I have a better idea... stop delivering mail. I'd pay the post office to stop dropping off junk mail at my door. I do not get ANY mail from the post office that I actually want or need. Everything of importance comes via UPS, Fedex or some other service because the post office is so ungodly unreliable.
Let's see... what are the first things we'll see this used for? 1. Automated speeding tickets. 2. Insurance company logging of all your activity as an excuse to jack your rates up. 3. Data subpenaed in lawsuits. 4. NSA will be all over it. Reporters will be plowing into palm trees all over the place. 5. Highschool kids rip the devices out of cars in junkyards and drop them from freeway overpasses during a busy holiday for fun. 6. Law enforcement can remotely turn off your car... a few months later criminals will have the same ability...
And you have to pay shipping both ways, be without your $1800 computer for up to 3 months, and they probably wont even send your computer back to you, often they just take yours in and ship out someone elses refurbished unit.
There are 2 types of pirates: 1. Those that pirate for convenience. 2. Those that pirate because they don't want to pay.
#2 you don't have to worry about. They never would have bought your magazine anyway. The fact that they get it for free likely is actually good for you in that it's free advertizing.
#1 on the other hand just want it easy to get. So you just have to make it easier than downloading the torrent and uploading it to their tablet. Lucky for you, that's a pain in the ass. Make an android/apple app that gives you half the magazine for free, then wants you to pay for the rest. (or some other configuration like that) Also there are apps out there that allow broad subscriptions. They have lots of magazines in them and you just pick what you want to read. Then they pass on a portion of the subscription to the publisher... this is likely the easiest route for a small company.
Having worked for an ISP and at one point having to deal with these myself, you don't really. You send it up to the lawyers. They can do some basic checks. The request comes in, there's an agents name and where he/she works. The lawyers call there, talk to someone that's NOT him about it... that's about as far as you can check it. The main thing you're trying to prevent is someones ex-husband requesting his ex-wives call logs and such... that actually happens more than you'd think. Once it was even a cop and the case number and everything were bullshit. But if the entire law enforcement agency in question is up to no good, there's no way to prevent that. It's not like you can call up the judge and ask them about it.
I've mentioned this in the past but it bears mentioning again, we RARELY got requests. There were very very few. It always suggested to me that had better/easier ways to get the same info and it was only in rare cases that they needed to come to us.
Keep in mind, that data is useless. The real threat is that the NSA likely has equipment redirecting data out of these companies without their direct knowledge. They probably even have staff working there to help facilitate their data collection. The NSA could sink any of these companies at the flick of a switch. So the idea that they're going to threaten the NSA with anything is rather silly. Also, they are likely the recipients of a lot of corporate secrets the NSA pulls in from around the world.
My bet is these companies said something like "Um... NSA? Yea... we're looking pretty bad over here... would it be ok if... I mean... could we send a strongly worded letter.... and uh...."
NSA: "No problem... we'll even write it for you! Now put that dress back on, we want you to look pretty for this next part..."
I'd imagine paypal wouldn't have been able to cover the transfer and that would have triggered some rather unwelcome repercussions rather quickly. I wonder if he could have flash-crashed their stock sending them out of business?
I work for an ISP. The vast majority of homes are still fed by copper/coax for the last mile. Fiber's expensive to install and it will be at least 10 to 20 years before it replaces significant portions of the copper out there.
There are plenty of ways to get paid as a musician that do not invovlve selling albums. They were doing it for thousands of years before the record was invented. For a long time in my home town there was a great music scene. We have a lot of great local musicians. But they stop playing clubs to instead do studio work for labels that were passing off their work as whichever band the record company was pushing at the time. Well all that studio work is drying up now and guess what, the music scene is coming back.
They are busy protecting our civil liberties and trying to prevent our country from turning into a police state. Some millionaires making tens of millions instead of hundreds of millions of dollars because of the greed of their corporate owners may not be "just" but I'm betting it's not a real high priority for the EFF.
