*headdesk*
I can't believe I actually got someone to take the time not only to say they've opened 1001 tabs, but also do it and take a screenshot of it. You, sir, win at the Internet today.
Instead of allowing them to charge you for removing Windows, simply don't accept the EULA and call Sony to get your money back. Research it online--there's been a lot of people who have been refunded the Microsoft tax for just a few hours of work.
I have 8 GB of RAM and rarely use more than four of it unless I'm playing a 64-bit game which eats it up (Crysis). Yes, I am running both 64-bit Linux and Windows.
One time, I opened up more than a thousand tabs in Firefox just because I could.
In response to the China question: The only way the American people--and all people--can be secure on the Internet is through untraceable, onion-style routing and the use of secured, encrypted communications. These methods protect against not only malicious hackers, but governments, too. Education, not protection, is the answer.
As for the "solict, accept, retain" question, I feel that Maj. Gen. Lord's answer is a non-answer. He somewhat addressed the retention part of the question, but he did not address the first part: forgiveness of past sins. The best crackers are the ones that don't get caught, but there are some pretty damned good ones that do get caught.
The answer to the Older Recruits question answers a wide question: "If I want to participate, do I have to enlist?" I think many potential participants/contractors will find this welcoming. However, I can only imagine the media outcry when some alarmist reporter looking for a scandal finds that a third of the Air Force's new Cyberspace wing have priors. I guess the Air Force would need to address the second question better, then.
The "acts of war" question and answer lead to the following thought process: Most cyber attacks are guerilla in nature. They are short, perhaps coordinated, and surgical. However, if these acts are considered acts of war, would not the permission and blessing of Congress be required, as per Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution? Wouldn't Congress have to declare war (cyberwar?) on a nation? Given the current war powers atmosphere, it would seem that the Air Force would perform the attacks at the order of the president or the Secretary of Defense.
"Yeah, Sam got swatted last night during the evening news. He didn't realize that the TV crews and SWAT van he was watching on TV were outside his house until SWAT blew his door off the hinges. That's the third swatting this week!"
The president is outright refusing to follow the orders of Congress. How is this not grounds for impeachment? It's like the CEO of a company not following the edicts of the board.
Props. thinkfinger is very mature. There are a few other projects going to produce similar software for other fingerprint reader devices, so you'll have to look around a bit to find one that works if thinkfinger doesn't.
I think that the IM market is already quite flooded with competitors (competing protocols and competing unofficial multi-protocol clients). The most intelligent thing for Mozilla to do is perhaps build its own @mozillamail.com email system (or similar domain) with easy Thunderbird integration and integrate it with an XMPP client/server. XMPP is the way to go these days. In that way, folks who already have XMPP accounts (Livejournal users, Gmail users, and soon AIM users) can contact those using the Mozilla Mail service.
STOP READING MY THOUGHTS. Ugh. I'm having this same problem.
In summary, the Pennsylvania Department of Education now requires all student-teachers-to-be to get fingerprinted to have their federal criminal records checked. Previously, PDE required only state checks, but then it realized that a criminal could come in from out of state.
The problem with this fingerprinting process isn't the FBI, which expunges the fingerprints immediately after delivering the results of the check. The problem is with Cogent, the company that actually performs the fingerprinting and sends off the prints to be checked by the FBI. Afterwards, Cogent keeps the prints on file (on paper or electronically, I'm not sure) for at least one year.
I was in dialog with PDE regarding this, and I seem to have been dismissed as a crazy. I simply don't want my fingerprints anywhere where anyone but me can get to them, unless I have been convicted of a crime, which I have not, nor have I ever even been inside a police station or barely even talked to a cop.
I asked PDE what my recourse is, and it gave me a non-answer. I've deferred my question to my program chair, who will probably take it to the department chair. I hope to be either exempted from the fingerprinting requirement or have a special agreement constructed with Cogent saying that it will expunge my records immediately after submitting them to the FBI.
