The only way you can be guaranteed your stuff is secure is to encrypt it yourself, and cut the cloud out of the process entirely.
This is completely true, the best you can get are some self-hosted services that work almost as seamlessly as commercial Clouds.
I use Bittorrent Sync, it is fast and has a good mobile app. You need to have a server running if you want availability. I have two: a 150€ NAS in my home network and a Linux worstation at work (I never turn it off anyway in case I need to work from home, and it restarts in case of power failure).
The only feature you miss is the possibility to one-click share a single file with some random guy, but for that there are the usual Clouds, I do not need to encrypt a file that I am sending around anyway.
AFAIK, the encrypted versions weren't widely distributed; chances are that the documents weren't force-decrypted by RU/CN. I mean, if a cracker gets access to one of the few computers who holds the encrypted documents, he for sure can wait just a bit until the encryption key is entered into a keylogger. Snowden using weak keys? seems unlikely.
Either that, or the encryption used contains a backdoor that Snowden was not aware of, but some Chinese and/or Russian secret services were. If this is true, it would justify all on its own Snowden leaks.
Since at leas 5.0, you can disable pre-installed apps (preferences->apps->all, select an App, if it is preinstalled you will have an "uninstall updates" button, you click it ones, then it changes to "disable"). I would prefer to uninstall them completely but disabling is already enough to prevent battery and data usage, and possibly spying.
Here is an idea, how about yes, let forget about the past until give spartan a try for while before you rip it apart. The product hasn't gone gold yet and you are already complaining about it.
Man, it's MSIE we're talking about, can't we complaint about MSIE anymore?
The constant complaints about this or that browser has gotten old and no one cares any more. You are not even forced to use spartan, just install something else.
Of course it will alternate even and odd, the article is incomplete...
I don't think it will, at least not daily.
What you think does not matter, the reality is that they will alternate if the measure lasts more than one day. The measure is even called "circulation alternée", let me not translate that for you.
I've a master and a PhD in physics and I've been working as a phisicist during the last 5 years, this is my insight.
First of all, not every kind of phisicist does software development, if you don't any laptop and even a chromebook, would do. However, this is getting increasingly rare, only really outstanding scientists can afford this luxury, so chances are that she'll need a real laptop of some kind
Windows, Mac and Linux all have some advantages and some disadvantages, here are the nost important:
Windows: you have all the graphical software you need, whatever field you are going to study. Some communities rely on specific commercial software which are typically only available for Windows and Mac. On the other hand, developement on windows is going to be difficult: all the developers use Mac or Linux for a reason, just installing python on Windows is a pain, let alone using makefiles or similar.
Mac: it is a good tradeoff, you have almost every graphical software and a developement environment which is relatively well supported. Between ports and fink and homebrew, installing developement software on a Mac is always on the hedge of becoming a mess, but not as bad as windows. On the other hand, you'll have to spend big cash on it. Not just for the hardware, also software tend to be more expensive, i.e. the Intel compiler suite is free for academic use on Linux and Windows, but for Mac you only get a reduced version (and it used to be 150$ until last year!).
Linux: by far the most powerful development environment, ad everything is pre-packaged and tidy, you waste no time installing packages and fixing dependencies like on mac. You trade off by not being able to use some specific proprietary softwares, popular in some communities; it is better to keep a windows partition just in case. You may need to do some tweaking in order to get it to work properly on your laptop, and battery performance may never be on par with the same laptop on Windows (or MacOSX).
Personally, I do a lot of developement. I would never use anything else than Linux on the desktop, but I'm sort of tempted to go for a Mac for my next laptop in a couple of years. My main problemd on the Linux laptop (a 2nd gen XPS13) is that skype for linux sucks. Or maybe in a couple of years I won't have the need to buy a laptop anymore, I'll just buy a tablet and take out my old laptop those few times I need to ssh from home. When I was a student, I used a cheap (still 1k$ at the time!) HP laptop and dual boot it with Linux and Windows, I could write my PhD thesis on it no problem, I liked that it was quite bulky with a big keyboard, suspend to ram never worked properly.
How can they earn back their $6.4 billion investement in Nokia with $40 smartphones? Marketshare isn't everything here. Someone who buys a $40 phone buys it to make phone calls and doesn't want a data plan (like my mum). They will not load the phone with many apps, if any at all.
They won't spend a single penny on their phone, but they will kick and scream if they don't get windows & ms office at their workplace.
The debate is not exactly symmetric: One side has built a certain software that has been adopted by all mayor linux distributions. The other side has built nothing but flamewars.
Also battery life is allright, and usability is not worst than Samsung craptastic interface. Just at providing updates they really suck . Also note that they said they one major update was coming, then they retracted.
