how often do printer drivers change and people have to download them?
What happens to your argument when it's a piece of software that's more pervasive and necessary, like Acrobat Reader or Java? Sorry, those are probably bad examples of "small", as even those have gotten fucking huge over the last few years. (Adobe Reader v5 installer was about 6MB)
My bitch is with the big open office suites such as Apache Open Office and Libre. Surely they could build a package upgrader that just downloads the few files that have changed, when there's only a minor security upgrade required, instead of a 200 MB file?
You realize that Germany has cancelled their agreement, and the rest of the EU is considering similar actions currently. A few more leaks and segmentation of the internet will follow pretty quickly, and the idealistic neutral internet we thought we knew will be but a distant memory. OTOH, this will fix the "issues" with the.com domain, as only US companies will be on it.
How is failing to communicate information from your own citizens that was supposed to be private anyway, leading to the "segmentation" of the "idealistic neutral internet"?
And what's so "idealistic" about a 1984-style surveillance program of ordinary citizens anyway?
Despite my natural cynicism I lean towards honest mistake here.
Remember that this was just an informal note. Even as an English speaker I occasionally produce an awkward construction when I'm in a hurry and writing informally. Any possible ambiguities only becomes apparent when I read it back later.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until we find out more.
Startpage is run by a British company (same as IxQuick), but seems to use US servers. DuckDuckGo is a US company but its servers are in Singapore.
Take your pick. I'd say there could be a good business opportunity for Iceland to host private cloud servers and search companies if they wanted to go that way.
At a previous place I lived, the neighbors across the alley had cars pulling up 18 hours a day. Garage door up, guy comes out to window goes back inside comes back out, makes another exchange with driver and driver pulls away. Garage door down. All day, every day.
If you hadn't had any luck with the cops, I suspect a report to the IRS might have worked. There must have been a lot of unexplained income somewhere, if they were doing as much business as you suggest.
No it's not. Any time you see a page with a Facebook or Google logo on it ANYWHERE, that page is a part of the respective corporation's data collection machine.
Virtually all websites on the internet today have some form of "social" badge on them to make them easy for users to share, be it facebook, google, pinterest, or reddit. Every one of those badges is pulled directly from those corporate servers and effectively pings the servers with your IP address, browser agent, operating system, and a few other metrics that are about as personally identifiable as your thumb print.
Simply put, facebook doesn't need you to sign up with them for them to know everything about you. At this point creating a login and password is an unnecessary pretense. Facebook knows who you are even if you've never been to facebook.com. The issue at play here is that your browser is the tool they use to spy on you directly. Both Facebook and Google know every single page you've ever been to, and not just you're PC, but you personally.
The nuclear bombs at the end of WWII were unnecessary.
So we should have instead continued incinerating Japanese cities with conventional firebombs? That was killing far more people than the nukes. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, beginning on August 9th, also killed far more Japanese than the nukes. That might have been prevented if we had used the nukes a few weeks earlier.
They were merely a demonstration to the newly perceived threat of the USSR
How many lives were saved by sending a clear message to Joseph Stalin? The history of Manchuria, as well as Europe, might have been very different. Prior to the dropping of the nukes, Stalin was pushing for the Soviet Red Army to participate in the occupation of Japan, including Hokkaido and northern Honshu. That could have ended in a "north" and "south" Japan, just like we have today in Korea.
The second bomb was unnecessary as surrender talks were already underway. The sticking point was that the Japs wanted to retain their emperor whereas the US were demanding unconditional surrender. The US nuked Nagasaki then allowed them to retain the emperor anyway.
Some believe people within the military just wanted to try out the plutonium bomb just to see if it would work. Remember that the first two nukes were technically simpler uranium designs.
There was little need to demonstrate anything to the Russians as their network of spies had kept them fully informed of the work at Los Alamos
It has not yet opened in China or Japan, where it is expected to do gangbusters business. It may or may not make back the marketing costs and become profitable, but there is a good chance that it will, which will put it into the esteemed category of "Movies people think were flops but which actually weren't".
The jury is still out.
Yes, I expect it will make a good profit when all worldwide takings are added up. We must also remember that movies have to gross about three times what ever it took to make them in order to break even. There is usually an expensive promotional budget on top of original production costs, and the theaters and DVD/Blu-ray retailers also get to take a profit.
it looks just like the ship camo the Navy used in WW2, but since it's applied to sharks instead of the Japanese, we deserve a patent!
