1) IPCHAINS was nice, simple, and usable. IPTABLES has stuff scattered all over the place. This may affect me more as a Gentoo user who configures his own kernel. I have to remember to... a) enable Netfilter b) enable "Advanced netfilter configuration" so that I can specify multi-port matches c) check off the necessary items in "Core Netfilter Configuration" d) check off the necessary items in "IP: Netfilter Configuration" That's on a simple home system that doesn't attempt NAT/Masq/Routing/etc.
2) A problem with putting detailed specifications into the kernel is that when I want to enable new features (not just new rules), I have to tweak the kernel, rebuild it, and reboot. If we had to do this with new MTAs or crons or other system programs, there would be a huge outcry. Moving this out of the kernel looks logical.
* Google Wallet * Camera -- Allows the app to take pictures and videos with this camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation. * Read your contacts -- Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals. This permission allows apps to save your contact data, and malicious apps may share contact data without your knowledge.
* Paypal * Retrieve running apps -- Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. This may allow the app to discover information about which applications are used on the device.
* Starbucks * Phone calls -- Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Note that this doesn't allow the app to call emergency numbers.
Actually, it works out even better than that... * human = 80 kg * 7-G-resistant flight suit = 10 kg (estimate) * oxygen tanks for pilot with several hours of oxygen weigh how much?? * no need for additional batteries/power, becaus the pilot would need power pump oxygen for breathing, plus illuminate instruments at night
> I see a major positive side effect of this: If students know that school officials > are monitoring their social media accounts, then maybe (at lease the brighter > ones) will learn to be a little more conscious of the stupid stuff that they post.
And the really bright ones may decide not to join Facebook/Twitter/whatever. Actually, maybe some good may come out of this after all.
> I have blocked Facebook at the router level but still able to read that ToS, > many lines in my HOSTS file deal with facebook yet I still get through.
A hosts file will block one or 2 small outfits. For a monstrosity like Facebook, you need to block ip address ranges. Here they are...
> I can think of plenty of non-financial characteristics that could (not always, > but in specific circumstances) have huge impact on financial decisions > -- age, health, family status, religion, race, gender, education, ancestry, criminal record.
> Some of those are illegal to consider, but of course that doesn't > mean they don't have an impact.
Bingo. Unless you have a sanitized Facebook profile bordering on fake your friends list is data about you, waiting to be mined... * are most of your friends gay? You're more likely than average to be gay * are most of your friends members/supporters of Westboro United Church? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church You're more likely than average to be a supporter * etc, etc, etc
Looking through your friends list is a backdoor way of asking many personal questions that can not be legally asked on a loan application or during a job interview.
Posted on Tue 25 Apr 2006 07:28:51 PM EDT by Malsua
Big Brother Is Watching WHO??
TSA "Terrorist" Turns Out To Be A Homeward-Bound Marine by ANN Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien
The Transportation Security Administration bagged a terrorist in Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday, or so they thought. Daniel Brown's name came up on their no-fly watchlist, so they dragged him into interrogation and grilled him, despite the protestations of Brown and his fellow travelers, who swore they could vouch for him.
The others in Brown's party went on their Northwest Airlines flight to Minneapolis-St. Paul, where they waited on a bus at the airport. You see, the detained man was Staff Sergeant Daniel Brown, USMC Reserve, and he was traveling with the other members of his Marine Reserve Military Police unit, which was heading home to Minnesota from eight months of combat in Iraq. The Marines were in full uniform and all, including Brown, had travel orders and military identification cards.
After attempts to stonewall under claims of "security," TSA spokesmen finally admitted that Staff Sergeant Daniel Brown was placed on the no-fly list, and ultimately detained, because they had detected gunpowder on his footgear -- not on this flight, but on a prior flight, which earned Brown a permanent place on the TSA's mysterious terrorist lists.
The footgear that had been exposed to gunpowder? Brown's combat boots, and the occasion of that flight was after his return from his first combat tour in Iraq. Gee... a combat Marine in Al-Anbar Province being exposed to gunpowder.
