If security is important enough to screw around with Onion routing then you want to be sure all the security options are turned on all the time, and you don't want other plugins screwing stuff up.
Offical Gaim is reasonably well built to be an insecure instant messaging app, but security isn't something that you can add with a plugin.
Fortunately for humanity, surviving in space is much easier than you seem to think. People are doing it on the ISS as we speak. There are some unsolved problems with self-sustaining colonies, but it's mostly just an issue of nutrition research.
At the distances involved in a data center, it's entirely possible that having a single rectifier would be more power efficient than converting to DC in each individual server. Some people manage to save power by running their house off of DC, since electornics want DC anyway.
Japanese cars are better and cheaper. Why would you want to fund american car companies anyway - they've already proven that they aren't responsible enough to handle money.
The problem is that movies and stuff *actually are* our culture (or at least a significant portion of it). Anyone who doesn't watch any popular movies is seriously culturally retarded. One of the basic properties of culture is that it builds on itself - and today that base includes Darth Vader, Superman, and Captain Jack Sparrow.
You can argue that hearing the story of Captain Jack Sparrow isn't important, but given the number of people who will have heard it, it's more a part of our culture than any "cultural experiance" you'd be likely to name. It'd be great if our culture was higher quality, but missing out on what little culture we do have doesn't help.
Now, I'm definately not saying that anyone should pay to see these over-bugetted movies - I'm sure your local street merchant will happily sell you a copy for $3 once they're out on DVD.
That thing was pretty common as a fairground ride in the USA, and I'm pretty sure I saw one when I was in Rome. It's not especially powerful though - it tops out at about 2 G's.
Actually, I think the complaint is that all of the 15 applications in question are inferior to Microsoft Office. And right now, that's a valid complaint.
That's simply not true in any meaningful way. The only specific comparison that I've heard that favors Microsoft Office is this accessibility thing. For normal usage, all of these apps offer about the same functionality.
Having said that, you don't always have access to all versions of AV solutions (some do cost and a malware author might not find a warez version), and all research-in-progress at universities, AV labs, and whitehat/blackhat circles. Not all of it is available to the general public.
The only thing that might stop a new virus is installed antivirus software, most of which you can get at Staples for $40 (the corporate edition might cost twice that). I wouldn't want to base my security model on "the attacker will be to lazy to go to the store". As for new research, it doesn't matter at all - you can't install a college paper on your systems.
Also, even discounting the volume of software you don't have access to, finding a solution that requires reverse engineering multiple versions of multiple AV solutions is generally going to be a hard problem.
Sure, it'll take some work - but if it wasn't feasible we wouldn't hear about viruses any more.
Also, just as one can examine AV code and find a way around it, once the exploit is out, one can examine it and find a weakness in the exploit.
Right. After the attacker has *succeeded*, and infected a bunch of systems, then you can write a defense against it. It'd be better to just get an OS patch out quickly.
Having said all that, once you put money behind the problem it becomes easier. Sure, defeating several dozen AV solutions is going to require a lot of work. But if you can sell off the victims computers for a commercial DDOS or blackmailing, set up spam bots, or collect credit card numbers, it suddenly becomes profitable. Once there is money behind it, you will find people who are willing to make that investment of time.
Yup. That's the reality of the attackers... not poor kids sitting in their parent's basements who can't drive to Staples because they don't have drivers licenses.
It's basically an arms race.
Right... but Antivirus software adds almost nothing that you couldn't get from reasonably quick OS patches.
Since the anti-virus software is available to the general public, the virus writers can test against it.
It'll always be possible to find something that the code won't detect. All anti-virus software does is adds another step to the virus development process.
Seriously, have you even looked at what the US federal budget gets spent on? I can assure you that the vast majority of it is stuff that A.) wasn't nessisary or B.) could have been funded locally.
There's some argument for subsidising infrastructure, but the current model of "taxpayers pay, telcos profit" isn't nessiarily the best plan - it'd be like if the government payed for the construction of a private toll road and then got none of the tolls.
Evolution works because there is natural selection - some individuals survive and manage to breed, others do not. In humans, many people who would normally not have survived due to health issues now are saved by modern medicine - evolution away from those health issues has definately been slowed significantly if not stopped cold.
The entire entertainment industry is only a very small component of the US economy. In all, it's in the same order of magnitude as the sale of sporting goods. Somehow I don't think our economy would collapse if people stopped buying soccer balls and golf clubs, and it's the same for "entertainment content".
The Libertarian platform, taken and implemented as a whole, does seem a little nutty. On the other hand, I'd love to see a term with a Libertarian president and a Democrat congress, or a Libertarian swing minority in the senate.
Which people are those? The non-tech-savvy user who's made the innocent mistake of having served by a provider your blacklist has decided to punish?
No, the admins responsible for the mail servers. Mail servers shouldn't be in IP space marked as dynamically assigned - and if there was some sort of blacklist maintenence error there are channels to go through.
So why waste effort trying to "fix" a system that's clearly broken? Especially when the fix is itself obviously broken.
It would be reasonble to argue that Email + Blacklists is somewhat less functionally broken than Email alone. I use a dynamic IP range blacklist on my mail server simply because it tends to work and people should know better than to expect me not to be blocking email from dynamic address ranges.
