If switching to a better room isn't an option, your primary modes of attack are probably going to be the following: 1. generating white noise in your room; 2. blocking outside noise from entering your room; 3. finding times when noise isn't being generated.
4. Actively discouraging the noise sources. How? It's your problem. But whole you cannot actively discourage voices, you can do it with most of audio equipment. And BTW, please remember the difference between "Can" and "May".
No, I don't. The files are prohibited by courts, not by government. And the government is basically in panic and instructs courts to prohibit everything suspicious. So, the list is quite ridiculous. And also, anything contained in the list should be immediately blocked, and they really try.
And BTW: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. (Hanlon's Razor)
You are quite happy that all your troubles are just copyright infringement. In Russia, there is a list of prohibited information with more than 1000 items (1677 for now), and everybody that shares anything is obliged to check his files against this list under penalty of being extremist. Libraries are obliged to check their books and physically destroy everything prohibited (In Soviet Russia they were obliged only to HIDE them to so-called spetskhran). The popular method the anti-extremist service gets promotion is to request some rare book from a bookseller, then sue him for his efforts. It happens every day, sometimes 2-3 times a day when somebody is sued for sharing a prohibited file.
The only good side is that when the list is updated all Russia rushes to read new prohibited files.
I live in Russia. I need a removable boot media which can be easily hidden. I do nothing bad: I just don't want my business to be stopped by seizure of computers containing vital information. Traditionally, if THEY want to extort business, they first seize all the computers under suspicion that they contain pirated OS and child porno. You can wait for end of investigation forever, while THEIR children play with your equipment, of just sell your business to THEM. If you are too impatient, THEY will find child pornography. THEY stop the politicians similarly, too, but there THEY look for MEIN KAMPF.
In such conditions, the higher class the better. And the terminal server under the chair of a crazy old lady somewhere far enough will help, too.
YOU (I mean USA) did not become us (Russian Federation), yet. And will not, because modern Russia slides to totalitarian state much faster. For now, I am just afraid to visit half of Internet without VPN.
It's why I advised to install it in a safe or in a neighbor's territory so it cannot be easily stolen. Any alternatives to it are out of reach of ordinary people, including a fulltime security personnel with dogs, reinforced concrete walls with bulletproof windows or relocation to Nowhere-land.
Find a good neighbor or a big and strong iron safe. Buy a good video recorder system and install it there. Route the wires so that the recorder itself is difficult to find. Then buy everything you want.
I always make a download of any video I watch, and I watch it during download. Firstly, I don't see anything frozen, except EOF, of course. Secondly, I live in Russia. In Soviet Russia, TV watches YOU! - and I cannot be sure that the video I see today will be available tomorrow. And the last: Both Flash and Virii are NOT available for platform I use, so I have no choice except migration to Windows.
The last Soviet computer architecture before ES EVM (IBM-360 clone) epoch was BESM-6, 1-megaflops supercomputer designed by academical institution. The first Russian computer architecture after the ES EVM epoch was KRONOS that has been designed EXACTLY by 4 young Russian hackers. It was a 32-bit computer using a AMD 2900 series slices, giving 1.5 MIPS at 3 MHz. Wikipedia has an article about it.
The poppy seed contain negligible amount of morphine that (according to her expert opinion) is impossible to extract, but it's still there. But for any nonzero concentration of morphine there is a size of poppy seed lot that contains a punishable dose. So the importer has imported a punishable dose. And if he didn't imported it yet, FSKN should just wait for the (concentration * total weight) to exceed legal limit. Moreover, FSKN can combine imports from all poppy seed importers as an organized criminal group the expert being the organizer. Kafka rotates in his coffin.
I am Russian and I have read an original Russian article.
I have read somewhere that McDonald's is NOT a corporate entity. It is instead a trade mark and business model that can be licensed by anybody willing to become local McDonald's. If so, it's futile to look for McDonald's representative a.s.o. - they have no relation with this specific McDonald's except collecting the license fees. The local police is the only place to ask for help.
