Every house has that one light bulb that you just can't reach safely. In my house, the last time that bulb went out an LED screw-in unit went in. It was worth the $30+ (now much less) to know that for the next 60,000 hours of operation I can use the stairs safely without ever having to change a bulb. It's dimmer than a 40W incandescent but it's more than enough to see hazards.
LEDs are bright enough for car headlights, we just need another order of magnitude improvement in lumens per dollar to make them practical for house lighting.
Once, we proudly called ourselves the leader of the free world. I will not be content with being stuck saying "not as bad as North Korea".
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Does anyone have a cite on this one? It's the kind of thing I'd normally hear about, and the explanation
Google: Contrary to their own assertions, the data octopus had analysed and indexed all e-mails processed through their mail service. Due to a mistake made by an administrator, a database of the highly secret project was mirrored onto the external index servers, and as a result, the private mails of thousands of GMail users could be accessed via the search front-end for at least one hour.
doesn't make a lot of sense: Google advertises that they're indexing Gmail accounts for faster searching and that they're doing spam filtering, which is analysis, and keyword searching to select ads to display.
It's a big thing in security news when a mass market operating system picks up features that used to exist only in a few specialty Linux distros and in OpenBSD. It's not a matter of invention, but it is a change, and if attackers always had to use the same attacks then the world would get quieter as a result of Vista getting deployed. But of course the attackers will just depend more on Trojan Horses and on privilege escalation bugs.
>1. Stop advertising drugs on TV and in magazines. You are not a doctor. You shouldn't be "asking your doc" if zotramiphil is right for your itchy ass.
Doesn't go far enough. Huge amounts of money go toward marketing directly to doctors. Doctors should be getting their information from independent tests, medical literature, and the experience of colleagues. Drug companies are spending more money on marketing than on R&D, and their R&D costs more than most people can imagine.
>A free society is vulnerable in ways that a police state is not, but accepting that vulnerability is part and parcel of freedom.
Police states kill their citizens by the thousands or millions every year. Free societies are safer than enslaved societies. If you seek security, don't swallow a dictator's promise to provide it.
Yep. S/MIME signs the whole package including the MIME headers. " Demime is designed to break signatures". Not sure, but it looks like PGP/MIME has the same problem.
You could still sign plain text and send that. Or send an attachment with a detached or builtin signature. Microsoft Word documents could have a signature and timestamp through the USPS Electronic Postmark system.
But even without Javascript there are still web bugs, image file parsing exploits, and remember what engine is probably parsing the HTML on a Windows client. A "safe" email client is one that disables most of the features of HTML, and unless it's guaranteed to catch everything dangerous then it's safer to prevent HTML in the first place.
Up-to-date patches would mitigate those, but do you think somebody might be saving some zero-days for the DoD?
Invisiblog took submissions by Mixmaster email and used gpg signing as the authentication mechanism. They seem to be defunct as of about a year ago. The eelbash anonymous remailer announced a replacement, but the page for that is 404 now.
Is running over CDs with a bulldozer analogous? That's what happened at a rally arranged, not by "their own fans", but by Cumulus Media, which controls 262 radio stations nationwide.
Clear Channel stations, not Dixie Chicks fans, banned them from the airwaves. Clear Channel owns 1,225 radio stations. That's almost as effective as government censorship, without the icky court battles. Clear Channel denies any involvement in the anti-Dixie Chicks rallies organized by many of their stations (but nobody else's).
>who the hell will police the skies (as tickets get much harder to hand over when being able to pull over becomes a non option.
It's not the first personal aircraft ever invented. There's a well-proven system of requiring large identifying numbers to be visible on the outside of the aircraft.
Make sure you get one with an electronic ballast, and avoid the one brand which has left some people with irretrievable prejudices (postjudices?) against compact fluorescents. Major consumer-goods brands are safe to buy.
LED lighting is even quieter, more durable, and more efficient, but it's only just gotten down to early-adopter pricing and is far from mass market. On the other hand, for that one bulb in every house that it's suicidal to reach, it's cost effective now just because of the 60-100,000 hour lifetime.
Magnetic shielding would work too. There's a recent fact article in Analog about this: the temperatures around a South Pole crater are low enough for high temperature superconductors, and a big weak field, big enough to deflect charged particles with only a slight bend, is cost-effective.
It's been extraordinarily difficult to get the kind of results this guy is talking about, and that was in a research environment that was free of SEO spammers deliberately attacking the algorithms.
The scary thing being that in five or ten years that won't be funny: we'll expect handheld devices to have the power for things like today's SQL Server. Ten years ago who would have believed a Walkman-like device with a 20G hard disk?
He said "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."
Is Sixth Circuit Judge Keith a Slashdotter? He wrote "A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society envisioned by the framers of our Constitution."
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Every house has that one light bulb that you just can't reach safely. In my house, the last time that bulb went out an LED screw-in unit went in. It was worth the $30+ (now much less) to know that for the next 60,000 hours of operation I can use the stairs safely without ever having to change a bulb. It's dimmer than a 40W incandescent but it's more than enough to see hazards.
LEDs are bright enough for car headlights, we just need another order of magnitude improvement in lumens per dollar to make them practical for house lighting.
Once, we proudly called ourselves the leader of the free world. I will not be content with being stuck saying "not as bad as North Korea".
