I realize this may draw alot of IANAL comments, but can someone cite some code (any state) that actually requires a warrant to hand over private/confidential data?
We do this all the time, it's just an easy way to make sure the person is a good fit if we're not sure. A previous employer of mine did the '90 days' contract, where you'd be an employee but could be let go without cause in the first 90 days.
This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas ever. Anyone who actually surfs will realize that this is an idiotic idea and a contradiction to the peaceful and overall concept of surfing.
I realize this may be marked as a troll, but the plain fact is that lots of people surf to get away from computers, cell phones, etc.
Bruce Sterling has written some decent material in the past, but I have to say the link to his Blog demonstrates a complete lack of an ability to carry on a conversation. Reading it makes it sound like Lovelock's argument is constantly trailed by smartass remarks and links, with never a solid argument to be found by Sterling.
For God's sake, this is Sterling's blog? I would expect a paragraph AT LEAST at the end to mark Bruce's idea or assertion, but instead his page/article left me more confused and with the impression Sterling just hates Lovelock instead of having a good counter-point.
Ben & Jerry's has been pretty active on the environmental front, and I think they will probably be willing to eat the costs of initial deployment by signing a contract with the manufacturer.
While not a GreenPeace person, I am happy to see alternative technologies that can do a 1:1 replacement for less environment-friendly technologies. To me, this falls in line with socketed flourescent bulbs, hybrid cars, and low-water clothes washers.
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There are numerous kinds of sub enclosures, and all of them (hopefully) contribute to the acoustic properties of the subwoofer itself. As for the terminology, it's like calling the SPL competition cars loaded with subs 'a big subwoofer', or calling a desktop pc case the 'cpu'. It infers lack of knowledge on the subject at hand, and is only correct because most people identify it with the name, proper or not.
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I hate to nit-pick, but it's a large, elaborate enclosure and not a huge subwoofer itself. Slightly more practical is the "Cult of the Infinitely Baffled".
1.) Job predictability/stability 2.) Pay 3.) Time investment required to keep #1 & #2
1.) I need to have control over my job as much as possible. Some jobs, such as numerous public sector jobs, depend on many factors in which you performance is rarely one of them. Spectacular performers should get more pay or bonuses, this is not a new idea.
2.) How much pay do I get? Can I maintain or improve my lifestyle and give a good environment to my family and children?
3.) How many hours do I need to pull in a week to get the pay I need? This is not so much a bare minimum, but a realistic number. Some people are willing to work 70hrs/wk in order to double their pay, some are not.
This isn't new, other than the updated number of people they're watching. Not reading the ToS of a PVR is like not reading the EULA for your OS. Besides, unless you're ashamed of what you watch (jerry springer, pr0n, etc.) then you can rest assured you are voting for the shows you watch. They'll know that I didn't start watching the superbowl until the 2nd quarter, and that I fast-forwarded through the dumb commercials, and replayed the good ones. I give it 2 years before the Tivos are the popular version of the Neilsen ratings box.
AFAIK, the signal strength metric from almost any card is different from any other, making it a highly arbitrary number from vendor to vendor. With that said, Kismet (www.kismetwireless.net) offers the ability to store signal strength and do some nifty triangulation with GPS.
I am interested to see if the product in question can be used indoors for traingulation. Without a usable gps signal, you'd have to calibrate known locations and that seems out of the range of the Dark Star's ability.
FWIW, I spoke at ToorCon in San Diego this last fall on the subject of using a directional antenna and a fluxgate (electronic) compass. We did some coding and quite a bit of hardware hacking, and we didn't get far because one sensor cost around $1400 in raw materials and hardware tests to get one built.
Google for Cassandra or e-mail me if you're still interested.
You can draw a line between ethical and unethical use. Proper DRM draws the line between fair use and piracy.
You can only pirate PS2 games with a modchip, but there are other, less practical ways to play imported games.
MP3's aren't automatically illegal. Trading them in large volumes is.
