Tell me, how do you not log the data that passes through a server? The data you have in there you probably want around after a server failure? Backups, thats your problem. It doesn't matter if the service have excellent policies if people can demand any information. The messages you write, the mails you send, the posts in forums, the people you contact, the documents you write, everything you receive etc, its all there in the backups.
This is why you really really should not use anything online for things even remotely illegal or volatile if you're not 100% comfortable with posting the same on a billboard with your name, address, phone number and social security number below. Google knows this and so should everyone else.
If by anonymous you mean not interacting with anyone you know, not leaving any traces of what you do, think, want, love etc then yes. Most of us want to interact and go about our lives without big brother snooping into our bedroom, not hide under a rock.
Privacy is the right to have secrets until there are probable cause to suspect you have done something highly illegal. Unfortunately thats a dream many think still holds true.
Thanks to 9/11 there arent anywhere on the world you can expect any privacy. Not online, not offline, not your medical records, your purchases, your bills or anything else thats in electronic form are private.
Weather you use Bing, Hotmail, Gmail, Google doesnt matter the least bit since ALL of them logs everything and have to keep it and release it at any governments whim. The differences between them are highly superficial and has zero importance in reality. The terms of service from the different vendors are worth about, not a damn thing. They have to log everything and have to release whatever a court or intelligence agency wants released.
If you dont want it read and scrutinized, dont put it online. Period.
Doing a character assasination with those gems in mind would be redundant. Its obvious Microsoft is scared shit that Oracle will undercut it in the SMB market with MySQL and Oracles wast support structure. Call in the drones.
All in favor of everything Microsoft stand on Miquels side. All others on the opposite side.
Then watch as every single distribution drops the mono infested stinkpile like a hot potato and chooses the other one.
I encounter Novells mono implementations all day through my work. I truly hate every single line of code coming out of Novell that happens to be done in mono. The iFolder client, iFolder itself, Zenworks 10 and bits and pieces that malfunctions and gives me much grief all have one thing in common. Written for Mono and buggy as nothing ive ever seen. Everything else from Novell works like a charm no matter what language its written in. We are dropping Novells products altogether because of this.
Why someone would build anything in mono is beyond me, really. No matter how you twist and turn it, no apps made in neither dotnet nor mono has ever been anything but total turd. It could be the best dev enviroment in the universe for all i care, the products coming out of it still sucks.
Im not so sure this cooperation is really that voluntarily. When the NSA/DHS shows up and slams their fist on your desk, do you really start arguing? Just take a historical look at what happened to socialists and leftis during the Carter era. Many promising companies/lifes wore ruined without any reactions whatsoever from the world around them.
Google is just a victim of laws that we as citizens let eat away at our privacy. Google cant withold information that the governments asks for if it doesnt have any support in law.
Its also easy to forget that Google is just one player, ask yourself what other information is readily avaliable except internet logs? Utilities, water, credit receipts, health records, travels etc etc. Even if you could be 100% anonymous on the internet your private life is still non existent.
The problem is that privacy has been abolished everywhere and people just dont seem to care about it. History repeats itself, again and again...
Why not ban kids altogether from the internet? That would do both the kids, their parents and the rest of the internet a big service. The kids would be outside more, the parents would have to talk to their kids and the internet would be a much nicer place.
If the internet is such an unsafe place and the parents wont supervise their kids they shouldn't be online.
I fully agree with you, what im trying to say is that people in general doesn't seem to care one bit (no phun intended) about sound quality. That includes the studios and producers.
Because of this its pretty pointless arguing which sounds better since people really doesn't care. If Vinyl is hip, thats what they use even if it sounds like crap.
Compared to your average mp3, wma or other lossy compression algorithms coupled with very bad mixing in studios vinyl sounds better in many cases. Vinyl vs CD is more a matter of taste but all in all we dont really care if whats comes out of the speakers sounds like nails on a blackboard.
Its no coincidence that hifi has been declining lately. You have to search like a mad to find a recording worthy of a good hifi setup. I often find myself cringe when i put a pop CD into my rig because its obvious its been compressed and processed for crappy systems. Everything seems tailored for iPods, mobiles and micro systems. Sadly that makes it sound like crap on a good system.
