I don't think it's available in Canada yet, even after visiting www.google.com/instant/ and clicking "Try it now" all I get is the drop down box like with google suggest... Any Canadian Slashdoters given this a shot yet?
I really fail to see the point of this article, it simply shows that as technology becomes more ubiquitous, that it's use increases. It also shows that users introduced to a technology earlier in their lives, are more comfortable utilizing it. Don't get me wrong, the difference in the numbers is interesting, but I fail to see a point to the article beyond the numbers and the two points I mentioned. This isn't really anything new, in my opinion.
The RCMP are the most corrupt police service in North America, no police agency should be self-governing without public oversight. They have the mentality that the law is their agent to bend to their will as opposed to being agents of the law. As a Calgarian, I think our police service is alright, but could definitely be improved
How about we let the audience decide that for themselves?
If we want to prove that our ideologies are indeed superior to those of the KKK, that can only be done on a fair and equal forum of debate
How does a man on fire, tied to a cross, surrounded by people who hate him, have a fair chance to speak? By the time the current discussion is over, I'm pretty sure he never wants to see the colour white again (and will be perpetually biased against the living).
Dude, are you retarded? Or do you honestly not understand the difference between assault/murder and freedom of speech?
I'm willing to bet the answer is probably "yes" to both those questions.
Apparently, when the Cajuns left Nova Scotia they left the pussies in Quebec.
Actually, the pussies ran and hid in Quebec.
Approximately 5,000 to 6,000 Acadians escaped to Quebec, hid among the Mi'kmaq, or were able to hide in the countryside and avoid deportation until the situation settled down.
Chances are she was of Acadian decent, not Québécois, Acadians are the majority of the French speaking population in Nouvea Brunswick as well as Nova Scotia.
Obviously you haven't heard of the reputation the Québécois have, they're the only province in Canada that is hated by all the other provinces and territories.
By the way the Cajuns did not leave, they were deported by the English.
Any Canadian knows that only someone who is Québécois would say that... As a Canadian of French decent, I always make it clear I'm Acadian, not Québécois, and for good reason. You also left out how one third of the Acadian population was wiped out by the English.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think the HTML injection is caused by their use of WebSockets, which uses EventMachine and then ties back into the Rails app or bypasses it and goes straight into the MongoDB. That's my basic understanding of it, if I'm wrong someone should correct me.
As for people criticizing the project, I think that it's way too early, it hasn't even hit Beta status, it's an Alpha release.
WebSockets is actually the aspect of this project that interests me the most, if they can make a "standard" social communications protocol or API that functions over WebSockets, I think that'd be the greatest outcome for the project. If it succeeds in creating that protocol, it wouldn't only kill FaceBook, but Twitter as well. Also, that would allow other developers to create other implementations in different languages(sans Rails) , user interfaces or mashups.
Either way, I watch this project with great anticipation and bated breath.
P.S. MongoDB is a NoSQL database...... HA! Now the Web 2.0 synergy in this post is complete.(Yes, I did throw in a few terms just for shits and giggles.)/endpost
Right, it wouldn't be because "Family" is synonymous with "group"? I have a family plan with a wireless provider, and guess what? It's for a group of phones.
What would be more interesting is if they are offering parental controls to the account holder.
BTW LED lighting is my job so prepare for a MASSIVE smackdown if you wanna go toe to toe.
Sensitive much, methinks. Therefore, I conclude that either A) You are really an idiot with just enough knowledge to think he's "in", or B) You are really somebody I don't want to know too well.
In either event, I'm guessing that you probably don't get invited to many parties.
Obviously you didn't read the links in his signature, one of them, the one I'm assuming his job is, is for LED grow lights.
This puts me under the impression that he probably does get invited to a lot of parties.
P.S. If you can't figure it out, google "grow lights" and research their most common use, you'll quickly understand the joke.
