This is exactly the reason for the much-cited "Don't be evil" slogan. If you have no morals, then there's a lot you get out of people without them complaining.
I'm no longer there, and it clearly doesn't *always* work, but a few years back Google had lots of engineers who constantly pushed back internally against any attempt to use data in slimy ways. You're going to be served weirdly personalized ads online, but the privacy leak shouldn't extend any further than affecting what is presented to you.
There's a radio ad in Beijing for one of the big phones in which a woman boasts that she hasn't lost any weight but her friends all think she has because her face looks so thin next to her giant new phone.
The phone isn't just for use, it's a fashion statement.
Perhaps that attitude extends to other Asian countries?
What prevents ZFS's "parity, mirroring, checksums and other mechanisms to protect your data" from being applied to blocks stored in RAM as well as on disk?
Sure, ECC in hardware seems "free" in performance but there is some small latency overhead as well as a huge price overhead. At the system level it may be more effective in price/performance to be able to use more standard hardware and throw a bit of software at the problem.
I got a Samsung Wear Live which works quite well as an accessory for my Nexus 5 phone. I'm not sure if it's worth $200 to the typical user, but some people pay much more than that for just a watch.
I think Google managed to cross some sort of threshold of usefulness with the Android Wear API, and Samsung has done a clean physical design. It functions as a good and possibly even stylish watch (albeit of the "digital watch" genre) as well as providing some extras.
The notification interface is very useful for fielding messages/emails that I receive on my phone: I can, at a glance, see whether it's worth taking out my phone to read a full message. When I'm driving, I can glance at my wrist much more safely than pulling out my phone. When I get an SMS with an access code I can again easily see it on my watch. You can also click to read more of the message on the watch, but eventually it gets silly on such a small screen.
The Google Now notifications are also a bit more useful as occasional popups on the watch than as cards on the phone's search screen; when I pull out my phone it's usually for some purpose that the Google Now cards just interfere with.
I still haven't seen special-purpose "wearable" apps that make much sense. The heart rate monitor doesn't work on this device unless I hold very still (useless when exercising). The screen is too small for navigation, although it might be useable for point-by-point directions in some cases. I have a compass app which might be convenient to have on my wrist if the magnetometer didn't need recalibration (via awkward figure 8 gyrations of my wrist) every time I think of using it. The security-related apps ("unlock my phone" when I'm holding it) are still too insecure. Several note-taking Apps have versions but I don't find them so useful without any method for input. There is of course also the voice input, but I find it pretty inaccurate so it's hard to do anything involving input on the watch.
I haven't had time to read up on the iWatch to see if they've managed to replicate the innovative "watch as a notification extension of the phone" which Google has developed.
Why should the *client* be raising its own window and messing with the user's view? The user should be in charge of what he sees.
The user should have two controls, e.g.: left click to drag, right click to raise.
That's only true for some languages. Programs written in pure functional languages such as Haskell absolutely can be split across multiple cores by the compiler/runtime without being designed to be "multithreaded."
On the other hand, pure functional languages such as Haskell often cannot be made to effectively use a bounded set of resources (such as a finite number of cores and memory).
For this particular case, DemandProgress.org had an online petition you could sign. I don't know how effective that is, but it's probably better than nothing and is easier than getting out of your chair.
Of course that couldn't have anything to do with allergic parents
getting the hell off the farm where they were miserable and couldn't breathe
and into a relatively
sterile city with lower pollen counts, where they pass their hereditary
allergies on to their children (some claim 50% of allergies are hereditary).
It seems trite, but apparently it must be said yet again: Correlation is not causation!
On a related note, I've always thought it funny to see speculative theories based on the
apparent finding
that children with dogs develop
fewer allergies. My daughter will certainly never have a dog while she's
living with me (I got severe hives and asthma last time I stayed at the house of a friend who has a dog).
But she is quite likely to develop severe allergies like me and my father. Coincidence?
The US also has rule of law, a bill of rights, and government checks and balances designed to try to limit how much damage government corruption can do. While it can (and probably does) infringe on people's rights in many situations, these are not carried out at the same scale as in China. The free press and freedom of speech (and communication) means that if it were occurring on any significant scale, you would hear about it. Many people are outraged by Guantanamo Bay, and rightfully so.
