Yeah, I understand the ones that own media companies but what about the rest? Seems like a way to lose customers is all.
You're not just the customer, you're the product (some of you already locked-in by contracts). For those ISPs that are not owned by big media conglomerates, they'll just get money for the ad-impressions that are generated by this surveillance system.
Is this a new fad or something? Some tweaker rolled into my office wanting to know if we did consulting for setting up a webserver on an apple platform. We only did windows/linux.
Come on! It's Unix, it shouldn't have been that hard for you.
The guy probably had a Mac and he probably got the first host he found through the Apple.com web site.
That probably means you could have quoted him a very high price and he probably wouldn't have batted an eye.
Then *your phone* should keep a history of your latest searches. Which could be even stored on a cloud server, in encrypted form. There's no need for Google/Facebook/Bing/Whatnot and their customers to know your data in order for you to get that convenience.
Why would they bother?
I have Android an phone, not an iPhone anyhow. I can replace the default application for maps and the default application for navigation with any competing application I want. I'm probably not going to do that thought. I actually like the granular real-time traffic information Google (or even Waze) gives me, and the reason they can give me this kind of information at such a level of detail is precisely because they're aggregating the information of all the other drivers that are using those same services in real-time.
A similar thing is going to happen with social search. In order for the service to work better for you, you'll have to connect to your real friends/family/colleagues/or the people you're truly interested in. If you don't, or if you connect to some random people, or to some random spam bot, your search results may end up being completely useless to you.
For Gmail and Google Apps, there is Google Apps Premier. You can pay $50 per user a year, you get no advertisements, and you get 25 GB to store your email instead of 9 GB. The only issue is that Google Apps Premier hasn't been rolled out to all the Google Services, and it forces you to juggle multiple accounts which is a pain. And it definitely does not cover Google Search (unless you default to the incognito tab every time, which anybody can do already).
For Android, there are some ROMs that are privacy-oriented. I did try such a ROM, but I quickly reverted. In hindsight, I found that I did want google maps and google navigation to remember the last locations I had searched.
Read the article, he doesn't want to remove it because they don't need to do enhanced patdowns while they have the machine. If they remove the machine, they will have to do the pat downs again.
He must not have gotten the memo.
At the SFO international airport, when too many people object to the scanning, they just do the "enhanced" pat downs for the first couple of people who objected, and then they just let the rest of the folks who object go through the metal detector unmolested (assuming the metal detector doesn't beep). In other words, when they don't have the extra man power to do all the enhanced pat downs, they just remove the little barrier they have in front of the metal detectors, and they let the line go through there instead.
Don't these app stores give your info away to the app developers anyway? Thought I read a recent article about how your name, address, credit card info goes out to the devs, even the 'free' ones.
No, if you go back to that original Slashdot story, and look down through the threads.
It turns out that if you paid for an app using Google Wallet, it would give the app developer your full name, your email address, and country/zip code (that last one for tax purposes, as claimed by one developer). It did not provide the exact address of the purchaser as the story originally claimed.
Nor, did it provide the credit card number. And nor did they provide any this information to the developers of free apps you've installed. Those two last bits, you've just tacked on. Nicely played Anonymous iOS Fanboy.
The article mentions a lot more than that - and the issues mentioned are real and potentially (depending one use scenario) very significant.
That's why you also depend on the ratings of an app before you install it. Not everyone checks permissions, but most people check the ratings.
But beside that point - how is an app requesting location data when it doesn't need it NOT a significant problem? Do you review the code for all apps that request this permission or do you blindly trust them with your location data?
This issue is present with all the app stores, including the iPhone app store.
Some apps, I do trust with my location data. It's the same with people. Some people, I do trust with my home address: My mailman, the UPS guy, the pizza guy, etc.
It should also be illegal to install bloatware that is embedded to the point of not being removable (without at least rooting the device and perhaps voiding warranty).
Yes, the FTC report also mentions Carrier IQ by name.
The Android-derived tablet he got is horrible! The battery is the least of its problems.