> What somewhat surprises me is that Samsung's phones would be holding out > against the torrent of slightly-to-substantially cheaper indigenous handsets in China. > Sure, the quality can be somewhere between 'uneven' and 'totally fucking dire';
Thanks to short-sighted MBAs who've off-shored manufacturing to Asia, "quality American products" are manufactured at the same factories, by the same workers, that manufacture "cheap foreign junk". Check out Foxconn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn on Google. Foxconn manufactures the iPad, iPhone, and iPod.
> They're going into hardware because it's pretty clear no profitable > company wants to make RT devices, so if they don't directly involve > themselves in putting devices on the market it won't be there at all.
And in the process, they found out why nobody wanted to do the hardware... profit margins are non-existant. It's bad enough on Android tablets, with a free OS. But on an a Win 8/8RT tablet you also get to pay the Microsoft tax for Windows 8. Thanks to Google's "free as in beer OS", it's not possible to compete in the low-end tablet market when you have to pay MS a licence fee on each machine.
> The larger reason is they fear (not without justification) that the consumer > market has shifted away from PCs completely, and is now firmly in the > hands of smartphones, tablets and other smart devices. While Microsoft's > fortunes don't rise or fall with the consumer market, the fact is that it > would take a big enough swipe out of revenues to cause them concern.
This is equivalant to PC's taking over from mainframes. You don't need a Cray to do a spreadsheet or a Powerpoint presentation. Similarly, many kids realized that they don't need a full-fledged desktop/gaming-rig to post updates on Facebook. Besides, a tablet/smartphone is a lot easier to lug around and snap photos with than a laptop with a webcam. It can be done... but why would you even bother?
> Worse, once the consumer market gets comfortable with non-PC > computing devices running non-Microsoft operating systems, there will > be creep into the enterprise market (much as Microsoft made its fortunes > by creep from the enterprise market into the consumer market), > and that could have serious ramifications in the medium and long term.
Here's where I disagree. Those are 2 totally separate markets. You cannot do serious programming/spreadsheet/report-writing/database/etc work on a tablet. There are niches, like dedicated touch-operated POS systems for minimum-wage burger-flippers selling you a a burger+fries. But serious work requires a serious machine. There are times when "convergence" is downright stupid. E.g. if Microsoft made cars... * and they saw that bicycles were taking market share away from cars * so they replaced car steering wheels with handlebars * and car brake pedals with hand-operated bicycle-type brakes
That's basically what they've done here... grafting a touch interface onto a traditional desktop OS, ***AND RAMMING IT DOWN DESKTOP USERS' THROATS***. If they had brought out MS-TAB-OS for tablets, and left the desktop alone, at least they wouldn't be destroying their business desktop market.
Showing my age. The original IBM PC was at first too weak to compete with IBM's higher-end offerings. But the AT with 6mhz chip was getting close. People started overclocking their cpus. IBM responded by tweaking the BIOS to not boot if the cpu was faster than 6 mhz (assholes).
This affected a lot of people who ran into problems with the original 20 mb drive, and took their machine in to be serviced. IBM "upgraded" the BIOS when replacing the bad hard drives (assholes).
The modders responded with a "turbo-switch". It was a a manual toggle. The cpu ran at 6 mhz when booting, to pass the boot-time checking. Then you could flip it to 10 mhz or whatever. IBM eventually came out with faster ATs, but the clone makers had eaten up a lot of the PC market by then.
*AND* there was a big fat blocking high sitting in the Atlantic, blocking the standard north-eastward track a post-tropical storm usually takes, forcing it westward. That's 3 independandant variables that had to coincide just so. It was a case of extreme bad luck.
6. I live in Canada, the land of broadband caps. I'm a light user, except for an NHL Gamecenter Live subscription. Even during the hockey season, the 75-gig/month tier is enough for me. I have 2 computers and a couple of USB backup drives. I belong to a camera club, and I have a few hundred gigabytes of RAW photos.
There is no way I'm transferring all that to "the cloud". I have 7 megabits down, and "up to" 1 megabit up (more like 700 kbits in real life). Yes, I can get faster service, with higher upload speed, and higher caps... at a higher cost. Why bother?
