So, you think you cleaned all your personal files from that old computer you got rid of?
Two MIT graduate students suggest you think again.
Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat bought 158 used hard drives at secondhand computer stores and on eBay
what about the technologies ? legal issues?
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Dealers of Lightning
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· Score: 2, Informative
One of the knocks I heard about the book was too much time on the personalities -- not enough on the technologies. I'd be curious to the voracity of that claim, and if it did or did not make it a better book?
I'm also curious to know if the book covers the reasons Xerox didn't pursue legally look-n-feel issues? From what I understand, they could have made claims against both MSFT and Apple.
"... focus on Gnome and the relegation of KDE 'to second best', other Gnome vs KDE issues..."
With Mandrake focusing its attention on finances -- it is time for a leader such as RedHat to do what my father used to say to my brothers and I when we'd be squabbling over this-n-that "I don't care who's fault it is, I'll knock both your heads together -- now play nice!"
So long as we have these pissing battles between Gnome and KDE -- Windows will continue to enjoy its top of the heap status.
Perhaps its just me, but I'm reading between the lines that the issue really may not be Open Source vs. Commercial -- but who has the most to lose, in both intellectual property and in physical harm due to decryption by nere-do-wells.
I'm also seeing the same message over and over again, with this article, the book review previous to this article, and a few other articles that indicate that again, it comes down to human factors.
Again, the question becomes, how do we best secure the nut holding the keyboard?
Man, I'm barely done with Douglas Dunn's Java Rules and now I gotta read this?
Actually, I'm glad to see more book son coding effectively as opposed to the dummy approach which is a sure way to Shoot yourself in the foot when the maintenance phase rolls around.
That said, one thing copiously missing from the review is whether or not the book covers J2EE at all -- which by and far requires some guidance in the developing the most effective Java applications.
Man do I feel stupid. I had some idea about DVD Regions when I got my player a year or so ago, but didn't give it much thought. This article forced me to go look-up a few sites that offered information on exactly what the mention of DVD Regions in the/. article means to joe and jane average:
Back a few years ago when I was involved in some biometric technologies, I had heard of this technology already in use in of all places, on livestock farms to keep track of animals that would wonder away from the herd. It was referred to at that time as "fairy dust"...
While it might be a good way to keep our children from being abducted, I'm also not to keen on being seen as livestock.
From a technology standpoint, can someone out there with alot of Wi-Fi experience reply back with how this will differ from products such as Joltage's apps that turn hot spots into instant mini-Internet service providers? Or HotSpottzz, who has creats wi-fi networks via strategically placed antennas? Or is WiFi Zone more this more like the peer-to-peer approach taken by SkyPilot?
I think the to last two paragraphs in the article speak volumes to me. SCO is strapped for cach, and Boies' track record.
I'm wondering if this is a Boies inspired scheme with the hopes that Microsoft will back-channel funds into the case. Win or lose, Boies gets to keep the Yacht.
The other issue is on what specific technical grounds can/would one sue? Could they find a judge/jury that would understand the technical merits in a short period of time? And that's the other key. If IBM is the target, then SCO is toasting themselves as Big Blue will just pull a Microsoft and drag this out over 10 years -- as they can afford to -- SCO can't -- unless they get Microsoft money.
As I recall, back in the day, the early Cray Super Computers was water-cooled... imagine, a system so proverbially "hot" that the install required the services of a plumber!
While this plan isn't without its merits, its also going to be without users such as myself for some time. No matter show secure the "FI"delity is stated, I get about the same warm fuzzies transmitting anything of any value over such a system as I would shopping online at an internet cafe.
And its not really the systems themselves that concern me, but the human error factors... and mostly privacy factors. I can't imagine any large corporation implementing such a system without the temptation of at least using my demographics, if not outright selling any non-secure personal information to me to the highest bidder.
This not to say I'd never use it... just not for anything really important or private. At least for now.
Every time I read or hear abou ta new driving game, I just think of the fuss back in 1976 when an arcade game based upon a really bad B movie of the same title came out... Death Race 2000. Ah, but then I'm just showing my age...
Actually, what I'd like to know is if these games actually compete with titles on "that other operating system" enough to tell my kids, Mandrake 9.1b1 is enough for you skippy?
I'm sorry, but when I'm wading through breakpoints, I want something cruncy. When I'm hacking out a killer regular expression, something sweet. While I'm sure the patch is nice and chewy, there's nothing like an ice cold Jolt Cola at about 1a.m. when you've finally inherited and overloaded your native hash object to recursively enumerate its own members.
