If someone will go through the trouble of forcing you to reveal a password you would think they would read the documentation. If that is what you are up against you are better off to have a hidden volume so you can show torturers something before they remove all your fingers.
Any TrueCrypt volume can contain a hidden volume. Including the hidden volume.
You can play Russian dolls with it; a hidden volume inside a hidden volume, inside a riddle, inside an enigma. Your torturer can never be certain that he has all the keys.
This means that some parts of the system will be public domain whilst some are copyleft, I am not an expert in copyright law but it seems like it will be messy.
What's the problem with that? We can just carry on as before. Anything new that we write is copyright of the author and GPL-licenced. And since any surviving decades-old code is public domain, there's no problem for us in continuing to use it.
It's the proprietary boys who have a problem. Sure, some components have gone into the public domain. But only those components which have not been modified in fifty years. Any changes made in the interim are still copyright and GPL-licenced, and must be removed. Basically they're forced to go to the archives and download historic code. Running 1992-era code on 2042-era hardware doesn't sound like much of a business plan.
Then Tux and Linux reach the end of their copyright term will people be happy that the GPL just stops?
Sure. If someone wants to use a suddenly public-domain Linux 0.1, they can go right ahead. The current version will still be under copyright and available only under the terms of the GPL. Oh, and the Linux name is trademarked, not copyrighted, so Linus and his successors retain that indefinitely.
I got an old K6-2 system, underclocked it to 100MHz, removed CPU fan and replaced the PSU fan with a very slow and quiet model to make a nearly-silent 8watt system. Then installed OpenBSD on a 32MB CF card (stripped of unnecessary binaries for size, but otherwise completely normal), and have been using that for years. It will run indefinitely, without a reboot.
Interesting; I did something similar once upon a time. 2002, I think. I picked up a P75 from a flea market, installed a USB card in the one and only PCI slot and an ISA NIC, and installed Smoothwall. It worked great for sharing an ADSL connection among the dozen or so students in our house that year. However, it would come to a grinding halt if I tried to make too many P2P connections - not a matter of bandwidth, I think, just too many connections to keep track of.
Then again, that old box only had 16MiB of RAM. A K6/2 would have, what... 64ish? That shouldn't have much trouble keeping up with some decent-sized torrents.
Their communist roots and goals are not even close to being in line with me or this country.
Communist? The ACLU campaign for workers' control of the means of production? I hadn't heard that; I thought they were civil rights campaigners. Where do I donate?
I always find that when dealing with any command of the form rm -rf, it's best to check and double-check that what I have typed is exactly what I mean. These are dangerous commands, and the slightest typo can leave one feeling terribly foolish.
All these travel restrictions largely originate in USA (and their colony, the UK).
Technically we're not a colony. A colony is formally governed by the parent country, or official representatives thereof. The UK is still formally run by the British government. However, the British government quite of its own accord does whatever the Americans say.
Ah, didn't spot the ambiguity there. I meant, name the theories out there which are better than evolution and the Big Bang. Because as far as I'm aware those two explain the origin of the diversity of life on Earth, and the origin of the Universe as a whole, with better accuracy and better evidential support than any other.
I had to re-read that a couple of times before I got it. I was wondering what the hell 'DirectX over SDL' was - some kind of hideous Windows / Unix compatibility hack?
Additionally a double opt-in vote would require that you insert your voter number to place the vote, then reply to the email sent to your registered email address before your vote is counted.
That's called 'confirmed opt-in'. 'Double' implies that you have to opt in twice, but that's not what you're doing: you're providing an email address, and then confirming by the reply that the person who provided your email address was actually you. When a system requires you to enter a username and a password, you don't call it 'double log-in', do you?
'Double opt-in' is spammer-speak, intended to imply that it's an unnecessary extra step and far too much to ask of a legitimate marketer so take me off your list right now I'm not spamming you opted in and you are infringing my right to frea speach.
Your astronomy sucks. Which is not surprising, given that you're bringing it up in support of biology which also sucks.
