Works just fine is a bit of an overstatement. Took me a few minutes to reorient to the controls and remind myself why we started actually using the mouse with DOOM. Ouch.
The textures are fucked for me. As I walk by a dead body there is clearly a frame that flashes of the soldier standing erect...every time. The side panels of doors also render as a rainbow.
Aside from that its very jerky, not smooth at all. Looks better with the browser in full screen mode but, still rendering badly.
I know its free but, as someone who played the original, for all its faults, it was better than this.
Agreed. I mean, even I am a bit young to actually remember it but... remember the "Traci Lords" scandal?
We have laws about ID in bars (which I think is stupid but don't get me started about drinking laws) precisely because its impossible to tell with accuracy who is over/under a certain age by visual inspection. When viewing porn, who fucking knows. Its not like every picture has the models in the scene holding up their ID.
even more ludicris.... a picture of a 16 year old is child porn, but with the laws about age of consent in my, and a few other states, its perfectly legal to have sex with that same 16 year old. (with her consent of course... though, as I read it, it may not be legal to have sex with her if she is a virgin until she is 18.... though, others don't seem to interpret it the same way, but that is how I read it)
Not true, just like AIDS and other STDs, there most certainly is a perfect protection available....its just that most people don't like sitting in the dark with all of their electronics unplugged, especially if they aren't getting laid either.
Of course, in either case, this solution is not considered fun.
You are incorrect, I don't see why any probing is needed. Terrorism, not just real, but even the lone incompetent idiots (who usually fail anyway) are so far and few between that I would happily board a plane, anonymously and with no screening at all, pay cash for my seat, and fly in safety and comfort, knowing everyone else on the plane could have and may have done exactly the same.
and I will STILL be many times safer than I was driving my car to the airport.
I feel more endangered BY the probing than anything else. How many times have people been detained because some TSA bafoon shit bricks over something completely innocuous that he didn't understand? Happens WAY more often than terrorism. Way more likely to happen. way more dangerous.
Freenet is fucked. I dust it off every few years and try it out and...its great... but its hard to setup, its slow, and its only REALLY secure from this sort of problem once you get into full darknet mode...which means having 5 or more friends who also run it (and them each having 4 more friends....lest they just get rolled right up and lead directly to you)
Love the concept but, it needs polish to catch on. I like the api though... thats what it really needs. A few front ends that use it. It needs a killer app that gets people to install it. I have seen some articles on how to use it as backend storage for an app, its just.... I don't know of any other than glorified reimplementation of usenet.... which is of course exactly whats needed really....it just needs to be easier to get your feet wet.... possibly get introduced to it backwards....
a newbie should install freenet because something he wants to use needs it. It shouldn't be "Im on freenet, now what can I do with it" because, a lot less people really care at that level.
Thats my rant on freenet:) love it, but so wish it was better. Actually, I was thinking a "Facebook" sort of app could be a killer app. It seems kinda backwards with so much going into anonymity, but what better way to provide a strong and uncompromising platform?
Except the fact that it ran mixmaster, which has been around since the 90s, could be easily verified.
Who is collecting their evidence? Who is doing the analsys? Are they hiring unpaid interns now?
Nobody qualified to be doing these sort of digital forensics has a leg to stand on claiming that he doesn't or shouldn't either already be aware of mixmaster, or trivially able to find out about it and realise that it was a pointless endeavour.
Seriously.... its been around since the 90s, and not exactly hidden. Are there seriously people doing foresnics investigations who don't know about tools like that or how to use google?
Come on, what does good gamer do? Put himself in the shoes of the other player and ask "What is the best move in his position?" This sort of thinking requires you to question what you think you know to make inferences.
How do we know any of these things? We don't. That's just the truth. We have no way of knowing, and we never will. Even the members of "Seal Team Six" wouldn't know...there is no way they read everything they collected. Nobody but the analysts will ever know.... until one of them writes a book about it...and then we still will have to wonder if he is full of shit or not.
