It just doesn't work like this because those "western devices" are probably already made in Asia.
I was visiting a Chinese factory that made widgets, and member of staff showed me a widget branded by a "famous western company" to impress upon me that the widgets made in their factory were of a high standard. "Here's a sample to take home, but don't tell anyone *wink* *wink*".
Their agreement may not exclude selling the widget in part, or in whole on the domestic market, so the brands are in fact a complete myth. Those fake Sony goods that have been re-badged as a Chinese brand could be close to functionally identical, albeit with a much lower price tag.
Another experience I had, was with a certain widget that had interchangeable parts. The product as a whole would be sold on the domestic market with Chinese branded parts, or swapped out for a brand that would know for export.
It's all bullshit but very interesting to observe, and as an audience you are really overestimating the Chinese government's intervention which is close to none. This is just companies chasing profits with as much regard for ethics as our own companies.
Only a machine fits that purpose. Any mortal ruler would eventually die leaving a power vacuum and subsequent power struggle.
I would accept rule by a well programmed machine, but only if the source code was available and the whole system was transparent. On the flip side, no human is really fit to rule any other because they inevitably succumb to greed and corruption.
Scratch the above, they were greedy and corrupt which is why the pursue politics in the first place.
India and China have 38 percent of the world's population who might want to connect one day.
I have a house full of linux running household appliances that want to connect today. In fact my toaster said it would kill me if it didn't get it's own internet facing IP address by the end of the year.
Every week there will be a new study that reveals some common chemical in our daily lives, will be harmful or good for your health. Often it will be both harmful and good on consecutive weeks.
Soon I'll be releasing my own study that shows excessive worrying about common foods causes diabetes, cancer and spontaneous combustion.
The DRM thing is having a knock-on effect in my buying habits that go beyond the realm of media and into consumer electronics.
I'd rather build replacements for most home entertainment out of increasingly available mini ITX kit. A nice general purpose computer that I control all aspects of the product lifespan. Hey, no forced obsolescence! All except the ipod, but thankfully I'm not interested in that.
Since ebaums was all stolen content anyway, this really is older than the internet. I hope that soon I will be able to see a range of lolcats on slashdot too.
They will rely on the self appointed mindguards to click the report button. The volume of reports will be great, so the removal will probably be fully automated. No different to any other content that is against their tos really.
At least on/. are forced to assign an adjective to your moderations, guiding you towards thinking more objectively about it. (Doesn't always work, but at least the mod points are a limited resource)
Else where I've seen horrible voting system. Digg is a pretty bad example. Unlimited votes and an ajax thumb. Ideal for the obsessive compulsives, and practically begs for group think to take over.
What I'm saying is that IP (v4) addresses are uniquely problematic for being pseudonymized from the perspective of a web master, because of the tiny search space. You wouldn't choose a 10 digit only password would you?
Say the threat model here is you are running a website and you get subpoenaed.
It would be great to be able to say, "OK here is a list of hashes of IP addresses, that's all I've got, have fun."...but you can't do that for the reason I said above. If you then throw away the hash you can enjoy being held in civil contempt, and with the hash they could brute-force them all in trivial time.
I'm talking about the fact that it's 2008, and that search space could be exhaustively searched in a matter of hours on a desktop machine.
As the poster below me points out, "throw away the salt" is an answer, but it means the logs can only be compared to other logs in the time frame that you were using that salt.
Maybe IPv6 will make anonymized logs more feasible because of the 2^128 search space.
How do you Anonymize IP logs? Any hash can be "reversed" because the search space is so small in this case (2^32)
On the other hand, any one-one mapping can only be compared to others in the log whilst you keep the mapping. (or key that you hashed your IP addresses with)
I read google scrubbed out the last octet of the IP. If that is so, that process doesn't really deserve the name anonymize.
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I heard vista is selling really well and customers love it.
It just doesn't work like this because those "western devices" are probably already made in Asia.
I was visiting a Chinese factory that made widgets, and member of staff showed me a widget branded by a "famous western company" to impress upon me that the widgets made in their factory were of a high standard. "Here's a sample to take home, but don't tell anyone *wink* *wink*".
Their agreement may not exclude selling the widget in part, or in whole on the domestic market, so the brands are in fact a complete myth. Those fake Sony goods that have been re-badged as a Chinese brand could be close to functionally identical, albeit with a much lower price tag.
