Enter into that same agreement with the US government?
we already have that it is called the 4th amendment expect this treaty to be treated with the same reverence. and why yes that is sarcasm now that you ask.
a bunch of guy already did that; George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a bunch of others hammered it all out it is called the constitution and the bill of rights specifically the 4th amendment. Unfortunately ever since some muslim fundamentalist extremist terrorist flew a couple planes into our buildings the government thinks it can do whatever the hell it wants to screw the law.
I perfer a backpack myself more space so you can also stow a laptop and external hdd plus all of the cords you could want and a lunch and still have room. I have also found that hoddies with front pocket will generally hold a seven inch tablet as will many coat pockets. an neither willget you beaten up by the local rednecks. Just my 2 for what its worth.
With integrated secure boot and remote attestation Fedora is likely to be the *only* Linux distribution which can lawfully be used on the Internet in the coming years. It is important that they continue their good work if we are to have any Linux at all.
ah I believe ubuntu has its bootloader signed and did not the linux foundation have shim loader signed monthes ago?
I wonder what Larry Ellison thinks will happen to Oracle when he steps down?
His probable opinion: Oracle will tank without his brilliant leadership.
Most likely actual outcome: Oracle shares will skyrocket once the company is rid of his ego.
I doubt it stockholders love border line sociopath egotistical and charismatic leaders even if they are driving the company in the wrong direction, they love Balmer, they loved Jobs (he could effectively lead his company at least) and they love Elison. Balmer has so much fail that I don't think I even need to mention it, Jobs thought that 7 inch tablets were a bad idea and know one would want one turns out they are the best selling form factor he also orignaly was against native apps on iProducts only wanting web apps only relenting after jailbreaking started, Elison thought network pc were going to be the next big thing, and then there was the whole android law suite that was groundless. If he steps away without leaving a equally or greater sociopath in his place it will drop.
To be expected. Remember how there were once thousands of PC manufacturers churning out hardware at low margins while Microsoft profited? Same model, different company; you need to compare Google to Apple if you want to, er, do an "apples to apples."
Even then it is a bad comparison as Google is giving away android source code and all for free as in speech and beer, they have a completely different business model. The i$product line is about selling devices first and about selling media second and selling apps third. Apple sell media so that people with low technical abillity can get their media on the devises - media is to get you to buy there devices, they sell apps so that you stay in their ecosystem. Google on the other hand sells ads and services first and foremost. Android is about keeping Google relevant, apps and media to google just another service they can sell.
I have tried to convince others that I regularly corespond with to use encryption but the reactioni get is either
1 I don't have anything to hide I m not interesting enough to bother. and encryption is hard
or
2 they have all of the encryption broken because I heard it from my brother who heard it from a reliable source and your explanation is to technical of why they haven't really broken it.
I have given up on trying so now I just cryptographicly sign my email so at the very least it can't be forged.
It's because the only rights that the Republican party cares about are (a) the right to property, specifically when it relates to rich people not being taxed; and (b) the right to bear arms. Caring about other rights makes you a dirty communist hippie traitor.
Crazy thought maybe they, the republicans that is, are purposefully allowing things to get worse, to avoid a population of proverbial boiled frogs, while simultaneously protecting gun rights in hopes that all shit will break loose when this administration pushes to far.
oh and don't forget that isp's will gladly ban any home servers and not give you a static ip, so that you cannot host you own email, and web server forcing you to use cloud based back-doored services.
This exact thing happened a few years ago to another provider, Hushmail. Originally, it used to just only decrypt messages in a Java client, but I'm sure pressure for compatibility got them to allow the server to decrypt messages and present them directly to the user. Apparently, Interpol made them an offer they couldn't refuse, and HM handed over some decrypted messages from an alleged criminal.
This isn't Hushmail's fault. The owners there didn't whine screaming to the press and wring his hands saying how persecuted he was because of this, then hose all his users by throwin in the towel and shutting the site down in an emo rage. He kept going on and Hushmail keeps chugging along.
well maybe you would like it if you email provider and the nsa take turns screwing you form behind but i would prefer the email provider at least refuse.
Wow, how much did they pay you to say that? Did they offer your family a Cuban vacation?
