You mean like making sure we have an environment where business can innovate and thrive (as opposed to suing each other lots), where culture is owned by society and not business (hint: you can't sing "Happy Birthday" in the UK without paying a license fee). You mean like making sure we have some modicum of privacy in our lives? Yeah, pretty shallow stuff.
Power outages might help (Economist Aug 8, 2009, page 49). Britain's projected capacity will fall below projected peak demand sometime in 2015, nothing like turning off people's TV's and kettles to make them uppity.
I'd er on the side of caution (especially with legal requirements like HIPAA), it's easy to move to Google if it turns out ok, it's a pain the explain in a deposition why you thought it was ok (and have to move to something else/etc/etc.).
That's header data, generally speaking an SMTP server doesn't read body content (unless it's filtering for spam/etc.). Plus the types of data being extracted and what they are doing with it sort of matters.
Again, you can use it free for up to 20 users or whatever the number has been cut to recently, which I have the horrible suspicion some of his clients might do. Plus for some things like HIPAA you can't really outsource stuff without strict controls (which you don't get with Google).
Agreed, but to what degree are they processing the email? Are they simply running it through an AV scanner, or are they extracting actual meaning (content, names, nouns, etc.). How much of this information leaks when you click on an ad for example? (hmmm a Doctor clicking on ads for specific drugs, etc.). I'm not against Gmail, I use it, but I think people need to be more aware of this "well no one wants to read my email/etc." because in fact this type of data is becoming increasing valuable and is being strip mined for information.
But google is. They place ads based on the content of your emails (i.e. I get SVN commit messages, and lo and behold ads for SVN related stuff on the side bar). So at a bare minimum they have automated processes reading all your emails, extracting meaning from them and displaying ads to you.
I did a system wipe and rebuild (re-installs CentOS from scratch) and SSH'ed in and... got no warning. The system's SSH keys were identical as the previous build. Needless to say I generated a local set and uploaded them.
The scary part I think is that he amassed this data for roughly 1/10 of a cent per person in there. Good thing the bad guys aren't doing this. Oh wait....
People don't care enough. If people really cared about not dying then please explain to me the tobacco industry, fast food, and all the other things that kill people on a daily basis (more so than car accidents).
We can't even teach people to signal turns and lane changes reliably. Teaching cell phone safety to the public is about as likely to happen as someone winning the lottery jackpot 37 times in a row by finding discarded tickets in the street.
That's exactly the problem. I don't know. But if the police shut down some criminal/child pornographer/whatever and then find this installed, download the files and see my IP addresses there is a good chance that if they are feeling in a bad mood I might get dragged into this as well. Being right doesn't really help here if my life gets turned inside out. Again, the idea of providing free services at significant personal risk and no benefit to myself to a commercial entity that makes money off of this strikes me as completely insane.
A lot of mutual funds/index funds/etc. will now be buying and holding Red Hat stock, as well as other large institutional investors (i.e. large state pension funds/etc.). Same mentality as "no one ever got fired for buying IBM computers", it's not like fund managers are much good at this (witness the melt down in almost every mutual fund/hedge fund), most of them just follow the herd.
ZFS (on Solaris and FreeBSD) does exactly this. It's much harder to do well theen it looks though (kind of like email or anything else remotely complicated).
I don't care if legally or not I'm in the clear, I don't want police getting a warrant and stomping through my house, seizing my computers and generally making my life a pain in the a** if there's no benefit to me (no upside) and just a whole lot of potential risk (i.e. a huge downside). Now if I knew I was hosting content similar to what wikileaks hosts that would be a different story (doing something that has social benefit), but providing storage for free to a commercial company where I take on an unknown set of risks would be insane.
Yeah, I really want to be part of something where I am hosting other people's content and have no real control over it, for free! Especially when some of that content may be illegal (in the criminal sense) in the jurisdiction that I live (child pornography, etc.) or violate civil acts (such as health data, copyrighted material, etc.).
I assume you want up to date content and to have it clearly seperated from what is yours. Why not enclose the content within an IFRAME? Seriously, it's stupid and simple but might be all you need. Alternatively you coudl use some form of an intelligent proxy/page modifier, either as a mediawiki plugin or whatever floats your boat (i.e. every time a page is loaded also try to get the wikipedia stuff).
You know what water costs in bulk? It adds up pretty quick. Plus they don't need potable (drinkable) water, they need water that won't clog their system up.
"There are RARELY correct or incorrect answers on ANY psychometric exam."
When I took the MMPI I'm pretty sure there is a right and wrong answer (seeing as it's true and false) to question like "I like to hurt the people that love me" or "I often see animals and other creatures that other people can't see". =)
One thing Linux is lacking (and will possibly never have due to politics) is Dtrace, which is sad because a) Dtrace kicks ass, b) it's mature and works well and c) system tap is... well.. one day when a vendor ships it I guess we'll find out how well it works. This is one spot OpenSolaris and Solaris (and Mac OS X which now has Dtrace) really shine, you can extract useful telemetry and performance data from the system easily.
I'm guessing (hoping?) this doesn't work if you have an in-line UPS (that conditions power constantly) as that should hopefully futze (technical term, really) the signal up? I'd be curious to know about that. I'm also assuming this doesn't work for USB as well since most computers have multiple USB devices (hopefully transmitting/receiving enough to mask the keyboard signal).
Get one that takes AA batteries and have a spare battery or two (although in my Microsoft mouse they seem to last a few months, and that's a good 60-80 hours a week). As for the mouse going to "sleep" I've never noticed that (I move my mouse, the pointer moves, no delays I've ever noticed). A good wireless mouse isn't cheap, but it's worth it.
