Unfortunately the only way to go unnoticed is to use social networking. Just be very clever, create a very standard and boring cover. Wait...I already did! I am a boring nerd with only a few friends and completely obvious posts and chit chat. So as long as I keep my true identity secret I will be safe from our intelligence gathering overlords. All Jesting aside, there probably is something to this.
The best passwords I've found are sentences translated into passwords. For example:
My phone number is 555-234-2344 : Mp#i555-234-2344
I live at 2202 Park Street : Il@2202PSt
Although a valid idea, your first examples are very BAD ones. NEVER use personal information to build passwords.
That said, this is a very common foible. All advanced cracker systems (NSA et. al.) use personal historic information in large quantities to create these types of passwords.
Trying to limit the 'snarkiness' factor and not be too trite, but I must say:
We already are in space. We already are traveling through the universe. We should probably shore up our current vessel before we send out recon ships from the mother ship.
US republicans (and democrats) with their sub set of wacky right wing christian religious nuts are very quick to forget their anti communist beliefs when money is involved.
Even the more educated Slashdot crowd is very "pragmatic" with China.
China sucks not because it is a communist state, it sucks because it is a police state. But who cares, if we can make a buck, we can all ignore in bliss the Chinese government's peccadilloes.
Fascist, communist, fake democratic national security states (Australia/UK/Russia/USA etc.), all the same crap. Sell your soul for your bank owned plastic McMansion and your cool cars. Let's just leave it to the "free" market, who cares about politics anyway.
I have helped with OpenVZ and mysqlBind/unxsBind/iDNS. What I liked the most is that you don't need to be an expert kernel hacker to provide value. And the unxsVZ source code is very easy to read and code for. Since they use academic UK style C indentation and not the K&R classic style.
There are many great GPL projects. With GPL unxsVZ running 2-3 servers in 4 datacenters in the UK and the US we have survived just fine, fried servers, being slashdotted (no URLs here;), dumb rack space resellers, etc. How? With the important part of the cloud (cloud=marketing BS): Autonomics for HA for all three important web computing areas IaaS , SaaS and PaaS.
No one has mentioned this, probably out of respect for the family. Since only a few remains were found and quite far from wreckage. In the name of science it would be cool to know from experts about what happens to carcasses in them there CA mountains, and if the altitude of the impact bars some type of animal activity.
Since most people here still think Google is so great. My guestimate: In less than 10 years we will all find out that Google is not that cool. This is criticial thinking not mindless flamebait. Why? Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Sounds like the data actually belongs to your customer.
And apart from the replication to another server as mentioned, it sounds like you are being a tad childish. For example: "This is my ball, and I'm going home with it..."
What sane person would even think of letting our military (but god bless the soldiers, wave the flag now, sing the anthem etc...) -or any other acronym based "service/agency" for that matter- do something so dangerous to the common U.S. citizen John Q. Public?
Why don't we just let the government blatantly spy on us, arrest us without warrants? Or make a mockery of our constitution? Ohhh sh.. wait they already did and are! If the people have the government they deserve. It seems that "we the people" are not very smart!
My read on the near future: In about 5 years from now Google will be the new MS here at Slashdot.
As they continue towards neocon positions like: "Shareholder value no matter what" that necessarily conflict with their already incredible "do no evil" motto. While at the same time their cultish internal operation is increasingly pro original Googler's (that is shareholder employee's), not to say outright discriminatory (against new hires --mostly trying to get them to be just consultants), all this coupled, with outlandish hiring practices way beyond what the NSA does.
I admit that MS flew me to Redmond, for a week with a condo, driver and excellent food. And that I also whent through 5 levels of interviews with Google. Finally botching the last interview when I asked a Sr. multi-millionaire Google engineer, if the stars at google were the engineers or the PMs. And got my head chopped off.
These experiences helped me learn more about MS and Google and their similarities and finally learned about my own aversion to hidden control freak hierarchies.
But of course, I am an IT guy with a JD from a top Mass. school (that actually agrees with critical legal studies (CLS) positions) and that plays guitar in a punk band. What was I thinking? Lol. Of course this is why I always get the interviews, but that is another story.
I finally got my job in Europe, with much better pay (than Google,) less and laid back work hours. Paris is way cool.
Both Republicans and Democrats are involved in big business. And that means big money and big corruption. Finally, some real crime is needed to bring home the bacon.
Screw karma: Google is a capitalist tool it can't help but do evil. That said, Google, I use it it works. But Google is not the great cool thing it was. Or maybe it never was?
Google again publicly kisses up to the US industrial military complex. Of course privately and from the their news feed selection it is clear to me that they probably work or have worked with the US security services. Are they partly owned by the NSA or another agency? If I was running an acronym agency I would at least try. Especially since US laws allow for this very evil non democratic type of covert activity.
Unless it is the next big thing, if you wrote sloppy uncommented code don't bother wasting your time and ours.
Now even if it is another re-invent the wheel project, if it is KISS, and very well layed out, well commented, with plenty of documentation and finally if it installs easily and is useful: Then somebody somewhere will use it and improve on it.