We do know that they claim this is a small fraction of the total.
What is the smart move?
Fakes take work but, in this case, there is a low chance of anyone ever proving a fake. Denials by someone whose words were faked may come if they are still alive, but, it would be there word against the US Governments.
My guess is they are real, but heavily cherry-picked. They released enough to refocus some media attention on their crusade. That is always good when you are trying to justify your job. I don't know if you have gotten up close and personal with the inner workings of a lumbering bureaucracy like the federal government, but, from what I have seen, the top and middle are a constant storm of minor players scrambling to look important so that their budget gets expanded rather than cut. So any release like this is excellent for someone.
On the more tactical side, NPR was astounded at how unlike a comic book supervillian he really was, and more like a "Worried CEO", there is probably some attempt to highlight this in an attempt to demystify him.
added bonus, probably increases the general levels of communication within their networks, and entices any existing groups/members to make public statements in response, which provides more information, keeps the cause in front of the cameras, and gives the FBI some fodder to use on their front, creating fake terrorists to nab, and justify the eternal vigilance....and funding.
Fuck legality. They took these people's server, they were informed and even should have known it was pointless to do so. Fuck, it would have taken all of how many minutes of google searching to determine what fucking mixmaster was.
This was incompetence. Besides that.... simple fucking common courtesy says you inform people and appologize. Fuck the law, this is about decency and about serving the public, rather than just acting like a bunch of no account thugs.
Honestly, someone should be fired for such gross negligence on their part, and there should be appologies and compensation.
I was thinking similar. I was messing with X10 a decade ago, and it wasn't terribly new then. Very limiting. I was looking at really doing up the house with a project like this, but, over a wider area than a dorm, and I eventually want more intelligently controlled devices (RGB lights, I want to be able to go from soft white, to warm white, or rave/strobe mode)
In any case... X10 is cool and all, but, so basically all I need to do to really fuck with him is inject X10 from anywhere in his building...a dorm. ROTFL good luck kid. I bet he is going to find his shit going crazy at 4 am pretty soon.
I don't have those worries but...in a place as humorously "hostile" as a dorm where any of hundreds of people could just decide to mess with you, and watch the results! That is just asking for it. X10 doesn't have the first bit of message authentication or authorisation.
I never have been to this hackerspace. I found out about it at Arisia 2011, when I saw a previous boss of mine sitting at a table in Dealer's Room. We chatted for a bit, and it turns out, he was manning the Artists Asylum table. They look really fucking cool. They have a 3d printer (soon I will too:) ), CNC machine etc.... and they offer classes on how to use the tools and do stuff with it. When I was looking, I believe they also had other classess on other tools and techniques.
I want to check them out one day, maybe actually be social, but, I tend to have my own tools and like to work at my house on my projects.
I agree with part A, Part B, I am unconvinced of. I have never used dropbox, at all. From the day I heard of it...I wanted something just like it, but not run by someone else, or at least somewhat secure.
I used UbuntuOne for a while, which fell apart when I had to start using a Redhat desktop on my work laptop. Oops... getting U1 on any linux other than Ubuntu isn't supported at all.... I could do it, but it was painful and was going to potentially be painful on every upgrade...
In any case, I have few requirements. A) whatever it is must transport data securely B) it must store data either entirely on physical hard drives under my control, or it must be encrypted on disk, such that only I have the key. C) I need it to work on Linux and Windows, optionally but desireably Android.
I am willing to use encfs and otherwise only store encrypted files, but even that is problematic since I want to access them from my droid. I gave up on that for now, and was happy to just be able to get at some of the encrypted files that I could then decrypt. (password store being the major "killer app" for me)
Anyway, my next attempt was webdav. I setup my own webdav server, and quickly found that I couldn't make it work through a proxy (a requirement for the environment I am in) with the Gnome desktop tools available in RHEL6 equivalents. (I haven't tried with newer versions)
Overall, its very simple what it does and it SHOULD BE very replacable. The main reason it exists is that there are many incompatible solutions that work in a subset of where they are needed. Though, the webdav solution is looking pretty promising, if I can get proxies to work through nautilus.
