take a photo of police doing naughty things? Best to have the photo "in the cloud" before they can confiscate camera.
The police can just confiscate the cloud. Megaupload anyone?
True, if they're aware that something's been uploaded. Otherwise they've just doubled their trouble by attempting to destroy evidence.
Plus, I just tracerouted one.ubuntu.com and it goes to London, then a much different IP in Canonical, then 7 more unidentified hops before it stops at 30 hops. Kinda big job for the average Officer Wiggums to track a photo to London or Johannesburg, etc.
Of course, ideally by the time the police have deleted the photo from the phone, it's also sync'd to the home PC.
Hmm, better check that sync from phone is one-way additive so deletions don't propagate too.
I like how you casually used "cloud capabilities" as if that means something.
But I think that in this case (or some cases), it does mean something. Voice recognition isn't really as do-able on the device, it requires "machine learning" (as I understand it), that is, matching against a huge sample of other voice data. Also large processing cost best sent off to a server in "the cloud" to save on battery charge.
Also, "the cloud" is pretty damned handy when uploading photos from phones to a) make space on memory card, b) get a back up of the incriminating photos of police... being naughty, before they can confiscate the device and delete the pictures (an example that might be rare but of major impact).
I would agree that the "cloud" phrase is grossly abused by marketroids, but it does have some use in some circumstances.
'cloud' junk is just the rebirth, or in this case the reanimation. of the dead and i thought buried dumb terminal architectural model.
Except that "smart" phones (I hate that phrase even more than "cloud" stuff) are decidedly not dumb terminals. There's more computing power in each one than a lot of the servers that the dumb terminals used to connect to.
if you don't want to be milked, just say no to any of these stupid 'cloud' services..
It's not a stupid service for my phone to upload (sometimes via Wifi, regardless at zero extra cost to me) to my "cloud" storage at Ubuntu One. I doubt Ubuntu / Canonical will be marketing to me by looking at my photos (or files), but if they do, I can just ignore it like I do all the other marketing I'm exposed to...
Really, there is a use for "cloud" services: for example, take a photo of police doing naughty things? Best to have the photo "in the cloud" before they can confiscate camera.
Camera memory card is getting full? Upload a few photos to the "cloud", delete them from camera, keep taking photos.
I agree it seems overly complex and therefore bound to fail.
Quick, call NASA! Screw the rocket scientists and engineers who designed the thing and whose work almost certainly includes detailed failure rate estimates which ended up being acceptably low for the project to proceed. We may as well press the self-destruct button now and get it over with.
This is the part of/. I hate the most--nerds blessing the world with their special insight, because they really do have insight in their chosen field, and that translates to every other field, right?
The exploration of Mars has come at a considerable financial cost with roughly two-thirds of all spacecraft destined for Mars failing before completing their missions, with some failing before they even begin.
At least GGP made no indication he thought that NASA was somehow wrong or dumb, but ya gotta admit, that linked-to video's landing sequence is rather Rube-Golbergian.
And yes, I use Rogers, because I literally don't have another choice. And they definitely throttle torrents, during "prime" hours, which is apparently 8am-11pm.
Have you looked in to TekSavvy.com? They provide internet over Shaw (& Rogers, I believe) cable connections. Not sure about your area of course.
According to another post to this story, throttling goes away by switching.
I'm a satisfied TekSavvy (TSI) customer over Shaw's cable infrastructure. Paying less per month than subscribing from Shaw and TSI takes a cut, so Shaw only gets a tiny amount of what they used to when I was their customer. Enough to pay for maintenance, not enough to subsidise their content providing businesses.
If you're Canadian or Ukranian, buy agricultural stocks. Your growing season is about to get a lot longer (enabling multiple harvests per year which used to be limited to lower latitudes), several of your competitors in agricultural products are going to be less productive, and your agricultural lands a LOT more productive.
For every loser, there is a winner.
Care to explain how we'll grow crops when it doesn't get light out until 8am and is pitch black by 5pm? I'm in lower Canadian latitudes, an avid gardner, and can assure you that there just isn't enough sunlight to grow much in winter, never mind ripening fruits or vegetables.
Greens, perhaps, if it isn't raining too much, nor too dry. Peas, beans, squash, apples; I don't believe it for a minute.
