That won't help you much, as anyone with half a brain would be sure to make an image of the data in question prior to touching the file itself, so they'll still have a copy of it.
In the event of real coercive duress, you give them a key that *oops* results in them seeing your resume and a few other private, yet otherwise innocuous, files.
Ok, now I'm confused... what if I steal the slurpy and then beat the clerk to death with my laptop instead of shooting him? And while we're at it, can I petition the court for "time served" if the laptop had Vista on it?
Not that large eh? You'd think that with all the time and money companies spend on "targeted marketing" they would have realized that if they had a geeky or technical game that they wanted to sell, they could skip past all the grandmas and just sell it for Linux and thus have several million geeks as an audience. But now it's too late for that, because Grandmothers the world over are switching (or being switched by those who a sick of supporting their windows installations).
As for booting into windows... I love games and I run Linux. I refuse to pay a company money so I can drop everything and boot into windows to play a game and get value for my purchase. So here's my message to these games companies... "I run Linux. If you want my hard earned dollars, you'll have to come over to this side of the fence to get it, because this [*indicating Linux computer with sweeping motion of the hands*] is where I prefer to spend my work and play time... but chasing you on your terms, is not a game I'm interested in."
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --President "ugh" George W Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
If you purchase a Dell system with Ubuntu installed on it you can easily install KDE onto it, either through the graphical Synaptic package manager or by simply typing the following in a terminal:
First of all, it's a hell of a lot more than just "showing up and taking pictures". There are many hours involved in the preparation and the post-production work of a wedding, so the "over a thousand dollars" you pay goes towards several days worth of work. Not to mention the skill required to capture all of those non-repeatable events well.
Secondly, the photo equipment that they show up with isn't exactly cheap, and the good photographers will carry at least two of each body, lens, flash etc as a backup to make sure they capture that special day for you no matter what happens. We're talking about tens of thousands of dollars.
In the end, you get what you pay for. If you're not willing to pay for a nice record of one of the most important days of you life, you won't get one. But it seems silly not to, especially considering that many people pay tens of thousands of dollars for all of the non-lasting things involved in a wedding.
Actually, connecting via a cable is not that common at all as there is already a way to transmit images via wireless for professionals using Nikon or Canon equipment.
The purpose of transferring the images in this manner is to 1) eliminate the time involved downloading cards (time is money) 2) allow you to double check exposure and white balance on a color managed device (your environment is color managed I hope) and 3) allows your assistants to get to work on the final images before you've even finished shooting.
If you're using this because you need to check what's in focus after you take the shot, I suggest you work on your basic skills.
I've always found that a bit unfortunate as, like many other/.ers, I'm usually more motivated to post a comment when I have something humorous to say. (Or at least *I* think it's funny) What can I say, I guess my personality lends itself to being more +Funny than +Insightful.
That being said, I can understand the reason why this is the case and in fact agree with it; albeit somewhat begrudgingly at times.
I think that if there are moderators out there who are actually artificially boosting a poster's karma by inappropriately moderating a post +Insightful or +Informative when it should clearly be marked +Funny are abusing the system. Maybe not the rules of the system, but definitely the spirit of it.
With any luck, the meta-moderators are catching the subtle difference so the system can self-correct by eventually weeding out such rogue moderation.
I'm surprised no one has bothered to point out the fact that it is in Symantec's interest for people to use windows. They don't sell their products to *nix/OSX users.
So they say Windows is more secure to convince a few gullible people to buy into the platform. Then those sorry souls who believed them get infected and end up needing an antivirus product (if they haven't bought one already). Oh, gee.... look who they might go to with their cash at that point.
Where I live 90 is the norm and using your turn signals is a sign of weakness.
That said, I've taken road trips from the USA into Canada and had no trouble with changing from thinking in terms of mph to km/h mid trip when I crossed the border.
It probably has to do with the mismatch between systems, not a lack of the engineers' or astronauts ability to count on their piggies and toes. Their current configuration doesn't have a middleware layer that accounts for any possible differences. In other words, while the shuttle continues on thinking it's the 366th day, the ground control systems might get confused (e.g. "Hey, there's no such thing as a 366th day") and their programs may crash (no pun intended) as a result.
Step 1: Read in the 100MB file as binary Step 2: Scrub/remove all the 1's (they're bigger than 0 anyway so they're obviously taking up the most space) Step 3: Compress the remaining 0's to just one 0 because as we all know from math class 00000000000(etc) == 0
There, you've just converted 100MB of data into a single "0" which is just one byte long! I've got the compressor part down to a perl one-liner, but I'm still working on how to decompress it efficiently because strangely enough my decompresser is ~100MB in size, so it's still kinda alpha at the moment.
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That won't help you much, as anyone with half a brain would be sure to make an image of the data in question prior to touching the file itself, so they'll still have a copy of it.
What you really want is Plausible Deniability. Which is something that Truecrypt among others provides.
In the event of real coercive duress, you give them a key that *oops* results in them seeing your resume and a few other private, yet otherwise innocuous, files.
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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QKsZ78zUqPLh5pbIkghu8X0jHsNWOwMIIdEowrSKgGbAu/N/9JTj4FcWOvPtY4Wi
NKuZFFKJEHdUJFBm0kWiITyJms2N4qRd6GRPIgkUw9aRXRSwllBFGiA+FLTjz1nC
Ci8cKKzc0wCgci5XBtDVh3HOIPP1PcOXQ3M0HELzjeedAv81tcGB/CDLY2LjmJF6
6Un+oWE=
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Ok, now I'm confused... what if I steal the slurpy and then beat the clerk to death with my laptop instead of shooting him? And while we're at it, can I petition the court for "time served" if the laptop had Vista on it?
