If everyone threw their weight behind something like FreeNet then it will be very difficult to control what it is we want to share or view. Critical mass is the key, so if you have not heard of FreeNet investigate and tell at least 2 other people and say the same to them.
Dunno it is really an issue. Seems to me Fedora are making work for themselves. In Debian they use a 70-persistent-net.rules file to tag interfaces with the same name each time they are detected. Works nicely especially when you have multiple interfaces and one that is removable.
I'd agree with that. Certainly as a tech professional I find myself printing things less and less. Only when I need to print something for legal purposes do I ever bother. More and more forms are coming as PDF's and ones that are auto-completed are easy to fill out and one's that are normal I am able to edit as if it was a document and fill out electronically. I do find myself increasing mindful how much inks cost and how the design of cartridges seem to be getting smaller and smaller while the proportionate price gets hight and higher. That and it is obvious the are locking out 3rd party cartridge refills by putting expiry dates and serial numbers.
Well simple way to show your disapproval is to rate the video a 1 or post a negative comment. Rating is easy but I can't be bothered to comment. No way I am getting that 4 minutes 36 seconds back now. Not worth the effort.
Indeed.. the early episodes focusing on the mass consumerism of viewers viewing habits not to mention the digital divide between the have and have nots was awesome. However not sure anyone could really fill Matt Frewer's shoes in that respect as it is hard to do a wacky Max without looking like a complete idiot. Still the stories were awesome and way ahead of it's time.
I have been waiting for something like this to happen and I truly believe if we don't do something about it we will live in an age when freedom of information is just a fairy tale.
For years I have been interested and involved in the Freenet Project. Not because it is particularly fast but because it is particularly secure.
and make up your own minds. The more nodes created the faster it becomes and the more copies of documents, websites, images are prevented from arbitrary censorship.
Give a voice to the voiceless and remember the more you loose control the harder it will be to regain it when the crunch comes.
How about a public (anonymised) repository of fingerprints. The idea is this: I can't change my prints, nor can I get back control once the government has taken them. But I could publish them to the world. That makes the print very easy for anyone else to fake. In other words, plausible deniability.
Why stop there.. Post DNA to the web too;)
To my mind the who idea of biometrics as an absolute to your identity is bogus. It is nuts to think that just because DNA is 'unique' you it makes it exclusive enough to be a guarantee of who you are. Given time and technology and the descendants of the current DNA cloning technology they use to solve crimes being smaller, cheaper and portable how long will it be before DNA is realised to be THE most unreliable source of exclusivity there is as EVERYONE leaves traces of their DNA everywhere they ever go.
Think of it this way. My brother who works in a top research Lab had the experience of the associated bank to the lab talk about putting in a biometric cash machine. This lab specialises in biomedicine and so it was rather a shock to the bank in question when they had hundred of very qualified scientists signing a petition against the idea. Why you make ask? Simple, they know the limits of biometric data and are ahead of the loop when it comes to it's usefulness. In a traditional set up if you lose your credit/debit card what happens? You contact the bank, they cancel the card, they give you a new one, End of story. If your biometric data gets compromised what do you do then?
Sometimes it is better if people thought about the long term instead of the quick fix, but the truth of the matter is all this climate of fear , suspicion, and draconian security is all fueled by the industries that profit from them. Is this any surprise to people? It is the same with spam email and viruses. These are very simple problems to circumvent but there is a MASSIVE industry making sure no one ever does.
I am assuming this is all so far a US centric debate because TV viewing habits in other countries UK and Europe make a flexibility of a system key. Being able to run a mythbackend (or multiple mythbackends if so desired) to steam content from Terrestrial broadcasts , Cable feeds, Satellite feeds, internet feeds, iplayer as well as locally held media, DVD's, Blueray Rips, Music (ogg,mp3,etc). I admit organisation of all this media is not ideal and needs work, but that being said the latest incarnation is a step in the right direction and the remodelling of the UI and core libs very welcome.
That coupled with other modules like Gallery, Games, Weather, RSS and the like does mean I am atm firmly in the MythTV camp.