Meanwhile, in China, no one even knows about similar or worse abuses even at a much larger scale. And with tighter control of the Internet, adding SSL spoofing to DNS hijacking, GFW monitoring and filtering at egresses, the vast majority of the populace never will.*
* While there remain ways around this (VPNs, for example), those just act as an escape valve for nerd outrage; the majority of people don't understand the problem well enough to care, and will never go to any effort to reach beyond that convenient (filtered) local news source and (monitored) local email, VOIP (special version of Skype for China, folks), chat rooms, SMS (now openly monitored by the phone company "for porn"), etc.
Browsers should warn you if the CA for a site changes. That won't help the situation you describe, nor will it save you if you visit a new site, but at least the typical user visiting a Banana Republic like China can reach his usual email provider safely from his laptop. Unfortunately, those already in such a country are likely out of luck, since who knows which version of Firefox (or Chrome or even IE) they wind up downloading.
Forget about "bigotry" or cultural issues or any of that.
The real problem with CNNIC being a CA is independent of politics: a single entity (CCP) controls both your network access (at two points: SOE ISPs and GFW of China) and your SSL certificates (through CNNIC, which is subject to party control).
Game over, man. Forget about privacy.
[CCP=Chinese Communist Party; SOE=State Owned Enterprise; GFW=Great Firewall]
> (Running CGI utilities out of home directories is my favorite that is blocked by SELinux by default.)
Isn't this more properly in the purview of the web server configuration? The only problem is that it's too easy for Jack to change the web server config to allow the thing he thinks he wants to work. All SELinux is doing is making the security configurations too complex for Jack to understand and disable it.
Until he realizes he can just disable SELinux and get those.htaccess files to work the way he wants.
Slashdot Mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Google lets you opt-out, too. https://www.theonion.com/googl...
District 9 seemed to create sympathetic characters using pretty repulsively realistic buglike characters.
It's systemd's fault.
This is exactly the reason for the much-cited "Don't be evil" slogan. If you have no morals, then there's a lot you get out of people without them complaining.
I'm no longer there, and it clearly doesn't *always* work, but a few years back Google had lots of engineers who constantly pushed back internally against any attempt to use data in slimy ways. You're going to be served weirdly personalized ads online, but the privacy leak shouldn't extend any further than affecting what is presented to you.
Well, and whoever else shares your browser. :-)
There's a radio ad in Beijing for one of the big phones in which a woman boasts that she hasn't lost any weight but her friends all think she has because her face looks so thin next to her giant new phone.
The phone isn't just for use, it's a fashion statement.
Perhaps that attitude extends to other Asian countries?
What prevents ZFS's "parity, mirroring, checksums and other mechanisms to protect your data" from being applied to blocks stored in RAM as well as on disk? Sure, ECC in hardware seems "free" in performance but there is some small latency overhead as well as a huge price overhead. At the system level it may be more effective in price/performance to be able to use more standard hardware and throw a bit of software at the problem.
I think Google managed to cross some sort of threshold of usefulness with the Android Wear API, and Samsung has done a clean physical design. It functions as a good and possibly even stylish watch (albeit of the "digital watch" genre) as well as providing some extras.
The notification interface is very useful for fielding messages/emails that I receive on my phone: I can, at a glance, see whether it's worth taking out my phone to read a full message. When I'm driving, I can glance at my wrist much more safely than pulling out my phone. When I get an SMS with an access code I can again easily see it on my watch. You can also click to read more of the message on the watch, but eventually it gets silly on such a small screen.
The Google Now notifications are also a bit more useful as occasional popups on the watch than as cards on the phone's search screen; when I pull out my phone it's usually for some purpose that the Google Now cards just interfere with.
I still haven't seen special-purpose "wearable" apps that make much sense. The heart rate monitor doesn't work on this device unless I hold very still (useless when exercising). The screen is too small for navigation, although it might be useable for point-by-point directions in some cases. I have a compass app which might be convenient to have on my wrist if the magnetometer didn't need recalibration (via awkward figure 8 gyrations of my wrist) every time I think of using it. The security-related apps ("unlock my phone" when I'm holding it) are still too insecure. Several note-taking Apps have versions but I don't find them so useful without any method for input. There is of course also the voice input, but I find it pretty inaccurate so it's hard to do anything involving input on the watch.
