It has to do so anyway. Remember that not every country has the same lax laws about privacy as the US.
As I'm living there, I'll pick Germany as an example;): It's forbidden here to read the content of emails if you're not the recipient - this includes machines. So gmail, by checking the content of your mail to feed you ads, is violating the law. As you've agreed to their terms of service though (explicitely stating that you agree to them reading your mail) they might get around that though - regarding YOUR mail.
But then there's the mail you get from other people who have not agreed to these terms of service. Grepping through that mail is definitly illegal.
"Question. How do I contact the scammers without using my real email address?
Answer. [...] You could of course buy your own Domain Name and use a redirect to have emails sent to you via the D.N. I nearly always use my own Domain Name to set up email accounts."
(emph. mine)
Be very, very careful if you're up to do this. A simple whois could reveal your personal data to the scammer. I wouldn't want to have some Very Angry Criminal standing at my door...
Additionally, you very well have the democratic right to vote incorrect if you want to do so.
To vote incorrectly means that you don't agree with the politics of any of the available candidates, opposed to staying at home which only means you don't care.
Ah, the very old argument: Either there's the Big Bang, or there is God.
Did it ever occur to you that there might be a third possibility? What about "I don't know how the Universe came into existance"? We're shrugging old gods of rain and wind as pagan, yet we're doing the exact same thing: Substitute God for the unknown. How's that any more civilized or advanced as what people did a few thousand years ago?
Same with Evolution vs. Creation. Presume there is no evolution and the whole concept ist just totally wrong: Does this make the concept of creation true?
Beware on using testing (sarge) on servers though.
As nice it may seem to get relative new programs instead of the year-old stuff in woody without the stability problems (ssh was broken a few years ago in unstable, which is a perfect reason why not to use sid on servers:) ) you could face in unstable, there is one major problem:
I'm not Aiden and I don't speak on behalf of him. However, your arrogance is truly astounding.
As you're german, I presume you know that we're living in a social market economy. Note the social. To help each other is a ideal that you're discarding much too lightheartedly as "communist", where in fact it is a premise of our society. I'm currently doing my alternative civilian service. Without OSS, I wouldn't have a chance to earn a few bucks by writing homepages (using MySQL and Perl) and deploying Linux servers. There goes your "there is no money to be made with open source" argument.
So you tell him to "get a life". Sure, earn enough money to buy a house, have a wife, children and die. The conservative middle-class dream. Ever thought that maybe, just maybe, he doesn't want that life? Freedom of choice, ever heard of it?
Your attitude towards Aiden is truly astounding. You single-handedly make fun of his coding style and smack down his ideals. Nice going. Of course, he can't do the same with your code, as it's conveniently hidden. And his ideals of a better world, which he can help making possible doing his share are "idiocy" and "bigotry". Speaking about bigots: By definition this applies to people who assume their ideas to be the only valid ones, who view the world in black and white, who dismiss other ideas as idiotic without knowing them. Now, who's guilty of bigotry again?
"You're six times more likely to be mugged in London than New York City."
You're one hundred thirty six times more likely to be killed in New York than in London (according to NY and London crime statistics. Of course the comparison is flawed because NY is bigger than london, the situation is vastly different and all.)
Your premise, that camera suveillance is merely the solution to symptons is correct, but concluding the actual cause of violence is the restriction of gun licenses is hillarious.
Most European countries have very strict gun laws and crime rates are lower than in the US, which would be impossible according to you...
You perceive this problem from an all-technology point of view, while he's also considering something nifty called "ethics".
Your solution is to not want to think of any implications of your doings: Hey, if he doesn't use BitTorent, it's his own freakin' problem and as a good capitalist I do whatever I want. If you require someone to use Bittorent/Kazaa/whatever you're also raising the barrier to accessing this website. You start to lock out users. Very uncapitalistic thing: You want to have every consumer you can get. Traffic Shaping and Proxying are nice things but won't just magically make the/.-effect disappear (hint: Traffic Shaping doesn't make traffic disappear and i doubt if it is possible to create a list with all ISPs in the world and their respective proxy settings, which you would need to do)
Neither technology nor capitalism are the solution to every problem of mankind.
I don't know about other countries, but if you happen to live near the border in Germany and happen to get into a police control your mobile might get checked for theft by them.
Now imagine if they find out that your mobile apparently belongs to someone different...
Since Germans don't have unlimited freedom of political expression, I wonder how many Americans would give up theirs and accept the yoke of censorship for privacy?
This sounds like you have to gamble freedom of political expression for privacy. Yet, one is not possible without the other. See elections as example.
It's true that theoretically the American constitution grants a higher freedom of speech than the German one does. This is (among other things) due to the Nazi regime and ongoing revisionism in the days the German constitution was formed (1949).
But in practice there shouldn't be much difference. You are allowed to deny the Holocaust and freely wave the flag of the 3. Reich in the US which is a crime in Germany (one I don't oppose), but I think racism, at least origining from corporations, is forbidden in the US too?
By the way, in Germany songs with words such as "fuck" are played as they are, yet in the US these words are beeped. Seems that your freedom of speech isn't so absolute after all...