Point is, some of the fun of eating while coding isn't just the stinking vitamins, more full tummy for that matter. So while I see it as an effective way to feed someone who'd rather starve than gag on MRE's in the middle of a minefield, I'll stick to my pretzels and mint-conditioned coffe thank you very much.
Oh great, like I need anything else to get me Hooked on the Net... now a bandwidth busting game that's sure to suck away all my blogging time!-)
What's the attraction, well its like the song title... especially those of us coming from the Age of Empire school of MMOG... "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"!
Yeah, I know, now you're going to have to spend the rest of the day getting that stupid tune out of your head.
The law may have changed, but when I lived in NYC, people had to get permission to use your image if they were shooting film or taking photos for publication. I wonder how blogging one's picture phone will play into such privacy issues?
That said, I could see how this would be useful, or at least interesting when a news story breaks, e.g. train derailment, so we can all glare at the dead bodys instead of waiting until we get home to watch the cable news.
My worst fear... bandwidth consumed to web phone pix of cats...
I work in a building where both AM and FM are impossible to receive. I guess my question is, waht are the legal implications of me setting up a server at home, then using a service such as noip.com to provide me some real audio feed --- as opposed to some of the ad-laden and in some cases, pay to play, internet feeds some radio stations and radio shows are offering?
Perhaps this explains the lastest "Japanimation" of our beloved hero, StrongBad.
Kidding aside, aside from steering about the Moon, are there other pratical applications? I saw how chaos could be applied to the field of epidemiology... does anyone know if the CDC or private/university interests are applying chaos to these fields?
If I were H&Rj, I'd get a Linux version of TaxCut out the door ASAP.
Think about it. Many of us who are going to change are the same types who are/want to switch to Open Office and Linux because of similar tactics employed by Microsoft and ther XP O/S.
It seem to me that there would be a very willing market that would be very difficult for TurboTax to pursue unless it drops it's own activation schems.
I've been using TurboTax since '86. Sometimes I miss the simplicity of the old DOS based program. I mean their first attempt at Windows was nearly as maddening as the tax code itself.
As for having to buy an install for each and every computer. Yeah, well, while it takes wild horses to refrain me from doing my taxes more than once on multiple machines, this policy sucks. Mostly because upgrades happen. Considering TurboTax can be purchased back in September for the purposes of tax planning, what happens to the poor schmuck who gets a new computer between then and April 15?
Another scenario. Offline storage. In the past, after I've done my taxes, I burn a backup onto CD and remove the product. Then when tax time comes around, I reinstall it so I can activate an upgrade. So much for doing that this year.
Good thing I'm going to wait till the night before. I don't even like the pig on one machine. Perhaps its time for this long time user to find a new tax package.
I wouldn't mind this topic going through the court system, but the California's 9th District Court gives me that queezy feeling in my gut. They've had several rulings overturned which means this issue could get mired down as it propogates upwards towards the U.S. Supreme Court.
That not being a lawyer, I'm wondering if we're not opening up a whole new can of whoop-you-know-what on ourselves by bringing property law, and lawyers into this game. You know, the whole pandora's box scenario only more expensive without any payout us tech types other than grief.
I'm curious how many of us have an old UUCP or perhaps the first edition of Lexx/Yacc or some other now obsolete O'Reilly book... more often than not sitting next to an up-to-date version of the same? Perhaps we could solve the U.S. energy worries by collectively burning them?
I also wonder how many of us proudly display an entire bookshelf full of them at work... you know, the more titles, the higher geek esteem we're held at the office?
What an excellent educational application. It has me thinking of setting up a webcam of one of those not-so-new-fangled Intel Microscope's. Only question is... of what?
It also makes me wonder if there is any way for the Joe Q. Average geek to take feeds from some of that old NASA hardware floating about in space and streaming that online.
I personally think this is a cool way to teach history. I'd like to see more of this on the high-school level as a means of familiarizing students with the great men and women of antiquity on a personal level.
The only way I'm going to watch some grainy, home-produce Star Trek episode if it includes one of those hot 'green skinned' chicks who's wearing a Jennifer Lopez style dress and has an obligatory interpretive dance scene.
Professor Glenn Reynolds weighs in ...
