I have a similar system:
Weak sites and one-offs: I really, really don't care. The password is the golden ratio.
Medium sites: hash(FiveWordDicewarePassphrase+SiteName) It's different for every site, but easy to remember and use.
High security: Each site has a different diceware phrase, hashed and salted by copy+pasting the site name (as above). This also helps prevent unicode look-alike character phishing attacks from working, since the hash comes out wrong.
When Microsoft's key is breached, everyone will have to update. The updates will be signed with ASUS', MSI's, Gigabyte's, etc's keys. If their keys are breached, then yes it becomes circular, but the UEFI key is different from the bootloader key is different from the kernel key is different from any application keys.
One of my favorite things about Steam is how easy it is to reinstall games if I change computers. Just install steam, log in, click on the game and hit install. The downloads are fast (saturating my downstream connection, so just as fast as torrents) and all my settings and saved games get restored automatically. Steam may be DRM, but it's actually a better experience than pirating. That's why I'm willing to buy games on Steam but avoid Origin and such.
Gold hasn't been particularly stable, since the value of gold is determined by what various countries set it at. EG in 1934, the U.S. government revalued gold from $20.67/oz to $35.00/oz, instantly deflating the dollar.
Every economic collapse, eh? Clearly the Roman Empire used fiat currency! Also, the crash of 1929 was in no way whatsoever caused by the use of a gold standard. Finally, there have been quite a number of eras of growth and prosperity in which gold was not the standard. EG After WW2 Britain ended the gold standard and started an era of significant technological and economic growth.
"Kooky gold hoarders" are rather silly, because they tend to ignore any evidence that contradicts their views. There are many more counterexamples to the points you listed, and they aren't terribly difficult to research.
The NSA has a very big budget. The NSA has quite a lot of very skilled people working there. If you're trying to keep an organization with their resources out you have to verify everything, including the hardware.
I didn't find it scary. Surprising/startling at a few of the "monster jumps out" bits, but not really scary. I'm just bad at horror movies/games, unless spiders are involved. Or Lovecraftian styles of unstoppable cosmic forces that can come for anyone, not just someone who happens to steal an orb thing. That said, it's a very fun game, with amazingly great sound design.
Dolphin is both a Linux file browser and an Android web browser. The two projects are unrelated, save for both being named after the same marine mammal.
On android 4.x at least, the process is simpler.
From the home screen (or another app, if you forget). Hold home, if vibration is on it will vibrate twice. The task switcher will come up. Swipe an app's thumbnail right or left to kill it.
Most previous android phones could do pretty much the same thing, but IIRC it took an extra button press somewhere. It's been a while since I've run Froyo or Gingerbread on my Vibrant (same generation as your Evo).
Third-party roms are great.
I currently use 675GB out of 1.25TB. (not counting backups, of course.) When I go over about 800GB total I tend to go through and delete unused data/programs. That's not to say I need all that storage on my desktop, I'd rather have it in a NAS with a hot spare, but that's a bit out of my budget.
My next PC will almost certainly use an SSD for OS and swap partitions, with a 1-2 TB HDD for bulk data. My laptop and phone can copy data to/from the desktop as needed.
Checking to see what all that space is:
200 GB Programs. Games and my tendency to lose original install media tend to be the big offenders. Steam helps.
70GB TV shows and movies not (yet) available on Netflix. Pretty much all stuff I've watched but know I will rewatch later, or want to show to someone else.
34GB Music
32GB Books, mostly zipped. Many have duplicates in various formats, due to old device restrictions. Could probably cut collection size in half by cleaning that.
5GB Documents
4GB Pictures.
The DMCA takedown request can only require the host to takedown the infringing items. If the host takes down the whole site (like in this case) it's the host's fault, not the DMCA filer's fault.
Create second gmail account. Use aliases there. Have that forward to your primary account. You now have the same net effect as your second yahoo account, with the "base name" of the yahoo account's spam filtering replaced by the address of the secondary account.
Or use Spamgourmet, which is what Yahoo's system is based off of. Or Mailinator, dudmail, or any of the many, many other such free services.
