Windows 7, 6 out of 59 unpatched. The most severe unpatched issue is a remote issue rated highly critical, and has been reported 2010-12-27 (FWIW it also affects Vista and XP). Overall criticality: 2% Extremely critical, 39% Highly critical, 17% Moderately critical, 37% Less critical, 5% Not critical Overall "where": 61% From remote, 10% From local network, 29% Local system
Linux 2.6.x, 19 out of 260 unpatched. Most severe unpatched issue is a remote issue rated moderately critical and has been reported 2011-03-22. Overall criticality: 0% Extremely critical, 0% Highly critical, 11% Moderately critical, 49% Less critical, 40% Not critical Overall "where": 16% From remote, 12% From local network, 73% Local system
I have submitted bug patches to Open Source projects before, and when you hit that submit button there is a sense of "there is one less problem in the world now".
I have the opposite feeling most times I hit the Submit button in a forum!
I'd assume they are distributing load among several mirrors donated by several (at least two) corporate sponsors. I get Canonical, too, and so does the Google cache, but the Bing cache (from two days ago) gets the Red Hat mirror.
I do agree that it's still way too early to dismiss Gnome 3, though, it's still months away from release and I'm sure it'll change a lot in the meantime.
... or not, I guess I was the victim of unreflected reporting by omgubuntu of a fairly lame April's Fools joke by the Gnome team.
something that only geeks with too much time should want to do (and hence can be made difficult),
something that no one should want to do (and hence can be made impossible)
Finally, unlike others, you have a deep understanding of how most users want to do things and sometimes even how they don't want to do them but really should want to do them.
I do agree that it's still way too early to dismiss Gnome 3, though, it's still months away from release and I'm sure it'll change a lot in the meantime. And regardless of the result I think it's great that the Gnome devs are trying something new.
Well, pretty much any radioactivity is harmful. With any exposure to radiation, your cancer risk rises. That's true for background radiation, medical xrays and nuclear power plants exploding in your backyard. Of course, the same is true for many other things: stochastical effects are a constant fact particularly in industrialized nations. In terms of the stochastic effect of radiation exposure, settling on a safe threshold seems fairly arbitrary. Of course, individually, the increase in cancer risk from a brief exposure to low level radiation is so small that your dinner choice for that day might have be a more serious health concern. However, the consequences of medium and long term exposure to radiation levels significantly higher than background radiation but within levels considered "safe" still require more research.
Here's a nice back-of-the-envelope calculation from the European Nuclear Society (a pro-nuclear lobby group): "The following calculation is designed to illustrate this value: the natural radiation exposure of 2.1 mSv/year in Germany results in a total dose of 172 000 Sv for the approximately 82 million inhabi-tants. If this value is multiplied by the aforementioned risk factor of 5.5 % per sievert for cancer mortal-ity, 9 500 cancer deaths annually by natural radiation result on a calculatory basis."
Just tried it on an evince I had already open: for the most part, the zoomed in content is displayed instantly, with an enhancement step finishing within a split second. Only at high zoom (200% and up, rarely useful), there starts to be delay of up to a second. I assume YMMV depending on your system and the document itself.
Yes, so can Picasa/PicasaWeb. Flickr does it, too. (On a sidenote: Does Flickr strip the GPS exif tags from the original photos if you enable the geo privacy setting?) For most computer users, doing this manually -- even if they are aware that importing it into iPhoto is enough -- would still involve individually downloading dozens if not hundreds of photos. This app does it by itself, aggregating from several sources (and not just jpeg exifs). Still needs to support more data sources, though -- no Facebook? -- I guess it's a WIP.
You distinguish privacy and anonymity, but your definition of anonymity seems flawed. When I run around in a city, my anonymity is still largely maintained: a stranger really has no means to identify my, even the police will have difficulties if I don't volunteer the information (say, by showing them my ID card which are issued to everyone here, but that's beside the point). Because I am anonymous to them, strangers have no shortcuts to getting more information on me, e.g. they can't use the app from TFA to get my movement profile. On the net, anonymity is more difficult, because law enforcement can identify the account owner using the IP.
I guess you're arguing that part of anonymity is that nobody knows where your residence is (and vice versa: nobody knows "who lives in that house over there"). I suppose it's true that in most modern societies, governments have access to that kind of information. I wouldn't attribute that to technology, though. And private individuals at least still have difficulties getting that information, unless you advertise it, e.g. in the phone book. There's a huge difference between information that is available for free and information that's available in return for money or excessive sleuthing.
The privacy impact of the application still looms. Not sure why you focus on it revealing where you live -- it might do that, but it does both more and less. It's simply an effort to gather all the geodata people post (deliberately) or leak (unwittingly). For a careless/unaware user, a large enough amount of images could lead to a fairly complete movement profile available to the world (somewhat related comment about the implications). Even if it's not a thorough profile, it still could lead to lots of awkwardness.
