While this is an extremely powerful re-discovery, I'm not that afraid of average Joe attempting to listen to my conversations Wait until Not-So-Average Joe decides to sell transcripts of your conversations as marketing data. Or maybe analyzes your conversations for keywords and extracts just those portions to blackmail you. Ever talk about hating your job? Ever cheated on your significant other? Ever lied on your taxes? The list goes on...
It's really a matter of publicizing the weakness to the point where manufacturers and network providers are forced to do something about it. Average people generally don't care about issues like this until they're really an issue.
'If governments or other people with millions of dollars can listen to your conversations right now, why shouldn't your next-door neighbor?' It's called common decency, something that's clearly fading away in our society.
I have to wonder how Google is approaching the legal requirements for HIPAA compliance with respect to the storage and retrieval of healthcare information. Anyone got any pointers on this?
Your post, while making ingenious use of graphic imagery to convey your point, made me faintly queasy. The funny thing is this: I used to tell people that Windows 95/98 were okay back in the day, Windows NT was grumpy but pretty reliable, Windows 2000 was probably the best overall operating system Microsoft ever released, and Windows ME was an abortion of an operating system. Vista has now taken the "abortion" slot, forcing me to come up with a new description for Windows ME.
I don't know why someone would buy a cramped Vaio I've become convinced that people only by the Vaio because they consider it a "status" item. Lord only knows why when there are (and have been for a long time) better products on the market.
Where as the reality is, company deploy computer systems and make use of the internet to make productivity savings. You know, the advent of the assembly line marked a new era of cost savings in manufacturing, but it also opened up a lot of jobs for engineers and other workers. It's the nature of progress; adapt or die. Nobody has an inherent right to a job, but it is everyone's personal responsibility to take steps to make sure their skills stay relevant. If a particular skill becomes obsolete or subject to significantly less demand, the burden lies on the individual to find another way to make himself economically valuable.
It was the heady days of the dot com era, and I was but a wee lad hacking away in my bedroom. One fateful day I stumbled upon a website called Napster, and soon began downloading hordes of ill-gotten music. Before long, my insatiable craving for tunes led me to buy more hard drives, then a RAID enclosure, then an enterprise-level SAN... I should have seen the warning signs.
I gradually withdrew from my friends and family, unable to control my urge for more tunes. I knew it was wrong, but it felt so... right. I began using other filesharing software, and soon experienced strange hallucinations involving limes and wires. I told a friend about it, and he gave me some pills to help me sleep better at night. The troubling dreams and hallucinations faded, but now I couldn't stop taking the pills. Chain smoking, heavy drinking, and chronic pacing soon developed. I was having trouble concentrating on anything other than file swapping, and began using crack cocaine to improve my focus. My teeth began to loosen in their sockets, and I was fired from work after failing a drug test.
Now I live on the streets, feeding my addiction through unsecured wireless hotspots that I access through a Pentium 90 connected to an exercise bike generator. My crack cocaine consumption has skyrocketed due to my need to constantly pedal the bike lest my rig lose power. Heed my warning: sharing and downloading music will ruin your life! Contact your local RIAA liason to seek treatment immediately. It's not too late... friends don't let friends use filesharing software.
Then we'll finally be safe. Except for the surgery I'll need on my eyes after a 300 pound grandma walks in front of me on her way to the plane's restroom.
As someone who's flown a lot, be assured that mandating guns on commercial flights would have a terrible impact on the airline industry. Airlines would buckle under the financial strain of having to provide so many body bags.
Everyone (at least here in America) seems so focused on preventing people from getting on board a plane with a weapon. I think this kinda misses the point of a big part of airport security: the airport itself. This site gives a chronological list of some major security incidents in airports; it's not pretty stuff.
How OpenDNS makes money. Their service has scaled quite nicely since inception, and there's no reason to believe they'll experience load issues in the future.