In sweden where i live printed news journalism consists of gossip, Reuters and TT articles. The problem isnt the internet but that the content has become mostly useless entertainment, not news. I cant stand reading a newspaper anymore because its crap. It has absolutely nothing to do with the advent of the internet.
Compared to the rest of the IT industry, its not that hard to be awesome. Its just that our expectation have been lowered so much we think a company that delivers something useful and dont engage in illegal practices are freaking awesome!
The gall of not engaging in putting most work into extinguishing the competition! Making actual working products? What do they think they are? God?
That alone is reason enough to hope this will burn them, very hard. The more punish the big players take because of software patents the bigger chance of brown envelopes changing hands. Brown envelopes is what directs politicians in the right directions. Elections are just a sideshow.
The biggest hurdle for the content companies is that encrypted BT makes it almost impossible to see what people share between them. Its impossible to distinguish a bittorrent of a Linux ISO from your latest blockbuster. Disallowing filesharing alltogether wont make an ISP that popular.
Well, most people i know have more and more gone over to not do *anything* but being online. People have changed their computing habits significantly since internet became all the rage, computers haven't.
Even at work (im a sysadmin) most of the work i do is in a browser. Most of the people i help do something in a browser. If the internet/browser/site is gone, the computer is useless. Games and old applications that havent got an online eqvivalent is the only thing that makes them use a local application. And ofcourse updates, security updates, virii, spyware, adware, system failiures, defrags, copying files to usb sticks and such pleasant productive tasks.
Most people, i would say about 99% of all computer users worldwide, would suffice with Google Apps and do a splendid job.
They think they need MS Office because "thats what people use" and because historically you have had to have the same office suite/version to be able to share documents. That have really changed lately thanks to online suites but its still not apparent to most people yet. I have yet to have someone introduced properly to Google Apps be anything but amazed.
Most shareware is about keeping the computer going and make it suck less. If you dig down in top lists for shareware you'll find much is about security, file sharing, backup and registry cleaners etc. If Google can deliver a zero maintenance OS im certain they wont be missed at all.
But, the real reason Microsoft will shit their pants is that they have competition from someone willing to spend a dollar on marketing. That this adversary also owns the biggest ad network on the internet isn't that fun either i suppose.
The danger for Microsoft isn't loosing market share, its about loosing enough market share to be forced to compete on price. Just look at their losses thanks to Asus doing a lame halfbaked attempt at using Linux on their netbooks? Microsoft got off easy because Asus just bent over and took it like pros. Imagine if Asus had told Microsoft go soil themselves?
I really dont think it will work out that way. The people wanting fox news already goes to their site directly, this is about people searching for a specific topic and being pointet towards for eg. Fox News. If the result are good they will be happy regardless if Murdocs propaganda is missing.
There sure is some strange logic in this deal, especially from the news moguls. 99,9% of all searches regarding news or a topic is about getting information about it regardless of the source.
When someone do a search for something, the quality of the pages is the interesting part, not where those pages resides. If its pointing to a blogger, Wikipedia or a newspaper is totally irrelevant just as long as the information is correct. By removing their own content the newspapers are only encouraging bloggers and the like.
I cant see people jumping ship towards Bing to get better results. Its much more likely people will be put off when any search on Bing leads to a paying newspaper instead of to that blog you want to find.
That would actually not be hard at all for anyone. Since Chrome OS is open source you can do it today thanks to gpxe. The only problem would be getting the right answer out of your local dhcp like this:
That could be solved by booting with an usb stick instead. The drawback would be how you verify its really Google youre downloading the system image from and not some random dns injecting hacker. I just got to try this, thanks for the idea!
What if someone successfully develops something like a cloud service with Wine+NX and lets you run any and all Windows apps out in the cloud? If they get an acceptable framerate out of it that should put most "but my application X dont work" to shame. The only problem i can see is doing that through the browser and get fast enough framerates for games.
Im also wondering how much work it would be for Google to later on slap dalvik/android devkit onto the platform for local applications. Probably not that much i suspect.
While Google Chrome OS starts out on the small netbooks etc i dont think they will stay there if they succeed in getting a piece of the market.
