Energy doesn't get "pushed". Those words were used by "staff writers at News Corp Australia Network" and not scientists. It's similar to those who claim that black holes suck up light and energy like a vacuum.
How would this extra charging actually be accomplished?
I was using an independent VOIP telephone service with my ISP just fine. My ISP started offering their own VOIP service that I did not need. Then a month later my VOIP stopped working. I spoke to my ISP who informed me that I could either upgrade my Internet or pay them a $10/month "QOS" (quality of service) charge to ensure that VOIP would still work. They used traffic shaping to make their own offerings had an unfair advantage.
It happens already in countries that do not have net neutrality. I have another example of this happening directly to me as well, but no time to write it here. It will happen to you and those you love.
You seem to think that broadband is a competitive market. Any company can receive telephone calls, but only a few companies can delivery broadband to your door.
Without free competition, the industry needs regulation.
I was using an independent VOIP service on a basic slow and cheap broadband service from my ISP. The ISP began to offer their own VOIP service. The ISP forced me to upgrade to a faster more expensive broadband service for a trial. After the trial ended, I requested to return to my original plan. Once back on basic broadband, my VOIP no longer worked. I could hear voices all backwards, like the packets were being mixed and sent in improper order. When I spoke to the ISP, they told me that I would either need to upgrade my plan or pay an additional monthly fee to use my VOIP over basic broadband. They assured me that they had not changed anything. I know they lied, because I reached out to others online and found that they were traffic shaping data for others too and blocking voice calls that were previous and should now be working. VOIP is not a high-bandwidth service. It is about latency and that can easily be manipulated.
This is my personal story and I approve it.
Without net neutrality, ISP's will shape your traffic to guarantee that profits flow through them even when the service has nothing to do with them.
ISPs would have you believe that they bring you twitter, facebook, youtube, etc. And you can bet that whatever the new thing is that arrives over your internet connection in the future will require additional fees to receive it.
It sounds like you spent a lot of time thinking about how you can justify speaking inappropriately in group venues. And you defend it by claiming others offend you and you did nothing to stop it. Are you saying people should not stand up for themselves because you don't stand up for yourself?
Just because you think something is ok does not mean that others who disagree are simply wrong. If what they claim is true, it is hostile. And if employee is caught pressuring another employee to take drugs, then they should fired on the spot.
Either these ladies are lying, or these managers are complete asses. There is no option where this is true and it is ok.
My post was a rant. But I am tired of seeing people correct spelling, grammar and incorrect phrases here on slashdot. And this article is entirely about that. I am sick of reading someone's comment only to see someone replying with nothing of use but to try to raise themselves above by belittling another person. If someone makes a spelling mistake and I noticed it then I don't need someone else repeating it. And if I never noticed the spelling error, why do I need someone to point out the flaw in a response that was entirely perfect when I read it? There is so much wasted time in grammar and spelling, when we could be sharing and thinking about ideas instead of drilling arbitrary rules and manners into others as a tool of classism.
Professional life requires the ability to effectively communicate to a large audience.
The large audience uses "u" in text. The large audience receives the message by chat/text. It's the future of communication. A stuffy professor can get mad about the future or they could realize that they will not be the future and instead teach what will be used rather than what has been used.
I can't spell worth a dam. Back in the 80's I told my teacher that memorization was not necessary, because a computer would do it for me. That turned out to be true, so it doesn't matter. Right now, slashdot highlights my misspellings for me. And regardless of whether I use their, there or they're properly, if my receiver understands then I just don't care if it's "right". What matters is tailoring your message to the audience. The future audience will use some form of computer based chat and you can bet the text input will be "u" and not "you". Or a computer will take my text and convert it to whatever grammar, spelling or even language the receiver prefers.
The odds of being killed by a terrorist are pretty damned low. However, this doesn't mean that we should allow those odds to go up.
Yes we should allow those odds to go up. The real killer is poor eating habits and driving cars. Most of those deaths are entirely needless. Should we have armed guards at grocery checkouts and force people to poop on demand so their recent consumption claims can be verified? Should we lower auto speeds to a walking pace and force drivers to have their cars inspected every weekend? Because unlike fighting terrorism, those actions would actually save a measurable percentage of the population.
