My server is a very nice case mod with transparent panels and blue glowing lights that sits on a shelf next to my flat screen TV. It's so cool. It screams steal me! On top of it I leave several DVDs of porn each in their own DVD jewel box wrapper with all the porn photos on them.
Of course, there are three other IP cameras pointed at this wonderfully blue glowing empty box too, each camera with motion detection and set to email pictures to my gmail account and ftp video to an external host.
Used the unique address I gave to the NY Times
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I got the email too, and it used the unique email address I gave to the NY Times, so either they were breached or some company they gave my data to was breached.
Joe Katz on twitter says the same thing:
"Joe Katz @joekatz 1h @NYTPRGUY thing is, I got a "subscription cancelled" message sent to an email alias that only @NYTimes has for me. Was your list hacked?"
So remember folks when you outsource your IT and marketing and provide them your customer data, you are opening your customers up to their low security practices.
I've been on many projects that opted for Centos over Red Hat, and some in which the CIOs demanded Red Hat over Centos. All on various perceptions of what free means and what paid for means. Sort of a Rorschach test.
If you feel strongly about this, you might ask the CIO if you folks will be open sourcing the software you write, and if not, why not.
I develop HTML5 based robotic heart surgery machines running on top of jQuery beneath AJAX served by node.js off of an Amazon mounted Rackspace Cloud written in Clojure, and I've had it with LCD Screens, CRTs, and so-called editors.
On even days I punch my code into an ASR-33, and on odd days, I just toggle the code directly into the main memory. And on transcendental days, I use very fine magnets and rearrange the domains on the hard drive.
So don't you get all hoity toity to me about your ability to code with only one screen! You're a bloody wanker is what you are!
I like this idea. If you visit a site using tynt, then you have a browser extension that crapfloods tynt with random quotes, probably taken from the site's privacy page.
I always attribute what I copy and paste. Frequently I copy more than one section out of an article separating each section within the quote with ellipses. What tynt does is add the URL to each and every copy/paste meaning I need to go back and find their little turds and delete them. Annoying. I'll do it myself thanks, and I do.
Adding that attribution doesn't mean the user will keep it there. So the site owner does little to nothing to help ensure his URL is attributed correctly by forcing tynt on us. But the site owner does annoy the good guys by doing that.
You don't need a server side round trip along with full text and IP address to add a URL to a block of text. Wired, if they were wired and not tired, could write that piece of javascript themselves, instead of opting all of their customers into tynt and privacy invasion.
overlooked and lurking behind this gadget envy is an important regulatory decision -- one expected in weeks on whether to authorize an iPhone jailbreak.
Apple said sanctioning an iPhone operating system hack would gut its business model. That plan has given way to more than 2 billion app downloads, in addition to an expected and much-rumored iPhone-like tablet.
"This would severely limit our ability to continue what we are doing as well as innovate for the future," Greg Joswiak, an Apple marketing czar, recently told regulators considering the jailbreaking proposal before the U.S. Copyright Office.
At stake for Apple is the very closed business model the Cupertino, California-based electronics concern has enjoyed since 2007, when the iPhone debuted.
The proposal, brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, would pave the way for third-party apps on the iPhone -- hence turning the iPhone into a blank slate to run whatever its owner wishes. That would be a huge financial blow, as Apple earns 30 percent for every App sold from its proprietary iTunes store, Joswiak said.
The proposed hack is part of the exemption process under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Every three years, the Librarian of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office entertain proposals for exemptions to copyright law.
Is there something I don't understand? I don't think unlocking a US cellphone has any additional value than an unlocked US cellphone. The phone's most value is on its original network and it's almost worthless on any other network.
All GSM is not equal. Unlock a T-Mobile cellphone and move it to AT&T and you get a degraded EDGE speed. And I assume that's true in reverse. An unlocked AT&T cellphone presumably has poor speed on T-Mobiles network.
All CDMA is not equal. A Verizon phone cannot necessarily be switched to Sprint -- my experience is that Sprint has to support that phone explicitly in its own network, including a possible new firmware load. And presumably vice versa.
