It's not my attitude, but I can't imagine a prosecutor wouldn't run with it. "How convenient that when the warrant was served, the defendant's hard drive had been overwritten with random data. The defendant also claims he has 'forgotten' his cryptographic keys."
you don't get it. i would not say i would have 'forgotten' my passwords. i would say: 'i well remember all my passwords, but i will not tell you them.' and if something was 'convenient' or not, there is a law that forbids to use my refusal against me. this law belongs to the base of our court system and therefore is well enforced.
I bet the fact that your computer was forensically cleaned would be very interesting to prosecutors, investigators, and a jury. Let's hope you don't find out.
in my country there is no jury, just a judge, an attorney and my lawyer. and there is 'in dubio pro reo'. so the fact that my systems are 'forensically cleaned', as you put it, is meaningless. i've experienced that.
when collecting evidence, everything is searched. i mean, they dig in your underwear and in your fridge. of course they will use every information they can get, why should your browser search history be more protected than your underwear? if i did not want to have a search history, i'll clean it. i just don't delete it, i overwrite it with random stuff to really have no search history. my system does this automatically at startup. my data resides on an encrypted partition to which only a special user and root have access, and where i live there is no way for anyone to enforce me to tell my passwords. i actually don't commit any crimes nor is my data worth protecting. i just like to be ahead of them, maybe a nerd issue.
Therefore, flossing doesn't *cause* you to live longer/healthier. Flossing is an *effect* of having good personal hygine, which can help you live longer/healthier.
mods, that guy is insightful. this is a guide to interprete statistics. most people forget that statistics is about measuring variables (for the sake of duality often two). and the correlation between them is unknown, this is the reason of statistics, if there was a known correlation, statistic won't be necessary. you will find that the number of internet radio stations is growing as the temperature of the athmosphere grows, but the only fact this statistic provides is that both are growing. the rest is personal interpretation. and please, don't get me started with that "but-the-internet-is-consumig-electricity-and-ther fore-resources" thingy.
c'mon, that's bs. i can grab the linux source, say, from debian, change what i want (and if it's just the logo shown while booting) and call it "super foobar os", burn cds and sell it (while releasing the sources according to gpl). i mean, what more "open" do you want?
as much as i dislike some of his essays, i thank rms for what he (not he alone) accomplished. and i'm happy that linus chose the gpl for his os. i mean, just take a look at the trove map at sourceforge, it's geek's heaven.
it's always the same. i can remember, some years ago, people were complaining about the dullness of computer games, no innovations and all that kinda stuff. then, an innovation actually happens, like todays mmogs. now? people keep complaining and want the next (r)evolution.
putting all the nuisances (like monthly fees) aside, WOW indeed is a game that never had happend before, and 4 million subscribers is also a thing that never had happen before. and now?
yeah, 4 millions is ok, but we've got 6+ billion people on earth! man, that's just stupid. what do you say when all the 6 billions are playing mmogs? 6 billions is ok, but there may be other civilizations in outer space?
i suppose that's closer to the truth than some may think.
slightly ot: i noticed over the last years that orwell did predict some things indeed. as i see it, the usa IS a country dependent on war or something close to war (look at the country's budget) whith exchangable enemies (everyone's using the phrase "The Enenemy (tm)").
also phrases like "freedom", "democracy", "protection of rights" and "peace" are so often used in their opposite meaning that one may be tempted to think of doublespeak.
i know that the FA is about the UK, but the USA was always kinda archetype for the past 1900 europe, be it mcdonalds, so called pop culture or politics.
as a friend of mine (who actually is american) puts it when speaking about his home land: "a great country once..."
i was out last night, entering the office this morning with a good hangover, and what do i have to read? coffe beer? only my superior fast alt-tab-reflex prevented me from throwing up all over my keyboard. lesson learned: hangover + slashdot = not good.
gain: both are theories, both are not provable (since we do not know the variables). Both have a different outcome. Period.
just look around in the real world: there is a species of butterfly, which used to have white wings to fool their predators (their living amongst birches). ok, what would the evolution theory predict in case the bark of those birches starts to turn black? yeah, after a time the butterfly's wings also turn black (after some generations). see, this did happen in england as the birches turned black due to pollution (industry revolution).
oh, and what would be your "variables" in the evolution theory? an object, able to reproduce itself, cannot reproduce itself if it is not able to do so. yeah, that's evolution.