Earth is positioned in such a way (on the outer arms of the galaxy, facing in away from the galactic core)
Earth is facing away from the galactic core? That's a strange way to describe an object which rotates once every 24 hours. What do you even mean by it? Surely we're facing towards the galactic core half the time?
that ALL of the observations used to formulate cosmological models are possible. If the earth was pointed into the galactic core, it would be perpetually daylight and we would know nothing but what we see in front of our faces?
Er, daylight comes from the Sun. We receive very little light from the galactic core. And remember again, we're rotating: we do most of our observations at night, when we're pointing away from the Sun.
Obama favoured the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange? Wholesale nationalisation of all industries? A centrally planned economy?
Or did he just favour adding a few half-arsed social safeguards to make corporate capitalism slightly more bearable for the workers?
If there's life on the closest planets to us, it's basically impossible for us to be the only intelligent life forms out there.
Not necessarily. We'd need to do some kind of molecular analysis before we made declarations like that.
Earth is virulently alive, it's thoroughly infested with life everywhere you look. It's quite possible that life found on, say, Mars would be a descendant of life from Earth: think bacterial spores riding a rock from impact ejecta.
If Mars-life has the same basic DNA chemistry and the same molecular chirality as Earth-life, then they're likely to have shared a common origin, which tells us nothing about the likelihood of life among the stars. If, however, Mars-life is entirely alien right down to the molecular level, then it's likely to be of independent origin - native Martian. That changes all the estimates of the likelihood of life spontaneously emerging, and gives us to expect a universe full of living things.
The question 'How long was it before you could hit a ball with a bat reliably?' contains the implicit assumption 'You can hit a ball with a bat reliably'.
This assumption is false. I certainly can't, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here. Oh, the shame of being made to play rounders at school, swinging at the incoming ball and getting nowhere near the damn thing... I hit a ball with a bat maybe one time in ten. One time in five on a good day.
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My point is, how about a LiveCD of some sort aimed at installing Truecrypt without leaving any pre-installation or current installation traces? Is this possible?
I suppose so, but is it desirable? You could certainly build a Linux boot image which would mount all disks and make encryption tools available. But normally, the fact that you're using crypto isn't the secret. The adversary has probably already pulled your email records from Echelon, or issued national security letters to your ISP. They know about your use of cryptography. They just don't know your key.
At this point they come around to your house at 3am and drag you off somewhere secret for robust interrogation. They'll probably find your crypto-tools CD anyway. They'll definitely find encrypted data on your hard disk. So you might as well install TrueCrypt wholesale and save yourself some inconvenience.
Of course, running the decoy could overwrite your data. But if you're going to be paranoid, you may as well go all the way.
If you have data of such importance as to require this kind of security, you have backups of it. You don't care if your hidden volume gets overwritten while the secret police are searching your regular volume, because once they're done you can just restore.
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Last I heard, you could only have one hidden volume. That significantly reduces plausible deniability, if you are interrogated they can rubber-hose you until give it up and then your interrogators will know they got it all.
I never heard that. Reading through the documentation, it appears that any TrueCrypt volume can contain one hidden volume. Which means that your hidden volume can itself contain another hidden volume, and that can contain yet another.
If you think your adversary will torture you a second time in order to get your first-order hidden volume, then that's fine. Put the financial stuff in the non-hidden volume, the porn in the first hidden volume, and the Evil Master Plan in the second hidden volume.
The point is that you can have arbitrarily many layers of nesting. The enemy can never be certain he has them all, and most users probably don't even bother using a hidden volume in the first place.
How is a house gonna run off of 500 Watts? That's only 8 1/3 hours of light from a 60 watt bulb!
OK, time for remedial high school science:
The watt is a unit of power. One watt is one joule per second. So, given 500 joules, you could power a 60W light bulb for eight and one third seconds. Seconds. I don't know where you got hours from.
But we're not looking at 500 joules here. We're looking at 500 watts: a continual supply of 500 joules per second. This means you could light eight and one third 60W bulbs, indefinitely.