As a rule of thumb, if someone offers you a tablet for Christmas with resistive touch, you shouldn't even open the box and you should try to return it for a full/partial refund as soon as possible. As to the security issues, the article he pointed to talks about apps being "security risks" or "malware" for requesting GPS permissions when they shouldn't (which is really FUD). In any case, since his tablet doesn't have a GPS chip in it, that issue doesn't apply to him.
Also since he doesn't have access to the official Android Market/Google Play, he should just look on the XDA forums, root his device, install Cyanogen on it, and go through the Cyanogen repo for apps. And he should refrain from installing apps from other locations.
His tablet will still be horrible after that, but it should be more bearable. And frankly, I don't think he should be spending any more money on this tablet to try to customize it, spending money on it will just be throwing good money after bad. Even if he resolves the battery issue and the app store issue, and makes a kick ass stereo out of it, the tablet will still need to be rebooted every hour or so.
Next time, he or the person who gave him this tablet should just spend twice the money initially, and just buy an Asus Nexus 7. That one is really good. And he won't even need to root it to do all the things he wants to do with it.
Actually, his connection to HyperDex is pretty clear on his pages.
My mistake, I didn't read everything in the "About Me" box on the right of his blog, but still his connection could have been made clearer. This was a very-very long blog post, which I actually read completely, which he obviously crafted very carefully, and I only found out about his connection to HyperDex in the comments of others.
And if anything it puts him in a position of authority.
Why couldn't it be both?
By being a competitor posting about MongoDB, he's in a position of authority, and he also has a conflict of interest possibly motivating his opinion.
...and I really don't like Mongo maligning other hackers who have technical points. Ad hominem attacks show that Mongo has no technical comeback.
It wasn't Mongo. It was me. I have no affiliation with Mongo/MongoDB. I don't even use MongoDB, you can check my posting history, I've never spoken about MongoDB and I really couldn't care less about it. I'm just a by-standard. Saying that the author didn't talk about his connection to Hyperdex was a mistake on my part (thought, like I said, he could have made that part clearer by including it in the article itself).
And calling you (or the previous poster) an Anonymous Coward wasn't an Ad hominen attack. "Anonymous Coward" is the all-purpose anonymous username that you (or that the previous poster) have deliberately chosen to post under. After all, the previous comment by the "Anonymous Coward" (or you) that MongoDB is astrosurfing may be completely valid, but posting that comment anonymously also calls into question the provenance of that claim as well. After all, you could also be that same author of HyperDex as well, just posting links to your own blog (which praises your own HyperDex project and criticizes MongoDB).
If my sites really grew I would even contemplate going a step further and running my own physical servers. The joy of being able to reach out and jam USB sticks into them would be pretty good.
Except that, it does suck to have to service your own servers 24 hours a day / 7 days a week (and your own backup generators, etc.)
Nice astroturf. See here for a detailed analysis of why MongoDB is broken by design.
Speaking of which, the same back to you.
Did you know the author of the article you pointed to is a competitor and recommends his NoSQL Database called HyperDex as a reasonable alternative (although, he doesn't state he's the developer for HyperDex, nor does he state the fact that HyperDex is still in alpha and doesn't work properly)?
And the logos - there's no point showing a US-centric firm's logo to an Aussie visitor, for example. I wouldn't know what most of them look like or who they represent.
With a little bit of remedial studying and some perseverance, you'll be able to become more like an American consumer. I don't see how this would be be considered a bad thing to an advertiser.
Plus, I hear Aussies like to pay more for the same things, that's got to be good news for advertisers as well.
Good luck with recycling that, where I live it's hard enough to get rid of used auto oil at the local dump (municipal recycling facility).
They found a way to dispose of radioactive smoke detectors. If they can get the radiation low enough, they can find a way to easily dispose of these new devices as well.
It states that a 'web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate.' This could be the death of Slashdot: No more ACs
Putting aside the jurisdiction issue.
It sounds like this bill wouldn't just affect ACs, they'd affect pretty much 99% of internet users with pseudonyms (that post comments on servers in Illinois). Timothy, is that your full legal name? Talderas, is that your full legal name too?
