So are you saying that new functionality breaks the extension API every time? 'Cause if it doesn't, then even new functionality can be a minor version number.
I will point the insurance companies who offer annuities -- which basically is the same thing as a pension. While insurance companies blew up the policies did not. You have a choice -- you can either make high contributions to a low risk plan or one can make low contributions to a high risk plan.
...Or one can make stupid contributions to a high-fee plan (which is what most, if not all, annuities are).
Yes, Qubes is useful. I was pointing out how to accomplish a fraction of the security of said OS with existing tools.
Oh, okay. I was under the impression that Qubes was "existing" (I've seen people on Slashdot claim to use it, but haven't tried it myself). It does have a version labeled "release" on its download page, so I assume it's at least somewhat usable...
Clearly you underestimate the significance of being able to quickly refactor code. Of course, if you always write 100% correct code flawlessly the first time, this may not ever be an issue for you.
That's not a sufficient condition. Your code has to be 100% correct and your design has to be 100% correct and your requirements can't ever change and your (target and development) environment can't ever change.
There is always the next step up -- a VM.... Long term, this complete sandboxing functionality should be in the OS.
Did you read my post? Running everything in (separate) VMs is exactly the point of Qubes OS, with the advantage (compared to Windows or VMWare) of being Free Software.
I don't see how. Nothing is retained in Incognito mode. Every time you launch it you have a totally new profile.
You make the implicit assumption that you're relaunching often, which may not always be the case (especially if you're using it all the time, instead of only occasionally).
The only way they could build said "shadow profile" is based on IP. But they can't tie the IP to a given twitter user name if you never sign into twitter on that device.
Point 1: The Twitter user name is probably the least important piece of information they're trying to connect.
Point 2: You only have to slip up once in order for your shadow profile and your named profile to get connected, permanently. It's way too risky.
Although it may be good enough for stopping Twitter, the trouble with Sandboxie is that it still relies on Windows, which cannot be trusted for other reasons. IMO, if you're going to the trouble of sandboxing everything anyway, you might as well just skip straight to Qubes OS.
You can block it in two ways... either a) never sign into twitter in your browser unless in Incognito mode, or b) Block third-party cookies and trackers using Ad Block. I do the latter.
The first method would still allow Twitter to build a "shadow profile." It may not be explicitly linked to your Twitter ID, but it's still just as identifiable. Therefore, only your second suggestion is an actual solution, in my opinion.
Dumbphone plans are cheap. Smartphone plans aren't because carriers in the country that includes Chicago tend to force expensive data plans on smartphone customers.
At this point, if you're too stupid to figure out that better options than AT&T exist, then you deserve what you get. (I have some relatives like this, who are paying $200+/month to AT&T for no goddamned reason. They also had their house foreclosed on. I've just about given up on them: you can't fix stupid.)
In contrast, my smartphone plan costs $30/month and gives me an incredible firehose of data that I will probably never come close to using all of (unless I used it to replace my home internet connection or something like that).
a typical "green" person doesn't think in terms of "best alternative", but simply opposes whatever is being done since it will inevitably have some consequences.
And a typical small-minded bigot stereotypes everyone whose views aren't a clone of his own. Fuck you, small-minded bigot!
But the technology hasn't been perfected yet! (I can tell because it's almost 30 years since Back to the Future and I still can't buy any plutonium at the corner drugstore.)
Engineering professors can get paid pretty darn well... I looked up the salary of one of mine at Georgia Tech, and he apparently makes close to $200K (over, including reimbursed travel).
It's like in our hospitals - you can never convince administration that you actually WANT empty beds - because that means the population is healthy and empty beds are a sign of success of the health system.
It also means your hospital is too big, and that's what the administration is upset about.
After the first month, you know exactly how long it takes to charge and how low batteries are after 51 miles.
Not necessarily. It depends not only on your driving pattern but also the ambient temperature (which obviously varies according to season unless maybe you live in the tropics).
Then you're not the market for a Tesla. Not only because batteries degrade over time (whether you're using them or not, I think), but also because if you only use a car occasionally then it's stupid for you to buy an expensive car.
So just to be clear, Mr. ordinary self-interested citizen of the USA, as long as your criminal Stasi organizations and the douche politicians that enable them are only spying on the ordinary, law-abiding people outside your borders, you're good to go?
