I didn't mean to be so snarky. Sorry about that. My point is simply that by becoming a jabber server, and by having a vast indexing engine available to them, it seems a short stop to be able to build a full "profile" of any user in google. It would be different if instead of a privacy policy, there was some standard of encryption on your own personal material that you store up there, but even then, one would have to assume their encryption was safe.
I suppose it would be nice to see a jabber based solution not readily indexable by any of the search giants...
It is nice to see them expanding and doing other work, and I don't really have an issue with profiling users in itself.
Except that my isp doesn't store traffic, it just logs connections, so, no, that wouldn't be a good place to go to pull information on the content of thsoe connections. Google would be.
Oh yeah, that's why I can search my email, Google has no record of my email or my websearches... I wonder where all that data for personal search comes from? Oh yeah, its stored in google.. duh...
Exactly! Google will now have a reocrd of:
1. Your web searches
2. Your email
3. You im conversations
If google were the government would you be afraid?
But the article was focused really on archiving as opposed to backup. Compression would work for backup, but archiving is an attempt to make the data searchable as well as permanent. Some type of indexed compression would preserve space size, but is it really that important? If they simply started chaining sans, there would be no issue with storage. If they used flash memory based san, there would be no data loss -- although it would be quite expensive to build. That tied into a highly indexed and hierarchical database with smart data management, and this problem seems surmountable...
I thought that pushing raw materials up into orbit would be a great way for us to actually be able to start building larger machines in orbit. Thanks for the backup Charlie!;-)
This is the huge tidbit that I haven't really seen discussed:
"That's 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, and three times the velocity needed to escape Earth's gravitational field."
A rail gun, of sufficient capacity to catapult raw materials into orbit, would be a gigantic breakthrough for the whole planet.
Sure I can, in light of the massive fraud that seems to have gone on:
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/index. html
Covered elsewhere in Slashdot.
Sorry for the flamebait, I'm still quite angry that the voting process was hacked.
You know, that system is almost more representational than our current one (each vote for a candidate increases his chances of being "picked" for office) and it enters a certain interesting randomness into the whole process. Why not IRV coupled with random office-holder selection?
Sounds like your company is on its way to a sale or bankruptcy. Move on! In my experience, once the company starts cutting back in such a way, it has much larger problems that they don't want to discuss with the rank and file. I'd bail as soon as possible.
I wonder why we as consumers have some kind of "responsiblity" for accepting the advertising that marketers foist upon us. I, for one (And I'm sure there are many here) remember the Internet before it was commercial, and before there were shysters trying to convince me that advertising is what creates the medium. That's just not true. Advertising is a parasite that sits on top of a succesfull communications medium, not a creator of such mediums. I would argue that marketing and advertising are naturally agnostic to the creation of new communications mediums... deriding them as being "not up to snuff" until individuals make those mediums successfull.... which then tempts the advertising community to engage and use those mediums... several years down the road attempting to state that it is advertising itself that makes those means of communications succesfull. When will it all end!
I guess what I meant by access control would be fine grained access control. Of course one would need to restrict access to a machine on a network to known parties... but rlogin and rsh worked just fine on trusted, local networks. A simple implementation along those lines, with hooks to plugin to a larger access framework would be useful. For me, the use would be in the distributed backup, not necessarily the shared drive. I have many disks... some of which sit idle in a closet. If I could automagically backup my laptop when I come home at night and plugin to my lan, all going into a centralized server holding the backups of any other machine I used, that would be useful. A better idea, might be having a shared user account over a series of 'nix boxen. Anyway, just some thoughts.
That's not really the point is it? This guy has a legit need here, to setup a shared backup system amongs a group of machines. The single point of failure here is a hard drive on one or many machines. This way he distributes his problem instead of not having a solution. I like tthis idea quit a bit. As this isn't for the enterprise, why would he even really care about access control? Sheesh.
The real issue here, is whether or not a super-human or post-human civilization would have the remotest interest in our view of the world. The question that I think is interesting, is one of parallel. Do we run simulations of existant life-forms? Or do we rather, try to understand life by the means of new life-forms that simulate some the particularity under study? As we are talking about a different form of intelligence, post-human intelligence, it seems to me that we are guilty of self-aggrandizing projection even supposing we have the slightest idea as to what such an intelligence would consider interesting.
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I didn't mean to be so snarky. Sorry about that. My point is simply that by becoming a jabber server, and by having a vast indexing engine available to them, it seems a short stop to be able to build a full "profile" of any user in google. It would be different if instead of a privacy policy, there was some standard of encryption on your own personal material that you store up there, but even then, one would have to assume their encryption was safe. I suppose it would be nice to see a jabber based solution not readily indexable by any of the search giants ...
