Oops... did I say "shot"? I meant "should have cat urine poured down their throats". Seriously, I've never seen another institution meant for the citizens to petition government be abused so much. All lobbying (even the anti-gun lobby) will be at risk eventually when enough people decide enough is enough. At the moment, they're distracted by *idol shows to give a damn, but just wait and see.
Once and for all that says IP addresses cannot be used to identify users for anything without other corroborating evidence I.E. network traffic and such, which would require the cooperation of the ISP and, ostensibly, a warrant. Of course, lobbyists would need to be shot first.
Also a random SSID and has remote login disabled. Of course, they had other issues with UPnP and stuff, but at least this makes remote attacks a little bit harder since they're more difficult to discover (still security through obscurity; if they have a dumb device that responds outside NAT, it's still game over). Nothing will stop people from making devices that should be private available publicly for the sake of convenience though.
I'm not so sure about #2. There are now quantitative (though, not comprehensive) ways of measuring piracy these days. Researchers would debunk a claim like that in short order, I think.
But I'm pretty sure if EA keeps going the same direction, #1 will be followed by more and more people. Likewise, I feel indie studios/developers will be getting more exposure.
If people showed their disapproval with money rather than vitriol on social media, EA would have been a completely different company... or out of business.
...as they will be used more and more to provide a near-instant (Twitter-like) service that turns PDFs to HTML as soon as one is linked somewhere on the web
Gotta completely ruin your week, if not a few weeks. This can not only ruin productivity, it can also potentially end a relationship with a client(s) or even cost new opportunities. Why would anyone trust someone who couldn't even get their emails in order (although if it's someone with understanding, they could potentially make it through), but that's an awful lot of duplicates.
...Unless they're really useless or are too sensitive (I never send sensitive information via email, but despite my best efforts, I do get them sent to me). But I guess even that's not consolation that the information was private by any stretch of the imagination.
I keep trying to explain to people, email with Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail etc... is like having a private conversation in a coffee shop or something. Yeah, you can get "some" privacy, but really, anyone can listen in or record if they really wanted to since you don't control the venue. Anything without PGP/GPG encryption is like that.
I can only imagine what this might be like for those folks. If this happened to me, and if I do delete messages, I'd be not only livid, but hosed as well. How can you sift through that much info in a single morning... or a week's worth of mornings?
That's really the bottom line here. Despite the negative stigma this may cause to the airline, I'm actually suprised this hasn't come about sooner. As it says, these are not big jets; they're small planes and the population doesn't exactly have a reputation for being skinny (and we can blame industrial "progress" for that).
I guess it's a dedicated server with fancy LCDs for status (like on some gaming rigs), except it's a storage and/or compute node. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
I'm not posting exactly where I live on the internet, but my "train-taking" MTA Harlem line which passes through quite a few of those bedroom communities and then the subway (see above), which in my view is wasted land that could have been used to reduce the environmental footprint of having everything shipped over. That would have also brought the infastructure closer to the city. The raising chickens bit was obviously hyperbole and your calling me "ignorant of the rest of the world as the typical New Yorker" speaks volumes about your own insular view of the world. You know nothing about me.
I take the train. That sounds like a rubber tire problem to me.;) As for politics, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole attached to a pole the length of the galaxy.
Er... I'm from Sri Lanka and have visited quite a few places around the world before and since coming to the U.S. Bedroom communities are what I pass on my way to work. They're the xxxvilles of nothing but cul de sacs with automated alarm systems, sprinklers and no one at home before 8PM. It's you that need to get out more.
I may have misworded there. It most definitely wasn't the boondocks, but it's a very quiet neighborhood and actually a very nice place. I could actually smell air when I walked outside instead of pollution (quite the difference from NY). Only reason I moved was because I had family in New York. I could work and go to school while living with them.
I guess you're right. Plus the bigger the city, the bigger the bureaucracy. It's really sad that when so many lives are at stake, it's actually harder to get something like this fixed.
I used to live in Georgia so I'm well versed in non-city life;) . I now live in an apartment that was around $90K and there are about another $10K in updates/fixes on it.
I walk to the store and cook at home. Even with two gallons of milk, I can come home in about 10 minutes or so from the store (you may not need as much as you think you do to fill 4 carts a week). There's an even closer shop, that's just 5 minutes on foot, but they're a bit more expensive. The train station is also about 10 minutes away so I walk there too. It's just 30 - 40 minutes at most to get to work by train (+subway). I don't own a car so even with monthly tickets, I'm spending far less on transportation than on a full-time vehicle (gas, insurance, maintenance etc...)
This was inconvenient when I first moved, but since then, I don't feel I need 4 wheels all the time.
When the farmer's market opens, I take the bus to it.
That's very true. This is like the broadband problem: All around the world you see people getting faster and faster access and even fiber, when they had no internet at all previously. Meanwhile a lot of us are chugging along on copper. It's all cause it's more expensive to rip out what's already here to put in anew and you can't stop everything just to do new installations.
