well we live in fear of each other, or we live in fear of our government and each other. I'd rather live free and take risks, than live in constant fear of govt agents and black helicopters. you might also want to note that justice is a subjective concept and as such cannot be defined on a broad scale. what you call justice, I call a crime.
Judgment is MINE sayth the lord! it is not your's nor is it John Robert's or Samuel Alito's.
I'm really hoping that if enough Americans show a similar interest in online privacy, that the policics and economics will work themselves out. remember, the judicial test to determine if an action can be considered private involves the person maintaining a reasonable opinion that the action is private, and whether society at large agrees that similar acts are reasonably considered private.
If i use a web service specifically because it advertises privacy (even if thats not really the case; as long as I don't know about it),I can make an arguement that the action is made with a reasonable expectation of privacy, extending me constitutional protections.
it's all i can do, so I'm going to give Ask a try.
From the Justification linked article: "Our founding fathers understood the importance of innovation so well that they specifically provided strong protection for intellectual property in the Constitution itself," said Rep. Feeney.
where in the constitution is that exactly? what pray tell does it say?
Jordan was much/most of the way through the last book, #12 at the time of his passing, and I was told that he had shared the ending (the high points anyway)with several parties in case he didn't make it though. I have to assume that this guy will finish up book 12, and that will be that. I don't envision an unending series as many here claim will be.
If you've never noticed Cyber-elitist cliquism on the Internet, you haven't been paying much attention. also you do yourself a disservice by categorically dismissing the sources (El Reg and/.), since after all, coordinated categorical dismissal is exactly what the ruling clique is being accused of. way to prove your opponents point.
from TFA ""The free riding deprives AP of economic returns on its investments," he said."
same old rule applies; never trust anyone who uses business terms like ROI, for he cares not for you or society, but only for what he can remove from your wallet, without getting arrested over it.
I'm thinking we need shorter copyright terms and here is why.
in the beginning, ideas took thousands or hundreds of years to become obsolete. methods to till a field with a pointed stick were probably invented simultaneously on several continents, but the information stayed novel for a few millennia. in the 1600's good ideas like say the steam engine stayed pertinent for several hundred years, but will never stay "novel" a tenth as long as the ideas of ancient history. starting in the 50's, ideas like Lead based paint lasted 20 years. in the 60's ideas like Packet-switched telecommunications remained novel for 10 years. in the 70's ideas like 8-tracks lasted 7 or 8 years. today an idea may be novel for as little as a day or even a few hours. fads that had lasted decades in centuries past, are now lasting a month. music is now "classic" 5 years after release, if anyone is still listening to it. AOL went from being king to pauper in less than 4 years. the RIMM ram specification lasted a year. Windows ME was sold for less than 8 months. CSS was cracked in 48 hours.
the sum of human knowledge is doubling at an exponentially increasing rate, and the novelty of that knowledge is wearing off in a comparable time frame. once something becomes common knowledge, it should no longer be protected. thats the way it;s always worked.
patent/copyright laws were supposed to benifet society by ensuring that good ideas are not lost, and to protect the consumer from look-alike fraud. however the system is derailed if the information is no longer novel when the protections end, and it is released to the public. the point is not to protect the artist. the protections are there as an enticement to the inventor to register the idea, so that we can achieve the goals above. these rules are supposed to help us, not hurt us as they do today.
if you don;t think theres been a hubbub about telephone tapping, then you obviously haven't been paying much attention lately. search in slashdot for "Warentless Wiretapping" and see how many results you get.
you'll also note that in the last 3 weeks the FBI has been found to be expanding their mandate under the FISA and PATRIOT acts well beyond terrorism. there have been a number of allegations of abuse of these powers by the FBI coming from the office for government accountability.
1984 is here, and it's 451 degrees in the shade. oh brave new world...
your forgetting the Polymorphic nature of the warden code. since it obfuscates itself from the OS and from security tools, it can be used to load harmful software and provide it with the same "cloaking". there is no way I'd let an app that runs with system credentials to recieve commands from the internet, but that is what they want you to do.
do you remember the malware that sprung up after the sony rootkit debacle of 2005? the malware had nothing to do with sony, but it used the rootkit/copy protection to hide itself.
it'll work as long as you have site licenses for everything and no one uses a special app.
the real problem are your artistic and tech staff. not everyone needs Adobe Creative Suite, SQL server, and visual studio. these licenses are pricey and the software is to "heavy" requirement wise to deploy to all PCs.
I heard that you should never use ATI with AMD, because they would be releasing a new hardware DRM, that will lock out your access to the framebuffer, as described here
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcurve_1.html
does anyone have any idea if the AM3 contains such DRM?
