those people who don't protect their name, their reputation, as they would protect their company -1.
Even many educated, intelligent, digitally-connected people don't know to do this. Even many who have considered it don't have any idea HOW to do it. There is no crime in having a similar, or even identical, name on-line as someone else. For example, someone posts here as Squigly. Who or what stops someone else from posting elsewhere as Squigly and possibly tarnishing the original's rep, or maybe making it better accidentally? There are a lot of names that are quite popular as well, leading to easy confusion. So how, exactly, does one 'protect their reputation' on-line?
That's who we use at our libraries in Pasadena & Glendale (Ca). I agree with others that this is the one good use for DRM. Self-returning library books is pretty cool. Sometimes, though, we have to 'clear' an account when the download doesn't work and the book gets locked in limbo.
The issue with DRM is interesting- The original files were PDF, but with DRM built-in. Then they switched over to a new file name extension just for this. Because of this DRM, you have to have Adobe Digital Editions. This can get weird when you try to open a PDF with Reader and get told it isn't compatible! This happens with some of the free-to-download-and-keep books from Google, depending on who the actual source is. So, with those, even though their labeled as PDFs, you have to open them in Digital Editions. Odd little pain in the butt. Found this out recently while doing some heraldry research.
I'd be happiest if they had video out. As I see these, I could replace all of the public PCs at my work with these and run terminal/remote desktop sessions from the server. I just need these to have video, mouse, keyboard connections for the idea to pan out. We're headed this route anyway, so this type of setup removes more of the power waste and space usage than other thin-client systems we're looking at.
Unless you're on Charter- They seem to hate CableCards. I have a TiVo HD that requires a cable card (no way for it to control a set top box- supposedly) and Charter, which is a nasty cable provider anyway, has really SUCKED in this department. I'm constantly having to reboot, being told by TiVo that I have a new device plugged in (which is an external device required so that the cable cards can work with Charter's system- so a set top box of a different sort). That device, the cable cards, the cabling have all been tested, replaced, retested, ad infinitum, with no help. The TiVo works great, except for the cable stuff, then it's hit-n-miss. Most of the techs have said all the equipment is solid. But then, most of them have been idiots. And the main tech office the techs call for support is just as bad. Many of the issues have verifiably been due to billing codes being input wrong. Of course, it's not all about the cable cards. My roomies have regular digital set top boxes that fail at the same time as mine, but not every time mine does.
So no, if you're on Charter, avoid cable cards. Or do what I plan on doing- move! Anybody in Verizon FIOS territory have a nice room to let?
I agree. Perhaps a wave account should have been automatically given either to all GMail users, or at least to the very active ones. But really, the system should have been open for sign-up from the beginning.
I was invited into it, so I signed up. Looked around and couldn't find a way to make it useful to me and never went back. So I for one won't miss it. However, I can see where others will miss it.
Here in the Sates, we have this lovely system wherein we have to have more education and testing to get a drivers license than a gun license. Though I must admit, cars are pretty deadly when mishandled.
Honestly, I like your idea. I've always been a proponent of mandatory education, with testing, before gun ownership. I can't say I mind registering my gun since it does give some potential leads for a crime, as in, "a.22 was used and these people in this area have them," which is pretty valid, much like being able to say, "a car with plate number 2xtz333 was seen leaving the scene of a crime." But when my community decided to track all ammo sales, that was too far. And what happened? Only a few stores continue to sell ammo here, all part of big chain stores. The independents went out of business or left town. Nice going, city council- way to protect the tax base.
Now, on the topic of TFA, COOL! I want one of these in the US, and for each state. I am sick and tired of passing new laws to control things that are actually controllable by existing laws, if they were just applied, sometimes adjusted. The legal systems of many countries are so convoluted, so difficult to understand, it's a wonder we aren't all in jail for some stupid offense or another! Having a way in which to get rid of extraneous or harmful laws should be a mandatory part of government. It's become similar to the old days of religion, when only the priests 'knew the word of god' and only they could inform the unwashed masses. A religious revolution brought the idea of making the holy book readable by the masses and severely limited the power of the priest. Substitute 'lawyer' for 'priest', and you have today's authoritarian religion. Only the experts who know the rules can play.