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Professors vs. WiFi
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Glenn Reynolds, author of the popular InstaPundit blog and a professor of law at the U. of TN offers this observation "I also tend to wander around the room a lot..., which may discourage some of that behavior. And I tend to call on the students who don't seem engaged. But I don't make any particular effort to ensure that students aren't surfing or IM-ing or whatever. They're grownups. If they're willing to risk their grades, and to look dumb when they're called on, well, I'm willing for them to do that too."
Basically the way I read it, is if a professor is engaged in teaching his/her class, then he/she isn't going to have a problem keeping the students engaged as well.
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Discarded computer hard drives prove a trove of personal info
One of the knocks I heard about the book was too much time on the personalities -- not enough on the
technologies. I'd be curious to the voracity of that claim, and if it did or did not make it a better book?
I'm also curious to know if the book covers the reasons Xerox didn't pursue legally look-n-feel issues? From what I understand, they could have made claims against both MSFT and Apple.
FYI, here's the book via Amazon
Here's the real problem:
"... focus on Gnome and the relegation of KDE 'to second best', other Gnome vs KDE issues
With Mandrake focusing its attention on finances -- it is time for a leader such as RedHat to do what my father used to say to my brothers and I when we'd be squabbling over this-n-that "I don't care who's fault it is, I'll knock both your heads together -- now play nice!"
So long as we have these pissing battles between Gnome and KDE -- Windows will continue to enjoy its top of the heap status.
Perhaps its just me, but I'm reading between the lines that the issue really may not be Open Source vs. Commercial -- but who has the most to lose, in both intellectual property and in physical harm due to decryption by nere-do-wells.
I'm also seeing the same message over and over again, with this article, the book review previous to this article, and a few other articles that indicate that again, it comes down to human factors.
Again, the question becomes, how do we best secure the nut holding the keyboard?
Man, I'm barely done with Douglas Dunn's
Java Rules and now I gotta read this?
Actually, I'm glad to see more book son coding effectively as opposed to the dummy approach which is a sure way to Shoot yourself in the foot when the maintenance phase rolls around.
That said, one thing copiously missing from the review is whether or not the book covers J2EE at all -- which by and far requires some guidance in the developing the most effective Java applications.
Man do I feel stupid. I had some idea about DVD Regions when I got my player a year or so ago, but didn't give it much thought. This article forced me to go look-up a few sites that offered information on exactly what the mention of DVD Regions in the
Sometimes
Back a few years ago when I was involved in some biometric technologies, I had heard of this technology already in use in of all places, on livestock farms to keep track of animals that would wonder away from the herd. It was referred to at that time as "fairy dust"
While it might be a good way to keep our children from being abducted, I'm also not to keen on being seen as livestock.
From a technology standpoint, can someone out there with alot of Wi-Fi experience reply back with how this will differ from products such as Joltage's apps that turn hot spots into instant mini-Internet service providers? Or HotSpottzz, who has creats wi-fi networks via strategically placed antennas? Or is WiFi Zone more this more like the peer-to-peer approach taken by SkyPilot?
I think the to last two paragraphs in the article speak volumes to me. SCO is strapped for cach, and Boies' track record.
I'm wondering if this is a Boies inspired scheme with the hopes that Microsoft will back-channel funds into the case. Win or lose, Boies gets to keep the Yacht.
The other issue is on what specific technical grounds can/would one sue? Could they find a judge/jury that would understand the technical merits in a short period of time? And that's the other key. If IBM is the target, then SCO is toasting themselves as Big Blue will just pull a Microsoft and drag this out over 10 years -- as they can afford to -- SCO can't -- unless they get Microsoft money.
As I recall, back in the day, the early Cray Super Computers was water-cooled
While this plan isn't without its merits, its also going to be without users such as myself for some time. No matter show secure the "FI"delity is stated, I get about the same warm fuzzies transmitting anything of any value over such a system as I would shopping online at an internet cafe.
And its not really the systems themselves that concern me, but the human error factors
This not to say I'd never use it
Every time I read or hear abou ta new driving game, I just think of the fuss back in 1976 when an arcade game based upon a really bad B movie of the same title came out
Actually, what I'd like to know is if these games actually compete with titles on "that other operating system" enough to tell my kids, Mandrake 9.1b1 is enough for you skippy?
