... the snooping is done on your ISP's backbone, and the browser you use makes little difference.
If you're just using a stock browser, this is somewhat true. But for privacy you wouldn't do that.
For instance, installing the HTTPS Everywhere extension will get you secure connections to as many sites as possible. That's a direct counter to pervasive snooping. I use it with Firefox and also NoScript, Ghostery, RefControl, and CookieMonster, and that set does a fairly decent job of having a more privacy-oriented (and faster) browsing experience. It also makes the NSA's eavesdropping more difficult, but that's just a nice side effect of not sharing your every move with the commercial trackers out there (I installed them all well before I'd ever heard of Snowden). The nice thing about solid security approaches is that they proactively defend against unknown attackers.
Quite the opposite, Congress granted China "Most Favored Nation" trading status in 1997.
It's only the war mongers who call China an enemy. They like to speak of boogeymen who may come in the night, to scare little children-like citizens into behaving for their benefit.
I know I'm overgeneralizing, but in large part commodity utility providers, like web hosting companies, don't really care about specific customer problems. They will work diligently to make sure that if they sell a widget, that widget is working the way they say it will, but if you're wondering what your capacity planning outlook should be, where the system inefficiencies are, how you could tune the site to make it perform better - hire a local consultant who will learn about your company, your customers, and your systems. The web hosting companies do care about their problems, just not yours.
Find a consult who's not reselling anything and then if it turns out that the current web hosting company is, or ever becomes, the problem, then he will tell you straight and help you find a better solution. I do this in Northern New England, but you'll find somebody just about everywhere (go by word of mouth from your peers).
yeah, the encrypted data bit is interesting (who doesn't use opportunistic TLS on SMTP these days?) but here's the bigger problem:
Section 5 -- Domestic Communications (U)
A communication identified as a domestic communication will be destroyed upon. recognition unless the Director (or Acting Director) of NSA specifically determines, in writing, that: (S)...
(2) the communication does not contain foreign intelligence information but is reasonably believed to contain evidence of a crime that has been, is being, or is about to be committed such communication may be disseminated (including United States person identities) to appropriate Federal law enforcement authorities, in accordance with 50 U.S.C. l806(b) and l825(c), Executive Order No. 12333, and, where applicable, the crimes reporting procedures set out in the August 1995 "Memorandum of Understanding: Reporting of Information Concerning Federal Crimes," or any successor document. Such communications may be retained by NSA for a reasonable period of time, not to exceed six months unless extended in writing by the Attorney General, to permit law enforcement agencies to determine whether access to original recordings of such is required for law enforcement purposes; (8)
That's it, no questions left, the NSA is involved in domestic surveillance of US Citizens for law enforcement purposes. It's as if the Church Committee never existed.
Considering the ease of writing those two required letters and the current state of law breaking in the United States, it's easy to see how bureaucrats could take the guidelines as written and 'reasonably determine' that all domestic communications need to be stored in perpetuity.
Assuming anything else is to assume a level of generosity and restraint on the part of the intelligence agencies that each day we find ourselves more foolish to do.
It might have a long term impact on mod quality but it doesn't provide any social pressure for good moderation the way nonymous moderation would. Effectively, every mod is an AC.
It's the submarine patents that are the bigger worry. Since this codec is based on work that's come from some academic research papers, one can imagine a sufficiently wealthy litigation-mad megalocorp paying developers to stay on top of research and file patent applications citing obvious implementation details and then keeping them under the surface until it's sufficiently advantageous to allow them to surface. This process is 100% the opposite of the intention of the Constitutional provision for IP.
BTW, the posted whitepaper is really nicely done - good job Xiph team. In a free world everybody would rejoice and be happy for your efforts.
Let's all sing along now: Tape sucks, Optical sucks. Rotational drives are here to stay.
Depends on the cost. If these discs are under $20, I can back up my home storage array with substantial FEC for 10% of the cost of the array. Twenty times even before breakeven.