That being said.. a mate of mine is using his PS3 as his media centre but he never watches live TV anyway:P
I seem to recall that a few years back Parisians disgusted at the idea of car clamps dutifully went around and put super glue into the locks of all they saw, causing a horrific logistical nightmare for the clamping authorities.
If that is an urban myth it is surely a great one. A similar show of solidarity by French geeks everywhere ought to have a similar impact. If some is not planning this sort of action sure should be:)
Actually you have missed Windows 286 runtime. It used to come bundled WITH PageMaker back in the day:) Imagine that.. buying an application that contains the operating system. Shows how much they valued it at the time no?
Yeah, but wasn't it the OLD SSL patches that were the problem. They were just never applied. Naughty naughty for the package maintainer. Still.. cannot think of any Debian systems I administer that suffered anything like a security breech so..
Wonder what the stats are on the *practical* vulnerabilities from this bug.
You know I think people are missing the point. With the Freerunner you can plug IN a 3G modem and surf all you want. Or you can connect a bluetooth bridge to another access point, or you can set up a gateway in your car hook it up to a cable modem , use a portable satellite dish etc etc.
Point is, you can do WHAT YOU WANT with it to get whatever results you want too. I already have a n95 with 3G on it and to be honest I am less than impressed with the piss poor optimised browsing experience and broken apps like YouTube and media player. Likewise for the shiney shiney iphone. It takes more then glam to impress me. I want function and a phone that can act as a usb host as well as run any program I care to compile for it is massively better than anything anyone else has to offer me.
I think the only point you are really making is that you CHOOSE to give away SOME of your privacy. Does not mean I have to make the same choices, nor does it give you the right to make those choices for me. CHOICE is what it is all about. And if people want to keep their thoughts private they should.
... are M$ being particularly blatant this time?
Surely they have heard of Montevista
Linux before now? For the simple reason it is fast becoming one of
the most popular embedded OS's thanks to it implementations with TomTom's GO GPS
product., which over here in the UK is soaring in popularity. Are they
perhaps going to try and cloud the issue with releasing embedded
Windows Vista and hope to profit from the confusion?
Ok ok Maybe it is a little paranoid, but better be paranoid cause you never know
who is watching you.
Seems someone has not been doing their homework properly. Can't be an accurate matrix with products missing:(
For those who are curious curious.
OpenBrick Website
Oh Hardly... I submitted this story earlier and my first take on it was MS has not suddenly developed a moral conscience, but rather they realise how much money and effort it was to keep the who shabang going. What do they care now anyways now that the previous users have signed up for MSN service with all their goodie goodie marketing profile info.
Call me a cynic but it is not like MS went into this IM stuff without a plan to handle this sort of stuff, what they did not count on was the added bad karma they generate will come back to haunt them in Hotmail spam and IM chatrooms. You wait for them to bring out new moderated chat rooms which are subscription only and trumpet that as the way forward for IM style services.
I'd love ot be proved wrong but just like other double standards MS loves employing it a wonder they don't yank chat access for their world market instead. Anyone else care to specualte on why that is?
The BBC had a very simliar format program back in the early 80's called Now Get Out Of That. It involved pseudo scientists competing against each other to complete a course over 3 days.
I hate to say it but I find the whole reality TV genre completly overworked. Isn't there anything original left in US TV anymore? Or maybe there never was?
Go here anyways if you want to find out about it.
Slashdot Mirror
I have used fail2ban for years. Very effective and even stopped DDOS attacks against my ssh server
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
If everyone threw their weight behind something like FreeNet then it will be very difficult to control what it is we want to share or view. Critical mass is the key, so if you have not heard of FreeNet investigate and tell at least 2 other people and say the same to them.
Dunno it is really an issue. Seems to me Fedora are making work for themselves. In Debian they use a 70-persistent-net.rules file to tag interfaces with the same name each time they are detected. Works nicely especially when you have multiple interfaces and one that is removable.
Just another FTSTP really.
