The only thing that keeps me from switching to OpenBSD for all my servers: apt-get dist-upgrade
If you had gone FreeBSD rather than OpenBSD, you would have freebsd-update and pkg. It's not QUITE as straightforward as "apt-get dist-upgrade", but pretty damn close.
To update base OS, "freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install". With the right syntax, you can even upgrade your base OS across minor and major releases. Don't worry, that only happens if you deliberately call for it.
To update userland packages, "pkg upgrade".
The really nice thing with BSD is you can update userland to latest on any base OS release - whether you use ports or packages.
All of them are fucked up when it comes to network interfaces - linux, BSD, Windows, OSX, you name it. Why should a network interface device be some kind of black magic rather than a node in/dev like every single other device? I never understood the point of this.
At least in BSD it's pretty straightforward to figure out what the fucking NAME of the goddam ethernet device is.
My "login manager" is init calling getty which calls login which gets me to bash. If I want pretty pictures, from there I just run startx, which gets me into KDE or whatever else is configured. AFAICT, KDE doesn't care how it gets started. My way seems the most straightforward to me. How is it sticking my head in the ground?
No, just no. With me it's Comcast, but the principle is the same. I pay them for the INTERNET, not for their internal content. That's why they call them INTERNET service providers, not shit service providers. I goddam expect the internet to be provided at the advertised speed. Yeah, I know that congestion I see could be occurring either at source's ISP or mine, but there are ways to narrow down which way the finger points.
The documents that he gave the Washington Post’s Barton Gellman and the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald have, so far, furnished stories about the NSA’s interception of email traffic, mobile phone calls, and radio transmissions of Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s northwest territories; about an operation to gauge the loyalties of CIA recruits in Pakistan; about NSA email intercepts to assist intelligence assessments of what’s going on inside Iran; about NSA surveillance of cellphone calls “worldwide,” an effort that (in the Post’s words) “allows it to look for unknown associates of known intelligence targets by tracking people whose movements intersect.” In his first interview with the South China Morning Post, Snowden revealed that the NSA routinely hacks into hundreds of computers in China and Hong Kong.
[slaps forehead smartly] Do you have any idea how blindingly obvious ALL of that crap is? No one with a functioning brainstem, and that includes Iran, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Russia, China, the King of Siam and the boogey man, is the least bit surprised that the NSA has been doing all that. The only red flag is the part about "tracking people whose movements [happen to] intersect", which, with the fact of an all-seeing eye scrutinizing every single person's life, is the whole point of Snowden's revelation of blatant unconstitutional overreaches.
Furthermore, mere revelation that the NSA has been engaged in those processes conveys no useful information whatsoever to any enemy of the US.
Jesus wept to think that so many people are getting hoodwinked by this crap.
Choose n separate trusted individuals or organisations... Gain promises from these entities...
Who is the implied subject here? Who is the one who knows the identities of all these actors and knows ("believes" being more accurate strictly) that they can be trusted? The subject is the single point of failure in the sense that he has the knowledge to give up the entire conspiracy. Then the wolves in the various jurisdictions can start to make deals with each other until all the actors are in the hands of the biggest baddest wolf. The wolves can also surreptitiously operate in each other's jurisdiction. See Mossad, 1972 Olympics aftermath.
In this general vein, I believe I can come up with a more promising conspiracy strategy. It involves an anonymous ring of n separate encryptions passing through n nodes, circling back to the origin. Intermediate decryption keys are all separately delivered to originator, but only at expiration time. On receipt of the result at the desired time in the future, originator can decrypt all the stages using all the decryption keys separately in the correct order, and verify that his original cleartext message is intact.
Strength: nobody anywhere has to have knowledge of the complete chain. The originator only needs to know the route to the first node of the ring, and so on. Each node can choose his own next node. If anybody but the originator picks a wolf to forward to, either by accident or by design, it does not do the wolf any good. The only thing that has to be published to all (published to world is assumed) is the target date for completion. Only the originator ever has all the pieces necessary to decrypt to the original plaintext, but he does not have the pieces until the appointed time. There is never any reason to hold the originator in custody or to think he can possibly be coerced.
