Yes, there is also a 5th amendment issue; your bank's debt obligation to you in the form of your bank balance
is property, not a thing which may be necessary to be seized in order to investigate a crime;
the only reason to want to take someone's $$$ from a bank is to cause harm; hardship, intimidation, and coercion:
nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
If pwncloud.com wasn't registered by one of those folks just parking domains who probably picked up the domain to try and sell it for $20,000 or so, it would be a cool name for a fork of Owncloud.
I guess in theory, it could also be the name a pentesting service could call their product if they specialize in pentesting services running on cloud-based infrastructure.
Not getting updates for features is perfectly fine. What is a problem is not getting security fixes, and having the security team of Canonical not caring at all about that.
I don't know about you, but if I maintain software; i'm shipping the security fixes and other bug fixes with the combined update. You don't get to pick and choose "security updates but no feature enhancements"
I'm a big fan of how Firefox and others don't have separate major releases nowadays.
And no "maintaining old branches"
I vote the software author should provide an update to the Debian package though.
The "update" should generate PROMINENT WARNINGS for the user that their software is out of date, that the debian packages are no longer being maintained, and FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS to switch from a.DEB managed installation to a.TAR.GZ managed installation.
You want to keep the hard drive at 50% or less to maximize performance.
You're talking about short-stroking the drive which is fundamentally a different question --- than what percentage of your space usage is best for performance.
For the sake of argument: Let's assume you create a single partition on your hard drive that only uses the first 30% of the disk drive, AND
your partition's starting cylinder is carefully chosen to be in alignment with your allocation units / stripes down all RAID levels to avoid RAID crossing.
What amount of filesystem usage is appropriate?
Is there a point at which you should increase the size of your partition and filesystem for performance reasons, and how do you decide?
Starch is broken down into maltose and glucose, but starch is not a sugar.
Starch is not a sugar, but starch contains sugar, in the sense that it will be rapidly converted into sugar, so there is an equivalency between consuming starch and consuming some sugar.
I wasn't about to suggest that people can't survive eating only proteins+fatty acids; however, it's likely to not be at all pleasant.
I believe you are forgetting who the customers of Google are. Hint, they're not you. The people who give money to Google are their customers - the advertisers.
Actually, both the free users of the search service AND the paid buyers of the advertising service are both customers of Google.
Just because you are providing the service for free, does not mean the buyer is not your customer.
Google is providing you a service if you use their search tool; it is the reason to visit their website and enter your search queries.
There is a related service being sold to various companies that choose to advertise.
But this doesn't exclude users of the other service from being a customer.
Just like if you buy a magazine, you are still a customer, even though there is another company paying to list ads in the magazine you read.
You are still a customer, even if your magazine is provided on a complimentary or promotional basis free of charge.
It's already socialism, because the big Telcos and cable providers have a government-protected monopoly.
I like the "socialism" where the cities build some public infrastructure a little better.
As long as they aren't going to start attempting to regulate content.
Now that they have a barometer... just need to add air motion sensors, a humidity sensor, a thermometer, vibration sensor, UV sensor, and an air quality sensor / airborn particles measurement, Oh yeah, and an Ebola/Microbe detector
Right!! And Google would never record your searches in a non ananomized history which you have to explicitly turn off in your google account.
This is why a search engine should not be allowed to run their own advertisement channel provider or share search/user profile information with advertisement channel services or 3rd party companies.
Because Google runs Adsense, they have a perverse incentive to act against their customers'/users' best interests.
I've noticed the same thing. With all of the "privacy" related options enabled, there is still a great deal of chatting with Apple servers.
I would say it's naughty of Apple to provide opt-out options and communicate anyways.
It would be better for them to just display a notification that you won't be able to opt-out,
except by returning the computer or downgrading back to Mavericks.
If they offer a privacy opt-out that claims to stop communications with Apple, and you check it,
and the software still communicates, then IMO: Apple should be fined by the government and
given a mandatory order by the feds to turn over and destroy all copies of information gathered.
To get this, Apple doesn't need to know what the person typed.
Correct... for browser GUI design Apple doesn't need to know what they were looking for.
It would be the search engine provider who needs to know what the user typed, and based on what
they clicked --- if they found what they were looking for, and which result they found most relevant.
But the search engine provider doesn't need access to other information like what brand of mouse they were using, or which particular search box the user utilized.
Desktop Linux will be at a disadvantage? As in, revenues will be halved? What?
I'm saying that the proprietary vendors will continue to have a competitive edge in improving their
user interfaces to compete, since the vendors that require the stats will have more datapoints about OS usage
which are also less biased.