I'd agree with that. Certainly as a tech professional I find myself printing things less and less. Only when I need to print something for legal purposes do I ever bother. More and more forms are coming as PDF's and ones that are auto-completed are easy to fill out and one's that are normal I am able to edit as if it was a document and fill out electronically. I do find myself increasing mindful how much inks cost and how the design of cartridges seem to be getting smaller and smaller while the proportionate price gets hight and higher. That and it is obvious the are locking out 3rd party cartridge refills by putting expiry dates and serial numbers.
I don't want to sound like a repeating record but the Dirac codec produced by BBC R&D is royalty free and extremely good.
I am sure if you look you will find more but start with these links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec)
http://diracvideo.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac/files/
and if you can watch the promo too.
http://dirac.kw.bbc.co.uk/download/video/maybefinal/
why are we still debating this?
Well simple way to show your disapproval is to rate the video a 1 or post a negative comment. Rating is easy but I can't be bothered to comment. No way I am getting that 4 minutes 36 seconds back now. Not worth the effort.
Indeed.. the early episodes focusing on the mass consumerism of viewers viewing habits not to mention the digital divide between the have and have nots was awesome. However not sure anyone could really fill Matt Frewer's shoes in that respect as it is hard to do a wacky Max without looking like a complete idiot. Still the stories were awesome and way ahead of it's time.
I have been waiting for something like this to happen and I truly believe if we don't do something about it we will live in an age when freedom of information is just a fairy tale.
For years I have been interested and involved in the Freenet Project. Not because it is particularly fast but because it is particularly secure.
Please visit http://freenetproject.org/
and make up your own minds. The more nodes created the faster it becomes and the more copies of documents, websites, images are prevented from arbitrary censorship.
Give a voice to the voiceless and remember the more you loose control the harder it will be to regain it when the crunch comes.
S'nuff said.
How about a public (anonymised) repository of fingerprints. The idea is this: I can't change my prints, nor can I get back control once the government has taken them. But I could publish them to the world. That makes the print very easy for anyone else to fake. In other words, plausible deniability.
Why stop there.. Post DNA to the web too ;)
To my mind the who idea of biometrics as an absolute to your identity is bogus. It is nuts to think that just because DNA is 'unique' you it makes it exclusive enough to be a guarantee of who you are. Given time and technology and the descendants of the current DNA cloning technology they use to solve crimes being smaller, cheaper and portable how long will it be before DNA is realised to be THE most unreliable source of exclusivity there is as EVERYONE leaves traces of their DNA everywhere they ever go.
Think of it this way. My brother who works in a top research Lab had the experience of the associated bank to the lab talk about putting in a biometric cash machine. This lab specialises in biomedicine and so it was rather a shock to the bank in question when they had hundred of very qualified scientists signing a petition against the idea. Why you make ask? Simple, they know the limits of biometric data and are ahead of the loop when it comes to it's usefulness. In a traditional set up if you lose your credit/debit card what happens? You contact the bank, they cancel the card, they give you a new one, End of story. If your biometric data gets compromised what do you do then?
Sometimes it is better if people thought about the long term instead of the quick fix, but the truth of the matter is all this climate of fear , suspicion, and draconian security is all fueled by the industries that profit from them. Is this any surprise to people? It is the same with spam email and viruses. These are very simple problems to circumvent but there is a MASSIVE industry making sure no one ever does.
Call me a cynic but that's the way I see it.
'snuff said.
I am assuming this is all so far a US centric debate because TV viewing habits in other countries UK and Europe make a flexibility of a system key. Being able to run a mythbackend (or multiple mythbackends if so desired) to steam content from Terrestrial broadcasts , Cable feeds, Satellite feeds, internet feeds, iplayer as well as locally held media, DVD's, Blueray Rips, Music (ogg,mp3,etc). I admit organisation of all this media is not ideal and needs work, but that being said the latest incarnation is a step in the right direction and the remodelling of the UI and core libs very welcome.
That coupled with other modules like Gallery, Games, Weather, RSS and the like does mean I am atm firmly in the MythTV camp.
