I wouldn't trust this article either, it reads like a press release from Tokyo Electric Co. TEC have proven to be untrustworthy as they refuse to have best practice at the centre of their company doctrine
Japan has raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to seven to put it on a par with the Chernobyl accident 25 years ago as engineers battled a fire at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The BBC certainly isn't doing it's own investigative reporting these days...
If you are worried about privacy, then you shouldn't use outsourced webmail at all.
I was astounded to find out the other day that on yahoo mail servers, the word delete doesn't mean what you think it means. It just ticks a bit in a db field which prevents the email showing in your inbox and being counted in your quota.
However, the yahoo coders were too incompetent to leave the emails out of the search function.
Imagine my surprise when I performed a search recently, and emails I had deleted and emptied from my trash in 2007 showed up!!!
Are those emails considered abandoned (since I marked them as deleted) and available under this new legislation? There is no privacy in the cloud.
I seem to be seeing more and more stories like this, where politicians make incredibly ill-conceived laws due to their ignorance of technical detail.
I don't know if it is the same in france, but in my country, the parliaments seem to be loaded chock full of former lawyers and accountants, and not much else. This creates a massive blind spot in the outlook of the people governing us.
Quite frankly, they are not up to the task of designing law for the current age. The issues facing the world currently seem to be overwhelmingly technical and scientific in nature, whether it be internet privacy, net neutrality, or global warming, and the current breed of politicians seem intent on foisting the stupidest solutions available upon us. Most often because they don't understand the possible alternatives.
Where are the engineers and scientists willing to step up and serve their country politically? We need you.
This is true - the most enjoyable feature of the economic shift for me will be the sound of millions of car park companies going out of business...
Why will people pay for parking when they can just get dropped off, let the car drive home, then get picked up later.
Can't wait!
Exactly! Our university pays academics cold hard cash bonuses based on the number and quality of journals that are submitted to over the year (articles in A* grade journals get more money than articles in B grad journals etc).
Since we get paid pitifully low otherwise, writing for free holds no attraction at all...
Slashdot desperately needs a mobile friendly view - most other tech news sites have had this for quite a while (m.gizmodo.com, m.engadget.com, etc).
Please create a mobile friendly site for slashdot!
While I agree with the picture you paint, I'm not sure I can get on board with the anti-chinese sentiment. The system was badly broken by Justice Roberts' ruling, and since then, the average american worker's rights have been eroded at a staggering pace. Just look at the increase in numbers of people living right on the breadline. It doesn't really matter if the heads of the multinational corporations screwing us are swiss, chinese, indian, or norwegian - human nature is the same everywhere, and the corruption that the level of wealth and power we are talking about is the same across all cultures.
It's a wonder the IRS doesn't require you to buy some expensive Windows-only software to file your taxes, and actually uses standard PDF forms.
Yeah - lucky you. This year in Australia, the ATO has been in the progress of migrating it's tax submission system which used a java client that ran on windows, mac and linux, to a new tax submission system which now runs on windows only. If I want to submit my taxes online in OZ, for the first time in 10 years I'II now have to buy a windows license.
Datacell - the icelandic company that process wikileaks donations have already stated that they are going to sue visa for this.
The suspension of payments towards Wikileaks is a violation of the agreements with their customers. Visa users have explicitly expressed their will to send their donations to Wikileaks and Visa is not fulfilling this wish
I didn't read anything in wikileaks about secret unethical US government activity.
So requesting US diplomats to acquire credit card numbers and biometric data doesn't count as unethical activity in your book? A foreign country politely invites US diplomats to their land to negotiate in a spirit of goodwill and trust - and the second they arrive, Hillary Clinton instructs the US diplomats to crawl around collecting saliva and hair clippings - and you consider that ethical behavior?
US citizens seriously need to take a long hard look at the adversarial way that their elected representatives are approaching diplomatic relations. The current US policies seem designed to destabilize certain parts of the world, rather than to create a lasting peace.
Not just duty free - but the economic well being of all airport stores.
I once had a pair of tweezers confiscated from me for a domestic flight.
Passed through security, walked into the airport newsagency, and was able to buy a new pair within 5 minutes.
