Unfortunately, if you saw the picture of the rebel media center in Benghazi at BoingBoing, those guys are using Windows XP. How can we promote free and legal alternatives to free and illegal (cheap XP CDs)?
And we're already there with Amazon's action's regarding remote Kindle book manipulation.
Cell phones? Remember the article on government snooping while the phone's turned off? The fact that cell phones can and do track you is blindingly true, but for some reason, people don't even want to hear it.
Basically, if you're big enough, Google will forgive you for not following its webmaster "guidelines".
They penalize websites for cloaking (showing different content to browsers vs. search engines), but the NYTimes gets to do that: they show content to Googlebot, and a register wall to browsers.
True on the radioactive release for coal: but it's sort of like the reason people prefer small payments vs. one big upfront payment. A bit of radioactivity (from coal, the ground, space) seems better than one huge possible (though improbable) disaster.
Solar- yeah, it's not there yet for replacing traditional methods. Hopefully it will be. That huge nuclear power plant in the middle of the solar system seems such a waste.
I think the reason people (including those who were beginning to lean in favor of nuclear) are trepidatious of nuclear is because of what could happen in a worst case scenario. This doesn't even come close to a worst-case scenario for for solar (broken PV panels?, leaked salt?), or even a coal plant.
Speaking of which, regarding these kinds of surveys, doesn't that violate the Facebook terms of service?
And doesn't Facebook ask you to "verify" your acount ("for your protection", of course), like Paypal, after a while?
If so, how did they (the researchers) get a credit cart for Freddi Staur?
Not only that, but with breaking ToS also being a felony according to certain crazy legal jurisdictions, I don't know if it's a great idea to be telegraphing this research far and wide (as opposed to just saying "users of a popular social network").
Yeah, when you're living in a time period, everything is basically just like background: it's taken for granted. And not considered notable.
But it's highly notable for people from, say the future, looking backward. How did people in Rome, Greece, Egypt, etc. do daily stuff like wash their hands? Or did they even? Cut their food, etc.? And not just nobles, but ordinary people.
Yeah, I had that in mind, too. Thanks for the Youtube.
What I wonder is if these people--politicians, government functionaries, diplomats (often just spies), tobacco exes and PR, etc.--ever sit down and think how meaningless and and untruthful their miserable existences are. Or do they really buy their own garbage?
"Although... IPRED... requires web hosts to hand over whatever records they hold on rights infringers, thereâ(TM)s no requirement within Swedish law to retain such information â" and thus Bahnhof opts not to."
So, if a company has its head screwed on straight, it can protect its users' privacy if it wants to.
For those who haven't clicked through, the article (quite detailed and informative) is being considered for deletion "in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy". Another black mark in the record of the deletionists.
That's while your logged in, with session being usually defined as 1 hour or so from the last time of contact, but not months after (in which time your IP may well have changed depending on your provider).
Well, but if the company is smart, they could/should just be tracking people by cookie as opposed to IP address (which can change depending on your DSL provider's policies).
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Would you mind sharing the specs on your rig? I might be needing to buy a new system this year.
Unfortunately, if you saw the picture of the rebel media center in Benghazi at BoingBoing, those guys are using Windows XP. How can we promote free and legal alternatives to free and illegal (cheap XP CDs)?
most restrictive government official/entity in the whole world regarding information openness?
Not the people reportedly torturing PFC Manning prior to trial? Or angling to extradite Julian Assange? Or any of the Arab dictators?
What? So is it illegal to choose "Encyrpted file system" when installing, say, Ubuntu?
Anybody have some more info on that?
Goes both ways. Cuba has problems. And the US continues to attempt "regime change".
The best thing the US could do to change Cuba is to simply drop the stupid travel requirements. I mean, why shouldn't Americans be able to go to Cuba?
And having real person-to-person contact would make for a lot more social change than trying to set up Internet connections.
harbinger.
RMS is seen as crying wolf, but many of his weirdest predictions have come true.
