QFT. My current mouse has two side-buttons which I never click on purpose. Particularly the one on the thumb side just ensures that I randomly move back in my page history when I grip it wrong.
Or rather, an optical sensor. They're superior to track balls even before you take into account the bulk of the keyboard... trying to get that to roll smoothly would suck.
Proponents of the wand often argue that errors stem from the human operator, who they say must be rested, with a steady pulse and body temperature, before using the device.
Then the operator must walk in place a few moments to “charge” the device, since it has no battery or other power source, and walk with the wand at right angles to the body. If there are explosives or drugs to the operator’s left, the wand is supposed to swivel to the operator’s left and point at them.
I hope Scientology doesn't find out about this. Within a year, the Iraqi military would be at Operathing Thetan Level 3 in order to detect bomb enturbulation.
I have installed Karmic from scratch on my new computer (I have in fact put off the installation for a month in order to wait for the release).
Even that has been pretty nasty, but a lot of that is down to non-standard options (had to boot the installer.iso from grub, download Nvidia drivers, fix xorg.conf, install mouse and kbd packages).
With that, and the complaints I've been hearing about the upgrade path, I'm not going to upgrade my laptop.
I [bin laden] don't think [pentagon] so. I'm using that [bomb] Firefox extension right now and [anthrax] do not notice any[uranium]thing out of the [wmd] ordinary.
I'm skeptical that it can be done, though. As Bruce Schneier says, security is a state of mind. Cryptographic technology and security protocols are now so advanced that the most significant vulnerability is the user.
For example, SSL's CA implementations may have had (and still have) a few nasty technical holes, but the easiest way to stage a MITM attack is probably to simply self-sign your fake certificate and trust that the user will scroll past the "WARNING WARNING DO NOT IGNORE THIS" text, check the "ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CHECK THIS WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE DOING" option and then click "Add exception" to get rid of the annoying warning.
Making these warnings more insistent costs convenience, and making them less obtrusive costs security.
SSL has certification authorities. Needless to say, initiating an encrypted connection via tor with a site that is not certified is at least as careless as not using SSL at all.
Worth noting, if you're in the market for any such device: the base Kindle's price is now down to $259.
If it had internet access like it apparently does in the states, I'd seriously consider it. As it is, a netbook will ultimately be the better investment.
In most of the "cool gadgets" cases, the problem is a security/convenience trade-off. You wouldn't be using them for entertainment if they were inconvenient enough to guarantee privacy.
However, in other respects you have a point - political dissenters are still using Facebook and Twitter to organize (eg. in Iran), and these users have to be provided either with a secure if inconvenient way to use them, or with a better (if inconvenient) alternative.
Right in principle, but it's fortunately not as bad as you think.
SSL is a transparent layer on top of TCP, which means any protocol can be tunneled through it, including HTTP and IRC. (Though for FTP, you'd tunnel through SSH instead.) Admittedly, few IRC networks support SSL at present, but that will hopefully change. Freenode says they're working on it. Either way, IRC traffic is generally semi-public and the most sensitive stuff is your NickServ password (enabling exit nodes to impersonate random people on IRC).
As for the proprietary IM networks, firstly you really should use Jabber if you care about security. Secondly though, at least the sign-in apparently goes through SSL for AIM, ICQ and Yahoo - and end-to-end encryption is available via Off-The-Record Messaging (the brightest invention since PGP, imho).
I run an exit node, as can anyone. If I were sufficiently nosy, I could use Wireshark et al to listen in.
It would be impossible to target or identify a specific person due to the randomized infrastructure, but phishing for non-SSL access to random online accounts is very possible.
That's why you don't want to use Tor to log in anywhere that doesn't use SSL.
Another thing is that you are still usually leaking DNS queries to your ISP, which may even return false results if you're being censored in China or something and they still see what sites you're visiting.
any traffic passing through it which does not use end-to-end encryption, e.g. SSL.
Well, like any other security/anonymity tool it only works for users who know their stuff and use it carefully. Don't access sensitive information without end-to-end encryption, and for heaven's sake make sure DNS queries are routed through tor as well (this is possible).
In a wide range of applications, solid-state already replaced rotating drives.
They may have a higher cost per capacity, but where speed, damage resistance and energy consumption is more important than bulk, SSD beats HDD any day.
My next laptop will have a 16GB flash drive, as opposed to the 160GB the old one has.
Misleading headline. Even after character recognition and heavy compression, 1.6 million books are going to come out at more than 200k per book. That's.2 million MB, or 200 GB. On a normal laptop with a rotating 2.5" drive, that'd be infeasible.
The OLPC has no rotating drives, but rather a 1GB solid-state chip. (Which makes sense, reducing temperature, energy usage as well as shock sensitivity.)
So they probably mean they'll be bundling some software for reading it online.
when Chinese is the dominant language of the Internet and the U.S. is struggling to retain our role as the dominant economic and sociopolitical power on the planet.
If Chinese is going to become more dominant, it'll probably be because China will already have replaced the US as the dominant economic and sociopolitical power...
The neural activity measured in several dead salmon shows a clear reaction to human faces. This proves beyond a doubt the accuracy of studies based on mass EEG tests.