None of this is new, I'm sure most Slashdot users a) are aware that some services leak geodata (e.g. in exif tags), including disabling that feature if they don't want to leak geodata, and b) are able to crawl a lot of a person's data and pull the geodata from it to create a profile from it. This isn't a basic technology breakthrough, or anything, I think it's fairly obvious that the author it trying to build awareness in the same way the Firesheep guy successfully did.
It is a privacy issue. Many people aren't aware that they are leaking location data, and more aren't aware of the wider implications. And while there are certainly utilities to read a JPEGs exif geodata and access the other services his utility talks to, I don't think there a single tool that does all of it. And this is meant to be user-friendly: dedicated individuals could steal Facebook (etc.) sessions forever, but it took a program like Firesheep to get some public awareness. That's what this is about.
Same here, except I get the German version. German Gizmodo is -- hard to believe but true -- even worse than Gizmodo. I am talking mild nausea from looking at the frontpage for more than a few seconds. I might sue.
Got any significant data to back up your claim that IP geolocating doesn't work? It doesn't have to be perfect to be useful for many applications. In my own experience, it works exceedingly well.
UI may not be as fancy but when it comes to functionality and performance/price ratio these were the best phones I have ever head.
That's why I bought, most recently, a 5800XM. Can't say I've regretted the decision, it's a moderately powerful phone for a very modest price. I wanted GPS and 802.11b, and at the time, you simply could not get that from another manufacturer for less than double the price. The UI really is awful, though, awful awful awful. That is partly due to the fact that Nokia had to make a number of sacrifices to get the price that low: a slow processor means slow transitions between screens and even between landscape and portrait mode, which is incredibly annoying. Oh yeah, and a resistive touchscreen -- that took some getting used to.
Fortunately, these days you can get an Android phone for a very reasonable price, with mostly the same features and better hardware than an equally prized Nokia phone. And a much more active developer community to boot. So there's a good exit option from the sinking Nokia ship.
Most of their current customers don't give a damn about their phone's OS and have probably never heard the name Symbian. (Though I agree selling out to MS was a dumb move.)
Those are all issues. Calling them a necessary byproduct of a high standard of living is very vague.
For some of them, collecting and storing the data is inherent to the process or the technology: For a non-cash financial transaction, you typically need to know who the participants are among other things; often you need to store that data for certain lengths of time. That's certainly trading anonymity for the convenience of being able to use a credit/debit card.
The same argument can't be made for most other things. There is no technical reason for my ISP to log that I've been browsing Slashdot, or even what IP I was assigned this time. Since I'm on a PAYG phone, there is no inherent need for my phone provider to store my phone calls after they've been charged (mostly immediately). There certainly is no need for providers to store my position for any length of time, or even to collect that data in the first place.
Arguably, there might be a legitimate need to store some or all of this stuff for law enforcement. So you might want to store phone conversations to find a crook, or you might want to store location profiles so you know where everyone is and was at all times. But that's trading anonymity for security, not convenience. At that point it comes down to a liberty/safety trade-off which we (not you and I particularly) keep discussing all the time.
That's true but not very relevant. If you want to use a cell phone as an emergency notification device, you can do that without being tracked. If you want to use it as a phone, in the way that almost everybody in the whole world does -- including even many developing countries -- then you can be tracked. And most likely are being tracked. Even people who don't consider this a problem at least have to admit that this is fairly spectacular.
Okay. Yes, you can avoid being monitored by either turning off the phone or leaving the phone at home. Note that turning it off only during "critical" moments leaves a record in itself. Even if you disable the tracking for certain movements, that doesn't change the fact that those movements you don't consider critical enough are being recorded, and may in hindsight turn out to be more critical than you thought. Or the data might be used in ways that do affect you negatively, but not in a manner significant enough to make you leave the phone. Obviously, the data can also be used in ways that affect you positively, say, by improving traffic routing.
The movement data is incredibly valuable for all kinds of analysis. If you simply consider the data of an individual person, you know with a fairly high certainty where they live, where they work and/or study, when they are unlikely to be at home, how they move around, where they shop -- the list goes on for a long time. If you've got the data of more than one person, you can create social graphs for work colleagues, friendships, relationships, and so on. Still just one kind of data! And it works even if everybody turns off his or her phone while they're buying drugs or robbing banks. And this isn't some crazy hypothetical stuff, this data exists, you could do this right now for millions of people.
Slashdot Mirror
Adding "FACT:" to the start of every paragraph is utterly lame and does not lend any authority at all to your post.
The overall gratuitous use of capital letters, random swearing and quotation marks is meant to do that. The ..FACT... is just for decoration!
