I've always wondered-- do churches carry Act of God insurance?
Now, naturally, if the ISP loses a peer or upstream provider, or your cable gets cut, there's gonna be some connectivity problems, but it should be fixed promptly, and other problems should be fixed immediately. My cablemodem died two nights back, and Roadrunner sent a tech out (after standard tech support call) at 10:30pm to figure out the problem, and fixed it. In the past, they've always either fixed it immediately or given me credit for the day.
It's reasonable to assume your ISP will provide you with Internet service, funky EULAs stating "we won't provide you with service, even though our ads explicitly promise it" be damned.
Are people who instantiate Denial of Service attacks also protected by their first amendment rights? And what about 4th amendment rights?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" (expanded to cover privacy in general usage)
Neither of these are even political speech. Anyone have their real email and home (Not office!) phone numbers?
But in the case where they would implement my ability to submit a RegEx, I could give them lots of flex on the time in return for the exact one page that I want. How hard could it possibly be?
(dodging)
Freenet supports pseudonymous interaction, and for many EOF (Everything Over Freenet) projects like IRC, gaming, etc., pseudonymous interaction will be required for reliable functionality. Of course, if you want to play anonymously and can find suckers to take you up on it, more power to ya.
Now really, the EOF project is cool, as it gets more and more diverse developers to come play in the freenet world. Some applications will be just silly, but some will provide useful functions where freenet's caching, security, anonymity, or pseudonymity (or a combination of the above) can add some really cool features.
Freenet has some webpages published within it (images and everything are distributed around the freenet network) already, and I believe there's a webcam project as well.
Notice that clay tablets are the only medium listed above that gets *stronger* when exposed to fire. Just sayin. Maybe it's time for cuniform data storage.
Seriously. I mean, it's sad that these (and others) couldn't live out their dream life writing biting commentary, but, I have a hard time with people whining about it. It's a return to the 'net before the boom, where people *gasp* donated their FREE TIME and DIDN'T GET REIMBURSED for it!!!! (y'remember those days?)
People who live to write will write, those who live to web will web. In the old, "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" theory, there'll be some pain as we return to the old ways, but hey.
And, if no one had noticed, we've developed a few distributed computing models (freenet comes to mind) that can share the content-serving side of a serverload across multiple systems (cached nearby for your convenience!) that will eschew the old days of us slashdotting, well, Slashdot.
The fun's not over, it's just back to it's regular timespot at 5p-9a
The music industry pays and/or 'promotes' radio stations to spread the word about their artists, with the full knowledge that anyone with good bandwidth--I mean--reception, could record the song at near-CD quality? And sometimes they give radio stations free CDs and shirts to give away--for promotion??
Don't discount freenet yet. I know some of the central developers and they are incredibly badass coders. The overall project has a lot of featurecreep (when writing features appears in Doonesbury, there's something funky goin' on).
But despite that, there's a growing community of freenet users. There are stable websites posted within freenet. (And I hear rumor that a few webcams are soon to get linked in to the system).
One of the central problems with maintaining gnutella during a RIAA attack will be maintaining repositories for getting your first host. Freenet pages can mitigate this, and/or provide its own transport/trading system.
Other problems, such as attacking ISPs if their users have gnutella ports open, and attacking the main developers like bearshare and limewire are separate issues, but still very relevant. It might be a good idea to start dealing with these while the RIAA is occupied with Aimee--I mean, Aimster.;)
His point is valid, releasing some private information can generate a highly personalized experience, and this is of great value to many people. I enjoy watching Amazon try to recommend things to me with my diverse and odd tastes.
The problem I see with current privacy online is threefold--you often are not given the option to not generate personalization, the information gathered is often, if not always, shared, and most importantly, cross referencing can destroy all limits.
This last point he didn't really touch on in the article--but with just a small amount of xref work, some good logic and a bit of human input, even very small data points can be combined to generate a detailed profile. Evidentally, even mouse click patterns can help ID an individual.... This is why we jumped up and down and shouted when doubleclick wanted to link its databases.
Until we get this last problem solved, I will continue opting out and bitching about privacy issues at every corner.
I don't have any hope it will happen anytime soon, or through any technology-only method (it's a societal problem, you can do it with public records and develop a similar profile if you have a lot of time).