Also, for most Canadians, our drinking and irrigation water in the summer comes from the melting snow packs. Less snow, melting faster = less water in a hot summer for agriculture and possible scarcity for drinking.
Perhaps, but the linked-to author also said that no radiation from Fukushima would escape past the perimeter fence, 'cause he's an expert in those things, and greenies want us to live in caves and eat grass (or something, I'm trying to resist urge to rant).
Indeed, his first Fukushima post read like British satire; after the explosions he didn't feel it necessary to revise anything previously posted. To me he has zero (or less) credibility.
For instance, the link presents the science as rock solid, non controversial. Okay.
Yet there's nothing from climate scientists, as though a) couldn't be bothered to ask, b) their science is as controversial in the scientific community as within the general public, c) this science trumps their science.
I'd want to hear from a number of climate scientists what their models say about this; Lewis Page seems to have too much of an agenda. YMMV.
It may (or may not) increase the amount of arable land, but as northern areas like Sweden & Canada become warmer and more arable, there's unlikely to be much winter crop production as the amount of available hours of sunlight will not increase.
Can't grow food, especially ripen food in low levels of light.
Ohs Nos! Those poor kids in Canada are going to go without 20 feet in snow!
That 20 feet of snow becomes our drinking and irrigation water in the summer.
Without it, there could easily be a month of no irrigation. That's a big fucking deal.
And the further south you go in NA, the more months without irrigation / drinking water. Hope no-one plans on moving north when the water runs out in the south during the summers; by then the border might be as well guarded as the US / Mexico border.
Maybe I'm missing something, but fiberoptics aren't conductive. That's one of the beautiful things about it. Why would they need steel-coated cables to protect them from the electric lines?
I thought that too, but my guess is that with enough voltage most things will conduct some electricity. So, in case of accidental contact between Google fibre and (say, downed) power wires, the metal coating will ensure the fibre coating will run to ground wire at nearest pole, not start burning / arcing, possibly some distance from contact. Or, run some of that voltage into some establishment, truly "lighting up" the premises.
In other words it could have been. An honest mistake.
It could have been, but rather doubtful that someone (or someones) with true good intentions would change street info in cities thousands of km away and repeatedly be wrong in their changes. Particularly since this "honest" mistake comes from the same IPs as the Mocality "hackers" within a week or so of those incidents being exposed.
Of course what really bugs me about all of this is that when people talke about the 3 strikes law I hear people say time and time again... IP addresses are not identity. IP addresses can be spoofed as can mac addresses.
Corporate IPs are far more likely to be static than residential IPs. Corporate IPs are far more likely to have IT staff ensuring the hardware isn't part of some botnet, etc. IPs are harder to spoof than MACs if you are hoping to receive data back from the target of the spoofing. Corporate IPs are more likely (or should be more likely) to have policies enforced against abuse.
However IP =/= ID is not a strong defence against most copyright infringement claims (IMHO) unless there's proof of an open Wifi AP.
Oh, that's your own fault... You should have put it in neutral. If only more people would neuter their cars, we wouldn't have the problems we have today with feral cars! Why don't people THINK!
Everyone told me not to put truck nuts on the back of the thing.
1. Homeostasis. It must make a detectable effort to maintain the conditions of its internals, and to adjust to changes in its environment. [...] The maintenance of an internal environment (homeostasis) is considered the most important, and the primary reason scientists have hesitated to consider transposons and viruses to be alive, even though they can reproduce and evolve. [...] I am a biologist. Ask me questions [...]. I'll give car/computer analogies if possible!
So... homeostasis is like a car's heating & air-con? So, my car's alive?!?
There should be a container for micro sd cards which you can swallow. Its not 1TB but it could carry an OS which you use to download the rest of the data.
Regardless of container, stomach acids would induce bit rot, turning data into... shit.
Increasingly I've found both people and the moderation on Reddit to be much better than on Slashdot. So when can we get fix for that?
Immediately. Just stop coming here and go to Reddit instead.
I think Slashdot's moderation works fine. Reddit's too, though I have little experience with it.
Increasingly I've found both people and the moderation on Reddit to be much better than on Slashdot.
Interesting, since your UID indicates you're rather new here.
