yes, an ip can id someone, when combined with other data, but this other data you talk about is nearly impossible for anyone to get. Not I nor you nor anyone we know can get to that data. hell when combined with other data you can ID some by whats in thier refrigerator or by what kind of shoes they wear. we have to draw the line someplace.
let me ask you something, given than your fingerprint is as solid a means of id as you can get, do you wear gloves 24/7? i bet you dont, unless youre doing something you dont want anyone to know youre doing, same rules apply with ips, there are many ways to obscure your actual ip from those you deal with online, so if youre doing something you want to keep a secret but cant be bothered to use a proxy, why then should legislation be enacted to protect you?
i see where youre coming from, but attaching an ip to an individual for any reason is foolish what with dynamic ip adressing used by many isps. Something like a name or social security number identifies you and only you, and isn't at all easyto change, but and ip address is fleeting, and the only entity that can tie an ip to a person is the isp that assigned it to them, and that only tells you who pays for it, not who was using it at a given date and time, and even with a court order the isp may not cooperate, and without that an ip is as useless a means of identifying you as is the serial number on your tv...
and in response to you, i dont care if my ip is in a list of people who purchased viagra because noone who reads that list will see my ip and know I was a customer, so that does little other than support my argument.
The point im making is that an ip at best narrows the possibilities of who it could be down to a small group and even then only to those who have access to your isps billing information, and therefore shouldnt be considered the same as drivers license number or ssn or whatever
there are no less than 8 people who have the key to my network, and at any given time there are half a dozen computers connected to it between me and my roommates and the upstairs neighbors so to say that my internet facing IP positively identifies any of us is "absurd". I will however be positively delighted if my IP is ever used as evidence agaisnt me in court, because It carries with it more than enough reasonable doubt.
I installed slackware 12.2 on my eee 900, (had to do it from an SD card, but thats not too hard) and everything works. I didn't have to monkey around with anything to get anything working. I just copied my rc.inet1 from another machine to bring up the wireless at boot and viola. It's wayyyy faster than XP too. Feels really good on that little machine.
Informed customers are few and far between buddy. I have an EEEpc 900, and anyone who uses it looks at the silly little xandros desktop that came on it and asks me "what the hell is this?" so I tell them all about it, and 9 times out of 10 they ask me "It doesn't have windows?" and only use it for about 10 seconds. The average person on the street will use a slower machine without even a moments thought on the matter, so long as it has windows, and looks farmiliar to them.
Precisely, but I wonder if Links is vulnerable? It's text based just like lynx but when I use putty to ssh into my box at home, and run Links, I can click on links and buttons and it works.
I have a free account with dyndns, and they always send me an email warning me that I need to log in before a certain date or my account will dissappear, like they do for every free account. I let it slip once, but it was my fault entirely because I knew it was getting near the end of my 30 days. If you can't be bothered to check your email and login to a website once a month to keep a rather useful free service active, then you sir are a bum.
The big flat CC's from older model Mercedes Benz and other foreign cars can fetch over $100 at the scrap yard. Most newer ones are much cheaper though.
Also, I've notcied when im good and backed it tends to make me focus on one thing at a time, which makes it harder for me to get distracted from the game. If I'm good and baked I never look away from the screen if there's a live game happening.
It would appear to me that big companies don't consider personal info to be as valuable as something like thier trade secrets. I work for a large manufacturing company, and If I were to lose any data storage device with a large number of confidential details about our manufacturing processes or data/drawings of our parts and products, I would expect to be thrown under the bus.
If a laptop or hard drive or thumb drive with some personal info gets "lost" or stolen, anyone in the company who knew that said data was stored on such a portable and and easy to steal/misplace sort of device should be sent to prison simply for being an idiot.
Now, if the data is lost through a an attack on secured servers, and the company did thier due diligence to protect that data (multiple layers of security, multiple auths, firewalls, IDSs, etc..) then they shouldn't be punished, but if data is lost simply due to someone being stupid, then they should pay dearly.
You dont need documents. You can determine the age of a person by measuring growth plates between bones, bone density, hormone levels and all other sorts of indicators that a crooked govt. can't fake (Although, they can fake the documents that present the results, so we'd have to trust the doctors). However, if china were asked to allow such tests, they'd just say no.
From what I understand, one of the big things about HIV/AIDS is that it mutates quite a bit and is hard to keep up with, if this project can simulate/predict future mutations, I should think it would be quite useful.
Other then that? Not much except for the eye candy.. Woohoo.. yes, that will make your office a lot more productive!
