There are so many ways that browsers and other software that communicates via the Internet give up the identity of the user. Tor can't stop any of them, and they explicitly say so. I'm working on designing a new protocol and the software to run it that anonymizes communications better, and I had to eliminate the chance that existing software could tunnel through it because of this. Any software that tunnels communication which isn't secure will automatically be a major security risk. Even turning off JavaScript and Flash and Java don't help; see the NSA's use of exploits against Tor browser bundle security flaws to ID users for why not.
Most people who go to prison eventually serve their time and are released. I didn't realize you had such a problem with the idea of them not committing new crimes when they come back out.
The oppression fantasy is a self-fulfilling claim. A person with a hammer eventually sees nails everywhere. Also, the wage gap has been debunked ad nauseam, perception of your ability doesn't take that ability away, your bitter entitled female-privileged attitude as displayed in this post probably doesn't serve you well when you want a raise or promotion, and please learn the difference between except and accept (do you realize how severely that mistake changed the meaning of what you said?)
It would also help if you had noticed that my post was not pejorative towards feminazis so much as commentary on what would certainly happen if someone were to try to shove some form of mass traditionalism down society's throat.
The topic has been done to death. Women have the ability to choose STEM fields and they largely don't, and that's their choice. This is not a difficult concept. We're tired of hearing people complain about the ratio of genders in various fields. If women don't want to do it, stop trying to steer them into it anyway, otherwise you're trying to make choices for them, which is no different from what we are told is occurring right now in other directions.
Ah yes, feminazis are the template of good character and professionalism. My favorite example quote from that link: "Here. Here’s your fucking t-shirt you fucking misogynist pig." Yep, that's exactly the way we should think, because that's not toxic and post-modernist angsty AT ALL.
Thank you for this. I hadn't heard of them before and I am very happy that you pointed them out. When I think of a laptop with my level of power, this is definitely what I want. Thanks again for posting it.
Without the software required to use the hardware for communication, the communication doesn't work. If your air-gapped computer has not been infected prior to air-gapping, this simply can't work. I can smell conspiracy theorists a mile away with "but what about malicious BIOSes or pre-infected hardware designs or..." and the solution for all of those remains the same: if it's that big of a concern, remove it from the computer. Rip open the laptop and disconnect or desolder the speakers and microphone, and while you're in there you can heat-gun off the magnetics for the network card and all the external USB port connectors. If you're gonna do paranoid, you might as well do it right.
A few years? I think you're ten years late on that front. The Internet is already dominated by people who are technically "criminals." Every eBay seller that imports from China without paying the customs fees is technically a criminal, yet there's no shortage of them. How else do you get a $8 with free shipping AC adapter for your laptop on there?
I'm not necessarily asking you to provide them, but to anyone else who wants to touch the subject of discussing recidivism rates: large-scale studies from reputable sources or we won't believe you. Aside from that, you're ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
Because, y'know, America has always been "land of the outraged, home of the vengeance" since before I was a child. If you didn't want to be treated as a sub-human piece of filth, maybe you shouldn't have broken the law! Or so the paranoid helicopter moms who refuse to prepare their children to become adults continue to parrot on iVillage.com all the time. PROTIP: people who have a decent job, a home in decent repair, food on their plate, and some semblance of a social life with other law-abiding people are way less likely to break in and steal your Xbox for fencing than the guy who can't get a job because felony automatically equals "human trash forever" and there's really no other way to survive out there.
The truth is that "criminals" are still people. You have to treat them as such. Give someone good reasons not to break the law...you know, like all that stuff I just said. They won't be so inclined to break it. Or, to put it another way, the most dangerous person is the one that has nothing left to lose.
Seems to me that this is another nail in the coffin. As many small business websites as they have gone after with extortion letters rather than letters trying to convert them to paying customers, I have no problem with Getty being dinged and dinged hard for doing the same that that they go after small businesses for. Getty has been a poor corporate citizen for many years, and at worst we should expect them to strictly abide by the same copyright rules that they are so adamant about.
No, there isn't. There's a concerted effort to avoid people who are hazardous to one's well-being...people like Adria Richards, whose untouchable status as a black Jewish feminist that thinks she is Joan of Arc allowed her to take very antisocial actions which got a father of three who didn't do anything wrong fired from his job. When women are so excessively trusted and protected to the point of such absurdity that you can lose your job simply on their say-so to HR, no one will want women around to get them fired.
Giving females this kind of grossly disproportionate favorable treatment results in harming females as a whole. It has nothing to do with "a concerted effort to keep women out of coding." People are naturally not fans of having to work around someone who can easily have them fired for whispering a dongle joke that has nothing to do with them. If you want to bring more women into programming, you have to remove the barriers, and the biggest is turning women into pariahs by making them unequally superior to men in the power they wield.
I started coding when I was seven years old because I had a computer with BASIC and a user manual that taught me how to use it, plus the desire to tinker. No one teaches you to want to tinker; they might expose you to it, but those who are going to be worth their salt have to do it largely on their own. It's no different than any other skill. The difference between mediocre and great lies in the desire to learn outside of a classroom environment and academic pressures.
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There are so many ways that browsers and other software that communicates via the Internet give up the identity of the user. Tor can't stop any of them, and they explicitly say so. I'm working on designing a new protocol and the software to run it that anonymizes communications better, and I had to eliminate the chance that existing software could tunnel through it because of this. Any software that tunnels communication which isn't secure will automatically be a major security risk. Even turning off JavaScript and Flash and Java don't help; see the NSA's use of exploits against Tor browser bundle security flaws to ID users for why not.
