Currently the mantra "If you are not a terrorist/paedophile/Mexican, you have nothing to hide" and "you'll have no privacy when the terrorists win" seems to be the flavor of the day.
Here is another mantra: "If you are watching me, then you is watching you? Absolume power corrupts absolutely" and "Them or you, no matter who wins, I lose"
Flickr can add an option to show only photographs (which will probabaly be activated by default while the user can change it).
But if they don't want at all non-photographs, and they want to discurage people from doing that, then it's a good strategy.
I recommend Slackware (www.slackware.com) along with the official book, Slackbook: www.slackbook.org. Slackware and Slackbook is a nice introduction to Linux. You can view it online or download a PDF.
Slackware is, as far as I know, the oldest Linux distribution in existance. It is simple and clear. I hear comments say that it is very close to pure Unix (I can't say myself, I haven't used Unix, nor any of the modern BSDs). It's a a "do it yourself" fashion, it doesn't rely on configuration "wizards". From an educational point of view, I think that it is the best way to go.
There is a "slogan" saying, "When you learn a X/Y/Z distribution (Fedora, Suse, etc), you know that X/Y/Z distribution. When you learn Slackware, you know Linux."
One suggestion: You can have a dual-boot with Slackware and another, more "automated", distribution, like Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, etc.
If malware reduces, it's bad for their bussiness. It's so easy for them to collaborate with spammers in order to "fight" them later. Spammers get some time of "reign" and then anti-malware companies "fix" the problem. Everybody wins. Everybody but the consumer.
If it is going to be one base, then ok. But we already do all those nasty things here on earth and disturb balance. Why this will stop once we head for the moon?
If, with our processing, change the mass of the moon (increase it or decrease it), then this may become dangerous for the balance of moon's orbit. We must be very careful.
Inhabiting moon will not be the answer for an over-populated planet. But it is interesting for scientific purposes.
Not to mention it completely ignores the economic factors which created the "monoculture". It's cheaper for society to buy anti-virus than to support multiple OSes, and the analogists just have to deal with that. Computers are tools. Period.
Linux and BSDs are developed by volunteers who take pleasure, are free-as-in-freedom, and most of the times are free of monetary cost.
Corporations (like Redhat) make money from this model too, and they give back to the community. It works nice. Simple users are not oblidged to comply with the monetary cost.
Windows cost money to all. Anti-virus cost money to all. A computer jammed from a virus/trojan/malware cost money to all.
GnuPG/GPG (http://www.gnupg.org/) for encrypting e-mails and TOR (http://tor.eff.org/) for anonymous Internet communication.
Many people say "I will encrypt if I am sending/recieing something important/strange". It sounds reasonable, but this his way they (the ones who, legaly or illegaly, oversee) know when you send/recieve something (that you think is) "special" and to who. It's worse than not encrypting at all. They know that you have things to hide other than casual things (aunt's cookie recipe).
The point is that even the aunt's cookie recipe, or the photograph of me in my backyard is something I want to choose who will see.
So if we want privacy, we must use encryption in every single message we send/recieve. The problem is what happens when you need to communicate with someone who doesn't know to use GPG or is not willing to learn. Well, in that case you must choose, either privacy or communication.
Yes, you are right. I missed this one because I don't click on the ads. And with GoogleEarth, they provide a "Pro" version which requires a fee. So even GoogleEarth is not entirely a venture they do entirely for free.
Yes it is different. Now they will be able to see you without you having to walk you out of their windows. Similar to saying, the difference of watching a theatrical play from TV or actually going to the theater. It seperates the physical presence from watching.
This is, somewhat, different than "1984". We (the society) are watching ourselves. Multiple questions after that point:
1. Will they show us whatever goes through the cameras? Or will they filter it?
2. Will this, eventually, function as a transition from "we are watching ourselves" to "they are watching us"? ("they": the government/state).
I don't think it's important. Since Gtalk uses the Jabber protocol, there are already good clients for Linux. Google even explains how to make Gaim work with Gtalk.
The biggest crimes against humanity were performed by governments. The 20th century is full of examples.
This whole "terrorism" thing has it's shadowy spots (http://www.justacitizen.com/). Besides, if you are listening to us, then who is listening to you? Who is going to audit the auditors?
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Currently the mantra "If you are not a terrorist/paedophile/Mexican, you have nothing to hide" and "you'll have no privacy when the terrorists win" seems to be the flavor of the day.
Here is another mantra: "If you are watching me, then you is watching you? Absolume power corrupts absolutely" and "Them or you, no matter who wins, I lose"
How can we teach them? What can we do or say that will help?
