Yes, because for years courts have upheld the notion that your computer doesn't actually belong to you (technically the hardware maybe, but definitely nothing stored on it). However, they have to decide who it actually DOES belong to, and there's too many corporations out there staking their assinine claims. Be prepared to witness more of this in the future, until the courts finally figure out how stupid their position is.
The Erlang portion will be faster than anything in Python, and will be competitive with C++ you write yourself unless you are doing heavy string parsing, which Erlang does more slowly due to lack of multiple assignment. Like Python, you can code the performance related bits in C, but unlike Python, the C bits run in a supervised external process so they don't crash your program if you have a segfault in the C due to bad pointer assignment (you can actually integrate any language this way, not just C). The networking bit is all done for you and the sockets show up like little mini-processes you can monitor and send messages to/from. Because of the process model that Erlang uses, you don't have to deal with thread pooling and can handle a large number of concurrent clients in a straightforward way. There is also a cross platform gui in Erlang based on wxwidgets, but it isn't the fastest. Once I got used to it I found I could get stuff done pretty quickly.
A lot of people look at MySQL and say "well, MySQL doesn't do the job so relational databases aren't suitable". Most of the complaints I read that are in favor of Mongo give a laundry list of problems with MySQL as their justification. Well, duh. MySQL implements small subset of ANSI SQL, and until recently did it very inefficiently. So use another database, like Postgres. That's like saying HTTP isn't a suitable protocol because Apache uses a lot of memory. Most of these people who are throwing away relational logic are going to find themselves reimplementing it, badly. MongoDB is a really good cache and a good place to store ephemeral session data. It isn't a replacement for a relational data store in most use cases.
One problem is that the line between random sample polling and individual data mining has become blurred. In 1991 it wasn't typical to gather the individual preferences of an entire population and put them in a database somewhere. Both the GOP and the DNC made heavy use of data mining in the last couple of races. Now, whenever someone responds to a political poll, in the back of their mind they are thinking: how will my responses affect my credit score? My likelihood of an income tax audit? My eligibility for entitlement programs? While you think this is tin foil hat paranoia, consider that indulging that paranoia doesn't really cost anything. Why risk it, without a compelling reason? The especially heavy handed way the DNC went about drumming up votes in the last presidential race (the public shame approach) is just one example of how things have gotten out of hand. No one wants their details leaked to a media hit list because they responded the wrong way on what was supposed to be an anonymous poll. The camps have simply gotten too aggressive, and it is chilling frank discussion. The same thing is happening in the UK as well.
No, but they can launch a frivolous lawsuit hoping that Ars Technica doesn't have a warchest to defend themselves. Which is pretty much standard legal practice when it comes to the media.
If you are a tech company, a nice city to do business in is one near an airport with good telecom infrastructure, good schools, and housing is inexpensive enough that your employees don't have to spend their entire paycheck to live in a cardboard box. Locating where rent is skyhigh just so it shortens your commute to 10 Downing St has nothing to do with business: its all about you.
When you say "bother to show up" you are talking about a $10,000+ investment every time it happens. It's not like you just put on your sneakers, get in your car, and drive to the courtroom. Filing scatter-gun lawsuits which don't really have any chance of winning on their legal basis alone, hoping a percentage of respondents won't be able to afford responding to every legal complaint, is abuse. The fact that some civil courts endorse it (because they like to keep their docket full) doesn't make it any less so.
People will stop fearing nuclear power when world leader stop making irresponsible remarks about nuking people when they are upset. Until then, anything with a rocket stage and a nuclear device in the payload will be taboo.
There's nothing hidden about it. In the normal subpeona process, where the respondent has access to the court system, they may contest the legality of the subpeona, or contest it based on the work involved being unreasonable or inappropriate. In other words, due process. National security letters got a lot of buzz because they throw due process out the window, but not all law enforcement activity revolves around national security letters. Most of the time, they do actually follow the constitution, which means LEO doesn't always get their way.
Like social networking, surveillance transparency reports are the new fad. The fact is, producing actually transparent reports is illegal. Therefore, the game is appearing transparent when in fact you are not.
Apparently a lot of sensational speculation based on evidence-free statements made by top intelligence officials talking to their favorite reporters as anonymous sources. Propaganda, basically. The original story, BTW, has changed on the website from when it was first published; some of the things they said turned out to be provably false.
There a firms who are paid millions to do that for a single customer. Kaspersky is probably just afraid, and I don't blame him. If encryption is made illegal, I'm sure antivirus won't be far behind.
I'm reading about mobile usability on the Slashdot site whilst the adchoices popover advert is blowing up the Chrome mobile browser. I say its past time for the geddon.
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Yes, because for years courts have upheld the notion that your computer doesn't actually belong to you (technically the hardware maybe, but definitely nothing stored on it). However, they have to decide who it actually DOES belong to, and there's too many corporations out there staking their assinine claims. Be prepared to witness more of this in the future, until the courts finally figure out how stupid their position is.
Why not change the user's desktop background and color scheme while they're at it. Its all value add, right?
