You are comparing apples and oranges. INDECT is not a surveillance operation, it is a study on surveillance algorithms/techniques. Sure it is a bit shady, and they probably have access to some collected data sets, but in the core it is a research project, studying methods of assisting the focus of humans that watch camera walls. For instance, "suspicious behaviour detection"... of course it will never work perfectly.
The great thing about surveillance is that it doesn't work, for once because personnel to dig through all the data is required. INDECT tries to cover this aspect.
It's not exactly some shady organisation doing secret stuff in their bunker. The document lists ~20 universities that collaborate on that. They are the ones to be asked what they are actually researching on, and whether it is ethical. That happened, and unfortunately INDECT decided to remove the documents from their website ( http://www.indect-project.eu/ ), citing that the researchers don't get to researching because they have to answer questions all day long...
This story is so old by now...
However, contrary to US/UK, central Europe, and especially Germany has resistance against surveillance and has a culture of privacy (in the sense of "right to be left alone").
People everywhere are under attack by the armed gangs otherwise known as government. Then we have the gang union (UN)'s telecoms guy saying companies need to work with governments.
People have the government they deserve -- Joseph de Maistre. Especially in democracies.
People need to stop fighting each other and unite against their own governments.
Politicians are not a separate species. They are people like you and me.
There are thousands, if not millions of small businesses worldwide that would benefit from a CMS-based website where they had to do precisely zero management.
Here is a piece of wisdom:
The reason why CMS's, calendar software, TODO lists and PIM systems are not solved yet is not due to a technical reason.
Every company, in fact every person has a different approach on how a calendar and a content system should look like, how it should behave, and what tasks it should perform. Sometimes you can take one product and bash it until it roughly does what you want. Even if that works, it takes time and knowledge of existing products. That's why everyone makes their own CMS, the drawback being that there is no upgrading to new features.
It can't be solved because there is a conflict between "I just want it to do Y", "I don't want/have the time to learn X, or find out what can do Y" and simply that everyone works in a different way.
The reason that they are dead ends for the developer is that the code is not reusable, and that web interfaces and desktop interfaces are not transferrable (even between desktops due to different UI guideline approaches). The reason that they are dead ends for the user is that he can't automate tasks with a GUI. I know it's sad.
I can't believe that filesharing is given such a high priority by governments in Europe. The entertainment industry must have a VERY strong lobbying organization to pull that off. It's a pity that rape victims and other sufferers from really bad crimes are not as well organized and don't have such deep pockets as the entertainment industry.
One raid per year is high priority? How well does that rape argument work for you when you get pulled over for speeding, or get a parking ticket? Are those a waste of policemens time as well, and only there because of strong lobbying organizations?
Now that governments across the globe are mobilizing armed men to eliminate file sharers, the world will be a perfect place. Certainly there is nothing worse than file sharing going on if this is their priority.
Nowhere does it say the policemen were armed (what for anyway).
They come in, show their warrent, question and seize equipment. If you share files, you will not see a jail from inside nor a gun pointed at you. You watch too much TV (or anti-filesharing commercials).
This action seems very reasonable. Usually file sharing *is* treated as a minor violation, seldomly the law is not executed on private persons; unless they make profit from it.
The further back they looked with the VLT, the larger alpha seemed to be—in seeming contradiction to the result they had obtained with the Keck. They realised, however, that there was a crucial difference between the two telescopes: because they are in different hemispheres, they are pointing in opposite directions. Alpha, therefore, is not changing with time; it is varying through space. When they analysed the data from both telescopes in this way, they found a great arc across the sky. Along this arc, the value of alpha changes smoothly, being smaller in one direction and larger in the other. The researchers calculate that there is less than a 1% chance such an effect could arise at random. Furthermore, six of the quasars were observed with both telescopes, allowing them to get an additional handle on their errors.
You were modded funny, but it is not particularly hard to imagine a specially engineered lichen growing in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It could go dormant during the winter, and briefly grow during the summer when the sun begins to melt the (mostly CO2) icecap creating strong southward winds.
