slashdot or other forum == public my xmpp sessions == private public irc == public voip == private publicly open chat room == public facebook chat == private anything on facebook marked as friends only or private == private anything on facebook marked as public or everyone == public twitter == public email == private
I went and looked at those you listed the first one only controlled what the share with advertisers and web-masters no with the government or internally. the second is to a web browser plug-in that they claim is to block google analytics but if I can not trust their scripts how can I trust their plugin?
Big data monopolies like Google are the stuff of nightmare for privacy-minded individuals.
But there's a silver lining to that particular cloud: as the most important player in the field, they're the most visible target for abuse of all kinds. Which means that you have a better chance of dodging the abuse if you simply don't put yourself in the center of the target, by not using any Google product.
Kind of like when Windows had the lion's share of the OS market, and you could avoid most viruses by running another OS, not because the other OS was more secure, but because virus writers had a better return on investment writing viruses for Windows and left your fringe OS alone.
Simply not using Google products won't protect you from this as it is using scripts embedded in web pages. Google analytics Gstatic and Googleadservices just to name a few present here on slashdot embeded and reporting back to Google and by extension the NSA.
To block them you need to either completely block javascript which will break many if not modern web pages or learn to use ghostery, request policy, AND OR noscript, oh and https everywhere. then block everything by default and whitelist and temporarily allow as needed to make the pages viewable.
Oh yeah, they'll probably also find a way to do HFT using it, so get ready to parse billions of new entries in the blockchain. Don't underestimate the mathematical prowess of bankers - once they show interest, they've found ways to make money off it.
Actually Bitcoin can't have High Frequentcy trades. While many people complain about bitcoin transaction times being to long this protects the network from high frequency trading.
And somehow Grooveshark manages to stay afloat. With an ad blocker installed, it offers a massive library of on-demand songs with no advertisement whatsoever. Anyone care to explain exactly how that works?
and this is why websites hate adbockers you are using their service but not paying or veiwing ads.
...in light of the upcoming end-of-life of Windows XP, which is still used by a large percentage of Chinese. That could drive users to buy pirated copies of a new operating system..
You mean to tell me the are paying for pirated copies? Why? Honestly can't they just torrent it just like everyone else on the planet?
Lol, loving all the comments below taking this seriously..
sure it would make sense if we had a passage reading "And 20,000 of the best bitches boarded the arc to keep Noah and his boys busy!" and "Gawd turned his back to all the fornication that he had outlawed"
nah the fornication laws came several hundred years later to mosses, gods last command to humanity before the flood was be fruitful and multiply so...
None of them have the same value as bitcoin. why would any government sponsored coin be at all different. They would have a shorter blockchain, and would only be valuable in one country and be tied to one countries economy as well as their politics. It would have all of the draw backs of both bitcoin and traditional currency and few of the benefits.
as I understand it Bitcoins are infinitely divisible so when coins are lost the value will go up for the remaining coins to compensate, so prices will simply adjust.
My greater fear is that the NSA might already possess, or be working toward, the ability to inject false records into a target's credit history. Create a situation where credit cards are revoked, assets are impounded, the target loses his house, his car, and any ability to ever use credit again. What better way to shut a dissident up than to so mess with his personal finances that he has to spend every waking moment trying to get it all straightened out.
When will snooping on private data end, and manipulation of that data begin?
that would be a advantage to moving to a bitcoin like distributed cryptographically signed ledger for transactions.
Sounds like a rather zero tolerance'ish approach dude.
And how could you believe anything they say otherwise? If those responsible are left in there position what is to stop them form continuing? If the datacenters and tapping equipment are still in place how can you know that they are not in use? If the law the made this possible are still in effect what is to stop them from using them? If their Cuban Gulag is still in place then what is to stop them from disappearing people that are critical of them, there? If the secret courts that rubber stamped these warrants are left in place they will go there for their rubber stamp. If the politicians and administration that protected these programs and kept it going while knowing the abuses and unethical actions being committed against the people their constituents after campaigning to end these types of acts are still in power how can you trust them not to do so again?
