I would encrypt any sensitive data I may have before storing it in the "cloud". It would be irresponsible to assume the data can not be read or copied by others.
Sometimes you must do even better. Data De-identification (like data steganography, either reversible or not) is a good tool on top of encryption. These guys are pretty good at it [1] (disclaimer: I don't work for them). The data will look "real" and even validate against known data rules (ie, US phone = (xxx) xxx-xxxx and first numbers may not be 1,etc).
or 3. The lawyers, judges, and Congress will realize that the entire government will grind to a halt if that strategy is allowed, so they will reject the strategy, completely failing to realize that this is also a problem in other areas.
This is exactly what happened in banking... they had a patent troll attack, and the bansters' government pets just made that entire sector immune [1] from the problem.
So what you get is further distancing of sectors like banking and law from the rest of us... and increases likelyhood of a (more violent) revolution.
Almost all of Canon's DSLR cameras now take SD(HC) cards... even the 60D and 1D Mk4. Your viewpoint was valid 2 years ago, but then again 20 years ago, that would have been s/CF/Film/
See game consoles for comparison: Are they unhackable? No. But running unauthorized code on them generally requires a hardware mod, not just clicking on an malicious email.
Funny you mention this example, but http://jailbreak.me/ always freaked me out as an iPhone user. An exploit that allows a user to visit a webpage and jailbreak the system sounds... a bit ripe for malicious activity (if a site re-used the code and instead of installing Cydia and Winterboard, installed a keylogger? Would you even know it happened?). This site worked on revisions as late as 4.3.x (ie, 3 months ago).
Without the dock they are about the same according to Engadget. With the dock the Transformer gets six more hours or so. This is in line with my experience on the original Transformer. Battery life is "enough to stop worrying about whether you're going to run out."
The engadget battery test is pretty basic... simply running a video repeatedly. The Verge test is a bit more complex, involving web page refreshes and other activity that more accurately simulates daily usage (notably wireless is a huge battery drainer)... and in the Verge review of the product [1], the reviewer put the tablet at 5-6hrs without the dock, about half the iPad (note: reviewer will retest battery and update soon).
Note: I'm pretty excited about the Transformer Prime (still awaiting ICS/CM9), and hope it does well on the retest... it's a very decent competitor to the iPad.
Android phones are also the best performing phones out there.
[cite needed]
If Apple's user experience was that much better, and specs didn't matter anymore, then why isn't Apple winning the phone race too?
You're wondering why a single company with three basic phones (3GS, 4, 4S) doesn't outsell a dozen competitors with about a dozen models each? Yeah, I wonder why not. Of course if you're trying to instigate a "stats war", Apple does win when it comes to the bottom line [1]... maybe it's better to have less model variations and more quality?
Yes. I mean, if your goal is keeping a lot of people busy, efficiency is the one thing you don't want.
If two distros have their own people working on packages, then that's twice as many people being employed as if there was just one.
What is sacrificed in efficiency is regained in resilience or stability. If one person decides to stop or go away, you still have a strong viable option.
See what Venkat Balasubramani says about this [1], in detail
An injunction requiring Google to "de-list" sites is one remedy which SOPA expressly makes available, and ordering the registry to transfer domain names to GoDaddy and ordering GoDaddy to update the DNS records is in effect achieving another remedy which SOPA creates. The fight against SOPA may be a red herring in some ways, since IP plaintiffs are fashioning very similar remedies in court irrespective of the legislation. Thus, even if SOPA is defeated, it may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory--opponents may win the battle but may not have gained much as a result.
It's bad because Liberty is an unalienable right, and the government has no business deciding what you should study.
I'm not sure the government of China agrees with your ideal... Now if only some super-powerful "liberty-for-all-people" espousing country would impose tariffs and trade restrictions for countries that don't meet those shared ideals?
They're all useless career politicians who care nothing about you, me, or anything other than their next election campaign. DOWN WITH THE CAREER POLITICIAN. SUPPORT CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS.
You think term limits will really influence the flow of money in politics? What this will mean is that other political career jobs (i.e., senator's chief of staff) will now be the influence peddlers (they already are to a large extent). The bribery and money flow into political offices needs to be monitored and controlled, or as it stands, money > speech.