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You mean like making sure we have an environment where business can innovate and thrive (as opposed to suing each other lots), where culture is owned by society and not business (hint: you can't sing "Happy Birthday" in the UK without paying a license fee). You mean like making sure we have some modicum of privacy in our lives? Yeah, pretty shallow stuff.
Power outages might help (Economist Aug 8, 2009, page 49). Britain's projected capacity will fall below projected peak demand sometime in 2015, nothing like turning off people's TV's and kettles to make them uppity.
I'd er on the side of caution (especially with legal requirements like HIPAA), it's easy to move to Google if it turns out ok, it's a pain the explain in a deposition why you thought it was ok (and have to move to something else/etc/etc.).
That's header data, generally speaking an SMTP server doesn't read body content (unless it's filtering for spam/etc.). Plus the types of data being extracted and what they are doing with it sort of matters.
Again, you can use it free for up to 20 users or whatever the number has been cut to recently, which I have the horrible suspicion some of his clients might do. Plus for some things like HIPAA you can't really outsource stuff without strict controls (which you don't get with Google).
Agreed, but to what degree are they processing the email? Are they simply running it through an AV scanner, or are they extracting actual meaning (content, names, nouns, etc.). How much of this information leaks when you click on an ad for example? (hmmm a Doctor clicking on ads for specific drugs, etc.). I'm not against Gmail, I use it, but I think people need to be more aware of this "well no one wants to read my email/etc." because in fact this type of data is becoming increasing valuable and is being strip mined for information.
But google is. They place ads based on the content of your emails (i.e. I get SVN commit messages, and lo and behold ads for SVN related stuff on the side bar). So at a bare minimum they have automated processes reading all your emails, extracting meaning from them and displaying ads to you.
I did a system wipe and rebuild (re-installs CentOS from scratch) and SSH'ed in and... got no warning. The system's SSH keys were identical as the previous build. Needless to say I generated a local set and uploaded them.
Seriously, they used to be a search company, but don't do search technology anymore, so what are they, just a portal/email provider now?
The scary part I think is that he amassed this data for roughly 1/10 of a cent per person in there. Good thing the bad guys aren't doing this. Oh wait....
The answer to your problem is whole disk encryption, not trying to delete the data.
People don't care enough. If people really cared about not dying then please explain to me the tobacco industry, fast food, and all the other things that kill people on a daily basis (more so than car accidents).
We can't even teach people to signal turns and lane changes reliably. Teaching cell phone safety to the public is about as likely to happen as someone winning the lottery jackpot 37 times in a row by finding discarded tickets in the street.
That's exactly the problem. I don't know. But if the police shut down some criminal/child pornographer/whatever and then find this installed, download the files and see my IP addresses there is a good chance that if they are feeling in a bad mood I might get dragged into this as well. Being right doesn't really help here if my life gets turned inside out. Again, the idea of providing free services at significant personal risk and no benefit to myself to a commercial entity that makes money off of this strikes me as completely insane.
A lot of mutual funds/index funds/etc. will now be buying and holding Red Hat stock, as well as other large institutional investors (i.e. large state pension funds/etc.). Same mentality as "no one ever got fired for buying IBM computers", it's not like fund managers are much good at this (witness the melt down in almost every mutual fund/hedge fund), most of them just follow the herd.
ZFS (on Solaris and FreeBSD) does exactly this. It's much harder to do well theen it looks though (kind of like email or anything else remotely complicated).
I don't care if legally or not I'm in the clear, I don't want police getting a warrant and stomping through my house, seizing my computers and generally making my life a pain in the a** if there's no benefit to me (no upside) and just a whole lot of potential risk (i.e. a huge downside). Now if I knew I was hosting content similar to what wikileaks hosts that would be a different story (doing something that has social benefit), but providing storage for free to a commercial company where I take on an unknown set of risks would be insane.
Yeah, I really want to be part of something where I am hosting other people's content and have no real control over it, for free! Especially when some of that content may be illegal (in the criminal sense) in the jurisdiction that I live (child pornography, etc.) or violate civil acts (such as health data, copyrighted material, etc.).
I assume you want up to date content and to have it clearly seperated from what is yours. Why not enclose the content within an IFRAME? Seriously, it's stupid and simple but might be all you need. Alternatively you coudl use some form of an intelligent proxy/page modifier, either as a mediawiki plugin or whatever floats your boat (i.e. every time a page is loaded also try to get the wikipedia stuff).
You know what water costs in bulk? It adds up pretty quick. Plus they don't need potable (drinkable) water, they need water that won't clog their system up.
"There are RARELY correct or incorrect answers on ANY psychometric exam." When I took the MMPI I'm pretty sure there is a right and wrong answer (seeing as it's true and false) to question like "I like to hurt the people that love me" or "I often see animals and other creatures that other people can't see". =)
Or a tape adapter.
One thing Linux is lacking (and will possibly never have due to politics) is Dtrace, which is sad because a) Dtrace kicks ass, b) it's mature and works well and c) system tap is... well.. one day when a vendor ships it I guess we'll find out how well it works. This is one spot OpenSolaris and Solaris (and Mac OS X which now has Dtrace) really shine, you can extract useful telemetry and performance data from the system easily.
I'm guessing (hoping?) this doesn't work if you have an in-line UPS (that conditions power constantly) as that should hopefully futze (technical term, really) the signal up? I'd be curious to know about that. I'm also assuming this doesn't work for USB as well since most computers have multiple USB devices (hopefully transmitting/receiving enough to mask the keyboard signal).
Get one that takes AA batteries and have a spare battery or two (although in my Microsoft mouse they seem to last a few months, and that's a good 60-80 hours a week). As for the mouse going to "sleep" I've never noticed that (I move my mouse, the pointer moves, no delays I've ever noticed). A good wireless mouse isn't cheap, but it's worth it.