm not going to pay for 150 channels. This is why I don't have cable. I'll reevaluate when they offer a la carte at a reasonable price. I'd really like to support Jon Stewart, Conan, and Louis CK financialy, but signing up for cable is a bridge too far.
Streaming doesn't have to be pull oriented. There's no reason that the content on a cable networks stream has to be any different from what's on their cable channel.
Besides, streaming can be a lot better for discovery than a static, one size fits all channel would be. This is obvious in the case of music. "you might also like" is a pretty powerful way to discover new media.
My dad used to say something along these lines: "Of all the technologies that he was aware of, television both had the greatest potential, and was the furthest from even approaching its potential." It took me some exploring, but I've decided he was spot-on.
Exactly. Why is it we have 800 channels of TV, and not one of them carries college level lectures? There are professors out there giving lectures every day. It would cost next to nothing to record them and air them, and would give the 5% of us who actually like to use our brains something to watch.
Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if Firefox lost some of its funding. It's become a behemoth, losing the ability to pay full time developers to deal with it might lead to some slimming down.
The article claims that game pirates play more games and music downloaders visit more concerts, but that doesn't mean piracy is contributing to that
No, but it does mean that the piracy isn't hurting it either. Why make criminals out of people who aren't hurting anyone?
I just don't get the mindset that not only thinks they are entitled to something they didn't pay for but also justifies it as some kind of culture movement, or a strike against the RIAA, or whatever. I've never respected that mindset.
I've never respected the mindset that thinks they are entitled to payment for the same work over and over and over again.
The only mindset I respect is the one that admits the basic human desire of getting something for free, because they're at least being honest about what exactly is happening.
The only mindset I respect is the one that admits the basic human desire of control and rent seeking, because they're at least as honest about what exactly is happening.
as this site has become extremely pro-piracy in the last 10 years (getting Linux software for free means everything must be free, apparently),
It's simple laws of economics. Zero marginal cost leads to infinite supply which leads to zero price. The true radicals are those who think they can legislate around the laws of economics.
No, the dumbest thing ever is the legal system which punishes whistleblowers. Wait, no, that's the 2nd dumbest thing ever. The absolute dumbest thing ever are the people who support a legal system that punishes whistleblowers.
No, he didn't notify the appropriate people. If he had notified the appropriate people, the vulnerability would be closed right now. The right thing to do, if you find a vulnerability in non-open source software is disclose it fully, publicly, anonymously, and immediately. That will force them to secure their systems.
I thought it was implicit in the discussion that capacity would remain constant. That's why I mentioned building infrastructure as an alternative to use based billing. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
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You can't do anything with the encrypted data unless you decrypt it. Once you decrypt it, the host computer has full access to it and your encryption keys. Decrypting files on an untrusted computer is a big no-no.
If the computer you plug it into is compromised, your truecrypt key can be sniffed.
The whole point of portable USB sticks is to access your data from strange computers. Plugging an encrypted USB stick into a strange computer completely defeats the point of the encryption. None of my USB sticks are encrypted; they don't need to be because they have no personal information on them.
People succeed more on luck than on anything else. It's not surprising at all that this guy is out of his depth now.
It is their problem if the Alameda County Sheriff's Department gets cold feet (or sued) and doesn't want to do any more myth busting.
I'm guessing they're new parents.
The problem here is you have an inability to understand that not everyone sees things your way.
There's really only one way to see things, the correct way. The way I see things may not in fact be the correct way, in which case I invite you to correct me.
Your sig is a perfect example, you make blind statements of massive scope that are just utterly ignorant and then call others ignorant for not agreeing with you.
What in particular are you talking about? "Censorship is obscene" is as well supported as any other statement that "X is obscene". It's an opinion, and my opinion isn't any less valid than anyone else's. If you belive that the state should ban things that people find obscene, then you must believe that the state should ban censorship. What exactly is ignorant about this?
"Patriotism is bigotry", maybe could be better stated as "patriotism is prejudice". Which it literally is. Patriots pre-judge their country as favorable by definition.
"Slashdot is unusable without noscript."? OK, that one is hyperbole. /. is usable without noscript, because people do in fact use it without noscript. However, disabling javascript is a big improvement, and I've had several people thank me for that information so I think it's justifiable hyperbole.
You seem to think that it is impossible for someone to have an opinion without pushing it on the rest of the world JUST because you have no ability to have an opinion without trying to push it on the rest of us.