It's funny to imagine that the NSA hacking tools were most likely stolen from a computer using hacking tools to compromise the computer they were stored on. If so, then it is possible that the NSA could avoid losing their own secrets if they worked with computer security instead of against it.
People say: "there is no such thing as computer privacy/security". And I guess that is true for NSA staff as much as any other citizen. But it's funny when they are actually causing the insecurities to weaken themselves.
It would be very nice if the NSA worked to protect Americans, instead of propagating national insecurity. It's like the NSA wants our computers to be hacked so that they are needed to investigate our private property (without our knowledge or consent) after the fact to see how it was done and catch the hackers, rather then stopping them before damage can be done. A form of job security for them... I guess.
Perl is a language that I heard about, never used and don't know anyone who had used it.
You should look up Mark Zuckerberg. You never heard of him I guess, but he's very social and has lots of friends. He runs a little site I like to call the facebook.
Also, there is an old software project called "Slash". It was written in Perl, but probably ran on websites you never used or heard of.
Wells Fargo reps opened several additional accounts for you. So you are still a customer! Isn't that nice of them?
You can't be part of a class action if they didn't open accounts without permission. So yes, it is nice when they open an account behind your back if you want a portion of the payout.
nobody else was paying much attention to them. This is one of the reasons why many projects end up taking longer than estimated, costing more, and require renovations.
Am I the only one who works LESS when I know I am being observed. If I work in a location with a camera on me, I find it hard to concentrate, even when I am unsure if someone is watching. The idea of being watched at all times makes me mentally observe myself through the eyes of the observer (I think). I become self conscious, which consumes my time and reduces productivity.
First thing I do at my new office computer is tape over all cameras, remove speakers, headsets and microphones.
Am I paranoid to think that being observed all the time is creepy? And am I a bad worker for having reduced output when a creep is nearby and focused on me?
If we appeal to paranoid delusional idiots like some of the fringe people in the EFF, then remote management features will not be in any system, thus even shittier, expensive, remote management tools end up being implemented instead.
I like your suggestion. Remote management features should NOT be in any system. Those tools should be shitty or at least expensive. The idea of putting them in consumer grade products has the intent of anti-consumer and anti-privacy.
I consider open backdoors to be a national security risk. How many of these chips are in government offices, medical and industrial applications.
Get rid of it Intel. Make those who need it, pay for it. And stop making insecure desktop chips. It is not worth the risk to make it easy and cheap for a subset of your market when the result is weak security for the remainder.
If we're going to say this is serious enough to avoid Intel chipsets can we be reasonably assured that the major alternative isn't also as bad in that regard?
Yes. Avoid Intel and choose something else.
One should always avoid a product that is known to be dangerous for an alternative that could be dangerous, but may not be dangerous at all.
Even if your new non-intel chip is Dangerous like Intel chips... at least you are sending a signal to all chip suppliers that making weak chips with backdoors will effect their sales, customers will pay more for security and that it will effect shareholders. And hopefully, the backdoors we don't know about will be removed due to the risk of lower sales and bad news reports like this in case of their discovery.
Having access to a peer network that is beyond government and corporate tampering for profit is a valuable option to have, in case we need it or desire it.
Communication is Intercourse. Private communication is Private Intercourse. Who in their right mind does not desire private intercourse? Are you suggesting that anyone wants to have public intercourse? That's sick. And yet, that is exactly what we have right now. This article is suggesting a solution for all of us who naturally expect privacy during intercourse. Normal people want this all the time, they just don't have the option. Because there are perverts out there, like the government and corporations who want to profit from recording and selling the intercourse you have with people you know and love. They are voyeurs. They are sick. This is a solution. It is something everyone wants, but don't know yet because they never experienced having intercourse without their local authorities, the government, their ISP and everyone in between watching them for fun and profit. Once you experience the freedom of private exchange, you will feel the weight disappear that you didn't even know what on you all the time. Wait until you feel it. You will love private intercourse.