All these companies are feigning outrage over these "requests" they get, when in reality I doubt the requests are ever used except in cases where the government needs evidence in court. The REAL data collection is done without Microsoft/Googles direct knowledge. The NSA surely has agents working on staff at every major tech company in the world with the sole goal of installing as many NSA backdoors as possible. The idea that the NSA has no respect what-so-ever of the American peoples privacy but at the same time wouldn't just take the same sort of data from a corporation is idiotic.
That's rather ironic given the libertarianism is entirely about rationalism, and environmentalism often seems to be about solar panels in perpetual daylight and wind farms in a never-ending breeze. Oh wait, big oil re-wrote the laws of physics just to increase their profits, I forgot.
Why aren't police departments buying these up left and right? It's because they FAIL, quite regularly. If you're just going to be using the gun for recreation, then it's fine. But if you're using it for self defense, then their high failure rate is completely unacceptable.
There are currently much better ways to secure your gun. They're called safes.
I'm not sure if you've noticed but the UK is doomed. The right to free speech is so nebulous there it's getting to the point of being a kind of joke. The lack of free and open speech isn't even the scary part... the seeming total lack of concern of the public is the nail in that coffin. The next step will be when the act of turning this filter off will be used as evidence in court against a person. Look, they're a bad person, they turned their filter off!
I don't care how good he is, Linus has turned into a total complete dick in recent years. I followed him on Google+ for a while but I can't stand to read his posts any longer. It's one thing to be a dick, it's another to be arrogant, but he's crossed into the "I'm famous enough now that I have throngs of people that will agree with me no matter how much of a jerk I am"
Ironically his argument about fake politeness is EXACTLY what he's getting. People are pretending that his horrible behavior is acceptable just because they don't want to get on his bad side. Acting professionally is not about politeness, it's about not muddying up the conversation with information that's not useful.
I think it will depend on the software. This sort of stuff is not easy to setup. I've tried and it's beyond me (Admittedly I'm a Linux novice) There's no real user friendly software for this sort of thing. If they can just make an android app that automatically dumps your entire phone to a drive in your house on a regular basis, that'd be pretty handy for me. I've always liked the idea of Dropbox, but I would much rather have the storage on my own equipment. If they can make THAT an easy thing to do, I'll buy one.
Our system works, the database works. What needs to happen is the state's database need to be complete
You want me to write the SQL that will correct this for you? I think it'd take me about 10min, but I bill in whole hours so $200? We got a deal or do you want to continue on with this bullshit theory that you can't do anything about it?
That's funny. Can I be the first one with with a real example?
My brother in law "accidentally" formatted the hard drive of one of their old computers that had all of their family pictures on it. I restored the entire drive. Basically all I didn't get were file names. Which, trust me, was annoying. I had duplicate photos all over the place. But I got everything back and was able to copy every photo off the drive. I believe I used Norton and it was a free download.
If you were to write all 0's to the drive (and there are tools to do that) it would make it harder and require special equipment and taking the drive apart, but you can still read it without a whole lot of effort. Passing the drive through a large electromagnet, then grinding it into little bits that you mixed with lots of other ground up drives would probably make it statistically impossible to recover given current technology. I'd imagine melting them down would be the only way to be really sure.
Having been involved in these sorts of contracts (in the USA) I can tell you that your excuse is bullshit. I've pointed out some rather glaring evidence that contractors were likely not fulfilling their end of the contracts in the past... for example, per a contract data was supposed to be encrypted at rest. However, I could connect to it via ODBC and download plain text passwords. If your passwords are stored in plain text, it's hard to believe any of the rest of the data is protected any better.
Anyway, reaction from the contract people was "We're protected by the contract. If they are not fulfilling the contract, they are liable, not us."
They were not concerned with actually complying with legal requirements, they were interested in shifting blame if anything were to go wrong to someone else. So the cheapest 3rd party they could find fit the bill. That third party was very likely in breach of contract the entire time, but as long as nothing ever went wrong then they make money. If something did go wrong, I'd assume they'd just file bankruptcy to avoid the fines.
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I don't think anyone wants mail delivery on Saturdays... except the union of course.
who the hell has any packages delivered by the post office? The USPS does nothing but deliver junk mail here.