Linux users refusing to license CSS code for DVD players because of licensing issues is a political issue based on licensing, and is a new argument.
Again, you prove my point!
"though I say that with maybe 1/3rd of my MP3 collection being non-fair use."
Show me someone whining about fair use and I can show you someone violating copyright law. You're in no position to argue as long as you violate the existing laws.
"They want to cut out MythTV, Tivo, splitters, H-cards, and cable descramblers. It's becoming too easy to get at the current data, so they want a change."
I think you're way off for comparing pirate-style technologies along with legitimate ones. H-Cards and cable box descramblers were never about getting access to data or information you had purchased. Anything relating in the defense of H-Cards and Descramblers is legaleze to justify theft. Tivo, MythTV, splitters, etc are making use of media/information that has been legitimately purchased.
DRM as a way to control music is entirely justified. Many people seem to be ok with some level of DRM, but I haven't met a person that trusts microsoft to do it.
As far as 'fair use' is concerned, Apple seems to have taken a decent approach- you can burn endless cd's of AAC-encoded itunes-store songs, but you can only have it active on 3 pc's at a time. That sounds pretty flexible to me.
Show me someone who rants about fair use, and I will show you someone who 99.9% of the time owns a ps2 hacked to play illegal copies, has gigs of non-fair use mp3's, or watches copied dvd's from friends.
I never made an argument against tapes, but simply stated why ide drives for spinning disk backups are *appealing* over tapes. First off, read the fscking post when I talk about *Arrays* of 300GB disks, not a single one. Secondly, a fast disk array (read: large cache, fast controller/cpu) can smoke the shit out of a tape array, ESPECIALLY DURING RESTORES.
Reliability is less of an issue in RAID 0+1 environments, and until you have seen spinning disk backups in action don't whine about crappy ide drives. I have used spinning disks to queue data for writing to tape (and then sent to a vault) for about 2 years, and it works great. the MTBF means you have to occasionally replace a disk, but it's better than a tape drive going south and taking a backup tape with it.
The extended advantage is that very little proprietary hardware is needed other than the ide->fiber disk enclosures to make this all work, as to some vendors expensive-ass tape library. Remember, tapes are consumable at an arguably much higher rate than tapes!
It's not so much the amount of storage space that makes spinning disk backups appealing over tapes, as much as the backup speed. A RAID of IDE disks can shrink the backup window to hours what might have taken nearly a 24 hour block to complete.
Spinning disk backups biggest hurdles thus far seem to be corporate perception of IDE drives and their *current* lack of portability over tapes. Off-site replication fixes the latter.
Who needs 300GB disks? People who have lots of video data for one, and that's just for personal use. Raw DV footage eats space for lunch. Spinning Disk Backups and Nearline Storage eat also these things up. The 300GB models have been in the pipe for almost a year, and they mean huge capacity differences when you're talking an 80-disk RAId array.
Beside those obvious uses, these enable serious DVD collectors to do what the MPAA has been hoping we never think up: watching DVD's from hard disk, with no loss of quality. You can do it with existing technology, it's just not feasible for those with large DVD collections.
Cool! All you need to do is swipe a sensor from the side of the road, reverse engineer the signals in your garage, and sniff your neighbor's/enemies' signature, and you can bankrupt them with traffic tickets!
There's a reason human beings do this in the US- one because it's always open to interpretation, and two- we have to have a job like traffic cop for the jerks in our society.
Great, so long as you don't care about people using your mail account. Encrypting the actual mail is almost an afterthought- it's encrypting the login id and password that matter the most. POP sends the password in plaintext, so you need some kind of an encryption scheme to keep that from being pulled down and used against you.
You can sniff encrypted traffic, crack the WEP key, and easily see what MAC addresses are in use. With that info you can easily have a list of MAC addresses to impersonate.
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I realize this may draw alot of IANAL comments, but can someone cite some code (any state) that actually requires a warrant to hand over private/confidential data?