If my time has any value, I can't foresee a future in which the electronic versions of my trilogy of novels ever break even.
For future books, may be you should consider releasing your ebooks under some kind of creative commons/donation-ware license on github, and then let volunteers handle all the porting issues. That's what Cory Doctorow does for many of his books I believe.
If those books get well received, then there is always the bonus that it gets translated into a number of languages, and adapted into comic books and other mediums (depending on how liberal your licensing terms are).
Are you kidding me? I know this is Slashdot, but it wouldn't hurt you to google once in a while. There is not any controversy that those tactical nukes do exist and are not being counted in the official statistics.
We haven't built any new nuclear weapons in decades. In fact, we've been gradually decomissioning them, in step with Russia, as we reach new treaty agreements.
How about "bunker-busting" tactical nukes, which the US claims, are exempt from current treaties?
Or how about armor-piercing depleted uranium ammo? Granted, that last one probably wouldn't qualify as a nuclear weapon, but at least, don't tell me that a tactical nuke is not a nuclear weapon.
Not seeing a problem is fine. I'm not seeing a benefit here. Why would I want to involve myself with another niche OS guaranteed to never approach the market share of Android or, probably, even Windows Phone?
You should check out the Firefox OS phone, it has no market-share either.
But at least, those guys allow you to install it on phones.
Every platform out there already has a PDF reader. My operating system has a PDF renderer built in. It works great.
Which one? The PDF reader provided by Adobe?
That one is bloated with so many features, it's become a security risk for most users even thought most of them will never even need those features in the first place.
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Yeah, I understand the ones that own media companies but what about the rest? Seems like a way to lose customers is all.
You're not just the customer, you're the product (some of you already locked-in by contracts). For those ISPs that are not owned by big media conglomerates, they'll just get money for the ad-impressions that are generated by this surveillance system.
Is this a new fad or something? Some tweaker rolled into my office wanting to know if we did consulting for setting up a webserver on an apple platform. We only did windows/linux.
Come on! It's Unix, it shouldn't have been that hard for you.
The guy probably had a Mac and he probably got the first host he found through the Apple.com web site.
That probably means you could have quoted him a very high price and he probably wouldn't have batted an eye.
Then *your phone* should keep a history of your latest searches. Which could be even stored on a cloud server, in encrypted form. There's no need for Google/Facebook/Bing/Whatnot and their customers to know your data in order for you to get that convenience.
Why would they bother?
I have Android an phone, not an iPhone anyhow. I can replace the default application for maps and the default application for navigation with any competing application I want. I'm probably not going to do that thought. I actually like the granular real-time traffic information Google (or even Waze) gives me, and the reason they can give me this kind of information at such a level of detail is precisely because they're aggregating the information of all the other drivers that are using those same services in real-time.
A similar thing is going to happen with social search. In order for the service to work better for you, you'll have to connect to your real friends/family/colleagues/or the people you're truly interested in. If you don't, or if you connect to some random people, or to some random spam bot, your search results may end up being completely useless to you.
For Gmail and Google Apps, there is Google Apps Premier. You can pay $50 per user a year, you get no advertisements, and you get 25 GB to store your email instead of 9 GB. The only issue is that Google Apps Premier hasn't been rolled out to all the Google Services, and it forces you to juggle multiple accounts which is a pain. And it definitely does not cover Google Search (unless you default to the incognito tab every time, which anybody can do already).
For Android, there are some ROMs that are privacy-oriented. I did try such a ROM, but I quickly reverted. In hindsight, I found that I did want google maps and google navigation to remember the last locations I had searched.
Read the article, he doesn't want to remove it because they don't need to do enhanced patdowns while they have the machine. If they remove the machine, they will have to do the pat downs again.
He must not have gotten the memo.
At the SFO international airport, when too many people object to the scanning, they just do the "enhanced" pat downs for the first couple of people who objected, and then they just let the rest of the folks who object go through the metal detector unmolested (assuming the metal detector doesn't beep). In other words, when they don't have the extra man power to do all the enhanced pat downs, they just remove the little barrier they have in front of the metal detectors, and they let the line go through there instead.
