Perhaps you weren't able to read the actual announcement from Evernote. They state that employees WILL be manually reading the notes, in order to improve their machine learning capabilities.
These are human beings reading confidential material. Abuse is incredibly likely.
From the FAQ:
"This is primarily to make sure that our machine learning technologies are working correctly, in order to surface the most relevant content and features to you. While our computer systems do a pretty good job, sometimes a limited amount of human review is simply unavoidable in order to make sure everything is working exactly as it should."
There is this. Open source, encrypted, similar to Evernote.
My concern is that I would dump all my data here and the kind folks running the project would move on to something else.
Disclaimer: I work for a storage vendor. Also a long time Slashdot reader though, so this isn't mean as a sales pitch.
Half of a petabyte is not really a lot of data in today's world. I talk to people every day that are trying to find ways to manages many PBs (into the hundreds) and are having challenges doing this with traditional storage. The trend that was started by the big Internet companies is to get rid of the fibre-channel SANs and instead solve the problem of storage using standard x86 servers. They use Linux as an abstraction layer from the hardware, and applications acting as storage systems too pool many servers together.
One of the challenges you need to get over is stretching a namespace that big without filesystem limitations like maximum inode counts. This is generally accomplished using some type of key/value store (object) under the hood. Single flat namespaces with no practical size barrier.
Some options that are available today are Swift from OpenStack and Ceph from Red Hat if you want to go the open source route. These can be good choices if you have the engineering staff on hand to piece it all together and the talent to keep it running. GPFS is also making a come back in this area, and there are a ton of startups looking at this space now.
My company has a commercial solution for this stuff. Pretty cool - it's a Linux app and runs on the server of your choice. I'l save you the sales pitch, and if you want you can try it for free on your own here: http://scality.com/trial
NxTop is pretty cool. It is a hypervisor that installs directly onto the client hardware, allowing you to pull and boot pre-configured images over the network. The hypervisor removes the need for specialized drivers and supports dual monitors.
It also has the advantage over VMwareView of allowing the OS to sync for offline use if you would like to leave the office with a laptop. Sure VMware has it as an "experimental" feature now, but it is production with these guys.
They came and did a demo for us the other day, pretty cool stuff. I think it was affordable too. You can set policies for who gets what images, remotely disable a lost or stolen laptop, etc.
Check this out: http://www.virtualcomputer.com/About/press/nxtop-pc-management-launch-massively-scalable-desktop-virtualization-for-mobile-pcs
I surfed allofmp3.com for a few minutes. It seems that the songs range from about 10 to 20 cents each. Is this for real? No catch? All of the other sites charge about a buck. Hmmm.
Nothing special here. Most of my office is run on WYSE Winterm devices that run WinXP Embedded completely off of flash memory. The memory has a locking feature so that if the users somehow manage to screw the device up, you simply reboot and all is well.
When we are out of Winterms and need a temporary solution, I simply load XP on an old box, turn on autoadminlogon and forcelogon in the registry, set the shell to a batch file with the following tiny little script and Viola! An XP thin client, complete with local printer mapback.
@echo off
mstsc.exe c:\termserver1.rdp
:Repeat
cls
echo Press any key to connect...
pause > null
mstsc.exe c:\termserver1.rdp
People would still visit the site to read the information
Actually, with something like this link, the majority of people would not. A lot of us have already read up on this project and would go straight to the download link.
Sure, the box may be Apple, but we all know that none of the machines in the movies are running Mac OS. Every machine I have seen on the big screen runs what a coworker of mine likes to call H.O.S. (Hollywood Operating System), in which every click produces a menacing sound and a pretty animation.
I found an way to get rid of the stupid pop-ups offering passport or XP tours. You click in them and when it launched the "Utility" or whatever the hell it was you clicked cancel.
In early tests, monkeys had tiny probes inserted into their brains and had their limbs restrained
I'm no blood-throwing, goat loving PETA member, but this sounds horrible. You'd think there would be better ways of testing things like this... like on willing humans who were properly sedated. Hell, I'd do it if they let me keep the arm...
I'm pretty sure you didn't answer his question there. Mac users are just as stupid as everyone else in the world and will infect their machine if given the opportunity - which they will be, eventually. Once this happens, then what? That was the question.
(uhm you do that at the gas pump, you drive more, you buy more gas, your car pollutes more by burning more? you pay more)
Not so. In California, much of the gas taxes go towards things like freeway repair. With the new cars that get 50+ miles to the gallon, cars are using more freeway and paying less taxes to keep those freeways in shape. The "theory" is that this is not fair for gas guzzlers who drive less miles yet pay for more upkeep.
