That is basically what has been done for decades. You fill out a form with your medical info, slip it into a little plastic vile, and attach it to the underside of a rack in your refrigerator with a rubber band (so it should survive a fire) where the paramedics can easily find it. It's called the "vile of life."
If the password was brute forced, that would involve a few billion failed login attempts (assuming it's not just a dictionary attack). One might expect a website to do something to prevent that.
The core technologies for organizing such emails are available in the litigation support industry -- they are used to group related documents/emails together so that lawyers reviewing documents to hunt for evidence can do so more efficiently. One approach is to group "near-duplicates," where documents that share some chunks of text are grouped, which allows detection of form letters or different revisions of the same document. Another option is "conceptual clustering," where the documents are grouped if they are about the same topic (they may not have any actual sentences in common). Unfortunately, all of the software that I know of is designed to analyze documents within a review platform (used by lawyers) rather than plugging into an email system for consumer use, so there would be some work needed to adapt it for the use you are talking about.
Now the shameless plug: my company makes Clustify, which does conceptual clustering and near-dupe detection.
However, it would be simple to create an overflow system in a hydro dam..Depending on how much power is needed at any one point, divert the water to the overflow system and just have it drain down the river instead of going through the turbines.
Actually, you can use excess energy to pump the water up into a storage facility and let it roll back down later when you need the energy. See Muddy Run Pumped Storage Facility
Most of the videos posted as stories recently have been advertisements. The cynic in me says that this guy paid to have this posted to get publicity for himself, which would only be achieved via video (who notices the byline in a written article?). I wouldn't have suggested such a thing a few months ago, but with the way Slashdot has been run recently the motivation behind the stories that are posted has become murky.
That made me think of the Lindows case and them renaming it to Linspire, but you're right -- the renaming occurred because Microsoft paid them off, not because Microsoft won the suit (Microsoft lost).
Oligopolies almost always suck in customer satisfaction, always have, and always will.
Which is exactly how America keeps getting it wrong - the government should do nothing to make their lives easier - keep a low bar to new companies/investors who want to enter the market and offer something new/better. That's real Capitalism, not this bogus Corporate Welfare system.
However, the American government is itself an oligopoly (two parties that will do their best to keep any others from getting into the game), so expect shitty customer (citizen) satisfaction, i.e. more of the same.
I have a lot of problems with Dodd's cozy relationship with the financial industry (probably what's driving him out of the Senate)
Driving him out of the Senate? He's already out of the Senate. He is now the Chairman and CEO of the MPAA. Hence, his statement is from the MPAA to his former colleagues in the Senate saying that the MPAA gave them money so they better pass the legislation the MPAA demands. Somehow, the fact that Dodd is now the head of the MPAA is often left out of the reporting (even left out of the petition). Does that make the sleaziness a little clearer?
Please ignore the "I thought the button was in an iframe, so the cookies wouldn't be considered third-party." -- that was muddled.
But, it seems that Webkit-based browsers allow third-party cookies to be read but not written when third-party cookies are "disabled." Facebook can presumably read the cookie (if the browser allows reading) to see who you are, and read the referrer URL for the iframe to see what webpage you were viewing, so it seems they can track you if disabling third-party cookies doesn't prohibit reading them.
Is that really sufficient to thwart tracking by the Facebook "like" button? I thought the button was in an iframe, so the cookies wouldn't be considered third-party.
Even the hardware doesn't seem very good. On the loaner I played with, the screen was very readable, but it frequently didn't respond to touches. I suppose it could be a software issue, but it seem to fail more often on certain parts of the screen, so I'm tempted to think it was a hardware issue. Maybe just a flaky unit, but I would be reluctant to buy it for the hardware even if there was an alternative to QNX for it.
Good on them for doing that, but I have to say that (unless something has changed since I used them) their user-interface is extremely tedious if you are managing multiple domains.
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That is basically what has been done for decades. You fill out a form with your medical info, slip it into a little plastic vile, and attach it to the underside of a rack in your refrigerator with a rubber band (so it should survive a fire) where the paramedics can easily find it. It's called the "vile of life."
"Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure" by van Baal, et al.
How does this compare to the ongoing financial scams being perpetrated on all of us?
Totally different ... he got arrested.
...have to bribe actually people to do the voting, with union payoffs, cigarettes, food, etc.
So inefficient. In Philly they literally just hand out cash for votes
If the password was brute forced, that would involve a few billion failed login attempts (assuming it's not just a dictionary attack). One might expect a website to do something to prevent that.