Isn't it just a matter of when, not if, they'll send you that letter? A few years from now, NSLs will probably be automated and as common as DMCA takedown requests.
space you get tang made with your own filtered urine (I though tang was dehydrated urine but evidently its not) and freeze dried brown food like product. i guess you do get better service in space.
i2p is a pain to set up and is slow, I prefer tor and free-net, ssh tunneling is great I have been using it a lot more recently not due to spying issues though more draconian firewalls rules on the college wifi. I have been meaning to try retroshare. If I can find a secure network easy enough for everyone else I know to use I would be happy, as is I have to use insecure channels like facebook gmail and dropbox all of which have been shown to be back-doored by the nsa.
all privacy measures are ironically "look at me flags" the more you try to hide the more they will notice unless you can get a large portion of the population to do so as well. this is why i often use privacy networks like tor, freenet, etc and cryptographically sign all of my email i personally don't do anything illicit on them but i do so to create more background noise and i encourage others to do so as well.
What about authors like Corry Doctrow that give away their books under a creative commons license, or randel monroe author of the often (obligatorily) quoted web comic XKCD who again licenses his works under a creative commons license. Or the bean free ebooks while maybe not under creative commons or public domain are giving away the books. I could probably think of more example but these were the first one that immediately poped into my head for writing but if you were to include all creative works there is the entire open source software industry.
Greenwald probably has a insurance against this happening like all of the document being released at once in in the even of his death. If he doesn't snowden would just send a copy to someone else. If I were him I would send it to eff, aclu, wikileaks the pirate party, hell i would send it to the pirate-bay even (let them try to take down a torrent of all of it) or just dump it on mega i'm sure dotcom would love to get back at the US gov for screwing him over.
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Enter into that same agreement with the US government?
we already have that it is called the 4th amendment expect this treaty to be treated with the same reverence. and why yes that is sarcasm now that you ask.
a bunch of guy already did that; George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a bunch of others hammered it all out it is called the constitution and the bill of rights specifically the 4th amendment. Unfortunately ever since some muslim fundamentalist extremist terrorist flew a couple planes into our buildings the government thinks it can do whatever the hell it wants to screw the law.
and I see dice still hasn't fixed /. Unicode support I mean how hard is it to print a cents symbol
I perfer a backpack myself more space so you can also stow a laptop and external hdd plus all of the cords you could want and a lunch and still have room. I have also found that hoddies with front pocket will generally hold a seven inch tablet as will many coat pockets. an neither willget you beaten up by the local rednecks. Just my 2 for what its worth.
With integrated secure boot and remote attestation Fedora is likely to be the *only* Linux distribution which can lawfully be used on the Internet in the coming years. It is important that they continue their good work if we are to have any Linux at all.
ah I believe ubuntu has its bootloader signed and did not the linux foundation have shim loader signed monthes ago?
I wonder what Larry Ellison thinks will happen to Oracle when he steps down?
His probable opinion: Oracle will tank without his brilliant leadership.
Most likely actual outcome: Oracle shares will skyrocket once the company is rid of his ego.
I doubt it stockholders love border line sociopath egotistical and charismatic leaders even if they are driving the company in the wrong direction, they love Balmer, they loved Jobs (he could effectively lead his company at least) and they love Elison. Balmer has so much fail that I don't think I even need to mention it, Jobs thought that 7 inch tablets were a bad idea and know one would want one turns out they are the best selling form factor he also orignaly was against native apps on iProducts only wanting web apps only relenting after jailbreaking started, Elison thought network pc were going to be the next big thing, and then there was the whole android law suite that was groundless. If he steps away without leaving a equally or greater sociopath in his place it will drop.
>> most Android manufacturers are taking a loss
To be expected. Remember how there were once thousands of PC manufacturers churning out hardware at low margins while Microsoft profited? Same model, different company; you need to compare Google to Apple if you want to, er, do an "apples to apples."
Even then it is a bad comparison as Google is giving away android source code and all for free as in speech and beer, they have a completely different business model. The i$product line is about selling devices first and about selling media second and selling apps third. Apple sell media so that people with low technical abillity can get their media on the devises - media is to get you to buy there devices, they sell apps so that you stay in their ecosystem. Google on the other hand sells ads and services first and foremost. Android is about keeping Google relevant, apps and media to google just another service they can sell.