And of course a GSM phone cannot be activated on a CDMA network or vice-versa.
So even if you can unlock your phone, there doesn't seem to be ANY interoperability with respect to carriers. Your unlocked phone has the most value on the network it came from, and almost no value on any other network.
So what's the point of unlocking it?
Please feel free to correct me and point out all the things I don't understand about cellphones. Cause I don't get it, and I assume it's due to my ignorance.
Today, the term "mandate" is imprecise when applied to immunization. The last time the U.S. required vaccination without exception--a true mandate--was during World War I.1 Today, processes in place in the vast majority of states provide parents with significant latitude regarding whether to vaccinate their children.
Mandatory vaccination programs should be reserved for the most severe of disease outbreaks, and only after the designated State or Federal official has declared a state of emergency.
"Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the Pre just has a really crappy touchscreen?"
So actually I did. Next time I post at slashdot I'll write a ph.d length dissertation.
I ruled out that the Pre has a crappy touchscreen because:
a) all of the reviewers (wsj, nytimes, and many many more) all said the touchscreen was great even in comparison to the iPhone
b) the palms and treos had touchscreens that needed calibration and the pre somehow doesn't need calibration (and maybe it does...)
c) palm has long been known for their touchscreens of one sort or another, hard to believe they can't do a touchscreen right.
d) palm recently hired 200 apple engineers, hard to believe they can't do a touchscreen right
By the way, it's pretty obvious to someone who has used a palm pilot or treo and then the pre that all the pre apps were designed from day one to use a touchscreen too.
Basically Palm has punted on the PIM. One complaint about the Treo and later Palms was the PIM never advanced past what it was in 1997. But on the Pre they've dumbed it down even further and gotten rid of categories and search.
So while I might keep notes or web clippings in a memo (best restaurants, best bars, all npr stations in the nearby states, lan settings for home and work,...) now such long collections of notes are horrible to browse through or find.
It is in some sense a Google/Facebook phone, but they haven't embraced all the Google Apps yet (no google tasks, no google voice, no google reader)...
Weird because while I love my Treo I hate my Treo, but using version 1.0 of web os makes me appreciate my Treo much more.
So yeah yeah yeah, Pre is great. But here is where I think it sucks compared to my Treo.
The calendar program is puny and worthless in comparison to the Treo + Agendus. It's very hard to visualize what is happening a month at a time on the Pre. On the Treo + Agendus, there are icons for birthday cakes, and icons for dentist appointments and all sorts of very useful 16x16 icons that help a great deal visualizing what's going on a month at a time.
The memos and tasks are truly worthless. Very hard to make detailed notes. No way to categorize or organize the notes. I have over 200 notes on the Treo and they are simple to find and all are searchable. None are searchable on the Pre and there is not even a way to categorize them.
Touchscreens are for noobs. All this time I've wondered what the iPhone crowd was crowing about with their touchscreens, but today, on the Pre, I really miss the fidelity and precision of a stylus and a 5 way navigation button the stylus lets me precisely hit exactly the point on the screen I am looking for and the nav button lets me precisely scroll up and down the number of items I desire. Exactly. Each time. Repeatedly.
The software is at a very simple and unsophisticated level. Websites constantly need to be zoomed and the browser doesn't remember that I've zoomed this website the last three times I've been to it, and so does not automatically zoom it the next time. Compare to Firefox.
And webos is slow. The whole thing feels slow compared, yes, to the PalmOS on the Treo 755p EVEN with it's white screens of death. It's frustrating and may go back to the store within the 30 day period while I wait for webos 2.0.
And I fear that contrary to what Palm has been saying, the problems will be firmware related and not an easy download. And frankly, the Treo experience is that Palm will release one new set of firmware, maybe two, and then consider the phone dead and push people to get the next one.
So we'll see. I think the hope of the phone is:
* a firmware upgrade from palm
* release of mojo sdk and native apps from long time palm developers
Ya know, just because the iPhone only has one button doesn't mean Apple was right to go that route. Apple loved their one button mouse for a decade when everyone else knew how stupid that was. 5 way nav buttons and a stylus isn't such a horrible klugey interface as much as forcing touchscreen for everything is.
