If you're visualizing large or dynamic datasets, a hardware accelerated animation adds all sorts of value. Not everyone can produce meaningful conclusions from screenfuls of cascading text.
That's completely true, but if you're mostly concerned with third party apps phoning home, a local application like Little Snitch works well enough. Using it to get (at least for now) a decent view of how system processes are communicating is just gravy.
The fact that Little Snitch (which uses a kernel module to put itself into the flow of traffic) is capable of blocking OS traffic and sometimes borking system processes in ways that their logs indicate is unexpected shows that, at least for now, Apple probably isn't hiding traffic from it.
The following occur with all privacy options enabled -- including disabling analytics (i.e., Diagnostics and Usage Data).
So even though it is presented as opt-out, it apparently isn't actually opt out.
I've noticed the same thing. With all of the "privacy" related options enabled, there is still a great deal of chatting with Apple servers. I'm seeing this with Little Snitch.
Look at any discussion of web ads at/. - there are tons and tons of comments going "Oh, if only web companies let us pay to turn ads off!"... And not a single one of those comments is marked with a *.
You know, that mark you get as an extra when you pay to turn ads on/. off.
I wonder if this is a part of the reason.
That's almost certainly not true because I'm always chiming in on those threads.
I can't find it now (which pisses me off to no end; my search fu is usually better than this), but there was a study published claiming that replacing ads with micropayments would cost users less than a dollar a day. Slashdot subscriptions are cheap. If people knew that they existed (I found out by reading through the FAQ on one boring day) or if they still worked (apparently?), I think that more people would chose to buy them.
That the few deployed ad-free content payment implementations suck doesn't prove that ad-free content payment is an unworkable idea.
In fact, your own link says, "Despite its geological significance, this heat energy coming from Earth's interior is actually only 0.03% of Earth's total energy budget at the surface, which is dominated by 173,000 TW of incoming solar radiation."
47 TW is less of a considerable amount than 173 PW.
The focus on the very rich is really a focus on people with a vested interest in preserving the status quo. People who have been, or feel like they have been, screwed over by "the system" are less likely to be well behaved cogs in that same system. Also, people who think that they've outsmarted the system by sloughing off their debts are less likely to think that the system is working for them and their interests. It's less about circumstances and more about the mindset of potential recruits.
To elaborate, even (especially?) in the countries where the US government has a direct impact on foreign citizens' lives (drone strikes, etc), the local government kills/imprisons more of its own citizens under questionable circumstances than the US does.
Don't construe my comment as excusing or apologizing for the actions of the US government abroad. I'm only saying that your own government is more of a threat to your life and liberty than any foreign government, if only because of its proximity to you. History certainly bears this out. Don't let an irrational fear of the American bogeyman drive you, with blind trust, into the arms of the devil you know.
The only tangible (and verifiable) difference between Dropbox and SpiderOak is marketing. If, tomorrow, Google or Facebook started making the same security claims that SpiderOak makes now, would you trust them? Don't be so quick to trust unsubstantiated claims just because they're marketed toward your specific hopes and desires.
I'd still rather my data to be snooped by my own country's security services than by the Americans
Out of curiosity, why do you feel this way?
Personally, I'd rather not be spied on at all. But if anyone were to spy on me, I'd prefer it be a foreign government who can't directly affect my life or freedom. Do you really trust your own government so implicitly? What do you think the Americans are going to do to you?
monolithic: (of an organization or system) large, powerful (sic), and intractably indivisible and uniform.
Being composed of different absolutely interdependent binaries is functionally indistinguishable from being a single binary composed of absolutely interdependent functions. It's the intractably indivisibility that makes it monolithic. You can't, for example, use this VT replacement without the rest of systemd. Thus, it's monolithic.
Monolithic (in this case) is the description of an architecture.
You do realize that this whole stalking and multiple-post tactic only makes you look pathetic and kooky and does nothing to discredit your target du jour, right? This isn't how debates that people take seriously are carried out.
I doubt the AC you responded to was BarbaraHudson. Most of us here are sick of seeing tons of identical off topic replies from you.
We have the lowest concentration of blue sensitive photoreceptors in the fovea centralis, so reading blue lights (or things lit with blue light) is relatively difficult. Indeed, the localization of blue point sources is difficult, making bright blue LEDs look hazy and indistinct even while being blinding.
