I borrowed the money then made more than expected this summer- only a few thousand more. The loan rates are cheaper now than they will ever be so I figure I should keep a small sum reserved. The idea of investing was to limit the losses. My loan terms allow for other living expenses so taking them out to cover them before wasn't illegal either.
1) My loans aren't gaining interest now, the federal government is handling that for me. 2) I want options when I graduate to move to where I need to or whatever. I don't want to live in my parents' basement till I am 35.
It matters a lot where opensource is based and it will tend not to be in the valley. Those projects cited are a small, select few. The opensource mentality isn't as strong there as other parts of the country and world. And the United States (as a citizen who deals with those in other countries on opensource projects, I can say this) have much better cultures and laws for open source to properly thrive. Things like the DMCA and our patent system aren't just a pain for the consumer but will cause us to lose businesses too. It may take time but when they notice it will be a bit late.
Maybe that's why gnome and KDE have the yes and no buttons on reverse sides. It is all just a clever rouse to keep their uses actually reading the screen before clicking! Le gasp!
(From a BSD and nix only user - It's just a joke and I'm not trolling)
Neal Stephenson stated it best in his essay (available free and legally on the web) The History of the Command line: Microsoft is not a traditional monopoly, and legally is not a monopoly at all if we follow strict adherance to the definition. It, however, does have a monopoly on the mindshare of the people. There is plenty of competition for MS, and much of it is arguably superior. The people just dont want to hear it, MS has won their minds. Of course one of the bigger results of this is driver companies focus and hardware support is done for them for free. But those are just imnplications which help hold the situation in place - economic intertia. Mindshare monopolies can be broken by seemingly inconsequential things.
I hate microsoft but I do hate to see them go down for things that aren't illegal really. Maybe if they were on trial for some other past deeds...
In many instances this makes it easier for a cryptoanalyist to break. Encrypting encrypted data can lead to instances where you can subtract sets and figure out how it was converted, granted modern cryptology avoids this, mostly.
I was also advised by a professional Cryptologist who works for BAE that you shouldn't use two different ciphers on the same drive when doing entire disk encryption. I was planning on using Twofish for my swap and Serpent for my root but was strongly advised against it.
Just becaue it is opensource and not validated should not mean you can't trust it. First, you can do a review if you are worried about it and make sure its implementation is worthy. With that said, truecrypt has a lot of eyes on it and I do believe it is a safe choice. The encryption ciphers used are all industry standard and have withstood the test of time, so they are better choices than any closed source cipher would be. I have never used a closed source encryption product so I am not sure what they use for ciphers, but I would not trust anything outside of a few open, and time-tested ones.
With that said I highly recommend cryptsetup-luks. The downside is there is no rela windows support yet, so if that's a requirement, truecrypt is where it's at.
Regardless of how you believe the system does work, its how it could work that should be feared. Although, I agree, he won't end up there mostly because it is a bit too high of a profile case now, but he could, and that should never be a possibility. I hope he does get sent back here eventually for criminal proceedings but I do hope we can REALLY restrict this Guantanamo Bay crap, or remove it entirely. It has NO place in a fair and legal justice system and it is apparent it can easily be abused for purposes other than "terrorism" in the future.
I use LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) on several of my machines. It is an extension onto cryptsetup and uses dm-cryp instead of loopaes. It is fairly easy to setup and allows for multiple users with different phrases if needed as well as tokens. It has treated me much better than loop aes had in the past.
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You are using an unstable release of the kernel. Linus had made sevral lenghty posts addressing this and has made it abundantly clear that 2.6 is not stable and it will be under development.
Does anyone else find it COMPLETELY wrong someone like Milan Babic (former Croatian Serb leader who just commited suicide) serves 13 years for genocide crimes and hackers can serve as much for a little denial of service attack?
Anyone how has any understand of electricity knows it is much easier and more efficient to transfer large amounts of electricity over large wires with huge potential volt differences on AC than to use DC current. Much less line loss and greater distances. Whether DC is better in a specific application is an entirely different consideration than if Tesla or Edison was more right about our power grids. If Edison won we would have generators every two blocks...
"That's very nice that your Stinkpads need help to do that. My Powerbook does automatically it without any help."
Wander by my dorm room sometime. Park outside and use my connection for a few minutes and I can really show you why that's a bad idea:D
A computer should never ever ever ever ever ever connect to a network without the users authorization. In a wired network that authorization is often just plugging the cable in. In a wireless network there has to be some level of user authorization at the OS or you will eventually have your computer broken into, data sniffed out, and any other countless possibilities.
I did a quick search for soybean oil and it was $8.99 (USD) for a single gallon (cheaper than the organics I saw). We're going to have to bring down the price of soybean oil first for this to be viable. I'm sure large scale production and consumption would help things along.