Scientists discover new extremophiles every year, the more we learn the more we discover the window that life can survive in is larger than we originally thought.
Oh lets just throw everything on it and see what sticks.
I would like it if the browser was split in two frames, having the previous page on the left, and the next on the right. That way when you click, you can look ahead and go back really quick, while using the full display. Could have a sliding animation like the Apple's hierarchical browsers (e.g. iPod).
Although my theory is that the recent fires in Russia might have caused the operators to leave, or the equipment to malfunction. The message might be a "we're gone for a while" or a "we're back".
The first three posts in this discussion are - as of now - ACs. Though different from the normal 'First Piss Post'-category. They are spot on the topic. Still ACs. Why? Already fearful of being tracked? Yes, you are. Through your IP-addresses.
Users of slashdot can not track me. Only the website admins can. The thing I am afraid of is slashdot comments taken out of context in 10-30 years time.
While Steve Jobs is betting his mobile platform on it, predicting Flash's demise is short-sighted
The lack of Flash on iOS isn't going to kill off Flash or iOS... it only prevents Flash from spreading to another platform. Though they are rather popular, iDevices aren't the be-all and end-all of computing.
Not bringing Flash to mobile devices would have been *the* chance for a competitor to develop and grow. We all want to see Adobe Flash to disappear, but now that Android implemented Flash, the chance for competition was crushed. Maybe it was a mistake of Android to allow Flash, and maybe they should have, together with Apple, tried to focus on a new platform X.
When proven, the new platform X -- websites offering X and Flash -- could have become a competition on desktops as well. -- Just one way to see it that came to my mind.
Just in case you're wondering like me how they back down... FTFA:
Following the complaints, Vodafone backed down and said it would now offer an update without the Vodafone-branded applications.
“Instead, in future we will offer customers two updates. The first will be a rollout of vanilla Android 2.2, once we have carried out appropriate testing to make sure it doesn’t cause any problems on our network or handsets.”
I read that as in "if you cancel after 3 months, we'll charge you $6 at New Years." Do you know how much costs billing monthly would incur? This way the company only deals with the charges once a year.
Sometimes that doesn't work out so well. If you have a fragmented heap with gaps between the leaked items that keep getting reused, it can lead to a lot of strange thrashing, since it effectively amplifies your working set size.
I think that may be one of the things that was happening to older Firefoxes (2.x when viewing gmail, in particular)... not only did it leak memory, it leaked memory in a way such that the leak couldn't just stay in swap.
Wouldn't that be a good exercise for kernels? Recording the usage patterns of memory subsections, defragmenting them into segments by usage frequency. If that is not possible at runtime, store and apply at the next run.
Or maybe clustering chunks by the code piece that allocated it would already help. That said, I don't know what malloc's current wisdom is.
Repeat after me: There is no file transfer protocol between internet users.
The internet is capable of high performance, yet we don't have a common, stable mean of transferring large (100MB) files client-to-client. [No, torrent is not one.]
In this context the claimed proof of Riemann's Hypothesis we discussed a while back is relevant, as well as the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Somehow they found enough experts to point out the open issues and mistakes yet to sail around, even though these were 50-100 page pieces.
But in any case, these are major contributions, as they recombine and connect pieces of maths in new ways, and perhaps see them in a light no one ever has looked at before. The list of areas Vinay Deolalikar pulls his ideas from is just amazing, I mean who'd have thought of using statistical physics to solve a deterministic logic problem. Not me anyway. Maybe next time.
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Listen on ; default to INDRR_ANY. This is an important option to consider as there is no other way to secure the installation. Binding to an internal or firewalled network interface is suggested.
If you want to see some Ubuntu criticism, search for Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux Plumbers Keynote, where he explains why distributions based on other distributions aren't really helping development.
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lets hope they cleaned the documents properly
US: GPS scanners on cars
India: Blackberry keys/40-bit encryption
UAE: Etelisat certificate/man-in-the-middle
Germany: INDECT
UK: CCTV/Echelon
You are comparing apples and oranges. INDECT is not a surveillance operation, it is a study on surveillance algorithms/techniques. Sure it is a bit shady, and they probably have access to some collected data sets, but in the core it is a research project, studying methods of assisting the focus of humans that watch camera walls. For instance, "suspicious behaviour detection" ... of course it will never work perfectly.
