Why just data about the people.. it's got cameras, it can look at the whole room. What sort of cereal do they like? What paintings/posters of celebs/movies are on the walls, what magazine is on the coffee table, what brand is the condom wrapper the guy just pulled out as he's about to get it on with the girl on that sofa? And a few minutes after the condom was spotted the device might well conclude, he could use some "performance"-"enhancing" drugs!
I saw the stupid Twitter-140-character-limit-moronity-mandated URL-shortened http://flic.kr/ the other day, and I thought, the concept of ccTLDs are dead! Why not just use http://flickr/ if you're going to do that.
Yeah, the Internet is getting stupider and stupider every second...
historical fact that Europe has been incapable of keeping its own political house in order:
USA has not been able to keep its politics in order. No healthcare yet? (God bless Canada, the UK, hell I'll throw in Western Europe in there as well). Choosing war-mongering presidents (how do you like that he turned the surplus to a big hole and killed, what is it 6000 of your boys in 2 wars now? Abu Ghraib, torture, things that everyone else knows are war-crimes...
And the trouble is that Europeans just don't learn and are heading for totalitarianism again
The trouble is the US citizens are now putting the people who ruined their country back into power again.
all the while believing themselves to be superior to everybody else in the world.
"God bless the USA, the best country in the world!". What does that statement convey?
But Europeans, in general, are arrogant towards, and ignorant of, the entire rest of the world, not just the US.
And a majority of Americans say "Saddam was involved in 9/11!" (hint: there is yet no evidence that he was).
I would never call you a "fucking scumbag", but I will call you an ignorant, uneducated lout.
You are an ignorant, uneducated lout.
Ha ha, you are so fucking ridiculous, you can't see that all you say about Europe and Europeans (even though I think they're bullshit) can be reflected back to be said about USA and the majority of Americans, especially you. Or are you too blind/dumb to see so you make excuses: "but that's not the same thing, what Europe did was stupid, and Europeans are dumb, but America is good, and Americans are superior, because God blesses us and whatever shit we do, roarr, roarr!"
> But arrogance seems to be part of the European package.
Jawohl mein Herr!
I'd tell you to go look in the mirror (for this post and the one before that), but I have a feeling the charge of arrogance can go both way, and you'd say, "Don't tell me to look in the mirror you fucking scumbag European! USA! USA! Roarrr!".
Strangely I hate the idea of domestic wiretapping, but if it's happening here and I don't know about it, I don't feel it as an invasion of my privacy.
But if it means there are no stupid "show/let some fat dude grope your penis to get to the plane" procedures, I'm all for it. Better real security than security theatre!
Drive to Canada, and fly from there? I don't know much about Canadian airports since I live in Europe, but I presume it's got slightly more brains than US ones?
My reaction to this announcement was to smirk. How predictable, this is like dealing with a goldfish's thoughts process!
One would hope that the whole Navy isn't defeated just because someone hacked into their "Look at my cat!" website...
But database names like "globalops" and "livechat" inspires no confidence at all. Imagine if this hacker didn't deface the site, but made a script that silently reads and forwards information out of those databases to the highest bidder...
Twitter... there are already a million fucking spambots there, mostly used by the biggest (and big wannabe) SEO wankers who measures their virtual penis size by the number of followers they have, and how do they get followers? By hoping that when they follow someone, they reciprocate. So whenever I say some stupid keyword, some moron "follows" me there. Yeah, my own fault for using Twitter, but I use it as a real microblog, to swear like a moron at the stupidity that surrounds me.
Anyway, these bots will probably continue to follow and talk (advertise whatever their monkey owner wants them to advertise) to each other even after the demise of mankind, which I find fascinating...
So yeah, instead of making a platform where they guard user's data privacy, their policy to prevent abuse is a rule that says "you are not allowed to do this", with no effective way of policing whether or not someone's doing it.
This is like leaving your computer with your private information open to remote logins, with a blank password, announcing on the internet that they can use your computer (for whatever reason there may be) and then saying, "but don't be reading my private information mmmkay?"