We do this all the time, it's just an easy way to make sure the person is a good fit if we're not sure. A previous employer of mine did the '90 days' contract, where you'd be an employee but could be let go without cause in the first 90 days.
This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas ever. Anyone who actually surfs will realize that this is an idiotic idea and a contradiction to the peaceful and overall concept of surfing.
I realize this may be marked as a troll, but the plain fact is that lots of people surf to get away from computers, cell phones, etc.
Bruce Sterling has written some decent material in the past, but I have to say the link to his Blog demonstrates a complete lack of an ability to carry on a conversation. Reading it makes it sound like Lovelock's argument is constantly trailed by smartass remarks and links, with never a solid argument to be found by Sterling.
For God's sake, this is Sterling's blog? I would expect a paragraph AT LEAST at the end to mark Bruce's idea or assertion, but instead his page/article left me more confused and with the impression Sterling just hates Lovelock instead of having a good counter-point.
Ben & Jerry's has been pretty active on the environmental front, and I think they will probably be willing to eat the costs of initial deployment by signing a contract with the manufacturer. While not a GreenPeace person, I am happy to see alternative technologies that can do a 1:1 replacement for less environment-friendly technologies. To me, this falls in line with socketed flourescent bulbs, hybrid cars, and low-water clothes washers.
There are numerous kinds of sub enclosures, and all of them (hopefully) contribute to the acoustic properties of the subwoofer itself. As for the terminology, it's like calling the SPL competition cars loaded with subs 'a big subwoofer', or calling a desktop pc case the 'cpu'. It infers lack of knowledge on the subject at hand, and is only correct because most people identify it with the name, proper or not.
I hate to nit-pick, but it's a large, elaborate enclosure and not a huge subwoofer itself. Slightly more practical is the "Cult of the Infinitely Baffled".
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It would be interesting to know how far out an implimentation of such a protocol on a large scale is.
1.) Job predictability/stability
2.) Pay
3.) Time investment required to keep #1 & #2
1.) I need to have control over my job as much as possible. Some jobs, such as numerous public sector jobs, depend on many factors in which you performance is rarely one of them. Spectacular performers should get more pay or bonuses, this is not a new idea.
2.) How much pay do I get? Can I maintain or improve my lifestyle and give a good environment to my family and children?
3.) How many hours do I need to pull in a week to get the pay I need? This is not so much a bare minimum, but a realistic number. Some people are willing to work 70hrs/wk in order to double their pay, some are not.
The fox was nominated to the board that oversees the henhouse.
This isn't new, other than the updated number of people they're watching. Not reading the ToS of a PVR is like not reading the EULA for your OS. Besides, unless you're ashamed of what you watch (jerry springer, pr0n, etc.) then you can rest assured you are voting for the shows you watch. They'll know that I didn't start watching the superbowl until the 2nd quarter, and that I fast-forwarded through the dumb commercials, and replayed the good ones. I give it 2 years before the Tivos are the popular version of the Neilsen ratings box.
AFAIK, the signal strength metric from almost any card is different from any other, making it a highly arbitrary number from vendor to vendor. With that said, Kismet (www.kismetwireless.net) offers the ability to store signal strength and do some nifty triangulation with GPS.
I am interested to see if the product in question can be used indoors for traingulation. Without a usable gps signal, you'd have to calibrate known locations and that seems out of the range of the Dark Star's ability.
FWIW, I spoke at ToorCon in San Diego this last fall on the subject of using a directional antenna and a fluxgate (electronic) compass. We did some coding and quite a bit of hardware hacking, and we didn't get far because one sensor cost around $1400 in raw materials and hardware tests to get one built.
Google for Cassandra or e-mail me if you're still interested.
Did you go to see it in San Marcos? I might have been there...
You can draw a line between ethical and unethical use. Proper DRM draws the line between fair use and piracy.
You can only pirate PS2 games with a modchip, but there are other, less practical ways to play imported games.
