I didn't vote. Except I still got a shit government. By your argument I should have got no government at all (which is what I was aiming for).
Don't blame the people of Australia (who are forced to vote by law, unless they don't). Oh, and I didn't notice a large amount of guns in Aus either. Wonder where that force is coming from.
No Plaformism rejects the right of fascists to organise, because they are a menace.
Anyway, lots of anti-fa types (including myself), reject any and all government censorship, but at the same time support community efforts to fight fascism and racism.
Anyway, so I guess you support the right of fascists, and other scum (inc. the KKK in the USA), to organise, go around encouraging violence against "non-whites" and even beating up "immigrants" (many of whom were born in the country, and who's parents were born in the country). ). (The sort of violence I'm talking about happens a lot in the UK and other parts of Europe.)
Anti-Fa opposes fascists because their actions are dangerous, not their words.
May I suggest that large parts of this shouldn't be in the kernel at all? That there should be independent sub-systems so that in the event of a crash or panic, the entire OS doesn't come tumbling down?
So that badly written drivers (especially graphic card drivers) don't affect the stability of the entire system?
May I suggest that flame-wars are good and the EMACS is also bloated?
(And lots of other folks have already talked about the bad metric that lines of code is...)
Only if you accept the false premise that there is something anti-capitalist about environmentalism could you possibly mistake a Marxist attack on environmentalism with support for capitalism.
Those of us who recognise that environmentalism is infact a bourgeois ideology know full well that criticising environmentalism is central to a critique of contemporary capitalism.
And i 'mention socialism' frequently. For me, a socialist critique of capitalism (which criticises capitalism for holding back material progress) is the direct opposite of environmentalist apologism for capitalism.
Ideological emphasis of 'scarcity' has long been part and parcel of capitalist politics. Capitalism takes scarcity as its starting point and bourgeois ideologues construct their ideological defence of the capitalist system on that basis. Scarcity, it is argued, is an eternal condition which cannot be overcome, meaning that the market is needed to regulate consumption.
Socialists, on the other hand, point out that material scarcity has historical social and economic causes, that capitalism maintains scarcity, and that the historical aim of socialism is to overcome scarcity through the advancement of the productive forces of society.
Please note, I think you are both wrong.
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As to the subject of terraforming, I think that it is obvious that humans can terraform a planet. Maybe not in a predictable manner, but it is certainly possible. Humans as a species have done a heck of a lot of damage to ecosystems around the world, and are pumping out so much carbon dioxide... You know the rest.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1910 included original research, Kropotkin on Anarchism.
Of course, that was nearly 100 years ago.
The point is though, other encyclopaedias can check the credentials of their authors ("original researchers"), and decided whether or not to include them.
Wikipedia has no real verifiable method of know who is who. Even if I say that I am "apathy maybe", the only real and honest "apathy maybe", Wikipedia can't know that if I only say that on Wikipedia.
If I say here, "my Wikipedia account is 'apathy maybe'", and then I say on Wikipedia, "my Slashdot account is 'apathy maybe'", then that provides some level of verification. Except, who verifies all these links?
Not to mention it would probably be more expensive to shield an entire house then merely one room within that house...
But, why is anyone monitoring what houses are radiating or not? Are there really government folks wandering around with electromagnetic radiation detection equipment?
I know I sometimes sound paranoid (hey, they are out to get me), but that sounds crazy.
Yeah, and it isn't like the same issues don't come up with computer monitors...
Not to mention, MS Windows XP (at I seem to recall earlier versions) come with an on screen keyboard. Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > On Screen Keyboard.
So, if you use MS Windows (and TrueCrypt was written originally for MS Windows, and based on earlier code written for MS Windows), don't complain. And if you are using GNOME, I just found at least two programs available in Ubuntu repositories, I'm sure that there are plenty more.
I wrote a program back in high school which was basically an on screen keyboard, sure you would have to copy and paste what you "wrote", but it's still there. (It wasn't hard, any programmer could do it.)
OK, you're worried should surfers, I didn't do it, but it wouldn't be hard to obscure what is being "written", and still make it possible to copy and paste it (unlike "password" fields in HTML forms).
So basically, quit fucking complaining and thing about other options you muppet.
To determine if wired keyboards generate compromising emanations, we measured the electromagnetic radiations emitted when keys are pressed. To analyze compromising radiations, we generally use a receiver tuned on a specific frequency. However, this method may not be optimal: the signal does not contain the maximal entropy since a significant amount of information is lost.
Our approach was to acquire the signal directly from the antenna and to work on the whole captured electromagnetic spectrum.
