That is a problem with opennet mode, but I believe darknet mode addresses that concern. Basically, in opennet you connect to random strangers (less secure), whereas in darknet you only connect to nodes run by people you trust (more secure).
Kind of a pain, though, if you're nomadic or don't have a lot of geeky friends.
Of course, you'd have to check your own data to make sure there's no metadata that can be used to identify you. But Freenet covers the anonymous distribution angle.
Yes. And even the official Mac build (at least, the one I have) is compiled for a PowerPC processor. You can still run it on Intel machines thanks to Rosetta, but it's not ideal.
The question is, will we go for a top kill on the data leak, or will we first attempt more risky solutions which profit the data miners? What kind of concrete do you use to seal a data leak?
And what's the conversion factor between the scale of an oil spill and the scale of a data spill? In other words, how do we get from m^2 to BAU (Bad Analogy Units), so we can compare them?
Maybe they recognize that there's a ton of open source software that people really want to use, and that easy installs of OSS on Windows adds value to Windows.
Like how they contributed some Linux stuff a while back to make it easier to run Linux in a VM... with Windows as the host machine (I'm not clear on the details, so I'm probably getting the terminology wrong).
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
What worries me is that all the false positives will make doctors think all positives are false positives. It may not happen often, but this is evidence that it's happened before.
You can't assume every apparently-nonresponsive patient is a dead salmon.
I actually knew it from Oolite, but I figured the universe they share is obscure enough (although with search engines, nothing is obscure for the online reader).
I pretty much agree with your criteria for throwing out an idea, though I would like to add another: Things that have already been done, or can be done easily. One idea sounded vaguely like Wikileaks, and another sounded a lot like Wikinews.
I mean, if an idea has been or can be implemented with existing software and a webserver, I see no need to throw $10 million at it.
True, but Gmail was a reinvention of webmail. At the time, nobody else had a webmail application which used AJAX to such a great extent. No other webmail had Gmail's conversation interface. Most other webmail used folders instead of tags. And Google really pushed the storage limits -- I think Yahoo Mail was around 6 MB at the time.
Just because they didn't invent the components doesn't mean the whole wasn't innovative. Either that, or you have some *really* high standards for innovation!
In the second part of my last post, I mentioned Google News, which was developed in-house. According to Wikipedia, half of their new products resulted from that 20% free time. If it was invented and developed while the employee was at Google, I'd say that counts as in-house, don't you agree?
I'm not going to be a Google fanboy and claim they invented everything, but somehow I find it odd that Google would bring in lots of people who had good ideas in the past, and that those people would magically stop having new good ideas once they were Google employees.
People innovate, not companies -- a company is just an abstract legal construct. And innovative people are "bought" with high salaries and environments which accept their innovation.
So from that, yes, Google doesn't innovate at all, and neither does any other company. But Google seems to be pretty friendly toward innovators and seems to be encouraging innovation (like the 20% free time policy, which I've heard led to Google News).
"Please talk to the new tty maintainer whoever that ends up. I no longer care."
You know what really gets on my nerves? When people say they no longer care, when in reality they do. If he really didn't care, he would have typed the first sentence and stopped.
Linux is a great product, and that is the result of the magnificent work of all the coders and contributers. But sometimes they just act like children.
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That is a problem with opennet mode, but I believe darknet mode addresses that concern. Basically, in opennet you connect to random strangers (less secure), whereas in darknet you only connect to nodes run by people you trust (more secure).
Kind of a pain, though, if you're nomadic or don't have a lot of geeky friends.
Apparently they're just upgrading:
http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/17461648435
And even if Wikileaks was to disappear, there's always Freenet if you want to leak something:
http://freenetproject.org/
Of course, you'd have to check your own data to make sure there's no metadata that can be used to identify you. But Freenet covers the anonymous distribution angle.
Yes. And even the official Mac build (at least, the one I have) is compiled for a PowerPC processor. You can still run it on Intel machines thanks to Rosetta, but it's not ideal.
The question is, will we go for a top kill on the data leak, or will we first attempt more risky solutions which profit the data miners? What kind of concrete do you use to seal a data leak? And what's the conversion factor between the scale of an oil spill and the scale of a data spill? In other words, how do we get from m^2 to BAU (Bad Analogy Units), so we can compare them?
Seconded. Even for Idle, this seems... out of place.
This apple is red. Therefore all apples are red.
Maybe they recognize that there's a ton of open source software that people really want to use, and that easy installs of OSS on Windows adds value to Windows.
Like how they contributed some Linux stuff a while back to make it easier to run Linux in a VM... with Windows as the host machine (I'm not clear on the details, so I'm probably getting the terminology wrong).
"textbooks should be free/open source [...] all schoolchildren own iPads or other e-readers"
I like the idea, but I fear it is unlikely.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
What worries me is that all the false positives will make doctors think all positives are false positives. It may not happen often, but this is evidence that it's happened before.
You can't assume every apparently-nonresponsive patient is a dead salmon.
I actually knew it from Oolite, but I figured the universe they share is obscure enough (although with search engines, nothing is obscure for the online reader).
For those not in the know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29
Someone mod this guy up. Google's funding of multiple browsers makes sense, yet pretty much everyone else assumes it doesn't.
So is it right or wrong to make campaign promises which rely on having power?
Multiple times.
That may be, but at least in America, we have a few advantages, such as high turnover of leaders (every 4.16 years, on average) and infighting.
If I have to have an evil government, I'd like it to be slow and incompetent.
I chose educational materials, too.
I pretty much agree with your criteria for throwing out an idea, though I would like to add another: Things that have already been done, or can be done easily. One idea sounded vaguely like Wikileaks, and another sounded a lot like Wikinews.
I mean, if an idea has been or can be implemented with existing software and a webserver, I see no need to throw $10 million at it.
I don't know, but here's hoping in 2020 we won't be hearing about the Great Pacific Oil Spill.
Zombies.
And by the way, my knowledge of biology is not from Hollywood. It's from the Internet!
I'm not sure if you're calling shielded cables an example of security through obscurity, but if you did, they're not.
Knowing exactly how your cables are shielded doesn't help me snoop on anything passing through those cables.
True, but Gmail was a reinvention of webmail. At the time, nobody else had a webmail application which used AJAX to such a great extent. No other webmail had Gmail's conversation interface. Most other webmail used folders instead of tags. And Google really pushed the storage limits -- I think Yahoo Mail was around 6 MB at the time.
Just because they didn't invent the components doesn't mean the whole wasn't innovative. Either that, or you have some *really* high standards for innovation!
In the second part of my last post, I mentioned Google News, which was developed in-house. According to Wikipedia, half of their new products resulted from that 20% free time. If it was invented and developed while the employee was at Google, I'd say that counts as in-house, don't you agree?
I'm not going to be a Google fanboy and claim they invented everything, but somehow I find it odd that Google would bring in lots of people who had good ideas in the past, and that those people would magically stop having new good ideas once they were Google employees.
People innovate, not companies -- a company is just an abstract legal construct. And innovative people are "bought" with high salaries and environments which accept their innovation.
So from that, yes, Google doesn't innovate at all, and neither does any other company. But Google seems to be pretty friendly toward innovators and seems to be encouraging innovation (like the 20% free time policy, which I've heard led to Google News).
"Please talk to the new tty maintainer whoever that ends up. I no longer
care."
You know what really gets on my nerves? When people say they no longer care, when in reality they do. If he really didn't care, he would have typed the first sentence and stopped.
Linux is a great product, and that is the result of the magnificent work of all the coders and contributers. But sometimes they just act like children.
It's okay, they're all Google cache links.