Good point. I'm sure that Google has enough money to ensure that its lawyers will have structured things legally, in which case it's avoidance. Governments, however, and especially the French one, are very good at leaning on people when they think they can screw some cash out of them.
Well, I don't know about that, the quality of editing has always been variable here...remember Zonk?
Anyway, in this case since they just cut and pasted the text 100% from the original article, not too much chance of making mistake. But not much added value either.
How about asking/.ers their opinion on how to potentially circumvent these rather draconian-seeming proposals; store your mails offshort, and encrypt all local copies? Is there a convenient but more secure alternative to Google docs?
Well, people who come to a DVD shop presumably want to rent DVDs...which means that perhaps they're not comfortable with the latest tech, even if - as you quote - many say they would rather download the film. My experience with DVD shops has been that they are pretty miserable places, which make most of their profit from overdue fees.
Make a comfy place with 'cult' DVDs to hire, plus give advice on ways to upgrade your home cinema. Sell overpriced coffee.
Personally, at this time (late 2012) I would not put anything important out "in the cloud". Google Docs is slow, compromises your security, AND, quite frankly, is a pain in the ass to use.
Agree.
Get yourself a good kid who knows Ruby/Rails, or Django, or some other Web framework with database back end. Pay him a couple of hundred bucks, or maybe hire him a hooker. Make sure he's not finished until it's all writtent down. Job done.
Now you've lost me. Pretty hard coding Ruby when you're with a hooker, I guess..
Rather simplistic. In some places they won't blink an eye if you relieve yourself in public, but get "convicted" of stealing, and they'll cut your hand off.
Thanks for the input, get your point but was really just saying what others have subsequently done better - the theoretical speeds of 'broadband' are already often far in excess of the speed that you can actually download at.
On a more serious note, these guys are deluding themselves; gamers will for sure soon be setting up secure proxy networks and/or TOR stuff that will then come in handy for plenty of other uses that could well upset the Viet government a whole lot more than gaming....
I get through laptops pretty regularly, (life on the road + 4 kids), so don't buy expensive ones - cheapest with the biggest screen. Then I swap out the big memory and hard-drives that I used to upgrade the fried one. Easy to do, since most laptop chassis from big manufacturers are designed to be easy to build to order... I find that cheap laptop + home upgrade = plenty fast PC for peanuts...
FTA: "If you happen to own a Verizon iPhone and are willing to give it the jailbreak treatment using Greenpois0n RC5_4, we wish you best of luck for that and hope you could share your end result with us. Thanks in advance."
Methinks worth waiting for some keen bleeding edge early adopters to iron out the wrinkles before rushing off to brick your expensive new toy, fellow/.ers
Although I'm sadly perfectly prepared to believe that the two people in Sweden may have been 'encouraged' to make their claims, I'm not sure that Swedish extradition conditions are more defavourable to Assange than those of the UK. Remember this?
Not so sure they need to have client-side stuff, tho', deep packet inspection techniques seem to have evolved enough for people to see what you're downloading; torrenting a distro, OK, a film not. Wonder if they can automate this (identifying 'illegal' content)? Otherwise would seem to be difficult to massively deploy...
I used to think that grabbing & keeping 'everything' was good. But these days I advise my clients to not collect and/or store more data than they absolutely need, and/or are authorised to do. This is as dumb as merchants and others (illegally) holding your bank or credit-card data. Google wants 'maps / streetview' to localise you more precisely if you have not GPS by linking your location to a Wifi SSID as well as just the cell towers? Great, good idea. Not evil. But why the heck do they need to collect the network traffic and not just the SSID and Lat & Long? They don't....
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Good point. I'm sure that Google has enough money to ensure that its lawyers will have structured things legally, in which case it's avoidance. Governments, however, and especially the French one, are very good at leaning on people when they think they can screw some cash out of them.
erm, "offshore", of course...
Well, I don't know about that, the quality of editing has always been variable here...remember Zonk?
Anyway, in this case since they just cut and pasted the text 100% from the original article, not too much chance of making mistake.
But not much added value either.
How about asking /.ers their opinion on how to potentially circumvent these rather draconian-seeming proposals; store your mails offshort, and encrypt all local copies? Is there a convenient but more secure alternative to Google docs?
Well, people who come to a DVD shop presumably want to rent DVDs...which means that perhaps they're not comfortable with the latest tech, even if - as you quote - many say they would rather download the film. My experience with DVD shops has been that they are pretty miserable places, which make most of their profit from overdue fees.
Make a comfy place with 'cult' DVDs to hire, plus give advice on ways to upgrade your home cinema. Sell overpriced coffee.
