A warrant is still required for a pen register, even though the requirement is only [claimed] relevance to a criminal investigation, not probable cause. And that is assuming it is for domestic communications. If one end is out of the country, then FISA applies, and the process is even easier, including a warrant up to 72 hours after the fact.
I have never had trouble just using dd on a live CD from the old drive to the new drive, removing the old drive, and booting into Windows without it noticing anything different. (Actually, it sometimes does "found new hardware" on the hard drive.)
You can already make Windows XP live CD/DVDs. I use BartPE. I will note that it boots a lot slower than Knoppix. I am not sure exactly how customizable it is.
Interesting, but that only proves my point. Java is get near C/C++ preformance, but C/C++ is still the way to go for maximum performance. Personally, I use Java (and have dabbled in jogl) because I am not making extremely processor intensive programs.
Cognitive CAPTCHAs have been suggested on/. multiple times, but no one has been able to come up with a puzzle that a computer could generate many puzzles (i.e., too many for a cracking program to simply remember all of them) that would also be simple for a human to solve. I think visual and audio CAPTCHAs are probably sufficient.
The C++ will run faster, but the Java code will only get compiled once or maybe two or three times depending on if Java thinks the code will be used again/how soon it gets used again. What part of JIT compiler do you people not understand?
Ugh, Java is not interpreted. It is Just In Time (JIT) compiled. The initial startup time will be slower than C/C++, but once the program is running it will be about the same as the equivalent C/C++ code. But, your point stands: for scientific applications and (high graphics 3D) games, C/C++ is still the right tool for the job.
Gaim is quite modular and allows plugins to do a lot. The base Gaim with no plugins supports zero IM protocols and does not even show a system tray icon. (It comes with those plugins.) Why could this not have been implemented as a plugin? I already have twoend-to-end encryption plugins installed (gaim-encryption and gaim-otr). I would not expect secure file transfers to be difficult to do as a plugin. Really, I am just not sure about TOR, but that should be submitted as a patch to the offical Gaim source tree (or, at least a patch for a way for plugins to add proxy options).
Most science teachers are crap (e.g. teaching PE and some science on the side).
Hey! The best science teacher at my high school taught one section of AP Chemistry, spent the rest of the day teaching PE/health, and was also the track coach because that was the only way he could both teach chemistry and avoid dealing with the administration as much as possible.
You do not need a "warp drive" or any other sci-fi FTL travel to get to other solar systems. What you do need, which we currently lack, is near light speed travel so you can take advantage of relativistic effects. That is, your voyage may take 100 years, but if you are going fast enough it will only seem to be maybe 2 or 3 years to the crew. Of course, that would require some way of finding an Earth-like planet to send them to, which we cannot do that I know of.
Speaking in more realistic terms, I thought part of the idea of the ISS was to figure out how well and how long we can get humans to survive away from Earth and to look into technologies which would improve that. In theory, we could make a self-sustainable ecosystem in a dome on the Moon or Mars, probably with robots going to get it ready before the humans come, but we are not ready to do so right now. That is no reason to say it is not an important topic to research.
Just saying "It's impossible. I give up." is not going to get us anywhere.
The "hashing" algorithm you are refering to is called MusicBrainz. I just started using amarok recently, and it works pretty well, although it usually gives a few unrelated choices.
I'm interested in your setup, then. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000, but it also has an ATI Radeon Mobility M300. Currently, I am running Xorg 6.9 (haven't upgraded to 7.x yet) on Gentoo Linux with the fglrx driver v8.25.18 with the 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 kernel. In order to even get X to work, I have to disable hardware acceleration or it freezes about 10 seconds after starting X (I think that is related to using the radeonfb module for a high-res terminal, but I use the terminal too much to use a kernel without that.). With this version of the drivers, hibernate works less than half the time, instead when it tries to hibernate, the screen's backlight keeps on getting brighter until I hold down the power button to force it to shut down.
So, could you tell me your specific versions of fglrx, xorg, and Linux kernel? And, if you use them, how well sleep and hibernate work. Especially having TV-out work would be nice because that is currently one of the few things I boot into Windows for.
s/smart/motivated/
I know plenty of smart unmotivated kids. In fact, a lot of kids tend to sorta burn-out in high school because they realise that the work is ridiculously simple and cannot be bothered to do it.
China has a constitution providing for many, if not all, of the rights specified in the United States Bill of Rights. The difference is that the United States government usually follows its constitution. Unfortunately, like in the US, most people in China simply do not care about politics.
