The main problem with internet metered by data volume is that you don't usually know what data volume you are using. When making phone calls, you know how long you speak, and therefore you can estimate how much it will cost you. However few people have any idea about what data volume is associated with a typical web site.
However if metered data becomes more common, I guess ad blocking will become more popular. I don't think many people will like to pay for being served ads.
What should be regulated out of existence is the advertising of such plans as "unlimited". It's entirely OK to have a cap if you announce it up front. It is not OK if you hide it in the fine print.
Unfortunately even Thunderbird on Linux cannot prevent bad processes to be started in the user's brain, which case that user to actively initiate the insecure operation. You need to install a special package called "user education" to protect against this. Unfortunately installing that is often tricky, and some brains don't run it particularly well.
"Due to frequent trouble with bad passwords, we require every employee to test the security of theirs on our newly setup password testing site at <a href="http://passwordtest.yourconpany.com/">http://passwordtest.yourcompany.com/</a>"
Of course a good reference can be helpful. However it is no substitute for proper documentation (just as even the best documentation is no substitute for a proper reference). The only exception to this rule are libraries of more or less independent functions (like math.h).
Writing code and driving cars are also very different things. Yet I've never heard the claim that good coders can't drive, and good drivers can't code.
"she told the grand jury that Swartz had co-authored a blog post advocating for open data (the Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto), which prosecutors latched onto and spun into evidence that the technologist had 'malicious intent in downloading documents on a massive scale.'"
What's next? If they find that someone wrote somewhere that he didn't like the look of the WTC building, it will be used as evidence that he was involved in the 9/11 attack?
No, because the summary is (as usual) thoroughly overstated.
However the linked Science Daily article has, right in its headline, "Getting Around the Uncertainty Principle". So it's not exactly the submitters fault (unless he was a physicist with access to Nature Photonics, of course, because in the actual paper you won't find such a claim).
If that already counts as computer, where does it stop? Is a light that is switched by two (directly wired) switches a computer because the two switches implement an XOR gate?
So, if we are just going to slap together all the different forms of operating systems with absolutely no regard for the userland simply because their kernels are based on a similar source we should do the same for the other kernels, too, in order to be fair: slap OSX and iOS together with all the BSDs, all the Windows NT - based kernels together and so on, and then compare the numbers.
Given that Linux got already 50% this way, even if all others, including the homegrown, would use the same non-Linux kernel, they still would not beat Linux.
No matter if you want to fight against it or adapt to it, in any case the first step is awareness of the problem. Only if you are aware of the problem, you can decide on how to act on it. Therefore the most important thing is to tell people about the problems. Only if you are aware of the problems, you can make an informed decision. And only if you are aware of the problem, you can take appropriate precautions. Such precautions may be quite simple, like asking everyone coming into your home to leave their Google glasses outside, to protect your privacy in your own home.
But people usually don't run around holding their smartphone in recording position because it would be hard and look siilly. Google Glass is always in recording position by default, thus removing an important barrier to have it constantly recording. And there will surely be an incentive to have the camera always on (so that virtual objects can be put in the right place, or you can get extra information on what you currently see.
Imagine a simple application which uses face recognition and image search to find out the name of the person you are currently looking at, and displaying it close to that person. An immensely useful application if you tend to forget people's names, or have problems recognizing people. However it means that (a) the wearer will immediately know the names of all people they see (as long as they are stored in the system), thus reducing your privacy relative to the wearer, and (b) Google will know the position of any person the wearer sees and the system can identify, even if that person has never used anything associated Google in their lifetime, thus reducing your privacy against Google. And if you ask how that image gets into the Google system: For example, some friend of him has stored a photo on Picasa.
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The main problem with internet metered by data volume is that you don't usually know what data volume you are using. When making phone calls, you know how long you speak, and therefore you can estimate how much it will cost you. However few people have any idea about what data volume is associated with a typical web site.
However if metered data becomes more common, I guess ad blocking will become more popular. I don't think many people will like to pay for being served ads.
What should be regulated out of existence is the advertising of such plans as "unlimited". It's entirely OK to have a cap if you announce it up front. It is not OK if you hide it in the fine print.
