Online games are a major user (as opposed to abuser) of storing data with Flash. There are some that actually are complex and long enough (and fun, too!) to warrant a save function. It can also be mildly-to-moderately helpful for some other Flash 'applications', like a video/audio player storing settings like volume levels.
So while I might say you can secure email within your organization pretty well, once it's going over the Internet, email isn't very secure-- not unless you're using something like GPG.
Considering this originated in discussing a university's email system, this applies here. You can, if (hypothetically) sending from one @yale.edu address to another @yale.edu address, be certain, as long as the IT staff has done their job enforcing the use of SMTPS/IMAPS/POPS/HTTPS, that the e-mail is secure end-to-end from prying eyes.
With such a setup, you'd only have to trust yourself, the server administrative staff (likely a small number of people), and the person you addressed the e-mail to. All of whom could be, fairly easily, held accountable if something goes badly wrong.
If you bothered to read the second link (like that'd happen but whatever), it isn't as much a staunch "we never want to use Gmail" as a request for more transparency/information about what the agreements and options being discussed/setup by Yale's IT administration and Google. It includes requests for more information on such things as where the data is going to be stored, why Google is 'generously' providing this service free of charge and without advertisements (i.e., how much privacy/rights do you have with your e-mails), what happens if Google changes their mind down the road and wants to start charging Yale, and a few other similar concerns.
They also got feedback from the people who didn't want to use it, but weren't given the option to properly opt-out, if I'm reading some of the comments/links correctly...
You're just like any nasty group in its early years - start off promising the world, slowly reneging on promises which matter, and one by one revealing your true intentions.
Sounds like they're a shoo-in for running the government in most countries.
I'm setting them up with virtual machines soon, to run optimized images of XP for their games, and whatever else they want, in a secure sandbox.
I haven't looked at VM technology much lately, but how do you plan to deal with the issue of graphics cards not virtualising, often leaving you with something equivalent to a baseline, five-year-old graphics card inside the VM? Or has this problem been solved by one of the more recent VM software packages?
As it currently stands, we don't have access to location data for our own phones.
I dunno about in the States, but up here in Canada my phone is perfectly happy (upon opening Google Maps, for example) to estimate my current location, often to within 0.5km-ish, when it can't access the GPS or when the GPS is still trying to find a satellite.
If this isn't access to location data for my own phone, I'm not sure what is -- unless you mean the historical location data, in which case it's hardly unique. There are lots of bits of data that corporations, governments, and others log that consumers typically don't log (though I probably could log if I were inclined) and don't have access to the logs of.
More intended to be commenting on the post I replied to whining about people stating "RF radiation being harmless", rather than me being some sort of authoritative source.
It's not entirely harmless -- but everything I've ever seen (both studies, like the long-term Scandinavian one from a few months ago, and just general laws of physics, like someone else commented on in this story) points to it being harmless (or close enough to cause no significant change in anything) at the miniscule energy levels we're dealing with when using cellphones and wifi.
Or they'd have to corroborate timestamps with DNS requests, which must also be logged (and hope that you don't visit more than one host on the same IP, since DNS responses are cached).
People these days, with all the overloading talk of "intellectual property" don't even know what "public domain" means. I see it all too often with my friends and family. It's getting to the point that copyright is so overreaching (and has been for so long), that few people even know what it means when a work no longer is under copyright.
That said, having Symbian under an open source licence is definitely a nice thing.
Precisely. I don't think copyright is in anything resembling a proper state, but swapping it out with Google(R) Copyright (Beta!) is not the answer, not at all.
Twenty-four cases of copyright infringement becomes $54k, when stealing two CDs (as close as you can generally get to exactly 24 songs) would tend to net you a few hundred dollars fine and/or community service. It's been said before, but this is extremely out of proportion, particularly when such enormous fines are being pushed by the same entities that are trying to say that copyright infringement is stealing (which, no, it's not -- but it is reasonably easily equatable in some circumstances).
You can't on any current iPhone or iPod touch. Even if you could, an LCD screen is essentially unreadable, even in the brightest outdoor conditions, with no backlighting.
Metal has a tendency to block cellular signals much more significantly than it blocks wifi and short range wireless signals. Most likely, that dark accent is a strip of plastic, under which is the antenna for the 3G.
It has a larger screen, optional 3G, and (reportedly) the ability to tether to another Bluetooth device (such as a phone, for a data connection).
So it's not quite a larger iPod touch, but it's close enough to not be called "magical and revolutionary" (take a look at Apple's webpage, it currently calls the iPad "magical and revolutionary").
Good god, you mean I can pick the thing up and actually turn it? I'm so excited I'm about to soil myself! Will Apple innovations never cease?