Also, after about 4th grade, there should be seperate classes for math/science, English, literature, etc - so that a teacher can teach his/her pupils what he is good at, rather than attempting to be a *generalized* teacher who knows little about the subject matter at hand.
My elementry school actually did do that grades 4-6. The students would rotate around to the different general teachers and each one would specialize in science or (different leveled) math. Now that I think of it, I do not think we switched for reading.
First, I would like to mention a correction to my post that you replied to: there is a OTR plug-in for Trillian Pro.
OTR and gaim-encryption both ask the user to verify the fingerprints, and the keys are exchanged such that a MITM is theoretically impossible assuming out-of-band verification of the fingerprints, of course. Gaim-encryption uses RSA, so I think it just sends along the public key. OTR generates an AES key with AKE (link to full OTR protocol docs). Check the links to their homepages for complete descriptions of their protocols.
(d) To safeguard the privacy of innocent persons, the interception
of wire or oral communications where none of the parties to the
communication has consented to the interception should be allowed
only when authorized by a court of competent jurisdiction and should
remain under the control and supervision of the authorizing court.
Interception of wire and oral communications should further be limited
to certain major types of offenses and specific categories of
crime with assurances that the interception is justified and that the
information obtained thereby will not be misused.
That section applies to all domestic private/electronic voice communications in the US.
I assume the telephone companies have privacy policies, and their employees are required by contract to follow them. That does not mean they will keep your information private, just that they are breaking a contract if they do not, and you have every right to sue them for doing so.
The reporters probably should be more careful, but they should have no real reason to expect the telephone company to leak their dialed numbers.
Proletariat (dictionary.com) is just another term for "working class" that Karl Marx happened to use in his writings. Its use is not limited to talking about communism.
You mean the Trillian SecureIM with absolutely no verification on the key exchange (and therefore no attempt to stop a man in the middle attack)? The one that it would be trival to implement a server which kept a plain-text copy of every message invisible to both sides? If you really care about protecting your messages, use something like OTR, which is actually secure. According to this topic, if you have Trillian Pro, there is a plug-in you can use like the gaim-otr plugin, otherwise you can use otr-proxy with any AIM client. Personally, I use gaim-encryption more, but that, of course, is gaim-only.
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Won't Firefox do the exact same thing with 2.0 when it comes out?
A warrant is still required for a pen register, even though the requirement is only [claimed] relevance to a criminal investigation, not probable cause. And that is assuming it is for domestic communications. If one end is out of the country, then FISA applies, and the process is even easier, including a warrant up to 72 hours after the fact.
I have never had trouble just using dd on a live CD from the old drive to the new drive, removing the old drive, and booting into Windows without it noticing anything different. (Actually, it sometimes does "found new hardware" on the hard drive.)
You can already make Windows XP live CD/DVDs. I use BartPE. I will note that it boots a lot slower than Knoppix. I am not sure exactly how customizable it is.
Interesting, but that only proves my point. Java is get near C/C++ preformance, but C/C++ is still the way to go for maximum performance. Personally, I use Java (and have dabbled in jogl) because I am not making extremely processor intensive programs.
Cognitive CAPTCHAs have been suggested on /. multiple times, but no one has been able to come up with a puzzle that a computer could generate many puzzles (i.e., too many for a cracking program to simply remember all of them) that would also be simple for a human to solve. I think visual and audio CAPTCHAs are probably sufficient.
The C++ will run faster, but the Java code will only get compiled once or maybe two or three times depending on if Java thinks the code will be used again/how soon it gets used again. What part of JIT compiler do you people not understand?
Ugh, Java is not interpreted. It is Just In Time (JIT) compiled. The initial startup time will be slower than C/C++, but once the program is running it will be about the same as the equivalent C/C++ code. But, your point stands: for scientific applications and (high graphics 3D) games, C/C++ is still the right tool for the job.
I stated in my grandparent post that I use that plugin. It does not do everything the program in the article does, though. (TOR, for one.)
Gaim is quite modular and allows plugins to do a lot. The base Gaim with no plugins supports zero IM protocols and does not even show a system tray icon. (It comes with those plugins.) Why could this not have been implemented as a plugin? I already have twoend-to-end encryption plugins installed (gaim-encryption and gaim-otr). I would not expect secure file transfers to be difficult to do as a plugin. Really, I am just not sure about TOR, but that should be submitted as a patch to the offical Gaim source tree (or, at least a patch for a way for plugins to add proxy options).
