Re:Only works if it's default install
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This example relies on the notion that the government will make an assumption, and torture you based on that. You can have a hundred different encrypted volumes, each with a hundred hidden volumes, and the government can still continue assuming you have more and keep torturing you until they find what they're looking for.
What's needed to avoid this is *complete* deniability; something which I don't think any software can offer.
Truecrypt doesn't (and doesn't claim to) offer this complete deniability, but rather *plausible* deniability. Which is adequate to protect one from litigation and prison time in most modern countries. In most cases, this is enough.
Good software can protect your sensitive data, but *no* software can protect you from getting tortured in this sort of hypothetical psychotic dictatorship.
This is probably universally known by now (at least on/.), but you can right-click on a word which Firefox thinks is misspelled, but isn't - such as your username or whatever - and select "add to dictionary" to have firefox remember it as a "correct" spelling.
Using euphemisms for death isn't about "denying reality", it's about respect. Plain and simple. Sure, dead people don't really care if you respect them or not - considering that they're dead and all - but behaving in a way which is generally considered to be respectful is meant to convey politeness and a sense that you have some measure of care for the deceased person and/or their family.
"Dead" is a very cold word (no pun intended) that brings to mind images of lifeless slabs of meat. Hardly the way you'd want the bereaved to have to think about someone whom they love and will never see again.
Of course you could say that you don't care at all about the dead or their families, so why use euphamisms? Well, if that's the case then the most respectful thing to do is to not say anything at all. And in this case your respectfulness (or lack of) says more about yourself than it does about anyone else.
I read and loved all of the Lone Wolf books (except the New Order series). It was great being able to follow (and aid in the development) of this character, from inexperienced young warrior to a veritable demigod.
I owe all of my initial interest in the Lone Wolf books to the Choose Your Own Adventure series which was really a logical progression to something darker and more complex, in terms of both storyline and "gameplay". Certain Choose books - such as Who are you? and Kidnapped! - still rank as some of my favourite reads.
I also have to mention that the plot of the title Comet Crash was ripped off, almost verbatim, by Deep Impact
...would obviously be tracking-devices you carry on your person which can monitor exactly where you are and what you're doing and can automatically dispatch the proper authorities whenever you perform something illegal.
Hell, why stop there? Why not a cranial implant that can monitor your cerebral activity. Then as soon as you just think something along the lines of "I hate Bush" or "I like Islam" you're immediately put on the governments list of individuals to keep an eye on and deny passports.
I fully agree, and even though I don't put much stock into this kind of thing, I do find it fascinating and never intended to seem flippant about it.
That being said, I've never actually read any Abra-Melin grimoire. Instead, the article reminded me of a chapter from a book I read when younger entitled The Encyclopedia of Mind, Magic & Mysteries (isbn: 0-86318-639-4).
The aforementioned "magic square" was printed on page 100.
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This example relies on the notion that the government will make an assumption, and torture you based on that. You can have a hundred different encrypted volumes, each with a hundred hidden volumes, and the government can still continue assuming you have more and keep torturing you until they find what they're looking for.
What's needed to avoid this is *complete* deniability; something which I don't think any software can offer.
Truecrypt doesn't (and doesn't claim to) offer this complete deniability, but rather *plausible* deniability. Which is adequate to protect one from litigation and prison time in most modern countries. In most cases, this is enough.
Good software can protect your sensitive data, but *no* software can protect you from getting tortured in this sort of hypothetical psychotic dictatorship.
This is probably universally known by now (at least on /.), but you can right-click on a word which Firefox thinks is misspelled, but isn't - such as your username or whatever - and select "add to dictionary" to have firefox remember it as a "correct" spelling.
Using euphemisms for death isn't about "denying reality", it's about respect. Plain and simple. Sure, dead people don't really care if you respect them or not - considering that they're dead and all - but behaving in a way which is generally considered to be respectful is meant to convey politeness and a sense that you have some measure of care for the deceased person and/or their family.
"Dead" is a very cold word (no pun intended) that brings to mind images of lifeless slabs of meat. Hardly the way you'd want the bereaved to have to think about someone whom they love and will never see again.
Of course you could say that you don't care at all about the dead or their families, so why use euphamisms? Well, if that's the case then the most respectful thing to do is to not say anything at all. And in this case your respectfulness (or lack of) says more about yourself than it does about anyone else.
Aah, Hat McCullum. Killed 23 babies in self-defence.
Anyway, as long as they don't replace the bat'leths with walkie-talkies, I don't see too much of a problem.
...What did Archimedes Plutonium have to say about all this?
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I owe all of my initial interest in the Lone Wolf books to the Choose Your Own Adventure series which was really a logical progression to something darker and more complex, in terms of both storyline and "gameplay". Certain Choose books - such as Who are you? and Kidnapped! - still rank as some of my favourite reads.
I also have to mention that the plot of the title Comet Crash was ripped off, almost verbatim, by Deep Impact
I'd like to trade this +5 chain for an uncursed bag of holding.
Hell, why stop there? Why not a cranial implant that can monitor your cerebral activity. Then as soon as you just think something along the lines of "I hate Bush" or "I like Islam" you're immediately put on the governments list of individuals to keep an eye on and deny passports.
*goes back to reading Orwell*
That being said, I've never actually read any Abra-Melin grimoire. Instead, the article reminded me of a chapter from a book I read when younger entitled The Encyclopedia of Mind, Magic & Mysteries (isbn: 0-86318-639-4).
The aforementioned "magic square" was printed on page 100.
One which stuck in mind goes as follows:
ALLUP
LEIRU
LIGIL
URIEL
PULLA
When ritually consecrated they are said to be capable of producing magic effects; at least according to the mystics.
I'd rather have *no* face than Nicholas Cage's. Was an okay movie though.