> The problem with RWD is that 99% of drivers have never > driven one and have no clue how to properly handle one.
A generation ago, it was the other way around. Front wheel drive was something that only "furriners" produced, until the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Toronado
> Conceived as Oldsmobile's full-size personal luxury car and competing directly with > the Ford Thunderbird, the Toronado is historically significant as the first front-wheel > drive automobile produced in the United States since the demise of the Cord in 1937.
But the Oldsmobile Toronado, and its corporate sibling the Cadillac Eldorado, were high-priced niche cars. It wasn't until the mid to late 1970's that Detroit began producing FWD cars in large numbers, prodded by competition from "furriners"... Honda Civic (1973) Volkswagen Rabbit (later renamed Golf) (1974) Plymouth Horizon and Dodge Omni (1978) Chevrolet Citation (1980)
People learned to switch from RWD to FWD, and they can go the other way if necessary.
BTW, the VW Golf was initially sold as the Rabbit in the US and Canada, due to trademark issues and similarity to Gulf Oil Corp's trademark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Oil After Gulf and SOCAL merged to form Chevron in 1985, that issue disappeared, and VW was able to switch to the same Golf name that it used in the rest of the world.
ll -og.adobe.macromedia ---------- 1 0 Nov 17 2011.adobe ---------- 1 0 Nov 17 2011.macromedia
So much for Flash cookies on linux. A similar approach should work in Windows, depending on which directory Flash cookies are stored there. And many browsers have an option to refuase/allow Flash cookies and/or HTTP5 storage.
> You're right getting an accurate time is easy... the hard part is figuring > out a timezone. geoip is unreliable due to proxies, so how else are you > supposed to guess which timezone the user is in?
On the local site, give London time, whatever zone they're in.
On the international site give GMT/UTC/whatever-they-call-it-now.
http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/satellite-photos-cat.html > As the nation of Greece teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, its tax authorities > are taking aim at Greece's notorious tax-evading rich elite. Using satellite > photos, the tax authority examined the claim of the residents of Athens's > wealthy suburbs and discovered that, rather than the 324 swimming > pools claimed by the locals, there were 16,974 of them.
That *IS* the correct definition of evolution. "Intelligent Design" posits that someone is directing evolution. That is not necessary. What happens is... * there are always minor mutations happening in every living species * the mutations may be good/bad/neutral when it comes to survival. * the better mutations survive, and get passed on. Over many generations this can lead to speciation.
Summary... mutations occur because "shit happens" during cell division, not because of some guiding hand.
> Will an employer be able to find dirt about you? Sure. Will it be worse > than what they'd have on everybody else? Probably not. Why are > you so afraid? How is that so detrimental to your well-being?
Assume that you're an HR type or a firm that screens job applicants or or insurance applicants on a contract basis. Let's assume that you go 5 years, and find no dirt on any applicant. the screener's employer will decide that there's no point in paying these people, and let them go. On the other hand, if the HR type or contract screening outfit digs up something on a few percent of applicants, the employer will believe they're getting value for their money, and continue paying for the service.
If you're part of that group they dig up dirt on, you're less likely to get a job or insurance. You don't consider that detrimental to your well-being?
> It doesn't happen because it requires proving bad intent, which (barring finding an email > that says "hey, file a DMCA request. It doesn't really qualify but it'll slow them down.") is > nigh impossible to distinguish from (even unlikely levels of) natural stupidity and ignorance.
What about suing for damge cause by gross negligence and lack of due diligence?
I make all my phonecalls and texts with a Nokia 6015i "dumbphone" http://www.cellphones.ca/cell-phones/nokia-6015i/specs/ Yes, I do have a "smartphone", but the greedy asshole cell carriers insist on an extra "data plan" charge for smartphones. So I don't bother getting a sim card or a plan for it. I leave it off except when I'm using it. The smartphone is a mediocre mp3-player/FM-radio/ebook-reader/web-browser/etc, but I'm *NOT* going to pay extra for connecting it versus the Nokia.