Anyways, its cool to see technology like this floating about. It's too bad the higher institutions of learning aren't seeing developments like they should be.
Now I also wonder what the emissions are like on these things... That is after all the other big concern.
If you use accept keywords on the command line you are making gentoo a lot harder that it should be. I suggest you learn to use/etc/portage/package.* immediately or you will break your system.
We've seen this many times over the past few years. Dell has always sold linux on some machines. Sometimes if you dug enugh you could find it on workstations. Just last year this happened (again) and it was much higher priced than the exact same machine selling windows. I wonder if they will put some serious push behind it this time and make an effort ot pss the savings on (and yes I know other software vendors pay to have their products on the windows machines too...but still.).
First. I agree those are issues that deserve coverage. But this is a tech site last time I checked. This story has pertinence to the world of technology, unlike a few mentioned. It demonstrates the use it can provide to citizens against oppressive governments. This story I had not seen before personally. Every other story you mention has gotten a lot of press coverage as well. When it comes down to it this story has a place on a tech site and has seen less coverage, at least in my travels.
On a side note, I just hope the pendulum swings back before my time is up... As an active student on my college campus in the US, not everyone is oblivious and some of us are really trying to help things.
I agree we should also take notice of other countries transgressions but that doesn't mean we can ignore major stories in other countries because their quota for the month has been met.
The only reason comments like those are made is so he can have references and future employers won't be less likely to hire him because he will feel freely to badmouth his them if he leaves. Nothing can be more fake than comments like those so I don't see how the slashdot editors failed at all. We were just being protected from the necessary babble ensuring nobody is mad and everyone can still find work.
The ancient Greeks invented the modern society essentially. Sparta had the first real social contract for its citizens. Athens is set on a pedestal of the herald of democracy. England in the eyes of many is merely seen as a constant oppressor to the advancement of these ideals throughout their history. Sure they made some progress, but one step forward and two steps back is hardly anything to give them credit for.
Meanwhile these barges use energy during the process. 8,000 barges is a lot of energy. That energy production is probably going to contribute to global warming again. We desperately need a permanent and viable solution for energy production. It is good to see some emergency plans being formulated but this will only prolong the inevitable.
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I borrowed the money then made more than expected this summer- only a few thousand more. The loan rates are cheaper now than they will ever be so I figure I should keep a small sum reserved. The idea of investing was to limit the losses. My loan terms allow for other living expenses so taking them out to cover them before wasn't illegal either.
The loan money is going to the school. My money that I earn is being invested. Internships can pay.
I would agree with you except for two things
1) My loans aren't gaining interest now, the federal government is handling that for me.
2) I want options when I graduate to move to where I need to or whatever. I don't want to live in my parents' basement till I am 35.
It matters a lot where opensource is based and it will tend not to be in the valley. Those projects cited are a small, select few. The opensource mentality isn't as strong there as other parts of the country and world. And the United States (as a citizen who deals with those in other countries on opensource projects, I can say this) have much better cultures and laws for open source to properly thrive. Things like the DMCA and our patent system aren't just a pain for the consumer but will cause us to lose businesses too. It may take time but when they notice it will be a bit late.
we drink neither and break our social and behavioral substance dependencies.
It was a book long before a movie. Why are we giving actors credit instead of the original author of the concept!?
Maybe that's why gnome and KDE have the yes and no buttons on reverse sides. It is all just a clever rouse to keep their uses actually reading the screen before clicking! Le gasp!
(From a BSD and nix only user - It's just a joke and I'm not trolling)
Neal Stephenson stated it best in his essay (available free and legally on the web) The History of the Command line: Microsoft is not a traditional monopoly, and legally is not a monopoly at all if we follow strict adherance to the definition. It, however, does have a monopoly on the mindshare of the people. There is plenty of competition for MS, and much of it is arguably superior. The people just dont want to hear it, MS has won their minds. Of course one of the bigger results of this is driver companies focus and hardware support is done for them for free. But those are just imnplications which help hold the situation in place - economic intertia. Mindshare monopolies can be broken by seemingly inconsequential things.
I hate microsoft but I do hate to see them go down for things that aren't illegal really. Maybe if they were on trial for some other past deeds...
In many instances this makes it easier for a cryptoanalyist to break. Encrypting encrypted data can lead to instances where you can subtract sets and figure out how it was converted, granted modern cryptology avoids this, mostly.
I was also advised by a professional Cryptologist who works for BAE that you shouldn't use two different ciphers on the same drive when doing entire disk encryption. I was planning on using Twofish for my swap and Serpent for my root but was strongly advised against it.
