sell my house, my car, all the rest of my possessions, keep and spend ONLY cash, (no credit cards, no bank accounts) buy a dual sport motorcycle and some camping gear and leave civilization, camp out in remote wilderness areas, (not state or federal camp grounds) and you can forget a cellphone, forget a smart phone, the only electronics you should even have would be a portable AM/FM/Shortwave radio receiver if you just got to have one for news & weather, music, general talk and bullshit to listen to.
Selling your house could take well over a month, possibly several.
I block Javascript across the board, but all static images are allowed through. If your site displays the ads as static images that do not require any javascript then I'm fine with your ads and don't mind if I see them. I'm actually pretty shocked at how few ads I actually see given that plain old images are allowed.
But if you sent up an army of these plutonium powered craft, eventually one will have a plutonium fuel cell rupture after a launch failure and contaminate a large area.
Given a long enough time frame anything that is physically possible will happen.
This mindset is the problem. You're allowing changes in technology to erode your privacy by making tracking easier and more common. If there were cop cars tailing every single vehicle and reporting their movements to a central database would you be OK with that? If not, why is it OK to do the same thing with cameras?
I would be perfectly fine with it from a privacy perspective. I would not be fine with it from a cost perspective. The cameras do the same thing without the cost.
Auto insurance is a fairly competitive market, I'd imagine a lot of people would jump ship pretty quickly if their rates went up due to using this app.
They also already "discriminate" based based on city / country driving (they ask for your address and it affects the premium), as well as different rates for on-street vs off-street parking.
How long before the insurance company succumbs to the temptation of penalizing those who use their cars too much? The more time you spend on the road the higher the chance that you'll be involved in an incident, regardless of how well you drive. You can see how such information could be used to discriminate against people living in rural areas and those living further from their place of work.
I thought insurance companies already do this. Every company I've had a policy with has always wanted current and yearly mileage when I signed up. Driving fewer miles in a year resulted in lower premiums.
I have to admit my first reaction to the thought was a negative one, but upon thinking on it some more I don't think I would have a problem with it.
This biggest issue I saw at first was that people would easily be able to tell when I wasn't home, making the house a burglary target, but they could do that now without the system just by watching the house. In fact, someone sitting in a car on my street could would be able to watch a whole bunch of houses at once for an empty one.
Yes, Samsung did in fact DIRECTLY copy Apple. It's not just the design of the exterior. It's the user interface, which Apple spent years and probably tens of millions researching before they released the first version of the device.
People view the tracking part as an invasion of privacy. Consider the ubiquity of cameras and facial recognition (and other bio-metrics). If the argument is that license plates are public and therefore tracking them is not a public invasion does the same argument apply when technology makes it possible to know and store everything you do when you step outside?
I believe so. It's called "public" for a reason. There is nothing stopping a private citizen from building the same kind of database. I see trying to stop the lawful gathering of public data as a bigger affront to our rights than actually collecting it. I think it's the actions that are taken based on the data that become a concern, and that's where the controls need to be placed.
At best (worst?) they might see a still photo of you turning in to a parking spot or parked along a road.
Or parked next to a union leader, or parked next to a politician (when the other guys are in power) or parked next to the anonymous whistleblower providing you information on corruption for your news article.
I don't know why we need to go through this every damn time; but here goes:
We have to go over it "every damn time" because people keep saying that publicly visible things are somehow privacy invasions. Once people stop claiming that then people will stop correcting them.
Do you really have an expectation of privacy over the license plate hanging on your car bumper?
Aren't license plates like the opposite of private?
How about very specific knowledge of where you're going and when? Because, that's what we're really talking about here.
No, it's general knowledge about what public street you were on at the time of the photo. It doesn't tell them anything about a specific place you are going. At best (worst?) they might see a still photo of you turning in to a parking spot or parked along a road.
If a phone gives off a signal and they want to fox hunt it themselves, great, but if they're asking a private company for private data, that's not the same thing.