Oh, just like TIME.com that ends every couple paragraphs with a link to another semi-related content? (Click here to see Tiger Woods' misstresses)
So fucking irritating, that I created a Proxomitron filter that changes these ads to almost transparent. (Click here to read about ad-blocking software)
But TIME.com is dead to me anyway, it's so desperate for page-views it has now started imitating Digg. (Click here to read about Digg's redesign)
I just thought of another Captcha-system, for real captcha-ing: show an image, and ask the human, "what brand of drink is the girl holding?". It's quite hard for algorithms to solve, and it carries advertising. Win-win! Let me start a company and make billions...
No one's mentioned content farms yet? That is, websites that are 100% made using bots, presumably their algorithm is: they see what terms are trending in Google News or Google Trends, they google for hundreds of articles with those keywords, and they create a static "article" page with real sentences, but each copied and pasted from who knows where so that the "article" doesn't make any sense. The only important criteria for each sentence is that the sentence must contain the keyword. And they fill up the rest of the page with AdSense ads...
The Dr. Laura n-word backlash made her quit her radio show. It seems the Dr. Laura n-word controversy has made her pay the price, as the consequences of herbrought down her long-running program. But even if it ended her show, it may not end her career. Despite being labeled as a racist, and despite allegedly being tired of radio, the embattled doctor still seems set to fight on after she leaves. In fact, the Dr. Laura n-word scandal has made her more defiant than ever, despite quitting.
It's so fucking excruciating to have to use my brain to filter this shit, because apparently Google fails at it. Then again I've not seen them lately, but maybe that's because I've used a bit of JavaScript hackery to remove the "News" link from Google's homepage, since every Google search I made my mouse wanders to that link wondering if there's anything new in the world...
On the other hand, this repeating of keyword disease has affected real articles as well, those whose authors are desperate for some search engine hits (freaking SEO-whores...), so the recent article covered here on/. about Facebook's data centers contained the words, "Facebook's data center" in each goddamnfreaking paragraph.
A few years ago people were batshit insane about Second Life... and now it's disappeared from the headlines. Hopefully this will be the Year of Facebook, i.e. next year it'll be yet another niche company.
Non-encrypted data on a public wifi network, is like shouting with a megaphone in the middle of a busy town center.
And yet probably 95% of users do it anyway (percentage pulled out of ass).. for a road vehicle related analogy, it's probably like "you should wear a helmet when riding a bicycle" warning....
Of course I DNRTFA before commenting, but this interested me:
Any test begins by sending out a driver in a conventionally driven car to map the route and road conditions. By mapping features like lane markers and traffic signs, the software in the car becomes familiar with the environment and its characteristics in advance.
It's kinda lame that Google's solution to hard problems like how to get a computer to drive a car, is basically replaying a recording of how a human drove on that exact piece of road. So what if some things are changed, or the software gets thrown onto an unknown road? A human will still be able to cope, but this software?
Wow, just add cameras to roof, and automatic, no driving required, Google Street View mapper.
You can add guns and sell them to the budget-strapped police departments, add water hose and you wouldn't get a house burning down with firemen just watching it.
Luckily my homebrew ROM/OS has symlinks to a 2nd partition on the SD-card, which has been formatted as ext3, so apps think they are installing to the main memory, but since they follow the symlink, they install themselves transparently into that partition, and the main memory remains free!
Well it's broken to me. It's like buying a car without airbags although another model (BlackBerry) offers them. Of course this car has more bells and whistles, but no airbags!
Doesn't need fixing?! So are we supposed to have faith on the developers, some of which (the same ones who probably write spyware for Windows) are probably gleeful at the thought of how much personal data they can steal and abuse (e.g. SMS/telemarketing spam, either by getting your friends' numbers from your address book, or how about a botnet that spams people using your phone) because of this lack of security?!
Will it need fixing when that starts happening? Yeah Google can probably kill the app if they find it to do those things, but after how much damage? What if the app works quietly and doesn't get caught for a year until some researcher decides to look at it?
A clueless user gets a summary on install which they can agree to or not already, and I think that's fine.