My advice: Learn OSS by contributing -even if very humbly- to existing popular projects, then spend time on your own stuff.
This is a very cool solution that has been proposed by many community based wifi projects. That BT would endorse an organic approach like this is very open minded. Let's hope that internal politics doesn't commit this idea to the "let's outsource this for study" meeting whores, effectively shelving it.
Some good points made. You are however very biased, when I was -and still am- trying to be as objective as possible (no one is a 100%)
Apart from your "on my sleeve" obvious ideological stance, you have one VERY BIG flaw in the above argument:
Where is the evidence?
Your answer is very lacking. The only thing you mention that would fall in this category: The video. Has to be analyzed first by objective techs and actually tied to the individual and the plot. US rules of evidence are very complex and sometimes demanding. (Yes, I have a JD -YIHAJD? too close for comfort...lol)
Do you trust the sources?
I suppose nothing. I check everything. This is just a routine sanity check, should not be ideologically driven or presumed if you want good intel. (Side bar: Arm chair fun. If you work in the government you are dumbing down to hide your real nature or you no little about intel collection and analysis.)
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No matter, hopefully soon we will see the courts handle all of this and we will see. (My non technical gut feeling: Bet ya a hundy that this whole thing was way overblown, and will be remembered that way by history in 50 years or less)
Now using your own tendencious language: A "fascist state" court (of any type of nation or culture) system would just ship the suspects off to a detention facility and keep the evidence classified.
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Fun stuff:
As somewhat of a practiced linguist analyst myself: "ChePibe:" You must be from Argentina or are trying to pretend to be somehow related? Correct?
Since FUD is in the interest of Bush, Blair, Israel and the usual "bad guys."
And only an amateur intelligence analyst would not look long and hard at the known objective evidence and the credibility of the sources coupled with a list of benefactors -including backlash and provocateurs. And since almost all papers and stories I've seen seem to be victim to the same terror spin doctors (or -shudder- misinformation specialists.) All the above begs for the following questions:
Where is the evidence?
Do you trust the sources?
Why would the bad guys NOT do a dramatic diversionary action, or even feign one? While really going for something else?
Why does nobody with media clout ask the tough questions?
(Usually anything controversial and with political overtones about the US or Israel is moderated down on Slashdot. Maybe this will be the exception?)
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Unfortunately the only way to go unnoticed is to use social networking. Just be very clever, create a very standard and boring cover. Wait...I already did! I am a boring nerd with only a few friends and completely obvious posts and chit chat. So as long as I keep my true identity secret I will be safe from our intelligence gathering overlords. All Jesting aside, there probably is something to this.
The best passwords I've found are sentences translated into passwords. For example:
My phone number is 555-234-2344 : Mp#i555-234-2344
I live at 2202 Park Street : Il@2202PSt
Although a valid idea, your first examples are very BAD ones. NEVER use personal information to build passwords. That said, this is a very common foible. All advanced cracker systems (NSA et. al.) use personal historic information in large quantities to create these types of passwords.
Trying to limit the 'snarkiness' factor and not be too trite, but I must say: We already are in space. We already are traveling through the universe. We should probably shore up our current vessel before we send out recon ships from the mother ship.
lol
US republicans (and democrats) with their sub set of wacky right wing christian religious nuts are very quick to forget their anti communist beliefs when money is involved.
Even the more educated Slashdot crowd is very "pragmatic" with China.
China sucks not because it is a communist state, it sucks because it is a police state. But who cares, if we can make a buck, we can all ignore in bliss the Chinese government's peccadilloes.
Fascist, communist, fake democratic national security states (Australia/UK/Russia/USA etc.), all the same crap. Sell your soul for your bank owned plastic McMansion and your cool cars. Let's just leave it to the "free" market, who cares about politics anyway.
I have helped with OpenVZ and mysqlBind/unxsBind/iDNS. What I liked the most is that you don't need to be an expert kernel hacker to provide value. And the unxsVZ source code is very easy to read and code for. Since they use academic UK style C indentation and not the K&R classic style.
There are many great GPL projects. With GPL unxsVZ running 2-3 servers in 4 datacenters in the UK and the US we have survived just fine, fried servers, being slashdotted (no URLs here ;), dumb rack space resellers, etc. How? With the important part of the cloud (cloud=marketing BS): Autonomics for HA for all three important web computing areas IaaS , SaaS and PaaS.
No one has mentioned this, probably out of respect for the family. Since only a few remains were found and quite far from wreckage. In the name of science it would be cool to know from experts about what happens to carcasses in them there CA mountains, and if the altitude of the impact bars some type of animal activity.
Since most people here still think Google is so great. My guestimate: In less than 10 years we will all find out that Google is not that cool. This is criticial thinking not mindless flamebait. Why? Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Sounds like the data actually belongs to your customer.
And apart from the replication to another server as mentioned, it sounds like you are being a tad childish. For example: "This is my ball, and I'm going home with it..."