Once you hand your data off to a 3rd party, that 3rd party is free to do whatever they want with the data, including handing it over to the cops or selling it to the highest bidder. Unless you have some sort of contractual agreement with the 3rd party saying they can't do that.
If the mere status of a cellphone being on and broadcasting implicitly gives permission to police to track it, then if an unsecured Wifi network is broadcasting - where it's set to automatically let anyone in - I suppose it no longer counts as a crime to use it?
Receiving the signal from the APis one thing, transmitting back to it is another.
What about major speakers at some developers conference who are absurdly sexist in their talks? Ie, "code like a porn star" should have been completely indefensible, except that no one walked out of that talk. If this is just immature behavior then how do they become the leaders and why are so many following them and even with conference organizers forgiving their behavior with excuses?
Are you assuming only women can be porn stars? That sounds pretty sexist to me.
ok how is it different from a netboot that loads user prefs from the network after/while booting(hard to argue at which point it has booted) and saves said prefs(settings files) back to network?
NetBoot downloads once, at boot time, and is a one way process. This Keeps things in sync constantly while running, actively patching state (more than just preferences) in and out.
Taking advantage of the (statistically) predictable decay rate of data stored in the RFID's SRAM is a cute trick for rough timekeeping, I have to admit.
It makes me wonder, though, and some perfunctory googling isn't giving me the immediate gratification that I demand, is there anything reasonably practical that could modify the decay rate for SRAM, ideally in a way that would be practical for an attack?
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That's what I was just thinking. Since when do Slashdotters do ANYTHING outdoors? This isn't relevant to the /. community. :P
I've been shocked at the number of kayakers I've met who were also computer programmers.
If they're using Android, why not a RaspberryPi?
They are still back ordered :)
sell my house, my car, all the rest of my possessions, keep and spend ONLY cash, (no credit cards, no bank accounts) buy a dual sport motorcycle and some camping gear and leave civilization, camp out in remote wilderness areas, (not state or federal camp grounds) and you can forget a cellphone, forget a smart phone, the only electronics you should even have would be a portable AM/FM/Shortwave radio receiver if you just got to have one for news & weather, music, general talk and bullshit to listen to.
Selling your house could take well over a month, possibly several.
Easy, they just count to 12 instead.
I block Javascript across the board, but all static images are allowed through. If your site displays the ads as static images that do not require any javascript then I'm fine with your ads and don't mind if I see them. I'm actually pretty shocked at how few ads I actually see given that plain old images are allowed.
To not buy windows 8 and just stick with windows 7.
Windows 7 , and even Vista do it too if you have Defender turned on. It isn't a function of the OS, but of Windows Defender.
But if you sent up an army of these plutonium powered craft, eventually one will have a plutonium fuel cell rupture after a launch failure and contaminate a large area.
Given a long enough time frame anything that is physically possible will happen.
This mindset is the problem. You're allowing changes in technology to erode your privacy by making tracking easier and more common. If there were cop cars tailing every single vehicle and reporting their movements to a central database would you be OK with that? If not, why is it OK to do the same thing with cameras?
I would be perfectly fine with it from a privacy perspective. I would not be fine with it from a cost perspective. The cameras do the same thing without the cost.
Auto insurance is a fairly competitive market, I'd imagine a lot of people would jump ship pretty quickly if their rates went up due to using this app.
They also already "discriminate" based based on city / country driving (they ask for your address and it affects the premium), as well as different rates for on-street vs off-street parking.
How long before the insurance company succumbs to the temptation of penalizing those who use their cars too much? The more time you spend on the road the higher the chance that you'll be involved in an incident, regardless of how well you drive. You can see how such information could be used to discriminate against people living in rural areas and those living further from their place of work.
I thought insurance companies already do this. Every company I've had a policy with has always wanted current and yearly mileage when I signed up. Driving fewer miles in a year resulted in lower premiums.
I have to admit my first reaction to the thought was a negative one, but upon thinking on it some more I don't think I would have a problem with it.