This is a Broadcast site. It is not intended for private communication. People post here to allow everyone to see what they wrote. The article author is not talking about broadcasting. It is talking about private intercourse. Communication between two consenting adults (or even children). This site is not the problem which needs to be fixed. But when you do want to talk to me or anyone else privately, I sure hope you don't do it through slashdot and then complain that there is no privacy.
Please do not confuse private communication with broadcasting.
Even if you try and run your own mail-server with no objections from your ISP
Well I set up an email server without permission. I used a Tor onion address, so as not to require a dedicated IP and my ISP does not know that the traffic is to a mail server.
all the other corporate and academic system admins will already have your IP address blocked due to a ban-list of IP addresses related to dynamic IP ranges
Well there is no dedicated IP for Tor hidden services, so there is nothing that can be blocked on my end. There is no such thing as a list of banned onion addresses. That is how Tor works.
all to block spamming from botnet hosts.
My personal mail server has no spam. Why would I send spam from my home? And botnets cannot find my server because it is an unpublished onion address. They would spend a long time guessing to find it, not to mention the mail server does not use standard mail server ports. It's private... so, why make it easy to find. Only people I talk to need to find it, and I tell them where it is.
Even using the official ISP mailbox, simply involves being forwarded to a third party mailbox service based on Windows servers.
ISP mail is just as public as gmail. That's not a real solution to anything.
Just do what I did. Buy a $100 raspberry pi. Setup debian + mail on a hidden service over Tor. Then create mail accounts for yourself and all the people you talk to. Give them login credentials and show them how to connect. Now when they send email, their ISP doesn't know, you ISP doesn't know, and no one sees the mail while in transit over the Internet. Now you have private email with the ones you care about.
And then also, setup PGP for yourself and them for added security in case their system or your server is physically compromised.
And also setup ejabberd as a hidden service over Tor and use OTR for encryption as an additional level of security. And then you can chat from your phone or computer without anyone knowing or seeing anything.
This solution provides undetectable communication very cheaply. It's all stored on an SD card. It can be moved from one home to another and it just works when you plug it in... since hidden services are not attached to a specific IP.
And finally, encrypt the whole system using LUKS so if someone steals your computer, the entire drive is encrypted and no data can be retrieved without the (long and random) password. And while your at is, add SSH and use strong keys so that you can administer it from afar, add new users and accounts and also shut it down from a distance at any time you suspect it is in danger of being physically accessed.
If everything I said sounds difficult, I assure you that it can all be done from a script in about 1 hour. And an encrypted backup can be made in about 15 mins.
The reality is that you are insecure because you are scared it will be too difficult and you are encourage to feel this way by those who profit from your insecurities.
A decentralized Internet is not for accessing facebook and gmail and etc. It is for direct person to person communication without a middle man. ie: no Google, no Microsoft, no Yahoo, no Twitter. Instead this is for talking privately and directly to the people you know and love... just the way god intended.
If you want to use some public server and broadcast to the world, then why would you expect privacy? This is for everything you do that isn't broadcasting. This is about private intercourse. And don't you think intercourse should be private? Or are you a pervert? Like the government and the communication companies who want to listen in to all your intercourse and share it with their friends for profit and to get their kicks.
This is a good idea and it's about time. Don't listen to the powers that are controlling and monitoring what you say right now. Stand up for what you know is right and stop pretending that we all have to be monitored because a small subset of society might say or do bad things when talking to their own circles. You deserve freedom.
Well, HP should be able to answer that quite easily. I assume that they at least use version control. That should reveal the exact employee who create the logging code. And every person who signed off on the code reviews. And all the chat messages between employees and managers.
It should not be hard for the company to find out what happened... unless the thing was approved by management in some sort of espionage agreement.
Nobody does this by choice. If they have this set up, it is because they have been forced to by management or company policies or because they also support windows users in the office.
Nobody uses windows when they understand Linux very well.
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Energy doesn't get "pushed". Those words were used by "staff writers at News Corp Australia Network" and not scientists. It's similar to those who claim that black holes suck up light and energy like a vacuum.
How would this extra charging actually be accomplished?
