It can be turned on and off for the entire drive quite easily once it has been enabled.
But I guess that turning it on and off would take a while, since it would have to decrypt everything on the volume when turning it off, and vice versa.
The whole point is the END USER has to create their own key and pin/biometric at the TIME the drive is Encrypted.
According to the Wikipedia article on Bitlocker, the transparent operation mode (uses a TPM) does not seem like it requires the end user to create his/her key. The drive could be encrypted by the OEM during installation, without letting the OEM get a copy of your key since it is just available to the TPM.
Because I have used it myself (my employer has a site license for Windows XP among other MS software). And I didn't have to bother with activation when I installed it.
What are the chances that Microsoft will sign an Ext2-driver written by a free project?
This probably applies not only to free projects, but other projects that does not coincide well with the Microsofts vision of the DRM future. Take e.g. programs like the quite popular Daemon Tools or Blindwrite, that install their own drivers to accomplish what they cannot do using the standard Windows API. I wonder what people will say when they find out that those tools won't be available any longer (because Microsoft won't sign their drivers).
With top quality uranium ore it comes in at around one third the amount of greenhouse gasses of a natural gas turbine
I guess you mean from e.g. transports of nuclear fuel and things like that, because the process itself doesn't emit any greenhouse gases. And by the way I think that transportation of bio-fuels are still carried out by diesel-powered trucks, so it wouldn't be zero there either. But at least, it's a start.
Really, though, one can only blame Disney for screwing up the system. Each time their characters come up for release into public domain, they lobby to extend the patents, and each time they win.
Greenhouse gasses have nothing to do with the issue unless you get all your electricity from hydro, geothermal or whatever - so currently in no city anywhere.
Huh? In Sweden, we get around 40-45% of our electricity from nuclear power, around 50% from hydro power and the remaining 10% from biomass-fueled power plants. Fossil-fueled power plants are used only for peak loads.
All liquid fuel "tanks" should be a puncture resistent, selfsealing bladder, with the "tank" itself simply an enclosure.
Certainly, but I was rather talking about the fact that ethanol fumes have a lower vapor pressure than gasoline fumes, which means that gasoline fumes tend to push air out of the tank while ethanol fumes don't. And you don't want air in the gas tank (think of sparks).:)
All it requires is tuning for the particular fuel and with modern, computer controled fuel injection systems this can be accomplished automagically.
I'd guess that you have to adjust or exchange the fuel tank too. Putting e.g. pure alcohol in a gas tank actually creates a fire hazard. This is because a gas tank containing gasoline contains no air, but a gas tank with alcohol contains air. With a purpose-built tank, this hazard can be reduced or completely eliminated.
One solution is to not use batteries. Since, as you point out, electric motors are energy source agnostic simply hook up a generator to an engine.
Entirely true. This would be more power-efficient that an ordinary car where the engine is connected to the wheels, since in the diesel-electric car, the gas engine can always run at peak efficiency, making it possible to use a smaller engine. This is almost exactly what is used in conteporary hybrids, except that this car concept does away with the battery.
Lights on roads are generally timed for the speed of the road, so when you are going the speed limit, if you hit one light, you will make it through the next.
I can see how this works for one-way roads, but how does this work for bidirectional roads? It seems like the timing would be much more complex to say the least.
Jay Leno will still be able to fuel his Maserati for a long, long time
Especially since we can convert methane to synthetic diesel (and probably gasoline as well). And methane can be produced in many ways, including ecologically friendly ones. These types of synthetic fuels may not be as cheap as gasoline (used to be) though.
I just want to ask, what's the rate of helmet use in the US? If you would use movies and TV as a guide, nobody (or very few) use a helmet. This question also applies to other protective motorcycle gear.
For all the other minor accounts that I need passwords for as well, I still use randomly generated passwords, but keep them in a keyring application on a memory stick, so I only need to remember it's master password, and I can still have a different password on every account. I carry the stick around just like I carry around a bunch of keys (same thing really)
For really minor accounts, like web community accounts (e.g. Slashdot), I use the "save password" functionality of Firefox with a master password set. This encrypts the passwords on disk (IIRC with triple-des) with a hash of the master password as the key. And I almost forgot, I also use random-generated passwords, usually by cat:ing/dev/urandom through strings.
I always lock my PC when I leave (and I have it set to lock itself after 5 minutes), so every time I get back I have to unlock it.
I do that myself too, but unlocking is almost automatic when I return to my workstation so I don't usually remember how many times I actually type the password.:)
both of the organizations that went back to Windows had over 1,000 employees, and the other example listed had a little over 100.
You can have thousands of users on Linux too, you just have tou use the right software. I suggest looking at e.g. academic institutions for knowledge on how they handle many users on *nix systems. My university has more than 17000 students and some 3000 employees (professors, other teching personnel, administrative personnel, IT staff, etc), with many of them running both desktop and server systems on Linux or some type of Unix.
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It can be turned on and off for the entire drive quite easily once it has been enabled.
But I guess that turning it on and off would take a while, since it would have to decrypt everything on the volume when turning it off, and vice versa.
The whole point is the END USER has to create their own key and pin/biometric at the TIME the drive is Encrypted.
According to the Wikipedia article on Bitlocker, the transparent operation mode (uses a TPM) does not seem like it requires the end user to create his/her key. The drive could be encrypted by the OEM during installation, without letting the OEM get a copy of your key since it is just available to the TPM.
Hey, how did you guess?
Because I have used it myself (my employer has a site license for Windows XP among other MS software). And I didn't have to bother with activation when I installed it.
If you were smart enough to have the key on an USB disk or memorized, you still need a TPM computer to read it after the machine dies.
Are you sure? According to the Wikipedia entry on Bitlocker, the third operating mode does not require a TPM module.
