It would be a mistake to assume that the police (even NSW police) are unable to find somebody to do this. They can always go to a university and get advice from Comp Sci professors, etc. This happens a lot in technical cases.
Having to be root won't stop them if they can get at the hardware, any more than it would stop me.
For an attempt at security buy a palmtop or netbook. Install netbsd and use the cryptographic disk driver on all volumes. If you have material on there which can put you away hide it with Steganography. Make sure there is plenty of innocent stuff on the CGD volumes.
Use secure channels for transmission of sensitive material but remember that increasing your cell beyond three people pretty much ensures that you will be working side to side with a spy.
OTOH, if you booby trap your home in anticipation of or in response to ssuspected warrantless or sneak-and-peek operations, then, again, THEY ASKED FOR IT if they get hurt. You don't have to be a criminal to want to punish sneak-and-peek activity. After all, ANYONE in your abode who is not invited is a trespasser, even a paramedic if they insist on remaining present after realizing there is no emergency, no body, no blood, no validity in being present at the address because the address is WRONG due to admittedly a faulty dispatch order...
I don't know how Australian law approaches this
A quick google found this page. Unfortunately I can't see an obvious way to cut and paste from it so you will have to follow the link.
when you are the target of an investigation. When you suspect you are being monitored,
Make absolutely sure you don't break the law.
If you want to try to keep your personal computer secure use a netbook or a palmtop and keep it with you 100% of the time. Run something non-standard and OSS so you can track changes.
If had mod points, that would be getting an Insightful. Even if the Current Underbelly Series is only a tiny bit accurate, those must have been scary times. I was only in Nappies during that era.
I don't think its any better now. Maybe not as close to the surface.
If you think this is just tinfoil hat paranoia, perhaps you haven't heard of the Wood Royal Commission. There's good reason to be wary of the police of NSW, and I say that despite being someone who might not be alive today were it not for a detective's hard work.
I have said this for more years than I care to remember, the NSW Police are the best police force that money can buy.
Yeah but you know (as Arthur Clarke used to say) its hard these days to find an honest man who stays bought.
Okay but the google search doesn't actually tell you anything about the person. What you see might be a story, or conjecture. It might be hearsay or about somebody totally different. If an employer had a right to find out a persons criminal history they might be justified in using that information to make an informed decision about hiring them. But most employers can't do that so the question is moot.
If something that small can be a moon, the Pluto should still be a planet.
When Pluto clears it's orbit, it will be a planet.
Size is not used to define objects for good reason. I agree that some definition of a moon must be formulated, however, as Saturn has over 150 of these little moonlets orbiting her, and new ones are discovered every so often.
you just described the entire slashdot demographic
By the time I was 30 I had 15-20 years experience programming, not 5-7. And not everybody works closely enough with financial systems to think to pull this off.
No, an Australian. I have a copy of our constitution right here. The entire document rests on one statement that (basically) the Queen is in charge and may (or may not) appoint a Government to run things. If the UK is actually more democratic I would be very surprised. Personally I am waiting to see who's head rolls first.
Really people, stop bitching, and start encrypting everything
That only works until the mere presence of encryption (or any dataset that merely appears to be encrypted) is criminalized to a high degree. They'll do whatever they can to make the average citizen perceive encryption as too risky.
What is the difference between "compressed" and "encrypted".
Facebook is at least still mostly accessed via web browser
I don't use facebook or twitter but whenever my sister uses my wifi to access facebook her phone goes nuts with sms messages. Being a twit, she is right in the target demographic for both applications so a merger would seem to make sense.
Sit down for a bit and think about the most likely use cases for your software. To give the example of slashdot that might be viewing the main page or viewing an entire article. Structure your code so that these things can be done be directly sending a single file to the client. With the kernel doing most of the work you should be okay.
Sites which get slashdotted typically use a badly structured and resourced database to directly feed external queries. If you must use a database put some kind of simple proxy between it and the outside world. You could use squid for that or a simple directory of static html files.
It is an insanely exciting idea. Imagine hooking on to an object like that in a small spacecraft. A few thoughts on the subject:
Build an unmanned probe with can outfit a small asteroid with docking hardware. It could attach itself with two loops of rugged cable. Attached too the cable would be a socket which tethers can attach themselves to. A single installation could be used for decades by different spacecraft.
Catch the asteroid with your tether extended. Consider the asteroid moving along +Z at 10km/s. Tether is 1000km long and the spacecraft is 1000km away from the point of capture along +X. Immdiately before capture explosives on the tether end assembly fire to accelerate the end of the tether. Magnetic and electric fields in the tether and socket may assist in a fast capture. Doing it this way eliminates sudden loads as the tether takes up slack. Instead the spacecraft is swung around (yeah at high G) and releases when it is headed in the right direction.
Equip vehicles with heat shields and solar sails. Both require only present day technology. Aerobraking at (say) Venus could be used for a course change.
Consider using angular momentum from Asteroids and free space tethers to store energy. One vehicle could sump energy into an object, another could make use of it.
With a thirty metre object you could almost snare it with a net. Then you would need a shock absorbing tether to match velocities.
It's a 30 metre object moving well over escape velocity. You snag it with the net, and then endure 9000 gravities acceleration, and in only a tenth of a second, you've matched orbits.
