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Comment · 12 years ago
Why not just use Amazon or Google music and download everything ? Google Music is especially good because it lets you download a .zip with complete album compared to Amazon that only lets you download one song at a time.

I used to buy and rip CDs but it takes time and space and feels really backward.

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
No that is not a solution. If they swapped the public key they can read the message being sent back (it is encrypted with their public key), then encrypt it again with the real public key.

The only solution is to use another channel to authenticate the other's key, be it GPG's web of trust, or any other imperfect way (phone call, physically meeting, ...)

Comment · 12 years ago
The most difficult part in your setup is to make untraceable the VPN you run after going through Tor. The problem is: if you believe this VPN is safe / untraceable enough, why do you even use Tor in the first place ?

The problem is that you, at some point, pay the VPN, and that is very likely to be linked to your real identity somehow.

Comment · 12 years ago
Nice project. Are the source available ? It would be nice to use but I'd rather host/use it locally.

Besides I don't know which font (Symbola?) you use in the .pdf but it appears ugly (part of the 'o' is missing and it is overall not too easy to read) on my laptop running Ubuntu 14.10.

Comment · 12 years ago
Thank you for saying that.

I would add that you need not to have ADHD, drug problems or gotten pregnant as a disadvantage: you might just come from a social/family background that encourages you to take a job as soon as you finish high school and you get stuck at you minimum wage job.

Then when your life becomes what sheltgor described, you don't have any perspective in your job, you can't afford moving or holidays. At that point you are used to not having much but you still want to spend it as you wish. Anyway what is the point of giving much into savings if you can't enjoy your life ? That's when the spending might get irrational (paying more for less, smoking, etc.).

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
They might have changed the page since your comment but this is on the page :

"Android 5.0 Lollipop, which comes on Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player, will also be available on Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10 and Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks."

Comment · 12 years ago
I agree that you need some user input or the program will get it wrong in some cases.

But the distinction between source and destination is relevant with some algorithms (one-way sync) and irrelevant in others.

Let say you have two directories A and B to sync and both contain a file f but the one in B is more recent than the one i A. A consistent strategy would be to always favor the most recent file and end up with A and B containing the same f file that was the one being in B at the beginning of the syncing. At no point I asked the user to define a source nor a destination but still the two directories are synced.

Note that it is your choice to continue or not the discussion as much as it was mine (not yours, shockingly) to answer your post. So please keep your "End, full stop" and "Think before answering" to yourself, they are quiet annoying.

Comment · 12 years ago
The quote is not yours but I discussed your post.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Very cool! Does anything similar exist for Android ? I would love to use some bash scripts but I don't find the terminal editors I tried practical.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
What would be the "good" alternative ? I often tries "rmdir" or "rm -r" if the directory is not empty and very often there are some "protected files" so I add -f. Thus it happens that I directly lauch "rm -rf".

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