Murder rates are indeed higher in the US, by a ratio of 3.4. On the other hand, you are massively more likely to be a victim of non-lethal violent crime in the UK, by a ratio of 4.8. (Exact counts vary by year, and are very rough estimates as official sources are useless because of different definitions of "violent crime").
It's also bad to compare whole countries, so let's a look at New York vs London -- very similar population, both include a minority known for violent crime. Here, in an apples-to-apples comparison the ratio is around 7 (again, wildly differing by source because of different definitions).
So what's worse, being murdered or just assaulted/mugged? Intuitively one is going to claim the first. However, if you look at absolute numbers, the chance of being murdered are negligible in either country. Also, I'd say most murders are bad-guy-on-bad-guy (no stats here, as it's so hard to define "bad guy"). On the other hand, violent crime is a part of everyday's life. I've personally been assaulted several times, murdered 0 times so far. Nor has anyone I even vaguely know. Murders tend to be an one-per-town-per-decades affair: in the 50k town I live, last murders happened in 2013 then 1981. Obviously, if your city/town happen to include organized crime or violence-prone communities, you'll jack up the stats, but those rarely spill out to ordinary citizens.
Key pinning works well only for google.com and a handful of other sides that are hardcoded in Chrome (and I think Firefox too). Enabling HSTS is a security/privacy hole so that's no answer.
The article uses dumbed-down speech for normals in a way that's confusing to us. For Slashdot crowd, it'd be better to say "wildcard intermediate CA" outright -- most readers will understand, the rest can blargh the meaning from context and comments.
if your NSM can't see SSL then you don't have NSM.
It's the other way around: if your SSL doesn't protect you from some crap MITM box, then you don't have SSL.
If you say that a company should be able to snoop on all connections of their employees, that's trivial to do. Just install the company's CA root on every employee's machine. But you want to do this to innocent third parties, don't you? Tough cookies then. I see no legitimate reason for SSL interception without the owner's consent. Ever.
PGP doesn't protect the metadata nor even email subject. Also, it isn't popular even among highly technical crowd. Right now, among 704 mails in my INBOX there's just two encrypted (despite 86 being signed).
A good idea for privacy for mainstream users would be deploying DANE. It provides transport encryption that's not vulnerable to MITM -- and some ISPs already MITM all SMTP.
Obviously, transport encryption doesn't protect you against the server reading your mail. The likes of Gmail read your mail themselves and, despite loudly saying otherwise, hardly ever fight govt requests, be it with a warrant or without. Too bad, running your own server reveals metadata even when encrypted (the ISPs and govt know who sent mails to whom, when and the size of the message).
I don't really know how to solve the metadata problem. The best idea I have so far without inventing a new protocol are.onion MXes -- but I don't know of any server software implementing this.
I guess you haven't seen the amount of patches atop RH's kernels. They backport loads of features which were never coded with ancient kernels in mind. These backports are not tested by anyone but RH's internal kernel guys -- as opposed to a large community testing mainstream kernels.
No one says you should run 4.6 in production yet, let's have it season for a bit. But running kernels without mainstream maintenance is not wise. I'd understand them if they cherry-picked just security and bug fixes -- but they pick lots of random crap.
2.6.32 differs so much from modern kernels that trying to cherry-pick fixes leads to anything but stability. I wouldn't touch such a kernel with a 0.015 furlong pole.
Actually, the initial intent of copyright laws was raising money for the king via selling monopolies. Which indeed reduced choice for customers and massively drove up prices.
Right... I guess you've never been so drunk to take more than 10 tries to enter your password on a full-sized keyboard. On an on-screen phone keyboard that'd be outright impossible.
But then, there's a difference between three beers vs a liter of vodka shutting you out of your authentication.
LAMP is not a disaster if you choose a good P. There at least two decent mainstream choices (although users of either will cast aspersions on the other). Although, upgrading the M to P won't hurt, either.
Too gamey and too little phoney for my tastes, but if the phone part works (and they wouldn't offer it if it did not) there's nothing more I'd want.
I hate thin phones but this one is fatter than Trump's mom: 32mm vs 18mm N900 vs 7mm iPhone. Sounds like it's too thick to comfortably type although it's possible it'd turn out okay.
Resistive touchscreen is way better than capacitive, that's a win over all modern phones if you want accuracy or the ability to use a stylus.
The massive bevel wastes a good amount of screen estate. The gaming controls are a waste of space too, but it's possible using that entire space for keyboard could be uncomfortable when typing with thumbs.
Three external *SD slots are an overkill, I've never used the single microSD one inside N900.
One OTG and two host-side USB ports on a phone in addition to one device-side port are mind-boggling.
The lack of a camera sucks but is not a show-stopper (my current N900 that just died had its camera broken for a year; I wanted it for non-whimsy use like twice).
Bottom line: not made for my use case but with no N900 replacement it'll do.