I was using an independent VOIP telephone service with my ISP just fine. My ISP started offering their own VOIP service that I did not need. Then a month later my VOIP stopped working. I spoke to my ISP who informed me that I could either upgrade my Internet or pay them a $10/month "QOS" (quality of service) charge to ensure that VOIP would still work. They used traffic shaping to make their own offerings had an unfair advantage.
It happens already in countries that do not have net neutrality. I have another example of this happening directly to me as well, but no time to write it here. It will happen to you and those you love.
You seem to think that broadband is a competitive market. Any company can receive telephone calls, but only a few companies can delivery broadband to your door.
Without free competition, the industry needs regulation.
Which attempts are you referring to?
I was using an independent VOIP service on a basic slow and cheap broadband service from my ISP. The ISP began to offer their own VOIP service. The ISP forced me to upgrade to a faster more expensive broadband service for a trial. After the trial ended, I requested to return to my original plan. Once back on basic broadband, my VOIP no longer worked. I could hear voices all backwards, like the packets were being mixed and sent in improper order. When I spoke to the ISP, they told me that I would either need to upgrade my plan or pay an additional monthly fee to use my VOIP over basic broadband. They assured me that they had not changed anything. I know they lied, because I reached out to others online and found that they were traffic shaping data for others too and blocking voice calls that were previous and should now be working. VOIP is not a high-bandwidth service. It is about latency and that can easily be manipulated.
This is my personal story and I approve it.
Without net neutrality, ISP's will shape your traffic to guarantee that profits flow through them even when the service has nothing to do with them.
ISPs would have you believe that they bring you twitter, facebook, youtube, etc. And you can bet that whatever the new thing is that arrives over your internet connection in the future will require additional fees to receive it.
It sounds like you spent a lot of time thinking about how you can justify speaking inappropriately in group venues. And you defend it by claiming others offend you and you did nothing to stop it. Are you saying people should not stand up for themselves because you don't stand up for yourself?
Just because you think something is ok does not mean that others who disagree are simply wrong. If what they claim is true, it is hostile. And if employee is caught pressuring another employee to take drugs, then they should fired on the spot.
Either these ladies are lying, or these managers are complete asses. There is no option where this is true and it is ok.
No. You can't support legacy software forever. If your customers choose to stay with it past it's notified EOL then they are SOL.
You're right. It is another reason to use Open Source and avoid Microsoft products.
In the open source world, only u decide when its EOL and your SOL.
My post was a rant. But I am tired of seeing people correct spelling, grammar and incorrect phrases here on slashdot. And this article is entirely about that. I am sick of reading someone's comment only to see someone replying with nothing of use but to try to raise themselves above by belittling another person. If someone makes a spelling mistake and I noticed it then I don't need someone else repeating it. And if I never noticed the spelling error, why do I need someone to point out the flaw in a response that was entirely perfect when I read it? There is so much wasted time in grammar and spelling, when we could be sharing and thinking about ideas instead of drilling arbitrary rules and manners into others as a tool of classism.
Professional life requires the ability to effectively communicate to a large audience.
The large audience uses "u" in text. The large audience receives the message by chat/text. It's the future of communication. A stuffy professor can get mad about the future or they could realize that they will not be the future and instead teach what will be used rather than what has been used.
I can't spell worth a dam. Back in the 80's I told my teacher that memorization was not necessary, because a computer would do it for me. That turned out to be true, so it doesn't matter. Right now, slashdot highlights my misspellings for me. And regardless of whether I use their, there or they're properly, if my receiver understands then I just don't care if it's "right". What matters is tailoring your message to the audience. The future audience will use some form of computer based chat and you can bet the text input will be "u" and not "you". Or a computer will take my text and convert it to whatever grammar, spelling or even language the receiver prefers.
The odds of being killed by a terrorist are pretty damned low. However, this doesn't mean that we should allow those odds to go up.
Yes we should allow those odds to go up. The real killer is poor eating habits and driving cars. Most of those deaths are entirely needless. Should we have armed guards at grocery checkouts and force people to poop on demand so their recent consumption claims can be verified? Should we lower auto speeds to a walking pace and force drivers to have their cars inspected every weekend? Because unlike fighting terrorism, those actions would actually save a measurable percentage of the population.