1) If he pulls it off, even poorly, at least you'll know what he was asking for.
2) And if he fails, well, he might be more patient about explaining what exactly he wants, and perhaps even appreciate how hard your work is.
3) Or — more likely — you may simply never hear from him again.
Or, 4) he cannot understand the code, blames the code and, by extension, you, and you life gets more difficult.
Personally I agree to give the code - who knows what their hidden competencies are, but option 4 is possible. Them's the chances you take...
Then again Xerox had a similar kind of problem trying to stay relevant over the years, where it could have owned the PC market with the devices built at their PARC research group but instead let Apple Computer (in the form of Steve Jobs) essentially copy all of their ideas and build the Macintosh.
There comes a point where it's obvious that other companies are liberally borrowing from Jonathan Ive's design shop at Apple.
[...]
I realize Slashdot comments tend to have an Apple slant (to put it mildly), but come on, this is completely obvious "inspiration" from Apple.
[...]
I think what really goes on here is that some people just don't want to give Apple credit for anything, and they hate when people do credit them, so when comparisons between designs are pointed out, it pisses them off and they make snarky remarks about "rounded rectangles."
So, don't you see? Xerox copied ideas from Ive's and Jobs' future! Why, oh why won't you at least give them credit where credit is due, Slashdot?
What's really interesting is the Ubislate - $10 more ($60) - a Cortex A8 cpu, a video accelerator, HD video, and Gingerbread. Sure, it's not ICS, but Gingerbread for $60???
I wonder how open / hackable they (Aakash & Ubislate) are? Could one theoretically buy a device and install their own Android / Ubuntu on it? Seems like they've got kernel hackers tweaking away to make it work properly, so I doubt a standard kernel would work, but maybe they'll open source it? (Ask them if you interview them.)
And of course, we all know what that means - within a few years, ICS for under $100.
Ah yes, but ICS will be at least 2 versions old by then. OTOH, hopefully Android will be better polished (I thought previews of ICS looked fugly) and Google will have done something to block the carriers from preventing updates, etc. by then.
Maybe CyanogenMod could be loaded onto them? That would be cool.
I've got Fresh Zodiak Fruit ROM on my Wind Huawei 8100 Android phone and mostly love it, except for the randomly appearing apps in the task list. I'm always killing apps that appear in there that I didn't launch.:(
(My posts have been disappearing today; I hope this isn't a double post as the original one is not showing, I swear!)
"In terms of federal research, in 1980 the federal government provided about 70% of all dollars spent on basic research, but since then the government's share of basic research funding given to all entities has fallen to 57%."
You mean to tell me that this is part of the beef? That Great God Government (beat head three times on the floor in the direction of Washington) now has less control over what people can research?
Can someone explain to me why this is a bad thing?
Because governments tended to fund long term research where benefits might not appear for a decade. Corporations tend to invest in research that has payoffs measured in months or a few years.
i.e. Government financed research into the Internet (you may have heard of it), space exploration, etc., which have had huge benefits that didn't appear for a decade or more.
Also, it's idiotic (in more ways than one) to say
Government (beat head three times on the floor in the direction of Washington) now has less control over what people can research?
Government isn't dictating what can and cannot be researched (except small-government Republicans who blocked government-funded into research into stem cells, expected to have massive long-term benefits: this has driven the research elsewhere).
Further to your comment (and re-posting this as original post from hours ago hasn't shown up!?!), do not forget to add your name & address to the email!
All it takes a single email with your name, address, and comments on the issue. The email can be sent to consultations@international.gc.ca. Alternatively, submissions can be sent by fax (613-944-3489) or mail (Trade Negotiations Consultations (TPP), Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Trade Policy and Negotiations Division II (TPW), Lester B. Pearson Building, 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2).
I bet this'll end up being a double-post, but I swear the original isn't visible as I write this.
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take a photo of police doing naughty things? Best to have the photo "in the cloud" before they can confiscate camera.
The police can just confiscate the cloud. Megaupload anyone?
True, if they're aware that something's been uploaded. Otherwise they've just doubled their trouble by attempting to destroy evidence.
Plus, I just tracerouted one.ubuntu.com and it goes to London, then a much different IP in Canonical, then 7 more unidentified hops before it stops at 30 hops. Kinda big job for the average Officer Wiggums to track a photo to London or Johannesburg, etc.
