Yeah, it looks like whitehouse.com no longer has porn... They used to be an obvious porn site with a preview tour and a members only area. Now it's just links...
I'm not justifying pornography, in fact... I find much of it is deplorable. BUT, doesn't the Constitution afford us freedom of speech/ press? It seems to me the government trying to thwart the.xxx campaign, is flirting dangerously close to being unconstitutional.
Not only that, but wouldn't it be much easier to filter pornography if the majority of it existed as.xxx sites? Most broadband routers have content filtering and it would be super easy for parents just to block access to.xxx hosted sites rather than a list of pornography.com, smoking-hotties.com, etc -- Don't fight Firefox! Let Firefox fight you!
that bounces about 4-5 times around the world through various mix of nym servers and mixmaster ones...encrypted each leg of the way individually to each server..headers stripped each time.
Get TOR or i2p and use one of the anonymous e-mail services that exist on those networks
What you've just described is basically Onion Routing, TOR and i2p being the most well known onion routing networks. -- Don't fight Firefox! Let FireFox fight YOU!
What I want to see is a setup where you have 2 areas on the disk. One is the real data. The other is some "dummy" data that is innocuous.
This is basically hidden volumes work. You create an encrypted volume and fill it with information that you don't need secret but looks like you might and the rest of the volume is random data passed through the encryption to fill space.
Then you create a hidden volume that fills the freespace. If you mount the encrypted volume using the first password, you'll see the innocuous files but cannot tell if there is a hidden volume or not. If you mount the hidden volume with the correct password, you'll get the real data.
If at any time following the creation of the hidden volume you write information to the outer volume you will most likely destroy the contents of the inner volume. I say most likely, since if you have a 120GB outer volume and a 2mb innervolume, the inner volume probably won't get hit, but if you have a 120GB and a 119GB, it probably will.
You could maybe write an autorun.inf and bat or vbs file to copy lots of data to the outer volume if the inner volume isn't mounted within so many minutes... -- Google innovative? Phhfft! This is Zombo-com!
Now how can they get the person's identity from your detailed notes, if you don't have any damn notes?
HAHA! Yeah, you're going to write an article about a government conspiracy or whatever based on informatino you've collected over the last 10 years involving 30 anonymous contacts without taking any notes?
Even if you keep track of all of your anonymous contacts in your head and use code names when you do take notes, you will have to take nodes and you probably will put down some information that is specific to that contact. Eventually there will probably be enough information in your notes to figure out enough to start asking around until your contact is discovered.
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Then don't write the person's identity in anything, it's not that hard people. Keep any information about the person strictly oral, don't write it down, email it, or save it.
Umm, because the idea is to keep their identity safe?
If you use a code name and then DON'T secure your notes, it is still pretty trivial to determine who a person is, especially if you kept detailed notes.
The newspaper and the source could communicate via a blog or wiki hosted on TOR. It would be impossible to find where the actual server was, and if the source never provides his/her name and other information the newspaper could never find it, nor could prosicuters.
The newspaper itself could even host the wiki/blog and provide the public with the Tor Rendevous address. The government could force the paper to open it's page but there would be no logs available and the paper itself would never know who the informant is.
An example would be the Hidden Wiki available only to those using TOR.
i2p would also work, but requires open ports so won't work behind a firewall/NAT without configuration. -- You could BugMeNot, or you could just click. You decide
For Time, the purpose of giving portable hard drives to reporters would be to transfer to the reporter ownership - and responsibility - for notes. That would reduce the onus on the company, leaving the reporter to decide how far to go with a personal act of civil disobedience. Some other publications also see the wisdom in this approach.
If portable HDs are used, it might not be a bad idea to encrypt them with something like TrueCrypt. A reported could even include a Hidden volume and tell the government/whoever that they haven't gotten around to actually using that particular drive yet.
Those who work with a FOSS OS however are more than likely more proficient in one if not both of these.