It's funny to imagine that the NSA hacking tools were most likely stolen from a computer using hacking tools to compromise the computer they were stored on. If so, then it is possible that the NSA could avoid losing their own secrets if they worked with computer security instead of against it.
People say: "there is no such thing as computer privacy/security". And I guess that is true for NSA staff as much as any other citizen. But it's funny when they are actually causing the insecurities to weaken themselves.
It would be very nice if the NSA worked to protect Americans, instead of propagating national insecurity. It's like the NSA wants our computers to be hacked so that they are needed to investigate our private property (without our knowledge or consent) after the fact to see how it was done and catch the hackers, rather then stopping them before damage can be done. A form of job security for them... I guess.
Perl is a language that I heard about, never used and don't know anyone who had used it.
You should look up Mark Zuckerberg. You never heard of him I guess, but he's very social and has lots of friends. He runs a little site I like to call the facebook.
Also, there is an old software project called "Slash". It was written in Perl, but probably ran on websites you never used or heard of.
Wells Fargo reps opened several additional accounts for you. So you are still a customer! Isn't that nice of them?
You can't be part of a class action if they didn't open accounts without permission. So yes, it is nice when they open an account behind your back if you want a portion of the payout.
nobody else was paying much attention to them. This is one of the reasons why many projects end up taking longer than estimated, costing more, and require renovations.
Am I the only one who works LESS when I know I am being observed. If I work in a location with a camera on me, I find it hard to concentrate, even when I am unsure if someone is watching. The idea of being watched at all times makes me mentally observe myself through the eyes of the observer (I think). I become self conscious, which consumes my time and reduces productivity.
First thing I do at my new office computer is tape over all cameras, remove speakers, headsets and microphones.
Am I paranoid to think that being observed all the time is creepy? And am I a bad worker for having reduced output when a creep is nearby and focused on me?
If we appeal to paranoid delusional idiots like some of the fringe people in the EFF, then remote management features will not be in any system, thus even shittier, expensive, remote management tools end up being implemented instead.
I like your suggestion. Remote management features should NOT be in any system. Those tools should be shitty or at least expensive. The idea of putting them in consumer grade products has the intent of anti-consumer and anti-privacy.
I consider open backdoors to be a national security risk. How many of these chips are in government offices, medical and industrial applications.
Get rid of it Intel. Make those who need it, pay for it. And stop making insecure desktop chips. It is not worth the risk to make it easy and cheap for a subset of your market when the result is weak security for the remainder.
If we're going to say this is serious enough to avoid Intel chipsets can we be reasonably assured that the major alternative isn't also as bad in that regard?
Yes. Avoid Intel and choose something else.
One should always avoid a product that is known to be dangerous for an alternative that could be dangerous, but may not be dangerous at all.
Even if your new non-intel chip is Dangerous like Intel chips... at least you are sending a signal to all chip suppliers that making weak chips with backdoors will effect their sales, customers will pay more for security and that it will effect shareholders. And hopefully, the backdoors we don't know about will be removed due to the risk of lower sales and bad news reports like this in case of their discovery.
Do you think businesses should be switching to biometric passwords?
No
Yes. It's all about you and your fear of everyone who isn't like you.
Having access to a peer network that is beyond government and corporate tampering for profit is a valuable option to have, in case we need it or desire it.
Communication is Intercourse. Private communication is Private Intercourse. Who in their right mind does not desire private intercourse? Are you suggesting that anyone wants to have public intercourse? That's sick. And yet, that is exactly what we have right now. This article is suggesting a solution for all of us who naturally expect privacy during intercourse. Normal people want this all the time, they just don't have the option. Because there are perverts out there, like the government and corporations who want to profit from recording and selling the intercourse you have with people you know and love. They are voyeurs. They are sick. This is a solution. It is something everyone wants, but don't know yet because they never experienced having intercourse without their local authorities, the government, their ISP and everyone in between watching them for fun and profit. Once you experience the freedom of private exchange, you will feel the weight disappear that you didn't even know what on you all the time. Wait until you feel it. You will love private intercourse.