I haven't had time to read up on the iWatch to see if they've managed to replicate the innovative "watch as a notification extension of the phone" which Google has developed.
Better yet, disable HTTP. This is a MITM injection attack and SSL was invented to help prevent this.
FTP for the win.
Read "Ender's Game" the short story instead. The novel is kind of like the novel form of Moby Dick.
Why should the *client* be raising its own window and messing with the user's view? The user should be in charge of what he sees. The user should have two controls, e.g.: left click to drag, right click to raise.
How about printing stars for Sneetches whose bellies lack them? That might do something about racism, at least among Sneetches.
That's only true for some languages. Programs written in pure functional languages such as Haskell absolutely can be split across multiple cores by the compiler/runtime without being designed to be "multithreaded."
On the other hand, pure functional languages such as Haskell often cannot be made to effectively use a bounded set of resources (such as a finite number of cores and memory).
For this particular case, DemandProgress.org had an online petition you could sign. I don't know how effective that is, but it's probably better than nothing and is easier than getting out of your chair.
That's why I always use an encryption algorithm that makes the encrypted data indistinguishable from sectors full of 0 bytes.
I call it "one-way encryption."
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ perhaps?
Of course that couldn't have anything to do with allergic parents getting the hell off the farm where they were miserable and couldn't breathe and into a relatively sterile city with lower pollen counts, where they pass their hereditary allergies on to their children (some claim 50% of allergies are hereditary).
It seems trite, but apparently it must be said yet again: Correlation is not causation!
On a related note, I've always thought it funny to see speculative theories based on the apparent finding that children with dogs develop fewer allergies. My daughter will certainly never have a dog while she's living with me (I got severe hives and asthma last time I stayed at the house of a friend who has a dog). But she is quite likely to develop severe allergies like me and my father. Coincidence?
The US also has rule of law, a bill of rights, and government checks and balances designed to try to limit how much damage government corruption can do. While it can (and probably does) infringe on people's rights in many situations, these are not carried out at the same scale as in China. The free press and freedom of speech (and communication) means that if it were occurring on any significant scale, you would hear about it. Many people are outraged by Guantanamo Bay, and rightfully so.
Meanwhile, in China, no one even knows about similar or worse abuses even at a much larger scale. And with tighter control of the Internet, adding SSL spoofing to DNS hijacking, GFW monitoring and filtering at egresses, the vast majority of the populace never will.*
* While there remain ways around this (VPNs, for example), those just act as an escape valve for nerd outrage; the majority of people don't understand the problem well enough to care, and will never go to any effort to reach beyond that convenient (filtered) local news source and (monitored) local email, VOIP (special version of Skype for China, folks), chat rooms, SMS (now openly monitored by the phone company "for porn"), etc.
Browsers should warn you if the CA for a site changes. That won't help the situation you describe, nor will it save you if you visit a new site, but at least the typical user visiting a Banana Republic like China can reach his usual email provider safely from his laptop. Unfortunately, those already in such a country are likely out of luck, since who knows which version of Firefox (or Chrome or even IE) they wind up downloading.
Suspicion of an authoritarian regime not answerable to the people it governs != racism.
Or did you miss the lack of outrage about the Taiwan Certificate Authority (TWCA). Same/similar people, different government. Less of a problem.
Checkmate.
Forget about "bigotry" or cultural issues or any of that.
The real problem with CNNIC being a CA is independent of politics: a single entity (CCP) controls both your network access (at two points: SOE ISPs and GFW of China) and your SSL certificates (through CNNIC, which is subject to party control).
Game over, man. Forget about privacy.
[CCP=Chinese Communist Party; SOE=State Owned Enterprise; GFW=Great Firewall]
> (Running CGI utilities out of home directories is my favorite that is blocked by SELinux by default.)
Isn't this more properly in the purview of the web server configuration? The only problem is that it's too easy for Jack to change the web server config to allow the thing he thinks he wants to work. All SELinux is doing is making the security configurations too complex for Jack to understand and disable it.
Until he realizes he can just disable SELinux and get those .htaccess files to work the way he wants.
Here in China, I hear that most people reinstall their system from scratch every few months, anyway.
Viruses are a big problem with the pirated software model.
Unfortunately, that link is blocked in China. Is it available in any less inflammatory setting?