You want AdBlock Edge instead of AdBlock Plus. That is, unless you want that "allow obnoxious ads" option -- but if you do, why would you install AdBlock in the first place?
I don't think Silent Circle would commit an effective suicide just preventively. Lavabit, while technically not saying a word about NSLs, told us very clearly what the request was. If the government criminals are not idiots, they learned and worded the Silent Circle order in a way that prevented such disclosure.
So let's use a closer comparison: Gates is no better than those who perpetuate the anti-vaccine scare (hah, note this article) using debunked studies so they can push their beliefs.
Except that there might be problems with a particular vaccine (other than the "all vaccines cause autism" bunk); refraining from cutting up kids, not so much.
The database there is grossly outdated as it's been a while since I last had an use for distributing it that way, but the scripts didn't need updates. They're straightforward to use or configure, including a tool to import hosts file type lists.
This is perhaps grossly politically incorrect, but: feeding and/or healing people in poorest parts of the world does nothing good in the long run. It only means they will reproduce more, having even more starving sick children. Promoting local means of drug manufacture could at least have a meaningful effect on their quality of life, but Gates Foundation's gifts come with strings attached: countries that want to get free drugs need to enact "intellectual property" laws that in the long run deprive them of availability of such drugs.
Google's internet baloons, on the other hand, lets those people obtain education. This lets kids escape the deadly circle of starvation and cranking out more kids for local warlords' private armies.
Even worse: he spends loads of money promoting male genital mutilation, explaining this with a long debunked myth that it somehow helps against AIDS. There was just a single major study that showed such a result (Farm Orange), and all it proven was that educating men about safe sex is more beneficial than male circumcision is harmful (at least with respect to short-term HIV infection rates). To add to scientific misconduct, the control group was immediately destroyed (ie, circumcised) after the study's end to ensure no extra data can be gathered about that group. Their results stand in contrast to those of actually peer-reviewed studies.
That's a single purported benefit. Downsides include a sizable risk of complications, reduction in feeling in a sexual organ, body modification without the child's consent, etc.
Gates is no better than a random Somali witch doctor/mullah who does the same to girls.
We really need to get DANE up and running. It's strictly better than the CA cartel model.
If you use DANE with stapled certificates (rather than just CA selection -- why does it even exist?), you are as secure as SSL + DNSSEC.
With the CA cartel, you need to trust all of 300+ CAs. This includes CNNIC, Etisalat and a crapload of US companies. And even if all of them were 100% honest and 100% secure, an unaffiliated attacker can obtain a certificate if he controls your DNS at an arbitrary time of his choosing within a year before the attack (most CAs require nothing more than being able to receive mail at that address, it's only the least secure CA that counts).
With DNSSEC, there are three weak points: ICANN, your TLD/country registry, and your registrar. You get to choose the latter two (although changing domain name might not always be reasonable) -- and unlike the CA model, you're trusting the alternative rather than a sum: more registrars make you more rather than less secure. Also, if there is any caching involved, instead of an arbitrary moment at his leisure, the attacker must keep your DNS subverted for an extended time period, up to the sum of TTLs of the whole path.
Adblock works just great as a first line of defense against Facebook. Same for any other http/https-based spyware sites.
I for one hate those buggers so much I also serve an empty zone for {facebook,fbcdn}.{com,net} and friends in my DNS, and block their IP ranges just in case some new domain pops up, but that's probably overkill. If you don't trust your co-workers to not muck with Adblock settings, you can do the DNS trick. If you want my zone management scripts, shout, I can clean them up for public consumption.
You're assume Goldman Sachs cares about "is this legal?" or "is this right?". What they care is: "will this improve our PR?", "will this scare people from going against us?", "will this scare people from working for us?".
Seryozha was at that point no longer working for Goldman Sachs, and he dared to do something hostile, so he was an enemy who needed to be punished. Extra bonus for telling the masses "another crooked banker in jail" which makes the uninformed feel as if there's a shred of justice left.
The Holocaust was legal according to German laws, passed by democratically chosen parliament. On the other hand, NSA directly violates the constitution.