How many PC's ya got at home? 2 will do. * Keep one offline at all limes; no ethernet cable or wifi or whatever * Encrypt/decrypt your messages on that one * Copy encrypted message to USB stick * Move USB stick to your "regular" online computer * Send message via regular online computer * Recipient copies encrypted message to a USB stick * Moves USB stick to their offline computer and decrypts there
Net result; internet-connected computers never see the unencrypted message. Yes, Joe Blow cheating on his wife might not bother, but you can rest assured that mobsters and terrorists will take that extra step. How could the FBI be so braindead as to not think of this?
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I've been using linux since 2000. Two comments...
1) IPCHAINS was nice, simple, and usable. IPTABLES has stuff scattered all over the place. This may affect me more as a Gentoo user who configures his own kernel. I have to remember to...
a) enable Netfilter
b) enable "Advanced netfilter configuration" so that I can specify multi-port matches
c) check off the necessary items in "Core Netfilter Configuration"
d) check off the necessary items in "IP: Netfilter Configuration"
That's on a simple home system that doesn't attempt NAT/Masq/Routing/etc.
2) A problem with putting detailed specifications into the kernel is that when I want to enable new features (not just new rules), I have to tweak the kernel, rebuild it, and reboot. If we had to do this with new MTAs or crons or other system programs, there would be a huge outcry. Moving this out of the kernel looks logical.
A few reasons I will not use pay-by-phone in its current state.
http://www.citeworld.com/security/22535/mobile-payments-apps-outrageous-permissions
* Google Wallet
* Camera -- Allows the app to take pictures and videos with this camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.
* Read your contacts -- Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals. This permission allows apps to save your contact data, and malicious apps may share contact data without your knowledge.
* Paypal
* Retrieve running apps -- Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. This may allow the app to discover information about which applications are used on the device.
* Starbucks
* Phone calls -- Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Note that this doesn't allow the app to call emergency numbers.
Actually, it works out even better than that...
* human = 80 kg
* 7-G-resistant flight suit = 10 kg (estimate)
* oxygen tanks for pilot with several hours of oxygen weigh how much??
* no need for additional batteries/power, becaus the pilot would need power pump oxygen for breathing, plus illuminate instruments at night
...so that it doesn't automatically execute/autoplay/file-connect/whatever when the hardware is plugged in?
> I see a major positive side effect of this: If students know that school officials
> are monitoring their social media accounts, then maybe (at lease the brighter
> ones) will learn to be a little more conscious of the stupid stuff that they post.
And the really bright ones may decide not to join Facebook/Twitter/whatever. Actually, maybe some good may come out of this after all.
> I have blocked Facebook at the router level but still able to read that ToS,
> many lines in my HOSTS file deal with facebook yet I still get through.
A hosts file will block one or 2 small outfits. For a monstrosity like Facebook, you need to block ip address ranges. Here they are...
31.13.24.0/21
31.13.64.0/18
66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0/20
69.171.224.0/19
74.119.76.0/22
103.4.96.0/22
173.252.64.0/18
204.15.20.0/22
Here are the corresponding whois entries
31.13.24.0 - 31.13.31.255
IE-FACEBOOK-20110418
Facebook Ireland Ltd
IE
31.13.64.0 - 31.13.127.255
IE-FACEBOOK-20110418
Facebook Ireland Ltd
IE
66.220.144.0 - 66.220.159.255
66.220.144.0/20
Facebook, Inc.
THEFA-3
69.63.176.0 - 69.63.191.255
69.63.176.0/20
Facebook, Inc.
THEFA-3
69.171.224.0 - 69.171.255.255
69.171.224.0/19
Facebook, Inc.
THEFA-3
74.119.76.0/22
74.119.76.0 - 74.119.79.255
74.119.76.0/22
Facebook, Inc.
THEFA-3
103.4.96.0/22
103.4.96.0 - 103.4.99.255
FACEBOOK-SG
173.252.64.0 - 173.252.127.255
173.252.64.0/18
AS32934
FACEBOOK-INC
204.15.20.0 - 204.15.23.255
204.15.20.0/22
Facebook, Inc.