Also, both the mixed blues and dazzle pattern were common camouflage patterns in WW2, so it is questionable what can be patented here.
The stripey pattern is not to prevent the wearer from being seen (and neither was the WWI version, come to that), it's to fool the shark into thinking it's something that tastes bad and is toxic.
When FB or Amazon recommends something/someone, I can usually see some sense behind it. LinkedIn is just plain random. I don't know 95% of the people it seems to want to connect me with. It is a joke.
There's also this piece from the same author of TFA where he suspects Linkedin is mining your Gmail contacts.
Why does everything have to match? Anyways, why don't you buy two identical sets, and that way you have lots of spares.
Actually this last is excellent advice that I wish I'd started earlier in life. Whenever I buy a set of glasses I buy two sets, or at least a few extras. It also works with pairs of socks.;-)
There are tons of regulations etc against spam in many countries. Guess what? The people running the spam/scan email systems simply do not care. There is zero enforcement of these rules, so why should adding more regulations make any difference?
Not at all. It looks like Canada has pretty much copied its legislation from Australia, and the Australian laws have been working pretty well for several years.
You can only send ads/spam if you have an established business relationship with the recipient or have opted in in some manner (filled out some kind of promotional form, most likely), and every message must have a working unsubscribe link. The amount of spam generated by Australia dropped to almost zero compared to what it was before the legislation was introduced, and there is proper enforcement — some bulk spammers have been fined millions of dollars.
It'll start out banning porn, or so they'll claim, but pretty soon things like Wikileaks will be included on the blacklist with the general public never noticing.
If these researchers want to take the wrong side in this fight, let them.
Why does everything always have to be a "them against us" when it comes to these types of debates. I am in no way affiliated to any government organization, and I definitely do not like government intrusion in my private life. However, government security is as much in my interest as in theirs. Afterall, if they do legally obtain some of my private information for whatever reason, I'd sleep a lot better knowing that at least it will be safe from some 12 year old Chinese hacker.
Your logic, if we can call it that, escapes me. There's no reason that the government AND some twelve year-old Chinese hacker can't BOTH have copies of your information. Anyway, where'd you get the notion that your information was obtained legally?
Perhaps it's legal by the distorted forms of of reasoning the Feds use to justify their acts, but not by the common sense ways most people would understand the laws.
You choose the appropriate article based on how the acronym is pronounced. NSA is pronounced "en es ay", so "an" precedes the "en". NASA is pronounced "na sa", so "a" would precede the "na".
Not to mention that what became AES was a Dutch(?) algorithm to begin with (Rijndael).
The following quote is part of a comment from Clive Robinson on Bruce Schneier's blog. Long term readers of same will know Clive is or was a high end technical spook, not a "007" but a real "Q" with a wide technical knowledge of electronic communications and crypto.
With AES they in effect fixed the competition rules such that the code on the NIST site was not only freely downloadable and usable by any one, it was also optomised for speed/efficiency, not security and thus the code that went into nearly all products and code libraries was full of time based side channels etc.
Of more recent times it looks like they are using peoples poor knowledge of random (sequence/) number generators to gain access by way of poorly selected or re-used key material and nonces used in protocols and standards.
It's a condition of entry that all the results derived from grid computing work on World Community Grid, of which CEP is a sub project, must be made freely available to all researchers. That said, someone will have to go on and commercialize the work and so make a profit somewhere, but at least everyone gets an open go at it.
IBM do not own the results of this research, they're just sponsors of the central hardware and storage, and help with initial programming and set-up.
CEP is the only one of the World Community Grid projects that I don't crunch for as it has fairly onerous data transfer and computing requirements. It's a bit of a PITA.
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how often do printer drivers change and people have to download them?
What happens to your argument when it's a piece of software that's more pervasive and necessary, like Acrobat Reader or Java? Sorry, those are probably bad examples of "small", as even those have gotten fucking huge over the last few years. (Adobe Reader v5 installer was about 6MB)
My bitch is with the big open office suites such as Apache Open Office and Libre. Surely they could build a package upgrader that just downloads the few files that have changed, when there's only a minor security upgrade required, instead of a 200 MB file?
You realize that Germany has cancelled their agreement, and the rest of the EU is considering similar actions currently. A few more leaks and segmentation of the internet will follow pretty quickly, and the idealistic neutral internet we thought we knew will be but a distant memory. OTOH, this will fix the "issues" with the .com domain, as only US companies will be on it.