Looks like a room or building size Faraday Cage (a foil hat the size of your house!) might be the only defence...
Especially considering that you can also detect what is shown on monitors (again, by detecting the electromagnetic radiation), and so on screen "keyboards" operated with a mouse become not so useful.
It's not clear from the article whether they have have the keyboard before hand to be able to record which key-press outputs what radiation, or if they can use this (and by that I mean one of the four) technique on any old keyboard, including ones they haven't seen before.
Anyway, this shouldn't be too surprising to anyone, electronics emit electromagnetic radiation, which can be captured.
Most of the other "Disagree Mail" actually was about Slashdot, as opposed to being totally unrelated. Yes, you got four emails, but note, they don't even talk about Slashdot or the web. I don't know why you posted these ones.
(What's this crap doing on the front page? I know that I can go into my settings and turn it off, but I'm lazy! This shouldn't be on the front page at all! Even if I'm a lazy bum. Shut up! I hate you!)
Let's say that this (good) idea is properly implemented (rather then just pretend implemented), and all the laptops have full disk encryption in place.
Now someone with one of these laptops travels outside the US, and then flies back in and is asked to boot up the laptop. They will do so of course, and then, suddenly, there is no point to having the encryption, at that point. Sure it's still useful for cases where the laptop gets left on a train or something (assuming that they also require a password when opening a closed laptop, something that should be the case anyway), but it doesn't stop over-zealous and possibly corrupt government agents from looking over the info anyway.
It is even worse if such a laptop goes with someone who knows the password to the UK...
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Over all though? Great idea, and anything that opens more people up to the idea of encryption and the need for it is probably good as well. The more people who can prevent the govt. from looking at their data, the better. (And see a previous comment in a different story about hiding data to prevent the govt. from forcing you to hand over your keys.)
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I wish to point you to the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board. According to these fine persons, the earth has all ready been destroyed. Certainly not by the LHC (and so that site you linked to is still correct), but as a pre-emptive measure.
Evidence is still being collated, but preliminary results suggest that the Earth was destroyed pre-emptively by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, before the commencement of their experiments to locate the Higgs Boson, as a precautionary measure to ensure that the experiment itself could not result in the destruction of the Earth.
Don't be put off by the non-anarchists types on the site. Anyway, glad I could interest you for a bit, (and hopefully got other folks looking at the forum as well).
I call myself an "adjective free anarchist", and accept individualists as being equally anarchistic as "anarcho-communists". I reject "anarcho"-capitalism as being actually anarchistic, because they seek to enable an economic situation where hierarchy can exist. And, the way I see anarchism, it is a rejection of hierarchy and oppression.
I don't see anything wrong with voluntarily signing up to have a boss or whatever, but I don't see why anyone would. (And if anyone tries to enforce a worker-boss relationship, then that stops being anarchistic there as well.)
And funny thing, that's exactly why (as I understand it) that the law was passed to force divulgence of encryption keys.
Of course, they can't get it if I've forgotten. (For example, I have some photos of my SO that I've put in a folder that I subsequently encrypted. I subsequently forget the password (who needs to look at photos when you can look at the real thing?) and now can no longer get in. I would love to be able to remember the password, but I can't. Sorry officer, even if I could help you access photos of my partner, I can't. And you taking me to jail for 2 years isn't going to make me remember.)
Thinking about the whole two years thing, it reminds me of that fellow in the USA who refused to tell the cops (and subsequently a jury?) the names of people in a movie he took at a demonstration. He was put away to teach him a lesson... (Can someone remember more details about that and link to them?)
Obviously then, the way to prevent the cops from knowing about your encrypted data is to hide it from them. If they don't know about the encrpyted file, they can't ask for the password.
Two ways, plausible deniability (if you haven't heard of TrueCrypt yet, check it out>) is the way that most of you will use.
The other way is physically hiding the disk. Have a garden that you use, and store your data in multiple plastic bags and bury it.
The other thing you could do, have a strong magnetic field that is triggered in certain scenarios that will wipe your box of floppy disks/hard drive. Example scenarios include the cops breaking down the door, or the door being opened without a button being pressed.
(My real life space tends to the messy, and I'm a rabid anarchist. I'm a left anarchist, though, rather then the non-anarchistic "anarcho"-capitalists. If you are a left-winger type anarchist (including individualists, not including capitalists), you may be interested in RevLeft. Check my "homepage".)
I don't use OpenSolaris, so I won't be seeing the benefits of this any time soon. (I once tried to install it, and couldn't work out the partitioning scheme, I don't install operating systems for fun any more.)
