The killer app for new computers is video, though. Lots of people playing high-res video on their laptops, and even more wanting to get into the editing and such. Just look at the production on lots of Youtube videos... different effects and such. It's nothing professional class, but it still goes much faster with a faster CPU.
The thing is, there are much fewer cases of violence against Muslims than there are vice versa. There are douchebags all over the place, it just seems that the Muslim world, especially the ones who are brought up knowing nothing but the Koran and being brainwashed into thinking all of America is the great Satan, has more than their share of douchebags. If you drew the same cartoons of Jesus, you would be hard pressed to find a Christian that would threaten you over them, much less actually do something about it. Not so hard in the Muslim world, though.
If you want nice, free computers find dumpsters around the dorms of your local university around the time the kids head out for the summer. There are lots of kids riding on mommy and daddy's dime that just toss their computer since they'll get a new one next year. Dumpster diving is all kinds of fun:)
Very few suicides in the whole range of suicides are related to gender issues. It may be fairly high in the group of people who feel cross-gender, but that's still a very small percentage of the overall suicide rate.
It seems your problem is with the system, not the encryption. If you really think that your country is that much of a police state, you need to get out or fight it.
You still need DDR3 RAM, and an i7 mobo. Those are both more expensive than an AM3 motherboard with DDR2 RAM. Not as fast overall, but it's a fair bit better value for the buck. Not to mention that you can upgrade incrementally with AMD... the AM3 CPU's work with both DDR2/AM2+ motherboards and DDR2/AM3 and DDR3/AM3 motherboards.
The thing is, it's the value proposition of AMD that's attractive... the motherboards are cheaper, and you can upgrade incrementally with them. You don't have to get a whole new system to upgrade. The AM3 chips fit into the AM2+ sockets, the AM3 chips are compatible with DDR2 RAM as well as DDR3...
Yes. But it's not ok to drive a car without at least half an idea about where the gas goes, how to use the turn indicator, and so on. The same thing is true about science... people are muddling though life without knowing where the gas pedal is. They can't critically evaluate things because they don't have the basis to do so. Hell, just look at the "young earth" morons. They are so ignorant that they can't even properly evaluate evidence when it's presented to them. That is a failure of education.
Dude. Read the license. The GPL only applies if you distribute the applications... if it's internal use only, it doesn't matter. It's a very simple to read license... it's meant to be accessible to everyone. If there's a chance you think your company's gonna try to sell your work you might think twice, but there's no reason to not use GPL code if you're just solving a problem. The only thing you have to do with the GPL is let anyone that gets the end executable also have the source code. That's not a horrible thing.
No, they don't. If you have an encrypted volume and you refuse to give them the key, that's against the law. But if you have an encrypted volume and you have given them the key, they cannot prove you have another volume there, and therefore they cannot compel you to give the password for a nonexistent entity.
Microsoft branding and their knowledge of the bullshit they've built into the format so that more documents can work correctly, instead of just your "not the most complicated ones"
Having an empty partition when you're an experienced user is a red flag. Having an encrypted file isn't so much. Hell, I use Truecrypt, and I don't use the hidden volume stuff. But the file I have is much larger than the files I store in it, for when I want to add more. You cannot say the same thing about an "empty" partition with random data on it. Have a partition with an encrypted volume on it... use two passwords. Sure, you have encryption, and you can decrypt it for them. How can they prove, aside from torture, that you have something else in the empty space there? Things aren't so far gone that if you tell a judge "Look, I gave him the password... you see the photos of my wife and I fucking. There's nothing else there!" and the investigator responds with "But he COULD be hiding something! I don't have proof, but I have this feeling...", the judge will laugh his ass out of court.
I have a limited number of pockets. I don't want to carry a calendar, a notepad, a camera, a watch, a movie player and a laptop for email with me everywhere I go.
They can't prove that there is another key. Period, end of story. Even if it could exist, the fact that they can't prove that it does is plausible deniability, and you have provided them with your encryption key, just like the law says you have to.
Why encrypt everything, though? Keep a secure volume with the distress key setup. Nobody cares about accessing your encrypted directX9.dll, or whether it's your real one or the "fake" one. They care about your data. Do your double-booking in a single Truecrypt hidden volume, and keep the "good" books under one password, the "bad" ones under another. Nobody can prove anything if you give them the "good" password. All they'll see is a volume that's larger than what you're storing on it, and that's not a crime. Yet.
Man, and all the hoops car manufacturers have to jump through so users can be safe in their cars, too. I mean, it'd be easier to make cars without airbags or seatbelts or bumpers, right? Why do people keep insisting on this manufacturer-unfriendly viewpoint?
Hell, let's bring it back to software... how much benefit do the users get from Wal-Mart turning off their DRM servers? Microsoft locking people into their word processing formats? Internet fucking Explorer? GPL is all about giving power to the users. That is often very much opposed to companies controlling things, but guess what? The individual should NEVER be less important than a fucking corporation.
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The GPL pisses off people because they can't just take the code they see right there and use it however they want. Almost like Copyright is a pain in the ass in most instances.
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The killer app for new computers is video, though. Lots of people playing high-res video on their laptops, and even more wanting to get into the editing and such. Just look at the production on lots of Youtube videos... different effects and such. It's nothing professional class, but it still goes much faster with a faster CPU.
