The first time I saw that I knew I was not getting a blackberry.
Then you didnt do your research very well, because BIS is the ghetto "i cant afford a BES" experience. A proper BES is magnitudes more secure than anything SSL has to offer.
[citation needed]
Seriously. There's absolutely no evidence to back this up. With SSL and my own server, I'm sure nobody's listening to my connection. The same can't be said for BES, because, seriously, we don't know!
That greatly depends on the Language being used. I used to work using Python, and eclipse is almost useless during refactoring. The same applies to most dynamically typed languages (or, in this case, duck-typed).
It's not 1st amendment, it's fair use (for a parody). It's ok to use stuff that other people own a copyright to if the sole purpose is parody (it's fair use). This is clearly the case.
Have you ever noticed WHEN chrome[ium] updates? Nope. Firefox show you this "checking addon compatibility" for a minute after every update. Some addons used to break (not anymore though). Those negative points are what made the rapid-release so awful.
AFAIK, RDP lets you see the entire remote screen, not the windows of a single program. There's a big difference. Imagine GIMP; with xorg+ssh you get 4 floating windows. With RDP, you have a the remote desktop with 4 windows inside of it. You can't stack remote and local windows as freely.
Actually, it's not 100% wikipedia. It displays smart information on top. I remember searching for an apache httpd configuration directive last week, and DDG showed a snippet of the documentation on top. It was exactly what I was looking for. It's slightly smart, and rather helpful in general.
Personally, I use DDG as my primary search engine. But when I need to look for very specific issues (why is my commanlink not working with X and Y in JSF), I find that google gives better results. Google still works better if you have lots of keywords or long sentances, but otherwise DDG is enough.
Could you please elaborate why being backed by Oracle makes Java safer? How does this apply to other Sun products that Oracle has discontinued? Did Oracle over promise not to screw up Java, or end support for old versions? If so, can we trust them?
I've used VLC for almost a decade and i've never seen this message. How do you trigger it? According to online sources, it's run after an update, but I've never seen it, and update every single release. Running vlc 2.0.7 right now.
Well, "internal" isn't a valid TLD, why would a browser guess that you have a local TLD named like that? Omibar for firefox exhibits the exact same behaviour. Type something without a valid TLD into the search/address bar, and it assumes it's not a URL. Quite predictable.
Dropping standards based technologies in favor of tightly integrated proprietary services seems to be popular lately, so I guess this is not surprising.
Not really. It's been popular with companies that have enough users to lock them in for at least 15 years. It's just a matter of google not having enough users to do it before 2013. To vendor-lockin, you need a nice market share first.
That's a good point. If setup as a cron job though, it'd still execute as soon as the login screen is reached. The thief might not be able to get in, but the IP would have already been sent to the remote host. The lack of effective encryption would indeed suck, however.
Full disk encryption means your login screen won't be reached until way after the disk encryption password is entered. Also, without logging in, the laptop won't connect to any wireless network (don't expect the thief to have an open network around).
Actually, you could make sure it's always in proximity with your cell phone and detonate if the signal (bluetooth?) is lost for too many minutes. Just remember to always bring your laptop with you (or leave you cell phone behind if you leave your laptop).
That's what I've always though. Yet a comment further up suggested UEFI tracking might be possible. There's nothing implemented (yet) that I know anyway.
Truecrypt is cool for windows, but the op clearly uses Linux. In his case LUKS is fine for FDE, or ecryptfs for his home partition (Ubuntu let you set this up when you first login as well).
The problem with Prey, is that the thief needs to turn on your computer, and connect it to the network. This means giving him access to it. This discards full disk encryption. This, in turn, means that thieves get full access to all your data.
I've often come across the dilema. I prefer to run FDE, and permanently loose my laptop if it gets stolen, being able to sleep knowing no personal data has been leaked.
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The first time I saw that I knew I was not getting a blackberry.
Then you didnt do your research very well, because BIS is the ghetto "i cant afford a BES" experience. A proper BES is magnitudes more secure than anything SSL has to offer.
[citation needed]
Seriously.
There's absolutely no evidence to back this up. With SSL and my own server, I'm sure nobody's listening to my connection. The same can't be said for BES, because, seriously, we don't know!
A networkless computer?
Ultra-delicate files can be handled on offline computers, and moved around in physical devices, and encrypted.
That greatly depends on the Language being used.
I used to work using Python, and eclipse is almost useless during refactoring. The same applies to most dynamically typed languages (or, in this case, duck-typed).