I have a better idea... stop delivering mail. I'd pay the post office to stop dropping off junk mail at my door. I do not get ANY mail from the post office that I actually want or need. Everything of importance comes via UPS, Fedex or some other service because the post office is so ungodly unreliable.
Let's see... what are the first things we'll see this used for?
1. Automated speeding tickets.
2. Insurance company logging of all your activity as an excuse to jack your rates up.
3. Data subpenaed in lawsuits.
4. NSA will be all over it. Reporters will be plowing into palm trees all over the place.
5. Highschool kids rip the devices out of cars in junkyards and drop them from freeway overpasses during a busy holiday for fun.
6. Law enforcement can remotely turn off your car... a few months later criminals will have the same ability...
It doesn't sound like a fair trade to me.
And you have to pay shipping both ways, be without your $1800 computer for up to 3 months, and they probably wont even send your computer back to you, often they just take yours in and ship out someone elses refurbished unit.
There are 2 types of pirates:
1. Those that pirate for convenience.
2. Those that pirate because they don't want to pay.
#2 you don't have to worry about. They never would have bought your magazine anyway. The fact that they get it for free likely is actually good for you in that it's free advertizing.
#1 on the other hand just want it easy to get. So you just have to make it easier than downloading the torrent and uploading it to their tablet. Lucky for you, that's a pain in the ass. Make an android/apple app that gives you half the magazine for free, then wants you to pay for the rest. (or some other configuration like that) Also there are apps out there that allow broad subscriptions. They have lots of magazines in them and you just pick what you want to read. Then they pass on a portion of the subscription to the publisher... this is likely the easiest route for a small company.
Having worked for an ISP and at one point having to deal with these myself, you don't really. You send it up to the lawyers. They can do some basic checks. The request comes in, there's an agents name and where he/she works. The lawyers call there, talk to someone that's NOT him about it... that's about as far as you can check it. The main thing you're trying to prevent is someones ex-husband requesting his ex-wives call logs and such... that actually happens more than you'd think. Once it was even a cop and the case number and everything were bullshit. But if the entire law enforcement agency in question is up to no good, there's no way to prevent that. It's not like you can call up the judge and ask them about it.
I've mentioned this in the past but it bears mentioning again, we RARELY got requests. There were very very few. It always suggested to me that had better/easier ways to get the same info and it was only in rare cases that they needed to come to us.
Keep in mind, that data is useless. The real threat is that the NSA likely has equipment redirecting data out of these companies without their direct knowledge. They probably even have staff working there to help facilitate their data collection. The NSA could sink any of these companies at the flick of a switch. So the idea that they're going to threaten the NSA with anything is rather silly. Also, they are likely the recipients of a lot of corporate secrets the NSA pulls in from around the world.
My bet is these companies said something like "Um... NSA? Yea... we're looking pretty bad over here... would it be ok if... I mean... could we send a strongly worded letter.... and uh...."
NSA: "No problem... we'll even write it for you! Now put that dress back on, we want you to look pretty for this next part..."
I'd imagine paypal wouldn't have been able to cover the transfer and that would have triggered some rather unwelcome repercussions rather quickly. I wonder if he could have flash-crashed their stock sending them out of business?
I work for an ISP. The vast majority of homes are still fed by copper/coax for the last mile. Fiber's expensive to install and it will be at least 10 to 20 years before it replaces significant portions of the copper out there.
You wanna bet?
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If you can injection mold it, that makes me wonder what it's melting point is.
There are plenty of ways to get paid as a musician that do not invovlve selling albums. They were doing it for thousands of years before the record was invented. For a long time in my home town there was a great music scene. We have a lot of great local musicians. But they stop playing clubs to instead do studio work for labels that were passing off their work as whichever band the record company was pushing at the time. Well all that studio work is drying up now and guess what, the music scene is coming back.
Where is the EFF is fighting all of this??
They are busy protecting our civil liberties and trying to prevent our country from turning into a police state. Some millionaires making tens of millions instead of hundreds of millions of dollars because of the greed of their corporate owners may not be "just" but I'm betting it's not a real high priority for the EFF.