In addition, if all the windows users in the world converted to linux (good thing) they still wouldn't have the program skills or the knowledge to submit bug fixes and you'd just have the problem that most of your user base doesn't know what's wrong with the software. -- You could BugMeNot, or you could just click. You decide
Waiting until we are an hour off to realign with the earth's actual rotation would be like waiting till we were a full month off to adjust for the solar orbit.
Finally someone got it right! It has nothing to do with GMT and everything to do with common sense. Thank you! -- Google innovative? Phhfft! This is Zombo-com!
Months are supposed to reflect lunar cycles and there are 13 of them a year
Who the says months are supposed to reflect lunar cycles? Humans were smart enough 2000 years ago to figure out lunar cycles. If they wanted them to match, each month would be EXACTLY 28 days. Oh, but it takes a day and a quarter longer than 364 days to rotate the sun, so we'd be off anyway. Guess they were smart enough 2000 years ago to know that months CAN'T reflect the lunar cycles without screwing things up. -- Don't fight Firefox! Let FireFox fight YOU!
From article: But adding these ad hoc "leap seconds" -- the last one was tacked on in 1998 -- can be a big hassle for computers operating with software programs that never allowed for a 61-second minute, leading to glitches when the extra second passes.
Why would anyone need to set a 61-second minute to account for leap time other than the guys at NIST in charge of the official time? Just set all your computerized clocks to network sync. We have a network time server that re-syncs itself ever hour and then everything else checks that occasionaly. I've never had to do anything about a leap second except maybe be off by a second for a few hours until time resets itself...
That 0.01% of businesses that require absolute perfect time need to hire better software programmers rather than fscking with how we define time.
"OMGZ! Motorolla screwed up in 2003, and some Russians did the same in 1997! Let's pass a law to protect them!!!" -- Don't fight Firefox! Let FireFox fight YOU!
Someone (Toshiba I think?) did a test with a blue ray disk that had 1 layer of standard DVD and then 2 layers of blue ray. This would allow the movie only on the standard DVD layer (4.5gb) but allow for the full range of extras on the other layer.
The HD-DVD camp did a test that had a Single layer of normal DVD and then a single layer of the HD-DVD. Now that they're up to 3 layers, I would imagine they could do a 1 and 2 just like the blue ray camp did. -- Don't fight Firefox! Let FireFox fight YOU!
Not sure that qualifies as a paperless toilet. I'm sure you could still use toilet paper. It's definately a waterless toilet, and looks like a grosser toilet.
Flush toilets are better than outhouses, and even outhouses and portapoties sound better than crapping in a Vase and dumping it out back (or where ever)
45GB for HD-DVD vs. 50GB for Blu-ray isn't that big a difference...
No, 5GB isn't that big of a difference. The problem is that in order to do 45GB, HD-DVD's need to use 3 layers, while they were only intended to ever do 2 layers. Yes, they did recently hit 3 layers, but they will probably never get to 4 layers and they will only be sold as 2 layers when they first come out.
Blue Ray was intended, right out of box to get to 8 layers. Right now with 2 layers they're at 50GB. They've already done 4 layers (100 GB) and wholey expect to get to the 8 layers in the future. This is a format with room to grow. HD-DVD just BARELY squeezed in 3 layers and still doesn't reach the capacity of a 2 layer Blu-Ray disk.
It's no contest. 200GB > 100GB > 50GB > 45GB > 30GB. (The two at the bottom are 3 and 2 layer HD-DVD respectively) -- Don't fight Firefox! Let FireFox fight YOU!
The installation base of Gigabit switches and routers is very low right now. Since they want he highspeed networking, they'd also need the consumer to have highspeed networking equipment for it to take advantage of.