As for revenues.... half of zero is still zero, and it's theoretical rate of increase in market share which could eventually be affected.
Probably, there must eventually be some way of addressing privacy concerns besides just "opt-out"
Yeah, it should be opt-in. At the very least, opt-out.
The challenge is that it will skew the statistics.
Collecting anonymized UI instrumentation data doesn't really have privacy concerns,
other than revealing your OS.
However, whether you choose to opt-in or opt-out says something about you that
may very well be closely connected to other behavior traits that affect your usage of the user interface ---
such as whether you prefer GUI or CLI, how much computer/Linux expertise you have,
how comfortable you are editing text-based config files, etc.
I personally believe that the more experienced computer users are likely to have acquired more
skepticism surrounding software vendors, and users who are more ignorant are also likely to be more
trusting of the marketing message, resulting in skewed data due to selection bias:
in other words, less useful data which mostly only reflects a segment of the audience.
You have it wrong... there's no recommended daily dose of Refined sugar for sure.
You definitely need to eat products that contain sugars, or you will die.
Keep in mind.... meat, all fruits and vegetables, milk, yogurt, butter, contains sugars, bread, raw potatos, rice, corn, wheat, all contain sugars.
You don't need any sucrose or artificially refined sugar products in your diet, but you do need simple and complex sugars, you just get them automatically, because all nutritious foods contain them.
The only real problem taking it apart is cutting the stupid tape, which you then have to replace.
Well this sounds like a new problem Apple have created then.... the mid 2010 27" iMAC had no tape to cut or replace; just some annoying magnets that made it very difficult to put the thing back together by ripping screws away from your screwdriver and occasionally causing them to get flung into the computer.....
Just driving away software whose developer can't or isn't willing to adapt to their rules.
He says the lack of support for trial software and upgrades drives developers away by preventing them from making a living.
Many developers offer a "lite" inexpensive or free version, or app that relies on the purchase of additional consumables once a
"free included amount" runs out, then you can pay to upgrade, by buying the Pro version of the app or in-app consumable purchases.
The lack of a trial function is only an issue due to lack of imagination by some developers / app marketers.
For Mac software, some developers also offer trial editions outside the app store, so the lack of a trial option isn't in itself a reason
to not offer a product for sale in the app store.
This is beneficial for users and encourages them to try out more software, knowing that they will get to keep something, regardless if they think
it's worth it to pay.
Forced sandboxing kills many applications before they get started
This helps keep users' equipment safe and sound from malicious software.
Compare to Windows and Android which have a bigger malware problem.
It is in users' benefit.
the review system isn't helpful to anyone.
The review system is not new. It has been there from the beginning.
Mac/iPhone apps are a closed garden. If you want to play in this garden, then you have to
abide by Apple's standards for application quality and visual consistency with the platform,
and your software will be reviewed for quality according to these standards.
These standards are benefitting the users of applications, and they are helping keep apps
in the app store high quality, filtering out apps which have failed to meet certain minimums.
It's true that certain apps can't fit into this model, but the app would have to have extremely
high value for users to be willing to wander out of the app store and take that risk.
Buy Buy Buy... time to back the truck up.
Often when stock prices go down due on bad news: the fall is short lived and represents a buying opportunity.
I think not too long ago, folks were discussing how the spam war was won.
Their spam filtering is so good, that, for the most part for users, incoming spam is no longer a huge issue.
If they did it would make checking for the occasional false positives in my spam folder a teeny bit easier.
If it's IN your friggin' spam folder, then they've blocked the spam. They decided it was spam and hid it from your inbox.
No filter's gonna be perfect, and the Spam folder is to help you go back if you become aware you are missing an e-mail.
You remind me of e-mail users the complain if they get a spam message in a quarantine digest.
Then you remind me of e-mail users that complain if they get a non-spam message in a quarantine digest.
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If pwncloud.com wasn't registered by one of those folks just parking domains who probably picked up the domain to try and sell it for $20,000 or so, it would be a cool name for a fork of Owncloud.
I guess in theory, it could also be the name a pentesting service could call their product if they specialize in pentesting services running on cloud-based infrastructure.
Not getting updates for features is perfectly fine. What is a problem is not getting security fixes, and having the security team of Canonical not caring at all about that.
