For the police it is pretty clear that an ISP almost exclusively forwards traffic, so it makes sense to contact them to get connection details for specific illegal activities. There is no way to know from the outside whether a home line is used by a person or is forwarding someone elses requests like Tor (rare). So you have to hold that person, in the first step, accountable for the traffic that comes from his place.
Then in the process of the allegations, you can show plausible deniability, e.g. you are well-known to run a Tor exit node / participate in the Tor community, and the raid did not turn up any illegal material stored on your drives.
While it is extremely annoying to the guy, I do understand the taken measures (except perhaps the power-cord ripping). It really depends on the judge now though, hopefully they don't decide something silly. The question is really whether it is your responsibility to check each forwarded request (ISPs must not read content, or store anything beyond what is needed for forwarding and billing), and whether you may allow anonymous forwarding (ISPs don't I believe, not sure what the law says there).
The larger damage was not to manslaughter but to destroying a complete ecosystem - Privatizing profits and socializing losses in action. Companies trifle with natural resources because they know if it all fails, we will have to pull together to get out of it.
On the same note, why can people put a price on a pirated mp3, but not on a long-term damaged ecosystem?
What about all those SSL/TLS attacaks that came out a year ago, injection renegotiations etc.? Is SSL/TLS suddenly considered safe again? I thought they discovered serious issues in the concept.
If customers want their data forgotten then maybe they didn't want it stored or shared in the first place. The rule should not so much be about data retention but data gathering. The rule should be quite simple. Any organization that gathers data can't share it at all with anyone not directly connected with the reason it was gathered. So my power company needs my address to know where the lights need to be turned on and enough info to bill me. But anyone beyond billing and switching should not have my data, not management, not marketing, and definitely not a "trusted" third party.
Redistribution of personal data is strictly regulated already in the EU. Everything you describe is already done. You're not even allowed to move personal data of European customers outside of the EU by default.
You should also have the right to revoke your trust into an organization, and have them remove your personal information. That's what the right to be forgotten is about. Rights-wise this is obvious, technically it is difficult.
The right to be forgotten is about the right to have your personal data removed from a companies server, when you want to revoke your trust into a company. If it's your server, and you don't store personal data about other people you don't have an issue.
Studying is brain is being used to define traits that make humans smart. How is that anything short of deification?
No, it's the opposite of that. We're trying to figure out why he could make leaps others couldn't... there's nothing mystical about it. If we had other similarly interesting brains we'd study them too.
That's the point. Others have similar capabilities, Einstein is being picked pretty randomly. Yes he was the one to discover general relativity, but if he hadn't someone else (or a couple of people) would have done it, perhaps more gradually. It would be better to select a group of the wisest or most intelligent beings and investigate them, rather than hunt peculiarities of cerebral geometries, even then I would question the usefulness of the study.
I believe this has already become a EU directive. If you lose person-related data, you have to make it known within 24 hours after becoming aware of it, otherwise your company faces fines. And the fines have been increased to make companies feel it.
ad 4) It is not in Toshiba's interest to run behind 3rd-party sites to make sure they update their outdated manuals.
Also, we have this thing called the "web", which is built by making so-called "links". Every company, and Toshiba too, has a website where you can select your model and download its manual. Directly from the manufacturer. https://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_manuals.jsp I can see why you would want for yourself a folder with the laptops you repair, but it's unnecessary to redistribute.
That said, there is no real reason manuals shouldn't be CC BY-ND or at least CC BY-NC-ND.
Actually, JRuby is quite awesome, they really put a lot of thought in seamless interaction with Java code (e.g. converting between the different naming conventions).
The point everyone is missing is that Wikileaks does not just provide a technical service. They go through great lengths to protect the wistleblower by e.g. cleaning documents. Just publishing and keeping things online is reasonable easy. You don't need a technical solution, you need a process and you need to establish yourself as a trustworthy entity to be approached by whistleblowers.
