Chile where I live has already implemented screening at the airports for all international flights and anyone with fever or symptoms is being taking to the hospital for evaluation before they allow entry in to the country.
You have already said too much, and guys in dark glasses will be knocking on your door any moment. They will be escorting you to a different sort of interview at a "special" facility a nice beach.
It seems strange that no one has managed to catch this in the wild yet, if it has been in use for that long. Would indicate they are using it in a fairly limited scope (perhaps), if for no other reason to keep from defeating their own tool.
Very good point. Essentially, I believe there is a practical and legal aspect. One, there is no intent to steel the code, in the same way I go and rent a car, get pulled over, and find out the car is stolen. Chances are no one is going to hold me responsible.
From a practical stand point, I could also see that if the code did come from and open source source, some company claiming it was stolen would very possibly not bother going after the person or organization because they view it as no money in it. That becomes especially true if for example there are 100 of thousands of people that obscure the true source. Essentially, it is more judgment proof. Still possible, just would tend to discourage most attorneys from telling their client it would be a good idea to go after open source project x.
How often do open source projects get sued compared to private corporations? It is not an accident or because open source community checks every line of code with their lawyers. It is simply to expensive with no clear pockets to go after, even if you win.
This was killed as a possibility in Philosophy of Mind about 100+ years ago as even a remotely viable explanation for human behavior or the mind.
When I was an undergrad in Philosophy, it seemed like every semester we would get one or two lost psychology majors wonder in to the department for a class and start spewing that quantum mechanics crap (that they almost never understand) to explain human behavior, and every semester we would beat them like a redheaded step child until they ran back to the psychology department. It seems every year some psychologist with too much grant money writes a paper to try and shove that square peg in to that round hole, and it trickles down to people that should not be allowed to read that crap.
I can not even believe slashdot let that crap get this far.
My recommendation is that definitely encrypt the data before, after, and over and over again. Then keep it somewhere safe outside the U.S. if confidentiality is the goal.
Sorry, but there is nowhere in the United States where your privacy is safe anymore, and I would add many European countries to that list. Encrypt it, and then spread it around to several countries with reputations for protecting privacy.
I would also not bank on keeping data in a data centers where the owners control the keys. They are just one trip to the court away from all of that stuff showing up for whatever reason if someone gets a warrant or by other methods. Use your own computer systems, with encrypted file systems.
This would likly be fine as a VPS, but control the OS. Besides technical reasons, it may provide some legal firewall between any other computers systems in the data center that might be searched and your own. If you are sharing hard drive space directly, it might get messy to claim no association until client files are searched and are now in public court where people that should not have the information can get access legally.
In protecting legal documents, sometimes just the knowledge of a client's name leaked to the wrong person can be damaging to the client's case. So, everything must be protected.
It will help, as vista helped, make people stop and take a look around for an alternative out of necessity.
For everyone claiming that Linux is not ready for the desktop, we now have what is shaping up to be two major MS versions (not counting the 30 or so flavors) that are not ready for anything.
As Linux use to suffer from and still does to some extent, everyone will complain their hardware is not supported. The coolest OS in the world is not very cool if nothing will run on it or with it. Linux has made great progress in solving that problem and it will only get better at it.
If the netbook makers would quit putting crap homemade versions of linux on the netbooks, and simply go with a mainstream distro most of the problems would disappear. Especially as soon as users discovered they simply open a window such as synaptic and can download and install in seconds for free thousands of programs. Instead they put crippled versions of linux on their desktop, defeating most of the wonderful advantages linux has over windows.
The problem is people are just that stupid. They will really take that crap seriously.
I was once talking with a fellow student at my university on break about what classes he was taking the next semester. He said he wanted to take a course from "Professor Staff". Me and a few other students got a couple of chuckles in before the student went on to say, "I can not believe how many classes that guy teaches".
There was like over 1,000 courses in the schedule all marked "Staff" under the teacher because they did not know who was teaching. He was completely serious, and we continued to talk about it for a good 10 to 15 mins. The guy just did not catch on, or put it together.
Not sure where I got it from, but I added an error message to the time zone pull down menu on registration forms. Most bots will select the first item on any list, and in most time zones the first zone is the middle of the Pacific where no one lives. Since I did it, I have eliminated around 99% of my bots. Bots control is more about forcing something irregular. Something that is not easy to program for, and in combination with other Turing Test.
Company A and company B are competitors, same size, same work, same number of employees, same clients. All things are equal.
Company A has invested in multiple redundant servers, their network is made up of dozens of different services such as web sites, databases, file sharing. Essentially all the bells and whistles.
Company B has an antiquated 1985 dos based network. They are able to produce the same amount of results. They however have to put in 10 x the amount of information to reach those results.
Now, company C has one employee, that works 1 hour a day, with a super network of software and servers at his disposal and inputs 1% of the information of either A or B, yet gets 10% more return.
Are you telling me that company C, has a less valuable network?
