And you're right, no crypto is strong enough to protect you from some attacks (e.g. Social Engineering...)
Obviously you're unfamilar with the BuBBE algorithm. Blocks of ciphertext include reminders to not tell anyone your passwords, to overwrite plaintext and to eat your soup before it gets cold and ruined (in high security environments, the default exception for gazpacho is no longer allowed).
There is a downside to this of course. You have to encrypt/decrypt messages at least once a day, and otherwise be a mensch to your software. If you don't, the whole algorithm gets farbissine, and that would be bad for you, you schlemazel.
It's in Maryland. It's pretty difficult to find a roadless stretch of woods anyplace along the East Coast, other than parkland. Just been populated for too long. Keep walking in any direction for a while and you're pretty likely to find some yokel's house, with a satellite dish and a phone.
In fact, that's the emergency navigation plan for greater Boston. Keep going until you find 128. Then you'll be okay.
In that case, yeah that's factual news reporting, and that's okay. But things get murky when the factual news reporting is 'Tony P. at 123 Main St. is selling controlled substances. He's there 9 to 5, and is happy to give you the first hit free.'
This is why we have the judicial system, to hash out a legal decision on this (because unless you are involved in a case related to it, your opinions don't do much)
I don't like limiting my freedom of speech but using it to commit a crime is generally considered a criminal act. It is not freedom of speech to give a bank teller a stickup note, for instance.
The ACLU defended the American Nazi Party's right to stage a march in Illinois. They've defended the Ku Klux Klan on numerous occassions. Those are two pretty offensive groups IMHO, but they have just as much a right to speak freely and assemble as anyone else.
The idea is that in order to protect our freedoms, they have to be protected for everyone. Otherwise the door is opened for muting minorities and the unpopular.
Would you have blacks be denied their civil liberties because whites don't like them? Catholics being denied the right to worship? Windows users burning Linux in the streets?
The way I see it, the ACLU is more about abolishing censorship than promoting it. Even though they aid groups that would like to get rid of our freedom, they're entitled to as much freedom as anyone else.
Well of course he didn't want a speedy trial. When he was arrested, he was offered the opportunity to go to court immediately. This would mean that he'd had no time whatsoever to work out his defense, and the pre-prepared federal case would beat whatever he could throw together in a heartbeat.
However, the govt. has really abused their powers here, pretty much forcing him to give up his rights, and that I don't care for at all. That the govt. is also willing to punish people by banning them from using electronic equipment for long streches of time is also unreasonable in this day and age.
Huh? What socialist tendancies? The ACLU, AFAIK, has been against removing/constricting the rights that we're given in the Constitution. For them to be a socialist organization, so would the entire basis of the US government, for the last 200+ years. Like I said they're not perfect by any means, but it's a noble goal, and one that can only help everyone.
Also, even if they're as socialist as the day is long, SFW? I feel that to homogenize the world would be a fairly bad idea. While having many different factions and ideologies and peoples may be inefficient, it's also pretty robust. I'd think that around here monocultures would generally be looked down upon.
You're welcome to your own opinions of course, I'm just having trouble grokking them. I'd like to though.
What's wrong with the American Civil Liberties Union? Their aim is to preserve our rights. They're not perfect, and they have limited resources, but I like any organization that is willing to at least try to preserve our rights from a government that seems to be encroaching on them more and more each day.
I like the ACLU, I like the NRA for approximately the same reasons (although there are few people who like one and don't hate the other), I like lots of groups that seek to keep us free. I personally don't want to try a test case of this (in order to have it stricken down) myself. But I'll gladly lend what meager assistance I can to someone willing to. The ACLU is one of those sorts of groups.
That's nuts. I can understand a law against posting where to purchase drugs, as that could tie in with the selling of them. (not that I really care if people darwin themselves, just that telling people where to go to purchase contraband is related to selling the contraband)
Other information about drugs however, and the *linking* to that information, should remain legal. I have few doubts that this law will be upheld given how it violates some of the rights granted by the first amendment. Anyone know what the ACLU's said?
Well, I wouldn't get one myself, but I liked the effect that the lights had. Do they make a nice big server with a neon light on the bottom and that bounced on its shocks when it's idle?;) (screw head crashes)
Seriously though, I've always wanted a computer with a rich cherry wood case. It'd have some victorian-esque brass hardware, and some old looking buttons and dials and such (Photoshop would probably bury the needle on both the processor load and consumed memory meters). To top it off, an engraved brass plaque with the computer's name and a Latin motto. I might go through tens of different components, but I'd keep that damn case!