I can't wait for this trend to end either. I hope my green VFD and LCD alarm clocks hold out. So soothing and easily readable.
Amazon's appstore runs with the same level of privilege as F-Droid. If you allow it to, it will check for updates to your apps (just like F-Droid), but it can't install apps without your permission. Google's core apps all run as root and have complete access to your data.
Amazon's a sleazy dataminer, too, but their appstore on Android is nothing like Google Play in its ability to be creepy and invasive.
And there is a standard instrument for someone or organisation writing an opinion on a political issue, and then seeking a mass of others to endorse it. It's called a petition.
Standardized by who, exactly? It's clear from the identical letters what is a form letter and what is an individually crafted letter. There's nothing fraudulent about form letters, even if they are lazy and tasteless.
Why do you think you should be the one who gets to decide how the rest of us communicate with our government?
Black powder sucks, which is why it's as commonly used today as muskets and other obsoleted technology. It's not like it's a drop-in replacement for nitrocellulose; very few currently used cartridges could accommodate an adequate load of black powder. Besides that, it's corrosive and dirty. Bleh.
Smokeless gunpowder isn't a mixture of powders, though. It's (mostly) nitrocellulose. To make a consistent product, you'll need a consistent stock of cellulose (paper, cotton, etc), a consistent stock of nitric and sulfuric acid, and a consistent process of carrying out the reaction and cutting/flaking the product. It's not a difficult process, but it's more involved than making black powder (which is not worth going back to) and consistency is key.
Making primers, which are primary explosives by necessity, is not something that a sane amateur would do in his garage. I'm a chemist and even I don't want to fuck with making primers.
Yeah, the rule is generally that the speed of any given car moving on a road will be inversely related to the speed that the car is capable of achieving. The exceptions appear to be the WRX and the Prius.
If you're pulling up to a stop light and want to know which lane will move faster once the light turns green, pick the lane with the rusty old minivans and econoboxes over the one with the sportscars.
Also, OEM/carrier crapware was far more likely to do funky stuff in the background without the user's knowledge/approval than GMS.
I don't have much experience with OEM/carrier crapware, but it must be pretty extreme if people are running to Google to get away from funky stuff happening in the background. GMS is in constant communication with Google and runs with root access and the ability to do/read/install anything without the user's knowledge/approval.
Most people may install CM/AOSP to subsequently install gapps, but I went that way to get Google's creepy feelers out of my phone.
It's that we trust 400 of them by default in the first place, and any one of them should be easy enough to subvert by a sufficiently powerful nation-state.
A decent stepping stone would be to allow multiple CA signatures on a certificate. Then, a user can decide how much they trust a certificate based on which CAs trust that certificate. As an added bonus, and verified through DANE or the like, it would be necessary to compromise multiple CAs in order to present a forged certificate. This moves us toward the big web of trust that you propose.
Once this is set up, we can start pruning the massive implicitly trusted root CA list and bring a little sanity to who we need to "trust". If you haven't done so, take a look a the lists sometime. Your computer/browser completely trust any certificate signed by any one of those foreign governments or unrecognizable organizations. How secure is that?
New incandescents and halogen bulbs have markedly short lifespans, too. Most of the old incandescents in my house that are many years (to decades) old are stamped "USA". The older ones that fail are stamped "Mexico" and the newest ones made in China rarely last more than a few months. This generally tracks the age of the bulbs as manufacturing was moved and costs were cut.
If you go to the hardware store, you'll see new halogen bulbs bragging about how they'll "Last 1 Year!!". Sometimes they do, while the ten year old bulbs next to them keep going. I'm hoping that the LED bulbs that I'm replacing them with last longer.
All of the networking functions are performed by native tools, but I'm not sure of the details. As a fingers-crossed-with-rescue-media-ready experiment, OS X seems to run normally with all of the shells removed (except the terminal and my own scripts, of course).
To be fair, they learned it from watching the ruling class who have already taken most of the pie and left the scraps for the hoi polloi to fight over.
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If you're visualizing large or dynamic datasets, a hardware accelerated animation adds all sorts of value. Not everyone can produce meaningful conclusions from screenfuls of cascading text.
