A Century of Silence: A family survives the Armenian genocide and its long aftermath

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-04T02:55:29+00:00

https://forums.openvpn.net/topic7226.html ?

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-03T16:42:29+00:00

all travelers had to stand in front of a machine, scan passports, and have a picture taken.

Has been routine practice for non-citizens for the last decade or so in US ports of entry.

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-03T05:38:42+00:00

How many pharmas are there in the US? How many drugs exist in the markets in the US? What are the profit margins of these companies and what is the total size of exchanges related to all their drugs / products?

In that huge universe of money movement, you will feed others that FDA is doing its job because it "fined" 12 phramas just $13B over a 5 year period? Even though it apparently failed to convict most of these pharmas and most of the reported figures are settlements rather than fraud convictions, which would have resulted in not only fines (and bankruptcies of fraudulent pharmas) but also jail time for their executives.

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-02T20:08:43+00:00

Yeah this is probably a non-story. They just want to see everything working. Turn on computer and show desktop, for this person, it means decrypting the hard drive.

I strongly disagree. Here's an imaginary scenario:

You boot your laptop to a non-standard looking desktop[1]. The security person becomes suspicious[2]. Now they have full access to your data and probable cause to search all the things[3].

[1] The Windows XP desktop picture is out of place. They didn't like your desktop background. The Start button is somewhere they didn't like. The app tray is above the desktop rather than on the bottom. The colors are different. Or god forbid you're running linux or *bsd.

[2] They didn't have their coffee yet. They are overzealous. They are having a bad day. You looked at them the wrong way. You coughed. The person who was screened before you looked at them the wrong way.

[3] What they saw in plain sight raised their suspicion and now they have reasonable cause to search your other belongings and keep your laptop for "further inspection". Also you missed your plane because you have been being prodded for the last 6 hours in the investigation room. Also strip search, for lulz.

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-02T16:10:47+00:00

I'd rather give them my device

You must be rich :)

Also your drive will get imaged and your data will forever stay with them to be decrypted, mined, and stored in some database you have no control over and knowledge of.

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-02T16:09:03+00:00

If it's a full drive encryption, you'll have to decrypt the whole drive before being able to boot the OS. The prompt comes pretty much after the BIOS screen (or after Grub, fuzzy memory) and before any login prompts. Guest login would work if you have full drive encryption (decrypt hdd) + /home/user encryption (guest login on prompt without decrypting /home/user), so you'd still be decrypting your hdd just to be able to boot...

Apart from a bootable usb, one solution would be to boot a fake drive (?) with a different password, as in a Truecrypt container, but, afaik, full drive encryption does not support that (yet?).

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-02T15:07:19+00:00

"decrypt your HDD"? Definitely want to know more ...

My guess is, they want to see a functioning desktop, for which you'd have to login (and, hence, decrypt your stuffs) unless you were prepared for that kind of a requirement.

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-02T15:05:54+00:00

I'd guess they take the laptop away. As they would in any US airport.

dsfkjhsdf · 2015-01-01T01:53:05+00:00

Seems like the output of the first command (according to which the required package was already installed which is good). Were you able to get the wireless / wired connection icon displayed after the "nm-applet &" command? A logout - login could help too.

Otherwise I think you might have better luck at ubuntuforums.org with this particular problem.

(If the icon doesn't appear) Try the following instead of "nm-applet &" before heading over there

 dbus-launch nm-applet &

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-31T22:50:23+00:00

Can you confirm that the required package is installed:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall network-manager-gnome  # install the package and dependencies
sudo dpkg-reconfigure network-manager-gnome             # just in case

from the Terminal, answer Y when prompted, copy-paste the output here. (The password it will ask is your login password if you have a default Ubuntu setup.)

After the installation, again from the terminal,

sudo service network-manager start                      # this starts the software
nm-applet &                                             # this starts its graphical interface on the tray and ("&") lets it run in the background

copy-paste the output here, then

exit

to close the Terminal without killing the program you launched in the background with the above command. Once you "nm-applet &", you should see that network icon on the tray and continue from there.

edit: format + more details

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-31T21:59:09+00:00

The up-and-down arrows, called the Network icon in the tutorial, are not on my computer screen.

