As far as encryption is concerned, you cannot trust anyone but yourself. So you can ignore anything your cloud provider says about encryption and focus on speed, reliability and cost.
You should make sure that your cloud provider only ever receives encrypted data from you, and if he decides to encrypt again, good for him, and if he decides to let the NSA listen in, well, it doesn't matter, your data was encrypted anyway.
If it is not stored somewhere on the internet, then both your devices must be online to be able to share. It is not different from using sftp or https or any other direct protocol that can transfer files. And I doubt that bittorrent is the most efficient one for that.
But their real reason is probably to increase legitimate bittorrent use, to make it harder for ISP's to block it.
Yes, the operating systems themselves will probably be fine by then. But what about programmers who had to do date calculations in a language without a good date object? They put dates in an int, and added 3600 for each hour. What about databases where timestamps are stored in plain ints, instead of a special time value?
And then there are embedded systems of course, from microwaves to airplanes to networking equipment
What is sending data over the network? There is no sending. It is not like google is holding me at gunpoint to download cat video's, or that they push it in any other way. I, as a client, request the cat video, and google supplies it. The whole internet is client-server based, and the client almost always initiates the data transfer.
Just use this (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-USB-OTG-Host-Cable-Adapter-for-Galaxy-S2-SII-i9100-/330752145575?ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:NL:3160) or any of the hundreds of equivalent OTG adapters.
Pick up a usb SD reader (I bought one a couple of years ago for under 10 euro)
Root your device, and you have anything you want on your Nexus 7. I have tried USB stick, SD card, USB keyboard and mouse, and charging my phone. It al works.
The most difficult part is keeping your nerve while rooting. The process itself is easy, but still, your glad when you're finished and you have not bricked your device.
Please tell me where a high school drop out can apply for a position as a nuclear physicist? He cannot because he doesn't know the difference between a hydrogen and a helium atom? What, discrimination!
The job is being sexy and looked at. Which most 40/50 year olds are not. It is only discrimination if the discriminating factor is not part of the job requirement.
Although competition on the ISP's here in the Netherlands is better than in the US (as far as I can tell from stories online), it is far from perfect. We have three mobile internet providers, and a lot of other brands using their networks. If all three providers decide to implement mandatory filtering in some way, consumers cannot choose.
There are provisions in this filtering law that consumers cannot get a financial advantage if the choose for filtering, but the providers probably can find some loophole somewhere.
And you are playing right into their hands.
THIS IS JUST ADVERTISING.
They have made comments like this in the past, just to get people to write about them. They won't eliminate pilots, and their standing passengers was just as stupid. They want publicity, and they are getting it.
No. The requirement of at least 12 characters makes it a huge possible pool (about 69 * 10^21, assuming 80 different possible characters). Even if the other requirements limit this somewhat, there is still A LOT left.
And the interesting thing is: my ATM Pin code is much more important to me than any of my passwords (except perhaps for my electronic banking password), and it is only 4 digits long, and I haven't changed it for years.
And still there are systems with requirements like yours
Yes. The porn factor is an urban legend. The real reason was that VHS had two hour tapes, and betamax one hour. People choose the ability to record complete sport matches over picture quality.
Do you really think that the FBI is your greatest enemy online?
IT IS NOT.
It is nice to think that you are enemy of the state nr 1 and that everybody cares about your secrets, but that's not the case. You should worry about phishers and other criminals, not about law enforcement. And they don't use search warrants. They need to crack passwords
The telephone number is a good example of a situation where the technical factor prevailed over the human factor. Numbers are abstract and difficult to remember for most people. And since its invention we have needed to use lists to associate these numbers to things we actually can remember, such as names.
I think it will go completely the other way, and that in 50 years people will never have heard of phone numbers. The identifier will be the email address, and if I want to call someone I select that address and press "call", and a VOIP connection will be made. If I want to IM or mail, I press other buttons.
The email address is easy to remember, it has build-in identification of the purpose you want to use it for (private, business,...), can already be used for several types of communication (mail, jabber) and is completely transparent to location
It's also a lot more profitable to say 'You don't actually want privacy' than fix the security and sharing model of facebook. If you don't expect privacy, all the various holes and dirty tricks no longer matter.
There, fixed that for you.
Advertisers do not like privacy (of their viewers).
Because an animal spends a lot of time doing energy inefficient things like walking around, keeping itself warm, growing bones and brains and other useless parts. Only the fact that you can focus on the good parts will already give a profit.