How is failing to communicate information from your own citizens that was supposed to be private anyway, leading to the "segmentation" of the "idealistic neutral internet"?
And what's so "idealistic" about a 1984-style surveillance program of ordinary citizens anyway?
Remember that this was just an informal note. Even as an English speaker I occasionally produce an awkward construction when I'm in a hurry and writing informally. Any possible ambiguities only becomes apparent when I read it back later.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until we find out more.
Australian camels mostly live in the arid inland regions of Australia. Not too many bats around there, or trees for that matter.
I understand we are talking UCMJ, but the laws you refer to are highly unconstitutional and would be tossed the first time they saw a modern judge.
Ah, the US Constitution, that old thing. ;-)
You might like startpage.
Startpage is run by a British company (same as IxQuick), but seems to use US servers. DuckDuckGo is a US company but its servers are in Singapore.
Take your pick. I'd say there could be a good business opportunity for Iceland to host private cloud servers and search companies if they wanted to go that way.
It's meaningless when most sites use Google Analytics and you'll be tracked by Google anyway.
What, you don't use NoScript?
That reminds me, I should send that guy another donation
At a previous place I lived, the neighbors across the alley had cars pulling up 18 hours a day. Garage door up, guy comes out to window goes back inside comes back out, makes another exchange with driver and driver pulls away. Garage door down. All day, every day.
If you hadn't had any luck with the cops, I suspect a report to the IRS might have worked. There must have been a lot of unexplained income somewhere, if they were doing as much business as you suggest.
They could have made Edward Snowden's award posthumous as well, as his old life is pretty much over.
I missread the title as Anus CEO ..
I'm glad a company of Asus' stature is abandoning Windows RT. :)
I saddened there is no knock off brand called Anus. :(
I think I've heard of one. It's a subsidiary of the Somy-Magnetbox company.
No it's not. Any time you see a page with a Facebook or Google logo on it ANYWHERE, that page is a part of the respective corporation's data collection machine.
Virtually all websites on the internet today have some form of "social" badge on them to make them easy for users to share, be it facebook, google, pinterest, or reddit. Every one of those badges is pulled directly from those corporate servers and effectively pings the servers with your IP address, browser agent, operating system, and a few other metrics that are about as personally identifiable as your thumb print.
Simply put, facebook doesn't need you to sign up with them for them to know everything about you. At this point creating a login and password is an unnecessary pretense. Facebook knows who you are even if you've never been to facebook.com. The issue at play here is that your browser is the tool they use to spy on you directly. Both Facebook and Google know every single page you've ever been to, and not just you're PC, but you personally.
I sincerely doubt you gave consent to that.
NoScript is your friend.
The nuclear bombs at the end of WWII were unnecessary.
So we should have instead continued incinerating Japanese cities with conventional firebombs? That was killing far more people than the nukes. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, beginning on August 9th, also killed far more Japanese than the nukes. That might have been prevented if we had used the nukes a few weeks earlier.
They were merely a demonstration to the newly perceived threat of the USSR
How many lives were saved by sending a clear message to Joseph Stalin? The history of Manchuria, as well as Europe, might have been very different. Prior to the dropping of the nukes, Stalin was pushing for the Soviet Red Army to participate in the occupation of Japan, including Hokkaido and northern Honshu. That could have ended in a "north" and "south" Japan, just like we have today in Korea.
The second bomb was unnecessary as surrender talks were already underway. The sticking point was that the Japs wanted to retain their emperor whereas the US were demanding unconditional surrender. The US nuked Nagasaki then allowed them to retain the emperor anyway.
Some believe people within the military just wanted to try out the plutonium bomb just to see if it would work. Remember that the first two nukes were technically simpler uranium designs.
There was little need to demonstrate anything to the Russians as their network of spies had kept them fully informed of the work at Los Alamos
It's way too early to mark Pacific Rim off as a flop.
As of today it's worldwide haul is $175 Million, which is close to it's actual budget of $180 million.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pacificrim.htm
It has not yet opened in China or Japan, where it is expected to do gangbusters business. It may or may not make back the marketing costs and become profitable, but there is a good chance that it will, which will put it into the esteemed category of "Movies people think were flops but which actually weren't".
The jury is still out.
Yes, I expect it will make a good profit when all worldwide takings are added up. We must also remember that movies have to gross about three times what ever it took to make them in order to break even. There is usually an expensive promotional budget on top of original production costs, and the theaters and DVD/Blu-ray retailers also get to take a profit.
it looks just like the ship camo the Navy used in WW2, but since it's applied to sharks instead of the Japanese, we deserve a patent!