Viz. The Right to Read
And we're already there with Amazon's action's regarding remote Kindle book manipulation.
Cell phones? Remember the article on government snooping while the phone's turned off? The fact that cell phones can and do track you is blindingly true, but for some reason, people don't even want to hear it.
to withstand criticism, maybe it doesn't deserve to rule.
Basically, if you're big enough, Google will forgive you for not following its webmaster "guidelines".
They penalize websites for cloaking (showing different content to browsers vs. search engines), but the NYTimes gets to do that: they show content to Googlebot, and a register wall to browsers.
True on the radioactive release for coal: but it's sort of like the reason people prefer small payments vs. one big upfront payment. A bit of radioactivity (from coal, the ground, space) seems better than one huge possible (though improbable) disaster.
Solar- yeah, it's not there yet for replacing traditional methods. Hopefully it will be. That huge nuclear power plant in the middle of the solar system seems such a waste.
That's what you'd get with 512 kb/s.
I think the reason people (including those who were beginning to lean in favor of nuclear) are trepidatious of nuclear is because of what could happen in a worst case scenario. This doesn't even come close to a worst-case scenario for for solar (broken PV panels?, leaked salt?), or even a coal plant.
Nuclear Insurance would be a big one, no?
What's strange is that Google News supposedly requires original content as opposed to just linking to others.
No, like much of Slashdot I don't use it.
But, according to this, Facebook does ask for your credit card. I don't know how widespread this is.
Of course, you can imagine how valuable having verified information on the product (you) will be to advertisers and investors like Goldman.
Speaking of which, regarding these kinds of surveys, doesn't that violate the Facebook terms of service?
And doesn't Facebook ask you to "verify" your acount ("for your protection", of course), like Paypal, after a while?
If so, how did they (the researchers) get a credit cart for Freddi Staur?
Not only that, but with breaking ToS also being a felony according to certain crazy legal jurisdictions, I don't know if it's a great idea to be telegraphing this research far and wide (as opposed to just saying "users of a popular social network").
Yeah, when you're living in a time period, everything is basically just like background: it's taken for granted. And not considered notable.
But it's highly notable for people from, say the future, looking backward. How did people in Rome, Greece, Egypt, etc. do daily stuff like wash their hands? Or did they even? Cut their food, etc.? And not just nobles, but ordinary people.
"Teach the controversy" ...
The article mentions 1&1.
It's a popular host, but that often means bad service.
Anybody have any experience with those guys?
on Slashdot?
Could ./ benefit from some kind of elementary math in some SQL scripts?
SELECT count(DISTINCT story_url) ?
Yeah, I had that in mind, too. Thanks for the Youtube.
What I wonder is if these people--politicians, government functionaries, diplomats (often just spies), tobacco exes and PR, etc.--ever sit down and think how meaningless and and untruthful their miserable existences are. Or do they really buy their own garbage?
Yeah. Here's what I'm talking about (from another ./ story from today):
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/365875/the-emergency-internet-bunkers/3
"Although ... IPRED ... requires web hosts to hand over whatever records they hold on rights infringers, thereâ(TM)s no requirement within Swedish law to retain such information â" and thus Bahnhof opts not to."
So, if a company has its head screwed on straight, it can protect its users' privacy if it wants to.
Thanks for the link.
For those who haven't clicked through, the article (quite detailed and informative) is being considered for deletion "in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy". Another black mark in the record of the deletionists.
That's while your logged in, with session being usually defined as 1 hour or so from the last time of contact, but not months after (in which time your IP may well have changed depending on your provider).
Some links for people who haven't been following the Tunisia and Egypt stories:
http://www.google.com/search?q=tunisia+state+security
http://www.google.com/search?q=egypt+state+security
The documents retrieved from Egyptian secret police were quite interesting (and there's more to come after reconstructing shredded documents).
Well, but if the company is smart, they could/should just be tracking people by cookie as opposed to IP address (which can change depending on your DSL provider's policies).