Just like people used to trust Google more than Microsoft. Times change, and so do companies.
There's also the fact that open sourcing it allows implementations for ANY architecture and platform, not just those they choose.
It's not 1st amendment, it's fair use (for a parody). It's ok to use stuff that other people own a copyright to if the sole purpose is parody (it's fair use). This is clearly the case.
Have you ever noticed WHEN chrome[ium] updates? Nope.
Firefox show you this "checking addon compatibility" for a minute after every update. Some addons used to break (not anymore though). Those negative points are what made the rapid-release so awful.
Google released Chrome 28 yesterday
I updated to Chormium 28 on 19 June 2013. Why is Google Chrome getting released one month after Chromium?
AFAIK, RDP lets you see the entire remote screen, not the windows of a single program. There's a big difference. Imagine GIMP; with xorg+ssh you get 4 floating windows. With RDP, you have a the remote desktop with 4 windows inside of it. You can't stack remote and local windows as freely.
Weston is a replacement for Xorg; it's the reference implementation for Wayland, NOT a window manager.
Way too much power usage. Unless you run something like a SIP server on something that actually requires so much hardware, you can shrink that a lot.
Actually, it's not 100% wikipedia. It displays smart information on top.
I remember searching for an apache httpd configuration directive last week, and DDG showed a snippet of the documentation on top. It was exactly what I was looking for. It's slightly smart, and rather helpful in general.
Personally, I use DDG as my primary search engine. But when I need to look for very specific issues (why is my commanlink not working with X and Y in JSF), I find that google gives better results. Google still works better if you have lots of keywords or long sentances, but otherwise DDG is enough.
Could you please elaborate why being backed by Oracle makes Java safer? How does this apply to other Sun products that Oracle has discontinued? Did Oracle over promise not to screw up Java, or end support for old versions? If so, can we trust them?
What's wrong with email+gpg and xmpp+gpg? Did it get broken? Why the need for a new protocol?
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/
I've used VLC for almost a decade and i've never seen this message. How do you trigger it? According to online sources, it's run after an update, but I've never seen it, and update every single release. Running vlc 2.0.7 right now.
Xabber is your friend. Honestly.
Also, if you use an XMPP client to google's server, non-google XMPP users can still see you online.
Well, "internal" isn't a valid TLD, why would a browser guess that you have a local TLD named like that?
Omibar for firefox exhibits the exact same behaviour. Type something without a valid TLD into the search/address bar, and it assumes it's not a URL. Quite predictable.
You mean, Chromium?
Yeah, it in almost every's OS repositories (save for windows; but you can just download it from somewhere).
Dropping standards based technologies in favor of tightly integrated proprietary services seems to be popular lately, so I guess this is not surprising.
Not really. It's been popular with companies that have enough users to lock them in for at least 15 years.
It's just a matter of google not having enough users to do it before 2013. To vendor-lockin, you need a nice market share first.
That's a good point. If setup as a cron job though, it'd still execute as soon as the login screen is reached. The thief might not be able to get in, but the IP would have already been sent to the remote host. The lack of effective encryption would indeed suck, however.
Full disk encryption means your login screen won't be reached until way after the disk encryption password is entered.
Also, without logging in, the laptop won't connect to any wireless network (don't expect the thief to have an open network around).
Actually, you could make sure it's always in proximity with your cell phone and detonate if the signal (bluetooth?) is lost for too many minutes.
Just remember to always bring your laptop with you (or leave you cell phone behind if you leave your laptop).
That's what I've always though. Yet a comment further up suggested UEFI tracking might be possible. There's nothing implemented (yet) that I know anyway.
Exactly.
In fact, just forget tracking, and encrypt the whole disk---if it gets stolen, shrug it off, and buy another one (again, do full disk encryption).
The op clearly states he doesn't want to loose the laptop due to it's cost, not because of the information it contains.
Truecrypt is cool for windows, but the op clearly uses Linux. In his case LUKS is fine for FDE, or ecryptfs for his home partition (Ubuntu let you set this up when you first login as well).
For that to work, you need to give the theif full access to your laptop. Say goodbye to FDE, or any sort of privacy.
The problem with Prey, is that the thief needs to turn on your computer, and connect it to the network. This means giving him access to it. This discards full disk encryption. This, in turn, means that thieves get full access to all your data.
I've often come across the dilema. I prefer to run FDE, and permanently loose my laptop if it gets stolen, being able to sleep knowing no personal data has been leaked.