I really like the dropbox solution though, especially since it syncs local copies around, meaning that if the service should go away, I still have my data.... and thats very important to me. I don't even trust google to hold data that I care about without backups.
it is only as significant as people make it. Its hardly the first or last time buildings were destroyed with people inside. Many many more lives have been lost since.
Significance exists only in the mind of the beholder.... I see none. It was just a publicity stunt, by an organisation that became a victim of its own success. No way to ever top it, and with fewer friends and supporters than ever.
They were never an existential threat, 3000 people, while a lot to die at once, when put in perspective is only a couple of months of highway accidents.
Hell, I have even seen stories recently where Al Queda central has been warning its affiliates that terror attacks on civilian targets can backfire horribly and they should avoid those sorts of campaigns. Even they seem to have rethought how much of a win it was.
Though its been pointed out before that campaigns against civilian targets tend to not play well and tend to work very very poorly. Again, leading me to ask, why mark something to be remembered which, is a bulwark against ineffective, self-defeating tactics?
Yes being 21 feet taller than the tallest building in that city must have added so many huge technical challenges. Sure its impressive, but this isn't about impressive technical challenfes, its a nationalist hooray for us. Its drivel.
9/11 was a tragic event, but never forgotten? Why? what does remembering it teach us? I don't see any important lesson in it. Bad shit happens? Sometimes a few dedicated people will fuck shit up for other people?
Much more to remember is peoples terrible overreactions which continue to this very day. 9/11 was pretty forgetable compared to the backlash it caused. Compared to the massive expansion of govenrment securituy apparatus, compared to the exercises in airport security theater? Meh, 9/11 itself was just a few guys bringing some buildings down and killing a bunch of people.
There really isn't very much impressive about it, it wasn't even a repeatable strategy, as before the day was out. The ONLY reason it worked in the first place was because passengers were expecting a normal "hostage situation" hijacking, where it made sense to stay in their seats and wait for the situation to be resolved. By the end of the day the whole plan was useless to try again.
The thumbnail thing is a good point, hadn't considered that. Though, if they are generating that to service a request that you made, then, do they need that right granted? I would think its a derivative work created by the request of the copyright holder. I would say a limited license is clearly implied there. Though, I can't blame them for being explicit to CYA.
That said...I don't use dropbox either. I did use ubuntu one, but I never stored anything on it that wasn't encrypted. They are welcome to make derive as many works as they like from my data after I have transformed it via AES256:)
That said, I have, overall never felt like I could trust this sort of service unless I ran the server. Being able to do my own encryption on top mitigates many issues but... I never found enough encfs solutions... like one for android. Then ubuntuOne doesn't have easy packages for the linux distro I am kinda stuck with at work.... blah blah. Bottom line, I am still on the lookout for a solution in this space that doesn't require me to trust people I don't know more than I should.
If if if.... wars are fought for politicians careers, and contractors shareholders. All the lofty ideals are just the lies they use to dupe 18 year old poor kids into signing up to die.
and from that BS, I would be happy to have clean hands.
My Fucking grandfather fought in Korea. He sat in a half track with machine guns gunning down DPRK soldiers for the "lofty goals" of fighting communism and keeping "South Korea" free... in a conflict that officially has outlived him. To "keep free" a country which, still to this day, arrests political dissidents who insult the government.
Lofty ideals my ass. We are allied with the Saudis....the people who only decided, after very public international pressure was applies, that maybe they shouldn't stone a woman to death who was seen in public with a man who wasn't her husband...oh yah...and gang raped by the group of men who saw her in public without said man. Yah.... tell me more about your lofty ideals.
Given who we are really talking about being in charge, and what wars are really fought for...I will take clean hands any day of the fucking week.
I didn't say there is no mobility, just that it is less than we would like. Even with very little mobility, you will always have edge cases.
