The only problem? Twenty fuckin extensions are required to get back those options I want, or to remove shit thats being forced down my throat. Then guess what...extensions often collide and interoperate strangely.
QFT. Although, it is actually pretty hard to make a Gnome Shell extension that interoperates correctly, because there is fuck all documentation. Actually, there is a whole load of C documentation, but C is about the only language that you can't write the extension in, despite the fact that all the base libraries like glib and gtk are written in C.
And then someone had the bright idea to make all the extensions run in the same thread as the main desktop drawing/painting thread, so if you have one extension that gets itself stuck on something it will hang your entire X11 session. Brilliant.
As far as that goes, there are an awful lot of "trusted" signing authorities that come with any browser. I know we should probably trust them, because the authors of the browsers trust them. There's no really good reason to do so, other than if you don't, all SSL sites will warn that they may not be trustworthy.
I think you are confusing something here. It's not that the signing authorities are trustworthy in any general sense, it's that you believe that they are who they say they are. That's the only kind of trust that comes into play.
You can't keep ignoring reality either. I have no idea of the real figures, but the vast majority of my friends watch TV shows and listen to music illegally. It kind of sucks, but it's how people are.
The vast majority of people I know also don't *SHOCK HORROR* always abide by the posted speed limits. Sometimes it's perfectly safe to speed, sometimes it's taking the piss. You have to exercise judgement in each and every case. If there were some kind of super surveillance mechanism that criminalized every person each time they went 1% over the speed limit, you would either have a nation of criminals or a nation of people with occupation mentality.
The only place where the Internet is US centric is in regulatory control: ICANN. It's time ICANN got replaced by an extension of the IETF located outside of the US in a neutral place like Switzerland.
You're getting close, but you're still not seeing the overall picture. Transfer the power to somewhere "more neutral" and you pretty much guarantee that that neutrality gets chipped away over time and eventually transforms into Dr. Jekyll as the USA is doing at the moment. If there's one thing that all this has shown it's that good intentions don't work. Power corrupts, and nowhere and nobody is magically immune to this.
However, you're not far off the mark with respect to ICANN. In fact it's the entire domain name system that is the problem here. It's a central point of failure that can be abused very easily by those in control of it. DNS was introduced as a knee jerk response to people saying "WTF? I can't remember a load of IP addresses, make something that (American) humans can read!" They needed to take URLs that were printed on paper and type them into their browser. But that requirement barely exists any more. Nowadays the vast majority of people just follow links from their search engine or from other sites they've bookmarked, or scan a barcode: almost nobody ever types in a URL. With a small change to the HTTP/1.1 Host header, you could get rid of DNS and all its associated problems and virtually nobody would even notice.
I don't know what the other options are, though. Even on Slashdot, there seems to be a lot of "don't use PayPal" but not a lot of "use $SERVICE instead" as an alternative.
There's a lot of conjecture about who was behind the attack, and none of it can be confirmed.
It does seem unlikely that it was actually Assad or his government directly ordering the attack, since his conventional war is proceeding extremely favorably for him and the introduction of chemical weapons could only make life more difficult. On the other hand the idea that it was his brother have been floated, which makes more sense since he wouldn't have to suffer any of the consequences.
It seems equally plausible that the whole thing was set up from inside one of the factions by agitators of foreign intelligence agencies. Although the USA, Britain and France all have a reason to do this (misdirecting media gaze away from internal totalitarian surveillance scandals, for instance, and profiting from the arms sales that inevitably result from a war), Russia is a much more likely candidate as it could sit back and see the USA and its lackeys weaken their positions by bashing their heads against a brick wall in the Middle East, as well as continuing to profit from arms sales to the region. Russian news agencies have also been floating the idea that it was a false flag attack from the start (casting the USA as the most likely agitator since they're usually the ones responsible for false flags), and as the saying goes, there's no smoke without fire.
One thing you can be absolutely sure about, and that's that there will be no way to prove this one way or the other.
Solution: make more than one hidden partition. Make it so that providing the key to one does not make any other visible. Put some soft porn on one of the hidden partitions and the stuff you actually want to keep secret on the other(s). When you are asked for the keys, provide the key to the soft porn partition.
Yea, we could build a straight road that takes you from A to B directly. But it's just so much nicer to build one that goes via C: the driver gets great views, C can build a tollbooth or service station, and the tire and petroleum guys gotta get their cut somehow!
Merely sending a text message, or making a phone call, or being a talkative passenger, or something, is not a problem. Only doing so with knowledge (how this would be obtained is unclear, and the situation is hypothetical) that the driver will be distracted by your action is seen as problematic.
SMS, like email, is very specifically an asynchronous operation. It is intended that you only pick up your messages when you are in a position to do so.
If anyone other than the recipient is to blame for the lack of attention, it's the phone manufacturer for making it buzz or tinkle when a new message comes in, rather than the person who sent the message. Note, I'm not saying this is the case; IMO the full responsibility lies with the recipient as they can choose to turn off such notifications and indeed the device altogether.
You'd think so, but there are people who will buy games from Steam while the larder is empty and their kids are hungry (and yes, the social know and aren't even investigating). I'm not saying you're wrong (you're absolutely right), but the number of people who can't make even these basic moral decisions is probably pretty staggering.