I especially like Grucci's quote:
[people who used anonymous services were]
"radical organizations are made up of loosely knit groups from across the country that endorse militant action in the name of a particular cause"
Yeah, in our Land of the Free, no one needs anonymous speech, because of our first amendment protections. Tell that to Keith Henson, $c|ent010gy protestor, if you can find him, since he fled to Canada...
Ideally, one project would make everyone happy. But then we see things like microsoft... We're still in the early phases of the current P2P architectures (note the word 'current' -- let's not forget the 70s here, people). Different people will create from different paradigms, for different needs (cDc P2P--control any computer from any other computer?). We'll eventually figure out the central blob of features we need in every case, and the add-ons that each group prefers, and all will be happy.
I would hope that the freenet folks learn from the approach of the cDc folks, and vice verse. I presume cDc will be open source, as freenet is, so there can be code sharing to reduce duplication of effort.
So yeah, I guess my answer is diversity of features, but with a hope that people won't be stupid about it (the wheel already exists, don't reinvent it!) and a goal of a standard set of protocols and tools/features.
If cDc plays nice, it'll support freenet gateways. The more the merrier! (think of the Mojo you could make by operating a MojoNation/FreeNet gateway!!) Hopefully the cDc version will support as much anonymity and security as freenet.
My alumni account is where 90% of all my UCE spam comes in--I don't know whether my alum organization sold their list (they do like money) or if it was through other means. Not to mention it is where 100% of my "join the alumni association!" "travel with ex-Greeks, drunkenly piss on the seven wonders of the world!" offers come through.
I work ~40 hour weeks. Some more, few less. I work at a startup. I work as much now as I did during the 'boom'. I get more done in my 40 hours than a lot of people would get done in 80 hours when I'm fully engaged.
I need balance in my life. Having weekends and evenings free lets me keep up with friends, keep my dancing up to spec, and generally have a life. My boss realizes this requirement, and all is cool.
And you might notice that our startup still has funding...
English words are left hands. Check out the number of complete words you can type one-handed using normal typing (home keys+up and down rows), courtesy of x42.com. For the lazy, there's 1447 complete words you can type left-hand-only, compared to 187 right-hand-only (not moving from that side of the keyboard, mind you)
So, left hand on the keyboard, right on the mouse (and using the right to CRLF using the numberpad Enter key) is the ideal setup for lots of situations.
Not to say that your points aren't generally valid, but, I hate to tell you, but Big Brother is already sending private messages back and forth that we can't read. Remember, the gov't (well, the military) has the patience and need to use OTPs. OTPs always win.
The more serious problem is that a prerequisite for quantum crypto is stronger quantum computers. Stronger quantum computers can breeze through current crypto mechanisms with startling ease, dramatically raising the bar of what is a 'secure' keylength. Start thinking 4096bit, buddy. Gov't needs privacy, they have it and will keep it. Citizens also need privacy, we can have it sometimes, but might be about to loose all possibility of it.
All that being said, c'mon. We know we're not gonna stop technology, so we need to start thinking seriously about how to address the implications. We're not the RIAA here, we know the light is a train, and we're smart enough to find a side-tunnel to not get killed.
The civil penalty is $500, or community service. As long as they could get the $500 judgement per infraction... Although, I must admit, it'd be funny seeing the CMO of IBM doing community service in the Haight-Ashbury area.
(PS: I submitted this like this morning, and it was rejected-- what's up with that?)
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I've always wondered-- do churches carry Act of God insurance?
Now, naturally, if the ISP loses a peer or upstream provider, or your cable gets cut, there's gonna be some connectivity problems, but it should be fixed promptly, and other problems should be fixed immediately. My cablemodem died two nights back, and Roadrunner sent a tech out (after standard tech support call) at 10:30pm to figure out the problem, and fixed it. In the past, they've always either fixed it immediately or given me credit for the day.
It's reasonable to assume your ISP will provide you with Internet service, funky EULAs stating "we won't provide you with service, even though our ads explicitly promise it" be damned.
Are people who instantiate Denial of Service attacks also protected by their first amendment rights? And what about 4th amendment rights?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" (expanded to cover privacy in general usage)
Neither of these are even political speech. Anyone have their real email and home (Not office!) phone numbers?