I'm sorry, but when I'm wading through breakpoints, I want something cruncy. When I'm hacking out a killer regular expression, something sweet. While I'm sure the patch is nice and chewy, there's nothing like an ice cold Jolt Cola at about 1a.m. when you've finally inherited and overloaded your native hash object to recursively enumerate its own members.
Point is, some of the fun of eating while coding isn't just the stinking vitamins, more full tummy for that matter. So while I see it as an effective way to feed someone who'd rather starve than gag on MRE's in the middle of a minefield, I'll stick to my pretzels and mint-conditioned coffe thank you very much.
Oh great, like I need anything else to get me
Hooked on the Net
What's the attraction, well its like the song title
Yeah, I know, now you're going to have to spend the rest of the day getting that stupid tune out of your head.
The law may have changed, but when I lived in NYC, people had to get permission to use your image if they were shooting film or taking photos for publication. I wonder how blogging one's picture phone will play into such privacy issues?
That said, I could see how this would be useful, or at least interesting when a news story breaks, e.g. train derailment, so we can all glare at the dead bodys instead of waiting until we get home to watch the cable news.
My worst fear
I work in a building where both AM and FM are impossible to receive. I guess my question is, waht are the legal implications of me setting up a server at home, then using a service such as noip.com to provide me some real audio feed --- as opposed to some of the ad-laden and in some cases, pay to play, internet feeds some radio stations and radio shows are offering?
Perhaps this explains the lastest "Japanimation" of our beloved hero, StrongBad. Kidding aside, aside from steering about the Moon, are there other pratical applications? I saw how chaos could be applied to the field of epidemiology
If I were H&Rj, I'd get a Linux version of TaxCut out the door ASAP. Think about it. Many of us who are going to change are the same types who are/want to switch to Open Office and Linux because of similar tactics employed by Microsoft and ther XP O/S. It seem to me that there would be a very willing market that would be very difficult for TurboTax to pursue unless it drops it's own activation schems.
I've been using TurboTax since '86. Sometimes I miss the simplicity of the old DOS based program. I mean their first attempt at Windows was nearly as maddening as the tax code itself.
As for having to buy an install for each and every computer. Yeah, well, while it takes wild horses to refrain me from doing my taxes more than once on multiple machines, this policy sucks. Mostly because upgrades happen. Considering TurboTax can be purchased back in September for the purposes of tax planning, what happens to the poor schmuck who gets a new computer between then and April 15?
Another scenario. Offline storage. In the past, after I've done my taxes, I burn a backup onto CD and remove the product. Then when tax time comes around, I reinstall it so I can activate an upgrade. So much for doing that this year.
Good thing I'm going to wait till the night before. I don't even like the pig on one machine. Perhaps its time for this long time user to find a new tax package.
I wouldn't mind this topic going through the court system, but the California's 9th District Court gives me that queezy feeling in my gut. They've had several rulings overturned which means this issue could get mired down as it propogates upwards towards the U.S. Supreme Court.
That not being a lawyer, I'm wondering if we're not opening up a whole new can of whoop-you-know-what on ourselves by bringing property law, and lawyers into this game. You know, the whole pandora's box scenario only more expensive without any payout us tech types other than grief.
I'm curious how many of us have an old UUCP or perhaps the first edition of Lexx/Yacc or some other now obsolete O'Reilly book
I also wonder how many of us proudly display an entire bookshelf full of them at work
Either way, here is a fun little parody to roll your own O'Reilly cover. Another fun one at O'Really. And a few images just for fun.
What an excellent educational application. It has me thinking of setting up a webcam of one of those not-so-new-fangled Intel Microscope's. Only question is
It also makes me wonder if there is any way for the Joe Q. Average geek to take feeds from some of that old NASA hardware floating about in space and streaming that online.
Via blogs4God I found "the Fathers of the Christian Church as well as a few other blog that basically take books, devotionals or diaries out of the past and post them blogs.
I personally think this is a cool way to teach history. I'd like to see more of this on the high-school level as a means of familiarizing students with the great men and women of antiquity on a personal level.
The only way I'm going to watch some grainy, home-produce Star Trek episode if it includes one of those hot 'green skinned' chicks who's wearing a Jennifer Lopez style dress and has an obligatory interpretive dance scene.
Glenn Reynolds, author of the popular InstaPundit blog and a professor of law at the U. of TN offers this observation "I also tend to wander around the room a lot
Basically the way I read it, is if a professor is engaged in teaching his/her class, then he/she isn't going to have a problem keeping the students engaged as well.