In the United States, the concept of "expectation of privacy" matters because it's the constitutional test, based on the Fourth Amendment, that governs when and how the government can invade your privacy.
Based on the 1967 Katz v. United States Supreme Court decision, this test actually has two parts. First, the government's action can't contravene an individual's subjective expectation of privacy; and second, that expectation of privacy must be one that society in general recognizes as reasonable. That second part isn't based on anything like polling data; it is more of a normative idea of what level of privacy people should be allowed to expect, given the competing importance of personal privacy on one hand and the government's interest in public safety on the other.
The problem is, in today's information society, that definition test will rapidly leave us with no privacy at all.
In Katz, the Court ruled that the police could not eavesdrop on a phone call without a warrant: Katz expected his phone conversations to be private and this expectation resulted from a reasonable balance between personal privacy and societal security. Given NSA's large-scale warrantless eavesdropping, and the previous administration's continual insistence that it was necessary to keep America safe from terrorism, is it still reasonable to expect that our phone conversations are private?
Between the NSA's massive internet eavesdropping program and Gmail's content-dependent advertising, does anyone actually expect their e-mail to be private? Between calls for ISPs to retain user data and companies serving content-dependent web ads, does anyone expect their web browsing to be private? Between the various computer-infecting malware, and world governments increasingly demanding to see laptop data at borders, hard drives are barely private. I certainly don't believe that my SMSes, any of my telephone data, or anything I say on LiveJournal or Facebook -- regardless of the privacy settings -- is private.
Aerial surveillance, data mining, automatic face recognition, terahertz radar that can "see" through walls, wholesale surveillance, brain scans, RFID, "life recorders" that save everything: Even if society still has some small expectation of digital privacy, that will change as these and other technologies become ubiquitous. In short, the problem with a normative expectation of privacy is that it changes with perceived threats, technology and large-scale abuses.
Clearly, something has to change if we are to be left with any privacy at all...
You raise an interesting point, and I think there is a bit of truth that this may incentivise bad behavior.
But done right, and your service is much more than bug fixing. It's market research as you interact with customers and find out there current problem and their future needs. It's customer maintenance since each time you interact with your customer you are selling them again on why your company is the smartest, friendliest, easiest to work with, thus keeping them from buying competing products. It's customer tutorials as you explain how to setup the normal installation, and how to use, and why and when to use advanced features the customer isn't even aware of.
All of this can be used to help your customer understand the value that your company's support provides.
(Caveat: I just pulled this response out of my butt. I think it's truthy good, but ymmv.)
That's terrific, and something I've wanted on my Treo for quite a while. Whether it's plugging in disk drives, keyboards, or any other common peripheral....
I have to note that on any printer supported by postscript or ghostscript, Emacs can print your code in language sensitive colors, on emacs generated "greybar" in multiple columns, in landscape or portrait and with line numbers.
On the rare occasions I print code out, boy does Emacs and Xemacs rock.
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The noise indicators are nice, I would have preferred a small control to stop playing, stop recording.
My server is a very nice case mod with transparent panels and blue glowing lights that sits on a shelf next to my flat screen TV. It's so cool. It screams steal me! On top of it I leave several DVDs of porn each in their own DVD jewel box wrapper with all the porn photos on them.
Of course, there are three other IP cameras pointed at this wonderfully blue glowing empty box too, each camera with motion detection and set to email pictures to my gmail account and ftp video to an external host.
I got the email too, and it used the unique email address I gave to the NY Times, so either they were breached or some company they gave my data to was breached.
Joe Katz on twitter says the same thing:
"Joe Katz @joekatz 1h
@NYTPRGUY thing is, I got a "subscription cancelled" message sent to an email alias that only @NYTimes has for me. Was your list hacked?"
So remember folks when you outsource your IT and marketing and provide them your customer data, you are opening your customers up to their low security practices.
I've been on many projects that opted for Centos over Red Hat, and some in which the CIOs demanded Red Hat over Centos. All on various perceptions of what free means and what paid for means. Sort of a Rorschach test.