Can someone please explain why, when I submitted this story yesterday, it was flagged as spam?
http://slashdot.org/submission/2344885/credit-card-has-display-acts-as-security-token
Guess you don't work in banking...
Personally, at this time (late 2012) I would not put anything important out "in the cloud". Google Docs is slow, compromises your security, AND, quite frankly, is a pain in the ass to use.
Agree.
Get yourself a good kid who knows Ruby/Rails, or Django, or some other Web framework with database back end. Pay him a couple of hundred bucks, or maybe hire him a hooker. Make sure he's not finished until it's all writtent down. Job done.
Now you've lost me. Pretty hard coding Ruby when you're with a hooker, I guess..
Rather simplistic. In some places they won't blink an eye if you relieve yourself in public, but get "convicted" of stealing, and they'll cut your hand off.
Thanks for the input, get your point but was really just saying what others have subsequently done better - the theoretical speeds of 'broadband' are already often far in excess of the speed that you can actually download at.
Not sure ISPs and others would be keen in upgrading their infrastructure to make the theoretical speed really available to home users, sadly...
Indeed. In which case a better comparison of pricing policies is perhaps with Microsoft. At the end of the article is this...
IHS iSuppli has also done a teardown of Microsoft's £399 Surface tablet, revealing that the device costs just $271 (£170) to build....
Right. You get what you pay for; nothing wrong with that.
BOOM HEADSHOT!
On a more serious note, these guys are deluding themselves; gamers will for sure soon be setting up secure proxy networks and/or TOR stuff that will then come in handy for plenty of other uses that could well upset the Viet government a whole lot more than gaming....
I get through laptops pretty regularly, (life on the road + 4 kids), so don't buy expensive ones - cheapest with the biggest screen. Then I swap out the big memory and hard-drives that I used to upgrade the fried one. Easy to do, since most laptop chassis from big manufacturers are designed to be easy to build to order...
I find that cheap laptop + home upgrade = plenty fast PC for peanuts...
FTA: "If you happen to own a Verizon iPhone and are willing to give it the jailbreak treatment using Greenpois0n RC5_4, we wish you best of luck for that and hope you could share your end result with us. Thanks in advance."
Methinks worth waiting for some keen bleeding edge early adopters to iron out the wrinkles before rushing off to brick your expensive new toy, fellow /.ers
Although I'm sadly perfectly prepared to believe that the two people in Sweden may have been 'encouraged' to make their claims, I'm not sure that Swedish extradition conditions are more defavourable to Assange than those of the UK. Remember this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatWest_Three
Assange does seem to have a point; if he is not (yet) subject to formal charges, why should he be forced to return to Sweden for questioning?
I'm (sadly) sure that they're working on it...
Not so sure they need to have client-side stuff, tho', deep packet inspection techniques seem to have evolved enough for people to see what you're downloading; torrenting a distro, OK, a film not.
Wonder if they can automate this (identifying 'illegal' content)? Otherwise would seem to be difficult to massively deploy...
lol...reminds me of that old joke:
Guy @ bar #1: "I'm into flagellation, necrophilia & bestiality"
Guy @ bar #2: "Sounds like you're flogging a dead horse..."
Whatever turns you on, dude. She's certainly well-geeky, but 'hot' she's not ;-)
Mod up, please. Informative post, excellent product. Put it on your thumbdrive.
I have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_fuel_injection, you insensitive clod!
Just a few snippets from the wonderful Telegraph article...they say that;
"While scientists have previously told of the dangers of the storm, Dr Fisher’s comments are the most comprehensive warnings from Nasa to date."
Indeed they are! For example:
“Large areas will be without electricity power and to repair that damage will be hard as that takes time.”
Ah, OK...but there's more!
"He said large swathes of the world could face being without power for several months, although he admitted that was unlikely. "
Eh?
"Dr Fisher said precautions could be taken including creating back up systems for hospitals and power grids".
Great idea! Damn, why did we not think of that before?
Well, they do for the North!
(In British English 'bent'=stolen, illegal)
I used to think that grabbing & keeping 'everything' was good.
But these days I advise my clients to not collect and/or store more data than they absolutely need, and/or are authorised to do.
This is as dumb as merchants and others (illegally) holding your bank or credit-card data.
Google wants 'maps / streetview' to localise you more precisely if you have not GPS by linking your location to a Wifi SSID as well as just the cell towers?
Great, good idea. Not evil.
But why the heck do they need to collect the network traffic and not just the SSID and Lat & Long?
They don't....
Sure, no one knows what Oracle is going to do here except Larry Ellison
I admire your confidence...