And that's very much part of the issue. My first, and incorrect, thought was, "there are government bodies that verify the signatures." BUT, they're over-worked, under-staffed, and frequently might not care. If the signatures are open and public record, then any of us can verify them. And that is good for us!
As has been mentioned, our Founding Fathers knew they were signing their death warrant with the documents that begat our country. While we have many rights, many forget we have just as many responsibilities. It is our duty to be an active citizenry- police our government, police our police, and fight for our rights and freedoms. Is it really worse to be 'outed' for believing something enough to sign a petition than the death-warrant-like documents our forefathers signed? At worst, it is on the same level, but only rarely.
As a very minor case-in-point that could, in theory (but not likely, I imagine) keep me out of some government jobs, I signed the petition here in California to put the legalization of marijuana on the ballot. Personally, I don't want to be associated with drugs in any way, not even mj. But I believe there is some merit to the proposal to legalize it and it should be put to the voters. So, despite my feelings of some risk (right or wrong), I signed.
Stand for what you believe in. If someone brings debate to you, debate. If someone brings trouble to you, trouble it back!
From a few pages into the write-up (http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_Part4-1.html):
What benefit could there be to whomever is generating these extremely high quote rates? After thoughtful analysis, we can only think of one. Competition between HFT systems today has reached the point where microseconds matter. Any edge one has to process information faster than a competitor makes all the difference in this game. If you could generate a large number of quotes that your competitors have to process, but you can ignore since you generated them, you gain valuable processing time. This is an extremely disturbing development, because as more HFT systems start doing this, it is only a matter of time before quote-stuffing shuts down the entire market from congestion.
a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one in which a multitude of compromised systems attack a single target, thereby causing denial of service for users of the targeted system. The flood of incoming messages to the target system essentially forces it to shut down, thereby denying service to the system to legitimate users.
Quote stuffing looks like a DDOS to me, and should automatically be illegal. Of course, there are several technical differences that any lawyer could point out,thus making quote stuffing legal, so I'd recommend outlawing it just to be sure. Not often I get to say, in all seriousness, "There ought to be a law." {Most situations do not require new laws, only the proper application of existing laws.}
I work for a facility where a large number of our computers are for public use. We do not filter access (but if children are near someone known to be surfing porn, we have that person stop surfing such material). We all know some people choose to surf porn here, though it boggles the mind why.
One day, I saw an older lady take a wet-nap style cleaning towel from the container we provide and begin cleaning the keyboard with it. I expressed my concern over using a WET-nap for an electronic part (they're for cleaning the desk, seat, hands, etc.).
Lady: But you knowthey watch porn on these PCs, right? Me: Yes. We aren't allowed to filter the content. But cleaning the key... Lady: And you know these porn places are infected with all kinds of viruses, don't you? Me:....?
1) The leg holes can automatically become tourniquets when excessive blood loss is detected from a leg.
2) A sensor that can tell when a team or individual is ambushed- it senses urine.
3) Chastity belt (nobody should be having sex whilst in the midst of a combat situation)
4) Shock 'collar' for prisoners (kinda like an individually installed taser to keep them from doing stupid things that would otherwise get them or our guys hurt)
5).... the list goes on....
(Oh, some are meant to be funny, other could work; you decide which are which!)
As a motorcyclist, I run into this some as well, though they have improved greatly (or it's because I have a bigger bike now). I have been pulled over once in my hometown for running a red. I explained to the nice officer (she was hot too, BTW) that I had waited through three cycles of the lights and never was given a green for my left turn, so, when it was clearly safe, I went. She let me go. Now, I hear rumor this is legal, but don't depend on it. It might not be for your jurisdiction (or even mine). However, it might be legal simply based on the idea that the signal is malfunctioning and you must therefore take matters into your own hands. You can solve your problem with a rare-earth magnet stuck to the bottom bracket of your bicycle. I know some bikers who use it and it has helped them.
