That it is OUR health data... and not theirs. If *I* want to post my health info to google, I should be able to. I should be able to obtain my own data relatively easily and painlessly (aside from whatever the doctor did to me, I mean!) and I shouldn't have to go through the whole battery of duplicate tests everytime I go to a different doctor.
I don't exactly want just anybody to be able to get to MY data either... But I trust google with it a lot more than I trust my insurance company!
No matter how this all pans out... I just want to have access to all of it myself, not locked up in some doctor's storage shed, or some insurance company's tape archive..
It's MY data... give it to ME, and let ME decide what to do with it. If I leave it out in the open, and the insurance company decides to charge me more because of something *I* allowed them to read, or if *I* lose info, and have to duplicate a bunch of tests.. at least it will be *MY* fault...
Youtube tolerated the illegal hosting of copyrighted content with the intention of profiting from it. They abdicated their responsibility to moderate the site in an attempt to avoid litigation afterward.
The trouble with you statement is simple, really. It is NOT youtube's job to police the site for copyrighted material. It is ALL copyrighted. It is the responsibility of the copyright holders to notify youtube of content which they did not authorize to be placed there. (At which point youtube is responsible for removing the content, or disputing the claim under fair use or other reasons they may be allowed to continue to host the content.) Not the other way around.
Users in a business generally have very little if any incentive to follow any security policy that does not happen automatically, without any intervention on their part.
It is not their data, not their computer, and generally not their problem. If something goes wrong... they might have to move to another desk for a little while, while "the computer guy" "fixes" everything for them. They might even get a slap on the wrist for not following policy... But generally, the "users" have no reason to interrupt their busy day with any security policy that interrupts their busy schedule (of facebook and slashdot browsing). When malware hits, it is inevitably not their fault, but rather the fault of those same "computer guys" who have to go in and fix it.
the ones with the brightest students? but they have it easy, their students are interested in classes and want to learn.
Actually, as any one of the bright people here on slashdot could tell you... The smart kids tend to be a big PITA to teach. At least in the current setting where teachers have to teach not just to the test, but to the lowest common denominator for the test...
I think step one is to actually admit that some people are smarter than others, and divide up the classes accordingly. This goes completely against the "everyone is special" (we are all as dumb as the dumbest person) nobody fails, don't hurt their self-esteem preachings of the past decade or so, but so be it.
so then the ones with the most problematic students? not necessarily, a terrible teacher would stand out less amongst low-performing students.
Actually, a terrible teacher would quit first, being entirely unable to handle the "problem-childs"
And on my personal rant... From kindergarten forward, school is and has been absolutely flawed. It is completely backwards. They tell you what the answers are, then they tell you what the question being solved was. Most solutions in life were in response to a problem, not the other way around. Heck, most solutions were found while trying to solve a completely different problem... There is no room for any discovery, curiosity, inventiveness or imagination. Math has nothing to do with science. Geography has nothing to do with history, and none of them better take any money away from the football team. If they were related, why are they in seperate sections of the test?
Present the kids with a problem. Guide them to the path to discover the solution. Point out when they stray too far from that path, but realize that it is a winding path through a think wood and be patient. Instill in the children the wonder and awe which inspired you to the subject. (You didn't become a teacher for the money, did you? Then you really don't deserve to be teaching my child in any subject, especially math...) If you can inspire that sense of awe in 2% of your students, rouse some bit of curiosity in another 10% and cajole another 70% of your students into coming along for the ride, even sitting in the back seat watching the view go by... Then you are a good teacher.
I'm sure the price has come down some since this article was published...
For those too lazy or paranoid to read the link... It describes how backblaze builds "cheap" 67 TB storage boxes for use in their online backup service. All the hardware specs are open sourced and freely available. They also talk a little bit about the software for managing all of the spce they have, but not in any real detail...
Notice in my original post, I never lambasted the judge... just the idea that a war memorial, in a public place, commissioned by the public (er... gov't in this case, but isn't that supposed to be the same here?)
Given those circumstances... shouldn't it be a reasonable assumption that the rights for the memorial also be placed in the public trust?
I agree... Bad contract from the start that let this slip through.
Silly me... I thought the point of a memorial was for it to be placed in the trust of (or outright given to) the public... That being the case, how does this decision affect other images of public art?
This place has something cooler already (in the UK at least) Just insert your SIM card, and away you go... Better price too... It also has built in mp3/video player, and a camera...