Assuming Facebook relationships are used as a model for our casual relationships outside of Facebook
That is exactly what the GP is saying is invalid... specifically because "boring" or "privacy-obsessed" people are not "visible" on Facebook... you might even compare it to the whole "dark matter" theory that the matter we can measure and see is only 15% of what exists.
Consider this: voter turnout is ~50%. If the remaining 50% chose randomly amongst 10 parties, that would be 5% to each of those parties.
There are many things that are just wrong with your statement. First off, even with compulsory voting (ie, Australia), nowhere near 100% of people actually vote. Secondly, once a party loses due to a spoiler from a group with aligned interests (see Bush v Gore v Nader in 2000 or Clinton v Bush v Perot in 1992) then the 3rd party is blamed and castigated, not embraced. This causes a feedback loop where less people vote for the 3rd party because they know that there is a likelyhood of vote-splitting. Finally, there is the so-called "electoral college" which is just another way to repress votes.
To say that people aren't smart enough to do basic electoral math is blaming the victim. There is real desire for something other than 2-party system, but it will forever be repressed due to our corrupt-by-design voting and electoral system.
Believe it or not, AT&T is actually pretty serious when it comes to sensitive personal information. ( I have to re-take the training at least yearly about it )
AT&T is a multi-headed beast of a company with dozens of divisions. It's highly likely that in your area, AT&T may be highly security conscious while in the UVerse area, they couldn't secure two pieces of paper using a stapler... having reversible encryption is an incredibly bad security exposure (GP post's anecdote).
Forced password changes on a scheduled basis with complexity rules in full effect.
This has actually proven to be bad, as folks will likely resort to writing down their passwords... or if they infrequently use the system, they just keep using the "forgot, email me" feature.
I wish America had a system that allowed viable third party candidates... but, as it stands now,Americans will have to choose between corrupt and corrupter in 2012. We are so screwed.
This is always how's it's been... it's a logical end-result of having a First-Past-The-Post or Plurality [1] voting system. Had we any other system (most notably a ranked-type system), where voters could rank the candidates by preference, I could vote for a candidate instead of what it is right now, where I am, by design, voting against a candidate (since in plurality voting, all contenders are competing against all others, despite similarity in platform).
For example, in the Republican primary, if we had ranked voting you could vote for Ron Paul and say, Herman Cain. Or maybe vote for everyone but Mitt Romney. As it stands (in plurality voting), if you support two candidates, one will end up spoiling the other [2], despite preferring both of them to all others.
So listen next time a voting geek talks to you about alternative methods... there isn't a single more corruptible voting process than plurality voting, and in the end you always end up voting between two corrupted choices, one more than the other.
Yes, the company Micro$oft licensed the Kinect technology from Open Sourced the platform at openni.org and Asus has already has released a Kinect competitor called the Xtion Pro. If someone has a good motion capture product idea they can develop it independently of M$. This is just a ploy by Micro$oft to the troll the community for promising future product ideas so that they can patent the most promising ones for themselves.
Facts are one thing, a proven history of backstabbing and bad faith negotiations is quite another. Microsoft could be making strides in solving world hunger or brokering peace in the middle east, and I'll be wondering who they're screwing over and why. No, it's not reasonable, but they have a *lot* of bad karma to cleanse.
and there we find the problem. Competent patent reviewers (especially in the numbers needed) cost more than the PTO can afford, especially with Congress siphoning off much of their revenue (from patent applications). So you get either too few good ones or many not-so-good ones, and either way they can't handle the workload.
Think about this when you hear the GOP operatives and sympathizers whine about how "government is too big" and how they want the government to be "small enough to drown in a bathtub"... they systematically, on orders from their corporate funders, cut the funding to the very institutions that were set up to regulate and police them.
The Democrats are not any better these days, like the rest of government, they have capitulated and are just as captured.
> The Tea Party was bankrolled by billionaires and given nothing but positive press by certain news outlets.
Which is totally unlike OWS which was bankrolled by different billionaires and given nothing but positive press by every news outlet that wasn't Fox News until they body count got too high to ignore any longer. So even accepting your defective premise your point is?
Except the on-going accusations of a bunch of racists, Koch-funding ex-Birchers, "wingnut" birthers, violent milita types, and paid Republican plants?