Sorry, I don't want to drive to pick up groceries or raise chickens or spend hours in gridlock getting to work. Moving out of cities is a pretty silly way of fixing (or just plain ignoring?) the problem cause you then stretch an already strained infastructure further out to support an ever increasing number of bedroom communities in the suburbs. Killing more and more new ground to support two legged rabbits isn't sustainable.
I live in New York BTW.
Getting electricity, heat, water, and Internet to homes is neither rocket science nor particularly expensive.
Far bigger than most most give attention to. And it isn't just gas lines; it's bridges/overpasses, roads, dams, levys, sewers, tunnls, heck even our data channels etc... People tend to forget that while there has been a lot of new construction, a lot of our infastructure is still decades old. Some of it going back at least 30 - 50 years and prohibitively expensive to replace/upgrade all at once. It doesn't help that there's so much expendeture on stupid things like wars on x and a hopelessly inefficient workforce. All the while the newer buildings, those things that only house prestige and drones, are being created purely by corporate entities.
There's no immediate ROI for fixing these things that don't kill people in droves.
This trend of making all things that exist wireless can have pretty bad consequences if companies aren't held accountable for what they produce. I'm sorry, it's not hard. It just takes code correctness and some discipline to not take a route only cause it's easy. I'm not naive; I understand being first out of the gate matters, but making that a priority at the cost of some basic security is unacceptable.
If the programmers aren't delivering on time or creating insecure code, then part of the problem may be management. As Scott Adams wrote today, Management exists to minimize the problems created by its own hiring mistakes. It's some kind of endmic disease that technical people are expected to push through a product quickly first, securely second.
It doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, these companies use their own sites, but other times, it's a no-name domain and sometimes a random IP. It's almost a kin to a botnet herder where they all report to a root domain where they get their instructions.
And other times these are from publicly available records; no direct connection to your web browser. If you buy a car, apply for a credit card or even register a new phone number, expect to get spammed shortly. The only way to not get included in a dossier of some sort is to not exist. But even that's no guarantee.
High-speed internet would give incentive to businesses (particularly small ones) to setup shop. This will help the local economy, which in turn will help feed the planet, save babies etc... etc... The space program is also a monumental waste of money if you discard how far society has advanced in almost every conceivable way as a result of it.
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Oops... did I say "shot"? I meant "should have cat urine poured down their throats". Seriously, I've never seen another institution meant for the citizens to petition government be abused so much. All lobbying (even the anti-gun lobby) will be at risk eventually when enough people decide enough is enough. At the moment, they're distracted by *idol shows to give a damn, but just wait and see.
Once and for all that says IP addresses cannot be used to identify users for anything without other corroborating evidence I.E. network traffic and such, which would require the cooperation of the ISP and, ostensibly, a warrant. Of course, lobbyists would need to be shot first.
Also a random SSID and has remote login disabled. Of course, they had other issues with UPnP and stuff, but at least this makes remote attacks a little bit harder since they're more difficult to discover (still security through obscurity; if they have a dumb device that responds outside NAT, it's still game over). Nothing will stop people from making devices that should be private available publicly for the sake of convenience though.
I'm not so sure about #2. There are now quantitative (though, not comprehensive) ways of measuring piracy these days. Researchers would debunk a claim like that in short order, I think.
But I'm pretty sure if EA keeps going the same direction, #1 will be followed by more and more people. Likewise, I feel indie studios/developers will be getting more exposure.
Rephrase: Better to be rich than loved
If people showed their disapproval with money rather than vitriol on social media, EA would have been a completely different company... or out of business.
...as they will be used more and more to provide a near-instant (Twitter-like) service that turns PDFs to HTML as soon as one is linked somewhere on the web
Gotta completely ruin your week, if not a few weeks. This can not only ruin productivity, it can also potentially end a relationship with a client(s) or even cost new opportunities. Why would anyone trust someone who couldn't even get their emails in order (although if it's someone with understanding, they could potentially make it through), but that's an awful lot of duplicates.
An absolute disaster.
...Unless they're really useless or are too sensitive (I never send sensitive information via email, but despite my best efforts, I do get them sent to me). But I guess even that's not consolation that the information was private by any stretch of the imagination.
I keep trying to explain to people, email with Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail etc... is like having a private conversation in a coffee shop or something. Yeah, you can get "some" privacy, but really, anyone can listen in or record if they really wanted to since you don't control the venue. Anything without PGP/GPG encryption is like that.
I can only imagine what this might be like for those folks. If this happened to me, and if I do delete messages, I'd be not only livid, but hosed as well. How can you sift through that much info in a single morning... or a week's worth of mornings?
That's really the bottom line here. Despite the negative stigma this may cause to the airline, I'm actually suprised this hasn't come about sooner. As it says, these are not big jets; they're small planes and the population doesn't exactly have a reputation for being skinny (and we can blame industrial "progress" for that).
I agree. The article and the site are nebulous.