"Citizen Captain, I work in defense institution and I have sworn not to disclose my job information without proper authorization from KGB. And being forced to do it I am obliged to report it to KGB, too.". No law enforcement will ever request such authorization from rival law enforcement without really serious cause.
I am NOT a TrueCrypt specialist. But I believe that, if the crypto volume is, for instance, 1 GB and 512 MB are used, then law enforcers may try to add 512 MB more. 2 outcomes are possible: Either it will refuse to add data (which means some hidden space exists and you will be subject to recto-thermal cryptoanalysis) or it will add data killing the hidden volume (Nobody wants to use the program that kills their precious data).
You cannot fulfill BOTH requirements of plausible deniability and absence of secret residual. If you have some invisible cryptocontainer then the secret residual may be forensically found in your swap partition,/tmp directory or in free sectors. The only method against it is the crypto file system which obviously cannot be denied.
But you can boot from micro-SD if you are really paranoid.
... or USB key-holding micro with an encrypted I2C EEPROM, which is cheaper. Every press of a hidden button will produce a new random key making the contents unreadable. Battery to allow offline key erase as well as break-in sensor optional.
Our Russian law states that the expert should make an exact copy of HDD in question and operate with it, having original HDD intact. British law should have the same provision. So they shall immediately find the self-destruction key and retry.
I sincerely believe that Russia under You Know Who has more freedom than Britain.
Since you cannot know what will be used then, you should find the data media with the interface you can recreate from scratch with your almost bare hands. There are only 2 kinds of media with such an interface: 16-bit parallel CF (IDE is excluded due to lubrication aging) and 1(4) bit serial SD/MMS (You cannot easily recreate USB, SATA or any kind of rotating media). Then include the clay tables with description of the interface and the data format. Any future computers will have the ability of some parallel i/o, it's enough.
Soviet Zaporozhets ZAZ-965 was produced in 1960-1963. If I calculate correctly (We Russians use metric system), it gave 42 miles per gallon according to factory specifications (5.5 litres of 76 octane fuel per 100 km).
The only reliable way to reinstall anything is to buy a second HDD, replace the HDD, make a new install, copy your valuable data to the new HDD and put your old HDD into the fireproof armoured container placed in a cool deep place far enough from the Middle East. I had a lot of trouble assuming that "c:\Program Files" contains the program files and no application data, while there was an application holding it's data in Program Files. I was lucky enough to have written beforehand a duly registered report "I need a spare HDD for reinstalls" and to have received the written instruction "You don't need a spare HDD for reinstalls, you only save the files the operator explicitly asks for". It costed operator an additional week to reenter data.
In Soviet Russia criminals sat behind bars. In post-Soviet Russia criminals walk free, and law-abiding citizens convert their homes to little prisons with bars, steel doors and break-in alarms.
It's interesting: How much time will the thief need to cut the cardboard wall and take anything valuable that was inside?
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QUICKLY drink more Genuine Russian Vodka.
Specific antidote against methanol is ethanol.
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Add here some Nitrogen-containing substances to better feed the yeast. I tried Potassium orotate (it's a non-steroid anabolic sold in Russia without prescription), and heard about successful use of Ammonium hydroxide.
And the second. When you distil first time your task is to fully extract all the alcohols with all their impurities. During the following distillations you don't need to know what boils at what temperature since the temperature simply quickly rises while you boil the "head" - acetone, then keeps more or less stable while you boil the desired ethanol, and then quickly rises again while you boil water and higher alcohols. The higher the percentage of alcohol the sharper is temperature rise, so I distil 4 times. See my previous post about the technology here The lime process is applied to the raw product after the 1st distillation.
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You can re-use the filter many times, and I think (It's not proven, so beware) the hydrogen peroxide can be used to regenerate the coal since it oxidates all impurities and gives no byproducts except water and oxygen.
No. In Soviet Russia WE filter and drink everything that burns. And the Communist Party and Soviet Government try to stop us - mostly in vain.
Recipe 1. Take a long steel rod, cool it to the temperature -50 deg.C or below and let the purified liquid flow along it Every impurity will be frozen. Even the home freezer can produce up th 40% alcohol from the fermented potato without any distillation (Warning! Distillation was the legally prohibited action in Soviet times and freezing was not. Check your local laws).