Slashdot would be better if we could see the mods who give points to factually incorrect emotional rants. Mods: fine, don't read TFA but save the points for the next story.
If you want to use IEEE1394, you need to pay... Apple.
That was true... in 1998. Yes, we said it was stupid at $1/port and then stupid when they went with a flat fee. Eventually they got that. By time they bought Zayante for the PHY's this had all blown over.
If you read some of the articles about the company, they're not just selling hardware. They enter into contracts for long-term partnerships with these companies, offering to keep them at the leading edge of quantum-or-whatever-it-is computing during that period.
They're probably going to get the 1024 then 2048-bit devices, and certainly whatever the next thing is they come up with.
For a company like Lockheed, spending $2-3M a year to be probably on the forefront of this technology is far less than they spent on early computers in the 50's and 60's. If it gives them any competitive advantage, it's money well spent.
D-Wave will turn out to be whatever it is, but it's hard to find another company that's closer to commercializing quantum computing.
This is the natural consequence of the recent finding that there was running water on Mars, which gives a strong clue that there's still lots of it around. Anybody who reads sci-fi knows that water is like the oil of the solar system, so it's only natural that the USG will want to occupy the land.
...or does that not apply to internet service providers?
Verizon in this case is the physical plant provider, and, contrary to every notion about how markets work, governments enforce monopolies there. We have hundred-year-old cronyism still dragging us down today. Statists are then shocked to find the providers aren't competing on service quality when they have no competition.
In the not-too-distant future we'll have a majority of people happy to have both DSL and CableTV-derived pure-IP networks available to them and they'll still be arguing in support of 'natural monopolies' via whichever provider they can choose from that gives them the best service at the best price.
One aspect of autonomous vehicles that few people seem to consider is its potential effect on the housing market.
Another aspect of that will be the way people can move further out. 2 hours commute to work? Not really a problem.
6AM - roll out of house bed into the car bed. No point in a distinction for bachelors. Car starts going. 7AM - wake up to coffee made. Take a shower (cruise-ship-sized), get dressed. 7:30AM - breakfast is ready (made by the AI). Eat, check messages, read the news. 8AM - car arrives at work.
5PM - hop back in car. Finish up work, take a nap, watch a movie, screw around on Slashdot, etc. 7PM - arrive home. Spend some time with the family, etc.
Weekly - replenish supplies in vehicle. The water and septic will be automatic, but refrigerated items will either be manual or by the butler droid.
Let's hope we're on clean strong-force energy by then.
So why spend $2500/month in a home-on-wheels when you could have a nice house (with much more room) for less?
That's not an atypical mortgage + taxes + maintenance cost for a homeowner. And houses don't go anywhere. To each his own, they seem approximately the same price (thanks for the math, BTW, I was wondering).
Why not just use 'devastated', the appropriate word in the case? Anyway, telecommuting may have already decimated commuting traffic, but the continued centralization and population growth may be overcoming it.
Why would you ever want to do this, as opposed to letting the people choose what to run?
Nice strawman, but the people do have the choice of what to run. The linux-based thin client is just a much less expensive choice for them. The IT guy will help out the Mac and Windows users too, at his regular rate. Since he's just a few floors away, he's the natural choice for service.
What possible benefit is there to this plan, other than to centralize and monitor user activity?
To reduce costs, bring computing to the masses in Brazil who do not currently have access to it, and to create jobs. Brazil has a lower cost of living than here - not everybody has to be a highly paid corporate drone to fund the warfare machine in Brazil.
Even better, if you got a chicken for $3.50 worth of work a few years ago, and sell it today, while it's still worth one chicken, it's worth 7 USD, so the IRS will want tax on the $3.50 'profit' you made.
Inflation and capital gains taxes lets the government steal the same money from people at least three times.
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... the snooping is done on your ISP's backbone, and the browser you use makes little difference.
If you're just using a stock browser, this is somewhat true. But for privacy you wouldn't do that.