Unfortunately I have had wireless drivers (ath5k/ath9k + hostapd) cause a kernel panic, although after completely rebuilding the server after the 3 years it had been in service fixed the issue, so it may have been a bad link to a system library. (Yes, I mean both ath5k and ath9k had the issue, I installed a newer wireless N card to see if it was a hardware issue, it made the kernel panic as well)
I'd go the route of having my own CA in addition to a Verisign or whatever certified cert, and offer the users of the bootable option more enhanced and comprehensive security. I may even go as far to impose the bootable method for certain users, perhaps users that have already had ID theft happen to them, or perhaps impose it for large personal transactions.
Maybe even offer users more insurance against ID theft if they use this system, that should be a relatively good offer for consumers as well as the bank. Anyone who really knows write once bootdisks, knows that security doesn't really get much better. So the bank would make money because it should experience less insurance payouts on ID theft. Consumers win because they aren't victims of ID theft.
As for driver support, as others have mentioned, the bank(s) and Ubuntu can only support a certain set of WIFI cards and in limited cases even ethernet cards. However, if they offered a bonus to customers who use the system, as I mentioned earlier, they could simply say the issue of your hardware not supporting our system is your loss. If many banks adopted this system, how quickly would PC makers jump on the "online banking ready" bandwagon. Even existing hardware might have Linux drivers contributed for it, if consumers complain to their OEMs enough. This could be the push that Linux needs to make it so OEMs support it. Banks would try to one up each other by offering the same/better ID theft protection, and PC vendors would one up each other via Linux support.
All in all I see this as an amazing win for opensource and as a win that has the potential to be the win that keeps on giving. Or it could be a complete flop, but it is still awesome/well deserved PR for Linux/opensource security.
Google makes very good products, but they don't take privacy seriously at all. Even if they did, I'm not going to use any more products by Google (and I'm soon transfering out of Gmail). The reason is that Google is just growing to be too big, it's not even funny anymore. Soon they know everything and have huge corporate power. And it's a corporation after all. Their main goal is profit, not acting morally.
Did your crystal ball tell you this? Big Corporation != Evil Corporation.The correct sentiment to have would be that you hope that legislation regarding consumer privacy will improve. If small company X writes a program, makes a web service or whatever that is found to be useful, then they will naturally get bigger because people will use said service. By your logic, even if company X never changed the source code(aside to accommodate for scaling from increased use), then you'd still boycott them because they grew to be a big corporation. I'm not even going to discuss morals on this issue, because you're just assuming that everyone has the same morals.
Your "logic" isn't even logic at all, it's self inflicted stupidity.
Thanks to our personal privacy acts, we enjoy the fact that our encrypted data is private and only allowed to be decrypted if we're under investigation by law officials. As I've stated in another reply, thanks to the RCMP stating in 2007 that they won't pursue personal P2P downloaders, for just downloading, we're safe.
The American RIAA can suck my Canadian dick, and I've never really heard of the CRIA going after anyone for downloading, but I maybe wrong about that.
Nah, we do say it a lot, but only once at a time, not twice in a row. Unless we're yelling to get someone's attention, then it's pretty much all we say.
To get back on topic, the chances are very remote, and that's the way I like it. Personally, I feel Canadian copyright law is far ahead of the US's DMCA centric attitude. The nature of copyright has to evolve with current times and technologies, allowing P2P downloads for personal use while putting a fee on MP3 players and blank media is a compromise that I see as fair
The reason that things like file sharing are legal in Canada is specifically because Canadian copyright law *hasn't* changed. Our laws were written in the 1980's, when it wasn't really easy to copy a large volume of music, and the risk was mostly just people copying a CD to a cassette for a friend, or making a mix tape for somebody. You weren't dealing with high volume copies, and you weren't dealing with anything near the ubiquity that the Internet affords, which is a large part of why the laws are so relaxed here.