Windows 2000 hoses the partition table and so does Windows XP.
Oh, it does? Never happened to me. To me it only hosed the MBR (overwriting Grub). And the MBR and the partition table is not quite the same thing.
And then they turn off their activation server and you are waving around useless bits.
Unless it's the activation-free corporate edition.
What are the chances that Microsoft will sign an Ext2-driver written by a free project?
This probably applies not only to free projects, but other projects that does not coincide well with the Microsofts vision of the DRM future. Take e.g. programs like the quite popular Daemon Tools or Blindwrite, that install their own drivers to accomplish what they cannot do using the standard Windows API. I wonder what people will say when they find out that those tools won't be available any longer (because Microsoft won't sign their drivers).
With top quality uranium ore it comes in at around one third the amount of greenhouse gasses of a natural gas turbine
I guess you mean from e.g. transports of nuclear fuel and things like that, because the process itself doesn't emit any greenhouse gases. And by the way I think that transportation of bio-fuels are still carried out by diesel-powered trucks, so it wouldn't be zero there either. But at least, it's a start.
Really, though, one can only blame Disney for screwing up the system. Each time their characters come up for release into public domain, they lobby to extend the patents, and each time they win.
That's copyrights, not patents, isn't it?
Greenhouse gasses have nothing to do with the issue unless you get all your electricity from hydro, geothermal or whatever - so currently in no city anywhere.
Huh? In Sweden, we get around 40-45% of our electricity from nuclear power, around 50% from hydro power and the remaining 10% from biomass-fueled power plants. Fossil-fueled power plants are used only for peak loads.
Electric motors are also very efficient, though you'll get some losses with the drivetrain
If you have one electric motor for every wheel, then there is no drivetrain to speak of.
I live in Canada, and I don't think I've ever seen a motorcyclist not wearing a helmet whilst driving on any actual road.
Me neither (I'm in Sweden).
All liquid fuel "tanks" should be a puncture resistent, selfsealing bladder, with the "tank" itself simply an enclosure.
Certainly, but I was rather talking about the fact that ethanol fumes have a lower vapor pressure than gasoline fumes, which means that gasoline fumes tend to push air out of the tank while ethanol fumes don't. And you don't want air in the gas tank (think of sparks). :)
most end users don't know what the hell a firewall is, much less how to configure one.
Most users don't know what a rootkit is, so why should they care?
Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
All it requires is tuning for the particular fuel and with modern, computer controled fuel injection systems this can be accomplished automagically.
I'd guess that you have to adjust or exchange the fuel tank too. Putting e.g. pure alcohol in a gas tank actually creates a fire hazard. This is because a gas tank containing gasoline contains no air, but a gas tank with alcohol contains air. With a purpose-built tank, this hazard can be reduced or completely eliminated.
One solution is to not use batteries. Since, as you point out, electric motors are energy source agnostic simply hook up a generator to an engine.
Entirely true. This would be more power-efficient that an ordinary car where the engine is connected to the wheels, since in the diesel-electric car, the gas engine can always run at peak efficiency, making it possible to use a smaller engine. This is almost exactly what is used in conteporary hybrids, except that this car concept does away with the battery.
Lights on roads are generally timed for the speed of the road, so when you are going the speed limit, if you hit one light, you will make it through the next.
I can see how this works for one-way roads, but how does this work for bidirectional roads? It seems like the timing would be much more complex to say the least.
Jay Leno will still be able to fuel his Maserati for a long, long time
Especially since we can convert methane to synthetic diesel (and probably gasoline as well). And methane can be produced in many ways, including ecologically friendly ones. These types of synthetic fuels may not be as cheap as gasoline (used to be) though.
I ride with guanlet style double reinforced leather gloves, a tight body fitting armored textile jacket and a full face helmet.
Your pants don't seem like motorcycle pants though. And what about boots?
you don't act like a fucking idiot
I just want to ask, what's the rate of helmet use in the US? If you would use movies and TV as a guide, nobody (or very few) use a helmet. This question also applies to other protective motorcycle gear.
one of its most important element, OFS, is still nowhere in sight
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this OFS sound very much like the (also missing) WinFS? From your linked article:
OFS is an object-oriented database designed to make it easy to search documents and other structured data by content.
Put it better as: Burglars couldn't get into your system if you had no Windows or Gates! ;)
This sounds like a version of the following: In a world without walls and fences, why do we need Windows and Gates? :)
For all the other minor accounts that I need passwords for as well, I still use randomly generated passwords, but keep them in a keyring application on a memory stick, so I only need to remember it's master password, and I can still have a different password on every account. I carry the stick around just like I carry around a bunch of keys (same thing really)
For really minor accounts, like web community accounts (e.g. Slashdot), I use the "save password" functionality of Firefox with a master password set. This encrypts the passwords on disk (IIRC with triple-des) with a hash of the master password as the key. And I almost forgot, I also use random-generated passwords, usually by cat:ing /dev/urandom through strings.
I always lock my PC when I leave (and I have it set to lock itself after 5 minutes), so every time I get back I have to unlock it.
I do that myself too, but unlocking is almost automatic when I return to my workstation so I don't usually remember how many times I actually type the password. :)
I don't know about you, but I type my password probably 20 to 30 times a day.
Just out of curiosity, why do you (need to) do that?
both of the organizations that went back to Windows had over 1,000 employees, and the other example listed had a little over 100.
You can have thousands of users on Linux too, you just have tou use the right software. I suggest looking at e.g. academic institutions for knowledge on how they handle many users on *nix systems. My university has more than 17000 students and some 3000 employees (professors, other teching personnel, administrative personnel, IT staff, etc), with many of them running both desktop and server systems on Linux or some type of Unix.