The core technologies for organizing such emails are available in the litigation support industry -- they are used to group related documents/emails together so that lawyers reviewing documents to hunt for evidence can do so more efficiently. One approach is to group "near-duplicates," where documents that share some chunks of text are grouped, which allows detection of form letters or different revisions of the same document. Another option is "conceptual clustering," where the documents are grouped if they are about the same topic (they may not have any actual sentences in common). Unfortunately, all of the software that I know of is designed to analyze documents within a review platform (used by lawyers) rather than plugging into an email system for consumer use, so there would be some work needed to adapt it for the use you are talking about.
Now the shameless plug: my company makes Clustify, which does conceptual clustering and near-dupe detection.
However, it would be simple to create an overflow system in a hydro dam..Depending on how much power is needed at any one point, divert the water to the overflow system and just have it drain down the river instead of going through the turbines.
Actually, you can use excess energy to pump the water up into a storage facility and let it roll back down later when you need the energy. See Muddy Run Pumped Storage Facility
Is it just my imagination, or is there a huge amount of traffic from AWS coming from bots that don't respect robots.txt?
Didn't I see a Windows phone ad recently that claimed other smart phones were treating their customers as beta testers? Talk about tempting fate.
Why is everybody so afraid of laws and regulations
Because ensuring compliance and defending yourself against accusations of non-compliance involves lawyers, and we know what lawyers cost in the U.S.
Most of the videos posted as stories recently have been advertisements. The cynic in me says that this guy paid to have this posted to get publicity for himself, which would only be achieved via video (who notices the byline in a written article?). I wouldn't have suggested such a thing a few months ago, but with the way Slashdot has been run recently the motivation behind the stories that are posted has become murky.
I had the exact same reaction when these videos first started popping up, then I realized that most of them were advertisements and I stopped caring.
That's very informative (sorry, I'm out of mod points). Thanks.
Who applied the tag, and how did they know it was Rackspace? Seems like pretty sparse evidence to warrant calling someone a dumbarse.
They had to settle for Microsoft Windows.
That made me think of the Lindows case and them renaming it to Linspire, but you're right -- the renaming occurred because Microsoft paid them off, not because Microsoft won the suit (Microsoft lost).
I'd call it legitimately calling out the author for both having no apparent grasp of basic arithmetic, and likely being a moron.
Not just the author, but also the editor that let it slip through.
Oligopolies almost always suck in customer satisfaction, always have, and always will.
Which is exactly how America keeps getting it wrong - the government should do nothing to make their lives easier - keep a low bar to new companies/investors who want to enter the market and offer something new/better. That's real Capitalism, not this bogus Corporate Welfare system.
However, the American government is itself an oligopoly (two parties that will do their best to keep any others from getting into the game), so expect shitty customer (citizen) satisfaction, i.e. more of the same.
I have a lot of problems with Dodd's cozy relationship with the financial industry (probably what's driving him out of the Senate)
Driving him out of the Senate? He's already out of the Senate. He is now the Chairman and CEO of the MPAA. Hence, his statement is from the MPAA to his former colleagues in the Senate saying that the MPAA gave them money so they better pass the legislation the MPAA demands. Somehow, the fact that Dodd is now the head of the MPAA is often left out of the reporting (even left out of the petition). Does that make the sleaziness a little clearer?
Please ignore the "I thought the button was in an iframe, so the cookies wouldn't be considered third-party." -- that was muddled.
But, it seems that Webkit-based browsers allow third-party cookies to be read but not written when third-party cookies are "disabled." Facebook can presumably read the cookie (if the browser allows reading) to see who you are, and read the referrer URL for the iframe to see what webpage you were viewing, so it seems they can track you if disabling third-party cookies doesn't prohibit reading them.
Is that really sufficient to thwart tracking by the Facebook "like" button? I thought the button was in an iframe, so the cookies wouldn't be considered third-party.
Even the hardware doesn't seem very good. On the loaner I played with, the screen was very readable, but it frequently didn't respond to touches. I suppose it could be a software issue, but it seem to fail more often on certain parts of the screen, so I'm tempted to think it was a hardware issue. Maybe just a flaky unit, but I would be reluctant to buy it for the hardware even if there was an alternative to QNX for it.
Spend 10 second reading through my post history, and then explain who you think I am shilling for.
I am not being paid by anyone for anything I post. Sorry it offends you that someone expresses a genuine opinion.
Good on them for doing that, but I have to say that (unless something has changed since I used them) their user-interface is extremely tedious if you are managing multiple domains.
Funny, I was reluctant because of the name too. After seeing enough positive reviews I decided to give them a shot, and I'm happy with them so far.