I bet you a thousand Euro, if you do a survey of 1000 people that asks between:
1) You can only install the app only after you agree that it can access your address book. 2) You can choose to deny it access to your address book, but install the app anyway, and be prepared for some error messages/prompts to access.
more people would pick option 2.
And the option you give a clueful user (me) is just the same as the one for the clueless user (apparently you), just in detail? How is that any good? As I said, BlackBerry superiorly offers me the option to allow/deny/(and I didn't say: prompt the user) any task that can access my personal data or cost me money. You might not care for that, but if Android offers it, I and other security-concerned users would embrace it even more.
Of course the next argument is that it's going to break a lot of the apps already there, i.e. the Microsoft defense. I'd say, adapt or die, and tell the user, "this app may crash if it doesn't get these permissions.". Or, create a sandbox for them. Heh, even Apple has that clever model.
They can let you explicitly give or deny permission for each thing they want access to. Which is what I've been writing in the grand-grandparent post. "That tic-tac-toe game wants to access my address book, calendar, GPS location, internet and disk? What the fuck for? Deny access to all but internet (maybe it has multiplayer mode?) and let's see if the game runs at all.".
You can do that in BlackBerry, whereas in Android you can only deny by not installing the app at all.
Well, I think it's easy enough to write a piece of code on start-up that asks the system "do I have permission to do {$FOO|$BAR|$BAZ}?", and if the answer is no, pop up an error message saying "This app needs permission to do $FOO, $BAR and $BAZ" and a button to go to the security center. The navigation apps on my Android can already redirect me to the section of the settings where I can turn GPS on.
Indeed the problem is, users will just disable internet access for apps that surely need it only to download ads, and this will annoy those who use ads as their financial model. Alternatively perhaps they (Google) can go the Apple way and provide a system-wide ad-provider module and get a cut of the revenue. Hmm isn't one of the big mobile ad providers a property of Google anyway?
which, incidentally, is what BlackBerry has. You can allow/deny each app permission to access your address book, calendar, internet connection, send SMS, open your mailbox, etc. I don't think even the iOS have that yet (or well, I think it does, but for GPS location only). An app must be prepared to get an "access denied" exception, and survive through it.
And for corporate users, an admin can even set your phone to not allow installation of custom programs, deny all requests to read the user's calendar/address book (except for a white-list of apps), etc, etc.
As an Android user I wish Android would copy this feature, and as a fan of superior technology, I wish BlackBerry could promote these security features more.
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On the other hand, the name "Cooks Source" is now available, no need to worry about "copywrite" or trademarks!
Shouldn't it be "Cooks' Source" anyway?
Dumb biatch...
Why just data about the people.. it's got cameras, it can look at the whole room. What sort of cereal do they like? What paintings/posters of celebs/movies are on the walls, what magazine is on the coffee table, what brand is the condom wrapper the guy just pulled out as he's about to get it on with the girl on that sofa? And a few minutes after the condom was spotted the device might well conclude, he could use some "performance"-"enhancing" drugs!
I saw the stupid Twitter-140-character-limit-moronity-mandated URL-shortened http://flic.kr/ the other day, and I thought, the concept of ccTLDs are dead! Why not just use http://flickr/ if you're going to do that.
Yeah, the Internet is getting stupider and stupider every second...
USA has not been able to keep its politics in order. No healthcare yet? (God bless Canada, the UK, hell I'll throw in Western Europe in there as well). Choosing war-mongering presidents (how do you like that he turned the surplus to a big hole and killed, what is it 6000 of your boys in 2 wars now? Abu Ghraib, torture, things that everyone else knows are war-crimes...
The trouble is the US citizens are now putting the people who ruined their country back into power again.
"God bless the USA, the best country in the world!". What does that statement convey?
And a majority of Americans say "Saddam was involved in 9/11!" (hint: there is yet no evidence that he was).
You are an ignorant, uneducated lout.
Ha ha, you are so fucking ridiculous, you can't see that all you say about Europe and Europeans (even though I think they're bullshit) can be reflected back to be said about USA and the majority of Americans, especially you. Or are you too blind/dumb to see so you make excuses: "but that's not the same thing, what Europe did was stupid, and Europeans are dumb, but America is good, and Americans are superior, because God blesses us and whatever shit we do, roarr, roarr!"