So when it comes to following legal principles, the NSA is actually worse. Both boil down to the same issue: might makes right. Ex post facto law against someone you have no jurisdiction whatsoever? Hey, you won the war. A pesky constitution disallowing your abuses? So what the citizens can do against you...
Soviets murdered over three times as many people as Nazis[1], including war crimes, genocide, outright shooting at their allies, yet no one said a word against them. The whole point of laws is to protect the weak against strong, and here our civilization has failed miserably.
[1]. No, I'm not saying killing >20mil is nice, just that killing >60mil is worse.
How do you do that in a pdf (without javascript), epub, cbz, or most other formats for that matter? Even Turing-complete ones like ps can't do much without being aware of the time.
And if you want to be really, really sure, Project Gutenberg chosen plain text.
Kevlar is an equivalent to cured leather, just made of a more modern fabric. If you go up to high-end ballistic armour, you often see regular scale mail^Warmour -- made of more modern materials, too.
Chainmail sucks against piercing (including small caliber firearm) damage, but is greatly superior when it comes to cut and tear.
That's common to all monopolies in general: by disallowing newcomers and competition, they serve no purpose but feeding whatever company/cartel holds that monopoly. And governments, instead of disrupting them, take more and more bribes to allow creating even more monopolies...
Either you use it as a slightly smarter dumbphone, in which case extra size is inconvenient, or as an actual computer, in which case some reasonable input device is a must.
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Hmm... sounds like a good reason to party twice, then. And I'm at the DebConf at the moment...
That light at the end of the tunnel? The train comes.
You want AdBlock Edge instead of AdBlock Plus. That is, unless you want that "allow obnoxious ads" option -- but if you do, why would you install AdBlock in the first place?
I don't think Silent Circle would commit an effective suicide just preventively. Lavabit, while technically not saying a word about NSLs, told us very clearly what the request was. If the government criminals are not idiots, they learned and worded the Silent Circle order in a way that prevented such disclosure.
So let's use a closer comparison: Gates is no better than those who perpetuate the anti-vaccine scare (hah, note this article) using debunked studies so they can push their beliefs.
Except that there might be problems with a particular vaccine (other than the "all vaccines cause autism" bunk); refraining from cutting up kids, not so much.
Because of the setup, it's probably easiest to use/read it as a Debian package:deb http://angband.pl/debian sid main(or directly: https://angband.pl/debian/pool/main/d/dnscruft/).
The database there is grossly outdated as it's been a while since I last had an use for distributing it that way, but the scripts didn't need updates. They're straightforward to use or configure, including a tool to import hosts file type lists.
This is perhaps grossly politically incorrect, but: feeding and/or healing people in poorest parts of the world does nothing good in the long run. It only means they will reproduce more, having even more starving sick children. Promoting local means of drug manufacture could at least have a meaningful effect on their quality of life, but Gates Foundation's gifts come with strings attached: countries that want to get free drugs need to enact "intellectual property" laws that in the long run deprive them of availability of such drugs.
Google's internet baloons, on the other hand, lets those people obtain education. This lets kids escape the deadly circle of starvation and cranking out more kids for local warlords' private armies.
Even worse: he spends loads of money promoting male genital mutilation, explaining this with a long debunked myth that it somehow helps against AIDS. There was just a single major study that showed such a result (Farm Orange), and all it proven was that educating men about safe sex is more beneficial than male circumcision is harmful (at least with respect to short-term HIV infection rates). To add to scientific misconduct, the control group was immediately destroyed (ie, circumcised) after the study's end to ensure no extra data can be gathered about that group. Their results stand in contrast to those of actually peer-reviewed studies.
That's a single purported benefit. Downsides include a sizable risk of complications, reduction in feeling in a sexual organ, body modification without the child's consent, etc.
Gates is no better than a random Somali witch doctor/mullah who does the same to girls.
We really need to get DANE up and running. It's strictly better than the CA cartel model.
If you use DANE with stapled certificates (rather than just CA selection -- why does it even exist?), you are as secure as SSL + DNSSEC.
