True. The recent improvements to Okular and Evince have made viewing pdfs on Linux really nice (for me anyways, and I have a ton of pdfs). Pages load fast, display nicely, and don't seriously tax my cpu, even on my slower, older, single core laptop. Some of these are the same pdfs that tax my faster (and with 3 times the memory) Windows XP desktop running Acrobat Reader.
Well, that would be pretty screwed up if our patent system allowed someone to give something to someone under a license that specifically allows them to sell or transfer or otherwise relicense something without giving them a license to the patents required to do so as well. Wait, is this 2009 and am I still in the US? My bad then.
Seriously, that is a good question, and I'd hope that I'm right.
If the American people ever forget why the government's power is limited by the Constitution, we'll soon have a government which reminds them.
All good points. And we've already started down that path. The only question now, is how long until people wake up? I fear it could still be quite a while, and the longer people take, the harder and bloodier it will be to fix.
I listened to Antonin Scalia describe this a little while ago on CSPAN. While the Constitution obviously couldn't address telephones directly when it was created, and Scalia's viewpoint is it does not change with the times unless directly amended (I assume he then thinks it would have to be updated with every new technology???) I wonder if mailings from one person to another were protected in any way? Does the government require a warrant to intercept postal mail (which did exist at the time and might be covered under "effects"?) While it is easy to consider a phone call to be a conversation (which is not covered) is could also be considered a conversation at the source and at the endpoint, and real time mail in between. You can have a conversation via mail. It tends to be really slow, but an exchange of letters back and forth is a conversation. I think you'd have to look at the Why we have the protection from the government, rather than the strict lettering of What protection we have. If you just look at the What, then it reminds me of traditions where everyone does something a certain way, but no one knows why it is done that way. What's the point? How could you ever know if/when a tradition needs to be changed (amended) if no one remembers the Why any longer? The Why is at least as important as the What, IMHO.
I occasionally have insomnia, and and one point I was unable to sleep for 3 days. I just wasn't tired. I wanted to sleep (I like sleeping, what can I say, my dreams are pretty cool sometimes) I just couldn't. I talked to some friends and they suggested some serotonin pills they had (they said only take half of one because it would knock me out) and on the fourth day I took a whole one (I was getting desperate for sleep by that point) and it did nothing. The following day I was able to sleep normally (only for about 10 hours). I still don't know what caused that, since I wasn't on any medication or anything. In some ways it was nice, as the first couple of days I had a lot more time to get stuff done (but nothing to really do which was boring) but after a few days it started getting frustrating as I wanted to sleep.
I used to work for a company that just cared that you worked close to 40/week (but not over). So I'd work 10 to 12 hours (if I could stand it) for a couple days and take a day or day and a half extra for the weekend. That was hard sometimes (because the work at that point was so boring as I was just doing data entry) but the extra time off was awesome. Then I took over programming and QC and couldn't do that anymore.:(
I've thought about using that before. I will probably set it up eventually. Is there any better vetting than this though? http://blog.foxmarks.com/?p=472 Also, the bookmarks and passwords are stored on their server (as opposed to a direct computer to computer transfer), so are they encrypted on their server, or just in transit? Since you can sun your own server I would guess that someone should know if the sync file is encrypted or not, but the PC World comment they include doesn't exactly sound authoritative.
This is the Internet! We don't need no stinking spell checkers! I make so many errors usually I can't really comment about anyone else's grammar anymore without feeling bad.
Seriously, you have some interesting ideas. What is a URL though? Uniform Resource Locator. Using http you can request information from a URL, or post information to the same URL. A website can post information to this URL, and then receive information back (in this case authentication). A URL doesn't have to have a single expression. That's what methods like POST, GET, DELETE, and PUt, etc are designed for in the first place ( http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html ). The default is GET for browsers, which might be confusing for some people, but who really understands most of the technology around us? I have only a vague idea of how my TV actually works, but I can use it without any problems. I have to trust other people to understand it well enough to make it, and websites are the same way for most people.
What is magic about it? You can't login anywhere with it without having my username and password. If you hacked my email you'd be able to do the same things now. There was a scam running not too long ago with gmail where people would forward particular emails when they came in so that you'd never see them (thus, you wouldn't know your account was hacked). That has supposedly been fixed, but I haven't checked yet.
