As for "personal data", how is Google to know that data you've broadcasted for all to see is personal?
I don't expect much from Google. In fact I would expect them to say something along the line of what you're saying now: "It's the network operators own fault! If they are too stupid to secure their network, they can expect nothing. They have broadcasted their data, we just took advantage of that fact. Now shut up or we close down our offices in your country".
- Or Google could simply obey local laws, but I don't expect them to do that anytime soon. Or later.
This is more like if you get the word "loser" tattooed on your forehead, and then you demand that the government pass a law that says that not only can nobody take pictures of you that show the tattoo, and not only can they not comment on it, but they aren't even allowed to register, in the privacy of their own mind, that you have that tattoo on your forehead.
Where I'm living, this would already be illegal on at least two levels:
1. It's illegal to take photographs of someone without their consent, if they are not in a public place (and even in public it's only legal to take "overview"-photos, not portraits). 2. It's illegal to register personal data without consent.
I think it's a surprise for Google that not all of the world has the same privacy laws and privacy expectations that they're used to;)
What response do you think you'll get from law enforcement if you tell them you left your bike unlocked outside Walmart all afternoon?
I was hoping for a reaction like "We're so sorry to hear that. Let us write up a report right away".
Similarly, you can definitely be found liable for damages caused by your vehicle if you leave the keys in it unlocked. You have a personal responsibility to protect and manage your own property and information, and no law in the world can protect you if you're willfully careless.
"Wilfully careless". I think this is where we differ:)
(By the way, in my country you would be laughed out of court if you tried to sue the owner of a stolen car)
Whether or not they are the good guys, laws that attempt to contravene physics are a bad idea. If the packets had been encrypted, it wouldn't have mattered that Google captured them--without the key, they're just noise. You could pass a law saying that capturing packets broadcast without encryption is illegal, or you could pass a law saying that if you want your packets to be private, you should encrypt them, and if you don't encrypt them, you have no expectation of privacy. Which of these two laws do you honestly think makes the most sense?
Let me rewrite that: You could pass a law saying that stealing bikes with or without locks is illegal, or you could pass a law saying that if you want to keep your bike, you should lock it, and if you don't lock it, you have no expectation of keeping your bike. Which of these two laws do you honestly think makes the most sense?
But making it illegal is a really expensive way to solve the problem, and it doesn't solve the fundamental problem, which is that people are sending their personal information over the network in the clear.
You're wrong;) The fundamental problem is not unencrypted networks. The fundamental problem is that Google can (legally in many places) harvest and use this information for whatever purpose they like - and some people are blaming the people operating the wireless networks. I find that absurd.
Question for extra credit: If we imagined a company, with access to massive computation power, captured encrypted traffic and later brute-forced deciphered everything. Will your reaction be: "Well, it's their own fault. They should have used stronger encryption"?
If they see somebody who "looks" like they are doing double the speed limit, based on the cars they are blowing by, then they can cite / arrest them on their powers of guesstimation alone.
I'm curious... Can you be arrested for speeding in the states?!
Can it be overloaded with excessive amounts of (bad) porn? How long will it survive in the hands of a 2-year old? What will happen if it were to meet the goatse-guy in a dark alley? Can you eat it? What will happen if you leave it in the microwave oven for too long?
Pick the most "conservative" political candidate and pick the most "liberal" political candidate. Then do some research and look at their list of sponsors. See all the names they have in common? Why, it's almost as though the people who bankroll campaigns don't care who wins...
It's called hedging or "safe betting". Here's an example of how it can work: Assume there is two candidates. Assume that your contribution pays itself back at least two-fold. You invest (contribute) in both candidates and the beauty is that you don't really care who wins, your investment is safe either way.
No, it makes you someone who has better things to do. Sorry, but I can't care about everybody in the world. Chances are if I don't know you, I won't help you because it's simply a waste of my time.
If you won't spend 10 minutes (probably once in your lifetime at most) to rescue another life, your time must REALLY be valuable. I pity you.
The challenge isn't demosaicing the images, nor is there a need for the user to have control over it, assuming it works properly. It's reading the file format; Nikon encrypts theirs, and everyone else changes their formats seemingly with every new model/model year.
Nikon only encrypts very specific metadata. As for other manufacturers, often it's just minor tweaks to support new camera features. Nothing you can't keep up with.
Even more odd is that as I understand it, dcraw -- the underlying library both apps use -- is actually where ufraw gets its great denoise from, so it seems a bit peculiar that rawstudio doesn't use it...
This is where UFRaw and Rawstudio is very different. UFRaw uses dcraw for almost everything. Rawstudio only uses dcraw for loading bayer image data.
By the way. Current Rawstudio development tree has both sharpen and denoise. And LOTS of other goodies.
whatever you do for God's sake stay away from HP. (unless you can score a laser printer from the early '90s those were built like tanks.)
I second that! I have had a few different printers over the years, various inkjets, various lasers. The HP 2100M that I bought in 1994 or so is the only one still working - and has been used as an everyday printer for 15 years now. It only has a Centronics interface, but damned it can print!:)
"Here honey, here's a google map of where you're going. Just swing by Kinko's and print out the PDF here on this USB stick... you know, the Kinko's out by highway 50? No, it's past the Wal-Mart... No, not that one... here, I'll put another map on the USB stick to help you find Kinko's."
I'm also a sysadmin at a social networking site with highly dynamic content. Unfortunately, Varnish won't help much because over 90% of the cumulative CPU time is ate up by the MySQL server.
What's your read/write ratio? memcached has helped us a lot with MySQL load for read extensive databases. IODrives has done the same for write extensive workloads. Don't be scared by the price tag, one server with an ioDrive can easily replace 5 servers without ioDrives.