Also, there are more issues than just being poor. If I were placing odds, I would give a person from a poor family with well educated parents much better odds than someone from a reasonably better family with uneducated (and I don't mean grade level completed so much as equivalency... I mean ability to read/write/do basic math maybe some algebra)
Of course, its also a matter of what you are taught and social attitudes. Did you know that the #1 predictor of a childs sucess in math is not, in fact, any of these factors but whether or not they believe that math is a skill that can be learned or a talent that is inborn.
Seriously.... just believing that you can learn it if you put the effort in is it. Which makes some amount of sense, if you don't believe you can learn it, then why would you waste your time studying it? Of course... where do we get attitudes like that? Do you think a kid is more or less likely to believe that he can learn math if the parents who raised him believed that it was an inborn talent?
I think you are the one missing the point. The context of the discussion was about character placement in a film thats supposed to take place HERE. What goes on in other places doesn't matter in this context, in fact, its explicitly irrelevant.
I often wonder why people invoke racism so often when it comes to these issues when the reality is... disadvantaged white kids often fare pretty poorly too. If one of your strongest indicators, do you really need race to explain why, generation after generation, racial dmeographics shift less than we "would like".
Yes the smartest in this society are probably mostly a bunch of white guys. Not because being white makes you better, or smarter, but because there are more white people who can give their children the opportunity to advance. Which isn't to say that being white people gave them that ability, but just that, the "initial condition" that we started with has done more to influence the outcome than we want to give it credit.
In short, I often feel racism is used as an excuse to deny the lack of real mobility within society....because if you don't think race/genetics is a major factor, then how do you explain the "lack of progress" along racial lines, if there is very high mobility? Seems to me it may be the lack of real mobility.
Which explains why noscript blocks bookmarklets from working on pages where it isn't allowing scripts. Makes sense.
Actually, the beginings of this sounds like FireGPG, which I believe is no longer under active development. However, it had an API to be called by scripts on sites that wanted to directly support it...however, it could easily be used by copying text and telling firegpg to decrypt it, or encrypting text with it and pasting it.
Should be 3. not used to elicit CONFESSIONS from a prisoner.
Torture isn't intended to get real information, just confessions. For which is it quite effective. I promise you I will confess to the murder of Abraham Lincoln if you torture it out of me...every time.
Hmmmm yes...or javascript? Could be a bookmarklet even.
Store it locally, so changes can't be made on the fly if the server gets 0wn3d. Individuals who really care can download the known good client from a specific source. Then they have to trust that source, but only once, and can verify their copy both at time of download and at any later date, with a simple hash.
That removes the need to trust each server using it, and only needing to trust that you got it from a good repo where the code is being actively maintained. At some point you need to trust that the code is being reviewed and someone would eventually catch a trojan version, one way or another.
However, thats a lot easier with one repo that many people use, than many repos that few use (which is what you have when each instance distributes its own client). Of course, then you get into versions, and updates for each client....
yes but, they were after megaupload. Of course you would make a coordinated takedown of a multi-homed system. Of course.... warm spares may be invisible until its time to turn them on... but thats besides the point.
Remember, we are talking about a customer who was on the same box. So... in theory, sharing a box/rack/whatever with someone who may be their target...it is unlikely that secondary boxes would be shared with the same other customer.... especially if at another DC.
Yah I wasn't really serious about the 0 as black. Yah it does seem to help with that, for me its more about eye strain. When I turn down the brightness on an LCD low, I feel the difference in my eyes. Same for going to dark backgrounds, its less strain on my eyes. Not as much less as reading text on paper or e-ink, but it is very much noticeable to me.
I care about power usage, but only up to a point. In many ways, I am care more about not just wasting it. Keeping the lcd brightness higher than is needed, as you say, kills the real picture quality, so all that extra energy is actually worst than wasted...its actively making your experience worst.
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Works just fine is a bit of an overstatement. Took me a few minutes to reorient to the controls and remind myself why we started actually using the mouse with DOOM. Ouch.
