They capture everything anyways. They say that they only keep encrypted data -- but to decide if the data is encrypted, they have to intercept and process it. If, after examining your data, they decide that it's not 'interesting', then the "don't intercept it" (whatever that may mean, at this point).
In my world, at that point, it's just a bunch of useless wordplay..
Remember: this is a slashdot idle article -- and a collapsed one at that. You shouldn't be taking it too seriously. It's meant to amuse you not inform you.
Rule 10: You take life too seriously.
Rule 6: Remember: You're not getting out of it alive.
It doesn't matter if Google uses https for searches, if the feds know what the top links are for those searches. If you end up going to presure-cookers.com and backpacks.com, then the NSA can get the http headers from your ISP's feed when you go to those sites (also your DNS queries).
They could also pay for (web-bug) ads for those search terms, if they wanted to be perfectly legal about it.
It would force them to get a search warrant. That would, among other things, document who was asking for the search and why. That last bit of information might be sealed in the short term, but you would eventually be allowed access to it.. (at least -- in theory).
Ethanol based fuel isn't much better off. it almost literally 'greenwashes' the carbon based fuel used to plant, fertilize reap and ferment it (i.e. about as much or up to twice as much hydrocarbons as just burning the gasoline it replaces)-- and that's not even taking into account that we're diverting sorely needed food sources.
MariaDB is plugin-compatible with MySQL, and remains GPL licensed.
It may be that this license change is just a build oops, or it may be that Oracle is breaking it's agreement with the EU to keep mysql stable, supported and free. In any case, this does strengthen the case for MariaDB for those organizations are still on the fence about switching over.
No, that only applies if the manufacturer in question is trying to gain a competitive advantage. Given Balmer's mishandling of Microsoft over the past decade, it's hard to argue that Microsoft is competing with anyone other than themselves.
+1 funny, but it's still serious that MS has a big stranglehold on the desktop market and this can be seen as trying to subsidize it's way into a stranglehold on the tabletoid market by wedging it's way into schools. (or just screwing the schools over by selling them a product that they're about to orphan, which is probably slightly more legal, but less moral).
There is ultimately only one form of authority: Might makes right.
It was on that authority that the United States was created: By winning a war of independence.
No. The ultimate power rides with the people. It wasn't the (then non-existent) US government that won the war with Britain, it was the US people. Governments on the acquiescence of the people. If the people strongly enough object to the actions of the government, then the government can often fall. We saw that in the US, Russia, Libya, Egypt, etc.
The constitution is meant to mollify the people -- it's a pact: You let us rule, and we promise to abide by these rules.
It's almost a catch-22: The more a government violates it's constitution, the more oppressive it needs to be... because the more it fears it's people getting together and rising up against it.
Seriously, if you trust secret government actions, based on secret policies, under the supervision of secret courts, which make secret interpretations of the law, then you have a terrible grasp of history..
There are now a number of Linux distros that are more "Windows-like" than Windows-8. For people who need a supported OS but don't need faster hardware, just installing Linux on top of (or beside) XP would work well. Their data would stay stable, and they'd be able to use wine for some of the XP applications that they may still need access to for compatibility purposes.
For many medium-sized to large organizations, switching to Linux and re-tooling any Windows dependent software would probably be a cheaper than spending(in some cases) thousands of dollars per seat to (unnecessarily) upgrade to Windows 8 machines, (re)license the necessary extra software and then retrain everybody on the new operating system.
Somebody could probably make big money building and selling Windows -> Linux conversion kits for companies like that.
I'd be inclined to use openBSD over Linux -- they take their security seriously, so you're less likely to have a random hole that some chinese hacker can exploit.
For people wondering why not use a managed switch -- that's too easy for the production people to figure out and attach the wire to another port 'trying to get things to work' without your 'help', The technical solution is actually trivial. Keeping the staff from blundering their way around it is the hard part. Run the software on something tiny -- like a raspberry pi (with a USB - Ethernet adapter for the second port) that you can stick someplace unobtrusive. It'll be a little black box that doesn't advertise what it really does, and (hopefully) doesn't attract much attention (security by obscurity).
Pull the network down for a day or two, and then install the small box while 'fixing' the system. Let things stay open for a couple of weeks or a month, before announcing your policy changes.
If some kid is intent on shooting the driver and everybody else on the bus, do you really think (s)he's gonna stop for an eye exam before going hog wild?
And if it's some PTSD-suffering ex-marine blowing up the bus, it's gonna be the same situation -- even if the attacker DOES stop to look in the scanner.
In this case, you get NOTHING for your lost freedom: no security, no safety, no real knowledge after the fact...
no: i think that the better response is: The primary difference between google glass and the plentiful recording devices lready around us in and around stores, ships, and sometimes even street corners is that google glass is (as currently devised) rather obvious. if you want to put these sorts of restrictions onto Google glass, then you should put similar restrictions onto inside-and outside CCTV recordings.