MP3's aren't automatically illegal. Trading them in large volumes is.
Linux users refusing to license CSS code for DVD players because of licensing issues is a political issue based on licensing, and is a new argument.
Again, you prove my point!
"though I say that with maybe 1/3rd of my MP3 collection being non-fair use."
Show me someone whining about fair use and I can show you someone violating copyright law. You're in no position to argue as long as you violate the existing laws.
"They want to cut out MythTV, Tivo, splitters, H-cards, and cable descramblers. It's becoming too easy to get at the current data, so they want a change."
I think you're way off for comparing pirate-style technologies along with legitimate ones. H-Cards and cable box descramblers were never about getting access to data or information you had purchased. Anything relating in the defense of H-Cards and Descramblers is legaleze to justify theft. Tivo, MythTV, splitters, etc are making use of media/information that has been legitimately purchased.
DRM as a way to control music is entirely justified. Many people seem to be ok with some level of DRM, but I haven't met a person that trusts microsoft to do it.
As far as 'fair use' is concerned, Apple seems to have taken a decent approach- you can burn endless cd's of AAC-encoded itunes-store songs, but you can only have it active on 3 pc's at a time. That sounds pretty flexible to me.
Show me someone who rants about fair use, and I will show you someone who 99.9% of the time owns a ps2 hacked to play illegal copies, has gigs of non-fair use mp3's, or watches copied dvd's from friends.
I never made an argument against tapes, but simply stated why ide drives for spinning disk backups are *appealing* over tapes. First off, read the fscking post when I talk about *Arrays* of 300GB disks, not a single one. Secondly, a fast disk array (read: large cache, fast controller/cpu) can smoke the shit out of a tape array, ESPECIALLY DURING RESTORES.
Reliability is less of an issue in RAID 0+1 environments, and until you have seen spinning disk backups in action don't whine about crappy ide drives. I have used spinning disks to queue data for writing to tape (and then sent to a vault) for about 2 years, and it works great. the MTBF means you have to occasionally replace a disk, but it's better than a tape drive going south and taking a backup tape with it.
The extended advantage is that very little proprietary hardware is needed other than the ide->fiber disk enclosures to make this all work, as to some vendors expensive-ass tape library. Remember, tapes are consumable at an arguably much higher rate than tapes!
It's not so much the amount of storage space that makes spinning disk backups appealing over tapes, as much as the backup speed. A RAID of IDE disks can shrink the backup window to hours what might have taken nearly a 24 hour block to complete. Spinning disk backups biggest hurdles thus far seem to be corporate perception of IDE drives and their *current* lack of portability over tapes. Off-site replication fixes the latter.
Who needs 300GB disks? People who have lots of video data for one, and that's just for personal use. Raw DV footage eats space for lunch. Spinning Disk Backups and Nearline Storage eat also these things up. The 300GB models have been in the pipe for almost a year, and they mean huge capacity differences when you're talking an 80-disk RAId array.
Beside those obvious uses, these enable serious DVD collectors to do what the MPAA has been hoping we never think up: watching DVD's from hard disk, with no loss of quality. You can do it with existing technology, it's just not feasible for those with large DVD collections.
Maybe you could start with something like this.
A cool picture is here.
Cool! All you need to do is swipe a sensor from the side of the road, reverse engineer the signals in your garage, and sniff your neighbor's/enemies' signature, and you can bankrupt them with traffic tickets!
There's a reason human beings do this in the US- one because it's always open to interpretation, and two- we have to have a job like traffic cop for the jerks in our society.
No, we're not the same as the shmoo group.
hybrid
Great, so long as you don't care about people using your mail account. Encrypting the actual mail is almost an afterthought- it's encrypting the login id and password that matter the most. POP sends the password in plaintext, so you need some kind of an encryption scheme to keep that from being pulled down and used against you.
You can sniff encrypted traffic, crack the WEP key, and easily see what MAC addresses are in use. With that info you can easily have a list of MAC addresses to impersonate.
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