Very insightful. Also the black hat would not need to be originating from an - info sec wise - underdeveloped country, it would be much easier to just hijack a machine in such a country and then do your thing.
As another wrote the future is rich native apps that have the ability but not the mandatory requirement of web integration. This way you have the speed of native and can choose whether or not to use the cloud for syncing or backups or getting the latest data.
From where I'm sitting I can't really say I agree to that.
Sure native apps are great for some things (adding functionality to the systems/OS layer comes to mind). But for pure userland functionality like productivity and office apps you will get a better integration through a web app and as far as offline work goes pinning data to a local (possibly encrypted) cache is not new and is quite documented in the standards. One more point: unless you use a middleware language to write your app, which of it's own introduces a lot of problems, you will need to actively support two versions - if not more, seeing where mobile OS fragmentation goes - instead of one web app...
Well, that's a side of the filter coin that I luckily never witnessed. I guess the most obvious reason is that my contact emailing was relatively attachment free. It sure would suck though.
You are helplessly wrong sir, but for what it's worth:
Whitney Houston's music got a price inflation because the projected desirability skyrocketed upon news of her death. (classic capitalism)
Also since you tried to give me one, here is your psych evaluation:
"You would be ashamed for profiting through murder." Ok, no arguments to that. Nobody suggested Sony murdered Whitney Houston. Are you projecting your psychopathic tendencies on me?
"You think that I should be ashamed because I identify a commonly occurring non productive social behavior" Well, good luck with that. I think you are starting to lean on the delusional though. Keep reading and you'll see.
"You imply that I said: 'being part of the herd is as bad as profiting for murder' " Well you definitely are twisting my words here, I will give you a chance to confess that you are just part of the herd and therefore became subject to your own anger once you got informed of your status by my previous post. If you don't I guess there is nothing I could suggest that you would actually do. I still am obliged to suggest you see a psychiatrist for a condition that most probably stems from a childhood anxiety disorder with sociological aspects.
Well everything from the last sentence on is quite pointless. Still in reply to you wasting my time and because I just can help myself: "You don't want to profit from something that doesn't add value to society." Fair enough. Kill yourself, here's 100$.
TOR is an http packet router The Onion Router) and therefore is unrelated to DNS. You could argue that DNS is irrelevant bu then you would be forced to remember 50.17.218.130 instead of example.co.bs and imagine how fun that would be.
Also an only IP solution would still be scrutinized by the IANA (and regional entities) since IP isn't decentralized.
One more thing: if DNS would go down hosting costs for your blog would go up (as in sky high) because you would need a dedicated IP for it instead of a shared one because there simply isn't an implemented way to send a host request together with an ip request from a browser's location bar. and even if it were implemented visitors would have to enter the ip as well as the hostname of your blog, now what fun that would be ( exmplebl.og@100.2.3.4:80/~Id1ot )
About a year ago I switched to privately owned email but untill tehn I think yahoo was actually the best mail filter. I have an account there from when they first rolled out webmail and for the last 3-4 years I was getting, maybe, a couple spam & phishing mails a year in my inbox. Occasionally though yahoo would flag some legit newsletters as spam.
As for "decency", how do you know this wasn't an automated price setting based on number of purchases, in which case the ones to blame are the hyenas who rushed to the scene to buy the music of someone they never gave a fuck about when she lived?
Somehow making my point there, Sony might well be a tumor of humanity but still this practice is nothing anyone should be ashamed of. The people who liked her music had her music. They didn't need her to die in order to buy it. This is classical herd tax every other idiot has to pay because he wants to be "part of the moment".
Well, that is one out of the top 500 shareholders. Good luck convincing the other 499 Chauvinist pigs of what is the correct way. Almost every single one shareholder in history has voted for short time profits when given the option. That won't change soon; or at all...
Well, the best way out of sponsor supported content creation is either micro payments or just removing the economic factor and doing it for the thrills (which in part has helped a lot of the FOSS world and the Internet). So content creation has the options to continue without selling tracking data. But content isn't the problem, the problem is free services.