This biggest issue I saw at first was that people would easily be able to tell when I wasn't home, making the house a burglary target, but they could do that now without the system just by watching the house. In fact, someone sitting in a car on my street could would be able to watch a whole bunch of houses at once for an empty one.
Yes, Samsung did in fact DIRECTLY copy Apple. It's not just the design of the exterior. It's the user interface, which Apple spent years and probably tens of millions researching before they released the first version of the device.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/102317767/Samsung-Relative-Evaluation-Report-on-S1-iPhone
Sorry, I looked though your link and all I see are screenshots showing how Apple and Samsung are DIFFERENT.
People view the tracking part as an invasion of privacy. Consider the ubiquity of cameras and facial recognition (and other bio-metrics). If the argument is that license plates are public and therefore tracking them is not a public invasion does the same argument apply when technology makes it possible to know and store everything you do when you step outside?
I believe so. It's called "public" for a reason. There is nothing stopping a private citizen from building the same kind of database. I see trying to stop the lawful gathering of public data as a bigger affront to our rights than actually collecting it. I think it's the actions that are taken based on the data that become a concern, and that's where the controls need to be placed.
At best (worst?) they might see a still photo of you turning in to a parking spot or parked along a road.
Or parked next to a union leader, or parked next to a politician (when the other guys are in power) or parked next to the anonymous whistleblower providing you information on corruption for your news article.
They can already do that without the cameras.
I don't know why we need to go through this every damn time; but here goes:
We have to go over it "every damn time" because people keep saying that publicly visible things are somehow privacy invasions. Once people stop claiming that then people will stop correcting them.
Do you really have an expectation of privacy over the license plate hanging on your car bumper?
Aren't license plates like the opposite of private?
How about very specific knowledge of where you're going and when? Because, that's what we're really talking about here.
No, it's general knowledge about what public street you were on at the time of the photo. It doesn't tell them anything about a specific place you are going. At best (worst?) they might see a still photo of you turning in to a parking spot or parked along a road.
If a phone gives off a signal and they want to fox hunt it themselves, great, but if they're asking a private company for private data, that's not the same thing.
Once you hand your data off to a 3rd party, that 3rd party is free to do whatever they want with the data, including handing it over to the cops or selling it to the highest bidder. Unless you have some sort of contractual agreement with the 3rd party saying they can't do that.
If the mere status of a cellphone being on and broadcasting implicitly gives permission to police to track it, then if an unsecured Wifi network is broadcasting - where it's set to automatically let anyone in - I suppose it no longer counts as a crime to use it?
Receiving the signal from the APis one thing, transmitting back to it is another.
*shouldn't
None of that helps when you're 70 years old and need to cash out to retire. Not everyone is young and looking for long-term investments.
You should have such risky investments if you are in that situation. The stock market isn't the place to go for short-term, no-risk investment.
What about major speakers at some developers conference who are absurdly sexist in their talks? Ie, "code like a porn star" should have been completely indefensible, except that no one walked out of that talk. If this is just immature behavior then how do they become the leaders and why are so many following them and even with conference organizers forgiving their behavior with excuses?
Are you assuming only women can be porn stars? That sounds pretty sexist to me.
ok how is it different from a netboot that loads user prefs from the network after/while booting(hard to argue at which point it has booted) and saves said prefs(settings files) back to network?
NetBoot downloads once, at boot time, and is a one way process. This Keeps things in sync constantly while running, actively patching state (more than just preferences) in and out.
I have never understood why we keep nuclear waste on the planet. Why not send it into the sun? It would be like sending a BB at a freight train.
1. escape velocity requires a LOT of energy.
2. it's also extremely expensive.
3. bad things would happen if the rocket exploded on the way up.
Taking advantage of the (statistically) predictable decay rate of data stored in the RFID's SRAM is a cute trick for rough timekeeping, I have to admit.
It makes me wonder, though, and some perfunctory googling isn't giving me the immediate gratification that I demand, is there anything reasonably practical that could modify the decay rate for SRAM, ideally in a way that would be practical for an attack?
I think temperature has some effect.