THEFA-3
> Serious question here. What if you do not have a Facebook account?
It indicates that you are NOT a dumb fuck... http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks That should be a plus for you.
> I can think of plenty of non-financial characteristics that could (not always,
> but in specific circumstances) have huge impact on financial decisions
> -- age, health, family status, religion, race, gender, education, ancestry, criminal record.
> Some of those are illegal to consider, but of course that doesn't > mean they don't have an impact.
Bingo. Unless you have a sanitized Facebook profile bordering on fake your friends list is data about you, waiting to be mined...
* are most of your friends gay? You're more likely than average to be gay
* are most of your friends members/supporters of Westboro United Church? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church You're more likely than average to be a supporter
* etc, etc, etc
Looking through your friends list is a backdoor way of asking many personal questions that can not be legally asked on a loan application or during a job interview.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621459/posts
Posted on Tue 25 Apr 2006 07:28:51 PM EDT by Malsua
Big Brother Is Watching WHO??
TSA "Terrorist" Turns Out To Be A Homeward-Bound Marine by ANN Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien
The Transportation Security Administration bagged a terrorist in Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday, or so they thought. Daniel Brown's name came up on their no-fly watchlist, so they dragged him into interrogation and grilled him, despite the protestations of Brown and his fellow travelers, who swore they could vouch for him.
The others in Brown's party went on their Northwest Airlines flight to Minneapolis-St. Paul, where they waited on a bus at the airport. You see, the detained man was Staff Sergeant Daniel Brown, USMC Reserve, and he was traveling with the other members of his Marine Reserve Military Police unit, which was heading home to Minnesota from eight months of combat in Iraq. The Marines were in full uniform and all, including Brown, had travel orders and military identification cards.
After attempts to stonewall under claims of "security," TSA spokesmen finally admitted that Staff Sergeant Daniel Brown was placed on the no-fly list, and ultimately detained, because they had detected gunpowder on his footgear -- not on this flight, but on a prior flight, which earned Brown a permanent place on the TSA's mysterious terrorist lists.
The footgear that had been exposed to gunpowder? Brown's combat boots, and the occasion of that flight was after his return from his first combat tour in Iraq. Gee... a combat Marine in Al-Anbar Province being exposed to gunpowder.
> If those damned telephone poles would quit getting drunk and
> jumping into the middle of the road, it wouldn't be a problem.
You mean like so?
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/20/miscommunication-leads-to-hydro-pole-in-the-middle-of-a-quebec-roadway
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/19/dangerous-driving-power-pole-appears-smack-in-the-middle-of-quebec-highway/
> What somewhat surprises me is that Samsung's phones would be holding out
> against the torrent of slightly-to-substantially cheaper indigenous handsets in China.
> Sure, the quality can be somewhere between 'uneven' and 'totally fucking dire';
Thanks to short-sighted MBAs who've off-shored manufacturing to Asia, "quality American products" are manufactured at the same factories, by the same workers, that manufacture "cheap foreign junk". Check out Foxconn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn on Google. Foxconn manufactures the iPad, iPhone, and iPod.
> They're going into hardware because it's pretty clear no profitable
> company wants to make RT devices, so if they don't directly involve
> themselves in putting devices on the market it won't be there at all.
And in the process, they found out why nobody wanted to do the hardware... profit margins are non-existant. It's bad enough on Android tablets, with a free OS. But on an a Win 8/8RT tablet you also get to pay the Microsoft tax for Windows 8. Thanks to Google's "free as in beer OS", it's not possible to compete in the low-end tablet market when you have to pay MS a licence fee on each machine.
> The larger reason is they fear (not without justification) that the consumer
> market has shifted away from PCs completely, and is now firmly in the
> hands of smartphones, tablets and other smart devices. While Microsoft's
> fortunes don't rise or fall with the consumer market, the fact is that it
> would take a big enough swipe out of revenues to cause them concern.
This is equivalant to PC's taking over from mainframes. You don't need a Cray to do a spreadsheet or a Powerpoint presentation. Similarly, many kids realized that they don't need a full-fledged desktop/gaming-rig to post updates on Facebook. Besides, a tablet/smartphone is a lot easier to lug around and snap photos with than a laptop with a webcam. It can be done... but why would you even bother?