Yes, you can only turn your iPod or iPhone (I say 'your' because you must have one, otherwise you don't exist) in three directions and have the screen rotate. This adds a full fourth direction (not a half of a direction!) so it's 1/4th better already!
And that seeing the whole page thing? Well, you can only see like, 1/4th of a page on your iPod or iPhone, so that's where the other 3/4ths come from, making this 100% better than your iPod or iPhone -- so you need to go buy it, now!
(...Note: Post may contain large amounts of sarcasm. Do not take with alcohol.)
Which just killed any grudging interest/drool I may have reserved for it.
It's not a reader device (certainly not for me -- I'm someone who prefers e ink for large amounts of pure text), it's not a portable device (a little too large for most pockets, probably even for many purses), and it's not a computer (no multitasking). I can deal with no multitasking on an iPod touch or similar, but not on something of this sort of size/usage -- it seems to be being pushed as an 'internet tablet' for the most part, with some lesser emphasis on books and multimedia (sometimes all three in hybrid). Sorry, but if I'm browsing the web in any significant fashion (beyond very simple reading or single-intent searching, the like of which I'm happy to do on a much smaller screen), I'd like to be able to swap (easily and quickly) between web browser tabs/windows, e-mail messages, sometimes instant messaging, occasionally IRC, and miscellaneous other stuff I'm doing at the time (such as SSH sessions, text editing, FTP upload/download, etc.).
They're even releasing a keyboard accessory for it, but it will be unable to properly, say, edit a document and browse the web at the same time... No easy copy/paste from sources, no quick 'alt-tabbing' between the pages you're reading and the document you're writing... I know the reality-distortion field is a real effect of Apple's marketing, but this iPad (why is that one letter off from iPod? Isn't that confusing too?) starts becoming more underwhelming the more you consider it... And I honestly like Apple's computers, iPods, and several of their software products (such as OSX).
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Online games are a major user (as opposed to abuser) of storing data with Flash. There are some that actually are complex and long enough (and fun, too!) to warrant a save function. It can also be mildly-to-moderately helpful for some other Flash 'applications', like a video/audio player storing settings like volume levels.
So while I might say you can secure email within your organization pretty well, once it's going over the Internet, email isn't very secure-- not unless you're using something like GPG.
Considering this originated in discussing a university's email system, this applies here. You can, if (hypothetically) sending from one @yale.edu address to another @yale.edu address, be certain, as long as the IT staff has done their job enforcing the use of SMTPS/IMAPS/POPS/HTTPS, that the e-mail is secure end-to-end from prying eyes.
With such a setup, you'd only have to trust yourself, the server administrative staff (likely a small number of people), and the person you addressed the e-mail to. All of whom could be, fairly easily, held accountable if something goes badly wrong.
If you bothered to read the second link (like that'd happen but whatever), it isn't as much a staunch "we never want to use Gmail" as a request for more transparency/information about what the agreements and options being discussed/setup by Yale's IT administration and Google. It includes requests for more information on such things as where the data is going to be stored, why Google is 'generously' providing this service free of charge and without advertisements (i.e., how much privacy/rights do you have with your e-mails), what happens if Google changes their mind down the road and wants to start charging Yale, and a few other similar concerns.
They got feedback from the people who use it.
They also got feedback from the people who didn't want to use it, but weren't given the option to properly opt-out, if I'm reading some of the comments/links correctly...
You're just like any nasty group in its early years - start off promising the world, slowly reneging on promises which matter, and one by one revealing your true intentions.
Sounds like they're a shoo-in for running the government in most countries.
Interesting... Thanks for the information. :-)
I'm setting them up with virtual machines soon, to run optimized images of XP for their games, and whatever else they want, in a secure sandbox.
I haven't looked at VM technology much lately, but how do you plan to deal with the issue of graphics cards not virtualising, often leaving you with something equivalent to a baseline, five-year-old graphics card inside the VM? Or has this problem been solved by one of the more recent VM software packages?
As it currently stands, we don't have access to location data for our own phones.
I dunno about in the States, but up here in Canada my phone is perfectly happy (upon opening Google Maps, for example) to estimate my current location, often to within 0.5km-ish, when it can't access the GPS or when the GPS is still trying to find a satellite.
If this isn't access to location data for my own phone, I'm not sure what is -- unless you mean the historical location data, in which case it's hardly unique. There are lots of bits of data that corporations, governments, and others log that consumers typically don't log (though I probably could log if I were inclined) and don't have access to the logs of.
Gore and porn... Isn't that pretty much what the modern vampire has become? Blood and sex?
