yes i know, did you read the last line of my post?
"it's cool technology, and now that it's being open sourced, it means feasibly you can run your own "waveserver" and mitigate the issues above somewhat."
running your own server would mitigate all those issues, and i think it's good that it's open sourced and available now so people can do this.
or the first line? "a neat idea, for collaborative brainstorming or throwaway conversations perhaps, but i hope that nobody is planning on using this for any communication that is mission critical, in it's *current form* anyway."
by current form, i mean, hosted on googles waveservers.
a neat idea, for collaborative brainstorming or throwaway conversations perhaps, but i hope that nobody is planning on using this for any communication that is mission critical, in it's current form anyway.
just like "clouds", "waves" do not reside on your computer, but rather *out there* somewhere, that you can *probably* get access to if: -the service is up and functioning properly -you have the required hardware and software -there are no connection issues between you and the server
if your internet goes down, suddenly you've lost access to even internal communication at your office, as well as all archives and logs of past communication. Without local storage, you cannot do efficient search and retrieval of your own information.
there are serious privacy issues as well, no doubt google will be surfin the "waves" looking for terms to market to you, but perhaps it is more shady than that even. google has agreed to censorship in foreign markets over the years, does it really make sense to let them hold onto your data in this way?
then again.. it's cool technology, and now that it's being open sourced, it means feasibly you can run your own "waveserver" and mitigate the issues above somewhat.
Does it know exactly what *you* look like? if not, when you go for lunch and someone else sits down, does it just show them the same thing you'd see?
Article, website, nor video mentions facial recognition, only gaze tracking. he literally waves his hand over the webcam to make it switch the screen, which all switches at once. lame! I don't see any useful security application for this at all, though the technology of gaze tracing is neat, especially the expensive stuff linked above.
make my mouse pointer go where i look and i'll be impressed.
whats wrong with using CTRL+ALT+DELETE, ENTER to lock your box?
what's even more interesting is what they say on openBTS about their test operation at Burning Man. If you are looking for the now-kinda-famous Burning Man write-up, it's been moved to here. Yes, we will record your IP address. Why? Keep reading.
*click*
it was worth it.
If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attacker's power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system, or its banking system?"
cloud data may suck to lose, but it's nothing compared to what else is proposed here.
if the US is allowed to do this, you could lose: your freedom to communicate and voice your opinion the data on your own computer the connections you have with others
aren't those more important to you?
unfortunately, we've already lost some of those freedoms, but at least we had a fighting chance in court. this bill exceeds and overrides all that, giving them carte blanche to pretty much do anything they want.
the internet used to be free. but they've built it JUST the way they need it to try some smartass bullshit like this.
I think this approach to MapReduce is a pretty creative angle to take on it. However, there are a number of distributed systems-type problems with doing it this way, that would need to be solved to actually make this realistically possible:
1) The dataset size is currently limited by the web server's disk size.
Possible solution: push the data to S3 or some other large store.
2) There is a single bottleneck/point-of-failure in the web server. In theory 10,000 clients could try to emit their map keys all at once to the web server. IIRC, Google's mapreduce elects nodes in the cluster to act as receivers for map keys during the map/sort phase.
Possible solution: Again, if you were using S3, you could assign them temporary tokens to push their data to S3 -- but that would be a large number of S3 PUT requests (one per key).
3) Fault-tolerance -- what happens when a node in the browser compute cluster fails for any of N reasons? How does the web server re-assign that map task? You'd especially want to ensure that computation finishes on a job in an unknown environment such as 1,000,000 random machines on the internet.
Possible solution: If you haven't heard from a node in N seconds, you could reassign their map task to someone else. This is a similar idea to the MapReduce paper's description of sending multiple machines on a single map task, and racing them to the finish.
4) Security -- there is no way to deterministically know whether the data emit()ed from a user's browser session is real or not. How do you trust the output of 1,000,000 users' Javascript browser executions (I think the answer is, you don't).
