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Besides defining what all the value(including the user addable ones) at about:config do.. what much else is there to tell?
Well, for one thing, how to use user.js as an alternative to about:config so you can backup your preferences and move them between computers. Not to mention how to use userChrome.css and userContent.css to modify the browser window -- little things like crossing out visited links, or getting rid of menu items you never use.
Yeah, that's a wonderful idea. Just the other day, I was in Best Buy, and I got to thinking, "Man, this line isn't moving slow enough. If only the clerk had to make a phone call every time someone buys a couple DVDs."
The original Galactica had continuity too. Remember that Baltar wound up getting captured and then some episodes featured him in prison, then escaping, etc...
Or how about in pilot movie where the Cylons kill Baltar, but in the regular series he's commanding a basestar. That's thinking ahead!
I'm a modestly well-read guy, but...what the ever-lovin' hell does "Galactica" have to do with Vernor Vinge?
AI attacks a human fleet by compromising its network and subverting its computers -- Battlestar Galactica or Fire Upon the Deep? It's easy to forget, amid the slew of Vinge immitators, that the introduction of cyberpunk tropes into old-fashioned space opera was revolutionary in 1992.
Firefly was the only SciFi TV with some innovations at all in the past few years.
As much as I liked Firefly, it was essentially just Blake's Seven in the Wild West.
Media SF is never innovative; at best it repeats ideas that literary SF tried out a decade before -- BSG, for example, is combining the original series, MilSF and Vernor Vinge.
Call me ignorant but wouldn't one simple phishing/keylogging software to get your password and its all for nothing?
Use Keepass to generate random, arbitrarily long passwords, and encrypt them with a key you keep on a thumbdrive. Any time you need a password, Keepass can copy it to the clipboard for five seconds and then delete it. You never have to actually type the password, and it only exists in plaintext for a few seconds at a time.
And if you have wifi, right click the wireless connection icon, select "View Available Wireless Networks" and log onto your neighbor's unsecured LAN with a new IP address.
If there were actual women with magical powers who serve the devil, then "burn the witch" would be a proper attitude. There are men who want to have sex with little girls, so "lock 'em up and throw away the key" is a proper attitude.
At least on windows one has to do more clicks than a normal user would do to cipher / decipher a mail with GPG (at least using Opera - haven't checked other browsers cause I won't change).
If you don't have a password to protect your keys, Enigmail can be made completely transparent -- just set it to sign by default and to encrypt if the recipient is on your keyring, and you wouldn't notice it except for a slight pause after you hit send.
I consider myself technically minded, and I can't understand the GPG docs. They're some of the worst documentation I've ever read.
Yeah, if privacy freaks really want people to encrypt email, they need to make GPG easier to install. I mean, in Windows 98 (still one of the most popular OSes around, remember) you have to edit the frickin' autoexec.bat just to get it to work.
When I upgraded to my new computer, I tried WinPT, which is supposed to install GPG with a graphical front-end, but when I tried importing my old keyrings, it'd import one then throw up an error message about the cache being improperly initialized.
On my old computer, I used GPGShell, which worked fine as a GUI, and would've been okay for normal computer users, except that you still had to install GPG separately. Same with Enigmail, which I use now. Until someone packages GPG with an installer and GUI that work, it's going to remain a tool of geeks.
Did you recently try to install Thunderbird's enigmail extension?
Yeah, last month when I got a new computer. I got 0.89.6 working after ten minutes of tinkering -- and that five minutes includes the time it took to install GPG, import my keys with Enigmail, and set account-specific preferences.
Enigmail used to be a bitch-and-a-half to install -- back with TB.3, it took me over an hour just to get Enigmail to recognize that I had GPG on my computer -- but now it works perfectly from the moment you restart TB. And on top of that, it gives you more control over GPG, so you can take care of basic housekeeping directly from Thunderbird.
You have to be shitting me. Do you really believe the US Government would spend money because it was getting TOO MUCH information?
No, I believe the NSA has quantum computers that scan the raw Echelon feeds and aggregate any potentially subversive statements made on Earth.
Of course, even that wouldn't automatically negate Kerr's reasoning; it would just mean that the FBI switched to commercial products because they're better tools for Big Brother, and not because they're better at protecting privacy. Or do you seriously believe that the federal government can produce better software than private companies and the FOSS community?
I'm more than willing to entertain conspiracies involving corrupt government, but not ones that require an omnipotent and competent one.
Not to mention that blog is famous for leaning on the right side of politics, so its no surprise they would praise the Carnivore system and call the complaints of civil libertarians trivial.
Its just some mostly Republican law junkies posting their opinions in a very fast and loose style.
Yes, they're so right wing that several members admitted to voting for Kerry and Badnarik.
Here's a clue-by-four for ya' -- not everyone who disagrees with you politically is a right-wing Republican.
No citations,
Are you reading the same Volokh Conspiracy as I am? They routinely cite legal opinions and academic papers, with a link if one's available to the general public. Hell, the most annoying thing about the site is the number of PDFs of court decisions they link to.
very little to oversight,Apart from guys like Mickey Kaus who are paid to blog by a professional media organization, no blogger has any oversight, right-wing, left-wing, anarchist, or fascist.
