There's nothing stopping them from making opt-in a multi-tier affair. Though I don't see any reason why you'd need more than the current location for your example: the clock and weather update can just reflect your current position. The WPA keys are stored in your device already and are associated with an SSID, the physical location is irrelevant. Certainly, none of those things would require the location data leaving your device.
How would the change in the fragmentation pattern be glaringly obvious? I don't think they're going to create a complete image of every hard driver entering or leaving the country. Or the carrier might just bring a drive bought inside the country, etc etc.
I agree that it's largely artificial, though; with capacities in the sub-gigabyte range, transmitting the data via the internet or a cellular link is going to be much easier than physically carrying around drives. Most places that have tourists going in also have internet access that, while it might be censored, is easily "free enough" to anonymously get dozens of megabytes outside the country. There are notable exceptions, though; North Korea has no public internet access, and only a handful of tourists who get their cell phones confiscated upon entry. Some people did manage to get a digital camera into (and back out of) the country, though. Hiding stuff on a suitably large SD card in plain sight among a couple thousand jpegs could be useful, mostly because that means you probably will get easily out of the country even if you're caught (sans camera+sd card).
Eh. Ever heard of Google Reader? It's pretty popular. I use a client-side RSS reader myself, but it's integrated into Firefox as an addon. I like having the RSS reader in-browser, it integrates nicely into the normal "workflow" within the browser UI, and you get stuff like displaying inline YouTube videos for free. It's not about saving time, it's just more convenient to have a software that pull new items, hides stuff you've already seen and presents content from a range of sites in a common format.
That said, I can't say the browser from TFA has me convinced. The UI looks kind of cluttered. But then again, I don't really care about the social networking/sharing/chat stuff they seem to focus on. Their approach to search (read TFA for details) does look intriguing, but I'm not sure how well it works in practice.
There are only 2 from Europe and the reason Germany is not higher is due to Nazi (mainly I think Holocaust Denial ) censorship.
There are six countries from the European continent (UK, Italy, Estonia, Belarus, Russia, Germany) in the report. Four are entirely situated in continental Europe. Four are members of the EU. Three of those use the common European currency.
While your point on censorshop is well taken -- certainly, banning Holocaust denial is (post-publication) censorship -- you're not just exaggerating, you're (repeatedly) misrepresenting. You're making it sound as if detailed discussion of the Holocaust and WW2 was frowned upon or even verboten. Basically like saying that the USA censors the net by removing content related to sexuality -- when in fact they're only doing that for CP or whatever. In fact, Germans like war documentaries just as Americans like porn featuring consenting adults. Wait, what?
So nowadays most extremists are left-wing and at the same time it's fashionable to be a right-wing extremist? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
In reality, political parties of what is commonly referred to as the extreme right and the extreme left get very low results in Germany, both absolutely and when compared to our neighbours. The extreme right -- while a very worrying movement -- is basically a non-starter politically, a few municipalities in depopulated East Germany nonwithstanding. The extreme left only really exists in a single party, but it's split in half between true left wing politicians and political moderates; and it's only the moderates who seem to have some measure of success at the poll booth
Wuala uses end-to-end encryption, ie. the data is encrypted and decrypted on the client. The employees can't access your data since they don't have the encryption key. This means you lose your data if you lose the key. It also means you can't access all your data in a convenient web interface -- though you can mark individual folders as being shared on the web (which obviously means trusting the server operators with the encryption key for that folder). I think it's a much more trustworthy model than Dropbox, and the Linux integration works well for me. Too bad it's not open source; IMO they should at least open-source the client component, for security and trust reasons if nothing else.
So if Google uses the OSM data as an overlay in Google Maps, it has to release its own mapping data? It doesn't seem all that clear cut, to me. After all, they "mix in" Wikipedia articles, apparently without issues. And release what, exactly, the vector geodata? The sat imagery? The "yellow pages" stuff like company names and adresses, customer ratings? Seems like determining when something is a derived work and where the derived work starts and ends is even more difficult than with free software.
I hope the new license, ODbL, is fairly explicit in describing stuff like that.
