From the link above: The technology in question [...] is a suitcase-sized device that mimics a cellphone tower to connect with all phones in a specific area. [...] Sheriff's officials said it will be used purely to locate the subject of an investigation since it can find a phone through walls, even if the owner isn't making a call.
Wrong question, if it's asking for a storage company that you can trust your data with.
Correct question: which open source encryption software would you trust to encrypt your data/before/ uploading it anywhere. You can upload whereever you want, and redundantly too. All you have to do is store locally is a private key. No different from storing a passport or home or auto title.
One thing that has always impressed me about the Shinkansen is its near obscene punctuality:
Quote from http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Shi... : The Shinkansen is very reliable thanks to several factors, including its near-total separation from slower traffic. In 2012, JR Central reported that the Shinkansen's average delay from schedule per train was 36 seconds. This includes delays due to uncontrollable causes, such as natural disasters.[14] The record, in 1997, was 18 seconds.
To add to that: generally, personal income is not double taxed either in this respect. Anything one hears to the contrary is usually political FUD.
Quote below from IRS. Heck, they even point out how to give them the least of your money. http://www.irs.gov/Individuals... -------- If you paid or accrued foreign taxes to a foreign country on foreign source income and are subject to U.S. tax on the same income, you may be able to take either a credit or an itemized deduction for those taxes.
Taken as a deduction, foreign income taxes reduce your U.S. taxable income.
Taken as a credit, foreign income taxes reduce your U.S. tax liability. In most cases, it is to your advantage to take foreign income taxes as a tax credit. ---------
Fundamentally, I don't think he knows that trading freedom for convenience is something that people always do, in every society, and always have. Without that acknowledgement, he thinks that it's reasonable that perhaps everyone would rather go without a phone instead of give up a bit of theoretical freedom.
The real issue at present is people trading freedom for convenience *without knowing they are doing so or being aware of exactly what their costs are*. And by the time they find out, it might well be too late. As you pointed out, the value of someone like RMS and his message is to illuminate what is happening so people can make that tradeoff in a more informed manner.
Stop spinning this as a personal responsibility/freedom issue. That's complete BS. The real issue at stake is the freedom of other people to exist, and to exist without injury caused by your stupidity.
I'd rather you get busted if you fuck up too, but instead, what will likely happen when you fuck up is, someone will lose an arm or leg...or a life. Stop thinking about whether you will be "found at fault," and start thinking about someone losing their life or limb, because that is the consequence of relevance here.
One other point to add to the parent: Whatever you give up now, whether it's metadata alone or metadata + content, consider that this will be stored forever. It might be become easier/legal to probe into these several years down the line. If the govt's storage systems are incompetent, they might all even become public at some point.
- works with Chrome, Firefox in development
- provides end-to-end encryption
- reduced the complexity of creating/setting up new keys etc. to a bare minimum. I've sent instructions to non-tech friends who set it up in a few minutes with some very basic handholding.
- is not mail client specific - all it does is encrypt a textarea, so you can get it to work, for instance, on google calendar in addition to yahoo mail or gmail or whatever
- uses its own editor so you can avoid using the web gmail provider's textarea (gmail, for instance, autosaves drafts)
Disclaimer: I am in absolutely no way connected with mailvelope. I'm just a very happy user.
And even if the arguments on the blog article are poorly made or outright incorrect, my personal hope is that it would initiate a more technically correct and interesting debate here that will help us all understand DDG and similar search engines better.
What's that? No, I'm not new here. I can still hope, can't I?:)
I agree that it seems to be a biased article with not much emphasis on quality. However:
1) Slashdot likely has a higher proportion of DDG users than the general population given the interest in privacy, security, and tech here.
2) Since there are very few DDG users in general (compared to google, etc.), it's difficult to find an opposing view to DDG's stance. An opposing view can be helpful in seeing where the problems lie, and what all a DDG user might want to be concerned about.