The Erlang portion will be faster than anything in Python, and will be competitive with C++ you write yourself unless you are doing heavy string parsing, which Erlang does more slowly due to lack of multiple assignment. Like Python, you can code the performance related bits in C, but unlike Python, the C bits run in a supervised external process so they don't crash your program if you have a segfault in the C due to bad pointer assignment (you can actually integrate any language this way, not just C). The networking bit is all done for you and the sockets show up like little mini-processes you can monitor and send messages to/from. Because of the process model that Erlang uses, you don't have to deal with thread pooling and can handle a large number of concurrent clients in a straightforward way. There is also a cross platform gui in Erlang based on wxwidgets, but it isn't the fastest. Once I got used to it I found I could get stuff done pretty quickly.
A lot of people look at MySQL and say "well, MySQL doesn't do the job so relational databases aren't suitable". Most of the complaints I read that are in favor of Mongo give a laundry list of problems with MySQL as their justification. Well, duh. MySQL implements small subset of ANSI SQL, and until recently did it very inefficiently. So use another database, like Postgres. That's like saying HTTP isn't a suitable protocol because Apache uses a lot of memory. Most of these people who are throwing away relational logic are going to find themselves reimplementing it, badly. MongoDB is a really good cache and a good place to store ephemeral session data. It isn't a replacement for a relational data store in most use cases.
One problem is that the line between random sample polling and individual data mining has become blurred. In 1991 it wasn't typical to gather the individual preferences of an entire population and put them in a database somewhere. Both the GOP and the DNC made heavy use of data mining in the last couple of races. Now, whenever someone responds to a political poll, in the back of their mind they are thinking: how will my responses affect my credit score? My likelihood of an income tax audit? My eligibility for entitlement programs? While you think this is tin foil hat paranoia, consider that indulging that paranoia doesn't really cost anything. Why risk it, without a compelling reason? The especially heavy handed way the DNC went about drumming up votes in the last presidential race (the public shame approach) is just one example of how things have gotten out of hand. No one wants their details leaked to a media hit list because they responded the wrong way on what was supposed to be an anonymous poll. The camps have simply gotten too aggressive, and it is chilling frank discussion. The same thing is happening in the UK as well.
No, but they can launch a frivolous lawsuit hoping that Ars Technica doesn't have a warchest to defend themselves. Which is pretty much standard legal practice when it comes to the media.
If you are a tech company, a nice city to do business in is one near an airport with good telecom infrastructure, good schools, and housing is inexpensive enough that your employees don't have to spend their entire paycheck to live in a cardboard box. Locating where rent is skyhigh just so it shortens your commute to 10 Downing St has nothing to do with business: its all about you.
The FISA judges apparently thought it was possible.
When you say "bother to show up" you are talking about a $10,000+ investment every time it happens. It's not like you just put on your sneakers, get in your car, and drive to the courtroom. Filing scatter-gun lawsuits which don't really have any chance of winning on their legal basis alone, hoping a percentage of respondents won't be able to afford responding to every legal complaint, is abuse. The fact that some civil courts endorse it (because they like to keep their docket full) doesn't make it any less so.
If Giovanni Lavorato still has money left after paying his other expenses, he clearly hasn't spent enough on the music.
Removing it from the website and printing a retraction are different things.
But anyone who read the Sunday Times article needs to see this: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
People will stop fearing nuclear power when world leader stop making irresponsible remarks about nuking people when they are upset. Until then, anything with a rocket stage and a nuclear device in the payload will be taboo.
There's nothing hidden about it. In the normal subpeona process, where the respondent has access to the court system, they may contest the legality of the subpeona, or contest it based on the work involved being unreasonable or inappropriate. In other words, due process. National security letters got a lot of buzz because they throw due process out the window, but not all law enforcement activity revolves around national security letters. Most of the time, they do actually follow the constitution, which means LEO doesn't always get their way.
Like social networking, surveillance transparency reports are the new fad. The fact is, producing actually transparent reports is illegal. Therefore, the game is appearing transparent when in fact you are not.
Apparently a lot of sensational speculation based on evidence-free statements made by top intelligence officials talking to their favorite reporters as anonymous sources. Propaganda, basically. The original story, BTW, has changed on the website from when it was first published; some of the things they said turned out to be provably false.
For those who haven't seen it yet. https://firstlook.org/theinter...
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There hasn't been a defensive side of the NSA since the 1990's.
Too late, they destroyed the backup tapes.
I wish I could upvote an Anonymous Coward
There a firms who are paid millions to do that for a single customer. Kaspersky is probably just afraid, and I don't blame him. If encryption is made illegal, I'm sure antivirus won't be far behind.
And I can't quite reach the submit button because 80% of it is covered by the ad.
I'm reading about mobile usability on the Slashdot site whilst the adchoices popover advert is blowing up the Chrome mobile browser. I say its past time for the geddon.
If there was a national water distribution system, LA would be the center of it. I hear they are getting their water from Vegas these days.