I have no beef with you wanting to monitor your customers; it seems like a perfectly reasonable, indeed necessary, step to maintain your business. What I take issue with is the government requiring you to have security cameras. Can you comment on this? What's your take?
Say what you will about the surveillance clause in this ruling, a system like the parent post is talking about would be a blatant and intolerable--indeed, a dangerous invasion of privacy. If I go to an Internet cafe and check the balance in my bank account, and there is, unbeknownst to me, a keylogger on the computer, then the shop owner now has my social security number and the password to online administration of my bank account--information I could normally count on to be protected by strong encryption on its way from my computer to my bank's servers. I would then check my E*Trade account to see how my stocks are doing, at which point the shop owner has the necessary info to sell my stock and order a check sent to him.
Worst of all, I would then go to read/., and for all I know, the shop owner would start logging on as me to troll, ruining my karma! Big Brother! BIG BROTHER!!
Sure, there are cameras monitoring you all over the place, except that the gas station and the bank choose to monitor you--as far as I know, they aren't required to by an intrusive government. The government can require that their own buildings have video cameras for surveillance, just as a bank can require their branch offices to do the same, but the government should not be able to tell private businesses that they have to monitor their customers, when those businesses may prefer to respect their patrons' privacy.
I agree that looking at history doesn't give the same perspective as living through it. However, that doesn't mean that subsequent generations can't understand the circumstances of their ancestors, only that the lessons they learn will be different.
When you're close to something, you sometimes can't see the big picture--can't see the forest for the trees, as it were. A few decades' remove from some event may cause a student of history to lose the emotional connection with it, but that same distance allows a certain amount of objectivity that the participants can't possibly have. We can look back on something like the 3/5s compromise and realize what a horrible idea it was. Many of our founding fathers likely considered it a good idea right until the day they died, whereas if those same people lived today, they probably would realize, just as we do, how much it went against the principles of civil liberty--but only because, living today, they wouldn't have been part of crafting the great document.
What's more, as time goes on, new information often comes to light that wasn't available at the time, and old information gets collected that wasn't all available to any one person at the time, allowing new analyses to be made that give historians new insight into the past.
If succeeding generations couldn't learn from the mistakes of their forbears, we would still be in the Dark Ages. Indeed, we would still be primitive hominids, as the ability to build on the knowledge of previous generations is (arguably, of course, as any statement ending in the following will inevitably be) one of the main things that makes us human.
Yahoo also uses Google. In fact, I read recently (probably in an article I found on/., though having not slept last night I have no interest in trying to find the link) that Yahoo traffic accounts for something like 20% of Google's queries.
If anyone wants to find the link, I think it was in the recent article about Macrosquash's efforts to develop a competitive search engine. Of course, it was probably a gross estimate anyway.
Just what age was the original poster showing, hmmm? Are you saying that people who didn't live through the Cold War are incapable of understanding its meaning? I don't agree with the parent post, either (see below), but I don't dissent by making ad hominem attacks.
If you read the article, you know there were no known casualties. It's not a very in-depth piece, but I would guess it was planned that way from the beginning. I'm not usually one to defend the CIA or the whole concept of espionage, but I'm damned glad we won the Cold War, and doing so through intelligence activities involving no loss of life is better than through military action with the potential for nuclear war and mutually assured destruction and all that.
Besides, at least it's an example of the CIA doing what it's supposed to do. If I hear one more story about the CIA directly violating their charter by gathering domestic intelligence, well...I guess I'll just hate the CIA even more and not really do anything about it, but that sort of thing really pisses me off.
The real purpose of the DDoS is so that SCO can get all the IP addresses of infected computers. If you're infected, expect an invoice in the mail within 30 days.
hpPod (pronounced hep-pod) - Comes with several pills of amphetamines psyPod - Comes with dropper of LSD, 50 doses skyPod - Comes with a personal flying machine capable of vertical takeof/landing in a typical back yard with a range up to 300 miles with two people in the cab thaiPod - Comes with a side of wanton soup
If this ends up being a sweet deal for HP, they'll bite back at something like that. Microsoft has a lot of clout, but HP is still a huge customer, and the customer is always right (as long as he's got pockets as deep as HP's).
As long as we're basing this on physical constants, why have the epoch be based on a human calendar? It should be t=0, the beginning of the universe.
One consequence of this will be to settle once and for all the question of the age of the universe--we can just define it as something appropriate and convenient.
Alternatively, Adobe could write Photoshop for some random distro, whichever one they choose, and that distro could become the de facto standard linux distro for graphics professionals weary of closed-source operating systems.