No, moving objects age slower, which causes the Twin paradox. The difference is only significant near light speed.
Hey! The best science teacher at my high school taught one section of AP Chemistry, spent the rest of the day teaching PE/health, and was also the track coach because that was the only way he could both teach chemistry and avoid dealing with the administration as much as possible.
You do not need a "warp drive" or any other sci-fi FTL travel to get to other solar systems. What you do need, which we currently lack, is near light speed travel so you can take advantage of relativistic effects. That is, your voyage may take 100 years, but if you are going fast enough it will only seem to be maybe 2 or 3 years to the crew. Of course, that would require some way of finding an Earth-like planet to send them to, which we cannot do that I know of.
Speaking in more realistic terms, I thought part of the idea of the ISS was to figure out how well and how long we can get humans to survive away from Earth and to look into technologies which would improve that. In theory, we could make a self-sustainable ecosystem in a dome on the Moon or Mars, probably with robots going to get it ready before the humans come, but we are not ready to do so right now. That is no reason to say it is not an important topic to research.
Just saying "It's impossible. I give up." is not going to get us anywhere.
The "hashing" algorithm you are refering to is called MusicBrainz. I just started using amarok recently, and it works pretty well, although it usually gives a few unrelated choices.
I'm interested in your setup, then. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000, but it also has an ATI Radeon Mobility M300. Currently, I am running Xorg 6.9 (haven't upgraded to 7.x yet) on Gentoo Linux with the fglrx driver v8.25.18 with the 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 kernel. In order to even get X to work, I have to disable hardware acceleration or it freezes about 10 seconds after starting X (I think that is related to using the radeonfb module for a high-res terminal, but I use the terminal too much to use a kernel without that.). With this version of the drivers, hibernate works less than half the time, instead when it tries to hibernate, the screen's backlight keeps on getting brighter until I hold down the power button to force it to shut down.
So, could you tell me your specific versions of fglrx, xorg, and Linux kernel? And, if you use them, how well sleep and hibernate work. Especially having TV-out work would be nice because that is currently one of the few things I boot into Windows for.
Unfortunately, the identity of those two extensions is a well-kept secret.
Seriously, will that method also work between Windows and Linux? (I dual-boot.)
s/smart/motivated/
I know plenty of smart unmotivated kids. In fact, a lot of kids tend to sorta burn-out in high school because they realise that the work is ridiculously simple and cannot be bothered to do it.
You mean the enemy combatant status which was overturned by the Supreme Court
Lower taxes?
China has a constitution providing for many, if not all, of the rights specified in the United States Bill of Rights. The difference is that the United States government usually follows its constitution. Unfortunately, like in the US, most people in China simply do not care about politics.
My elementry school actually did do that grades 4-6. The students would rotate around to the different general teachers and each one would specialize in science or (different leveled) math. Now that I think of it, I do not think we switched for reading.
First, I would like to mention a correction to my post that you replied to: there is a OTR plug-in for Trillian Pro.
OTR and gaim-encryption both ask the user to verify the fingerprints, and the keys are exchanged such that a MITM is theoretically impossible assuming out-of-band verification of the fingerprints, of course. Gaim-encryption uses RSA, so I think it just sends along the public key. OTR generates an AES key with AKE (link to full OTR protocol docs). Check the links to their homepages for complete descriptions of their protocols.
That section applies to all domestic private/electronic voice communications in the US.
I assume the telephone companies have privacy policies, and their employees are required by contract to follow them. That does not mean they will keep your information private, just that they are breaking a contract if they do not, and you have every right to sue them for doing so.
The reporters probably should be more careful, but they should have no real reason to expect the telephone company to leak their dialed numbers.
Proletariat (dictionary.com) is just another term for "working class" that Karl Marx happened to use in his writings. Its use is not limited to talking about communism.
Why does your computer executable arbitrary code on a newly inserted music CD without a prompt? Just curious.
You mean the Trillian SecureIM with absolutely no verification on the key exchange (and therefore no attempt to stop a man in the middle attack)? The one that it would be trival to implement a server which kept a plain-text copy of every message invisible to both sides? If you really care about protecting your messages, use something like OTR, which is actually secure. According to this topic, if you have Trillian Pro, there is a plug-in you can use like the gaim-otr plugin, otherwise you can use otr-proxy with any AIM client. Personally, I use gaim-encryption more, but that, of course, is gaim-only.