Weakness: any individual node can break the chain, either by mistake or on purpose, or by dying or having a stroke before he can provide his decryption key to the originator at the end.
Caveat: the originator is evidently the single point of attack. So let him destroy both the original and the encrypted form of it, after he sends it on its first leg. All he saves is a hash of the original cleartext. So yes, he can be attacked, but unless the wolves intercept the encrypted transmission on that first leg, they will not possess anything the originator has the ABILITY to decrypt until the appointed time comes up. The wolves can intercept any or all of the other legs which have been traversed to date, and it won't do them a bit of good unless they crack the separate decryption keys of all the separate actors at every single traversed node. The longer the ring has become, the harder it's going to be to crack everybody.
You can readily think of all the implied weaknesses. They are all weaknesses of failed delivery, not subversion by the wolves. This can be countered by originator sending to multiple first nodes, and all nodes forwarding to multiple destinations. You could end up with many rings; at least one of them would be pretty certain to complete successfully.
In effect... nobody can be subpoena'd for the materials.
OK, let's assume all the actors are peers and there is no central actor "in charge". That implies the actors are not unknown to each other. Otherwise, to whom do they swear - how do they know they are not swearing to the wolf[*]? The first problem you've got is that your entire organization of actors is exponentially exposed by the conspiracy's mutual knowledge of the identities of the others.
The case where you have one chief, and none of the others knows anybody's identity except the chief, presents its own obvious weak spot. That chief is going to be seeing wolves in his sleep, if he can get any sleep.
In the fully distributed case, through customary detective work, the wolf identifies one of them, subpoenas him and forces him to give up his piece and the identities of all the others (more likely the wolf is able to identify a number of them and attack them in parallel to find all of them). Perhaps the wolf even identifies all of them using customary detective work.
The wolf has vast resources, including a gigantic wolf pack.
There is also the inverse weakness, where enough of the actors to prevent M from acting die or have a stroke before the time bomb is set to go off. Or they could have second thoughts about the whole thing. So then the secret in your time bomb is never exposed, but on the other hand the time bomb never goes off.
Now I will concede you have the germ of a good plan here. The jurisdictional distribution is particularly wise, but it is inexorably getting progressively weaker. Jurisdictions will tunnel into other jurisdictions unseen and accomplish abductions or attacks unseen, and the one world movement which openly subverts jurisdictional compartmentation marches stronger and stronger all the time. There may be ways to get around every one of my objections (and those I haven't thought of yet), but in the end cryptanalysis ALWAYS beats cryptography - principle of evolution. You encypt any particular piece of knowledge once, but the assaults never stop.
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[*] Actually they can never know that to a certainty. The scheme can be a false flag from the beginning. You can never find anyone whom you can trust to the same order as yourself. Yes, everyone trusts his brother, but on the other hand, as Yevgraf says, "... bothers will betray a brother. Indeed, as a policeman, I would say, get hold of a man's brother and you're halfway home."
Think. Cars naturally lean THE WRONG WAY on curves. They tilt over toward the outside. This magnifies the centrifugal force you feel by adding a gravity component to it.
We are talking about suspensions that lean THE RIGHT WAY on curves. They tilt toward the inside, like a banking airplane. This reduces the centrifugal force you feel by subtracting a gravity component from it.centrifugal
Thanks for the laugh to brighten the day. We have forgotten how to make steel or any consumer goods whatsoever, but somehow I doubt we'll forget how to print money, or run out of ink or special paper.
So what do you think bauxite (aluminum ore) is? It's a mixture of aluminum hydroxides and aluminum oxide hydroxides, with iron oxides, clay, and titanium dioxide as contaminants. Essentially the discharged battery will yield an unusually pure form of bauxite.