The great thing about surveillance is that it doesn't work, for once because personnel to dig through all the data is required. INDECT tries to cover this aspect.
It's not exactly some shady organisation doing secret stuff in their bunker. The document lists ~20 universities that collaborate on that. They are the ones to be asked what they are actually researching on, and whether it is ethical. That happened, and unfortunately INDECT decided to remove the documents from their website ( http://www.indect-project.eu/ ), citing that the researchers don't get to researching because they have to answer questions all day long ...
This story is so old by now ...
However, contrary to US/UK, central Europe, and especially Germany has resistance against surveillance and has a culture of privacy (in the sense of "right to be left alone").
People everywhere are under attack by the armed gangs otherwise known as government. Then we have the gang union (UN)'s telecoms guy saying companies need to work with governments.
People have the government they deserve -- Joseph de Maistre. Especially in democracies.
People need to stop fighting each other and unite against their own governments.
Politicians are not a separate species. They are people like you and me.
There are thousands, if not millions of small businesses worldwide that would benefit from a CMS-based website where they had to do precisely zero management.
Here is a piece of wisdom:
The reason why CMS's, calendar software, TODO lists and PIM systems are not solved yet is not due to a technical reason.
Every company, in fact every person has a different approach on how a calendar and a content system should look like, how it should behave, and what tasks it should perform. Sometimes you can take one product and bash it until it roughly does what you want. Even if that works, it takes time and knowledge of existing products. That's why everyone makes their own CMS, the drawback being that there is no upgrading to new features.
It can't be solved because there is a conflict between "I just want it to do Y", "I don't want/have the time to learn X, or find out what can do Y" and simply that everyone works in a different way.
Here is my advice for the day:
Don't build GUIs. They are dead ends.
The reason that they are dead ends for the developer is that the code is not reusable, and that web interfaces and desktop interfaces are not transferrable (even between desktops due to different UI guideline approaches). The reason that they are dead ends for the user is that he can't automate tasks with a GUI.
I know it's sad.
I can't believe that filesharing is given such a high priority by governments in Europe. The entertainment industry must have a VERY strong lobbying organization to pull that off. It's a pity that rape victims and other sufferers from really bad crimes are not as well organized and don't have such deep pockets as the entertainment industry.
One raid per year is high priority? How well does that rape argument work for you when you get pulled over for speeding, or get a parking ticket? Are those a waste of policemens time as well, and only there because of strong lobbying organizations?
Now that governments across the globe are mobilizing armed men to eliminate file sharers, the world will be a perfect place. Certainly there is nothing worse than file sharing going on if this is their priority.
Nowhere does it say the policemen were armed (what for anyway).
They come in, show their warrent, question and seize equipment. If you share files, you will not see a jail from inside nor a gun pointed at you. You watch too much TV (or anti-filesharing commercials).
This action seems very reasonable. Usually file sharing *is* treated as a minor violation, seldomly the law is not executed on private persons; unless they make profit from it.
http://www.the-economist.com/node/16930866 (someone linked it below)
They did their stats homework. Sure it needs verification, but I am also not surprised other institutes downplay what wasn't their finding.
You were modded funny, but it is not particularly hard to imagine a specially engineered lichen growing in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It could go dormant during the winter, and briefly grow during the summer when the sun begins to melt the (mostly CO2) icecap creating strong southward winds.
Scientists discover new extremophiles every year, the more we learn the more we discover the window that life can survive in is larger than we originally thought.
Oh lets just throw everything on it and see what sticks.
Well ... diesel has a energy density of 35.86 MJ/liter ... it is possible to convert via the energy equivalents (1kWh = 3.6×10^6 J).
And that's why quantum based voting fails. No citizen can verify that they don't just use classic computers.
I would like it if the browser was split in two frames, having the previous page on the left, and the next on the right. That way when you click, you can look ahead and go back really quick, while using the full display. Could have a sliding animation like the Apple's hierarchical browsers (e.g. iPod).
