are SIP or jingle (xmpp) based. since i there doesn't seem to be a stable jingle client (yeah coccinella, but it is ugly), i bet on SIP. gtalk doesn't count btw (win only, tightly google integrated).
and now tell me of the dozens of cross-platform (!) SIP programs you know. i am searching myself right now and only found wengophone [1] as a reasonable alternative.
please name the "more than enough" alternatives; i don't know them.
look, i know some people who use skype b/c their friends use skype. they know that it's no good. they even say that in discussions. but they are afraid of "losing their friends". for most people, this is way more important than slightly degrading quality of service - hell, even icq is accepted by sheeple these days, despite it featuring heavy ads and stuff.
that said, a real friend would a) understand the issue at hand and b) find other means of communication.
is that however ridiculous ebay's "future bizness model" will be, it will be forced down the throat of skype users due to closed source and the proprietary protocol.
FIC Neo 1973 GTA01B: Radio: Quadband, GRPS, CSD, Bluetooth Display: 640x480 also Touchscreen (Stylus) Flash: 64MB + MicroSD RAM: 128MB USB: client + host Camera: Fail Battery: Removable Sensors: GPS Goodies: Linux + GNU + package system. Everything else follows from that. Price: $350 (w/o contract)
okay, it's only in beta as of now, but waiting a bit could be very, very interesting as on the software side it can do way more than the iphone. i just hope they will find open wifi (they apparently hate binary modules, which i deem right).
overall, it's somehow cheaper than both of the above.
i sincerely doubt that. in germany, everyone i know thinks of "election rigging" when talking about electronic voting. especially the politicians should know the issues at hand, even some bigger newspapers brought articles regarding NEDAP hack.
or maybe i just happen to know only left-leaning hackers and also german judges and politicians rule this whole thing constitutional because the are very, very stupid. yeah, that might be it.
computers either sacrifice the secret (digitally signed ballots) or make manipulation easier (anonymous ballots).
when nearly every hacker you meet is against something like this, you should know how things should go. politicians who propose this stuff are corrupt.
Let's look at some numbers. We'll be optimistic. We'll assume the system has a 1 in 100 false positive rate (99% accurate), and a 1 in 1,000 false negative rate (99.9% accurate).
Assume one trillion possible indicators to sift through: that's about ten events -- e-mails, phone calls, purchases, web surfings, whatever -- per person in the U.S. per day. Also assume that 10 of them are actually terrorists plotting.
This unrealistically-accurate system will generate one billion false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers. Every day of every year, the police will have to investigate 27 million potential plots in order to find the one real terrorist plot per month. Raise that false-positive accuracy to an absurd 99.9999% and you're still chasing 2,750 false alarms per day -- but that will inevitably raise your false negatives, and you're going to miss some of those ten real plots. source: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/data_mining_for.html
also, articles that lack sources are somehow unwanted, so those who make something up on wikipedia have no good stand.
with the suppression of unwanted information, it's kinda different, but as long as jimbo doesn't go crazy, it's all in the history. not many people may do, but i check consistency, article history and links before i believe what i see.
in building a police state. it will be a democracy and you will have political parties, but also everyone will be labeled a criminal. and every dissident will be labeled a "dangerous" criminal.
as i (and some others) see this, everything is part of a puzzle:
data retention, camera surveillance, the federal trojan, spying w/o court order, criminalizing "hacker tools" etc.
the goal is to build a repressive society to somehow grant "stability" in a period of multinational crisis (which probably means shutting down critiques at will). hint: which large asian nation likes "stability" , too ?
He will probably be convicted [...], which is an occupational hazard of doing things which the government has illegalized. as i pointed out, the thing he did isn't a crime.
the point is, that this is either
a) police stupidity
b) scare tactics
that someone who is merely routing data is not liable in any form.
for example, "Teledienstgesetz" (translate this as: Telecommunications Act) says
TDG 9 (1) Diensteanbieter sind für fremde Informationen, die sie in einem Kommunikationsnetz übermitteln oder zu denen sie den Zugang zur Nutzung vermitteln, nicht verantwortlich, sofern sie
1. die Übermittlung nicht veranlasst,
2. den Adressaten der übermittelten Informationen nicht ausgewählt und
3. die übermittelten Informationen nicht ausgewählt oder verändert haben. which boils down to to:
telecommunications providers arent liable for other ppls information, if they 1. didn't initiate the connection, 2. didn't choose the recipients and 3. didn't choose or change the information.
why the heck is it needed? criminalizing hackers effectively eliminates the informed ones who care about germany becoming a police state.
we are not there yet, but i don't think they will lose time.