My question is this: if HD-DVD dies, what are we to do if we want a movie or series that was released in HD-DVD only? Will the companies rerelease it on BD? Or will we have to find a hybrid player? Or will we have to buy and keep around that old HD-DVD player just to watch two or three movies or series every now and then?
Yet another reason why there should either a limit on the number of congressional terms a person can serve, or a complete dissolving every so many years like in parliamentary systems. The former would be more fitting with American politics.
Senators should serve no more than three terms (18 years) and congresspersons should serve no more than six terms (12 years). If a person wants to remain in congrees, he or she should run for the other half of congress. A person doing that would have served 30 years in congress, perhaps after serving graduating from law school at 25 or 26 years of age and working in a private practice or local government for six years, until 32. 30 years of congressional service puts the person at 62, and they can happily retire (or run for president or serve as a cabinet member or such).
I'm in the middle of canvassing in western PA for Ron Paul delegates right now. I've stopped for a moment to grab a bite to eat. I've had not one person liking McCain or Huckabee—that's right, all of them like Paul the most, but they say the same thing: they don't hear anything about him! Wonkette is just spreading FUD while trying to read into the Paul message.
If you post it on the 'net, it's public information, no matter how secure or private the application is. One must treat his or her information on social networks this way, no exceptions.
I cannot consciously support any candidate who does not make the Constitution central to how he or she looks at and handles the issues. Therefore, I cannot support any candidate except the candidate who has been excluded from this debate without advertised reason. I also cannot support a debate that does not discuss all of the candidates. Bad form, Slashdot, bad form.
No candidate of these three has done all of these:
Is a constitutionalist.
Has never voted to raise taxes.
Has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
Has never voted for the Iraq War.
Has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
Has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
Has never voted to raise congressional pay.
Has never taken a government-paid junket.
Voted against the Patriot Act.
Votes against regulating the Internet.
Voted against NAFTA and CAFTA.
Votes against the United Nations.
Votes against the welfare state.
Votes against reinstating a military draft.
Votes to preserve the constitution.
Votes to cut government spending.
Votes to lower healthcare costs.
Votes to end the war on drugs.
Votes to protect civil liberties.
Votes to secure our borders with real immigration reform.
Votes to eliminate tax-funded abortions and to overturn Roe v Wade.
Votes to protect religious freedom.
If one of these three candidates has all of these qualities and has had these qualities throughout the entirety of their political career, please call me out on this and cite your sources so that I may read them and learn from my mistake myself.
Chrono Trigger, hands down the best console RPG of all time, with only FF7 and Earthbound coming anywhere close. I've spent more hours playing and replaying Chrono Trigger than any other video game, including the modern FPSes that I tend to prefer these days. Chrono Trigger's blend of humor, flirtatious characters, intense drama, fantastic graphics for a 16-bit system, but most of all: the most compelling, appropriate music ever in a game. I can listen to the music from the game and feel like I'm playing it.
How would an encrypted, passworded filesystem work as a means of privacy? Granted, the server admin would need to be present at boot time (and for every reboot) either to input a password or connect some kind of storage with a key file. The latter option isn't as secure, because courts could subpoena that media. However, there was a recent court ruling (SCOTUS?) which said that a person cannot be compelled to divulge a password on the grounds that doing so would cause self-incrimination, and is unconstitutional thanks to the fifth amendment.
I believe that, in order to be admissible in court, the server's hard drive (at least) would have to be confiscated, but the information on it would be unreadable because of the encryption. Now, that's physical security.
However, the problem, then, is finding a datacenter that would host such a box and refuse to pull down the box (but wouldn't have a problem allowing the authorities to confiscate it since everything on the disk is encrypted). I suppose that the server administrator could file a counter-DMCA and then allow the servers to be confiscated. The datacenter/ISP is protected, and the server administrator is protected because the fifth amendment bars the courts from compelling him to divulge the password to the encrypted filesystem.
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Perfect time to consider PGP.
http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/
*headdesk* I can't believe I actually got someone to take the time not only to say they've opened 1001 tabs, but also do it and take a screenshot of it. You, sir, win at the Internet today.