Just becaue it is opensource and not validated should not mean you can't trust it. First, you can do a review if you are worried about it and make sure its implementation is worthy. With that said, truecrypt has a lot of eyes on it and I do believe it is a safe choice. The encryption ciphers used are all industry standard and have withstood the test of time, so they are better choices than any closed source cipher would be. I have never used a closed source encryption product so I am not sure what they use for ciphers, but I would not trust anything outside of a few open, and time-tested ones.
With that said I highly recommend cryptsetup-luks. The downside is there is no rela windows support yet, so if that's a requirement, truecrypt is where it's at.
Regardless of how you believe the system does work, its how it could work that should be feared. Although, I agree, he won't end up there mostly because it is a bit too high of a profile case now, but he could, and that should never be a possibility. I hope he does get sent back here eventually for criminal proceedings but I do hope we can REALLY restrict this Guantanamo Bay crap, or remove it entirely. It has NO place in a fair and legal justice system and it is apparent it can easily be abused for purposes other than "terrorism" in the future.
I use LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) on several of my machines. It is an extension onto cryptsetup and uses dm-cryp instead of loopaes. It is fairly easy to setup and allows for multiple users with different phrases if needed as well as tokens. It has treated me much better than loop aes had in the past.
http://luks.endorphin.org/
You are using an unstable release of the kernel. Linus had made sevral lenghty posts addressing this and has made it abundantly clear that 2.6 is not stable and it will be under development.
Does anyone else find it COMPLETELY wrong someone like Milan Babic (former Croatian Serb leader who just commited suicide) serves 13 years for genocide crimes and hackers can serve as much for a little denial of service attack?
Anyone how has any understand of electricity knows it is much easier and more efficient to transfer large amounts of electricity over large wires with huge potential volt differences on AC than to use DC current. Much less line loss and greater distances. Whether DC is better in a specific application is an entirely different consideration than if Tesla or Edison was more right about our power grids. If Edison won we would have generators every two blocks...
"That's very nice that your Stinkpads need help to do that. My Powerbook does automatically it without any help."
:D
Wander by my dorm room sometime. Park outside and use my connection for a few minutes and I can really show you why that's a bad idea
A computer should never ever ever ever ever ever connect to a network without the users authorization. In a wired network that authorization is often just plugging the cable in. In a wireless network there has to be some level of user authorization at the OS or you will eventually have your computer broken into, data sniffed out, and any other countless possibilities.
I did a quick search for soybean oil and it was $8.99 (USD) for a single gallon (cheaper than the organics I saw). We're going to have to bring down the price of soybean oil first for this to be viable. I'm sure large scale production and consumption would help things along.
Anyways, its cool to see technology like this floating about. It's too bad the higher institutions of learning aren't seeing developments like they should be.
Now I also wonder what the emissions are like on these things... That is after all the other big concern.
If you use accept keywords on the command line you are making gentoo a lot harder that it should be. I suggest you learn to use /etc/portage/package.* immediately or you will break your system.
We've seen this many times over the past few years. Dell has always sold linux on some machines. Sometimes if you dug enugh you could find it on workstations. Just last year this happened (again) and it was much higher priced than the exact same machine selling windows. I wonder if they will put some serious push behind it this time and make an effort ot pss the savings on (and yes I know other software vendors pay to have their products on the windows machines too...but still.).
Too bad Microsoft didn't put Allah on the page. Then Yahoo would be censoring this report too.
First. I agree those are issues that deserve coverage. But this is a tech site last time I checked. This story has pertinence to the world of technology, unlike a few mentioned. It demonstrates the use it can provide to citizens against oppressive governments. This story I had not seen before personally. Every other story you mention has gotten a lot of press coverage as well. When it comes down to it this story has a place on a tech site and has seen less coverage, at least in my travels.
On a side note, I just hope the pendulum swings back before my time is up... As an active student on my college campus in the US, not everyone is oblivious and some of us are really trying to help things.
True events can hardly be described as bashing.
I agree we should also take notice of other countries transgressions but that doesn't mean we can ignore major stories in other countries because their quota for the month has been met.
The only reason comments like those are made is so he can have references and future employers won't be less likely to hire him because he will feel freely to badmouth his them if he leaves. Nothing can be more fake than comments like those so I don't see how the slashdot editors failed at all. We were just being protected from the necessary babble ensuring nobody is mad and everyone can still find work.
The ancient Greeks invented the modern society essentially. Sparta had the first real social contract for its citizens. Athens is set on a pedestal of the herald of democracy. England in the eyes of many is merely seen as a constant oppressor to the advancement of these ideals throughout their history. Sure they made some progress, but one step forward and two steps back is hardly anything to give them credit for.
Meanwhile these barges use energy during the process. 8,000 barges is a lot of energy. That energy production is probably going to contribute to global warming again. We desperately need a permanent and viable solution for energy production. It is good to see some emergency plans being formulated but this will only prolong the inevitable.