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/UVB-76#Alphabetic_body
Apparently, UVB-76 is promoting Turkish websites.
Although my theory is that the recent fires in Russia might have caused the operators to leave, or the equipment to malfunction. The message might be a "we're gone for a while" or a "we're back".
*shrug*
The first three posts in this discussion are - as of now - ACs. Though different from the normal 'First Piss Post'-category. They are spot on the topic. Still ACs. Why?
Already fearful of being tracked? Yes, you are. Through your IP-addresses.
Users of slashdot can not track me. Only the website admins can. The thing I am afraid of is slashdot comments taken out of context in 10-30 years time.
While Steve Jobs is betting his mobile platform on it, predicting Flash's demise is short-sighted
The lack of Flash on iOS isn't going to kill off Flash or iOS ... it only prevents Flash from spreading to another platform. Though they are rather popular, iDevices aren't the be-all and end-all of computing.
Not bringing Flash to mobile devices would have been *the* chance for a competitor to develop and grow. We all want to see Adobe Flash to disappear, but now that Android implemented Flash, the chance for competition was crushed. Maybe it was a mistake of Android to allow Flash, and maybe they should have, together with Apple, tried to focus on a new platform X.
When proven, the new platform X -- websites offering X and Flash -- could have become a competition on desktops as well.
-- Just one way to see it that came to my mind.
Just in case you're wondering like me how they back down ...
FTFA:
Following the complaints, Vodafone backed down and said it would now offer an update without the Vodafone-branded applications.
“Instead, in future we will offer customers two updates. The first will be a rollout of vanilla Android 2.2, once we have carried out appropriate testing to make sure it doesn’t cause any problems on our network or handsets.”
I read that as in "if you cancel after 3 months, we'll charge you $6 at New Years." Do you know how much costs billing monthly would incur? This way the company only deals with the charges once a year.
Sometimes that doesn't work out so well. If you have a fragmented heap with gaps between the leaked items that keep getting reused, it can lead to a lot of strange thrashing, since it effectively amplifies your working set size.
I think that may be one of the things that was happening to older Firefoxes (2.x when viewing gmail, in particular)... not only did it leak memory, it leaked memory in a way such that the leak couldn't just stay in swap.
Wouldn't that be a good exercise for kernels? Recording the usage patterns of memory subsections, defragmenting them into segments by usage frequency. If that is not possible at runtime, store and apply at the next run.
Or maybe clustering chunks by the code piece that allocated it would already help. That said, I don't know what malloc's current wisdom is.
works well with wine
Original specs: ...
* 60-plus MHz CPU
* 8MB RAM
New specs: ...
* 1-plus GHz CPU(s)
* 1-plus GB RAM
why?
We fight our fear of an empty internet?
Repeat after me: There is no file transfer protocol between internet users.
The internet is capable of high performance, yet we don't have a common, stable mean of transferring large (100MB) files client-to-client. [No, torrent is not one.]
The N in NP does not refer to the polynomial time, mind you. It stands for non-deterministic, the type of machine required for a polynomial runtime.
In this context the claimed proof of Riemann's Hypothesis we discussed a while back is relevant, as well as the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Somehow they found enough experts to point out the open issues and mistakes yet to sail around, even though these were 50-100 page pieces.
But in any case, these are major contributions, as they recombine and connect pieces of maths in new ways, and perhaps see them in a light no one ever has looked at before. The list of areas Vinay Deolalikar pulls his ideas from is just amazing, I mean who'd have thought of using statistical physics to solve a deterministic logic problem. Not me anyway. Maybe next time.
From http://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached :
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Listen on ; default to INDRR_ANY. This is an important option to consider as there is no other way to secure the installation. Binding to an internal or firewalled network interface is suggested.
yeah ... it's hard to blame the memcached guys
We discussed what Ubuntu gives back here: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/01/0326208/First-GNOME-Census-Results
If you want to see some Ubuntu criticism, search for Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux Plumbers Keynote, where he explains why distributions based on other distributions aren't really helping development.