If you hacked RMS's email and he wasn't running his own email server where he could manually fix the damage, he'd be just as screwed in your scenario.
I'll give you another situation that is more likely: You sign up at some new forum. Someone hacks that forum, and because you used the same username/password you use all the time, these people start logging in on all the sites they can find (slashdot, hotmail, gmail, etc + if they get your email, then it is that much easier to get every single site you are on) and "ruin your life". It happens every day as it is now, so how does openid really make it that different? Sure, there's now one point of failure, but that also means there's one point to protect (called a chokepoint in security and battle theory.) Neither is perfect, but each has advantages that we shouldn't ignore.
And again, it (the URL) is not magic.
As proof, my open id url is http://carlanderson.myopenid.com/
Try to use it to login anywhere and watch what happens.
You still have to have my username AND password to do anything with it. (hint, my username isn't carlanderson.)
The URL does not have the PASSWORD in it. It is NOT Magic. After you give someone that, you still have to login to the openID provider and authorize the website to get your details and what details you want to give out. Besides, what keeps you from signing up as if you were RMS right now anyways? As you said, you could go to a website he doesn't have an account on and sign up as if you were him. How are they supposed to know you aren't actually THAT RMS?
Only if you had the magic URL (which isn't magic at all) and his username password for that site. And come on, you use a different username/password for every site? If you don't, then you are giving someone your username password when you sign up. I'm pissed off at every site that I request my password to be reset and they send me my password, rather than resetting it. If they send it to me, that means it isn't even encrypted in their database, and if they have a breach, then someone else knows at least one username/password combo for me (and I have so many there is simply no way I could have a different one for every site, and passwords really should be saved in your browser, and per my post above, aren't guaranteed to be remembered forever). I think you're really screwed either way, when you consider all the different ways passwords can be stolen without you really knowing about it.
One of the things I like about OpenID is that I only need to recall one username/password combo to log in to sites with it when I'm at another computer (like at a friend's house). I just wish it was used more often. I also had a problem today where Firefox lost one of my username/password combos for a site I haven't used in quite a while. I made a point after I set this computer up to visit it and save the combo, but sure enough today it wasn't there, and when I checked saved passwords the site wasn't listed. No idea when it lost it or why, either.
That's what I was afraid of. That's basically a "it can't be done" answer (no offense meant). If you can't test a significant percentage then there's little to no point in testing at all as you can't have faith in the backup working if you need it, and if you don't have faith in it, then you are doing "backup theater" rather than a real backup.
And yet that doesn't address any of my other concerns. I used to think that was the case, but look at all the other things we are no longer first in, and also consider what we did with phone lines and plumbing. We got every house wired up for phones and plumbing in this country. Well, I've heard some places still don't have one or the other, but you get my point. We should have this done already for broadband, but we aren't even close. And that's just for broadband. What about the other things where the population is all that matters, and surface area doesn't (the other half of my argument from above as an example)?
Sadly again it seems I live in a country behind the times (USA). Low broadband access rates, civic authorities that have never even heard of public/private key signing, etc.
And if you can create and verify 50 checksums per second it would take over 38 hours to check one project that we had (and not even the largest we had at the time at 7 million images). Now maybe 50 per second isn't reasonable (I actually think that's probably generous unfortunately) but I think you now see my problem. With large datasets backups are even more important (since they represent so many man hours) but they are so time and resource intensive they are not practical. Someone must have dealt with this problem and solved it by now.
But how do you verify several TB of already compressed data (group 4 TIFFs)? I'm asking because I had this exact situation at a place I used to work. We had no budget set aside of IT, and they never let me spend the time to actual develop something, and I don't work there anymore, but I'm still curious as I have friends still there.
But what about when you have several TB of already compressed data (group 4 TIFFs) that changes frequently? I had this situation at a place I used to work.
Yep, there was just a story on one of the sites I visit (it was a week or so ago and I can't recall which one at the moment) where that is exactly what happened. I think it was the backup for the database, IIRC, and when they needed it for recovery, they found out it was corrupt.
So does anyone have suggestions for the best automated way to backup and to test those backups?
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Oh, thanks. That looks pretty nice.