Recycling ALUMINUM is just melting scrap aluminum metal so it can be refabricated into new aluminum products. As such, yes, it is arelatively low energy process.
Electrolyzing BAUXITE into aluminum, on the other hand, is extremely energy intensive. Changing bauxite (aluminum+oxygen+hydrogen) into separate components is quite like changine water (hydrogen+oxugen) into separate components. In each case, the elements "want" to be combined. Separating them requires vast amounts of electrioc energy.
Also, the MX100 has data protection capacitors to ride out power fails without corrupting data. The Samsung 840 EVO has none. That means one hell of a lot to me and is much more important than comparative raw speeds.
No, sorry, you couldn't get a million amps out of your wall socket if you turned the voltage down to 0.0018v. First, a million amps would incinerate your #14 copper wire and set fire to the house. Second, IR losses in #14 wire at such an absurdly low voltage would prevent the current from reaching anywhere near that high.
Similarly, you obviously don't understand how IOPs relate directly, for example, to database performance, and how pretty much any SSD is 100 to 1000 times the speed of any rotating disk drive for that kind of application.
Windows NT and 2000 were NOT "server". 9x and Me literally did not even exist as far as I was concerned. I was happily using NT and 2000. Yeah, on the desktop.
On their site they are bragging that the Pyra has a RESISTIVE touchscreen, gag. Of course it doesn't HAVE anything yet, because it is still imaginary, but that is a really a blast from the past.
Yeah, right. And as a matter of fact I have no evidence that I am not the only sentient being actually alive on earth. In fact, is the earth even real? Everything I can possibly ever know or guess comes to me from my five senses, and there is no proof and cannot possibly ever be any proof that my five senses are connected to anything real.
In fact, how do I really know even *I* am sentient? Because I have self-awareness? What is that, anyway? What is self? Man, this must be a really far out acid trip.
You have to draw the line of doubt and second-guessing SOMEWHERE.
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If you had gone FreeBSD rather than OpenBSD, you would have freebsd-update and pkg. It's not QUITE as straightforward as "apt-get dist-upgrade", but pretty damn close.
To update base OS, "freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install". With the right syntax, you can even upgrade your base OS across minor and major releases. Don't worry, that only happens if you deliberately call for it.
To update userland packages, "pkg upgrade".
The really nice thing with BSD is you can update userland to latest on any base OS release - whether you use ports or packages.
All of them are fucked up when it comes to network interfaces - linux, BSD, Windows, OSX, you name it. Why should a network interface device be some kind of black magic rather than a node in /dev like every single other device? I never understood the point of this.
At least in BSD it's pretty straightforward to figure out what the fucking NAME of the goddam ethernet device is.
My "login manager" is init calling getty which calls login which gets me to bash. If I want pretty pictures, from there I just run startx, which gets me into KDE or whatever else is configured. AFAICT, KDE doesn't care how it gets started. My way seems the most straightforward to me. How is it sticking my head in the ground?
Uh, yeah. MAC filtering will work as well as it ever works, which is to say providing no more than the illusion of security.
What this does accomplish, though, is a real measure of somewhat increased privacy.
No, just no. With me it's Comcast, but the principle is the same. I pay them for the INTERNET, not for their internal content. That's why they call them INTERNET service providers, not shit service providers. I goddam expect the internet to be provided at the advertised speed. Yeah, I know that congestion I see could be occurring either at source's ISP or mine, but there are ways to narrow down which way the finger points.
[slaps forehead smartly] Do you have any idea how blindingly obvious ALL of that crap is? No one with a functioning brainstem, and that includes Iran, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Russia, China, the King of Siam and the boogey man, is the least bit surprised that the NSA has been doing all that. The only red flag is the part about "tracking people whose movements [happen to] intersect", which, with the fact of an all-seeing eye scrutinizing every single person's life, is the whole point of Snowden's revelation of blatant unconstitutional overreaches.