Actually, to win at Wikipedia you need multiple identities. Whether with real people behind them or just you and a bunch of network proxies, doesn't matter. In disputes, whoever gets a bigger flash mob gets the upper hand. You don't need the means of the Olgino trolls, just calling on a bunch of friends is enough.
The Underhanded C Contest provides plenty of ideas how a smart developer can subvert a system even in face of thorough code review.
And in Isis' case, if she was forced to make such a subversive commit, she could either:
* refuse to be a traitor -- certain contempt of court
* do it and get caught (immediately or after the fact) -- likely charge of contempt of court (they'd suspect she tipped the reviewers)
* do it successfully -- and be a traitor of what we believe in
I so wish Nokia would bring back the N900 line. I'm not talking about N9 (which was still better than anything Android/iOS/Windows based), but about a proper pocketable micro-laptop. As far as phone capabilities go, N900 wasn't stellar even in its heyday, but as a mobile computer there's nothing new that would even approach its usability.
An on-screen keyboard is semi-adequate for writing a SMS or maybe a Fecesbook status update. On N900, especially if you replace pull-down symbols with proper key setup you can type more conveniently than on a laptop's keyboard. I've spent many a night hacking in bed without bothering to get up and get to the big computer, so did I ssh to do some postgres or network administration when at a client. And you don't even need ssh -- gcc/perl/etc work fine (within limits of 256MB RAM and one-core ARM). N900 is a full-blown computer that fits in your pocket.
You can buy attachable keyboards for modern phones, but these are hardly usable. For heavy-duty use, the keyboard needs to be engineered in rather than an afterthought.
These days, the mainstream use of this word means "numerically higher"/"newer", not "better". cf: GTK3, Gnome 3, systemd. Sweeping changes that degrade usability are in no way limited to Microsoft.
All it does it save you from having to type the search query.
You mean, you managed to have it understand what you say? Tell me how! I've never managed to get a single sentence through unmangled despite hours of trying, and neither did any of my friends. It's a deja vu with IBM ViaVoice 15 years ago when we had like half of dormitory gawk and try.
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This is especially wrong as in Europe the word "gas" means just that, gas. Ie, LPG or CNG. In Poland, around 15% of cars use LPG.
Most routers don't expose any open ports to the WAN side
Depends on the ISP. At least around here, UPC wants port 443, Netia both 443 and 4567, for their backdoors.
Murder rates are indeed higher in the US, by a ratio of 3.4. On the other hand, you are massively more likely to be a victim of non-lethal violent crime in the UK, by a ratio of 4.8. (Exact counts vary by year, and are very rough estimates as official sources are useless because of different definitions of "violent crime").
It's also bad to compare whole countries, so let's a look at New York vs London -- very similar population, both include a minority known for violent crime. Here, in an apples-to-apples comparison the ratio is around 7 (again, wildly differing by source because of different definitions).
So what's worse, being murdered or just assaulted/mugged? Intuitively one is going to claim the first. However, if you look at absolute numbers, the chance of being murdered are negligible in either country. Also, I'd say most murders are bad-guy-on-bad-guy (no stats here, as it's so hard to define "bad guy"). On the other hand, violent crime is a part of everyday's life. I've personally been assaulted several times, murdered 0 times so far. Nor has anyone I even vaguely know. Murders tend to be an one-per-town-per-decades affair: in the 50k town I live, last murders happened in 2013 then 1981. Obviously, if your city/town happen to include organized crime or violence-prone communities, you'll jack up the stats, but those rarely spill out to ordinary citizens.
Key pinning works well only for google.com and a handful of other sides that are hardcoded in Chrome (and I think Firefox too). Enabling HSTS is a security/privacy hole so that's no answer.
The article uses dumbed-down speech for normals in a way that's confusing to us. For Slashdot crowd, it'd be better to say "wildcard intermediate CA" outright -- most readers will understand, the rest can blargh the meaning from context and comments.
if your NSM can't see SSL then you don't have NSM.
It's the other way around: if your SSL doesn't protect you from some crap MITM box, then you don't have SSL.
If you say that a company should be able to snoop on all connections of their employees, that's trivial to do. Just install the company's CA root on every employee's machine. But you want to do this to innocent third parties, don't you? Tough cookies then. I see no legitimate reason for SSL interception without the owner's consent. Ever.
PGP doesn't protect the metadata nor even email subject. Also, it isn't popular even among highly technical crowd. Right now, among 704 mails in my INBOX there's just two encrypted (despite 86 being signed).
A good idea for privacy for mainstream users would be deploying DANE. It provides transport encryption that's not vulnerable to MITM -- and some ISPs already MITM all SMTP.
Obviously, transport encryption doesn't protect you against the server reading your mail. The likes of Gmail read your mail themselves and, despite loudly saying otherwise, hardly ever fight govt requests, be it with a warrant or without. Too bad, running your own server reveals metadata even when encrypted (the ISPs and govt know who sent mails to whom, when and the size of the message).
I don't really know how to solve the metadata problem. The best idea I have so far without inventing a new protocol are .onion MXes -- but I don't know of any server software implementing this.
