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im sorry, demo, but history shows that it really isn't that simple.

All I'm saying is that what the people actually think matters the most.

"There was an error in the writing process. The disc you have attempted to write may no longer be usable." ??

Ever since I re-installed windows, my cd burner won't work. No special error, just the error while burning. It also errors when I boot into Linux, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

but, it's pretty hard to keep the population ignorant of a collapsed economy

You, my friend, have never experienced conservative America.

again, im not suggesting you do this now, but if the economy has actually collapsed, when history shows us that people do the comoplete opposite of going on spending, and thus make the problem worse.

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this is, of course, ignoring the wall street crash, where ruin was not avoided, and disintegration did, in actual fact, occour

The Americans of the 30's would never keep spending, they don't have the same frame of mind as we do. Many Americans today are perfectly willing to assume that this country is the best in the world, and nothing can really hurt us.

but one purpose of a govournment is to protect the people, espescially in times of catastorphy.

 

to clarify, im talking 'emergency' as in 'another wall street'.

 

and, by communism, im not neccesarily talking 'everyone does their bit out of the kindness of their heart', but more 'everyone gets told to do their bit to avoid mass starvation untill the crisis is over'.

Sure, a Wall Street crash would cause economic ruin, but mostly because of it's impact on minds of the people.

And government help would also be helpful, mostly in how much it made people feel better.

So I was misleading, at a crash or a similar event that would change the mindset of the people to negative, then something would have to be done to change the mindset, sure. But you don't need communism for that; full blown communism has to conflict with society's wants, so that society will eventually rebel (simplification*). What would be better is a healthy dose of socialism to make everyone feel like the government is trying, and bring the society's confidence back up. But I think it's unlikely for something like that to happen, unless there is a major morale destroying event, because of many American people's arrogance and blind faith in their country.

Both communism and ignorance are equally good tools against economic ruin. The problem is, in both systems the society has to cooperate for it to work. In communism they have to work and trust that others are working, in an "ignorance" model all they'd have to do is ignore the problem, and many of it's effects go away.

I'm not saying one way is better than another, and we always use a little bit of both, but ultimately it's up to the society to cooperate or it won't work. Communism didn't fail because it was a bad system per se, it failed because the society (and probably many others) could not cooperate in that fashion, and the laws of the government had to conflict with what society wanted so badly that they eventually revolted.

If everyone wanted to, and would contribute, communism would work fine. But I don't think you would blame me if I thought the most individualist and arrogant people in the world, Americans, would naturally be more inclined to ignore the problem (or not understand it) and go on spending what they were before, blindly beleiving that this is America, so everything will be fine.

And because they believe, it will be so.

Not everyone does that, and some people only do it part way. That's why economic hardship is not always avoided, but economic ruin has been avoided, were other systems have merely disintegrated.

And to make it more complicated, society and government doesn't just use one device (ie "communism," "ignorance," "capitalism," etc.), but many at the same time. Maybe in the US we ignore problems, but the government also tries to remedy them as it see fit, and market forces have their effect. I'm merely suggesting that Americans ignoring their economic problems seems to be one of the top ways the US deals with economic hardship, either purposely or unknowingly.

The main point is that, ultimately, it is up to the society. Cooperation or arrogance, the society is deciding what to do, not the government.

I've never had that experience before. Weird, a regional thing?

better than hoovers 'lets wait for it to fix itself' plan, imo.

I think it was because of the effect on the mind of the American people, than anything else. At least by looking like he was try people started having faith in the system again, and started spending again.

Similarly, a wide range of governments would work in an emergency. It all depends on the mind set of the people. If they all just had faith in the government and the economy then everything would be fine. Like the United States, filled with arrogant people who think their government and economy are indestructible, and because they believe it -- it's true.

This is true for regular 3.5" hard-drives, but the vast, vast majority of 2.5" drives made are still 5400rpm. I've only really seen the 7200rpm drives for notebooks appear within a sensible price range in the past year or so.

 

You're obviously going to gain in both seek time and data transfer rate, so if you're going to be transferring lots of files or doing some very intensive I/O, your best bet is the 7200. Otherwise, just a bog standard 5400rpm will do; my laptop does fine with it.

Does a lower rpm help battery life?

When I get one I'm either getting a Dell Latitude (maybe Inspiron) or a Thinkpad R60.

Alienware, $6000 laptop... what do you need the power for?

Most people don't even know you can install another browser, or if they do they don't know why you'd want it. They just use the one that came with their computer.

IE has those people. Why would Microsoft give them up?

Doesn't opera identify as another browser? So it would be hard to track.

Anyway, I actually enjoy being in the cool minority using firefox.

They are just big bugs really Not much of a brain. But you can put them in the fridge for a while, and they'll slow down. It doesn't necessary help them, but they move around less while you put them in.

Sometimes you have to use IE. Some corporate sites, and even some others, won't run correctly on anything else correctly. Stupid, but true. My dad can't work from home without IE. And I use to be on a forum that wouldn't work right on Firefox, don't go there anymore though

Open foxit reader, then goto "help" and the first option in that drop down menu is "use foxit as default reader" or something like that.