People claim Apache is slow, but why not using a reverse proxy like Varnish to "speed it up" and still keep the features. I really see no reason why I should use G-WAN or lighttpd.
Not everybody is serving easily-cacheable stuff. Reverse proxies are great for semi-static websites like news sites, but they are useless for social-networking, webmail and other interactive sites that need to render customized content for each particular user.
I'm a system administrator at a (smaller) social network site with highly dynamic content. Well, at least that's what it looks like. We have lots of things to cache. Images, css, javascript, Flash/Java applets... Varnish has helped us tremendously. Now our webservers runs the actual platform, not serving the same CSS file as they did 0.0002s ago.
My point being, no matter how little impact you think Varnish will make, try it anyway. You might very well be surprised if you have any kind of serious traffic.
Since you seem to hate America so much, and lie about America with hate-filled propaganda, perhaps you should leave. You will be given one week to get the fuck out before you and your family are executed.
This is fantastic. Execute those who disagree with you. I love America!:)
That's the reason for this way of having what you have in your script -- flexibility.
What do other people do?
You mean there is any other way?! Once we had one of those unusable media center pc's. Damned complex, you had to close your eyes and scroll for a few seconds to select a random episode. Way too complex. This works every time, even without scrolling!
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I don't expect much from Google. In fact I would expect them to say something along the line of what you're saying now: "It's the network operators own fault! If they are too stupid to secure their network, they can expect nothing. They have broadcasted their data, we just took advantage of that fact. Now shut up or we close down our offices in your country".
- Or Google could simply obey local laws, but I don't expect them to do that anytime soon. Or later.
I don't think we'll ever agree on this ;)
Where I'm living, this would already be illegal on at least two levels:
1. It's illegal to take photographs of someone without their consent, if they are not in a public place (and even in public it's only legal to take "overview"-photos, not portraits).
2. It's illegal to register personal data without consent.
I think it's a surprise for Google that not all of the world has the same privacy laws and privacy expectations that they're used to ;)
Welp.
I was hoping for a reaction like "We're so sorry to hear that. Let us write up a report right away".
"Wilfully careless". I think this is where we differ :)
(By the way, in my country you would be laughed out of court if you tried to sue the owner of a stolen car)
Let me rewrite that:
You could pass a law saying that stealing bikes with or without locks is illegal, or you could pass a law saying that if you want to keep your bike, you should lock it, and if you don't lock it, you have no expectation of keeping your bike. Which of these two laws do you honestly think makes the most sense?
You're wrong ;) The fundamental problem is not unencrypted networks. The fundamental problem is that Google can (legally in many places) harvest and use this information for whatever purpose they like - and some people are blaming the people operating the wireless networks. I find that absurd.
Question for extra credit:
If we imagined a company, with access to massive computation power, captured encrypted traffic and later brute-forced deciphered everything. Will your reaction be: "Well, it's their own fault. They should have used stronger encryption"?
I'm curious... Can you be arrested for speeding in the states?!
Oh yes!
Can it be overloaded with excessive amounts of (bad) porn?
How long will it survive in the hands of a 2-year old?
What will happen if it were to meet the goatse-guy in a dark alley?
Can you eat it?
What will happen if you leave it in the microwave oven for too long?
Hmm. I should go to bed.
It's called hedging or "safe betting". Here's an example of how it can work: Assume there is two candidates. Assume that your contribution pays itself back at least two-fold. You invest (contribute) in both candidates and the beauty is that you don't really care who wins, your investment is safe either way.
Enjoy: http://outflux.net/geoloc/
I always thought they used their NTP-servers to count installations...
If you won't spend 10 minutes (probably once in your lifetime at most) to rescue another life, your time must REALLY be valuable. I pity you.
In fact the reverse is true. dcraw "borrows" basic transformation matrices from Adobe.
Nikon only encrypts very specific metadata. As for other manufacturers, often it's just minor tweaks to support new camera features. Nothing you can't keep up with.
This is where UFRaw and Rawstudio is very different. UFRaw uses dcraw for almost everything. Rawstudio only uses dcraw for loading bayer image data.
By the way. Current Rawstudio development tree has both sharpen and denoise. And LOTS of other goodies.
I second that! I have had a few different printers over the years, various inkjets, various lasers. The HP 2100M that I bought in 1994 or so is the only one still working - and has been used as an everyday printer for 15 years now. It only has a Centronics interface, but damned it can print! :)
That sound exactly like my wife!
What's your read/write ratio? memcached has helped us a lot with MySQL load for read extensive databases. IODrives has done the same for write extensive workloads. Don't be scared by the price tag, one server with an ioDrive can easily replace 5 servers without ioDrives.
I'm a system administrator at a (smaller) social network site with highly dynamic content. Well, at least that's what it looks like. We have lots of things to cache. Images, css, javascript, Flash/Java applets...
Varnish has helped us tremendously. Now our webservers runs the actual platform, not serving the same CSS file as they did 0.0002s ago.
My point being, no matter how little impact you think Varnish will make, try it anyway. You might very well be surprised if you have any kind of serious traffic.
(And then have a look at memcached!)
Crazy?!
He's the village lunatic of the internet! Seriously, he's paranoid as hell and doesn't make much (if any) sense.
droid it is, then!
EH HEHEHE!!!
This is fantastic. Execute those who disagree with you. I love America! :)
Are you seriously suggesting to relocate just to get working internet access? That sounds a bit extreme.
But I like the notion that only poor people live in the countryside :)
You mean there is any other way?! Once we had one of those unusable media center pc's. Damned complex, you had to close your eyes and scroll for a few seconds to select a random episode. Way too complex. This works every time, even without scrolling!
Not in Mother Russia...