...using, developing, producing, buying, selling weapons and learn to be friends with others instead of trying to dominate. Until that happens, they will be hated by others and receive terror up their asses and keep being the scared cowards they are today.
Problem is: there is no other world force able to control that this happens without destroying the US. If they gave up all this, they will be attacked by all those people, groups, nations who were attacked by them. It will take generations to overcome this.
Android 6 is Pepsi by then its going to be a new generation of people using it who are now kids, and everyone knows that Pepsi is the Choice of a new Generation
Can't wait for Tipsy Android. Although, Android Screwdriver seems quite attractive as well.
Yes, but that's because it's a well on an underground river, which I then run through a series of three filters before it's allowed to come into the house, and which then goes through four more filters before it is used for food or drinking water.
Hey, if you live up to your name, drinkypoo, why clean it at all?
I use CP to backup to a local machine, and I use this machine for other machines as well (family mostly). Then I use the online plan, plus Apple Timemachine for my laptop. As CP upload can take days or weeks to complete, I hope that at least one of them will work when needed. When you want to use an encrypted image, Apple has sparseimage, which is a collection of files, not one single file, for a disk image. I don't know if a similar system is available for windows or linux.
I said I'm pretty sure they are not sending the keys over to their servers right now, by default. It could very well be that a backdoor like that is already in place. I know it, and still I use it. I don't have a better alternative yet, affordable I mean, but I'm thinking about it. With all news about Snowden, PRISM etc, Wikileaks in the past, I still think that if they go after me, they will succeed. There is no good alternative and I don't have the knowledge to counter them with reasonable success, so for the moment I'm sticking with Crashplan.
Even so, this service does not protect an individual against wrenches.
Indeed it doesn't, but a wrench is not guaranteed to work either.
If the wrench does not work, you're holding it wrong.
What I mean is that (1) the wrench could kill the person; or (2) the person could refuse to answer, no matter what force or method they use. Not many people can withstand that, but it certainly has been done before.
I'd like to hear *one* example of a useful application that is better off in "the cloud" than implemented with other schemes, even a bunch of VM's in your own data center. All I can think of are one-off raw-power activities using only publicly available data. And even those could be distributed if you have an adequate web of trust.
The usefulness is not so much that the cloud is better, but it's much cheaper and much more available for clients with smaller budgets. Having a 200GB backup service for $10 a month, or my own server for $20 a month, with high availability, high speed upload and download. I can't offer that here at home (slow upload, no offsite backup) or elsewhere (much more expensive, more difficult handling the hardware in case of trouble).
I wouldn't trust anyone but myself with my private keys, and I certainly wouldn't trust anyone else to generate private keys for me.
But you trust a program on you computer to generate those keys? Or have you compiled from source? Have you checked the source before compiling? Are you 100% sure no keylogger software or hardware is present?
With the recent "revelations" (they're not), it would be obvious that xkcd was pretty far off the mark here. The NSA is engaging in a far-reaching fishing expedition that is not practical to conduct with wrenches.
But on the other hand if their "far-reaching fishing expedition" doesn't give them the information they want, and they want it badly enough, a wrench always works.
Some people simply won't give in, even if you use that wrench on their loved ones.
Yes, most of the online backup services offer this. Crashplan does the same. I have the keys, they don't.
I use CP as well, with a private key. How do you know that they haven't sent that private key to their servers? I don't, but I'm pretty sure they won't do this by default. If it comes out, it's not good for their business. But how about an obfuscated command that tells the local backup program to send the key to them? It would only be used rarely, so it won't be discovered quickly. Can you assure me that such an option does not exist? I can't.
But I prefer that my encryption tool and my cloud storage service be completely separate. (How do I know Lockbox isn't sending the keys to the NSA, or whoever?)
I use Crashplan for online and local backup. They have two options for encryption. The program itself can generate a key, which is shared with CP. When you lose the key, they can get it back, and your files are still save. You can create your own key, which is only saved locally on your computer. If you lose it, all backups are lost. I've thought about this many times, and there is no way of knowing that this key is being sent to CP, for me at least. And probably this key is never sent, but then there is no way of knowing that while synchronizing the backups, a (masked) command from CP is sent to my computer which asks for the key. Probably it would work that way, because it would mask the option a lot better.
Wait, what? You think Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl was? Why?
See the wikipedia comparison. Maybe Chernobyl was bigger to start with, but Fukushima has 10x the amount of fuel. So potentially, if they cannot stop the leaking, it might become much bigger. It will probably and hopefully be more gradually. For Japan, most of the contamination leaks into the ocean, so that cleans up a lot I suppose, although for a fishing nation like Japan it might come back that way.
