Ever looked at how thick the case of you pc is? It doesn't take a lot of metal to properly shield from electromagnetic interference (from both directions), for that matter, it doesn't even take too much shielding to guard against EMP. My point is, the power supply's casing wouldn't have to be made of plastic.
From the article:
"Our plan is not to tackle crime as such but to reduce the fear of crime - and to that end this system was ideal," said PC Harry Wilkinson, crime prevention officer in Hexham.
So in other words, they make white people feel safe, but they don't really lower the actual crime rate.
On an unrelated note, in the US, the fine line between legal and illegal surveilance has to do with 'expectations of pricavy' (eg in the recent florida - superbowl thing, florida's argument was that people going to a public sporting event could have no expectation of privacy, and therefore could legally be recorded without notification) , so if video cams became this prevalent in the US, would we ever have any "expectation of privacy"? What I mean is, could increased surveillance support its own legality?
I know it's been said many times before, but the key to interopoerability is:
STANDARDS!
I just wish that if we're all going to agree to disagree about the proper use of librarys, wouldn't it make everyone's lives a little better if we could at least disagree in ways that didn't cripple us all?
None of us want to see linux become a jungle of code fragments like that other O$, but it's really not that hard to standardize on a set of fast, stable libraries, and maybe have a few extra-standard sets for some extra functions.
Also, while we're on the subject of development practices #Comment your code please.
The revolution is ours, if we don't make the same mistakes the regimes that came before us did.
I had no idea that those truncated CD's were available in a CD-R form. If one can indeed burn those disks with a standard CD-R drive, that would be the ideal solution. Where can I get some???
That is the very reason that I would like to keep two (or more) partitions. I've personally never seen a win9x machine that would be capable of autodetecting an ext2 (or ReiserFS...etc) and then mirror it in a background process. This would be particularly true on a system that did not even have a copy of pkzip or FIPS installed, which would be the case when the emergency software would be used.
What filesystem is on this thing? Can I break it into 2 4mb partitions? It would be pretty sweet to be able to carry all my pgp keys in one (ext2) partition and a few win progs that make life easier on the road at the homes of computer semi-literates.
for more complicated tasks, you can get the specs for PostScript for free off of the adobe website, and write whatever report you want in pure postscript, then have a perl prog. that queries the database, gets the data, and wraps the requisite ps code around it in whatever way you desire. Then it's just an lp away.
(Not as hard as it sounds, PS is not that hard to learn)
For just printing adress labels and tab-separated lists, you should be able to cook up a perl script using the DBI pretty quickly. A little perl can go a long way, and is a good thing to learn if you're the kind of person who wants to run a linux server for business applications.
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>I find the whole concept of refusing to use >superior software because of hate for the >company that produced it is rather silly, but if >you're going to detest one of those two >companies, it should probably be RealNetworks
How else can one forcefully express disagreement with the practices of a company? Write a nasty letter, and then contribute directly to the profits of said company? _That_ is rather silly. The boycott is a well established, and quite effective method of nonviolent protest. Don't like the fact that your shoes were made in a sweatshop? Buy another brand, and write a letter to the manufacturer you are boycotting to inform them why. Additionally, I don't see why anyone should have to choose between two "sleazy" companies for a fucking computer program. I suggest that if Darwin doesn't work for you, you might want to consider producing something small, lightweight (and opensource please) in house...assuming you have simple needs. Sure, it'll cost some money, but it'll do exactly what you want, and the only sleazy corporation you have to deal with is your own.
As I see it, the best features of Mojo Nation are its automatic encryption and the fact that its at least partially anonymous. Unfortunately the FAQ is rather vague about the actual specifics of the system are:
>When your Broker submits a file to Mojo Nation, >it first breaks up the file into several small > pieces, then the pieces into smaller blocks
>which are encrypted for privacy and duplicated
>for reliability. The Broker draws a "sharemap"
>to the location of the blocks, and for further >security,tears up and encrypts the map, too.