I meant in 2007, when the RCMP officially stated their stance on P2P file sharing for personal use. Their decision for P2P and the decision to put that fee on MP3 players is a decision for current times. At least, I consider anything within the past 5-10 years fairly recent, in terms of the speed of our legislation.
Only if you share, in BT's case, seed, and bittorrent is the only true P2P I use. I use the usenet(encrypted on port 443) for 98% of my downloads(no upload required), and I don't really seed any media torrents, but if I did seed, I have forced outgoing encryption and I seed opensource projects from my PC, so it'd be fairly indistinguishable. Even with Shaw's deep packet inspection, I can still get 2-3 megs/sec when downloading, although I do have to slow my up bandwidth to 5-15 KB/sec for a decent down rate, Shaw sucks in that respect.
I only get 100 gigs a month from Shaw, I usually do at least double that, but all my connections are encrypted, be it BT or usenet. So far, no warnings after a few years of doing so, but they have mentioned that my area has very low usage compared to my personal usage when I've called to get my modem reset.
To get back on topic, the chances are very remote, and that's the way I like it. Personally, I feel Canadian copyright law is far ahead of the US's DMCA centric attitude. The nature of copyright has to evolve with current times and technologies, allowing P2P downloads for personal use while putting a fee on MP3 players and blank media is a compromise that I see as fair.
compete squarely with ARM in the high-end smartphone market
How can they do that when producing an ARM processor cost only ARMs royalty + costs added on from many producers (Texas instruments qualcomm et al).
I hate quote mining... You should have used the entire sentence, because you might have had to re-read it and you might have picked up on a key idea of the sentence. I think you did notice though, because your quote conveniently starts just after that word, which makes your post a troll in my eyes, and you're lucky I don't have mod points this week.
It is clear, however, that Intel aims to eventually compete squarely with ARM in the high-end smartphone market.
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Why doesn't he try to baptize a Ginger Kid instead, they are assumed to have no soul and there are a lot more of them then there are aliens.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Have the inquisition chase after Doctor Who once he finally gets a ginger body.
I don't think it's available in Canada yet, even after visiting www.google.com/instant/ and clicking "Try it now" all I get is the drop down box like with google suggest... Any Canadian Slashdoters given this a shot yet?
I really fail to see the point of this article, it simply shows that as technology becomes more ubiquitous, that it's use increases. It also shows that users introduced to a technology earlier in their lives, are more comfortable utilizing it. Don't get me wrong, the difference in the numbers is interesting, but I fail to see a point to the article beyond the numbers and the two points I mentioned. This isn't really anything new, in my opinion.
Must be a slow news day.
The RCMP are the most corrupt police service in North America, no police agency should be self-governing without public oversight. They have the mentality that the law is their agent to bend to their will as opposed to being agents of the law. As a Calgarian, I think our police service is alright, but could definitely be improved
How about we let the audience decide that for themselves?
If we want to prove that our ideologies are indeed superior to those of the KKK, that can only be done on a fair and equal forum of debate
How does a man on fire, tied to a cross, surrounded by people who hate him, have a fair chance to speak? By the time the current discussion is over, I'm pretty sure he never wants to see the colour white again (and will be perpetually biased against the living).
Dude, are you retarded? Or do you honestly not understand the difference between assault/murder and freedom of speech?
I'm willing to bet the answer is probably "yes" to both those questions.
Apparently, when the Cajuns left Nova Scotia they left the pussies in Quebec.
Actually, the pussies ran and hid in Quebec.
Approximately 5,000 to 6,000 Acadians escaped to Quebec, hid among the Mi'kmaq, or were able to hide in the countryside and avoid deportation until the situation settled down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expulsion
Chances are she was of Acadian decent, not Québécois, Acadians are the majority of the French speaking population in Nouvea Brunswick as well as Nova Scotia.
Obviously you haven't heard of the reputation the Québécois have, they're the only province in Canada that is hated by all the other provinces and territories.
Quebec men prefer pussies, you like cocks?