Recipe 2. Add some potassium permanganate to the liquid. It will oxidize the most impurities and become a brown goo which can be filtered out. I dislike this method since it gives the bad metal taste. I prefer the more scientific method:
Recipe 3. Use the pressure cooker and about 1 meter of spiral made of copper tube (About 1 cm diameter is ok). There is also cyclone filter made of a glass can between cooker and spiral to catch unwanted foam and a thermometer in it. Connect it all with PVC tubes. Then:
Fill the cooker with a raw product, add some lime (CaO) and distil. Cool the spiral with running water. The theory is that the most impurities in a grain alcohol are ethers and they are converted by alkali to salts and alcohols, and alcohols smell alcohol and can be distilled off. Don't forget that the first 2-5 per cent of product must be discarded since they are mostly acetone, and the last parts must be discarded since they are water and the higher alcohols. The thermometer will help you find the correct proportion.
Then filter the product through the coal filter for water. Distil again. Filter through ANOTHER filter (Use the first filter for the next experiment:-) ). Distil again. You get 95% pure alcohol and may dissolve it to standard 40% if you want.
We arent' required to stop using those fuels, only to cut back on emission of carbon into the atmosphere. Scrubbers, filters, whatever you want can be used to meet those goals.
You are wrong.
To cut back emission of carbon dioxide preserving use of fossil fuel in vehicles you must supply every vehicle with filters similar not to modern catalytic ones, but to Lithium hydroxide canisters used by Space Shuttle, or their Calcium equivalent. To produce the filters you must emit the equivalent quantity of carbon dioxide since the natural calcium is in carbonate form. Add here the emissions needed to create the energy needed to convert calcium carbonate to calcium hydroxide - and you are in total loss.
You may, of course, invent filters against nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides but they are not the main greenhouse gas, The carbon dioxide is.
There is the way to limit the emission - namely, convert CO2 photosynthetically to carbohydrates and them - biologically - to ethanol, and use the ethanol. But filters will not help.
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If switching to a better room isn't an option, your primary modes of attack are probably going to be the following:
1. generating white noise in your room;
2. blocking outside noise from entering your room;
3. finding times when noise isn't being generated.
4. Actively discouraging the noise sources. How? It's your problem. But whole you cannot actively discourage voices, you can do it with most of audio equipment. And BTW, please remember the difference between "Can" and "May".
No, I don't. The files are prohibited by courts, not by government. And the government is basically in panic and instructs courts to prohibit everything suspicious. So, the list is quite ridiculous. And also, anything contained in the list should be immediately blocked, and they really try.
And BTW: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. (Hanlon's Razor)
You are quite happy that all your troubles are just copyright infringement. In Russia, there is a list of prohibited information with more than 1000 items (1677 for now), and everybody that shares anything is obliged to check his files against this list under penalty of being extremist. Libraries are obliged to check their books and physically destroy everything prohibited (In Soviet Russia they were obliged only to HIDE them to so-called spetskhran). The popular method the anti-extremist service gets promotion is to request some rare book from a bookseller, then sue him for his efforts. It happens every day, sometimes 2-3 times a day when somebody is sued for sharing a prohibited file.
The only good side is that when the list is updated all Russia rushes to read new prohibited files.
I live in Russia. I need a removable boot media which can be easily hidden. I do nothing bad: I just don't want my business to be stopped by seizure of computers containing vital information. Traditionally, if THEY want to extort business, they first seize all the computers under suspicion that they contain pirated OS and child porno. You can wait for end of investigation forever, while THEIR children play with your equipment, of just sell your business to THEM. If you are too impatient, THEY will find child pornography. THEY stop the politicians similarly, too, but there THEY look for MEIN KAMPF.
In such conditions, the higher class the better. And the terminal server under the chair of a crazy old lady somewhere far enough will help, too.
YOU (I mean USA) did not become us (Russian Federation), yet. And will not, because modern Russia slides to totalitarian state much faster. For now, I am just afraid to visit half of Internet without VPN.