People don't like to pay for something they have grown accustomed to have for free. So even if they knew the about "do not track" feature they probably wouldn't choose it out of cheapskateness
IMHO the "do not track" is very much needed but in the long run will only end up dividing the privacy geeks from the joes since no one is going to opt for it if it has a free alternative. Tough this might have already happened since I tend to meet more and more people that have degooglified their lives to various extents. So either way, no do not track will not "kill the free Internet" it won;t even make a difference and even if it does, the Internet is bigger than that, it will evolve with the change.
Every Vaio laptop I have bought and configured with a windows env (yikes) needs half a day of scrubbing to remove all the idiotic sony Vaio programs, services or UIs... And then you have the addware that comes pre installed... Plainly it is easier to buy a retail version of windows and slap it on than going through all the pain. In all fairness though Vaio's, as long as I can remember them, seem to be sturdier designs than cheaper alternatives and often have better screens also. But the software is plain criminal.
Well, I happen to be familiar with some democracies and in all of them elected officials are completely above suspicion, something that often is paraphrased as: "when lawmaking always cover your arse first!"
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going through a door -> non destructive process
kicking down a door -> destructive process
Very insightful.
Also the black hat would not need to be originating from an - info sec wise - underdeveloped country, it would be much easier to just hijack a machine in such a country and then do your thing.
As another wrote the future is rich native apps that have the ability but not the mandatory requirement of web integration. This way you have the speed of native and can choose whether or not to use the cloud for syncing or backups or getting the latest data.
From where I'm sitting I can't really say I agree to that.
Sure native apps are great for some things (adding functionality to the systems/OS layer comes to mind). But for pure userland functionality like productivity and office apps you will get a better integration through a web app and as far as offline work goes pinning data to a local (possibly encrypted) cache is not new and is quite documented in the standards. One more point: unless you use a middleware language to write your app, which of it's own introduces a lot of problems, you will need to actively support two versions - if not more, seeing where mobile OS fragmentation goes - instead of one web app...
Just my 2c though
Don't put words in my mouth.
I didn't. You did in your initial reply. Again projecting your own compunctions on me?
If you are unable to refute or even face what has been said then you cannot ...
I did, the proof is just above.
Now stop using the canned "insist on a lie" debating technique and try to actually positively provide to a conversation.
unless it has automated access to every single aspect of your life.
Like every iPad I have used...
Well, that's a side of the filter coin that I luckily never witnessed. I guess the most obvious reason is that my contact emailing was relatively attachment free. It sure would suck though.
You are helplessly wrong sir, but for what it's worth:
Whitney Houston's music got a price inflation because the projected desirability skyrocketed upon news of her death. (classic capitalism)
Also since you tried to give me one, here is your psych evaluation:
"You would be ashamed for profiting through murder."
Ok, no arguments to that. Nobody suggested Sony murdered Whitney Houston. Are you projecting your psychopathic tendencies on me?
"You think that I should be ashamed because I identify a commonly occurring non productive social behavior"
Well, good luck with that. I think you are starting to lean on the delusional though. Keep reading and you'll see.
"You imply that I said: 'being part of the herd is as bad as profiting for murder' "
Well you definitely are twisting my words here, I will give you a chance to confess that you are just part of the herd and therefore became subject to your own anger once you got informed of your status by my previous post. If you don't I guess there is nothing I could suggest that you would actually do. I still am obliged to suggest you see a psychiatrist for a condition that most probably stems from a childhood anxiety disorder with sociological aspects.
Well everything from the last sentence on is quite pointless. Still in reply to you wasting my time and because I just can help myself:
"You don't want to profit from something that doesn't add value to society."
Fair enough. Kill yourself, here's 100$.
cheers
TOR is an http packet router The Onion Router) and therefore is unrelated to DNS. You could argue that DNS is irrelevant bu then you would be forced to remember 50.17.218.130 instead of example.co.bs and imagine how fun that would be.
