The point was that PDFs are, thanks to Adobe, attack vectors (http://www.iceni.com/blog/2012-was-the-year-for-pdf-viruses-trojans-and-exploits/) and asking someone to open one is akin to asking them to run a binary email attachment. Your "trust me, I'm a doctor" response does not address that concern in the least.
Well the IRS still has the mother lode, the best target. But you're exactly right; if they are keeping all that info, they'll soon be the second best target. And when they get broken into, it'll be much much worse than the recent Adobe screwup.
With local TurboTax, you're just running closed source software. However, you can quarantine it such that it is unable to transmit anything over the tubes, and print the result, limiting the worst case scenario to incorrectly filled out forms.
With online tax prep, you're sending all your details to some online server somewhere, and hoping that they only do the computations and wipe all the data. But they won't. It'll be stored so next year it'll be "half filled in already for your convenience". If you value your financial privacy, you would not use an online tax service.
Thanks for the advertisement! Once that hits the 'tubes in ebook form, thousands or even millions of us will get a copy. They can't put all of us on the watch list, right? Right?
You're right, people who already have a car will not change their usage much. It's people who couldn't afford to drive (teenagers, working poor, etc), who switch to driving when it gets cheaper. This is the increase in usage that Jevon's Paradox entails.
Hmmmm. I'd agree except that Mint seems to be based on Ubuntu. But they also have a Debian based version. So it's not immediately clear that they are on top. Either way it's a good sign. Goodbye Canonical!
It's still open source, you can remove whatever you want. That is the short-term immediate solution - and many have done so -- search how to remove the dash.
That said, it's a clear sign that Canonical doesn't value the privacy of its users. Their default is moving to "privacy disrespecting" and that means users will need to actively keep up on the latest "how to fix the privacy flaws in Ubuntu", a.k.a, it's broken by default. If Canonical continues down this path, more "features" will be incrementally added, and the removal will get harder as they'll get integrated in ways that cause other things to break when removed, etc.
So Canonical's reputation is going down the tubes, and their distro is showing some privacy invading warts. What they don't seem to realise is that they have no lock-in that prevents people from dropping them like a bad habit as their versions go out of support. There is ample room for a second contender to pull out in front with the next "easy to use" distro - who's it going to be?
If that's true, then it's a terrible design. Only one of the lights is on at a time, right? So the ballast can run continuously, switching between red/green/yellow as appropriate.
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Netflix accounts aren't anonymous, they already know everything you watch.
Sorry Tim, we already know you what you watch, you paid with your credit card remember?
Well that's hardly an unsolvable problem, just put another tor router box in series with the malware infested one.
But we're going to need a lot more tor nodes, particularly exit nodes
Nah, that's free advertising for them
These two sentences summarises the entire discussion. Where are the mod points when you need them!
The point was that PDFs are, thanks to Adobe, attack vectors (http://www.iceni.com/blog/2012-was-the-year-for-pdf-viruses-trojans-and-exploits/) and asking someone to open one is akin to asking them to run a binary email attachment. Your "trust me, I'm a doctor" response does not address that concern in the least.
That'll be effective: http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/07/06/nsa-rejecting-every-foia-request-made-by-u-s-citizens/
Well the IRS still has the mother lode, the best target. But you're exactly right; if they are keeping all that info, they'll soon be the second best target. And when they get broken into, it'll be much much worse than the recent Adobe screwup.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Reliable is probably what you're after.
With local TurboTax, you're just running closed source software. However, you can quarantine it such that it is unable to transmit anything over the tubes, and print the result, limiting the worst case scenario to incorrectly filled out forms.
With online tax prep, you're sending all your details to some online server somewhere, and hoping that they only do the computations and wipe all the data. But they won't. It'll be stored so next year it'll be "half filled in already for your convenience". If you value your financial privacy, you would not use an online tax service.
"It says here that you're on the list of people who are not on a list, which is pretty suspicious. We're going to need to search your house, pronto"
If PGP use is commonplace, it'll no longer stand out.
Thanks for the advertisement! Once that hits the 'tubes in ebook form, thousands or even millions of us will get a copy. They can't put all of us on the watch list, right? Right?
Fraud is nothing new. How different is this from a fly-by-night operation that takes orders and disappears with your cash?
Autoplaying ads with sound? No thanks, the summary will have to do.
This disappearing-with-all-the-funds is becoming SOP for exchanges.
You're right, people who already have a car will not change their usage much. It's people who couldn't afford to drive (teenagers, working poor, etc), who switch to driving when it gets cheaper. This is the increase in usage that Jevon's Paradox entails.
Hmmmm. I'd agree except that Mint seems to be based on Ubuntu. But they also have a Debian based version. So it's not immediately clear that they are on top. Either way it's a good sign. Goodbye Canonical!
It's still open source, you can remove whatever you want. That is the short-term immediate solution - and many have done so -- search how to remove the dash.
That said, it's a clear sign that Canonical doesn't value the privacy of its users. Their default is moving to "privacy disrespecting" and that means users will need to actively keep up on the latest "how to fix the privacy flaws in Ubuntu", a.k.a, it's broken by default. If Canonical continues down this path, more "features" will be incrementally added, and the removal will get harder as they'll get integrated in ways that cause other things to break when removed, etc.
So Canonical's reputation is going down the tubes, and their distro is showing some privacy invading warts. What they don't seem to realise is that they have no lock-in that prevents people from dropping them like a bad habit as their versions go out of support. There is ample room for a second contender to pull out in front with the next "easy to use" distro - who's it going to be?
Someone should mirror sourceforge so when they do implode, the code/documents from any dormant projects isn't lost
If that's true, then it's a terrible design. Only one of the lights is on at a time, right? So the ballast can run continuously, switching between red/green/yellow as appropriate.
Ohhh so you've audited the software and checked it for problems? Thanks Lumpy. Hey guys, looks like we're good to go with truecrypt now!
Cloud storage can not be trusted both in terms of privacy and reliability. So follow these steps and you'll be fine:
1) Thou shalt not store unencrypted files in the cloud
2) Thou shalt have backups of files in the cloud
Does that reduce the convenience of the cloud? Yes. Because that is all that online cloud storage can offer - unreliable privacy invading storage.
Well you remembered the dot, so I'll let it slide this time.