With the numbers of busyqth (mammoths died out 4500 years ago by the way): If you have 1 DNA in pieces of 1000 base pairs length from one mammoth, it must not be older than 8500 years. If you have 1 DNA in pieces of 81 base pairs length from one mammoth, it must not be older than 10000 years. If you have a million DNA pieces of 81 base pairs length from a million mammoths, they must not be older than 30000 years. The returns are diminishing quickly. 10000 years can not be exceeded significantly.
Research has shown primary negative health effects on violence and aggressive behavior7–12; sexuality7,13–15; academic performance16; body concept and self-image17–19; nutrition, dieting, and obesity17,20,21; and substance use and abuse patterns.7
Pediatricians should recommend the following guidelines for parents:
Limit children's total media time (with entertainment media) to no more than 1 to 2 hours of quality programming per day.
Remove television sets from children's bedrooms.
Discourage television viewing for children younger than 2 years, and encourage more interactive activities that will promote proper brain development, such as talking, playing, singing, and reading together.
[...]
View television programs along with children, and discuss the content. [...]
Encourage alternative entertainment for children, including reading, athletics, hobbies, and creative play.
The command line feature looks very cool. It'd be even better if that could be controlled from outside Firefox, basically making Firefox scriptable -- for automated Firefox testing, Website testing, taking screenshots, etc.
150 nations + not all going in the same direction. Do the math.
Read the article. They did the math.
Researcher Richard York of the University of Oregon studied data collected between 1960 and 2008 from more than 150 nations in order to analyze the impact of economic decline on greenhouse gas emissions.
York revealed that the rate of reduction in carbon dioxide emissions was slightly more than half the rate of carbon release when the economy was booming.
They go on explaining why a booming economy and a declining economy have such different rate changes -- based on an example from Soviet nations & African nations. Quite interesting.
I for one doubt that the problems are of technical nature. What they did well was to get a lot of people excited and start a well-sized fellowship of power users interested in hosting a dispora server.
The problem is that it is a student project that intended to start from zero and kept largely to itself. That's fine for a student project. If you want to open up social networks to heterogeneous environments though -- like emails -- you have to connect to other programmers and entities interested. You have to settle one one or a couple of competing standards (like was done with RSS) used for interchange with wise designers, several servers should implement functions, code should be shared.
Finally you have to have some killer application that draws users -- doing the same as Facebook but in a different color won't do it. And if it's just a game that's only available there.
So the current status as far as I followed is that the communication format is settled (RSS based) and what's left is implementing many nice web servers that interact, have different awesome features, and also to get commercial players involved? It's hard work getting from a working prototype to a good implementation that is hackable (and ideally, not crackable).
Killing Python 2 is going to be like killing IE6 and Windows XP - a noble goal that turns out to take decades. And it's a totally self-inflicted wound by the Python community.
Except nobody intends to kill Python 2 anytime soon. When Python 3 was shaped, it was everyones plan to have Python 2 + 3 alongside for a long time.
Someone should do a comparison in password complexity between this user group and the average user group (LinkedIn, Yahoo). Histograms of entropy in bits will show whether we know better or not.
Q: Why has the EU decided to phase out conventional incandescent bulbs?
A: To reduce CO2 emissions (by about 15 million tonnes a year).
Lighting can account for as much as one-fifth of household electricity consumption.
The most efficient lighting technologies use up to 5 times less electricity than the least efficient
Energy saving bulbs can reduce a household's total electricity consumption by 10-15%, saving the EU some 40 billion kilowatt hours a year (roughly equal to the annual consumption of Romania).
Q: How will I benefit?
A: Apart from the long-term environmental benefits, energy saving bulbs can easily save you €50 a year (including the price of the bulbs).
And the money saved overall – €5-10bn a year – will end up going back into the EU economy, boosting overall prosperity.
Even if Google does what they suggest, Why is it illegal for a company to promote itself over others on the services it provides for free. If you don't like Google, don't use their services. It's not a requirement.
Google makes money (a lot of money) from advertisement. So it's not really "free" in the sense that Google does something good for you.
