Neti Pot. I used to have constant infections until I picked up one of these at the drug store. Boiled water that you let cool a bit and add on of it's little salt packets. Bing Bang Done! After 3 months of regular use I dialed down so i only do it once or twice a year when i have symptoms, but i went from constant throat and nose infections to the odd cough and sore throat a couple times a year.

Part of the problem is we need storage. Another part is that we need uptime. Neither is really compatible with booting even from a USB stick - and really, that's out of scope anyway, that's something somebody should write who knows more about building operating systems than we do. However, we do take some precautions with regards to local security, and plan to take more in the near future. For instance, we tell the browser not to cache anything, we encrypt (optionally with a password but in any case easily got rid of) potentially incriminating data on disk, and we strongly recommend users install Truecrypt (since unfortunately we can't turn on swap crypto or lock pages in memory). A significant proportion of the community think taking any local precautions is a bad thing, since it violates the unix philosophy... As regards darknet, it is simply the only possible option in any even vaguely hostile regime. For instance, China has managed to block most of the Tor hidden bridges. Apart from that, it is also the only realistic option for really good security on Freenet: an attacker can connect to everyone, and Freenet's architecture on opennet isn't really suitable for dealing with this. It is of course possible for nodes to connect to both darknet and opennet, and the hope is that users will gradually add their friends as Freenet becomes faster, easier to use, more popular and has more content.

First of when using firefox, use the password manager. From what i understand it encyrpts your passwords with your master password. For everything else from secure notes, ssl keys, to passwords i use a custom container in Key Chains. The built in password manager of any OS X machine.

I think it's a bit sad that this entire topic is viewed from the pirating side of the table. Just the way we approach the idea of books becoming freely available is off-centre. Ebook readers are about to do what the iDevices did for music. We should be rejoicing the coming panacea of freely, easielly accessible books. The shear number of classics that are legally out of copyright, that are still popular with the masses and are housed in libraries around the world will ensure a large collection of free, high quality content, that will compete with anyone who wants to try and lock in the eco-system around sub par choices at super expensive prices.

People do this for one simple reason. To get by in life we all must boil down our knowledge of unfamilar fields to it's most basic constructs.

A car transports you from point A > B. The only component in your car that performs this basic task is the engine. When ever any lay person discusses a car problem they know nothing about it invariably will be a discussion about the engine. Engines move machines from point A > B, every other component is secondary.

A computer stores and retrieves information. And while there are many components critical to doing this the only one people associate with is the Hard Drive. It's full of information, their information, and thus it's what things get boiled down to. The box under the desk is the Hard Drive.

Statistical analysis is probably easier with a larger number of nodes, if you're talking about your direct peers monitoring you. Also, Freenet 0.7 supports opennet. And "same darknet"? What's the same darknet? There is only one 0.7 network as far as I know, although there maybe secret ones. If there are secret networks of 15 nodes, the NSA would probably not be on them. The long-term objective is to have a globally scalable darknet, which means that it might have a million nodes in it, but it's all going friend to friend to friend to friend. Read up on small world networks. Frost works better on 0.5 because the spammer has been attacking 0.7's Frost with constant denial of service attacks, not 0.5's Frost. They are both just as vulnerable. FMS is the solution. Darknet came up well before the collaborative censorship ideas you refer to, and that wouldn't be Freenet, it would be a different network. There is absolutely no intention for Freenet to provide any sort of censorship mechanism, and it doesn't provide any.

Here in Calgary, Alberta....Canada.

Shaw Communications(the cable company) just launched VOIP. Its a blow to TELUS(the phone company) which is going to launch IPTV someday.

Their IPTV solution apperently sucks beyond belief, and they can't get it to work very effectively. They were doing trials in the regional offices more then a year ago now, and it couldn't get it working in half of them.

Which indicates they had the basic infastructure in place that long ago, and they have had over a year to work on the problems and to roll out fiber to the reginal neighbourhoods.

But even with a partly working system a year ago they are still not ready to start a mass home trial within the deveopment teams.

Bye bye TELUS