It is nice to see them expanding and doing other work, and I don't really have an issue with profiling users in itself.
Except that my isp doesn't store traffic, it just logs connections, so, no, that wouldn't be a good place to go to pull information on the content of thsoe connections. Google would be.
Oh yeah, that's why I can search my email, Google has no record of my email or my websearches ... I wonder where all that data for personal search comes from? Oh yeah, its stored in google .. duh ...
Exactly! Google will now have a reocrd of: 1. Your web searches 2. Your email 3. You im conversations If google were the government would you be afraid?
But the article was focused really on archiving as opposed to backup. Compression would work for backup, but archiving is an attempt to make the data searchable as well as permanent. Some type of indexed compression would preserve space size, but is it really that important? If they simply started chaining sans, there would be no issue with storage. If they used flash memory based san, there would be no data loss -- although it would be quite expensive to build. That tied into a highly indexed and hierarchical database with smart data management, and this problem seems surmountable ...
I thought that pushing raw materials up into orbit would be a great way for us to actually be able to start building larger machines in orbit. Thanks for the backup Charlie! ;-)
This is the huge tidbit that I haven't really seen discussed: "That's 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, and three times the velocity needed to escape Earth's gravitational field." A rail gun, of sufficient capacity to catapult raw materials into orbit, would be a gigantic breakthrough for the whole planet.
LOL. Communism is just a word that frightened fascists use to beat dissent down. Thanks for the smile ... I assume this was a joke post.
Sure I can, in light of the massive fraud that seems to have gone on: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/index. html
Covered elsewhere in Slashdot.
Sorry for the flamebait, I'm still quite angry that the voting process was hacked.
Please see: http://www.indyvoter.org/ http://www.blacboxvoting.org Etc. ...
Unless the election was FRAUDULANT.
Thanks for 4 more years of nazism jerk.
I have an intense dislike for people that:
1. Support Torture
2. Support Liars.
3. Support Killing
4. Are opposed to civil liberties.
A vote for Bush is a vote for all of the above. Please leave my country.
You know, that system is almost more representational than our current one (each vote for a candidate increases his chances of being "picked" for office) and it enters a certain interesting randomness into the whole process. Why not IRV coupled with random office-holder selection?
Sounds like your company is on its way to a sale or bankruptcy. Move on! In my experience, once the company starts cutting back in such a way, it has much larger problems that they don't want to discuss with the rank and file. I'd bail as soon as possible.
Called Cops at donut shops?
p2p
I wonder why we as consumers have some kind of "responsiblity" for accepting the advertising that marketers foist upon us. I, for one (And I'm sure there are many here) remember the Internet before it was commercial, and before there were shysters trying to convince me that advertising is what creates the medium. That's just not true. Advertising is a parasite that sits on top of a succesfull communications medium, not a creator of such mediums. I would argue that marketing and advertising are naturally agnostic to the creation of new communications mediums ... deriding them as being "not up to snuff" until individuals make those mediums successfull .... which then tempts the advertising community to engage and use those mediums ... several years down the road attempting to state that it is advertising itself that makes those means of communications succesfull. When will it all end!
Isn't that Python's point? No typing? ;-) Or less typing .... sorry for the pun there ...
I guess what I meant by access control would be fine grained access control. Of course one would need to restrict access to a machine on a network to known parties ... but rlogin and rsh worked just fine on trusted, local networks. A simple implementation along those lines, with hooks to plugin to a larger access framework would be useful. For me, the use would be in the distributed backup, not necessarily the shared drive. I have many disks ... some of which sit idle in a closet. If I could automagically backup my laptop when I come home at night and plugin to my lan, all going into a centralized server holding the backups of any other machine I used, that would be useful. A better idea, might be having a shared user account over a series of 'nix boxen. Anyway, just some thoughts.
That's not really the point is it? This guy has a legit need here, to setup a shared backup system amongs a group of machines. The single point of failure here is a hard drive on one or many machines. This way he distributes his problem instead of not having a solution. I like tthis idea quit a bit. As this isn't for the enterprise, why would he even really care about access control? Sheesh.
The real issue here, is whether or not a super-human or post-human civilization would have the remotest interest in our view of the world. The question that I think is interesting, is one of parallel. Do we run simulations of existant life-forms? Or do we rather, try to understand life by the means of new life-forms that simulate some the particularity under study? As we are talking about a different form of intelligence, post-human intelligence, it seems to me that we are guilty of self-aggrandizing projection even supposing we have the slightest idea as to what such an intelligence would consider interesting.