Flickr can add an option to show only photographs (which will probabaly be activated by default while the user can change it). But if they don't want at all non-photographs, and they want to discurage people from doing that, then it's a good strategy.
I recommend Slackware (www.slackware.com) along with the official book, Slackbook: www.slackbook.org. Slackware and Slackbook is a nice introduction to Linux. You can view it online or download a PDF.
Slackware is, as far as I know, the oldest Linux distribution in existance. It is simple and clear. I hear comments say that it is very close to pure Unix (I can't say myself, I haven't used Unix, nor any of the modern BSDs). It's a a "do it yourself" fashion, it doesn't rely on configuration "wizards". From an educational point of view, I think that it is the best way to go.
There is a "slogan" saying, "When you learn a X/Y/Z distribution (Fedora, Suse, etc), you know that X/Y/Z distribution. When you learn Slackware, you know Linux."
One suggestion: You can have a dual-boot with Slackware and another, more "automated", distribution, like Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, etc.
Not a flamebait. "Black humor" yes.
If malware reduces, it's bad for their bussiness. It's so easy for them to collaborate with spammers in order to "fight" them later. Spammers get some time of "reign" and then anti-malware companies "fix" the problem. Everybody wins. Everybody but the consumer.
the Bush administration is preparing another 9/11 "Perl Harbor"?
If it is going to be one base, then ok. But we already do all those nasty things here on earth and disturb balance. Why this will stop once we head for the moon?
If, with our processing, change the mass of the moon (increase it or decrease it), then this may become dangerous for the balance of moon's orbit. We must be very careful.
Inhabiting moon will not be the answer for an over-populated planet. But it is interesting for scientific purposes.
Not to mention it completely ignores the economic factors which created the "monoculture". It's cheaper for society to buy anti-virus than to support multiple OSes, and the analogists just have to deal with that. Computers are tools. Period.
Linux and BSDs are developed by volunteers who take pleasure, are free-as-in-freedom, and most of the times are free of monetary cost.
Corporations (like Redhat) make money from this model too, and they give back to the community. It works nice. Simple users are not oblidged to comply with the monetary cost.
Windows cost money to all. Anti-virus cost money to all. A computer jammed from a virus/trojan/malware cost money to all.
Let's Criminalize knifes. They can be used to kill someone.
GnuPG/GPG (http://www.gnupg.org/) for encrypting e-mails and TOR (http://tor.eff.org/) for anonymous Internet communication.
Many people say "I will encrypt if I am sending/recieing something important/strange". It sounds reasonable, but this his way they (the ones who, legaly or illegaly, oversee) know when you send/recieve something (that you think is) "special" and to who. It's worse than not encrypting at all. They know that you have things to hide other than casual things (aunt's cookie recipe).
The point is that even the aunt's cookie recipe, or the photograph of me in my backyard is something I want to choose who will see.
So if we want privacy, we must use encryption in every single message we send/recieve. The problem is what happens when you need to communicate with someone who doesn't know to use GPG or is not willing to learn. Well, in that case you must choose, either privacy or communication.
Here is an interesting article I saw in Doom3World.org: http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1 0673
Check the fourth post. Here are some interesting links about ClipMapping/ClipTexture:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gfx/Courses/2002/BigDa ta/papers/Texturing/Clipmap.pdf
http://www.sgi.com/products/software/performer/pre sentations/clipmap_intro.pdf
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc .cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&srch=&fname=/SGI_Developer/P erf_PG/sgi_html/ch15.html
It may be insignificant, but I accidently saw two relative commands in Doom3, r_showMegaTexture and r_megaTextureLevel.
Yes, you are right. I missed this one because I don't click on the ads. And with GoogleEarth, they provide a "Pro" version which requires a fee. So even GoogleEarth is not entirely a venture they do entirely for free.
Yes it is different. Now they will be able to see you without you having to walk you out of their windows. Similar to saying, the difference of watching a theatrical play from TV or actually going to the theater. It seperates the physical presence from watching.
This is, somewhat, different than "1984". We (the society) are watching ourselves. Multiple questions after that point: 1. Will they show us whatever goes through the cameras? Or will they filter it? 2. Will this, eventually, function as a transition from "we are watching ourselves" to "they are watching us"? ("they": the government/state).
I will not object to that. But they are not making money from Gmail and GoogleEarth too.
I don't think it's important. Since Gtalk uses the Jabber protocol, there are already good clients for Linux. Google even explains how to make Gaim work with Gtalk.
The biggest crimes against humanity were performed by governments. The 20th century is full of examples. This whole "terrorism" thing has it's shadowy spots (http://www.justacitizen.com/). Besides, if you are listening to us, then who is listening to you? Who is going to audit the auditors?