This is a great example of free software. Someone wants a feature, and they code it up.
Anyway, I was looking at getting something like this for MS Windows or Ubuntu the other month (instead of a proper version control system for people who couldn't cope). I found some interesting projects.
In the end I didn't end up using either project, instead the usual folder with old version, as compared to folder with newer version is being used. (Curse tech illiteracy.)
And a quick follow up to that post. What happens if I hit a site that requires cookies (for no apparent reason)? I leave. The most common website is lyrics websites, and considering the number of them there are, I don't care if I miss out on one more.
The same with JavaScript, there are only a few websites that I've enabled JS by default (Slashdot is one). But for all the rest, unless they have an obvious use for it (and can't provide alternative content), I leave if it's required.
Screw them. I've got better things to do with my time then fuck around with websites that can't degrade gracefully.
I don't allow any site to store any information on my machine, except when it is beneficial to me. That means, Slashdot can store cookies (session only), RevLeft can store cookies for ever, and various email places can store session only cookies.
However, every other site is blocked by default (Firefox plugin called CookieSafe). With Flash, yes I'm using Macromedia's shit plugin, but even then the default (and I'm not going to change it) is to not allow any site to save any information.
Of course, I also use NoScript and AdBlock... Yada yada.
I'm on the web for my benefit, not for the benefit of advertisers and other scum.
I've also heard about a trick to delete the folder where the Macromedia plugin stores the stuff and replace it with a read only blank file of the same name. Look into that if you don't trust Adobe as far as you can kick them...
I'm an anarchist. Of course "lack of anarchy" is going to be a problem for me. Of course, you may misunderstand what I mean by the term "anarchy". I was not using the term to be a synonym for "chaos". By the way, just like "geeks" often complain about the misuse of the term "hacker" by the media, anarchists like myself sometimes complain about the misuse of terms associated with our ideology.
As to why starvation, war etc. entering into a conversation about Microsoft, I've never seen it before personally. In this case, I brought it up because this is a stupid non-story about something that just doesn't matter, at all. It isn't even about new technology, just a fucking name.
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I didn't vote. Except I still got a shit government. By your argument I should have got no government at all (which is what I was aiming for).
Don't blame the people of Australia (who are forced to vote by law, unless they don't). Oh, and I didn't notice a large amount of guns in Aus either. Wonder where that force is coming from.
Actually the idea of "no platform" has got nothing about words hurting ears, and a lot to do with actions hurting people.
For a discussion, start reading this thread The Philosophy of Anti-fascism at RevLeft.
No Plaformism rejects the right of fascists to organise, because they are a menace.
Anyway, lots of anti-fa types (including myself), reject any and all government censorship, but at the same time support community efforts to fight fascism and racism.
Anyway, so I guess you support the right of fascists, and other scum (inc. the KKK in the USA), to organise, go around encouraging violence against "non-whites" and even beating up "immigrants" (many of whom were born in the country, and who's parents were born in the country). ). (The sort of violence I'm talking about happens a lot in the UK and other parts of Europe.)
Anti-Fa opposes fascists because their actions are dangerous, not their words.
Nah, I think he's got his own account. I'm just trying to start a flame war :) (or at least get a funny mod...).
May I suggest that large parts of this shouldn't be in the kernel at all? That there should be independent sub-systems so that in the event of a crash or panic, the entire OS doesn't come tumbling down?
So that badly written drivers (especially graphic card drivers) don't affect the stability of the entire system?
May I suggest that flame-wars are good and the EMACS is also bloated?
(And lots of other folks have already talked about the bad metric that lines of code is...)
So funny, on RevLeft there is a "socialist" who argues the opposite. That the "Green movement" is a capitalist plot.
I guess crazy people exist on all sides of the political spectrum.
Some examples of the brillient mind of "VanGuard1917" can be found in the thread Recession = good for the environment?.
Another good quote is from the thread Is scarcity a myth?
Please note, I think you are both wrong.
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As to the subject of terraforming, I think that it is obvious that humans can terraform a planet. Maybe not in a predictable manner, but it is certainly possible. Humans as a species have done a heck of a lot of damage to ecosystems around the world, and are pumping out so much carbon dioxide ... You know the rest.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1910 included original research, Kropotkin on Anarchism.
Of course, that was nearly 100 years ago.
The point is though, other encyclopaedias can check the credentials of their authors ("original researchers"), and decided whether or not to include them.