If, accidentally, you're system administrator of some sort and you actually believe this article, then you're fscked. Really.
From the article: "If you believe the numbers, running a drive in RAID mirror will double the effective MTBF, we have done that by choosing the Maxline series vs a standard consumer IDE hard drive."
MTBF: Mean time between failures. Mean time. Mean. As in, "it should run this time". "Probably it won't fail until it has run for that many hours". "Maybe it will last that long". Not as in "this hardware drive is the ultimate perfection".
It doesn't get better when the author declares, how useless RAID 5 is, but it shows one thing: This guy really hasn't got a clue what he's talking about.
Even better: The backup/restore solution.
So, back to the practical application: Who the hell is this arcticle for? The private user doesn't have the money nor the need for Gigabit Ethernet ("budget server".. muahaha), and in Business this system obviously fails.
I'd love to see this guy set up his "Budget Server" in some company. Then an hard-disk headcrash. Just imagine this guy having to explain why the contents of his $3000 dollar-machine are impossible to restore. MTBF. My ass.
Do you really think that this is the right way?
So you bombard "targets" (heh, see gulf war) and get a few innocent people killed (not all afghanis working on an airport are actually taliban fanatics). A few of those leave a few family members behind. A few of these family members are probably going to be a bit mad at those who they think did that to them. With this you have the next probable threat.
See Palestina for a few examples.
Another thing which is IMHO a bit disturbing: Did you actually see any proves for the fact that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the terror attacks on the 11th? If the US have any proves, then why don't they show them? And please don't come with this "trust-us-we-have-prove-we-just-dont-show-you-beca use-ummm-it's-important-for-national-security"-bul lshit:)
> And no, conservation is not the answer. Not in the past, not now, and never will be. The pie is not limited,
Ahm. The pie IS limited, at least in regarding Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power (what do you want to do with all the waste? Shoot it into the sun?;)
With regenerative power there's just the little problem that we can't use it effectivly (according to this page about 90% of power used in the world is "made" of oil, coal or natural gas)
I mean, these power sources probably will be better used in the future (cold fusion, better turbines, what-do-I-know), so maybe we shouldn't just build a few more nuclear power plants (want to power your beowulf-cluster with solar energy? You've gotta live in Arizona or the what;)
So, can't we even try to conservate?
[ Disclaimer: Please blame my English teacher for all the mistakes I made. It's all her fault.;)) ]
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It has to do so anyway. Remember that not every country has the same lax laws about privacy as the US.
;): It's forbidden here to read the content of emails if you're not the recipient - this includes machines. So gmail, by checking the content of your mail to feed you ads, is violating the law. As you've agreed to their terms of service though (explicitely stating that you agree to them reading your mail) they might get around that though - regarding YOUR mail.
As I'm living there, I'll pick Germany as an example
But then there's the mail you get from other people who have not agreed to these terms of service. Grepping through that mail is definitly illegal.
Ah, I didn't know that tidbit about voting in the US .
:)
I'm from Germany and there the situation is different: You're able to vote incorrect at any election.
Not that I do.
Funny site, yet:
"Question.
How do I contact the scammers without using my real email address?
Answer. [...] You could of course buy your own Domain Name and use a redirect to have emails sent to you via the D.N. I nearly always use my own Domain Name to set up email accounts."
(emph. mine)
Be very, very careful if you're up to do this. A simple whois could reveal your personal data to the scammer. I wouldn't want to have some Very Angry Criminal standing at my door...
Additionally, you very well have the democratic right to vote incorrect if you want to do so.
To vote incorrectly means that you don't agree with the politics of any of the available candidates, opposed to staying at home which only means you don't care.
Ah, the very old argument: Either there's the Big Bang, or there is God.
Did it ever occur to you that there might be a third possibility? What about "I don't know how the Universe came into existance"? We're shrugging old gods of rain and wind as pagan, yet we're doing the exact same thing: Substitute God for the unknown. How's that any more civilized or advanced as what people did a few thousand years ago?
Same with Evolution vs. Creation. Presume there is no evolution and the whole concept ist just totally wrong: Does this make the concept of creation true?
if science != truth then god = true, or what?
Beware on using testing (sarge) on servers though.
:) ) you could face in unstable, there is one major problem:
As nice it may seem to get relative new programs instead of the year-old stuff in woody without the stability problems (ssh was broken a few years ago in unstable, which is a perfect reason why not to use sid on servers
There are no security updates for testing.
Dear Clemens,
I'm not Aiden and I don't speak on behalf of him. However, your arrogance is truly astounding.
As you're german, I presume you know that we're living in a social market economy. Note the social. To help each other is a ideal that you're discarding much too lightheartedly as "communist", where in fact it is a premise of our society. I'm currently doing my alternative civilian service. Without OSS, I wouldn't have a chance to earn a few bucks by writing homepages (using MySQL and Perl) and deploying Linux servers. There goes your "there is no money to be made with open source" argument.
So you tell him to "get a life". Sure, earn enough money to buy a house, have a wife, children and die. The conservative middle-class dream. Ever thought that maybe, just maybe, he doesn't want that life? Freedom of choice, ever heard of it?