And still I would not mind, if it was not for unpatched vulnerabilities.
I've got an HTC ONE-S, that was not dirty cheap at all, and I love it: small, lightweight, nice screen, fast. But, shortly after having bought it HTC went back on their promise to udate it at least one mayor version. So now I'm fucked.
I have three choices: 1) stop using a perfectly good phone that I like, but is basically a portable danger until I to get my data stlen by some russian mofo 2) throw away a perfectly good phone 3) sue HTC for selling an unsafe device, and spend all my money for a very dubious outcome
The "/" symbol is often pronounced "above" in some mathematics field. Wgich would allow you to pronounce "GNU over Linux", which is quite accurate! Not to be confused with "Gnu over Linus", which is an entirely different thing.
Devuan is pronounced DevOne in Spanish, Portugues, German, Italian, Turkish and many more. I.e. by almost every language that uses the latin alphabet but English and French.
Calling Apple excluded from any such ruling of a court as above, is contraindicated. The OS is clearly not in any way free at this time.
except that Italy uses a system of Roman law, not common law, where precedent judgments do not make law. If you think you have a case against Apple you can move to Italy, buy a Mac, try to get a refund for OSX and eventually bring the case to court. What will be decided , after two levels of judgment and one of appeal, will not depend on precedents but on the law, the interpretation of the law given by the judge, the large discretionary powers that he has and other circumstances.
You are right, but let me rephrase: the algorithm scales perfectly, what does not is the initial distribution of the data; also the operating system poses some limits to scalability, specialized parallel infrastructures use custom operating systems to mitigate this effect.
And that probably only begins to approach the computational power the NSA has at its disposal
It is sure that the NSA has at its disposable a ridiculous amount of computing power, but it is equally evident that they cannot only use it once at a time. I.e. they may well have a billion CPUs, if it takes one billion hours to crack a disk they can only crack a disk an hour. Also, even the best parallel cracking scheme is going to scale less than perfect on a massive parallel setup, let alone a cheap cloud infrastructure.
And its a ton easier on any unixy-box. And guess what, all this is even easier for a homogeneous hardware pool like a particular cell phone model, or a particular OEM PC model, with a preconfigured image that matches your hardware exactly - for a random home PC thats more work.
I don't agree on this. On a Linux box, if you used separate partition, it's as easy as save down a list of installed rpms (or deb), reinstall os, reinstall list of rpm. On OEM windows installation you normally only have a recovery partition that can only do automatic repair (that never works) or destroy everything and restore to the factory state.
I'm not talking about restoring the factory state, I'm talking about restoring your PC to a working state, with all your software and data as before but not fucked up
You are right to some extent: There is a tradeoff. A strict sandboxing will prevent many useful features; a lax sandboxing will not be completely effective
Yet, even a lax sandboxing can be extremely useful. In an Android phone it is relatively easy to keep track of which apps are using a lot of battery, and you can uninstall them from the same screen, this is possible thanks to sandboxing keeping track of where every system call is coming from. If you decide to give up and restart from scratch, it only take 5 minutes to erase all user data, and you have a reborn phone; eventually add 15 minutes to copy your pictures back, if you really want to. Compare this to the afternoon of cursing it takes to reinstall windows and all the programs, redo all the updates, restore the backup. find out that some stuff was not backed up because it as stored in hidden directories scattered around.
Likewise, perhaps *we* can't focus a laser today, but that's not an inherent limitation of lasers even by today's known physics, that's a limitation of our technology
I'm pretty sure the video author is not aware of it, but that's actually a limitation of physics, not of laser technology. The fact that you cannot focus a laser at long distances is related caused by momentum-position duality in quantum physics: Laser is basically a bunch of photons going all in the same direction, with the same color and coherent phases; technically with the same wavevector. However quantum physics dictates that there is going to be a certain spread, uncertainty, in the wavevector of each photon. This uncertainty is inversely proportional to the size of the chamber where the laser was initially pumped, namely the size of the laser gun.
It is really quite similar to projectile weapons: The longer the barrel, the more accurate the shot.
Undead Waffle (1447615) | 4 hours ago | (#47990621)
And for your convenience gnome 3 removed the partial matches from the alt + f2 window. So much more elegant without all those pesky icons showing up. Also, good luck remembering what the the true name of the calculator is!
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The only way you can be guaranteed your stuff is secure is to encrypt it yourself, and cut the cloud out of the process entirely.
This is completely true, the best you can get are some self-hosted services that work almost as seamlessly as commercial Clouds.
I use Bittorrent Sync, it is fast and has a good mobile app. You need to have a server running if you want availability. I have two: a 150€ NAS in my home network and a Linux worstation at work (I never turn it off anyway in case I need to work from home, and it restarts in case of power failure).