Also an only IP solution would still be scrutinized by the IANA (and regional entities) since IP isn't decentralized.
One more thing: if DNS would go down hosting costs for your blog would go up (as in sky high) because you would need a dedicated IP for it instead of a shared one because there simply isn't an implemented way to send a host request together with an ip request from a browser's location bar. and even if it were implemented visitors would have to enter the ip as well as the hostname of your blog, now what fun that would be ( exmplebl.og@100.2.3.4:80/~Id1ot )
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That is until some loose screw brings down a shuttle full of space tourists and busyness-men.
But hey, then I will be able to say: "The days of Planetes are finally uppon us!"
BTW: why does /. only support lating characters? Why no UTF-8 on comments?
If you refer to spam as "messages forwarded from your contacts" then I would suggest changing contacts?
About a year ago I switched to privately owned email but untill tehn I think yahoo was actually the best mail filter. I have an account there from when they first rolled out webmail and for the last 3-4 years I was getting, maybe, a couple spam & phishing mails a year in my inbox. Occasionally though yahoo would flag some legit newsletters as spam.
As for "decency", how do you know this wasn't an automated price setting based on number of purchases, in which case the ones to blame are the hyenas who rushed to the scene to buy the music of someone they never gave a fuck about when she lived?
Somehow making my point there, Sony might well be a tumor of humanity but still this practice is nothing anyone should be ashamed of. The people who liked her music had her music. They didn't need her to die in order to buy it. This is classical herd tax every other idiot has to pay because he wants to be "part of the moment".
Why was this noise posted in the first place?
Well, that is one out of the top 500 shareholders. Good luck convincing the other 499 Chauvinist pigs of what is the correct way. Almost every single one shareholder in history has voted for short time profits when given the option. That won't change soon; or at all...
"You would be surprised of the lengths people are willing to go to in
order to avoid learning something."
- some old (but fully correct) philosopher.
Sony and Apple will be thrilled!
yeah.... That sucked bad! Very bad!
Well, its a carbon "cloud" right?
Like the ones old cars make?
Maybe it's just exhaust of an intergalactic chevy camaro?
Paypal is scary and no one else has gained traction.
That's a very insightful observation... I wanted to mention it but forgot.
shhhhhh!
people might read this!
Judging from your user ID you have been here three times longer than me.
Dude!
You should be accustomed to it by now.
madman with a nuclear delivery vehicle.
Ok, Pizza hut or Domino's?
Well, the best way out of sponsor supported content creation is either micro payments or just removing the economic factor and doing it for the thrills (which in part has helped a lot of the FOSS world and the Internet). So content creation has the options to continue without selling tracking data.
But content isn't the problem, the problem is free services.
People don't like to pay for something they have grown accustomed to have for free. So even if they knew the about "do not track" feature they probably wouldn't choose it out of cheapskateness
IMHO the "do not track" is very much needed but in the long run will only end up dividing the privacy geeks from the joes since no one is going to opt for it if it has a free alternative. Tough this might have already happened since I tend to meet more and more people that have degooglified their lives to various extents. So either way, no do not track will not "kill the free Internet" it won;t even make a difference and even if it does, the Internet is bigger than that, it will evolve with the change.
That's just my opinion though.
I surely hope so. I'm still waiting for that CERN engineered black hole!
Forget the rootkit,
Every Vaio laptop I have bought and configured with a windows env (yikes) needs half a day of scrubbing to remove all the idiotic sony Vaio programs, services or UIs... And then you have the addware that comes pre installed... Plainly it is easier to buy a retail version of windows and slap it on than going through all the pain. In all fairness though Vaio's, as long as I can remember them, seem to be sturdier designs than cheaper alternatives and often have better screens also. But the software is plain criminal.
Well, I happen to be familiar with some democracies and in all of them elected officials are completely above suspicion, something that often is paraphrased as: "when lawmaking always cover your arse first!"