I suppose I'd need to get OpenSSL then. As an extension of that, I do believe I'd also need to have a webserver on this (Windows) machine that doesn't suck donkey dong... which could be hard to do, I have never--ever--had luck getting Apache running on this thing. I don't know why.
That's doable, though a logistical nightmare. I have a book (though I didn't bring it with me to school.. interesting) that outlines a very basic method of doing it and it really all depended on perfectly wording the ciphertext (which appeared as cleartext) such that one decryption yielded a false cleartext and another yielded the genuine cleartext. After the Christmas break, I'll bring the book back with me, assuming I can find it, and outline it in a journal entry.
Ahh yes, but your original message gave the impression that you were referring solely to the abilities of PGPDisk.
Furthermore, regarding the raids on KaZaA and IndyMedia servers, the fact that the physical locations of these servers was made available could not possibly be the fault of the operators of the servers; it's that the ISPs were pressured/subpoenad (sp?) into revealing said information.
I think you missed the point. Encryption of your local files is a moot point if the data being transmitted is what's being retained.
That's not to say that encrypting your files isn't a good idea, just irrelevant in this case. Use of PGP/GPG for email, however.. in this case, is a bloody well fantastic idea. If everyone you communicate with has a key pair, you just have to remember to encrypt (and, if you aren't completely braindead, sign) everything you send and you'll have one less things to worry about. Keeping your web traffic under wraps might be a little more difficult.
I just need to find a cheapass CA (or track down the requisite software to do it myself) and I'd be happy as a clam. Of course, the challenge would be convincing everyone I know to start using it, as well. Although, at least that way I could make a certificate for my own servers so that, when I eventually do get my own server up and running, I can keep all traffic using https.
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No, you dumb shit, it's more like 40 Celsius. Positive Fahrenheit values are always greater than their Celsius equivalent and it reverses once you pass -40. In the case of -40, it's the same in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Umm... there have been several episodes of CSI (and, if I recall correctly, though I hardly ever watch it, at least one of CSI Miami) where the team couldn't solve the crime; that something was missing that they just couldn't track down.
See, the CSIs aren't perfect. They miss things. In fact, a few weeks ago, one of the characters' home lives is falling apart because of her dedication to her job. I wouldn't exactly call that glamourising the profession.
Very true. It's just that the infection that kills you isn't AIDS itself... I'd liken it to Christopher Reeve's death. He didn't die of a snapped neck, he died of complications. AIDS-related deaths are due to complications. Very large, very horrifying complications, but complications nonetheless.
-collapses under the weight of the irony-
Wait, I thought AIDS just suppressed your immune system to the point where you couldn't even fight off the common cold.. you don't waste away, you just die of the first disease that infects you.
AIDS isn't a disease, it's a syndrome. There is no AIDS virus; it's caused by an infection of HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. The virus suppresses your immune system to point where you have AIDS.
And how long ago was it since the dioxin spill? Right, right.. sixteen years. Besides, if you read into the article, it states that the reason Dow still hasn't performed the cleanup as recommended is because they're still determining what has to be done. How much it's going to cost.
And, ooh, concrapulations for being from Detroit. I'm a native Sarnian. I get a distinct feeling I'm quite a bit more familiar with the petrochemical industry.
It's alright for Dow to pay a buck a day to exploit workers in a nation with no enforcement of environmental laws,
Dow Chemical's internal protocols for process safety are some of the most stringient (sp?) in the world, going above and beyond legal requirements by, in all probability, every nation or state where Dow exists--and they're quite widespread. The same protocols are sought after by many companies, which is in fact why my father was hired away from Dow--Irving Oil (the largest/only oil company in the Maritimes) had no process safety protocols and needed someone with a very firm grip on what Dow did in order to improve their own record. As a result, they're paying him much more than Dow ever did to create a system based on the rules of a system he's been enforcing for years. Petrochemical companies know that good process safety will save you far more than exploitation of local laws. Furthermore, the repercussions within Dow for violating their own protocols can, if I understand things correctly, can mean your job.
spew toxic crap into the world with no regard for safety (remember the chlorine leak in India?)
1) That wasn't Dow Chemical at all, that was Union Carbide. Carbide has since been purchased by Dow, but at the time they were completely unrelated. Do not associate Bhutan with Dow. It's practically libel.
2) The Bhutan accident occurred over twenty years ago when the protocols weren't as strict--because something on the scale of Bhutan seemed statistically negligible to the process safety engineers, if it seemed possible at all.