The only feature you miss is the possibility to one-click share a single file with some random guy, but for that there are the usual Clouds, I do not need to encrypt a file that I am sending around anyway.
This is the correct link on weizu web site however, no way to buy it at the moment,as far as I could find.
AFAIK, the encrypted versions weren't widely distributed; chances are that the documents weren't force-decrypted by RU/CN. I mean, if a cracker gets access to one of the few computers who holds the encrypted documents, he for sure can wait just a bit until the encryption key is entered into a keylogger. Snowden using weak keys? seems unlikely.
Either that, or the encryption used contains a backdoor that Snowden was not aware of, but some Chinese and/or Russian secret services were. If this is true, it would justify all on its own Snowden leaks.
Since at leas 5.0, you can disable pre-installed apps (preferences->apps->all, select an App, if it is preinstalled you will have an "uninstall updates" button, you click it ones, then it changes to "disable"). I would prefer to uninstall them completely but disabling is already enough to prevent battery and data usage, and possibly spying.
Spartan is definitely going to be the Intelligent Design of web Browsers.
Here is an idea, how about yes, let forget about the past until give spartan a try for while before you rip it apart. The product hasn't gone gold yet and you are already complaining about it.
Man, it's MSIE we're talking about, can't we complaint about MSIE anymore?
The constant complaints about this or that browser has gotten old and no one cares any more. You are not even forced to use spartan, just install something else.
Nobody is forced to install MSIE, oh wait!
Of course it will alternate even and odd, the article is incomplete...
I don't think it will, at least not daily.
What you think does not matter, the reality is that they will alternate if the measure lasts more than one day. The measure is even called "circulation alternée", let me not translate that for you.
I've a master and a PhD in physics and I've been working as a phisicist during the last 5 years, this is my insight.
First of all, not every kind of phisicist does software development, if you don't any laptop and even a chromebook, would do. However, this is getting increasingly rare, only really outstanding scientists can afford this luxury, so chances are that she'll need a real laptop of some kind
Windows, Mac and Linux all have some advantages and some disadvantages, here are the nost important:
Windows: you have all the graphical software you need, whatever field you are going to study. Some communities rely on specific commercial software which are typically only available for Windows and Mac. On the other hand, developement on windows is going to be difficult: all the developers use Mac or Linux for a reason, just installing python on Windows is a pain, let alone using makefiles or similar.
Mac: it is a good tradeoff, you have almost every graphical software and a developement environment which is relatively well supported. Between ports and fink and homebrew, installing developement software on a Mac is always on the hedge of becoming a mess, but not as bad as windows. On the other hand, you'll have to spend big cash on it. Not just for the hardware, also software tend to be more expensive, i.e. the Intel compiler suite is free for academic use on Linux and Windows, but for Mac you only get a reduced version (and it used to be 150$ until last year!).
Linux: by far the most powerful development environment, ad everything is pre-packaged and tidy, you waste no time installing packages and fixing dependencies like on mac. You trade off by not being able to use some specific proprietary softwares, popular in some communities; it is better to keep a windows partition just in case. You may need to do some tweaking in order to get it to work properly on your laptop, and battery performance may never be on par with the same laptop on Windows (or MacOSX).
Personally, I do a lot of developement. I would never use anything else than Linux on the desktop, but I'm sort of tempted to go for a Mac for my next laptop in a couple of years. My main problemd on the Linux laptop (a 2nd gen XPS13) is that skype for linux sucks. Or maybe in a couple of years I won't have the need to buy a laptop anymore, I'll just buy a tablet and take out my old laptop those few times I need to ssh from home. When I was a student, I used a cheap (still 1k$ at the time!) HP laptop and dual boot it with Linux and Windows, I could write my PhD thesis on it no problem, I liked that it was quite bulky with a big keyboard, suspend to ram never worked properly.
How can they earn back their $6.4 billion investement in Nokia with $40 smartphones? Marketshare isn't everything here. Someone who buys a $40 phone buys it to make phone calls and doesn't want a data plan (like my mum). They will not load the phone with many apps, if any at all.
They won't spend a single penny on their phone, but they will kick and scream if they don't get windows & ms office at their workplace.
The debate is not exactly symmetric: One side has built a certain software that has been adopted by all mayor linux distributions. The other side has built nothing but flamewars.
Also battery life is allright, and usability is not worst than Samsung craptastic interface. Just at providing updates they really suck . Also note that they said they one major update was coming, then they retracted.
And still I would not mind, if it was not for unpatched vulnerabilities.
Honestly, you cannot even compare the design and build quality of the two. But it is a matter of taste.