Way to go with Foxit reader. Way smaller program, and no annoying adobe down loader utility that tries to update ever 34 seconds!

My parents told me that it was my decision to make, but they wanted me to keep quiet about it. They told me to never tell other family members or anyone else about why I don’t believe in The Bible’s version of God anymore.

Bull crap. It's a sign that this religion has more to do with social needs, rather than spiritual ones.

It's not the sunlight we actually see, it's the UV light that comes with it?

I have no idea.

*at least from your pov. modding and redistributing windows is still illegal. but sod it' date=' it's like copy-protection on dvd's: i have a legal right to copy dvds that i have bought for personal use, and by preventing me from doing so they're forsing me to get (still perfectly legal) copys of my dvds via bit-torrent, thus legitamising the whole thing.

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I think breaking copy protection is legal in the UK (as long as you own it), but not in the US. I think it's federal law?

Call Microsoft. When my computer said my key had been used too many times (I have to reinstall every 6 months!) I just called, they asked "is this copy of windows on more than one computer" (the correct anwser is "no"), and then they gave me an code to type it. I'm sure you experience may be similar. They have so many problems that the techs are probably used to just giving what you need

Of course, you could just become a pirate and learn how to get around it Makes you wonder why MS would do this... Windows problems probably create more pirates in the US than anything else. As a result we don't see it as such a bad thing. I know a bunch of pirates, sometimes I'm a pirate. Stop treating us like pirates and maybe we'll stop being pirates ARRGH

Yeah, you know about this stuff, I'm just starting to learn about it. Thanks for your help! I'll keep checking the torpark forum, nothing yet.

Is there an equation for this problem?

Each candy bar comes with a coupon, if you get 7 coupons it's good for a free candy bar. What is an eqation that gives you the final amount of candy bars you get (including free ones) using X as the originial number you bought?

EX if I bought 27 candy bars, I'd get 27 coupons > 3 free bars + 6 left over coupons. But then those 3 will come with 3 more coupons, making the total amount of coupons 9, which is enought to get another candy bar. So, in the end I'd have 31 candy bars.

And it gets even more difficult with higher numbers. This question was given in class (too late to get any credit for it ), but I could never solve it.

Thepenguin from the Torpark forum was explained everything.

http://www.torrify.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1557#1557

Torpark uses tor like a local proxy' date=' you point your browser to use a port on the loop-back address for it to get and send data, because this is on your local machine, its not going out to the net.

 

Tor gets the data, encrypts it using TLS, then tunnels its connection to the tor network through your Internet connection, to its first randomly picked Tor server, that server doesnt even look at the encrypted data, it just forwards it to the next tor server that was again, randomly chosen, this happens again and it reaches the exit node.

 

The exit node then uses its key to decrypt the encrypted TLS data, looks at the request, grabs the needed data (for a web page or whatever) and encrypts it again bouncing it back through the tor network until it reaches your entry node which it forwards to your IP ENCRYPTED before it reaches your local machine where tor again decrypts it and sends it on to your Web browser.

 

Basically, your ISP cant see where your going, and cant sniff your data without brute forcing the packets to see whats inside (which anyone who uses PGP can tell you, takes a looooooooooooooooong time unless your a world supercomputer with a Beowulf cluster of supercomputers waiting to do your bidding) only knows your accessing a tor server, and nothing else, not what your sending, or watching, or buying via tor.

 

A good place for refrence would be the EFF's website for tor (http://tor.eff.org/) and more specifically the overview (http://tor.eff.org/overview.html.en)[/quote']

Reinstall?

So what would happen if the data was encrypted? To be honest I don't know. Although a simple solution would be to just block encrypted data.

Blocking encrypted data would block traffic from sites using SSL and other common encryption. I don't think it would work very well.

Assuming that they do not block all encrypted traffic, I think that that your traffic is completely hidden from the ISP. The Torpark site says:

Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously.

I think that it encrypt, but I'm going to go ahead and post the question on the Torpark forum.

Outgoing:

Home -> ISP -> tor -> site you're visiting

 

Incoming:

site -> tor -> ISP -> home

 

The ISP sees all. Do common browsers (IE, FF etc.) encrypt all data being sent? When a website has encrypted data such as passwords it does for sure, but generally I'm unsure. I don't think that plain text websites are encrypted.

Only "secure sites" using SSL, if I'm right

If a website was encrypted then the ISP would not be able to easily read it. Say I develop a new language which is a cross between morse code and ancient egyptian (random!) I could use that to communicate to my friend over the Internet and our ISPs would not be able to understand it.

 

Going back to countries where censoring is enforced' date=' incoming traffic:

site -> tor -> ISP -> home

those arrows represent the uncesored version of the site. When it goes through the ISP it will then be censored. The automated censoring software doesn't care whether the uncensored site is coming from tor or anywhere else.

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Unless the info about the site is encripted, right?

The whole point of the anonymous surfing is that the site you're visiting thinks that Tor is viewing the site, and not you, therefore you remain anonymous.

But only to the site, using just tor. But in combination with encription, the ISP too?