While prohibition is generally stupid, I have to agree with the gp in that releasing pharmaceutical companies to do what they please would be a huge mistake. It's entirely possible to engineer a drug that once tried, 100% of people would empty their savings and sell their house to get more. We already know enough about the reward mechanisms in the brain to have a good idea of where to start. There's a big difference between weed, and what big pharma' could create with billion dollar research programs and trillian dollar, fully legal, markets.
If we did not have the government funded Internet at the start, we would still be today essentially experiencing some decadent of or something like Compuserve or AoL, that is a metered data service delivered from an isolated digital island...
I did the same thing, purchasing a Linksys SPA-2200 and connecting it to a Canadian SIP provider (Acanac). That's after purchasing a crappy Skype USB phone. The difference is astounding and it's a dirt cheap, full replacement for a landline. I even use ekiga on a netbook when I wan't a "portable" phone line. And if Acanac ever raised their price, I can easily switch to a different provider and use the same box.
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From my point of view, I just want to know how security product Y is doing what it's doing, but to tell me that is to reveal details about the implementation, so they re-cast using something like a firewall as "anti-packet technology"
If the vendor can't explain how their security works without compromising it, then it's not security, it's obscurity and it's also probably snake-oil.
Because it won't happen in ~700 days, it will happen in ~700+X days, where X is time bought with stupid last ditch efforts like spewing NAT everywhere and reselling/freeing unused blocks of ipv4 addresses. Any way to avoid spending those X days working with a broken Internet is a positive in my book.
Scenario: I'm pointing my browser at a server I run at home. In my browser I run a small webserver that can access a commandshell. Cool, now I can work from home despite a firewall and lack of software:) Sorry dear sysadmin, your firewall just got a few new holes in it:)
I used to do that on my University's network with a reverse SSH tunnel. You could even do it over port 80 if they blocked outgoing 22. The only issue would be if you could install that webserver on a locked-down machine that has no SSH client.
The point of the web was not to move processing out to the cloud, it was to build a multi-way communications medium (hence web) that anyone on the Internet could participate in. Moving processing to "the cloud" (i.e., someone else's computer) is the point of Google, not the web.
Lobby groups can be formed by people with lots of money or people with lots of votes. Both are *VERY* valuable to politicians. Convince politicians that you have 10 thousand people willing to vote for which ever party supports your pet issue, and you will see a different side to politics. If you think money is all important, consider how much 10 thousand votes would cost an election campaign.
I love those numbers. So she, as a single file-sharer, cost them $1.92 million dollars. If she is an average file-sharer, perhaps there are ~25 million people in the United States like her*. That means file sharing is costing them $49,152,000,000,000 a year! yes, thats 49 trillion dollars a year in losses! yes, that's more than 3 times the entire U.S. GDP. Anyway, sound's like reasonable statutory damages to me \end{sarcasm}.
Separate user accounts separating kids and tax information are about as basic as knowing when the oil needs changing or locking your car doors. Yes, if you do your taxes on a computer, you should spend enough time to learn the very basics.
TrueCrypt's hidden partitions are only hidden because they are inside another, regular TrueCrypt partition, which is relatively easy to discriminate. If I find a TrueCrypt partition, why would i care whether you had the software installed?
I don't know of any encryption software that creates an encrypted file that isn't easily identifiable. Heck, running "file passwords" on my machine results in:
passwords: GPG encrypted data
I'm sure it's possible to try to hide encrypted data as noise, but that doesn't seem to be the default operation
I see you have never tried to run an X11 forwarded application over a DSL connection! As an example of the latency, I can manipulate text in google docs with low latency because little, if anything has to be sent back to the server for my browser to update the text area. Running a text editor over a forwarded X11 connection means every input has to go to the server, then the application runs whatever logic it has on the server, then the server sends a new text view to the client -that's where the latency comes in.
I think that's the point. It may allow for free hands, but it's a shitty way of accomplishing that. Virtually every insect on earth can walk and have free limbs at the same time.
Sure, the human vocal tract is a modification of that of a primate for controlled speech, but it's little more than a bad hack. There are much better ways to do it (if one was to "design" such a system)
Web applications are *not* the same as using a dumb terminal connected to a timeshared mainframe. Generally, "source code" is provided by the server, "executed" on the local machine using local resources, and data is stored back on the server. Dumb terminals require faster links, more powerful servers, and will inevitably have higher UI latency than ajax-type applications.
If you have perfectly reliable links to the server, and trust the server to be reliable and secure, web applications are very good, and much better than the old server/dumb terminal system. Of course, those are very tall orders.
If they do hand it over, deleting all of the personal data in my account may be worth considering.
You think you can delete information on their servers? That's like thinking that deleting your newsgroup account will clear all your past posts from the record.
I just noticed the latest chromium update on Linux requires ffmpeg. It will be funny if Chromium/Linux supports all formats while Chrome only supports h.264 by default.
Generally, they don't have a choice. The categories are set by freedesktop.org standards and are implemented by the distribution, not the application developer.
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Flash is a dumb idea anyway.
While prohibition is generally stupid, I have to agree with the gp in that releasing pharmaceutical companies to do what they please would be a huge mistake. It's entirely possible to engineer a drug that once tried, 100% of people would empty their savings and sell their house to get more.