Ballmer had disaster after disaster at the helm of Microsoft, imagine what the stock would have done/without/ all the disasters the Ballmer created?
I've read that resigning resulted in $20B stock raise. I bet that you can multiply that by 5 if he had left MS 5 years ago, and roughly that could apply to any number of years (like 7 years would result in 7x20 etc).
The future of programming, from the seventies, it's all hippie talk...
"We don't know what programming is. We don't know what computing is. We don't even know what a computer is." And once you truly understand that, and once you truly believe that, then you're free, and you can think anything.'"
Next thing we can throw our chairs out and sit on the carpet with long hair, smoke weed and drink beer....
I got a gaming rig from a technology mall in Xujiahui and when I asked for an original copy of Windows, the vendor apologized since he didn't even know where to find it. This is after he found power surge protection from another store, a Geforce from yet another vendor and even an extra long phillips screwdriver. Then they proceeded to run Norton Ghost from a pen drive and installed Windows 7 with Office, QQ among others.
Lest someone not chase the links down, there's a useful 'HOWTO: EFFECTIVELY ARGUE AGAINST INTERNET CENSORSHIP IDEAS linked-to in the TFL at http://rys.io/en/94
"You forgot Poland" just might take on a new meaning.
Can someone please re-post that page in a format that does not absolutely fucking suck?
Copy the text, paste it in your text editor or Word or whatever - et voilà!
Yeah, I get that a lot. You can make the browser window less wide and get the mobile layout (more readable,a ccording to some), or just use the.txt link: http://rys.io/en/109.txthttp://rys.io/en/94.txt
Add a "print" link, one column layout, white background with black text. It looks great, the effects and all are really nice, but reading such a long article without knowing about this trick will not promote the message, and that's what it's all about!
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...using, developing, producing, buying, selling weapons and learn to be friends with others instead of trying to dominate. Until that happens, they will be hated by others and receive terror up their asses and keep being the scared cowards they are today.
Problem is: there is no other world force able to control that this happens without destroying the US. If they gave up all this, they will be attacked by all those people, groups, nations who were attacked by them. It will take generations to overcome this.
How do you say the oath in Japanese? Anyone???
I think it's pronounced "the oath in Japanese".
Android 6 is Pepsi
by then its going to be a new generation of people using it who are now kids, and everyone knows that Pepsi is the Choice of a new Generation
Can't wait for Tipsy Android. Although, Android Screwdriver seems quite attractive as well.
Is the water you drink clean?
Yes, but that's because it's a well on an underground river, which I then run through a series of three filters before it's allowed to come into the house, and which then goes through four more filters before it is used for food or drinking water.
Hey, if you live up to your name, drinkypoo, why clean it at all?
I use CP to backup to a local machine, and I use this machine for other machines as well (family mostly). Then I use the online plan, plus Apple Timemachine for my laptop. As CP upload can take days or weeks to complete, I hope that at least one of them will work when needed. When you want to use an encrypted image, Apple has sparseimage, which is a collection of files, not one single file, for a disk image. I don't know if a similar system is available for windows or linux.
I said I'm pretty sure they are not sending the keys over to their servers right now, by default. It could very well be that a backdoor like that is already in place. I know it, and still I use it. I don't have a better alternative yet, affordable I mean, but I'm thinking about it. With all news about Snowden, PRISM etc, Wikileaks in the past, I still think that if they go after me, they will succeed. There is no good alternative and I don't have the knowledge to counter them with reasonable success, so for the moment I'm sticking with Crashplan.
Even so, this service does not protect an individual against wrenches.
Indeed it doesn't, but a wrench is not guaranteed to work either.
If the wrench does not work, you're holding it wrong.
What I mean is that (1) the wrench could kill the person; or (2) the person could refuse to answer, no matter what force or method they use. Not many people can withstand that, but it certainly has been done before.
I'd like to hear *one* example of a useful application that is better off in "the cloud" than implemented with other schemes, even a bunch of VM's in your own data center. All I can think of are one-off raw-power activities using only publicly available data. And even those could be distributed if you have an adequate web of trust.
The usefulness is not so much that the cloud is better, but it's much cheaper and much more available for clients with smaller budgets. Having a 200GB backup service for $10 a month, or my own server for $20 a month, with high availability, high speed upload and download. I can't offer that here at home (slow upload, no offsite backup) or elsewhere (much more expensive, more difficult handling the hardware in case of trouble).
Didn't Al Gore already invent this a long time ago?
Al Gore invented inventions. So basically - yes.