Also, if it's a router, it will have the cable/dsl modem plugged directly into it, rather than being NAT'd behind some other device. This would take care of the port forwarding issue (or, if the router was basically a seperate unit entirely, at least the PS3 would be able to communicate to it using a standard--uPnP--or propriatary protocol to tell it's internal router what ports to open to the PS3)
But you are right--having a wiring closet in the entertainment center is teh suck. I'm sure that was taken into consideration when they decided to drop the feature ("It costs $10 and will only be used by these 5 consumers. Do we really want to spend $10 per unit for Ryoji Chubach and his family?")
According to the ChatCord website, they're patenting the idea. Once that happens, home-made ChatCords will be in violation of the company's intellectual property rights.
There's way too much prior art on something like this for them to get a patent. It'd be almost like trying to patent the telephone or the 600 Ohm 1:1 transformer or something.
If anything, they are going to patent the software and/or the solution as a whole so that you would only be infringing if you sold a product identical marketed for VOIP use, since that's the only somewhat novel thing they did.
In any event, note that their patent is PENDING, not granted. I wouldn't worry. (or care... just don't sell your home made ones) -- Don't fight Firefox! Let FireFox fight YOU!
HA! I used to think the same as you, but I've come to realize that conservative in america != support of the little guy or support of the constitution
Here in america, conservative means to support big business. The republican party has forsaken us in support of those with big pockets (corporations). -- Looking for a pyramid? Join the conga!
The goal is not to take all our freedoms and privacies all at once. They just want to get the ball rolling. They will ask the ISPs to log a totally unreasonable amount of data knowing they will settle for a lesser but still privacy killing amount.
Well, I guess I'll have to stick to sending all everything throughOnion Routing proxies like i2p and tor.
I realize you were trolling and all, but it's completely obvious.
No, not trolling... providing a sardonic commentary. I don't feel there's any place for the bat suit on howstuffworks.com. It doesn't work, it's not real. End of Story. -- Don't fight Firefox! Let FireFox fight YOU!
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Yeah, it looks like whitehouse.com no longer has porn... They used to be an obvious porn site with a preview tour and a members only area. Now it's just links...
I'm not justifying pornography, in fact... I find much of it is deplorable. BUT, doesn't the Constitution afford us freedom of speech/ press? It seems to me the government trying to thwart the .xxx campaign, is flirting dangerously close to being unconstitutional.
.xxx sites? Most broadband routers have content filtering and it would be super easy for parents just to block access to .xxx hosted sites rather than a list of pornography.com, smoking-hotties.com, etc
Not only that, but wouldn't it be much easier to filter pornography if the majority of it existed as
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that bounces about 4-5 times around the world through various mix of nym servers and mixmaster ones...encrypted each leg of the way individually to each server..headers stripped each time.
Get TOR or i2p and use one of the anonymous e-mail services that exist on those networks
What you've just described is basically Onion Routing, TOR and i2p being the most well known onion routing networks.
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What I want to see is a setup where you have 2 areas on the disk.
One is the real data.
The other is some "dummy" data that is innocuous.
This is basically hidden volumes work. You create an encrypted volume and fill it with information that you don't need secret but looks like you might and the rest of the volume is random data passed through the encryption to fill space.
Then you create a hidden volume that fills the freespace. If you mount the encrypted volume using the first password, you'll see the innocuous files but cannot tell if there is a hidden volume or not. If you mount the hidden volume with the correct password, you'll get the real data.
If at any time following the creation of the hidden volume you write information to the outer volume you will most likely destroy the contents of the inner volume. I say most likely, since if you have a 120GB outer volume and a 2mb innervolume, the inner volume probably won't get hit, but if you have a 120GB and a 119GB, it probably will.
You could maybe write an autorun.inf and bat or vbs file to copy lots of data to the outer volume if the inner volume isn't mounted within so many minutes...
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Now how can they get the person's identity from your detailed notes, if you don't have any damn notes?
HAHA! Yeah, you're going to write an article about a government conspiracy or whatever based on informatino you've collected over the last 10 years involving 30 anonymous contacts without taking any notes?
