Deciding if an app its going to a real server, or virtual or even a container fits into sysadmin role, provided that have all the relevant info. Is not about importance, but about need.
Thats the priority, not so much getting big profit from it, some succeed, some don't. A lot of them focus in showing a few caucasians and/or americans defeating big adversaries, a lot of them not humans or that should not be considered humans, and no matter how much casualties or how much suffer the civilians on your side. Most of the blockbusters of the last decade have that message in a way or another, even changing badly the base material to fit in it (i.e. World War Z)
You are right, is not common to see crops in ocean's coasts, close to coastal cities or not. The main vulnerability for crops, being "long term" investments, is extreme weather, like floods, hailstorms, ground frost or similar events, that could be more common or more unpredictable if the weather changes enough to rise 20 meters the sea level.
There weren't humans 5m years ago, but around then emerged the very first hominids, in fact we could be here because that warming or what caused it, if it did the selective pressure that caused the most adapted to the new environment to survive.
There are a lot of possible natural causes for global warmings and freezings, the actual problem is more centered on the speed of it, and if we are the cause this time. And maybe we won't be the best adapted for the new environment that we are creating.
More than life, civilization, most of mankind and big cities are near sea level, and at coasts. And the crops that feeds most of them are not so far. Maybe if sea rises 20 meters in a century or two we could cope with that, but if time is much shorter it will be pretty bad. Also not sure how it would impact ocean's salinity and life that much water if happens fast, but if is affected you are cutting also sea food to that people.
Don't forget p2p neither, that should be a big percent of all internet traffic. And CDN serves mostly static content, the same for a lot of people, is more interesting the metadata of personalized, dynamic content.
Unfortunately is not that much, because most people would not know how to appropiately configure them, or be afraid, or should be afraid because depend on insecure software anyway. But would be a way to regain some privacy for most, hosting their own mail server, owncloud or similar solutions, and hosting their own web based software.
The problem with that law is it is meant for people, it depend on people to be honest, not wanting extra money, not being able to be blackmailed or social engineered, not falling into common human bias like the ones shown in the Stanford prison experiment. You maybe could manage to find a few people that could cope with that. But if you have up to up to 5 millon people to access that information (including 500k with top secret access that work at for profit contractors), then you are doing the equivalent of giving guns to all prison inmates and setting them free in all the big cities. You know that people will get killed, abused, robbed and so on with that action. So in the actual context, that law is legalized robbery with impunity.
Came with full source? You think noone ever peeked on it to check if is safe or not, specially having the full source and no need to reverse engineer it, that is anyway forbidden by law in closed source? Could you choose to not install it or have it disabled?
That looks a lot like tiger repelling rocks, that you have it don't ensure that you will be able to use it, or that they won't shoot first (and getting killed instead of just robbed), you are the one with empathy, they are the ruthless ones that won't care or stop thinking about killing others. And you aren't counting the people that use that guns to suicide, accidentally hit someone, kill suspicious ones by some definition, used by your child or just be in view when the police stops you in the road.
Is like holding a knife by the blade and say that you pretend to use it to defend yourself, odds are high that you will be the one hurt, specially (but not only) if you try to use it.
Could we put that in your tombstone? What are your chances against a full swat team? What are your chances to survive or at least not get massively injured if you move a finger toward something that in the dark with thick fog could look as a potential weapon? Don't worry, you won't be alone, probably anyone that you care about that were with you could end that way too.
Ok, in this case should be a black hole calling another black hole black. But at least you can avoid one of them (not joining, installing extensions like Disconnect, etc). And as far i know, facebook don't hack your own servers or the servers of your isps/cellphone companies/hosting companies to track what you do in your own space, or plant backdoors just waiting for the moment they will be useful, or force other, unrelated companies to install spyware for you. And of course, don't have such real life impacts like putting you in jail, expelling from US, or just send a drone to your area.
And even if were that evil and with that broad reach (that nothing in earth have it, no foreing government, no organization, no independent private companies, just US government and associated private companies, join kaos, cobra, and all the bond villains organizations and you still didnt reach what US government is doing) pointing that someone does something bad too don't turns the wrong that you into right.
I agree that Linux is no (complete) protection. But is a first step, and in the right direction, and from there you can keep improving things. And is a step that maximizes alternatives, not getting locked into just one solution where you only option is keep tying your own hands. Trying to build a secure solution over compromised (as in "if the government ask, will have a backdoor right there by tomorrow") systems have no future. After that work, you will be safe? With an enemy that exceed the resources of all bond villains combined, will be difficult, but also can put things hard enough to not be worth the trouble.
You can choose no company, and stil have your (open source) solution and pretty safe. If you don't like some of the open source companies like redhat or ubuntu, you can even roll your own distribution with a lot of tools available for that. Is not the same not having a way out than refusing to pick the obvious choice.
Is about the trust. Their closed platform and their "we respect your privacy" internet services busted badly. Why anyone in the world will put their intelectual property, privacy, business proposals and so on in an environment that leak their information by design? That directly lies their consumers saying that their information is safe because they encrypt them? That will keep remote vulnerabilities intentionally open for a year or more, so can be exploited by NSA and associated private companies?
The NSA helped more to popularize linux on the desktop than all the open source community with its practices.
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Deciding if an app its going to a real server, or virtual or even a container fits into sysadmin role, provided that have all the relevant info. Is not about importance, but about need.
If is open source, under which license? If is agpl, as is used on all of us, should it be released to public?
Anyway, is not that US government cares about intellectual property of others.
