I'd like to offer another view. It's not what you post that you need to be worried about. It's the increasing specificity with which Facebook "knows" you through the metadata of your relationships with your friends, friends-of-friends, their likes, dislikes, purchases, status updates, and their posts about you and your family. None of which you can control, and all of which becomes increasingly invasive over time.
This is fast becoming a huge issue, and not just for Britain. There are legal and permissions and privacy problems that have to be addressed or nearly all of our digital works will simply vanish, in the not too distant future. The wayback machine doesn't even begin to address the issue. Dynamic and web2.0 sites often have metadata and links that are only valid if the site is working as intended - a snapshot will not work to capture it. A lot of valuable information not available elsewhere is already lost as people stop paying for various freemium accounts or hosting fees or as companies go out of business. Sometimes that data gets saved (Netscape's javascript development site, saved by Mozilla.org, UseNet groups saved by Google) but many more times it does not.
I've attempted to write up some of the issues here:
Proposal: Advance Directives for our digital legacies
http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000743.html
If you run insecure web apps, they can use http injection to write to your.htaccess file. See my post on how I fixed my own site after one of these attacks.
http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000505.html
About 5 years ago I attended a dinner in Michigan where Senator Debbie Stabenow gave a speech on how we would save the auto industry by switching to electronic medical records. The theory was that that would reduce the 1200 or more per car that GM was spending on health insurance and pensions for retirees.
When I look at AWstats for my site:
Google 18020 pages (linked to from Google)
Google (Images) 976 pages
Bing 226 pages
And from Google Analytics:
Top traffic sources:
Google 26,738 visits 85.24%
Yahoo 676 visits 2.16%
Bing 346 visits 1.10%
Admittedly the site is not about shopping or entertainment - it's mainly about technical topics which maybe colors the results.
You change the things that matter, not the resolution. Change the font size, icon size, and widget sizes where possible.
I wrote a post on making OS X usable for my father, but the same types of mods and more are possible on Windows. You just have to locate them all. For my own vision problems, I just insisted on a 30" monitor, set at its native HIGH resolution, and increase fonts and icon sizes as necessary. Get a pair of glasses set to the correct distance - in my case 26" from my face to the monitor.
Making OS X more usable for seniors
Probably not ftp's fault
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More like you were attacked through one of the many http or sql injection attacks that are constantly being run out there. Which is not to say you aren't right - everything else uses encryption so why not FTP?
Beautifully said. I can't understand why there isn't more public outcry about the use off SSN's, and the generally shoddy security systems of bank, credit, etc.
I had to attend a workshop which required we have 100 or more white papers on tap and easy to read. I looked at all sorts of devices and settled on an Acer Aspire 1 netbook. None of the ebook readers at the time were good at PDF's. The Acer wasn't even close to perfect, but it did the job for that workshop. It has a fairly wide screen but I would prefer something larger, vanishingly thin, flexible and foldable. Oh, and it should run the application "Papers" by Mekentosj.com
Amen, brother. There are about 6 difficult-to-find paths to any one item, and it often looks slightly different once you've found it, depending on which path you've chosen. And every time I see those double banks of tabs that switch places when clicked on I want to scream!
I fill em with more drives! 2 x 400 GB plus the superdrive.
New FontBook, worth every cent if it works...
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..as advertised. This is what graphic artists have been waiting for, a font manager that's STABLE with thousands of fonts. Suitcase is, but the interface is pitiful. FontAgent is easy to browse, but unstable with lots of fonts and if you turn on WYSIWYG in some views. There's been a big hole in the font management area for a long time now.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fontbook/
why is the RIAA going to such lengths to subpoena the real identities of file-traders from ISP's and universities? Why not just get on the network and grab social security numbers and names right off everyone's hard drives?
Firewire is great - I love it. The drives are dirt cheap. Firewire connections are fairly trouble free, except on windows. But not really fast enough for working directly with the drive in finalcut pro.
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42.31124, -83.67578 Thought it was a particularly large person stomping around near my cube. The floor shimmied slightly. It was cool.
I'd like to offer another view. It's not what you post that you need to be worried about. It's the increasing specificity with which Facebook "knows" you through the metadata of your relationships with your friends, friends-of-friends, their likes, dislikes, purchases, status updates, and their posts about you and your family. None of which you can control, and all of which becomes increasingly invasive over time.
