The last generation pros don't have a 'customer accessible' hard drive... that being said, it's not too technically difficult to change, although it is definitely not for the faint of heart. You need to remove lots of tiny screws, the keyboard, etc. I don't know about the new solid aluminum ones, but I won't be buying one of those for quite some time, if at all (I have just about convinced myself to buy non-Apple next time, due to a number of factors).
No, you are thinking of quantum computing, which as TFA states, is currently able to factor numbers as large as about 15. Quantum cryptology allows for key exchange which (in theory) prevents an attacker from eavesdropping.
Binary blog.... would that be a blog consisting of only pictures / movies, or would that be a set of two blogs which complement each otherin such as was as to be considered a single blog...;-)
Well, all that I have ever purchased are firewire. Granted, I may not be a good representation of the average consumer, either, so your point may stand. I do, however, stand by my assertion that firewire gives better performance than USB for otherwise identical drives.
Mod parent up! I thought it was a troll until I looked on the Apple tech specs page myself - no mention of firewire, either 400 or 800! What in the world was Apple thinking?!?! Most external drives are firewire (if they have USB too, the firewire performance is still far better). I won't be getting this one any time soon!
If you install CentOS, it's free, but if you need support, there is none. You can get support from third parties, but not Red Hat. To get support from RedHat, they'd need to move from CentOS to RHEL.
Ummm... I don't think he's saying there are no commercial entities which support CentOS; he's saying that RedHat does not support it. Which is a very valid thing to point out, may I add...
But that's the beauty of it - the underlying files are normal.jpg,.mp3, etc. You can even use real family pictures, etc, which are completely normal to find on a system.
Well, the way I see it is that many people have massive music / photo libraries on their machines. Even assuming a very conservative 1:10 ratio, 10GB of raw data could provide 1GB of encrypted FS. You're right that this would not be feasible to encrypt everything, but I would argue that encrypting everything is not the point of this system; this is meant to hide and secure the most sensitive 1% of your data.
If / when I start this, I will definitely be including it on my website.
An idea that I had a while back (and previously mentioned on Slashdot), but which I have never had the time to implement, is to use multiple layers of steganography and encryption over Fuse to make a plausbly-deniable encrypted volume.
The layers would be as follows:
Base layer would be a directory of photos (music / whatever file types allow steganography).
The bits of each file which are used to store data are concatenated (using some sort of RAID-style redundancy) to provide a 'contiguous' chunk of available bits. The level of redundancy could be adjusted to determine how many files could be deleted without actually losing data.
This contiguous chunk is then encrypted, and presented via Fuse as a file system.
This has advantages of being more deniable than a single large file of random data, unusable free space at the end of a volume, etc. Since the steganography layer would be storing essentially random bits, it would in theory be less succeptible to analysis which indicates that it *is* hiding information. (If you use high ISO photos, with a bunch of noise in the first place, this would probably be even better).
Can anyone think of problems (either implementation or theoretical) which I may have missed with this?
If anyone is interested in doing this with me, drop me a message... I am thinking of doing this in Python, as there seems to be a bit of encryption / steganography libraries already there... alternatively, if anyone knows of an OSS project which already does this, I would appreciate a link.
So if GGGP agrees that we *are* apes now, but that we were *not* apes in the past... we're going 'backwards'? (For whatever meaning of 'backwards' you choose) I'm confused. 8-)
My associates may be the exception here, but I don't think that any non-technical people that I know look at the HTTPS; instead, they look at the lock, the URL bar color, etc. (Yes, this is antecdotal, non-scientific data, YMMV).
Well actually, the dump trucks analogy is closer... each segment of data is packaged into a single 'load' (packet), and packets don't necessarily arrive in order. If there are too many trucks on the road, some can crash, losing the data (packet loss). And so on...
I don't know if you have the same binaries on Windows as *nix, but if you associate with gimp-remote.exe rather than gimp.exe, it should only open one instance. (At least that works on Unix platforms).
Even worse are the new video blogs (not quite sure if it's blogs, or tutorials or what...), I am seeing them all the time when searching for a technical question (e.g., "how to do X on system Y"). I don't want to watch a 5 minute tutorial - I want to find the one line command to do something!
Well, if you are on some sort of Unix, you can enable focus follows mouse (or sloppy focus) and things just work great. I don't know about Windows - I think there are hacks which allow this, but I haven't used Windows for ages...
I do agree that without this, it is very annoying to have to click twice.
Can't it have everything as a multi-document all under one window?
Please, no! Multiple windows are great for multiple monitors and / or multiple documents being edited at once. I can't stand programs which force you into one window. If you want, you can combine all the tool docks into one, and thus have just a document window and a tool window, but please don't force us to do so!
Well, if you want to go into semantics, they have not been called 'laptops' by their respective manufacturers for about 7+ years now (at least none which I have seen - feel free to point a true 'laptop' out to me if you are aware of any links).
The audio from the dock is always identical to the audio from the headphone connector. See my iPod hacking page at http://thecave.homeunix.org/ipod_hardware.jsp for more information on what I have found regarding iPod touch hardware so far...
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Amen, brother!