Wikipedia has no real verifiable method of know who is who. Even if I say that I am "apathy maybe", the only real and honest "apathy maybe", Wikipedia can't know that if I only say that on Wikipedia.
If I say here, "my Wikipedia account is 'apathy maybe'", and then I say on Wikipedia, "my Slashdot account is 'apathy maybe'", then that provides some level of verification. Except, who verifies all these links?
Wikipedia isn't like any other encyclopaedia.
A challenge for you then: Write an on screen keyboard in under 512 bytes. And it has to be independent of any external libraries as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
Not to mention it would probably be more expensive to shield an entire house then merely one room within that house...
But, why is anyone monitoring what houses are radiating or not? Are there really government folks wandering around with electromagnetic radiation detection equipment?
I know I sometimes sound paranoid (hey, they are out to get me), but that sounds crazy.
Yeah, and it isn't like the same issues don't come up with computer monitors...
Not to mention, MS Windows XP (at I seem to recall earlier versions) come with an on screen keyboard. Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > On Screen Keyboard.
So, if you use MS Windows (and TrueCrypt was written originally for MS Windows, and based on earlier code written for MS Windows), don't complain. And if you are using GNOME, I just found at least two programs available in Ubuntu repositories, I'm sure that there are plenty more.
I wrote a program back in high school which was basically an on screen keyboard, sure you would have to copy and paste what you "wrote", but it's still there. (It wasn't hard, any programmer could do it.)
OK, you're worried should surfers, I didn't do it, but it wouldn't be hard to obscure what is being "written", and still make it possible to copy and paste it (unlike "password" fields in HTML forms).
So basically, quit fucking complaining and thing about other options you muppet.
Looks like a room or building size Faraday Cage (a foil hat the size of your house!) might be the only defence...
Especially considering that you can also detect what is shown on monitors (again, by detecting the electromagnetic radiation), and so on screen "keyboards" operated with a mouse become not so useful.
It's not clear from the article whether they have have the keyboard before hand to be able to record which key-press outputs what radiation, or if they can use this (and by that I mean one of the four) technique on any old keyboard, including ones they haven't seen before.
Anyway, this shouldn't be too surprising to anyone, electronics emit electromagnetic radiation, which can be captured.
Most of the other "Disagree Mail" actually was about Slashdot, as opposed to being totally unrelated. Yes, you got four emails, but note, they don't even talk about Slashdot or the web. I don't know why you posted these ones.
(What's this crap doing on the front page? I know that I can go into my settings and turn it off, but I'm lazy! This shouldn't be on the front page at all! Even if I'm a lazy bum. Shut up! I hate you!)
Or if they are in the UK.
Let's say that this (good) idea is properly implemented (rather then just pretend implemented), and all the laptops have full disk encryption in place.
Now someone with one of these laptops travels outside the US, and then flies back in and is asked to boot up the laptop. They will do so of course, and then, suddenly, there is no point to having the encryption, at that point. Sure it's still useful for cases where the laptop gets left on a train or something (assuming that they also require a password when opening a closed laptop, something that should be the case anyway), but it doesn't stop over-zealous and possibly corrupt government agents from looking over the info anyway.
It is even worse if such a laptop goes with someone who knows the password to the UK...
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Over all though? Great idea, and anything that opens more people up to the idea of encryption and the need for it is probably good as well. The more people who can prevent the govt. from looking at their data, the better. (And see a previous comment in a different story about hiding data to prevent the govt. from forcing you to hand over your keys.)
http://qntm.org/?board
I wish to point you to the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board. According to these fine persons, the earth has all ready been destroyed. Certainly not by the LHC (and so that site you linked to is still correct), but as a pre-emptive measure.
Don't be put off by the non-anarchists types on the site. Anyway, glad I could interest you for a bit, (and hopefully got other folks looking at the forum as well).
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I call myself an "adjective free anarchist", and accept individualists as being equally anarchistic as "anarcho-communists". I reject "anarcho"-capitalism as being actually anarchistic, because they seek to enable an economic situation where hierarchy can exist. And, the way I see anarchism, it is a rejection of hierarchy and oppression.
I don't see anything wrong with voluntarily signing up to have a boss or whatever, but I don't see why anyone would. (And if anyone tries to enforce a worker-boss relationship, then that stops being anarchistic there as well.)
Have a browse around RevLeft, you may be interested in this thread http://www.revleft.com/vb/organic-revolution-and-t91249/index.html which is a debate between two "Commie Club" members (i.e. they are "respected" members of the site, and have a say in how it is run, I was in the CC, but I left voluntarily due to various issues) regarding Individualist Anarchism. There is also the response thread from other members http://www.revleft.com/vb/organic-revolution-and-t92045/index.html in which I object to both posters.