Furthermore, mere revelation that the NSA has been engaged in those processes conveys no useful information whatsoever to any enemy of the US.
Jesus wept to think that so many people are getting hoodwinked by this crap.
Who is the implied subject here? Who is the one who knows the identities of all these actors and knows ("believes" being more accurate strictly) that they can be trusted? The subject is the single point of failure in the sense that he has the knowledge to give up the entire conspiracy. Then the wolves in the various jurisdictions can start to make deals with each other until all the actors are in the hands of the biggest baddest wolf. The wolves can also surreptitiously operate in each other's jurisdiction. See Mossad, 1972 Olympics aftermath.
In this general vein, I believe I can come up with a more promising conspiracy strategy. It involves an anonymous ring of n separate encryptions passing through n nodes, circling back to the origin. Intermediate decryption keys are all separately delivered to originator, but only at expiration time. On receipt of the result at the desired time in the future, originator can decrypt all the stages using all the decryption keys separately in the correct order, and verify that his original cleartext message is intact.
Strength: nobody anywhere has to have knowledge of the complete chain. The originator only needs to know the route to the first node of the ring, and so on. Each node can choose his own next node. If anybody but the originator picks a wolf to forward to, either by accident or by design, it does not do the wolf any good. The only thing that has to be published to all (published to world is assumed) is the target date for completion. Only the originator ever has all the pieces necessary to decrypt to the original plaintext, but he does not have the pieces until the appointed time. There is never any reason to hold the originator in custody or to think he can possibly be coerced.
Weakness: any individual node can break the chain, either by mistake or on purpose, or by dying or having a stroke before he can provide his decryption key to the originator at the end.
Caveat: the originator is evidently the single point of attack. So let him destroy both the original and the encrypted form of it, after he sends it on its first leg. All he saves is a hash of the original cleartext. So yes, he can be attacked, but unless the wolves intercept the encrypted transmission on that first leg, they will not possess anything the originator has the ABILITY to decrypt until the appointed time comes up. The wolves can intercept any or all of the other legs which have been traversed to date, and it won't do them a bit of good unless they crack the separate decryption keys of all the separate actors at every single traversed node. The longer the ring has become, the harder it's going to be to crack everybody.
You can readily think of all the implied weaknesses. They are all weaknesses of failed delivery, not subversion by the wolves. This can be countered by originator sending to multiple first nodes, and all nodes forwarding to multiple destinations. You could end up with many rings; at least one of them would be pretty certain to complete successfully.
OK, let's assume all the actors are peers and there is no central actor "in charge". That implies the actors are not unknown to each other. Otherwise, to whom do they swear - how do they know they are not swearing to the wolf[*]? The first problem you've got is that your entire organization of actors is exponentially exposed by the conspiracy's mutual knowledge of the identities of the others.
The case where you have one chief, and none of the others knows anybody's identity except the chief, presents its own obvious weak spot. That chief is going to be seeing wolves in his sleep, if he can get any sleep.
In the fully distributed case, through customary detective work, the wolf identifies one of them, subpoenas him and forces him to give up his piece and the identities of all the others (more likely the wolf is able to identify a number of them and attack them in parallel to find all of them). Perhaps the wolf even identifies all of them using customary detective work.
The wolf has vast resources, including a gigantic wolf pack.
There is also the inverse weakness, where enough of the actors to prevent M from acting die or have a stroke before the time bomb is set to go off. Or they could have second thoughts about the whole thing. So then the secret in your time bomb is never exposed, but on the other hand the time bomb never goes off.
Now I will concede you have the germ of a good plan here. The jurisdictional distribution is particularly wise, but it is inexorably getting progressively weaker. Jurisdictions will tunnel into other jurisdictions unseen and accomplish abductions or attacks unseen, and the one world movement which openly subverts jurisdictional compartmentation marches stronger and stronger all the time. There may be ways to get around every one of my objections (and those I haven't thought of yet), but in the end cryptanalysis ALWAYS beats cryptography - principle of evolution. You encypt any particular piece of knowledge once, but the assaults never stop.