What sane person would even think of letting our military (but god bless the soldiers, wave the flag now, sing the anthem etc...) -or any other acronym based "service/agency" for that matter- do something so dangerous to the common U.S. citizen John Q. Public?
Why don't we just let the government blatantly spy on us, arrest us without warrants? Or make a mockery of our constitution? Ohhh sh.. wait they already did and are! If the people have the government they deserve. It seems that "we the people" are not very smart!
My read on the near future: In about 5 years from now Google will be the new MS here at Slashdot. As they continue towards neocon positions like: "Shareholder value no matter what" that necessarily conflict with their already incredible "do no evil" motto. While at the same time their cultish internal operation is increasingly pro original Googler's (that is shareholder employee's), not to say outright discriminatory (against new hires --mostly trying to get them to be just consultants), all this coupled, with outlandish hiring practices way beyond what the NSA does. I admit that MS flew me to Redmond, for a week with a condo, driver and excellent food. And that I also whent through 5 levels of interviews with Google. Finally botching the last interview when I asked a Sr. multi-millionaire Google engineer, if the stars at google were the engineers or the PMs. And got my head chopped off. These experiences helped me learn more about MS and Google and their similarities and finally learned about my own aversion to hidden control freak hierarchies. But of course, I am an IT guy with a JD from a top Mass. school (that actually agrees with critical legal studies (CLS) positions) and that plays guitar in a punk band. What was I thinking? Lol. Of course this is why I always get the interviews, but that is another story. I finally got my job in Europe, with much better pay (than Google,) less and laid back work hours. Paris is way cool.
lol same group-think!
And we will all love ya bro'
Both Republicans and Democrats are involved in big business. And that means big money and big corruption. Finally, some real crime is needed to bring home the bacon.
Screw karma: Google is a capitalist tool it can't help but do evil. That said, Google, I use it it works. But Google is not the great cool thing it was. Or maybe it never was?
This is the real issue. Google online apps or even any US based cloud services will be suspect (see Amazon.)
Google again publicly kisses up to the US industrial military complex. Of course privately and from the their news feed selection it is clear to me that they probably work or have worked with the US security services. Are they partly owned by the NSA or another agency? If I was running an acronym agency I would at least try. Especially since US laws allow for this very evil non democratic type of covert activity.
I humbly contribute the following definition. "A super specie is a specie that can change it's own DNA consciously."
Unless it is the next big thing, if you wrote sloppy uncommented code don't bother wasting your time and ours. Now even if it is another re-invent the wheel project, if it is KISS, and very well layed out, well commented, with plenty of documentation and finally if it installs easily and is useful: Then somebody somewhere will use it and improve on it. My advice: Learn OSS by contributing -even if very humbly- to existing popular projects, then spend time on your own stuff.
This is a very cool solution that has been proposed by many community based wifi projects. That BT would endorse an organic approach like this is very open minded. Let's hope that internal politics doesn't commit this idea to the "let's outsource this for study" meeting whores, effectively shelving it.
With caution and some a good fitting pliers I have removed the caps lock key from all my keyboards for years. You can easily put them back if needed.
This has stopped for good the accidental "caps lock on" very annoying problem for high speed -but admittedly my own low quality- typing.
Apart from your "on my sleeve" obvious ideological stance, you have one VERY BIG flaw in the above argument:
Where is the evidence?
Your answer is very lacking. The only thing you mention that would fall in this category: The video. Has to be analyzed first by objective techs and actually tied to the individual and the plot. US rules of evidence are very complex and sometimes demanding. (Yes, I have a JD -YIHAJD? too close for comfort...lol)
Do you trust the sources?
I suppose nothing. I check everything. This is just a routine sanity check, should not be ideologically driven or presumed if you want good intel. (Side bar: Arm chair fun. If you work in the government you are dumbing down to hide your real nature or you no little about intel collection and analysis.)
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No matter, hopefully soon we will see the courts handle all of this and we will see. (My non technical gut feeling: Bet ya a hundy that this whole thing was way overblown, and will be remembered that way by history in 50 years or less)
Now using your own tendencious language: A "fascist state" court (of any type of nation or culture) system would just ship the suspects off to a detention facility and keep the evidence classified.
---
Fun stuff:
As somewhat of a practiced linguist analyst myself: "ChePibe:" You must be from Argentina or are trying to pretend to be somehow related? Correct?
Since FUD is in the interest of Bush, Blair, Israel and the usual "bad guys."
And only an amateur intelligence analyst would not look long and hard at the known objective evidence and the credibility of the sources coupled with a list of benefactors -including backlash and provocateurs. And since almost all papers and stories I've seen seem to be victim to the same terror spin doctors (or -shudder- misinformation specialists.) All the above begs for the following questions:
Where is the evidence?
Do you trust the sources?
Why would the bad guys NOT do a dramatic diversionary action, or even feign one? While really going for something else?
Why does nobody with media clout ask the tough questions?
(Usually anything controversial and with political overtones about the US or Israel is moderated down on Slashdot. Maybe this will be the exception?)
Cheers!
This should have been modded up! right on dude. lol.