Just because you think their target are terrorists. They are pretty efficient on their real target, everyone except government and associates.
Probably not that long
When will be Cyanogenmod and/or Ubuntu Touch be available for that device so we can really be the owners of it instead of google?
Using a laser you will light exactly the point you need
Thats the priority, not so much getting big profit from it, some succeed, some don't. A lot of them focus in showing a few caucasians and/or americans defeating big adversaries, a lot of them not humans or that should not be considered humans, and no matter how much casualties or how much suffer the civilians on your side. Most of the blockbusters of the last decade have that message in a way or another, even changing badly the base material to fit in it (i.e. World War Z)
You are right, is not common to see crops in ocean's coasts, close to coastal cities or not. The main vulnerability for crops, being "long term" investments, is extreme weather, like floods, hailstorms, ground frost or similar events, that could be more common or more unpredictable if the weather changes enough to rise 20 meters the sea level.
There weren't humans 5m years ago, but around then emerged the very first hominids, in fact we could be here because that warming or what caused it, if it did the selective pressure that caused the most adapted to the new environment to survive.
There are a lot of possible natural causes for global warmings and freezings, the actual problem is more centered on the speed of it, and if we are the cause this time. And maybe we won't be the best adapted for the new environment that we are creating.
More than life, civilization, most of mankind and big cities are near sea level, and at coasts. And the crops that feeds most of them are not so far. Maybe if sea rises 20 meters in a century or two we could cope with that, but if time is much shorter it will be pretty bad. Also not sure how it would impact ocean's salinity and life that much water if happens fast, but if is affected you are cutting also sea food to that people.
Don't forget p2p neither, that should be a big percent of all internet traffic. And CDN serves mostly static content, the same for a lot of people, is more interesting the metadata of personalized, dynamic content.
Unfortunately is not that much, because most people would not know how to appropiately configure them, or be afraid, or should be afraid because depend on insecure software anyway. But would be a way to regain some privacy for most, hosting their own mail server, owncloud or similar solutions, and hosting their own web based software.
The sarlacc is just below that sand waiting for prey fool enough to dig in those ruins.
The problem with that law is it is meant for people, it depend on people to be honest, not wanting extra money, not being able to be blackmailed or social engineered, not falling into common human bias like the ones shown in the Stanford prison experiment. You maybe could manage to find a few people that could cope with that. But if you have up to up to 5 millon people to access that information (including 500k with top secret access that work at for profit contractors), then you are doing the equivalent of giving guns to all prison inmates and setting them free in all the big cities. You know that people will get killed, abused, robbed and so on with that action. So in the actual context, that law is legalized robbery with impunity.
Came with full source? You think noone ever peeked on it to check if is safe or not, specially having the full source and no need to reverse engineer it, that is anyway forbidden by law in closed source? Could you choose to not install it or have it disabled?
First things first- what does this have to do with technology?
Without privacy and with full monitoring of communication, anything that you said, even in private, could make you target for Texas sharpshooters. Thats when police, swap teams and guns get involved. That is stuff that matters.
Is like holding a knife by the blade and say that you pretend to use it to defend yourself, odds are high that you will be the one hurt, specially (but not only) if you try to use it.
Could we put that in your tombstone? What are your chances against a full swat team? What are your chances to survive or at least not get massively injured if you move a finger toward something that in the dark with thick fog could look as a potential weapon? Don't worry, you won't be alone, probably anyone that you care about that were with you could end that way too.
You are talking about police here. Their $5 wrench beats your encryption. Rights? Whats that?
Ok, in this case should be a black hole calling another black hole black. But at least you can avoid one of them (not joining, installing extensions like Disconnect, etc). And as far i know, facebook don't hack your own servers or the servers of your isps/cellphone companies/hosting companies to track what you do in your own space, or plant backdoors just waiting for the moment they will be useful, or force other, unrelated companies to install spyware for you. And of course, don't have such real life impacts like putting you in jail, expelling from US, or just send a drone to your area.
And even if were that evil and with that broad reach (that nothing in earth have it, no foreing government, no organization, no independent private companies, just US government and associated private companies, join kaos, cobra, and all the bond villains organizations and you still didnt reach what US government is doing) pointing that someone does something bad too don't turns the wrong that you into right.
I agree that Linux is no (complete) protection. But is a first step, and in the right direction, and from there you can keep improving things. And is a step that maximizes alternatives, not getting locked into just one solution where you only option is keep tying your own hands. Trying to build a secure solution over compromised (as in "if the government ask, will have a backdoor right there by tomorrow") systems have no future. After that work, you will be safe? With an enemy that exceed the resources of all bond villains combined, will be difficult, but also can put things hard enough to not be worth the trouble.
You can choose no company, and stil have your (open source) solution and pretty safe. If you don't like some of the open source companies like redhat or ubuntu, you can even roll your own distribution with a lot of tools available for that. Is not the same not having a way out than refusing to pick the obvious choice.
Is about the trust. Their closed platform and their "we respect your privacy" internet services busted badly. Why anyone in the world will put their intelectual property, privacy, business proposals and so on in an environment that leak their information by design? That directly lies their consumers saying that their information is safe because they encrypt them? That will keep remote vulnerabilities intentionally open for a year or more, so can be exploited by NSA and associated private companies?
The NSA helped more to popularize linux on the desktop than all the open source community with its practices.
When the countries that are behind international intellectual property laws are the main offenders the whole concept turns into a worldwide scam.
And also reinforces the importance of not abusing antibiotics, breastfeeding babies, and your appendix