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Comment DMCA takedown action for abuse of GOP Hashtag (Score 1) 155

Can't they fight this with the DMCA or something for abusing the GOP hasthag? I bet those hackers will have shit running through their pants when they hear this!

Young man, Are you listening to me
I said, young man, what do you want to be
I said, young man, you can make real your dreams,
but you've got to know this one thing.
No man, does it all by himself
I said, young man, put your pride on the shelf
And just learn to play with the D.M.C.A.
I'm sure they can help you today

It's fun to play with the D.M.C.A.
It's fun to play with the D.M.C.A.
They have everything for young men to enjoy.
You can hang out with all the boys.
It's fun to play with the D.M.C.A.
It's fun to play with the D.M.C.A.
You can get yourself clean
You can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel.

Comment Re:So don't use Tor at home? (Score 1) 136

Then, when you want to do something without being watched, you use TOR with clean hardware and connectivity.

So what is clean? I can only think of an Ubuntu VM, default install with maybe one or two addons in Firefox to delete cookies. Nothing that changes or adds fonts. Make snapshots and always revert to that. Create new snapshots after updates. Don't update when using public wifi, but update at home while not doing anything else - no browsing!

Comment Lightworks, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Blender 3D (Score 1) 223

I would recommend that you install a good video editor like Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere or Lightworks. You will probably make many pictures and videos, and this is a good time to learn those tools. I myself are learning Lightworks right now, and it's not easy to get used to the different user interface, the different way of thinking. This might be a problem, as online support will not be available. For Lightworks, sometimes you have to login, and that might become a problem - you have to check that. So for these programs, download lots of youtube videos and buy some good books. If you're not that familiar with Photoshop - same story! Buy some good books, download videos, buy ebooks about photography, about lighting, etc. Don't forget to download Audacity or another good audio editor as well.

The same goes for 3D like Blender, Maya or 3D Studio Max. Of course you need free or trial versions that work for the whole year, so Blender is a good option. Buy some good books, and enjoy it. You can probably write 3D scripts as well (not story lines but action scripts). 3D printing is hot right now, so 3D skills and understanding is a good plus for your resumé.

These things should be fun of course. If you don't like it, don't do it. Then use iMovie or another free video editor so you can make simple edits.

I love to work with these programs. I like video editing, and want to learn 3D. These are fun projects for me, but still they take up serious time.

Comment Re:Microsoft Office (Score 1) 102

Finally... what about backups? Someone takes down some Amazon cloud servers, and the company using them is royally hosed. There are no tapes local, if there are backups on AWS or Glacier, they might be on the same datacenter or even the same SAN as the failed cloud servers. A conventional solution at least has the ability to have some tangible medium where the data is stored so it can be recovered.

This is basically MySQL, so you can make a backup like normal. With Amazon you can always store that backup in S3, and download that to a local server.

Comment Re: DMCA (Defamation) (Score 1) 245

Hey, if I write an email, I own the copyright, correct?

The encryption is a method I use to keep others from reading said copyrited work, correct?

This means that removing the encryption is in effect, circumventing a copywrite protection, and illegal under the DMCA.

No it isn't, because they encrypt it, not you. STARTTLS is encryption implemented by the provider. The message is only encrypted during passage from your mail program to their server, and from their server to another STARTTLS server, but that's it. The end receiver gets the message unencrypted in his or her mail program. It can be worse. If the provider from the receiver does not use STARTTLS, the message is not delivered encrypted.

Comment Re:Timeline (Score 1) 96

And good luck getting Grandma and cousin Alex to use it.

Getting grandma en mom to use it won't be too difficult, if it only is a matter of configuration. We do that already, so if we can set it up to be secure without adding complex user actions, they will use it because we handle their computer setup and we decide how we do that. I hope they can find a way to get email work like that.

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