Do you deny that tea partiers showed up toting guns to a peaceful rally on public property [1], or that the Koch brothers funded them [2]? There's baseless accusations, and then there's facts. You can't complain about "accusations" that are rooted in fact and provable.
This is not my experience, repeatedly. Of course, the specific implementation (ie, airport) may matter. San Francisco and Charlotte (international flights) seemed to be very reasonable to accept not doing the backscatter x-ray (might be because I traveled with family, SFO even had a separate line, we just went through the metal detectors, they even said families don't go through the x-ray).
Given that Apple are touted as masters of seamless and intuitive user interface design, how come this process isn't automated? It would seem to me that it'd be pretty trivial to, at the very least, detect lack of network connectivity, and turn it off accordingly.
Apple is apparently picking up habits from Google, seeing as Siri is actually still a beta service.
I'm only half kidding here. Patent lawyers have replaced Personal Injury lawyers as the scum of the earth. The entire patent system needs to be re-vamped, legislation passed outlawing patent squatting and technology stifling. And a firing squad for the patent lawyers.
Someone had this on their.sig here a while back.. "behind every sleazy lawyer is a sleazy client"... if you don't get rid of the funding, there will always be more lawyers.
This seems like a really foolish thing for a convicted monopoly to do.
Microsoft started it's Android patent protection program in full, and their judicial oversight just ended Both events are April 2011... clearly coincidence and happenstance.
Microsoft exposed as a thuggish patent troll, who woulda thunkit?
Well if you pondered the fact that Nathan Myhrvold cut his teeth at Microsoft (was former CTO), and that Microsoft is the heir to IBM's empire (which is funded in no small part through massive patents), then this is really logical.
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I would encrypt any sensitive data I may have before storing it in the "cloud". It would be irresponsible to assume the data can not be read or copied by others.
Sometimes you must do even better. Data De-identification (like data steganography, either reversible or not) is a good tool on top of encryption. These guys are pretty good at it [1] (disclaimer: I don't work for them). The data will look "real" and even validate against known data rules (ie, US phone = (xxx) xxx-xxxx and first numbers may not be 1,etc).
[1] http://www.dataguise.com/
or 3. The lawyers, judges, and Congress will realize that the entire government will grind to a halt if that strategy is allowed, so they will reject the strategy, completely failing to realize that this is also a problem in other areas.
This is exactly what happened in banking... they had a patent troll attack, and the bansters' government pets just made that entire sector immune [1] from the problem.
So what you get is further distancing of sectors like banking and law from the rest of us... and increases likelyhood of a (more violent) revolution.
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021303731.html?nav=emailpage
Photographers need a high speed SDHC reader.
Photographers' cameras take CF, not SD.
Almost all of Canon's DSLR cameras now take SD(HC) cards... even the 60D and 1D Mk4. Your viewpoint was valid 2 years ago, but then again 20 years ago, that would have been s/CF/Film/
See game consoles for comparison: Are they unhackable? No. But running unauthorized code on them generally requires a hardware mod, not just clicking on an malicious email.
Funny you mention this example, but http://jailbreak.me/ always freaked me out as an iPhone user. An exploit that allows a user to visit a webpage and jailbreak the system sounds... a bit ripe for malicious activity (if a site re-used the code and instead of installing Cydia and Winterboard, installed a keylogger? Would you even know it happened?). This site worked on revisions as late as 4.3.x (ie, 3 months ago).
...between a RIM playbook and the Amazon Kindle Fire?
Everyone talked about similarities, but are they identical?
Without the dock they are about the same according to Engadget. With the dock the Transformer gets six more hours or so. This is in line with my experience on the original Transformer. Battery life is "enough to stop worrying about whether you're going to run out."
The engadget battery test is pretty basic... simply running a video repeatedly. The Verge test is a bit more complex, involving web page refreshes and other activity that more accurately simulates daily usage (notably wireless is a huge battery drainer)... and in the Verge review of the product [1], the reviewer put the tablet at 5-6hrs without the dock, about half the iPad (note: reviewer will retest battery and update soon).
Note: I'm pretty excited about the Transformer Prime (still awaiting ICS/CM9), and hope it does well on the retest... it's a very decent competitor to the iPad.