The last generation pros don't have a 'customer accessible' hard drive... that being said, it's not too technically difficult to change, although it is definitely not for the faint of heart. You need to remove lots of tiny screws, the keyboard, etc. I don't know about the new solid aluminum ones, but I won't be buying one of those for quite some time, if at all (I have just about convinced myself to buy non-Apple next time, due to a number of factors).
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No, you are thinking of quantum computing, which as TFA states, is currently able to factor numbers as large as about 15. Quantum cryptology allows for key exchange which (in theory) prevents an attacker from eavesdropping.
Binary blog.... would that be a blog consisting of only pictures / movies, or would that be a set of two blogs which complement each otherin such as was as to be considered a single blog... ;-)
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Well, all that I have ever purchased are firewire. Granted, I may not be a good representation of the average consumer, either, so your point may stand. I do, however, stand by my assertion that firewire gives better performance than USB for otherwise identical drives.
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Mod parent up! I thought it was a troll until I looked on the Apple tech specs page myself - no mention of firewire, either 400 or 800! What in the world was Apple thinking?!?! Most external drives are firewire (if they have USB too, the firewire performance is still far better). I won't be getting this one any time soon!
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If you install CentOS, it's free, but if you need support, there is none. You can get support from third parties, but not Red Hat. To get support from RedHat, they'd need to move from CentOS to RHEL.
Ummm... I don't think he's saying there are no commercial entities which support CentOS; he's saying that RedHat does not support it. Which is a very valid thing to point out, may I add...
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But that's the beauty of it - the underlying files are normal .jpg, .mp3, etc. You can even use real family pictures, etc, which are completely normal to find on a system.
Well, the way I see it is that many people have massive music / photo libraries on their machines. Even assuming a very conservative 1:10 ratio, 10GB of raw data could provide 1GB of encrypted FS. You're right that this would not be feasible to encrypt everything, but I would argue that encrypting everything is not the point of this system; this is meant to hide and secure the most sensitive 1% of your data.
If / when I start this, I will definitely be including it on my website.
Cheers
An idea that I had a while back (and previously mentioned on Slashdot), but which I have never had the time to implement, is to use multiple layers of steganography and encryption over Fuse to make a plausbly-deniable encrypted volume.
The layers would be as follows:
This has advantages of being more deniable than a single large file of random data, unusable free space at the end of a volume, etc. Since the steganography layer would be storing essentially random bits, it would in theory be less succeptible to analysis which indicates that it *is* hiding information. (If you use high ISO photos, with a bunch of noise in the first place, this would probably be even better).
Can anyone think of problems (either implementation or theoretical) which I may have missed with this?
If anyone is interested in doing this with me, drop me a message... I am thinking of doing this in Python, as there seems to be a bit of encryption / steganography libraries already there... alternatively, if anyone knows of an OSS project which already does this, I would appreciate a link.
Cheers
So if GGGP agrees that we *are* apes now, but that we were *not* apes in the past... we're going 'backwards'? (For whatever meaning of 'backwards' you choose) I'm confused. 8-)
Humans are in the same family as all the other great apes, namely Hominidae. Therefore, regardless of your views on evolution, yes - humans are apes.
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No, it triangulates based on cell towers.
My associates may be the exception here, but I don't think that any non-technical people that I know look at the HTTPS; instead, they look at the lock, the URL bar color, etc. (Yes, this is antecdotal, non-scientific data, YMMV).
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That's a feature, not a bug!
Well actually, the dump trucks analogy is closer... each segment of data is packaged into a single 'load' (packet), and packets don't necessarily arrive in order. If there are too many trucks on the road, some can crash, losing the data (packet loss). And so on...
Cheers
I don't know if you have the same binaries on Windows as *nix, but if you associate with gimp-remote.exe rather than gimp.exe, it should only open one instance. (At least that works on Unix platforms).
Cheers
I agree wholeheartedly.
Even worse are the new video blogs (not quite sure if it's blogs, or tutorials or what...), I am seeing them all the time when searching for a technical question (e.g., "how to do X on system Y"). I don't want to watch a 5 minute tutorial - I want to find the one line command to do something!
Cheers
Well, if you are on some sort of Unix, you can enable focus follows mouse (or sloppy focus) and things just work great. I don't know about Windows - I think there are hacks which allow this, but I haven't used Windows for ages...
I do agree that without this, it is very annoying to have to click twice.
Cheers
Can't it have everything as a multi-document all under one window?
Please, no! Multiple windows are great for multiple monitors and / or multiple documents being edited at once. I can't stand programs which force you into one window. If you want, you can combine all the tool docks into one, and thus have just a document window and a tool window, but please don't force us to do so!
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Nah, the parameters on the URL are just the default Joomla CMS system's way of showing the article / page, etc.
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Well, if you want to go into semantics, they have not been called 'laptops' by their respective manufacturers for about 7+ years now (at least none which I have seen - feel free to point a true 'laptop' out to me if you are aware of any links).
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The audio from the dock is always identical to the audio from the headphone connector. See my iPod hacking page at http://thecave.homeunix.org/ipod_hardware.jsp for more information on what I have found regarding iPod touch hardware so far...
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And knowing is half the battle.
Will Ferrell seemed to hold his own quite well, although I admit Jon could have done better. 8-)
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