Maybe there was popcorn involved.
Most people who go to prison eventually serve their time and are released. I didn't realize you had such a problem with the idea of them not committing new crimes when they come back out.
Probably autocorrect. The perils of mobile browsing?
The oppression fantasy is a self-fulfilling claim. A person with a hammer eventually sees nails everywhere. Also, the wage gap has been debunked ad nauseam, perception of your ability doesn't take that ability away, your bitter entitled female-privileged attitude as displayed in this post probably doesn't serve you well when you want a raise or promotion, and please learn the difference between except and accept (do you realize how severely that mistake changed the meaning of what you said?)
It would also help if you had noticed that my post was not pejorative towards feminazis so much as commentary on what would certainly happen if someone were to try to shove some form of mass traditionalism down society's throat.
The topic has been done to death. Women have the ability to choose STEM fields and they largely don't, and that's their choice. This is not a difficult concept. We're tired of hearing people complain about the ratio of genders in various fields. If women don't want to do it, stop trying to steer them into it anyway, otherwise you're trying to make choices for them, which is no different from what we are told is occurring right now in other directions.
Ah yes, feminazis are the template of good character and professionalism. My favorite example quote from that link: "Here. Here’s your fucking t-shirt you fucking misogynist pig." Yep, that's exactly the way we should think, because that's not toxic and post-modernist angsty AT ALL.
Prove it.
I concur: http://nctritech.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/dont-buy-intel-cpus-and-boards-until-they-stop-selling-pin-bending-lga-11551156-sockets/
Some people would have difficulty carrying some typewriters. The IBM Selectric is something grand, but damn if it isn't a heavy bastard.
You should get the opinion of the county serif. *snork*
Thank you for this. I hadn't heard of them before and I am very happy that you pointed them out. When I think of a laptop with my level of power, this is definitely what I want. Thanks again for posting it.
The AMD open source driver has gotten drastically better over the past couple years. I have no major complaints.
*drop*
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Ah, there we go, I think I've helped you find the major downfall of thin computing products.
Won't do much good with no antenna. Find the trace for it and cut it.
Without the software required to use the hardware for communication, the communication doesn't work. If your air-gapped computer has not been infected prior to air-gapping, this simply can't work. I can smell conspiracy theorists a mile away with "but what about malicious BIOSes or pre-infected hardware designs or..." and the solution for all of those remains the same: if it's that big of a concern, remove it from the computer. Rip open the laptop and disconnect or desolder the speakers and microphone, and while you're in there you can heat-gun off the magnetics for the network card and all the external USB port connectors. If you're gonna do paranoid, you might as well do it right.
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A few years? I think you're ten years late on that front. The Internet is already dominated by people who are technically "criminals." Every eBay seller that imports from China without paying the customs fees is technically a criminal, yet there's no shortage of them. How else do you get a $8 with free shipping AC adapter for your laptop on there?
How long do people remain law-abiding when they can't get decent work and unemployment runs out? I do wonder about this sometimes.
I'm not necessarily asking you to provide them, but to anyone else who wants to touch the subject of discussing recidivism rates: large-scale studies from reputable sources or we won't believe you. Aside from that, you're ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
Because, y'know, America has always been "land of the outraged, home of the vengeance" since before I was a child. If you didn't want to be treated as a sub-human piece of filth, maybe you shouldn't have broken the law! Or so the paranoid helicopter moms who refuse to prepare their children to become adults continue to parrot on iVillage.com all the time. PROTIP: people who have a decent job, a home in decent repair, food on their plate, and some semblance of a social life with other law-abiding people are way less likely to break in and steal your Xbox for fencing than the guy who can't get a job because felony automatically equals "human trash forever" and there's really no other way to survive out there.
The truth is that "criminals" are still people. You have to treat them as such. Give someone good reasons not to break the law...you know, like all that stuff I just said. They won't be so inclined to break it. Or, to put it another way, the most dangerous person is the one that has nothing left to lose.
Seems to me that this is another nail in the coffin. As many small business websites as they have gone after with extortion letters rather than letters trying to convert them to paying customers, I have no problem with Getty being dinged and dinged hard for doing the same that that they go after small businesses for. Getty has been a poor corporate citizen for many years, and at worst we should expect them to strictly abide by the same copyright rules that they are so adamant about.
No, there isn't. There's a concerted effort to avoid people who are hazardous to one's well-being...people like Adria Richards, whose untouchable status as a black Jewish feminist that thinks she is Joan of Arc allowed her to take very antisocial actions which got a father of three who didn't do anything wrong fired from his job. When women are so excessively trusted and protected to the point of such absurdity that you can lose your job simply on their say-so to HR, no one will want women around to get them fired.
Giving females this kind of grossly disproportionate favorable treatment results in harming females as a whole. It has nothing to do with "a concerted effort to keep women out of coding." People are naturally not fans of having to work around someone who can easily have them fired for whispering a dongle joke that has nothing to do with them. If you want to bring more women into programming, you have to remove the barriers, and the biggest is turning women into pariahs by making them unequally superior to men in the power they wield.
A million times THIS. I would +5 insightful if I could.
I started coding when I was seven years old because I had a computer with BASIC and a user manual that taught me how to use it, plus the desire to tinker. No one teaches you to want to tinker; they might expose you to it, but those who are going to be worth their salt have to do it largely on their own. It's no different than any other skill. The difference between mediocre and great lies in the desire to learn outside of a classroom environment and academic pressures.