Thus, the value of a network is not what goes in, but what comes out. No difference than how we determine computer performance, car performance, and so on. Basically, what is the utility of the thing involved. We do not value networks or anything else just on the sake of how much work it takes to use it. Only a government bureaucrat would assume something is more valuable because it is more work to use, and would define efficiency according to how much resources it consumes.
I put a eee specific full linux distro on it (PClos), and get real work done with it. I can watch movies even on it, use open office, firefox, email, and so on. I would say about 90% of the major things I do on my desktop computers. Obviously the screen and keyboard are limited, but it does not bother me especially on the road. I don't think I would perhaps try to compile software or something on it, but it does everything I need.
I am running a 900HA, with a 16 gig drive, and 1 gig of ram. The 701 is a much more limited model. I am going to upgrade to a bit larger keyboard and would likly satisfy all my needs.
I have been working and living in developing countries for over 10 years now. Long ago I learned to keep an DNS cache and a squid cache locally just to speed my normal connections.
A couple of weeks ago I lost my internet connection, but I was still getting web pages only somethings where missing. After running around checking routers and such, I finally realized my connection had been AWOL for a good while. I was being served out of my local cache in my office, and simply had forgot it was there.
My point is, I think the World would just route around it (i.e. the whole internet).
Yea, love my linux netbook. I am going to order another.
If there is someone to blame in this mess, it is the netbook makers for insisting on putting their own bastardized versions of linux on them. Jut put one of a million stock distros on it, and provide the drivers. The community will do the rest. Once they figure that out, their profit margins for linux will double.
I would throw in go for something like HTML with XML or text data storage, and then stick it on multiple machines. Planning for 15 years is noble, but planning for something that can be easily converted and moved to a new system is more realistic. The more you can distribute it, the more likly it is to keep on functioning.
If you have to have it bound to hardware, and you have two computers to work with, buy two computers that are exactly the same. Say in 10 years, you can combine the parts when one dies. In the meantime spread the storage over the two machines.
By the way I might add that the largest ISP in the country, boldly displays a sign in their office window advertising no restrictions on bittorent or P2P downloads.
Slashdot Mirror
sorry, direct link
http://www.google.org/flutrends/
Is anyone trying to test this method of tracking flu outbreaks by watching search engine result trends to see if it really works in this case?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7232/full/nature07634.html
What do you mean the Americas? Try North America.
Chile where I live has already implemented screening at the airports for all international flights and anyone with fever or symptoms is being taking to the hospital for evaluation before they allow entry in to the country.
How is that slick? It still has the same blocky crude Gnome look.
You have already said too much, and guys in dark glasses will be knocking on your door any moment. They will be escorting you to a different sort of interview at a "special" facility a nice beach.
These have been around for hundreds of years I believe. We just now can send them longer distances.
or at least then be able to send them on a wild good chase.
It seems strange that no one has managed to catch this in the wild yet, if it has been in use for that long. Would indicate they are using it in a fairly limited scope (perhaps), if for no other reason to keep from defeating their own tool.
Very good point. Essentially, I believe there is a practical and legal aspect. One, there is no intent to steel the code, in the same way I go and rent a car, get pulled over, and find out the car is stolen. Chances are no one is going to hold me responsible.
From a practical stand point, I could also see that if the code did come from and open source source, some company claiming it was stolen would very possibly not bother going after the person or organization because they view it as no money in it. That becomes especially true if for example there are 100 of thousands of people that obscure the true source. Essentially, it is more judgment proof. Still possible, just would tend to discourage most attorneys from telling their client it would be a good idea to go after open source project x.
How often do open source projects get sued compared to private corporations? It is not an accident or because open source community checks every line of code with their lawyers. It is simply to expensive with no clear pockets to go after, even if you win.
This was killed as a possibility in Philosophy of Mind about 100+ years ago as even a remotely viable explanation for human behavior or the mind.
When I was an undergrad in Philosophy, it seemed like every semester we would get one or two lost psychology majors wonder in to the department for a class and start spewing that quantum mechanics crap (that they almost never understand) to explain human behavior, and every semester we would beat them like a redheaded step child until they ran back to the psychology department. It seems every year some psychologist with too much grant money writes a paper to try and shove that square peg in to that round hole, and it trickles down to people that should not be allowed to read that crap.
I can not even believe slashdot let that crap get this far.
There is the rub.
Attorneys need more protection than that against accidental discovery. By accidental discovery I mean, one good legal search revealing other stuff.
Do you offer offshore protection in other jurisdictions other than the U.S.?
Yea, but do they protect against searches and seizures?
I spend a lot of time worrying about this.
My recommendation is that definitely encrypt the data before, after, and over and over again. Then keep it somewhere safe outside the U.S. if confidentiality is the goal.
Sorry, but there is nowhere in the United States where your privacy is safe anymore, and I would add many European countries to that list. Encrypt it, and then spread it around to several countries with reputations for protecting privacy.
I would also not bank on keeping data in a data centers where the owners control the keys. They are just one trip to the court away from all of that stuff showing up for whatever reason if someone gets a warrant or by other methods. Use your own computer systems, with encrypted file systems.
