Are there really any surprises here? Social networks behave a lot like the Internet, with many routes pointing to your front door.
For example, use whatever falese names you want. Your email address makes a dandy primary key squirreled away in all your friends mailboxes, just waiting for Facebook to Hoover it up and join the dots.
Your privacy and anonymity is defined by the aggregate social stupidity of your friends.
Agreed. Plus, GPS devices should be outlawed -- terrorists could use them to navigate in lieu of maps. Actually, history books, almanacs, encyclopedias, these all tell terrorists what we care about. Those should be outlawed too. Plus the internet, which allows them to communicate, and possibly phones, the mail system, UPS, FedEx and other courier services. Then maybe we can finally feel safe!
Maybe the senator should move to Afghanistan and team up with the Taliban. Their ends goals of a meedieval society are remarkably consistent. Maybe that was the Taliban's plan all along!
Interestingly, be careful taking GPS to China. You need special approval from the government or you get arrested for espionage. Maybe here's a model for California?
Though I can't find it, I remember reading about an "ease of use" challenge back in the 80's where on the day, Apple surprised the other contenders by nominating a kid as their user (where the other brand name PC people had senior engineers and the like). The Mac romped it in (from box to boot).
I wonder if MS has subconciously recycled this promotional concept?
If it means that in the case of just one stolen PC, the repsonse can be "ah, but everything was encrypted!", the PHB will define it as a success no matter the cost or inconvenience.
So maybe what is being protected is someone's career. Sane spending on risk management be damnned.
I went to a really good talk about how to use pre and post commit hooks in Trac to make other (external) events happen. Provided there's not too large a universe of bug trackets in common use out there, you could push comments into other trackers or pull related threads back into yours.
i.e. Closing the ticket when "papering over" a bug creates a new ticket to have a proper fix tagged as a requested enhancment.
i.e. If the other trackest also have a Wiki, link to the objects in your own tickets. For example, I was recently trying to solve a libiconv linker bug that only happens on Solaris when GNU and Sun headers are installed. I found my answer in a completely different application that happened to be trying to use the same library in similar circumstances.
Sort of like how HTTP moved us into a web centric model away from hierarchical approachs like Gopher.
R rocks. Nothing like a Turing complete plotting package. The learning curve is a bit steep, but the tutorial PDFs are a good start.
R graphs are not "pretty". There are no 3D exploding pie charts because they take a very Edward Tufte approach to make sure the graph types maximise understanding. As a result I think they have minimalist beauty.
And I really believe that the RIAA will resist the temptation to impose domain taxation where every device someone wants to add to a domain cost a few dollar more per month. Just look at how cable and phone companies (which in comparison are not monopolies) set byzantine, ever changing rules to bleed their customers.
What's more, they'd never need to release any new music. Just tax people in perpetuity for the privilege of listening.
Maybe if we used MP3s for voting we could get the RIAA and MPAA to set up a validated, encrypted and signed tamper proof voting system and the CEO of Diebold would be in jail for the criminal act of violating the DMCA.
"Nothing alleged to have been on this server violates any law. (There's some ridiculous claim about "bestiality." But the video is not bestiality. It lives today on YouTube -- a funny (to some) short of a man defecating in a field, and then being chased by a donkey. "
While we're all getting carried away assuming the worst and making animal pr0n jokes, Lessig actually provides some news "that matters" on the facts. Trouble is, no-one is going to remember the facts after the fact and assume he can't be trusted.
"Nothing alleged to have been on this server violates any law. (There's some ridiculous claim about "bestiality." But the video is not bestiality. It lives today on YouTube -- a funny (to some) short of a man defecating in a field, and then being chased by a donkey. "
Are graphics drivers still in ring zero? This is a technology backwater I've been ignoring for some years now and there was talk about moving graphics drivers out for Vista in 2005 or thereabouts.
ColorBrewer http://www.colorbrewer.org/ has some of the answers. It will tell you about how well human eyes will be able to discern a colour scheme on various devices. It won't say much about the effect of staring at a particular colour scheme for hours.
I loved my 21" Eizo greyscale monitor. As a monochrome monitor, it had no colour gun registration issues and the text was razor sharp. It also supported 1600 x 1200 at a time when most people aspired to own a 1024 x 768 17" CRT. That is, the design and quality of the output device is also important for long term eye friendliness.
Maybe because hundreds of millions of people listen to AM radio every day -- and those of us driving 1991 cars can't just switch to digital radio (too expensive). The world doesn't have to conform to your personal priorities.
If it's not the broad spectrum de-regulators, it will the digital spectrum land grab speculators. I was talking to a friend who is a broadcast TV engineer and some European countries have switched analogue TV off entirely. Some number of people with 1991 TV sets just couldn't switch to digital or if they could afford it, couldn't grok the new user interface. A significant percentage of elderly folk just said "fsck it" and gave up on TV entirely.
Over here in Australia, our FM band is being switched off to make space for digital allocations. The "big picture" will be far more important than individual circumstance. Presumably sets will drop in price as the user base grows.