Modeling Surprise - Much of modern life depends on forecasts: where the next hurricane will make landfall, how the stock market will react to falling home prices, who will win the next primary. While existing computer models predict many things fairly accurately, surprises still crop up, and we probably can't eliminate them. But Eric Horvitz, head of the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research, thinks we can at least minimize them, using a technique he calls "surprise modeling." The rest of the entry is pretty interesting, although Microsoft may be in for more "surprises" in the coming year than many might think...
But, legally speaking, you should read the license you pick. Funny thing about that; I've long been in the habit of reading things before I agree to them, or before distributing someone's code. That said, it's kinda surprising how many GPL violations keep popping up.
Never. You're actually going to pay more now that they've increased the number of keystrokes expended per day online. Gotta cover the cost of those replacement keyboards, you know; a million lawyers banging away at a million keyboards...
It also struck me as odd that a decade after Netscape stuck email into the web browser and few years after Firefox stripped it back out, he's proposing to put it back in! Opera seems to like this approach. I haven't used their product in ages, though.
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It's really a matter of publicizing the weakness to the point where manufacturers and network providers are forced to do something about it. Average people generally don't care about issues like this until they're really an issue.
I have to wonder how Google is approaching the legal requirements for HIPAA compliance with respect to the storage and retrieval of healthcare information. Anyone got any pointers on this?
Your post, while making ingenious use of graphic imagery to convey your point, made me faintly queasy. The funny thing is this: I used to tell people that Windows 95/98 were okay back in the day, Windows NT was grumpy but pretty reliable, Windows 2000 was probably the best overall operating system Microsoft ever released, and Windows ME was an abortion of an operating system. Vista has now taken the "abortion" slot, forcing me to come up with a new description for Windows ME.
Well, Google does seem to know what the world cares about.
The first hit (single) is always free...
Unless of course you live in a country which is trying to block access to the Pirate Bay...
It was the heady days of the dot com era, and I was but a wee lad hacking away in my bedroom. One fateful day I stumbled upon a website called Napster, and soon began downloading hordes of ill-gotten music. Before long, my insatiable craving for tunes led me to buy more hard drives, then a RAID enclosure, then an enterprise-level SAN... I should have seen the warning signs.
I gradually withdrew from my friends and family, unable to control my urge for more tunes. I knew it was wrong, but it felt so... right. I began using other filesharing software, and soon experienced strange hallucinations involving limes and wires. I told a friend about it, and he gave me some pills to help me sleep better at night. The troubling dreams and hallucinations faded, but now I couldn't stop taking the pills. Chain smoking, heavy drinking, and chronic pacing soon developed. I was having trouble concentrating on anything other than file swapping, and began using crack cocaine to improve my focus. My teeth began to loosen in their sockets, and I was fired from work after failing a drug test.
Now I live on the streets, feeding my addiction through unsecured wireless hotspots that I access through a Pentium 90 connected to an exercise bike generator. My crack cocaine consumption has skyrocketed due to my need to constantly pedal the bike lest my rig lose power. Heed my warning: sharing and downloading music will ruin your life! Contact your local RIAA liason to seek treatment immediately. It's not too late... friends don't let friends use filesharing software.
As someone who's flown a lot, be assured that mandating guns on commercial flights would have a terrible impact on the airline industry. Airlines would buckle under the financial strain of having to provide so many body bags.
Everyone (at least here in America) seems so focused on preventing people from getting on board a plane with a weapon. I think this kinda misses the point of a big part of airport security: the airport itself. This site gives a chronological list of some major security incidents in airports; it's not pretty stuff.
Might be a good defense against a girlfriend or wife who decides to go poking pinholes in your rubbers, though... ;)
How OpenDNS makes money. Their service has scaled quite nicely since inception, and there's no reason to believe they'll experience load issues in the future.
No problem, glad I could help :).
Hey man, I'm in the Navy, and if I were forced to listen to "I Love You, You Love Me" a few thousand times there's no telling what I might say :(.
The parent poster's nick says it all. Truly a man of his convictions, this "AC" fellow.
Never. You're actually going to pay more now that they've increased the number of keystrokes expended per day online. Gotta cover the cost of those replacement keyboards, you know; a million lawyers banging away at a million keyboards...