If you feel strongly about this, you might ask the CIO if you folks will be open sourcing the software you write, and if not, why not.
Have you ever tried to use butterflies?
Well, not successfully. I travel back in time looking for the right butterfly, but I am colorblind, and I think I've been squashing moths.
You use an LCD Screen! Poofta!
I develop HTML5 based robotic heart surgery machines running on top of jQuery beneath AJAX served by node.js off of an Amazon mounted Rackspace Cloud written in Clojure, and I've had it with LCD Screens, CRTs, and so-called editors.
On even days I punch my code into an ASR-33, and on odd days, I just toggle the code directly into the main memory. And on transcendental days, I use very fine magnets and rearrange the domains on the hard drive.
So don't you get all hoity toity to me about your ability to code with only one screen! You're a bloody wanker is what you are!
I like this idea. If you visit a site using tynt, then you have a browser extension that crapfloods tynt with random quotes, probably taken from the site's privacy page.
Hi,
I always attribute what I copy and paste. Frequently I copy more than one section out of an article separating each section within the quote with ellipses. What tynt does is add the URL to each and every copy/paste meaning I need to go back and find their little turds and delete them. Annoying. I'll do it myself thanks, and I do.
Adding that attribution doesn't mean the user will keep it there. So the site owner does little to nothing to help ensure his URL is attributed correctly by forcing tynt on us. But the site owner does annoy the good guys by doing that.
You don't need a server side round trip along with full text and IP address to add a URL to a block of text. Wired, if they were wired and not tired, could write that piece of javascript themselves, instead of opting all of their customers into tynt and privacy invasion.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/iphone-hack/
overlooked and lurking behind this gadget envy is an important regulatory decision -- one expected in weeks on whether to authorize an iPhone jailbreak.
Apple said sanctioning an iPhone operating system hack would gut its business model. That plan has given way to more than 2 billion app downloads, in addition to an expected and much-rumored iPhone-like tablet.
"This would severely limit our ability to continue what we are doing as well as innovate for the future," Greg Joswiak, an Apple marketing czar, recently told regulators considering the jailbreaking proposal before the U.S. Copyright Office.
At stake for Apple is the very closed business model the Cupertino, California-based electronics concern has enjoyed since 2007, when the iPhone debuted.
The proposal, brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, would pave the way for third-party apps on the iPhone -- hence turning the iPhone into a blank slate to run whatever its owner wishes. That would be a huge financial blow, as Apple earns 30 percent for every App sold from its proprietary iTunes store, Joswiak said.
The proposed hack is part of the exemption process under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Every three years, the Librarian of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office entertain proposals for exemptions to copyright law.
Is there something I don't understand? I don't think unlocking a US cellphone has any additional value than an unlocked US cellphone. The phone's most value is on its original network and it's almost worthless on any other network.
All GSM is not equal. Unlock a T-Mobile cellphone and move it to AT&T and you get a degraded EDGE speed. And I assume that's true in reverse. An unlocked AT&T cellphone presumably has poor speed on T-Mobiles network.
All CDMA is not equal. A Verizon phone cannot necessarily be switched to Sprint -- my experience is that Sprint has to support that phone explicitly in its own network, including a possible new firmware load. And presumably vice versa.
And of course a GSM phone cannot be activated on a CDMA network or vice-versa.
So even if you can unlock your phone, there doesn't seem to be ANY interoperability with respect to carriers. Your unlocked phone has the most value on the network it came from, and almost no value on any other network.
So what's the point of unlocking it?
Please feel free to correct me and point out all the things I don't understand about cellphones. Cause I don't get it, and I assume it's due to my ignorance.
From Penn's Center for Bioethics:
http://www.vaccineethics.org/issue_briefs/requirements.php
Today, the term "mandate" is imprecise when applied to immunization. The last time the U.S. required vaccination without exception--a true mandate--was during World War I.1 Today, processes in place in the vast majority of states provide parents with significant latitude regarding whether to vaccinate their children.
Mandatory vaccination programs should be reserved for the most severe of disease outbreaks, and only after the designated State or Federal official has declared a state of emergency.