It would be another story if Google wasn't the dominating search engine. It's exactly like Microsofts browser story -- leveraging costumers into associated products. Google can push G+ to its users and draw them from Facebook, just because they have the best search engine. This leveraging is what is illegal (for a monopoly). If 2-3 companies are competing, it would be fine.
Well, it sure looks to me like the amount of ice at the other pole has been growing.
Has the amount of ice on Antarctica doubled in area and doubled in thickness? Has the reflection rate of the ocean there changed from 8% to 98%? Is the growth in Antarctica exponential?
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For the police it is pretty clear that an ISP almost exclusively forwards traffic, so it makes sense to contact them to get connection details for specific illegal activities. There is no way to know from the outside whether a home line is used by a person or is forwarding someone elses requests like Tor (rare). So you have to hold that person, in the first step, accountable for the traffic that comes from his place.
Then in the process of the allegations, you can show plausible deniability, e.g. you are well-known to run a Tor exit node / participate in the Tor community, and the raid did not turn up any illegal material stored on your drives.
While it is extremely annoying to the guy, I do understand the taken measures (except perhaps the power-cord ripping). It really depends on the judge now though, hopefully they don't decide something silly. The question is really whether it is your responsibility to check each forwarded request (ISPs must not read content, or store anything beyond what is needed for forwarding and billing), and whether you may allow anonymous forwarding (ISPs don't I believe, not sure what the law says there).
You suggest pumping 30 terabytes of data per day through your neighbors wifi?
The larger damage was not to manslaughter but to destroying a complete ecosystem - Privatizing profits and socializing losses in action. Companies trifle with natural resources because they know if it all fails, we will have to pull together to get out of it.
On the same note, why can people put a price on a pirated mp3, but not on a long-term damaged ecosystem?
What about all those SSL/TLS attacaks that came out a year ago, injection renegotiations etc.? Is SSL/TLS suddenly considered safe again? I thought they discovered serious issues in the concept.
If customers want their data forgotten then maybe they didn't want it stored or shared in the first place. The rule should not so much be about data retention but data gathering. The rule should be quite simple. Any organization that gathers data can't share it at all with anyone not directly connected with the reason it was gathered. So my power company needs my address to know where the lights need to be turned on and enough info to bill me. But anyone beyond billing and switching should not have my data, not management, not marketing, and definitely not a "trusted" third party.
Redistribution of personal data is strictly regulated already in the EU. Everything you describe is already done. You're not even allowed to move personal data of European customers outside of the EU by default.
You should also have the right to revoke your trust into an organization, and have them remove your personal information. That's what the right to be forgotten is about. Rights-wise this is obvious, technically it is difficult.
The right to be forgotten is about the right to have your personal data removed from a companies server, when you want to revoke your trust into a company. If it's your server, and you don't store personal data about other people you don't have an issue.
Studying is brain is being used to define traits that make humans smart.
How is that anything short of deification?
No, it's the opposite of that. We're trying to figure out why he could make leaps others couldn't... there's nothing mystical about it. If we had other similarly interesting brains we'd study them too.
That's the point. Others have similar capabilities, Einstein is being picked pretty randomly. Yes he was the one to discover general relativity, but if he hadn't someone else (or a couple of people) would have done it, perhaps more gradually. It would be better to select a group of the wisest or most intelligent beings and investigate them, rather than hunt peculiarities of cerebral geometries, even then I would question the usefulness of the study.
It's like investigating Neil Armstrongs feet.
I believe this has already become a EU directive. If you lose person-related data, you have to make it known within 24 hours after becoming aware of it, otherwise your company faces fines. And the fines have been increased to make companies feel it.
ad 4) It is not in Toshiba's interest to run behind 3rd-party sites to make sure they update their outdated manuals.
Also, we have this thing called the "web", which is built by making so-called "links".
Every company, and Toshiba too, has a website where you can select your model and download its manual. Directly from the manufacturer.
https://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_manuals.jsp
I can see why you would want for yourself a folder with the laptops you repair, but it's unnecessary to redistribute.
That said, there is no real reason manuals shouldn't be CC BY-ND or at least CC BY-NC-ND.