If they don't want Google to index their publicly available pages, they can use robots.txt. End of story.
Keep grubby federal laws off my computers and out of my life. Ron Paul 2008.
Instead of allowing them to charge you for removing Windows, simply don't accept the EULA and call Sony to get your money back. Research it online--there's been a lot of people who have been refunded the Microsoft tax for just a few hours of work.
I have 8 GB of RAM and rarely use more than four of it unless I'm playing a 64-bit game which eats it up (Crysis). Yes, I am running both 64-bit Linux and Windows.
One time, I opened up more than a thousand tabs in Firefox just because I could.
Bravo!
In response to the China question: The only way the American people--and all people--can be secure on the Internet is through untraceable, onion-style routing and the use of secured, encrypted communications. These methods protect against not only malicious hackers, but governments, too. Education, not protection, is the answer.
As for the "solict, accept, retain" question, I feel that Maj. Gen. Lord's answer is a non-answer. He somewhat addressed the retention part of the question, but he did not address the first part: forgiveness of past sins. The best crackers are the ones that don't get caught, but there are some pretty damned good ones that do get caught.
The answer to the Older Recruits question answers a wide question: "If I want to participate, do I have to enlist?" I think many potential participants/contractors will find this welcoming. However, I can only imagine the media outcry when some alarmist reporter looking for a scandal finds that a third of the Air Force's new Cyberspace wing have priors. I guess the Air Force would need to address the second question better, then.
The "acts of war" question and answer lead to the following thought process: Most cyber attacks are guerilla in nature. They are short, perhaps coordinated, and surgical. However, if these acts are considered acts of war, would not the permission and blessing of Congress be required, as per Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution? Wouldn't Congress have to declare war (cyberwar?) on a nation? Given the current war powers atmosphere, it would seem that the Air Force would perform the attacks at the order of the president or the Secretary of Defense.
If you're gonna go, man, go all out.
I hear they call that "swatting" these days.
"Yeah, Sam got swatted last night during the evening news. He didn't realize that the TV crews and SWAT van he was watching on TV were outside his house until SWAT blew his door off the hinges. That's the third swatting this week!"
I wonder if Take Two's shareholders will sue the board now similarly to Yahoo's shareholders.
The president is outright refusing to follow the orders of Congress. How is this not grounds for impeachment? It's like the CEO of a company not following the edicts of the board.
Props. thinkfinger is very mature. There are a few other projects going to produce similar software for other fingerprint reader devices, so you'll have to look around a bit to find one that works if thinkfinger doesn't.
I think that the IM market is already quite flooded with competitors (competing protocols and competing unofficial multi-protocol clients). The most intelligent thing for Mozilla to do is perhaps build its own @mozillamail.com email system (or similar domain) with easy Thunderbird integration and integrate it with an XMPP client/server. XMPP is the way to go these days. In that way, folks who already have XMPP accounts (Livejournal users, Gmail users, and soon AIM users) can contact those using the Mozilla Mail service.
STOP READING MY THOUGHTS. Ugh. I'm having this same problem.
In summary, the Pennsylvania Department of Education now requires all student-teachers-to-be to get fingerprinted to have their federal criminal records checked. Previously, PDE required only state checks, but then it realized that a criminal could come in from out of state.
The problem with this fingerprinting process isn't the FBI, which expunges the fingerprints immediately after delivering the results of the check. The problem is with Cogent, the company that actually performs the fingerprinting and sends off the prints to be checked by the FBI. Afterwards, Cogent keeps the prints on file (on paper or electronically, I'm not sure) for at least one year.
I was in dialog with PDE regarding this, and I seem to have been dismissed as a crazy. I simply don't want my fingerprints anywhere where anyone but me can get to them, unless I have been convicted of a crime, which I have not, nor have I ever even been inside a police station or barely even talked to a cop.
I asked PDE what my recourse is, and it gave me a non-answer. I've deferred my question to my program chair, who will probably take it to the department chair. I hope to be either exempted from the fingerprinting requirement or have a special agreement constructed with Cogent saying that it will expunge my records immediately after submitting them to the FBI.