Wikipedia indicates that the UK consumed 382.7 TWh in 2004. Given a population of 60 million, that divides out to an average of 728 watts per capita. Subtract out industrial uses, and 500W starts to look like a fairly realistic estimate. However, that would be per person, not per household; most houses contain more than one person, and would have a rather higher energy budget.
I'm coming to think that the US should make a Peter-Pan type exception for Mickey Mouse, since US congress refuse to let the sun set on the rodent.
As a matter of fact I would be fine with that. The eternal Peter Pan copyright belongs to the Great Ormond Street childrens' hospital, and when the copyright expired in 1987 the government granted them a perpetual right to collect royalties on it. I'm sure there are similar institutions in the US which would appreciate the same kind of deal with Mickey Mouse.
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Any TrueCrypt volume can contain a hidden volume. Including the hidden volume.
You can play Russian dolls with it; a hidden volume inside a hidden volume, inside a riddle, inside an enigma. Your torturer can never be certain that he has all the keys.
What's the problem with that? We can just carry on as before. Anything new that we write is copyright of the author and GPL-licenced. And since any surviving decades-old code is public domain, there's no problem for us in continuing to use it.
It's the proprietary boys who have a problem. Sure, some components have gone into the public domain. But only those components which have not been modified in fifty years. Any changes made in the interim are still copyright and GPL-licenced, and must be removed. Basically they're forced to go to the archives and download historic code. Running 1992-era code on 2042-era hardware doesn't sound like much of a business plan.
Sure. If someone wants to use a suddenly public-domain Linux 0.1, they can go right ahead. The current version will still be under copyright and available only under the terms of the GPL. Oh, and the Linux name is trademarked, not copyrighted, so Linus and his successors retain that indefinitely.
Interesting; I did something similar once upon a time. 2002, I think. I picked up a P75 from a flea market, installed a USB card in the one and only PCI slot and an ISA NIC, and installed Smoothwall. It worked great for sharing an ADSL connection among the dozen or so students in our house that year. However, it would come to a grinding halt if I tried to make too many P2P connections - not a matter of bandwidth, I think, just too many connections to keep track of.
Then again, that old box only had 16MiB of RAM. A K6/2 would have, what... 64ish? That shouldn't have much trouble keeping up with some decent-sized torrents.
Communist? The ACLU campaign for workers' control of the means of production? I hadn't heard that; I thought they were civil rights campaigners. Where do I donate?
I always find that when dealing with any command of the form rm -rf, it's best to check and double-check that what I have typed is exactly what I mean. These are dangerous commands, and the slightest typo can leave one feeling terribly foolish.
That's why you also carry a katana.
Technically we're not a colony. A colony is formally governed by the parent country, or official representatives thereof. The UK is still formally run by the British government. However, the British government quite of its own accord does whatever the Americans say.
The word for this situation is 'vassal state'.
So, in other words, it's Normal person + Anonymity + Audience?
Ah, didn't spot the ambiguity there. I meant, name the theories out there which are better than evolution and the Big Bang. Because as far as I'm aware those two explain the origin of the diversity of life on Earth, and the origin of the Universe as a whole, with better accuracy and better evidential support than any other.
Well, they have done in the past.
I had to re-read that a couple of times before I got it. I was wondering what the hell 'DirectX over SDL' was - some kind of hideous Windows / Unix compatibility hack?
That's called 'confirmed opt-in'. 'Double' implies that you have to opt in twice, but that's not what you're doing: you're providing an email address, and then confirming by the reply that the person who provided your email address was actually you. When a system requires you to enter a username and a password, you don't call it 'double log-in', do you?
'Double opt-in' is spammer-speak, intended to imply that it's an unnecessary extra step and far too much to ask of a legitimate marketer so take me off your list right now I'm not spamming you opted in and you are infringing my right to frea speach.
