Do you know of any tools that do this? The hard drive would fill up awfully fast if some background process were just copying contents of inserted CDs into a hidden (even compressed) file. As I said, it's not impossible for someone to get it, just highly unlikely.
Like, it is x86, fersure. Dude, you are, like, soo smart! And, like, if my actions thwart 2/3rds of the 5cr1pt k1DD135 who haven't fuck's clue what to do if their d/l'ed tools don't work, then, like, i am, like, making my box, like, more secure, okay.
I make no pretenses that the steps I've mentioned are all that's necessary to stop determined crackers. But, contrary to what most 3l33t h4ck3r5 think, they are not l33t.
Imagine a pyramid diagram: About two-thirds of the way up horizontally there is a line. Beneath that line is centered text that reads "wannabes" or "k1dd135" representing the majority of the "hackers" out there who couldn't write their own shell code if they wanted to. About 1/8th from the top, there is another horizontal line, below which is the word "experienced, determined crackers" which represents people on whom the efforts I've mentioned will have much less effect. Above that line, is a single word: "Elite" which represents the few who you and I don't really know much about...and won't, because they are good enough not to let us know.
My efforts are enough to foil all of the bottom tier. They are enough that the middle tier are not interested, because what is to be gained by 0wn1ng my systems is negligible. Same goes for the top tier. What's here is not worth having. The task is to make it difficult enough so that script kiddies will realize: "there's nothing to see here...move along."
I have a bizcard CD with putty and a key on it. I take it with me. I can login wherever I want and even if the computer has a keylogger, who gives a rat's ass? Without the key on that CD, they're not getting in. I don't know why anybody would use anything else.
I swear, when I first read this, I immediately downloaded the new version but here's the rub: I don't have any compilers or development tools on my production boxes. You're an idiot if you do. So, to upgrade, I have to install gcc, make, etc., then recompile, then remove all that crap again. Thank God I turned off all that crap before now.
Now I can wait until there's a real need to go through those hassles.
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Ever done it up the butt with your wife? (I mean not to offend, only to illustrate a point.) Some places have laws still that make that act illegal. They are seldom enforced...but still on the books. Now, I'm sure you are an upstanding person who is easy to get along with...but, being human (you are, aren't you?) makes you imperfect just like the rest of us and thereby prone to making mistakes on occasion. On one occasion, perhaps your mistake is to piss off the brother of a police officer...then he gets his brother to look into your ass-fucking history and brings you up on charges because...well, it's illegal.
Now, this is just an example. Perhaps sometimes you drive too fast, or keep a library book overdue, or inadvertently do something that violates some little-known, little-advertised regulation in some sub-paragraph of a dusty law book. All you need to do is anger one guy (a friend of a friend of an asshole cop) to get someone on your back. And if they're allowed to look into your every move without just cause, and they have records that show everything you've done over the years, then that one thing you did...well, it could get you a year in jail, or at least a public humiliation and reputation as someone who's "had trouble with the law."
Personally, I think the solution is to have no secrets. I think the reason people get wiered out about privacy is that there is an imbalance in it. To wit: the government can know all kinds of secrets about you, but you have little to no ability to know the government's secrets. If the law was that there are no secrets...that no person, no matter who they are or what their position, is entitled to even one secret...the playing field would be level...and what would it matter that you know what goes on in my bedroom because I know what goes on in yours...it would become such trivia as to be boring and so would be mostly ignored...but if I were commiting crimes, anyone could know about it...and if George W. Bush were evil or maybe trying to hide something well...he couldn't, and we'd all know every last detail about the skeletons in his closet.
5) go to a doctor that does not share medical information
And just how will you be paying this doctor? If you have no insurance and can pay cash, great. If you live in a country with state medicine, maybe it's easier...but in America, if you have insurance, your doctor has to share medical information...and once your insurance company has it, every insurance company has it...and once all of them have it...almost anyone can have it.
5) Alternatively I would say feed the personal information out with bogus data, better yet get your friends to do the same and swap cards ever so often. That way you save money and provide no personal information.
Krogers (a grocery chain in my area) uses these cards. The beauty of them, though, is that they are already active. I've gone to several different Krogers stores and asked for one for my friend, promising they will fill out the sheet and send it in.
Then I throw away the personal info sheet, add the card to my ever-rotating anonymous cards, and shop & save. I also pay cash when using those cards.