Unfortunately even Thunderbird on Linux cannot prevent bad processes to be started in the user's brain, which case that user to actively initiate the insecure operation. You need to install a special package called "user education" to protect against this. Unfortunately installing that is often tricky, and some brains don't run it particularly well.
Or maybe something like:
"Due to frequent trouble with bad passwords, we require every employee to test the security of theirs on our newly setup password testing site at <a href="http://passwordtest.yourconpany.com/">http://passwordtest.yourcompany.com/</a>"
(Did you spot the difference?)
Of course a good reference can be helpful. However it is no substitute for proper documentation (just as even the best documentation is no substitute for a proper reference). The only exception to this rule are libraries of more or less independent functions (like math.h).
Maybe the company producing the phone book should also be responsible to pay the recycling cost?
Writing code and driving cars are also very different things. Yet I've never heard the claim that good coders can't drive, and good drivers can't code.
Full Ack. Whenever I see that a project uses Doxygen, I can guess the documentation is close to useless. And I never failed with this prediction.
To all developers out there: Doxygen does not produce documentation. It only produces a reference.
"she told the grand jury that Swartz had co-authored a blog post advocating for open data (the Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto), which prosecutors latched onto and spun into evidence that the technologist had 'malicious intent in downloading documents on a massive scale.'"
What's next? If they find that someone wrote somewhere that he didn't like the look of the WTC building, it will be used as evidence that he was involved in the 9/11 attack?
The link to the actual paper is at the end of the Science Daily article, under "Journal reference".
It's an doi link which ultimately resolves to http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2013.24.html
However the linked Science Daily article has, right in its headline, "Getting Around the Uncertainty Principle". So it's not exactly the submitters fault (unless he was a physicist with access to Nature Photonics, of course, because in the actual paper you won't find such a claim).
If that already counts as computer, where does it stop? Is a light that is switched by two (directly wired) switches a computer because the two switches implement an XOR gate?
Dear Slashdotters, I ran out of toilet paper and need to do #2 soon, what should I do?
Use the three sea shells.
Even worse: You lose it.
The PageRank algorithm.
For tech writers out there, everything was invented either by Apple or Google.
Except for the internet. That was invented by Al Gore.
Note that in the last ten years, there was no year 2000.
Given that Linux got already 50% this way, even if all others, including the homegrown, would use the same non-Linux kernel, they still would not beat Linux.
Windows tablet? As long as the tablet doesn't run DOS, I'm not going to buy it!
Wow, the SVGA displays only had 48 pixels? :-)
Writes the Anonymous Coward.
You can save a lot more joules by avoiding animated Flash ads and excessive JavaScript.
Has anyone ever calculated the advertising contribution to global warming?
No matter if you want to fight against it or adapt to it, in any case the first step is awareness of the problem. Only if you are aware of the problem, you can decide on how to act on it. Therefore the most important thing is to tell people about the problems. Only if you are aware of the problems, you can make an informed decision. And only if you are aware of the problem, you can take appropriate precautions. Such precautions may be quite simple, like asking everyone coming into your home to leave their Google glasses outside, to protect your privacy in your own home.
But people usually don't run around holding their smartphone in recording position because it would be hard and look siilly. Google Glass is always in recording position by default, thus removing an important barrier to have it constantly recording. And there will surely be an incentive to have the camera always on (so that virtual objects can be put in the right place, or you can get extra information on what you currently see.
Imagine a simple application which uses face recognition and image search to find out the name of the person you are currently looking at, and displaying it close to that person. An immensely useful application if you tend to forget people's names, or have problems recognizing people. However it means that (a) the wearer will immediately know the names of all people they see (as long as they are stored in the system), thus reducing your privacy relative to the wearer, and (b) Google will know the position of any person the wearer sees and the system can identify, even if that person has never used anything associated Google in their lifetime, thus reducing your privacy against Google. And if you ask how that image gets into the Google system: For example, some friend of him has stored a photo on Picasa.
What about different keyboard layouts (e.g. someone normally using Dvorak using a Qwerty keyboard on another computer)?