The answer is that you may never trust them again and as such one must adopt a zero tolerance policy or they will take it as approval.
so...**no matter what** you view the US government as so untrustworthy that there is absolutely nothing the Obama administration could do for you to thing they are telling the truth?
you want to see Assange, in NYC attending galas, at Harvard lecturing, in DC testifying (freely) before a Senate Judiciary hearing on privacy in the 21st Century...you want that, right? you would have to see it happen?
otherwise, you don't believe a single word the Obama administration says?
Am I accurately representing your position?
Well I would of added they could burn the Utah datacenter to ash dismantle the NSA prosecute and convict everyone involved in the massive wiretapping of the whole planet repeal the patriot act shut down fica court and bar the judges involved form ever becoming a judge at any level ever again shutdown gitmo and then finally they themselves resign then I might believe them.
transactions are not free (if you want them to complete);
guess what when you use a debit/credit card there is a transaction fee too. Also the fee is on average about 0.0001 BTC or currently 8 cents
there is no central authority who can clearly and without doubt tell Aunt Jane that her money have arrived, or why it hasn't arrived yet, and where it is (banks can do that.)
You mean other than the public ledger called a block chain that is the basic foundation of the bitcoin protocol?
On top of that, BTC is not directly accepted in most places; this means that you have to buy and sell currency all the time, enriching moneychangers. Theft of BTC is possible by many *new* methods. Why would then anyone need all this PITA at this time? Do we not have enough of currencies already that are in wide use?
And the number of places accepting bitcoins is growing with the interest and knowledge of it, this is a problem that will solve itself.
Because when antibiotic resistant microbes hit the environment en masse, you scrape your knee and it just won't heal... It's ALREADY happening, just in isolated cases.
We'll be back to Jewish/Islamic style "unclean" warnings on everybody when the only way to slow germs is washing and waiting in quarantine to see if you get sick or not.
No there is another option instead of antibiotics, Bacteroiphages.
Bacteriophages are viruses that only attack bacteria they are harmless to humans. They were studied for use in treating infection by the soviets but very little research has been done by the west.
Absolutely! I'm in my 50s, and I've taken antibiotics twice, both preventative after dental work. Cuts and scrapes get soap and bandages.
Doesn't your soup contain antibiotics? If your soap doesn't kill microbes, what good is it?
No, most soup has no antibiotic effect at all. The healing power of it is all due to a mother's love.
As for the soap, it washes off the dirt that contains microbes, but doesn't necessarily kill the microbes on its own.
that is why when i have a cut after washing with soap/water i the clean it with rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide those will kill the microbes. It may sting like a bastard but it better than infections.
Why let Hollywood decide what modern freedom fighters look like?
More like let Alan Moore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore) decide what they look like as he was the comic book writer that wrote V for vendetta.
So how is that some super graphics intensive shit like Call Of Duty can have sub 50ms latencies every damn day but a fucking word processor is causing you 300ms lag?
Sounds to me like somebody needs to put your baby boomer ass out to pasture, gramps, cuz you're obviously out of touch.
Because it renders locally and only has to tell the game engine the vectors that the players and bullets are moving as all of the maps and other data is available at the clients locally.
WHY are these agreements secret in the first place??
I don't think it's a huge surprise to anyone that the actual content of the treaty is anti-american and anti-consumer and just has the interests in mind of __scum__.. but why keep it secret, (scum)? It's not like drugged out TV watching fast food gobbling Americans are going to read it, so why all this fuss over keeping it secret when you could send copies of it to every mailbox in America and that wouldn't change a thing?
Because while most of the country may be drugged out coach potatoes, there are those that would make issues and cause them problems, such as the EFF.
The cops aren't setting this up for Joe citizen to use, it's for their use in emergencies. Maybe they can track you, maybe they can't, but we have no idea if they even have any interest in doing that. I live in Seattle and The Stranger is a fun alternative weekly, but they also enjoy stirring the pot and it's probably not a good idea to take their suppositions as fact.