While that view might be hypocritical and selfish, it's not irrational.
you'd be pissing furious if you found out the GCHQ had recorded all of your conversations for the last few years
But not furious at GCHQ for attempting to spy on us, but rather furious at the NSA counterintelligence unit for failing to prevent GCHQ from succeeding. (And then infinitely more furious at the NSA for accepting the resulting data about US citizens in order to circumvent the 4th Amendment.)
The space between each pair of deck planks in a wooden ship was filled with a packing material called "oakum" and then sealed with a mixture of pitch and tar. The result, from afar, was a series of parallel lines a half-foot or so apart, running the length of the deck. Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a warship's crew was ordered to fall in at quarters - that is, each group of men into which the crew was divided would line up in formation in a given area of the deck. To insure a neat alignment of each row, the Sailors were directed to stand with their toes just touching a particular seam.
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So are you saying that new functionality breaks the extension API every time? 'Cause if it doesn't, then even new functionality can be a minor version number.
...Or one can make stupid contributions to a high-fee plan (which is what most, if not all, annuities are).
Oh, okay. I was under the impression that Qubes was "existing" (I've seen people on Slashdot claim to use it, but haven't tried it myself). It does have a version labeled "release" on its download page, so I assume it's at least somewhat usable...
That's not a sufficient condition. Your code has to be 100% correct and your design has to be 100% correct and your requirements can't ever change and your (target and development) environment can't ever change.
Did you read my post? Running everything in (separate) VMs is exactly the point of Qubes OS, with the advantage (compared to Windows or VMWare) of being Free Software.
You make the implicit assumption that you're relaunching often, which may not always be the case (especially if you're using it all the time, instead of only occasionally).
Although it may be good enough for stopping Twitter, the trouble with Sandboxie is that it still relies on Windows, which cannot be trusted for other reasons. IMO, if you're going to the trouble of sandboxing everything anyway, you might as well just skip straight to Qubes OS.
The first method would still allow Twitter to build a "shadow profile." It may not be explicitly linked to your Twitter ID, but it's still just as identifiable. Therefore, only your second suggestion is an actual solution, in my opinion.
Then move to some other country where "liv[ing] in a Mad Max style dystopia" isn't a Constitutional right.
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At this point, if you're too stupid to figure out that better options than AT&T exist, then you deserve what you get. (I have some relatives like this, who are paying $200+/month to AT&T for no goddamned reason. They also had their house foreclosed on. I've just about given up on them: you can't fix stupid.)
In contrast, my smartphone plan costs $30/month and gives me an incredible firehose of data that I will probably never come close to using all of (unless I used it to replace my home internet connection or something like that).
As an American, I'd be fairly pissed off if the military didn't have a secret replacement for the SR-71 already in service (since before 1998).
And a typical small-minded bigot stereotypes everyone whose views aren't a clone of his own. Fuck you, small-minded bigot!
Well, you could get a 1999-2006 Honda Insight, but then you'd have to "settle" for 70-100 MPG.
But the technology hasn't been perfected yet! (I can tell because it's almost 30 years since Back to the Future and I still can't buy any plutonium at the corner drugstore.)
Engineering professors can get paid pretty darn well... I looked up the salary of one of mine at Georgia Tech, and he apparently makes close to $200K (over, including reimbursed travel).
It also means your hospital is too big, and that's what the administration is upset about.
I'd think it would violate the "ND" (non-discriminatory) part instead.
Not necessarily. It depends not only on your driving pattern but also the ambient temperature (which obviously varies according to season unless maybe you live in the tropics).
Then you're not the market for a Tesla. Not only because batteries degrade over time (whether you're using them or not, I think), but also because if you only use a car occasionally then it's stupid for you to buy an expensive car.
While that view might be hypocritical and selfish, it's not irrational.
But not furious at GCHQ for attempting to spy on us, but rather furious at the NSA counterintelligence unit for failing to prevent GCHQ from succeeding. (And then infinitely more furious at the NSA for accepting the resulting data about US citizens in order to circumvent the 4th Amendment.)
I know some Roombas have some kind of programming API (or at least they used to). How hackable are Neatos?
From http://www.history.navy.mil/trivia/trivia03.htm:
Both sides would have been stolen equally, since they would have been attached to each other.
Bo, obviously. He just can't spell.