Btw, this technology is hardly new. I read about it years ago in our university newspaper (I am a student of the Eindhoven University of Technology). And at that time they also promised that there would be sausages in a couple of years. It sounds a bit like nuclear fusion
Why doesn't google start with offering localized hosting? A 19" server with a webserver, the apps software and enough disk space for 100 users wouldn't be very difficult or expensive to make. And since it's only function is hosting those apps through a webserver, it probably is quite easy to secure. Add in some API's to backup stuff to a second location, and you have your in house, unaffected by internet failure office suite, usable from a thin client with a browser.
I once went to "Living Tomorrow", which a house demonstrating possible future technology in the Netherlands.
They had a washing machine which could select the washing programming based on the RFID tagged clothes you put in it, and which could warn you if you tried to put incompatible stuff in there.
Other applications would be sending an email to your fridge to ask how much milk you have got left when you are in the supermarket, etc.
RFID has some really cool applications, as well as some really scary ones
The idea is to make multiple versions, so you can sell the cheap version to people who can't or won't afford the normal version, and the normal version to people who can. If they had only the normal version, the "cheap" people would buy nothing. If they make the normal version cheaper, everyone will buy it, including the people who where willing to pay more. This way they can maximize profit.
See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html for a very good explanation of this principle
The cost of the device is also important. A low efficiency is not a problem if the device is very cheap. If it is cheap enough to for example cover your whole roof with it, you can live with the lower efficiency.
I am involved in a small foundation whose goal it is to support student activities at our university. It has one employee for just one afternoon in the week. We once got a letter from Brein (the Dutch RIAA/MPAA), that since we were a foundation, we *probably* had employees who *probably* listened to a radio. And we should pay royalties for that radio. The invoice was already included. We never paid, which was fine, but it is striking that they send out invoices to organisations who might just own a radio.
That was one of the points of the "European Constitution", which was rejected by France and The Netherlands. In the beginning the EU (although named different) consisted of 6 countries. Then there wasn't a problem with a unanimous voting. However, the EU has grown to 27 countries. At the moment it is a problem, which the constitution was going solve. In the new treaty, agreed upon last Sunday, the veto rights will be redrawn.
One of the disadvantages of the veto system was that Poland was threatening to veto yesterday's treaty, because they wanted more voting power. However, that was not a part of the treaty.
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As far as encryption is concerned, you cannot trust anyone but yourself. So you can ignore anything your cloud provider says about encryption and focus on speed, reliability and cost.
You should make sure that your cloud provider only ever receives encrypted data from you, and if he decides to encrypt again, good for him, and if he decides to let the NSA listen in, well, it doesn't matter, your data was encrypted anyway.
If it is not stored somewhere on the internet, then both your devices must be online to be able to share. It is not different from using sftp or https or any other direct protocol that can transfer files. And I doubt that bittorrent is the most efficient one for that. But their real reason is probably to increase legitimate bittorrent use, to make it harder for ISP's to block it.
Yes, the operating systems themselves will probably be fine by then. But what about programmers who had to do date calculations in a language without a good date object? They put dates in an int, and added 3600 for each hour. What about databases where timestamps are stored in plain ints, instead of a special time value? And then there are embedded systems of course, from microwaves to airplanes to networking equipment
What is sending data over the network? There is no sending. It is not like google is holding me at gunpoint to download cat video's, or that they push it in any other way. I, as a client, request the cat video, and google supplies it. The whole internet is client-server based, and the client almost always initiates the data transfer.
That would be Doctor No
Just use this (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-USB-OTG-Host-Cable-Adapter-for-Galaxy-S2-SII-i9100-/330752145575?ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:NL:3160) or any of the hundreds of equivalent OTG adapters.
Pick up a usb SD reader (I bought one a couple of years ago for under 10 euro)
Root your device, and you have anything you want on your Nexus 7. I have tried USB stick, SD card, USB keyboard and mouse, and charging my phone. It al works.
The most difficult part is keeping your nerve while rooting. The process itself is easy, but still, your glad when you're finished and you have not bricked your device.
Please tell me where a high school drop out can apply for a position as a nuclear physicist? He cannot because he doesn't know the difference between a hydrogen and a helium atom? What, discrimination! The job is being sexy and looked at. Which most 40/50 year olds are not. It is only discrimination if the discriminating factor is not part of the job requirement.
Although competition on the ISP's here in the Netherlands is better than in the US (as far as I can tell from stories online), it is far from perfect. We have three mobile internet providers, and a lot of other brands using their networks. If all three providers decide to implement mandatory filtering in some way, consumers cannot choose. There are provisions in this filtering law that consumers cannot get a financial advantage if the choose for filtering, but the providers probably can find some loophole somewhere.