Hell yeah you have the right to tape it off of TV. So sayeth the Supreme Court (Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.).
The thing is, you can't use it for any purpose which would damage the commercial interest of the copyright holder. Generally this means that if you tape something you aren't allowed to sell or rent it. But free, home viewing is okay.
Okay, fair enough. I had interpreted it as meaning that he planned to dl the movie, but maybe he was talking about ordering. (I would like to, but since I'm the amazing creditless boy, it's more trouble than it's worth)
I liked the kid who was confusing VCDs with DVDs. VCD movies are already insanely large downloads for anyone using a modem (poor me, I guess; no good DSL or cable modems here). DVDs are what - like 4-18GB?
If he's got a computer, he should just get a DVD player for it; much cheaper, even if you have to use one of those obscure non-Linux OSes.
I love Al. I think Al is the best thing since Twinkie Wiener sandwiches. But Al is not quite so funny as he used to be. "Running With Scissors" is probably the first album of his that I wish I hadn't bought. About the only good songs on there are "Jerry Springer," "Germs," and "Your Horoscope for Today."
I dunno... maybe so much music is crap nowadays that any parody Al does will be dragged down. But I'll still wish we had the Al of "Dog Eat Dog" or "Yoda" back.
(And what's up with the new look? I didn't even recognize him at first!)
First, being a typical geek, I could use a Cherry 2000 or something fairly similar. It's lucky that non-geeks can produce geeks or else there'd be damn few of us.
Second, is a KillBot too much to ask for? Preferably one that can fit in the trunk of my car, and help me out with that lovely Boston traffic. Energy weapons only please (consumable ammunition would put it out of my price range).
Although I generally say 'fall' more than 'autumn,' I do use both.
But then I use two different pronunciations of 'either' interchangably, and I strongly support the use of 'y'all' as the new standard 2nd person plural pronoun. Maybe I'm just a freak.
Most people would rather buy a PC off the shelf of a Superstore, and are often stuck with whatever hardware their PC came with. If they want to run Linux they may be out of luck.
Agreed, but then we need to stop pretending that Free Software/Open Source has all the answers. The reality is, if the Linux/OS community doesn't care enough provide something, companies may see the need and provide proprietary solutions, which will make the end user happy, but infuriate the Linux/OS community.
Well, like I had said, I think that the best thing to do is to encourage people to want to learn about things, including the details on their hardware, and how to support it if it isn't already. I don't think that OS is necessarily going to provide all of the solutions, although certainly the more people that really use it, the better it'll work.
As for commercial software providing solutions, I don't really think that this is as likely as you do. Most companies are impatient. Rather than go for steady, modest profits, they frequently go after big markets and big profits. Think of the difference between a small software house and Microsoft. Any niche big enough to support a generic, impatient company is likely to have a group of OS developers already. The tricky bit, we agree, is getting in between the cracks, and not very many companies are going to want to do that.
Too many people want to Make Money Fast, and since a lot of them are in management, they can frequently give orders to programmers to ignore the vital cracks and go for the high profile stuff.
I think that you may not quite understand, or that you're deliberately distorting things to force an issue.
Those people with unsupported hardware either need to write their own drivers or ask others to help out. In this community people frequently try to fix their own personal problems, expecting that their work can be passed on to a silent majority of people with the same problem but no means of correcting it.
I'm sorry that you don't have time to work on the drivers you need, but it looks like you've got better things to do, and that's okay.
What's not okay is for you to bitch at other people, telling them that they need to scratch your itch before their own.
If the community spent all of its time satisfying the needs of newbies, nothing significant would ever get done.
The answer we ought to give to newbies is that they can rely on the kindness of strangers. But that that path is a bumpy one, since strangers don't have to be kind. It's better then for a newbie to actually learn something, shed their newbie status and solve their own problems. Who really likes to be helpless? Is it not better to become more self-reliant?
There are a lot of newbies nowadays, and I think that we'd be better off if we made it easier to start down the road towards becoming an experienced hand, rather than to cater to their needs. After all, most newbies are helpless; they'll always have the same needs, and we'll all be bogged down in them. To constantly let newbies remain newbies is analagous to not teaching your kids to read, just because they don't want to.
