Or just split the difference, keep everyone happy, and decide to do both proposals. Hence leading to configuration boxes from hell adorned with approximately seven thousand checkboxes.
Ah, I see you have discovered KDE's design guidelines.
That's not funny, it's sad... In a fresh kde 3.2 on my dell desktop, I have an extended "Sony Vaio Laptop Hardware configuration" panel in control center. Wtf?
It is not only completely unusable, but KDE is even aware of that, as every option is grayed out and there's a complaint about a missing driver.
Well, I don't know what to think of this article. Actually, I do: I don't believe any of it.
I've somewhat followed the entire echelon story, and you quickly end up with a lot of speculation, conspiracy theories etc., which is of course exactly what THEY want:-)
Anyway, more reliable information can be found in the official reports of the european union, in their investigation of the echelon system. Look on google for Duncan Campbell and his first reports for the european parliament. Scary stuff, and definitely more trustworthy than some interview with the supposed creator of echelon, containing no evidence of anything whatsoever.
Here's a link to get you started: http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echel on/prechel on_en.htm
It's nice technology, and has some pretty good uses, but overall people don't pay enough attention to security. And that's just plain dangerous.
We've had a seminar recently at our university with a security expert talking about cellular phones. There's a lot of encryption going on in these devices, but it's apparently not very solid. In one standard made by the big boys of the industry, an example encryption method was presented that wasn't fully secure. The little ones didn't have the knowledge to implement their own, so they adopted the example. Only to pay a lot of cash to some experts afterwards to get it out again.
Now, them paying a lot of cash is not the dangerous part, but the lack of security is. It's only a matter of time before the first big virus strike in bluetooth-gsm-cash register-insert your favourite device here.
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Ah, I see you have discovered KDE's design guidelines.
That's not funny, it's sad... In a fresh kde 3.2 on my dell desktop, I have an extended "Sony Vaio Laptop Hardware configuration" panel in control center. Wtf? It is not only completely unusable, but KDE is even aware of that, as every option is grayed out and there's a complaint about a missing driver.
Well, I don't know what to think of this article. Actually, I do: I don't believe any of it.
:-)
l on/prechel on_en.htm
I've somewhat followed the entire echelon story, and you quickly end up with a lot of speculation, conspiracy theories etc., which is of course exactly what THEY want
Anyway, more reliable information can be found in the official reports of the european union, in their investigation of the echelon system. Look on google for Duncan Campbell and his first reports for the european parliament. Scary stuff, and definitely more trustworthy than some interview with the supposed creator of echelon, containing no evidence of anything whatsoever.
Here's a link to get you started:
http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/eche
It's nice technology, and has some pretty good uses, but overall people don't pay enough attention to security. And that's just plain dangerous.
:-)
We've had a seminar recently at our university with a security expert talking about cellular phones. There's a lot of encryption going on in these devices, but it's apparently not very solid. In one standard made by the big boys of the industry, an example encryption method was presented that wasn't fully secure. The little ones didn't have the knowledge to implement their own, so they adopted the example. Only to pay a lot of cash to some experts afterwards to get it out again.
Now, them paying a lot of cash is not the dangerous part, but the lack of security is. It's only a matter of time before the first big virus strike in bluetooth-gsm-cash register-insert your favourite device here.
Come to think of it, that would be rather cool