I think you guys need to read up on the topic. Teired service is NOT like your first class/economy example, though it may head that way eventually.
ok heres the deal. AT&T is mad because Google is making money off selling ads to THEIR users without writing a check to AT&T. the users paid for their access, as did google, but AT&T wants to double-dip, and charge Google for access to THEIR subscribers.
so lets say AT&T and Yahoo! entered into an agreement whereby Yahoo would be the default search provider for AT&T networks. AT&T could then degrade or eliminate traffic to google, in an attempt to sway user preference. would you keep going to google if it took 35 seconds to load, while yahoo comes up at lightspeed?
Teired service comes in two flavors. one is paid for by web providors, the other by customers. 1) Google pays AT&T for perfered access to THEIR customers. google would have to pay off every ISP nation wide if that were the approach.
2) create user packages where the user would pay extra for access to sites that AT&T does not have deals with. For $19.95 you get yahoo, and email. for 29.95 you can get google (but not any of the sites linked therein), and for 59.95 you can get access to the internets 200 most popular sites. full access to the internet available for $.20 per site hit. be sure not to hit reload...
neither gives you any more than you have today, all it does is take away. I pay my bill. if that isn;t enough for them, then they either need to raise their prices, or live with it.
I heard Tim Berners-lee came down on the anti side of NN. I read his arguments and while they are valid from a network engineers perspective, he's completely missing the consumer protection aspect, which is the whole reason the rest of us are discussing NN.
I am not a commodity that AT&T can buy and sell. if AT&T wants to charge companies for access to AT&T subscribers, then they owe us subscribers a check, not the other way around.
the DMCA also states that it is illegal to attempt to circumvent any ISP technology (primarily in the content blocking, authentication and auditing areas). I recall back in 99 people we're talking about Fire walling routers being a potential violation. in the long run, it wasn;t until these days, that this kinda thing has become pertinent.
Data mining is all about finding patterns in large amounts of data (usually summary statistics). this is not spying in itself. the spying comes in when that data represents information that people are not willing to provide themselves, and must be attained through NSA letters with non-disclosure agreements and no court backing. since that data is used to track individual human's actions, with no notification or consent, that is clearly spying.
it's not the tools, it's how you use them. To me, this program is domestic intelligence gathering, and thats spying however you look at it.
Who decides who can access MY personal Medical history? I'm the only person who should have that right. not my doctor, not my insurance company, not my government, and most definitely not Microsoft. I am wondering how long it will take for my info to appear in the database, since I'm certainly not going to approve the transfer unless under duress.
Yep, I'm following a simillar algorithm in.net/TSQL.
1) upload the document server side and store a bin representation of the file in SQL server for retrieval later.
2) extract the text of the document into a SQL full-text indexed field. our requirements only specify PDFs, but libraries exist to extract text from most common file types. for PDF I used pdfbox based on a java lib, ported through the IKVM project. it's pretty kool.
3) code a stored procedure (or several if you like) to query the metadata and the full-text index. its up to you if you want to combine the query's into one select or do them seperatly and then cross-join or do a left-outer or whatever you want. cross for inclusive personality, left or right outer to favor either the FTI or the metadata depending.
that way, with a data-layer call or two, you can search via FTI or metadata or both.
also I've heard good things about lucene, but i haven't tried it myself.
I'm kinda surprised actually, the expected flame war has not yet materialized. everyones been rather reasonable, and while we all have favorites, I'm glad to see so many people who use both platforms regularly coming down on one side or the other amicably.
I personally work with both tools regularly, but I tend toward VS, cause i find it much faster, and a little more reliable. your right, part of it is what your used to, but I'm glad this hasn't degenerated into a M$ vs the OSS world cacophany.
your thinking like a capitalist man. think star trek; humans don't need jobs to pay for living, they need jobs to contribute to the society and to expand the boundaries of human existence and understanding.
your probably thinking within the box, and rightly so, since the article does deal with contemporary issues, but as long as people think along the lines of the status quo, then the greed that fuels capitalism will slowly destroy our society and eventually cause our extinction.
am I a pinko commie? well, if they come up with a decent socialist system, that respects the rights of the people first and foremost, then I would probably sign up in no time. I'm for a Utopian society, and I can;t imagine too many rational people would hate a world without greed or poverty.
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exactly! safeboot does a good job. I can't say i like mcaffee, but the product comparision is most favorable.
well we live in fear of each other, or we live in fear of our government and each other. I'd rather live free and take risks, than live in constant fear of govt agents and black helicopters. you might also want to note that justice is a subjective concept and as such cannot be defined on a broad scale. what you call justice, I call a crime. Judgment is MINE sayth the lord! it is not your's nor is it John Robert's or Samuel Alito's.