More intended to be commenting on the post I replied to whining about people stating "RF radiation being harmless", rather than me being some sort of authoritative source.
It's not entirely harmless -- but everything I've ever seen (both studies, like the long-term Scandinavian one from a few months ago, and just general laws of physics, like someone else commented on in this story) points to it being harmless (or close enough to cause no significant change in anything) at the miniscule energy levels we're dealing with when using cellphones and wifi.
RF radiation, at the extremely low levels of energy that wifi and cell signals use, is harmless to humans, always has been, and always will be.
Online adult industry. When was the last time you paid for online porn?
Or they'd have to corroborate timestamps with DNS requests, which must also be logged (and hope that you don't visit more than one host on the same IP, since DNS responses are cached).
People these days, with all the overloading talk of "intellectual property" don't even know what "public domain" means. I see it all too often with my friends and family. It's getting to the point that copyright is so overreaching (and has been for so long), that few people even know what it means when a work no longer is under copyright.
That said, having Symbian under an open source licence is definitely a nice thing.
Precisely. I don't think copyright is in anything resembling a proper state, but swapping it out with Google(R) Copyright (Beta!) is not the answer, not at all.
Twenty-four cases of copyright infringement becomes $54k, when stealing two CDs (as close as you can generally get to exactly 24 songs) would tend to net you a few hundred dollars fine and/or community service. It's been said before, but this is extremely out of proportion, particularly when such enormous fines are being pushed by the same entities that are trying to say that copyright infringement is stealing (which, no, it's not -- but it is reasonably easily equatable in some circumstances).
You can turn the backlight off if you'd like
You can't on any current iPhone or iPod touch. Even if you could, an LCD screen is essentially unreadable, even in the brightest outdoor conditions, with no backlighting.
Metal has a tendency to block cellular signals much more significantly than it blocks wifi and short range wireless signals. Most likely, that dark accent is a strip of plastic, under which is the antenna for the 3G.
It has a larger screen, optional 3G, and (reportedly) the ability to tether to another Bluetooth device (such as a phone, for a data connection).
So it's not quite a larger iPod touch, but it's close enough to not be called "magical and revolutionary" (take a look at Apple's webpage, it currently calls the iPad "magical and revolutionary").
The most productive way to fight that is not by trying to engage China and other governments whose very being is against what we are about.
Does their CEO speak in only 140 character phrases now?
Carefully calculated, my bet is on.
You can turn it any way you want.
Good god, you mean I can pick the thing up and actually turn it? I'm so excited I'm about to soil myself! Will Apple innovations never cease?
Yes, you can only turn your iPod or iPhone (I say 'your' because you must have one, otherwise you don't exist) in three directions and have the screen rotate. This adds a full fourth direction (not a half of a direction!) so it's 1/4th better already!
And that seeing the whole page thing? Well, you can only see like, 1/4th of a page on your iPod or iPhone, so that's where the other 3/4ths come from, making this 100% better than your iPod or iPhone -- so you need to go buy it, now!
(...Note: Post may contain large amounts of sarcasm. Do not take with alcohol.)
Which just killed any grudging interest/drool I may have reserved for it.
It's not a reader device (certainly not for me -- I'm someone who prefers e ink for large amounts of pure text), it's not a portable device (a little too large for most pockets, probably even for many purses), and it's not a computer (no multitasking). I can deal with no multitasking on an iPod touch or similar, but not on something of this sort of size/usage -- it seems to be being pushed as an 'internet tablet' for the most part, with some lesser emphasis on books and multimedia (sometimes all three in hybrid). Sorry, but if I'm browsing the web in any significant fashion (beyond very simple reading or single-intent searching, the like of which I'm happy to do on a much smaller screen), I'd like to be able to swap (easily and quickly) between web browser tabs/windows, e-mail messages, sometimes instant messaging, occasionally IRC, and miscellaneous other stuff I'm doing at the time (such as SSH sessions, text editing, FTP upload/download, etc.).
They're even releasing a keyboard accessory for it, but it will be unable to properly, say, edit a document and browse the web at the same time... No easy copy/paste from sources, no quick 'alt-tabbing' between the pages you're reading and the document you're writing... I know the reality-distortion field is a real effect of Apple's marketing, but this iPad (why is that one letter off from iPod? Isn't that confusing too?) starts becoming more underwhelming the more you consider it... And I honestly like Apple's computers, iPods, and several of their software products (such as OSX).
Throws a TOU violation error. Anyone want to summarise or provide a more reliable link?
my family would own that patent when I died
Only if you died within, what is it, 20 years? Patents expire much, much quicker than copyrights.