From the Secunia statistics you linked to:
Windows 7, 6 out of 59 unpatched. The most severe unpatched issue is a remote issue rated highly critical, and has been reported 2010-12-27 (FWIW it also affects Vista and XP).
Overall criticality: 2% Extremely critical, 39% Highly critical, 17% Moderately critical, 37% Less critical, 5% Not critical
Overall "where": 61% From remote, 10% From local network, 29% Local system
Linux 2.6.x, 19 out of 260 unpatched. Most severe unpatched issue is a remote issue rated moderately critical and has been reported 2011-03-22.
Overall criticality: 0% Extremely critical, 0% Highly critical, 11% Moderately critical, 49% Less critical, 40% Not critical
Overall "where": 16% From remote, 12% From local network, 73% Local system
I have submitted bug patches to Open Source projects before, and when you hit that submit button there is a sense of "there is one less problem in the world now".
I have the opposite feeling most times I hit the Submit button in a forum!
It only writes dot dash dash dot.
I'd assume they are distributing load among several mirrors donated by several (at least two) corporate sponsors. I get Canonical, too, and so does the Google cache, but the Bing cache (from two days ago) gets the Red Hat mirror.
I do agree that it's still way too early to dismiss Gnome 3, though, it's still months away from release and I'm sure it'll change a lot in the meantime.
... or not, I guess I was the victim of unreflected reporting by omgubuntu of a fairly lame April's Fools joke by the Gnome team.
So basically, everything is either
Finally, unlike others, you have a deep understanding of how most users want to do things and sometimes even how they don't want to do them but really should want to do them.
I do agree that it's still way too early to dismiss Gnome 3, though, it's still months away from release and I'm sure it'll change a lot in the meantime. And regardless of the result I think it's great that the Gnome devs are trying something new.
I presentations shorter by all the verbs.
Well, pretty much any radioactivity is harmful. With any exposure to radiation, your cancer risk rises. That's true for background radiation, medical xrays and nuclear power plants exploding in your backyard. Of course, the same is true for many other things: stochastical effects are a constant fact particularly in industrialized nations. In terms of the stochastic effect of radiation exposure, settling on a safe threshold seems fairly arbitrary. Of course, individually, the increase in cancer risk from a brief exposure to low level radiation is so small that your dinner choice for that day might have be a more serious health concern. However, the consequences of medium and long term exposure to radiation levels significantly higher than background radiation but within levels considered "safe" still require more research.
Here's a nice back-of-the-envelope calculation from the European Nuclear Society (a pro-nuclear lobby group): "The following calculation is designed to illustrate this value: the natural radiation exposure of 2.1 mSv/year in Germany results in a total dose of 172 000 Sv for the approximately 82 million inhabi-tants. If this value is multiplied by the aforementioned risk factor of 5.5 % per sievert for cancer mortal-ity, 9 500 cancer deaths annually by natural radiation result on a calculatory basis."
They were called that. Now they're called "the Pacific Ocean".
Just tried it on an evince I had already open: for the most part, the zoomed in content is displayed instantly, with an enhancement step finishing within a split second. Only at high zoom (200% and up, rarely useful), there starts to be delay of up to a second. I assume YMMV depending on your system and the document itself.
Yes, so can Picasa/PicasaWeb. Flickr does it, too. (On a sidenote: Does Flickr strip the GPS exif tags from the original photos if you enable the geo privacy setting?) For most computer users, doing this manually -- even if they are aware that importing it into iPhoto is enough -- would still involve individually downloading dozens if not hundreds of photos. This app does it by itself, aggregating from several sources (and not just jpeg exifs). Still needs to support more data sources, though -- no Facebook? -- I guess it's a WIP.
You distinguish privacy and anonymity, but your definition of anonymity seems flawed. When I run around in a city, my anonymity is still largely maintained: a stranger really has no means to identify my, even the police will have difficulties if I don't volunteer the information (say, by showing them my ID card which are issued to everyone here, but that's beside the point). Because I am anonymous to them, strangers have no shortcuts to getting more information on me, e.g. they can't use the app from TFA to get my movement profile. On the net, anonymity is more difficult, because law enforcement can identify the account owner using the IP.
I guess you're arguing that part of anonymity is that nobody knows where your residence is (and vice versa: nobody knows "who lives in that house over there"). I suppose it's true that in most modern societies, governments have access to that kind of information. I wouldn't attribute that to technology, though. And private individuals at least still have difficulties getting that information, unless you advertise it, e.g. in the phone book. There's a huge difference between information that is available for free and information that's available in return for money or excessive sleuthing.
The privacy impact of the application still looms. Not sure why you focus on it revealing where you live -- it might do that, but it does both more and less. It's simply an effort to gather all the geodata people post (deliberately) or leak (unwittingly). For a careless/unaware user, a large enough amount of images could lead to a fairly complete movement profile available to the world (somewhat related comment about the implications). Even if it's not a thorough profile, it still could lead to lots of awkwardness.
