That's not an endorsement from the NAACP--that's an personal endorsement from the president of the Austin branch of the NAACP. That's not meaningless, but it's a very different thing.
Yes, they can recover key and encryption algorithms from the unencrypted boot sector. But if they can crack you simply by knowing the unencryption program, you're boned anyways. What they *can't* recover, assuming that your encryption vendor hasn't screwed up, is your key. And without that, they can't read your encrypted partitions. If they've done it right, it's secure. Somebody in possession of your laptop but without your passphrase cannot read the disk, no matter what he does, except for the boot partition, and there won't be any useful data there. I don't use Truecrypt and haven't researched them, so I can't guarantee that they did it right (look at WEP, where they managed to botch the encryption for a major standard, resulting in it having to be replaced by WPA). I believe every laptop should be "whole disk" encrypted--it's just too easy for a laptop to disappear. I run debian on my laptop, so I used cryptmount to encrypt my disk. If you're not encrypting your laptop's disk, you definitely should be. A brief glance over some recent news stories should tell you why.
Yes. Having an unencrypted boot partition isn't much of a vulnerability if you did your encryption right. That doesn't change the fact that saying you've encrypted "the entire disk" is a marketing lie.
Just about everyone in the US has at least two government issued IDs: A driver's license (state issued) and a social security card (federally issued). Social security cards do not have a photo.
A Social Security card is not an ID. I don't know of any place that will accept a Social Security card as an ID. Legally, no place is allowed to request a Social Security card as an ID. It says *right on the friggin' card* that it can't be used as an ID. They may want your Social Security *Number*, but that's different.
It is also, of course, impossible that it encrypts the *entire* disk. It may encrypt all the partitions your running system uses, but unless your BIOS has encryption support (which it doesn't), you can't have an encrypted boot partition.
Then you shouldn't overburden the election day: having one per year instead of one each two years surely won't sink your economy not even a significant fraction of a 1% but it would cut in half complexity.
Actually, many states *do* have elections every year. In my own state of Virginia, the election for governor is held the year after the presidential election. Elections to the House of Delegates happens every odd year, and we have state Senate elections the odd years that don't have a gubernatorial election. It's not all that great; election turnout is abysmal. Turnout anywhere in the US is bad when it's not a presidential election year, in Virginia, it's worse for the state elections. Turnout in 2007 was something like 20%. A lot of people want to move Virginia state elections to even-numbered years to improve it. On the other hand, Virginia doesn't seem to have much trouble counting its votes; maybe this has something to do with it.
At the end of the day you end up with one president, one congressman, some local officers and maybe some legislations casted.
One President. One Congressman. One Senator. One Governor. One state Senator. One state assemblyman. Three or four county councilmen. One sheriff. One (or more) judges. Four or five School Board members. Possibly more local officials as well. In the more referendum-happy states, maybe a dozen or more of those. It does add up...
There is not a lack of food in the world. People starve because they are *poor*. The best way to prevent starvation is to help them to be *not poor*. Ready communications is extraordinarily useful in trying to climb out of poverty; a farmer who knows what crops bring what prices in which markets knows what to raise and where to sell it--but he can't spend the days it would take to go to those markets to father those prices. Give him a way to know those prices in a few moments and he's taken a big step up.
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Their website creation skills...not so good.
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Because they *do* dominate the desktop, the place from which internet search and online advertising is done from. And they have a legal history of abusing that monopoly to try to gain market advantage in other areas. "Google? You don't want that. Redirecting page request to www.yahoo.com."
Like a lot of "good story" etymologies, this one gets repeated a lot because it's such a good story, but isn't supported by the evidence. There are no known contemporary sources reporting the flinging of wooden shoes into machinery, nor is the word "sabotage" used in this way before 1910, whereas the supposed shoe-throwing would've happened in the mid-nineteenth century.
They only surrendered to the Germans for one real reason: their artwork and architecture.
They surrendered to the Germans because 1940s France was a bitterly divided nation with an ineffective government, and some political factions favored surrender over working with their political enemies (the Communists were strong in France at the time and operated as a fifth column, because of Stalin's alliance with Germany at the time--ironically, they would become some of the most effective of the Resistance later when Hitler invaded Russia), and also because of a strong strain of isolationism at the time--many Frenchmen in 1940 were actually convinced it was all Britain's fault, an opinion that was reinforced when the British bombed the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir to prevent it from falling into German hands. The catastrophic military loss they suffered--the result of poor training, poor organization, poor leadership, and most of all, horrid communications (the French supreme HQ's picture of events was routinely several days behind what the front lines were seeing)--may have been the proximate cause, but the kind of disaster France suffered in 1940 takes a political and moral collapse as well as a military one. Read Shirer's "Fall of the Third Republic" sometime, fascinating read.
I also keep in mind that they also made our current word: sabotage... that words origin comes from Nazi occupation of France, when the peoples would jam up factories and machines to help Germany.
Um, no, it doesn't. While the Resistance in France certainly practiced sabotage, they didn't invent the word. The word comes from the French railway strike of 1910, in which the workers destroyed the wooden shoes that held the rails in place. The shoes in French were called "sabots", hence "sabotage".
It's a licensed fork of a GPL project--unless the fork happened *before* the code was GPL'd, they don't get to restrict redistribution, and the owners of Songbird did not themselves have the right to let QTrax restrict redistribution.
Actually, mega meters should be abbreviated Mm. For some reason, staying metric doesn't seem to be popular in astronomical measurements--you drift off into AUs, light-years, parsecs. Nobody wants to use those gnarly large prefixes. It's only about 41 petameters to Alpha Centauri! And about 24 zettameters to Andromeda!