I'm going to jump to avoid the frying pan, and land squarely in the fire, I'm afraid, but...
Forget the distribution question... there are lots of them out there, most of them more than suitable.
The question for non-techie people is really more about whether to use KDE or Gnome... KDE is generally more Windows-like ("start" button, task bar, system tray, widget placement) and Gnome (esp. in Ubuntu) is more mac-like (minus the dock, but there are solutions to that also)
from there, I'd just say make sure to make/point out the easiest place to find the apps your converts will be interested in. Load up their bookmarks with links to repositories of good, easy to install, easy to use software, etc.
And if you are really looking to convince them to convert, be ready to answer a lot of questions. Make one of the biggest selling points the community, and be the primary representative of the community. (in other words, be a good example. be patient, answer questions, and show them how and where to discover the answers on their own. Don't just say "RTFM" or "Google? HELLO?" )
Great... so it is unlikely to happen in the UK... Cops here in America will be drooling all over as soon as the UK "proves" that this is a good idea. And other countries are even less likely to hold such qualms about it...
Easy, just go to "jailbreaking for dummies dot com" enter you credit card, social security, and bank information. Then download the "MakeYourPhoneCooler.vbs" file to your PC. it will present you with complete directions to download and install the software to your iPhone. FREE WITH EVERY PURCHASE! Banned by Apple! STRIP Poker game!
but here in Las Vegas we have gigabit wireless available at the corporate level at least.
As for the article (...ummm, I mean summary, this is/. where I know better than to RTFA...) I can see some niche uses for this, but not anything that points to "replace Wi-fi" potential... Cubical farms, or any other location where you need to share info with a group of people, but don't want anyone not allowed physical access to the location to have a chance to start poking around.
If you are that serious about security, use wires... with lots of shielding. Properly grounded... with a faraday cage built into the walls... walls which have been acoustically isolated from the outside walls of the building... and... and...
That would be the difference between fabricating the board and designing the board.
When you go buy a Foxconn board, Foxconn engineers designed the board, with the budget market in mind. They likely just took the chipset manufacturer's reference board and started cutting as many corners as they needed to and could get away with to produce a board that would compete solely on price.
When you see Foxconn imprinted on the Apple device, Apple engineers designed the board to their specs, with the specific components they felt they needed to meet their criteria. $40 retail price of the motherboard was definitely not one of Apple's goals in designing the board.
I do realize my statement was an oversimplification.. Exaggeration is a valid way to illustrate an opinion.
Maybe I should clarify a bit... I think news (in general) in the US is so concerned about the ratings (and thus the $$$) that they jump at any press release they feel will be sensational enough to entice the advertisers to their show. American Idol and movie tie-ins are not news. Celebrity scandals in general are not news. They are ratings grabs. Even the legitimate news items tend to be sensationalized for as long as it takes us to get sick of hearing about them, and start watching American Idol just to escape from the constant barrage. That is about the point the news starts running items about American Idol again.
The press is always very quick to tout their necessity to a free society, to speak of the lofty ideals and point out what happens to places without a free press. But they are very willing to set those ideals aside and choose the most money over the greater good they just got done talking about in the last segment.
I work at a TV station, and we had a (failed) news show for a while with the stated goal of "Informing people who don't want to be informed" (seriously.. Don't you wonder why it failed?) Sounds great, but just like everyone else, the stories they ran were entertainment, they just had vegas showgirls and strippers reading the weather... (yes, it was that bad...)
Let me ask it another way... If the "mainstream" news media was doing its' job, would the blogging news sites still be around in anything but niche capacity?
As odd as it sounds, I think that news should not ever be tailored to the "consumer". Telling the people only what they want to hear is just as bad (if not worse) than only telling them the news YOU want them to hear... If I was planning on becoming a repressive regime leader, ruling my country with an iron fist... I would start by telling all of the people all the "news" they wanted to hear.... In-Depth reviews of the latest "Mycountryian Idol", all the sports news they wanted, how wonderful the newest movie blockbuster is (and who the stars are sleeping with!)
Then the populace would be too busy thinking about those silly topics to even notice or care that I had just imposed mandatory impalement sentences for jaywalkers.
Actually, I think the law requires that the carriers include these early termination fees in print no larger than 3 scan lines to remain on screen for no more than 3 frames during any commercial to be aired between the hours of 3:27a-3:28a... As an alternative, it may be included in the microprint of the signature line of any contract signed by the customer.