None of this is new, I'm sure most Slashdot users a) are aware that some services leak geodata (e.g. in exif tags), including disabling that feature if they don't want to leak geodata, and b) are able to crawl a lot of a person's data and pull the geodata from it to create a profile from it. This isn't a basic technology breakthrough, or anything, I think it's fairly obvious that the author it trying to build awareness in the same way the Firesheep guy successfully did.
It is a privacy issue. Many people aren't aware that they are leaking location data, and more aren't aware of the wider implications. And while there are certainly utilities to read a JPEGs exif geodata and access the other services his utility talks to, I don't think there a single tool that does all of it. And this is meant to be user-friendly: dedicated individuals could steal Facebook (etc.) sessions forever, but it took a program like Firesheep to get some public awareness. That's what this is about.
Same here, except I get the German version. German Gizmodo is -- hard to believe but true -- even worse than Gizmodo. I am talking mild nausea from looking at the frontpage for more than a few seconds. I might sue.
Why would they be storing them in their donkey? You're not making any sense.
Like the lowest drawer of their desk? You're not making any sense!
That's great. It's not significant data, though.
Got any significant data to back up your claim that IP geolocating doesn't work? It doesn't have to be perfect to be useful for many applications. In my own experience, it works exceedingly well.
UI may not be as fancy but when it comes to functionality and performance/price ratio these were the best phones I have ever head.
That's why I bought, most recently, a 5800XM. Can't say I've regretted the decision, it's a moderately powerful phone for a very modest price. I wanted GPS and 802.11b, and at the time, you simply could not get that from another manufacturer for less than double the price. The UI really is awful, though, awful awful awful. That is partly due to the fact that Nokia had to make a number of sacrifices to get the price that low: a slow processor means slow transitions between screens and even between landscape and portrait mode, which is incredibly annoying. Oh yeah, and a resistive touchscreen -- that took some getting used to.
Fortunately, these days you can get an Android phone for a very reasonable price, with mostly the same features and better hardware than an equally prized Nokia phone. And a much more active developer community to boot. So there's a good exit option from the sinking Nokia ship.
Most of their current customers don't give a damn about their phone's OS and have probably never heard the name Symbian. (Though I agree selling out to MS was a dumb move.)
Those are all issues. Calling them a necessary byproduct of a high standard of living is very vague.
For some of them, collecting and storing the data is inherent to the process or the technology: For a non-cash financial transaction, you typically need to know who the participants are among other things; often you need to store that data for certain lengths of time. That's certainly trading anonymity for the convenience of being able to use a credit/debit card.
The same argument can't be made for most other things. There is no technical reason for my ISP to log that I've been browsing Slashdot, or even what IP I was assigned this time. Since I'm on a PAYG phone, there is no inherent need for my phone provider to store my phone calls after they've been charged (mostly immediately). There certainly is no need for providers to store my position for any length of time, or even to collect that data in the first place.
Arguably, there might be a legitimate need to store some or all of this stuff for law enforcement. So you might want to store phone conversations to find a crook, or you might want to store location profiles so you know where everyone is and was at all times. But that's trading anonymity for security, not convenience. At that point it comes down to a liberty/safety trade-off which we (not you and I particularly) keep discussing all the time.
That's true but not very relevant. If you want to use a cell phone as an emergency notification device, you can do that without being tracked. If you want to use it as a phone, in the way that almost everybody in the whole world does -- including even many developing countries -- then you can be tracked. And most likely are being tracked. Even people who don't consider this a problem at least have to admit that this is fairly spectacular.
Okay. Yes, you can avoid being monitored by either turning off the phone or leaving the phone at home. Note that turning it off only during "critical" moments leaves a record in itself. Even if you disable the tracking for certain movements, that doesn't change the fact that those movements you don't consider critical enough are being recorded, and may in hindsight turn out to be more critical than you thought. Or the data might be used in ways that do affect you negatively, but not in a manner significant enough to make you leave the phone. Obviously, the data can also be used in ways that affect you positively, say, by improving traffic routing.
The movement data is incredibly valuable for all kinds of analysis. If you simply consider the data of an individual person, you know with a fairly high certainty where they live, where they work and/or study, when they are unlikely to be at home, how they move around, where they shop -- the list goes on for a long time. If you've got the data of more than one person, you can create social graphs for work colleagues, friendships, relationships, and so on. Still just one kind of data! And it works even if everybody turns off his or her phone while they're buying drugs or robbing banks. And this isn't some crazy hypothetical stuff, this data exists, you could do this right now for millions of people.
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Please, enlighten us why you think that is true, and, if so, why it's true specifically for GPLv3 and not v2?