Also, both the mixed blues and dazzle pattern were common camouflage patterns in WW2, so it is questionable what can be patented here.
The stripey pattern is not to prevent the wearer from being seen (and neither was the WWI version, come to that), it's to fool the shark into thinking it's something that tastes bad and is toxic.
When FB or Amazon recommends something/someone, I can usually see some sense behind it. LinkedIn is just plain random. I don't know 95% of the people it seems to want to connect me with. It is a joke.
There's also this piece from the same author of TFA where he suspects Linkedin is mining your Gmail contacts.
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/254094/wtf-linkedin-doing-my-data
Rule of thumb for corporation ethics: If you have to ask the legal department if something is OK then it is still unethical and consumer unfriendly.
Or the catchier version: If you can't tell if something is legal without asking a lawyer then your customers can't do it either.
Corollary: If you don't think you have to consult the legal department, it's A-OK!
The FBI and the NSA have been working on just that principle!
Why does everything have to match? Anyways, why don't you buy two identical sets, and that way you have lots of spares.
Actually this last is excellent advice that I wish I'd started earlier in life. Whenever I buy a set of glasses I buy two sets, or at least a few extras. It also works with pairs of socks. ;-)
There are tons of regulations etc against spam in many countries. Guess what? The people running the spam/scan email systems simply do not care. There is zero enforcement of these rules, so why should adding more regulations make any difference?
Not at all. It looks like Canada has pretty much copied its legislation from Australia, and the Australian laws have been working pretty well for several years.
You can only send ads/spam if you have an established business relationship with the recipient or have opted in in some manner (filled out some kind of promotional form, most likely), and every message must have a working unsubscribe link. The amount of spam generated by Australia dropped to almost zero compared to what it was before the legislation was introduced, and there is proper enforcement — some bulk spammers have been fined millions of dollars.
It'll start out banning porn, or so they'll claim, but pretty soon things like Wikileaks will be included on the blacklist with the general public never noticing.
The natural order to read comments is to skip the subject line entirely.
In Slashdot, they also frequently skip the summary and the accompanying article as well.
If these researchers want to take the wrong side in this fight, let them.
Why does everything always have to be a "them against us" when it comes to these types of debates. I am in no way affiliated to any government organization, and I definitely do not like government intrusion in my private life. However, government security is as much in my interest as in theirs. Afterall, if they do legally obtain some of my private information for whatever reason, I'd sleep a lot better knowing that at least it will be safe from some 12 year old Chinese hacker.
Your logic, if we can call it that, escapes me. There's no reason that the government AND some twelve year-old Chinese hacker can't BOTH have copies of your information. Anyway, where'd you get the notion that your information was obtained legally?
Perhaps it's legal by the distorted forms of of reasoning the Feds use to justify their acts, but not by the common sense ways most people would understand the laws.
You choose the appropriate article based on how the acronym is pronounced. NSA is pronounced "en es ay", so "an" precedes the "en". NASA is pronounced "na sa", so "a" would precede the "na".
NASA is an acronym, but NSA is an initialism. ;)
Not to mention that what became AES was a Dutch(?) algorithm to begin with (Rijndael).
The following quote is part of a comment from Clive Robinson on Bruce Schneier's blog. Long term readers of same will know Clive is or was a high end technical spook, not a "007" but a real "Q" with a wide technical knowledge of electronic communications and crypto.
With AES they in effect fixed the competition rules such that the code on the NIST site was not only freely downloadable and usable by any one, it was also optomised for speed/efficiency, not security and thus the code that went into nearly all products and code libraries was full of time based side channels etc. Of more recent times it looks like they are using peoples poor knowledge of random (sequence /) number generators to gain access by way of poorly selected or re-used key material and nonces used in protocols and standards.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/simon_and_speck.html
Science discovered a way to make a three-way boring
It isn't slippery, that's the problem.
It's a condition of entry that all the results derived from grid computing work on World Community Grid, of which CEP is a sub project, must be made freely available to all researchers. That said, someone will have to go on and commercialize the work and so make a profit somewhere, but at least everyone gets an open go at it.
IBM do not own the results of this research, they're just sponsors of the central hardware and storage, and help with initial programming and set-up.
CEP is the only one of the World Community Grid projects that I don't crunch for as it has fairly onerous data transfer and computing requirements. It's a bit of a PITA.