I'm really hoping that if enough Americans show a similar interest in online privacy, that the policics and economics will work themselves out. remember, the judicial test to determine if an action can be considered private involves the person maintaining a reasonable opinion that the action is private, and whether society at large agrees that similar acts are reasonably considered private.
If i use a web service specifically because it advertises privacy (even if thats not really the case; as long as I don't know about it),I can make an arguement that the action is made with a reasonable expectation of privacy, extending me constitutional protections.
it's all i can do, so I'm going to give Ask a try.
From the Justification linked article: "Our founding fathers understood the importance of innovation so well that they specifically provided strong protection for intellectual property in the Constitution itself," said Rep. Feeney.
where in the constitution is that exactly? what pray tell does it say?
Jordan was much/most of the way through the last book, #12 at the time of his passing, and I was told that he had shared the ending (the high points anyway)with several parties in case he didn't make it though. I have to assume that this guy will finish up book 12, and that will be that. I don't envision an unending series as many here claim will be.
If you've never noticed Cyber-elitist cliquism on the Internet, you haven't been paying much attention. also you do yourself a disservice by categorically dismissing the sources (El Reg and /.), since after all, coordinated categorical dismissal is exactly what the ruling clique is being accused of. way to prove your opponents point.
from TFA ""The free riding deprives AP of economic returns on its investments," he said."
same old rule applies; never trust anyone who uses business terms like ROI, for he cares not for you or society, but only for what he can remove from your wallet, without getting arrested over it.
I'm thinking we need shorter copyright terms and here is why.
in the beginning, ideas took thousands or hundreds of years to become obsolete. methods to till a field with a pointed stick were probably invented simultaneously on several continents, but the information stayed novel for a few millennia. in the 1600's good ideas like say the steam engine stayed pertinent for several hundred years, but will never stay "novel" a tenth as long as the ideas of ancient history. starting in the 50's, ideas like Lead based paint lasted 20 years. in the 60's ideas like Packet-switched telecommunications remained novel for 10 years. in the 70's ideas like 8-tracks lasted 7 or 8 years. today an idea may be novel for as little as a day or even a few hours. fads that had lasted decades in centuries past, are now lasting a month. music is now "classic" 5 years after release, if anyone is still listening to it. AOL went from being king to pauper in less than 4 years. the RIMM ram specification lasted a year. Windows ME was sold for less than 8 months. CSS was cracked in 48 hours.
the sum of human knowledge is doubling at an exponentially increasing rate, and the novelty of that knowledge is wearing off in a comparable time frame. once something becomes common knowledge, it should no longer be protected. thats the way it;s always worked.
patent/copyright laws were supposed to benifet society by ensuring that good ideas are not lost, and to protect the consumer from look-alike fraud. however the system is derailed if the information is no longer novel when the protections end, and it is released to the public. the point is not to protect the artist. the protections are there as an enticement to the inventor to register the idea, so that we can achieve the goals above. these rules are supposed to help us, not hurt us as they do today.
well i don;t play Wow (not wild about MMOs), but if warden does what it claims to do, then it runs as a high integrity process.
if you don;t think theres been a hubbub about telephone tapping, then you obviously haven't been paying much attention lately. search in slashdot for "Warentless Wiretapping" and see how many results you get. you'll also note that in the last 3 weeks the FBI has been found to be expanding their mandate under the FISA and PATRIOT acts well beyond terrorism. there have been a number of allegations of abuse of these powers by the FBI coming from the office for government accountability. 1984 is here, and it's 451 degrees in the shade. oh brave new world...
your forgetting the Polymorphic nature of the warden code. since it obfuscates itself from the OS and from security tools, it can be used to load harmful software and provide it with the same "cloaking". there is no way I'd let an app that runs with system credentials to recieve commands from the internet, but that is what they want you to do. do you remember the malware that sprung up after the sony rootkit debacle of 2005? the malware had nothing to do with sony, but it used the rootkit/copy protection to hide itself.
I don't think godwins law applies in this case. it's primarily for adversarial situations.
if someone said:
"you're a nazi" => bad; the law applies
"I'm/We're nazi(s)" !=> bad ; law is N/A.
it'll work as long as you have site licenses for everything and no one uses a special app.
the real problem are your artistic and tech staff. not everyone needs Adobe Creative Suite, SQL server, and visual studio. these licenses are pricey and the software is to "heavy" requirement wise to deploy to all PCs.
I heard that you should never use ATI with AMD, because they would be releasing a new hardware DRM, that will lock out your access to the framebuffer, as described here http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcurve_1.html does anyone have any idea if the AM3 contains such DRM?
