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  1. Re:Securing your laptop? Only one way on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    In management of secure information it is more appropriate to take a manageable series of secure step to ensure security of some of your data not necessarily all of you data and to try to prevent the to mixing.

    So logically it makes sense to dual boot your device. A more active dual boot, so the normal boot is from built in storage with only as much security that you could be bothered with and the other boot is from portable media, preferably something very compact and secure, an encrypted memory card.

    This creates good security habits. You only have the memory card accessible when you are going to use it, you are creating a separate secure digital environment even secure from bad programs on your fixed storage you a creating security conscious habits. The memory card itself super easy to hide away and secure from hidden built in enclosures in other devices to something as simple as a small adhesive bandage and if you need to lose it in a hurry it is really easy to do. You would also most definitely boot to Linux and not to Windows or Apple or Android, a known safe and secure Linux Distribution with only the applications you need and nothing more. A conscious act to enter secure mode and a concious act to leave secure mode and do other stuff.

    So securing the data now becomes how not to lose the memory card and how to back it up it case you lose your primary secure media.

  2. Re:Revisit the Sony Rootkit? on Revisiting the Infamous Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal 10 Years Later (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry but windows 10 will be impossible to avoid. Next time you walk in a business and they punch in your details on a windows 10 machine, you will have just been probed like it or not and if you do not like it, do something about it (keep in mind whether or not you even use a computer you will be probed and tracked every time you information runs through the windows 10 bot net, absolutely no avoiding unless you become politically active and demand a secure version).

  3. Re:Don't answer your phone on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 1

    PS regarding US local law enforcement keep in mind this https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/i....

  4. Re:Don't answer your phone on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 1

    Don't put up with this shit, fight back. Stage 1 https://consumercomplaints.fcc... and stage 2 https://consumercomplaints.fcc.... Your government, you pay for it, bloody well make use of it, not only will you help yourself, you will help others. The greater the number of complaints against any individual or company, the faster the prosecution. It is time to 'Grrr' up and not keep bending over. Americans are doing that way, WAY, too much. File the formal complaint, check other laws, (federal, check the extent of the law, more than state as contacting US local law enforcement seems to be dangerous all round) and pursue legal retribution. Remember this, you are not only helping yourself but all other victims as well, be an active citizen rather than a passive victim.

  5. Re:Jargon on Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Simply put, scientifically accurate and correct makes for a poor read. Things like references and foot notes et al whilst valid do disrupt the whole reading process and create disjointed prose. In printed format there is no real solution however in digital format two versions could be provided, the more scientific accurate and correct version and a more readable and enjoyable version.

  6. Re:Don't we know how to do this now? on Universities, Gov't Testing Magnetic Resonance Charging For EVs In Transit (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole idea makes no sense at all. Where there is money to be made a solution will be found. Quite simply expect a range of companies to do exactly what major vending machine companies do. Basically install vending machines at numerous locations and give the owners of those locations a percentage of the profits. So car charging vending machines at every location where cars regularly park. Even parking zones in the central business districts can be done. Instead of paying for a park, you buy electricity from that parking zone, spend enough and free parking, don't spend enough pay for you park. So you have an induction zone built into every car park, and when parked and you authorise the transfer of electricity, the vehicle's induction unit drops down and starts picking up charge. Every business can also start to recover income from their investment in car parks, from staff and customers. The inductions units will be cheaper than the cost of attempting to identify vehicle and owner and the cost of billing in order to recover money from the energy supplied. You can also build a similar system into residential garages (without the billing). So in metropolitan areas, pretty much every time you park you can pick up a charge.

  7. Re:Predestiny? on Could the Volkswagen Cheating Scandal Improve Emissions Standards? (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Pretty much ban the infernal combustion engine, logical and sound decision. Should have happened decades ago. Think that shit is safe, park in your garage with the engine running and see how long you last. Does any ever have the right to pollute the air someone else breathes.

  8. Re:Revisit the Sony Rootkit? on Revisiting the Infamous Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal 10 Years Later (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    No matter what Sony did it is still not as bad as default windows 10, by far a bigger rooting of your privacy than anything Sony did, the most extreme on record.

