Wow someone else uses the same procedure as me. What's so great about this is it allows me my weekly scheduled evil session for about a half and hour before 10am on Thursday and I trust the authorities(even after having read this post) aren't smart enough to arrive at 9:55am on Thursday.
If you'd like to avoid the legal consequences, use truecrypt with the plausible deniability option. This allows you to hide one encrypted partition inside another in such a way as to say "Yes" to your attac....authorities while keeping your important secrets safe.
The trick would be to install Vista into a truecrypt partition and manage to seperate out the indexing and sensitive information into your plausibly denied second tc partition.
they would be a little too open to be elected. I mean how could an operating system with all of its code and data naked to the world tell every group what they want to hear.
On, the other hand you could count on Linux to work well under fire and to require very infrequent vacations at Camp David.
There's also the problem of fragmentation, which flavor of Linux would get nominated and who's to say they won't fork midterm?
Forking is a tough one but it would be nice to be able to get updates on the fly...though sometimes the president might have to recompile ndiswrapper so that wireless card would work with the updated kernel.
And copying, that could be a real challenge. I mean how is the US supposed to be superior when the president could be copied bit for bit to go and run other governments willy nilly?
Then again, it might be nice if there weren't so much nation lock-in. Then we could all move to Russia like our grandfathers have undoubtedly suggested.
I have to say, it's undecided if Linux would win though it is interesting to think about.
Look, everyone knows Vista is more secure than Linux. Just look at its pedigree: it comes from a long line of the highest rated operating systems that the US Government has had the resources to design special tests and ratings for. And take a look at the list of huge companies that have chosen Windows as the platform of choice for their high security applications. Big, trusted companies like Diebold, maker of some of the finest voting machines you can fix err...lay your eyes on. Hell, even big slot machine and ATM companies have chosen Windows as their security platform of choice. I can tell because sometimes I can see the security in action...Stop errors and blue screens...that's Windows saying, "Oh, no you didn't."
You know what else?
Billboards. That's right billboards that show precious ads to thousands of passers by choose Windows to operate their mission critical, high security software. Can you imagine the hil... chaos that would ensue if one of these billboards were hacked?
I think Windows has really redefined security. See it's not about the integrity of the software that's actually running on your device. It's about the security of the media. And nobody is working harder to make sure the CD's and DVD's you install are protected from real threats. And they'll be secure if you ever have to reinstall because of bugs. Piracy and counterfeiting are the real security problems. Thankfully Microsoft has some magic technology called DRM to ensure we're not having to pay more than necessary to make up for this "shrinkage".
Thankfully Microsoft has our best interests in mind and they're protecting us all 24/7/360. They're on our side. So let's all do what we can do to make sure Windows and Microsoft are as secure as they've made our computing lives.
I'm old enough to know it's not that easy and young enough to not be so cynical that I don't think it'll happen. A linux phone will happen and it will in time become the superior product. I'd just like to see that happen sooner than later.
Having watched Mr. Mossberg's video and read his article, I can't help but think of the recent speedy development of Moonlight and how this speed of development doesn't seem to happen on phones. In the US, I fear the phone companies have held too much power over the phones and features we use.
Despite it's Visual Voicemail, media, and enhanced web browsing capabilities, I won't have an iPhone for the foreseeable future as I don't do AT&T. I do hope, however, that the iPhone's new hotness casts a dark shadow on other phone makers who have neither the manpower or focus to develop such features themselves. So, listen you laggard phone makers, you. Build a linux-based CDMA*/GSM phone with a palm-style keyboard and let the community develop some free software for you.
A CDMA-capable Linux phone is something for which I might pay $500. Especially if I could dock it to my monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Oh yeah, Beryl and Synaptic might be nice too.
* I mention CDMA because Trolltech's Greenphone got me a little excited until I learned that it only does GSM so it won't work with my provider.
Not to take this story for more than what it is but this gives me an opportunity to share a vision of the future that has made me think quite hard. What if robots could do every menial and every physical job that needed doing? Imagine robots as dexterous and with visual recognition as good as your average skilled craftsman.
Would each person own a robot and collect a check from home or would the more likely scenario be that a few large companies would run huge armies of these robots? How might all those people who never heard of 'knowledge work' make a living? I'm thinking that the current scheme for distribution of wealth based on labor might not work in that scenario. Finally, I wonder what system, short of some socialist or communist nightmare, would.
I'm interested to hear what people think. Discussion or not, we'll only find out when it happens so bring those cotton-pickin' robots on!
Yes, I've seen all your supposed facts and evidence that open source software helps people learn to program and provides many more people with the tools they need. Unfortunately, I don't go by facts and evidence. I go by my gut.
My gut tells me that free software is just wrong, and that if you don't get paid for your work, you just might be a communist. So please don't submit patches and support this drain on our economy. Go out and *buy* the software you need. That way you'll be able to support the country and economy again next time an upgrade or new version comes out. My gut and thousands of democracy-loving programmers thank you.
