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by ptaffs 12y ago
The ars piece opens with "How leaky is shale gas production? Good news—fracking's probably not as leaky as earlier studies suggested.", it continues without much analysis, and my weariness is that it doesn't really addre
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by ptaffs 12y ago
Who can we trust to tell us the answer? http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/25/climate_deniers_expose...
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by ptaffs 12y ago
In previous years I've had GPG/PGP configured, but not had anyone to write to or anything to write about. We need entry-level e-mail clients to have GPG/PGP built in. Your post highlights the need to select a client which is
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by ptaffs 12y ago
boo! this obviously works but you're disrupting/robbing a paying customer of their service, and likely the router will be confused and neither of you will get a good service. The only acceptable use of this activity is if you pay
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by ptaffs 12y ago
I notice Bodhi Linux have recently released 3.0, I'd been using an older release. I'm a sysadmin command-line person, I like bash and a good terminal. Bodhi had visually appealing features, separating them from the Windows95 feel
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by ptaffs 12y ago
I totally agree. To me it's the (apparent) ineffectiveness of the existing three & four letter organisations and the amount they cost which is the crime. I read the article with prejudice but the take-away was the administration wa
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by ptaffs 12y ago
Maybe you're being subtle, i agree with your point. >> christian conservatives started carrying out attacks The Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta was such a thing, the KKK and anti-abortion terrorism is supposedly radica
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by ptaffs 12y ago
This timely article appears the weekend I erase & install OSX having clicked the wrong download button on CyberDuck. The Google DoubleClick banner is prominent on the page, the actual software download is "below the fold". I s
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by ptaffs 12y ago
can anyone find the resulting paid-for tweet? i couldn't. We can't judge the "celebrities" on this e-mail exchange.
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by ptaffs 12y ago
agree and adding: i recently learned the Key is different to the password to associate, ie you must capture the session key exchange when each client device joins the network, it's not just enough to know the network's passphrase.
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by ptaffs 12y ago
I thought the global intelligence services already had access to Facebook etc. data, maybe the question in-light of the Ed Snowden leaks, is why they didn't see this. Except, as commented there would be an extreme false-positive ra
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by ptaffs 12y ago
low violence , is an interesting example to start with, since that's exactly the reasoning used to justify the lack of privacy and surveillance we now have. Violence is often individually actually low to zero, until you or a loved-one
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by ptaffs 12y ago
The value of the product is undermined by what we now know the Agencies do. Before Snowden we all thought it was an idiotic idea we'd have pervasive surveillance, now we know it happens. Before Snowden we'd buy nice to have, harml
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by ptaffs 12y ago
Agreed. And on the idea that it's ridiculous they are listening all the time, and 1984 comparisons, it's worth knowing in 1984 they weren't continually listening, but they might be. I read this book in the 1970s at school
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by ptaffs 12y ago
i completely agree. to avoid crashes the OS could return innocuous zeros, for example, the contacts has no entries, silence on the mic, zero for location, no connection on a network interface. To level the playing field, the vendor should b
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by ptaffs 12y ago
There are other ways of enforced labour as well as slavery, and some are quite close to home. Indentured workers, and poor houses for example, and the company scrip, are slightly less brutal forms of something similar to slavery, as are wor
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by ptaffs 12y ago
i suspect it will be allowed to go-ahead, the government at all levels seems to like to support the telecommunication monopolies. Municipal and community internet alternatives, or competition, seem to be inhibited by regulation and bureaucr
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by ptaffs 12y ago
>> subsequently staff at the British Museum Library used 19th century techniques to try to flatten and mount it, which has contributed to its current condition today rendering the text very difficult to see. The article says today&#x2
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by ptaffs 12y ago
agreed, also Browser User Agent, referrer are all passed by the client and sent to Apache, which pushes them into environment variables.
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by ptaffs 12y ago
People will also follow re-key instructions taking them to phishing sites. They'll tell strangers their passwords and download and run unique video codecs (aka malware) to watch some special comedy video file they've been sent by
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by ptaffs 12y ago
if people really cared, they'd follow The Rules. How many other conveniences do we drop? I rarely click links in e-mail, but my non-technical eternally trusting-of-strangers friends will always be tricked into doing stupid stuff. If it
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by ptaffs 12y ago
I think fraud rate didn't go up at all, but EMV (Chip and PIN) had a fraud reducing effect. Of course other factors changed. You'll find references at http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/plastic_fraud_figure...
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by ptaffs 12y ago
I suggest the NSA work is a big job creation scheme, there are a lot of contractors and vendors providing services and facilities to this (big) branch of the government. A lot of tax dollars are spent on this. And the effectiveness is quest
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by ptaffs 12y ago
OpenDNS worked the way it was supposed to. It wasn't the right DNS solution for this situation. I also don't think OpenDNS is a tool of censorship, as it is so easily circumvented. I hope my children learn how to circumvent tools
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by ptaffs 12y ago
The application broke because it couldn't handle unexpected input, I think you stated the problem and it was the application. OpenDNS has been clear about returning an HTML page of adverts. I appreciate the category level filter and th
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by ptaffs 12y ago
People learning to code would be best advised to find a volunteer group who need code writing (even if they don't know they need code writing), or an open-source project. I agree learning to write code is only half the challenge, deali
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by ptaffs 13y ago
according to Snowden, some of the NSA documents suggest the NSA did give their analysis to private companies. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57617823-38/snowden-accuse...
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by ptaffs 13y ago
Piracy and stealing creative work is bad. But please, the Publishing houses, Recording and Motion Picture Industries are hardly saints, and often take advantage of the authors, musicians and film makers. An author gets his book published at
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by ptaffs 13y ago
GCHQ is in Europe (UK), maybe they should specifically route to mainland Europe. (Since GCHQ is working with the NSA).
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by ptaffs 13y ago
It seems like just avoiding mainstream popular services is enough to regain a lot of privacy, if the agencies look no further than Verizon, Google, Twitter, Facebook. They know exactly what my parents activities are.

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