Even if you keep track of all of your anonymous contacts in your head and use code names when you do take notes, you will have to take nodes and you probably will put down some information that is specific to that contact. Eventually there will probably be enough information in your notes to figure out enough to start asking around until your contact is discovered.
You will have to write some things down and you should secure what you write down.
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Then don't write the person's identity in anything, it's not that hard people. Keep any information about the person strictly oral, don't write it down, email it, or save it.
Umm, because the idea is to keep their identity safe?
If you use a code name and then DON'T secure your notes, it is still pretty trivial to determine who a person is, especially if you kept detailed notes.
Good luck. Take a peak at the technology...
;)
It's not called a Hidden Volume because it can be found with a Statistical Attack. It's called a hidden volume because it's HIDDEN
The newspaper and the source could communicate via a blog or wiki hosted on TOR. It would be impossible to find where the actual server was, and if the source never provides his/her name and other information the newspaper could never find it, nor could prosicuters.
The newspaper itself could even host the wiki/blog and provide the public with the Tor Rendevous address. The government could force the paper to open it's page but there would be no logs available and the paper itself would never know who the informant is.
An example would be the Hidden Wiki available only to those using TOR.
i2p would also work, but requires open ports so won't work behind a firewall/NAT without configuration.
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For Time, the purpose of giving portable hard drives to reporters would be to transfer to the reporter ownership - and responsibility - for notes. That would reduce the onus on the company, leaving the reporter to decide how far to go with a personal act of civil disobedience. Some other publications also see the wisdom in this approach.
If portable HDs are used, it might not be a bad idea to encrypt them with something like TrueCrypt. A reported could even include a Hidden volume and tell the government/whoever that they haven't gotten around to actually using that particular drive yet.
Those who work with a FOSS OS however are more than likely more proficient in one if not both of these.
In addition, if all the windows users in the world converted to linux (good thing) they still wouldn't have the program skills or the knowledge to submit bug fixes and you'd just have the problem that most of your user base doesn't know what's wrong with the software.
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just a test asdf
Waiting until we are an hour off to realign with the earth's actual rotation would be like waiting till we were a full month off to adjust for the solar orbit.
Finally someone got it right! It has nothing to do with GMT and everything to do with common sense. Thank you!
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Months are supposed to reflect lunar cycles and there are 13 of them a year
Who the says months are supposed to reflect lunar cycles? Humans were smart enough 2000 years ago to figure out lunar cycles. If they wanted them to match, each month would be EXACTLY 28 days. Oh, but it takes a day and a quarter longer than 364 days to rotate the sun, so we'd be off anyway. Guess they were smart enough 2000 years ago to know that months CAN'T reflect the lunar cycles without screwing things up.
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From article:
But adding these ad hoc "leap seconds" -- the last one was tacked on in 1998 -- can be a big hassle for computers operating with software programs that never allowed for a 61-second minute, leading to glitches when the extra second passes.
Why would anyone need to set a 61-second minute to account for leap time other than the guys at NIST in charge of the official time? Just set all your computerized clocks to network sync. We have a network time server that re-syncs itself ever hour and then everything else checks that occasionaly. I've never had to do anything about a leap second except maybe be off by a second for a few hours until time resets itself...
That 0.01% of businesses that require absolute perfect time need to hire better software programmers rather than fscking with how we define time.
"OMGZ! Motorolla screwed up in 2003, and some Russians did the same in 1997! Let's pass a law to protect them!!!"
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Mozilla has internal support for tabs, right? I used tab extensions before mozilla had support, but now I don't see a need.
Noa troll, but curious: What features do you find you can't live without that are installed by one of the tab extensions?
Someone (Toshiba I think?) did a test with a blue ray disk that had 1 layer of standard DVD and then 2 layers of blue ray. This would allow the movie only on the standard DVD layer (4.5gb) but allow for the full range of extras on the other layer.