Is there anything preventing Google from using the OSM data itself in Google Maps? It used to be licensed CC-BY-SA, so it would be perfectly fine to embed it into Google Maps with correct attribution, in a similar fashion as the Wikipedia data. OSM is in a process of relicensing now, but I'd imagine the same would work with ODbL, too.
The OSM data for my area is very detailed, including building outlines, landmarks, park benches, and dog poop dispensers (no kidding). Shame Google didn't opt for interoperability, could have been good for both Google and OSM -- maybe that's why they didn't do it. Or maybe they genuinely think they can do a better job. And maybe the OSM community is glad to be left alone. The official OSM map website sure could use some interface magic and a faster delivery network, though. The data is all there -- much more than is even visible in the default view -- but it's too hard and too slow to get there.
He's got a link to his site in his/. profile so you can judge for yourself. The site looks fine to me, genuinely useful to people who're interested in that sort of thing.
When enough people believe something, it's status as being considered unethical tends to be rather insecure. They probably don't think it's unethical, for starters.
Yeah, but no. First of all, we don't have a uni-polar world: power isn't solely determined by military power, particularly if you are unable or unwilling to wield it, both of which, thank god, is true for the US. Being able to indiscriminately kill everyone else isn't, as it turns out, all that valuable a skill.
Regarding the deterring of arms races: I guess you could always claim that it would have been even worse if it hadn't been for pax americanum, but worldwide arms spending has been strictly up, up, up since 1998, and longer if you discount a brief period following the fall of the SU where both NATO countries and (naturally) the Eastern European countries themselves reduced arms spending.
Now you introduce being self-hosted and being used for operating systems development as new measuring sticks? You're starting to rival apk in your argumentative "flexibility". And stop making language discussion into a willy waving contest. Do you really crave recognition that much that you constantly, publicly need to pat your own back?
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There's nothing stopping them from making opt-in a multi-tier affair. Though I don't see any reason why you'd need more than the current location for your example: the clock and weather update can just reflect your current position. The WPA keys are stored in your device already and are associated with an SSID, the physical location is irrelevant. Certainly, none of those things would require the location data leaving your device.
How would the change in the fragmentation pattern be glaringly obvious? I don't think they're going to create a complete image of every hard driver entering or leaving the country. Or the carrier might just bring a drive bought inside the country, etc etc.
I agree that it's largely artificial, though; with capacities in the sub-gigabyte range, transmitting the data via the internet or a cellular link is going to be much easier than physically carrying around drives. Most places that have tourists going in also have internet access that, while it might be censored, is easily "free enough" to anonymously get dozens of megabytes outside the country. There are notable exceptions, though; North Korea has no public internet access, and only a handful of tourists who get their cell phones confiscated upon entry. Some people did manage to get a digital camera into (and back out of) the country, though. Hiding stuff on a suitably large SD card in plain sight among a couple thousand jpegs could be useful, mostly because that means you probably will get easily out of the country even if you're caught (sans camera+sd card).
The "significance" of the initial M. is that he writes mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and scifi as Iain M. Banks.
That is all.
Revealed: Google’s new mega data center in Finland
Eh. Ever heard of Google Reader? It's pretty popular. I use a client-side RSS reader myself, but it's integrated into Firefox as an addon. I like having the RSS reader in-browser, it integrates nicely into the normal "workflow" within the browser UI, and you get stuff like displaying inline YouTube videos for free. It's not about saving time, it's just more convenient to have a software that pull new items, hides stuff you've already seen and presents content from a range of sites in a common format.
That said, I can't say the browser from TFA has me convinced. The UI looks kind of cluttered. But then again, I don't really care about the social networking/sharing/chat stuff they seem to focus on. Their approach to search (read TFA for details) does look intriguing, but I'm not sure how well it works in practice.
There are only 2 from Europe and the reason Germany is not higher is due to Nazi (mainly I think Holocaust Denial ) censorship.
There are six countries from the European continent (UK, Italy, Estonia, Belarus, Russia, Germany) in the report. Four are entirely situated in continental Europe. Four are members of the EU. Three of those use the common European currency.