For communications companies, they are awfully good at not telling you anything they don't want you to pay attention to.
I just wonder why the summary title says "MASSIVE holes..." when the original article "serious".. a bit of bias, perhaps??
More realistically, this is just another security update. Find me an OS that doesn't have them, and for similarly "obvious" or "easily found/fixed" (hindsight and armchair hacking being perfect of course) and I'll either switch right away, or dust off the old TRS-80 from my closet to run it on.
The way I see it, if you have a brain and use it while browsing, you are generally fine. But people are stupid. And if you are going to market your product to stupid people, you need to make sure you do everything you can to minimize the damage stupid people can do to others. (Stupid people generally deserve their own damages...)
Now to start the debate over which company is more in the business of marketing to stupid people...
True enough. Why does an iPhone or the Nexus One cost so much, when a netbook costs so little? Why do Calvin Clien Jeans cost so much when Faded Glory cost so little...
But I also have to agree that the cell system here in the US sucks. You should buy the phone... then choose your carrier... They are separate things. Then the phone manufacturers get to compete on phones, and carriers get to compete on service. The idea scares the hell out of both groups, so it must be good, right?
Me, I have a work phone provided by the company. I amswer it because I have to. I don't particularly want to talk to anyone else on it. My wife has a prepaid unlimited plan. The phones aren't as snazzy, but they are getting better, no contracts, no minutes/data/txt fees etc... just a phone, some cash up front, and the option to pay again later if you liked the service.
Agreed - inform the vendor with all the details. Same day, publicly announce that the vulnerability has been discovered, but with no details. At a specified date (60-90 days later) make full details public.
Amen! I am currently working in engineering, keeping master control going at a TV station... And I would have to think real hard to come up with a system here that does not have redundancy built in. If we went off-air for that amount of time, then God himself had better be signing the paperwork! (Even then it may not help!)
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That it is OUR health data... and not theirs. If *I* want to post my health info to google, I should be able to. I should be able to obtain my own data relatively easily and painlessly (aside from whatever the doctor did to me, I mean!) and I shouldn't have to go through the whole battery of duplicate tests everytime I go to a different doctor.
I don't exactly want just anybody to be able to get to MY data either... But I trust google with it a lot more than I trust my insurance company!
No matter how this all pans out... I just want to have access to all of it myself, not locked up in some doctor's storage shed, or some insurance company's tape archive..
It's MY data... give it to ME, and let ME decide what to do with it. If I leave it out in the open, and the insurance company decides to charge me more because of something *I* allowed them to read, or if *I* lose info, and have to duplicate a bunch of tests.. at least it will be *MY* fault...
Youtube tolerated the illegal hosting of copyrighted content with the intention of profiting from it. They abdicated their responsibility to moderate the site in an attempt to avoid litigation afterward.
The trouble with you statement is simple, really. It is NOT youtube's job to police the site for copyrighted material. It is ALL copyrighted. It is the responsibility of the copyright holders to notify youtube of content which they did not authorize to be placed there. (At which point youtube is responsible for removing the content, or disputing the claim under fair use or other reasons they may be allowed to continue to host the content.) Not the other way around.
How about this one... At least in businesses...
Users in a business generally have very little if any incentive to follow any security policy that does not happen automatically, without any intervention on their part.
It is not their data, not their computer, and generally not their problem. If something goes wrong... they might have to move to another desk for a little while, while "the computer guy" "fixes" everything for them. They might even get a slap on the wrist for not following policy... But generally, the "users" have no reason to interrupt their busy day with any security policy that interrupts their busy schedule (of facebook and slashdot browsing). When malware hits, it is inevitably not their fault, but rather the fault of those same "computer guys" who have to go in and fix it.
Ain't reality a bitch?
who are the best teachers?
the ones with the brightest students? but they have it easy, their students are interested in classes and want to learn.
Actually, as any one of the bright people here on slashdot could tell you... The smart kids tend to be a big PITA to teach. At least in the current setting where teachers have to teach not just to the test, but to the lowest common denominator for the test...
I think step one is to actually admit that some people are smarter than others, and divide up the classes accordingly. This goes completely against the "everyone is special" (we are all as dumb as the dumbest person) nobody fails, don't hurt their self-esteem preachings of the past decade or so, but so be it.
so then the ones with the most problematic students? not necessarily, a terrible teacher would stand out less amongst low-performing students.