Aaron Swartz is a brilliant developer who knows just about any language worth knowing.
I want to know why the fuckface chose PERL. That's what really annoys me about this.
"Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the Pre just has a really crappy touchscreen?"
So actually I did. Next time I post at slashdot I'll write a ph.d length dissertation.
I ruled out that the Pre has a crappy touchscreen because:
a) all of the reviewers (wsj, nytimes, and many many more) all said the touchscreen was great even in comparison to the iPhone
b) the palms and treos had touchscreens that needed calibration and the pre somehow doesn't need calibration (and maybe it does...)
c) palm has long been known for their touchscreens of one sort or another, hard to believe they can't do a touchscreen right.
d) palm recently hired 200 apple engineers, hard to believe they can't do a touchscreen right
By the way, it's pretty obvious to someone who has used a palm pilot or treo and then the pre that all the pre apps were designed from day one to use a touchscreen too.
Basically Palm has punted on the PIM. One complaint about the Treo and later Palms was the PIM never advanced past what it was in 1997. But on the Pre they've dumbed it down even further and gotten rid of categories and search.
So while I might keep notes or web clippings in a memo (best restaurants, best bars, all npr stations in the nearby states, lan settings for home and work, ...) now such long collections of notes are horrible to browse through or find.
It is in some sense a Google/Facebook phone, but they haven't embraced all the Google Apps yet (no google tasks, no google voice, no google reader)...
Weird because while I love my Treo I hate my Treo, but using version 1.0 of web os makes me appreciate my Treo much more.
So yeah yeah yeah, Pre is great. But here is where I think it sucks compared to my Treo.
The calendar program is puny and worthless in comparison to the Treo + Agendus. It's very hard to visualize what is happening a month at a time on the Pre. On the Treo + Agendus, there are icons for birthday cakes, and icons for dentist appointments and all sorts of very useful 16x16 icons that help a great deal visualizing what's going on a month at a time.
The memos and tasks are truly worthless. Very hard to make detailed notes. No way to categorize or organize the notes. I have over 200 notes on the Treo and they are simple to find and all are searchable. None are searchable on the Pre and there is not even a way to categorize them.
Touchscreens are for noobs. All this time I've wondered what the iPhone crowd was crowing about with their touchscreens, but today, on the Pre, I really miss the fidelity and precision of a stylus and a 5 way navigation button the stylus lets me precisely hit exactly the point on the screen I am looking for and the nav button lets me precisely scroll up and down the number of items I desire. Exactly. Each time. Repeatedly.
The software is at a very simple and unsophisticated level. Websites constantly need to be zoomed and the browser doesn't remember that I've zoomed this website the last three times I've been to it, and so does not automatically zoom it the next time. Compare to Firefox.
And webos is slow. The whole thing feels slow compared, yes, to the PalmOS on the Treo 755p EVEN with it's white screens of death. It's frustrating and may go back to the store within the 30 day period while I wait for webos 2.0.
And I fear that contrary to what Palm has been saying, the problems will be firmware related and not an easy download. And frankly, the Treo experience is that Palm will release one new set of firmware, maybe two, and then consider the phone dead and push people to get the next one.
So we'll see. I think the hope of the phone is:
* a firmware upgrade from palm
* release of mojo sdk and native apps from long time palm developers
Ya know, just because the iPhone only has one button doesn't mean Apple was right to go that route. Apple loved their one button mouse for a decade when everyone else knew how stupid that was. 5 way nav buttons and a stylus isn't such a horrible klugey interface as much as forcing touchscreen for everything is.
People!
Fear and doubt...doubt and fear.... Our two weapons are fear and doubt...and ruthless uncertainty.
Everyone is ragging on the OP for cites and saying it can't be true because it would break laws. (As if that means much these days....)
But Bruce Schneier discusses such reasoning in a column yesterday:
It's Time to Drop the 'Expectation of Privacy' Test
Commentary by Bruce Schneier
In the United States, the concept of "expectation of privacy" matters because it's the constitutional test, based on the Fourth Amendment, that governs when and how the government can invade your privacy.