I have to throw a comment in on this. I don't use any drugs, but a good deal of my friends like to smoke pot. We were driving in a car one day and one of the geniuses pulled out a bag of something from the Internet marketed as "legal marijuanna." I assumed it was a lame joke, so I let them con me into taking a nice big hit....
That's just about when everything turned into cartoons. Seriously. Everything was a cartoon. I kept hearing this laughing noise coming from off in the distance, but couldn't figure out what it was. 45 seconds later when the hallucinations wore off, I realized it was me laughing.
No joke here. I've done my share of stuff when I was younger so I know a trip when I see one. Anyway, the stuff is called Salvia Divinorum. Different people sell it online at different concentrates. The stuff I tried was the most expensive blend the site had, apparently.
Have fun.
Good phrasing there. This was one of the only comments I could find that didn't outright bash Windows, which would immediately put the man on the defensive.
I run linux myself, but if you are trying to argue that it is easier to install software in linux than in Windows, you are completely out of your mind. I know that there are cool new tools out there like urpmi, yum, and apt-get, but they don't always work out of the box.
Generally, I agree that you are correct. That is why it is helpful (not full proof) to set up their machine in a way that makes it a bit more difficult to screw the thing up. Generally, I install firefox, Spybot with TeaTimer (and tell them to click 'no' on any alerts), maybe Thunderbird. I set up frequent timed scans with NAV. Now Microsoft's Spyware app also has the ability to do nightly scans and automatically clean up what it finds. If they insist on using IE, I tweak the security settings.
This doesn't solve the problem, but it sure makes the machine go a lot longer before you have to come back. That, and charge them every time, no matter what the issue.
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Perhaps you weren't able to read the actual announcement from Evernote. They state that employees WILL be manually reading the notes, in order to improve their machine learning capabilities.
These are human beings reading confidential material. Abuse is incredibly likely.
From the FAQ:
"This is primarily to make sure that our machine learning technologies are working correctly, in order to surface the most relevant content and features to you. While our computer systems do a pretty good job, sometimes a limited amount of human review is simply unavoidable in order to make sure everything is working exactly as it should."
There is this. Open source, encrypted, similar to Evernote. My concern is that I would dump all my data here and the kind folks running the project would move on to something else.
Disclaimer: I work for a storage vendor. Also a long time Slashdot reader though, so this isn't mean as a sales pitch.
Half of a petabyte is not really a lot of data in today's world. I talk to people every day that are trying to find ways to manages many PBs (into the hundreds) and are having challenges doing this with traditional storage. The trend that was started by the big Internet companies is to get rid of the fibre-channel SANs and instead solve the problem of storage using standard x86 servers. They use Linux as an abstraction layer from the hardware, and applications acting as storage systems too pool many servers together.
One of the challenges you need to get over is stretching a namespace that big without filesystem limitations like maximum inode counts. This is generally accomplished using some type of key/value store (object) under the hood. Single flat namespaces with no practical size barrier.
Some options that are available today are Swift from OpenStack and Ceph from Red Hat if you want to go the open source route. These can be good choices if you have the engineering staff on hand to piece it all together and the talent to keep it running. GPFS is also making a come back in this area, and there are a ton of startups looking at this space now.
My company has a commercial solution for this stuff. Pretty cool - it's a Linux app and runs on the server of your choice. I'l save you the sales pitch, and if you want you can try it for free on your own here: http://scality.com/trial
Whatever you choose, best of luck to you!
NxTop is pretty cool. It is a hypervisor that installs directly onto the client hardware, allowing you to pull and boot pre-configured images over the network. The hypervisor removes the need for specialized drivers and supports dual monitors. It also has the advantage over VMwareView of allowing the OS to sync for offline use if you would like to leave the office with a laptop. Sure VMware has it as an "experimental" feature now, but it is production with these guys. They came and did a demo for us the other day, pretty cool stuff. I think it was affordable too. You can set policies for who gets what images, remotely disable a lost or stolen laptop, etc. Check this out: http://www.virtualcomputer.com/About/press/nxtop-pc-management-launch-massively-scalable-desktop-virtualization-for-mobile-pcs
I surfed allofmp3.com for a few minutes. It seems that the songs range from about 10 to 20 cents each. Is this for real? No catch? All of the other sites charge about a buck. Hmmm.