Fucking moron...
> But arrogance seems to be part of the European package.
Jawohl mein Herr!
I'd tell you to go look in the mirror (for this post and the one before that), but I have a feeling the charge of arrogance can go both way, and you'd say, "Don't tell me to look in the mirror you fucking scumbag European! USA! USA! Roarrr!".
BTW, any other -isms you care to throw out there?
Bwahahahahaa....
[citation needed]
Strangely I hate the idea of domestic wiretapping, but if it's happening here and I don't know about it, I don't feel it as an invasion of my privacy.
But if it means there are no stupid "show/let some fat dude grope your penis to get to the plane" procedures, I'm all for it. Better real security than security theatre!
Drive to Canada, and fly from there? I don't know much about Canadian airports since I live in Europe, but I presume it's got slightly more brains than US ones?
My reaction to this announcement was to smirk. How predictable, this is like dealing with a goldfish's thoughts process!
One would hope that the whole Navy isn't defeated just because someone hacked into their "Look at my cat!" website...
But database names like "globalops" and "livechat" inspires no confidence at all. Imagine if this hacker didn't deface the site, but made a script that silently reads and forwards information out of those databases to the highest bidder...
Twitter... there are already a million fucking spambots there, mostly used by the biggest (and big wannabe) SEO wankers who measures their virtual penis size by the number of followers they have, and how do they get followers? By hoping that when they follow someone, they reciprocate. So whenever I say some stupid keyword, some moron "follows" me there. Yeah, my own fault for using Twitter, but I use it as a real microblog, to swear like a moron at the stupidity that surrounds me.
Anyway, these bots will probably continue to follow and talk (advertise whatever their monkey owner wants them to advertise) to each other even after the demise of mankind, which I find fascinating...
So yeah, instead of making a platform where they guard user's data privacy, their policy to prevent abuse is a rule that says "you are not allowed to do this", with no effective way of policing whether or not someone's doing it.
This is like leaving your computer with your private information open to remote logins, with a blank password, announcing on the internet that they can use your computer (for whatever reason there may be) and then saying, "but don't be reading my private information mmmkay?"
Morons...
Oh, just like TIME.com that ends every couple paragraphs with a link to another semi-related content? (Click here to see Tiger Woods' misstresses)
So fucking irritating, that I created a Proxomitron filter that changes these ads to almost transparent. (Click here to read about ad-blocking software)
But TIME.com is dead to me anyway, it's so desperate for page-views it has now started imitating Digg. (Click here to read about Digg's redesign)
I just thought of another Captcha-system, for real captcha-ing: show an image, and ask the human, "what brand of drink is the girl holding?". It's quite hard for algorithms to solve, and it carries advertising. Win-win! Let me start a company and make billions...
No one's mentioned content farms yet? That is, websites that are 100% made using bots, presumably their algorithm is: they see what terms are trending in Google News or Google Trends, they google for hundreds of articles with those keywords, and they create a static "article" page with real sentences, but each copied and pasted from who knows where so that the "article" doesn't make any sense. The only important criteria for each sentence is that the sentence must contain the keyword. And they fill up the rest of the page with AdSense ads...
An example, from this real article about content farms:
It's so fucking excruciating to have to use my brain to filter this shit, because apparently Google fails at it. Then again I've not seen them lately, but maybe that's because I've used a bit of JavaScript hackery to remove the "News" link from Google's homepage, since every Google search I made my mouse wanders to that link wondering if there's anything new in the world...
On the other hand, this repeating of keyword disease has affected real articles as well, those whose authors are desperate for some search engine hits (freaking SEO-whores...), so the recent article covered here on /. about Facebook's data centers contained the words, "Facebook's data center" in each goddamnfreaking paragraph.
A few years ago people were batshit insane about Second Life... and now it's disappeared from the headlines. Hopefully this will be the Year of Facebook, i.e. next year it'll be yet another niche company.
Saw it in a train in Germany, about 6 years ago... thought it was a honeypot.