That being said, the answer to the original query ("Just how much privacy do we have?") is a simple, single word: none
So long as you exist within the system, you have no privacy. If you have a bank account, a job, a car, insurance, a doctor, an electric bill, a library card, etc., you cannot maintain your privacy. In reality, the only reason you have any privacy at all is because there are just too many targets to monitor 24/7 at present...but make no mistakes, if the "authorities" want to know something about you, there's almost nothing they can't find out.
Forgetting the improbability of how big it would have to be and how fast it would have to spin to approximate earth gravity, wouldn't your distance from the center effect the "gravity" pulling on you? I mean, if you're in the center of the thing, would the centrifucal force be as great? If not, there's your microgravity.
Of course, things may be whizzing by you so fast you can't feasibly do anything...
Ok, I'm late to post but hey, here's what I think:
get rid of pennies...they leave little round marks in my feet
make nickels smaller...like the size of dimes
make dimes bigger...like the size of pennies
make quarters smaller...like the size of nickels
stop making bills valued under $10
make more of those cool sakajewia $1 coins
issue $5 coins slightly larger than those $1 coins
Helps the blind, helps foreigners...only people I can see complaining are the cheapskates who won't give a stripper $20-30 for a lap dance...If all you're there to do is put $1 in her g-string, rent a fscking movie...if you want some touch, pay up.
You're right about one thing, one shouldn't have to check twice that one isn't handing over a twenty instead of a dollar bill...but one shouldn't be such a moron as to not tell the difference between a 1 and a 20...if you can't tell the difference between those two visual images at a glance, you must be daft.
Besides that, who gives a rat's ass what color the damn things are? As long as the new purple $10 will buy me the same stuff a green $10 will, I couldn't care less...
Ok, now that's useful information. So, if something were 1/8th the size of the moon, it would be roughly 260 miles (or 434km) across. That's a big something.
Well, I'll give you that the moon is much bigger than your average asteroid...much bigger. But still, I think the moon is much smaller than Earth. So...again, it would take much less force to move it from its orbit than it would take to move Earth out of its.
Yes, I get it. It's kind of my point. I gigantic asteroid hits earth and BOOM, life is redefined for a while...but the earth still spins...still orbits the sun...etc.
But the moon is much smaller than earth, so the amount of force required to fsck it up is less...maybe still too much for any asteroid to change...maybe so much that it would require another object of similar mass to collide with it...I don't know...that's what I'm asking.
Yes, there are. I understand that and realize it would take a massive impact to move the moon out of orbit and somewhat less to alter its direction. It's the detail I don't know...and I haven't a clue as to how to calculate it.
That's what I'm asking: How great of a force is necessary to alter the moon's orbit? And how big would an asteroid have to be, and how fast would it have to be moving, for an impact to have that much force? And if asteroids that big exist (as they may not), and it hit the moon, and the moon moved, what would that do to earth life? Not just humans, but earth in general.
Now, I realize the chances of a gigantic asteroid hitting the moon are even smaller than the chances of one hitting earth, but, hell, the whole conversation is hypothetical...so, why not wonder?
I've bought and built three systems from mwave with a few issues, but not too many.
Here's what you do:
Buy a barebones with the motherboard, CPU, and RAM of choice
Order all other parts from same vendor
Don't pay for assembly & testing
Receive parts, assemble
Install OS of choice...don't do the illegal thing
Burn it in for 72 hours...use memtest86 to test memory function...AMIDIAG for everything else
Enjoy the savings!
I put together a system that, if bought from Dell, would have cost twice as much. The problem you get with the $299-499 systems from Dell et. al. is those come with cheap parts, on board sound & video, etc. I built an Athlon 2000+ w/ 512MB DDR, 80GB HDD, GeForce3 64MB DDR card, SBLive! Platinum w/LiveDrive, AOPEN CDRW & Sony DVD drive, and 19" ViewSonic Flat CRT (Not LCD) for ~$1400...
...several months ago. Prices have come down since then. Also, I'm sure this may not be the best price you could get on all the components, but that I can get them all at once from one vendor and pay s&h once made up the difference saved buying parts elsewhere.
Note that I did have to return a few parts (CPU & RAM) for new but they were easy to work with. Just make sure you buy the barebones system. If you buy the parts, they'll give you a standard 7-day warranty on memory and processor. But the barebones have one year warranty (3 yrs on Intel CPUs).
OK, I think we've all seen/read/heard the theories of what would happen if a large asteroid hit Earth, but what if a giant asteroid hit the moon?