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The optical sensor? I'm sitting on the sofa right now and moving the mouse around on the cover fabric - perfect.
In fact, if the surface is reflective, the optical mouse won't work at all.
I nominate this exchange for Worst Analogy Ever.
QFT. My current mouse has two side-buttons which I never click on purpose. Particularly the one on the thumb side just ensures that I randomly move back in my page history when I grip it wrong.
Or rather, an optical sensor. They're superior to track balls even before you take into account the bulk of the keyboard... trying to get that to roll smoothly would suck.
No, they meant this satirical open letter.
Now implant a laser diode into its head.
I hope Scientology doesn't find out about this. Within a year, the Iraqi military would be at Operathing Thetan Level 3 in order to detect bomb enturbulation.
I have installed Karmic from scratch on my new computer (I have in fact put off the installation for a month in order to wait for the release).
Even that has been pretty nasty, but a lot of that is down to non-standard options (had to boot the installer .iso from grub, download Nvidia drivers, fix xorg.conf, install mouse and kbd packages).
With that, and the complaints I've been hearing about the upgrade path, I'm not going to upgrade my laptop.
I [bin laden] don't think [pentagon] so. I'm using that [bomb] Firefox extension right now and [anthrax] do not notice any[uranium]thing out of the [wmd] ordinary.
Curses! Formal logic has been foiled by pragmatism again. :P
That would be wonderful.
I'm skeptical that it can be done, though. As Bruce Schneier says, security is a state of mind. Cryptographic technology and security protocols are now so advanced that the most significant vulnerability is the user.
For example, SSL's CA implementations may have had (and still have) a few nasty technical holes, but the easiest way to stage a MITM attack is probably to simply self-sign your fake certificate and trust that the user will scroll past the "WARNING WARNING DO NOT IGNORE THIS" text, check the "ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CHECK THIS WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE DOING" option and then click "Add exception" to get rid of the annoying warning.
Making these warnings more insistent costs convenience, and making them less obtrusive costs security.
Here's the pseudo-code:
begin turings_revenge
this_will_crash = find_errors(turings_revenge)
if (this_will_crash)
then
terminate_gracefully();
else
segfault();
end
end
So, will it crash, or won't it?
SSL has certification authorities. Needless to say, initiating an encrypted connection via tor with a site that is not certified is at least as careless as not using SSL at all.
Does that game exist already? Because I want it.
If it had internet access like it apparently does in the states, I'd seriously consider it. As it is, a netbook will ultimately be the better investment.
In most of the "cool gadgets" cases, the problem is a security/convenience trade-off. You wouldn't be using them for entertainment if they were inconvenient enough to guarantee privacy.
However, in other respects you have a point - political dissenters are still using Facebook and Twitter to organize (eg. in Iran), and these users have to be provided either with a secure if inconvenient way to use them, or with a better (if inconvenient) alternative.
Right in principle, but it's fortunately not as bad as you think.
SSL is a transparent layer on top of TCP, which means any protocol can be tunneled through it, including HTTP and IRC. (Though for FTP, you'd tunnel through SSH instead.) Admittedly, few IRC networks support SSL at present, but that will hopefully change. Freenode says they're working on it. Either way, IRC traffic is generally semi-public and the most sensitive stuff is your NickServ password (enabling exit nodes to impersonate random people on IRC).
As for the proprietary IM networks, firstly you really should use Jabber if you care about security. Secondly though, at least the sign-in apparently goes through SSL for AIM, ICQ and Yahoo - and end-to-end encryption is available via Off-The-Record Messaging (the brightest invention since PGP, imho).
I run an exit node, as can anyone. If I were sufficiently nosy, I could use Wireshark et al to listen in.
It would be impossible to target or identify a specific person due to the randomized infrastructure, but phishing for non-SSL access to random online accounts is very possible.
That's why you don't want to use Tor to log in anywhere that doesn't use SSL.
Well, like any other security/anonymity tool it only works for users who know their stuff and use it carefully. Don't access sensitive information without end-to-end encryption, and for heaven's sake make sure DNS queries are routed through tor as well (this is possible).
In a wide range of applications, solid-state already replaced rotating drives.
They may have a higher cost per capacity, but where speed, damage resistance and energy consumption is more important than bulk, SSD beats HDD any day.
My next laptop will have a 16GB flash drive, as opposed to the 160GB the old one has.
Misleading headline. Even after character recognition and heavy compression, 1.6 million books are going to come out at more than 200k per book. That's .2 million MB, or 200 GB. On a normal laptop with a rotating 2.5" drive, that'd be infeasible.
The OLPC has no rotating drives, but rather a 1GB solid-state chip. (Which makes sense, reducing temperature, energy usage as well as shock sensitivity.)
So they probably mean they'll be bundling some software for reading it online.
If Chinese is going to become more dominant, it'll probably be because China will already have replaced the US as the dominant economic and sociopolitical power...
It's the oldest surgical procedure in the world!
"will"?
The neural activity measured in several dead salmon shows a clear reaction to human faces. This proves beyond a doubt the accuracy of studies based on mass EEG tests.
http://sciencestage.com/resources/dead-salmon-responds-portraits-people