Here in Victoria BC if i am down on the beach facing Seattle, i'll get a txt message saying "welcome to the US!" then if i use my blackberry i am charged international rates. i called Rogers there is "nothing they can do"
it IS a technical problem, one that works out in the cellphone companies favor though, so they don't really have much interest in fixing it i imagine.
I asked a customer to take a screenshot once. she took a picture of her screen with a digital camera, then printed the camera directly from the printer. then she faxed the printed picture to me.
is this sentence written properly? they conclude though that Ext4 is a nice upgrade over Ext3 due to the new features and just not improved performance in a few areas but its lifespan may be short with btrfs coming soon."
I always find it interesting to know that a lot of people seem to take the "default" route and go with mp3 providers that use this sort of crap. I buy my tunes off DJ specific websites like:
I've never once had an mp3 delivered in anything but it's pure non drm laden form. also available are.wav and.flac, multiple bitrates, package deals etc. It stuns me that people would actually pay for such files from the likes of microsoft or apple, why?
I guess DJ specific music has to be provided this way(i would never accept any limitations on my files as a DJ such as not being able to burn or transfer them between machines, this is essential to our work), but is it really impossible to purchase something like a beatles boxed set from other sources than itunes?
"There's no telling if the facial recognition technology will be able to accurately identify each person in a picture, but it does suffer from a setback that may annoy users: it works best when a person is facing the camera and will have trouble identifying them if they're not.".. no shit?
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but what good would that do you, if it's an ever changing document, like a conversation between multiple people?
yes i know, did you read the last line of my post?
"it's cool technology, and now that it's being open sourced, it means feasibly you can run your own "waveserver" and mitigate the issues above somewhat."
running your own server would mitigate all those issues, and i think it's good that it's open sourced and available now so people can do this.
or the first line?
"a neat idea, for collaborative brainstorming or throwaway conversations perhaps, but i hope that nobody is planning on using this for any communication that is mission critical, in it's *current form* anyway."
by current form, i mean, hosted on googles waveservers.
a neat idea, for collaborative brainstorming or throwaway conversations perhaps, but i hope that nobody is planning on using this for any communication that is mission critical, in it's current form anyway.
just like "clouds", "waves" do not reside on your computer, but rather *out there* somewhere, that you can *probably* get access to if:
-the service is up and functioning properly
-you have the required hardware and software
-there are no connection issues between you and the server
if your internet goes down, suddenly you've lost access to even internal communication at your office, as well as all archives and logs of past communication. Without local storage, you cannot do efficient search and retrieval of your own information.
there are serious privacy issues as well, no doubt google will be surfin the "waves" looking for terms to market to you, but perhaps it is more shady than that even. google has agreed to censorship in foreign markets over the years, does it really make sense to let them hold onto your data in this way?
then again.. it's cool technology, and now that it's being open sourced, it means feasibly you can run your own "waveserver" and mitigate the issues above somewhat.
Disclosing an idea to someone but not letting them steal it is really easy, i have the perfect process.
but i can't tell you what it is, sorry, you might steal my idea.
till someone else steals your information, submits it information for a search on the DB, then you watch the repo men come take all your stuff?
what a terrible, illegal, stupid idea this is. cheers britain for leading the way in eroding freedom and privacy in the new age!
i'm a little disturbed at just how familiar you are with the sex scenes in this game..
Does it know exactly what *you* look like? if not, when you go for lunch and someone else sits down, does it just show them the same thing you'd see?
Article, website, nor video mentions facial recognition, only gaze tracking. he literally waves his hand over the webcam to make it switch the screen, which all switches at once. lame! I don't see any useful security application for this at all, though the technology of gaze tracing is neat, especially the expensive stuff linked above.
make my mouse pointer go where i look and i'll be impressed.
whats wrong with using CTRL+ALT+DELETE, ENTER to lock your box?
imagine if you just used CSS
what's even more interesting is what they say on openBTS about their test operation at Burning Man. If you are looking for the now-kinda-famous Burning Man write-up, it's been moved to here. Yes, we will record your IP address. Why? Keep reading. *click* it was worth it.