This is an interesting story for me as it does a wonderful job of pointing out a major similarity between corporations and governments and people's responses to them.
One can gripe and moan all he wants about wanting more freedoms and rights (I do), but the basic truth is that people will put up with a lot, even frequently draconian rules, so long as the rules are non-arbitrary, fairly and equally applied, and the people can be relatively sure of being able to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. The 'Jim Crow' laws of the Southern U.S. broke all these precepts and (thankfully) failed- the targeted people and those who cared about them rallied and brought that system down.
Apple is likewise breaking these precepts and will kill the i-Stuff ecosystem if they don't change how they run things.
***** PREEMPTIVE NOTE: I am NOT in any way, shape, or form stating that Apple is in any way racist! This is just an observational comparison of policy systems. *****
Since it's going out as a VOIP call, why not route it via TOR? Yes, it would likely slow down the talking a bit (great, I could finally take notes while still keeping up with the conversation), but it would make it that much more difficult to track down the caller and/or recipient. Might also work for the SMS if it's using an Internet-based route instead of the actual cell system SMS.
Some are complaining that this was some kind of breach of privacy, maybe breaking several laws (very debateable). Others are asking why this is even an issue since unencrypted wifi is freely viewable. So what on any of that!
Why was the Google StreetView system collecting this data to begin with?
Really, to collect this data, the street-team had to be running wifi in the vehical, purposely vacuuming all the data it could snif out of the air, and dumping it to a rather large drive. Why did this setup exist? Why was this system actively aquiring all this data? Was this being done by some of the streat-teams, or all?
My thoughts are that this really was a simple mistake, likely from a misconfiguration. The likely intent was to gather open access points, like war-driving writ large, but a misconfiguration led to aquiring more than just the AP location/name/basic config- it grabbed whatever was being transmitted at that time. Of course, an oops like that, that was then allowed to continue (possibly), could be a firing-offense as it should have been better setup.
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Even many educated, intelligent, digitally-connected people don't know to do this. Even many who have considered it don't have any idea HOW to do it. There is no crime in having a similar, or even identical, name on-line as someone else. For example, someone posts here as Squigly. Who or what stops someone else from posting elsewhere as Squigly and possibly tarnishing the original's rep, or maybe making it better accidentally? There are a lot of names that are quite popular as well, leading to easy confusion. So how, exactly, does one 'protect their reputation' on-line?
That's who we use at our libraries in Pasadena & Glendale (Ca). I agree with others that this is the one good use for DRM. Self-returning library books is pretty cool. Sometimes, though, we have to 'clear' an account when the download doesn't work and the book gets locked in limbo.
The issue with DRM is interesting- The original files were PDF, but with DRM built-in. Then they switched over to a new file name extension just for this. Because of this DRM, you have to have Adobe Digital Editions. This can get weird when you try to open a PDF with Reader and get told it isn't compatible! This happens with some of the free-to-download-and-keep books from Google, depending on who the actual source is. So, with those, even though their labeled as PDFs, you have to open them in Digital Editions. Odd little pain in the butt. Found this out recently while doing some heraldry research.
Cool! I'll have to check this out in more depth- looks fun. Thank you.
I'd be happiest if they had video out. As I see these, I could replace all of the public PCs at my work with these and run terminal/remote desktop sessions from the server. I just need these to have video, mouse, keyboard connections for the idea to pan out. We're headed this route anyway, so this type of setup removes more of the power waste and space usage than other thin-client systems we're looking at.
Unless you're on Charter- They seem to hate CableCards. I have a TiVo HD that requires a cable card (no way for it to control a set top box- supposedly) and Charter, which is a nasty cable provider anyway, has really SUCKED in this department. I'm constantly having to reboot, being told by TiVo that I have a new device plugged in (which is an external device required so that the cable cards can work with Charter's system- so a set top box of a different sort). That device, the cable cards, the cabling have all been tested, replaced, retested, ad infinitum, with no help. The TiVo works great, except for the cable stuff, then it's hit-n-miss. Most of the techs have said all the equipment is solid. But then, most of them have been idiots. And the main tech office the techs call for support is just as bad. Many of the issues have verifiably been due to billing codes being input wrong. Of course, it's not all about the cable cards. My roomies have regular digital set top boxes that fail at the same time as mine, but not every time mine does.