3) The Bhutan accident is known worldwide as the ultimate reason why every company dealing with potentially dangerous chemicals needs a process safety division, in order to prevent such things from happening. No one saw it coming at the time (and there was also the human factor--by the time anyone realised it was happening, it was too late to stop it), but now that the accident has been analysed, it can be prevented.
Long story short, anyone involved with the petrochemical industry knows that Dow is one of the most responsible companies around when it comes to safety. True, when there are fuckups in the industry, they're large.. but when the protocols are there, they're few and far between--and they always figure out why it happened so it can be prevented in the future.
Key word, "most". My roommate in first term of freshman year was a fucker. And to think, I gave that man my liquor, trying to get on his good side.
Second term, my new roommate was a fucking riot. Poor bastard moved from the Bahamas to Canada in January... but we had a great time.
I wouldn't say flat-out trust your roommate.. give it some time to feel them out, but be cautious during that time. I used WinXP's login password on my user whenever I left, just a quick Winkey+L and it's all good. 'Course, I didn't start doing that until I realised the guy wasn't exactly trustworthy..
But yeah, when it comes to laptops.. Unless you're in the bathroom, don't let that thing leave your fucking sight!
That's a bit of a catch-22, now isn't it? No wonder lefties don't buy lefty mice... because there aren't any on the market!
I'm not asking for equal numbers here.. You know.. a ninth as many lefthanded mice as there are righthanded mice would be nice.. But they aren't there.
You say if lefties bought lefty mice, then Logitech would sell them... but Logitech doesn't make lefty mice, lefties won't be buying lefty mice, now will they?! You can't buy what doesn't exist!
I won't blame the lefties who use righty mice, I'll blame the righties who made them use righty mice!
There is one arena where I get militant--the lack of support for lefties. It's nigh-impossible to find lefty desks at my university and it's nigh-impossible to find lefty mice. Lefties have been persecuted and ignored for centuries. I'm not asking for "affirmative action" regarding enrollment.. just put enough lefty desks on campus for us to use, god damn it!
I spent all but the last year of my computing existence using a righthanded mouse. It feels a lot better, having switched over. Works with my computer desk a hell of a lot better, too.
Oh, why... did the poster submit a link to another Slash site?! Honestly, that's as productive as Google News linking to Slashdot! All it does is add yet another click to the process of finding the fucking news!
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/me opens winver
Let's see..
Microsoft Windows
Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp2.030422-1633 : Service Pack 1 )
Doesn't look like NT to me at all. I'd say it's version 5.1 of the standard Windows kernel, not the NT kernel. They're very similar at this point, don't get me wrong.. but I think NT has become the Server Edition.
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Anakin Skywalker, human, wasn't gone, but Anakin Skywalker, Jedi was. As soon as you give yourself over to the dark side, you cease to be a Jedi. Jedi-trained, sure, but you're still not a Jedi.
That's the point... because Han clearly has several moral ambiguities, why bother to have Greedo shoot first? Han looks way more badass if he shoots basically unprovoked, then nonchalantly stands and walks out, flipping the bartender a coin and saying, "Sorry about the mess." But then he still comes back and proves that, really, he's a good guy when he smokes Vader's Interceptor to let Luke get the missile (torpedo? I don't own a copy of the Trilogy myself and haven't seen it in a long time) off and blow up the Death Star.
Yeah, but by that point in the script he had tried to talk his way out of it and he realised Greedo wasn't going to just let him walk.. it was all talked out at that point, so.. only one thing left. BANG!
Besides, if Lucas was so worried about Han having moral ambiguities, he'd have to entirely rework the character--he's a smuggler!
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Not necessarily his purest form.. but the spirit shows the Jedi as they died as a Jedi.. Ben said it himself, Darth Vader killed Anakin Skywalker. When he became Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker died, but his spirit didn't get released.. but when it did, that's why he's seen as Hayden Christensen.
All I ask Lucas at this point (because there's a lot of stuff that he really can't atone for) is that we see Anakin with that hair sometime during Revenge of the Sith. He might be making weird plot holes, but let's at least see a vague effort at continuity here.
That is not an engineer's impulse. Not after Tacoma Narrows and the Montreal bridge incident. An engineer's impulse is to do it right the first fucking time and not waste anybody's money.
On behalf of my father, sister and everyone who can append P.Eng. to their name, I'm insulted.
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I suppose I'd need to get OpenSSL then. As an extension of that, I do believe I'd also need to have a webserver on this (Windows) machine that doesn't suck donkey dong... which could be hard to do, I have never--ever--had luck getting Apache running on this thing. I don't know why.