Please tell me that the owners of this site are not only hosting the site as a place for conspiracy theory... It disturbes me that one of the first article on the site references The Onion.
Eugene Volokh is a libertarian law professor.
He runs a blog with other libertarian law professors.
The name for the blog is the Volokh Conspiracy.
The first article you saw was a link to an Onion story that's amusing to lawyers and legal academics.
Does this mean that instead of using a more privacy friendly tool (i never though i'll use this expression on carnivore) is NOT needed any more because of the patriot act?
No, it doesn't mean that. He refers to an article he wrote on the PATRIOT Act three years ago, which briefly touched on the subject, but nowhere does he say that thE PATRIOT Act lowered the standards. His point is that publically available software has finally caught up to those standards.
He seems to think that it's kinda warm and fuzzy and all those civil libertarians are just cranks.
Considering that Orin Kerr, like the rest of the Volokh Conspiracy, is a libertarian, I think it'd be more accurate to say that he thinks his fellow libertarians are over-reacting.
If you're going to tell people to RTFA, you should read the full article yourself. Orin's point is that the FBI is retiring Carnivore because it's no longer necessary from a technical point of view.
In the late '90s, the FBI was relying upon commercially available packet sniffers (dubbed Omnivore by the Bureau) for electronic surveillance. They found the products available at the time insufficient for the job -- the official explanation is they didn't allow fine enough filtration to protect privacy, but if you wish to read more nefarious reasons into it, it doesn't make much difference -- so the Bureau created their own system called Carnivore. But that was over half a decade ago, and the publically available programs have finally caught up to FBI specs.
The truth is, you can probably download a packet sniffer off Sourceforge that's more powerful than the dread Carnivore. And that's probably what the FBI's doing now.
The thing which made ST successful in the past was Roddenberry.
Stop drinking the kool-aid, dude. Star Trek suceeded despite Roddenberry, not because of him. Remember, he's the guy who thought a retread of "The Changeling" would make a great movie, and that Nicholoa Meyer's militarization of Star Fleet in TWOK was a bad idea.
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Besides defining what all the value(including the user addable ones) at about:config do.. what much else is there to tell?
Well, for one thing, how to use user.js as an alternative to about:config so you can backup your preferences and move them between computers. Not to mention how to use userChrome.css and userContent.css to modify the browser window -- little things like crossing out visited links, or getting rid of menu items you never use.
Yeah, that's a wonderful idea. Just the other day, I was in Best Buy, and I got to thinking, "Man, this line isn't moving slow enough. If only the clerk had to make a phone call every time someone buys a couple DVDs."
The original Galactica had continuity too. Remember that Baltar wound up getting captured and then some episodes featured him in prison, then escaping, etc...
Or how about in pilot movie where the Cylons kill Baltar, but in the regular series he's commanding a basestar. That's thinking ahead!
I'm a modestly well-read guy, but ...what the ever-lovin' hell does "Galactica" have to do with Vernor Vinge?
AI attacks a human fleet by compromising its network and subverting its computers -- Battlestar Galactica or Fire Upon the Deep? It's easy to forget, amid the slew of Vinge immitators, that the introduction of cyberpunk tropes into old-fashioned space opera was revolutionary in 1992.
Firefly was the only SciFi TV with some innovations at all in the past few years.
As much as I liked Firefly, it was essentially just Blake's Seven in the Wild West.
Media SF is never innovative; at best it repeats ideas that literary SF tried out a decade before -- BSG, for example, is combining the original series, MilSF and Vernor Vinge.
I can't even watch BSG. Seeing what's being done in the name of the original is horrifying.
Why? The only thing keeping the original from being the worst scifi series of the '70s is the existence of Space 1999.
So Manny Coto's plan for saving Trek is to use Jump the Shark.com as a checklist?
Call me ignorant but wouldn't one simple phishing/keylogging software to get your password and its all for nothing?
Use Keepass to generate random, arbitrarily long passwords, and encrypt them with a key you keep on a thumbdrive. Any time you need a password, Keepass can copy it to the clipboard for five seconds and then delete it. You never have to actually type the password, and it only exists in plaintext for a few seconds at a time.
And if you have wifi, right click the wireless connection icon, select "View Available Wireless Networks" and log onto your neighbor's unsecured LAN with a new IP address.
Hey, just because I care about my privacy....
What could be geekier than updating software on a W95 box?
Updating software one Windows 1.1?
Stan: Dude, [they] have sex with children.
Kyle: Yeah, dude, we're all for freedom and tolerance and that gay shit, but seriously, fuck [them].
If there were actual women with magical powers who serve the devil, then "burn the witch" would be a proper attitude. There are men who want to have sex with little girls, so "lock 'em up and throw away the key" is a proper attitude.
It's good to see Microsoft did at least one appearance on TV without Windows Crashing.
That's only because Windows 1.0 was incapable of displaying a blue screen.
At least on windows one has to do more clicks than a normal user would do to cipher / decipher a mail with GPG (at least using Opera - haven't checked other browsers cause I won't change).