>The list of the blocks which makes up the
>sharemap is the "Dinode". Nothing on Mojo Nation >can be retrieved without the Dinode. References
>to Dinodes in the Mojo Nation web interface are >almost always presented in MojoID form, a >human-readable URL.
This seems somewhat similar to the method of using the one-time pad on a file and breaking it up into multiple smaller packets on a distributed network that was posted to fm a while back. (One time pad=encrypting a file with a single key, in such a way that one attempting to decrypt the file will get some sort of output no matter what key they try to use. The atvantage is, that there is no way to tell what the orininal file contained unless you know the exact key that was used to encrypt it. Eg, the same file x.crypt would produce "The shipment will arrive tonight" or "I like the happy bunnies" or "jfd83kdkfjsks sss sj" with equal probability, without any way to prove what the intended message was.) Someone looking for a particular file must be able to assemble a particular set of (seemingly arbitrary) packets in a particular (again, seemingly arbitrary) order, and then be able to input the proper key to decrypt it into the original file. It sounds like these folks are adding some automation that no doubt cuts down on the security. But, as I said before, the page is very vague due to the amount of lingo used. It also appears that there is some amount of anonyminity available in this system, but it is unclear if you are anonymous just to other users (likely) or to the system logs in general (unlikely).
Why can't we have a free version of this? As in, get rid of the 'MojoMoney' and just have a nice double-blind, heavily encrypted, distributed file system. Let it be open-source, free to use, community driven, and completely anonymous. No suits can be filed, because the content could be nothing or anything. The same file could be public domain text, or a homebrew kernel, or an mp3 or whatever. The real content is in the identity of which packets to use in what order and what the password is. This info could be distributed in irc, www, orally, in an encrypted or plain text form , etc. depending only on the will of the content creator. Since it would be distributed, no one would even neccessarily have a complete file on their server, which would be anonymous anyways. Any thoughts?
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Ever looked at how thick the case of you pc is? It doesn't take a lot of metal to properly shield from electromagnetic interference (from both directions), for that matter, it doesn't even take too much shielding to guard against EMP. My point is, the power supply's casing wouldn't have to be made of plastic.
From the article:
"Our plan is not to tackle crime as such but to reduce the fear of crime - and to that end this system was ideal," said PC Harry Wilkinson, crime prevention officer in Hexham.
So in other words, they make white people feel safe, but they don't really lower the actual crime rate.
On an unrelated note, in the US, the fine line between legal and illegal surveilance has to do with 'expectations of pricavy' (eg in the recent florida - superbowl thing, florida's argument was that people going to a public sporting event could have no expectation of privacy, and therefore could legally be recorded without notification) , so if video cams became this prevalent in the US, would we ever have any "expectation of privacy"? What I mean is, could increased surveillance support its own legality?
I know it's been said many times before, but the key to interopoerability is:
STANDARDS!
I just wish that if we're all going to agree to disagree about the proper use of librarys, wouldn't it make everyone's lives a little better if we could at least disagree in ways that didn't cripple us all?
None of us want to see linux become a jungle of code fragments like that other O$, but it's really not that hard to standardize on a set of fast, stable libraries, and maybe have a few extra-standard sets for some extra functions.
Also, while we're on the subject of development practices #Comment your code please.
The revolution is ours, if we don't make the same mistakes the regimes that came before us did.
I had no idea that those truncated CD's were available in a CD-R form. If one can indeed burn those disks with a standard CD-R drive, that would be the ideal solution. Where can I get some???
That is the very reason that I would like to keep two (or more) partitions. I've personally never seen a win9x machine that would be capable of autodetecting an ext2 (or ReiserFS ...etc) and then mirror it in a background process. This would be particularly true on a system that did not even have a copy of pkzip or FIPS installed, which would be the case when the emergency software would be used.