  9. Re:Or perhaps... on SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com) · · Score: 1

    Victory is completely and utterly pointless on it's own, it has not taste, it is empty, the skill with which you play is everything, it has meaning, it has value. I sometimes play games for fun on easy but to get the most out of the game it is far more rewarding to play on hard, with the odds against you, win or last as long as you can. Why play to cheat, what have you achieved, what have you added to, well, anything. Empty people, filling empty lives, until justice finally catches up to them and ends those lives, (in gaming world parlance they get a life ban). So crow about cheating to victory if you want because mademoiselle guillotine is patient and it will always get you in the end.

  10. Re:Seems unlikely to be effective on Australia Working On High-Tech Shark-Detection Systems (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So sharks with superb senses designed to hunt in cubic miles of ocean are also some how completely incapable of telling the difference between a fish and a human. Sharks attack people because they are hungry and because the senses detect people as potentially edible, nothing more and nothing less. There first try at eating humans are cautious, take a chunk see if it poisonous or dangerous and then come back to finish it off if it is safe. Humans are generally gone by then and for centuries, said shark and any sharks in the vicinity where killed following an attack, hence no chance to further exploit that taste test. No such thing as an accidental shark attack, they are all trial runs and failed attack. You know how many successful shark attacks you here about, none, which is exactly how a successful shark attack appears, missing presumed drowned (successful attack, shark gets it's meal and no one is the wiser except the shark).

  11. Re:Or perhaps... on SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Psychopaths play PvP games all of the time, in fact they are the big spenders or the big cheaters, winning by skill means nothing to them, winning is all there is. Those are the players you have to deal with and while they typically are cowards, they can go off much like a explosive, if they are triggered by an excess of frustration. Would they hunt and stalk the female speakers, if those speakers we seen as victims by the psychopaths, most definitely. Those psychopaths come in all ages, types and levels of intelligence, there genetic faults being a lack of autonomic empathic response and a very shallow emotional range, all driving very poor social development.

    So you can have a conference about cooperative games or board games or adventure games (not much point, not much harassment there) but you can not have one about PvP games because psychopaths are drawn to them and the publishers know it because they know psychopaths are the big spenders buying cheats because skill does not count only winning and making other people miserable counts and that is where all the problems are.

    So what do you do about PvP (psychopath vs psychopath gaming), simply steer clear of them, there is nothing that can be done to fix them but they certainly should be monitored and player game styles and interactions analysed for possible further investigation.

  12. Now of course a depressed economy (for the majority, even with the illusion of recovery but it is all going to a minority), crap wages, temporary employment, run down streets, footpaths et al(you are nto going to respect where you live if it looks like shit), constant hammering of violence by main stream media (news or creative content), hate being broadcast by politicians at every opportunity and racism fuelled hatred on the rise. None of that is a problem but naughty law enforcers scared to get out of the vehicles is, uh huh. Reality is good police officers have no fear of getting filmed, officers doing good work in good precincts get promotions and a positive video of them in action is hugely beneficial for them. For the egoistic control freaks, the psychopaths in uniform, a real problem because they are not properly capable of controlling their emotions (want improvement test for psychopathy and reject all those who fail the tests). The FBI chief should be tested for psychopathy, the claim being made is very indicative of it.

  13. Re:Of course you can get more intelligent. on You Can't Get Smarter, But You Can Slow How Fast You Get Dumber (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Knowledge accurately is simply the product of intelligence. The greater the intelligence the greater the complexity of knowledge that can be produced and understood.

  14. So if you wanted to find out who knew about US military computer security what would you do? Not saying there is something 'fishy' going on (star wars marketing memes are super over the top at the moment, annoyingly so, PO Jerk Jerk A) but you had better make sure you have a legal reason for knowing the US military had or used computers let alone the security systems in use or the lack there of else you could find it's legal force fields up, their main legal weapon on line and a whole fleet of federal agents ready to prevent your escape ;D.

  15. Re:Lawyers failed at presentation on Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You really have no choice but to publish it. If you really do believe in and support freedom of democracy, then that demand that onus is placed upon you to expose that letter. That letter demands you carry out the active actions of that demand else face punishment ie an order from a master to a slave and as such as a citizen of a supposedly (apparently) free and democratic country, you are required under all the principle of freedom and democracy to publicly challenge it, you are not a slave, your fellow citizens are not slaves and it is your duty to uphold that law, slavery is illegal in free and democratic countries. Buckle to orders issued from master to slave and you sell out all of us. A warning to them when they attempt to issue that letter is likely a safer bet, before reading because of course it defeats the point of them attempting to delivery the master to slave order in secrecy ie give it to me and I will publish it, thus defeating the point of giving it to me, so you might as well keep it (you must emphatically refuse to accept that letter under their conditions ie refuse to accept their contract).