So no, if you're on Charter, avoid cable cards. Or do what I plan on doing- move! Anybody in Verizon FIOS territory have a nice room to let?
I agree. Perhaps a wave account should have been automatically given either to all GMail users, or at least to the very active ones. But really, the system should have been open for sign-up from the beginning.
I was invited into it, so I signed up. Looked around and couldn't find a way to make it useful to me and never went back. So I for one won't miss it. However, I can see where others will miss it.
350USD in any fully capitalistic society- lots of middlemen to pay for shipping, receiving, smog tests, etc.
(Before you complain, yes, I love capitalism. But I am also aware of its limitations.)
But I love being able to see the hot girl at the table behind me without looking like I'm staring!
Hehehe No, we're not talking about Obama. However, I'd say it applies.
And today, I have no points to give. Damn.
That is EXACTLY the correct call on this one. As a leader, one can, and should, instill both fiscal AND safety responsibility.
Here in the Sates, we have this lovely system wherein we have to have more education and testing to get a drivers license than a gun license. Though I must admit, cars are pretty deadly when mishandled.
Honestly, I like your idea. I've always been a proponent of mandatory education, with testing, before gun ownership. I can't say I mind registering my gun since it does give some potential leads for a crime, as in, "a .22 was used and these people in this area have them," which is pretty valid, much like being able to say, "a car with plate number 2xtz333 was seen leaving the scene of a crime." But when my community decided to track all ammo sales, that was too far. And what happened? Only a few stores continue to sell ammo here, all part of big chain stores. The independents went out of business or left town. Nice going, city council- way to protect the tax base.
Now, on the topic of TFA, COOL! I want one of these in the US, and for each state. I am sick and tired of passing new laws to control things that are actually controllable by existing laws, if they were just applied, sometimes adjusted. The legal systems of many countries are so convoluted, so difficult to understand, it's a wonder we aren't all in jail for some stupid offense or another! Having a way in which to get rid of extraneous or harmful laws should be a mandatory part of government. It's become similar to the old days of religion, when only the priests 'knew the word of god' and only they could inform the unwashed masses. A religious revolution brought the idea of making the holy book readable by the masses and severely limited the power of the priest. Substitute 'lawyer' for 'priest', and you have today's authoritarian religion. Only the experts who know the rules can play.
And that's very much part of the issue. My first, and incorrect, thought was, "there are government bodies that verify the signatures." BUT, they're over-worked, under-staffed, and frequently might not care. If the signatures are open and public record, then any of us can verify them. And that is good for us!
As has been mentioned, our Founding Fathers knew they were signing their death warrant with the documents that begat our country. While we have many rights, many forget we have just as many responsibilities. It is our duty to be an active citizenry- police our government, police our police, and fight for our rights and freedoms. Is it really worse to be 'outed' for believing something enough to sign a petition than the death-warrant-like documents our forefathers signed? At worst, it is on the same level, but only rarely.
As a very minor case-in-point that could, in theory (but not likely, I imagine) keep me out of some government jobs, I signed the petition here in California to put the legalization of marijuana on the ballot. Personally, I don't want to be associated with drugs in any way, not even mj. But I believe there is some merit to the proposal to legalize it and it should be put to the voters. So, despite my feelings of some risk (right or wrong), I signed.
Stand for what you believe in. If someone brings debate to you, debate. If someone brings trouble to you, trouble it back!
Especially considering that, anywhere in this universe, there are much bigger, much more important things to complain about.
From a few pages into the write-up (http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_Part4-1.html):
Definition of a DDOS (from http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci557336,00.html):
Quote stuffing looks like a DDOS to me, and should automatically be illegal. Of course, there are several technical differences that any lawyer could point out,thus making quote stuffing legal, so I'd recommend outlawing it just to be sure. Not often I get to say, in all seriousness, "There ought to be a law." {Most situations do not require new laws, only the proper application of existing laws.}
Anybody else read this as This kind of outflow is seen in pornstars...?