~~~~~~~~~~
[*] Actually they can never know that to a certainty. The scheme can be a false flag from the beginning. You can never find anyone whom you can trust to the same order as yourself. Yes, everyone trusts his brother, but on the other hand, as Yevgraf says, "... bothers will betray a brother. Indeed, as a policeman, I would say, get hold of a man's brother and you're halfway home."
Think. Cars naturally lean THE WRONG WAY on curves. They tilt over toward the outside. This magnifies the centrifugal force you feel by adding a gravity component to it.
We are talking about suspensions that lean THE RIGHT WAY on curves. They tilt toward the inside, like a banking airplane. This reduces the centrifugal force you feel by subtracting a gravity component from it.centrifugal
Thanks for the laugh to brighten the day. We have forgotten how to make steel or any consumer goods whatsoever, but somehow I doubt we'll forget how to print money, or run out of ink or special paper.
It is spectacularly ignorant to refer to marijuana users as "drug addicts".
So what do you think bauxite (aluminum ore) is? It's a mixture of aluminum hydroxides and aluminum oxide hydroxides, with iron oxides, clay, and titanium dioxide as contaminants. Essentially the discharged battery will yield an unusually pure form of bauxite.
Recycling ALUMINUM is just melting scrap aluminum metal so it can be refabricated into new aluminum products. As such, yes, it is arelatively low energy process.
Electrolyzing BAUXITE into aluminum, on the other hand, is extremely energy intensive. Changing bauxite (aluminum+oxygen+hydrogen) into separate components is quite like changine water (hydrogen+oxugen) into separate components. In each case, the elements "want" to be combined. Separating them requires vast amounts of electrioc energy.
Don;t bother arguing substance with the AC moron. He is absolutely clueless.
Also, the MX100 has data protection capacitors to ride out power fails without corrupting data. The Samsung 840 EVO has none. That means one hell of a lot to me and is much more important than comparative raw speeds.
No, sorry, you couldn't get a million amps out of your wall socket if you turned the voltage down to 0.0018v. First, a million amps would incinerate your #14 copper wire and set fire to the house. Second, IR losses in #14 wire at such an absurdly low voltage would prevent the current from reaching anywhere near that high.
Similarly, you obviously don't understand how IOPs relate directly, for example, to database performance, and how pretty much any SSD is 100 to 1000 times the speed of any rotating disk drive for that kind of application.
First you have to dry and age it for a long time.
Do you get that they are stupid bastards yet?
Windows NT and 2000 were NOT "server". 9x and Me literally did not even exist as far as I was concerned. I was happily using NT and 2000. Yeah, on the desktop.
On their site they are bragging that the Pyra has a RESISTIVE touchscreen, gag. Of course it doesn't HAVE anything yet, because it is still imaginary, but that is a really a blast from the past.
You are so mean! You knew that would happen. He fell off the left edge to the Great Left Abyss.
It's a good step, no doubt about it, although given recent caving of Swiss entities to US bullying I do not feel as ebullient as I want to.
How do you propose that donations work when the thugs come down on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to stop payments?
I'm actually serious. This is a matter that does need to be dealt with in general.
In the long run at a minimum there needs to be security patch maintenance. Buffer overflow discoveries, etc.
Has anyone in this group checked their postal mail lately? Any registered letters in there with NSLs inside? Where does it stop?
Yeah, right. And as a matter of fact I have no evidence that I am not the only sentient being actually alive on earth. In fact, is the earth even real? Everything I can possibly ever know or guess comes to me from my five senses, and there is no proof and cannot possibly ever be any proof that my five senses are connected to anything real.
In fact, how do I really know even *I* am sentient? Because I have self-awareness? What is that, anyway? What is self? Man, this must be a really far out acid trip.
You have to draw the line of doubt and second-guessing SOMEWHERE.