Thats it. Just use a (customized) Live CD for the system and an USB stick for your data, if possible, else use online storage like SpiderOak with your live CD. That also saves you from surfing the web in the time where you should work;-) (If you are not allowed to use CDs, a disk image will save you neither.)
It depends on the service owners - do I personally trust them or not? For example the German Press Agency (Deutsche Presse Agentur - dpa) has its own service only for their own use (About the dpa 'dpaq' servie http://dpaq.de/ueber_dpaq.html [german only]). there are also several other short url services I trust, e.g. made by IT magazines, where you can be sure they will also exist some years long. (Well, I also trust my own service buts thats not yours;-)).
And by the way - if using the right system (*cough-nix-hrm*) and the right browser (*argh-opera-ahem*)- what do you fear about? According to dpa, Wikimedia lists 500 short URL services on their blacklist (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Spam_blacklist) - just add them to your persoanl proxys blacklist maybe? Or just use bfilter (http://bfilter.sourceforge.net/)? (Well, you migh want to add a 'NOFILTER *ebay*' to your urls.local for latter if you want to see the full description at your (un)favourite flee market...)
Anyway, no use to frown because of some spammers again, just use these short links in your PMs, no one will (or shall) click/read them after some time or if they don't know you...
...like they did unfortunately in Basel (Switzerland) when they made tests to use geothermic energy on a new (?) way.
They pumped water under high pressure into rocks several kilometers under the surface to further loosen the stones for later pumping of water through it. Obviously the rocks stood already under pressure which was released through the experiments and caused several earthquakes with a strength between 3.2 and 3.4 on the Richter scale - which is just strong enough to be noticed by humans.
but just like a yard without a fence, the fact the fence is (not) there does not imply permission to run around there and dig up the flowers.
Well he didn't dig up the flowers he just watched them, I believe.
(Not that I think they would let him go with this...)
Where at least with Opera (8.52 Win2K SP4) no search is possible, just a loading message appears...
But the results with Firefox seem to be pretty good - when searching for 'Schlagzeilensammlung' (the german word for a collection of headlines) my just-in-time generated news / headlines site appears as first entry:-)
Thats a few (mostly 4-5) places better than in Google - so live.com has to be good;-) (well not exactly, my site is barely visited by someone else then me and 3-4 others - I'll never find out why it's listed that nice.)
[And a search for Windows will return the Microsoft site as first result...]
"Nuclear energy and Hydrogen are two effective ways to counter the diminishing fossil fuels"
Nope.
Nuclear energy is no way to counter the diminishing fossil fuels. As you should know uran is limited too - give it 70 years to last.
It is not very clever to spend billions to develop 'better' nuclear power stations to have dangerous energy for only a few years instead of putting that money in an energy supplier which has future and does not leave back the most poison substance the mankind knows.
As you can read in this Austrian article of the hackers themselves the camera didn't watch only the streets but it also zoomed into peoples windows, watching what they were doing in their most private rooms.
And thats a fact which annoys at least *me* - or would you be the person to show your repairman, postman and mother in law how you look like in your newest undies? No? So why would you accept a camera watching and recording your life?
Not to talk of the problems which may occure if the technics - which are know build up under the guise of terror protection - are (mis)used in ways one can imagine numerously.
BTW, video surveillance doesn't deter terrorists. Fanatics don't mind getting caught after they have finished doing their crap - on the contrary, they see themselves as heroes fighting for freedom (just like the 'other side' does).
And if you look back in the 18th century where the death penalty was imposed for pocket picking in GB it couldn't hinder the pocket-picking-rate to rise again a 100% the following year. So spy cameras should shock criminals? I don't think so.
Since a few days this problem should be solved a few steps better - OpenLogos 1.0.0 has been released.
Like the german tech site heise reported last wednesday the GlobalWare AG published in cooperation with the DFKI (The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence: "Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz") the free (as in speech and as in beer) translation system OpenLogos 1.0.0.
It's a PostgreSQL-based, command-line, GPL-licensed translator for Linux, which core is from 1967 but now has the according database to translate from/to english to/from french, german, italian, portuguese and spanish (where a direct tranlation from german to french or spanish is additionaly possible).
OpenLogos is meant to be a hybrid (mixture between static data and linguistic rules) translation system as a basic system for universities and other research centers to develop further going hybrid translation technologys.
Future versions of OpenLogos will include other database backends and a GUI.
Don't like babelfish? Make it better - the base system is there now.
rendered as black on black while every other browser I tried rendered correctly. Due to Opera really is my favorite browser, that really got on my nerves.
Also some special characters like
&laqou;
did not look like they should - well we will see if they got it out after the beta now...