The open spectrum people are the least of your problems, the digital spectrum people have a lot more cash and backing to take over your AM spectrum.
The world doesn't have to conform to your personal priorities.
Cool, Steve will let me know when the MS behemoth complete with millions of passengers comes rolling through, driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. Sort of like the obnoxious tour group leader on his way to Vegas who can't be arsed that people actually live and work in the neighborhood he's taking a shortcut through.
At the last Linux conference I went to, there was a talk by a guy using Puppet to automate provisioning of POS and backend systems across a national equipment hire firm (here in Australia). Works much better than the old system (fewer staff, more sites), they are large enough (400+ stores) to warrant maintaining their own system. However I'd guess that unless you have a deployment that makes maintaining your own system worthwhile, something off-the-shelf (FOSS or otherwise) would be a better bet maintenance wise.
So maybe Darl will be a regular Joe Average employee rather than an executive? I'd hazard a guess that Darl will find a gracious home somewhere in recognition for his diligent service, but it's not out of the question that he might stay on to fetch coffee for the prince or something.
The major copyright holders with the resources to enforce their claims have demonstrated a complete lack of interest in giving me any reasonable rights and indeed are actively seeking to take what's left away. For example, lobbying to redefine format shifting of music I bought "a crime" (says who? Did I sign a EULA when I bought the CD?) and obtaining IP rights by stealth by changing the terms on sites like MySpace and Facebook for anything I care to upload to such sites.
Yes, the ethics are debatable, but I am not surprised that the majority of people might side with TPB in the face of such avarice. Think of all those records execs being deprived of their cocaine!
Seriously, as a masterpiece of PR the attack was and as sad as the pointless waste of lives and people's loved ones was, more than 40,000 people get killed on US roads every year. The administration's response is way beyond the magnitude of the threat. I think back to when I was in London and the subtle but effective manner the brits handled similar efforts by the the IRA.
Ah yes, but this new methods emits poisonous carbon monoxide insteads of oxygen. The legal team are looking at sending cease and desist letters to infringing forests.
Government agencies do not use whitelists and the legislation is not using whitelists. Have you ever thought about how big the Internet is? Nearly all government (and corporate) connections already employ some sort of content filtering and no-one who values their job even contemplates surfing pr0n at work. The lawmakers are already living in the world they want to promote.
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Are there really any surprises here? Social networks behave a lot like the Internet, with many routes pointing to your front door.
For example, use whatever falese names you want. Your email address makes a dandy primary key squirreled away in all your friends mailboxes, just waiting for Facebook to Hoover it up and join the dots.
Your privacy and anonymity is defined by the aggregate social stupidity of your friends.
Xix.
Maybe the senator should move to Afghanistan and team up with the Taliban. Their ends goals of a meedieval society are remarkably consistent. Maybe that was the Taliban's plan all along!
Interestingly, be careful taking GPS to China. You need special approval from the government or you get arrested for espionage. Maybe here's a model for California?
Xix.
Hey, don't worry. Unlike these fly by night open source people, proprietary software has a road map...
a blank page showing Bumf*kt Arizona and a tag, "You Are Here".
1. Provide online training on how to write formatted email and other inane MS Office features
2. ???
3. Profit!
Yup, real gnome's underpants this one....
Though I can't find it, I remember reading about an "ease of use" challenge back in the 80's where on the day, Apple surprised the other contenders by nominating a kid as their user (where the other brand name PC people had senior engineers and the like). The Mac romped it in (from box to boot).
I wonder if MS has subconciously recycled this promotional concept?
If it means that in the case of just one stolen PC, the repsonse can be "ah, but everything was encrypted!", the PHB will define it as a success no matter the cost or inconvenience.
So maybe what is being protected is someone's career. Sane spending on risk management be damnned.
Xix.
I went to a really good talk about how to use pre and post commit hooks in Trac to make other (external) events happen. Provided there's not too large a universe of bug trackets in common use out there, you could push comments into other trackers or pull related threads back into yours.
i.e. Closing the ticket when "papering over" a bug creates a new ticket to have a proper fix tagged as a requested enhancment.
i.e. If the other trackest also have a Wiki, link to the objects in your own tickets. For example, I was recently trying to solve a libiconv linker bug that only happens on Solaris when GNU and Sun headers are installed. I found my answer in a completely different application that happened to be trying to use the same library in similar circumstances.
Sort of like how HTTP moved us into a web centric model away from hierarchical approachs like Gopher.
Xix.
R rocks. Nothing like a Turing complete plotting package. The learning curve is a bit steep, but the tutorial PDFs are a good start.
R graphs are not "pretty". There are no 3D exploding pie charts because they take a very Edward Tufte approach to make sure the graph types maximise understanding. As a result I think they have minimalist beauty.
Anthony Baxter gave a pretty good talk on the implications at LCA 2008 earlier this year.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4264641260805367198&hl=en
I'd hate to live in the UK. A sad and depressing country of obese chavs eating curry at 1AM under the watchful eye of a surveillance camera.