I work for a facility where a large number of our computers are for public use. We do not filter access (but if children are near someone known to be surfing porn, we have that person stop surfing such material). We all know some people choose to surf porn here, though it boggles the mind why.
One day, I saw an older lady take a wet-nap style cleaning towel from the container we provide and begin cleaning the keyboard with it. I expressed my concern over using a WET-nap for an electronic part (they're for cleaning the desk, seat, hands, etc.).
Lady: But you know they watch porn on these PCs, right? ....?
Me: Yes. We aren't allowed to filter the content. But cleaning the key...
Lady: And you know these porn places are infected with all kinds of viruses, don't you?
Me:
1) The leg holes can automatically become tourniquets when excessive blood loss is detected from a leg.
2) A sensor that can tell when a team or individual is ambushed- it senses urine.
3) Chastity belt (nobody should be having sex whilst in the midst of a combat situation)
4) Shock 'collar' for prisoners (kinda like an individually installed taser to keep them from doing stupid things that would otherwise get them or our guys hurt)
5).... the list goes on....
(Oh, some are meant to be funny, other could work; you decide which are which!)
That's what we call the kids on the crotch-rockets. Me? I'm on a cruiser- slow and easy, nice and relaxed.
As a motorcyclist, I run into this some as well, though they have improved greatly (or it's because I have a bigger bike now). I have been pulled over once in my hometown for running a red. I explained to the nice officer (she was hot too, BTW) that I had waited through three cycles of the lights and never was given a green for my left turn, so, when it was clearly safe, I went. She let me go. Now, I hear rumor this is legal, but don't depend on it. It might not be for your jurisdiction (or even mine). However, it might be legal simply based on the idea that the signal is malfunctioning and you must therefore take matters into your own hands. You can solve your problem with a rare-earth magnet stuck to the bottom bracket of your bicycle. I know some bikers who use it and it has helped them.
This is an interesting story for me as it does a wonderful job of pointing out a major similarity between corporations and governments and people's responses to them.
One can gripe and moan all he wants about wanting more freedoms and rights (I do), but the basic truth is that people will put up with a lot, even frequently draconian rules, so long as the rules are non-arbitrary, fairly and equally applied, and the people can be relatively sure of being able to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. The 'Jim Crow' laws of the Southern U.S. broke all these precepts and (thankfully) failed- the targeted people and those who cared about them rallied and brought that system down.
Apple is likewise breaking these precepts and will kill the i-Stuff ecosystem if they don't change how they run things.
***** PREEMPTIVE NOTE: I am NOT in any way, shape, or form stating that Apple is in any way racist! This is just an observational comparison of policy systems. *****
Since it's going out as a VOIP call, why not route it via TOR? Yes, it would likely slow down the talking a bit (great, I could finally take notes while still keeping up with the conversation), but it would make it that much more difficult to track down the caller and/or recipient. Might also work for the SMS if it's using an Internet-based route instead of the actual cell system SMS.
Some are complaining that this was some kind of breach of privacy, maybe breaking several laws (very debateable). Others are asking why this is even an issue since unencrypted wifi is freely viewable. So what on any of that!
Why was the Google StreetView system collecting this data to begin with?
Really, to collect this data, the street-team had to be running wifi in the vehical, purposely vacuuming all the data it could snif out of the air, and dumping it to a rather large drive. Why did this setup exist? Why was this system actively aquiring all this data? Was this being done by some of the streat-teams, or all?
My thoughts are that this really was a simple mistake, likely from a misconfiguration. The likely intent was to gather open access points, like war-driving writ large, but a misconfiguration led to aquiring more than just the AP location/name/basic config- it grabbed whatever was being transmitted at that time. Of course, an oops like that, that was then allowed to continue (possibly), could be a firing-offense as it should have been better setup.
Damn! I KNEW I should've gone to SLO-Poly instead of Pomona!
Wow... Your life just might suck more than mine! (jk)