I don't mind if people get to spew out their hate speech - in fact I prefer it - it makes it easier for me to judge them correctly compared to if they were hiding their true beliefs behind a thin veneer of polite conversation.
If people want to blast their lies and propaganda out in all directions - I say let them - there are two sides to any story, and the other party will always have the ability to respond. In this sense, the internet is a great leveler - you don't have to be wealthy or have media influence to post out your ideas - why else do you think people like Rupert Murdoch are so terrified, and trying their best to wrest control of the current infrastructure?
Project Gutenberg is excellent - but if we extrapolate the current rate of copyright expansion, books published this century may never enter the public domain.
Mod parent up - I haven't played any games on my xbox in years - but I use xbmc to stream media on my modded xbox every day. I also have a version of debian linux installed which I fire up every now and again.
Games consoles are rather powerful computers - modding them frees up a lot of capabilities.
But I digress: if the choice is a linux distro and Android I will buy the linux distro, so I can install every possible package I already have on my desktop/laptop.
I completely agree with this. Also - I am hanging out for the ability to do x11 forwarding with ssh. ssh -Y -C will be THE killer app for me. I would have bought a n900 long before now just for this if the handset didn't happen to be such a large and ugly brick.
Additionally - asterisk is quite scalable- so I think large businesses would also benefit quite nicely from using this. My experience is that ever company I've ever come across spends too much on telephony.
Well I don't know about the rest of the slashdot crowd - but I always choose sip and open voip codecs over skype where possible - and every linux nerd I know with any street cred at all runs an asterisk pbx server in their home - even if they don't actually have anyone to call.
People here like to hang shit on nokia and symbian - but the nokia e-series of mobile phones have had working voip over 3g for a very long time.
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I wouldn't trust this article either, it reads like a press release from Tokyo Electric Co. TEC have proven to be untrustworthy as they refuse to have best practice at the centre of their company doctrine
Yeah - the news article I read today said that the Nuclear disaster is now on par with Chernobyl.
Japan has raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to seven to put it on a par with the Chernobyl accident 25 years ago as engineers battled a fire at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The BBC certainly isn't doing it's own investigative reporting these days...
True - Unfortunately - I'm the only person I know who has a pgp signature...
If you are worried about privacy, then you shouldn't use outsourced webmail at all.
I was astounded to find out the other day that on yahoo mail servers, the word delete doesn't mean what you think it means. It just ticks a bit in a db field which prevents the email showing in your inbox and being counted in your quota.
However, the yahoo coders were too incompetent to leave the emails out of the search function.
Imagine my surprise when I performed a search recently, and emails I had deleted and emptied from my trash in 2007 showed up!!!
Are those emails considered abandoned (since I marked them as deleted) and available under this new legislation?
There is no privacy in the cloud.
I seem to be seeing more and more stories like this, where politicians make incredibly ill-conceived laws due to their ignorance of technical detail.
I don't know if it is the same in france, but in my country, the parliaments seem to be loaded chock full of former lawyers and accountants, and not much else. This creates a massive blind spot in the outlook of the people governing us.
Quite frankly, they are not up to the task of designing law for the current age. The issues facing the world currently seem to be overwhelmingly technical and scientific in nature, whether it be internet privacy, net neutrality, or global warming, and the current breed of politicians seem intent on foisting the stupidest solutions available upon us. Most often because they don't understand the possible alternatives.
Where are the engineers and scientists willing to step up and serve their country politically? We need you.
Because fuel isn't free? So long as parking is cheaper than the cost of a second two-way trip for the car people will do it.
Don't know what you pay for parking in your town - but day long parking for me equals the cost of about 400 km worth of fuel...
This is true - the most enjoyable feature of the economic shift for me will be the sound of millions of car park companies going out of business...
Why will people pay for parking when they can just get dropped off, let the car drive home, then get picked up later.
Can't wait!
Exactly! Our university pays academics cold hard cash bonuses based on the number and quality of journals that are submitted to over the year (articles in A* grade journals get more money than articles in B grad journals etc).
Since we get paid pitifully low otherwise, writing for free holds no attraction at all...
Nope - But you can sniff it.
Welcome this new wave of cheap manual labor.
When will the robots learn to build other robots? And, more importantly, when can they learn to clean my toilet?