As for a properly designed email replacement... go ahead and build it. I've taken a look at the problem myself and it's no simple task. Most of the easy answers, like sender pays, will never be adopted in the real world. Even once you build the perfect system, no-one will use it because email is so entrenched.
No (at least not in the context of my sig). Censorship is content-dependant and made manditory by someone in power.
It would be possible for the spam blacklist mechanisms to be used for censorship, but the current spam blacklists meet neither criteria. Spam mail sources are blacklisted entirely based on the form and volume of the mail they send, not the content itself. Additionally, none of the blacklists are mandatory, nor are the email providers who use them.
Blacklists largely do work. It's true that they have both false positives and false negitives, but the rates are reasonably low.
The fact of the matter is that email itself is broken, and as long as we keep using the current recipient-pays-before-recieving model it will stay broken - and we'll be stuck with marginal systems like RBLs.
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Offical Gaim is reasonably well built to be an insecure instant messaging app, but security isn't something that you can add with a plugin.
Fortunately for humanity, surviving in space is much easier than you seem to think. People are doing it on the ISS as we speak. There are some unsolved problems with self-sustaining colonies, but it's mostly just an issue of nutrition research.
At the distances involved in a data center, it's entirely possible that having a single rectifier would be more power efficient than converting to DC in each individual server. Some people manage to save power by running their house off of DC, since electornics want DC anyway.
Japanese cars are better and cheaper. Why would you want to fund american car companies anyway - they've already proven that they aren't responsible enough to handle money.
You can argue that hearing the story of Captain Jack Sparrow isn't important, but given the number of people who will have heard it, it's more a part of our culture than any "cultural experiance" you'd be likely to name. It'd be great if our culture was higher quality, but missing out on what little culture we do have doesn't help.
Now, I'm definately not saying that anyone should pay to see these over-bugetted movies - I'm sure your local street merchant will happily sell you a copy for $3 once they're out on DVD.
That thing was pretty common as a fairground ride in the USA, and I'm pretty sure I saw one when I was in Rome. It's not especially powerful though - it tops out at about 2 G's.
The Z71V was a bit twitchy with some older releases of Ubuntu, but mine works great with Dapper.
What's unstable and unreliable about reiserfs? Have you been hibernating since 1998?
That's simply not true in any meaningful way. The only specific comparison that I've heard that favors Microsoft Office is this accessibility thing. For normal usage, all of these apps offer about the same functionality.
The only thing that might stop a new virus is installed antivirus software, most of which you can get at Staples for $40 (the corporate edition might cost twice that). I wouldn't want to base my security model on "the attacker will be to lazy to go to the store". As for new research, it doesn't matter at all - you can't install a college paper on your systems.
Sure, it'll take some work - but if it wasn't feasible we wouldn't hear about viruses any more.
Right. After the attacker has *succeeded*, and infected a bunch of systems, then you can write a defense against it. It'd be better to just get an OS patch out quickly.
It'll always be possible to find something that the code won't detect. All anti-virus software does is adds another step to the virus development process.
You apparently misunderstood information theory and the mathematical concept of infinity.
How about we take away the government's power to borrow money, and then we cut taxes.
Seriously, have you even looked at what the US federal budget gets spent on? I can assure you that the vast majority of it is stuff that A.) wasn't nessisary or B.) could have been funded locally.
So... have you actually taken into account all the taxes and fees collected by the government?
There's some argument for subsidising infrastructure, but the current model of "taxpayers pay, telcos profit" isn't nessiarily the best plan - it'd be like if the government payed for the construction of a private toll road and then got none of the tolls.
Evolution works because there is natural selection - some individuals survive and manage to breed, others do not. In humans, many people who would normally not have survived due to health issues now are saved by modern medicine - evolution away from those health issues has definately been slowed significantly if not stopped cold.
I'm pretty sure that ninjas can't even swim.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko /
The Libertarian platform, taken and implemented as a whole, does seem a little nutty. On the other hand, I'd love to see a term with a Libertarian president and a Democrat congress, or a Libertarian swing minority in the senate.
Bah! Binocular depth perception is overrated. It doesn't take that long to adapt to alternate visual cues to determine depth.
No, the admins responsible for the mail servers. Mail servers shouldn't be in IP space marked as dynamically assigned - and if there was some sort of blacklist maintenence error there are channels to go through.
It would be reasonble to argue that Email + Blacklists is somewhat less functionally broken than Email alone. I use a dynamic IP range blacklist on my mail server simply because it tends to work and people should know better than to expect me not to be blocking email from dynamic address ranges.
As for a properly designed email replacement... go ahead and build it. I've taken a look at the problem myself and it's no simple task. Most of the easy answers, like sender pays, will never be adopted in the real world. Even once you build the perfect system, no-one will use it because email is so entrenched.
No (at least not in the context of my sig). Censorship is content-dependant and made manditory by someone in power.
It would be possible for the spam blacklist mechanisms to be used for censorship, but the current spam blacklists meet neither criteria. Spam mail sources are blacklisted entirely based on the form and volume of the mail they send, not the content itself. Additionally, none of the blacklists are mandatory, nor are the email providers who use them.
The fact of the matter is that email itself is broken, and as long as we keep using the current recipient-pays-before-recieving model it will stay broken - and we'll be stuck with marginal systems like RBLs.