Actually, a terrible teacher would quit first, being entirely unable to handle the "problem-childs"
And on my personal rant... From kindergarten forward, school is and has been absolutely flawed. It is completely backwards. They tell you what the answers are, then they tell you what the question being solved was. Most solutions in life were in response to a problem, not the other way around. Heck, most solutions were found while trying to solve a completely different problem... There is no room for any discovery, curiosity, inventiveness or imagination. Math has nothing to do with science. Geography has nothing to do with history, and none of them better take any money away from the football team. If they were related, why are they in seperate sections of the test?
Present the kids with a problem. Guide them to the path to discover the solution. Point out when they stray too far from that path, but realize that it is a winding path through a think wood and be patient. Instill in the children the wonder and awe which inspired you to the subject. (You didn't become a teacher for the money, did you? Then you really don't deserve to be teaching my child in any subject, especially math...) If you can inspire that sense of awe in 2% of your students, rouse some bit of curiosity in another 10% and cajole another 70% of your students into coming along for the ride, even sitting in the back seat watching the view go by... Then you are a good teacher.
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
I'm sure the price has come down some since this article was published...
For those too lazy or paranoid to read the link... It describes how backblaze builds "cheap" 67 TB storage boxes for use in their online backup service. All the hardware specs are open sourced and freely available. They also talk a little bit about the software for managing all of the spce they have, but not in any real detail...
Notice in my original post, I never lambasted the judge... just the idea that a war memorial, in a public place, commissioned by the public (er... gov't in this case, but isn't that supposed to be the same here?)
Given those circumstances... shouldn't it be a reasonable assumption that the rights for the memorial also be placed in the public trust?
I agree... Bad contract from the start that let this slip through.
Silly me... I thought the point of a memorial was for it to be placed in the trust of (or outright given to) the public... That being the case, how does this decision affect other images of public art?
sounds great... Now, how do you plan to keep the kidneys alive outside the body for the 2-3 weeks or so it takes for the infection to be killed off?
This place has something cooler already (in the UK at least) Just insert your SIM card, and away you go... Better price too... It also has built in mp3/video player, and a camera...
I'm going to jump to avoid the frying pan, and land squarely in the fire, I'm afraid, but...
Forget the distribution question... there are lots of them out there, most of them more than suitable.
The question for non-techie people is really more about whether to use KDE or Gnome... KDE is generally more Windows-like ("start" button, task bar, system tray, widget placement) and Gnome (esp. in Ubuntu) is more mac-like (minus the dock, but there are solutions to that also)
from there, I'd just say make sure to make/point out the easiest place to find the apps your converts will be interested in. Load up their bookmarks with links to repositories of good, easy to install, easy to use software, etc.
And if you are really looking to convince them to convert, be ready to answer a lot of questions. Make one of the biggest selling points the community, and be the primary representative of the community. (in other words, be a good example. be patient, answer questions, and show them how and where to discover the answers on their own. Don't just say "RTFM" or "Google? HELLO?" )
Great... so it is unlikely to happen in the UK... Cops here in America will be drooling all over as soon as the UK "proves" that this is a good idea. And other countries are even less likely to hold such qualms about it...
Easy, just go to "jailbreaking for dummies dot com" enter you credit card, social security, and bank information. Then download the "MakeYourPhoneCooler.vbs" file to your PC. it will present you with complete directions to download and install the software to your iPhone. FREE WITH EVERY PURCHASE! Banned by Apple! STRIP Poker game!
...Using state of the art technology...
This is what it would have looked like if the plane had crashed into a school building full of bunny rabbit!
What's that... I couldn't hear you over the crunching of the Doritos I'm eating...
No... really...
but here in Las Vegas we have gigabit wireless available at the corporate level at least.
As for the article (...ummm, I mean summary, this is /. where I know better than to RTFA...) I can see some niche uses for this, but not anything that points to "replace Wi-fi" potential... Cubical farms, or any other location where you need to share info with a group of people, but don't want anyone not allowed physical access to the location to have a chance to start poking around.
If you are that serious about security, use wires... with lots of shielding. Properly grounded... with a faraday cage built into the walls... walls which have been acoustically isolated from the outside walls of the building... and... and...
That would be the difference between fabricating the board and designing the board.
When you go buy a Foxconn board, Foxconn engineers designed the board, with the budget market in mind. They likely just took the chipset manufacturer's reference board and started cutting as many corners as they needed to and could get away with to produce a board that would compete solely on price.