I guess it's a dedicated server with fancy LCDs for status (like on some gaming rigs), except it's a storage and/or compute node. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
When they missed putting 'http://' in front of their link to thinkgeek.com ;)
I didn't think Facebook can be made even more dastardly (or at such a low level). Alas, I was wrong!
I'm not posting exactly where I live on the internet, but my "train-taking" MTA Harlem line which passes through quite a few of those bedroom communities and then the subway (see above), which in my view is wasted land that could have been used to reduce the environmental footprint of having everything shipped over. That would have also brought the infastructure closer to the city. The raising chickens bit was obviously hyperbole and your calling me "ignorant of the rest of the world as the typical New Yorker" speaks volumes about your own insular view of the world. You know nothing about me.
I take the train. That sounds like a rubber tire problem to me. ;) As for politics, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole attached to a pole the length of the galaxy.
Er... I'm from Sri Lanka and have visited quite a few places around the world before and since coming to the U.S. Bedroom communities are what I pass on my way to work. They're the xxxvilles of nothing but cul de sacs with automated alarm systems, sprinklers and no one at home before 8PM. It's you that need to get out more.
I may have misworded there. It most definitely wasn't the boondocks, but it's a very quiet neighborhood and actually a very nice place. I could actually smell air when I walked outside instead of pollution (quite the difference from NY). Only reason I moved was because I had family in New York. I could work and go to school while living with them.
I guess you're right. Plus the bigger the city, the bigger the bureaucracy. It's really sad that when so many lives are at stake, it's actually harder to get something like this fixed.
I used to live in Georgia so I'm well versed in non-city life ;) . I now live in an apartment that was around $90K and there are about another $10K in updates/fixes on it.
I walk to the store and cook at home. Even with two gallons of milk, I can come home in about 10 minutes or so from the store (you may not need as much as you think you do to fill 4 carts a week). There's an even closer shop, that's just 5 minutes on foot, but they're a bit more expensive. The train station is also about 10 minutes away so I walk there too. It's just 30 - 40 minutes at most to get to work by train (+subway). I don't own a car so even with monthly tickets, I'm spending far less on transportation than on a full-time vehicle (gas, insurance, maintenance etc...)
This was inconvenient when I first moved, but since then, I don't feel I need 4 wheels all the time.
When the farmer's market opens, I take the bus to it.
Also, my plants aren't plastic ;)
Yes. But their will is still their own and I hear it's very comfortable and bouncy.
That's very true. This is like the broadband problem: All around the world you see people getting faster and faster access and even fiber, when they had no internet at all previously. Meanwhile a lot of us are chugging along on copper. It's all cause it's more expensive to rip out what's already here to put in anew and you can't stop everything just to do new installations.
It's quite a conundrum.
Sorry, I don't want to drive to pick up groceries or raise chickens or spend hours in gridlock getting to work. Moving out of cities is a pretty silly way of fixing (or just plain ignoring?) the problem cause you then stretch an already strained infastructure further out to support an ever increasing number of bedroom communities in the suburbs. Killing more and more new ground to support two legged rabbits isn't sustainable.
I live in New York BTW.
The U.S. is not Iceland.
Far bigger than most most give attention to. And it isn't just gas lines; it's bridges/overpasses, roads, dams, levys, sewers, tunnls, heck even our data channels etc... People tend to forget that while there has been a lot of new construction, a lot of our infastructure is still decades old. Some of it going back at least 30 - 50 years and prohibitively expensive to replace/upgrade all at once. It doesn't help that there's so much expendeture on stupid things like wars on x and a hopelessly inefficient workforce. All the while the newer buildings, those things that only house prestige and drones, are being created purely by corporate entities.
There's no immediate ROI for fixing these things that don't kill people in droves.
This trend of making all things that exist wireless can have pretty bad consequences if companies aren't held accountable for what they produce. I'm sorry, it's not hard. It just takes code correctness and some discipline to not take a route only cause it's easy. I'm not naive; I understand being first out of the gate matters, but making that a priority at the cost of some basic security is unacceptable.
If the programmers aren't delivering on time or creating insecure code, then part of the problem may be management. As Scott Adams wrote today, Management exists to minimize the problems created by its own hiring mistakes. It's some kind of endmic disease that technical people are expected to push through a product quickly first, securely second.
It doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, these companies use their own sites, but other times, it's a no-name domain and sometimes a random IP. It's almost a kin to a botnet herder where they all report to a root domain where they get their instructions.
And other times these are from publicly available records; no direct connection to your web browser. If you buy a car, apply for a credit card or even register a new phone number, expect to get spammed shortly. The only way to not get included in a dossier of some sort is to not exist. But even that's no guarantee.
High-speed internet would give incentive to businesses (particularly small ones) to setup shop. This will help the local economy, which in turn will help feed the planet, save babies etc... etc... The space program is also a monumental waste of money if you discard how far society has advanced in almost every conceivable way as a result of it.