That being said.. a mate of mine is using his PS3 as his media centre but he never watches live TV anyway :P
*sighs* Please look up such quotes before quoting them. It was Thomas Jefferson who said
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. "
He also said a great many other good things that it is quite inspiring to think what an enlightened attitude was present in the Americas.
As you might guess, I am not even American but a Brit. Which means for what he says to have relevance to me is actually very extraordinary.
I have been following this project for years and while I knew it was a good idea I just never thought we would need it so soon.
Please, show your support. Even if it is just spreading the word.
http://freenetproject.org/
I seem to recall that a few years back Parisians disgusted at the idea of car clamps dutifully went around and put super glue into the locks of all they saw, causing a horrific logistical nightmare for the clamping authorities.
If that is an urban myth it is surely a great one. A similar show of solidarity by French geeks everywhere ought to have a similar impact. If some is not planning this sort of action sure should be :)
Actually you have missed Windows 286 runtime. It used to come bundled WITH PageMaker back in the day :) Imagine that .. buying an application that contains the operating system. Shows how much they valued it at the time no?
Yeah, but wasn't it the OLD SSL patches that were the problem. They were just never applied. Naughty naughty for the package maintainer. Still.. cannot think of any Debian systems I administer that suffered anything like a security breech so..
Wonder what the stats are on the *practical* vulnerabilities from this bug.
You know I think people are missing the point. With the Freerunner you can plug IN a 3G modem and surf all you want. Or you can connect a bluetooth bridge to another access point, or you can set up a gateway in your car hook it up to a cable modem , use a portable satellite dish etc etc.
Point is, you can do WHAT YOU WANT with it to get whatever results you want too. I already have a n95 with 3G on it and to be honest I am less than impressed with the piss poor optimised browsing experience and broken apps like YouTube and media player. Likewise for the shiney shiney iphone. It takes more then glam to impress me. I want function and a phone that can act as a usb host as well as run any program I care to compile for it is massively better than anything anyone else has to offer me.
I think the only point you are really making is that you CHOOSE to give away SOME of your privacy. Does not mean I have to make the same choices, nor does it give you the right to make those choices for me. CHOICE is what it is all about. And if people want to keep their thoughts private they should.
... To say roll on OpenMoko http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
:)
I know which way I will go and Jobs can stick his iTunes et al. Free your phone!! What more is there to say
... are M$ being particularly blatant this time? Surely they have heard of Montevista Linux before now? For the simple reason it is fast becoming one of the most popular embedded OS's thanks to it implementations with TomTom's GO GPS product., which over here in the UK is soaring in popularity. Are they perhaps going to try and cloud the issue with releasing embedded Windows Vista and hope to profit from the confusion?
Ok ok Maybe it is a little paranoid, but better be paranoid cause you never know who is watching you.
Heheh . .Cute... And since when was THAT a feature :P
:)
As it happens they will all run windows too if needed.. Just who the heck would want to? It like saying WindowsCE is useful..
Still takes all sorts Miss P
Snuff said.
Seems someone has not been doing their homework properly. Can't be an accurate matrix with products missing :(
For those who are curious curious.
OpenBrick Website
Oh Hardly... I submitted this story earlier and my first take on it was MS has not suddenly developed a moral conscience, but rather they realise how much money and effort it was to keep the who shabang going. What do they care now anyways now that the previous users have signed up for MSN service with all their goodie goodie marketing profile info.
Call me a cynic but it is not like MS went into this IM stuff without a plan to handle this sort of stuff, what they did not count on was the added bad karma they generate will come back to haunt them in Hotmail spam and IM chatrooms. You wait for them to bring out new moderated chat rooms which are subscription only and trumpet that as the way forward for IM style services.
I'd love ot be proved wrong but just like other double standards MS loves employing it a wonder they don't yank chat access for their world market instead. Anyone else care to specualte on why that is?
Snuff said.
JAT
It is 6:22pm GMT and I was 2984!
Says it all really, give 'em a few days and well who knows..?
Hi Y'all... you might want to look at these various open source implementations for tax software.
;)
http://www.gldialtone.com/links.htm#opensource
Now you can all find something to contibute can't you