The German newspaper Die Zeit who was given access to this data has a visualization of his whereabouts for the 6 months. Press play and adjust speed with the slider to the right. The data is annotated with short reports of his day glimpsed from his Twitter account and blog.
I agree with your last paragraph, but not with your first. Multiculturalism and universal values are NOT mutually exclusive. You can embrace differences in other cultures while still insisting that they treat people with dignity.
I very much agree. My whole digital life, excluding photos, fits into 6 GB and goes back to to 1997. That includes e-mail, code, stuff for school, uni, and some work and family projects.
I don't count photos, because photography is my hobby and I keep RAW files around. That get's large pretty fast. But I do weed out obvious crap shots and irrelevant duplicates or tests, otherwise it becomes unmanageable. My photos are filed under "year/year-month-day shoot" (e.g. "2011/11-1-2 We Love Food 9+10") which is easy enough.
I also don't count music, because although I do enjoy listening to it, I wouldn't mind losing it all. It's not irreplaceable.
- Photos are organized in Lightroom and iPhoto under a ~/Pictures folder. - Music is organized by iTunes under ~/Music. - There is a ~/Movies folder, but that's only for downloads. I don't keep movies around after watching them. Waste of space.
I have a ~/unix directory which is the prefix for manually compiled software. My own code also lives under ~/unix/src and is installed into ~/unix/bin. Oh, because of Eclipse there's also a ~/Workspace folder lying around. I should move that somewhere else.
Then there's ~/org for my org-mode system. This keeps track of notes, todos, appointments, and more and more project files, including my own scripts and stuff I do for Uni.
Mail lives under ~/Mail which I access via mutt and search/index with maildir-utils. I dump all mail into an =Archive mailbox and clean out my =Inbox every day. If a mail requires further action I capture it within org-mode to get it into my system and move it to =Archive with one key. mutt is also integrated with the OS X address book. (The integration of the address book with org-mode is an open loop.)
Downloads (except movies) from the internet go straight to ~/Desktop which I also try to clean out every day. Occasionally, I will check out a project folder and keep it around longer, which brings me to...
~/git. In there I keep (bare) git repositories for my org-system and e-mail (checked in daily), my code, and other large projects. I also use these repositories to sync stuff across different machines.
Oh, and then there's an 3-year old, 30-GB-large encrypted disk-image from my last computer lying around which contains stuff that I haven't brought over yet. (20 GB of that are photos. Most of the rest are caches and data cruft from programs.)
Last time I checked, my whole digital life (minus photos) fits into 6 GB. That includes a 15-year-old e-mail archive and all the other stuff I've kept since then. I have around 30 GB in music lying around but I don't count it because I find it completely replaceable and there are good online options available now, such as Soundcloud and others. (I'm also lucky that there are two excellent radio stations available here: Fritz and Motor.FM.)
Backups are handled by TimeMachine and I regularly swap out the drive and take it to my parents' place for offsite storage.
I generally try to avoid folders for organization and prefer to access the files through a software layer using folders only as a backend. For media there's ready-made stuff (iTunes, iPhoto) and Lightroom allows me to impose my preferred structure. My own stuff I usually manage through org and git. I also try to go through my stuff once a year and clean up the cruft. That keeps everything nice and clean.
There are mesh networks covering entire cities build on Ad-Hoc mode. In the German speaking world, these are usually operated by Freifunk (free radio) groups and they even link major German-speaking cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Wien, Mainz, Leipzig,...) in one network.
I'm just saying that most music today is assembly line corporate crap. It's designed to be catchy, it's designed to be universal, and in the end it's bland.
There's so much indie/alternative music out there, you just have to go looking. Of course, it helps when you have a radio station in town that does the looking for you.
Well, they did. This is because the US constitution says we are free from all unreasonable searches and seizures and those searches will be supported by probably cause and a warrant. This was the standing needed to sue against the government. However, the court rules that as a right of sovereignty, protecting and controlling what passed through the borders override the US constitution.
In that case, the rule of law prevailed, didn't it? You may not like the outcome of the court decision, but note that there is a way for you to reverse it. (Constititutional amendment -- although, seeing how difficult that process is, one might argue that it's practically non-existant.)
Remember, when you needed an edu address to get into FB? Or when it had a somewhat sane and understandable privacy policy?
This is just the same! First, only uber-rich Non-Americans can invest. (Of course, uber-rich Americans will just funnel money through a shell company in the Caymans.) Then, when (if) Facebook ever does a profit or has some sensible business plan other than selling out the privacy of their users, they will get SEC approval. At some point, the masses will be able to take part in the Facebook Financial Dream [tm]. In the end, when the scam has run its course, the stock will crash and crumble.
Facebook is going the way of AOL. If they get lucky they'll turn into Yahoo.
I looked the term up on Wikipedia and I must say I still find it confusing how it meshes with the rule of law. But maybe that's because it's a common law thing. At least now I can trace its history.