Only on Slashdot can you get the same people freaking out because the police set up a Wi-Fi network that may know where you are even though they may have no intention of ever doing that... who will turn around and cheer Google for putting up municipal Wi-Fi that is definitely being used to track you and your location, browsing, mail, search and personal buying habits and send you ads. Why is the police Wi-Fi network the one that people are worried about?
The difference is that Google can't put me in jail on trumped up charges, if they don't like what I say where the police can. All Google wants to do is show me easily blocked ads. Giving the cops recored of my location at all times, which they could easily forge to make it look like you were at a crime or anywhere incriminating is not a good idea.
How to destroy a powerful brand in 1 easy steps! (SourceForge, not GIMP.)
And yeah, while SourceForge has been declining for a while now, this is something entirely different from a slow decline... they may as well have taken it out back and shot it. Be quicker, and probably cheaper in the long run too.
If they did this, they'd just catch a bunch of nerd range. This way, they hack together a cheap and craptacular installer, and then the nerds demand it be shut down. Parent company closes down a money-losing business with the users' blessing.
Then why the hell did our DICE overlords buy Sourceforge and Slashdot if they are just going to destroy the brand
Slashdot Mirror
you listen to truly public chatter
Good luck defining that.
its not that hard.
slashdot or other forum == public
my xmpp sessions == private
public irc == public
voip == private
publicly open chat room == public
facebook chat == private
anything on facebook marked as friends only or private == private
anything on facebook marked as public or everyone == public
twitter == public
email == private
I went and looked at those you listed the first one only controlled what the share with advertisers and web-masters no with the government or internally. the second is to a web browser plug-in that they claim is to block google analytics but if I can not trust their scripts how can I trust their plugin?
Are all of those actually necessary, or do they overlap enough that one or more is redundant?
In my experience each will miss something that another catches although yes there is a lot of overlap between some
Big data monopolies like Google are the stuff of nightmare for privacy-minded individuals.
But there's a silver lining to that particular cloud: as the most important player in the field, they're the most visible target for abuse of all kinds. Which means that you have a better chance of dodging the abuse if you simply don't put yourself in the center of the target, by not using any Google product.
Kind of like when Windows had the lion's share of the OS market, and you could avoid most viruses by running another OS, not because the other OS was more secure, but because virus writers had a better return on investment writing viruses for Windows and left your fringe OS alone.
Simply not using Google products won't protect you from this as it is using scripts embedded in web pages. Google analytics Gstatic and Googleadservices just to name a few present here on slashdot embeded and reporting back to Google and by extension the NSA.
To block them you need to either completely block javascript which will break many if not modern web pages or learn to use ghostery, request policy, AND OR noscript, oh and https everywhere. then block everything by default and whitelist and temporarily allow as needed to make the pages viewable.
no that not true, only banks and financial institutions are banned from trading in bitcoins in china no one else.
Oh yeah, they'll probably also find a way to do HFT using it, so get ready to parse billions of new entries in the blockchain. Don't underestimate the mathematical prowess of bankers - once they show interest, they've found ways to make money off it.
Actually Bitcoin can't have High Frequentcy trades. While many people complain about bitcoin transaction times being to long this protects the network from high frequency trading.
And somehow Grooveshark manages to stay afloat. With an ad blocker installed, it offers a massive library of on-demand songs with no advertisement whatsoever. Anyone care to explain exactly how that works?
and this is why websites hate adbockers you are using their service but not paying or veiwing ads.
...in light of the upcoming end-of-life of Windows XP, which is still used by a large percentage of Chinese. That could drive users to buy pirated copies of a new operating system..
You mean to tell me the are paying for pirated copies? Why? Honestly can't they just torrent it just like everyone else on the planet?