How big would it have to be to knock the moon from its orbit? Or even alter the moon's orbit at all? And if so, what impact on our environment here would it have? If we had no moon, no tides, etc., what would that do to earth life?
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Fuck Microsoft!
Do you know of any tools that do this? The hard drive would fill up awfully fast if some background process were just copying contents of inserted CDs into a hidden (even compressed) file. As I said, it's not impossible for someone to get it, just highly unlikely.
Like, it is x86, fersure. Dude, you are, like, soo smart! And, like, if my actions thwart 2/3rds of the 5cr1pt k1DD135 who haven't fuck's clue what to do if their d/l'ed tools don't work, then, like, i am, like, making my box, like, more secure, okay.
I make no pretenses that the steps I've mentioned are all that's necessary to stop determined crackers. But, contrary to what most 3l33t h4ck3r5 think, they are not l33t.
Imagine a pyramid diagram: About two-thirds of the way up horizontally there is a line. Beneath that line is centered text that reads "wannabes" or "k1dd135" representing the majority of the "hackers" out there who couldn't write their own shell code if they wanted to. About 1/8th from the top, there is another horizontal line, below which is the word "experienced, determined crackers" which represents people on whom the efforts I've mentioned will have much less effect. Above that line, is a single word: "Elite" which represents the few who you and I don't really know much about...and won't, because they are good enough not to let us know.
My efforts are enough to foil all of the bottom tier. They are enough that the middle tier are not interested, because what is to be gained by 0wn1ng my systems is negligible. Same goes for the top tier. What's here is not worth having. The task is to make it difficult enough so that script kiddies will realize: "there's nothing to see here...move along."
Of course, I always put a passphrase on the key. In order to get in, you need the passphrase, the key, and the name of the account I login as.
While a pickpocket might wind up with the key, he is missing two other vital pieces of information needed to login.
And while a keylogger on an untrusted machine could get the login and passphrase, it is highly unlikely it will capture the key.
And if the key ever goes missing, it is trivial to make a new key.
How about this workaround:
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
Everything else NO
I have a bizcard CD with putty and a key on it. I take it with me. I can login wherever I want and even if the computer has a keylogger, who gives a rat's ass? Without the key on that CD, they're not getting in. I don't know why anybody would use anything else.
I swear, when I first read this, I immediately downloaded the new version but here's the rub: I don't have any compilers or development tools on my production boxes. You're an idiot if you do. So, to upgrade, I have to install gcc, make, etc., then recompile, then remove all that crap again. Thank God I turned off all that crap before now.
Now I can wait until there's a real need to go through those hassles.
Yep...
Everybody except CmdrTaco.
Now, this is just an example. Perhaps sometimes you drive too fast, or keep a library book overdue, or inadvertently do something that violates some little-known, little-advertised regulation in some sub-paragraph of a dusty law book. All you need to do is anger one guy (a friend of a friend of an asshole cop) to get someone on your back. And if they're allowed to look into your every move without just cause, and they have records that show everything you've done over the years, then that one thing you did...well, it could get you a year in jail, or at least a public humiliation and reputation as someone who's "had trouble with the law."
Personally, I think the solution is to have no secrets. I think the reason people get wiered out about privacy is that there is an imbalance in it. To wit: the government can know all kinds of secrets about you, but you have little to no ability to know the government's secrets. If the law was that there are no secrets...that no person, no matter who they are or what their position, is entitled to even one secret...the playing field would be level...and what would it matter that you know what goes on in my bedroom because I know what goes on in yours...it would become such trivia as to be boring and so would be mostly ignored...but if I were commiting crimes, anyone could know about it...and if George W. Bush were evil or maybe trying to hide something well...he couldn't, and we'd all know every last detail about the skeletons in his closet.
Then I throw away the personal info sheet, add the card to my ever-rotating anonymous cards, and shop & save. I also pay cash when using those cards.
That being said, the answer to the original query ("Just how much privacy do we have?") is a simple, single word: none
So long as you exist within the system, you have no privacy. If you have a bank account, a job, a car, insurance, a doctor, an electric bill, a library card, etc., you cannot maintain your privacy. In reality, the only reason you have any privacy at all is because there are just too many targets to monitor 24/7 at present...but make no mistakes, if the "authorities" want to know something about you, there's almost nothing they can't find out.
Forgetting the improbability of how big it would have to be and how fast it would have to spin to approximate earth gravity, wouldn't your distance from the center effect the "gravity" pulling on you? I mean, if you're in the center of the thing, would the centrifucal force be as great? If not, there's your microgravity.