And yet probably 95% of users do it anyway (percentage pulled out of ass).. for a road vehicle related analogy, it's probably like "you should wear a helmet when riding a bicycle" warning....
Of course I DNRTFA before commenting, but this interested me:
It's kinda lame that Google's solution to hard problems like how to get a computer to drive a car, is basically replaying a recording of how a human drove on that exact piece of road. So what if some things are changed, or the software gets thrown onto an unknown road? A human will still be able to cope, but this software?
Wow, just add cameras to roof, and automatic, no driving required, Google Street View mapper.
You can add guns and sell them to the budget-strapped police departments, add water hose and you wouldn't get a house burning down with firemen just watching it.
Introducing Google Cop, model 209...
Luckily my homebrew ROM/OS has symlinks to a 2nd partition on the SD-card, which has been formatted as ext3, so apps think they are installing to the main memory, but since they follow the symlink, they install themselves transparently into that partition, and the main memory remains free!
(LeeDroid on HTC Desire, Google it)
Well it's broken to me. It's like buying a car without airbags although another model (BlackBerry) offers them. Of course this car has more bells and whistles, but no airbags!
Doesn't need fixing?! So are we supposed to have faith on the developers, some of which (the same ones who probably write spyware for Windows) are probably gleeful at the thought of how much personal data they can steal and abuse (e.g. SMS/telemarketing spam, either by getting your friends' numbers from your address book, or how about a botnet that spams people using your phone) because of this lack of security?!
Will it need fixing when that starts happening? Yeah Google can probably kill the app if they find it to do those things, but after how much damage? What if the app works quietly and doesn't get caught for a year until some researcher decides to look at it?
I bet you a thousand Euro, if you do a survey of 1000 people that asks between:
1) You can only install the app only after you agree that it can access your address book.
2) You can choose to deny it access to your address book, but install the app anyway, and be prepared for some error messages/prompts to access.
more people would pick option 2.
And the option you give a clueful user (me) is just the same as the one for the clueless user (apparently you), just in detail? How is that any good? As I said, BlackBerry superiorly offers me the option to allow/deny/(and I didn't say: prompt the user) any task that can access my personal data or cost me money. You might not care for that, but if Android offers it, I and other security-concerned users would embrace it even more.
Of course the next argument is that it's going to break a lot of the apps already there, i.e. the Microsoft defense. I'd say, adapt or die, and tell the user, "this app may crash if it doesn't get these permissions.". Or, create a sandbox for them. Heh, even Apple has that clever model.
They can let you explicitly give or deny permission for each thing they want access to. Which is what I've been writing in the grand-grandparent post. "That tic-tac-toe game wants to access my address book, calendar, GPS location, internet and disk? What the fuck for? Deny access to all but internet (maybe it has multiplayer mode?) and let's see if the game runs at all.".
You can do that in BlackBerry, whereas in Android you can only deny by not installing the app at all.
Reading comprehension fail...
Well, I think it's easy enough to write a piece of code on start-up that asks the system "do I have permission to do {$FOO|$BAR|$BAZ}?", and if the answer is no, pop up an error message saying "This app needs permission to do $FOO, $BAR and $BAZ" and a button to go to the security center. The navigation apps on my Android can already redirect me to the section of the settings where I can turn GPS on.
Indeed the problem is, users will just disable internet access for apps that surely need it only to download ads, and this will annoy those who use ads as their financial model. Alternatively perhaps they (Google) can go the Apple way and provide a system-wide ad-provider module and get a cut of the revenue. Hmm isn't one of the big mobile ad providers a property of Google anyway?
which, incidentally, is what BlackBerry has. You can allow/deny each app permission to access your address book, calendar, internet connection, send SMS, open your mailbox, etc. I don't think even the iOS have that yet (or well, I think it does, but for GPS location only). An app must be prepared to get an "access denied" exception, and survive through it.
And for corporate users, an admin can even set your phone to not allow installation of custom programs, deny all requests to read the user's calendar/address book (except for a white-list of apps), etc, etc.
As an Android user I wish Android would copy this feature, and as a fan of superior technology, I wish BlackBerry could promote these security features more.
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