On an unrelated note relating to the confusing North/Central/South America and folks from the USA generally getting called Americans, I suggest we rename the continents North/Central/South Mexico. Mexico, being in the middle, makes a better reference point.
Based on how much difficulty people have had trying to blanket even smallish cities, I have no idea how Google could possibly cover a country the size of America with WiFi. How many thousands of hotspots would it take?
I think that's irrelevant (I'm not trolling, it's just my opinion). Having the option to send a different user agent string is very handy, but it should definitely _not_ be the default action out of the box.
One of the local universities has an interesting system setup. The professors wear a wireless microphone that is connected to a computer running speech recognition software. Whatever they say is transcribed and projected onto a screen behind them, and the transcript (along with audio) are put up on the course web site. Might be overkill, but could be useful (especially having the audio version available).
Alright, this does feel a bit rotten, but it's really no different than wiretapping, which we've all grown accustomed to the spectre of.
The question is, if the suspect finds and removes the spyware, what happens next? Will the police charge them with obstructing justice? What if the spyware has a negative effect on the operation of their computer -- can the justice system be held liable for damages? Are they planning on making cross-platform spyware, or will Windows users be the only one to suffer?
This so-called powerful new means of gathering evidence isn't quite fully baked, and I doubt it will be for the foreseeable future.
Salon.com (I know, I know, it's the bane of everyone's existance) had an interesting article about the increasing number of Americans joining us up here in the so-called Great White North (or Damp Grey North, as I like to call it). I would provide a link, but they've moved the file and I can't find it the new location (how sad is that?).
My ISP, Eastlink, has no problems with people file-sharing, and offers suggestions on how to reduce your bandwidth usage, as we have a 30 GB transfer limit per month.
In general, I find it absolutely sickening that American government is letting corporations get so much control over the basic rights of their citizens. Canadian TV and radio might suck, but at least we have our freedom.:)
I know, I know. I phrased the post badly. Forgive me.
FutureFS will supposedly have some nifty features that take advantage of the journalling, as opposed to the NT line, which uses it for stability and data guarding only.
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Yes, but it seems to me that the term aboriginal worked just as well. "First Nations" seems overly politicized.
We call 'em First Nations up here. Not sure why, though.
On an unrelated note relating to the confusing North /Central/South America and folks from the USA generally getting called Americans, I suggest we rename the continents North/Central/South Mexico. Mexico, being in the middle, makes a better reference point.
Based on how much difficulty people have had trying to blanket even smallish cities, I have no idea how Google could possibly cover a country the size of America with WiFi. How many thousands of hotspots would it take?
What they should do is bring back Ricochet...
I think that's irrelevant (I'm not trolling, it's just my opinion). Having the option to send a different user agent string is very handy, but it should definitely _not_ be the default action out of the box.
I think we should all move to this wonderful country. Seriosly, we could have a majority vote if we all did it...and rename it Motherboard.
Seriously, where do I sign up?
Note I was implying that it would become a panopticon, not that it would become angsty or teenage-y. Should've made that one clearer, eh?
Okay, so he got the year wrong, but what about the third party clients?
Also, I wonder how this will bode for ICQ; will it also become an angsty teenage panopticon?
One of the local universities has an interesting system setup. The professors wear a wireless microphone that is connected to a computer running speech recognition software. Whatever they say is transcribed and projected onto a screen behind them, and the transcript (along with audio) are put up on the course web site. Might be overkill, but could be useful (especially having the audio version available).
Alright, this does feel a bit rotten, but it's really no different than wiretapping, which we've all grown accustomed to the spectre of.
The question is, if the suspect finds and removes the spyware, what happens next? Will the police charge them with obstructing justice? What if the spyware has a negative effect on the operation of their computer -- can the justice system be held liable for damages? Are they planning on making cross-platform spyware, or will Windows users be the only one to suffer?
This so-called powerful new means of gathering evidence isn't quite fully baked, and I doubt it will be for the foreseeable future.
Salon.com (I know, I know, it's the bane of everyone's existance) had an interesting article about the increasing number of Americans joining us up here in the so-called Great White North (or Damp Grey North, as I like to call it). I would provide a link, but they've moved the file and I can't find it the new location (how sad is that?). My ISP, Eastlink, has no problems with people file-sharing, and offers suggestions on how to reduce your bandwidth usage, as we have a 30 GB transfer limit per month. In general, I find it absolutely sickening that American government is letting corporations get so much control over the basic rights of their citizens. Canadian TV and radio might suck, but at least we have our freedom. :)
I know, I know. I phrased the post badly. Forgive me. FutureFS will supposedly have some nifty features that take advantage of the journalling, as opposed to the NT line, which uses it for stability and data guarding only.
I meant a full journaling file system. Windows FutureFS looks to be much better than plain old NTFS.
Mind you, I'm no file system expert. I don't think I'm an idiot, though.