You have a license plate on your car that's publicly viewable, and you don't have the right to obstruct/hide it. What's the problem with that?
You have an address on the door to your place that's publicly viewable. What's the problem with that?
You have a face that's publicly viewable when you go on the street - and you don't have the right to wear a mask to hide it, What's the problem with that?
You have your name, address, bank account number and signature on any cheques you write. What's wrong with that?
You have your medical condition and contact info listed on your MedicAlert bracelet. What's wrong with that?
You want to host something on the net? Fine - be prepared to post valid contact info. Otherwise, make arrangements for someone else to host it, or host it off the net.
Unfortunately, I have to take a back seat to the Pope on the whole "destruction of Christianity" thing - he's doing such a great job at it... must be that Nazi^WTeutonic efficiency thing he's got going. Hey, maybe we can get him to go pay a visit to North Korea, or the Taliban... (I suspect there are many who will support such a move).
Ratzinger was the man who decided that one of the abusers would go back into the field and be allowed to work with kids again despite being warned against it. There is no way left for him in this scandal except for him to resign before they bump him off like they did John-Paul # 1 to cover up the Banco Ambrosia scandal.
So, we could use these folding panels to power computers folding@home, and the waste heat can warm our houses as a green solution to heating. Just be ready to spend more of that other green folding stuff...
After a hiatus, I just bought another console game earlier this week (my 34th for the Wii - Pinball Hall of Fame - The Gottlieb Collection), so consoles are alive and well.
Konami, on the other hand... only one game from them, $89 and it was absolute trash.
The US is no longer the largest market for a lot of things, from cell phones (China has more cell phone users than the entire American population) to cars (China is #1 in new car sales worldwide).
They can now pick and choose the markets the enter. It's why they refused to buy the Hummer, and why China/Walmart Refuses To Bid On NASA Contract. They're simply not that desperate for business any more, not with their economy still growing at almost 10% per year.
Oh, wait - you wouldn't do something like that - you trust them!
They state that they will supply information when they believe that the requesting party *could* get a warrant - not that they requesting party *has* to get a warrant.
In other words, as long as it's a cop or an agency, or even a 3rd party that google believes *could* get a warrant if they had to, google will hand over your data.
Stop being so trusting. Read their terms of service.
It's something I threw together for April Fools... duh! Of course it's mostly a parody - it even has an "OMG Ponies!" theme... well, the spam reports aren't parody - they show how to trace back a spammer and report them to their hosting provider and their hosting providers' upstream providers - like this one from yesterday (edited for brevity):
this time, it's a startup "home and garden" magazine
Return-path: ventes@21esiecle.qc.ca
Received: from smtp3bellnordiq.ca (142.217.217.72)
Received: from 192.168.123.135 (142.217.89.31)
The detailed example (at the link) shows how to follow the chain of providers. traceroute isn't the best way to do this, because the route can vary, depending on peering arrangements, though it's a good backup when you're trying to find people hiding behind anonymous dns registrations (which should be banned).
Scott Southworth is living proof that mini-wormholes exists, that they permit time travel, and that, as scientists suspected, you cannot bring information forward in time.
Googling someone -- a prospective job candidate, a teenage crush, your son's soccer coach -- is a commonplace ritual of modern life. But the search engine company evidently doesn't appreciate a taste of its own medicine.
Google has blackballed online technology news service Cnet News.com for googling Eric Schmidt, CEO of the Mountain View company, and including some personal information about him in a story last month. Google told a Cnet editor that it will not speak with Cnet reporters until August 2006, according to Jai Singh, editor in chief of Cnet News.com in San Francisco.
"We published a story that recounted how we found information on the (Google) CEO in a public forum using their service," Singh said. "They had issue with the fact that they felt it was private information and our point is it was public information obtained through public channels using Google search."
Google declined to comment.
Reporter Elinor Mills' Cnet article made the point that Google, the search engine used by more than half of U.S. Internet users, has much potential for privacy invasion, particularly through data it collects that is not available to the public, such as logs of Google searches. She illustrated the story with information that could readily be obtained by anyone with access to Google and the Internet: Schmidt's net worth, home neighborhood, attendance at Burning Man and enthusiasm for amateur piloting.
"From what I understand, most of (Google's objection to the article) had to do with the anecdotal lead we used to illustrate the point that information could be obtained rather easily using Google search," Singh said.
Mark Glaser, a columnist with Online Journalism Review, run by the USC Annenberg School, said Google was overreacting.
"Google helps people search for this kind of information. For them to be upset that someone would publicize it is a little bit strange. It could end up backfiring on them because it gives more attention to the (privacy) problem," he said.
An entire company shunning an entire media outlet is unusual, although isolated bans are not.
