They may not even know. Remember when Amazon was hosting Wikileaks? Uh, we are? They said. Setting it up is all pretty automated, it might stay there until someone explicitly looks for it. After all, from the cloud perspective they are just renting an IP and some data storage, they wouldn't necessarily know that it was TPB unless they read the data. Which they aren't supposed to do.
Yeah I will bet on it. I believe he is saying the site can't be taken down by a police raid, thanks to the distributed setup. He's not saying that any individual instance is invulnerable to a raid. Just that the availability of the site wouldn't be affected by a raid.
I guess this is at least one of the reasons they migrated to magnet links.
There's always a lot of plain assertion in these/. HFT discussions, so let me provide a citation: http://www.futuresindustry.org/ptg/downloads/HFT_Trading.pdf
"By constructing a hypothetical alternative price path that removes HFTs from the market, I show that the volatility of stocks is roughly unchanged when HFT initiated trades are eliminated and significantly higher when all types of HFT trades are removed."
I know I am being picayune, but 10% is not a drop in the bucket. Not even in the colloquial sense. Unless it is a teeny tiny bucket that only holds 10 drops.
The 'bad for consumers' argument goes like this: when reducing the value in online advertising, one reduces the revenues of all the free services we enjoy on the Internet. Therefore there will be fewer free services available.
I don't buy it. The losers always howl when changes in the marketplace reduce their revenue. The world continues, and the Internet will too. I won't miss CNET.
Now the only way to get tracking stopped is to mandate it legislatively,
I've stopped tracking by using noscript, Ghostery, and isolated browser instances. There's no need for legislation. Enough user demand and even IE will include similar functions by default.
It is sad to see the claims of how evil corporations are all over this discussion. AFAIK there was only ONE case of this, and it was a government agency not a corporation (Maryland Department of Corrections). The closest i read about to a second case was a company that encouraged applicants to allow their Facebook app to get notified of future openings (Sears?).
Corporations would generally avoid this I think, it would be a huge minefield. What if you accessed someone's FB and saw that they wanted to have kids? Here comes the lawsuit saying 'they didn't hire me because I said I wanted to have kids in the next few years'. Or any of dozens of other scenarios. I'm sure that this could happen if people's profiles were public of course.
Instead of all this rigamarole, why don't they just block all requests for the Twitter domains on their DNS servers? That will solve all these problems.
I don't believe that soceity has a right to tell one person that they MUST do something to keep another person alive
Thanks, I like this. I have always said the same thing but never thought to apply it to the question of abortion. I will have to rethink the issue for a while.
I think the reactions here are a little off base. First, SmartScreen is not a "new" technology, the only thing that is new is that it checks reputation for individual files as well as sites. Did we have similar articles about how Chrome/IE/Firefox/Safari is 'tracking' everything I do with its URL filtering technology? Maybe. Frankly I didn't care much for that idea either, but SmartScreen is the same exact approach taken to the file level: reputation-based file checking. Many antivirus and application gateway vendors are taking the same approach.
Secondly, it only applies *downloaded from the Internet*. There's nothing to indicate EVERY installed app is 'tracked', files downloaded from the Internet are checked against MS's reputation system. (Yes I know, almost everything is downloaded from the Internet). We see the start of this technology with the warnings that come up when a downloaded file is executed.
Third, I saw no indication that any specifics about the application such as application name (yes file name likely has this information), installation directory, what changes it makes to the system, etc. are transmitted. It likely is more along the lines of "hash xxxxxxxxxxxx downloaded from IP x.x.x.x, size x, type MSI'. Yes, MS will no doubt have a whitelist of known hashes for known application installers, so yes they probably will collect some sort of data from this.
Now what really will happen with the data I can't say, but this isn't a case of MS building in overt 'tracking' technology any more than it was when Google's browser did it.
Here's the FAQ on SmartScreen: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/smartscreen-filter-frequently-asked-questions#
We could simply require that in exchange for storing peoples money "banks" get a monopoly on strippers, and so they make money on strippers but provide the service of storing money. I can't see how that plan could ever possibly work out well, but you get the idea.
I love it! Of course, there's no reason a strip club couldn't provide this or almost any other free service now if it wanted. There must be some reason that this isn't done.
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Why are people posting their ideas here? Didn't they see the part about the prize?
They may not even know. Remember when Amazon was hosting Wikileaks? Uh, we are? They said. Setting it up is all pretty automated, it might stay there until someone explicitly looks for it. After all, from the cloud perspective they are just renting an IP and some data storage, they wouldn't necessarily know that it was TPB unless they read the data. Which they aren't supposed to do.
Yeah I will bet on it. I believe he is saying the site can't be taken down by a police raid, thanks to the distributed setup. He's not saying that any individual instance is invulnerable to a raid. Just that the availability of the site wouldn't be affected by a raid. I guess this is at least one of the reasons they migrated to magnet links.