I don't know about you, but if I maintain software; i'm shipping the security fixes and other bug fixes with the combined update. You don't get to pick and choose "security updates but no feature enhancements"
I'm a big fan of how Firefox and others don't have separate major releases nowadays. And no "maintaining old branches"
I vote the software author should provide an update to the Debian package though. The "update" should generate PROMINENT WARNINGS for the user that their software is out of date, that the debian packages are no longer being maintained, and FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS to switch from a .DEB managed installation to a .TAR.GZ managed installation.
So... how are AT&T able to technically achieve this?
Did Apple screw up in some manner, that accidentally left a venue open for ATT to successfully be able to lock the SIM?
Is there a way Apple can fix this in a future revision, so the customer will be able to unlock their SIM, or ATT won't be able to lock it?
You want to keep the hard drive at 50% or less to maximize performance.
You're talking about short-stroking the drive which is fundamentally a different question --- than what percentage of your space usage is best for performance.
For the sake of argument: Let's assume you create a single partition on your hard drive that only uses the first 30% of the disk drive, AND your partition's starting cylinder is carefully chosen to be in alignment with your allocation units / stripes down all RAID levels to avoid RAID crossing.
What amount of filesystem usage is appropriate?
Is there a point at which you should increase the size of your partition and filesystem for performance reasons, and how do you decide?
Starch is broken down into maltose and glucose, but starch is not a sugar.
Starch is not a sugar, but starch contains sugar, in the sense that it will be rapidly converted into sugar, so there is an equivalency between consuming starch and consuming some sugar.
I wasn't about to suggest that people can't survive eating only proteins+fatty acids; however, it's likely to not be at all pleasant.
I believe you are forgetting who the customers of Google are. Hint, they're not you. The people who give money to Google are their customers - the advertisers.
Actually, both the free users of the search service AND the paid buyers of the advertising service are both customers of Google.
Just because you are providing the service for free, does not mean the buyer is not your customer.
Google is providing you a service if you use their search tool; it is the reason to visit their website and enter your search queries.
There is a related service being sold to various companies that choose to advertise.
But this doesn't exclude users of the other service from being a customer.
Just like if you buy a magazine, you are still a customer, even though there is another company paying to list ads in the magazine you read.
You are still a customer, even if your magazine is provided on a complimentary or promotional basis free of charge.
It's already socialism, because the big Telcos and cable providers have a government-protected monopoly.
I like the "socialism" where the cities build some public infrastructure a little better. As long as they aren't going to start attempting to regulate content.
Now that they have a barometer... just need to add air motion sensors, a humidity sensor, a thermometer, vibration sensor, UV sensor, and an air quality sensor / airborn particles measurement, Oh yeah, and an Ebola/Microbe detector
Right!! And Google would never record your searches in a non ananomized history which you have to explicitly turn off in your google account.
This is why a search engine should not be allowed to run their own advertisement channel provider or share search/user profile information with advertisement channel services or 3rd party companies.
Because Google runs Adsense, they have a perverse incentive to act against their customers'/users' best interests.
I've noticed the same thing. With all of the "privacy" related options enabled, there is still a great deal of chatting with Apple servers.
I would say it's naughty of Apple to provide opt-out options and communicate anyways. It would be better for them to just display a notification that you won't be able to opt-out, except by returning the computer or downgrading back to Mavericks.
If they offer a privacy opt-out that claims to stop communications with Apple, and you check it, and the software still communicates, then IMO: Apple should be fined by the government and given a mandatory order by the feds to turn over and destroy all copies of information gathered.
To get this, Apple doesn't need to know what the person typed.
Correct... for browser GUI design Apple doesn't need to know what they were looking for.
It would be the search engine provider who needs to know what the user typed, and based on what they clicked --- if they found what they were looking for, and which result they found most relevant.
But the search engine provider doesn't need access to other information like what brand of mouse they were using, or which particular search box the user utilized.
Desktop Linux will be at a disadvantage? As in, revenues will be halved? What?
I'm saying that the proprietary vendors will continue to have a competitive edge in improving their user interfaces to compete, since the vendors that require the stats will have more datapoints about OS usage which are also less biased.
As for revenues.... half of zero is still zero, and it's theoretical rate of increase in market share which could eventually be affected.
Probably, there must eventually be some way of addressing privacy concerns besides just "opt-out"
Yeah, it should be opt-in. At the very least, opt-out.
The challenge is that it will skew the statistics.
Collecting anonymized UI instrumentation data doesn't really have privacy concerns, other than revealing your OS.
However, whether you choose to opt-in or opt-out says something about you that may very well be closely connected to other behavior traits that affect your usage of the user interface --- such as whether you prefer GUI or CLI, how much computer/Linux expertise you have, how comfortable you are editing text-based config files, etc.