The HD-DVD camp did a test that had a Single layer of normal DVD and then a single layer of the HD-DVD. Now that they're up to 3 layers, I would imagine they could do a 1 and 2 just like the blue ray camp did.
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Not sure that qualifies as a paperless toilet. I'm sure you could still use toilet paper. It's definately a waterless toilet, and looks like a grosser toilet.
Flush toilets are better than outhouses, and even outhouses and portapoties sound better than crapping in a Vase and dumping it out back (or where ever)
No thanks!
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You mean like a Bidet/toilet combo unit?
Like the ones they've sold for a few years now?
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45GB for HD-DVD vs. 50GB for Blu-ray isn't that big a difference...
No, 5GB isn't that big of a difference. The problem is that in order to do 45GB, HD-DVD's need to use 3 layers, while they were only intended to ever do 2 layers. Yes, they did recently hit 3 layers, but they will probably never get to 4 layers and they will only be sold as 2 layers when they first come out.
Blue Ray was intended, right out of box to get to 8 layers. Right now with 2 layers they're at 50GB. They've already done 4 layers (100 GB) and wholey expect to get to the 8 layers in the future. This is a format with room to grow. HD-DVD just BARELY squeezed in 3 layers and still doesn't reach the capacity of a 2 layer Blu-Ray disk.
It's no contest.
200GB > 100GB > 50GB > 45GB > 30GB. (The two at the bottom are 3 and 2 layer HD-DVD respectively)
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The installation base of Gigabit switches and routers is very low right now. Since they want he highspeed networking, they'd also need the consumer to have highspeed networking equipment for it to take advantage of.
Also, if it's a router, it will have the cable/dsl modem plugged directly into it, rather than being NAT'd behind some other device. This would take care of the port forwarding issue (or, if the router was basically a seperate unit entirely, at least the PS3 would be able to communicate to it using a standard--uPnP--or propriatary protocol to tell it's internal router what ports to open to the PS3)
But you are right--having a wiring closet in the entertainment center is teh suck. I'm sure that was taken into consideration when they decided to drop the feature ("It costs $10 and will only be used by these 5 consumers. Do we really want to spend $10 per unit for Ryoji Chubach and his family?")
According to the ChatCord website, they're patenting the idea. Once that happens, home-made ChatCords will be in violation of the company's intellectual property rights.
There's way too much prior art on something like this for them to get a patent. It'd be almost like trying to patent the telephone or the 600 Ohm 1:1 transformer or something.
If anything, they are going to patent the software and/or the solution as a whole so that you would only be infringing if you sold a product identical marketed for VOIP use, since that's the only somewhat novel thing they did.
In any event, note that their patent is PENDING, not granted. I wouldn't worry. (or care... just don't sell your home made ones)
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You can get a USB Mic/Speaker plug:o _blaster.html
e =CTLG&product_id=274-894
http://www.usbgear.com/usb-audio-adapter/usb_audi
or just put a stereo mini-pin splitter on your mic and spk out so you can plugin your speakers:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog_nam
(you can get them cheaper than the shack, but it's easy to find there in a pinch)
guess we need bush judges more than ever now
HA! I used to think the same as you, but I've come to realize that conservative in america != support of the little guy or support of the constitution
Here in america, conservative means to support big business. The republican party has forsaken us in support of those with big pockets (corporations).
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The goal is not to take all our freedoms and privacies all at once. They just want to get the ball rolling. They will ask the ISPs to log a totally unreasonable amount of data knowing they will settle for a lesser but still privacy killing amount.
Well, I guess I'll have to stick to sending all everything throughOnion Routing proxies like i2p and tor.
That'll be a real shame.
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I realize you were trolling and all, but it's completely obvious.
No, not trolling... providing a sardonic commentary. I don't feel there's any place for the bat suit on howstuffworks.com. It doesn't work, it's not real. End of Story.
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