Of course, things may be whizzing by you so fast you can't feasibly do anything...
Now you know what the "H" in HMO stands for.
- get rid of pennies...they leave little round marks in my feet
- make nickels smaller...like the size of dimes
- make dimes bigger...like the size of pennies
- make quarters smaller...like the size of nickels
- stop making bills valued under $10
- make more of those cool sakajewia $1 coins
- issue $5 coins slightly larger than those $1 coins
Helps the blind, helps foreigners...only people I can see complaining are the cheapskates who won't give a stripper $20-30 for a lap dance...If all you're there to do is put $1 in her g-string, rent a fscking movie...if you want some touch, pay up.Americans don't have a bad attitude towards foreigners...we think more like this: fsck everybody who's not me!
What are you...nucking futs?
You're right about one thing, one shouldn't have to check twice that one isn't handing over a twenty instead of a dollar bill...but one shouldn't be such a moron as to not tell the difference between a 1 and a 20...if you can't tell the difference between those two visual images at a glance, you must be daft.
Besides that, who gives a rat's ass what color the damn things are? As long as the new purple $10 will buy me the same stuff a green $10 will, I couldn't care less...
Me niether.
It's always $0.
Ok, now that's useful information. So, if something were 1/8th the size of the moon, it would be roughly 260 miles (or 434km) across. That's a big something.
Well, I'll give you that the moon is much bigger than your average asteroid...much bigger. But still, I think the moon is much smaller than Earth. So...again, it would take much less force to move it from its orbit than it would take to move Earth out of its.
Well, that link even says that the mass of the moon is only 1.23% of earth's mass. Where did you get the impression that that isn't much smaller?
Yes, I get it. It's kind of my point. I gigantic asteroid hits earth and BOOM, life is redefined for a while...but the earth still spins...still orbits the sun...etc.
But the moon is much smaller than earth, so the amount of force required to fsck it up is less...maybe still too much for any asteroid to change...maybe so much that it would require another object of similar mass to collide with it...I don't know...that's what I'm asking.
Next time try being helpful.
Yes, there are. I understand that and realize it would take a massive impact to move the moon out of orbit and somewhat less to alter its direction. It's the detail I don't know...and I haven't a clue as to how to calculate it.
That's what I'm asking: How great of a force is necessary to alter the moon's orbit? And how big would an asteroid have to be, and how fast would it have to be moving, for an impact to have that much force? And if asteroids that big exist (as they may not), and it hit the moon, and the moon moved, what would that do to earth life? Not just humans, but earth in general.
Now, I realize the chances of a gigantic asteroid hitting the moon are even smaller than the chances of one hitting earth, but, hell, the whole conversation is hypothetical...so, why not wonder?
I've bought and built three systems from mwave with a few issues, but not too many.
Here's what you do:
- Buy a barebones with the motherboard, CPU, and RAM of choice
- Order all other parts from same vendor
- Don't pay for assembly & testing
- Receive parts, assemble
- Install OS of choice...don't do the illegal thing
- Burn it in for 72 hours...use memtest86 to test memory function...AMIDIAG for everything else
- Enjoy the savings!
I put together a system that, if bought from Dell, would have cost twice as much. The problem you get with the $299-499 systems from Dell et. al. is those come with cheap parts, on board sound & video, etc. I built an Athlon 2000+ w/ 512MB DDR, 80GB HDD, GeForce3 64MB DDR card, SBLive! Platinum w/LiveDrive, AOPEN CDRW & Sony DVD drive, and 19" ViewSonic Flat CRT (Not LCD) for ~$1400......several months ago. Prices have come down since then. Also, I'm sure this may not be the best price you could get on all the components, but that I can get them all at once from one vendor and pay s&h once made up the difference saved buying parts elsewhere.
Note that I did have to return a few parts (CPU & RAM) for new but they were easy to work with. Just make sure you buy the barebones system. If you buy the parts, they'll give you a standard 7-day warranty on memory and processor. But the barebones have one year warranty (3 yrs on Intel CPUs).
OK, I think we've all seen/read/heard the theories of what would happen if a large asteroid hit Earth, but what if a giant asteroid hit the moon?
How big would it have to be to knock the moon from its orbit? Or even alter the moon's orbit at all? And if so, what impact on our environment here would it have? If we had no moon, no tides, etc., what would that do to earth life?
Perhaps it's Marvin?
"What happened to the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"