If you store passwords on your machine, either they have to be strongly encrypted in something like KeePass or Kwallet and password/key protected, or else they are as secure as plain text.

Some pieces of software "encrypt" passwords with base64 or XOR and make them look garbled and that gives you false sense of security. But in reality these passwords can be decrypted in milliseconds by anyone.

--Coder

How about Iceweasel (Debian build of Firefox, 64 bit).

Or other option- Chromium (Chrome with most of the Evil removed).

Should they count as separate browsers?

--Coder

So technically did those who held sit-ins at whites-only lunch counters...

Any state run by the GOP/TEA/KKK fringe already has the dictatorship.

The problem is that some of them (like mine) have electronic ignition. The circuit uses a couple of transistors so it could be susceptible to RFI (it would most likely need a stronger signal to start misbehaving), though I guess it would be much easier to shield that than to shield the electronics in a modern car.

OTOH, cars with contact breaker ignition should be immune to this. Or old diesel cars.

How do they know it with digital TV?
DVB-T - simplex transmission, just like analog.
DVB-C - also a simplex transmission.

They can only track you if you use IPTV or connect the box to the internet so it can phone home.

However, you could shorten the blockchain by calculaing the balances and then dropping the old blocks.

A mines 50BTC (before the reduction)
some time later A sends to B 10BTC.
then B sends to C 4BTC.
C sends to A 1BTC.

This could be simplified (when the transactions get a couple of years old) to
A: 41BTC
B: 6BTC
C: 3BTC

Now when A, B or C sends coins, you can just check it against their balance and all transactions since then.

Well, it works like this:

In the event that two miners manage to mine a block (lets call them A and B blocks) a the same time, the blocks propagate trough the network and various other miners start mining the next block (lets call it C) using A or B as "previous block" - depending on which block they received first). When somebody mines block C, the chain including C becomes the longest and the only one valid.

However, usually blocks will be seconds or minutes apart with the previous block given enough time to propagate trough the network.

Hmm, TOR is a nice project and all, but it has its benefits and drawbacks. I think IETF need to give quite a bit of thought before adopting some technology as a standard.

I'm all for anonymous communication with encryption though. I hate what corporations and governments are doing to the internet. I do believe internet is the most important human discovery since fire, and its freedoms need to be preserved...

--Coder

The fact that it can be divided to 8 decimal places and the ability to easily transfer it over the internet is what makes it a better alternative than, say, gold.

Yea, instead of using BTC people could just use gold (and have limited supply etc), but it is difficult to transfer any amount of it to someone who is not physically there with you and it also is a bit of a problem to give, say, $1 worth of gold accurately. OTOH, you can transfer 0.0001BTC with no problems.

There are plenty of alternatives to the official Google App Store.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing they removed it from the official store or not. If it was up to me I'd probably allow it with big red letters saying "THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY AND MIGHT BRICK YOUR PHONE". OTOH people installing stuff from official Google App Store don't expect these things to happen, so maybe it's a good thing for the masses that this app was removed... And tech-savy people will find ways to get Cyanogen installed anyway.

--Coder

Who in their right mind could trust USA? Unicorns are more real than trust in USA. Spying, 2 wars based on lies and deceit, lots of profiteering at everyone's expense, patent trolling and other IP based litigation nonsense, shoving harmful legislation down everyones throats- all of that is coming from US.

Well, unless it's "trust" as in "I trust US to screw everyone at every opportunity".

--Coder

Even though time and time again studies show that well rested employees are more productive, people in USA keep working longer hours with fewer holidays. And that is the reason for 80% of those last minute flights.

Why cannot the state mandate that each employee gets X days of holiday per year guaranteed, and is forced to take them? That's how it works in quite a few countries in Europe.

--Coder

I wish there were more sites that doing Linux benchmarks than Phoronix.

Or if not, I wish more sites would benchmark workloads that are more than some synthetics, office/browser use, transcoding and games.

What about the things software developers have to deal with day-to-day? Application/web server performance? IDE performance? Compiler performance? Database performance? LibreOffice performance? Interpreter/VM performance for different languages? Latency/performance of variuous desktop environments, GNOME, KDE, XFCE? Performance of various servers- FTP, email, Samba etc.?

Phoronix does some of that, but nowhere near enough.

--Coder

Hello,

I just wanted to say that I'm on AAISP and it does not block anything. It does not use IWF filters, nor any blocklists as far as I know.

And most of the big ISPs that block stuff do that because of "gentleman's agreement", not because of explicit court orders. So basically they do it because they didn't have the balls to contest/refuse the requests by special interest groups.

And AAISP is the only ISP I know where you can get support via IRC channel. They do limit internet usage, but increasing your non-working hours limits is very cheap, and I never max them out anyway. Other than that, I'm very happy with AAISP. Oh, and they have IPv6!

--Coder