True. The recent improvements to Okular and Evince have made viewing pdfs on Linux really nice (for me anyways, and I have a ton of pdfs). Pages load fast, display nicely, and don't seriously tax my cpu, even on my slower, older, single core laptop. Some of these are the same pdfs that tax my faster (and with 3 times the memory) Windows XP desktop running Acrobat Reader.
It wasn't that long ago (a bit over 10 years) that I had a 20MB drive around (for a Mac Plus I was given as a "here, you throw this away" gift).
I thought radio was just below "light"?
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Well, that would be pretty screwed up if our patent system allowed someone to give something to someone under a license that specifically allows them to sell or transfer or otherwise relicense something without giving them a license to the patents required to do so as well. Wait, is this 2009 and am I still in the US? My bad then. Seriously, that is a good question, and I'd hope that I'm right.
If the American people ever forget why the government's power is limited by the Constitution, we'll soon have a government which reminds them.
All good points. And we've already started down that path. The only question now, is how long until people wake up? I fear it could still be quite a while, and the longer people take, the harder and bloodier it will be to fix.
I listened to Antonin Scalia describe this a little while ago on CSPAN. While the Constitution obviously couldn't address telephones directly when it was created, and Scalia's viewpoint is it does not change with the times unless directly amended (I assume he then thinks it would have to be updated with every new technology???) I wonder if mailings from one person to another were protected in any way? Does the government require a warrant to intercept postal mail (which did exist at the time and might be covered under "effects"?) While it is easy to consider a phone call to be a conversation (which is not covered) is could also be considered a conversation at the source and at the endpoint, and real time mail in between. You can have a conversation via mail. It tends to be really slow, but an exchange of letters back and forth is a conversation. I think you'd have to look at the Why we have the protection from the government, rather than the strict lettering of What protection we have. If you just look at the What, then it reminds me of traditions where everyone does something a certain way, but no one knows why it is done that way. What's the point? How could you ever know if/when a tradition needs to be changed (amended) if no one remembers the Why any longer? The Why is at least as important as the What, IMHO.
I occasionally have insomnia, and and one point I was unable to sleep for 3 days. I just wasn't tired. I wanted to sleep (I like sleeping, what can I say, my dreams are pretty cool sometimes) I just couldn't. I talked to some friends and they suggested some serotonin pills they had (they said only take half of one because it would knock me out) and on the fourth day I took a whole one (I was getting desperate for sleep by that point) and it did nothing. The following day I was able to sleep normally (only for about 10 hours). I still don't know what caused that, since I wasn't on any medication or anything. In some ways it was nice, as the first couple of days I had a lot more time to get stuff done (but nothing to really do which was boring) but after a few days it started getting frustrating as I wanted to sleep.
I used to work for a company that just cared that you worked close to 40/week (but not over). So I'd work 10 to 12 hours (if I could stand it) for a couple days and take a day or day and a half extra for the weekend. That was hard sometimes (because the work at that point was so boring as I was just doing data entry) but the extra time off was awesome. Then I took over programming and QC and couldn't do that anymore. :(
They need some thoughts DESTROYED, I think. If OP is correct, we will be able to cure crazy, right?
... Semester at Seat
Wouldn't that be a normal semester?
I've thought about using that before. I will probably set it up eventually. Is there any better vetting than this though? http://blog.foxmarks.com/?p=472 Also, the bookmarks and passwords are stored on their server (as opposed to a direct computer to computer transfer), so are they encrypted on their server, or just in transit? Since you can sun your own server I would guess that someone should know if the sync file is encrypted or not, but the PC World comment they include doesn't exactly sound authoritative.
This is the Internet! We don't need no stinking spell checkers! I make so many errors usually I can't really comment about anyone else's grammar anymore without feeling bad.
Seriously, you have some interesting ideas. What is a URL though? Uniform Resource Locator. Using http you can request information from a URL, or post information to the same URL. A website can post information to this URL, and then receive information back (in this case authentication). A URL doesn't have to have a single expression. That's what methods like POST, GET, DELETE, and PUt, etc are designed for in the first place ( http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html ). The default is GET for browsers, which might be confusing for some people, but who really understands most of the technology around us? I have only a vague idea of how my TV actually works, but I can use it without any problems. I have to trust other people to understand it well enough to make it, and websites are the same way for most people.
LOL. I like your style.
