Here in Europe, I'd buy a pre-paid GSM mobile phone anonymously (from a store that has no surveillance cameras running) on a busy saturday afternoon, get a free internet provider or just use one of the 30 hours free accounts. Used just once and thrown away, from a city you don't live in, and the agency that can trace that deserves to be in world power anyway..
This site has more info on the Theremin synth mentioned in the article, even including schematics and other info to build one yourself! I've seen the Theremin being played on a Jean-Michel Jarre concert, and boy, that's weird!
The H1B rules have some set aside for people who are considered to be 'exceptionally' valuable to the US, and as far as I know Linus has one of those, so his employment is not relevant to his visa status. Also, I suspect that if Linus wanted a green card, all he'd have to do is drop a hint, and the immigration services would roll out the red carpet...
Packaged and delivered to you at the maximum price they can extort from you.
Which would be zero. That is, I wouldn't buy it. Problem is, plenty of people cannot resist getting the latest Spice Girls CD, so I would probably be in a minority, and I'd have to live without the Joys of what those Corporations think is Right For Me. Gee, what a problem:-)
This is far from over, folks. It took massive media attention and a few lawsuits to register that, hey, perhaps folks don't really like this, and it wasn't DoubleClick that responded, but their partners/clients. (I'm also puzzled why there's no case against DoubleClick pending at the European Union court level, since privacy laws here are much better - not perfect, mind you.)
Anyway, I wonder. For weeks we've seen the public awareness and outrage growing, and not much happening. Suddenly a few companies cancel their contract, and Double-Click wakes up. The lesson we can learn from this is simple, and seen many times before: hit a company where it hurts, in the wallet or at the shareholders, and only then they'll listen.
(firmly implanting tongue in cheek) Double-Click has done more for consumer awareness on privacy issues than most companies, and we should applaud them for that effort!
And yes, that's indeed a standards war waiting to happen - but luckily for 'us programmers', that war is at a level of "are we going to call that field X or Y" and calling it either way is not going to impact our code at all, nor will it require changes in our code. Now compare this to the standards war where two parties differ on the interpretation of bit number X of field number Y, and every single change means grinding over the code again. Now I don't know about you, but once I've written something, it suddenly is a lot less fun writing it again, so if I can avoid that, that alone would already be a Good Thing. Another interesting feature is that once you've got a xml parser, any new communications with a new system doing basically the same thing (for example, another supplier for the widgets your manufacturing dept needs) will mean zero coding - just changing a DTD file.
But MacOS is still with us, and with the current linux enthusiasm, I expect that it will take *decades* to fade if the enthusiasm suddenly stopped growing for any reason.
Well, I don't put up with them. I will actively avoid ads, and I actively blacklist companies that send me dead-tree junk mail, and I do care very much about who sells my data to whom. I've been called picky, I've been called weird, and even paranoid, but that's the way I do it...
There's an excellent NetBSD/i386 Firewall setup available at www.dubbele.com that is meant for "Joe DSL" but has all the sources out in the open. Check it out.
There's a great little store and forward proxy mail daemon you might want to put in front of your sendmail. Allows you to block IP ranges, block spam, etc. Take a look here. -John
true, but there's also dvorak and numerous chord key layouts, all of which are clearly better, and most owners of them will happily tell you this (me, I don't own one..)
What you should always keep in mind is Follow the Money when reading articles anywhere. Bruce makes this point very clear, but you should not limit this to cryptography. Always wonder who stands to benefit from an article.
On hold reminds me a bit of another tool whose name I blissfully forgot, where people said "it supports drag and drop - it's dragged along for years, and now it's been dropped".
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Here in Europe, I'd buy a pre-paid GSM mobile phone anonymously (from a store that has no surveillance cameras running) on a busy saturday afternoon, get a free internet provider or just use one of the 30 hours free accounts. Used just once and thrown away, from a city you don't live in, and the agency that can trace that deserves to be in world power anyway..
This site has more info on the Theremin synth mentioned in the article, even including schematics and other info to build one yourself! I've seen the Theremin being played on a Jean-Michel Jarre concert, and boy, that's weird!