Of course, ideally by the time the police have deleted the photo from the phone, it's also sync'd to the home PC.
Hmm, better check that sync from phone is one-way additive so deletions don't propagate too.
I like how you casually used "cloud capabilities" as if that means something.
But I think that in this case (or some cases), it does mean something. Voice recognition isn't really as do-able on the device, it requires "machine learning" (as I understand it), that is, matching against a huge sample of other voice data. Also large processing cost best sent off to a server in "the cloud" to save on battery charge.
Also, "the cloud" is pretty damned handy when uploading photos from phones to a) make space on memory card, b) get a back up of the incriminating photos of police ... being naughty, before they can confiscate the device and delete the pictures (an example that might be rare but of major impact).
I would agree that the "cloud" phrase is grossly abused by marketroids, but it does have some use in some circumstances.
'cloud' junk is just the rebirth, or in this case the reanimation. of the dead and i thought buried dumb terminal architectural model.
Except that "smart" phones (I hate that phrase even more than "cloud" stuff) are decidedly not dumb terminals. There's more computing power in each one than a lot of the servers that the dumb terminals used to connect to.
if you don't want to be milked, just say no to any of these stupid 'cloud' services..
It's not a stupid service for my phone to upload (sometimes via Wifi, regardless at zero extra cost to me) to my "cloud" storage at Ubuntu One. I doubt Ubuntu / Canonical will be marketing to me by looking at my photos (or files), but if they do, I can just ignore it like I do all the other marketing I'm exposed to...
Really, there is a use for "cloud" services: for example, take a photo of police doing naughty things? Best to have the photo "in the cloud" before they can confiscate camera.
Camera memory card is getting full? Upload a few photos to the "cloud", delete them from camera, keep taking photos.
I agree it seems overly complex and therefore bound to fail.
Quick, call NASA! Screw the rocket scientists and engineers who designed the thing and whose work almost certainly includes detailed failure rate estimates which ended up being acceptably low for the project to proceed. We may as well press the self-destruct button now and get it over with.
This is the part of /. I hate the most--nerds blessing the world with their special insight, because they really do have insight in their chosen field, and that translates to every other field, right?
I disagree with GP, though they might be trying to express sarcasm at GGP, but from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars:
At least GGP made no indication he thought that NASA was somehow wrong or dumb, but ya gotta admit, that linked-to video's landing sequence is rather Rube-Golbergian.
Regardless, I'll be cheering for a NASA success!
-- Socialism is slavery.
did you look at his sig before you replied to him ? he lives in 1950.
1850.
And yes, I use Rogers, because I literally don't have another choice. And they definitely throttle torrents, during "prime" hours, which is apparently 8am-11pm.
Have you looked in to TekSavvy.com? They provide internet over Shaw (& Rogers, I believe) cable connections. Not sure about your area of course.
According to another post to this story, throttling goes away by switching.
I'm a satisfied TekSavvy (TSI) customer over Shaw's cable infrastructure. Paying less per month than subscribing from Shaw and TSI takes a cut, so Shaw only gets a tiny amount of what they used to when I was their customer. Enough to pay for maintenance, not enough to subsidise their content providing businesses.
If you're Canadian or Ukranian, buy agricultural stocks. Your growing season is about to get a lot longer (enabling multiple harvests per year which used to be limited to lower latitudes), several of your competitors in agricultural products are going to be less productive, and your agricultural lands a LOT more productive.
For every loser, there is a winner.
Care to explain how we'll grow crops when it doesn't get light out until 8am and is pitch black by 5pm? I'm in lower Canadian latitudes, an avid gardner, and can assure you that there just isn't enough sunlight to grow much in winter, never mind ripening fruits or vegetables.
Greens, perhaps, if it isn't raining too much, nor too dry. Peas, beans, squash, apples; I don't believe it for a minute.
Also, for most Canadians, our drinking and irrigation water in the summer comes from the melting snow packs. Less snow, melting faster = less water in a hot summer for agriculture and possible scarcity for drinking.