Lol, loving all the comments below taking this seriously..
sure it would make sense if we had a passage reading "And 20,000 of the best bitches boarded the arc to keep Noah and his boys busy!" and "Gawd turned his back to all the fornication that he had outlawed"
nah the fornication laws came several hundred years later to mosses, gods last command to humanity before the flood was be fruitful and multiply so...
there are already a number of other cytpo-currencies on the market,
Litecoin Novacoin, Peercoin, Namecoin, Feathercoin, Terracoin, Worldcoin, CopperLark, TagCoin, Devcoin, Megacoin, DigitalCoin, Freicoin, Goldcoin, Extremecoin, Anoncoin, Zerocoin, Fastcoin, Phoenixcoin, BBQcoin,YACoin, Ixcoin, Franko, CHNcoin, MinCoin, Timekoin, Bitbar, Junkcoin, Infinitecoin, Royalcoin, Betacoin, Rucoin, Solidcoin, I0coin, Tenebrix, Fairbrix, Coiledcoin, Liquicoin, and Smallchange.
None of them have the same value as bitcoin. why would any government sponsored coin be at all different. They would have a shorter blockchain, and would only be valuable in one country and be tied to one countries economy as well as their politics. It would have all of the draw backs of both bitcoin and traditional currency and few of the benefits.
as I understand it Bitcoins are infinitely divisible so when coins are lost the value will go up for the remaining coins to compensate, so prices will simply adjust.
My greater fear is that the NSA might already possess, or be working toward, the ability to inject false records into a target's credit history. Create a situation where credit cards are revoked, assets are impounded, the target loses his house, his car, and any ability to ever use credit again. What better way to shut a dissident up than to so mess with his personal finances that he has to spend every waking moment trying to get it all straightened out.
When will snooping on private data end, and manipulation of that data begin?
that would be a advantage to moving to a bitcoin like distributed cryptographically signed ledger for transactions.
Sounds like a rather zero tolerance'ish approach dude.
And how could you believe anything they say otherwise? If those responsible are left in there position what is to stop them form continuing? If the datacenters and tapping equipment are still in place how can you know that they are not in use? If the law the made this possible are still in effect what is to stop them from using them? If their Cuban Gulag is still in place then what is to stop them from disappearing people that are critical of them, there? If the secret courts that rubber stamped these warrants are left in place they will go there for their rubber stamp. If the politicians and administration that protected these programs and kept it going while knowing the abuses and unethical actions being committed against the people their constituents after campaigning to end these types of acts are still in power how can you trust them not to do so again?
The answer is that you may never trust them again and as such one must adopt a zero tolerance policy or they will take it as approval.
so...**no matter what** you view the US government as so untrustworthy that there is absolutely nothing the Obama administration could do for you to thing they are telling the truth?
you want to see Assange, in NYC attending galas, at Harvard lecturing, in DC testifying (freely) before a Senate Judiciary hearing on privacy in the 21st Century...you want that, right? you would have to see it happen?
otherwise, you don't believe a single word the Obama administration says?
Am I accurately representing your position?
Well I would of added they could burn the Utah datacenter to ash dismantle the NSA prosecute and convict everyone involved in the massive wiretapping of the whole planet repeal the patriot act shut down fica court and bar the judges involved form ever becoming a judge at any level ever again shutdown gitmo and then finally they themselves resign then I might believe them.
transactions are not free (if you want them to complete);
guess what when you use a debit/credit card there is a transaction fee too. Also the fee is on average about 0.0001 BTC or currently 8 cents
there is no central authority who can clearly and without doubt tell Aunt Jane that her money have arrived, or why it hasn't arrived yet, and where it is (banks can do that.)
You mean other than the public ledger called a block chain that is the basic foundation of the bitcoin protocol?
On top of that, BTC is not directly accepted in most places; this means that you have to buy and sell currency all the time, enriching moneychangers. Theft of BTC is possible by many *new* methods. Why would then anyone need all this PITA at this time? Do we not have enough of currencies already that are in wide use?
And the number of places accepting bitcoins is growing with the interest and knowledge of it, this is a problem that will solve itself.