All these companies are feigning outrage over these "requests" they get, when in reality I doubt the requests are ever used except in cases where the government needs evidence in court. The REAL data collection is done without Microsoft/Googles direct knowledge. The NSA surely has agents working on staff at every major tech company in the world with the sole goal of installing as many NSA backdoors as possible. The idea that the NSA has no respect what-so-ever of the American peoples privacy but at the same time wouldn't just take the same sort of data from a corporation is idiotic.
Magical libertarian thinking knows no bounds.
That's rather ironic given the libertarianism is entirely about rationalism, and environmentalism often seems to be about solar panels in perpetual daylight and wind farms in a never-ending breeze. Oh wait, big oil re-wrote the laws of physics just to increase their profits, I forgot.
Why aren't police departments buying these up left and right? It's because they FAIL, quite regularly. If you're just going to be using the gun for recreation, then it's fine. But if you're using it for self defense, then their high failure rate is completely unacceptable.
There are currently much better ways to secure your gun. They're called safes.
I'm not sure if you've noticed but the UK is doomed. The right to free speech is so nebulous there it's getting to the point of being a kind of joke. The lack of free and open speech isn't even the scary part... the seeming total lack of concern of the public is the nail in that coffin. The next step will be when the act of turning this filter off will be used as evidence in court against a person. Look, they're a bad person, they turned their filter off!
I don't care how good he is, Linus has turned into a total complete dick in recent years. I followed him on Google+ for a while but I can't stand to read his posts any longer. It's one thing to be a dick, it's another to be arrogant, but he's crossed into the "I'm famous enough now that I have throngs of people that will agree with me no matter how much of a jerk I am"
Ironically his argument about fake politeness is EXACTLY what he's getting. People are pretending that his horrible behavior is acceptable just because they don't want to get on his bad side. Acting professionally is not about politeness, it's about not muddying up the conversation with information that's not useful.
Yea, so for $350 these are still basically just expensive paperweights.
I think it will depend on the software. This sort of stuff is not easy to setup. I've tried and it's beyond me (Admittedly I'm a Linux novice) There's no real user friendly software for this sort of thing. If they can just make an android app that automatically dumps your entire phone to a drive in your house on a regular basis, that'd be pretty handy for me. I've always liked the idea of Dropbox, but I would much rather have the storage on my own equipment. If they can make THAT an easy thing to do, I'll buy one.
Our system works, the database works. What needs to happen is the state's database need to be complete
You want me to write the SQL that will correct this for you? I think it'd take me about 10min, but I bill in whole hours so $200? We got a deal or do you want to continue on with this bullshit theory that you can't do anything about it?
No, that's Wisconsin, and Speeding/Redlight cameras are still illegal here. Although I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
That's funny. Can I be the first one with with a real example?
My brother in law "accidentally" formatted the hard drive of one of their old computers that had all of their family pictures on it.
I restored the entire drive. Basically all I didn't get were file names. Which, trust me, was annoying. I had duplicate photos all over the place. But I got everything back and was able to copy every photo off the drive. I believe I used Norton and it was a free download.
If you were to write all 0's to the drive (and there are tools to do that) it would make it harder and require special equipment and taking the drive apart, but you can still read it without a whole lot of effort. Passing the drive through a large electromagnet, then grinding it into little bits that you mixed with lots of other ground up drives would probably make it statistically impossible to recover given current technology. I'd imagine melting them down would be the only way to be really sure.
Having been involved in these sorts of contracts (in the USA) I can tell you that your excuse is bullshit. I've pointed out some rather glaring evidence that contractors were likely not fulfilling their end of the contracts in the past... for example, per a contract data was supposed to be encrypted at rest. However, I could connect to it via ODBC and download plain text passwords. If your passwords are stored in plain text, it's hard to believe any of the rest of the data is protected any better.
Anyway, reaction from the contract people was "We're protected by the contract. If they are not fulfilling the contract, they are liable, not us."
They were not concerned with actually complying with legal requirements, they were interested in shifting blame if anything were to go wrong to someone else. So the cheapest 3rd party they could find fit the bill. That third party was very likely in breach of contract the entire time, but as long as nothing ever went wrong then they make money. If something did go wrong, I'd assume they'd just file bankruptcy to avoid the fines.
Fines don't work. Jail time does.