In my original reply, I was thinking about National Security Letters and their inherent gag order when I wrote that the rule of law is undermined. One of those NSL went to court in the end, so it's kinda like going two steps backwards and one step forward. Also, in your example (warrant-less searches at the border), if the Supreme Court ruled about it then somebody must have brought a suit, correct?
FYI, In Germany we have the Rechtsweggarantie which means that whenever your rights are infringed by the state you can sue the state.
The concept of the rule of law has been around since the Romans. Probably even longer, I forget. And the person who is affected by government action certainly has a right to sue -- that's what rule of law means.
I'm afraid I really don't understand your comment. Which laws are you referring to?
Especially when any random stranger can send you spam which you have to pay for.
Only in the US.
When SMS came out they were free for the sender and the receiver. The CCC basically ran a data-push service in Berlin on top of it which was so popular it sometimes crashed the carrier networks.
Only after the carriers realized the true potential of the technology did they start charging the senders. How American consumers put up with being charged at the receiving end is a complete mystery to me.
Column-oriented databases (also called column stores) have been around for more than a decade and there is loads of research going on in the academic community. Their main application is in-memory-based databases which present different challenges to optimize than traditional disk-based databases. Google MonetDB or X100 for more information. These systems support SQL as the query language, so most if not all of your database knowledge is applicable to them.
I've also seen data storage systems that basically implement a proprietary column store going back 20 years.
I understand that breaking into someone else's email account is illegal, but I don't get this influencing-the-election angle. Isn't this what typically happens during an election? Journalists, competitors and other parties exposing information about the candidates? His actions exposed that Sarah Palin -- a politician campaigning for an elected office -- was also breaking the law. Isn't this information highly relevant in an election?
"Sure, habitual offenders might need something a little more tough but in this case we're talking about someone who never broke any laws before."
Um, fix this:
"Sure, habitual offenders might need something a little more tough but in this case we're talking about someone who was never caught breaking any laws before."
There. More accurate.
In the eyes of the law both statements mean exactly the same thing. Innocent until proven guilty and all that jazz.
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Required by current EU data retention laws... which are being challenged and hopefully overturned, and soon.
The German newspaper Die Zeit who was given access to this data has a visualization of his whereabouts for the 6 months. Press play and adjust speed with the slider to the right. The data is annotated with short reports of his day glimpsed from his Twitter account and blog.
http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten
"Oh noes, you burst my little bubble!"
Hilarious. Pass me the popcorn, please.
Word.
Bah. In 1994 they had freaking cannon shots for each download: www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html (scroll down to the last entry).
Relevant enough for Western countries sending out diplomats to establish relations (source, source).
All I see is Craig Mundie talking about how great the stuff is they have in their lab. But no demo!
Actually, Fox News went to court to make sure that they could knowingly lie to their viewers.
Source: http://www.ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html
I agree with your last paragraph, but not with your first. Multiculturalism and universal values are NOT mutually exclusive. You can embrace differences in other cultures while still insisting that they treat people with dignity.
I very much agree. My whole digital life, excluding photos, fits into 6 GB and goes back to to 1997. That includes e-mail, code, stuff for school, uni, and some work and family projects.
I don't count photos, because photography is my hobby and I keep RAW files around. That get's large pretty fast. But I do weed out obvious crap shots and irrelevant duplicates or tests, otherwise it becomes unmanageable. My photos are filed under "year/year-month-day shoot" (e.g. "2011/11-1-2 We Love Food 9+10") which is easy enough.
I also don't count music, because although I do enjoy listening to it, I wouldn't mind losing it all. It's not irreplaceable.
For Media:
- Photos are organized in Lightroom and iPhoto under a ~/Pictures folder.
- Music is organized by iTunes under ~/Music.
- There is a ~/Movies folder, but that's only for downloads. I don't keep movies around after watching them. Waste of space.
I have a ~/unix directory which is the prefix for manually compiled software. My own code also lives under ~/unix/src and is installed into ~/unix/bin. Oh, because of Eclipse there's also a ~/Workspace folder lying around. I should move that somewhere else.
Then there's ~/org for my org-mode system. This keeps track of notes, todos, appointments, and more and more project files, including my own scripts and stuff I do for Uni.
Mail lives under ~/Mail which I access via mutt and search/index with maildir-utils. I dump all mail into an =Archive mailbox and clean out my =Inbox every day. If a mail requires further action I capture it within org-mode to get it into my system and move it to =Archive with one key. mutt is also integrated with the OS X address book. (The integration of the address book with org-mode is an open loop.)
Downloads (except movies) from the internet go straight to ~/Desktop which I also try to clean out every day. Occasionally, I will check out a project folder and keep it around longer, which brings me to...
~/git. In there I keep (bare) git repositories for my org-system and e-mail (checked in daily), my code, and other large projects. I also use these repositories to sync stuff across different machines.