I think you guys need to read up on the topic. Teired service is NOT like your first class/economy example, though it may head that way eventually.
ok heres the deal. AT&T is mad because Google is making money off selling ads to THEIR users without writing a check to AT&T. the users paid for their access, as did google, but AT&T wants to double-dip, and charge Google for access to THEIR subscribers.
so lets say AT&T and Yahoo! entered into an agreement whereby Yahoo would be the default search provider for AT&T networks. AT&T could then degrade or eliminate traffic to google, in an attempt to sway user preference. would you keep going to google if it took 35 seconds to load, while yahoo comes up at lightspeed?
Teired service comes in two flavors. one is paid for by web providors, the other by customers.
1) Google pays AT&T for perfered access to THEIR customers. google would have to pay off every ISP nation wide if that were the approach.
2) create user packages where the user would pay extra for access to sites that AT&T does not have deals with. For $19.95 you get yahoo, and email. for 29.95 you can get google (but not any of the sites linked therein), and for 59.95 you can get access to the internets 200 most popular sites. full access to the internet available for $.20 per site hit. be sure not to hit reload...
neither gives you any more than you have today, all it does is take away. I pay my bill. if that isn;t enough for them, then they either need to raise their prices, or live with it.
I heard Tim Berners-lee came down on the anti side of NN. I read his arguments and while they are valid from a network engineers perspective, he's completely missing the consumer protection aspect, which is the whole reason the rest of us are discussing NN.
I am not a commodity that AT&T can buy and sell. if AT&T wants to charge companies for access to AT&T subscribers, then they owe us subscribers a check, not the other way around.
the DMCA also states that it is illegal to attempt to circumvent any ISP technology (primarily in the content blocking, authentication and auditing areas). I recall back in 99 people we're talking about Fire walling routers being a potential violation. in the long run, it wasn;t until these days, that this kinda thing has become pertinent.
I'm pretty sure that would be a violation of the DCMA anti-circumvention stuff, but if you find such an app, let me know.
theres no such thing as a "reputable" advertising firm.
But if you buy my product you can block ads from all the disreputable ones.
Data mining is all about finding patterns in large amounts of data (usually summary statistics). this is not spying in itself. the spying comes in when that data represents information that people are not willing to provide themselves, and must be attained through NSA letters with non-disclosure agreements and no court backing. since that data is used to track individual human's actions, with no notification or consent, that is clearly spying. it's not the tools, it's how you use them. To me, this program is domestic intelligence gathering, and thats spying however you look at it.
is it slimier than tapping everyones phones? I think not. I'm going to inquire about switching my phones to Qwest post haste.
Who decides who can access MY personal Medical history? I'm the only person who should have that right. not my doctor, not my insurance company, not my government, and most definitely not Microsoft. I am wondering how long it will take for my info to appear in the database, since I'm certainly not going to approve the transfer unless under duress.
Yep, I'm following a simillar algorithm in .net/TSQL.
1) upload the document server side and store a bin representation of the file in SQL server for retrieval later.
2) extract the text of the document into a SQL full-text indexed field. our requirements only specify PDFs, but libraries exist to extract text from most common file types. for PDF I used pdfbox based on a java lib, ported through the IKVM project. it's pretty kool.
3) code a stored procedure (or several if you like) to query the metadata and the full-text index. its up to you if you want to combine the query's into one select or do them seperatly and then cross-join or do a left-outer or whatever you want. cross for inclusive personality, left or right outer to favor either the FTI or the metadata depending.
that way, with a data-layer call or two, you can search via FTI or metadata or both.
also I've heard good things about lucene, but i haven't tried it myself.
good luck
It's days like today, that I really miss Jon Postel.
I'm kinda surprised actually, the expected flame war has not yet materialized.
everyones been rather reasonable, and while we all have favorites, I'm glad to see so many people who use both platforms regularly coming down on one side or the other amicably.
I personally work with both tools regularly, but I tend toward VS, cause i find it much faster, and a little more reliable. your right, part of it is what your used to, but I'm glad this hasn't degenerated into a M$ vs the OSS world cacophany.
your thinking like a capitalist man. think star trek; humans don't need jobs to pay for living, they need jobs to contribute to the society and to expand the boundaries of human existence and understanding. your probably thinking within the box, and rightly so, since the article does deal with contemporary issues, but as long as people think along the lines of the status quo, then the greed that fuels capitalism will slowly destroy our society and eventually cause our extinction. am I a pinko commie? well, if they come up with a decent socialist system, that respects the rights of the people first and foremost, then I would probably sign up in no time. I'm for a Utopian society, and I can;t imagine too many rational people would hate a world without greed or poverty.