Java 1.5 introduced the two things that make me willing to consider Java as a practical language for real work (as opposed to a "safe to let untrained programmers run rampant, too bad about the 10000k LoC required to do anything" language). Those two things are collections and generics.
sorry, but collections have been around since 1.2, see the api doc.
I was forced to use Java 1.2 some time ago [...] Java also largely ceased to suck, so having to work on it again and finding that sort code that would've been hundreds and hundreds of repetitive lines can now be expressed using a short set of comparitors and a collections-based sort was... refreshing.
uhm, let me get this straight: you think that with java 1.2 you've had to write hundreds of lines of sort code? again, this is wrong, ie so says the api doc.
i think the big change you talk about took place from version 1.1 to version 1.2. 1.5 adds generics, foreach, autoboxing and what not.
so for the records: java 1.1 and below: applet crap. java 1.2 and above: java.
this is all about power, and microsoft has lost this case long ago. in europe, they have no bonus. europe is 95% as corrupt and lobby-made as the usa, but these 5% do make a difference.
it's not about bundling windows with a certain type of software, that's a facade. it's just a game, and microsoft will lose.
and the only reason they are fighting is: europe is a growing and yet undecided market.
when you're a developer and aim for interesting projects, it's always pure competition. someone reviews your code behind your back and decides wether you stay two weeks or two years on that project. i got used to it, i do not recognize it anymore. and i never lost:)
i know all these sayings "why another app server?". the interesting thing is, while relying on and using the j2ee standards the different servers take different directions. jboss is strong in it's persistence layer (ejb3 and/ or hibernate, we'll see), the queueing is also not bad. let's see which way apache is going, ie the GBeans thing is not that bad.
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omg, i thought you were from iran or something. this is not intended to be cynical.
It's fortunate for you to live in such a country. In my country, I would rot in jail for contempt for refusing to give up a passphrase.
do you mind telling me that country? i'm from germany.
It's not my attitude, but I can't imagine a prosecutor wouldn't run with it. "How convenient that when the warrant was served, the defendant's hard drive had been overwritten with random data. The defendant also claims he has 'forgotten' his cryptographic keys."
you don't get it. i would not say i would have 'forgotten' my passwords. i would say: 'i well remember all my passwords, but i will not tell you them.' and if something was 'convenient' or not, there is a law that forbids to use my refusal against me. this law belongs to the base of our court system and therefore is well enforced.
I bet the fact that your computer was forensically cleaned would be very interesting to prosecutors, investigators, and a jury. Let's hope you don't find out.
in my country there is no jury, just a judge, an attorney and my lawyer. and there is 'in dubio pro reo'. so the fact that my systems are 'forensically cleaned', as you put it, is meaningless. i've experienced that.
when collecting evidence, everything is searched. i mean, they dig in your underwear and in your fridge. of course they will use every information they can get, why should your browser search history be more protected than your underwear? if i did not want to have a search history, i'll clean it. i just don't delete it, i overwrite it with random stuff to really have no search history. my system does this automatically at startup. my data resides on an encrypted partition to which only a special user and root have access, and where i live there is no way for anyone to enforce me to tell my passwords. i actually don't commit any crimes nor is my data worth protecting. i just like to be ahead of them, maybe a nerd issue.
Therefore, flossing doesn't *cause* you to live longer/healthier. Flossing is an *effect* of having good personal hygine, which can help you live longer/healthier.
r fore-resources" thingy.
mods, that guy is insightful. this is a guide to interprete statistics. most people forget that statistics is about measuring variables (for the sake of duality often two). and the correlation between them is unknown, this is the reason of statistics, if there was a known correlation, statistic won't be necessary. you will find that the number of internet radio stations is growing as the temperature of the athmosphere grows, but the only fact this statistic provides is that both are growing. the rest is personal interpretation. and please, don't get me started with that "but-the-internet-is-consumig-electricity-and-the
which he says 'is the worst that can happen to any IP-based society
i do not know on what planet this man resides, but i'm pretty sure that i do not live in a IP-based society.