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/1/2601558/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-review
Android phones are also the best performing phones out there.
[cite needed]
If Apple's user experience was that much better, and specs didn't matter anymore, then why isn't Apple winning the phone race too?
You're wondering why a single company with three basic phones (3GS, 4, 4S) doesn't outsell a dozen competitors with about a dozen models each? Yeah, I wonder why not. Of course if you're trying to instigate a "stats war", Apple does win when it comes to the bottom line [1] ... maybe it's better to have less model variations and more quality?
[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/canaccordgenuity/2011/11/04/apple-takes-half-nokia-relegated/
Yes. I mean, if your goal is keeping a lot of people busy, efficiency is the one thing you don't want.
If two distros have their own people working on packages, then that's twice as many people being employed as if there was just one.
What is sacrificed in efficiency is regained in resilience or stability. If one person decides to stop or go away, you still have a strong viable option.
See what Venkat Balasubramani says about this [1], in detail
An injunction requiring Google to "de-list" sites is one remedy which SOPA expressly makes available, and ordering the registry to transfer domain names to GoDaddy and ordering GoDaddy to update the DNS records is in effect achieving another remedy which SOPA creates. The fight against SOPA may be a red herring in some ways, since IP plaintiffs are fashioning very similar remedies in court irrespective of the legislation. Thus, even if SOPA is defeated, it may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory--opponents may win the battle but may not have gained much as a result.
[1]: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/11/court_oks_priva.htm
It's bad because Liberty is an unalienable right, and the government has no business deciding what you should study.
I'm not sure the government of China agrees with your ideal... Now if only some super-powerful "liberty-for-all-people" espousing country would impose tariffs and trade restrictions for countries that don't meet those shared ideals?
They're all useless career politicians who care nothing about you, me, or anything other than their next election campaign. DOWN WITH THE CAREER POLITICIAN. SUPPORT CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS.
You think term limits will really influence the flow of money in politics? What this will mean is that other political career jobs (i.e., senator's chief of staff) will now be the influence peddlers (they already are to a large extent). The bribery and money flow into political offices needs to be monitored and controlled, or as it stands, money > speech.
Assuming Facebook relationships are used as a model for our casual relationships outside of Facebook
That is exactly what the GP is saying is invalid... specifically because "boring" or "privacy-obsessed" people are not "visible" on Facebook... you might even compare it to the whole "dark matter" theory that the matter we can measure and see is only 15% of what exists.
Read up on selection bias sometime.
Consider this: voter turnout is ~50%. If the remaining 50% chose randomly amongst 10 parties, that would be 5% to each of those parties.
There are many things that are just wrong with your statement. First off, even with compulsory voting (ie, Australia), nowhere near 100% of people actually vote. Secondly, once a party loses due to a spoiler from a group with aligned interests (see Bush v Gore v Nader in 2000 or Clinton v Bush v Perot in 1992) then the 3rd party is blamed and castigated, not embraced. This causes a feedback loop where less people vote for the 3rd party because they know that there is a likelyhood of vote-splitting. Finally, there is the so-called "electoral college" which is just another way to repress votes.
To say that people aren't smart enough to do basic electoral math is blaming the victim. There is real desire for something other than 2-party system, but it will forever be repressed due to our corrupt-by-design voting and electoral system.
Knol - This one is a bit sad. But then they worked with others to start Annotum.
Seriously, I never found Knol to be useful, and actually have forgotten about it since it launched years ago. What was it ever used for?
Believe it or not, AT&T is actually pretty serious when it comes to sensitive personal information.
( I have to re-take the training at least yearly about it )
AT&T is a multi-headed beast of a company with dozens of divisions. It's highly likely that in your area, AT&T may be highly security conscious while in the UVerse area, they couldn't secure two pieces of paper using a stapler... having reversible encryption is an incredibly bad security exposure (GP post's anecdote).
Forced password changes on a scheduled basis with complexity rules in full
effect.
This has actually proven to be bad, as folks will likely resort to writing down their passwords... or if they infrequently use the system, they just keep using the "forgot, email me" feature.
I wish America had a system that allowed viable third party candidates... but, as it stands now,Americans will have to choose between corrupt and corrupter in 2012. We are so screwed.