My point was that a system exists to decoy spam in gmail, while ThunderBird89 seemed to think there was no such system.
Yeah, use whatever works best for you. I made my post because it seemed you had some misconceptions about gmail, not to convince you to switch. With the way Yahoo! has been losing money I figured it might help to know how to get similar functionality out of gmail in case they go under.
Gmail aliases are unlimited. Not just 500. If you are more paranoid than average you can use a second address set to auto-forward as the base. That makes it take about as much setup as Yahoo's version.
Gmail has keyboard shortcuts.
Yahoo!'s storage space isn't unlimited, they just don't tell you the cap.
You can detach the "compose mail" dialog to a separate window. You can make as many windows as you wish (or until you window manager/browser crashes.)
If you only use one label per message then labels are identical to folders. Otherwise they have a strict superset of folder functionality (a message can have >1 label, but can only be in 1 folder.)
What, exactly, does Yahoo! have that Gmail doesn't have? Other! Than! Excessive! Punctuation!
I believe in Eris. I know she doesn't exist, and that I'm just giving a name to the impersonal forces of randomness in the universe, but I believe. It makes me happy. I'm careful not to confuse what I believe with what I know; believing is only really fun if one believes in false things.
The Buddhist. The murderer is hoping for a heaven after death, while the Buddhist is creating heaven in life. The kingdom of heaven is already upon us, we merely need create it here. "Heaven" or "Nirvana" or any other name, it is the state of a life freed from suffering. The dead are dead, there is no afterlife.
Of course, I'm not Christian, I was raised Jewish and later converted away to pandeist antitheist Discordianism.
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I have a similar system:
Weak sites and one-offs: I really, really don't care. The password is the golden ratio.
Medium sites: hash(FiveWordDicewarePassphrase+SiteName) It's different for every site, but easy to remember and use.
High security: Each site has a different diceware phrase, hashed and salted by copy+pasting the site name (as above). This also helps prevent unicode look-alike character phishing attacks from working, since the hash comes out wrong.
Also, for Android users on custom ROMS:
Gingerbread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357056
And for ICS:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1554960
SHA-1 has an actual better-than-brute-force collision discovery attack. Since 2005.
When Microsoft's key is breached, everyone will have to update. The updates will be signed with ASUS', MSI's, Gigabyte's, etc's keys. If their keys are breached, then yes it becomes circular, but the UEFI key is different from the bootloader key is different from the kernel key is different from any application keys.
One of my favorite things about Steam is how easy it is to reinstall games if I change computers. Just install steam, log in, click on the game and hit install. The downloads are fast (saturating my downstream connection, so just as fast as torrents) and all my settings and saved games get restored automatically. Steam may be DRM, but it's actually a better experience than pirating. That's why I'm willing to buy games on Steam but avoid Origin and such.
Gold hasn't been particularly stable, since the value of gold is determined by what various countries set it at. EG in 1934, the U.S. government revalued gold from $20.67/oz to $35.00/oz, instantly deflating the dollar.
Every economic collapse, eh? Clearly the Roman Empire used fiat currency! Also, the crash of 1929 was in no way whatsoever caused by the use of a gold standard. Finally, there have been quite a number of eras of growth and prosperity in which gold was not the standard. EG After WW2 Britain ended the gold standard and started an era of significant technological and economic growth.
"Kooky gold hoarders" are rather silly, because they tend to ignore any evidence that contradicts their views. There are many more counterexamples to the points you listed, and they aren't terribly difficult to research.
Add a bit of soap to the water. That tends to work a lot better in my experience, the insects get wet instead of having the water slide off.
The NSA has a very big budget. The NSA has quite a lot of very skilled people working there. If you're trying to keep an organization with their resources out you have to verify everything, including the hardware.
How do you know your CPU doesn't have backdoors built in? How about your network card/motherboard? Video card?
The poppy is even the state flower of California.
I didn't find it scary. Surprising/startling at a few of the "monster jumps out" bits, but not really scary. I'm just bad at horror movies/games, unless spiders are involved. Or Lovecraftian styles of unstoppable cosmic forces that can come for anyone, not just someone who happens to steal an orb thing. That said, it's a very fun game, with amazingly great sound design.
