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The whonix setup has tor and your browser on different VMs, whereas tails relies on linux' firewall to funnel traffic through tor. Tails is "just" one kernel exploit away from deanonymization.

More importantly, qubes is far superior to anything else for day to day security. You can do your banking in one isolated domain, your "let's download a thousand unverified dependencies from strangers" development on another, your internet browsing in a third, you can create domains with no internet connectivity to store your private files, and it's a lot easier than trying to juggle VMs yourself. A side benefit for the people who never close tabs is that qubes never becomes unresponsive due to running low on memory.

Isn't I2P still "peer-to-peer" by default? That is, the fact your IP is connected to I2P is broadcast to everyone. That makes every disconnection an opportunity to trace you, directly and by elimination. It's especially bad with torrents, which are probably the most popular use of I2P.

And you really should try to use a reputable VPN, like the one they recommend in the article. Plenty of VPN services are in the business of injecting ads and malware, logging your traffic, stealing passwords and credit card numbers, etc.

It takes decades for those trees to grow to firewood size. In the meantime there will be carbon "in flight". Since the trees will be cut down and burned again, effectively replanting only reduces emissions by some fraction, dependent on the growth time. Burning wood, especially at your cabin, has a high emission rate, so an electric stove might be better, and fairly certainly is if powered by a solar panel.

That's a good suggestion. The teropa.info post was very helpful for reintroducing myself to web development after not touching it since 2008. I hope I'm not scaring anyone from getting started by adding I also consulted typescript tutorials ;D

Freenet has only symbolic privacy protection for downloaders. Privacy is supposed to come from your node requesting not only blobs it is downloading for itself, but also blobs other nodes have requested from it. Unfortunately, as far as I understand, freenet's routing algorithm is such that these two classes of requests come from blatantly different statistical distributions. The further a requested blob is from a node's address the more likely it is the node is requesting the blob for itself. Another layer of protection is the blocks being encrypted, but if they are publicly published that can be changed with a bit of scraping.

What this means is that by running a single freenet node you can monitor half a hundred others. What's surprising is that it hasn't been done earlier. You don't even have to commit a crime to do it as a civilian.

This could have been avoided if freenet was hoisted on top of tor (not totally trivial because freenet runs over udp) or had an onion routing layer of its own. If the glaring privacy flaw was fixed freenet would have amazing properties which tor lacks, namely very safe and scalable (no dos unless you take down the whole of freenet) static hosting and non-realtime communication in general, and utter censorship resistance. Trying to figure out who has a blob only spreads it around more.

It's a shame the ideas behind tor and freenet haven't come together in a popular project.

Tails combined with any encrypted cloud hosting service accepting anonymous payments (e.g. mega.nz, though I'm sure there are ones with better desktop integration) would offer more deniability than any local solution could, though it's debatable if paying is reasonably simple.

The most glaring fundamental omission of physics absolutely comes from everyday life. It is subjective experience, consciousness, qualia, or whatever you prefer to call it.

But that just confirms it as a a myth - "I really hate the Irish, so I'll pretend they aren't white"

Isn't that a myth? Like pink and blue supposedly previously having been associated with the reverse genders.

The client has full control. Tor works by having the client chain proxies ("nodes"). Tor hidden services add some complications but in that case too the client creates its own half of the proxy chain.

apt and yum are emphatically better since at least they verify their sources and maintainers and sign packages, and it doesn't really require much compared to the effort put into actually writing all that packaged software. These scripting language packaging systems have none of that.

Or he might demand better painkillers from the doctors.

I wish I had known about this earlier. I have put so many hours into minesweeper over years of office work.

So, what measures are they taking to match Berkeley undergraduate sex ratio (52.1% female 47.9% male [1]) with the sex ratio of the entire US in the same age range (51% male 49% female [2]). A woman is roughly 1.13 (13%) times more likely to be an undergraduate at Berkeley than a man. Or is this a topic best avoided?

[1] http://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data

[2] http://www.census.gov/population/age/data/files/2012/2012gen... @ 15-19yo

This murder has been discussed to death. It was plain enough from the beginning that Litvinenko was killed for defecting. I don't know why the story keeps resurfacing.

Bit flips will be detected on the next read via MAC failure. Bit flips can still be obnoxious, but they are prevented in the sense the CPU will start a reboot before accepting corrupt memory.

This would prevent row hammer attacks and detect memory errors in general, so it ought to be of general interest even if it isn't.

Scala uses [$]_ in very similar ways and everyone loves it.

I haven't tested but I suspect there is still a distro issue - I haven't had any hardware compatibility problems on Ubuntu, but there are plenty of groanworthy desktop distro recommendations on the net.

Lubos Motl called out the specifics of the Energy Catalyzer hoax some years ago. I think it had to do with neglecting hydrostatic pressure within the water pipes, which allowed steam to get in.

×÷ aren't really common mathematical notation. Julia does multiplication the proper way, e.g. 4a for 4 * a.

And the logical way to produce ≥ is to type >=, though of course there is still the hurdle of setting that input mode in your text editor.

Looking at the names being named, rudeness seems to come with being foreign. I guess Steve Jobs is a counterpoint in that he is at least second generation.

It's been known from the beginning Tor's design can't defend against these sorts of attacks.

I guess this depends on what you consider low socioeconomic status. There is also a disparity in tertiary education. Women have higher enrollment and completion rates and thus get more degrees, even though sex ratio is skewed towards boys at birth.

For example in 2010 in the Netherlands (from http://barrolee.com/) 45% of women aged 30-34 have some tertiary education and 31% have completed tertiary education (31 / 45 = 69%) whereas the male statistics are 39% and 25% (25 / 39 = 64%). This is then offset by women working fewer hours per week (from Eurostat): in the Netherlands men average only 35 hours per week, and women only 25. Dutch working hours are a little extreme, but the general trend is worldwide.

It's actually a global phenomenon. Boys are performing worse in most of the Western world as well as much of the rest. When there are similar issues in the US, Japan, and Scandinavia you can rule out many cultural aspects as the cause.

>I don't know how the Europeans intend to get all of these refugee adults up to economic snuff at the same grade of Europeans who were trained in the ways of the West from birth.

Is anyone really planning on that? It's much nicer to have an underclass under you. The economic argument is often brought up, but there is little backing, seeing how Swedish and German economies are the strongest in Europe and have accepted tons of immigrants in the past decade or two. It is costly for the state to nurse and educate a native citizen.

Well, the German army did decide to march into Russia without bringing any winter equipment with them...

The motive for wasting is that the money-giver might want to see your bank account balance before giving. Not having savings is generally a requirement for receiving welfare after unemployment benefits have run out. It's something basic income would do away with.

Looking at women's CS graduation rates means nothing if you don't look at overall graduation rates. I have yet to see any proof that women are really being driven out from CS rather than being driven into some other field.