  16. Re:If, for what I wish was the last time on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which brings us back to the point of the article, "Is to much choice stressing us out", no, too many 'false' choices are stressing us out. Those false choices being products and services that in now way measure up to their marketing and hype, requiring the initial choice to be made. This time round of course excluding the single false choices but only to be presented with a bevy of false choices and knowing that chances of making another poor mislead choice is pretty high.

    Easy choice where all the choices are clear and honestly presented, easy. Current capitalistic styled choices where bullshit and marketing rule, extremely frustrating. So to politics a social democracy, "a government of the people by the people and for the people" ie socialism, will create what ever socio-economic structure that best serves the people. The Oligarchy we currently have just produces psychopathic capitalism, this held in power by a hugely distorted main stream media lying to, misinforming and with holding the truth from the public. All of this to feed the insatiable greed and lusts of a tiny minority, up to and including the end of the ability of our planet to support us ie a false choice.

  17. Re:As expected on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality is we should only really give a fuck about the time when huge major cities dotted the coastlines of the world. What happens now counts more than what happened a million or a billion years ago. We have problems now and we need to deal with them now. Carbon dioxide and global warming a problem now, we need to deal with it now and not crazily rabbit on about a million years ago. Planet getting to hot, we need to do what we can do to cool it and we certainly don't want have to work against our efforts to heat it, so we stop doing the stuff that heats it up and starting looking at doing safe stuff to cool it down, like irrigating the worlds deserts to suck up carbon dioxide and turn current farmlands into bio-diverse forests.

  18. Re:Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invit on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Claim are made the sister Suspended for three days, this from a rabid right wing politicians web site http://www.allenbwest.com/2015... becomes expelled for bomb scares. Typical pseudo religious, pseudo conservative bullshit, lies upon lies upon lies. If I had a child who had correctly designed and connected the circuits of a clock and was arrested and accused of terrorism, I would also with out hesitation leave the country, next time he could have half a dozen out of control law enforcers empty their magazine into the child's chest and half the surrounding landscape. Choke on your hatred and bile, just as you choke your country with it. What can you celebrate, the most hated murderous regime on the planet, far outdoing all the rest of the world combined in destruction of the planet and of humanity. Raging greed and hate, how about the white girl who had a circuit board on her T-Shirt, responce from 'your kind' of crazed law enforcement, "She was lucky I did not shoot her in the head".

    The reality is most of the attack was based around failed jock strap douche bags who hate computer geeks and nerds, jealous of their intelligence. No real threat just wanted to stick it to a smart ass, typical jack ass response. Why the huge offence because any one who rejects American exceptionlism who does not support America Number 1, no matter where they come from in the world or who they are must be attacked, must be denigrated, must be abused. Just crawl away you lead head http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi..., you are just so pathetically what the love of motor vehicles turned you into, a society and culture poisoned by the toys they loved more than any other country. Actually physically poisoned, not some simile - less caring, less understanding and less morale, as a result of inhaling all those tetraethyl lead fumes, ahh, do you smell the stink of that irony for what you did to yourselves and why your society is abusing the rest of the world in such a criminal fashion. Who wouldn't leave given a great opportunity, well, I suppose leads heads wouldn't.

  19. Re:Old school on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    You can be pretty lazy now when it comes to your media set up. So big screen smart TV (forget brand, hardly makes a difference) and an external hard disk drive connected via USB port and that is all you pretty much need, apart from a computer to fill that hard disk drive, whether from an optical disk drive or the internet.

    So you can either sneaker net that external hard disk between your computer and TV or spend a bit more on a modem router and connect the TV and your computer and the hard disk to the router and share the hard disk.

    With many different smart media devices, the media server is now just an external hard disk drive connected via USB and nothing more.