> Worse, once the consumer market gets comfortable with non-PC
> computing devices running non-Microsoft operating systems, there will
> be creep into the enterprise market (much as Microsoft made its fortunes
> by creep from the enterprise market into the consumer market),
> and that could have serious ramifications in the medium and long term.
Here's where I disagree. Those are 2 totally separate markets. You cannot do serious programming/spreadsheet/report-writing/database/etc work on a tablet. There are niches, like dedicated touch-operated POS systems for minimum-wage burger-flippers selling you a a burger+fries. But serious work requires a serious machine. There are times when "convergence" is downright stupid. E.g. if Microsoft made cars...
* and they saw that bicycles were taking market share away from cars
* so they replaced car steering wheels with handlebars
* and car brake pedals with hand-operated bicycle-type brakes
That's basically what they've done here... grafting a touch interface onto a traditional desktop OS, ***AND RAMMING IT DOWN DESKTOP USERS' THROATS***. If they had brought out MS-TAB-OS for tablets, and left the desktop alone, at least they wouldn't be destroying their business desktop market.
Showing my age. The original IBM PC was at first too weak to compete with IBM's higher-end offerings. But the AT with 6mhz chip was getting close. People started overclocking their cpus. IBM responded by tweaking the BIOS to not boot if the cpu was faster than 6 mhz (assholes).
This affected a lot of people who ran into problems with the original 20 mb drive, and took their machine in to be serviced. IBM "upgraded" the BIOS when replacing the bad hard drives (assholes).
The modders responded with a "turbo-switch". It was a a manual toggle. The cpu ran at 6 mhz when booting, to pass the boot-time checking. Then you could flip it to 10 mhz or whatever. IBM eventually came out with faster ATs, but the clone makers had eaten up a lot of the PC market by then.
> Sandy hit at high tide and a full moon
*AND* there was a big fat blocking high sitting in the Atlantic, blocking the standard north-eastward track a post-tropical storm usually takes, forcing it westward. That's 3 independandant variables that had to coincide just so. It was a case of extreme bad luck.
> 5. What if they fuck up and lose your data
What about Mat Honan's personal data being wiped? See http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/07/1453243/wired-writer-hack-shows-need-for-tighter-cloud-security
6. I live in Canada, the land of broadband caps. I'm a light user, except for an NHL Gamecenter Live subscription. Even during the hockey season, the 75-gig/month tier is enough for me. I have 2 computers and a couple of USB backup drives. I belong to a camera club, and I have a few hundred gigabytes of RAW photos.
There is no way I'm transferring all that to "the cloud". I have 7 megabits down, and "up to" 1 megabit up (more like 700 kbits in real life). Yes, I can get faster service, with higher upload speed, and higher caps... at a higher cost. Why bother?
> The problem with RWD is that 99% of drivers have never
> driven one and have no clue how to properly handle one.
A generation ago, it was the other way around. Front wheel drive was something that only "furriners" produced, until the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Toronado
> Conceived as Oldsmobile's full-size personal luxury car and competing directly with
> the Ford Thunderbird, the Toronado is historically significant as the first front-wheel
> drive automobile produced in the United States since the demise of the Cord in 1937.
But the Oldsmobile Toronado, and its corporate sibling the Cadillac Eldorado, were high-priced niche cars. It wasn't until the mid to late 1970's that Detroit began producing FWD cars in large numbers, prodded by competition from "furriners"...
Honda Civic (1973)
Volkswagen Rabbit (later renamed Golf) (1974)
Plymouth Horizon and Dodge Omni (1978)
Chevrolet Citation (1980)
People learned to switch from RWD to FWD, and they can go the other way if necessary.
BTW, the VW Golf was initially sold as the Rabbit in the US and Canada, due to trademark issues and similarity to Gulf Oil Corp's trademark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Oil After Gulf and SOCAL merged to form Chevron in 1985, that issue disappeared, and VW was able to switch to the same Golf name that it used in the rest of the world.