When you see Foxconn imprinted on the Apple device, Apple engineers designed the board to their specs, with the specific components they felt they needed to meet their criteria. $40 retail price of the motherboard was definitely not one of Apple's goals in designing the board.
I do realize my statement was an oversimplification.. Exaggeration is a valid way to illustrate an opinion.
Maybe I should clarify a bit... I think news (in general) in the US is so concerned about the ratings (and thus the $$$) that they jump at any press release they feel will be sensational enough to entice the advertisers to their show. American Idol and movie tie-ins are not news. Celebrity scandals in general are not news. They are ratings grabs. Even the legitimate news items tend to be sensationalized for as long as it takes us to get sick of hearing about them, and start watching American Idol just to escape from the constant barrage. That is about the point the news starts running items about American Idol again.
The press is always very quick to tout their necessity to a free society, to speak of the lofty ideals and point out what happens to places without a free press. But they are very willing to set those ideals aside and choose the most money over the greater good they just got done talking about in the last segment.
I work at a TV station, and we had a (failed) news show for a while with the stated goal of "Informing people who don't want to be informed" (seriously.. Don't you wonder why it failed?) Sounds great, but just like everyone else, the stories they ran were entertainment, they just had vegas showgirls and strippers reading the weather... (yes, it was that bad...)
Let me ask it another way... If the "mainstream" news media was doing its' job, would the blogging news sites still be around in anything but niche capacity?
As odd as it sounds, I think that news should not ever be tailored to the "consumer". Telling the people only what they want to hear is just as bad (if not worse) than only telling them the news YOU want them to hear... If I was planning on becoming a repressive regime leader, ruling my country with an iron fist... I would start by telling all of the people all the "news" they wanted to hear.... In-Depth reviews of the latest "Mycountryian Idol", all the sports news they wanted, how wonderful the newest movie blockbuster is (and who the stars are sleeping with!)
Then the populace would be too busy thinking about those silly topics to even notice or care that I had just imposed mandatory impalement sentences for jaywalkers.
Actually, I think the law requires that the carriers include these early termination fees in print no larger than 3 scan lines to remain on screen for no more than 3 frames during any commercial to be aired between the hours of 3:27a-3:28a... As an alternative, it may be included in the microprint of the signature line of any contract signed by the customer.
For communications companies, they are awfully good at not telling you anything they don't want you to pay attention to.
Who owns the copyright on a film shot entirely by chimps?
I know, I know... Same people that own all the other copyrights... BFC (Big Faceless Corp.) But ignoring reality, it is an interesting question...
I just wonder why the summary title says "MASSIVE holes..." when the original article "serious".. a bit of bias, perhaps??
More realistically, this is just another security update. Find me an OS that doesn't have them, and for similarly "obvious" or "easily found/fixed" (hindsight and armchair hacking being perfect of course) and I'll either switch right away, or dust off the old TRS-80 from my closet to run it on.
The way I see it, if you have a brain and use it while browsing, you are generally fine. But people are stupid. And if you are going to market your product to stupid people, you need to make sure you do everything you can to minimize the damage stupid people can do to others. (Stupid people generally deserve their own damages...)
Now to start the debate over which company is more in the business of marketing to stupid people...
True enough. Why does an iPhone or the Nexus One cost so much, when a netbook costs so little? Why do Calvin Clien Jeans cost so much when Faded Glory cost so little...
But I also have to agree that the cell system here in the US sucks. You should buy the phone... then choose your carrier... They are separate things. Then the phone manufacturers get to compete on phones, and carriers get to compete on service. The idea scares the hell out of both groups, so it must be good, right?
Me, I have a work phone provided by the company. I amswer it because I have to. I don't particularly want to talk to anyone else on it. My wife has a prepaid unlimited plan. The phones aren't as snazzy, but they are getting better, no contracts, no minutes/data/txt fees etc... just a phone, some cash up front, and the option to pay again later if you liked the service.
Agreed - inform the vendor with all the details. Same day, publicly announce that the vulnerability has been discovered, but with no details. At a specified date (60-90 days later) make full details public.
Sounds so simple, doesn't it?
True standards will only be set by the end users. If nobody buys it, is it a standard?
If there are 1000 Xvid copies around for every BD copy sold... which one is the standard?
Amen! I am currently working in engineering, keeping master control going at a TV station... And I would have to think real hard to come up with a system here that does not have redundancy built in. If we went off-air for that amount of time, then God himself had better be signing the paperwork! (Even then it may not help!)