Athletes and movie stars are known for refusing to talk to reporters who have angered them. During the height of the steroids scandal in March, Barry Bonds once refused to speak to the media while The Chronicle's Giants beat reporter was present.
Companies sometimes pull advertisements to retaliate for media coverage they consider unfair. In April, General Motors pulled all its ads in the Los Angeles Times over what it called "factual errors and misrepresentations," a ban that the Wall Street Journal reported could have cost the newspaper about $10 million annually. GM resumed advertising in the Los Angeles Times this month.
Media critic Ben Bagdikian said Google and other everyday digital technologies indeed raise privacy concerns, but he predicted that the ban against Cnet will not last.
"No one can force one party to speak to another party," he wrote in an e-mail. "My guess is that for business reasons, and to respond to unkind words directed at Google, it will be hard for Google not to reply, at which point the whole messy fight will make both parties look so ridiculous in public that the general public will get bored and both parties will suffer in their businesses."
E-mail Carolyn Said at csaid@sfchronicle.com.
This article appeared on page D - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
equatorial circumference. Move very near to the pole and you can manage to stay in sunlight (unfortunately oblique, so you might not get enough energy) permanently.
Well, if you move TO the pole, you can send a paper airplane "around the world"... cover every single longitude... with one throw.
Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc "Don't Talk To Police." I have it bookmarked because I think it REALLY needs to be seen at least once by everyone.
One of the lousy things about being a privacy advocate is that you can't afford to have any secrets yourself - people will assume you're advocating privacy because you have something to hide, not because you believe in it as a right.
Now, while I do advocate being "out" because it is empowering, I also understand that it's not a binary thing - many of us have secrets we would only share with certain people, or being "outed" at an inopportune time can cause problems, or just a "it's my right to keep some things private so back off."
It's like when the police say "if you have nothing to hide..." My response is "I simply have nothing to hide that's any of your business."
Privacy is going to just get worse... and also why I did this - so that people can do searches without google or yahoo or microsoft tying it to an on-line profile. Eventually there will be tens of thousands of related external pages in the index. I'd like to see other sites do the same, and then link their searches, so that we have a distributed search engine instead of relying on centralized "gate-keepers".
No, google has said that they will supply the data without a warrant. They just have to believe that the requesting agency might be able to get a warrant if push comes to shove. This is not "legal means." Google p0wns anyone stupid enough to use their web mail. Get a real email account.
Even flying west to get longer in the sun, it isn't going to work.
Earth's circumference = 24,900 miles.
They have to keep pace with the sun, to have the sun directly overhead to get maximum panel output, which means covering 24,900 miles in 24 hours, or 1,037 mph. In other words, they need to be mucho supersonic - good luck with those propellers.
Even at half that, they end up in the dark and out of power - and there's no way that they can get to 500 mph with that design (and we're ignoring that the sun would be at a lousy angle for much of the flight).
At 44 mph, it's going to take them 3-1/2 WEEKS to make the trip. Better stock up on food, water, and lots of Depends (because sh*t happens).
In other words, unless they have some big-ass batteries, or they get the pilot to pedal a lot, or they glide all night (not very practical and will stretch out the flight to a week or more), they really need to upgrade their math skills.
"If you're doing something you don't want people to know about - STOP DOING IT!"
I don't know how many times I've been criticized for pointing out that gmail TOS do not include anonymity - the government can just ask and google will roll over on you - it's nice to see others finally "getting it."
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That IS scary. There are plenty of times I want to revert to my last save... whether it's editing text, code, or an image. Depending on everything being auto-saved removes that.
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You have a license plate on your car that's publicly viewable, and you don't have the right to obstruct/hide it. What's the problem with that?
You have an address on the door to your place that's publicly viewable. What's the problem with that?
You have a face that's publicly viewable when you go on the street - and you don't have the right to wear a mask to hide it, What's the problem with that?
You have your name, address, bank account number and signature on any cheques you write. What's wrong with that?
You have your medical condition and contact info listed on your MedicAlert bracelet. What's wrong with that?
You want to host something on the net? Fine - be prepared to post valid contact info. Otherwise, make arrangements for someone else to host it, or host it off the net.
Unfortunately, I have to take a back seat to the Pope on the whole "destruction of Christianity" thing - he's doing such a great job at it ... must be that Nazi^WTeutonic efficiency thing he's got going. Hey, maybe we can get him to go pay a visit to North Korea, or the Taliban ... (I suspect there are many who will support such a move).
Want to fix the spam problem? Get rid of "private" domain registrations. If the domain isn't registered to a real human being, pull the plug.
This will help stop sites that offer crap like "bullet-proof email services" - spam-on-demand.
Ratzinger was the man who decided that one of the abusers would go back into the field and be allowed to work with kids again despite being warned against it. There is no way left for him in this scandal except for him to resign before they bump him off like they did John-Paul # 1 to cover up the Banco Ambrosia scandal.
