I'll agree and add that how do you expect to have flash indexed by search engines like google? Many information sites get most of their hits from people searching for the information, it would be foolish to ignore these people.:)
A call to get rid of libraries as they damage sales? Actions like this are going to make the changes which are going to come for copyright law all the more popular with regular joes.
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Funny you should say that as I'm typing this on a G3 300Mhz overclocked to 350. Its actually fairly loud, although it may have been upped to compensate for the overclocking. (I'm borrowing it from a friend to demo OSX )
I wish I could say I was a performance junky (but I can't)... Or rather, I would be one if I could afford to. As it is, I'd rather have a machine that I could tolerate sitting in front of for hours on end.
A big part of this for me is being able to turn off the MP3's every so often and have enough silence to think! I'd rather have a 500mhz that can do all the development I can throw at it, than a 747 powered fan sitting on top of a Gigahertz!
Seems that some of these companies are catching on that it might be possible to have the best of both worlds. My hope is that consumers will follow along enough to bring the cost of production low enough that even I can afford them.:)
Yes, I have and I even mentioned it in my post:) However easy it is integrated, it doesn't solve the problem of initially generating the key, figuring out how to extract your public key into text, giving the right key to someone else, getting their key, figuring out how to put it into your keyring, etc, etc.:)
There's a program called sea-horse that I've tried that provides a very minimal gui frontend for gpg, but like I said, not worth the effort for me to use it yet, but here's hoping!
That's the trouble with encryption, and security in general. It takes effort to be secure.
Agreed 100%, but generally I can sit down at a default install of Red Hat and know that I've got a cryptographically secure/dev/random, and a port of OpenSSH sitting right there waiting for me to use. Its cake to enable an ssh server, allowing remote access and file transfers.
All the normal user has to do to increase security over telnet is type ssh instead of telnet. E-mail needs to be the same way! They should just have to click one button and be more secure. Yes, this gives some illusions, but if we can make e-mail slightly more private from prying eyes it is worth it to me.
I'd have a hard time trusting my life to any software at all, but I'd have no problem trusting that encryption would at least keep a prying sysadmin out of my email!:)
It's not like there is highspread usage of PGP/GPG anyway. I have been trying to use PGP ever since Phil Zimmerman was still coding on it himself, but I've never been able to convince any of my friends to use it often enough to make it useful.
I'm glad the option is there, and I know it's done a lot of good in a lot of places, but even using e-mail encryption automatically draws attention to yourself. It would be far better if everyone used it for every e-mail they sent. It would be great if keysigning and verification was a normal event in meatspace, but it just isn't to be. How is it that SSH and OpenSSH became so widespread but PGP and GPG haven't?
I think it's because PGP and GPG have such a sucky interface. It takes me forever to read the manual every time, and the integration with current mail programs sucks! Evolution seems to be fixing this and I know mutt and pine can support it, but it's just too much work to setup if no one else you e-mail can do it too!
Is there any hope? I'd like to think so, but only if it becomes the default in hotmail and MS Outlook will it become widespread, and what are the odds of that? *sigh*
So is 64-bit for a normal user going to do much? I can definately see how some servers are pushing the 2^32 memory limit (2^36 with some hacks), but I find it harder to justify how I'll use it.
I don't do much 3D rendering other than some gaming action, and my multimedia is limited to playing some MP3s while I'm coding with vim. Are there any other compelling reasons for a 64-bit arch? I suppose I could load more data in registers, storing two 32-bits into one 64-bit register.... but i'm drawing a blank... someone help:)
Although FreeNet, Peek-A-Booty, Crowds, and other tools make it easier than ever to "route around" the damage caused by censorship, these are by no means a guarantee to freedom. It is more important than ever to stand up for inherit rights at the source of the problem, rather than creating band-aid solutions around them.
Its nice to be able to distribute political pamphlets (for instance) anonymously without fear of retribution or censorship, but its even better to be able to do it in a major newspaper or website and claim authorship knowing you have the freedom to do so.
My gut tells me a government totalitarian enough to curb free speech on the Internet could find ways around these tools and sites. Implementing the death penalty for anyone caught writing an anti-government editorial would have a chilling effect on free speach, simply because like all software, there will be bugs. Would you trust FreeNet enough to protect your life?