If you don't have a password to protect your keys, Enigmail can be made completely transparent -- just set it to sign by default and to encrypt if the recipient is on your keyring, and you wouldn't notice it except for a slight pause after you hit send.
Has there ever been a program that required cygwin that gained mass adoption?
Did you even read the previous post? Cygwin is unnecessary; gnupg.org offers gpg.exe.
I consider myself technically minded, and I can't understand the GPG docs. They're some of the worst documentation I've ever read.
Yeah, if privacy freaks really want people to encrypt email, they need to make GPG easier to install. I mean, in Windows 98 (still one of the most popular OSes around, remember) you have to edit the frickin' autoexec.bat just to get it to work.
When I upgraded to my new computer, I tried WinPT, which is supposed to install GPG with a graphical front-end, but when I tried importing my old keyrings, it'd import one then throw up an error message about the cache being improperly initialized.
On my old computer, I used GPGShell, which worked fine as a GUI, and would've been okay for normal computer users, except that you still had to install GPG separately. Same with Enigmail, which I use now. Until someone packages GPG with an installer and GUI that work, it's going to remain a tool of geeks.
Did you recently try to install Thunderbird's enigmail extension?
.3, it took me over an hour just to get Enigmail to recognize that I had GPG on my computer -- but now it works perfectly from the moment you restart TB. And on top of that, it gives you more control over GPG, so you can take care of basic housekeeping directly from Thunderbird.
Yeah, last month when I got a new computer. I got 0.89.6 working after ten minutes of tinkering -- and that five minutes includes the time it took to install GPG, import my keys with Enigmail, and set account-specific preferences.
Enigmail used to be a bitch-and-a-half to install -- back with TB
You have to be shitting me. Do you really believe the US Government would spend money because it was getting TOO MUCH information?
No, I believe the NSA has quantum computers that scan the raw Echelon feeds and aggregate any potentially subversive statements made on Earth.
Of course, even that wouldn't automatically negate Kerr's reasoning; it would just mean that the FBI switched to commercial products because they're better tools for Big Brother, and not because they're better at protecting privacy. Or do you seriously believe that the federal government can produce better software than private companies and the FOSS community?
I'm more than willing to entertain conspiracies involving corrupt government, but not ones that require an omnipotent and competent one.
Not to mention that blog is famous for leaning on the right side of politics, so its no surprise they would praise the Carnivore system and call the complaints of civil libertarians trivial.
Its just some mostly Republican law junkies posting their opinions in a very fast and loose style.
Yes, they're so right wing that several members admitted to voting for Kerry and Badnarik.
Here's a clue-by-four for ya' -- not everyone who disagrees with you politically is a right-wing Republican.
No citations,
Are you reading the same Volokh Conspiracy as I am? They routinely cite legal opinions and academic papers, with a link if one's available to the general public. Hell, the most annoying thing about the site is the number of PDFs of court decisions they link to.
very little to oversight,Apart from guys like Mickey Kaus who are paid to blog by a professional media organization, no blogger has any oversight, right-wing, left-wing, anarchist, or fascist.
We all know now that it is, and that Carnivore is part of it.
So the FBI knew about the PATRIOT Act when they created Carnivore during the Clinton administration?
Please tell me that the owners of this site are not only hosting the site as a place for conspiracy theory... It disturbes me that one of the first article on the site references The Onion.
Eugene Volokh is a libertarian law professor.
He runs a blog with other libertarian law professors.
The name for the blog is the Volokh Conspiracy.
The first article you saw was a link to an Onion story that's amusing to lawyers and legal academics.
Does this mean that instead of using a more privacy friendly tool (i never though i'll use this expression on carnivore) is NOT needed any more because of the patriot act?
No, it doesn't mean that. He refers to an article he wrote on the PATRIOT Act three years ago, which briefly touched on the subject, but nowhere does he say that thE PATRIOT Act lowered the standards. His point is that publically available software has finally caught up to those standards.
He seems to think that it's kinda warm and fuzzy and all those civil libertarians are just cranks.
Considering that Orin Kerr, like the rest of the Volokh Conspiracy, is a libertarian, I think it'd be more accurate to say that he thinks his fellow libertarians are over-reacting.
If you're going to tell people to RTFA, you should read the full article yourself. Orin's point is that the FBI is retiring Carnivore because it's no longer necessary from a technical point of view.
In the late '90s, the FBI was relying upon commercially available packet sniffers (dubbed Omnivore by the Bureau) for electronic surveillance. They found the products available at the time insufficient for the job -- the official explanation is they didn't allow fine enough filtration to protect privacy, but if you wish to read more nefarious reasons into it, it doesn't make much difference -- so the Bureau created their own system called Carnivore. But that was over half a decade ago, and the publically available programs have finally caught up to FBI specs.
The truth is, you can probably download a packet sniffer off Sourceforge that's more powerful than the dread Carnivore. And that's probably what the FBI's doing now.
The thing which made ST successful in the past was Roddenberry.
Stop drinking the kool-aid, dude. Star Trek suceeded despite Roddenberry, not because of him. Remember, he's the guy who thought a retread of "The Changeling" would make a great movie, and that Nicholoa Meyer's militarization of Star Fleet in TWOK was a bad idea.