Re: [Trisquel-users] Wikileaks how CIA is spying. every Operative System

2017-03-09 Thread g . smyli
There is a whole lot of other bad actors doing the same thing but WikiLeaks isn't shining a light on them “If that escalates into a cyberwar, Korea is still not capable of blocking the attack with its current capacity and personnel,” he added. Currently, China has around 100,000 personnel for

Re: [Trisquel-users] Talos' fund raiser didn't succeed

2017-03-09 Thread calmstorm
Agreed. They should have instead aimed lower with expenses that they would have + price of computers. 3x less quality and speed would be sufficent. Who needs a octagon dual core processor for free software? unless its a server of course. ;) I do however think a quad core processor being f

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free (as in freedom) drivers for GPUs GEFORCE 7300GT and AMD Radeon HD 4650

2017-03-09 Thread calmstorm
Intel is better at something? oh the irony...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best use of Searx

2017-03-09 Thread calmstorm
No I sincerely doubt it given that the license for searx is GPL3. Otherwise people would know about it long before now.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best use of Searx

2017-03-09 Thread seimirchaplin
Searx JavaScript code is proprietary??

Re: [Trisquel-users] New blog post, please!

2017-03-09 Thread nuevodesorden
what about some good articles by Richard? https://stallman.org/articles/planet-koch.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wikileaks how CIA is spying. every Operative System

2017-03-09 Thread mcz
Not to loosen the dramatic impact of the subject at hand, but I liked that one: https://www.xkcd.com/1808/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wikileaks how CIA is spying. every Operative System

2017-03-09 Thread greatgnu
yea, mr Irish, it's scary shit. As of October 2014 the CIA was also looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks. The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wikileaks how CIA is spying. every Operative System

2017-03-09 Thread leoo
This is what I found most interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#UEFI UEFI Copy-and-paste code was included in the leaks which allow for the exploitation of UEFI-based boot systems by altering the operating system's kernel which is loaded into memory before exiting the UEFI boot

[Trisquel-users] Re : Wikileaks how CIA is spying. every Operative System

2017-03-09 Thread pinmaritim
The ultimate problem is the pervasive political ignorance on the part of the American people. And indifference to the threat that is emerging from these concealed institutions. Glennon catalogs the ways that the defense and national security apparatus is effectively self-governing, wit

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wikileaks how CIA is spying. every Operative System

2017-03-09 Thread vitacell
Even better: make your own chips from sand, you will be sure that sand it is not backd00red. You can not imagine how much money do you need for creating a CPUs, GPUs, PCBs...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Talos' fund raiser didn't succeed

2017-03-09 Thread leoo
No surprise as the level of performance offered was way beyond the practical needs of overwhelming majority of computer users, and the retail price of a working product ($7,100!) was way, WAY beyond their means. $2,500 is about the limit of the high end, with $1,000 being the beginning of th

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wikileaks how CIA is spying. every Operative System

2017-03-09 Thread stas . mihaylenko
Every operating system? Why not create fully free computer from scratch?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free (as in freedom) drivers for GPUs GEFORCE 7300GT and AMD Radeon HD 4650

2017-03-09 Thread teknoloid
Hello vita_cell, it's a good analysis I need. I bookmarked this.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free (as in freedom) drivers for GPUs GEFORCE 7300GT and AMD Radeon HD 4650

2017-03-09 Thread teknoloid
Hello SuperTramp, thank you for this information. Now I know I should avoid buying AMD because of this.