Not that large eh? You'd think that with all the time and money companies spend on "targeted marketing" they would have realized that if they had a geeky or technical game that they wanted to sell, they could skip past all the grandmas and just sell it for Linux and thus have several million geeks as an audience. But now it's too late for that, because Grandmothers the world over are switching (or being switched by those who a sick of supporting their windows installations).
As for booting into windows... I love games and I run Linux. I refuse to pay a company money so I can drop everything and boot into windows to play a game and get value for my purchase. So here's my message to these games companies... "I run Linux. If you want my hard earned dollars, you'll have to come over to this side of the fence to get it, because this [*indicating Linux computer with sweeping motion of the hands*] is where I prefer to spend my work and play time... but chasing you on your terms, is not a game I'm interested in."
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --President "ugh" George W Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
If you purchase a Dell system with Ubuntu installed on it you can easily install KDE onto it, either through the graphical Synaptic package manager or by simply typing the following in a terminal:
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop
You can get a free trial here.
Oh, wait...
First of all, it's a hell of a lot more than just "showing up and taking pictures". There are many hours involved in the preparation and the post-production work of a wedding, so the "over a thousand dollars" you pay goes towards several days worth of work. Not to mention the skill required to capture all of those non-repeatable events well.
Secondly, the photo equipment that they show up with isn't exactly cheap, and the good photographers will carry at least two of each body, lens, flash etc as a backup to make sure they capture that special day for you no matter what happens. We're talking about tens of thousands of dollars.
In the end, you get what you pay for. If you're not willing to pay for a nice record of one of the most important days of you life, you won't get one. But it seems silly not to, especially considering that many people pay tens of thousands of dollars for all of the non-lasting things involved in a wedding.
does it run Linux?
/obligatory
Actually, connecting via a cable is not that common at all as there is already a way to transmit images via wireless for professionals using Nikon or Canon equipment.
The purpose of transferring the images in this manner is to 1) eliminate the time involved downloading cards (time is money) 2) allow you to double check exposure and white balance on a color managed device (your environment is color managed I hope) and 3) allows your assistants to get to work on the final images before you've even finished shooting.
If you're using this because you need to check what's in focus after you take the shot, I suggest you work on your basic skills.
I've always found that a bit unfortunate as, like many other /.ers, I'm usually more motivated to post a comment when I have something humorous to say. (Or at least *I* think it's funny) What can I say, I guess my personality lends itself to being more +Funny than +Insightful.
That being said, I can understand the reason why this is the case and in fact agree with it; albeit somewhat begrudgingly at times.
I think that if there are moderators out there who are actually artificially boosting a poster's karma by inappropriately moderating a post +Insightful or +Informative when it should clearly be marked +Funny are abusing the system. Maybe not the rules of the system, but definitely the spirit of it.
With any luck, the meta-moderators are catching the subtle difference so the system can self-correct by eventually weeding out such rogue moderation.
You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow?
I'm surprised no one has bothered to point out the fact that it is in Symantec's interest for people to use windows. They don't sell their products to *nix/OSX users.
So they say Windows is more secure to convince a few gullible people to buy into the platform. Then those sorry souls who believed them get infected and end up needing an antivirus product (if they haven't bought one already). Oh, gee.... look who they might go to with their cash at that point.
oops!
/. isn't biased:
/. captcha to make this post was "monopoly", but no matter how many times I typed "microsoft" or "micro$oft" it wouldn't accept it.
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Where I live 90 is the norm and using your turn signals is a sign of weakness.
That said, I've taken road trips from the USA into Canada and had no trouble with changing from thinking in terms of mph to km/h mid trip when I crossed the border.
I made a comment similar to this the other day.
Thankfully, I was smart enough to stay an AC, because after getting modded up +1 Interesting, I got modded down twice to end up a -1 Troll.
Hmmmm.... now that I think about it.... does Zonk get mod points?
You a CD-Drive?!! You must be^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hare new here!
You've answered you own question.... it's "stuff like that" (i.e. vague and unknown uses, both current and future) that are the worry.
It probably has to do with the mismatch between systems, not a lack of the engineers' or astronauts ability to count on their piggies and toes. Their current configuration doesn't have a middleware layer that accounts for any possible differences. In other words, while the shuttle continues on thinking it's the 366th day, the ground control systems might get confused (e.g. "Hey, there's no such thing as a 366th day") and their programs may crash (no pun intended) as a result.
I know that Winamp has video support.
You call that Perl?! This is Perl...
$_=$^O=~/Vista/?1:1;
Note the resemblance to line noise?
Step 1: Read in the 100MB file as binary
Step 2: Scrub/remove all the 1's (they're bigger than 0 anyway so they're obviously taking up the most space)
Step 3: Compress the remaining 0's to just one 0 because as we all know from math class 00000000000(etc) == 0
There, you've just converted 100MB of data into a single "0" which is just one byte long! I've got the compressor part down to a perl one-liner, but I'm still working on how to decompress it efficiently because strangely enough my decompresser is ~100MB in size, so it's still kinda alpha at the moment.
Somehow they knew people would be "edgy" over this "eft" up release.
Do bloggers count as independant reporters? I wonder how many of them might have a few "questions" for them?
I'm ALL-IN!!!!