*sigh* you're right.
But in the case where they would implement my ability to submit a RegEx, I could give them lots of flex on the time in return for the exact one page that I want. How hard could it possibly be?
(dodging)
Freenet supports pseudonymous interaction, and for many EOF (Everything Over Freenet) projects like IRC, gaming, etc., pseudonymous interaction will be required for reliable functionality. Of course, if you want to play anonymously and can find suckers to take you up on it, more power to ya.
Now really, the EOF project is cool, as it gets more and more diverse developers to come play in the freenet world. Some applications will be just silly, but some will provide useful functions where freenet's caching, security, anonymity, or pseudonymity (or a combination of the above) can add some really cool features.
Freenet has some webpages published within it (images and everything are distributed around the freenet network) already, and I believe there's a webcam project as well.
I'm just waiting for them to implement a RegEx interface. now THAT would be some love for the geeks out here.
Notice that clay tablets are the only medium listed above that gets *stronger* when exposed to fire. Just sayin. Maybe it's time for cuniform data storage.
Was I the only one disturbed by the blatant product placement with the dandruff shampoo I'll fail to mention here at the end?
Seriously. I mean, it's sad that these (and others) couldn't live out their dream life writing biting commentary, but, I have a hard time with people whining about it. It's a return to the 'net before the boom, where people *gasp* donated their FREE TIME and DIDN'T GET REIMBURSED for it!!!! (y'remember those days?)
People who live to write will write, those who live to web will web. In the old, "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" theory, there'll be some pain as we return to the old ways, but hey.
And, if no one had noticed, we've developed a few distributed computing models (freenet comes to mind) that can share the content-serving side of a serverload across multiple systems (cached nearby for your convenience!) that will eschew the old days of us slashdotting, well, Slashdot.
The fun's not over, it's just back to it's regular timespot at 5p-9a
and the fact that I can't find Alone in the Dark
And I guess it's hard to search for. I can only wonder what interesting sites you might find if you searched for "I want to play Alone in the Dark"
Maybe there's a palm version?
"I want to play alone in the dark with my palm" ?
Nah. That probably wouldn't help...
The music industry pays and/or 'promotes' radio stations to spread the word about their artists, with the full knowledge that anyone with good bandwidth--I mean--reception, could record the song at near-CD quality? And sometimes they give radio stations free CDs and shirts to give away--for promotion??
I smell a Napster counter-suit, howabout you?
The article appeared in Harper's November 1998 issue, No. 1782, Vol. 297; Pg. 59; ISSN: 0017-789X , if you care. phear m4h m4]) l00kup sk|11z!!
Don't discount freenet yet. I know some of the central developers and they are incredibly badass coders. The overall project has a lot of featurecreep (when writing features appears in Doonesbury, there's something funky goin' on).
;)
But despite that, there's a growing community of freenet users. There are stable websites posted within freenet. (And I hear rumor that a few webcams are soon to get linked in to the system).
One of the central problems with maintaining gnutella during a RIAA attack will be maintaining repositories for getting your first host. Freenet pages can mitigate this, and/or provide its own transport/trading system.
Other problems, such as attacking ISPs if their users have gnutella ports open, and attacking the main developers like bearshare and limewire are separate issues, but still very relevant. It might be a good idea to start dealing with these while the RIAA is occupied with Aimee--I mean, Aimster.
His point is valid, releasing some private information can generate a highly personalized experience, and this is of great value to many people. I enjoy watching Amazon try to recommend things to me with my diverse and odd tastes.
The problem I see with current privacy online is threefold--you often are not given the option to not generate personalization, the information gathered is often, if not always, shared, and most importantly, cross referencing can destroy all limits.
This last point he didn't really touch on in the article--but with just a small amount of xref work, some good logic and a bit of human input, even very small data points can be combined to generate a detailed profile. Evidentally, even mouse click patterns can help ID an individual.... This is why we jumped up and down and shouted when doubleclick wanted to link its databases.
Until we get this last problem solved, I will continue opting out and bitching about privacy issues at every corner.