This is always how's it's been... it's a logical end-result of having a First-Past-The-Post or Plurality [1] voting system. Had we any other system (most notably a ranked-type system), where voters could rank the candidates by preference, I could vote for a candidate instead of what it is right now, where I am, by design, voting against a candidate (since in plurality voting, all contenders are competing against all others, despite similarity in platform).
For example, in the Republican primary, if we had ranked voting you could vote for Ron Paul and say, Herman Cain. Or maybe vote for everyone but Mitt Romney. As it stands (in plurality voting), if you support two candidates, one will end up spoiling the other [2], despite preferring both of them to all others.
So listen next time a voting geek talks to you about alternative methods... there isn't a single more corruptible voting process than plurality voting, and in the end you always end up voting between two corrupted choices, one more than the other.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_splitting
Yes, the company Micro$oft licensed the Kinect technology from Open Sourced the platform at openni.org and Asus has already has released a Kinect competitor called the Xtion Pro. If someone has a good motion capture product idea they can develop it independently of M$. This is just a ploy by Micro$oft to the troll the community for promising future product ideas so that they can patent the most promising ones for themselves.
Facts are one thing, a proven history of backstabbing and bad faith negotiations is quite another. Microsoft could be making strides in solving world hunger or brokering peace in the middle east, and I'll be wondering who they're screwing over and why. No, it's not reasonable, but they have a *lot* of bad karma to cleanse.
and there we find the problem. Competent patent reviewers (especially in the numbers needed) cost more than the PTO can afford, especially with Congress siphoning off much of their revenue (from patent applications). So you get either too few good ones or many not-so-good ones, and either way they can't handle the workload.
Think about this when you hear the GOP operatives and sympathizers whine about how "government is too big" and how they want the government to be "small enough to drown in a bathtub"... they systematically, on orders from their corporate funders, cut the funding to the very institutions that were set up to regulate and police them.
The Democrats are not any better these days, like the rest of government, they have capitulated and are just as captured.
> The Tea Party was bankrolled by billionaires and given nothing but positive press by certain news outlets.
Which is totally unlike OWS which was bankrolled by different billionaires and given nothing but positive press by every news outlet that wasn't Fox News until they body count got too high to ignore any longer. So even accepting your defective premise your point is?
[citation needed]
Except the on-going accusations of a bunch of racists, Koch-funding ex-Birchers, "wingnut" birthers, violent milita types, and paid Republican plants?
Do you deny that tea partiers showed up toting guns to a peaceful rally on public property [1], or that the Koch brothers funded them [2]?
There's baseless accusations, and then there's facts. You can't complain about "accusations" that are rooted in fact and provable.
[1] http://helenair.com/news/article_f01b1b8a-4676-11e0-bbad-001cc4c002e0.html
[2] http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/03/360433/romney-koch-tea-party/
This is not my experience, repeatedly. Of course, the specific implementation (ie, airport) may matter. San Francisco and Charlotte (international flights) seemed to be very reasonable to accept not doing the backscatter x-ray (might be because I traveled with family, SFO even had a separate line, we just went through the metal detectors, they even said families don't go through the x-ray).
Given that Apple are touted as masters of seamless and intuitive user interface design, how come this process isn't automated? It would seem to me that it'd be pretty trivial to, at the very least, detect lack of network connectivity, and turn it off accordingly.
Apple is apparently picking up habits from Google, seeing as Siri is actually still a beta service.
I'm only half kidding here. Patent lawyers have replaced Personal Injury lawyers as the scum of the earth. The entire patent system needs to be re-vamped, legislation passed outlawing patent squatting and technology stifling. And a firing squad for the patent lawyers.
Someone had this on their .sig here a while back.. "behind every sleazy lawyer is a sleazy client"... if you don't get rid of the funding, there will always be more lawyers.
This seems like a really foolish thing for a convicted monopoly to do.
Microsoft started it's Android patent protection program in full, and their judicial oversight just ended Both events are April 2011... clearly coincidence and happenstance.
Microsoft exposed as a thuggish patent troll, who woulda thunkit?
Well if you pondered the fact that Nathan Myhrvold cut his teeth at Microsoft (was former CTO), and that Microsoft is the heir to IBM's empire (which is funded in no small part through massive patents), then this is really logical.