It's why I advised to install it in a safe or in a neighbor's territory so it cannot be easily stolen. Any alternatives to it are out of reach of ordinary people, including a fulltime security personnel with dogs, reinforced concrete walls with bulletproof windows or relocation to Nowhere-land.
Recommended site: www.survivalblog.com
Find a good neighbor or a big and strong iron safe. Buy a good video recorder system and install it there. Route the wires so that the recorder itself is difficult to find. Then buy everything you want.
I always make a download of any video I watch, and I watch it during download. Firstly, I don't see anything frozen, except EOF, of course. Secondly, I live in Russia. In Soviet Russia, TV watches YOU! - and I cannot be sure that the video I see today will be available tomorrow. And the last: Both Flash and Virii are NOT available for platform I use, so I have no choice except migration to Windows.
The last Soviet computer architecture before ES EVM (IBM-360 clone) epoch was BESM-6, 1-megaflops supercomputer designed by academical institution. The first Russian computer architecture after the ES EVM epoch was KRONOS that has been designed EXACTLY by 4 young Russian hackers. It was a 32-bit computer using a AMD 2900 series slices, giving 1.5 MIPS at 3 MHz. Wikipedia has an article about it.
The poppy seed contain negligible amount of morphine that (according to her expert opinion) is impossible to extract, but it's still there. But for any nonzero concentration of morphine there is a size of poppy seed lot that contains a punishable dose. So the importer has imported a punishable dose. And if he didn't imported it yet, FSKN should just wait for the (concentration * total weight) to exceed legal limit. Moreover, FSKN can combine imports from all poppy seed importers as an organized criminal group the expert being the organizer. Kafka rotates in his coffin.
I am Russian and I have read an original Russian article.
I have read somewhere that McDonald's is NOT a corporate entity. It is instead a trade mark and business model that can be licensed by anybody willing to become local McDonald's. If so, it's futile to look for McDonald's representative a.s.o. - they have no relation with this specific McDonald's except collecting the license fees. The local police is the only place to ask for help.
"Citizen Captain, I work in defense institution and I have sworn not to disclose my job information without proper authorization from KGB. And being forced to do it I am obliged to report it to KGB, too.". No law enforcement will ever request such authorization from rival law enforcement without really serious cause.
I am NOT a TrueCrypt specialist. But I believe that, if the crypto volume is, for instance, 1 GB and 512 MB are used, then law enforcers may try to add 512 MB more. 2 outcomes are possible: Either it will refuse to add data (which means some hidden space exists and you will be subject to recto-thermal cryptoanalysis) or it will add data killing the hidden volume (Nobody wants to use the program that kills their precious data).
You cannot fulfill BOTH requirements of plausible deniability and absence of secret residual. If you have some invisible cryptocontainer then the secret residual may be forensically found in your swap partition, /tmp directory or in free sectors. The only method against it is the crypto file system which obviously cannot be denied.
But you can boot from micro-SD if you are really paranoid.
... or USB key-holding micro with an encrypted I2C EEPROM, which is cheaper. Every press of a hidden button will produce a new random key making the contents unreadable. Battery to allow offline key erase as well as break-in sensor optional.
Our Russian law states that the expert should make an exact copy of HDD in question and operate with it, having original HDD intact. British law should have the same provision. So they shall immediately find the self-destruction key and retry.
I sincerely believe that Russia under You Know Who has more freedom than Britain.
Since you cannot know what will be used then, you should find the data media with the interface you can recreate from scratch with your almost bare hands. There are only 2 kinds of media with such an interface: 16-bit parallel CF (IDE is excluded due to lubrication aging) and 1(4) bit serial SD/MMS (You cannot easily recreate USB, SATA or any kind of rotating media). Then include the clay tables with description of the interface and the data format. Any future computers will have the ability of some parallel i/o, it's enough.
Soviet Zaporozhets ZAZ-965 was produced in 1960-1963. If I calculate correctly (We Russians use metric system), it gave 42 miles per gallon according to factory specifications (5.5 litres of 76 octane fuel per 100 km).