We already know enough about the reward mechanisms in the brain to have a good idea of where
to start. There's a big difference between weed, and what big pharma' could create with billion dollar research programs and trillian dollar, fully legal, markets.
If we did not have the government funded Internet at the start, we would still be today essentially experiencing some decadent of or something like Compuserve or AoL, that is a metered data service delivered from an isolated digital island...
Oh? like on my cell phone!
That's better...
Umm... Unless your chaps are so tight that your ass actually becomes part of them, no, it's not better.
People buy bandwidth, but drive latency.
I did the same thing, purchasing a Linksys SPA-2200 and connecting it to a Canadian SIP provider (Acanac). That's after purchasing a crappy Skype USB phone. The difference is astounding and it's a dirt cheap, full replacement for a landline. I even use ekiga on a netbook when I wan't a "portable" phone line. And if Acanac ever raised their price, I can easily switch to a different provider and use the same box.
From my point of view, I just want to know how security product Y is doing what it's doing, but to tell me that is to reveal details about the implementation, so they re-cast using something like a firewall as "anti-packet technology"
If the vendor can't explain how their security works without compromising it, then it's not security, it's obscurity and it's also probably snake-oil.
Also on Miro:
https://www.miroguide.com/feeds/8889
(looks like it's way behind though).
Because it won't happen in ~700 days, it will happen in ~700+X days, where X is time bought with stupid last ditch efforts like spewing NAT everywhere and reselling/freeing unused blocks of ipv4 addresses. Any way to avoid spending those X days working with a broken Internet is a positive in my book.
Scenario: I'm pointing my browser at a server I run at home. In my browser I run a small webserver that can access a commandshell. Cool, now I can work from home despite a firewall and lack of software :) Sorry dear sysadmin, your firewall just got a few new holes in it :)
I used to do that on my University's network with a reverse SSH tunnel. You could even do it over port 80 if they blocked outgoing 22. The only issue would be if you could install that webserver on a locked-down machine that has no SSH client.
The point of the web was not to move processing out to the cloud, it was to build a multi-way communications medium (hence web) that anyone on the Internet could participate in. Moving processing to "the cloud" (i.e., someone else's computer) is the point of Google, not the web.
Lobby groups can be formed by people with lots of money or people with lots of votes. Both are *VERY* valuable to politicians. Convince politicians that you have 10 thousand people willing to vote for which ever party supports your pet issue, and you will see a different side to politics. If you think money is all important, consider how much 10 thousand votes would cost an election campaign.
I love those numbers. So she, as a single file-sharer, cost them $1.92 million dollars. If she is an average file-sharer, perhaps there are ~25 million people in the United States like her*. That means file sharing is costing them $49,152,000,000,000 a year! yes, thats 49 trillion dollars a year in losses! yes, that's more than 3 times the entire U.S. GDP. Anyway, sound's like reasonable statutory damages to me \end{sarcasm}.
*Too lazy to find a better study: survey of movie downloaders via P2P
http://www.srgnet.com/pdf/Movie%20File-Sharing%20Booming%20Release%20Jan%2024%2007%20Final.pdf
Separate user accounts separating kids and tax information are about as basic as knowing when the oil needs changing or locking your car doors. Yes, if you do your taxes on a computer, you should spend enough time to learn the very basics.
TrueCrypt's hidden partitions are only hidden because they are inside another, regular TrueCrypt partition, which is relatively easy to discriminate. If I find a TrueCrypt partition, why would i care whether you had the software installed?
I don't know of any encryption software that creates an encrypted file that isn't easily identifiable. Heck, running "file passwords" on my machine results in:
passwords: GPG encrypted data
I'm sure it's possible to try to hide encrypted data as noise, but that doesn't seem to be the default operation
I see you have never tried to run an X11 forwarded application over a DSL connection! As an example of the latency, I can manipulate text in google docs with low latency because little, if anything has to be sent back to the server for my browser to update the text area. Running a text editor over a forwarded X11 connection means every input has to go to the server, then the application runs whatever logic it has on the server, then the server sends a new text view to the client -that's where the latency comes in.
I think that's the point. It may allow for free hands, but it's a shitty way of accomplishing that. Virtually every insect on earth can walk and have free limbs at the same time.
Exhibit A: The Dolphin.
Sure, the human vocal tract is a modification of that of a primate for controlled speech, but it's little more than a bad hack. There are much better ways to do it (if one was to "design" such a system)
Web applications are *not* the same as using a dumb terminal connected to a timeshared mainframe. Generally, "source code" is provided by the server, "executed" on the local machine using local resources, and data is stored back on the server. Dumb terminals require faster links, more powerful servers, and will inevitably have higher UI latency than ajax-type applications.
If you have perfectly reliable links to the server, and trust the server to be reliable and secure, web applications are very good, and much better than the old server/dumb terminal system. Of course, those are very tall orders.
If they do hand it over, deleting all of the personal data in my account may be worth considering.
You think you can delete information on their servers? That's like thinking that deleting your newsgroup account will clear all your past posts from the record.
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix#Larger_Devices
When each Slashdot user is hitting Twitter a few hundred times (as per the demo), then yes, it's probably a big deal.
I just noticed the latest chromium update on Linux requires ffmpeg. It will be funny if Chromium/Linux supports all formats while Chrome only supports h.264 by default.
Generally, they don't have a choice. The categories are set by freedesktop.org standards and are implemented by the distribution, not the application developer.