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QFT. Although, it is actually pretty hard to make a Gnome Shell extension that interoperates correctly, because there is fuck all documentation. Actually, there is a whole load of C documentation, but C is about the only language that you can't write the extension in, despite the fact that all the base libraries like glib and gtk are written in C.
And then someone had the bright idea to make all the extensions run in the same thread as the main desktop drawing/painting thread, so if you have one extension that gets itself stuck on something it will hang your entire X11 session. Brilliant.
I think you are confusing something here. It's not that the signing authorities are trustworthy in any general sense, it's that you believe that they are who they say they are. That's the only kind of trust that comes into play.
The vast majority of people I know also don't *SHOCK HORROR* always abide by the posted speed limits. Sometimes it's perfectly safe to speed, sometimes it's taking the piss. You have to exercise judgement in each and every case. If there were some kind of super surveillance mechanism that criminalized every person each time they went 1% over the speed limit, you would either have a nation of criminals or a nation of people with occupation mentality.
You're getting close, but you're still not seeing the overall picture. Transfer the power to somewhere "more neutral" and you pretty much guarantee that that neutrality gets chipped away over time and eventually transforms into Dr. Jekyll as the USA is doing at the moment. If there's one thing that all this has shown it's that good intentions don't work. Power corrupts, and nowhere and nobody is magically immune to this.
However, you're not far off the mark with respect to ICANN. In fact it's the entire domain name system that is the problem here. It's a central point of failure that can be abused very easily by those in control of it. DNS was introduced as a knee jerk response to people saying "WTF? I can't remember a load of IP addresses, make something that (American) humans can read!" They needed to take URLs that were printed on paper and type them into their browser. But that requirement barely exists any more. Nowadays the vast majority of people just follow links from their search engine or from other sites they've bookmarked, or scan a barcode: almost nobody ever types in a URL. With a small change to the HTTP/1.1 Host header, you could get rid of DNS and all its associated problems and virtually nobody would even notice.
To enforce this you would need to inspect the contents of encrypted communications. On the same scale as the NSA inspects communications metadata.
"I know, we'll just throw away 5% of our installed users."
You would have thought that Google would have heard of the long tail...
There's nothing more American than the right to get rich and fuck you buddy.
The NSA will say that the Enemies of the United States are those that decline to cooperate with the NSA.
Don't tell David Cameron, he will be insanely jealous.
I can imagine a world where an AC posts shit flamebait in the same thread multiple times trying to pretend that he's different people.
Don't use eBay. Use your local shop instead.
There's a lot of conjecture about who was behind the attack, and none of it can be confirmed.
It does seem unlikely that it was actually Assad or his government directly ordering the attack, since his conventional war is proceeding extremely favorably for him and the introduction of chemical weapons could only make life more difficult. On the other hand the idea that it was his brother have been floated, which makes more sense since he wouldn't have to suffer any of the consequences.
It seems equally plausible that the whole thing was set up from inside one of the factions by agitators of foreign intelligence agencies. Although the USA, Britain and France all have a reason to do this (misdirecting media gaze away from internal totalitarian surveillance scandals, for instance, and profiting from the arms sales that inevitably result from a war), Russia is a much more likely candidate as it could sit back and see the USA and its lackeys weaken their positions by bashing their heads against a brick wall in the Middle East, as well as continuing to profit from arms sales to the region. Russian news agencies have also been floating the idea that it was a false flag attack from the start (casting the USA as the most likely agitator since they're usually the ones responsible for false flags), and as the saying goes, there's no smoke without fire.
One thing you can be absolutely sure about, and that's that there will be no way to prove this one way or the other.
The metadata about who contacted who and when (arguably the most interesting thing to the security agencies) is still completely up for grabs.
Never accuse parents of being bad parents. Even if they are.
Solution: make more than one hidden partition. Make it so that providing the key to one does not make any other visible. Put some soft porn on one of the hidden partitions and the stuff you actually want to keep secret on the other(s). When you are asked for the keys, provide the key to the soft porn partition.
Also wanton popstrels.
Not for long if Apple gets its way.
In other words, a middleman.
Yea, we could build a straight road that takes you from A to B directly. But it's just so much nicer to build one that goes via C: the driver gets great views, C can build a tollbooth or service station, and the tire and petroleum guys gotta get their cut somehow!
Ah nice, so the telecoms provider gets to charge twice for the same call. Just what you'd expect from the home of capitalism.
SMS, like email, is very specifically an asynchronous operation. It is intended that you only pick up your messages when you are in a position to do so.
If anyone other than the recipient is to blame for the lack of attention, it's the phone manufacturer for making it buzz or tinkle when a new message comes in, rather than the person who sent the message. Note, I'm not saying this is the case; IMO the full responsibility lies with the recipient as they can choose to turn off such notifications and indeed the device altogether.
Right, so as a permanent member of the UN Security Council the US should actually listen to the Security Council's recommendation not to get involved.
Time to break open the adverts for products to improve your privacy!
You'd think so, but there are people who will buy games from Steam while the larder is empty and their kids are hungry (and yes, the social know and aren't even investigating). I'm not saying you're wrong (you're absolutely right), but the number of people who can't make even these basic moral decisions is probably pretty staggering.
The Met loves Brazilians.
Not a good place to do business.