Nothing special here. Most of my office is run on WYSE Winterm devices that run WinXP Embedded completely off of flash memory. The memory has a locking feature so that if the users somehow manage to screw the device up, you simply reboot and all is well.
:Repeat
When we are out of Winterms and need a temporary solution, I simply load XP on an old box, turn on autoadminlogon and forcelogon in the registry, set the shell to a batch file with the following tiny little script and Viola! An XP thin client, complete with local printer mapback.
@echo off
mstsc.exe c:\termserver1.rdp
cls
echo Press any key to connect...
pause > null
mstsc.exe c:\termserver1.rdp
goto Repeat
Well, from the looks of your website, perhaps you should have ran for the hills as well.
Maybe you would be finished with the project if you weren't sitting around reading Slashdot all day. You lazy... oh, wait...
Funny, you must have missed the parent's joke this afternoon.
Human: Do people on slashdot post meaninful answers?
ALICE: Not that I know of.
People would still visit the site to read the information
Actually, with something like this link, the majority of people would not. A lot of us have already read up on this project and would go straight to the download link.
Sure, the box may be Apple, but we all know that none of the machines in the movies are running Mac OS. Every machine I have seen on the big screen runs what a coworker of mine likes to call H.O.S. (Hollywood Operating System), in which every click produces a menacing sound and a pretty animation.
Hey, thanks. I am downloading this right now...
I found an way to get rid of the stupid pop-ups offering passport or XP tours. You click in them and when it launched the "Utility" or whatever the hell it was you clicked cancel.
Give the boy a prize...
OK, let me rephrase that...
Mac users are just as stupid, with a bit more money and the need to show it off.
... Now, the monkey can spank you
In early tests, monkeys had tiny probes inserted into their brains and had their limbs restrained
I'm no blood-throwing, goat loving PETA member, but this sounds horrible. You'd think there would be better ways of testing things like this... like on willing humans who were properly sedated. Hell, I'd do it if they let me keep the arm...
I'm hoping that he was purposely making a joke with all of that. If so, thank you for beating a DD (dead dog).
I'm pretty sure you didn't answer his question there. Mac users are just as stupid as everyone else in the world and will infect their machine if given the opportunity - which they will be, eventually. Once this happens, then what? That was the question.
Or maybe he could contact Blizzard directly, instead of whining about it on slashdot. Seriously.
(uhm you do that at the gas pump, you drive more, you buy more gas, your car pollutes more by burning more? you pay more)
Not so. In California, much of the gas taxes go towards things like freeway repair. With the new cars that get 50+ miles to the gallon, cars are using more freeway and paying less taxes to keep those freeways in shape. The "theory" is that this is not fair for gas guzzlers who drive less miles yet pay for more upkeep.
"legal pot substitute", and so on.
I have to throw a comment in on this. I don't use any drugs, but a good deal of my friends like to smoke pot. We were driving in a car one day and one of the geniuses pulled out a bag of something from the Internet marketed as "legal marijuanna." I assumed it was a lame joke, so I let them con me into taking a nice big hit....
That's just about when everything turned into cartoons. Seriously. Everything was a cartoon. I kept hearing this laughing noise coming from off in the distance, but couldn't figure out what it was. 45 seconds later when the hallucinations wore off, I realized it was me laughing.
No joke here. I've done my share of stuff when I was younger so I know a trip when I see one. Anyway, the stuff is called Salvia Divinorum. Different people sell it online at different concentrates. The stuff I tried was the most expensive blend the site had, apparently.
Have fun.
Good phrasing there. This was one of the only comments I could find that didn't outright bash Windows, which would immediately put the man on the defensive.
I run linux myself, but if you are trying to argue that it is easier to install software in linux than in Windows, you are completely out of your mind. I know that there are cool new tools out there like urpmi, yum, and apt-get, but they don't always work out of the box.
Generally, I agree that you are correct. That is why it is helpful (not full proof) to set up their machine in a way that makes it a bit more difficult to screw the thing up. Generally, I install firefox, Spybot with TeaTimer (and tell them to click 'no' on any alerts), maybe Thunderbird. I set up frequent timed scans with NAV. Now Microsoft's Spyware app also has the ability to do nightly scans and automatically clean up what it finds. If they insist on using IE, I tweak the security settings.
This doesn't solve the problem, but it sure makes the machine go a lot longer before you have to come back. That, and charge them every time, no matter what the issue.