All technology has good and bad uses. The important thing is if the good uses outnumber the bad ones. If they do, then we tend to use it.
This applies to almost everything:
Internet can be used to spread child pornography
Cars can be used to kill/damage people
And the list goes on. As those technologies enter shcool, we have to aim at the good uses, and not the bad ones. Like the Internet, which provides wealths of information, but also wealths of bad information.
Especially in vocational skills, the computer/technology is very important. At school, I have to use EAGLE to draw schematics. It saves time, but more important, this is how it is done in real life. The problem many places is that schools have to use out-dated equipment, and that the children has only learnt half of what they should know whe arriwing in a work-situation. Education should be and is using technology.
I suspect that ISP's have handed over personal data in a lot of cases, without court order. That is probably a break of their own TOS. But, the only thing that will happend, is that every damn ISP adds a clause to their TOS saying that they're free to do whatever they want with your information, including giving your address to a known spammer...
I don't believe such strategies help. Using extreme means to eradicate extremism, spawns extremism.
When people are humiliated, they tend to react.
I'm not saying that the average citizen will feal humiliated, but a few will take it as a sign of a corrupt and bad government.
Freedom can't be guarded with a gun! Freedom can only be guarded by true freedom, where the people has seen the freedom, and wants it. And is ready to defend it. Not with guns, but with pacifistic methods, like Mahatma Gandhi did.
He was inferior to the british commonwealth, yet he managed to free his people from slavery.
This is the opposite. The trend now is to use violence for everything.
Ah, I'll be modded down for that one, but it is a important point I think!
The problem is not the "encryption" in route so much as letting "good" people in and keeping "bad" people out. This is a common problem in any large distributed system.
That was why I suggested a moderation/karma/trust system, where people could grade a user. Typically, the person would've been trading quite a bit to get a good rate, I guess.
But to ask the question to fellow/.ers:
Do you run your own private file sharing nets, over scp or simmilar? If so, how many do you let into it? How is access control handled?
If I take a Maxtor 300GB portable usb drive, plugs it into my pc, loads up with movies, and ships of to a friend? Huge capcity, overnight, or in a few days at least. And besides, ??AA has no real chance of uncovering such transfers.
Well, realistically. What about VPN? Having hardencryption easily obtainable, it should be trivial to share files with friends. If a key is signed by a large enough number of friends, trust it. Otherwise, discard.
If a p2p net included strong cryptographi, and trust levels and/or ratings to users, it would be far more difficult for ??AA to eavesdrop those connections. At very least, they'd have to build up a trust, which would probably mean sharing...
UPSs take AC, turn it to DC, charge their batteries. A sepearate system takes DC from batteries, inverts it and sends out AC. (Good UPSs, anyway. Otherwise they are "battery backups", not uninteruptable) Computer power supplies take AC and distribute DC inside the case. WTF?
Why doesn't APC start selling ATX power supplies? Directly swap out AC powersupplies, have them plug into the DC providing UPS and/or per-rack (or even per-room) powersupplies.
Really interesting tought. I've seen some of this (i.e 3com SuperStack III used a _proprietary_ DC solution), but all had their faults.
The drawback of using a single huge PSU would be point of failure. It could bring down the entire data center. On the other hand, combining multiple DC sources to drive one unit is trivial.
And a single huge transformer is more efficient then 100 small ones... So it'd not only reduce heating, but also reduce power bils, and maybe even decrease cost of servers, since it would not need to include it in the cabinet, which would free up space (in a 1U that means 1-2 extra disks). Heck, no need to have the PSU in the same room. Could have a room/closet for PSU's, which would need as good cooling and humidity stability as the server room.
Gates or Ellison(for that matter most of the richest 500 people in the US) could do this if they were seriously interested in space. I can imagine some of the larger private foundations might be interested to.
Not in USA, but Mark Shuttleworth would be interested? There was a interview of him a few days ago, where he stated that space was beautifull, and magnificient.
I'm wondering if he'd be interested? Anyone got his phone number?
I'm running 2.6.7 kernel on a Sun SparcStation from 1991. Runs as dhcp server, and router for my modem connection. Runs damn fine, with the latest software. No known holes, and stable. I guess this box could handle a 1Mb connection routing too...
Is high torque.
This means that it can take the work that electrical engines don't like, low speed high torque work. A air engine give a damn about the speed it is running at...
This shows what I've been thinking for a long time... Free software has a huge potential in poor countries, that has the need for a IT system working on a old infrastructure, and in this field Linux/FLOSS plays very nice. Imagine a win2k3 server running on 5 year old hardware? No, but then imagine a GNU/Linux server, serving web pages or such? Yeah, it works!
I think that a mobile phone will have far to small screen. Even if you have a 7" screen, you can't display more than a few lines of text at once! A book has superior resolution, no expiry date, can lend it away and such. I see none of those features on a mobile phone.
The day we can have a a5-sized sheet of e-paper, with a small 20g heavy data module, then maybe can e-books take off. But a book is something everyone know, it's universally, needs nothing but light, and works fine.