My question is this: if HD-DVD dies, what are we to do if we want a movie or series that was released in HD-DVD only? Will the companies rerelease it on BD? Or will we have to find a hybrid player? Or will we have to buy and keep around that old HD-DVD player just to watch two or three movies or series every now and then?
Yet another reason why there should either a limit on the number of congressional terms a person can serve, or a complete dissolving every so many years like in parliamentary systems. The former would be more fitting with American politics.
Senators should serve no more than three terms (18 years) and congresspersons should serve no more than six terms (12 years). If a person wants to remain in congrees, he or she should run for the other half of congress. A person doing that would have served 30 years in congress, perhaps after serving graduating from law school at 25 or 26 years of age and working in a private practice or local government for six years, until 32. 30 years of congressional service puts the person at 62, and they can happily retire (or run for president or serve as a cabinet member or such).
I'm in the middle of canvassing in western PA for Ron Paul delegates right now. I've stopped for a moment to grab a bite to eat. I've had not one person liking McCain or Huckabee—that's right, all of them like Paul the most, but they say the same thing: they don't hear anything about him! Wonkette is just spreading FUD while trying to read into the Paul message.
I clicked on that just for the principle of the thing.
Har har har.
If you post it on the 'net, it's public information, no matter how secure or private the application is. One must treat his or her information on social networks this way, no exceptions.
No candidate of these three has done all of these:
- Is a constitutionalist.
- Has never voted to raise taxes.
- Has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
- Has never voted for the Iraq War.
- Has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
- Has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
- Has never voted to raise congressional pay.
- Has never taken a government-paid junket.
- Voted against the Patriot Act.
- Votes against regulating the Internet.
- Voted against NAFTA and CAFTA.
- Votes against the United Nations.
- Votes against the welfare state.
- Votes against reinstating a military draft.
- Votes to preserve the constitution.
- Votes to cut government spending.
- Votes to lower healthcare costs.
- Votes to end the war on drugs.
- Votes to protect civil liberties.
- Votes to secure our borders with real immigration reform.
- Votes to eliminate tax-funded abortions and to overturn Roe v Wade.
- Votes to protect religious freedom.
If one of these three candidates has all of these qualities and has had these qualities throughout the entirety of their political career, please call me out on this and cite your sources so that I may read them and learn from my mistake myself.Temporary Lexdysia. Sorry.
I think he is perhaps alluding to the inevitable fall of LAN to WLAN.
Chrono Trigger, hands down the best console RPG of all time, with only FF7 and Earthbound coming anywhere close. I've spent more hours playing and replaying Chrono Trigger than any other video game, including the modern FPSes that I tend to prefer these days. Chrono Trigger's blend of humor, flirtatious characters, intense drama, fantastic graphics for a 16-bit system, but most of all: the most compelling, appropriate music ever in a game. I can listen to the music from the game and feel like I'm playing it.
IANAL.
How would an encrypted, passworded filesystem work as a means of privacy? Granted, the server admin would need to be present at boot time (and for every reboot) either to input a password or connect some kind of storage with a key file. The latter option isn't as secure, because courts could subpoena that media. However, there was a recent court ruling (SCOTUS?) which said that a person cannot be compelled to divulge a password on the grounds that doing so would cause self-incrimination, and is unconstitutional thanks to the fifth amendment.
I believe that, in order to be admissible in court, the server's hard drive (at least) would have to be confiscated, but the information on it would be unreadable because of the encryption. Now, that's physical security.
However, the problem, then, is finding a datacenter that would host such a box and refuse to pull down the box (but wouldn't have a problem allowing the authorities to confiscate it since everything on the disk is encrypted). I suppose that the server administrator could file a counter-DMCA and then allow the servers to be confiscated. The datacenter/ISP is protected, and the server administrator is protected because the fifth amendment bars the courts from compelling him to divulge the password to the encrypted filesystem.
Am I thinking in the correct vein?