Because when antibiotic resistant microbes hit the environment en masse, you scrape your knee and it just won't heal... It's ALREADY happening, just in isolated cases.
We'll be back to Jewish/Islamic style "unclean" warnings on everybody when the only way to slow germs is washing and waiting in quarantine to see if you get sick or not.
No there is another option instead of antibiotics, Bacteroiphages.
Bacteriophages are viruses that only attack bacteria they are harmless to humans. They were studied for use in treating infection by the soviets but very little research has been done by the west.
Absolutely! I'm in my 50s, and I've taken antibiotics twice, both preventative after dental work. Cuts and scrapes get soap and bandages.
Doesn't your soup contain antibiotics? If your soap doesn't kill microbes, what good is it?
No, most soup has no antibiotic effect at all. The healing power of it is all due to a mother's love.
As for the soap, it washes off the dirt that contains microbes, but doesn't necessarily kill the microbes on its own.
that is why when i have a cut after washing with soap/water i the clean it with rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide those will kill the microbes. It may sting like a bastard but it better than infections.
Why let Hollywood decide what modern freedom fighters look like?
More like let Alan Moore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore) decide what they look like as he was the comic book writer that wrote V for vendetta.
So how is that some super graphics intensive shit like Call Of Duty can have sub 50ms latencies every damn day but a fucking word processor is causing you 300ms lag?
Sounds to me like somebody needs to put your baby boomer ass out to pasture, gramps, cuz you're obviously out of touch.
Because it renders locally and only has to tell the game engine the vectors that the players and bullets are moving as all of the maps and other data is available at the clients locally.
WHY are these agreements secret in the first place??
I don't think it's a huge surprise to anyone that the actual content of the treaty is anti-american and anti-consumer and just .. but why keep it secret, (scum)? It's not like drugged out TV watching fast food gobbling Americans
has the interests in mind of __scum__
are going to read it, so why all this fuss over keeping it secret when you could send copies of it to every mailbox in America
and that wouldn't change a thing?
Because while most of the country may be drugged out coach potatoes, there are those that would make issues and cause them problems, such as the EFF.
This is insightful? Really?
The cops aren't setting this up for Joe citizen to use, it's for their use in emergencies. Maybe they can track you, maybe they can't, but we have no idea if they even have any interest in doing that. I live in Seattle and The Stranger is a fun alternative weekly, but they also enjoy stirring the pot and it's probably not a good idea to take their suppositions as fact.
Only on Slashdot can you get the same people freaking out because the police set up a Wi-Fi network that may know where you are even though they may have no intention of ever doing that ... who will turn around and cheer Google for putting up municipal Wi-Fi that is definitely being used to track you and your location, browsing, mail, search and personal buying habits and send you ads. Why is the police Wi-Fi network the one that people are worried about?
The difference is that Google can't put me in jail on trumped up charges, if they don't like what I say where the police can. All Google wants to do is show me easily blocked ads. Giving the cops recored of my location at all times, which they could easily forge to make it look like you were at a crime or anywhere incriminating is not a good idea.
How would they steal it when it is encrypted?
Hard for them to blackmail us if anyone of rank is sitting in solitary confinement at Gitmo, awaiting military tribunal for treason.
Or dead.
Just putting that out there.
The problem is these people run gitmo sending them there won't be that effective.
You mean like the Windows 8.1 stories?
You mean someone actually paid money to give slashdoters a chance to bash on windows? Isn't that what we do all of the time anyway?
How to destroy a powerful brand in 1 easy steps! (SourceForge, not GIMP.)
And yeah, while SourceForge has been declining for a while now, this is something entirely different from a slow decline... they may as well have taken it out back and shot it. Be quicker, and probably cheaper in the long run too.
If they did this, they'd just catch a bunch of nerd range. This way, they hack together a cheap and craptacular installer, and then the nerds demand it be shut down. Parent company closes down a money-losing business with the users' blessing.
Then why the hell did our DICE overlords buy Sourceforge and Slashdot if they are just going to destroy the brand