Spammers need bandwith for sending out spam. So, what if we slashdot 'em?
Just post a link on top of page saying "Get a spammer today". I bet it would be a huge success...
I doubt this will last for a very long time. Does pdf2txt obey this? Does convert (ImageMagick) obey this? If not,
convert tracked.pdf tracked.png &&gqview pdf
will solve any tracking.
If the content is unencrypted, and inside the file, then anyone can read it if they want. PDF is a documented format, where you can read the specification, and simply make a reader that discards the tracking. Or simply add a line in/etc/hosts redirecting the tracker to 127.0.0.1.
The point about web is that it is easy to track because (most) people download pages from the server, and don't email the html-source to each other. They mail links. With PDF's, they mail the pdf.
FTA..."Without a doubt, motherboards are the most complex and essential part of the modern PC." Wouldn't you say that the design and manufacture of CPUs are at least a level of magnitude more complex than mothermoards?
Absolutely. A motherboard is a assembly of other parts. Although it requires some care to design it so all fits together, it is still just a assembly. Even southbridge is more complex than a motherboard...
...and we'd probably have IP spoofing. But again, maybe all those AOL^H^H^Hnewcomers would've kept of the net if they had to remember IPs, and rather stuck to AOL and Compunet? One can wonder how the net had been. Maybe less of a commercial market place?
I'm currently doing backups to tape, in the hope that it takes more to destroy the entire tape than a cd, and also that tape lasts longer.
I'm wondering how this stands up today? Is tape lasting significantly longer than disk? Than Optical mediums?
Could it be that more users are employing protection against these worms now? Thanks to ClamAV I never see any in my inbox now, but my log messages would suggest there are still plenty of clueless people out there propagating them.
I've stopped wasting CPU cycles on them. I found that noone ever sends me.exe files,.com,.scr or such legitimately anyway, since I don't use windows. So, I let procmail channel any such stuff to/dev/null. Nada cpu wasted, damn efficient, and no false positives in my eyes...
That's a complete straw man in this case. MS Word licenses right now are not subscription-based.
Ain't they? Word 2003 requires XP afaik. XP ain't subscription based, but it certainly requires a valid installation, which requires a activation. Which requires MS cooperation. What if they deny to do this? What if they're bankrupt? What if they don't sell it any more?
There is far too many what ifs when conserning business data.
This at least gives us the right to our own data back, since we can then convert it to a more useable format. So it seems like we've won the first battle, but not the war!
The right to own data was lost with closed format, since it did require a license to read something you might have produced yourself. For a private person, it might be sad. For a corporate needy of its archives of past correspondance, it can be catastrofal. That microsoft opens up their format for reading, and specifies parts of it, makes it possible to write software to convert this data to a open format, or index it and such. Therefor, we can still save in MS format, but have much-less tie in.
I'm only wondering how far it goes, if it goes as far as to say that I'm allowed to make a non-MS certified opensourced bot that crawls my disk, and indexes office XML files... And what if a corporate does so, will they be allowed?
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All technology has good and bad uses. The important thing is if the good uses outnumber the bad ones. If they do, then we tend to use it.
This applies to almost everything:
- Internet can be used to spread child pornography
- Cars can be used to kill/damage people
And the list goes on. As those technologies enter shcool, we have to aim at the good uses, and not the bad ones. Like the Internet, which provides wealths of information, but also wealths of bad information.Especially in vocational skills, the computer/technology is very important. At school, I have to use EAGLE to draw schematics. It saves time, but more important, this is how it is done in real life. The problem many places is that schools have to use out-dated equipment, and that the children has only learnt half of what they should know whe arriwing in a work-situation. Education should be and is using technology.
I suspect that ISP's have handed over personal data in a lot of cases, without court order. That is probably a break of their own TOS. But, the only thing that will happend, is that every damn ISP adds a clause to their TOS saying that they're free to do whatever they want with your information, including giving your address to a known spammer...
I don't believe such strategies help. Using extreme means to eradicate extremism, spawns extremism. When people are humiliated, they tend to react. I'm not saying that the average citizen will feal humiliated, but a few will take it as a sign of a corrupt and bad government. Freedom can't be guarded with a gun! Freedom can only be guarded by true freedom, where the people has seen the freedom, and wants it. And is ready to defend it. Not with guns, but with pacifistic methods, like Mahatma Gandhi did. He was inferior to the british commonwealth, yet he managed to free his people from slavery. This is the opposite. The trend now is to use violence for everything.
Ah, I'll be modded down for that one, but it is a important point I think!That was why I suggested a moderation/karma/trust system, where people could grade a user. Typically, the person would've been trading quite a bit to get a good rate, I guess.
But to ask the question to fellow /.ers:
Do you run your own private file sharing nets, over scp or simmilar? If so, how many do you let into it? How is access control handled?
If I take a Maxtor 300GB portable usb drive, plugs it into my pc, loads up with movies, and ships of to a friend? Huge capcity, overnight, or in a few days at least. And besides, ??AA has no real chance of uncovering such transfers.