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Yeah, you brits do a good enough job for all of us ;)
I like to diss Disney too, but you hafta admit some of the things they've done easily qualify as art, ever watched Fantasia?
At least with such quickly killing viruses the potential for spread is limited as the person doesn't have time to travel widely as a carrier...
For an interesting take on the Korean Diablo 2 culture, check out this article.
Take a look at: Systrace
Slashdot act logically? Naw, haven't seen it in all the time I've been here...
I will download it.
Hey cool, someone from the same town as me (I'm assuming Las Cruces)... You go to NMSU by chance?
They need to break out the beowulf clusters.
I'll agree and add that how do you expect to have flash indexed by search engines like google? Many information sites get most of their hits from people searching for the information, it would be foolish to ignore these people. :)
A call to get rid of libraries as they damage sales? Actions like this are going to make the changes which are going to come for copyright law all the more popular with regular joes.
What do you think UFOs are? ;)
yer mom
btw, check out this looks like that site got haxx0red or something. Need to find the site owners, but there is no contact information :(
wish i had some hot grits to pour down my pants, while i look at natalie portman petrified on my beowulf cluster :(
Funny you should say that as I'm typing this on a G3 300Mhz overclocked to 350. Its actually fairly loud, although it may have been upped to compensate for the overclocking. (I'm borrowing it from a friend to demo OSX )
A big part of this for me is being able to turn off the MP3's every so often and have enough silence to think! I'd rather have a 500mhz that can do all the development I can throw at it, than a 747 powered fan sitting on top of a Gigahertz!
Seems that some of these companies are catching on that it might be possible to have the best of both worlds. My hope is that consumers will follow along enough to bring the cost of production low enough that even I can afford them. :)
'cuz I know I sure would like to be able to roam at will and stay connected to my IV drip otherwise known as the Internet.
There's a program called sea-horse that I've tried that provides a very minimal gui frontend for gpg, but like I said, not worth the effort for me to use it yet, but here's hoping!
Agreed 100%, but generally I can sit down at a default install of Red Hat and know that I've got a cryptographically secure /dev/random, and a port of OpenSSH sitting right there waiting for me to use. Its cake to enable an ssh server, allowing remote access and file transfers.
All the normal user has to do to increase security over telnet is type ssh instead of telnet. E-mail needs to be the same way! They should just have to click one button and be more secure. Yes, this gives some illusions, but if we can make e-mail slightly more private from prying eyes it is worth it to me.
I'd have a hard time trusting my life to any software at all, but I'd have no problem trusting that encryption would at least keep a prying sysadmin out of my email! :)
I'm glad the option is there, and I know it's done a lot of good in a lot of places, but even using e-mail encryption automatically draws attention to yourself. It would be far better if everyone used it for every e-mail they sent. It would be great if keysigning and verification was a normal event in meatspace, but it just isn't to be. How is it that SSH and OpenSSH became so widespread but PGP and GPG haven't?
I think it's because PGP and GPG have such a sucky interface. It takes me forever to read the manual every time, and the integration with current mail programs sucks! Evolution seems to be fixing this and I know mutt and pine can support it, but it's just too much work to setup if no one else you e-mail can do it too!
Is there any hope? I'd like to think so, but only if it becomes the default in hotmail and MS Outlook will it become widespread, and what are the odds of that? *sigh*
Is there something I'm missing?
Are 3 digit UID's really worth money? Thats funny. :)
I don't do much 3D rendering other than some gaming action, and my multimedia is limited to playing some MP3s while I'm coding with vim. Are there any other compelling reasons for a 64-bit arch? I suppose I could load more data in registers, storing two 32-bits into one 64-bit register.... but i'm drawing a blank... someone help :)
Its nice to be able to distribute political pamphlets (for instance) anonymously without fear of retribution or censorship, but its even better to be able to do it in a major newspaper or website and claim authorship knowing you have the freedom to do so.
My gut tells me a government totalitarian enough to curb free speech on the Internet could find ways around these tools and sites. Implementing the death penalty for anyone caught writing an anti-government editorial would have a chilling effect on free speach, simply because like all software, there will be bugs. Would you trust FreeNet enough to protect your life?