3000 AD?
Best estimates are a mini ice age within 10 years. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/
Perhaps, but the linked-to author also said that no radiation from Fukushima would escape past the perimeter fence, 'cause he's an expert in those things, and greenies want us to live in caves and eat grass (or something, I'm trying to resist urge to rant).
Indeed, his first Fukushima post read like British satire; after the explosions he didn't feel it necessary to revise anything previously posted. To me he has zero (or less) credibility.
For instance, the link presents the science as rock solid, non controversial. Okay.
Yet there's nothing from climate scientists, as though a) couldn't be bothered to ask, b) their science is as controversial in the scientific community as within the general public, c) this science trumps their science.
I'd want to hear from a number of climate scientists what their models say about this; Lewis Page seems to have too much of an agenda. YMMV.
Why are you under the impression that global warming won't increase the amount of arable land?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html
It may (or may not) increase the amount of arable land, but as northern areas like Sweden & Canada become warmer and more arable, there's unlikely to be much winter crop production as the amount of available hours of sunlight will not increase.
Can't grow food, especially ripen food in low levels of light.
Ohs Nos! Those poor kids in Canada are going to go without 20 feet in snow!
That 20 feet of snow becomes our drinking and irrigation water in the summer.
Without it, there could easily be a month of no irrigation. That's a big fucking deal.
And the further south you go in NA, the more months without irrigation / drinking water. Hope no-one plans on moving north when the water runs out in the south during the summers; by then the border might be as well guarded as the US / Mexico border.
Maybe I'm missing something, but fiberoptics aren't conductive. That's one of the beautiful things about it. Why would they need steel-coated cables to protect them from the electric lines?
I thought that too, but my guess is that with enough voltage most things will conduct some electricity. So, in case of accidental contact between Google fibre and (say, downed) power wires, the metal coating will ensure the fibre coating will run to ground wire at nearest pole, not start burning / arcing, possibly some distance from contact. Or, run some of that voltage into some establishment, truly "lighting up" the premises.
In other words it could have been.
An honest mistake.
It could have been, but rather doubtful that someone (or someones) with true good intentions would change street info in cities thousands of km away and repeatedly be wrong in their changes. Particularly since this "honest" mistake comes from the same IPs as the Mocality "hackers" within a week or so of those incidents being exposed.
Of course what really bugs me about all of this is that when people talke about the 3 strikes law I hear people say time and time again... IP addresses are not identity.
IP addresses can be spoofed as can mac addresses.
Corporate IPs are far more likely to be static than residential IPs. Corporate IPs are far more likely to have IT staff ensuring the hardware isn't part of some botnet, etc. IPs are harder to spoof than MACs if you are hoping to receive data back from the target of the spoofing. Corporate IPs are more likely (or should be more likely) to have policies enforced against abuse.
However IP =/= ID is not a strong defence against most copyright infringement claims (IMHO) unless there's proof of an open Wifi AP.
We'll have to see how this plays out.
Oh, that's your own fault... You should have put it in neutral. If only more people would neuter their cars, we wouldn't have the problems we have today with feral cars! Why don't people THINK!
Everyone told me not to put truck nuts on the back of the thing.
But I just wouldn't listen...
Your car reproduce??? Take it to the mechanic immediately!!!
Well, it ran itself into another one - I think it's mating season. :/
Looks like InsightIn140Bytes is back after the holiday break.
Got a new Slashdot ID for xmas?
Maybe this post made InsightIn140Bytes go away?
1. Homeostasis. It must make a detectable effort to maintain the conditions of its internals, and to adjust to changes in its environment.
[...]
The maintenance of an internal environment (homeostasis) is considered the most important, and the primary reason scientists have hesitated to consider transposons and viruses to be alive, even though they can reproduce and evolve.
[...]
I am a biologist. Ask me questions [...]. I'll give car/computer analogies if possible!
So... homeostasis is like a car's heating & air-con? So, my car's alive?!?
There should be a container for micro sd cards which you can swallow. Its not 1TB but it could carry an OS which you use to download the rest of the data.
Regardless of container, stomach acids would induce bit rot, turning data into... shit.
Read TFA,
I *did* RTFA.
this is a company that had just been bought out by Symantec.
Sure, but the story's relevance is not only for people who've just sold their company.
nobody is going to blame you in this situation.