What have I done to push my opinion on you? Posted on /. where you have every opportunity to rebut? Get a grip. You act like I'm after your children. On the contrary, I want nothing to do with them. The scouts on the other hand...
You are the exact type of person you're trying to call the scouts.
You're right. I'm intolerant. Specifically, I'm intolerant of intolerance. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Do you claim that the police are hypocritical because they lock people up for kidnapping?
Oh yeah, you're right. I've never actually watched it on a real TV with actual cable, so I don't really know what network it's on.
How do you reconcile this statement:
The Scout Law explicitly states that a scout is reverent. The Scout Oath states that a scout will "do my duty to God and my country."
with this one:
There was no religious agenda being pushed upon any of us.
?
As far as the gays issue, would you want your daughter going on an overnight girlscout trip led by a male leader? Its the same issue.
Yes, I'd be just fine with that. Everyone should be just fine with that. Pedo paranoia stops kids from forming good relationships with adults. You should be ashamed of yourself.
There is, at the very least, a perception issue and at the worst there is a legitimate safety issue for the boys in the troop
Yes, there is a perception issue. The perception is that the Boy Scouts are bigots. There is a safety issue too. You're sending your kids off to be indoctrinated by bigots.
You chose well. Congratulations on 1.4 BTW!
Sure they will. I've read all the dark matter/dark energy/string theory pop-sci I can stomach. There's not much point in reading another one until the issue is settled. A pop-sci book titled something like "Wild Goose Chase: The Debunking of Dark Matter", would definitely sell.
I'm not going to pay for 150 channels. This is why I don't have cable. I'll reevaluate when they offer a la carte at a reasonable price. I'd really like to support Jon Stewart, Conan, and Louis CK financialy, but signing up for cable is a bridge too far.
If you haven't yet, watch Louie on TBS.
Streaming doesn't have to be pull oriented. There's no reason that the content on a cable networks stream has to be any different from what's on their cable channel.
Besides, streaming can be a lot better for discovery than a static, one size fits all channel would be. This is obvious in the case of music. "you might also like" is a pretty powerful way to discover new media.
My dad used to say something along these lines: "Of all the technologies that he was aware of, television both had the greatest potential, and was the furthest from even approaching its potential." It took me some exploring, but I've decided he was spot-on.
Exactly. Why is it we have 800 channels of TV, and not one of them carries college level lectures? There are professors out there giving lectures every day. It would cost next to nothing to record them and air them, and would give the 5% of us who actually like to use our brains something to watch.
Why is it always sports fans that get special attention? What if I want to watch a live concert, lecture, or other non-sporting event?
If TV has been garbage for the last 40 years, what reason is there to believe that it has gotten better in the last 5?
Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if Firefox lost some of its funding. It's become a behemoth, losing the ability to pay full time developers to deal with it might lead to some slimming down.
In other words, the USPS would be fine if we had single payer health care in the US.
30 years of corporatism has largely eliminated upward mobility.
The article claims that game pirates play more games and music downloaders visit more concerts, but that doesn't mean piracy is contributing to that
No, but it does mean that the piracy isn't hurting it either. Why make criminals out of people who aren't hurting anyone?
I just don't get the mindset that not only thinks they are entitled to something they didn't pay for but also justifies it as some kind of culture movement, or a strike against the RIAA, or whatever. I've never respected that mindset.
I've never respected the mindset that thinks they are entitled to payment for the same work over and over and over again.
The only mindset I respect is the one that admits the basic human desire of getting something for free, because they're at least being honest about what exactly is happening.
The only mindset I respect is the one that admits the basic human desire of control and rent seeking, because they're at least as honest about what exactly is happening.
as this site has become extremely pro-piracy in the last 10 years (getting Linux software for free means everything must be free, apparently),
It's simple laws of economics. Zero marginal cost leads to infinite supply which leads to zero price. The true radicals are those who think they can legislate around the laws of economics.
No, the dumbest thing ever is the legal system which punishes whistleblowers. Wait, no, that's the 2nd dumbest thing ever. The absolute dumbest thing ever are the people who support a legal system that punishes whistleblowers.
No, he didn't notify the appropriate people. If he had notified the appropriate people, the vulnerability would be closed right now. The right thing to do, if you find a vulnerability in non-open source software is disclose it fully, publicly, anonymously, and immediately. That will force them to secure their systems.
I thought it was implicit in the discussion that capacity would remain constant. That's why I mentioned building infrastructure as an alternative to use based billing. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
If it weren't for napster, I'd still be downloading albums over IRC.