Wow, that's scary. Whoever is buying that data can just look who's garage you park at every night to figure out who you are. The same thing goes if you have a cell phone carrier that sells your location data.
"In 2011, OnStar did announce that it would start retaining all the information collected by the GPS and internal system, so that it could be sold to third parties (possibly insurance companies).[13] Although this data is supposed to be “anonymized”, it remains unclear exactly what they mean by this as it is extremely difficult to anonymize GPS data."
The U.S. National Securty Agency has high hopes of standardizing the way autos talk to each other and with other intelligent roadway systems of the future
What about when the mailman opens your mail and gives it to them? You willingly gave that to the postman in good faith that the recipients on the front would be the only ones to read it. But you trusted a 3rd party to deliver your message. How is that different?
Yeah, until they pass an amendment, the government cant do shit. Here is the relevant law:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
He should make a public redress of grievances listing all the information he has and release it to the press. We need a Martyr to fight those in power. I just don't know if the operator of Lavabit wants to get crucified by parallel construction. As long as they have a culture of fear, people will still refuse to stand their ground. This is not unlike what the Germans experienced in WW2 and Soviets experienced soon after.
So why can't you use UTF-8 for those? Windows-1251 and UTF-8 are different things.
I'm not advocating for the removal of all characters but 26 upper-case Latin characters, what I'm saying is that there is a more universal standard for that. Does windows-1251 work for Japanese?
If Microsoft goes off and implements their own character encoding that's fine, but its not going to work well with UTF-8 unless everyone is really explicit about character encoding. And Slashdot seems to choose UTF-8:
Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8
Woops, I flipped the 'but' and 'and' in your sentence, totally agree with you now. However most people use Google, Bing or Yahoo so it may not be a large enough problem for people to worry about.
The weird part is that anytime you view those images your computer makes an copy of the image in your cache, in your memory, and on your screen. So are we counting that as making copies? What if the search engine doesn't cache it and sets the image src to your website and uses your bandwidth, would that be a better solution?
Perhaps you would need to have a certified account to report people. When you get decertified it will tell you what account banned you.
I would just make that stewsters guy (who obviously is a spammer) pay again to re-enable his account and take even more money. He would then report whoever reported him, producing a chain of cash that will only be broken when the spammer or the reporters are out of money. I would hope there are more people interested in removing spammers than there are spammers willing to pay money. Eventually, the spammers will realize that they have wasted to much cash and that the system is too costly to spam. Then I take that money, give a significant portion of it to charity, and use the rest to buy a sweet Maserati.
Its no more of a scam than ssl certificate authorities. Well, maybe a bit, but not much more of a scam.
It's not a valid ASCII character. Windows-1251 character codes do not belong on the internet. Many people now a days don't use windows.
Look at your smartphone. Does it say "win8" on it? If it does, I'm sorry. Nothing I can say will help you now. If it doesn't then you are affected by this.
Ellipses, smart quotes, en dash, em dash and non breaking spaces should either use their plain ASCII alternatives, html character codes, or UTF-8. Don't keep using Windows-1251.
I will create a single sign on service where you pay $1 to sign up. If someone reports you as a spam bot, you will be disabled until you pay me another $1. I will take the money and give a small percentage to some charities (EFF probably) and keep the rest as server and administration costs.
If people want to spam or create fake accounts, it will cost them a lot more than just having some guy answer 1000 Captchas for a buck. I could track where I get the money from to locate the spammer's accounts.
"W3C has suggested other techniques such as logic puzzles, limited-use accounts and non-interactive checks to prevent abuse such as fraudulent account creation and spamming."
Its going to be far harder to make an AI that can create a decent logic puzzle as well as make it accessible and hard for computers to solve than it it to make an image and warp it a bit. I think any such puzzle will probably be worse than the audio captcha button.
Slashdot Mirror
So, its like Fox News, but for Russians?
Firefox is just an open source browser. If you don't like what they are doing, make a fork called Ad-Fox.
Here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Source_Code/Mercurial
Wow, that's scary. Whoever is buying that data can just look who's garage you park at every night to figure out who you are. The same thing goes if you have a cell phone carrier that sells your location data.
"In 2011, OnStar did announce that it would start retaining all the information collected by the GPS and internal system, so that it could be sold to third parties (possibly insurance companies).[13] Although this data is supposed to be “anonymized”, it remains unclear exactly what they mean by this as it is extremely difficult to anonymize GPS data."