By the way the Cajuns did not leave, they were deported by the English.
Any Canadian knows that only someone who is Québécois would say that... As a Canadian of French decent, I always make it clear I'm Acadian, not Québécois, and for good reason. You also left out how one third of the Acadian population was wiped out by the English.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think the HTML injection is caused by their use of WebSockets, which uses EventMachine and then ties back into the Rails app or bypasses it and goes straight into the MongoDB. That's my basic understanding of it, if I'm wrong someone should correct me.
/endpost
As for people criticizing the project, I think that it's way too early, it hasn't even hit Beta status, it's an Alpha release.
WebSockets is actually the aspect of this project that interests me the most, if they can make a "standard" social communications protocol or API that functions over WebSockets, I think that'd be the greatest outcome for the project. If it succeeds in creating that protocol, it wouldn't only kill FaceBook, but Twitter as well. Also, that would allow other developers to create other implementations in different languages(sans Rails) , user interfaces or mashups.
Either way, I watch this project with great anticipation and bated breath.
P.S. MongoDB is a NoSQL database...... HA! Now the Web 2.0 synergy in this post is complete.(Yes, I did throw in a few terms just for shits and giggles.)
Right, it wouldn't be because "Family" is synonymous with "group"? I have a family plan with a wireless provider, and guess what? It's for a group of phones.
What would be more interesting is if they are offering parental controls to the account holder.
BTW LED lighting is my job so prepare for a MASSIVE smackdown if you wanna go toe to toe.
Sensitive much, methinks. Therefore, I conclude that either A) You are really an idiot with just enough knowledge to think he's "in", or B) You are really somebody I don't want to know too well.
In either event, I'm guessing that you probably don't get invited to many parties.
Obviously you didn't read the links in his signature, one of them, the one I'm assuming his job is, is for LED grow lights.
This puts me under the impression that he probably does get invited to a lot of parties.
P.S. If you can't figure it out, google "grow lights" and research their most common use, you'll quickly understand the joke.
Unfortunately I have had wireless drivers (ath5k/ath9k + hostapd) cause a kernel panic, although after completely rebuilding the server after the 3 years it had been in service fixed the issue, so it may have been a bad link to a system library. (Yes, I mean both ath5k and ath9k had the issue, I installed a newer wireless N card to see if it was a hardware issue, it made the kernel panic as well)
I'd go the route of having my own CA in addition to a Verisign or whatever certified cert, and offer the users of the bootable option more enhanced and comprehensive security. I may even go as far to impose the bootable method for certain users, perhaps users that have already had ID theft happen to them, or perhaps impose it for large personal transactions.
Maybe even offer users more insurance against ID theft if they use this system, that should be a relatively good offer for consumers as well as the bank. Anyone who really knows write once bootdisks, knows that security doesn't really get much better. So the bank would make money because it should experience less insurance payouts on ID theft. Consumers win because they aren't victims of ID theft.
As for driver support, as others have mentioned, the bank(s) and Ubuntu can only support a certain set of WIFI cards and in limited cases even ethernet cards. However, if they offered a bonus to customers who use the system, as I mentioned earlier, they could simply say the issue of your hardware not supporting our system is your loss. If many banks adopted this system, how quickly would PC makers jump on the "online banking ready" bandwagon. Even existing hardware might have Linux drivers contributed for it, if consumers complain to their OEMs enough. This could be the push that Linux needs to make it so OEMs support it. Banks would try to one up each other by offering the same/better ID theft protection, and PC vendors would one up each other via Linux support.
All in all I see this as an amazing win for opensource and as a win that has the potential to be the win that keeps on giving. Or it could be a complete flop, but it is still awesome/well deserved PR for Linux/opensource security.
Google makes very good products, but they don't take privacy seriously at all. Even if they did, I'm not going to use any more products by Google (and I'm soon transfering out of Gmail). The reason is that Google is just growing to be too big, it's not even funny anymore. Soon they know everything and have huge corporate power. And it's a corporation after all. Their main goal is profit, not acting morally.