The development that has lead up to this has been going on since long before Microsoft even discovered the internet. The whole browser war was about keeping applications tied to the local computers. Bill Gates and many other in MS said so themselves in discoveries during Gomes and MS vs. DOJ. The same goes for the Java poisoning. And now, trying to slip.net and silverlight out as X platform and then sneaking in platform dependant stuff.
The natural development is going right in Googles direction with Microsoft working against it for everything they can. Its like a pent up dam, once a trickle starts its not long until the dam breaks and our computing as we know it is radically changed in a fairly short timespan.
I think we have pretty interesting times ahead with much foulplay from a desperate Microsoft. They will stop at nothing to stomp Google to bits, absolutely nothing.
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Most desktops would be running something else than Windows today if it worent for Microsofts abuse of their monopoly powers. On a technical merit Windows, yes even Windows 7, is utter unsecure, old and wrongly engineered crap.
Im not so sure Linux would rule the day if Microsoft hadnt so blatantly killed any and all competition. We would probably have something else even better than Linux. Linux is just here because its the only competitor Microsoft cant bury that easily.
A cycle requires its been done more than once, or atleast one time. The SAMBA on Vista/Windows 7 clusterfuck strongly suggests that either SDLC is totally worthless or hasnt been used internally. Something a simple fuzzer snags should not make it past Q&A, especially not when the company in charge brags about its "superior" security policies at every possible chance.
Since the exploit is possible without any user interaction all it takes to bring down a corporate network is one single machine running the xploit locally. A simple broadcast and every machine running w2kr2 or Vista7 will be dead until someone pulls the plug.
Im also very surprised that Micorosft didnt audit the code properly after the last hole. You would think that the former xploit would ring a couple of bells since it was big enough for a truck to run through. Im beginning to suspect all the talk about SDL, reviews and stuff are nothing but PR.
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Tell me, how do you not log the data that passes through a server? The data you have in there you probably want around after a server failure? Backups, thats your problem. It doesn't matter if the service have excellent policies if people can demand any information. The messages you write, the mails you send, the posts in forums, the people you contact, the documents you write, everything you receive etc, its all there in the backups.
This is why you really really should not use anything online for things even remotely illegal or volatile if you're not 100% comfortable with posting the same on a billboard with your name, address, phone number and social security number below. Google knows this and so should everyone else.
If by anonymous you mean not interacting with anyone you know, not leaving any traces of what you do, think, want, love etc then yes. Most of us want to interact and go about our lives without big brother snooping into our bedroom, not hide under a rock.
Privacy is the right to have secrets until there are probable cause to suspect you have done something highly illegal. Unfortunately thats a dream many think still holds true.
Thanks to 9/11 there arent anywhere on the world you can expect any privacy. Not online, not offline, not your medical records, your purchases, your bills or anything else thats in electronic form are private.
Weather you use Bing, Hotmail, Gmail, Google doesnt matter the least bit since ALL of them logs everything and have to keep it and release it at any governments whim. The differences between them are highly superficial and has zero importance in reality. The terms of service from the different vendors are worth about, not a damn thing. They have to log everything and have to release whatever a court or intelligence agency wants released.
If you dont want it read and scrutinized, dont put it online. Period.
But i take anything Monty says these days with a heavy dosage of salt, especially if it happens to coincide with Microsofts current viewpoint.
http://www.codeplex.org/board-of-directors.aspx
Recommended reading is this from his blog:
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/09/codeplex-foundation-why-is-microsoft.html
Doing a character assasination with those gems in mind would be redundant. Its obvious Microsoft is scared shit that Oracle will undercut it in the SMB market with MySQL and Oracles wast support structure. Call in the drones.
As long as the US in general relies heavily on Microsoft windows they better keep out of any real cyberwar.
All in favor of everything Microsoft stand on Miquels side. All others on the opposite side.
Then watch as every single distribution drops the mono infested stinkpile like a hot potato and chooses the other one.
I encounter Novells mono implementations all day through my work. I truly hate every single line of code coming out of Novell that happens to be done in mono. The iFolder client, iFolder itself, Zenworks 10 and bits and pieces that malfunctions and gives me much grief all have one thing in common. Written for Mono and buggy as nothing ive ever seen. Everything else from Novell works like a charm no matter what language its written in. We are dropping Novells products altogether because of this.