Well, like the german IT magazin Heise reports the new StartCom are really unsecure because of the point that Heise was able to get certicicates for any desired site with falsified owner 'information'. And StartCom doesn't let you generate your private key by yourself - they generate it for you and send it via SSL web to you, so one doesn't know if they perhaps keep a copy of your private key.
After having read this I surely will not accept any SSL certificate from StartCom - I would rather accept a certificate from a private person.
At least on windows one has to do more clicks than a normal user would do to cipher / decipher a mail with GPG (at least using Opera - haven't checked other browsers cause I won't change). Ciphire works really transparently, seems to catch any SMTP/POP3 traffic which goes through your network adapters. Only problem I had: my GPG key was already published for the specific mail address, and I wasn't able to find a way to import existing keys - so I uninstalled Ciphire again. F**k, at first I've been real happy...
Like the german Tagesschau (http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID3948600,00.html) reports Gates 'imputes sticklers for a more relaxed copyright of reactionist aspirations'. Those who wanted to reform the handling of intellectual properties were 'a new kind of communists' trying to 'disestablish the things which make the incentive for musicians, directors and software developers' told Gates ZDnet (where I wasn't able to find anything about this). They (the reformer) 'would not believe that these kind of incentive was allowed to exist'. There 'were some things to improve at copyright legislation, but the intellectual property would be the impulsion to develop the products of tomorrow'. That 'would also secure and create new [US-] American employment'.
Well Gates, we all knew that you are a fan of proprietary software and also keen of software patents - but being a political right winger is at least new to me.
You can think about communism in its different forms what you like - but it surely hasn't to do anything with the discussion about copyrights.
Mom: Biiill! Bill: ~ Yes mom? ~ Mom: What are you talking again! Bill: ~ But mom! ~ Mom: Shut up! You go to bed now.
"We can shout at people that the government can read our email and chat logs, but very few people will make the move to encryption. People are apathetic and lazy - unless encrypted email and chat is enabled BY DEFAULT in the next version of email and chat programs, people won't do it."
I can only agree with this. Living in Germany I followed the discussion about the data storage a bit. This includes the knowledge that every offerer of telecommunications in Germany has to provide the hardware to monitor and store communication details - like email or your mobiles SMS - from January 2005 on, and that on their on costs.
As a result to this I describe the privacy problem in my signature of every email, including a link (http://home.arcor.de/ja.stiebing/gpg sorry - german only) to a page with further information (respectively links to information) about the german law and a brief usage of gpg. Although the people I communicate with all are aware of the dangers of the 'glassy human' (like they call it in Germany), NO ONE OF THEM has started to use encryption - well one friend of mine at least thought about doing it.
You are absolutely right to claim that encryption has to be enabled by default - and it has to be available in every kind of communication program for the net. I hope that eg. Opera will have at least the possibility to include GPG in its upcoming version (perhaps allowing the users to point to an online GPG key?).
Keep your data private - or would you also like everyone enquiring your underwear?
Subject: China's censorship in the internet - using the example news
Thesis: An accessibility of news can be made possible
Suggestion 1: eMule-like news network.
Suggestion 2: PHP-Homepages (which are always worked up on the server side and so can access all IPs; as long as they are not located in China) which shows the blocked sites, while changing the links inside to make sure they are not linked over the blocked site but over the PHP script which again shows the contents of the linked side. These equal built sites are randomly linked by a central side to distribute the traffic.
Problems: - a possibility has to be found, that the IP of the central side will change regulary (weekly?/daily?) to prevent a blocking of this side - and above all: the current IP has to be distributed accordingly - if it is also searched for special strings in IP packages further measures will be needed
Possible solutions: - on DSL-Dial-In-Connections the IPs in any case change daily and there will be no additional costs for the PHP sites - distribution of the IPs via IRC (according key words for the inquiries will be found) or hide IPs on harmless sides in pictures (Brabbas?) - spreading these adresses 'mouth-to-mouth' (GnuPG?) - strings could be changed using simple methods as changing the order of the charcters, 'Caesar deferral' or similar simple (= easy to do for everyone but too much afford for the control of every IP package) methods
The second suggestion should be easy enough to implement, so who is the first to write the script?
Btw: Doing something for free access to the internet for everyone should be even W3C-compliant:-) - their motto for the 10 year jubilee yesterday has been "Web of Meaning, Web on Everything, Web for Everyone"
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Thats it. Just use a (customized) Live CD for the system and an USB stick for your data, if possible, else use online storage like SpiderOak with your live CD. That also saves you from surfing the web in the time where you should work ;-)
(If you are not allowed to use CDs, a disk image will save you neither.)