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That's not an endorsement from the NAACP--that's an personal endorsement from the president of the Austin branch of the NAACP. That's not meaningless, but it's a very different thing.
Yes, they can recover key and encryption algorithms from the unencrypted boot sector. But if they can crack you simply by knowing the unencryption program, you're boned anyways. What they *can't* recover, assuming that your encryption vendor hasn't screwed up, is your key. And without that, they can't read your encrypted partitions. If they've done it right, it's secure. Somebody in possession of your laptop but without your passphrase cannot read the disk, no matter what he does, except for the boot partition, and there won't be any useful data there. I don't use Truecrypt and haven't researched them, so I can't guarantee that they did it right (look at WEP, where they managed to botch the encryption for a major standard, resulting in it having to be replaced by WPA). I believe every laptop should be "whole disk" encrypted--it's just too easy for a laptop to disappear. I run debian on my laptop, so I used cryptmount to encrypt my disk. If you're not encrypting your laptop's disk, you definitely should be. A brief glance over some recent news stories should tell you why.
Yes. Having an unencrypted boot partition isn't much of a vulnerability if you did your encryption right. That doesn't change the fact that saying you've encrypted "the entire disk" is a marketing lie.
A Social Security card is not an ID. I don't know of any place that will accept a Social Security card as an ID. Legally, no place is allowed to request a Social Security card as an ID. It says *right on the friggin' card* that it can't be used as an ID. They may want your Social Security *Number*, but that's different.
It is also, of course, impossible that it encrypts the *entire* disk. It may encrypt all the partitions your running system uses, but unless your BIOS has encryption support (which it doesn't), you can't have an encrypted boot partition.
Actually, many states *do* have elections every year. In my own state of Virginia, the election for governor is held the year after the presidential election. Elections to the House of Delegates happens every odd year, and we have state Senate elections the odd years that don't have a gubernatorial election. It's not all that great; election turnout is abysmal. Turnout anywhere in the US is bad when it's not a presidential election year, in Virginia, it's worse for the state elections. Turnout in 2007 was something like 20%. A lot of people want to move Virginia state elections to even-numbered years to improve it. On the other hand, Virginia doesn't seem to have much trouble counting its votes; maybe this has something to do with it.
One President. One Congressman. One Senator. One Governor. One state Senator. One state assemblyman. Three or four county councilmen. One sheriff. One (or more) judges. Four or five School Board members. Possibly more local officials as well. In the more referendum-happy states, maybe a dozen or more of those. It does add up...
Maybe I was just born with a heart full of neutrality.
There is not a lack of food in the world. People starve because they are *poor*. The best way to prevent starvation is to help them to be *not poor*. Ready communications is extraordinarily useful in trying to climb out of poverty; a farmer who knows what crops bring what prices in which markets knows what to raise and where to sell it--but he can't spend the days it would take to go to those markets to father those prices. Give him a way to know those prices in a few moments and he's taken a big step up.
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Complete and total capitulation. B'God, *that'll* make 'em think twice before tangling with you again!
Had one just five days ago.
Because they *do* dominate the desktop, the place from which internet search and online advertising is done from. And they have a legal history of abusing that monopoly to try to gain market advantage in other areas. "Google? You don't want that. Redirecting page request to www.yahoo.com."
You're assuming it has to be men on that newsgroup. Sexist! Sexist!
Actually, I first read it as "Millions in Middle East Lose Interest".
It'd be a lot better if they'd add a decent text editor to it...
Like a lot of "good story" etymologies, this one gets repeated a lot because it's such a good story, but isn't supported by the evidence. There are no known contemporary sources reporting the flinging of wooden shoes into machinery, nor is the word "sabotage" used in this way before 1910, whereas the supposed shoe-throwing would've happened in the mid-nineteenth century.
They surrendered to the Germans because 1940s France was a bitterly divided nation with an ineffective government, and some political factions favored surrender over working with their political enemies (the Communists were strong in France at the time and operated as a fifth column, because of Stalin's alliance with Germany at the time--ironically, they would become some of the most effective of the Resistance later when Hitler invaded Russia), and also because of a strong strain of isolationism at the time--many Frenchmen in 1940 were actually convinced it was all Britain's fault, an opinion that was reinforced when the British bombed the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir to prevent it from falling into German hands. The catastrophic military loss they suffered--the result of poor training, poor organization, poor leadership, and most of all, horrid communications (the French supreme HQ's picture of events was routinely several days behind what the front lines were seeing)--may have been the proximate cause, but the kind of disaster France suffered in 1940 takes a political and moral collapse as well as a military one. Read Shirer's "Fall of the Third Republic" sometime, fascinating read.
Um, no, it doesn't. While the Resistance in France certainly practiced sabotage, they didn't invent the word. The word comes from the French railway strike of 1910, in which the workers destroyed the wooden shoes that held the rails in place. The shoes in French were called "sabots", hence "sabotage".
The publisher told him the trilogy probably wouldn't sell as well.
the 405th page as we speak.
It's a licensed fork of a GPL project--unless the fork happened *before* the code was GPL'd, they don't get to restrict redistribution, and the owners of Songbird did not themselves have the right to let QTrax restrict redistribution.
I would have reservations if I'd remembered to phone ahead.
You...need a spell checker.
By the way, I am Spart a cus.
The parent post is correct for US law. The grandparent post is correct for UK law, which is why libel lawyers have a lot more fun in the UK.
Actually, mega meters should be abbreviated Mm. For some reason, staying metric doesn't seem to be popular in astronomical measurements--you drift off into AUs, light-years, parsecs. Nobody wants to use those gnarly large prefixes. It's only about 41 petameters to Alpha Centauri! And about 24 zettameters to Andromeda!