The textures are fucked for me. As I walk by a dead body there is clearly a frame that flashes of the soldier standing erect...every time. The side panels of doors also render as a rainbow.
Aside from that its very jerky, not smooth at all. Looks better with the browser in full screen mode but, still rendering badly.
I know its free but, as someone who played the original, for all its faults, it was better than this.
Agreed. I mean, even I am a bit young to actually remember it but... remember the "Traci Lords" scandal?
We have laws about ID in bars (which I think is stupid but don't get me started about drinking laws) precisely because its impossible to tell with accuracy who is over/under a certain age by visual inspection. When viewing porn, who fucking knows. Its not like every picture has the models in the scene holding up their ID.
even more ludicris.... a picture of a 16 year old is child porn, but with the laws about age of consent in my, and a few other states, its perfectly legal to have sex with that same 16 year old. (with her consent of course... though, as I read it, it may not be legal to have sex with her if she is a virgin until she is 18.... though, others don't seem to interpret it the same way, but that is how I read it)
Not true, just like AIDS and other STDs, there most certainly is a perfect protection available....its just that most people don't like sitting in the dark with all of their electronics unplugged, especially if they aren't getting laid either.
Of course, in either case, this solution is not considered fun.
You are incorrect, I don't see why any probing is needed. Terrorism, not just real, but even the lone incompetent idiots (who usually fail anyway) are so far and few between that I would happily board a plane, anonymously and with no screening at all, pay cash for my seat, and fly in safety and comfort, knowing everyone else on the plane could have and may have done exactly the same.
and I will STILL be many times safer than I was driving my car to the airport.
I feel more endangered BY the probing than anything else. How many times have people been detained because some TSA bafoon shit bricks over something completely innocuous that he didn't understand? Happens WAY more often than terrorism. Way more likely to happen. way more dangerous.
Freenet is fucked. I dust it off every few years and try it out and...its great... but its hard to setup, its slow, and its only REALLY secure from this sort of problem once you get into full darknet mode...which means having 5 or more friends who also run it (and them each having 4 more friends....lest they just get rolled right up and lead directly to you)
Love the concept but, it needs polish to catch on. I like the api though... thats what it really needs. A few front ends that use it. It needs a killer app that gets people to install it. I have seen some articles on how to use it as backend storage for an app, its just.... I don't know of any other than glorified reimplementation of usenet.... which is of course exactly whats needed really....it just needs to be easier to get your feet wet.... possibly get introduced to it backwards....
a newbie should install freenet because something he wants to use needs it. It shouldn't be "Im on freenet, now what can I do with it" because, a lot less people really care at that level.
Thats my rant on freenet :) love it, but so wish it was better. Actually, I was thinking a "Facebook" sort of app could be a killer app. It seems kinda backwards with so much going into anonymity, but what better way to provide a strong and uncompromising platform?
Except the fact that it ran mixmaster, which has been around since the 90s, could be easily verified.
Who is collecting their evidence? Who is doing the analsys? Are they hiring unpaid interns now?
Nobody qualified to be doing these sort of digital forensics has a leg to stand on claiming that he doesn't or shouldn't either already be aware of mixmaster, or trivially able to find out about it and realise that it was a pointless endeavour.
Seriously.... its been around since the 90s, and not exactly hidden. Are there seriously people doing foresnics investigations who don't know about tools like that or how to use google?
Not just conspiracy theorists but gamers.
Come on, what does good gamer do? Put himself in the shoes of the other player and ask "What is the best move in his position?" This sort of thinking requires you to question what you think you know to make inferences.
How do we know any of these things? We don't. That's just the truth. We have no way of knowing, and we never will. Even the members of "Seal Team Six" wouldn't know...there is no way they read everything they collected. Nobody but the analysts will ever know.... until one of them writes a book about it...and then we still will have to wonder if he is full of shit or not.
We do know that they claim this is a small fraction of the total.