What is magic about it? You can't login anywhere with it without having my username and password. If you hacked my email you'd be able to do the same things now. There was a scam running not too long ago with gmail where people would forward particular emails when they came in so that you'd never see them (thus, you wouldn't know your account was hacked). That has supposedly been fixed, but I haven't checked yet.
If you hacked RMS's email and he wasn't running his own email server where he could manually fix the damage, he'd be just as screwed in your scenario.
I'll give you another situation that is more likely: You sign up at some new forum. Someone hacks that forum, and because you used the same username/password you use all the time, these people start logging in on all the sites they can find (slashdot, hotmail, gmail, etc + if they get your email, then it is that much easier to get every single site you are on) and "ruin your life". It happens every day as it is now, so how does openid really make it that different? Sure, there's now one point of failure, but that also means there's one point to protect (called a chokepoint in security and battle theory.) Neither is perfect, but each has advantages that we shouldn't ignore.
And again, it (the URL) is not magic. As proof, my open id url is http://carlanderson.myopenid.com/ Try to use it to login anywhere and watch what happens. You still have to have my username AND password to do anything with it. (hint, my username isn't carlanderson.)
The URL does not have the PASSWORD in it. It is NOT Magic. After you give someone that, you still have to login to the openID provider and authorize the website to get your details and what details you want to give out. Besides, what keeps you from signing up as if you were RMS right now anyways? As you said, you could go to a website he doesn't have an account on and sign up as if you were him. How are they supposed to know you aren't actually THAT RMS?
Only if you had the magic URL (which isn't magic at all) and his username password for that site. And come on, you use a different username/password for every site? If you don't, then you are giving someone your username password when you sign up. I'm pissed off at every site that I request my password to be reset and they send me my password, rather than resetting it. If they send it to me, that means it isn't even encrypted in their database, and if they have a breach, then someone else knows at least one username/password combo for me (and I have so many there is simply no way I could have a different one for every site, and passwords really should be saved in your browser, and per my post above, aren't guaranteed to be remembered forever).
I think you're really screwed either way, when you consider all the different ways passwords can be stolen without you really knowing about it.
One of the things I like about OpenID is that I only need to recall one username/password combo to log in to sites with it when I'm at another computer (like at a friend's house). I just wish it was used more often. I also had a problem today where Firefox lost one of my username/password combos for a site I haven't used in quite a while. I made a point after I set this computer up to visit it and save the combo, but sure enough today it wasn't there, and when I checked saved passwords the site wasn't listed. No idea when it lost it or why, either.
That's what I was afraid of. That's basically a "it can't be done" answer (no offense meant). If you can't test a significant percentage then there's little to no point in testing at all as you can't have faith in the backup working if you need it, and if you don't have faith in it, then you are doing "backup theater" rather than a real backup.
And yet that doesn't address any of my other concerns. I used to think that was the case, but look at all the other things we are no longer first in, and also consider what we did with phone lines and plumbing. We got every house wired up for phones and plumbing in this country. Well, I've heard some places still don't have one or the other, but you get my point. We should have this done already for broadband, but we aren't even close. And that's just for broadband. What about the other things where the population is all that matters, and surface area doesn't (the other half of my argument from above as an example)?
Sadly again it seems I live in a country behind the times (USA). Low broadband access rates, civic authorities that have never even heard of public/private key signing, etc.
And if you can create and verify 50 checksums per second it would take over 38 hours to check one project that we had (and not even the largest we had at the time at 7 million images). Now maybe 50 per second isn't reasonable (I actually think that's probably generous unfortunately) but I think you now see my problem. With large datasets backups are even more important (since they represent so many man hours) but they are so time and resource intensive they are not practical. Someone must have dealt with this problem and solved it by now.
But how do you verify several TB of already compressed data (group 4 TIFFs)? I'm asking because I had this exact situation at a place I used to work. We had no budget set aside of IT, and they never let me spend the time to actual develop something, and I don't work there anymore, but I'm still curious as I have friends still there.
But what about when you have several TB of already compressed data (group 4 TIFFs) that changes frequently? I had this situation at a place I used to work.
Yep, there was just a story on one of the sites I visit (it was a week or so ago and I can't recall which one at the moment) where that is exactly what happened. I think it was the backup for the database, IIRC, and when they needed it for recovery, they found out it was corrupt.
So does anyone have suggestions for the best automated way to backup and to test those backups?