The real HTML5 power would be if the SSH encryption was implemented on the client in JavaScript. I'm sure someone will soon do it. With the current implementation the Python back-end is still a man-in-the-middle that knows the user password and can record everything. Anyway the terminal emulation and chrome around it looks cool!
The question is what to do about them if they are driven until the battery is drained, which is not an issue for bicycles. If that becomes prevalent it will increase costs.
The payment system is an incentive to put back the car for use for someone else: if the driver want to reduce his costs, he has to use the car only for short rides and park the car in a station instead of keeping it for himself and continuing to pay. And as the car station is the recharging station, the more often the car goes to a station the more time it spends recharging.
subscription based program make it pretty expansive about 200€ for a single day
The point of the system is like the Velib bike sharing system: you are not expected to use it only for yourself for a whole day. This is a sharing system. Use it only for a ride, and put it in a station once you are near your destination. Take another car for the way back.
Some particular features of a family media archive are: - broad access (only) to your family: the main problem of digital archive is that they give access only to a limited number of persons, usually only the archivist - secure archival: secure also to the archivist illness or death. Your family should be able to have access to the archive without the archivist (and not wait for his death) - discoverability: the location of the archive should be discoverable without the archivist, else it will be lost with the archivist
I don't think that off-site backup is really the solution (or at least should be the ONLY solution): - it requires a key for access that only the archivist knows (secure archival) - it requires to know the location of the archive (discoverability) - it requires technical knowledge (broad access)
The reasons most of the answers are terrible is because there is no company attempting to make proper long lived media.
Maybe also because archiving on a long lived media is not the solution either.
The only solution is redundancy, whatever the media, with multiple medias (not only digital, printed too) in multiple places.
So the best solution should be to distribute media to all your family as soon it is shot. Some of it might live much longer than you expect (for example you grand-aunt may better care of printed photo than you of your digital photos of your own child).
The main problem of digital archive is not preservation: it is discovery.
What the grand-parent says is that printed media is a shoe box is more discoverable than digital files. A digital archive lost because no one knows that it exists or where it exists is of no value. Also, discoverability is a more important feature for a family media archive than quality. A bad quality photo is better than no photo at all.
But the grand-parent is talking about feeding animals, not humans. If you want good productivity from animals (such as chickens), you have to better follow their biological rythms, so absolute local time matters.
For humans, synchronisation for communication with other humans (Facebook, Twitter...) seems to be more important than productivity so we use clocks and ignore biological rythms.
Well, I knew that trick, and I expected something else I didn't knew yet.
The problem is that it's easy to bypass: if I was a spammer I would of course remove the + part. Also many web sites still refuses '+' as a valid char in e-mail addresses.
Using mail2web is (like all other services that ask for your e-mail password) like giving a copy of the key to your house to a stranger, with the address of your house. With a bigger difference: they can duplicate the content of your house, or enter in your house later even while you're inside, without you knowing it. Until you change your key. Once they have your e-mail password, they can for example look for all your contacts in your email contacts to send them spam. Or get access to all the services you binded to that e-mail and that send you back your service password by e-mail. Are they evil to that point? I don't know. But noone can now either, not even you.
Do you know the real reason behind the Gmail's existence?
Because E-mail is the application you keep open all the time. If your e-mail client is in the same browser session than your other web tasks, all the google.com cookies are shared, and so Google can clearly associate your navigation habits (through their Google Analytics probes) to your e-mail account and so to your name. This is the same for Google+.
So Gmail is a support tool for Google to send you better targeted ads (which by the way they are also sending in the Gmail session). This is also why they can offer you such a great service for free: you are giving them so much information that give them a competitive advantage that that's worth it for them.
Note that the same reasons are behind other cross-domain web services such as Disqus, FaceBook Connect, Twitter authentication...
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The real HTML5 power would be if the SSH encryption was implemented on the client in JavaScript. I'm sure someone will soon do it.
With the current implementation the Python back-end is still a man-in-the-middle that knows the user password and can record everything.
Anyway the terminal emulation and chrome around it looks cool!
This is the real "Linux on the desktop".
they will block the ports and burn cars
We do it in just one step: burning a car is building a fire wall.
And without proper charging stations they may not be so popular outside Paris.
The map of the cities where stations will be available: this is not only Paris.
Wrong thread....
Or more probably a long-time /. bug...
250 to start, adding each month, up to 3000 in june.