Hence, even though this blog might lack any credibility at all (and its misspellings and seeming bias don't help it any), it still holds some value here on Slashdot, IMHO.
This. And it gets even worse if you have a diagnosis that you don't agree with (much more common than you think). That stays on your centralized, global record forever too. It doesn't take much imagining to see the consequences.
But I completely hear you: it's frustrating I have to constantly look up things on a forum (or ask the local TeX guru) even after years of advanced usage. BTW, I use https://code.google.com/p/latex-makefile/
And that passenger who was on all three ships when they crashed/sank, became a pro at handling ship sinkings:
"She had also made sure to grab her toothbrush before leaving her cabin on the Britannic, saying later that it was the one thing she missed most immediately, following the sinking of the Titanic."
Sounds right, don't know why you're modded funny. Using percentages always carries the risk of ambiguity for this very reason, unless phrased well. It would be nice if people instead started phrasing these things as "hard drive prices are a fourth of what they used to be" or if they insist on using percentages, "hard drive prices are 25% of what they used to be."
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks editors, for explaining it.
http://www.mercurynews.com/cri...
From the link above:
The technology in question [...] is a suitcase-sized device that mimics a cellphone tower to connect with all phones in a specific area. [...] Sheriff's officials said it will be used purely to locate the subject of an investigation since it can find a phone through walls, even if the owner isn't making a call.
Wrong question, if it's asking for a storage company that you can trust your data with.
Correct question: which open source encryption software would you trust to encrypt your data /before/ uploading it anywhere. You can upload whereever you want, and redundantly too. All you have to do is store locally is a private key. No different from storing a passport or home or auto title.
One thing that has always impressed me about the Shinkansen is its near obscene punctuality:
Quote from http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Shi... :
The Shinkansen is very reliable thanks to several factors, including its near-total separation from slower traffic. In 2012, JR Central reported that the Shinkansen's average delay from schedule per train was 36 seconds. This includes delays due to uncontrollable causes, such as natural disasters.[14] The record, in 1997, was 18 seconds.
You are asking to be lawned...
http://slashdot.org/story/01/1...
CmdrTaco = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
To add to that: generally, personal income is not double taxed either in this respect. Anything one hears to the contrary is usually political FUD.
Quote below from IRS. Heck, they even point out how to give them the least of your money. http://www.irs.gov/Individuals...
--------
If you paid or accrued foreign taxes to a foreign country on foreign source income and are subject to U.S. tax on the same income, you may be able to take either a credit or an itemized deduction for those taxes.
Taken as a deduction, foreign income taxes reduce your U.S. taxable income.
Taken as a credit, foreign income taxes reduce your U.S. tax liability. In most cases, it is to your advantage to take foreign income taxes as a tax credit.
---------
Follow the herd:
When I read "follow the herd," for a second, I was sure you were recommending Buffalo routers...
Sorry, meant to login FWIW before posting that:
Thank you. Mine:
sha1sum *
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1d503ddb5f619ca868ea42bd7435f0dff5975997 *TrueCrypt_v7.1a.zip
c2a8c78a23f97ffb17bf47448c9f2daa3c8f80cd *truecrypt-7.1a-linux-console-x64.tar.gz
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sha256sum *
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md5sum *
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# file sizes
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Fundamentally, I don't think he knows that trading freedom for convenience is something that people always do, in every society, and always have. Without that acknowledgement, he thinks that it's reasonable that perhaps everyone would rather go without a phone instead of give up a bit of theoretical freedom.
The real issue at present is people trading freedom for convenience *without knowing they are doing so or being aware of exactly what their costs are*. And by the time they find out, it might well be too late. As you pointed out, the value of someone like RMS and his message is to illuminate what is happening so people can make that tradeoff in a more informed manner.
Stop spinning this as a personal responsibility/freedom issue. That's complete BS. The real issue at stake is the freedom of other people to exist, and to exist without injury caused by your stupidity.