I personally believe that the more experienced computer users are likely to have acquired more skepticism surrounding software vendors, and users who are more ignorant are also likely to be more trusting of the marketing message, resulting in skewed data due to selection bias: in other words, less useful data which mostly only reflects a segment of the audience.
Desktop linux will collect data too, otherwise they will be at a huge disadvantage.
Instrumenting how users interact with your OS informs the process of upgrading UI / UX designs.
You have it wrong... there's no recommended daily dose of Refined sugar for sure. You definitely need to eat products that contain sugars, or you will die.
Keep in mind.... meat, all fruits and vegetables, milk, yogurt, butter, contains sugars, bread, raw potatos, rice, corn, wheat, all contain sugars.
You don't need any sucrose or artificially refined sugar products in your diet, but you do need simple and complex sugars, you just get them automatically, because all nutritious foods contain them.
The only real problem taking it apart is cutting the stupid tape, which you then have to replace.
Well this sounds like a new problem Apple have created then.... the mid 2010 27" iMAC had no tape to cut or replace; just some annoying magnets that made it very difficult to put the thing back together by ripping screws away from your screwdriver and occasionally causing them to get flung into the computer.....
Eh? Slashdot, Ycombinator, and most other major news sites have no thumbs down options.
Youtube, Quora, and Reddit do, but I would say they are unusual exceptions to the rule.
Most sites provide no "downvote " option, only Thumbs up / Like, or occasionally "Report to moderator"
They have a kind-of-Dislike option for things that show up in your news feed, and it is called: I don't want to see this
And comments have an X button.
It understandably requires two clicks to dislike.
Just driving away software whose developer can't or isn't willing to adapt to their rules.
He says the lack of support for trial software and upgrades drives developers away by preventing them from making a living.
Many developers offer a "lite" inexpensive or free version, or app that relies on the purchase of additional consumables once a "free included amount" runs out, then you can pay to upgrade, by buying the Pro version of the app or in-app consumable purchases.
The lack of a trial function is only an issue due to lack of imagination by some developers / app marketers.
For Mac software, some developers also offer trial editions outside the app store, so the lack of a trial option isn't in itself a reason to not offer a product for sale in the app store.
This is beneficial for users and encourages them to try out more software, knowing that they will get to keep something, regardless if they think it's worth it to pay.
Forced sandboxing kills many applications before they get started
This helps keep users' equipment safe and sound from malicious software. Compare to Windows and Android which have a bigger malware problem. It is in users' benefit.
the review system isn't helpful to anyone.
The review system is not new. It has been there from the beginning. Mac/iPhone apps are a closed garden. If you want to play in this garden, then you have to abide by Apple's standards for application quality and visual consistency with the platform, and your software will be reviewed for quality according to these standards.
These standards are benefitting the users of applications, and they are helping keep apps in the app store high quality, filtering out apps which have failed to meet certain minimums.
It's true that certain apps can't fit into this model, but the app would have to have extremely high value for users to be willing to wander out of the app store and take that risk.
Common firewalls do exactly what was described in a default configuration.
I'm not saying the ISP couldn't be doing it intentionally, but it's not valid as an automatic conclusion without confirmation.
There's a firewall on one end or the other manipulating traffic.
ISPs commonly block or filter port 25 as a spam prevention measure.
It's not a network neutrality violation, because the port is blocked regardless of what app or service is using it.
Also, you can likely use port 587 and it will probably work just fine
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Buy Buy Buy... time to back the truck up.
Often when stock prices go down due on bad news: the fall is short lived and represents a buying opportunity.
Sorry (J/K), couldn't resist.
I think not too long ago, folks were discussing how the spam war was won. Their spam filtering is so good, that, for the most part for users, incoming spam is no longer a huge issue.
If they did it would make checking for the occasional false positives in my spam folder a teeny bit easier.
If it's IN your friggin' spam folder, then they've blocked the spam. They decided it was spam and hid it from your inbox. No filter's gonna be perfect, and the Spam folder is to help you go back if you become aware you are missing an e-mail.
You remind me of e-mail users the complain if they get a spam message in a quarantine digest. Then you remind me of e-mail users that complain if they get a non-spam message in a quarantine digest.
And frankly I think this is a good thing. Getting in a car with a stranger can be a dangerous act.
They background check their drivers. IIRC you see a picture of them and a profile before they can even pick you up.
You know more about these drivers than you would know about the taxi driver who is coming to get you.