Why someone would build anything in mono is beyond me, really. No matter how you twist and turn it, no apps made in neither dotnet nor mono has ever been anything but total turd. It could be the best dev enviroment in the universe for all i care, the products coming out of it still sucks.
Fork!
Im not so sure this cooperation is really that voluntarily. When the NSA/DHS shows up and slams their fist on your desk, do you really start arguing? Just take a historical look at what happened to socialists and leftis during the Carter era. Many promising companies/lifes wore ruined without any reactions whatsoever from the world around them.
Google is just a victim of laws that we as citizens let eat away at our privacy. Google cant withold information that the governments asks for if it doesnt have any support in law.
Its also easy to forget that Google is just one player, ask yourself what other information is readily avaliable except internet logs? Utilities, water, credit receipts, health records, travels etc etc. Even if you could be 100% anonymous on the internet your private life is still non existent.
The problem is that privacy has been abolished everywhere and people just dont seem to care about it. History repeats itself, again and again...
Why not ban kids altogether from the internet? That would do both the kids, their parents and the rest of the internet a big service. The kids would be outside more, the parents would have to talk to their kids and the internet would be a much nicer place.
If the internet is such an unsafe place and the parents wont supervise their kids they shouldn't be online.
I fully agree with you, what im trying to say is that people in general doesn't seem to care one bit (no phun intended) about sound quality. That includes the studios and producers.
Because of this its pretty pointless arguing which sounds better since people really doesn't care. If Vinyl is hip, thats what they use even if it sounds like crap.
Compared to your average mp3, wma or other lossy compression algorithms coupled with very bad mixing in studios vinyl sounds better in many cases. Vinyl vs CD is more a matter of taste but all in all we dont really care if whats comes out of the speakers sounds like nails on a blackboard.
Its no coincidence that hifi has been declining lately. You have to search like a mad to find a recording worthy of a good hifi setup. I often find myself cringe when i put a pop CD into my rig because its obvious its been compressed and processed for crappy systems. Everything seems tailored for iPods, mobiles and micro systems. Sadly that makes it sound like crap on a good system.
In sweden where i live printed news journalism consists of gossip, Reuters and TT articles. The problem isnt the internet but that the content has become mostly useless entertainment, not news. I cant stand reading a newspaper anymore because its crap. It has absolutely nothing to do with the advent of the internet.
I agree RedHat is a very nice company that has made very good contributions to Linux and free software.
Compared to the rest of the IT industry, its not that hard to be awesome. Its just that our expectation have been lowered so much we think a company that delivers something useful and dont engage in illegal practices are freaking awesome!
The gall of not engaging in putting most work into extinguishing the competition! Making actual working products? What do they think they are? God?
That alone is reason enough to hope this will burn them, very hard. The more punish the big players take because of software patents the bigger chance of brown envelopes changing hands. Brown envelopes is what directs politicians in the right directions. Elections are just a sideshow.
The biggest hurdle for the content companies is that encrypted BT makes it almost impossible to see what people share between them. Its impossible to distinguish a bittorrent of a Linux ISO from your latest blockbuster. Disallowing filesharing alltogether wont make an ISP that popular.
Well, most people i know have more and more gone over to not do *anything* but being online. People have changed their computing habits significantly since internet became all the rage, computers haven't.
Even at work (im a sysadmin) most of the work i do is in a browser. Most of the people i help do something in a browser. If the internet/browser/site is gone, the computer is useless. Games and old applications that havent got an online eqvivalent is the only thing that makes them use a local application. And ofcourse updates, security updates, virii, spyware, adware, system failiures, defrags, copying files to usb sticks and such pleasant productive tasks.
Most people, i would say about 99% of all computer users worldwide, would suffice with Google Apps and do a splendid job.
They think they need MS Office because "thats what people use" and because historically you have had to have the same office suite/version to be able to share documents. That have really changed lately thanks to online suites but its still not apparent to most people yet. I have yet to have someone introduced properly to Google Apps be anything but amazed.