That's completely true, but if you're mostly concerned with third party apps phoning home, a local application like Little Snitch works well enough. Using it to get (at least for now) a decent view of how system processes are communicating is just gravy.
The fact that Little Snitch (which uses a kernel module to put itself into the flow of traffic) is capable of blocking OS traffic and sometimes borking system processes in ways that their logs indicate is unexpected shows that, at least for now, Apple probably isn't hiding traffic from it.
From the article:
So even though it is presented as opt-out, it apparently isn't actually opt out.
I've noticed the same thing. With all of the "privacy" related options enabled, there is still a great deal of chatting with Apple servers. I'm seeing this with Little Snitch.
Look at any discussion of web ads at /. - there are tons and tons of comments going "Oh, if only web companies let us pay to turn ads off!"... And not a single one of those comments is marked with a *.
You know, that mark you get as an extra when you pay to turn ads on /. off.
I wonder if this is a part of the reason.
That's almost certainly not true because I'm always chiming in on those threads.
I can't find it now (which pisses me off to no end; my search fu is usually better than this), but there was a study published claiming that replacing ads with micropayments would cost users less than a dollar a day. Slashdot subscriptions are cheap. If people knew that they existed (I found out by reading through the FAQ on one boring day) or if they still worked (apparently?), I think that more people would chose to buy them.
That the few deployed ad-free content payment implementations suck doesn't prove that ad-free content payment is an unworkable idea.
So does the Earth.
No, it doesn't.
Your link only talks about one side of the energy budget. The whole equation takes the energy coming in from Sol into account.
In fact, your own link says, "Despite its geological significance, this heat energy coming from Earth's interior is actually only 0.03% of Earth's total energy budget at the surface, which is dominated by 173,000 TW of incoming solar radiation."
47 TW is less of a considerable amount than 173 PW.
The focus on the very rich is really a focus on people with a vested interest in preserving the status quo. People who have been, or feel like they have been, screwed over by "the system" are less likely to be well behaved cogs in that same system. Also, people who think that they've outsmarted the system by sloughing off their debts are less likely to think that the system is working for them and their interests. It's less about circumstances and more about the mindset of potential recruits.
To elaborate, even (especially?) in the countries where the US government has a direct impact on foreign citizens' lives (drone strikes, etc), the local government kills/imprisons more of its own citizens under questionable circumstances than the US does.
Don't construe my comment as excusing or apologizing for the actions of the US government abroad. I'm only saying that your own government is more of a threat to your life and liberty than any foreign government, if only because of its proximity to you. History certainly bears this out. Don't let an irrational fear of the American bogeyman drive you, with blind trust, into the arms of the devil you know.
The only tangible (and verifiable) difference between Dropbox and SpiderOak is marketing. If, tomorrow, Google or Facebook started making the same security claims that SpiderOak makes now, would you trust them? Don't be so quick to trust unsubstantiated claims just because they're marketed toward your specific hopes and desires.
I'd still rather my data to be snooped by my own country's security services than by the Americans
Out of curiosity, why do you feel this way?
Personally, I'd rather not be spied on at all. But if anyone were to spy on me, I'd prefer it be a foreign government who can't directly affect my life or freedom. Do you really trust your own government so implicitly? What do you think the Americans are going to do to you?
monolithic: (of an organization or system) large, powerful (sic), and intractably indivisible and uniform.
Being composed of different absolutely interdependent binaries is functionally indistinguishable from being a single binary composed of absolutely interdependent functions. It's the intractably indivisibility that makes it monolithic. You can't, for example, use this VT replacement without the rest of systemd. Thus, it's monolithic.
Monolithic (in this case) is the description of an architecture.
You do realize that this whole stalking and multiple-post tactic only makes you look pathetic and kooky and does nothing to discredit your target du jour, right? This isn't how debates that people take seriously are carried out.
I doubt the AC you responded to was BarbaraHudson. Most of us here are sick of seeing tons of identical off topic replies from you.
We have the lowest concentration of blue sensitive photoreceptors in the fovea centralis, so reading blue lights (or things lit with blue light) is relatively difficult. Indeed, the localization of blue point sources is difficult, making bright blue LEDs look hazy and indistinct even while being blinding.