This is fast becoming a huge issue, and not just for Britain. There are legal and permissions and privacy problems that have to be addressed or nearly all of our digital works will simply vanish, in the not too distant future. The wayback machine doesn't even begin to address the issue. Dynamic and web2.0 sites often have metadata and links that are only valid if the site is working as intended - a snapshot will not work to capture it. A lot of valuable information not available elsewhere is already lost as people stop paying for various freemium accounts or hosting fees or as companies go out of business. Sometimes that data gets saved (Netscape's javascript development site, saved by Mozilla.org, UseNet groups saved by Google) but many more times it does not. I've attempted to write up some of the issues here: Proposal: Advance Directives for our digital legacies http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000743.html
It's a legal and social issue as well. Unlike something written on paper, works on the web are prone to disappear when payments to the service involved stop. Proposal: Advance Directives for our digital legacies
I'll add your post to the end of my article (with credit!), very helpful. Thanks!
Just saying it does not make it mean something. We need a new congress.
If you run insecure web apps, they can use http injection to write to your .htaccess file. See my post on how I fixed my own site after one of these attacks.
http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000505.html
We used it the other day and were very happy with it - it's free to try for small groups.
About 5 years ago I attended a dinner in Michigan where Senator Debbie Stabenow gave a speech on how we would save the auto industry by switching to electronic medical records. The theory was that that would reduce the 1200 or more per car that GM was spending on health insurance and pensions for retirees.
When I look at AWstats for my site:
Google 18020 pages (linked to from Google)
Google (Images) 976 pages
Bing 226 pages
And from Google Analytics:
Top traffic sources:
Google 26,738 visits 85.24%
Yahoo 676 visits 2.16%
Bing 346 visits 1.10%
Admittedly the site is not about shopping or entertainment - it's mainly about technical topics which maybe colors the results.
You change the things that matter, not the resolution. Change the font size, icon size, and widget sizes where possible. I wrote a post on making OS X usable for my father, but the same types of mods and more are possible on Windows. You just have to locate them all. For my own vision problems, I just insisted on a 30" monitor, set at its native HIGH resolution, and increase fonts and icon sizes as necessary. Get a pair of glasses set to the correct distance - in my case 26" from my face to the monitor. Making OS X more usable for seniors
More like you were attacked through one of the many http or sql injection attacks that are constantly being run out there. Which is not to say you aren't right - everything else uses encryption so why not FTP?
Beautifully said. I can't understand why there isn't more public outcry about the use off SSN's, and the generally shoddy security systems of bank, credit, etc.
I had to attend a workshop which required we have 100 or more white papers on tap and easy to read. I looked at all sorts of devices and settled on an Acer Aspire 1 netbook. None of the ebook readers at the time were good at PDF's. The Acer wasn't even close to perfect, but it did the job for that workshop. It has a fairly wide screen but I would prefer something larger, vanishingly thin, flexible and foldable. Oh, and it should run the application "Papers" by Mekentosj.com
I get that feeling from reading the Wall Street Journal these days.
I am not worried about Google controlling all these ebooks since they seem to be giving them away - at least the out-of-copyright ones. See these articles for examples. I'm not sure how they will deal with spreading around IN-copyright books. Google gives away half a million books to Sony eBook Storeâ¦. challenge to Amazon?? Academic libraries pave a new path away from Google
Amen, brother. There are about 6 difficult-to-find paths to any one item, and it often looks slightly different once you've found it, depending on which path you've chosen. And every time I see those double banks of tabs that switch places when clicked on I want to scream!
I fill em with more drives! 2 x 400 GB plus the superdrive.
..as advertised. This is what graphic artists have been waiting for, a font manager that's STABLE with thousands of fonts. Suitcase is, but the interface is pitiful. FontAgent is easy to browse, but unstable with lots of fonts and if you turn on WYSIWYG in some views. There's been a big hole in the font management area for a long time now. http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fontbook/
The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has some interesting designs using waterproofed paper tubes - they are really beautiful. See Paper Architecture, A Case Study: Cardboard Shelters, Kobe Earthquake January 1995, Time's Innovators article on him, and a Google Images search of his work
Honore de Balzac did indeed die of long-term coffee poisoning at the age of 49. See his essay on the best way to get your caffeine fix HERE
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why is the RIAA going to such lengths to subpoena the real identities of file-traders from ISP's and universities? Why not just get on the network and grab social security numbers and names right off everyone's hard drives?
Firewire is great - I love it. The drives are dirt cheap. Firewire connections are fairly trouble free, except on windows. But not really fast enough for working directly with the drive in finalcut pro.