Slashdot desperately needs a mobile friendly view - most other tech news sites have had this for quite a while (m.gizmodo.com, m.engadget.com, etc).
Please create a mobile friendly site for slashdot!
While I agree with the picture you paint, I'm not sure I can get on board with the anti-chinese sentiment. The system was badly broken by Justice Roberts' ruling, and since then, the average american worker's rights have been eroded at a staggering pace. Just look at the increase in numbers of people living right on the breadline.
It doesn't really matter if the heads of the multinational corporations screwing us are swiss, chinese, indian, or norwegian - human nature is the same everywhere, and the corruption that the level of wealth and power we are talking about is the same across all cultures.
It's a wonder the IRS doesn't require you to buy some expensive Windows-only software to file your taxes, and actually uses standard PDF forms.
Yeah - lucky you. This year in Australia, the ATO has been in the progress of migrating it's tax submission system which used a java client that ran on windows, mac and linux, to a new tax submission system which now runs on windows only.
If I want to submit my taxes online in OZ, for the first time in 10 years I'II now have to buy a windows license.
The suspension of payments towards Wikileaks is a violation of the agreements with their customers. Visa users have explicitly expressed their will to send their donations to Wikileaks and Visa is not fulfilling this wish
So what stops foreign intelligence agencies from threatening to release the names and addresses of US intelligence sources?
It's better to know who the sources are - rather than let the US know that they (foreign agencies) know.
Or from blackmailing those sources into being double agents?
How do you know that in some cases the sources haven't turned?
I didn't read anything in wikileaks about secret unethical US government activity.
So requesting US diplomats to acquire credit card numbers and biometric data doesn't count as unethical activity in your book? A foreign country politely invites US diplomats to their land to negotiate in a spirit of goodwill and trust - and the second they arrive, Hillary Clinton instructs the US diplomats to crawl around collecting saliva and hair clippings - and you consider that ethical behavior?
US citizens seriously need to take a long hard look at the adversarial way that their elected representatives are approaching diplomatic relations. The current US policies seem designed to destabilize certain parts of the world, rather than to create a lasting peace.
Not just duty free - but the economic well being of all airport stores.
I once had a pair of tweezers confiscated from me for a domestic flight.
Passed through security, walked into the airport newsagency, and was able to buy a new pair within 5 minutes.
I don't mind if people get to spew out their hate speech - in fact I prefer it - it makes it easier for me to judge them correctly compared to if they were hiding their true beliefs behind a thin veneer of polite conversation.
If people want to blast their lies and propaganda out in all directions - I say let them - there are two sides to any story, and the other party will always have the ability to respond. In this sense, the internet is a great leveler - you don't have to be wealthy or have media influence to post out your ideas - why else do you think people like Rupert Murdoch are so terrified, and trying their best to wrest control of the current infrastructure?
Oh No! I posted something containing inaccurate content!
Quick! Where's the legislation to force slashdot to remove it????
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
???
Oh that's right, Voltaire was french - the UK government has never really liked any ideas that came from across the channel.
Damn cherrypad popping daddies...
Project Gutenberg is excellent - but if we extrapolate the current rate of copyright expansion, books published this century may never enter the public domain.
Mod parent up - I haven't played any games on my xbox in years - but I use xbmc to stream media on my modded xbox every day. I also have a version of debian linux installed which I fire up every now and again.
Games consoles are rather powerful computers - modding them frees up a lot of capabilities.
But I digress: if the choice is a linux distro and Android I will buy the linux distro, so I can install every possible package I already have on my desktop/laptop.
I completely agree with this. Also - I am hanging out for the ability to do x11 forwarding with ssh. ssh -Y -C will be THE killer app for me. I would have bought a n900 long before now just for this if the handset didn't happen to be such a large and ugly brick.
Additionally - asterisk is quite scalable- so I think large businesses would also benefit quite nicely from using this. My experience is that ever company I've ever come across spends too much on telephony.
Well I don't know about the rest of the slashdot crowd - but I always choose sip and open voip codecs over skype where possible - and every linux nerd I know with any street cred at all runs an asterisk pbx server in their home - even if they don't actually have anyone to call.
People here like to hang shit on nokia and symbian - but the nokia e-series of mobile phones have had working voip over 3g for a very long time.