I'd rather you get busted if you fuck up too, but instead, what will likely happen when you fuck up is, someone will lose an arm or leg...or a life. Stop thinking about whether you will be "found at fault," and start thinking about someone losing their life or limb, because that is the consequence of relevance here.
xkcd has this covered as usual:
http://xkcd.com/1279/
One other point to add to the parent: Whatever you give up now, whether it's metadata alone or metadata + content, consider that this will be stored forever. It might be become easier/legal to probe into these several years down the line. If the govt's storage systems are incompetent, they might all even become public at some point.
/still/ worth protecting what you can.
It is
Parent is modded funny, but is actually more insightful than funny:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_(horse)
The only way to securely use GPG with webmail is to type the message in a text editor, encrypt and only then paste the cipertext into your webbrowser.
Which is exactly what mailvelope (mailvelope.github.com) does (I'm in no way associated with them).
Here it is: http://mailvelope.com/
- works with Chrome, Firefox in development
- provides end-to-end encryption
- reduced the complexity of creating/setting up new keys etc. to a bare minimum. I've sent instructions to non-tech friends who set it up in a few minutes with some very basic handholding.
- is not mail client specific - all it does is encrypt a textarea, so you can get it to work, for instance, on google calendar in addition to yahoo mail or gmail or whatever
- uses its own editor so you can avoid using the web gmail provider's textarea (gmail, for instance, autosaves drafts)
Disclaimer: I am in absolutely no way connected with mailvelope. I'm just a very happy user.
And even if the arguments on the blog article are poorly made or outright incorrect, my personal hope is that it would initiate a more technically correct and interesting debate here that will help us all understand DDG and similar search engines better.
:)
What's that? No, I'm not new here. I can still hope, can't I?
I agree that it seems to be a biased article with not much emphasis on quality. However:
1) Slashdot likely has a higher proportion of DDG users than the general population given the interest in privacy, security, and tech here.
2) Since there are very few DDG users in general (compared to google, etc.), it's difficult to find an opposing view to DDG's stance. An opposing view can be helpful in seeing where the problems lie, and what all a DDG user might want to be concerned about.
Hence, even though this blog might lack any credibility at all (and its misspellings and seeming bias don't help it any), it still holds some value here on Slashdot, IMHO.
This. And it gets even worse if you have a diagnosis that you don't agree with (much more common than you think). That stays on your centralized, global record forever too. It doesn't take much imagining to see the consequences.
Well summarized list! I've used LaTeX for years as well, and could immediately relate.
tex.stackexchange.com is helpful (wish it existed years earlier), and will hopefully become much more helpful. For instance: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23650/when-should-we-use-begincenter-instead-of-centering
But I completely hear you: it's frustrating I have to constantly look up things on a forum (or ask the local TeX guru) even after years of advanced usage. BTW, I use https://code.google.com/p/latex-makefile/
And that passenger who was on all three ships when they crashed/sank, became a pro at handling ship sinkings:
"She had also made sure to grab her toothbrush before leaving her cabin on the Britannic, saying later that it was the one thing she missed most immediately, following the sinking of the Titanic."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
Jack:Imagine that your favourite corn chip manufacturer also owned the number one diarrhea medication.
Shouldn't that be number two?
www.solowheel.com slashdotted.
Solo server, solo core, solo thread, eh?
Sounds right, don't know why you're modded funny. Using percentages always carries the risk of ambiguity for this very reason, unless phrased well. It would be nice if people instead started phrasing these things as "hard drive prices are a fourth of what they used to be" or if they insist on using percentages, "hard drive prices are 25% of what they used to be."
Anyway I think there are 3 levels broad levels of knowledge:
1. Think you no everything.
2. Think you know nothing (or very little)
Tip: simply read step 1, and you'll quickly be on your way to step 2...
Gnome is the kid who never get's used but always gets installed.
Speaking of metaphors that have been dragged too far....
(How on earth do you "install a kid" ?!?) :)
I pray and hope this is true.