I wonder how many more Linux vendors have to say no to Microsoft before they remember what got them in the position they're in. Didn't they at some point develop and ship software people wanted to use?
Note to Bill: Fire the lawyers and improve Vista. See the accompanying discussion to this article to begin pulling your head out.
I'm also an idiot as I posted something along similar lines. Maybe we're just trying to discuss the larger issue that kind of gets in the way of these other services.
The confluence of provider-provided phones and 1-2 year contracts makes it hard to switch. Networks have a useful life of around 5 years so the best we can do is take a survey and hope it's not biased. I'd love it if contracts went away and if phones were decoupled from providers but I think that'll happen right around the beginning of porcine aviation.
How long before phishers setup a mirror or three of the Canadian IRS and begin collecting SSNs and birthdates? They'll have the data in the right columns I'm sure. The grammar and spelling on the other hand...
No, I don't. I do, on the other hand, have the pleasure of supporting myriad computers for small business and residential customers. The disaster recovery process is as varied as my customers and it's sad to say, this will only add to how much it costs to own a computer. Whether you reinstall(and pay extra for the xp image loading) or decide to just buy a new computer, both will cost more than what it does with XP or 2000.
At this very moment, I have a Gateway with no recovery partition or disks, virus damaged, and the need to do a fresh install. Shall I call MS and explain that I don't have their oem cd or ask the customer if they'd like to never (Ubuntu) worry about this kind of problem again? This dilemma with Vista tips the scales toward the latter since calling MS isn't even an option...it'll just take more time every time.
That's a cool map you got there at expasy. I think it'd be awesome if they'd put it in a google maps-like client so it's easier to navigate the large map it is. The imagemap features and the way they identify the quadrants wouldn't make it too hard to grab the data and put it back together again.
That's good to know...I still think it'd be cool if there was some way to build a search engine based on anonymized click info from clients. Too bad, the useful data in such a scenario has the potential to identify the user. There's got to be a way to do it and make the database publicly available so it can be audited. Maybe only capture the first click from any results page and strip out the personally identifiable info in a url in a custom way for each url. The only thing missing then would be the marketing for a search engine nobody owns.
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Wow someone else uses the same procedure as me. What's so great about this is it allows me my weekly scheduled evil session for about a half and hour before 10am on Thursday and I trust the authorities(even after having read this post) aren't smart enough to arrive at 9:55am on Thursday.
If you'd like to avoid the legal consequences, use truecrypt with the plausible deniability option. This allows you to hide one encrypted partition inside another in such a way as to say "Yes" to your attac....authorities while keeping your important secrets safe.
The trick would be to install Vista into a truecrypt partition and manage to seperate out the indexing and sensitive information into your plausibly denied second tc partition.
I'm perfectly capable of losing my files and documents all by myself. Thanks anyway.
they would be a little too open to be elected. I mean how could an operating system with all of its code and data naked to the world tell every group what they want to hear. On, the other hand you could count on Linux to work well under fire and to require very infrequent vacations at Camp David. There's also the problem of fragmentation, which flavor of Linux would get nominated and who's to say they won't fork midterm? Forking is a tough one but it would be nice to be able to get updates on the fly...though sometimes the president might have to recompile ndiswrapper so that wireless card would work with the updated kernel. And copying, that could be a real challenge. I mean how is the US supposed to be superior when the president could be copied bit for bit to go and run other governments willy nilly? Then again, it might be nice if there weren't so much nation lock-in. Then we could all move to Russia like our grandfathers have undoubtedly suggested. I have to say, it's undecided if Linux would win though it is interesting to think about.
Look, everyone knows Vista is more secure than Linux. Just look at its pedigree: it comes from a long line of the highest rated operating systems that the US Government has had the resources to design special tests and ratings for. And take a look at the list of huge companies that have chosen Windows as the platform of choice for their high security applications. Big, trusted companies like Diebold, maker of some of the finest voting machines you can fix err...lay your eyes on. Hell, even big slot machine and ATM companies have chosen Windows as their security platform of choice. I can tell because sometimes I can see the security in action...Stop errors and blue screens...that's Windows saying, "Oh, no you didn't."
You know what else?
Billboards. That's right billboards that show precious ads to thousands of passers by choose Windows to operate their mission critical, high security software. Can you imagine the hil... chaos that would ensue if one of these billboards were hacked?
I think Windows has really redefined security. See it's not about the integrity of the software that's actually running on your device. It's about the security of the media. And nobody is working harder to make sure the CD's and DVD's you install are protected from real threats. And they'll be secure if you ever have to reinstall because of bugs. Piracy and counterfeiting are the real security problems. Thankfully Microsoft has some magic technology called DRM to ensure we're not having to pay more than necessary to make up for this "shrinkage".
Thankfully Microsoft has our best interests in mind and they're protecting us all 24/7/360. They're on our side. So let's all do what we can do to make sure Windows and Microsoft are as secure as they've made our computing lives.
Thank you.
I'm old enough to know it's not that easy and young enough to not be so cynical that I don't think it'll happen. A linux phone will happen and it will in time become the superior product. I'd just like to see that happen sooner than later.