Most shareware is about keeping the computer going and make it suck less. If you dig down in top lists for shareware you'll find much is about security, file sharing, backup and registry cleaners etc. If Google can deliver a zero maintenance OS im certain they wont be missed at all.
But, the real reason Microsoft will shit their pants is that they have competition from someone willing to spend a dollar on marketing. That this adversary also owns the biggest ad network on the internet isn't that fun either i suppose.
The danger for Microsoft isn't loosing market share, its about loosing enough market share to be forced to compete on price. Just look at their losses thanks to Asus doing a lame halfbaked attempt at using Linux on their netbooks? Microsoft got off easy because Asus just bent over and took it like pros. Imagine if Asus had told Microsoft go soil themselves?
I really dont think it will work out that way. The people wanting fox news already goes to their site directly, this is about people searching for a specific topic and being pointet towards for eg. Fox News. If the result are good they will be happy regardless if Murdocs propaganda is missing.
There sure is some strange logic in this deal, especially from the news moguls. 99,9% of all searches regarding news or a topic is about getting information about it regardless of the source.
When someone do a search for something, the quality of the pages is the interesting part, not where those pages resides. If its pointing to a blogger, Wikipedia or a newspaper is totally irrelevant just as long as the information is correct. By removing their own content the newspapers are only encouraging bloggers and the like.
I cant see people jumping ship towards Bing to get better results. Its much more likely people will be put off when any search on Bing leads to a paying newspaper instead of to that blog you want to find.
That would actually not be hard at all for anyone. Since Chrome OS is open source you can do it today thanks to gpxe. The only problem would be getting the right answer out of your local dhcp like this:
chain http://chrome.google.com/chromeos.gpxe
That could be solved by booting with an usb stick instead. The drawback would be how you verify its really Google youre downloading the system image from and not some random dns injecting hacker. I just got to try this, thanks for the idea!
What if someone successfully develops something like a cloud service with Wine+NX and lets you run any and all Windows apps out in the cloud? If they get an acceptable framerate out of it that should put most "but my application X dont work" to shame. The only problem i can see is doing that through the browser and get fast enough framerates for games.
Im also wondering how much work it would be for Google to later on slap dalvik/android devkit onto the platform for local applications. Probably not that much i suspect.
While Google Chrome OS starts out on the small netbooks etc i dont think they will stay there if they succeed in getting a piece of the market.
The development that has lead up to this has been going on since long before Microsoft even discovered the internet. The whole browser war was about keeping applications tied to the local computers. Bill Gates and many other in MS said so themselves in discoveries during Gomes and MS vs. DOJ. The same goes for the Java poisoning. And now, trying to slip .net and silverlight out as X platform and then sneaking in platform dependant stuff.
The natural development is going right in Googles direction with Microsoft working against it for everything they can. Its like a pent up dam, once a trickle starts its not long until the dam breaks and our computing as we know it is radically changed in a fairly short timespan.
I think we have pretty interesting times ahead with much foulplay from a desperate Microsoft. They will stop at nothing to stomp Google to bits, absolutely nothing.
Most desktops would be running something else than Windows today if it worent for Microsofts abuse of their monopoly powers. On a technical merit Windows, yes even Windows 7, is utter unsecure, old and wrongly engineered crap.
Im not so sure Linux would rule the day if Microsoft hadnt so blatantly killed any and all competition. We would probably have something else even better than Linux. Linux is just here because its the only competitor Microsoft cant bury that easily.
A cycle requires its been done more than once, or atleast one time. The SAMBA on Vista/Windows 7 clusterfuck strongly suggests that either SDLC is totally worthless or hasnt been used internally. Something a simple fuzzer snags should not make it past Q&A, especially not when the company in charge brags about its "superior" security policies at every possible chance.
Since the exploit is possible without any user interaction all it takes to bring down a corporate network is one single machine running the xploit locally. A simple broadcast and every machine running w2kr2 or Vista7 will be dead until someone pulls the plug.
Im also very surprised that Micorosft didnt audit the code properly after the last hole. You would think that the former xploit would ring a couple of bells since it was big enough for a truck to run through. Im beginning to suspect all the talk about SDL, reviews and stuff are nothing but PR.