Another experience I had, was with a certain widget that had interchangeable parts. The product as a whole would be sold on the domestic market with Chinese branded parts, or swapped out for a brand that would know for export.
It's all bullshit but very interesting to observe, and as an audience you are really overestimating the Chinese government's intervention which is close to none. This is just companies chasing profits with as much regard for ethics as our own companies.
Viol8, you've been bitten by a zombie!
Click here to transfer all your private information to a untrusted 3rd party.
That isn't a CAPTCHA. It fails on the "Completely Automated" part.
I don't think this exploit really exists. A cross browser cross platform exploit that doesn't use javascript?
Won't be losing any sleep over this one.
Not really, unless you call clearing cookies between browsing sessions fanatical.
Only a machine fits that purpose. Any mortal ruler would eventually die leaving a power vacuum and subsequent power struggle.
I would accept rule by a well programmed machine, but only if the source code was available and the whole system was transparent. On the flip side, no human is really fit to rule any other because they inevitably succumb to greed and corruption.
Scratch the above, they were greedy and corrupt which is why the pursue politics in the first place.
Is this really what passes for informative these days?
It's a freaking bargain, at only 210 "Lisa simpson giving head" logos.
Does it run a unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD?
Nope, definitely doesn't have the same ring to it.
India and China have 38 percent of the world's population who might want to connect one day.
I have a house full of linux running household appliances that want to connect today. In fact my toaster said it would kill me if it didn't get it's own internet facing IP address by the end of the year.
Every week there will be a new study that reveals some common chemical in our daily lives, will be harmful or good for your health.
Often it will be both harmful and good on consecutive weeks.
Soon I'll be releasing my own study that shows excessive worrying about common foods causes diabetes, cancer and spontaneous combustion.
The DRM thing is having a knock-on effect in my buying habits that go beyond the realm of media and into consumer electronics.
I'd rather build replacements for most home entertainment out of increasingly available mini ITX kit. A nice general purpose computer that I control all aspects of the product lifespan. Hey, no forced obsolescence! All except the ipod, but thankfully I'm not interested in that.
Since ebaums was all stolen content anyway, this really is older than the internet.
I hope that soon I will be able to see a range of lolcats on slashdot too.
Calling creationism the antithesis of science is high praise for creationism indeed.
But this is overwhelmingly an American point of view. Science is science, and creationism is irrelevant.
Vista needs to phone home for activation.
They will rely on the self appointed mindguards to click the report button. The volume of reports will be great, so the removal will probably be fully automated. No different to any other content that is against their tos really.
It really depends on how its implemented.
At least on /. are forced to assign an adjective to your moderations, guiding you towards thinking more objectively about it. (Doesn't always work, but at least the mod points are a limited resource)
Else where I've seen horrible voting system. Digg is a pretty bad example. Unlimited votes and an ajax thumb. Ideal for the obsessive compulsives, and practically begs for group think to take over.
Do you think your tin foil hat would protect your head from the clue bat?
China's economy hasn't been centrally planned for a long time.
As for linux, FOSS is the product of self organising peer production and it's absurd to compare it to any form of government.
All of my cookies are for "Any type of connection" including my bank.
I should have been way more specific here.
What I'm saying is that IP (v4) addresses are uniquely problematic for being pseudonymized from the perspective of a web master, because of the tiny search space.
You wouldn't choose a 10 digit only password would you?
Say the threat model here is you are running a website and you get subpoenaed.
It would be great to be able to say, "OK here is a list of hashes of IP addresses, that's all I've got, have fun." ...but you can't do that for the reason I said above. If you then throw away the hash you can enjoy being held in civil contempt, and with the hash they could brute-force them all in trivial time.
Salting goes without saying -1 uninsightful
I'm talking about the fact that it's 2008, and that search space could be exhaustively searched in a matter of hours on a desktop machine.
As the poster below me points out, "throw away the salt" is an answer, but it means the logs can only be compared to other logs in the time frame that you were using that salt.
Maybe IPv6 will make anonymized logs more feasible because of the 2^128 search space.
How do you Anonymize IP logs?
Any hash can be "reversed" because the search space is so small in this case (2^32)
On the other hand, any one-one mapping can only be compared to others in the log whilst you keep the mapping. (or key that you hashed your IP addresses with)
I read google scrubbed out the last octet of the IP. If that is so, that process doesn't really deserve the name anonymize.
Democracy is worthless without people making informed decisions, and yet you can't force people to become informed. So what is the human race to do.
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!