And the only business machines that'll be able to employ all the eye candy anyhow are high end workstations like the ones on the desks of our Engineering dept. and the like. The little small form factor Dell's that occupy the other offices around here can't even do Aero Glass, and some they even had to turn off visual styles in XP to keep em running with any kind of appearance of speed.
My own personal experiance with Vista is quite small, and shall stay that way. My little sister bought a brand new HP notebook right after Vista came out. The day she got it home, IE started crashing randomly when she tried to download stuff (Yahoo Messenger, AOL IM, you know, the regular stuff you download onto any new machine), so she switched to Firefox (yeah, your right, ie DID crash EVERY SINGLE TIME she tried to download firefox, imagine that) Once I got Firefox going for her (from a usb drive) she was able to start browsing the web without cursing every few minutes, but within another day or so she had called me up asking me how to fix any number of other things. Within the first week she had more problems with her BRAND NEW notebook than I have in a month with my 6 year old, half dead, piece of junk computer (with all the guts hanging out in true geek fasion) I got when I graduated high school. Everything she did popped up an error, or a warning, or one of those damned "Are you sure you want to perform this totally trivial act of copying a file to a jumpdrive?" messages. They can pry my old busted copy of windows XP out of my old busted computers cold dead hands!
the reaction mass for a craft with an ion thruster is a bottle of compressed xenon gas or the like, which weighs much MUCH less than the tons of steel and concrete and magnets required to build a linear accelerator on or around the asteroid. I doubt there are any concrete batch plants anywhere near Apophis...
when it totally wasn't cool to be one of those wierd dressing kids that listens to metal and hates everyone. Goth is here to stay I think, but the emo thing is a fad, and will pass, and all the "cool" kids will find some other cookie cutter to look like. Just wait it out...
yeah, they always wanna know whats up with the tape, and when I say "minor electrical/electronic repairs" they hear "sabotage" so its not always sunshine and daisys, but I never leave home without it.
...by acting the slightest bit suspicious. They move me swiftly to the front of the cavity search line, and then usually send me straight to the terminal when they're done.
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yes, an ip can id someone, when combined with other data, but this other data you talk about is nearly impossible for anyone to get. Not I nor you nor anyone we know can get to that data. hell when combined with other data you can ID some by whats in thier refrigerator or by what kind of shoes they wear. we have to draw the line someplace. let me ask you something, given than your fingerprint is as solid a means of id as you can get, do you wear gloves 24/7? i bet you dont, unless youre doing something you dont want anyone to know youre doing, same rules apply with ips, there are many ways to obscure your actual ip from those you deal with online, so if youre doing something you want to keep a secret but cant be bothered to use a proxy, why then should legislation be enacted to protect you?
i see where youre coming from, but attaching an ip to an individual for any reason is foolish what with dynamic ip adressing used by many isps. Something like a name or social security number identifies you and only you, and isn't at all easyto change, but and ip address is fleeting, and the only entity that can tie an ip to a person is the isp that assigned it to them, and that only tells you who pays for it, not who was using it at a given date and time, and even with a court order the isp may not cooperate, and without that an ip is as useless a means of identifying you as is the serial number on your tv... and in response to you, i dont care if my ip is in a list of people who purchased viagra because noone who reads that list will see my ip and know I was a customer, so that does little other than support my argument. The point im making is that an ip at best narrows the possibilities of who it could be down to a small group and even then only to those who have access to your isps billing information, and therefore shouldnt be considered the same as drivers license number or ssn or whatever
there are no less than 8 people who have the key to my network, and at any given time there are half a dozen computers connected to it between me and my roommates and the upstairs neighbors so to say that my internet facing IP positively identifies any of us is "absurd". I will however be positively delighted if my IP is ever used as evidence agaisnt me in court, because It carries with it more than enough reasonable doubt.
I installed slackware 12.2 on my eee 900, (had to do it from an SD card, but thats not too hard) and everything works. I didn't have to monkey around with anything to get anything working. I just copied my rc.inet1 from another machine to bring up the wireless at boot and viola. It's wayyyy faster than XP too. Feels really good on that little machine.
Informed customers are few and far between buddy. I have an EEEpc 900, and anyone who uses it looks at the silly little xandros desktop that came on it and asks me "what the hell is this?" so I tell them all about it, and 9 times out of 10 they ask me "It doesn't have windows?" and only use it for about 10 seconds. The average person on the street will use a slower machine without even a moments thought on the matter, so long as it has windows, and looks farmiliar to them.
agreed
Actually, I use links quite a bit because, as I said in another post, when I click on links in Links, it works (at least in a a PuTTY window)
Precisely, but I wonder if Links is vulnerable? It's text based just like lynx but when I use putty to ssh into my box at home, and run Links, I can click on links and buttons and it works.