Every piece of hardware on that device you are typing on has material that causes cancer FYI.
That material causes cancer only if you're in California.
I guess you haven't seen the amount of patches atop RH's kernels. They backport loads of features which were never coded with ancient kernels in mind. These backports are not tested by anyone but RH's internal kernel guys -- as opposed to a large community testing mainstream kernels.
No one says you should run 4.6 in production yet, let's have it season for a bit. But running kernels without mainstream maintenance is not wise. I'd understand them if they cherry-picked just security and bug fixes -- but they pick lots of random crap.
2.6.32 differs so much from modern kernels that trying to cherry-pick fixes leads to anything but stability. I wouldn't touch such a kernel with a 0.015 furlong pole.
You really fail to see the point of fat acceptance.
Fat acceptance is exactly as harmful as pro-ana/pro-mia or promoting smoking.
Actually, the initial intent of copyright laws was raising money for the king via selling monopolies. Which indeed reduced choice for customers and massively drove up prices.
I guess this will come handy then. (Spot a cat in the picture.)
A cancer that stays steady gets to live decades, until the host's natural death. A cancer with fast grow does not.
Right... I guess you've never been so drunk to take more than 10 tries to enter your password on a full-sized keyboard. On an on-screen phone keyboard that'd be outright impossible.
But then, there's a difference between three beers vs a liter of vodka shutting you out of your authentication.
By popular vote, he does (Hillary is that bad). By electoral college, no freaking way.
But the choice between a vile corrupt lying bitch and an inept nazi means you're screwed no matter who wins.
LAMP is not a disaster if you choose a good P. There at least two decent mainstream choices (although users of either will cast aspersions on the other). Although, upgrading the M to P won't hurt, either.
You want this.
Certainly looks interesting!
Too gamey and too little phoney for my tastes, but if the phone part works (and they wouldn't offer it if it did not) there's nothing more I'd want.
I hate thin phones but this one is fatter than Trump's mom: 32mm vs 18mm N900 vs 7mm iPhone. Sounds like it's too thick to comfortably type although it's possible it'd turn out okay.
Resistive touchscreen is way better than capacitive, that's a win over all modern phones if you want accuracy or the ability to use a stylus.
The massive bevel wastes a good amount of screen estate. The gaming controls are a waste of space too, but it's possible using that entire space for keyboard could be uncomfortable when typing with thumbs.
Three external *SD slots are an overkill, I've never used the single microSD one inside N900.
One OTG and two host-side USB ports on a phone in addition to one device-side port are mind-boggling.
The lack of a camera sucks but is not a show-stopper (my current N900 that just died had its camera broken for a year; I wanted it for non-whimsy use like twice).
Bottom line: not made for my use case but with no N900 replacement it'll do.
Actually, to win at Wikipedia you need multiple identities. Whether with real people behind them or just you and a bunch of network proxies, doesn't matter. In disputes, whoever gets a bigger flash mob gets the upper hand. You don't need the means of the Olgino trolls, just calling on a bunch of friends is enough.
Sorry but I don't have 7 inch pockets. And the external case would make it even bulkier.
The Underhanded C Contest provides plenty of ideas how a smart developer can subvert a system even in face of thorough code review.
And in Isis' case, if she was forced to make such a subversive commit, she could either:
* refuse to be a traitor -- certain contempt of court
* do it and get caught (immediately or after the fact) -- likely charge of contempt of court (they'd suspect she tipped the reviewers)
* do it successfully -- and be a traitor of what we believe in
I so wish Nokia would bring back the N900 line. I'm not talking about N9 (which was still better than anything Android/iOS/Windows based), but about a proper pocketable micro-laptop. As far as phone capabilities go, N900 wasn't stellar even in its heyday, but as a mobile computer there's nothing new that would even approach its usability.
An on-screen keyboard is semi-adequate for writing a SMS or maybe a Fecesbook status update. On N900, especially if you replace pull-down symbols with proper key setup you can type more conveniently than on a laptop's keyboard. I've spent many a night hacking in bed without bothering to get up and get to the big computer, so did I ssh to do some postgres or network administration when at a client. And you don't even need ssh -- gcc/perl/etc work fine (within limits of 256MB RAM and one-core ARM). N900 is a full-blown computer that fits in your pocket.
You can buy attachable keyboards for modern phones, but these are hardly usable. For heavy-duty use, the keyboard needs to be engineered in rather than an afterthought.
So go Nokia, there's your chance.
These days, the mainstream use of this word means "numerically higher"/"newer", not "better". cf: GTK3, Gnome 3, systemd. Sweeping changes that degrade usability are in no way limited to Microsoft.
All it does it save you from having to type the search query.
You mean, you managed to have it understand what you say? Tell me how! I've never managed to get a single sentence through unmangled despite hours of trying, and neither did any of my friends. It's a deja vu with IBM ViaVoice 15 years ago when we had like half of dormitory gawk and try.