This is carrying out a huge invasion of privacy against people who are too young to realise their rights are being violated. Can you imagine any adults putting up with this level of monitoring?
Get 'em used to being monitored whilst they are young - then they won't object to it when they are adults. We already have little privacy in modern society, in the name of "security" (For whom? Us or the government?), and this is training people from being small children that being monitored is OK. How long before we reach 1984?:(
The first printer I owned was a Canon BJC-210. It worked for years with very few problems, I eventually sold it to get a newer printer capable of decent photograph reproduction.
Boy what a mistake that was. I now own an Epson Stylus Color 760. The first one I had failed after about seven months - it started coating the first paper feed roller with black ink every time it cleaned itself, leaving lovely thick black lines down the edge of every sheet it printed.
I called Epson, got cut off a few times, held in queues for hours, grilled about "have you only ever used official EPSON(tm) ink cartridges and parts?" endlessly (which I actually had done) and finally they agreed to take it for repair.
The repair guy arrived to collect it a day earlier than they said, when I wasn't in, then didn't turn up again on the day he was supposed to arrive, when I had taken the day off work just so I could hand the printer over to him. I re-arranged, took another day off work, and finally got him to take the printer away for repair (no replacement left in the meantime BTW).
Then I waited, and waited, and waited. After their service deadline came and went by more than two weeks, I called again and again, and they eventually admitted they had lost my printer and would replace it with a recondition unit of the same model.
The "new" one arrived about another week later, an ugly piece of shit with a couple of nice big scratches across the top. "Sorry, we cannot guarantee the appearance of reconditioned printers, only their correct funtioning".
Well, it's now another seven months later, and guess what? This one has developed exactly the same fault. Of course now the warranty period is up, so I can either pay about three times what the printer is worth to get it repaired, or buy another. I'm damn sure it won't be an Epson.
That's why I said strong passphrase - a regular sentence would be too easily broken. I am talking about 70+ chars of apparent randomness - note that the issue of remembering such a passphrase without writing it down isn't the point of discussion here. I am interesting from the perspective of security of stored information.
Say I was some nasty terrorist (which I'm not, better stress that one!) using PGP to secure my plans and share them with my associates over the Internet.
Using 4096 bit security may be fine for transmitting over the Internet, but if the government come round and take your computer away they have your private key. If they can then break all your messages in five minutes because they have that key, that's a major weakness in the security of the system as a whole.
A lot of talk about breaking encryption comes from the perspective of the private key still being private. How secure is something like PGP if the attacker has the private key but not the password?
Assuming maximum PGP 6.5.8 security of 4096 bit keys, with a good strong passphrase (70+ chars, including non-alphanumeric), how long would it take to break? Any reasonably accurate figures would be appreciated.
It's a filtering HTTP proxy, incredibly configurable, and of
course browser and platform independant. The "out of the box" config
also does a really good job (IMHO) of filtering without being too
intrusive.
Features include:
Filtering images, flash and java applets
Cookie management including transforming permanent cookies to
session based cookies.
Pop-up window killing
Filtering of any URL pattern with regular expressions
.... plus much more. Really, to much to list. Try it.
Hate to break this to you, but the practice of having the call routed to some foreign country is already common in the UK (Yes, I live in the UK) and has been for years.
I called Iomega technical support a few years ago to get a free replacement when one of my ZIP disks died. The telephone number I dialed was a UK one, so I was quite surprised when I found the person who answered had a very strong German accent. I asked where she was, and she told me the call centre she was working in was in Ireland!
Now I know in this case the call wasn't going very far from the UK, but it just as easily could have been. As for what this means for data protection law, I couldn't even guess. IANAL.
Um, this seems like a rather obvious link to me - the people who are sleeping longer in their study are also lazier in general, i.e. lack of exercise, unhealthy diet, and all that other stuff associated with dying young, usually from heart disease.
This doesn't prove that people who sleep more die young, it proves people who are lazy (and probably fat too) die young.
FYI, The Java virtual machine, running on Elate, running on Linux, is STILL 2-7 times as fast as EVERY other Java virtual machine in existence, and that's a fact.
If you don't beleive me, research it for yourself.
Slashdot Mirror
Pre and postmillennialist are both double "n"!
Indeed. I am very strongly opposed to this.
:(
This is carrying out a huge invasion of privacy against people who are too young to realise their rights are being violated. Can you imagine any adults putting up with this level of monitoring?
Get 'em used to being monitored whilst they are young - then they won't object to it when they are adults. We already have little privacy in modern society, in the name of "security" (For whom? Us or the government?), and this is training people from being small children that being monitored is OK. How long before we reach 1984?