Says the commenter on the ad supported web site.
you mean the same site that lets me turn off advertising by clicking a check box on the home page?
oh the unix like part is fine it is the Java vm that like in many other software stacks is the root of the problem.
I have tried to convince others that I regularly corespond with to use encryption but the reactioni get is either
1 I don't have anything to hide I m not interesting enough to bother. and encryption is hard
or
2 they have all of the encryption broken because I heard it from my brother who heard it from a reliable source and your explanation is to technical of why they haven't really broken it.
I have given up on trying so now I just cryptographicly sign my email so at the very least it can't be forged.
not at this rate.
he is legit, it the gov thats not.
It's because the only rights that the Republican party cares about are (a) the right to property, specifically when it relates to rich people not being taxed; and (b) the right to bear arms. Caring about other rights makes you a dirty communist hippie traitor.
Crazy thought maybe they, the republicans that is, are purposefully allowing things to get worse, to avoid a population of proverbial boiled frogs, while simultaneously protecting gun rights in hopes that all shit will break loose when this administration pushes to far.
oh and don't forget that isp's will gladly ban any home servers and not give you a static ip, so that you cannot host you own email, and web server forcing you to use cloud based back-doored services.
I am not sure what is so special about Lavabit.
This exact thing happened a few years ago to another provider, Hushmail. Originally, it used to just only decrypt messages in a Java client, but I'm sure pressure for compatibility got them to allow the server to decrypt messages and present them directly to the user. Apparently, Interpol made them an offer they couldn't refuse, and HM handed over some decrypted messages from an alleged criminal.
This isn't Hushmail's fault. The owners there didn't whine screaming to the press and wring his hands saying how persecuted he was because of this, then hose all his users by throwin in the towel and shutting the site down in an emo rage. He kept going on and Hushmail keeps chugging along.
well maybe you would like it if you email provider and the nsa take turns screwing you form behind but i would prefer the email provider at least refuse.
Wow, how much did they pay you to say that? Did they offer your family a Cuban vacation?
Isn't it just a matter of when, not if, they'll send you that letter? A few years from now, NSLs will probably be automated and as common as DMCA takedown requests.
what make you think it isn't already?
space you get tang made with your own filtered urine (I though tang was dehydrated urine but evidently its not) and freeze dried brown food like product. i guess you do get better service in space.
Why not (L)GPLv2 with a (L)GPLv3 and A(L)GPL exception so that it could make it into the Linux kernel and Hurd?
so sign up for a account from a disposable email account accessed from tor from a wifi hotspot at the local starbucks with a spoofed mac address.
i2p is a pain to set up and is slow, I prefer tor and free-net, ssh tunneling is great I have been using it a lot more recently not due to spying issues though more draconian firewalls rules on the college wifi. I have been meaning to try retroshare. If I can find a secure network easy enough for everyone else I know to use I would be happy, as is I have to use insecure channels like facebook gmail and dropbox all of which have been shown to be back-doored by the nsa.
all privacy measures are ironically "look at me flags" the more you try to hide the more they will notice unless you can get a large portion of the population to do so as well. this is why i often use privacy networks like tor, freenet, etc and cryptographically sign all of my email i personally don't do anything illicit on them but i do so to create more background noise and i encourage others to do so as well.
Ah, which geeky kid does not wish for a grandfather who can get anything and a chemistry teacher they're very close to...
ones that have all of their fingers still attached and both eyebrows on their head.
What about authors like Corry Doctrow that give away their books under a creative commons license, or randel monroe author of the often (obligatorily) quoted web comic XKCD who again licenses his works under a creative commons license. Or the bean free ebooks while maybe not under creative commons or public domain are giving away the books. I could probably think of more example but these were the first one that immediately poped into my head for writing but if you were to include all creative works there is the entire open source software industry.
Greenwald probably has a insurance against this happening like all of the document being released at once in in the even of his death. If he doesn't snowden would just send a copy to someone else. If I were him I would send it to eff, aclu, wikileaks the pirate party, hell i would send it to the pirate-bay even (let them try to take down a torrent of all of it) or just dump it on mega i'm sure dotcom would love to get back at the US gov for screwing him over.
Really? We have gone into hostile hell holes for oil before why wouldn't Russia for the same reason Alaska too has oil and gold remember.