Dolphin is both a Linux file browser and an Android web browser. The two projects are unrelated, save for both being named after the same marine mammal.
On android 4.x at least, the process is simpler.
From the home screen (or another app, if you forget). Hold home, if vibration is on it will vibrate twice. The task switcher will come up. Swipe an app's thumbnail right or left to kill it.
Most previous android phones could do pretty much the same thing, but IIRC it took an extra button press somewhere. It's been a while since I've run Froyo or Gingerbread on my Vibrant (same generation as your Evo).
Third-party roms are great.
Ubuntu lets you install multiple desktop environments at the same time and select them on login as well, just FYI.
Storage per GB, eh?
I currently use 675GB out of 1.25TB. (not counting backups, of course.) When I go over about 800GB total I tend to go through and delete unused data/programs. That's not to say I need all that storage on my desktop, I'd rather have it in a NAS with a hot spare, but that's a bit out of my budget.
My next PC will almost certainly use an SSD for OS and swap partitions, with a 1-2 TB HDD for bulk data. My laptop and phone can copy data to/from the desktop as needed.
Checking to see what all that space is: 200 GB Programs. Games and my tendency to lose original install media tend to be the big offenders. Steam helps.
70GB TV shows and movies not (yet) available on Netflix. Pretty much all stuff I've watched but know I will rewatch later, or want to show to someone else.
34GB Music
32GB Books, mostly zipped. Many have duplicates in various formats, due to old device restrictions. Could probably cut collection size in half by cleaning that.
5GB Documents
4GB Pictures.
Rabbit stew is delicious.
The DMCA takedown request can only require the host to takedown the infringing items. If the host takes down the whole site (like in this case) it's the host's fault, not the DMCA filer's fault.
Create second gmail account. Use aliases there. Have that forward to your primary account. You now have the same net effect as your second yahoo account, with the "base name" of the yahoo account's spam filtering replaced by the address of the secondary account.
Or use Spamgourmet, which is what Yahoo's system is based off of. Or Mailinator, dudmail, or any of the many, many other such free services.
My point was that a system exists to decoy spam in gmail, while ThunderBird89 seemed to think there was no such system.
And every user with a modicum of taste is thankful that gmail does not have that.
Yeah, use whatever works best for you. I made my post because it seemed you had some misconceptions about gmail, not to convince you to switch. With the way Yahoo! has been losing money I figured it might help to know how to get similar functionality out of gmail in case they go under.
Gmail aliases are unlimited. Not just 500. If you are more paranoid than average you can use a second address set to auto-forward as the base. That makes it take about as much setup as Yahoo's version.
Gmail has keyboard shortcuts.
Yahoo!'s storage space isn't unlimited, they just don't tell you the cap.
You can detach the "compose mail" dialog to a separate window. You can make as many windows as you wish (or until you window manager/browser crashes.)
If you only use one label per message then labels are identical to folders. Otherwise they have a strict superset of folder functionality (a message can have >1 label, but can only be in 1 folder.)
What, exactly, does Yahoo! have that Gmail doesn't have? Other! Than! Excessive! Punctuation!
Oh, it's easy to explain:
God is an asshat.
The bible is the Holy word of God, infallible, perfect, eternal. It is His greatest practical joke.
I believe in Eris. I know she doesn't exist, and that I'm just giving a name to the impersonal forces of randomness in the universe, but I believe. It makes me happy. I'm careful not to confuse what I believe with what I know; believing is only really fun if one believes in false things.
Oracle DBAs are clearly the worst off.
The Buddhist. The murderer is hoping for a heaven after death, while the Buddhist is creating heaven in life. The kingdom of heaven is already upon us, we merely need create it here. "Heaven" or "Nirvana" or any other name, it is the state of a life freed from suffering. The dead are dead, there is no afterlife.
Of course, I'm not Christian, I was raised Jewish and later converted away to pandeist antitheist Discordianism.