West Roxbury is fairly nice. I live in the student slums of Allston/Brighton, and my rent is $550/m. I'd suggest Quincy - Altus used to live there, and it's on the Red Line and still very cheap.
Well, by trivial, I meant that conceeding them would give China somewhat better relations with first world countries and they're unlikely to suffer greatly because of it.
On Taiwan, I suspect that their reasons for asserting that the island is a part of the PRC (and how Taiwan asserts that China is a part of Taiwan) is mostly a matter of face. IMHO, the Taiwanese are beginning to get a popular democratic government with leaders who don't care, and people who don't care. Thus the recent move to assert Taiwanese sovereignity at the expense of losing their claim to mainland China. Taiwan is doing well enough without China these days anyway. 'Course, Red China's leaders have acted pretty weird in the past, so I don't see why they'd think that policies regarding Taiwan would carry over to Tibet all of the sudden.
Tibet, it seems to me, would have been better handled by using it as a buffer state, much as the Soviet Union did with most of eastern Europe. Defend their borders for them, but maintain that it's an independent country, and let them act independently so long as it doesn't damage the buffer policy. This would not be perfect, obviously, but the Chinese have really mucked up the situation. The money they spend on oppressing the Tibetians (not all of whom are unhappy) could be better spent, from China's POV on a ballistic missile submarine program, making their need for Tibetian launch sites irrelevant and strengthening their military globally.
But boy am I glad that China's navy is as lousy as it is.
And worst yet, you had better odds with the numbers operations that you do with the government. My parents have wasted thousands of dollars on lottery tickets, and I keep telling them they'll have much better luck finding a local game.
Well it probably wouldn't have gotten knocked out of its' orbit if it hadn't been for the runaway planet that hurtled between the Earth and the Moon in 1994, according to such a sage source as Thundarr the Barbarian.
Just imagine the cool new OSS projects in an age of 'savagery, super-science, and sorcery.'
Well if you liked Ghost in the Shell, you should check out these other anime:
Patlabor 2 (movie)
Akira (movie)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (tv series)
Vision of Escaflowne (tv series)
Macross Plus (oav series | movie)
Admittedly, Escaflowne is not so cyberpunkish as the others, but it's got supurb animation and an excellent storyline. Naturally you'll need to watch episodes in order, and I suggest you stick with subtitled anime; most dubs are pretty bad.
Well naturally, Clinton is going to want to be there. And with him around, the ratio of men to women will likely be something to the effect of 1:10....
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Obviously you're unfamilar with the BuBBE algorithm. Blocks of ciphertext include reminders to not tell anyone your passwords, to overwrite plaintext and to eat your soup before it gets cold and ruined (in high security environments, the default exception for gazpacho is no longer allowed).
There is a downside to this of course. You have to encrypt/decrypt messages at least once a day, and otherwise be a mensch to your software. If you don't, the whole algorithm gets farbissine, and that would be bad for you, you schlemazel.
It's in Maryland. It's pretty difficult to find a roadless stretch of woods anyplace along the East Coast, other than parkland. Just been populated for too long. Keep walking in any direction for a while and you're pretty likely to find some yokel's house, with a satellite dish and a phone.
In fact, that's the emergency navigation plan for greater Boston. Keep going until you find 128. Then you'll be okay.
It's a tough call.
In that case, yeah that's factual news reporting, and that's okay. But things get murky when the factual news reporting is 'Tony P. at 123 Main St. is selling controlled substances. He's there 9 to 5, and is happy to give you the first hit free.'
This is why we have the judicial system, to hash out a legal decision on this (because unless you are involved in a case related to it, your opinions don't do much)
I don't like limiting my freedom of speech but using it to commit a crime is generally considered a criminal act. It is not freedom of speech to give a bank teller a stickup note, for instance.
That's really odd.
The ACLU defended the American Nazi Party's right to stage a march in Illinois. They've defended the Ku Klux Klan on numerous occassions. Those are two pretty offensive groups IMHO, but they have just as much a right to speak freely and assemble as anyone else.
The idea is that in order to protect our freedoms, they have to be protected for everyone. Otherwise the door is opened for muting minorities and the unpopular.
Would you have blacks be denied their civil liberties because whites don't like them? Catholics being denied the right to worship? Windows users burning Linux in the streets?
The way I see it, the ACLU is more about abolishing censorship than promoting it. Even though they aid groups that would like to get rid of our freedom, they're entitled to as much freedom as anyone else.