It depends on the service owners - do I personally trust them or not? For example the German Press Agency (Deutsche Presse Agentur - dpa) has its own service only for their own use (About the dpa 'dpaq' servie http://dpaq.de/ueber_dpaq.html [german only]). there are also several other short url services I trust, e.g. made by IT magazines, where you can be sure they will also exist some years long. (Well, I also trust my own service buts thats not yours ;-)).
And by the way - if using the right system (*cough-nix-hrm*) and the right browser (*argh-opera-ahem*)- what do you fear about?
According to dpa, Wikimedia lists 500 short URL services on their blacklist (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Spam_blacklist) - just add them to your persoanl proxys blacklist maybe? Or just use bfilter (http://bfilter.sourceforge.net/)? (Well, you migh want to add a 'NOFILTER *ebay*' to your urls.local for latter if you want to see the full description at your (un)favourite flee market...)
Anyway, no use to frown because of some spammers again, just use these short links in your PMs, no one will (or shall) click/read them after some time or if they don't know you...
...like they did unfortunately in Basel (Switzerland) when they made tests to use geothermic energy on a new (?) way.
They pumped water under high pressure into rocks several kilometers under the surface to further loosen the stones for later pumping of water through it. Obviously the rocks stood already under pressure which was released through the experiments and caused several earthquakes with a strength between 3.2 and 3.4 on the Richter scale - which is just strong enough to be noticed by humans.
Don't believe it? See the report on tagesschau.de (sorry - german only) from 16.01.2007 and the site of the Swiss Deep Heat Mining Project which makes the experiments.
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but just like a yard without a fence, the fact the fence is (not) there does not imply permission to run around there and dig up the flowers.
Well he didn't dig up the flowers he just watched them, I believe.
(Not that I think they would let him go with this...)
(insert obligatory pr0n reference here )!
here you go...let's see how the VR room looks after that...
Won't these sites at least show up if you use a service like www.loband.org which loads the site form server site and presents you the reults?
- Mozilla browsers
- Safari
- Opera
- Konqueror
- Lynx
For just a few of the famous onesWhere at least with Opera (8.52 Win2K SP4) no search is possible, just a loading message appears...
But the results with Firefox seem to be pretty good - when searching for 'Schlagzeilensammlung' (the german word for a collection of headlines) my just-in-time generated news / headlines site appears as first entry
[And a search for Windows will return the Microsoft site as first result...]
Nuclear energy is no way to counter the diminishing fossil fuels.
As you should know uran is limited too - give it 70 years to last.
It is not very clever to spend billions to develop 'better' nuclear power stations to have dangerous energy for only a few years instead of putting that money in an energy supplier which has future and does not leave back the most poison substance the mankind knows.
As you can read in this Austrian article of the hackers themselves the camera didn't watch only the streets but it also zoomed into peoples windows, watching what they were doing in their most private rooms.
And thats a fact which annoys at least *me* - or would you be the person to show your repairman, postman and mother in law how you look like in your newest undies? No? So why would you accept a camera watching and recording your life?
Not to talk of the problems which may occure if the technics - which are know build up under the guise of terror protection - are (mis)used in ways one can imagine numerously.
BTW, video surveillance doesn't deter terrorists. Fanatics don't mind getting caught after they have finished doing their crap - on the contrary, they see themselves as heroes fighting for freedom (just like the 'other side' does).
And if you look back in the 18th century where the death penalty was imposed for pocket picking in GB it couldn't hinder the pocket-picking-rate to rise again a 100% the following year. So spy cameras should shock criminals? I don't think so.
Try the current (January 2006) special number of the german IT magazine iX ("Programmieren mit .Net 2.0") - it comes along with 3 CDs & 1 DVD with full (english) versions of Visual Web Developer 2005 Express, Visual C# 2005 Express and Visual Basic 2005 Express...
Since a few days this problem should be solved a few steps better - OpenLogos 1.0.0 has been released.
Like the german tech site heise reported last wednesday the GlobalWare AG published in cooperation with the DFKI (The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence: "Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz") the free (as in speech and as in beer) translation system OpenLogos 1.0.0.
It's a PostgreSQL-based, command-line, GPL-licensed translator for Linux, which core is from 1967 but now has the according database to translate from/to english to/from french, german, italian, portuguese and spanish (where a direct tranlation from german to french or spanish is additionaly possible).
OpenLogos is meant to be a hybrid (mixture between static data and linguistic rules) translation system as a basic system for universities and other research centers to develop further going hybrid translation technologys.
Future versions of OpenLogos will include other database backends and a GUI.
Don't like babelfish? Make it better - the base system is there now.
..written in VB, needs Windows 2000 or newer: download (source)
And don't expect too much - it's only VB and the first try of doing a game...