For instance, installing the HTTPS Everywhere extension will get you secure connections to as many sites as possible. That's a direct counter to pervasive snooping. I use it with Firefox and also NoScript, Ghostery, RefControl, and CookieMonster, and that set does a fairly decent job of having a more privacy-oriented (and faster) browsing experience. It also makes the NSA's eavesdropping more difficult, but that's just a nice side effect of not sharing your every move with the commercial trackers out there (I installed them all well before I'd ever heard of Snowden). The nice thing about solid security approaches is that they proactively defend against unknown attackers.
When did China become an enemy of the US?
Quite the opposite, Congress granted China "Most Favored Nation" trading status in 1997.
It's only the war mongers who call China an enemy. They like to speak of boogeymen who may come in the night, to scare little children-like citizens into behaving for their benefit.
The only thing I've ever heard raised
OMG, go to your local free library or do a bloody Google search before professing your ignorance.
I know I'm overgeneralizing, but in large part commodity utility providers, like web hosting companies, don't really care about specific customer problems. They will work diligently to make sure that if they sell a widget, that widget is working the way they say it will, but if you're wondering what your capacity planning outlook should be, where the system inefficiencies are, how you could tune the site to make it perform better - hire a local consultant who will learn about your company, your customers, and your systems. The web hosting companies do care about their problems, just not yours.
Find a consult who's not reselling anything and then if it turns out that the current web hosting company is, or ever becomes, the problem, then he will tell you straight and help you find a better solution. I do this in Northern New England, but you'll find somebody just about everywhere (go by word of mouth from your peers).
yeah, the encrypted data bit is interesting (who doesn't use opportunistic TLS on SMTP these days?) but here's the bigger problem:
That's it, no questions left, the NSA is involved in domestic surveillance of US Citizens for law enforcement purposes. It's as if the Church Committee never existed.
Considering the ease of writing those two required letters and the current state of law breaking in the United States, it's easy to see how bureaucrats could take the guidelines as written and 'reasonably determine' that all domestic communications need to be stored in perpetuity.
Assuming anything else is to assume a level of generosity and restraint on the part of the intelligence agencies that each day we find ourselves more foolish to do.
That's what meta-moderation is for.
It might have a long term impact on mod quality but it doesn't provide any social pressure for good moderation the way nonymous moderation would. Effectively, every mod is an AC.
It's the submarine patents that are the bigger worry. Since this codec is based on work that's come from some academic research papers, one can imagine a sufficiently wealthy litigation-mad megalocorp paying developers to stay on top of research and file patent applications citing obvious implementation details and then keeping them under the surface until it's sufficiently advantageous to allow them to surface. This process is 100% the opposite of the intention of the Constitutional provision for IP.
BTW, the posted whitepaper is really nicely done - good job Xiph team. In a free world everybody would rejoice and be happy for your efforts.
Let's all sing along now: Tape sucks, Optical sucks. Rotational drives are here to stay.
Depends on the cost. If these discs are under $20, I can back up my home storage array with substantial FEC for 10% of the cost of the array. Twenty times even before breakeven.
Slashdot would be better if we could see the mods who give points to factually incorrect emotional rants. Mods: fine, don't read TFA but save the points for the next story.
The problem is that GCC will always give you a different binary every time you compile from the same source.
Baloney - look at CentOS, an entire distribution that's binary-identical to its upstream while compile on a completely separate system.
If you want to use IEEE1394, you need to pay... Apple.
That was true ... in 1998. Yes, we said it was stupid at $1/port and then stupid when they went with a flat fee. Eventually they got that. By time they bought Zayante for the PHY's this had all blown over.
https://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/firewire.html
Waiting for the inevitable mod-down by Apple fanboys who dont like the truth.
You can't just be wrong and them blame fanbois for calling you out on it.
a ten million dollar math co-processor.
If you read some of the articles about the company, they're not just selling hardware. They enter into contracts for long-term partnerships with these companies, offering to keep them at the leading edge of quantum-or-whatever-it-is computing during that period.
