Did it in high school (ahhh, those were the days...)
It said that extended periods of work (anything more than two hours) could cause a stroke and high blood pressure...
No one believed me though...
Again this goes to public, vs. private. If you want private access to various devices/data then you have to pay for that private access. You are using a public medium and expecting private level security on it. You are trading off the expense of private access to your end means for a lower cost method of access. By doing this, you yourself are already agreeing to be a larger part of the problem. It always amazes me when someone pays less for something and then complains when it does not provide the same level of expectation that someone else is paying more for.
Don't get me wrong, I do not want to have video feeds constantly streaming from my home to a monitoring center controlled by others involuntarily. But there's a far distance between that and voluntarily allowing someone to watch a stream over the internet.
Data mining is just that. Mining on what is voluntarily put on a PUBLIC network. If you are worried about the information you choose to share, then perhaps you should not share it via this public network.
Me, I have nothing to hide. no guilt not a criminal. If there is something I don't want others to know about, I simply just don't share it.
As far as monitoring millions of people for a week, if I had a budget for it, I could accomplish it in much the same manner I previously posted. Its called hired help.
Everytime someone posts about a new technological device/method/way/means of doing something, people scrutinize it for how it can be misused or controlled.
In all honesty, big-brother is nothing more than someone else poking their nose into your business for their own means. In other words, I could go out my door and follow one of my neighbors around for a week, observing and noting what they do. Perhaps I cannot observe all of the things they do/say, but I'm quite certain I could observe enough to gain insight into their daily life and use it for whatever purpose I want.
With that in mind, any time you use a public infrastructure - be it the internet or a public switched telephone network, you are giving up some privacy (That's why they call it PUBLIC) and the ability to be observed.
Each must judge for themselves what they deem intrusive and if you don't like a device/method - don't use it. Leave it for the rest of us who deem it an asset to our lives.
Per some info I located:
"The Office Startup Assistant (Osa.exe or OSA) is a program that improves the performance of Office XP programs. Office Setup places a shortcut to the Osa.exe file in the Windows Startup folder; the file is named "Microsoft Office".
"The Osa.exe file initializes the shared code that is used by the Office XP programs. When you use the Osa.exe file to initialize shared code, the Office XP programs start faster. If the Office programs, instead of Osa.exe, initialize the shared code, the programs take longer to start."
Microsoft already pre-loads most of the shared code on bootup, so you're already running portions of it even when you don't want to. Under WinXP, run msconfig and you can disable it from the startup. Time how long Word now takes to load (after rebooting) - not real noticable on a P4 with lots of RAM and fast drives though.
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Per their website the business_case.pdf... Confidential - For sponsors only Segments: Anything with promise CPG/Retail - borrow from Accenture/PWC Consulting as available Others: access control, airline baggage ID, automotive (component tracking, production control, smart keys), document tracking, mail/parcel delivery, livestock/pet ID, warehouse management, product authentication/anti-diversion, sports timing, transit and event ticketing, ski/venue passes, video/uniform rentals, libraries, quick payment systems, reusable containers, healthcare/pharmaceuticals, smart packaging, currency tagging, gaming chips, golf balls, toll roads, railcar/shipping container tracking, perishables management... So they'll track more than just packaging if they can...
Now you can feel safe if you need to throw the out the "core".
Did it in high school (ahhh, those were the days...) It said that extended periods of work (anything more than two hours) could cause a stroke and high blood pressure... No one believed me though...
Again this goes to public, vs. private. If you want private access to various devices/data then you have to pay for that private access. You are using a public medium and expecting private level security on it. You are trading off the expense of private access to your end means for a lower cost method of access. By doing this, you yourself are already agreeing to be a larger part of the problem. It always amazes me when someone pays less for something and then complains when it does not provide the same level of expectation that someone else is paying more for.
Don't get me wrong, I do not want to have video feeds constantly streaming from my home to a monitoring center controlled by others involuntarily. But there's a far distance between that and voluntarily allowing someone to watch a stream over the internet.
Data mining is just that. Mining on what is voluntarily put on a PUBLIC network. If you are worried about the information you choose to share, then perhaps you should not share it via this public network.
Me, I have nothing to hide. no guilt not a criminal. If there is something I don't want others to know about, I simply just don't share it.
As far as monitoring millions of people for a week, if I had a budget for it, I could accomplish it in much the same manner I previously posted. Its called hired help.
Everytime someone posts about a new technological device/method/way/means of doing something, people scrutinize it for how it can be misused or controlled.
In all honesty, big-brother is nothing more than someone else poking their nose into your business for their own means. In other words, I could go out my door and follow one of my neighbors around for a week, observing and noting what they do. Perhaps I cannot observe all of the things they do/say, but I'm quite certain I could observe enough to gain insight into their daily life and use it for whatever purpose I want.
With that in mind, any time you use a public infrastructure - be it the internet or a public switched telephone network, you are giving up some privacy (That's why they call it PUBLIC) and the ability to be observed.
Each must judge for themselves what they deem intrusive and if you don't like a device/method - don't use it. Leave it for the rest of us who deem it an asset to our lives.
Per some info I located: "The Office Startup Assistant (Osa.exe or OSA) is a program that improves the performance of Office XP programs. Office Setup places a shortcut to the Osa.exe file in the Windows Startup folder; the file is named "Microsoft Office". "The Osa.exe file initializes the shared code that is used by the Office XP programs. When you use the Osa.exe file to initialize shared code, the Office XP programs start faster. If the Office programs, instead of Osa.exe, initialize the shared code, the programs take longer to start." Microsoft already pre-loads most of the shared code on bootup, so you're already running portions of it even when you don't want to. Under WinXP, run msconfig and you can disable it from the startup. Time how long Word now takes to load (after rebooting) - not real noticable on a P4 with lots of RAM and fast drives though.