vonSeckendorff
Merely using encryption on your home folder is obviously going to leak information to unencrypted portions of the disk (not to mention spotlight indexing); but more insidious is default safe sleep (which will write out your encryption key to disk) and DMA enabled ports.
I have personally had an unreasonable amount of trouble installing and using Python libraries and environments on Snow Leopard. I think right now I have at least 3 different versions of Python installed, each with various and disparate libraries. Has this been addressed in Lion? Getting Numpy, Scipy, etc to work is a chore; especially when comparing it to the Linux experience.
I find it really scary that lobbyists have the ability to destroy an individual's life if instigated. At least that's the impression I got.
Jake Baker Arrested for posting rape/murder fantasy on the internet case dismissed
Robert Thomas Tried for transmitting porn on the internet sentenced to three years in prison
We must remain guarded against such assaults, even to this day. I don't think there has been much of a shift in politicians' technoliteracy or indeed their ulterior motives.
Edit: I previously had written mirrors. The concept art looked misleadingly shiny.
The quote is much more sensible under that interpretation.
I've noticed lately the intensifying assault upon Google's citadel. I have some conservative acquaintances who lecture me about Google's evil ways - from how the company has attempted to destabilize the middle east to egregious violations of privacy. Not once have I heard them harp on Microsoft, or DRM, or Telcos. Frankly, I don't know where all this Google hate is coming from, but it must be an orchestrated effort by threatened industries.
We're already seeing a battle front in the mobile market, where no doubt spurious patents will be trumped up against Google. Anyone else care to chime in on developing fronts?
That sounds a lot like there are no true Scotsman. Or perhaps it is better interpreted to mean only the truly wealthy can be true philosophers and poets. That may be the case...
I am not too trusting of the architecture though, since there has been (at least) one significant practical break before. Also the hidden services are susceptible to DoS, despite the claims that to DoS one node you have to DoS the entire network.
Do you think the government ought to have the right to invade a person's mind and analyze its contents? I find that idea repugnant - under no circumstance should the mind be available to third party scrutiny. Personally, I consider my laptop as an extension of my mind. Much in the same way I don't go around sharing every errant thought I have with the world, I have password protected my laptop and encrypted its contents.
I concede that my personal feelings do not make for a convincing argument, so instead consider this: In the future, probably in the very near future, computers will directly interface with the brain and will provide all sorts of computational assistance - information search, number crunching, memory storage and lookup, communication we can hardly dream of... Cybernetic implants would indeed be an extension of one's mind, and I think most of you here would argue for its protection. The users of these devices would be living in a dystopia if they had to censor their thoughts and usage of their cybernetic brains!
And well, frankly, I don't see much of a difference between a neural interface and a digital (fingers) interface.