This is a Broadcast site. It is not intended for private communication. People post here to allow everyone to see what they wrote. The article author is not talking about broadcasting. It is talking about private intercourse. Communication between two consenting adults (or even children). This site is not the problem which needs to be fixed. But when you do want to talk to me or anyone else privately, I sure hope you don't do it through slashdot and then complain that there is no privacy.
Please do not confuse private communication with broadcasting.
Yes yes. You got it right. Anyone who contradicts you doesn't not understand the article.
Even if you try and run your own mail-server with no objections from your ISP
Well I set up an email server without permission. I used a Tor onion address, so as not to require a dedicated IP and my ISP does not know that the traffic is to a mail server.
all the other corporate and academic system admins will already have your IP address blocked due to a ban-list of IP addresses related to dynamic IP ranges
Well there is no dedicated IP for Tor hidden services, so there is nothing that can be blocked on my end. There is no such thing as a list of banned onion addresses. That is how Tor works.
all to block spamming from botnet hosts.
My personal mail server has no spam. Why would I send spam from my home? And botnets cannot find my server because it is an unpublished onion address. They would spend a long time guessing to find it, not to mention the mail server does not use standard mail server ports. It's private... so, why make it easy to find. Only people I talk to need to find it, and I tell them where it is.
Even using the official ISP mailbox, simply involves being forwarded to a third party mailbox service based on Windows servers.
ISP mail is just as public as gmail. That's not a real solution to anything.
Just do what I did. Buy a $100 raspberry pi. Setup debian + mail on a hidden service over Tor. Then create mail accounts for yourself and all the people you talk to. Give them login credentials and show them how to connect. Now when they send email, their ISP doesn't know, you ISP doesn't know, and no one sees the mail while in transit over the Internet. Now you have private email with the ones you care about.
And then also, setup PGP for yourself and them for added security in case their system or your server is physically compromised.
And also setup ejabberd as a hidden service over Tor and use OTR for encryption as an additional level of security. And then you can chat from your phone or computer without anyone knowing or seeing anything.
This solution provides undetectable communication very cheaply. It's all stored on an SD card. It can be moved from one home to another and it just works when you plug it in... since hidden services are not attached to a specific IP.
And finally, encrypt the whole system using LUKS so if someone steals your computer, the entire drive is encrypted and no data can be retrieved without the (long and random) password. And while your at is, add SSH and use strong keys so that you can administer it from afar, add new users and accounts and also shut it down from a distance at any time you suspect it is in danger of being physically accessed.
If everything I said sounds difficult, I assure you that it can all be done from a script in about 1 hour. And an encrypted backup can be made in about 15 mins.
The reality is that you are insecure because you are scared it will be too difficult and you are encourage to feel this way by those who profit from your insecurities.
No. Your parent had it right. You have it wrong.
A decentralized Internet is not for accessing facebook and gmail and etc. It is for direct person to person communication without a middle man. ie: no Google, no Microsoft, no Yahoo, no Twitter. Instead this is for talking privately and directly to the people you know and love... just the way god intended.
If you want to use some public server and broadcast to the world, then why would you expect privacy? This is for everything you do that isn't broadcasting. This is about private intercourse. And don't you think intercourse should be private? Or are you a pervert? Like the government and the communication companies who want to listen in to all your intercourse and share it with their friends for profit and to get their kicks.
This is a good idea and it's about time. Don't listen to the powers that are controlling and monitoring what you say right now. Stand up for what you know is right and stop pretending that we all have to be monitored because a small subset of society might say or do bad things when talking to their own circles. You deserve freedom.
...carving out that niche for themselves in a bid to stay relevant.
By doing this, they are admitting that they are irrelevant. Imagine a music awards show saying they will only award artists who produce a vinyl copy.
Perhaps instead of trying to for relevance, they should use their brand to move with the market and find alternate profit models.
Well, HP should be able to answer that quite easily. I assume that they at least use version control. That should reveal the exact employee who create the logging code. And every person who signed off on the code reviews. And all the chat messages between employees and managers.
It should not be hard for the company to find out what happened... unless the thing was approved by management in some sort of espionage agreement.
Bull.
Nobody does this by choice. If they have this set up, it is because they have been forced to by management or company policies or because they also support windows users in the office.
Nobody uses windows when they understand Linux very well.