If you have desirable skills, it's time to leave the u.s. If you can't leave then move your data and services outside the u.s.
I don't mean to godwin, but I spent most of my life wondering when I would have left Germany if I lived there during the rise of the Nazis, and how I can apply this to my own life. Two of my great-grandparents fled and lost some modest lands, and one of my grandfather's land was invaded by the Germans. He went back to fight the Germans while in the u.s. army.
I often wondered at what point my great-grandparents decided it was time to give up and leave Germany. They left a comfortable aristocratic life and became immigrants in the u.s., owning a neighborhood grocery store. They made a new and somewhat comfortable life for themselves in the u.s. but gave up more to leave.
About 6 years ago I decided to leave the u.s. and move to Switzerland, one of the last bastions of freedom in the West. I was lucky - it's difficult to get a work permit here, and will be even more difficult after the elections coming up.
So, if you can, just leave. Don't be a cog in the evil that the u.s. has become. If you can't leave, then do what you can to not support it.
God-tier: Open-source with corporate backing (many apache.org projects, maybe some google frameworks but they're usually not as well designed)
Good-tier: Open-source without corporate backing but with an active developer community
Ok-tier: Open-source with small community
Shit-tier: Closed-source, especially if it's coming from a company.
As long as the data is in the u.s. and subject to government subpoena this is meaningless.
Depending on how google is structured they could move their data centers outside the u.s. and not have it subject to secret orders. Switzerland would be a great place as they have strict data protection laws.
I meant in the sense that they believe and live by some ideals that are also considered American (but Switzerland was a democracy before the u.s. so I'm not sure if that's the correct way to look at it). Ideals like personal responsibility, gun ownership, democracy.
it's nothing like its neighboring countries. It's almost libertarian, but real libertarian not slashdot libertarian. By 'real' I mean that there are some laws and also many social controls for behaviors that affect others, but not for things that only affect yourself.
This was an offer in an Audi Q5 we had built-to-order here in Switzerland. We put the order through three or four months ago for delivery in March.
I put every safety feature possible in the car but the dealer told me not to keep this one because everyone ends up eventually turning it off.
Good. If you're pathetic enough to have a Facebook account I wouldn't want you working in my prisons.
I look forward to your third-grade reading level responses.
PGP was doing over 100 million a year in business (dropped down to 75 last year with the recession). They could have IPOd at a billion. However, because most of the upper management was originally from Symantec they took this bad deal.
I'm on OS X on a MacBook Pro. I use FileVault to encrypt my home directory and I use PGP Disk to encrypt two virtual drives (personal drive and my work drive).
This leaves my Shared user unencrypted, as well as all of my Application directories, System, etc. My Shared user is where I keep my music files and my iPhote directories, etc, btw.
I then set up two users and set my preferences so that it doesn't show the list of users at login, but instead makes you type in the login info. I have me, my regular user, but I also have a user with the name 'dev' that I can log into without a password.
With this setup there's a fair bit of my drive that isn't encrypted, and if someone does a file search for pictures or movies or music they will see some results. Hopefully they won't notice the encrypted virtual disks (which don't mount for the dev user) or notice that there's another user on the machine that they can't get into...
Honestly though, I'd probably just ship my laptop to wherever I'm going. If Customs intercepts it they can copy the harddrive for all I care - they won't have access to my work files, etc without some major key cracking powers.
I've been working remote for four years now. Originally with a small consulting company and in the last couple of years with a tech company that bought us out (one you've all heard of - it's been on slashdot many many times).
I'm under no delusions that my job is nothing more than a job, not a career. I've reached my limit in promotions - anything above where my current position is is management positions, but who would I manage? The guy that sells me corn dogs at the Circle K?
That said, I'm completely happy with where I'm at...
Doesn't zfone use a temporary discarded key or something similar? If that's the case, you couldn't provide your encryption key even if you wanted to...
I've got a Linksys NSLU2 running the Unslung firmware. The Unslung firmware lets me run the NSLU2 as an rsync server.
On my Powerbook I'm running rsync, configured with rsyncbackup.
I live on the East Coast but travel to the West Coast every couple months. I've got it configured so that every night my powerbook just backs itself up to my NSLU2 sitting under the bed (with a very quiet 350GB Maxtor USB drive) no matter where I am.
I also back up my gf's Win2K and WinXP laptops as well as a FreeBSD box on the West Coast. I'm very happy with the setup.