+1
autolib-paris.fr
The question is what to do about them if they are driven until the battery is drained, which is not an issue for bicycles. If that becomes prevalent it will increase costs.
The payment system is an incentive to put back the car for use for someone else: if the driver want to reduce his costs, he has to use the car only for short rides and park the car in a station instead of keeping it for himself and continuing to pay.
And as the car station is the recharging station, the more often the car goes to a station the more time it spends recharging.
subscription based program make it pretty expansive about 200€ for a single day
The point of the system is like the Velib bike sharing system: you are not expected to use it only for yourself for a whole day. This is a sharing system. Use it only for a ride, and put it in a station once you are near your destination. Take another car for the way back.
Brussels: 29 cars.
Paris: 250 cars to start, adding each month, up to 3000 in june 2012.
Can you really compare?
Mine, a basic Nokia 3100, is only 6 years old, but still working fine with the original battery.
And it is well supported by free software such as Gammu.
Thanks for git-annex. At least one new answer to an old problem.
Some particular features of a family media archive are:
- broad access (only) to your family: the main problem of digital archive is that they give access only to a limited number of persons, usually only the archivist
- secure archival: secure also to the archivist illness or death. Your family should be able to have access to the archive without the archivist (and not wait for his death)
- discoverability: the location of the archive should be discoverable without the archivist, else it will be lost with the archivist
I don't think that off-site backup is really the solution (or at least should be the ONLY solution):
- it requires a key for access that only the archivist knows (secure archival)
- it requires to know the location of the archive (discoverability)
- it requires technical knowledge (broad access)
The reasons most of the answers are terrible is because there is no company attempting to make proper long lived media.
Maybe also because archiving on a long lived media is not the solution either.
The only solution is redundancy, whatever the media, with multiple medias (not only digital, printed too) in multiple places.
So the best solution should be to distribute media to all your family as soon it is shot. Some of it might live much longer than you expect (for example you grand-aunt may better care of printed photo than you of your digital photos of your own child).
The main problem of digital archive is not preservation: it is discovery.
What the grand-parent says is that printed media is a shoe box is more discoverable than digital files. A digital archive lost because no one knows that it exists or where it exists is of no value.
Also, discoverability is a more important feature for a family media archive than quality. A bad quality photo is better than no photo at all.
Will it respond to the only important question: Who in the land is fairest of all?
And when it pure mirror mode, will it respond the truth or an augmented reality?
Not a new idea.
But the grand-parent is talking about feeding animals, not humans.
If you want good productivity from animals (such as chickens), you have to better follow their biological rythms, so absolute local time matters.
For humans, synchronisation for communication with other humans (Facebook, Twitter...) seems to be more important than productivity so we use clocks and ignore biological rythms.
That will not be so much a problem. We are already handling different calendar systems even if we are all living on the same planet.
At least a smart answer to this useless debate.
How many represent the people working at an international level (or at least a cross-timezone level) compared to the whole world population?
Anyway, imposing a single timezone is not more doable at the world level than it is at the level of a single state in an advanced country.
Well, I knew that trick, and I expected something else I didn't knew yet.
The problem is that it's easy to bypass: if I was a spammer I would of course remove the + part. Also many web sites still refuses '+' as a valid char in e-mail addresses.
Using mail2web is (like all other services that ask for your e-mail password) like giving a copy of the key to your house to a stranger, with the address of your house. With a bigger difference: they can duplicate the content of your house, or enter in your house later even while you're inside, without you knowing it. Until you change your key.
Once they have your e-mail password, they can for example look for all your contacts in your email contacts to send them spam. Or get access to all the services you binded to that e-mail and that send you back your service password by e-mail.
Are they evil to that point? I don't know. But noone can now either, not even you.
Will you still use mail2web?
Thank for mentionning this. But, do you know that you can link on Slashdot?
Zarafa features
Do you know the real reason behind the Gmail's existence?
Because E-mail is the application you keep open all the time. If your e-mail client is in the same browser session than your other web tasks, all the google.com cookies are shared, and so Google can clearly associate your navigation habits (through their Google Analytics probes) to your e-mail account and so to your name.
This is the same for Google+.
So Gmail is a support tool for Google to send you better targeted ads (which by the way they are also sending in the Gmail session). This is also why they can offer you such a great service for free: you are giving them so much information that give them a competitive advantage that that's worth it for them.
Note that the same reasons are behind other cross-domain web services such as Disqus, FaceBook Connect, Twitter authentication...