I don't have any hope it will happen anytime soon, or through any technology-only method (it's a societal problem, you can do it with public records and develop a similar profile if you have a lot of time).
When Declan sent this news to the politech list he cced a verisign contact asking if the list was to be released.
Text URL to the politech post: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02060.html
Though the link is correct, the bill number is 1846. (I submitted this damned story twice with the correct info. Sigh.)
There's a short but lucid writeup at Newsbytes
I especially like Grucci's quote:
[people who used anonymous services were]
"radical organizations are made up of loosely knit groups from across the country that endorse militant action in the name of a particular cause"
Yeah, in our Land of the Free, no one needs anonymous speech, because of our first amendment protections. Tell that to Keith Henson, $c|ent010gy protestor, if you can find him, since he fled to Canada...
diverse...oh, wait.
Ideally, one project would make everyone happy. But then we see things like microsoft... We're still in the early phases of the current P2P architectures (note the word 'current' -- let's not forget the 70s here, people). Different people will create from different paradigms, for different needs (cDc P2P--control any computer from any other computer?). We'll eventually figure out the central blob of features we need in every case, and the add-ons that each group prefers, and all will be happy.
I would hope that the freenet folks learn from the approach of the cDc folks, and vice verse. I presume cDc will be open source, as freenet is, so there can be code sharing to reduce duplication of effort.
So yeah, I guess my answer is diversity of features, but with a hope that people won't be stupid about it (the wheel already exists, don't reinvent it!) and a goal of a standard set of protocols and tools/features.
If cDc plays nice, it'll support freenet gateways. The more the merrier! (think of the Mojo you could make by operating a MojoNation/FreeNet gateway!!) Hopefully the cDc version will support as much anonymity and security as freenet.
My alumni account is where 90% of all my UCE spam comes in--I don't know whether my alum organization sold their list (they do like money) or if it was through other means. Not to mention it is where 100% of my "join the alumni association!" "travel with ex-Greeks, drunkenly piss on the seven wonders of the world!" offers come through.
Mmmmmmmmm. procmailicious.
I work ~40 hour weeks. Some more, few less. I work at a startup. I work as much now as I did during the 'boom'. I get more done in my 40 hours than a lot of people would get done in 80 hours when I'm fully engaged.
I need balance in my life. Having weekends and evenings free lets me keep up with friends, keep my dancing up to spec, and generally have a life. My boss realizes this requirement, and all is cool.
And you might notice that our startup still has funding...
English words are left hands. Check out the number of complete words you can type one-handed using normal typing (home keys+up and down rows), courtesy of x42.com. For the lazy, there's 1447 complete words you can type left-hand-only, compared to 187 right-hand-only (not moving from that side of the keyboard, mind you)
So, left hand on the keyboard, right on the mouse (and using the right to CRLF using the numberpad Enter key) is the ideal setup for lots of situations.
Quantum computers employ the same method of the uncertainty principle to compute--prerequisite was a badly chosen word, tho.
Their advancement will almost certainly be parallel.
The article focuses on one piddly part of quantum crypto. It's more powerful than it reveals, as this /. thread and it's related article discuss.
Um, are you trying to initiate a flame?
Not to say that your points aren't generally valid, but, I hate to tell you, but Big Brother is already sending private messages back and forth that we can't read. Remember, the gov't (well, the military) has the patience and need to use OTPs. OTPs always win.
The more serious problem is that a prerequisite for quantum crypto is stronger quantum computers. Stronger quantum computers can breeze through current crypto mechanisms with startling ease, dramatically raising the bar of what is a 'secure' keylength. Start thinking 4096bit, buddy. Gov't needs privacy, they have it and will keep it. Citizens also need privacy, we can have it sometimes, but might be about to loose all possibility of it.
All that being said, c'mon. We know we're not gonna stop technology, so we need to start thinking seriously about how to address the implications. We're not the RIAA here, we know the light is a train, and we're smart enough to find a side-tunnel to not get killed.
Now THAT would rock.
The civil penalty is $500, or community service. As long as they could get the $500 judgement per infraction... Although, I must admit, it'd be funny seeing the CMO of IBM doing community service in the Haight-Ashbury area.
(PS: I submitted this like this morning, and it was rejected-- what's up with that?)