Slashdot Mirror
Where I live, prostitution is a normal, regulated service industry.
DBJ admitted to a bug.
I run qmail by the way. DJB writes good stable software but I get the impression he is not a good listener.
It would be a mistake to assume that the police (even NSW police) are unable to find somebody to do this. They can always go to a university and get advice from Comp Sci professors, etc. This happens a lot in technical cases.
Having to be root won't stop them if they can get at the hardware, any more than it would stop me.
For an attempt at security buy a palmtop or netbook. Install netbsd and use the cryptographic disk driver on all volumes. If you have material on there which can put you away hide it with Steganography. Make sure there is plenty of innocent stuff on the CGD volumes.
Use secure channels for transmission of sensitive material but remember that increasing your cell beyond three people pretty much ensures that you will be working side to side with a spy.
I don't know how Australian law approaches this
A quick google found this page. Unfortunately I can't see an obvious way to cut and paste from it so you will have to follow the link.
when you are the target of an investigation. When you suspect you are being monitored,
Make absolutely sure you don't break the law.
If you want to try to keep your personal computer secure use a netbook or a palmtop and keep it with you 100% of the time. Run something non-standard and OSS so you can track changes.
Possibly not, NSW have a lot of outrageous laws and have done for a while.
Such as?
If had mod points, that would be getting an Insightful. Even if the Current Underbelly Series is only a tiny bit accurate, those must have been scary times. I was only in Nappies during that era.
I don't think its any better now. Maybe not as close to the surface.
If you think this is just tinfoil hat paranoia, perhaps you haven't heard of the Wood Royal Commission. There's good reason to be wary of the police of NSW, and I say that despite being someone who might not be alive today were it not for a detective's hard work.
I have said this for more years than I care to remember, the NSW Police are the best police force that money can buy.
Yeah but you know (as Arthur Clarke used to say) its hard these days to find an honest man who stays bought.
I don't know about you but I plan to live to 140.
In the next exciting episode you don't actually run the game on your system. Instead you watch it like TV on a thin client.
(and pay by the minute BTW).
Okay but the google search doesn't actually tell you anything about the person. What you see might be a story, or conjecture. It might be hearsay or about somebody totally different. If an employer had a right to find out a persons criminal history they might be justified in using that information to make an informed decision about hiring them. But most employers can't do that so the question is moot.
Mars's biggest problem is gravity.
earth:mars != venus:earth
Okay Earth has ~ 100 times as much atmosphere as mars and loses less to space because of a higher escape velocity.
But Venus has a lower escape velocity than Earth, higher atmospheric temperatures and ~ 100 times as much atmosphere.
Venus must be outgassing massive quantities of CO2 to keep the atmosphere it has. Maybe we should look at restarting some Martian volcanoes.
If something that small can be a moon, the Pluto should still be a planet.
When Pluto clears it's orbit, it will be a planet.
Size is not used to define objects for good reason. I agree that some definition of a moon must be formulated, however, as Saturn has over 150 of these little moonlets orbiting her, and new ones are discovered every so often.
I thought size was the issue with Pluto.
you just described the entire slashdot demographic
By the time I was 30 I had 15-20 years experience programming, not 5-7. And not everybody works closely enough with financial systems to think to pull this off.
No, an Australian. I have a copy of our constitution right here. The entire document rests on one statement that (basically) the Queen is in charge and may (or may not) appoint a Government to run things. If the UK is actually more democratic I would be very surprised. Personally I am waiting to see who's head rolls first.
Where I work we installed mediawiki. It is very hard to go wrong that way, though a few users have needed help.
The so called "democratic republics" HATE the freedom they profess to love.
The UK is a monarchy. Their entire political system exists because the Queen wants it to.
The UK could be a republic before Australia. That would be embarrassing!
They only way that could happen is if the Government banned data which they could not interpret. /dev/urandom would be banned. (along with /dev/null).
Really people, stop bitching, and start encrypting everything
That only works until the mere presence of encryption (or any dataset that merely appears to be encrypted) is criminalized to a high degree. They'll do whatever they can to make the average citizen perceive encryption as too risky.
What is the difference between "compressed" and "encrypted".
Facebook is at least still mostly accessed via web browser
I don't use facebook or twitter but whenever my sister uses my wifi to access facebook her phone goes nuts with sms messages. Being a twit, she is right in the target demographic for both applications so a merger would seem to make sense.
Sit down for a bit and think about the most likely use cases for your software. To give the example of slashdot that might be viewing the main page or viewing an entire article. Structure your code so that these things can be done be directly sending a single file to the client. With the kernel doing most of the work you should be okay.
Sites which get slashdotted typically use a badly structured and resourced database to directly feed external queries. If you must use a database put some kind of simple proxy between it and the outside world. You could use squid for that or a simple directory of static html files.
Gigantic. Bungee.
This is actually not completely insane.
It is an insanely exciting idea. Imagine hooking on to an object like that in a small spacecraft. A few thoughts on the subject:
It's a 30 metre object moving well over escape velocity. You snag it with the net, and then endure 9000 gravities acceleration, and in only a tenth of a second, you've matched orbits.
So use a long tether.
just like we ignored Shoemaker-Levy 9...
In what way did we ignore Shoemaker-Levy 9? That wasn't our planet after all.