and you obviously did not recognize the joke ;)
c'mon, that's bs. i can grab the linux source, say, from debian, change what i want (and if it's just the logo shown while booting) and call it "super foobar os", burn cds and sell it (while releasing the sources according to gpl). i mean, what more "open" do you want?
as much as i dislike some of his essays, i thank rms for what he (not he alone) accomplished. and i'm happy that linus chose the gpl for his os. i mean, just take a look at the trove map at sourceforge, it's geek's heaven.
it's always the same. i can remember, some years ago, people were complaining about the dullness of computer games, no innovations and all that kinda stuff. then, an innovation actually happens, like todays mmogs. now? people keep complaining and want the next (r)evolution.
putting all the nuisances (like monthly fees) aside, WOW indeed is a game that never had happend before, and 4 million subscribers is also a thing that never had happen before. and now?
yeah, 4 millions is ok, but we've got 6+ billion people on earth! man, that's just stupid. what do you say when all the 6 billions are playing mmogs? 6 billions is ok, but there may be other civilizations in outer space?
i suppose that's closer to the truth than some may think.
slightly ot: i noticed over the last years that orwell did predict some things indeed. as i see it, the usa IS a country dependent on war or something close to war (look at the country's budget) whith exchangable enemies (everyone's using the phrase "The Enenemy (tm)").
also phrases like "freedom", "democracy", "protection of rights" and "peace" are so often used in their opposite meaning that one may be tempted to think of doublespeak.
i know that the FA is about the UK, but the USA was always kinda archetype for the past 1900 europe, be it mcdonalds, so called pop culture or politics.
as a friend of mine (who actually is american) puts it when speaking about his home land: "a great country once..."
i was out last night, entering the office this morning with a good hangover, and what do i have to read? coffe beer? only my superior fast alt-tab-reflex prevented me from throwing up all over my keyboard. lesson learned: hangover + slashdot = not good.
gain: both are theories, both are not provable (since we do not know the variables). Both have a different outcome. Period.
just look around in the real world: there is a species of butterfly, which used to have white wings to fool their predators (their living amongst birches). ok, what would the evolution theory predict in case the bark of those birches starts to turn black? yeah, after a time the butterfly's wings also turn black (after some generations). see, this did happen in england as the birches turned black due to pollution (industry revolution).
oh, and what would be your "variables" in the evolution theory? an object, able to reproduce itself, cannot reproduce itself if it is not able to do so. yeah, that's evolution.
Java 1.5 introduced the two things that make me willing to consider Java as a practical language for real work (as opposed to a "safe to let untrained programmers run rampant, too bad about the 10000k LoC required to do anything" language). Those two things are collections and generics.
... refreshing.
sorry, but collections have been around since 1.2, see the api doc.
I was forced to use Java 1.2 some time ago [...] Java also largely ceased to suck, so having to work on it again and finding that sort code that would've been hundreds and hundreds of repetitive lines can now be expressed using a short set of comparitors and a collections-based sort was
uhm, let me get this straight: you think that with java 1.2 you've had to write hundreds of lines of sort code? again, this is wrong, ie so says the api doc.
i think the big change you talk about took place from version 1.1 to version 1.2. 1.5 adds generics, foreach, autoboxing and what not.
so for the records: java 1.1 and below: applet crap. java 1.2 and above: java.
this is all about power, and microsoft has lost this case long ago. in europe, they have no bonus. europe is 95% as corrupt and lobby-made as the usa, but these 5% do make a difference. it's not about bundling windows with a certain type of software, that's a facade. it's just a game, and microsoft will lose. and the only reason they are fighting is: europe is a growing and yet undecided market.
when you're a developer and aim for interesting projects, it's always pure competition. someone reviews your code behind your back and decides wether you stay two weeks or two years on that project. i got used to it, i do not recognize it anymore. and i never lost :)
i know all these sayings "why another app server?". the interesting thing is, while relying on and using the j2ee standards the different servers take different directions. jboss is strong in it's persistence layer (ejb3 and/ or hibernate, we'll see), the queueing is also not bad. let's see which way apache is going, ie the GBeans thing is not that bad.