I knew there was a reason I liked lynx
I have a free account with dyndns, and they always send me an email warning me that I need to log in before a certain date or my account will dissappear, like they do for every free account. I let it slip once, but it was my fault entirely because I knew it was getting near the end of my 30 days. If you can't be bothered to check your email and login to a website once a month to keep a rather useful free service active, then you sir are a bum.
The big flat CC's from older model Mercedes Benz and other foreign cars can fetch over $100 at the scrap yard. Most newer ones are much cheaper though.
i think you mean catalytic converters, mufflers are pretty much worthless. catylitic converters however are chock full of precious metals.
Also, I've notcied when im good and backed it tends to make me focus on one thing at a time, which makes it harder for me to get distracted from the game. If I'm good and baked I never look away from the screen if there's a live game happening.
It would appear to me that big companies don't consider personal info to be as valuable as something like thier trade secrets. I work for a large manufacturing company, and If I were to lose any data storage device with a large number of confidential details about our manufacturing processes or data/drawings of our parts and products, I would expect to be thrown under the bus.
If a laptop or hard drive or thumb drive with some personal info gets "lost" or stolen, anyone in the company who knew that said data was stored on such a portable and and easy to steal/misplace sort of device should be sent to prison simply for being an idiot.
Now, if the data is lost through a an attack on secured servers, and the company did thier due diligence to protect that data (multiple layers of security, multiple auths, firewalls, IDSs, etc..) then they shouldn't be punished, but if data is lost simply due to someone being stupid, then they should pay dearly.
You dont need documents. You can determine the age of a person by measuring growth plates between bones, bone density, hormone levels and all other sorts of indicators that a crooked govt. can't fake (Although, they can fake the documents that present the results, so we'd have to trust the doctors). However, if china were asked to allow such tests, they'd just say no.
From what I understand, one of the big things about HIV/AIDS is that it mutates quite a bit and is hard to keep up with, if this project can simulate/predict future mutations, I should think it would be quite useful.
Other then that? Not much except for the eye candy.. Woohoo.. yes, that will make your office a lot more productive!
And the only business machines that'll be able to employ all the eye candy anyhow are high end workstations like the ones on the desks of our Engineering dept. and the like. The little small form factor Dell's that occupy the other offices around here can't even do Aero Glass, and some they even had to turn off visual styles in XP to keep em running with any kind of appearance of speed.
My own personal experiance with Vista is quite small, and shall stay that way. My little sister bought a brand new HP notebook right after Vista came out. The day she got it home, IE started crashing randomly when she tried to download stuff (Yahoo Messenger, AOL IM, you know, the regular stuff you download onto any new machine), so she switched to Firefox (yeah, your right, ie DID crash EVERY SINGLE TIME she tried to download firefox, imagine that) Once I got Firefox going for her (from a usb drive) she was able to start browsing the web without cursing every few minutes, but within another day or so she had called me up asking me how to fix any number of other things. Within the first week she had more problems with her BRAND NEW notebook than I have in a month with my 6 year old, half dead, piece of junk computer (with all the guts hanging out in true geek fasion) I got when I graduated high school. Everything she did popped up an error, or a warning, or one of those damned "Are you sure you want to perform this totally trivial act of copying a file to a jumpdrive?" messages. They can pry my old busted copy of windows XP out of my old busted computers cold dead hands!
the S10 will sell for £319 (US$629) in the U.K., but in the U.S. the starting price is $399
I've noticed this sort of thing about several electronic devices, anyone know why they charge so much more in the UK?
who cares if it plays quake, can it play crysis?
... does it run linux?
the reaction mass for a craft with an ion thruster is a bottle of compressed xenon gas or the like, which weighs much MUCH less than the tons of steel and concrete and magnets required to build a linear accelerator on or around the asteroid. I doubt there are any concrete batch plants anywhere near Apophis...
when it totally wasn't cool to be one of those wierd dressing kids that listens to metal and hates everyone. Goth is here to stay I think, but the emo thing is a fad, and will pass, and all the "cool" kids will find some other cookie cutter to look like. Just wait it out...
yeah, they always wanna know whats up with the tape, and when I say "minor electrical/electronic repairs" they hear "sabotage" so its not always sunshine and daisys, but I never leave home without it.
...by acting the slightest bit suspicious. They move me swiftly to the front of the cavity search line, and then usually send me straight to the terminal when they're done.