That's doable, though a logistical nightmare. I have a book (though I didn't bring it with me to school.. interesting) that outlines a very basic method of doing it and it really all depended on perfectly wording the ciphertext (which appeared as cleartext) such that one decryption yielded a false cleartext and another yielded the genuine cleartext. After the Christmas break, I'll bring the book back with me, assuming I can find it, and outline it in a journal entry.
Ahh yes, but your original message gave the impression that you were referring solely to the abilities of PGPDisk.
Furthermore, regarding the raids on KaZaA and IndyMedia servers, the fact that the physical locations of these servers was made available could not possibly be the fault of the operators of the servers; it's that the ISPs were pressured/subpoenad (sp?) into revealing said information.
I think you missed the point. Encryption of your local files is a moot point if the data being transmitted is what's being retained.
That's not to say that encrypting your files isn't a good idea, just irrelevant in this case. Use of PGP/GPG for email, however.. in this case, is a bloody well fantastic idea. If everyone you communicate with has a key pair, you just have to remember to encrypt (and, if you aren't completely braindead, sign) everything you send and you'll have one less things to worry about. Keeping your web traffic under wraps might be a little more difficult.
I just need to find a cheapass CA (or track down the requisite software to do it myself) and I'd be happy as a clam. Of course, the challenge would be convincing everyone I know to start using it, as well. Although, at least that way I could make a certificate for my own servers so that, when I eventually do get my own server up and running, I can keep all traffic using https.
-bite- No, you dumb shit, it's more like 40 Celsius. Positive Fahrenheit values are always greater than their Celsius equivalent and it reverses once you pass -40. In the case of -40, it's the same in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Umm... there have been several episodes of CSI (and, if I recall correctly, though I hardly ever watch it, at least one of CSI Miami) where the team couldn't solve the crime; that something was missing that they just couldn't track down.
See, the CSIs aren't perfect. They miss things. In fact, a few weeks ago, one of the characters' home lives is falling apart because of her dedication to her job. I wouldn't exactly call that glamourising the profession.
Very true. It's just that the infection that kills you isn't AIDS itself... I'd liken it to Christopher Reeve's death. He didn't die of a snapped neck, he died of complications. AIDS-related deaths are due to complications. Very large, very horrifying complications, but complications nonetheless.
-collapses under the weight of the irony- Wait, I thought AIDS just suppressed your immune system to the point where you couldn't even fight off the common cold.. you don't waste away, you just die of the first disease that infects you. AIDS isn't a disease, it's a syndrome. There is no AIDS virus; it's caused by an infection of HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. The virus suppresses your immune system to point where you have AIDS.
Then it's a sport!
And how long ago was it since the dioxin spill? Right, right.. sixteen years. Besides, if you read into the article, it states that the reason Dow still hasn't performed the cleanup as recommended is because they're still determining what has to be done. How much it's going to cost.
And, ooh, concrapulations for being from Detroit. I'm a native Sarnian. I get a distinct feeling I'm quite a bit more familiar with the petrochemical industry.
It's alright for Dow to pay a buck a day to exploit workers in a nation with no enforcement of environmental laws,
Dow Chemical's internal protocols for process safety are some of the most stringient (sp?) in the world, going above and beyond legal requirements by, in all probability, every nation or state where Dow exists--and they're quite widespread. The same protocols are sought after by many companies, which is in fact why my father was hired away from Dow--Irving Oil (the largest/only oil company in the Maritimes) had no process safety protocols and needed someone with a very firm grip on what Dow did in order to improve their own record. As a result, they're paying him much more than Dow ever did to create a system based on the rules of a system he's been enforcing for years. Petrochemical companies know that good process safety will save you far more than exploitation of local laws. Furthermore, the repercussions within Dow for violating their own protocols can, if I understand things correctly, can mean your job.
spew toxic crap into the world with no regard for safety (remember the chlorine leak in India?)
1) That wasn't Dow Chemical at all, that was Union Carbide. Carbide has since been purchased by Dow, but at the time they were completely unrelated. Do not associate Bhutan with Dow. It's practically libel.
2) The Bhutan accident occurred over twenty years ago when the protocols weren't as strict--because something on the scale of Bhutan seemed statistically negligible to the process safety engineers, if it seemed possible at all.
3) The Bhutan accident is known worldwide as the ultimate reason why every company dealing with potentially dangerous chemicals needs a process safety division, in order to prevent such things from happening. No one saw it coming at the time (and there was also the human factor--by the time anyone realised it was happening, it was too late to stop it), but now that the accident has been analysed, it can be prevented.
