The problem is that "mainstream" Linux is going in the same direction as Windows 8. I use Debian, which is great, but I could never recommend a random person to give it a try.
Doesn't really matter. If a potential thief has a choice between a house with no obvious alarm and one that has lasers going all over the place, they'll go for the former.
A lot of "professional" advice on how to drop off the grid involves things like tracking down birth certs of dead babies from the year you were born, and get an SS number from them. The problem is that, if you've only got 24 hours to disappear, none of that is possible.
To do that in such a short time, you have to be willing to potentially let go of *everything* in life, including spouse, kids, house, etc.. That means you don't go back home. You don't call and tell your wife you love her one last time, you just leave.
For most, it should be a fairly easy thing to just withdraw as much from ATM's as your accounts allow, and leave the country. You should probably avoid air travel, since this "agency" after you could probably put you on a no-fly list, but taking a bus or train would be fine in the short term.
Once your in the new country, your options are mostly just limited to how much cash you have available. Ideally, you would get a good set of fake identification papers made, and apply for a new passport. Pick a third country, and head there, only to do it all again. Just don't be surprised to invest a bit into bribes and such to grease the wheels. Eventually, you'll be in a country with a fresh passport that doesn't easily trace back to your old life. Just make sure you never contact anyone you ever knew again.
But yeah, if you literally have feds following you 2 cars back and you are looking to disappear, there's not a whole lot you can do aside from committing a very high profile crime in public while they are following you, essentially jumping out of a burning building hoping to survive the fall. No ideal.
I'm going to second this. It's free for non-commercial use, so it's great for helping out family and friends. It's really easy to use and, like the poster said, there's no install needed.
Just make sure they hear you correctly and go to "teamviewer.com" and not "teenviewer.com". I had that happen once, and it was a bit awkward.
Say what you will about the Chinese but, if this were an American, he'd be shopping for a book deal and making millions as a motivational speaker. He'd probably get some weird Craftsman sponsorship as well. Instead, he seems genuinely interested in helping other people get access to what he built.
It's inspiring, to say the least.
The haven't invaded the embassy just yet. They have entered the building that houses the embassy (and others) though. It looks like they are going to hang out there ready to take him into custody if and when the Ecuador denies his request of asylum are denied sometime Thursday.
I find it interesting that the UK government is willing to, essentially, go diplomatically nuclear over what is supposedly just a standard extradition request involving rape accusations.
Phones and social media are eating away at portable gaming consoles, but it has nothing to do with the gaming aspect of either. Previously, you'd carry a handheld like the Gameboy so that you had *something* to do while sitting around waiting in line or for a bus or wasting time and grandmas or whatever. Today, most everyone has a phone, even teens or preteens. Yes, they can play games on them, but they can also simply browse the internet or post stuff on social media sites.
Gaming was never the draw for most people using portable devices; occupying time was the draw. People can do that with more stuff now, so of course the value of a strictly-gaming device is going to fall.
Maybe they should have put more effort into designing quality products in the first place, instead of all racing to the bottom these past 10 years. I imagine Microsoft would much prefer having a solid OEM market that can compete with Apple on more than just pricing. Instead, they have an OEM market with crappy to mediocre hardware funded by bloatware and antivirus trials.
There are countries in the world that simply don't care if they get nuked, as long as they take the enemy down first. Give a country like Somalia a few nukes and see how long they can sit around "enjoying the peace" before trying to figure out a way to make money from it. It wouldn't take long before they start threatening to detonate a nuke they've claimed to smuggled into another country unless that country gives into a demand (money, prisoner release, seat on the U.N. security council, etc).
What country could simply ignore that kind of threat, regardless of how unlikely it might be true?
And then you have any nation governed by religious zealots. Someone makes a joke about Muhammad in a bear suit and they might just piss off the right nation at the right time. Today, that nation would simply threaten to send a suicide bomber or something, but if they had nukes?
Simply put, if your idea of world peace means everyone is walking on egg shells for fear of accidentally offending someone who has a nuke, then I guess this guy makes sense.
Bill Stone seems to be involved with this, which actually gives it some real vision. Check him out in a TED conference a few years back on just this sort of project. If you don't find his attitude inspiring, something is wrong with you...