That having been said, I think that there is something to be said for having things like secure storage of images -- not so much to protect the public, as to protect the user of google glass for recordings that (s)he makes in more private circumstances. Of the tens of thousands of pictures I have, the couple dozen that I think could qualify for encryption were not taken in public.
No. There are so many examples of cultures that eat insects, that it's got to be nurture. In fact, you can find all sorts of recipes for cicadas which are about to hatch in the eastern US around Memorial day... They were a staple of local natives before Europeans became ubiquitous.
The defendant in this case was NOT sued for just planting seeds that happened to be GMO. He was sued for deliberately spraying his crop with glyphosate herbicide to kill non-RR plants in order to isolate the RR gene, and then he saved the resulting 100% RR beans and planted them the following year. Portraying him as an innocent and unwitting victim is absurd. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Yes, this guy is a creepy slimeball who deserves exactly what he got. -- but my question is whether or not the rest of the world (or, at least, the US) deserves what he got -- which is a SCOTUS precedent that effectively validates plant patents. You just know that Monsanto's lawyers are going to go hog-wild widening this precedent into areas that the court tried to say that it wasn't referring to.
I'd even go so far as to wonder aloud whether Bowman (the farmer) was paid under the table to be Monsanto's plant-patent poster boy.
Part of the 'problem' is that (as I understand it), self-fertile.. Apparently there is very little, if any, pollen externally released or captured. In other words, air-borne contamination of other farms is relatively unlikely (especially with a relatively heavy seed).
This is in contrast to Canola (rapeseed), which pollinates like a weed and has a very light seed. Monsanto has also generated a 'roundup ready' canola plant, that is very much at risk of invading into other farms unbidden.
This is one book that I couldn't see Hollywood doing justice to. The trailer doesn't really leave me feeling any better about it. Lots of nice effects, but I think it's going to come out all bubble-gum.
One thing to note: If they manage to get in, the it's a good thing to know about how they did it.
In the meantime, you want to talk to the crew that's doing the intrusion testing and make sure that they'll be keeping anything they find confidential, and that you'll get the results of the work that they're doing. What they're doing is annoying, but it's better to have it done by friendlies than to have someone truly hostile find some day-0s that they can use against you (presuming that you're willing to close any holes that they find).
The biggest difference between a loan guarantee or a grant, and a tax break is that the former two have a lot more accountability. There are tax breaks that are a lot bigger that have gone to various companies -- and have the same (negative) effect on the deficit. The difference is that the tax breaks are announced, but what they cost the country (in terms of a decrease in income) never really gets accounted for -- other than estimates that may, or may not, be accurate..
The 0nly place you should be able to stomp on critical files would be the home folder -- and even then, it should only prevent login, not booting. (although a newbie user might be confused between the two.).
Unlike Windows, a Unix/Linux system has enough of a distinction between the system and the user that a non-privileged process should be utterly unable to prevent the system from getting to a login prompt (without using a privilege escalation exploit). Unless the OP had auto-login turned on, and confused an inability to get to the desktop with an inability to boot, I'd have to agree with the earlier diagnosis of an intermittent hardware problem..
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In my world, at that point, it's just a bunch of useless wordplay..
Rule 10: You take life too seriously.
Rule 6: Remember: You're not getting out of it alive.
They could also pay for (web-bug) ads for those search terms, if they wanted to be perfectly legal about it.
It would force them to get a search warrant. That would, among other things, document who was asking for the search and why. That last bit of information might be sealed in the short term, but you would eventually be allowed access to it.. (at least -- in theory).
Ethanol based fuel isn't much better off. it almost literally 'greenwashes' the carbon based fuel used to plant, fertilize reap and ferment it (i.e. about as much or up to twice as much hydrocarbons as just burning the gasoline it replaces)-- and that's not even taking into account that we're diverting sorely needed food sources.
It may be that this license change is just a build oops, or it may be that Oracle is breaking it's agreement with the EU to keep mysql stable, supported and free. In any case, this does strengthen the case for MariaDB for those organizations are still on the fence about switching over.
No, that only applies if the manufacturer in question is trying to gain a competitive advantage. Given Balmer's mishandling of Microsoft over the past decade, it's hard to argue that Microsoft is competing with anyone other than themselves.
+1 funny, but it's still serious that MS has a big stranglehold on the desktop market and this can be seen as trying to subsidize it's way into a stranglehold on the tabletoid market by wedging it's way into schools. (or just screwing the schools over by selling them a product that they're about to orphan, which is probably slightly more legal, but less moral).
There is ultimately only one form of authority: Might makes right.
It was on that authority that the United States was created: By winning a war of independence.
No. The ultimate power rides with the people. It wasn't the (then non-existent) US government that won the war with Britain, it was the US people. Governments on the acquiescence of the people. If the people strongly enough object to the actions of the government, then the government can often fall. We saw that in the US, Russia, Libya, Egypt, etc.
The constitution is meant to mollify the people -- it's a pact: You let us rule, and we promise to abide by these rules.