Don't these app stores give your info away to the app developers anyway? Thought I read a recent article about how your name, address, credit card info goes out to the devs, even the 'free' ones.
No, if you go back to that original Slashdot story, and look down through the threads.
It turns out that if you paid for an app using Google Wallet, it would give the app developer your full name, your email address, and country/zip code (that last one for tax purposes, as claimed by one developer). It did not provide the exact address of the purchaser as the story originally claimed.
Nor, did it provide the credit card number. And nor did they provide any this information to the developers of free apps you've installed. Those two last bits, you've just tacked on. Nicely played Anonymous iOS Fanboy.
The article mentions a lot more than that - and the issues mentioned are real and potentially (depending one use scenario) very significant.
That's why you also depend on the ratings of an app before you install it. Not everyone checks permissions, but most people check the ratings.
But beside that point - how is an app requesting location data when it doesn't need it NOT a significant problem? Do you review the code for all apps that request this permission or do you blindly trust them with your location data?
This issue is present with all the app stores, including the iPhone app store.
Some apps, I do trust with my location data. It's the same with people. Some people, I do trust with my home address: My mailman, the UPS guy, the pizza guy, etc.
The best software patch I've found for HTC products, though I have tried others.
Not me, whenever I root a device.
I always try to get the HTC Sense mod version of a ROM (although, it's probably not very legal).
And I've also tried others.
It should also be illegal to install bloatware that is embedded to the point of not being removable (without at least rooting the device and perhaps voiding warranty).
Yes, the FTC report also mentions Carrier IQ by name.
The Android-derived tablet he got is horrible! The battery is the least of its problems.
As a rule of thumb, if someone offers you a tablet for Christmas with resistive touch, you shouldn't even open the box and you should try to return it for a full/partial refund as soon as possible. As to the security issues, the article he pointed to talks about apps being "security risks" or "malware" for requesting GPS permissions when they shouldn't (which is really FUD). In any case, since his tablet doesn't have a GPS chip in it, that issue doesn't apply to him.
Also since he doesn't have access to the official Android Market/Google Play, he should just look on the XDA forums, root his device, install Cyanogen on it, and go through the Cyanogen repo for apps. And he should refrain from installing apps from other locations.
His tablet will still be horrible after that, but it should be more bearable. And frankly, I don't think he should be spending any more money on this tablet to try to customize it, spending money on it will just be throwing good money after bad. Even if he resolves the battery issue and the app store issue, and makes a kick ass stereo out of it, the tablet will still need to be rebooted every hour or so.
Next time, he or the person who gave him this tablet should just spend twice the money initially, and just buy an Asus Nexus 7. That one is really good. And he won't even need to root it to do all the things he wants to do with it.
Actually, his connection to HyperDex is pretty clear on his pages.
My mistake, I didn't read everything in the "About Me" box on the right of his blog, but still his connection could have been made clearer. This was a very-very long blog post, which I actually read completely, which he obviously crafted very carefully, and I only found out about his connection to HyperDex in the comments of others.
And if anything it puts him in a position of authority.
Why couldn't it be both?
By being a competitor posting about MongoDB, he's in a position of authority, and he also has a conflict of interest possibly motivating his opinion.
...and I really don't like Mongo maligning other hackers who have technical points. Ad hominem attacks show that Mongo has no technical comeback.
It wasn't Mongo. It was me. I have no affiliation with Mongo/MongoDB. I don't even use MongoDB, you can check my posting history, I've never spoken about MongoDB and I really couldn't care less about it. I'm just a by-standard. Saying that the author didn't talk about his connection to Hyperdex was a mistake on my part (thought, like I said, he could have made that part clearer by including it in the article itself).
And calling you (or the previous poster) an Anonymous Coward wasn't an Ad hominen attack. "Anonymous Coward" is the all-purpose anonymous username that you (or that the previous poster) have deliberately chosen to post under. After all, the previous comment by the "Anonymous Coward" (or you) that MongoDB is astrosurfing may be completely valid, but posting that comment anonymously also calls into question the provenance of that claim as well. After all, you could also be that same author of HyperDex as well, just posting links to your own blog (which praises your own HyperDex project and criticizes MongoDB).