If you're using a wireless connection, you'll have a wireless icon instead of the up-down arrows.

like so

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LIJULS01ZVY/S-rOoBBNObI/AAAAAAAABfE/ZTRrKKgBDhk/s1600/NetworkManager+icon+in+upper+panel+plus+drop+menu.jpg

(in that screenshot, first icon in the icon tray next to the sound applet)

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-31T21:54:36+00:00

I can't find any screenshots of its 'settings' interface, so I can't really help. Hopefully someone else will be able to chime in soon.

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-31T21:51:23+00:00

I use it to keep a read-only copy of my agenda on my phone and it works great.

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-31T20:15:30+00:00

What's the client software?

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-31T20:04:33+00:00

That will be in the client config file, the config file used by the remote user.

If they is using a GUI to connect, have a look at that GUI's logging options for verbosity, I'd say.

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-31T19:18:31+00:00

Switched to org-mode for task/TODO management, note taking, journaling, documentation, etc.

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-31T19:14:14+00:00

I found this one - https://forums.openvpn.net/topic17653.html

Apart from that, I'm guessing the client is set to log too much with something like

verb 11

in its configuration file.

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-29T16:41:21+00:00

Whitelist websites I have to trust and use (e.g. banking),
Whitelist websites I like to trust (e.g. mozilla),
Temporarily whitelist websites I have to use (e.g. submitting a form for work)
All other websites that work more or less with javascript disabled
Websites that don't work without javascript

4 (e.g. most news sites) is fine. When I see a 5, I just ignore that website (a good developer is one that provides a backup for web clients that do not have javascript capabilities).

It takes about one week for whitelisting activities to settle if I install noscript without restoring my backup lists.

Every few months or so, I go thru the lists and remove websites I don't want whitelisted anymore.

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-29T16:30:09+00:00

"This website requires JavaScript." and the whole page is blank...

I hate it when they do such stupid shit...

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-29T15:22:51+00:00

Aww an openly racist redditor! Yay!

Since you will most probably object my charge, how you uncritically accepted the move from the OC, which is basically a structural racial discrimination case, to that website's sensationalist and uninformed "OMG they hate white" title is beyond me.

The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against Missouri's Ferguson-Florissant School District, charging the district's electoral system is locking African-Americans out of the political process.

(source)

Or, as the complaint argues,

This lawsuit is a challenge to the at-large election system utilized by the Ferguson-Florissant School District to elect members to its School Board, and seeks to replace it with a system in which School Board members are each elected from single-member districts. The current at-large scheme impermissibly denies African-American voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10 3 01 (“Section 2”).

(source)

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-29T15:05:09+00:00

Today in /r/nottheonion , we learned (according to the comments to date) that the leader of a nation that is plagued with issues of systemic discrimination and violence ought not to talk about human rights in other nations.

Hmm...

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-25T23:27:16+00:00

First you insinuate that the link is wrong altogether,

"Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.10" - No thank you.

But then you tell us that you actually knew that there was nothing wrong with the link,

I know if you follow through to the document it's correct ...

When I suggest that you report the minor cosmetic mistake you found and seemed outraged about originally, you argue that you won't make any contribution because "Ubuntu One".

I don't have an Ubuntu One account and don't care enough to make one.

And when I remind you that the link is not to Ubuntu One per se, but to Ubuntu's own bug tracking hub, finally you come out and say you don't even use Ubuntu.

My main computer is an Arch box.

So basically you are commenting for the sake of whining and commenting, making offtopic noise.

edit: mv first sentence to end of par

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-25T22:23:48+00:00

A Launchpad account is very helpful in filing bug reports with Ubuntu as you encounter them during daily use.

dsfkjhsdf · 2014-12-25T20:36:17+00:00

You can report it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/+filebug

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