What filesystem is on this thing? Can I break it into 2 4mb partitions? It would be pretty sweet to be able to carry all my pgp keys in one (ext2) partition and a few win progs that make life easier on the road at the homes of computer semi-literates.
for more complicated tasks, you can get the specs for PostScript for free off of the adobe website, and write whatever report you want in pure postscript, then have a perl prog. that queries the database, gets the data, and wraps the requisite ps code around it in whatever way you desire. Then it's just an lp away. (Not as hard as it sounds, PS is not that hard to learn)
For just printing adress labels and tab-separated lists, you should be able to cook up a perl script using the DBI pretty quickly. A little perl can go a long way, and is a good thing to learn if you're the kind of person who wants to run a linux server for business applications.
>I find the whole concept of refusing to use >superior software because of hate for the >company that produced it is rather silly, but if >you're going to detest one of those two >companies, it should probably be RealNetworks
How else can one forcefully express disagreement with the practices of a company? Write a nasty letter, and then contribute directly to the profits of said company? _That_ is rather silly. The boycott is a well established, and quite effective method of nonviolent protest. Don't like the fact that your shoes were made in a sweatshop? Buy another brand, and write a letter to the manufacturer you are boycotting to inform them why. Additionally, I don't see why anyone should have to choose between two "sleazy" companies for a fucking computer program. I suggest that if Darwin doesn't work for you, you might want to consider producing something small, lightweight (and opensource please) in house...assuming you have simple needs. Sure, it'll cost some money, but it'll do exactly what you want, and the only sleazy corporation you have to deal with is your own.
As I see it, the best features of Mojo Nation are its automatic encryption and the fact that its at least partially anonymous. Unfortunately the FAQ is rather vague about the actual specifics of the system are: >When your Broker submits a file to Mojo Nation, >it first breaks up the file into several small > pieces, then the pieces into smaller blocks >which are encrypted for privacy and duplicated >for reliability. The Broker draws a "sharemap" >to the location of the blocks, and for further >security,tears up and encrypts the map, too. >The list of the blocks which makes up the >sharemap is the "Dinode". Nothing on Mojo Nation >can be retrieved without the Dinode. References >to Dinodes in the Mojo Nation web interface are >almost always presented in MojoID form, a >human-readable URL. This seems somewhat similar to the method of using the one-time pad on a file and breaking it up into multiple smaller packets on a distributed network that was posted to fm a while back. (One time pad=encrypting a file with a single key, in such a way that one attempting to decrypt the file will get some sort of output no matter what key they try to use. The atvantage is, that there is no way to tell what the orininal file contained unless you know the exact key that was used to encrypt it. Eg, the same file x.crypt would produce "The shipment will arrive tonight" or "I like the happy bunnies" or "jfd83kdkfjsks sss sj" with equal probability, without any way to prove what the intended message was.) Someone looking for a particular file must be able to assemble a particular set of (seemingly arbitrary) packets in a particular (again, seemingly arbitrary) order, and then be able to input the proper key to decrypt it into the original file. It sounds like these folks are adding some automation that no doubt cuts down on the security. But, as I said before, the page is very vague due to the amount of lingo used. It also appears that there is some amount of anonyminity available in this system, but it is unclear if you are anonymous just to other users (likely) or to the system logs in general (unlikely). Why can't we have a free version of this? As in, get rid of the 'MojoMoney' and just have a nice double-blind, heavily encrypted, distributed file system. Let it be open-source, free to use, community driven, and completely anonymous. No suits can be filed, because the content could be nothing or anything. The same file could be public domain text, or a homebrew kernel, or an mp3 or whatever. The real content is in the identity of which packets to use in what order and what the password is. This info could be distributed in irc, www, orally, in an encrypted or plain text form , etc. depending only on the will of the content creator. Since it would be distributed, no one would even neccessarily have a complete file on their server, which would be anonymous anyways. Any thoughts?