He's no longer taken even semi-seriously any more.
So, we could use these folding panels to power computers folding@home, and the waste heat can warm our houses as a green solution to heating. Just be ready to spend more of that other green folding stuff ...
I just assumed the donkey must be gay - I heard the Pope saying he was "going to ride his ass" ...
Console makers are predicting the end of Konami.
After a hiatus, I just bought another console game earlier this week (my 34th for the Wii - Pinball Hall of Fame - The Gottlieb Collection), so consoles are alive and well.
Konami, on the other hand ... only one game from them, $89 and it was absolute trash.
The US is no longer the largest market for a lot of things, from cell phones (China has more cell phone users than the entire American population) to cars (China is #1 in new car sales worldwide).
They can now pick and choose the markets the enter. It's why they refused to buy the Hummer, and why China/Walmart Refuses To Bid On NASA Contract. They're simply not that desperate for business any more, not with their economy still growing at almost 10% per year.
"I sense a disturbance in the forc .. another distur ... another dist... anothe ... MAKE IT STOP!"
Read their terms of service.
Oh, wait - you wouldn't do something like that - you trust them!
They state that they will supply information when they believe that the requesting party *could* get a warrant - not that they requesting party *has* to get a warrant.
In other words, as long as it's a cop or an agency, or even a 3rd party that google believes *could* get a warrant if they had to, google will hand over your data.
Stop being so trusting. Read their terms of service.
The detailed example (at the link) shows how to follow the chain of providers. traceroute isn't the best way to do this, because the route can vary, depending on peering arrangements, though it's a good backup when you're trying to find people hiding behind anonymous dns registrations (which should be banned).
This is the first verified example of someone traveling through a time warp Space-Time Warp Verified In Wisconsin
Scott Southworth is living proof that mini-wormholes exists, that they permit time travel, and that, as scientists suspected, you cannot bring information forward in time.
Well, they did say it was *before* the new, just as ugly, look.
They said on their blogs that they had some professional artists. So why didn't they use them?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/09/GOOGLE.TMP
Schmidt is a hypocrite.
So go to the north or south pole - you can throw a paper airplane so it passes through every line of longitude.
But nobody would count that as going "around the world."
Well, if you move TO the pole, you can send a paper airplane "around the world" ... cover every single longitude ... with one throw.
Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc "Don't Talk To Police." I have it bookmarked because I think it REALLY needs to be seen at least once by everyone.
One of the lousy things about being a privacy advocate is that you can't afford to have any secrets yourself - people will assume you're advocating privacy because you have something to hide, not because you believe in it as a right.
Now, while I do advocate being "out" because it is empowering, I also understand that it's not a binary thing - many of us have secrets we would only share with certain people, or being "outed" at an inopportune time can cause problems, or just a "it's my right to keep some things private so back off."
It's like when the police say "if you have nothing to hide ..." My response is "I simply have nothing to hide that's any of your business."
Privacy is going to just get worse ... and also why I did this - so that people can do searches without google or yahoo or microsoft tying it to an on-line profile. Eventually there will be tens of thousands of related external pages in the index. I'd like to see other sites do the same, and then link their searches, so that we have a distributed search engine instead of relying on centralized "gate-keepers".
No, google has said that they will supply the data without a warrant. They just have to believe that the requesting agency might be able to get a warrant if push comes to shove. This is not "legal means." Google p0wns anyone stupid enough to use their web mail. Get a real email account.
Earth's circumference = 24,900 miles.
They have to keep pace with the sun, to have the sun directly overhead to get maximum panel output, which means covering 24,900 miles in 24 hours, or 1,037 mph. In other words, they need to be mucho supersonic - good luck with those propellers.
Even at half that, they end up in the dark and out of power - and there's no way that they can get to 500 mph with that design (and we're ignoring that the sun would be at a lousy angle for much of the flight).
At 44 mph, it's going to take them 3-1/2 WEEKS to make the trip. Better stock up on food, water, and lots of Depends (because sh*t happens).
In other words, unless they have some big-ass batteries, or they get the pilot to pedal a lot, or they glide all night (not very practical and will stretch out the flight to a week or more), they really need to upgrade their math skills.
I don't know how many times I've been criticized for pointing out that gmail TOS do not include anonymity - the government can just ask and google will roll over on you - it's nice to see others finally "getting it."
That IS scary. There are plenty of times I want to revert to my last save ... whether it's editing text, code, or an image. Depending on everything being auto-saved removes that.
FTFA:
Philistines! Heathens! There is nothing more beautiful than a good piece of assembly code.
It's in the original. The Library of Congress, like all government institutions, is 20 years behind the times.
I prefer Library Of Congress Will Be Archived At Groklaw.