...one of todays jokes I liked, thanks.
/.-ers, I think.
Sounds like a real good invention for most
Well, like the german IT magazin Heise reports the new StartCom are really unsecure because of the point that Heise was able to get certicicates for any desired site with falsified owner 'information'.
And StartCom doesn't let you generate your private key by yourself - they generate it for you and send it via SSL web to you, so one doesn't know if they perhaps keep a copy of your private key.
After having read this I surely will not accept any SSL certificate from StartCom - I would rather accept a certificate from a private person.
At least on windows one has to do more clicks than a normal user would do to cipher / decipher a mail with GPG (at least using Opera - haven't checked other browsers cause I won't change).
Ciphire works really transparently, seems to catch any SMTP/POP3 traffic which goes through your network adapters.
Only problem I had: my GPG key was already published for the specific mail address, and I wasn't able to find a way to import existing keys - so I uninstalled Ciphire again.
F**k, at first I've been real happy...
10:-) Those darn islamic terrorists
Like the german Tagesschau (http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185 ,OID3948600,00.html) reports Gates 'imputes sticklers for a more relaxed copyright of reactionist aspirations'.
Those who wanted to reform the handling of intellectual properties were 'a new kind of communists' trying to 'disestablish the things which make the incentive for musicians, directors and software developers' told Gates ZDnet (where I wasn't able to find anything about this). They (the reformer) 'would not believe that these kind of incentive was allowed to exist'. There 'were some things to improve at copyright legislation, but the intellectual property would be the impulsion to develop the products of tomorrow'. That 'would also secure and create new [US-] American employment'.
Well Gates, we all knew that you are a fan of proprietary software and also keen of software patents - but being a political right winger is at least new to me.
You can think about communism in its different forms what you like - but it surely hasn't to do anything with the discussion about copyrights.
Mom: Biiill!
Bill: ~ Yes mom? ~
Mom: What are you talking again!
Bill: ~ But mom! ~
Mom: Shut up! You go to bed now.
"We can shout at people that the government can read our email and chat logs, but very few people will make the move to encryption. People are apathetic and lazy - unless encrypted email and chat is enabled BY DEFAULT in the next version of email and chat programs, people won't do it."
I can only agree with this. Living in Germany I followed the discussion about the data storage a bit.
This includes the knowledge that every offerer of telecommunications in Germany has to provide the hardware to monitor and store communication details - like email or your mobiles SMS - from January 2005 on, and that on their on costs.
As a result to this I describe the privacy problem in my signature of every email, including a link (http://home.arcor.de/ja.stiebing/gpg sorry - german only) to a page with further information (respectively links to information) about the german law and a brief usage of gpg. Although the people I communicate with all are aware of the dangers of the 'glassy human' (like they call it in Germany), NO ONE OF THEM has started to use encryption - well one friend of mine at least thought about doing it.
You are absolutely right to claim that encryption has to be enabled by default - and it has to be available in every kind of communication program for the net. I hope that eg. Opera will have at least the possibility to include GPG in its upcoming version (perhaps allowing the users to point to an online GPG key?).
Keep your data private - or would you also like everyone enquiring your underwear?
btw, my GPG key:
http://home.arcor.de/ja.stiebing/download/gpg-key
Subject:
:-) - their motto for the 10 year jubilee yesterday has been "Web of Meaning, Web on Everything, Web for Everyone"
China's censorship in the internet - using the example news
Thesis:
An accessibility of news can be made possible
Suggestion 1:
eMule-like news network.
Suggestion 2:
PHP-Homepages (which are always worked up on the server side and so can access all IPs; as long as they are not located in China) which shows the blocked sites, while changing the links inside to make sure they are not linked over the blocked site but over the PHP script which again shows the contents of the linked side.
These equal built sites are randomly linked by a central side to distribute the traffic.
Problems:
- a possibility has to be found, that the IP of the central side will change regulary (weekly?/daily?) to prevent a blocking of this side - and above all: the current IP has to be distributed accordingly
- if it is also searched for special strings in IP packages further measures will be needed
Possible solutions:
- on DSL-Dial-In-Connections the IPs in any case change daily and there will be no additional costs for the PHP sites
- distribution of the IPs via IRC (according key words for the inquiries will be found) or hide IPs on harmless sides in pictures (Brabbas?) -
spreading these adresses 'mouth-to-mouth' (GnuPG?)
- strings could be changed using simple methods as changing the order of the charcters, 'Caesar deferral' or similar simple (= easy to do for everyone but too much afford for the control of every IP package) methods
The second suggestion should be easy enough to implement, so who is the first to write the script?
Btw:
Doing something for free access to the internet for everyone should be even W3C-compliant