Oh, and then there's an 3-year old, 30-GB-large encrypted disk-image from my last computer lying around which contains stuff that I haven't brought over yet. (20 GB of that are photos. Most of the rest are caches and data cruft from programs.)
Last time I checked, my whole digital life (minus photos) fits into 6 GB. That includes a 15-year-old e-mail archive and all the other stuff I've kept since then. I have around 30 GB in music lying around but I don't count it because I find it completely replaceable and there are good online options available now, such as Soundcloud and others. (I'm also lucky that there are two excellent radio stations available here: Fritz and Motor.FM.)
Backups are handled by TimeMachine and I regularly swap out the drive and take it to my parents' place for offsite storage.
I generally try to avoid folders for organization and prefer to access the files through a software layer using folders only as a backend. For media there's ready-made stuff (iTunes, iPhoto) and Lightroom allows me to impose my preferred structure. My own stuff I usually manage through org and git. I also try to go through my stuff once a year and clean up the cruft. That keeps everything nice and clean.
There are mesh networks covering entire cities build on Ad-Hoc mode. In the German speaking world, these are usually operated by Freifunk (free radio) groups and they even link major German-speaking cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Wien, Mainz, Leipzig, ...) in one network.
I'm just saying that most music today is assembly line corporate crap. It's designed to be catchy, it's designed to be universal, and in the end it's bland.
There's so much indie/alternative music out there, you just have to go looking. Of course, it helps when you have a radio station in town that does the looking for you.
n/t
Well, they did. This is because the US constitution says we are free from all unreasonable searches and seizures and those searches will be supported by probably cause and a warrant. This was the standing needed to sue against the government. However, the court rules that as a right of sovereignty, protecting and controlling what passed through the borders override the US constitution.
In that case, the rule of law prevailed, didn't it? You may not like the outcome of the court decision, but note that there is a way for you to reverse it. (Constititutional amendment -- although, seeing how difficult that process is, one might argue that it's practically non-existant.)
Remember, when you needed an edu address to get into FB? Or when it had a somewhat sane and understandable privacy policy?
This is just the same! First, only uber-rich Non-Americans can invest. (Of course, uber-rich Americans will just funnel money through a shell company in the Caymans.) Then, when (if) Facebook ever does a profit or has some sensible business plan other than selling out the privacy of their users, they will get SEC approval. At some point, the masses will be able to take part in the Facebook Financial Dream [tm]. In the end, when the scam has run its course, the stock will crash and crumble.
Facebook is going the way of AOL. If they get lucky they'll turn into Yahoo.
I looked the term up on Wikipedia and I must say I still find it confusing how it meshes with the rule of law. But maybe that's because it's a common law thing. At least now I can trace its history.
In my original reply, I was thinking about National Security Letters and their inherent gag order when I wrote that the rule of law is undermined. One of those NSL went to court in the end, so it's kinda like going two steps backwards and one step forward. Also, in your example (warrant-less searches at the border), if the Supreme Court ruled about it then somebody must have brought a suit, correct?
FYI, In Germany we have the Rechtsweggarantie which means that whenever your rights are infringed by the state you can sue the state.
The concept of the rule of law has been around since the Romans. Probably even longer, I forget. And the person who is affected by government action certainly has a right to sue -- that's what rule of law means.
I'm afraid I really don't understand your comment. Which laws are you referring to?
Hi-bandwidth directional wireless links? Like everywhere else?
Especially when any random stranger can send you spam which you have to pay for.
Only in the US.
When SMS came out they were free for the sender and the receiver. The CCC basically ran a data-push service in Berlin on top of it which was so popular it sometimes crashed the carrier networks.
Only after the carriers realized the true potential of the technology did they start charging the senders. How American consumers put up with being charged at the receiving end is a complete mystery to me.
Column-oriented databases (also called column stores) have been around for more than a decade and there is loads of research going on in the academic community. Their main application is in-memory-based databases which present different challenges to optimize than traditional disk-based databases. Google MonetDB or X100 for more information. These systems support SQL as the query language, so most if not all of your database knowledge is applicable to them.
I've also seen data storage systems that basically implement a proprietary column store going back 20 years.
In a country that subscribes to the rule of law any and all government actions should be subject to legal recourse.
It's a shame that the US has blurred the concept of the rule of law so much -- all in the name of "national security" (read: corruption).
You just described encyclopedias in general.
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I understand that breaking into someone else's email account is illegal, but I don't get this influencing-the-election angle. Isn't this what typically happens during an election? Journalists, competitors and other parties exposing information about the candidates? His actions exposed that Sarah Palin -- a politician campaigning for an elected office -- was also breaking the law. Isn't this information highly relevant in an election?
"Sure, habitual offenders might need something a little more tough but in this case we're talking about someone who never broke any laws before."
Um, fix this:
"Sure, habitual offenders might need something a little more tough but in this case we're talking about someone who was never caught breaking any laws before."
There. More accurate.
In the eyes of the law both statements mean exactly the same thing. Innocent until proven guilty and all that jazz.