The U.S. National Securty Agency has high hopes of standardizing the way autos talk to each other and with other intelligent roadway systems of the future
Yeah, I recommended Neuromancer to a co-worker who had just read Snow Crash. Good stuff.
What about when the mailman opens your mail and gives it to them? You willingly gave that to the postman in good faith that the recipients on the front would be the only ones to read it. But you trusted a 3rd party to deliver your message. How is that different?
I would vote for whoever made that happen.
Hey, at least your wife didnt buy a GoPro and try to review it.
Dead man's switch posting. I'm pretty sure you can set that up with an Arduino, a network shield, and a button.
Yeah, until they pass an amendment, the government cant do shit. Here is the relevant law:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
He should make a public redress of grievances listing all the information he has and release it to the press. We need a Martyr to fight those in power. I just don't know if the operator of Lavabit wants to get crucified by parallel construction. As long as they have a culture of fear, people will still refuse to stand their ground. This is not unlike what the Germans experienced in WW2 and Soviets experienced soon after.
So why can't you use UTF-8 for those? Windows-1251 and UTF-8 are different things.
I'm not advocating for the removal of all characters but 26 upper-case Latin characters, what I'm saying is that there is a more universal standard for that. Does windows-1251 work for Japanese?
If Microsoft goes off and implements their own character encoding that's fine, but its not going to work well with UTF-8 unless everyone is really explicit about character encoding. And Slashdot seems to choose UTF-8:
Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8
Woops, I flipped the 'but' and 'and' in your sentence, totally agree with you now. However most people use Google, Bing or Yahoo so it may not be a large enough problem for people to worry about.
The weird part is that anytime you view those images your computer makes an copy of the image in your cache, in your memory, and on your screen. So are we counting that as making copies? What if the search engine doesn't cache it and sets the image src to your website and uses your bandwidth, would that be a better solution?
Not according to Bing: http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2012/05/03/to-crawl-or-not-to-crawl-that-is-bingbot-s-question.aspx
Put this in a file called robots.txt on the root of your website:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Boom. Your images wont get illegally used by Google. You can send me the money your would have spent on lawyers.
Perhaps you would need to have a certified account to report people. When you get decertified it will tell you what account banned you.
I would just make that stewsters guy (who obviously is a spammer) pay again to re-enable his account and take even more money. He would then report whoever reported him, producing a chain of cash that will only be broken when the spammer or the reporters are out of money. I would hope there are more people interested in removing spammers than there are spammers willing to pay money. Eventually, the spammers will realize that they have wasted to much cash and that the system is too costly to spam. Then I take that money, give a significant portion of it to charity, and use the rest to buy a sweet Maserati.
Its no more of a scam than ssl certificate authorities. Well, maybe a bit, but not much more of a scam.
It's not a valid ASCII character. Windows-1251 character codes do not belong on the internet. Many people now a days don't use windows.
Look at your smartphone. Does it say "win8" on it? If it does, I'm sorry. Nothing I can say will help you now. If it doesn't then you are affected by this.
Ellipses, smart quotes, en dash, em dash and non breaking spaces should either use their plain ASCII alternatives, html character codes, or UTF-8. Don't keep using Windows-1251.
Smart-quotes are a blight on online publishing. Either convert them on upload, or turn them off on your word processor. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/msoffice/turn-off-words-smart-quotes/
Mod parent up. I see its at a 5, keep going.
Its only funny because its so true to character.
This is far harder for a blind person than the audio captchas we would be getting rid of.
I will create a single sign on service where you pay $1 to sign up. If someone reports you as a spam bot, you will be disabled until you pay me another $1. I will take the money and give a small percentage to some charities (EFF probably) and keep the rest as server and administration costs.
If people want to spam or create fake accounts, it will cost them a lot more than just having some guy answer 1000 Captchas for a buck. I could track where I get the money from to locate the spammer's accounts.
"W3C has suggested other techniques such as logic puzzles, limited-use accounts and non-interactive checks to prevent abuse such as fraudulent account creation and spamming."
Its going to be far harder to make an AI that can create a decent logic puzzle as well as make it accessible and hard for computers to solve than it it to make an image and warp it a bit. I think any such puzzle will probably be worse than the audio captcha button.
We only monitor terrorists, and terrorism is a crime. If you aren't being monitored, you have nothing to worry about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
I must admit, seeing this article made me go check out their site. They made this massive organic publicity through the Streisand effect.
Because they are not just looking at the metadata of what you search on the internet, they are looking at the content of those searches.