Earth is positioned in such a way (on the outer arms of the galaxy, facing in away from the galactic core)
Earth is facing away from the galactic core? That's a strange way to describe an object which rotates once every 24 hours. What do you even mean by it? Surely we're facing towards the galactic core half the time?
that ALL of the observations used to formulate cosmological models are possible. If the earth was pointed into the galactic core, it would be perpetually daylight and we would know nothing but what we see in front of our faces?
Er, daylight comes from the Sun. We receive very little light from the galactic core. And remember again, we're rotating: we do most of our observations at night, when we're pointing away from the Sun.
Seriously: name them. I'd love to hear it. So would the Nobel Prize committee.
Obama favoured the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange? Wholesale nationalisation of all industries? A centrally planned economy?
Or did he just favour adding a few half-arsed social safeguards to make corporate capitalism slightly more bearable for the workers?
Not necessarily. We'd need to do some kind of molecular analysis before we made declarations like that.
Earth is virulently alive, it's thoroughly infested with life everywhere you look. It's quite possible that life found on, say, Mars would be a descendant of life from Earth: think bacterial spores riding a rock from impact ejecta.
If Mars-life has the same basic DNA chemistry and the same molecular chirality as Earth-life, then they're likely to have shared a common origin, which tells us nothing about the likelihood of life among the stars. If, however, Mars-life is entirely alien right down to the molecular level, then it's likely to be of independent origin - native Martian. That changes all the estimates of the likelihood of life spontaneously emerging, and gives us to expect a universe full of living things.
Yes it is.
The question 'How long was it before you could hit a ball with a bat reliably?' contains the implicit assumption 'You can hit a ball with a bat reliably'.
This assumption is false. I certainly can't, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here. Oh, the shame of being made to play rounders at school, swinging at the incoming ball and getting nowhere near the damn thing... I hit a ball with a bat maybe one time in ten. One time in five on a good day.
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I suppose so, but is it desirable? You could certainly build a Linux boot image which would mount all disks and make encryption tools available. But normally, the fact that you're using crypto isn't the secret. The adversary has probably already pulled your email records from Echelon, or issued national security letters to your ISP. They know about your use of cryptography. They just don't know your key.
At this point they come around to your house at 3am and drag you off somewhere secret for robust interrogation. They'll probably find your crypto-tools CD anyway. They'll definitely find encrypted data on your hard disk. So you might as well install TrueCrypt wholesale and save yourself some inconvenience.
If you have data of such importance as to require this kind of security, you have backups of it. You don't care if your hidden volume gets overwritten while the secret police are searching your regular volume, because once they're done you can just restore.
I never heard that. Reading through the documentation, it appears that any TrueCrypt volume can contain one hidden volume. Which means that your hidden volume can itself contain another hidden volume, and that can contain yet another.
If you think your adversary will torture you a second time in order to get your first-order hidden volume, then that's fine. Put the financial stuff in the non-hidden volume, the porn in the first hidden volume, and the Evil Master Plan in the second hidden volume.
The point is that you can have arbitrarily many layers of nesting. The enemy can never be certain he has them all, and most users probably don't even bother using a hidden volume in the first place.
Error: question is based on a false premise.
OK, time for remedial high school science:
The watt is a unit of power. One watt is one joule per second. So, given 500 joules, you could power a 60W light bulb for eight and one third seconds. Seconds. I don't know where you got hours from.
But we're not looking at 500 joules here. We're looking at 500 watts: a continual supply of 500 joules per second. This means you could light eight and one third 60W bulbs, indefinitely.
Wikipedia indicates that the UK consumed 382.7 TWh in 2004. Given a population of 60 million, that divides out to an average of 728 watts per capita. Subtract out industrial uses, and 500W starts to look like a fairly realistic estimate. However, that would be per person, not per household; most houses contain more than one person, and would have a rather higher energy budget.
As a matter of fact I would be fine with that. The eternal Peter Pan copyright belongs to the Great Ormond Street childrens' hospital, and when the copyright expired in 1987 the government granted them a perpetual right to collect royalties on it. I'm sure there are similar institutions in the US which would appreciate the same kind of deal with Mickey Mouse.