I can't wait for this trend to end either. I hope my green VFD and LCD alarm clocks hold out. So soothing and easily readable.
Amazon's appstore runs with the same level of privilege as F-Droid. If you allow it to, it will check for updates to your apps (just like F-Droid), but it can't install apps without your permission. Google's core apps all run as root and have complete access to your data.
Amazon's a sleazy dataminer, too, but their appstore on Android is nothing like Google Play in its ability to be creepy and invasive.
And there is a standard instrument for someone or organisation writing an opinion on a political issue, and then seeking a mass of others to endorse it. It's called a petition.
Standardized by who, exactly? It's clear from the identical letters what is a form letter and what is an individually crafted letter. There's nothing fraudulent about form letters, even if they are lazy and tasteless.
Why do you think you should be the one who gets to decide how the rest of us communicate with our government?
Black powder sucks, which is why it's as commonly used today as muskets and other obsoleted technology. It's not like it's a drop-in replacement for nitrocellulose; very few currently used cartridges could accommodate an adequate load of black powder. Besides that, it's corrosive and dirty. Bleh.
Smokeless gunpowder isn't a mixture of powders, though. It's (mostly) nitrocellulose. To make a consistent product, you'll need a consistent stock of cellulose (paper, cotton, etc), a consistent stock of nitric and sulfuric acid, and a consistent process of carrying out the reaction and cutting/flaking the product. It's not a difficult process, but it's more involved than making black powder (which is not worth going back to) and consistency is key.
Making primers, which are primary explosives by necessity, is not something that a sane amateur would do in his garage. I'm a chemist and even I don't want to fuck with making primers.
Yeah, the rule is generally that the speed of any given car moving on a road will be inversely related to the speed that the car is capable of achieving. The exceptions appear to be the WRX and the Prius.
If you're pulling up to a stop light and want to know which lane will move faster once the light turns green, pick the lane with the rusty old minivans and econoboxes over the one with the sportscars.
The faster people realize this the better this world will become.
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the creeps.
Also, OEM/carrier crapware was far more likely to do funky stuff in the background without the user's knowledge/approval than GMS.
I don't have much experience with OEM/carrier crapware, but it must be pretty extreme if people are running to Google to get away from funky stuff happening in the background. GMS is in constant communication with Google and runs with root access and the ability to do/read/install anything without the user's knowledge/approval.
Most people may install CM/AOSP to subsequently install gapps, but I went that way to get Google's creepy feelers out of my phone.
...and the grid network has gone to hell.
I'm glad that it's not just me who thinks so. I'm installing a PV setup at home just to have reliable electric service.
It's that we trust 400 of them by default in the first place, and any one of them should be easy enough to subvert by a sufficiently powerful nation-state.
Some of them are directly run by nation-states.
A decent stepping stone would be to allow multiple CA signatures on a certificate. Then, a user can decide how much they trust a certificate based on which CAs trust that certificate. As an added bonus, and verified through DANE or the like, it would be necessary to compromise multiple CAs in order to present a forged certificate. This moves us toward the big web of trust that you propose.
Once this is set up, we can start pruning the massive implicitly trusted root CA list and bring a little sanity to who we need to "trust". If you haven't done so, take a look a the lists sometime. Your computer/browser completely trust any certificate signed by any one of those foreign governments or unrecognizable organizations. How secure is that?
New incandescents and halogen bulbs have markedly short lifespans, too. Most of the old incandescents in my house that are many years (to decades) old are stamped "USA". The older ones that fail are stamped "Mexico" and the newest ones made in China rarely last more than a few months. This generally tracks the age of the bulbs as manufacturing was moved and costs were cut.
If you go to the hardware store, you'll see new halogen bulbs bragging about how they'll "Last 1 Year!!". Sometimes they do, while the ten year old bulbs next to them keep going. I'm hoping that the LED bulbs that I'm replacing them with last longer.
All of the networking functions are performed by native tools, but I'm not sure of the details. As a fingers-crossed-with-rescue-media-ready experiment, OS X seems to run normally with all of the shells removed (except the terminal and my own scripts, of course).
"Gimme gimme gimme. Mine mine mine!!!" -populous
To be fair, they learned it from watching the ruling class who have already taken most of the pie and left the scraps for the hoi polloi to fight over.