Nobody reasonable. This isn't about a reasonable response.
Increasingly I've found both people and the moderation on Reddit to be much better than on Slashdot. So when can we get fix for that?
Immediately. Just stop coming here and go to Reddit instead. I think Slashdot's moderation works fine. Reddit's too, though I have little experience with it.
Increasingly I've found both people and the moderation on Reddit to be much better than on Slashdot.
Interesting, since your UID indicates you're rather new here.
Give the code to him, advises Winer.
Or, 4) he cannot understand the code, blames the code and, by extension, you, and you life gets more difficult. Personally I agree to give the code - who knows what their hidden competencies are, but option 4 is possible. Them's the chances you take...
Then again Xerox had a similar kind of problem trying to stay relevant over the years, where it could have owned the PC market with the devices built at their PARC research group but instead let Apple Computer (in the form of Steve Jobs) essentially copy all of their ideas and build the Macintosh.
Channelling /. user bonch 'cause I cannot help myself:
There comes a point where it's obvious that other companies are liberally borrowing from Jonathan Ive's design shop at Apple.
[...]
I realize Slashdot comments tend to have an Apple slant (to put it mildly), but come on, this is completely obvious "inspiration" from Apple.
[...]
I think what really goes on here is that some people just don't want to give Apple credit for anything, and they hate when people do credit them, so when comparisons between designs are pointed out, it pisses them off and they make snarky remarks about "rounded rectangles."
So, don't you see? Xerox copied ideas from Ive's and Jobs' future! Why, oh why won't you at least give them credit where credit is due, Slashdot?
What's really interesting is the Ubislate - $10 more ($60) - a Cortex A8 cpu, a video accelerator, HD video, and Gingerbread. Sure, it's not ICS, but Gingerbread for $60???
I wonder how open / hackable they (Aakash & Ubislate) are? Could one theoretically buy a device and install their own Android / Ubuntu on it? Seems like they've got kernel hackers tweaking away to make it work properly, so I doubt a standard kernel would work, but maybe they'll open source it? (Ask them if you interview them.)
And of course, we all know what that means - within a few years, ICS for under $100.
Ah yes, but ICS will be at least 2 versions old by then. OTOH, hopefully Android will be better polished (I thought previews of ICS looked fugly) and Google will have done something to block the carriers from preventing updates, etc. by then.
Maybe CyanogenMod could be loaded onto them? That would be cool.
I've got Fresh Zodiak Fruit ROM on my Wind Huawei 8100 Android phone and mostly love it, except for the randomly appearing apps in the task list. I'm always killing apps that appear in there that I didn't launch. :(
Great story in your G&M link!
I had missed it, so thanks for bringing it to my (everyone's) attention.
(My posts have been disappearing today; I hope this isn't a double post as the original one is not showing, I swear!)
"In terms of federal research, in 1980 the federal government provided about 70% of all dollars spent on basic research, but since then the government's share of basic research funding given to all entities has fallen to 57%."
You mean to tell me that this is part of the beef? That Great God Government (beat head three times on the floor in the direction of Washington) now has less control over what people can research?
Can someone explain to me why this is a bad thing?
Because governments tended to fund long term research where benefits might not appear for a decade. Corporations tend to invest in research that has payoffs measured in months or a few years.
i.e. Government financed research into the Internet (you may have heard of it), space exploration, etc., which have had huge benefits that didn't appear for a decade or more.
Also, it's idiotic (in more ways than one) to say
Government (beat head three times on the floor in the direction of Washington) now has less control over what people can research?
Government isn't dictating what can and cannot be researched (except small-government Republicans who blocked government-funded into research into stem cells, expected to have massive long-term benefits: this has driven the research elsewhere).
Further to your comment (and re-posting this as original post from hours ago hasn't shown up!?!), do not forget to add your name & address to the email!
From Mr Geist's blog:
All it takes a single email with your name, address, and comments on the issue. The email can be sent to consultations@international.gc.ca. Alternatively, submissions can be sent by fax (613-944-3489) or mail (Trade Negotiations Consultations (TPP), Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Trade Policy and Negotiations Division II (TPW), Lester B. Pearson Building, 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2).
I bet this'll end up being a double-post, but I swear the original isn't visible as I write this.