Well of course he didn't want a speedy trial. When he was arrested, he was offered the opportunity to go to court immediately. This would mean that he'd had no time whatsoever to work out his defense, and the pre-prepared federal case would beat whatever he could throw together in a heartbeat.
However, the govt. has really abused their powers here, pretty much forcing him to give up his rights, and that I don't care for at all. That the govt. is also willing to punish people by banning them from using electronic equipment for long streches of time is also unreasonable in this day and age.
Huh? What socialist tendancies? The ACLU, AFAIK, has been against removing/constricting the rights that we're given in the Constitution. For them to be a socialist organization, so would the entire basis of the US government, for the last 200+ years. Like I said they're not perfect by any means, but it's a noble goal, and one that can only help everyone.
Also, even if they're as socialist as the day is long, SFW? I feel that to homogenize the world would be a fairly bad idea. While having many different factions and ideologies and peoples may be inefficient, it's also pretty robust. I'd think that around here monocultures would generally be looked down upon.
You're welcome to your own opinions of course, I'm just having trouble grokking them. I'd like to though.
What's wrong with the American Civil Liberties Union? Their aim is to preserve our rights. They're not perfect, and they have limited resources, but I like any organization that is willing to at least try to preserve our rights from a government that seems to be encroaching on them more and more each day.
I like the ACLU, I like the NRA for approximately the same reasons (although there are few people who like one and don't hate the other), I like lots of groups that seek to keep us free. I personally don't want to try a test case of this (in order to have it stricken down) myself. But I'll gladly lend what meager assistance I can to someone willing to. The ACLU is one of those sorts of groups.
That's nuts. I can understand a law against posting where to purchase drugs, as that could tie in with the selling of them. (not that I really care if people darwin themselves, just that telling people where to go to purchase contraband is related to selling the contraband)
Other information about drugs however, and the *linking* to that information, should remain legal. I have few doubts that this law will be upheld given how it violates some of the rights granted by the first amendment. Anyone know what the ACLU's said?
"Usque comissare" and "Quis aliqui volet?" have their good points too. ;)
Eos stupra si jocum nesciunt accipere
Well, I wouldn't get one myself, but I liked the effect that the lights had. Do they make a nice big server with a neon light on the bottom and that bounced on its shocks when it's idle? ;) (screw head crashes)
Seriously though, I've always wanted a computer with a rich cherry wood case. It'd have some victorian-esque brass hardware, and some old looking buttons and dials and such (Photoshop would probably bury the needle on both the processor load and consumed memory meters). To top it off, an engraved brass plaque with the computer's name and a Latin motto. I might go through tens of different components, but I'd keep that damn case!
Hell yeah you have the right to tape it off of TV. So sayeth the Supreme Court (Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.).
The thing is, you can't use it for any purpose which would damage the commercial interest of the copyright holder. Generally this means that if you tape something you aren't allowed to sell or rent it. But free, home viewing is okay.
Okay, fair enough. I had interpreted it as meaning that he planned to dl the movie, but maybe he was talking about ordering. (I would like to, but since I'm the amazing creditless boy, it's more trouble than it's worth)
I liked the kid who was confusing VCDs with DVDs. VCD movies are already insanely large downloads for anyone using a modem (poor me, I guess; no good DSL or cable modems here). DVDs are what - like 4-18GB?
If he's got a computer, he should just get a DVD player for it; much cheaper, even if you have to use one of those obscure non-Linux OSes.
I love Al. I think Al is the best thing since Twinkie Wiener sandwiches. But Al is not quite so funny as he used to be. "Running With Scissors" is probably the first album of his that I wish I hadn't bought. About the only good songs on there are "Jerry Springer," "Germs," and "Your Horoscope for Today."
I dunno... maybe so much music is crap nowadays that any parody Al does will be dragged down. But I'll still wish we had the Al of "Dog Eat Dog" or "Yoda" back.
(And what's up with the new look? I didn't even recognize him at first!)
First, being a typical geek, I could use a Cherry 2000 or something fairly similar. It's lucky that non-geeks can produce geeks or else there'd be damn few of us.
Second, is a KillBot too much to ask for? Preferably one that can fit in the trunk of my car, and help me out with that lovely Boston traffic. Energy weapons only please (consumable ammunition would put it out of my price range).
Although I generally say 'fall' more than 'autumn,' I do use both.