There is JRuby ;)
Actually, JRuby is quite awesome, they really put a lot of thought in seamless interaction with Java code (e.g. converting between the different naming conventions).
The point everyone is missing is that Wikileaks does not just provide a technical service. They go through great lengths to protect the wistleblower by e.g. cleaning documents. Just publishing and keeping things online is reasonable easy. You don't need a technical solution, you need a process and you need to establish yourself as a trustworthy entity to be approached by whistleblowers.
With the numbers of busyqth (mammoths died out 4500 years ago by the way):
If you have 1 DNA in pieces of 1000 base pairs length from one mammoth, it must not be older than 8500 years.
If you have 1 DNA in pieces of 81 base pairs length from one mammoth, it must not be older than 10000 years.
If you have a million DNA pieces of 81 base pairs length from a million mammoths, they must not be older than 30000 years.
The returns are diminishing quickly. 10000 years can not be exceeded significantly.
The American Academy of Pediatrics' issued a recommendation in 2001 that children under two should be discouraged from watching television at all: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/107/2/423.full
or lepra
The command line feature looks very cool. It'd be even better if that could be controlled from outside Firefox, basically making Firefox scriptable -- for automated Firefox testing, Website testing, taking screenshots, etc.
150 nations + not all going in the same direction. Do the math.
Read the article. They did the math.
They go on explaining why a booming economy and a declining economy have such different rate changes -- based on an example from Soviet nations & African nations. Quite interesting.
I for one doubt that the problems are of technical nature. What they did well was to get a lot of people excited and start a well-sized fellowship of power users interested in hosting a dispora server.
The problem is that it is a student project that intended to start from zero and kept largely to itself. That's fine for a student project. If you want to open up social networks to heterogeneous environments though -- like emails -- you have to connect to other programmers and entities interested. You have to settle one one or a couple of competing standards (like was done with RSS) used for interchange with wise designers, several servers should implement functions, code should be shared.
Finally you have to have some killer application that draws users -- doing the same as Facebook but in a different color won't do it. And if it's just a game that's only available there.
So the current status as far as I followed is that the communication format is settled (RSS based) and what's left is implementing many nice web servers that interact, have different awesome features, and also to get commercial players involved? It's hard work getting from a working prototype to a good implementation that is hackable (and ideally, not crackable).
Killing Python 2 is going to be like killing IE6 and Windows XP - a noble goal that turns out to take decades. And it's a totally self-inflicted wound by the Python community.
Except nobody intends to kill Python 2 anytime soon. When Python 3 was shaped, it was everyones plan to have Python 2 + 3 alongside for a long time.
Someone should do a comparison in password complexity between this user group and the average user group (LinkedIn, Yahoo). Histograms of entropy in bits will show whether we know better or not.
The EU has not ban a specific technology, it banned incandescent bulbs based on their energy efficiency over the last 3 years.
There is a website about the change:
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/lumen/faq/index_en.htm
Even if Google does what they suggest, Why is it illegal for a company to promote itself over others on the services it provides for free. If you don't like Google, don't use their services. It's not a requirement.
Google makes money (a lot of money) from advertisement. So it's not really "free" in the sense that Google does something good for you.
It would be another story if Google wasn't the dominating search engine. It's exactly like Microsofts browser story -- leveraging costumers into associated products. Google can push G+ to its users and draw them from Facebook, just because they have the best search engine. This leveraging is what is illegal (for a monopoly). If 2-3 companies are competing, it would be fine.
Well, it sure looks to me like the amount of ice at the other pole has been growing.
Has the amount of ice on Antarctica doubled in area and doubled in thickness? Has the reflection rate of the ocean there changed from 8% to 98%? Is the growth in Antarctica exponential?
Here are the URLs: http://nopaste.info/e828e67274.html
And a world-wide increase in carpal tunnel syndrome.
They do: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE0Mzk
It's also not hard to do it yourself: http://linuxfordummies.org/installing-the-cinnamon-desktop-environment-in-fedora-16/