It's a big thing in security news when a mass market operating system picks up features that used to exist only in a few specialty Linux distros and in OpenBSD. It's not a matter of invention, but it is a change, and if attackers always had to use the same attacks then the world would get quieter as a result of Vista getting deployed. But of course the attackers will just depend more on Trojan Horses and on privilege escalation bugs.
>1. Stop advertising drugs on TV and in magazines. You are not a doctor. You shouldn't be "asking your doc" if zotramiphil is right for your itchy ass.
Doesn't go far enough. Huge amounts of money go toward marketing directly to doctors. Doctors should be getting their information from independent tests, medical literature, and the experience of colleagues. Drug companies are spending more money on marketing than on R&D, and their R&D costs more than most people can imagine.
>A free society is vulnerable in ways that a police state is not, but accepting that vulnerability is part and parcel of freedom.
Police states kill their citizens by the thousands or millions every year. Free societies are safer than enslaved societies. If you seek security, don't swallow a dictator's promise to provide it.
Yep. S/MIME signs the whole package including the MIME headers. " Demime is designed to break signatures". Not sure, but it looks like PGP/MIME has the same problem.
You could still sign plain text and send that. Or send an attachment with a detached or builtin signature. Microsoft Word documents could have a signature and timestamp through the USPS Electronic Postmark system.
But even without Javascript there are still web bugs, image file parsing exploits, and remember what engine is probably parsing the HTML on a Windows client. A "safe" email client is one that disables most of the features of HTML, and unless it's guaranteed to catch everything dangerous then it's safer to prevent HTML in the first place.
Up-to-date patches would mitigate those, but do you think somebody might be saving some zero-days for the DoD?
>no matter what OS you're on, giving a virus sudo means game over.
SELinux.
>wasn't created at the time the Constitution was. Neither were phones or the US Mail service
1775, first Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin.
The Constitutional Convention was 1787.
Hushmail takes a lot of the technical pain out of the process, but the Java-based UI is slow and clumsy.
Would you be satisfied that people are not crying wolf if something clear-cut were to happen, like, say, hypothetically, someone sent to Guantanamo for three years for a satirical opinion piece?
>See you lose credibility when you complain Bush condoned use of torture. College fraternities do worse
.
I suppose I should be thankful that he spelled "lose" correctly...
'The prisoner died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging" '.
'When the men lowered Jamadi to the floor, Frost told investigators, "blood came gushing out of his nose and mouth, as if a faucet had been turned on."
Yes, it's officially condoned: "...the decision to deport Arar was made at the highest levels of the U.S. justice department, with a special removal order signed by John Ashcroft's former deputy, Larry Thompson." "Deported", you see, to Syria. The Syrian torture the US knowingly sent him to made him say later "I forgot every moment that I enjoyed in my life".
The Canadian authorities have acknowledged that Arar had no connection to any terrorist group or activity.
Invisiblog took submissions by Mixmaster email and used gpg signing as the authentication mechanism. They seem to be defunct as of about a year ago. The eelbash anonymous remailer announced a replacement, but the page for that is 404 now.
Would you consider book burning to be repressive?
Is running over CDs with a bulldozer analogous? That's what happened at a rally arranged, not by "their own fans", but by Cumulus Media, which controls 262 radio stations nationwide.
Clear Channel stations, not Dixie Chicks fans, banned them from the airwaves. Clear Channel owns 1,225 radio stations. That's almost as effective as government censorship, without the icky court battles. Clear Channel denies any involvement in the anti-Dixie Chicks rallies organized by many of their stations (but nobody else's).
Reference: The Columbia Journalism Review.
Clear Channel vice chairman Tom Hicks is a longstanding very good friend of George W. Bush.
>the Dixie Chicks were not put to death
I take little comfort in the fact that nobody has carried out the death threats.
>who the hell will police the skies (as tickets get much harder to hand over when being able to pull over becomes a non option.
It's not the first personal aircraft ever invented. There's a well-proven system of requiring large identifying numbers to be visible on the outside of the aircraft.
Make sure you get one with an electronic ballast, and avoid the one brand which has left some people with irretrievable prejudices (postjudices?) against compact fluorescents. Major consumer-goods brands are safe to buy.
LED lighting is even quieter, more durable, and more efficient, but it's only just gotten down to early-adopter pricing and is far from mass market. On the other hand, for that one bulb in every house that it's suicidal to reach, it's cost effective now just because of the 60-100,000 hour lifetime.
Philipps Marathon 23W
" SLS-20
Sunlite SD18-27K/BX
and others. Much cheaper than they used to be.
Magnetic shielding would work too. There's a recent fact article in Analog about this: the temperatures around a South Pole crater are low enough for high temperature superconductors, and a big weak field, big enough to deflect charged particles with only a slight bend, is cost-effective.
If this is anything like the auction markets for credit card numbers, they'll have some kind of reputation tracking.
It's been extraordinarily difficult to get the kind of results this guy is talking about, and that was in a research environment that was free of SEO spammers deliberately attacking the algorithms.
The scary thing being that in five or ten years that won't be funny: we'll expect handheld devices to have the power for things like today's SQL Server. Ten years ago who would have believed a Walkman-like device with a 20G hard disk?
Was John Adams a Slashdotter?
He said "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."
Is Sixth Circuit Judge Keith a Slashdotter? He wrote "A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society envisioned by the framers of our Constitution."
>was accused of falsifying many research documents in support of the proposed nuclear waste processing facility in Yucca Mountain.
Which was almost certainly political interference with science, which is exactly what people are opposing here and now.