But then I use two different pronunciations of 'either' interchangably, and I strongly support the use of 'y'all' as the new standard 2nd person plural pronoun. Maybe I'm just a freak.
Agreed, but then we need to stop pretending that Free Software/Open Source has all the answers. The reality is, if the Linux/OS community doesn't care enough provide something, companies may see the need and provide proprietary solutions, which will make the end user happy, but infuriate the Linux/OS community.
Well, like I had said, I think that the best thing to do is to encourage people to want to learn about things, including the details on their hardware, and how to support it if it isn't already. I don't think that OS is necessarily going to provide all of the solutions, although certainly the more people that really use it, the better it'll work.
As for commercial software providing solutions, I don't really think that this is as likely as you do. Most companies are impatient. Rather than go for steady, modest profits, they frequently go after big markets and big profits. Think of the difference between a small software house and Microsoft. Any niche big enough to support a generic, impatient company is likely to have a group of OS developers already. The tricky bit, we agree, is getting in between the cracks, and not very many companies are going to want to do that.
Too many people want to Make Money Fast, and since a lot of them are in management, they can frequently give orders to programmers to ignore the vital cracks and go for the high profile stuff.
I think that you may not quite understand, or that you're deliberately distorting things to force an issue.
Those people with unsupported hardware either need to write their own drivers or ask others to help out. In this community people frequently try to fix their own personal problems, expecting that their work can be passed on to a silent majority of people with the same problem but no means of correcting it.
I'm sorry that you don't have time to work on the drivers you need, but it looks like you've got better things to do, and that's okay.
What's not okay is for you to bitch at other people, telling them that they need to scratch your itch before their own.
If the community spent all of its time satisfying the needs of newbies, nothing significant would ever get done.
The answer we ought to give to newbies is that they can rely on the kindness of strangers. But that that path is a bumpy one, since strangers don't have to be kind. It's better then for a newbie to actually learn something, shed their newbie status and solve their own problems. Who really likes to be helpless? Is it not better to become more self-reliant?
There are a lot of newbies nowadays, and I think that we'd be better off if we made it easier to start down the road towards becoming an experienced hand, rather than to cater to their needs. After all, most newbies are helpless; they'll always have the same needs, and we'll all be bogged down in them. To constantly let newbies remain newbies is analagous to not teaching your kids to read, just because they don't want to.
West Roxbury is fairly nice. I live in the student slums of Allston/Brighton, and my rent is $550/m. I'd suggest Quincy - Altus used to live there, and it's on the Red Line and still very cheap.
Well, by trivial, I meant that conceeding them would give China somewhat better relations with first world countries and they're unlikely to suffer greatly because of it.
On Taiwan, I suspect that their reasons for asserting that the island is a part of the PRC (and how Taiwan asserts that China is a part of Taiwan) is mostly a matter of face. IMHO, the Taiwanese are beginning to get a popular democratic government with leaders who don't care, and people who don't care. Thus the recent move to assert Taiwanese sovereignity at the expense of losing their claim to mainland China. Taiwan is doing well enough without China these days anyway. 'Course, Red China's leaders have acted pretty weird in the past, so I don't see why they'd think that policies regarding Taiwan would carry over to Tibet all of the sudden.
Tibet, it seems to me, would have been better handled by using it as a buffer state, much as the Soviet Union did with most of eastern Europe. Defend their borders for them, but maintain that it's an independent country, and let them act independently so long as it doesn't damage the buffer policy. This would not be perfect, obviously, but the Chinese have really mucked up the situation. The money they spend on oppressing the Tibetians (not all of whom are unhappy) could be better spent, from China's POV on a ballistic missile submarine program, making their need for Tibetian launch sites irrelevant and strengthening their military globally.
But boy am I glad that China's navy is as lousy as it is.
And worst yet, you had better odds with the numbers operations that you do with the government. My parents have wasted thousands of dollars on lottery tickets, and I keep telling them they'll have much better luck finding a local game.
Just imagine the cool new OSS projects in an age of 'savagery, super-science, and sorcery.'
Admittedly, Escaflowne is not so cyberpunkish as the others, but it's got supurb animation and an excellent storyline. Naturally you'll need to watch episodes in order, and I suggest you stick with subtitled anime; most dubs are pretty bad.
Sounds like a sea of gooified Spinal Tap album jackets to me.
Well naturally, Clinton is going to want to be there. And with him around, the ratio of men to women will likely be something to the effect of 1:10....
Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!