Your attitude towards Aiden is truly astounding. You single-handedly make fun of his coding style and smack down his ideals. Nice going. Of course, he can't do the same with your code, as it's conveniently hidden. And his ideals of a better world, which he can help making possible doing his share are "idiocy" and "bigotry". Speaking about bigots: By definition this applies to people who assume their ideas to be the only valid ones, who view the world in black and white, who dismiss other ideas as idiotic without knowing them. Now, who's guilty of bigotry again?
With kind regards,
Johannes
"You're six times more likely to be mugged in London than New York City."
You're one hundred thirty six times more likely to be killed in New York than in London (according to NY and London crime statistics. Of course the comparison is flawed because NY is bigger than london, the situation is vastly different and all.)
Your premise, that camera suveillance is merely the solution to symptons is correct, but concluding the actual cause of violence is the restriction of gun licenses is hillarious.
Most European countries have very strict gun laws and crime rates are lower than in the US, which would be impossible according to you...
He isn't wrong.
/.-effect disappear (hint: Traffic Shaping doesn't make traffic disappear and i doubt if it is possible to create a list with all ISPs in the world and their respective proxy settings, which you would need to do)
You perceive this problem from an all-technology point of view, while he's also considering something nifty called "ethics".
Your solution is to not want to think of any implications of your doings: Hey, if he doesn't use BitTorent, it's his own freakin' problem and as a good capitalist I do whatever I want. If you require someone to use Bittorent/Kazaa/whatever you're also raising the barrier to accessing this website. You start to lock out users. Very uncapitalistic thing: You want to have every consumer you can get. Traffic Shaping and Proxying are nice things but won't just magically make the
Neither technology nor capitalism are the solution to every problem of mankind.
You could get into trouble because of this.
I don't know about other countries, but if you happen to live near the border in Germany and happen to get into a police control your mobile might get checked for theft by them.
Now imagine if they find out that your mobile apparently belongs to someone different...
Since Germans don't have unlimited freedom of political expression, I wonder how many Americans would give up theirs and accept the yoke of censorship for privacy?
This sounds like you have to gamble freedom of political expression for privacy. Yet, one is not possible without the other. See elections as example.
It's true that theoretically the American constitution grants a higher freedom of speech than the German one does. This is (among other things) due to the Nazi regime and ongoing revisionism in the days the German constitution was formed (1949).
But in practice there shouldn't be much difference. You are allowed to deny the Holocaust and freely wave the flag of the 3. Reich in the US which is a crime in Germany (one I don't oppose), but I think racism, at least origining from corporations, is forbidden in the US too?
By the way, in Germany songs with words such as "fuck" are played as they are, yet in the US these words are beeped. Seems that your freedom of speech isn't so absolute after all...
applicable for whom?
If, accidentally, you're system administrator of some sort and you actually believe this article, then you're fscked. Really.
From the article:
"If you believe the numbers, running a drive in RAID mirror will double the effective MTBF, we have done that by choosing the Maxline series vs a standard consumer IDE hard drive."
MTBF: Mean time between failures. Mean time. Mean. As in, "it should run this time". "Probably it won't fail until it has run for that many hours". "Maybe it will last that long".
Not as in "this hardware drive is the ultimate perfection".
It doesn't get better when the author declares, how useless RAID 5 is, but it shows one thing: This guy really hasn't got a clue what he's talking about.
Even better: The backup/restore solution.
So, back to the practical application: Who the hell is this arcticle for? The private user doesn't have the money nor the need for Gigabit Ethernet ("budget server".. muahaha), and in Business this system obviously fails.
I'd love to see this guy set up his "Budget Server" in some company. Then an hard-disk headcrash. Just imagine this guy having to explain why the contents of his $3000 dollar-machine are impossible to restore. MTBF. My ass.
Do you really think that this is the right way?
a use-ummm-it's-important-for-national-security"-bul lshit :)
So you bombard "targets" (heh, see gulf war) and get a few innocent people killed (not all afghanis working on an airport are actually taliban fanatics). A few of those leave a few family members behind. A few of these family members are probably going to be a bit mad at those who they think did that to them. With this you have the next probable threat.
See Palestina for a few examples.
Another thing which is IMHO a bit disturbing: Did you actually see any proves for the fact that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the terror attacks on the 11th? If the US have any proves, then why don't they show them? And please don't come with this "trust-us-we-have-prove-we-just-dont-show-you-bec
> And no, conservation is not the answer. Not in the past, not now, and never will be. The pie is not limited,
;)
With regenerative power there's just the little problem that we can't use it effectivly (according to this page about 90% of power used in the world is "made" of oil, coal or natural gas)
;)
;)) ]
Ahm. The pie IS limited, at least in regarding Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power (what do you want to do with all the waste? Shoot it into the sun?
I mean, these power sources probably will be better used in the future (cold fusion, better turbines, what-do-I-know), so maybe we shouldn't just build a few more nuclear power plants (want to power your beowulf-cluster with solar energy? You've gotta live in Arizona or the what
So, can't we even try to conservate?
[ Disclaimer: Please blame my English teacher for all the mistakes I made. It's all her fault.