They're probably going to get the 1024 then 2048-bit devices, and certainly whatever the next thing is they come up with.
For a company like Lockheed, spending $2-3M a year to be probably on the forefront of this technology is far less than they spent on early computers in the 50's and 60's. If it gives them any competitive advantage, it's money well spent.
D-Wave will turn out to be whatever it is, but it's hard to find another company that's closer to commercializing quantum computing.
Oh wait, which government are we talking about?
Either Google Autocomplete or the War on Drugs has to go.
I don't see any Constitutional issue with or State referenda against Google Autocomplete.
Can I get an Amen?
That way you'll be as safe as you can be - because you'll only be using modules you aren't actually capable of writing yourself.
Because one set of eyes always catches more bugs than thousands?
Just use Foo:Bar qw(enBlob unBlob) to limit your surface.
This is the natural consequence of the recent finding that there was running water on Mars, which gives a strong clue that there's still lots of it around. Anybody who reads sci-fi knows that water is like the oil of the solar system, so it's only natural that the USG will want to occupy the land.
Verizon in this case is the physical plant provider, and, contrary to every notion about how markets work, governments enforce monopolies there. We have hundred-year-old cronyism still dragging us down today. Statists are then shocked to find the providers aren't competing on service quality when they have no competition.
In the not-too-distant future we'll have a majority of people happy to have both DSL and CableTV-derived pure-IP networks available to them and they'll still be arguing in support of 'natural monopolies' via whichever provider they can choose from that gives them the best service at the best price.
Also, I want to go to Yellowstone on vacation and I have to rent a space in advance instead of a hotel.
There will be an API for that.
One aspect of autonomous vehicles that few people seem to consider is its potential effect on the housing market.
Another aspect of that will be the way people can move further out. 2 hours commute to work? Not really a problem.
6AM - roll out of house bed into the car bed. No point in a distinction for bachelors. Car starts going.
7AM - wake up to coffee made. Take a shower (cruise-ship-sized), get dressed.
7:30AM - breakfast is ready (made by the AI). Eat, check messages, read the news.
8AM - car arrives at work.
5PM - hop back in car. Finish up work, take a nap, watch a movie, screw around on Slashdot, etc.
7PM - arrive home. Spend some time with the family, etc.
Weekly - replenish supplies in vehicle. The water and septic will be automatic, but refrigerated items will either be manual or by the butler droid.
Let's hope we're on clean strong-force energy by then.
So why spend $2500/month in a home-on-wheels when you could have a nice house (with much more room) for less?
That's not an atypical mortgage + taxes + maintenance cost for a homeowner. And houses don't go anywhere. To each his own, they seem approximately the same price (thanks for the math, BTW, I was wondering).
*Yes, we all know the origin of "decimated".
Why not just use 'devastated', the appropriate word in the case? Anyway, telecommuting may have already decimated commuting traffic, but the continued centralization and population growth may be overcoming it.
Why would you ever want to do this, as opposed to letting the people choose what to run?
Nice strawman, but the people do have the choice of what to run. The linux-based thin client is just a much less expensive choice for them. The IT guy will help out the Mac and Windows users too, at his regular rate. Since he's just a few floors away, he's the natural choice for service.
What possible benefit is there to this plan, other than to centralize and monitor user activity?
To reduce costs, bring computing to the masses in Brazil who do not currently have access to it, and to create jobs. Brazil has a lower cost of living than here - not everybody has to be a highly paid corporate drone to fund the warfare machine in Brazil.
So system administrators become the janitors of 2015?
What's more reliable, a windows PC, or a garbage disposal?
How about a Linux PC vs. a washing machine? I'm a fan of both, but the washing machine needs less maintenance.
and are paid with a chicken
Even better, if you got a chicken for $3.50 worth of work a few years ago, and sell it today, while it's still worth one chicken, it's worth 7 USD, so the IRS will want tax on the $3.50 'profit' you made.
Inflation and capital gains taxes lets the government steal the same money from people at least three times.