Now we just need to find all the graphics professionals who are weary of closed-source operating systems, but still willing to pay $750 for a closed-source graphics suite...
Sure, the RIAA can still get your name if you're trading their copyrighted material. The difference is that now they have to actually have some sort of case, meaning they have to have evidence that the files being shared belong to them, etc., and they have to present this evidence to a judge and get a real subpoena. This is called due process. It's a completely fair ruling, in that the RIAA can still get the information they need to go after copyright violators (a legitimate concern), but they can't circumvent the system by getting a fake subpoena without a judge's signature. At least, not in the particular circuit where this ruling applies.
I have SBC/Ameritech DSL. Yes, it's a big corporation, but it's a damned good deal--here's what I get for $65/month:
* 768/128k bandwidth * 5 static IPs * Unlimited throughput per month, as far as I can tell. * Some number of email addresses (I don't use this service, so I don't know about it) * I can run servers.
I don't use the email service because I run an email server of my own. I don't know if they offer Web hosting, because I run a Web server myself. Any sort of service I want, I can set up myself.
I don't know about running a WAP, but it's interesting to see that a megacorp like SBC can compete on the service level with such a well-reputed underdog as Speakeasy.
You aren't looking forward. We are already in the Information Age, so the question is what age comes next. I would say that as we generate and collect more and more data, and have more and more raw processing power, we will need to come up with new algorithms for manipulating and making sense of that data. The culmination of this process will be information that manipulates itself, or artificial intelligence. By that time the Internet will permeate the ether everywhere we go, but it will become a single intelligence, and we should be alert for any attempt it might make to communicate with us.
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What if I took a trip to Garden Grove? I've got the microwave, the VCR, and the deuce in the trunk of my car.
Pull over, there's a reason why my soul's unsound.
I have no beef with you wanting to monitor your customers; it seems like a perfectly reasonable, indeed necessary, step to maintain your business. What I take issue with is the government requiring you to have security cameras. Can you comment on this? What's your take?
Say what you will about the surveillance clause in this ruling, a system like the parent post is talking about would be a blatant and intolerable--indeed, a dangerous invasion of privacy. If I go to an Internet cafe and check the balance in my bank account, and there is, unbeknownst to me, a keylogger on the computer, then the shop owner now has my social security number and the password to online administration of my bank account--information I could normally count on to be protected by strong encryption on its way from my computer to my bank's servers. I would then check my E*Trade account to see how my stocks are doing, at which point the shop owner has the necessary info to sell my stock and order a check sent to him.
/., and for all I know, the shop owner would start logging on as me to troll, ruining my karma! Big Brother! BIG BROTHER!!
Worst of all, I would then go to read
Sure, there are cameras monitoring you all over the place, except that the gas station and the bank choose to monitor you--as far as I know, they aren't required to by an intrusive government. The government can require that their own buildings have video cameras for surveillance, just as a bank can require their branch offices to do the same, but the government should not be able to tell private businesses that they have to monitor their customers, when those businesses may prefer to respect their patrons' privacy.
I agree that looking at history doesn't give the same perspective as living through it. However, that doesn't mean that subsequent generations can't understand the circumstances of their ancestors, only that the lessons they learn will be different.
When you're close to something, you sometimes can't see the big picture--can't see the forest for the trees, as it were. A few decades' remove from some event may cause a student of history to lose the emotional connection with it, but that same distance allows a certain amount of objectivity that the participants can't possibly have. We can look back on something like the 3/5s compromise and realize what a horrible idea it was. Many of our founding fathers likely considered it a good idea right until the day they died, whereas if those same people lived today, they probably would realize, just as we do, how much it went against the principles of civil liberty--but only because, living today, they wouldn't have been part of crafting the great document.
What's more, as time goes on, new information often comes to light that wasn't available at the time, and old information gets collected that wasn't all available to any one person at the time, allowing new analyses to be made that give historians new insight into the past.
If succeeding generations couldn't learn from the mistakes of their forbears, we would still be in the Dark Ages. Indeed, we would still be primitive hominids, as the ability to build on the knowledge of previous generations is (arguably, of course, as any statement ending in the following will inevitably be) one of the main things that makes us human.
Agreed, 100%! When I read, "Google fans...will be disappointed...", I thought, hey--I'm a Google fan, and I couldn't be happier with this news.
Let's try to leave the opinions for the comments, not the stories, hmm?