Based on the 1967 Katz v. United States Supreme Court decision, this test actually has two parts. First, the government's action can't contravene an individual's subjective expectation of privacy; and second, that expectation of privacy must be one that society in general recognizes as reasonable. That second part isn't based on anything like polling data; it is more of a normative idea of what level of privacy people should be allowed to expect, given the competing importance of personal privacy on one hand and the government's interest in public safety on the other.
The problem is, in today's information society, that definition test will rapidly leave us with no privacy at all.
In Katz, the Court ruled that the police could not eavesdrop on a phone call without a warrant: Katz expected his phone conversations to be private and this expectation resulted from a reasonable balance between personal privacy and societal security. Given NSA's large-scale warrantless eavesdropping, and the previous administration's continual insistence that it was necessary to keep America safe from terrorism, is it still reasonable to expect that our phone conversations are private?
Between the NSA's massive internet eavesdropping program and Gmail's content-dependent advertising, does anyone actually expect their e-mail to be private? Between calls for ISPs to retain user data and companies serving content-dependent web ads, does anyone expect their web browsing to be private? Between the various computer-infecting malware, and world governments increasingly demanding to see laptop data at borders, hard drives are barely private. I certainly don't believe that my SMSes, any of my telephone data, or anything I say on LiveJournal or Facebook -- regardless of the privacy settings -- is private.
Aerial surveillance, data mining, automatic face recognition, terahertz radar that can "see" through walls, wholesale surveillance, brain scans, RFID, "life recorders" that save everything: Even if society still has some small expectation of digital privacy, that will change as these and other technologies become ubiquitous. In short, the problem with a normative expectation of privacy is that it changes with perceived threats, technology and large-scale abuses.
Clearly, something has to change if we are to be left with any privacy at all...
More at the link.
You raise an interesting point, and I think there is a bit of truth that this may incentivise bad behavior.
But done right, and your service is much more than bug fixing. It's market research as you interact with customers and find out there current problem and their future needs. It's customer maintenance since each time you interact with your customer you are selling them again on why your company is the smartest, friendliest, easiest to work with, thus keeping them from buying competing products. It's customer tutorials as you explain how to setup the normal installation, and how to use, and why and when to use advanced features the customer isn't even aware of.
All of this can be used to help your customer understand the value that your company's support provides.
(Caveat: I just pulled this response out of my butt. I think it's truthy good, but ymmv.)
Google's grandcentral offers this (they call it call screening), and they offer more too. Currently in Beta. Currently free.
http://www.grandcentral.com/home/features
Screen Callers
Know who's calling and screen unknown callers
ListenInTM
Hear why someone is calling before taking the call
Call Record
Record calls on the fly and access recordings online
Block Callers
Unwanted callers won't be able to reach you anymore
Notifications
Receive voicemail notifications via email or SMS
Ring Different Phones
One number that rings different phones based on who's calling
Greetings
Personalize your voicemail greetings by caller or group
RingShareTM
Go beyond the ring and choose ringback tones for your callers
WebCall Button
Let people call you from a web page without showing your number
CallSwitch
Switch phones in the middle of a call
Click2Call
Call from your addressbook and save your typing
Mobile Access
Visual voicemail for your mobile phone
I'm glad it's not just me thinking my drives are dying sooner than they once did.
Why is storage quality going down, and what does that mean for that 1TB drive for $200 bucks? Will it's lifespan exceed two years?
It will be fun to cite knol articles in wiki articles. I bet that shoots the blood pressure of the Wikipedia Sea Organization sky high!
That's terrific, and something I've wanted on my Treo for quite a while. Whether it's plugging in disk drives, keyboards, or any other common peripheral....
Once Joe Random use linux on a low priced pc, why would Joe Random want to pay the Microsoft Tax ever again?
I have to note that on any printer supported by postscript or ghostscript, Emacs can print your code in language sensitive colors, on emacs generated "greybar" in multiple columns, in landscape or portrait and with line numbers.
On the rare occasions I print code out, boy does Emacs and Xemacs rock.