This would likly be fine as a VPS, but control the OS. Besides technical reasons, it may provide some legal firewall between any other computers systems in the data center that might be searched and your own. If you are sharing hard drive space directly, it might get messy to claim no association until client files are searched and are now in public court where people that should not have the information can get access legally.
In protecting legal documents, sometimes just the knowledge of a client's name leaked to the wrong person can be damaging to the client's case. So, everything must be protected.
It will help, as vista helped, make people stop and take a look around for an alternative out of necessity.
For everyone claiming that Linux is not ready for the desktop, we now have what is shaping up to be two major MS versions (not counting the 30 or so flavors) that are not ready for anything.
As Linux use to suffer from and still does to some extent, everyone will complain their hardware is not supported. The coolest OS in the world is not very cool if nothing will run on it or with it. Linux has made great progress in solving that problem and it will only get better at it.
If the netbook makers would quit putting crap homemade versions of linux on the netbooks, and simply go with a mainstream distro most of the problems would disappear. Especially as soon as users discovered they simply open a window such as synaptic and can download and install in seconds for free thousands of programs. Instead they put crippled versions of linux on their desktop, defeating most of the wonderful advantages linux has over windows.
The problem is people are just that stupid. They will really take that crap seriously.
I was once talking with a fellow student at my university on break about what classes he was taking the next semester. He said he wanted to take a course from "Professor Staff". Me and a few other students got a couple of chuckles in before the student went on to say, "I can not believe how many classes that guy teaches".
There was like over 1,000 courses in the schedule all marked "Staff" under the teacher because they did not know who was teaching. He was completely serious, and we continued to talk about it for a good 10 to 15 mins. The guy just did not catch on, or put it together.
Not sure where I got it from, but I added an error message to the time zone pull down menu on registration forms. Most bots will select the first item on any list, and in most time zones the first zone is the middle of the Pacific where no one lives. Since I did it, I have eliminated around 99% of my bots. Bots control is more about forcing something irregular. Something that is not easy to program for, and in combination with other Turing Test.
This simply is none sense logically.
Here is a thought experiment of sorts.
Company A and company B are competitors, same size, same work, same number of employees, same clients. All things are equal.
Company A has invested in multiple redundant servers, their network is made up of dozens of different services such as web sites, databases, file sharing. Essentially all the bells and whistles.
Company B has an antiquated 1985 dos based network. They are able to produce the same amount of results. They however have to put in 10 x the amount of information to reach those results.
Now, company C has one employee, that works 1 hour a day, with a super network of software and servers at his disposal and inputs 1% of the information of either A or B, yet gets 10% more return.
Are you telling me that company C, has a less valuable network?
Thus, the value of a network is not what goes in, but what comes out. No difference than how we determine computer performance, car performance, and so on. Basically, what is the utility of the thing involved. We do not value networks or anything else just on the sake of how much work it takes to use it. Only a government bureaucrat would assume something is more valuable because it is more work to use, and would define efficiency according to how much resources it consumes.
I put a eee specific full linux distro on it (PClos), and get real work done with it. I can watch movies even on it, use open office, firefox, email, and so on. I would say about 90% of the major things I do on my desktop computers. Obviously the screen and keyboard are limited, but it does not bother me especially on the road. I don't think I would perhaps try to compile software or something on it, but it does everything I need.
I am running a 900HA, with a 16 gig drive, and 1 gig of ram. The 701 is a much more limited model. I am going to upgrade to a bit larger keyboard and would likly satisfy all my needs.
I have been working and living in developing countries for over 10 years now. Long ago I learned to keep an DNS cache and a squid cache locally just to speed my normal connections.
A couple of weeks ago I lost my internet connection, but I was still getting web pages only somethings where missing. After running around checking routers and such, I finally realized my connection had been AWOL for a good while. I was being served out of my local cache in my office, and simply had forgot it was there.
My point is, I think the World would just route around it (i.e. the whole internet).
Yea, love my linux netbook. I am going to order another.
If there is someone to blame in this mess, it is the netbook makers for insisting on putting their own bastardized versions of linux on them. Jut put one of a million stock distros on it, and provide the drivers. The community will do the rest. Once they figure that out, their profit margins for linux will double.
I would throw in go for something like HTML with XML or text data storage, and then stick it on multiple machines. Planning for 15 years is noble, but planning for something that can be easily converted and moved to a new system is more realistic. The more you can distribute it, the more likly it is to keep on functioning.
If you have to have it bound to hardware, and you have two computers to work with, buy two computers that are exactly the same. Say in 10 years, you can combine the parts when one dies. In the meantime spread the storage over the two machines.
By the way I might add that the largest ISP in the country, boldly displays a sign in their office window advertising no restrictions on bittorent or P2P downloads.
You are not the only person who has moved to Chile for similar reasons, myself included.
Very strong constitutional protections for private property in Chile. Real protections, not political lip service to their protections.
Hey, I live in a third world country and don't have to worry about these sorts of seizures. You might want to rethink the use of the term.