Where are 45 years of progress?
The only reliable way to reinstall anything is to buy a second HDD, replace the HDD, make a new install, copy your valuable data to the new HDD and put your old HDD into the fireproof armoured container placed in a cool deep place far enough from the Middle East. I had a lot of trouble assuming that "c:\Program Files" contains the program files and no application data, while there was an application holding it's data in Program Files. I was lucky enough to have written beforehand a duly registered report "I need a spare HDD for reinstalls" and to have received the written instruction "You don't need a spare HDD for reinstalls, you only save the files the operator explicitly asks for". It costed operator an additional week to reenter data.
In Soviet Russia criminals sat behind bars. In post-Soviet Russia criminals walk free, and law-abiding citizens convert their homes to little prisons with bars, steel doors and break-in alarms.
It's interesting: How much time will the thief need to cut the cardboard wall and take anything valuable that was inside?
QUICKLY drink more Genuine Russian Vodka.
Specific antidote against methanol is ethanol.
Add here some Nitrogen-containing substances to better feed the yeast. I tried Potassium orotate (it's a non-steroid anabolic sold in Russia without prescription), and heard about successful use of Ammonium hydroxide.
And the second. When you distil first time your task is to fully extract all the alcohols with all their impurities. During the following distillations you don't need to know what boils at what temperature since the temperature simply quickly rises while you boil the "head" - acetone, then keeps more or less stable while you boil the desired ethanol, and then quickly rises again while you boil water and higher alcohols. The higher the percentage of alcohol the sharper is temperature rise, so I distil 4 times. See my previous post about the technology
here
The lime process is applied to the raw product after the 1st distillation.
You can re-use the filter many times, and I think (It's not proven, so beware) the hydrogen peroxide can be used to regenerate the coal since it oxidates all impurities and gives no byproducts except water and oxygen.
No. In Soviet Russia WE filter and drink everything that burns. And the Communist Party and Soviet Government try to stop us - mostly in vain.
Recipe 1. Take a long steel rod, cool it to the temperature -50 deg.C or below and let the purified liquid flow along it Every impurity will be frozen. Even the home freezer can produce up th 40% alcohol from the fermented potato without any distillation (Warning! Distillation was the legally prohibited action in Soviet times and freezing was not. Check your local laws).
Recipe 2. Add some potassium permanganate to the liquid. It will oxidize the most impurities and become a brown goo which can be filtered out. I dislike this method since it gives the bad metal taste. I prefer the more scientific method:
Recipe 3. Use the pressure cooker and about 1 meter of spiral made of copper tube (About 1 cm diameter is ok). There is also cyclone filter made of a glass can between cooker and spiral to catch unwanted foam and a thermometer in it. Connect it all with PVC tubes. Then:
Fill the cooker with a raw product, add some lime (CaO) and distil. Cool the spiral with running water. The theory is that the most impurities in a grain alcohol are ethers and they are converted by alkali to salts and alcohols, and alcohols smell alcohol and can be distilled off. Don't forget that the first 2-5 per cent of product must be discarded since they are mostly acetone, and the last parts must be discarded since they are water and the higher alcohols. The thermometer will help you find the correct proportion.
Then filter the product through the coal filter for water. Distil again. Filter through ANOTHER filter (Use the first filter for the next experiment:-) ). Distil again. You get 95% pure alcohol and may dissolve it to standard 40% if you want.
You are wrong.
To cut back emission of carbon dioxide preserving use of fossil fuel in vehicles you must supply every vehicle with filters similar not to modern catalytic ones, but to Lithium hydroxide canisters used by Space Shuttle, or their Calcium equivalent. To produce the filters you must emit the equivalent quantity of carbon dioxide since the natural calcium is in carbonate form. Add here the emissions needed to create the energy needed to convert calcium carbonate to calcium hydroxide - and you are in total loss.
You may, of course, invent filters against nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides but they are not the main greenhouse gas, The carbon dioxide is.
There is the way to limit the emission - namely, convert CO2 photosynthetically to carbohydrates and them - biologically - to ethanol, and use the ethanol. But filters will not help.