The relevant portion about the moon starts at 10:52
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_space.html
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The problem is that "mainstream" Linux is going in the same direction as Windows 8. I use Debian, which is great, but I could never recommend a random person to give it a try.
Doesn't really matter. If a potential thief has a choice between a house with no obvious alarm and one that has lasers going all over the place, they'll go for the former.
And then two weeks later you commit "suicide" or die of heart failure while doing 80 on the freeway...
A lot of "professional" advice on how to drop off the grid involves things like tracking down birth certs of dead babies from the year you were born, and get an SS number from them. The problem is that, if you've only got 24 hours to disappear, none of that is possible.
To do that in such a short time, you have to be willing to potentially let go of *everything* in life, including spouse, kids, house, etc.. That means you don't go back home. You don't call and tell your wife you love her one last time, you just leave.
For most, it should be a fairly easy thing to just withdraw as much from ATM's as your accounts allow, and leave the country. You should probably avoid air travel, since this "agency" after you could probably put you on a no-fly list, but taking a bus or train would be fine in the short term.
Once your in the new country, your options are mostly just limited to how much cash you have available. Ideally, you would get a good set of fake identification papers made, and apply for a new passport. Pick a third country, and head there, only to do it all again. Just don't be surprised to invest a bit into bribes and such to grease the wheels. Eventually, you'll be in a country with a fresh passport that doesn't easily trace back to your old life. Just make sure you never contact anyone you ever knew again.
But yeah, if you literally have feds following you 2 cars back and you are looking to disappear, there's not a whole lot you can do aside from committing a very high profile crime in public while they are following you, essentially jumping out of a burning building hoping to survive the fall. No ideal.
I'm going to second this. It's free for non-commercial use, so it's great for helping out family and friends. It's really easy to use and, like the poster said, there's no install needed. Just make sure they hear you correctly and go to "teamviewer.com" and not "teenviewer.com". I had that happen once, and it was a bit awkward.
Say what you will about the Chinese but, if this were an American, he'd be shopping for a book deal and making millions as a motivational speaker. He'd probably get some weird Craftsman sponsorship as well. Instead, he seems genuinely interested in helping other people get access to what he built. It's inspiring, to say the least.
Something being classified doesn't mean is *should* be classified. U.S. waterboarding torture, for example, was classified (gee, I wonder why?).
The haven't invaded the embassy just yet. They have entered the building that houses the embassy (and others) though. It looks like they are going to hang out there ready to take him into custody if and when the Ecuador denies his request of asylum are denied sometime Thursday.
I find it interesting that the UK government is willing to, essentially, go diplomatically nuclear over what is supposedly just a standard extradition request involving rape accusations.
Things will get better once the Yutani Corporation enters the picture.
Gaming was never the draw for most people using portable devices; occupying time was the draw. People can do that with more stuff now, so of course the value of a strictly-gaming device is going to fall.
Maybe they should have put more effort into designing quality products in the first place, instead of all racing to the bottom these past 10 years. I imagine Microsoft would much prefer having a solid OEM market that can compete with Apple on more than just pricing. Instead, they have an OEM market with crappy to mediocre hardware funded by bloatware and antivirus trials.
There are countries in the world that simply don't care if they get nuked, as long as they take the enemy down first. Give a country like Somalia a few nukes and see how long they can sit around "enjoying the peace" before trying to figure out a way to make money from it. It wouldn't take long before they start threatening to detonate a nuke they've claimed to smuggled into another country unless that country gives into a demand (money, prisoner release, seat on the U.N. security council, etc). What country could simply ignore that kind of threat, regardless of how unlikely it might be true? And then you have any nation governed by religious zealots. Someone makes a joke about Muhammad in a bear suit and they might just piss off the right nation at the right time. Today, that nation would simply threaten to send a suicide bomber or something, but if they had nukes? Simply put, if your idea of world peace means everyone is walking on egg shells for fear of accidentally offending someone who has a nuke, then I guess this guy makes sense.
Bill Stone seems to be involved with this, which actually gives it some real vision. Check him out in a TED conference a few years back on just this sort of project. If you don't find his attitude inspiring, something is wrong with you... The relevant portion about the moon starts at 10:52 http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_space.html