  20. Re: Verified boot by who? on Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case the encryption has more to do with marketing than anything else. With M$ going in the opposite direction probing every millimetre of your technological life they can and basically claiming ownership of your hard disk and network connection and saying it's OK because Android does something sort of in some ways somewhat similar. Google is looking to distance Android from that so a surge in security measure as being the opposite of M$'s windows 10 every computer orifice probe. Apple is also starting to push security for the same marketing advantage, M$ is going to get hammered and it will create some huge product problems with them pushing no security for your from them and Google and Apple pushing (in terms of marketable products rather than actually full privacy and security) security for you from everyone, even the government. This will be used to create the right psychological framework to push that security advantage into business and educational operating systems. They are going to milk M$s blunder for all that it is worth and they are likely to succeed, especially if they can push anti M$ windows 10 legislation targeting invasion of privacy, especially business, medical and educational computer based interactions. Windows 10SE might be a lot closer than M$ would care to admit, yet.

  21. Re:easy fixes on Google Wants Online Ad Improvement Within Months, Not Years (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? The number one most important issue in advertising is truth or more accurately the lack there of. So truth and nothing but the truth in advertising and all paid advertisements should be subject to legal challenge (based upon the number of citizen complaints) and substantiation, should the claims prove false, than those who provided the ad to the consumer should be prosecuted.

    Next up liability for false advertisements should cover all those who profited by it, including the product or service sellers, the producer of the advertisement, those paid to appear in the advertisement and those who displayed the ad for profit. All should be liable for damages resulting from purchased of product or service under false pretences.

    Consumer manipulation via reinforcement, subliminal messaging and false association should all be banned. If the claim is advertising is about nothing but informing the consumer about the product or service, than that is all the advertisement should do, inform the consume of the provable facts about the product or service.

    All advertisements targeted at minors should be straight up banned, there is no space in any caring modern thoughtful society for adults who would economically target children's pocket money in order to live to extreme excess. The is absolutely no excuse imaginable for adults targeting children with advertisements that are not in the best interests of the child. Pretty much all messaging targeted at minors should be subject to public psychological review to ensure mental health and safety and to prevent the manipulation and exploitation of minors by uncaring greedy, lets be blunt, shit heads.

    Now we can look at stuff like invasion of privacy and based upon that hugely disruptive ads targeted at the wrong people ie junk food ads targeted at type 2 diabetics (especially as that is what turned them into diabetics in the first place), gambling ads to gambling addicts, ads to generate fear in those vulnerable to it, peer pressure marketing targeted at those subject to conformist pressures etc etc

  22. Re:It's all fun and games... on Feds Looking Into Reports CIA Director's Email Was Hacked (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    HEY, if they weren't so fucking naughty, murderously so, they would not be so desperate to keep their fucking secrets. They quite erotically explore our every orifice but when it comes to exposing their truly ugly filthy corrupt slimy secrets all hell breaks lose (apparently for good reason because war crimes courts and they are criminals of the worst order). We all know who the weight of world, the weight of their guilt should fall upon and it ain't a bunch of smart stoners, exposing crimes is not a crime, keeping those crimes secret is, fact.

  23. Re:Seems to me voice input is like touch input on Google Drops Desktop Voice Search In Chrome (google.com) · · Score: 1

    That of course reflects the current iteration rather than the potential. So phone in top pocket, can you unlock the phone and issue a command, that is the main circumstance that makes sense, for a full range of commands, from making a call, to getting the date and time to getting directions. Also how far can the phone be from you and still take commands and make a spoken reply. Also how many commands with varied inputs are accessible.

    The problem is how much training of both the user and the phone language processor, is the end user willing to accept because to get the most out of vocal commands training of the user and device must occur.

  24. Re:Tongue in cheek reviews? on Amazon Lawsuit Aims To Kill Fake Reviews (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What about tongue up arse IMDb reviews tens of thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands, of 10 out 10 reviews, making IMDb probably the most jacked up and totally utterly pointless review site on the internet. In fact IMDb seems to have been purposefully set up as a fake review site in order to maximise media sales. Perhaps readers are a lot fussier and angrier when it comes to get sucked in by fake reviews.

  25. What about promoting shit products. Your site, you create the space and you are promoting the product. Whether that product be gambling targeted at minors, super erection compounds, crap gold coins, really unreliable computer parts, fake pharmaceuticals, homoeopathy or blatant corporate political propaganda. Do you care or not care that people are getting ripped off when they come to your site because you are the one promoting that product on your site. Personally I think the whole marketing chain should be penalised for fraudulent products and services, the supplier, the ad crafter, the ad agency and the web site that hosted the add.