If you can find yourself agreeing with either of the two debtors, or with me, then you could find a place on RevLeft. Hope to see you joining up.
Bullshit you did. You cannot get a hold of these photos. At all.
And funny thing, that's exactly why (as I understand it) that the law was passed to force divulgence of encryption keys.
Of course, they can't get it if I've forgotten. (For example, I have some photos of my SO that I've put in a folder that I subsequently encrypted. I subsequently forget the password (who needs to look at photos when you can look at the real thing?) and now can no longer get in. I would love to be able to remember the password, but I can't. Sorry officer, even if I could help you access photos of my partner, I can't. And you taking me to jail for 2 years isn't going to make me remember.)
Thinking about the whole two years thing, it reminds me of that fellow in the USA who refused to tell the cops (and subsequently a jury?) the names of people in a movie he took at a demonstration. He was put away to teach him a lesson... (Can someone remember more details about that and link to them?)
Obviously then, the way to prevent the cops from knowing about your encrypted data is to hide it from them. If they don't know about the encrpyted file, they can't ask for the password.
Two ways, plausible deniability (if you haven't heard of TrueCrypt yet, check it out>) is the way that most of you will use.
The other way is physically hiding the disk. Have a garden that you use, and store your data in multiple plastic bags and bury it.
The other thing you could do, have a strong magnetic field that is triggered in certain scenarios that will wipe your box of floppy disks/hard drive. Example scenarios include the cops breaking down the door, or the door being opened without a button being pressed.
Anarchism for the win.
(My real life space tends to the messy, and I'm a rabid anarchist. I'm a left anarchist, though, rather then the non-anarchistic "anarcho"-capitalists. If you are a left-winger type anarchist (including individualists, not including capitalists), you may be interested in RevLeft. Check my "homepage".)
I don't use OpenSolaris, so I won't be seeing the benefits of this any time soon. (I once tried to install it, and couldn't work out the partitioning scheme, I don't install operating systems for fun any more.)
This is a great example of free software. Someone wants a feature, and they code it up.
Anyway, I was looking at getting something like this for MS Windows or Ubuntu the other month (instead of a proper version control system for people who couldn't cope). I found some interesting projects.
For example:
ext3cow, which you can use with a Time Traveling File Manager.
Copyfs is another versioned file system, and runs on FUSE.
In the end I didn't end up using either project, instead the usual folder with old version, as compared to folder with newer version is being used. (Curse tech illiteracy.)
Anyway, good work to those folks!
Actually, I don't have a subscription. But if I did, I wouldn't need to pay extra to hide the fact. (There is an option that lets you hide it.)
Not to mention, I wrote "Slashdot" once in the post you replied to, and then once in the reply to my first post.
And a quick follow up to that post. What happens if I hit a site that requires cookies (for no apparent reason)? I leave. The most common website is lyrics websites, and considering the number of them there are, I don't care if I miss out on one more.
The same with JavaScript, there are only a few websites that I've enabled JS by default (Slashdot is one). But for all the rest, unless they have an obvious use for it (and can't provide alternative content), I leave if it's required.
Screw them. I've got better things to do with my time then fuck around with websites that can't degrade gracefully.
I don't allow any site to store any information on my machine, except when it is beneficial to me. That means, Slashdot can store cookies (session only), RevLeft can store cookies for ever, and various email places can store session only cookies.
However, every other site is blocked by default (Firefox plugin called CookieSafe). With Flash, yes I'm using Macromedia's shit plugin, but even then the default (and I'm not going to change it) is to not allow any site to save any information.
Of course, I also use NoScript and AdBlock... Yada yada.
I'm on the web for my benefit, not for the benefit of advertisers and other scum.
I've also heard about a trick to delete the folder where the Macromedia plugin stores the stuff and replace it with a read only blank file of the same name. Look into that if you don't trust Adobe as far as you can kick them...
I'm an anarchist. Of course "lack of anarchy" is going to be a problem for me. Of course, you may misunderstand what I mean by the term "anarchy". I was not using the term to be a synonym for "chaos". By the way, just like "geeks" often complain about the misuse of the term "hacker" by the media, anarchists like myself sometimes complain about the misuse of terms associated with our ideology.
As to why starvation, war etc. entering into a conversation about Microsoft, I've never seen it before personally. In this case, I brought it up because this is a stupid non-story about something that just doesn't matter, at all. It isn't even about new technology, just a fucking name.