With the CA cartel, you need to trust all of 300+ CAs. This includes CNNIC, Etisalat and a crapload of US companies. And even if all of them were 100% honest and 100% secure, an unaffiliated attacker can obtain a certificate if he controls your DNS at an arbitrary time of his choosing within a year before the attack (most CAs require nothing more than being able to receive mail at that address, it's only the least secure CA that counts).
With DNSSEC, there are three weak points: ICANN, your TLD/country registry, and your registrar. You get to choose the latter two (although changing domain name might not always be reasonable) -- and unlike the CA model, you're trusting the alternative rather than a sum: more registrars make you more rather than less secure. Also, if there is any caching involved, instead of an arbitrary moment at his leisure, the attacker must keep your DNS subverted for an extended time period, up to the sum of TTLs of the whole path.
EasyList has a serious flaw: it doesn't add EasyPrivacy by default. Spying servers are nearly as likely to contain extra risks as ad ones.
Adblock works just great as a first line of defense against Facebook. Same for any other http/https-based spyware sites.
I for one hate those buggers so much I also serve an empty zone for {facebook,fbcdn}.{com,net} and friends in my DNS, and block their IP ranges just in case some new domain pops up, but that's probably overkill. If you don't trust your co-workers to not muck with Adblock settings, you can do the DNS trick. If you want my zone management scripts, shout, I can clean them up for public consumption.
What's that "church of Kopimizma"? You use either English or Russian grammar. Please write either " kopimizma" or " of kopimism".
You're assume Goldman Sachs cares about "is this legal?" or "is this right?". What they care is: "will this improve our PR?", "will this scare people from going against us?", "will this scare people from working for us?".
Seryozha was at that point no longer working for Goldman Sachs, and he dared to do something hostile, so he was an enemy who needed to be punished. Extra bonus for telling the masses "another crooked banker in jail" which makes the uninformed feel as if there's a shred of justice left.
Or if you use the proper extension.
The Holocaust was legal according to German laws, passed by democratically chosen parliament. On the other hand, NSA directly violates the constitution.
So when it comes to following legal principles, the NSA is actually worse. Both boil down to the same issue: might makes right. Ex post facto law against someone you have no jurisdiction whatsoever? Hey, you won the war. A pesky constitution disallowing your abuses? So what the citizens can do against you...
Soviets murdered over three times as many people as Nazis[1], including war crimes, genocide, outright shooting at their allies, yet no one said a word against them. The whole point of laws is to protect the weak against strong, and here our civilization has failed miserably.
[1]. No, I'm not saying killing >20mil is nice, just that killing >60mil is worse.
it's better to let your cat keep the rats away than to eat the cat
The last mouse I've seen was 30 years ago. Until I got a cat, that is: he brought home three this month already.
Ok, but they are working for the US government.
How is that different from fine folks at Nuremberg?
How do you do that in a pdf (without javascript), epub, cbz, or most other formats for that matter? Even Turing-complete ones like ps can't do much without being aware of the time.
And if you want to be really, really sure, Project Gutenberg chosen plain text.
Don't buy DRMed ebooks, don't buy from 1984-enabled stores, problem solved.
I for one use a cheapo ebook reader without Wifi connectivity. Try to remotely delete a book from that.
but really, chain mail? What about kevlar?
Kevlar is an equivalent to cured leather, just made of a more modern fabric. If you go up to high-end ballistic armour, you often see regular scale mail^Warmour -- made of more modern materials, too.
Chainmail sucks against piercing (including small caliber firearm) damage, but is greatly superior when it comes to cut and tear.
It is called pick the damn thing up and rotate it on its side.
9x16 is way over the edge on the other side, I'm afraid.
By saying "almost everything" do you mean PC FPS games?
Which became effectively 2D due to monitor limitations.
Compare the amount of 3D features in Doom (despite hard to design hacks) or Quake with that of this year's FPSes.
16x9... pass.
That's common to all monopolies in general: by disallowing newcomers and competition, they serve no purpose but feeding whatever company/cartel holds that monopoly. And governments, instead of disrupting them, take more and more bribes to allow creating even more monopolies...
No hardware keyboard. Pass.
Either you use it as a slightly smarter dumbphone, in which case extra size is inconvenient, or as an actual computer, in which case some reasonable input device is a must.