I've got an HTC ONE-S, that was not dirty cheap at all, and I love it: small, lightweight, nice screen, fast. But, shortly after having bought it HTC went back on their promise to udate it at least one mayor version. So now I'm fucked.
I have three choices: 1) stop using a perfectly good phone that I like, but is basically a portable danger until I to get my data stlen by some russian mofo 2) throw away a perfectly good phone 3) sue HTC for selling an unsafe device, and spend all my money for a very dubious outcome
The "/" symbol is often pronounced "above" in some mathematics field. Wgich would allow you to pronounce "GNU over Linux", which is quite accurate! Not to be confused with "Gnu over Linus", which is an entirely different thing.
Did you add up the uptime of all the 4096 servers?
You still have MAKEDEV? I have not seen it in ages
Devuan is pronounced DevOne in Spanish, Portugues, German, Italian, Turkish and many more. I.e. by almost every language that uses the latin alphabet but English and French.
Calling Apple excluded from any such ruling of a court as above, is contraindicated. The OS is clearly not in any way free at this time.
except that Italy uses a system of Roman law, not common law, where precedent judgments do not make law. If you think you have a case against Apple you can move to Italy, buy a Mac, try to get a refund for OSX and eventually bring the case to court. What will be decided , after two levels of judgment and one of appeal, will not depend on precedents but on the law, the interpretation of the law given by the judge, the large discretionary powers that he has and other circumstances.
You are right, but let me rephrase: the algorithm scales perfectly, what does not is the initial distribution of the data; also the operating system poses some limits to scalability, specialized parallel infrastructures use custom operating systems to mitigate this effect.
And that probably only begins to approach the computational power the NSA has at its disposal
It is sure that the NSA has at its disposable a ridiculous amount of computing power, but it is equally evident that they cannot only use it once at a time. I.e. they may well have a billion CPUs, if it takes one billion hours to crack a disk they can only crack a disk an hour. Also, even the best parallel cracking scheme is going to scale less than perfect on a massive parallel setup, let alone a cheap cloud infrastructure.
And its a ton easier on any unixy-box. And guess what, all this is even easier for a homogeneous hardware pool like a particular cell phone model, or a particular OEM PC model, with a preconfigured image that matches your hardware exactly - for a random home PC thats more work.
I don't agree on this. On a Linux box, if you used separate partition, it's as easy as save down a list of installed rpms (or deb), reinstall os, reinstall list of rpm. On OEM windows installation you normally only have a recovery partition that can only do automatic repair (that never works) or destroy everything and restore to the factory state.
I'm not talking about restoring the factory state, I'm talking about restoring your PC to a working state, with all your software and data as before but not fucked up
Of course, until I can play BF4 on Linux and on ULTRA my one and only gaming rig will be running windows. So forever, probably.
It will most likely take around 7 years and a child, then you won't be able to run BF4 on Linux nor on Windows because of lack of time.
You are right to some extent: There is a tradeoff. A strict sandboxing will prevent many useful features; a lax sandboxing will not be completely effective
Yet, even a lax sandboxing can be extremely useful. In an Android phone it is relatively easy to keep track of which apps are using a lot of battery, and you can uninstall them from the same screen, this is possible thanks to sandboxing keeping track of where every system call is coming from. If you decide to give up and restart from scratch, it only take 5 minutes to erase all user data, and you have a reborn phone; eventually add 15 minutes to copy your pictures back, if you really want to. Compare this to the afternoon of cursing it takes to reinstall windows and all the programs, redo all the updates, restore the backup. find out that some stuff was not backed up because it as stored in hidden directories scattered around.
Likewise, perhaps *we* can't focus a laser today, but that's not an inherent limitation of lasers even by today's known physics, that's a limitation of our technology
I'm pretty sure the video author is not aware of it, but that's actually a limitation of physics, not of laser technology. The fact that you cannot focus a laser at long distances is related caused by momentum-position duality in quantum physics: Laser is basically a bunch of photons going all in the same direction, with the same color and coherent phases; technically with the same wavevector. However quantum physics dictates that there is going to be a certain spread, uncertainty, in the wavevector of each photon. This uncertainty is inversely proportional to the size of the chamber where the laser was initially pumped, namely the size of the laser gun.
It is really quite similar to projectile weapons: The longer the barrel, the more accurate the shot.
Undead Waffle (1447615) | 4 hours ago | (#47990621)
And for your convenience gnome 3 removed the partial matches from the alt + f2 window. So much more elegant without all those pesky icons showing up. Also, good luck remembering what the the true name of the calculator is!
Anonymous Coward | 1 hour ago | (#47991095)
gnome-calculator
Seems pretty simple to me.
So easy, that it took you 3 hours to find out