Did your crystal ball tell you this? Big Corporation != Evil Corporation.The correct sentiment to have would be that you hope that legislation regarding consumer privacy will improve. If small company X writes a program, makes a web service or whatever that is found to be useful, then they will naturally get bigger because people will use said service. By your logic, even if company X never changed the source code(aside to accommodate for scaling from increased use), then you'd still boycott them because they grew to be a big corporation. I'm not even going to discuss morals on this issue, because you're just assuming that everyone has the same morals.
Your "logic" isn't even logic at all, it's self inflicted stupidity.
Thanks to our personal privacy acts, we enjoy the fact that our encrypted data is private and only allowed to be decrypted if we're under investigation by law officials. As I've stated in another reply, thanks to the RCMP stating in 2007 that they won't pursue personal P2P downloaders, for just downloading, we're safe.
The American RIAA can suck my Canadian dick, and I've never really heard of the CRIA going after anyone for downloading, but I maybe wrong about that.
Nah, we do say it a lot, but only once at a time, not twice in a row. Unless we're yelling to get someone's attention, then it's pretty much all we say.
You know what I mean, eh?
The reason that things like file sharing are legal in Canada is specifically because Canadian copyright law *hasn't* changed. Our laws were written in the 1980's, when it wasn't really easy to copy a large volume of music, and the risk was mostly just people copying a CD to a cassette for a friend, or making a mix tape for somebody. You weren't dealing with high volume copies, and you weren't dealing with anything near the ubiquity that the Internet affords, which is a large part of why the laws are so relaxed here.
I meant in 2007, when the RCMP officially stated their stance on P2P file sharing for personal use. Their decision for P2P and the decision to put that fee on MP3 players is a decision for current times. At least, I consider anything within the past 5-10 years fairly recent, in terms of the speed of our legislation.
Only if you share, in BT's case, seed, and bittorrent is the only true P2P I use. I use the usenet(encrypted on port 443) for 98% of my downloads(no upload required), and I don't really seed any media torrents, but if I did seed, I have forced outgoing encryption and I seed opensource projects from my PC, so it'd be fairly indistinguishable. Even with Shaw's deep packet inspection, I can still get 2-3 megs/sec when downloading, although I do have to slow my up bandwidth to 5-15 KB/sec for a decent down rate, Shaw sucks in that respect.
I only get 100 gigs a month from Shaw, I usually do at least double that, but all my connections are encrypted, be it BT or usenet. So far, no warnings after a few years of doing so, but they have mentioned that my area has very low usage compared to my personal usage when I've called to get my modem reset.
To get back on topic, the chances are very remote, and that's the way I like it. Personally, I feel Canadian copyright law is far ahead of the US's DMCA centric attitude. The nature of copyright has to evolve with current times and technologies, allowing P2P downloads for personal use while putting a fee on MP3 players and blank media is a compromise that I see as fair.
I love the fact that I can download copy written content without penalty as long as I don't redistribute it... Fuckin' eh!!
RTFA, it's hosted on BOTH headsets, both act as a server.
Where's the "Tits or GTFO!" statement?
I don't think so, considering it runs on non-DOS OSes(linux, mac, etc)... Plus it runs on 64 bit windows, which doesn't have the subsystem.
The era of awesome 16-Bit gaming lives!!!
How can they do that when producing an ARM processor cost only ARMs royalty + costs added on from many producers (Texas instruments qualcomm et al).
I hate quote mining... You should have used the entire sentence, because you might have had to re-read it and you might have picked up on a key idea of the sentence. I think you did notice though, because your quote conveniently starts just after that word, which makes your post a troll in my eyes, and you're lucky I don't have mod points this week.
It is clear, however, that Intel aims to eventually compete squarely with ARM in the high-end smartphone market.