The thing is, there are much fewer cases of violence against Muslims than there are vice versa. There are douchebags all over the place, it just seems that the Muslim world, especially the ones who are brought up knowing nothing but the Koran and being brainwashed into thinking all of America is the great Satan, has more than their share of douchebags. If you drew the same cartoons of Jesus, you would be hard pressed to find a Christian that would threaten you over them, much less actually do something about it. Not so hard in the Muslim world, though.
If you want nice, free computers find dumpsters around the dorms of your local university around the time the kids head out for the summer. There are lots of kids riding on mommy and daddy's dime that just toss their computer since they'll get a new one next year. Dumpster diving is all kinds of fun :)
Very few suicides in the whole range of suicides are related to gender issues. It may be fairly high in the group of people who feel cross-gender, but that's still a very small percentage of the overall suicide rate.
My kingdom for a mod point...
Apple doesn't operate as a monopoly.
If this was Windows, we'd have never heard of it in the first place. Forget the end of it. It would've been enshrined in some obtusely worded update.
It seems your problem is with the system, not the encryption. If you really think that your country is that much of a police state, you need to get out or fight it.
You can get an X4 955 for $200 on sale. It's a 3.2GHz/125W quad-core. Not too much wallet stretching, especially compared to this new one.
You still need DDR3 RAM, and an i7 mobo. Those are both more expensive than an AM3 motherboard with DDR2 RAM. Not as fast overall, but it's a fair bit better value for the buck. Not to mention that you can upgrade incrementally with AMD... the AM3 CPU's work with both DDR2/AM2+ motherboards and DDR2/AM3 and DDR3/AM3 motherboards.
The thing is, it's the value proposition of AMD that's attractive... the motherboards are cheaper, and you can upgrade incrementally with them. You don't have to get a whole new system to upgrade. The AM3 chips fit into the AM2+ sockets, the AM3 chips are compatible with DDR2 RAM as well as DDR3...
Only if it's ironing.
Yes. But it's not ok to drive a car without at least half an idea about where the gas goes, how to use the turn indicator, and so on. The same thing is true about science... people are muddling though life without knowing where the gas pedal is. They can't critically evaluate things because they don't have the basis to do so. Hell, just look at the "young earth" morons. They are so ignorant that they can't even properly evaluate evidence when it's presented to them. That is a failure of education.
Dude. Read the license. The GPL only applies if you distribute the applications... if it's internal use only, it doesn't matter. It's a very simple to read license... it's meant to be accessible to everyone. If there's a chance you think your company's gonna try to sell your work you might think twice, but there's no reason to not use GPL code if you're just solving a problem. The only thing you have to do with the GPL is let anyone that gets the end executable also have the source code. That's not a horrible thing.
No, they don't. If you have an encrypted volume and you refuse to give them the key, that's against the law. But if you have an encrypted volume and you have given them the key, they cannot prove you have another volume there, and therefore they cannot compel you to give the password for a nonexistent entity.
Microsoft branding and their knowledge of the bullshit they've built into the format so that more documents can work correctly, instead of just your "not the most complicated ones"
Having an empty partition when you're an experienced user is a red flag. Having an encrypted file isn't so much. Hell, I use Truecrypt, and I don't use the hidden volume stuff. But the file I have is much larger than the files I store in it, for when I want to add more. You cannot say the same thing about an "empty" partition with random data on it. Have a partition with an encrypted volume on it... use two passwords. Sure, you have encryption, and you can decrypt it for them. How can they prove, aside from torture, that you have something else in the empty space there? Things aren't so far gone that if you tell a judge "Look, I gave him the password... you see the photos of my wife and I fucking. There's nothing else there!" and the investigator responds with "But he COULD be hiding something! I don't have proof, but I have this feeling...", the judge will laugh his ass out of court.
I have a limited number of pockets. I don't want to carry a calendar, a notepad, a camera, a watch, a movie player and a laptop for email with me everywhere I go.
My unencrypted connection SSID says my address and "Come say hi". Why don't you ever come say hi? :(
They can't prove that there is another key. Period, end of story. Even if it could exist, the fact that they can't prove that it does is plausible deniability, and you have provided them with your encryption key, just like the law says you have to.
Why encrypt everything, though? Keep a secure volume with the distress key setup. Nobody cares about accessing your encrypted directX9.dll, or whether it's your real one or the "fake" one. They care about your data. Do your double-booking in a single Truecrypt hidden volume, and keep the "good" books under one password, the "bad" ones under another. Nobody can prove anything if you give them the "good" password. All they'll see is a volume that's larger than what you're storing on it, and that's not a crime. Yet.
I am not a sore loser! I've only broken... 1 or 2 wiimotes by throwing them against the wall when frustrated at the cheating fucking game... ;)
Some of us like exploring the whole world, instead of just trying to get to the end of the level. Is that wrong?
Man, and all the hoops car manufacturers have to jump through so users can be safe in their cars, too. I mean, it'd be easier to make cars without airbags or seatbelts or bumpers, right? Why do people keep insisting on this manufacturer-unfriendly viewpoint?
Hell, let's bring it back to software... how much benefit do the users get from Wal-Mart turning off their DRM servers? Microsoft locking people into their word processing formats? Internet fucking Explorer? GPL is all about giving power to the users. That is often very much opposed to companies controlling things, but guess what? The individual should NEVER be less important than a fucking corporation.
The GPL pisses off people because they can't just take the code they see right there and use it however they want. Almost like Copyright is a pain in the ass in most instances.