They win and end up with the chicks?
And you are playing right into their hands. THIS IS JUST ADVERTISING. They have made comments like this in the past, just to get people to write about them. They won't eliminate pilots, and their standing passengers was just as stupid. They want publicity, and they are getting it.
No. The requirement of at least 12 characters makes it a huge possible pool (about 69 * 10^21, assuming 80 different possible characters). Even if the other requirements limit this somewhat, there is still A LOT left.
And the interesting thing is: my ATM Pin code is much more important to me than any of my passwords (except perhaps for my electronic banking password), and it is only 4 digits long, and I haven't changed it for years. And still there are systems with requirements like yours
Yes. The porn factor is an urban legend. The real reason was that VHS had two hour tapes, and betamax one hour. People choose the ability to record complete sport matches over picture quality.
Do you really think that the FBI is your greatest enemy online?
IT IS NOT.
It is nice to think that you are enemy of the state nr 1 and that everybody cares about your secrets, but that's not the case. You should worry about phishers and other criminals, not about law enforcement. And they don't use search warrants. They need to crack passwords
Why would you want to keep the telephone number?
The telephone number is a good example of a situation where the technical factor prevailed over the human factor. Numbers are abstract and difficult to remember for most people. And since its invention we have needed to use lists to associate these numbers to things we actually can remember, such as names.
I think it will go completely the other way, and that in 50 years people will never have heard of phone numbers. The identifier will be the email address, and if I want to call someone I select that address and press "call", and a VOIP connection will be made. If I want to IM or mail, I press other buttons.
The email address is easy to remember, it has build-in identification of the purpose you want to use it for (private, business, ...), can already be used for several types of communication (mail, jabber) and is completely transparent to location
It's also a lot more profitable to say 'You don't actually want privacy' than fix the security and sharing model of facebook. If you don't expect privacy, all the various holes and dirty tricks no longer matter.
There, fixed that for you. Advertisers do not like privacy (of their viewers).
Because an animal spends a lot of time doing energy inefficient things like walking around, keeping itself warm, growing bones and brains and other useless parts. Only the fact that you can focus on the good parts will already give a profit. Btw, this technology is hardly new. I read about it years ago in our university newspaper (I am a student of the Eindhoven University of Technology). And at that time they also promised that there would be sausages in a couple of years. It sounds a bit like nuclear fusion
Yeah, something called "Rain" comes to mind...
Why doesn't google start with offering localized hosting? A 19" server with a webserver, the apps software and enough disk space for 100 users wouldn't be very difficult or expensive to make. And since it's only function is hosting those apps through a webserver, it probably is quite easy to secure. Add in some API's to backup stuff to a second location, and you have your in house, unaffected by internet failure office suite, usable from a thin client with a browser.
Oxygen sellers are demanding that trees stop providing oxygen for free, as it reduces the demand for their paid services
Other applications would be sending an email to your fridge to ask how much milk you have got left when you are in the supermarket, etc.
RFID has some really cool applications, as well as some really scary ones
The idea is to make multiple versions, so you can sell the cheap version to people who can't or won't afford the normal version, and the normal version to people who can. If they had only the normal version, the "cheap" people would buy nothing. If they make the normal version cheaper, everyone will buy it, including the people who where willing to pay more. This way they can maximize profit. See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html for a very good explanation of this principle
The cost of the device is also important. A low efficiency is not a problem if the device is very cheap. If it is cheap enough to for example cover your whole roof with it, you can live with the lower efficiency.
I am involved in a small foundation whose goal it is to support student activities at our university. It has one employee for just one afternoon in the week. We once got a letter from Brein (the Dutch RIAA/MPAA), that since we were a foundation, we *probably* had employees who *probably* listened to a radio. And we should pay royalties for that radio. The invoice was already included. We never paid, which was fine, but it is striking that they send out invoices to organisations who might just own a radio.
That was one of the points of the "European Constitution", which was rejected by France and The Netherlands. In the beginning the EU (although named different) consisted of 6 countries. Then there wasn't a problem with a unanimous voting. However, the EU has grown to 27 countries. At the moment it is a problem, which the constitution was going solve. In the new treaty, agreed upon last Sunday, the veto rights will be redrawn. One of the disadvantages of the veto system was that Poland was threatening to veto yesterday's treaty, because they wanted more voting power. However, that was not a part of the treaty.