- a concerned german citizen
parent says that this is "well intentioned". i for one, do not believe that.
the criminalisation of certain computer programs is a puzzle piece.
more puzzle pieces: - data retentionpräventiv - proposed "online search and seizure" - RFID + biometry in pass documents - nullifying of bank secercy etc. pp.
hackers are the one in the know how to defeat those systems. to criminalize them is only the logical conclusion.
IMHO, there are only two options: a) massive resistance (won't happen [insert stalin quote here]) b) going to sweden, netherlands...
FTFA
People will only wake up to the destruction of their civil liberties when it is too late to do anything about it. for most ppl i know, this is just plain wrong. they are just not interested. oh, and before you ask, many of them regard themselves as 'intellectual' (a.k.a. they don't read yellow press etc.).
kinda seems like only IT ppl and civil rights activists are concerned now. and i absolutely cannot see anything that would change that.
from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Anon_Proxy)
The online activites of the user can only be revealed if all Mixes of a Cascade work together by keeping log files and correlating their logs. However, all Mixoperators have to sign a voluntary commitment not to keep such logs.
In 2003, the German BKA obtained a warrant to force the mixoperators to log the activities of a specific criminal. In case of serious crimes committed via JAP, the German mixoperators can be forced to log the activities of a specific user for a limited time. This has led some people to distrust the software. FYI: BKA is the national investigative police agency of Germany.
No, really : Assume there is a road. You are driving on it. Some kid decides it is fun to run onto the road. You try to avoid running over the kid with your fat SUV but the "security systems" detect "abnormal steering" and refuse to obey your orders. Now, who is liable ?
Slashdot Mirror
freely would mean i could watch them in an open standard. very sad that they decided to use youtube.
are SIP or jingle (xmpp) based. since i there doesn't seem to be a stable jingle client (yeah coccinella, but it is ugly), i bet on SIP. gtalk doesn't count btw (win only, tightly google integrated).
and now tell me of the dozens of cross-platform (!) SIP programs you know. i am searching myself right now and only found wengophone [1] as a reasonable alternative.
please name the "more than enough" alternatives; i don't know them.
[1] http://wengophone.com/
look, i know some people who use skype b/c their friends use skype. they know that it's no good. they even say that in discussions. but they are afraid of "losing their friends".
for most people, this is way more important than slightly degrading quality of service - hell, even icq is accepted by sheeple these days, despite it featuring heavy ads and stuff.
that said, a real friend would a) understand the issue at hand and b) find other means of communication.
is that however ridiculous ebay's "future bizness model" will be, it will be forced down the throat of skype users due to closed source and the proprietary protocol.
FIC Neo 1973 GTA01B:
Radio: Quadband, GRPS, CSD, Bluetooth
Display: 640x480
also Touchscreen (Stylus)
Flash: 64MB + MicroSD
RAM: 128MB
USB: client + host
Camera: Fail
Battery: Removable
Sensors: GPS
Goodies: Linux + GNU + package system. Everything else follows from that.
Price: $350 (w/o contract)
okay, it's only in beta as of now, but waiting a bit could be very, very interesting as on the software side it can do way more than the iphone. i just hope they will find open wifi (they apparently hate binary modules, which i deem right).
overall, it's somehow cheaper than both of the above.
i sincerely doubt that. in germany, everyone i know thinks of "election rigging" when talking about electronic voting. especially the politicians should know the issues at hand, even some bigger newspapers brought articles regarding NEDAP hack.
or maybe i just happen to know only left-leaning hackers and also german judges and politicians rule this whole thing constitutional because the are very, very stupid. yeah, that might be it.
voting with pen and paper is thouroughly tested.
computers either sacrifice the secret (digitally signed ballots) or make manipulation easier (anonymous ballots).
when nearly every hacker you meet is against something like this, you should know how things should go. politicians who propose this stuff are corrupt.