> There's SuperCookies such as Flash cookies. They track you across browsers.
touch .adobe .adobe .macromedia .macromedia
chmod 000
touch
chmod 000
ll -og .adobe .macromedia .adobe .macromedia
---------- 1 0 Nov 17 2011
---------- 1 0 Nov 17 2011
So much for Flash cookies on linux. A similar approach should work in Windows, depending on which directory Flash cookies are stored there. And many browsers have an option to refuase/allow Flash cookies and/or HTTP5 storage.
...and you won't autorun a virus.
> You're right getting an accurate time is easy... the hard part is figuring
> out a timezone. geoip is unreliable due to proxies, so how else are you
> supposed to guess which timezone the user is in?
On the local site, give London time, whatever zone they're in.
On the international site give GMT/UTC/whatever-they-call-it-now.
Period... end of story. What's so difficult?
http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/satellite-photos-cat.html
> As the nation of Greece teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, its tax authorities
> are taking aim at Greece's notorious tax-evading rich elite. Using satellite
> photos, the tax authority examined the claim of the residents of Athens's
> wealthy suburbs and discovered that, rather than the 324 swimming
> pools claimed by the locals, there were 16,974 of them.
http://www.italymagazine.com/italy/olbia/google-earth-reveals-tax-evasion-scam-italys-finance-police
> Google Earth reveals tax evasion scam to Italy's Finance Police
http://gizmodo.com/5603054/officials-are-looking-for-your-swimming-pool-on-google-earth-right-now
> Officials Are Looking For Your Swimming Pool on Google Earth Right Now
That *IS* the correct definition of evolution. "Intelligent Design" posits that someone is directing evolution. That is not necessary. What happens is...
* there are always minor mutations happening in every living species
* the mutations may be good/bad/neutral when it comes to survival.
* the better mutations survive, and get passed on. Over many generations this can lead to speciation.
Summary... mutations occur because "shit happens" during cell division, not because of some guiding hand.
> Will an employer be able to find dirt about you? Sure. Will it be worse
> than what they'd have on everybody else? Probably not. Why are
> you so afraid? How is that so detrimental to your well-being?
Assume that you're an HR type or a firm that screens job applicants or or insurance applicants on a contract basis. Let's assume that you go 5 years, and find no dirt on any applicant. the screener's employer will decide that there's no point in paying these people, and let them go. On the other hand, if the HR type or contract screening outfit digs up something on a few percent of applicants, the employer will believe they're getting value for their money, and continue paying for the service.
If you're part of that group they dig up dirt on, you're less likely to get a job or insurance. You don't consider that detrimental to your well-being?
> It doesn't happen because it requires proving bad intent, which (barring finding an email
> that says "hey, file a DMCA request. It doesn't really qualify but it'll slow them down.") is
> nigh impossible to distinguish from (even unlikely levels of) natural stupidity and ignorance.
What about suing for damge cause by gross negligence and lack of due diligence?
I make all my phonecalls and texts with a Nokia 6015i "dumbphone" http://www.cellphones.ca/cell-phones/nokia-6015i/specs/ Yes, I do have a "smartphone", but the greedy asshole cell carriers insist on an extra "data plan" charge for smartphones. So I don't bother getting a sim card or a plan for it. I leave it off except when I'm using it. The smartphone is a mediocre mp3-player/FM-radio/ebook-reader/web-browser/etc, but I'm *NOT* going to pay extra for connecting it versus the Nokia.
How many PC's ya got at home? 2 will do.
* Keep one offline at all limes; no ethernet cable or wifi or whatever
* Encrypt/decrypt your messages on that one
* Copy encrypted message to USB stick
* Move USB stick to your "regular" online computer
* Send message via regular online computer
* Recipient copies encrypted message to a USB stick
* Moves USB stick to their offline computer and decrypts there
Net result; internet-connected computers never see the unencrypted message. Yes, Joe Blow cheating on his wife might not bother, but you can rest assured that mobsters and terrorists will take that extra step. How could the FBI be so braindead as to not think of this?