If my sites really grew I would even contemplate going a step further and running my own physical servers. The joy of being able to reach out and jam USB sticks into them would be pretty good.
Except that, it does suck to have to service your own servers 24 hours a day / 7 days a week (and your own backup generators, etc.)
Nice astroturf. See here for a detailed analysis of why MongoDB is broken by design.
Speaking of which, the same back to you.
Did you know the author of the article you pointed to is a competitor and recommends his NoSQL Database called HyperDex as a reasonable alternative (although, he doesn't state he's the developer for HyperDex, nor does he state the fact that HyperDex is still in alpha and doesn't work properly)?
Nicely played Anonymous Coward!
And the logos - there's no point showing a US-centric firm's logo to an Aussie visitor, for example. I wouldn't know what most of them look like or who they represent.
With a little bit of remedial studying and some perseverance, you'll be able to become more like an American consumer. I don't see how this would be be considered a bad thing to an advertiser.
Plus, I hear Aussies like to pay more for the same things, that's got to be good news for advertisers as well.
Good luck with recycling that, where I live it's hard enough to get rid of used auto oil at the local dump (municipal recycling facility).
They found a way to dispose of radioactive smoke detectors. If they can get the radiation low enough, they can find a way to easily dispose of these new devices as well.
It states that a 'web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate.' This could be the death of Slashdot: No more ACs
Putting aside the jurisdiction issue.
It sounds like this bill wouldn't just affect ACs, they'd affect pretty much 99% of internet users with pseudonyms (that post comments on servers in Illinois). Timothy, is that your full legal name? Talderas, is that your full legal name too?
If my time has any value, I can't foresee a future in which the electronic versions of my trilogy of novels ever break even.
For future books, may be you should consider releasing your ebooks under some kind of creative commons/donation-ware license on github, and then let volunteers handle all the porting issues. That's what Cory Doctorow does for many of his books I believe.
If those books get well received, then there is always the bonus that it gets translated into a number of languages, and adapted into comic books and other mediums (depending on how liberal your licensing terms are).
Are you kidding me? I know this is Slashdot, but it wouldn't hurt you to google once in a while. There is not any controversy that those tactical nukes do exist and are not being counted in the official statistics.
Check out my previous post for the citation.
Pretty sure those never actually got built.
I'm pretty sure they were..
"Make no mistake, if [terrorists] get [nuclear material], they will use it."
The same goes for all governments that acquire nukes for the first time.
An initial demonstration is almost always necessary to make others believe your threat is real
What about the so-called "bunker-busting" tactical nukes? The US claims those types of nukes are exempt from existing treaties.
We haven't built any new nuclear weapons in decades. In fact, we've been gradually decomissioning them, in step with Russia, as we reach new treaty agreements.
How about "bunker-busting" tactical nukes, which the US claims, are exempt from current treaties?
Or how about armor-piercing depleted uranium ammo? Granted, that last one probably wouldn't qualify as a nuclear weapon, but at least, don't tell me that a tactical nuke is not a nuclear weapon.
Not seeing a problem is fine. I'm not seeing a benefit here. Why would I want to involve myself with another niche OS guaranteed to never approach the market share of Android or, probably, even Windows Phone?
You should check out the Firefox OS phone, it has no market-share either.
But at least, those guys allow you to install it on phones.
It does not say if they also plan to keep the development truly open, I hope they do.
No, they don't.
You may not load or install any of the Tizen SDK onto mobile phones or any other devices, except a personal computer...
Tizen SDK License
They've chosen the JavaME path in that regard, [sarcasm] a real successful plan to emulate. [/sarcasm]
It seems to me that they're going after the feature phone market with this.
In other words, you'll be able to get the phone for free, but you'll have to pay $4.99 every time you want a new ringtone.
Every platform out there already has a PDF reader. My operating system has a PDF renderer built in. It works great.
Which one? The PDF reader provided by Adobe?
That one is bloated with so many features, it's become a security risk for most users even thought most of them will never even need those features in the first place.