Yahoo also uses Google. In fact, I read recently (probably in an article I found on /., though having not slept last night I have no interest in trying to find the link) that Yahoo traffic accounts for something like 20% of Google's queries.
If anyone wants to find the link, I think it was in the recent article about Macrosquash's efforts to develop a competitive search engine. Of course, it was probably a gross estimate anyway.
Somebody on /. who's willing to admit an error in reasoning?! Hell has frozen over!
You get added to my friends list now.
I think you're showing your age...
Just what age was the original poster showing, hmmm? Are you saying that people who didn't live through the Cold War are incapable of understanding its meaning? I don't agree with the parent post, either (see below), but I don't dissent by making ad hominem attacks.
If you read the article, you know there were no known casualties. It's not a very in-depth piece, but I would guess it was planned that way from the beginning. I'm not usually one to defend the CIA or the whole concept of espionage, but I'm damned glad we won the Cold War, and doing so through intelligence activities involving no loss of life is better than through military action with the potential for nuclear war and mutually assured destruction and all that.
Besides, at least it's an example of the CIA doing what it's supposed to do. If I hear one more story about the CIA directly violating their charter by gathering domestic intelligence, well...I guess I'll just hate the CIA even more and not really do anything about it, but that sort of thing really pisses me off.
To me, it seems like it happened a decade ago, but that's more a reflection on the events of my own life over the past year than anything else.
The real purpose of the DDoS is so that SCO can get all the IP addresses of infected computers. If you're infected, expect an invoice in the mail within 30 days.
Somebody should submit his story for a Darwin Award.
Or is there a statute of limitations on that, too?
How do you pronounce the middle line?
It's a David v. Goliath matchup. It's just that this time, Goliath is on our side, and he's going to win.
hpPod (pronounced hep-pod) - Comes with several pills of amphetamines
psyPod - Comes with dropper of LSD, 50 doses
skyPod - Comes with a personal flying machine capable of vertical takeof/landing in a typical back yard with a range up to 300 miles with two people in the cab
thaiPod - Comes with a side of wanton soup
If this ends up being a sweet deal for HP, they'll bite back at something like that. Microsoft has a lot of clout, but HP is still a huge customer, and the customer is always right (as long as he's got pockets as deep as HP's).
I propose that zero-time be zero Julian Date.
As long as we're basing this on physical constants, why have the epoch be based on a human calendar? It should be t=0, the beginning of the universe.
One consequence of this will be to settle once and for all the question of the age of the universe--we can just define it as something appropriate and convenient.
Alternatively, Adobe could write Photoshop for some random distro, whichever one they choose, and that distro could become the de facto standard linux distro for graphics professionals weary of closed-source operating systems.
Now we just need to find all the graphics professionals who are weary of closed-source operating systems, but still willing to pay $750 for a closed-source graphics suite...
Sure, the RIAA can still get your name if you're trading their copyrighted material. The difference is that now they have to actually have some sort of case, meaning they have to have evidence that the files being shared belong to them, etc., and they have to present this evidence to a judge and get a real subpoena. This is called due process. It's a completely fair ruling, in that the RIAA can still get the information they need to go after copyright violators (a legitimate concern), but they can't circumvent the system by getting a fake subpoena without a judge's signature. At least, not in the particular circuit where this ruling applies.
I have SBC/Ameritech DSL. Yes, it's a big corporation, but it's a damned good deal--here's what I get for $65/month:
* 768/128k bandwidth
* 5 static IPs
* Unlimited throughput per month, as far as I can tell.
* Some number of email addresses (I don't use this service, so I don't know about it)
* I can run servers.
I don't use the email service because I run an email server of my own. I don't know if they offer Web hosting, because I run a Web server myself. Any sort of service I want, I can set up myself.
I don't know about running a WAP, but it's interesting to see that a megacorp like SBC can compete on the service level with such a well-reputed underdog as Speakeasy.
[bubbles]
Done. Ahhh...
You aren't looking forward. We are already in the Information Age, so the question is what age comes next. I would say that as we generate and collect more and more data, and have more and more raw processing power, we will need to come up with new algorithms for manipulating and making sense of that data. The culmination of this process will be information that manipulates itself, or artificial intelligence. By that time the Internet will permeate the ether everywhere we go, but it will become a single intelligence, and we should be alert for any attempt it might make to communicate with us.
20 + 20 = 40
40 is almost 44
20 in, 20 out, almost saturated
A chunk of that got eaten up in the copying and pasting as I was finishing it. Sorry. Look for version 2.0 to follow in my journal.