Having watched Mr. Mossberg's video and read his article, I can't help but think of the recent speedy development of Moonlight and how this speed of development doesn't seem to happen on phones. In the US, I fear the phone companies have held too much power over the phones and features we use.
Despite it's Visual Voicemail, media, and enhanced web browsing capabilities, I won't have an iPhone for the foreseeable future as I don't do AT&T. I do hope, however, that the iPhone's new hotness casts a dark shadow on other phone makers who have neither the manpower or focus to develop such features themselves. So, listen you laggard phone makers, you. Build a linux-based CDMA*/GSM phone with a palm-style keyboard and let the community develop some free software for you.
A CDMA-capable Linux phone is something for which I might pay $500. Especially if I could dock it to my monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Oh yeah, Beryl and Synaptic might be nice too.
* I mention CDMA because Trolltech's Greenphone got me a little excited until I learned that it only does GSM so it won't work with my provider.
Not to take this story for more than what it is but this gives me an opportunity to share a vision of the future that has made me think quite hard. What if robots could do every menial and every physical job that needed doing? Imagine robots as dexterous and with visual recognition as good as your average skilled craftsman.
Would each person own a robot and collect a check from home or would the more likely scenario be that a few large companies would run huge armies of these robots? How might all those people who never heard of 'knowledge work' make a living? I'm thinking that the current scheme for distribution of wealth based on labor might not work in that scenario. Finally, I wonder what system, short of some socialist or communist nightmare, would.
I'm interested to hear what people think. Discussion or not, we'll only find out when it happens so bring those cotton-pickin' robots on!
Yes, I've seen all your supposed facts and evidence that open source software helps people learn to program and provides many more people with the tools they need. Unfortunately, I don't go by facts and evidence. I go by my gut.
My gut tells me that free software is just wrong, and that if you don't get paid for your work, you just might be a communist. So please don't submit patches and support this drain on our economy. Go out and *buy* the software you need. That way you'll be able to support the country and economy again next time an upgrade or new version comes out. My gut and thousands of democracy-loving programmers thank you.
I wonder how many more Linux vendors have to say no to Microsoft before they remember what got them in the position they're in. Didn't they at some point develop and ship software people wanted to use?
Note to Bill: Fire the lawyers and improve Vista. See the accompanying discussion to this article to begin pulling your head out.
http://www.davidsterry.com/streetview http://www.laudontech.com/StreetView/streetview.ht ml
http://www.streetviewr.com/
All this stuff about microwaves and dark matter is cool but what I want to know is, will Linux have taken over the desktop?
The best part of this new technology?
The new modem still has the limitation of only ~300k of upstream bandwidth. It's totally win-win.
And he's off...
Didn't we already decide that Powerpoint was bad for learning?
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Evidently, Google doesn't read our beloved
Does this mean I can patent humans helping humans use a computer?
I'm also an idiot as I posted something along similar lines. Maybe we're just trying to discuss the larger issue that kind of gets in the way of these other services.
Too bad the SEC can't freeze the artificial erection and weight-loss markets.
The confluence of provider-provided phones and 1-2 year contracts makes it hard to switch. Networks have a useful life of around 5 years so the best we can do is take a survey and hope it's not biased. I'd love it if contracts went away and if phones were decoupled from providers but I think that'll happen right around the beginning of porcine aviation.
How long before phishers setup a mirror or three of the Canadian IRS and begin collecting SSNs and birthdates? They'll have the data in the right columns I'm sure. The grammar and spelling on the other hand...
There can be no surer way to popularize TOR(The Onion Router) than to implement this sort of surveillance.
It's hard enough keeping track of all these CD's and DVD's.
No, I don't. I do, on the other hand, have the pleasure of supporting myriad computers for small business and residential customers. The disaster recovery process is as varied as my customers and it's sad to say, this will only add to how much it costs to own a computer. Whether you reinstall(and pay extra for the xp image loading) or decide to just buy a new computer, both will cost more than what it does with XP or 2000.
At this very moment, I have a Gateway with no recovery partition or disks, virus damaged, and the need to do a fresh install. Shall I call MS and explain that I don't have their oem cd or ask the customer if they'd like to never (Ubuntu) worry about this kind of problem again? This dilemma with Vista tips the scales toward the latter since calling MS isn't even an option...it'll just take more time every time.
That's a cool map you got there at expasy. I think it'd be awesome if they'd put it in a google maps-like client so it's easier to navigate the large map it is. The imagemap features and the way they identify the quadrants wouldn't make it too hard to grab the data and put it back together again.
That's good to know...I still think it'd be cool if there was some way to build a search engine based on anonymized click info from clients. Too bad, the useful data in such a scenario has the potential to identify the user. There's got to be a way to do it and make the database publicly available so it can be audited. Maybe only capture the first click from any results page and strip out the personally identifiable info in a url in a custom way for each url. The only thing missing then would be the marketing for a search engine nobody owns.