Perhaps, but the paper is from Northwestern University. If there is a problem with the data or conclusions I am all ears.
There's always a lot of plain assertion in these /. HFT discussions, so let me provide a citation: http://www.futuresindustry.org/ptg/downloads/HFT_Trading.pdf
"By constructing a hypothetical alternative price path that removes HFTs from the market, I show that the volatility of stocks is roughly unchanged when HFT initiated trades are eliminated and significantly higher when all types of HFT trades are removed."
I know I am being picayune, but 10% is not a drop in the bucket. Not even in the colloquial sense. Unless it is a teeny tiny bucket that only holds 10 drops.
Source? I'm interested in similar numbers for other corps assuming info is available to the public
I am sick of your logic Mr Spock
They should launch more crew members than they need, with the assumption that the ones that require surgery en route will be chucked out the airlock.
The 'bad for consumers' argument goes like this: when reducing the value in online advertising, one reduces the revenues of all the free services we enjoy on the Internet. Therefore there will be fewer free services available. I don't buy it. The losers always howl when changes in the marketplace reduce their revenue. The world continues, and the Internet will too. I won't miss CNET.
Now the only way to get tracking stopped is to mandate it legislatively,
I've stopped tracking by using noscript, Ghostery, and isolated browser instances. There's no need for legislation. Enough user demand and even IE will include similar functions by default.
It seems extremely unlikely that there is a huge demand for commuter bikes that Walmart/Target decline to meet.
To clarify: one case of employer asking for Facebook passwords. This bill covers a lot of other behavior involving social media.
It is sad to see the claims of how evil corporations are all over this discussion. AFAIK there was only ONE case of this, and it was a government agency not a corporation (Maryland Department of Corrections). The closest i read about to a second case was a company that encouraged applicants to allow their Facebook app to get notified of future openings (Sears?). Corporations would generally avoid this I think, it would be a huge minefield. What if you accessed someone's FB and saw that they wanted to have kids? Here comes the lawsuit saying 'they didn't hire me because I said I wanted to have kids in the next few years'. Or any of dozens of other scenarios. I'm sure that this could happen if people's profiles were public of course.
You don't need to prove anything to sue, you just need to file the paperwork. Lots of crap gets settled out of court.
It was government agencies asking for Facebook passwords, not corporations.
A bit old, but David Brin's Transparent Society is an interesting treatment of this issue.
*Every* product is buggy. Just one of those little trials life throws our way to help us grow.
Isn't it pretty much established that, like Star Trek movies, only every other version of Windows is any good?
I hope that someday "legal and ethical concerns" apply more to murdering rioters than YouTube nonsense.
Instead of all this rigamarole, why don't they just block all requests for the Twitter domains on their DNS servers? That will solve all these problems.
I don't believe that soceity has a right to tell one person that they MUST do something to keep another person alive
Thanks, I like this. I have always said the same thing but never thought to apply it to the question of abortion. I will have to rethink the issue for a while.
And if the company used all Linux workstations, they would have coded up something that ran on that.
I think the reactions here are a little off base. First, SmartScreen is not a "new" technology, the only thing that is new is that it checks reputation for individual files as well as sites. Did we have similar articles about how Chrome/IE/Firefox/Safari is 'tracking' everything I do with its URL filtering technology? Maybe. Frankly I didn't care much for that idea either, but SmartScreen is the same exact approach taken to the file level: reputation-based file checking. Many antivirus and application gateway vendors are taking the same approach.
Secondly, it only applies *downloaded from the Internet*. There's nothing to indicate EVERY installed app is 'tracked', files downloaded from the Internet are checked against MS's reputation system. (Yes I know, almost everything is downloaded from the Internet). We see the start of this technology with the warnings that come up when a downloaded file is executed.
Third, I saw no indication that any specifics about the application such as application name (yes file name likely has this information), installation directory, what changes it makes to the system, etc. are transmitted. It likely is more along the lines of "hash xxxxxxxxxxxx downloaded from IP x.x.x.x, size x, type MSI'. Yes, MS will no doubt have a whitelist of known hashes for known application installers, so yes they probably will collect some sort of data from this. Now what really will happen with the data I can't say, but this isn't a case of MS building in overt 'tracking' technology any more than it was when Google's browser did it. Here's the FAQ on SmartScreen: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/smartscreen-filter-frequently-asked-questions#
We could simply require that in exchange for storing peoples money "banks" get a monopoly on strippers, and so they make money on strippers but provide the service of storing money. I can't see how that plan could ever possibly work out well, but you get the idea.
I love it! Of course, there's no reason a strip club couldn't provide this or almost any other free service now if it wanted. There must be some reason that this isn't done.