And I really believe that the RIAA will resist the temptation to impose domain taxation where every device someone wants to add to a domain cost a few dollar more per month. Just look at how cable and phone companies (which in comparison are not monopolies) set byzantine, ever changing rules to bleed their customers.
What's more, they'd never need to release any new music. Just tax people in perpetuity for the privilege of listening.
Maybe if we used MP3s for voting we could get the RIAA and MPAA to set up a validated, encrypted and signed tamper proof voting system and the CEO of Diebold would be in jail for the criminal act of violating the DMCA.
Yes, it's just the regular lame junk your newly net savvy friends forward you to your work email.
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/the_kozinski_mess.html
"Nothing alleged to have been on this server violates any law. (There's some ridiculous claim about "bestiality." But the video is not bestiality. It lives today on YouTube -- a funny (to some) short of a man defecating in a field, and then being chased by a donkey. "
While we're all getting carried away assuming the worst and making animal pr0n jokes, Lessig actually provides some news "that matters" on the facts. Trouble is, no-one is going to remember the facts after the fact and assume he can't be trusted.
"Nothing alleged to have been on this server violates any law. (There's some ridiculous claim about "bestiality." But the video is not bestiality. It lives today on YouTube -- a funny (to some) short of a man defecating in a field, and then being chased by a donkey. "
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/the_kozinski_mess.html
Xix.
Are graphics drivers still in ring zero? This is a technology backwater I've been ignoring for some years now and there was talk about moving graphics drivers out for Vista in 2005 or thereabouts.
ColorBrewer http://www.colorbrewer.org/ has some of the answers. It will tell you about how well human eyes will be able to discern a colour scheme on various devices. It won't say much about the effect of staring at a particular colour scheme for hours.
I loved my 21" Eizo greyscale monitor. As a monochrome monitor, it had no colour gun registration issues and the text was razor sharp. It also supported 1600 x 1200 at a time when most people aspired to own a 1024 x 768 17" CRT. That is, the design and quality of the output device is also important for long term eye friendliness.
If it's not the broad spectrum de-regulators, it will the digital spectrum land grab speculators. I was talking to a friend who is a broadcast TV engineer and some European countries have switched analogue TV off entirely. Some number of people with 1991 TV sets just couldn't switch to digital or if they could afford it, couldn't grok the new user interface. A significant percentage of elderly folk just said "fsck it" and gave up on TV entirely.
Over here in Australia, our FM band is being switched off to make space for digital allocations. The "big picture" will be far more important than individual circumstance. Presumably sets will drop in price as the user base grows.
The open spectrum people are the least of your problems, the digital spectrum people have a lot more cash and backing to take over your AM spectrum.
Too true. But maybe not in the way you expect...
Xix.
How about screening children for tendancies for phrenmology or eugenics and denying them roles in setting public criminal policy?
Cool, Steve will let me know when the MS behemoth complete with millions of passengers comes rolling through, driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. Sort of like the obnoxious tour group leader on his way to Vegas who can't be arsed that people actually live and work in the neighborhood he's taking a shortcut through.
Xix.
At the last Linux conference I went to, there was a talk by a guy using Puppet to automate provisioning of POS and backend systems across a national equipment hire firm (here in Australia). Works much better than the old system (fewer staff, more sites), they are large enough (400+ stores) to warrant maintaining their own system. However I'd guess that unless you have a deployment that makes maintaining your own system worthwhile, something off-the-shelf (FOSS or otherwise) would be a better bet maintenance wise.
So maybe Darl will be a regular Joe Average employee rather than an executive? I'd hazard a guess that Darl will find a gracious home somewhere in recognition for his diligent service, but it's not out of the question that he might stay on to fetch coffee for the prince or something.
The major copyright holders with the resources to enforce their claims have demonstrated a complete lack of interest in giving me any reasonable rights and indeed are actively seeking to take what's left away. For example, lobbying to redefine format shifting of music I bought "a crime" (says who? Did I sign a EULA when I bought the CD?) and obtaining IP rights by stealth by changing the terms on sites like MySpace and Facebook for anything I care to upload to such sites.
Yes, the ethics are debatable, but I am not surprised that the majority of people might side with TPB in the face of such avarice. Think of all those records execs being deprived of their cocaine!
Xix.
Seriously, as a masterpiece of PR the attack was and as sad as the pointless waste of lives and people's loved ones was, more than 40,000 people get killed on US roads every year. The administration's response is way beyond the magnitude of the threat. I think back to when I was in London and the subtle but effective manner the brits handled similar efforts by the the IRA.
Xix.
Ah yes, but this new methods emits poisonous carbon monoxide insteads of oxygen. The legal team are looking at sending cease and desist letters to infringing forests.
Xix.
Government agencies do not use whitelists and the legislation is not using whitelists. Have you ever thought about how big the Internet is? Nearly all government (and corporate) connections already employ some sort of content filtering and no-one who values their job even contemplates surfing pr0n at work. The lawmakers are already living in the world they want to promote.