What is the smart move?
Fakes take work but, in this case, there is a low chance of anyone ever proving a fake. Denials by someone whose words were faked may come if they are still alive, but, it would be there word against the US Governments.
My guess is they are real, but heavily cherry-picked. They released enough to refocus some media attention on their crusade. That is always good when you are trying to justify your job. I don't know if you have gotten up close and personal with the inner workings of a lumbering bureaucracy like the federal government, but, from what I have seen, the top and middle are a constant storm of minor players scrambling to look important so that their budget gets expanded rather than cut. So any release like this is excellent for someone.
On the more tactical side, NPR was astounded at how unlike a comic book supervillian he really was, and more like a "Worried CEO", there is probably some attempt to highlight this in an attempt to demystify him.
added bonus, probably increases the general levels of communication within their networks, and entices any existing groups/members to make public statements in response, which provides more information, keeps the cause in front of the cameras, and gives the FBI some fodder to use on their front, creating fake terrorists to nab, and justify the eternal vigilance....and funding.
Fuck legality. They took these people's server, they were informed and even should have known it was pointless to do so. Fuck, it would have taken all of how many minutes of google searching to determine what fucking mixmaster was.
This was incompetence. Besides that.... simple fucking common courtesy says you inform people and appologize. Fuck the law, this is about decency and about serving the public, rather than just acting like a bunch of no account thugs.
Honestly, someone should be fired for such gross negligence on their part, and there should be appologies and compensation.
I was thinking similar. I was messing with X10 a decade ago, and it wasn't terribly new then. Very limiting. I was looking at really doing up the house with a project like this, but, over a wider area than a dorm, and I eventually want more intelligently controlled devices (RGB lights, I want to be able to go from soft white, to warm white, or rave/strobe mode)
In any case... X10 is cool and all, but, so basically all I need to do to really fuck with him is inject X10 from anywhere in his building...a dorm. ROTFL good luck kid. I bet he is going to find his shit going crazy at 4 am pretty soon.
I don't have those worries but...in a place as humorously "hostile" as a dorm where any of hundreds of people could just decide to mess with you, and watch the results! That is just asking for it. X10 doesn't have the first bit of message authentication or authorisation.
I never have been to this hackerspace. I found out about it at Arisia 2011, when I saw a previous boss of mine sitting at a table in Dealer's Room. We chatted for a bit, and it turns out, he was manning the Artists Asylum table. They look really fucking cool. They have a 3d printer (soon I will too :) ), CNC machine etc.... and they offer classes on how to use the tools and do stuff with it. When I was looking, I believe they also had other classess on other tools and techniques.
I want to check them out one day, maybe actually be social, but, I tend to have my own tools and like to work at my house on my projects.
I agree with part A, Part B, I am unconvinced of. I have never used dropbox, at all. From the day I heard of it...I wanted something just like it, but not run by someone else, or at least somewhat secure.
I used UbuntuOne for a while, which fell apart when I had to start using a Redhat desktop on my work laptop. Oops... getting U1 on any linux other than Ubuntu isn't supported at all.... I could do it, but it was painful and was going to potentially be painful on every upgrade...
In any case, I have few requirements. A) whatever it is must transport data securely B) it must store data either entirely on physical hard drives under my control, or it must be encrypted on disk, such that only I have the key. C) I need it to work on Linux and Windows, optionally but desireably Android.
I am willing to use encfs and otherwise only store encrypted files, but even that is problematic since I want to access them from my droid. I gave up on that for now, and was happy to just be able to get at some of the encrypted files that I could then decrypt. (password store being the major "killer app" for me)
Anyway, my next attempt was webdav. I setup my own webdav server, and quickly found that I couldn't make it work through a proxy (a requirement for the environment I am in) with the Gnome desktop tools available in RHEL6 equivalents. (I haven't tried with newer versions)
Overall, its very simple what it does and it SHOULD BE very replacable. The main reason it exists is that there are many incompatible solutions that work in a subset of where they are needed. Though, the webdav solution is looking pretty promising, if I can get proxies to work through nautilus.