I wouldn't trust anyone but myself with my private keys, and I certainly wouldn't trust anyone else to generate private keys for me.
But you trust a program on you computer to generate those keys? Or have you compiled from source? Have you checked the source before compiling? Are you 100% sure no keylogger software or hardware is present?
Even so, this service does not protect an individual against wrenches.
Indeed it doesn't, but a wrench is not guaranteed to work either.
With the recent "revelations" (they're not), it would be obvious that xkcd was pretty far off the mark here. The NSA is engaging in a far-reaching fishing expedition that is not practical to conduct with wrenches.
But on the other hand if their "far-reaching fishing expedition" doesn't give them the information they want, and they want it badly enough, a wrench always works.
Some people simply won't give in, even if you use that wrench on their loved ones.
Yes, most of the online backup services offer this. Crashplan does the same. I have the keys, they don't.
I use CP as well, with a private key. How do you know that they haven't sent that private key to their servers? I don't, but I'm pretty sure they won't do this by default. If it comes out, it's not good for their business. But how about an obfuscated command that tells the local backup program to send the key to them? It would only be used rarely, so it won't be discovered quickly. Can you assure me that such an option does not exist? I can't.
But I prefer that my encryption tool and my cloud storage service be completely separate. (How do I know Lockbox isn't sending the keys to the NSA, or whoever?)
I use Crashplan for online and local backup. They have two options for encryption. The program itself can generate a key, which is shared with CP. When you lose the key, they can get it back, and your files are still save. You can create your own key, which is only saved locally on your computer. If you lose it, all backups are lost. I've thought about this many times, and there is no way of knowing that this key is being sent to CP, for me at least. And probably this key is never sent, but then there is no way of knowing that while synchronizing the backups, a (masked) command from CP is sent to my computer which asks for the key. Probably it would work that way, because it would mask the option a lot better.
Wait, what? You think Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl was? Why?
See the wikipedia comparison. Maybe Chernobyl was bigger to start with, but Fukushima has 10x the amount of fuel. So potentially, if they cannot stop the leaking, it might become much bigger. It will probably and hopefully be more gradually. For Japan, most of the contamination leaks into the ocean, so that cleans up a lot I suppose, although for a fishing nation like Japan it might come back that way.
Ballmer had disaster after disaster at the helm of Microsoft, imagine what the stock would have done /without/ all the disasters the Ballmer created?
I've read that resigning resulted in $20B stock raise. I bet that you can multiply that by 5 if he had left MS 5 years ago, and roughly that could apply to any number of years (like 7 years would result in 7x20 etc).
The beauty of having an epub reader is that I will never buy ebooks from Amazon.
Why would my computer want to talk to another computer? Gee, that's silly.
Talking would be crazy, but lending some extended memory would be nice, like an extra megabyte or so.
The future of programming, from the seventies, it's all hippie talk...
"We don't know what programming is. We don't know what computing is. We don't even know what a computer is." And once you truly understand that, and once you truly believe that, then you're free, and you can think anything.'"
Next thing we can throw our chairs out and sit on the carpet with long hair, smoke weed and drink beer....
I got a gaming rig from a technology mall in Xujiahui and when I asked for an original copy of Windows, the vendor apologized since he didn't even know where to find it. This is after he found power surge protection from another store, a Geforce from yet another vendor and even an extra long phillips screwdriver. Then they proceeded to run Norton Ghost from a pen drive and installed Windows 7 with Office, QQ among others.
In China we use Windows CN (Chuck Norris)
Lest someone not chase the links down, there's a useful 'HOWTO: EFFECTIVELY ARGUE AGAINST INTERNET CENSORSHIP IDEAS linked-to in the TFL at http://rys.io/en/94
"You forgot Poland" just might take on a new meaning.
Can someone please re-post that page in a format that does not absolutely fucking suck?
Copy the text, paste it in your text editor or Word or whatever - et voilà!
Yeah, I get that a lot. You can make the browser window less wide and get the mobile layout (more readable,a ccording to some), or just use the .txt link: http://rys.io/en/109.txt http://rys.io/en/94.txt
Add a "print" link, one column layout, white background with black text. It looks great, the effects and all are really nice, but reading such a long article without knowing about this trick will not promote the message, and that's what it's all about!
Firefox ME won't be so stable.
Firefox Me - that sounds like a marketing slogan.
Ever see a shark eat a zebra?
How a shark catches a zebra - that would be a nice bedtime story!
Surely it's an evolutionary advantage to any creature to be marked as 'not shark food'. Why aren't all fish stripey ?
I think it was not hip at the time. You know, some fish just want to live on the edge.