It's almost a catch-22: The more a government violates it's constitution, the more oppressive it needs to be... because the more it fears it's people getting together and rising up against it.
Seriously, if you trust secret government actions, based on secret policies, under the supervision of secret courts, which make secret interpretations of the law, then you have a terrible grasp of history. .
They're known as Star chambers
For many medium-sized to large organizations, switching to Linux and re-tooling any Windows dependent software would probably be a cheaper than spending(in some cases) thousands of dollars per seat to (unnecessarily) upgrade to Windows 8 machines, (re)license the necessary extra software and then retrain everybody on the new operating system.
Somebody could probably make big money building and selling Windows -> Linux conversion kits for companies like that.
For people wondering why not use a managed switch -- that's too easy for the production people to figure out and attach the wire to another port 'trying to get things to work' without your 'help', The technical solution is actually trivial. Keeping the staff from blundering their way around it is the hard part. Run the software on something tiny -- like a raspberry pi (with a USB - Ethernet adapter for the second port) that you can stick someplace unobtrusive. It'll be a little black box that doesn't advertise what it really does, and (hopefully) doesn't attract much attention (security by obscurity).
Pull the network down for a day or two, and then install the small box while 'fixing' the system. Let things stay open for a couple of weeks or a month, before announcing your policy changes.
If some kid is intent on shooting the driver and everybody else on the bus, do you really think (s)he's gonna stop for an eye exam before going hog wild?
And if it's some PTSD-suffering ex-marine blowing up the bus, it's gonna be the same situation -- even if the attacker DOES stop to look in the scanner.
In this case, you get NOTHING for your lost freedom: no security, no safety, no real knowledge after the fact ...
NOTHING
Not much less conveniently.. I could just put my cell phone in my shirt pocket, with the lens facing forward.
"privacy of non-users who may not want their every public move to be recorded"
... Like the police officer about to "go medieval on my hiney" (with, or without, good cause).
That having been said, I think that there is something to be said for having things like secure storage of images -- not so much to protect the public, as to protect the user of google glass for recordings that (s)he makes in more private circumstances. Of the tens of thousands of pictures I have, the couple dozen that I think could qualify for encryption were not taken in public.
No. There are so many examples of cultures that eat insects, that it's got to be nurture. In fact, you can find all sorts of recipes for cicadas which are about to hatch in the eastern US around Memorial day... They were a staple of local natives before Europeans became ubiquitous.
The defendant in this case was NOT sued for just planting seeds that happened to be GMO. He was sued for deliberately spraying his crop with glyphosate herbicide to kill non-RR plants in order to isolate the RR gene, and then he saved the resulting 100% RR beans and planted them the following year. Portraying him as an innocent and unwitting victim is absurd. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Yes, this guy is a creepy slimeball who deserves exactly what he got. -- but my question is whether or not the rest of the world (or, at least, the US) deserves what he got -- which is a SCOTUS precedent that effectively validates plant patents. You just know that Monsanto's lawyers are going to go hog-wild widening this precedent into areas that the court tried to say that it wasn't referring to.
I'd even go so far as to wonder aloud whether Bowman (the farmer) was paid under the table to be Monsanto's plant-patent poster boy.
This is in contrast to Canola (rapeseed), which pollinates like a weed and has a very light seed. Monsanto has also generated a 'roundup ready' canola plant, that is very much at risk of invading into other farms unbidden.
You mean like the trailer at the top of the page?
It's not mentioned in the text of the article, but it's there when you go to post.
This is one book that I couldn't see Hollywood doing justice to. The trailer doesn't really leave me feeling any better about it. Lots of nice effects, but I think it's going to come out all bubble-gum.
In the meantime, you want to talk to the crew that's doing the intrusion testing and make sure that they'll be keeping anything they find confidential, and that you'll get the results of the work that they're doing. What they're doing is annoying, but it's better to have it done by friendlies than to have someone truly hostile find some day-0s that they can use against you (presuming that you're willing to close any holes that they find).
The biggest difference between a loan guarantee or a grant, and a tax break is that the former two have a lot more accountability. There are tax breaks that are a lot bigger that have gone to various companies -- and have the same (negative) effect on the deficit. The difference is that the tax breaks are announced, but what they cost the country (in terms of a decrease in income) never really gets accounted for -- other than estimates that may, or may not, be accurate..
The 0nly place you should be able to stomp on critical files would be the home folder -- and even then, it should only prevent login, not booting. (although a newbie user might be confused between the two.). Unlike Windows, a Unix/Linux system has enough of a distinction between the system and the user that a non-privileged process should be utterly unable to prevent the system from getting to a login prompt (without using a privilege escalation exploit). Unless the OP had auto-login turned on, and confused an inability to get to the desktop with an inability to boot, I'd have to agree with the earlier diagnosis of an intermittent hardware problem..
Should we do a kickstarter fund for this, or is there somebody out there who's willing to put up the $10K for a properly organized debating team?