Long story short, anyone involved with the petrochemical industry knows that Dow is one of the most responsible companies around when it comes to safety. True, when there are fuckups in the industry, they're large.. but when the protocols are there, they're few and far between--and they always figure out why it happened so it can be prevented in the future.
Plus shipping, plus customs, plus (probably) tariffs.. yeah, $350 can come up out of nowhere like that.
RTFPR. They did. You missed it.
Key word, "most". My roommate in first term of freshman year was a fucker. And to think, I gave that man my liquor, trying to get on his good side. Second term, my new roommate was a fucking riot. Poor bastard moved from the Bahamas to Canada in January... but we had a great time. I wouldn't say flat-out trust your roommate.. give it some time to feel them out, but be cautious during that time. I used WinXP's login password on my user whenever I left, just a quick Winkey+L and it's all good. 'Course, I didn't start doing that until I realised the guy wasn't exactly trustworthy.. But yeah, when it comes to laptops.. Unless you're in the bathroom, don't let that thing leave your fucking sight!
That's a bit of a catch-22, now isn't it? No wonder lefties don't buy lefty mice... because there aren't any on the market! I'm not asking for equal numbers here.. You know.. a ninth as many lefthanded mice as there are righthanded mice would be nice.. But they aren't there. You say if lefties bought lefty mice, then Logitech would sell them... but Logitech doesn't make lefty mice, lefties won't be buying lefty mice, now will they?! You can't buy what doesn't exist! I won't blame the lefties who use righty mice, I'll blame the righties who made them use righty mice! There is one arena where I get militant--the lack of support for lefties. It's nigh-impossible to find lefty desks at my university and it's nigh-impossible to find lefty mice. Lefties have been persecuted and ignored for centuries. I'm not asking for "affirmative action" regarding enrollment.. just put enough lefty desks on campus for us to use, god damn it!
I spent all but the last year of my computing existence using a righthanded mouse. It feels a lot better, having switched over. Works with my computer desk a hell of a lot better, too.
Is it available in a lefthanded model? No?
Then fuck you, Logitech.
Oh, why... did the poster submit a link to another Slash site?! Honestly, that's as productive as Google News linking to Slashdot! All it does is add yet another click to the process of finding the fucking news!
/me opens winver
Let's see..
Microsoft Windows
Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp2.030422-1633 : Service Pack 1 )
Doesn't look like NT to me at all. I'd say it's version 5.1 of the standard Windows kernel, not the NT kernel. They're very similar at this point, don't get me wrong.. but I think NT has become the Server Edition.
Anakin Skywalker, human, wasn't gone, but Anakin Skywalker, Jedi was. As soon as you give yourself over to the dark side, you cease to be a Jedi. Jedi-trained, sure, but you're still not a Jedi.
That's the point... because Han clearly has several moral ambiguities, why bother to have Greedo shoot first? Han looks way more badass if he shoots basically unprovoked, then nonchalantly stands and walks out, flipping the bartender a coin and saying, "Sorry about the mess." But then he still comes back and proves that, really, he's a good guy when he smokes Vader's Interceptor to let Luke get the missile (torpedo? I don't own a copy of the Trilogy myself and haven't seen it in a long time) off and blow up the Death Star.
Yeah, but by that point in the script he had tried to talk his way out of it and he realised Greedo wasn't going to just let him walk.. it was all talked out at that point, so.. only one thing left. BANG!
Besides, if Lucas was so worried about Han having moral ambiguities, he'd have to entirely rework the character--he's a smuggler!
Not necessarily his purest form.. but the spirit shows the Jedi as they died as a Jedi.. Ben said it himself, Darth Vader killed Anakin Skywalker. When he became Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker died, but his spirit didn't get released.. but when it did, that's why he's seen as Hayden Christensen.
All I ask Lucas at this point (because there's a lot of stuff that he really can't atone for) is that we see Anakin with that hair sometime during Revenge of the Sith. He might be making weird plot holes, but let's at least see a vague effort at continuity here.
That is not an engineer's impulse. Not after Tacoma Narrows and the Montreal bridge incident. An engineer's impulse is to do it right the first fucking time and not waste anybody's money.
On behalf of my father, sister and everyone who can append P.Eng. to their name, I'm insulted.
Just a nit, CAT-5e isn't Gigabit copper. CAT-6 is. CAT-5e can only handle 250 MBps on Ethernet.