Well, realistically. What about VPN? Having hard encryption easily obtainable, it should be trivial to share files with friends. If a key is signed by a large enough number of friends, trust it. Otherwise, discard. If a p2p net included strong cryptographi, and trust levels and/or ratings to users, it would be far more difficult for ??AA to eavesdrop those connections. At very least, they'd have to build up a trust, which would probably mean sharing...
Really interesting tought. I've seen some of this (i.e 3com SuperStack III used a _proprietary_ DC solution), but all had their faults. The drawback of using a single huge PSU would be point of failure. It could bring down the entire data center. On the other hand, combining multiple DC sources to drive one unit is trivial. And a single huge transformer is more efficient then 100 small ones... So it'd not only reduce heating, but also reduce power bils, and maybe even decrease cost of servers, since it would not need to include it in the cabinet, which would free up space (in a 1U that means 1-2 extra disks). Heck, no need to have the PSU in the same room. Could have a room/closet for PSU's, which would need as good cooling and humidity stability as the server room.
Not in USA, but Mark Shuttleworth would be interested? There was a interview of him a few days ago, where he stated that space was beautifull, and magnificient. I'm wondering if he'd be interested? Anyone got his phone number?
I'm running 2.6.7 kernel on a Sun SparcStation from 1991. Runs as dhcp server, and router for my modem connection. Runs damn fine, with the latest software. No known holes, and stable. I guess this box could handle a 1Mb connection routing too...
Is high torque. This means that it can take the work that electrical engines don't like, low speed high torque work. A air engine give a damn about the speed it is running at...
This shows what I've been thinking for a long time... Free software has a huge potential in poor countries, that has the need for a IT system working on a old infrastructure, and in this field Linux/FLOSS plays very nice. Imagine a win2k3 server running on 5 year old hardware? No, but then imagine a GNU/Linux server, serving web pages or such? Yeah, it works!
RTFA. The article discussed java applets, j2me, not html or txt. Go over it again when knowing this, and report the answers to me!
I think that a mobile phone will have far to small screen. Even if you have a 7" screen, you can't display more than a few lines of text at once! A book has superior resolution, no expiry date, can lend it away and such. I see none of those features on a mobile phone.
The day we can have a a5-sized sheet of e-paper, with a small 20g heavy data module, then maybe can e-books take off. But a book is something everyone know, it's universally, needs nothing but light, and works fine.
Spammers need bandwith for sending out spam. So, what if we slashdot 'em? Just post a link on top of page saying "Get a spammer today". I bet it would be a huge success...
It seems Google is using Python for a good deal of stuff... And I thought google was enteprise
Only problem is...if the key is availvable upon request, well, tor excists. And as others have suggested, a print to file should deal with it.
If the content is unencrypted, and inside the file, then anyone can read it if they want. PDF is a documented format, where you can read the specification, and simply make a reader that discards the tracking. Or simply add a line in /etc/hosts redirecting the tracker to 127.0.0.1.
The point about web is that it is easy to track because (most) people download pages from the server, and don't email the html-source to each other. They mail links. With PDF's, they mail the pdf.
Absolutely. A motherboard is a assembly of other parts. Although it requires some care to design it so all fits together, it is still just a assembly. Even southbridge is more complex than a motherboard...
...and we'd probably have IP spoofing. But again, maybe all those AOL^H^H^Hnewcomers would've kept of the net if they had to remember IPs, and rather stuck to AOL and Compunet? One can wonder how the net had been. Maybe less of a commercial market place?
Without DNS, domain spoofing would've been kinda impossible...
I'm currently doing backups to tape, in the hope that it takes more to destroy the entire tape than a cd, and also that tape lasts longer. I'm wondering how this stands up today? Is tape lasting significantly longer than disk? Than Optical mediums?
I've stopped wasting CPU cycles on them. I found that noone ever sends me .exe files, .com, .scr or such legitimately anyway, since I don't use windows. So, I let procmail channel any such stuff to /dev/null. Nada cpu wasted, damn efficient, and no false positives in my eyes...
RTFA. Not only government documents.
Ain't they? Word 2003 requires XP afaik. XP ain't subscription based, but it certainly requires a valid installation, which requires a activation. Which requires MS cooperation. What if they deny to do this? What if they're bankrupt? What if they don't sell it any more?
There is far too many what ifs when conserning business data.
The right to own data was lost with closed format, since it did require a license to read something you might have produced yourself. For a private person, it might be sad. For a corporate needy of its archives of past correspondance, it can be catastrofal. That microsoft opens up their format for reading, and specifies parts of it, makes it possible to write software to convert this data to a open format, or index it and such. Therefor, we can still save in MS format, but have much-less tie in.
I'm only wondering how far it goes, if it goes as far as to say that I'm allowed to make a non-MS certified opensourced bot that crawls my disk, and indexes office XML files... And what if a corporate does so, will they be allowed?
Oh, those warnings...