If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attacker's power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system, or its banking system?"
no.
cloud data may suck to lose, but it's nothing compared to what else is proposed here.
if the US is allowed to do this, you could lose:
your freedom to communicate and voice your opinion
the data on your own computer
the connections you have with others
aren't those more important to you?
unfortunately, we've already lost some of those freedoms, but at least we had a fighting chance in court. this bill exceeds and overrides all that, giving them carte blanche to pretty much do anything they want.
the internet used to be free. but they've built it JUST the way they need it to try some smartass bullshit like this.
and it's going to happen anyway :(
I think this approach to MapReduce is a pretty creative angle to take on it. However, there are a number of distributed systems-type problems with doing it this way, that would need to be solved to actually make this realistically possible:
1) The dataset size is currently limited by the web server's disk size.
Possible solution: push the data to S3 or some other large store.
2) There is a single bottleneck/point-of-failure in the web server. In theory 10,000 clients could try to emit their map keys all at once to the web server. IIRC, Google's mapreduce elects nodes in the cluster to act as receivers for map keys during the map/sort phase.
Possible solution: Again, if you were using S3, you could assign them temporary tokens to push their data to S3 -- but that would be a large number of S3 PUT requests (one per key).
3) Fault-tolerance -- what happens when a node in the browser compute cluster fails for any of N reasons? How does the web server re-assign that map task? You'd especially want to ensure that computation finishes on a job in an unknown environment such as 1,000,000 random machines on the internet.
Possible solution: If you haven't heard from a node in N seconds, you could reassign their map task to someone else. This is a similar idea to the MapReduce paper's description of sending multiple machines on a single map task, and racing them to the finish.
4) Security -- there is no way to deterministically know whether the data emit()ed from a user's browser session is real or not. How do you trust the output of 1,000,000 users' Javascript browser executions (I think the answer is, you don't).
Here in Victoria BC if i am down on the beach facing Seattle, i'll get a txt message saying "welcome to the US!" then if i use my blackberry i am charged international rates. i called Rogers there is "nothing they can do"
it IS a technical problem, one that works out in the cellphone companies favor though, so they don't really have much interest in fixing it i imagine.
so get one: tamperproof screw driver kit
racist
I asked a customer to take a screenshot once. she took a picture of her screen with a digital camera, then printed the camera directly from the printer. then she faxed the printed picture to me.
is this sentence written properly? they conclude though that Ext4 is a nice upgrade over Ext3 due to the new features and just not improved performance in a few areas but its lifespan may be short with btrfs coming soon."
I've never once had an mp3 delivered in anything but it's pure non drm laden form. also available are .wav and .flac, multiple bitrates, package deals etc. It stuns me that people would actually pay for such files from the likes of microsoft or apple, why?
I guess DJ specific music has to be provided this way(i would never accept any limitations on my files as a DJ such as not being able to burn or transfer them between machines, this is essential to our work), but is it really impossible to purchase something like a beatles boxed set from other sources than itunes?
if a disease breaks out, they might not be able to filter bittorrent any more?
i find my self in the strange position of rooting for the disease now.
ugh, lame. and as if you needed anymore reason not to support this: how it was made
from TFA:
"There's no telling if the facial recognition technology will be able to accurately identify each person in a picture, but it does suffer from a setback that may annoy users: it works best when a person is facing the camera and will have trouble identifying them if they're not." .. no shit?
close your curtains please.
believe it or not, i actually thought he was serious!
what good is the connector and fan if the GPU is dead?
why wouldn't you want to make him into an escape goat?
then you could ride your grammar-nazi ass on outta town on him!
(I think you meant scapegoat)