While your point on censorshop is well taken -- certainly, banning Holocaust denial is (post-publication) censorship -- you're not just exaggerating, you're (repeatedly) misrepresenting. You're making it sound as if detailed discussion of the Holocaust and WW2 was frowned upon or even verboten. Basically like saying that the USA censors the net by removing content related to sexuality -- when in fact they're only doing that for CP or whatever. In fact, Germans like war documentaries just as Americans like porn featuring consenting adults. Wait, what?
So nowadays most extremists are left-wing and at the same time it's fashionable to be a right-wing extremist? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
In reality, political parties of what is commonly referred to as the extreme right and the extreme left get very low results in Germany, both absolutely and when compared to our neighbours. The extreme right -- while a very worrying movement -- is basically a non-starter politically, a few municipalities in depopulated East Germany nonwithstanding. The extreme left only really exists in a single party, but it's split in half between true left wing politicians and political moderates; and it's only the moderates who seem to have some measure of success at the poll booth
Well, he is extremely stupid, if nothing else. Just like a lot of Germans! No wonder those people think he's the bee's knees.
Confirmation bias.
Well that was hopefully the lamest thing I'll see all day.
You can promise all you want, but we have clear evidence to the contrary.
Yep.
Wuala uses end-to-end encryption, ie. the data is encrypted and decrypted on the client. The employees can't access your data since they don't have the encryption key. This means you lose your data if you lose the key. It also means you can't access all your data in a convenient web interface -- though you can mark individual folders as being shared on the web (which obviously means trusting the server operators with the encryption key for that folder). I think it's a much more trustworthy model than Dropbox, and the Linux integration works well for me. Too bad it's not open source; IMO they should at least open-source the client component, for security and trust reasons if nothing else.
It's 8:11 PM in all timezones. Staggered release plan.
So if Google uses the OSM data as an overlay in Google Maps, it has to release its own mapping data? It doesn't seem all that clear cut, to me. After all, they "mix in" Wikipedia articles, apparently without issues. And release what, exactly, the vector geodata? The sat imagery? The "yellow pages" stuff like company names and adresses, customer ratings? Seems like determining when something is a derived work and where the derived work starts and ends is even more difficult than with free software.
I hope the new license, ODbL, is fairly explicit in describing stuff like that.
Dammit! And with a "no kidding" no less. Well, I meant dog poop bag dispensers, if anybody was in doubt. Is there a shorter word for those?
Is there anything preventing Google from using the OSM data itself in Google Maps? It used to be licensed CC-BY-SA, so it would be perfectly fine to embed it into Google Maps with correct attribution, in a similar fashion as the Wikipedia data. OSM is in a process of relicensing now, but I'd imagine the same would work with ODbL, too.
The OSM data for my area is very detailed, including building outlines, landmarks, park benches, and dog poop dispensers (no kidding). Shame Google didn't opt for interoperability, could have been good for both Google and OSM -- maybe that's why they didn't do it. Or maybe they genuinely think they can do a better job. And maybe the OSM community is glad to be left alone. The official OSM map website sure could use some interface magic and a faster delivery network, though. The data is all there -- much more than is even visible in the default view -- but it's too hard and too slow to get there.
He's got a link to his site in his /. profile so you can judge for yourself. The site looks fine to me, genuinely useful to people who're interested in that sort of thing.
Ethe or ethea, apparently.
When enough people believe something, it's status as being considered unethical tends to be rather insecure. They probably don't think it's unethical, for starters.
Yeah, but no. First of all, we don't have a uni-polar world: power isn't solely determined by military power, particularly if you are unable or unwilling to wield it, both of which, thank god, is true for the US. Being able to indiscriminately kill everyone else isn't, as it turns out, all that valuable a skill.
Regarding the deterring of arms races: I guess you could always claim that it would have been even worse if it hadn't been for pax americanum, but worldwide arms spending has been strictly up, up, up since 1998, and longer if you discount a brief period following the fall of the SU where both NATO countries and (naturally) the Eastern European countries themselves reduced arms spending.
I love how American political dialogue is strictly limited to the exegesis of a very old document. How bizarre.
Now you introduce being self-hosted and being used for operating systems development as new measuring sticks? You're starting to rival apk in your argumentative "flexibility". And stop making language discussion into a willy waving contest. Do you really crave recognition that much that you constantly, publicly need to pat your own back?