Assume one trillion possible indicators to sift through: that's about ten events -- e-mails, phone calls, purchases, web surfings, whatever -- per person in the U.S. per day. Also assume that 10 of them are actually terrorists plotting.
This unrealistically-accurate system will generate one billion false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers. Every day of every year, the police will have to investigate 27 million potential plots in order to find the one real terrorist plot per month. Raise that false-positive accuracy to an absurd 99.9999% and you're still chasing 2,750 false alarms per day -- but that will inevitably raise your false negatives, and you're going to miss some of those ten real plots. source: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/data_mining_for.html
free software, DRM, vendor lock-in:
it ll comes down to the conflict of property rights vs. immaterial goods rights.
also, articles that lack sources are somehow unwanted, so those who make something up on wikipedia have no good stand. with the suppression of unwanted information, it's kinda different, but as long as jimbo doesn't go crazy, it's all in the history. not many people may do, but i check consistency, article history and links before i believe what i see.
also, wikimedia does already have OpenID support.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
it probably won't be enough.
in building a police state. it will be a democracy and you will have political parties, but also everyone will be labeled a criminal. and every dissident will be labeled a "dangerous" criminal.
as i (and some others) see this, everything is part of a puzzle:
data retention, camera surveillance, the federal trojan, spying w/o court order, criminalizing "hacker tools" etc.
the goal is to build a repressive society to somehow grant "stability" in a period of multinational crisis (which probably means shutting down critiques at will). hint: which large asian nation likes "stability" , too ?
People that trade old memes for karma shall receive neither.
the point is, that this is either
a) police stupidity
b) scare tactics
i'd safely bet on the latter.
for example, "Teledienstgesetz" (translate this as: Telecommunications Act) says TDG 9
(1) Diensteanbieter sind für fremde Informationen, die sie in einem Kommunikationsnetz übermitteln oder zu denen sie den Zugang zur Nutzung vermitteln, nicht verantwortlich, sofern sie
1. die Übermittlung nicht veranlasst,
2. den Adressaten der übermittelten Informationen nicht ausgewählt und
3. die übermittelten Informationen nicht ausgewählt oder verändert haben. which boils down to to: telecommunications providers arent liable for other ppls information, if they
1. didn't initiate the connection,
2. didn't choose the recipients and
3. didn't choose or change the information.
parent says that this is "well intentioned". i for one, do not believe that.
...
the criminalisation of certain computer programs is a puzzle piece.
more puzzle pieces:
- data retentionpräventiv
- proposed "online search and seizure"
- RFID + biometry in pass documents
- nullifying of bank secercy
etc. pp.
hackers are the one in the know how to defeat those systems.
to criminalize them is only the logical conclusion.
IMHO, there are only two options:
a) massive resistance (won't happen [insert stalin quote here])
b) going to sweden, netherlands
that could it be.
the day they wake up is the day when more ppl are afraid of dying in a car accident than dying in a terrorist attack.
the possibility of such an event ?
oh, and before you ask, many of them regard themselves as 'intellectual' (a.k.a. they don't read yellow press etc.).
kinda seems like only IT ppl and civil rights activists are concerned now. and i absolutely cannot see anything that would change that.
In 2003, the German BKA obtained a warrant to force the mixoperators to log the activities of a specific criminal. In case of serious crimes committed via JAP, the German mixoperators can be forced to log the activities of a specific user for a limited time. This has led some people to distrust the software. FYI: BKA is the national investigative police agency of Germany.
... to make sure there is enough memory for the next two dozen dupes. p.s.: which group is the one with short memory - editors or users ?
in theory at least, I could simply use several network cards with different mac adresses to get N x 300 kb/s , could I ?
anyway, let's hope they adhere to the terms of the picopeering agreement [1].
[1] http://www.picopeer.net/
No, really : Assume there is a road. You are driving on it. Some kid decides it is fun to run onto the road. You try to avoid running over the kid with your fat SUV but the "security systems" detect "abnormal steering" and refuse to obey your orders. Now, who is liable ?