I really like the dropbox solution though, especially since it syncs local copies around, meaning that if the service should go away, I still have my data.... and thats very important to me. I don't even trust google to hold data that I care about without backups.
it is only as significant as people make it. Its hardly the first or last time buildings were destroyed with people inside. Many many more lives have been lost since.
Significance exists only in the mind of the beholder.... I see none. It was just a publicity stunt, by an organisation that became a victim of its own success. No way to ever top it, and with fewer friends and supporters than ever.
They were never an existential threat, 3000 people, while a lot to die at once, when put in perspective is only a couple of months of highway accidents.
Hell, I have even seen stories recently where Al Queda central has been warning its affiliates that terror attacks on civilian targets can backfire horribly and they should avoid those sorts of campaigns. Even they seem to have rethought how much of a win it was.
Though its been pointed out before that campaigns against civilian targets tend to not play well and tend to work very very poorly. Again, leading me to ask, why mark something to be remembered which, is a bulwark against ineffective, self-defeating tactics?
Yes being 21 feet taller than the tallest building in that city must have added so many huge technical challenges. Sure its impressive, but this isn't about impressive technical challenfes, its a nationalist hooray for us. Its drivel.
9/11 was a tragic event, but never forgotten? Why? what does remembering it teach us? I don't see any important lesson in it. Bad shit happens? Sometimes a few dedicated people will fuck shit up for other people?
Much more to remember is peoples terrible overreactions which continue to this very day. 9/11 was pretty forgetable compared to the backlash it caused. Compared to the massive expansion of govenrment securituy apparatus, compared to the exercises in airport security theater? Meh, 9/11 itself was just a few guys bringing some buildings down and killing a bunch of people.
There really isn't very much impressive about it, it wasn't even a repeatable strategy, as before the day was out. The ONLY reason it worked in the first place was because passengers were expecting a normal "hostage situation" hijacking, where it made sense to stay in their seats and wait for the situation to be resolved. By the end of the day the whole plan was useless to try again.
The thumbnail thing is a good point, hadn't considered that. Though, if they are generating that to service a request that you made, then, do they need that right granted? I would think its a derivative work created by the request of the copyright holder. I would say a limited license is clearly implied there. Though, I can't blame them for being explicit to CYA.
That said...I don't use dropbox either. I did use ubuntu one, but I never stored anything on it that wasn't encrypted. They are welcome to make derive as many works as they like from my data after I have transformed it via AES256 :)
That said, I have, overall never felt like I could trust this sort of service unless I ran the server. Being able to do my own encryption on top mitigates many issues but... I never found enough encfs solutions... like one for android. Then ubuntuOne doesn't have easy packages for the linux distro I am kinda stuck with at work.... blah blah. Bottom line, I am still on the lookout for a solution in this space that doesn't require me to trust people I don't know more than I should.
If if if.... wars are fought for politicians careers, and contractors shareholders. All the lofty ideals are just the lies they use to dupe 18 year old poor kids into signing up to die.
and from that BS, I would be happy to have clean hands.
My Fucking grandfather fought in Korea. He sat in a half track with machine guns gunning down DPRK soldiers for the "lofty goals" of fighting communism and keeping "South Korea" free... in a conflict that officially has outlived him. To "keep free" a country which, still to this day, arrests political dissidents who insult the government.
Lofty ideals my ass. We are allied with the Saudis....the people who only decided, after very public international pressure was applies, that maybe they shouldn't stone a woman to death who was seen in public with a man who wasn't her husband...oh yah...and gang raped by the group of men who saw her in public without said man. Yah.... tell me more about your lofty ideals.
Given who we are really talking about being in charge, and what wars are really fought for...I will take clean hands any day of the fucking week.
Your right it doesn't, the only reason for that is so they can sell their derivitve of your data to their customers.