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If you have desirable skills, it's time to leave the u.s. If you can't leave then move your data and services outside the u.s. I don't mean to godwin, but I spent most of my life wondering when I would have left Germany if I lived there during the rise of the Nazis, and how I can apply this to my own life. Two of my great-grandparents fled and lost some modest lands, and one of my grandfather's land was invaded by the Germans. He went back to fight the Germans while in the u.s. army. I often wondered at what point my great-grandparents decided it was time to give up and leave Germany. They left a comfortable aristocratic life and became immigrants in the u.s., owning a neighborhood grocery store. They made a new and somewhat comfortable life for themselves in the u.s. but gave up more to leave. About 6 years ago I decided to leave the u.s. and move to Switzerland, one of the last bastions of freedom in the West. I was lucky - it's difficult to get a work permit here, and will be even more difficult after the elections coming up. So, if you can, just leave. Don't be a cog in the evil that the u.s. has become. If you can't leave, then do what you can to not support it.
God-tier: Open-source with corporate backing (many apache.org projects, maybe some google frameworks but they're usually not as well designed) Good-tier: Open-source without corporate backing but with an active developer community Ok-tier: Open-source with small community Shit-tier: Closed-source, especially if it's coming from a company.
As long as the data is in the u.s. and subject to government subpoena this is meaningless. Depending on how google is structured they could move their data centers outside the u.s. and not have it subject to secret orders. Switzerland would be a great place as they have strict data protection laws.
I meant in the sense that they believe and live by some ideals that are also considered American (but Switzerland was a democracy before the u.s. so I'm not sure if that's the correct way to look at it). Ideals like personal responsibility, gun ownership, democracy. it's nothing like its neighboring countries. It's almost libertarian, but real libertarian not slashdot libertarian. By 'real' I mean that there are some laws and also many social controls for behaviors that affect others, but not for things that only affect yourself.
Please tell me, who hasn't given a TED talk? And how did he condense such a complicated topic into 7 slides?
Oh, wait. I just read that it will steer you back into the lane. Holy crap does that seem like a bad idea.
This was an offer in an Audi Q5 we had built-to-order here in Switzerland. We put the order through three or four months ago for delivery in March. I put every safety feature possible in the car but the dealer told me not to keep this one because everyone ends up eventually turning it off.
Good. If you're pathetic enough to have a Facebook account I wouldn't want you working in my prisons. I look forward to your third-grade reading level responses.
PGP was doing over 100 million a year in business (dropped down to 75 last year with the recession). They could have IPOd at a billion. However, because most of the upper management was originally from Symantec they took this bad deal.
I'm on OS X on a MacBook Pro. I use FileVault to encrypt my home directory and I use PGP Disk to encrypt two virtual drives (personal drive and my work drive).
This leaves my Shared user unencrypted, as well as all of my Application directories, System, etc. My Shared user is where I keep my music files and my iPhote directories, etc, btw.
I then set up two users and set my preferences so that it doesn't show the list of users at login, but instead makes you type in the login info. I have me, my regular user, but I also have a user with the name 'dev' that I can log into without a password.
With this setup there's a fair bit of my drive that isn't encrypted, and if someone does a file search for pictures or movies or music they will see some results. Hopefully they won't notice the encrypted virtual disks (which don't mount for the dev user) or notice that there's another user on the machine that they can't get into...
Honestly though, I'd probably just ship my laptop to wherever I'm going. If Customs intercepts it they can copy the harddrive for all I care - they won't have access to my work files, etc without some major key cracking powers.
I've been working remote for four years now. Originally with a small consulting company and in the last couple of years with a tech company that bought us out (one you've all heard of - it's been on slashdot many many times). I'm under no delusions that my job is nothing more than a job, not a career. I've reached my limit in promotions - anything above where my current position is is management positions, but who would I manage? The guy that sells me corn dogs at the Circle K? That said, I'm completely happy with where I'm at...
Isn't this merely a demonstration of google censoring the internet, and not china? Who controls google's cn servers?
Doesn't zfone use a temporary discarded key or something similar? If that's the case, you couldn't provide your encryption key even if you wanted to...
I've got a Linksys NSLU2 running the Unslung firmware. The Unslung firmware lets me run the NSLU2 as an rsync server.
On my Powerbook I'm running rsync, configured with rsyncbackup.
I live on the East Coast but travel to the West Coast every couple months. I've got it configured so that every night my powerbook just backs itself up to my NSLU2 sitting under the bed (with a very quiet 350GB Maxtor USB drive) no matter where I am.
I also back up my gf's Win2K and WinXP laptops as well as a FreeBSD box on the West Coast. I'm very happy with the setup.
...that's the worse poem I've ever read...
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