-John
The H1B rules have some set aside for people who are considered to be 'exceptionally' valuable to the US, and as far as I know Linus has one of those, so his employment is not relevant to his visa status. Also, I suspect that if Linus wanted a green card, all he'd have to do is drop a hint, and the immigration services would roll out the red carpet...
Yeah, sure, Blame Canada :-)
ISP's are not going to touch this issue. You'll have to install something like this.
Don't be sorry - the hack value alone is worth it!
Packaged and delivered to you at the maximum price they can extort from you.
:-)
Which would be zero. That is, I wouldn't buy it. Problem is, plenty of people cannot resist getting the latest Spice Girls CD, so I would probably be in a minority, and I'd have to live without the Joys of what those Corporations think is Right For Me. Gee, what a problem
-John
Another one is at www.dubbele.com
-John
This is far from over, folks. It took massive media attention and a few lawsuits to register that, hey, perhaps folks don't really like this, and it wasn't DoubleClick that responded, but their partners/clients. (I'm also puzzled why there's no case against DoubleClick pending at the European Union court level, since privacy laws here are much better - not perfect, mind you.)
Anyway, I wonder. For weeks we've seen the public awareness and outrage growing, and not much happening. Suddenly a few companies cancel their contract, and Double-Click wakes up. The lesson we can learn from this is simple, and seen many times before: hit a company where it hurts, in the wallet or at the shareholders, and only then they'll listen.
(firmly implanting tongue in cheek) Double-Click has done more for consumer awareness on privacy issues than most companies, and we should applaud them for that effort!
-John
And yes, that's indeed a standards war waiting to happen - but luckily for 'us programmers', that war is at a level of "are we going to call that field X or Y" and calling it either way is not going to impact our code at all, nor will it require changes in our code. Now compare this to the standards war where two parties differ on the interpretation of bit number X of field number Y, and every single change means grinding over the code again. Now I don't know about you, but once I've written something, it suddenly is a lot less fun writing it again, so if I can avoid that, that alone would already be a Good Thing. Another interesting feature is that once you've got a xml parser, any new communications with a new system doing basically the same thing (for example, another supplier for the widgets your manufacturing dept needs) will mean zero coding - just changing a DTD file.
I don't know exactly what features you're looking for, but have you checked out www.dubbele.com?
But MacOS is still with us, and with the current linux enthusiasm, I expect that it will take *decades* to fade if the enthusiasm suddenly stopped growing for any reason.
If we must put up with ads
Well, I don't put up with them. I will actively avoid ads, and I actively blacklist companies that send me dead-tree junk mail, and I do care very much about who sells my data to whom. I've been called picky, I've been called weird, and even paranoid, but that's the way I do it...
-John
NetBSD/i386 Firewall is free.
I've mentioned this elsewhere in the threads off this topic, but I guess it's worth repeating:
It can be found at www.dubbele.com
-John
Look at www.dubbele.com
It comes close that what you want, in a way.
-John
There's an excellent NetBSD/i386 Firewall setup available at www.dubbele.com that is meant for "Joe DSL" but has all the sources out in the open. Check it out.
-John
Look at www.dubbele.com for another great free firewall solution.
There's several - I believe I saw one called "scramdisk" once - a search on yahoo should find it pretty fast, I guess.
What you say is very true - that's why I started this
-John
There's a great little store and forward proxy mail daemon you might want to put in front of your sendmail. Allows you to block IP ranges, block spam, etc.
Take a look here.
-John
true, but there's also dvorak and numerous chord key layouts, all of which are clearly better, and most owners of them will happily tell you this (me, I don't own one..)
-John
Change the QWERTY key layout, that's basically 'broken' as well.
:-)
Sure, lots of typists will have a hard time, but that won't stop them, right?
-John
What you should always keep in mind is Follow the Money when reading articles anywhere. Bruce makes this point very clear, but you should not limit this to cryptography. Always wonder who stands to benefit from an article.
Including on Slashdot
-John
On hold reminds me a bit of another tool whose name I blissfully forgot, where people said "it supports drag and drop - it's dragged along for years, and now it's been dropped".
-John