I didn't say there is no mobility, just that it is less than we would like. Even with very little mobility, you will always have edge cases.
Also, there are more issues than just being poor. If I were placing odds, I would give a person from a poor family with well educated parents much better odds than someone from a reasonably better family with uneducated (and I don't mean grade level completed so much as equivalency... I mean ability to read/write/do basic math maybe some algebra)
Of course, its also a matter of what you are taught and social attitudes. Did you know that the #1 predictor of a childs sucess in math is not, in fact, any of these factors but whether or not they believe that math is a skill that can be learned or a talent that is inborn.
Seriously.... just believing that you can learn it if you put the effort in is it. Which makes some amount of sense, if you don't believe you can learn it, then why would you waste your time studying it? Of course... where do we get attitudes like that? Do you think a kid is more or less likely to believe that he can learn math if the parents who raised him believed that it was an inborn talent?
I think you are the one missing the point. The context of the discussion was about character placement in a film thats supposed to take place HERE. What goes on in other places doesn't matter in this context, in fact, its explicitly irrelevant.
I often wonder why people invoke racism so often when it comes to these issues when the reality is... disadvantaged white kids often fare pretty poorly too. If one of your strongest indicators, do you really need race to explain why, generation after generation, racial dmeographics shift less than we "would like".
Yes the smartest in this society are probably mostly a bunch of white guys. Not because being white makes you better, or smarter, but because there are more white people who can give their children the opportunity to advance. Which isn't to say that being white people gave them that ability, but just that, the "initial condition" that we started with has done more to influence the outcome than we want to give it credit.
In short, I often feel racism is used as an excuse to deny the lack of real mobility within society....because if you don't think race/genetics is a major factor, then how do you explain the "lack of progress" along racial lines, if there is very high mobility? Seems to me it may be the lack of real mobility.
Which explains why noscript blocks bookmarklets from working on pages where it isn't allowing scripts. Makes sense.
Actually, the beginings of this sounds like FireGPG, which I believe is no longer under active development. However, it had an API to be called by scripts on sites that wanted to directly support it...however, it could easily be used by copying text and telling firegpg to decrypt it, or encrypting text with it and pasting it.
Should be 3. not used to elicit CONFESSIONS from a prisoner.
Torture isn't intended to get real information, just confessions. For which is it quite effective. I promise you I will confess to the murder of Abraham Lincoln if you torture it out of me...every time.
Hmmmm yes...or javascript? Could be a bookmarklet even.
Store it locally, so changes can't be made on the fly if the server gets 0wn3d. Individuals who really care can download the known good client from a specific source. Then they have to trust that source, but only once, and can verify their copy both at time of download and at any later date, with a simple hash.
That removes the need to trust each server using it, and only needing to trust that you got it from a good repo where the code is being actively maintained. At some point you need to trust that the code is being reviewed and someone would eventually catch a trojan version, one way or another.
However, thats a lot easier with one repo that many people use, than many repos that few use (which is what you have when each instance distributes its own client). Of course, then you get into versions, and updates for each client....
I hadn't considered that aspect, yes an excellent point.
yes but, they were after megaupload. Of course you would make a coordinated takedown of a multi-homed system. Of course.... warm spares may be invisible until its time to turn them on... but thats besides the point.
Remember, we are talking about a customer who was on the same box. So... in theory, sharing a box/rack/whatever with someone who may be their target...it is unlikely that secondary boxes would be shared with the same other customer.... especially if at another DC.
Yah I wasn't really serious about the 0 as black. Yah it does seem to help with that, for me its more about eye strain. When I turn down the brightness on an LCD low, I feel the difference in my eyes. Same for going to dark backgrounds, its less strain on my eyes. Not as much less as reading text on paper or e-ink, but it is very much noticeable to me.
I care about power usage, but only up to a point. In many ways, I am care more about not just wasting it. Keeping the lcd brightness higher than is needed, as you say, kills the real picture quality, so all that extra energy is actually worst than wasted...its actively making your experience worst.