The first printer I owned was a Canon BJC-210. It worked for years
with very few problems, I eventually sold it to get a newer printer
capable of decent photograph reproduction.
Boy what a mistake that was. I now own an Epson Stylus Color 760. The
first one I had failed after about seven months - it started coating
the first paper feed roller with black ink every time it cleaned
itself, leaving lovely thick black lines down the edge of every sheet
it printed.
I called Epson, got cut off a few times, held in queues for hours,
grilled about "have you only ever used official EPSON(tm) ink
cartridges and parts?" endlessly (which I actually had done) and
finally they agreed to take it for repair.
The repair guy arrived to collect it a day earlier than they said,
when I wasn't in, then didn't turn up again on the day he was supposed
to arrive, when I had taken the day off work just so I could hand the
printer over to him. I re-arranged, took another day off work, and
finally got him to take the printer away for repair (no replacement
left in the meantime BTW).
Then I waited, and waited, and waited. After their service deadline
came and went by more than two weeks, I called again and again, and
they eventually admitted they had lost my printer and would replace it
with a recondition unit of the same model.
The "new" one arrived about another week later, an ugly piece of shit
with a couple of nice big scratches across the top. "Sorry, we cannot
guarantee the appearance of reconditioned printers, only their correct
funtioning".
Well, it's now another seven months later, and guess what? This one
has developed exactly the same fault. Of course now the warranty
period is up, so I can either pay about three times what the printer
is worth to get it repaired, or buy another. I'm damn sure it won't be
an Epson.
It's a dupe. Original here.
OK, the sites I visit every day are:
Slashdot - my home page, visited several times per day.
The Register - also several times per day.
Amiga news sites, each visited once per day:
Amiga.org
AmigArt
Czech Amiga News
Online comics, each visited once per day:
Dilbert
Peanuts
That's all folks!
That's why I said strong passphrase - a regular sentence would be too
easily broken. I am talking about 70+ chars of apparent randomness -
note that the issue of remembering such a passphrase without writing
it down isn't the point of discussion here. I am interesting from the
perspective of security of stored information.
Say I was some nasty terrorist (which I'm not, better stress that
one!) using PGP to secure my plans and share them with my associates
over the Internet.
Using 4096 bit security may be fine for transmitting over the
Internet, but if the government come round and take your computer away
they have your private key. If they can then break all your messages
in five minutes because they have that key, that's a major weakness in
the security of the system as a whole.
A lot of talk about breaking encryption comes from the perspective of
the private key still being private. How secure is something like PGP
if the attacker has the private key but not the password?
Assuming maximum PGP 6.5.8 security of 4096 bit keys, with a good
strong passphrase (70+ chars, including non-alphanumeric), how long
would it take to break? Any reasonably accurate figures would be
appreciated.
I use Privoxy (get if from SourceForge).
It's a filtering HTTP proxy, incredibly configurable, and of course browser and platform independant. The "out of the box" config also does a really good job (IMHO) of filtering without being too intrusive.
Features include:
Filtering images, flash and java applets
Cookie management including transforming permanent cookies to session based cookies.
Pop-up window killing
Filtering of any URL pattern with regular expressions
.... plus much more. Really, to much to list. Try it.
Hate to break this to you, but the practice of having the call routed
to some foreign country is already common in the UK (Yes, I live in
the UK) and has been for years.
I called Iomega technical support a few years ago to get a free
replacement when one of my ZIP disks died. The telephone number I
dialed was a UK one, so I was quite surprised when I found the person
who answered had a very strong German accent. I asked where she was,
and she told me the call centre she was working in was in Ireland!
Now I know in this case the call wasn't going very far from the UK,
but it just as easily could have been. As for what this means for data
protection law, I couldn't even guess. IANAL.
Um, this seems like a rather obvious link to me - the people who are sleeping longer in their study are also lazier in general, i.e. lack of exercise, unhealthy diet, and all that other stuff associated with dying young, usually from heart disease.
This doesn't prove that people who sleep more die young, it proves people who are lazy (and probably fat too) die young.
FYI, The Java virtual machine, running on Elate, running on Linux, is STILL 2-7 times as fast as EVERY other Java virtual machine in existence, and that's a fact.
If you don't beleive me, research it for yourself.
AMIGA = EFFICIENCY
:)
Simple as that. I have an Amiga and a PC. The PC has twice the processing power, the Amiga is twice as fast.
When I use a PC I sit and get annoyed at how slow Windoze is, how bloated and buggy.
When the new Amiga finally comes to use standard PC hardware and gets the same processing power as the PC has now, you won't see it for dust.
It's gonna FLY !