From that point on no one should touch it until it breaks and needs to be RMA'd or scrapped.
Reminds me of the old joke about the best Server Admin being a German Shepard and a sysop. The sysop is there to feed the German Shepard, and the German Shepard is there to make sure the sysop never gets near the server.
Oddly, the linked article goes gaga about the inflatable tent next to the steel enclosed portable data center. So put a few rounds thru the inflatable tent to get rid of those pesky sysops, and then do what you will with the data center. Why make it out of bullet proof steel?
The dooms day clock is in fact a prediction of doom, done with symbolism, and not very meaningful symbolism at that. At least the Mayans set a date certain.
With the clock, those using it for their annual fear mongering, claim "oh its just symbolism", to weasel out of anything they can be held to, actual time frames, level of seriousness, or anything other than annual hand wringing.
Does the clock symbolize all of mans time here on earth, or only from the Pleistocene forward? Or maybe its the time scale of an average life? Or is it merely their opinion as to how messed up everything in THEIR lifetime, which, for most of these geezers them is rapidly approaching?
That this clock hasn't moved much at all since the 60s when both the US and the USSR were actively flying large numbers of nuclear weapons around in bombers just in case, up to now where they are wringing their hands about cyber technologies and global warming is clear indication that they will never stop their annual predication doom and gloom, and will adopt any cause that gives them even a once per year 15 minutes of relevance.
That they maintain plausible deniability by hiding behind scary symbolism only speaks to the bankruptcy of their worldview.
Its not like any of us would have stumbled on that symbolism in 66 years since they started making their predictions. We are all so dense you know.....
This "doomsday clock" hasn't ticked in years. The Atomic Scientists bulletin has used it for every Cause célèbre since the day it was invented. No amount of change will ever move those hands again, because there will always be another issue to adopt, another bandwagon to jump on, another social issue to champion.
Once the threat of nuclear war subsided from the fever pitch of the 60's, they, like most anti-everything protest movements, had to find other horses to ride, preferably one that couldn't reject them. So climate change it is. And cyber technologies!!
Before the TOS change, the free service left their content under their control (and copyright). Then, after the switch, the same service suddenly grabbed your copyright away from you and decided to do whatever they want with your stuff.
That is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE
The prior language (and the language they reverted to) said this:
you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service,
You have ZERO control once you accept that. Re-read the second link in the summary.
you can get away with something outrageous and just recant later if the users notice without suffering any negative long term effects.
Well, if you read the linked article, and both the New and Reverted language, you will see this was all about nothing. The reverted (original) language was just as bad as the language the triggered the outcry.
So by recanting, they fell back to the original language which gives them FULL RIGHTS TO EVERYTHING you post on instagram:
you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service
I'd guess there are probably more assholes like this than forgetfuls like me.
But that would be the wrong comparison, would it not?
Since these assholes are (for the moment at least) a small minority of those in the theater, you have to count all those that light up their phones only AFTER the movie IS OVER as non-assholes. And the forgetful, like yourself, as accidental deviations from the non-asshole group.
That puts the thing in proper prospective I think. Where are those ushers with the merciless flashlight that I remember from my youth?
The fact that everyone and their brother has a camera at the ready these days, or, more likely, the odds that at least someone is recording live video is increasingly common.
The videos of strange events, as mentioned in the story, or a line of airplane seats coming across the highway and smacking a car, just happening to get caught by a driver recording his trip with his mounted cell camera, are becoming common. As cameras become more ubiquitous, there is virtually nowhere you can go these days and NOT be near someone who has a camera.
But taking your same line of reasoning from a different direction: Why haven't we got ANY (non-faked) pictures of Big Foot yet, or Aliens landing, etc? ?
Can it be that, after a suitable period of time with a sufficient number of observers, the Absence of Evidence actually becomes Evidence of Absence? In a world where virtually every unusual event has a high probability of being photographed, can the Appeal to Ignorance continue to be hand-waived away?
It couldn't possibly detect meetings, or pocket/purse with any reliability.
Theaters, maybe, but even that will be unreliable.
What is needed is the presence of some inexpensive low power transmitter (wifi access point, Bluetooth, Simulated Cell Tower CID, that can't actually be connected to, but which triggers phone silencing/dimming behavior. Users would probably still demand the ability to override this feature.
the people disrupting the movie won't care about this. and probably won't enable it even if their phone had it.
Most of the people who disrupt movies are not jerks, just forgetful, or they came in a few seconds late and missed the ever present "Cell Phone Off" request that appears on the screen in every theater I've been to in the last 5 years.
This would save a lot of embarrassment and I suspect a lot of people would turn it on if it worked properly.
If they do get it working properly, I'd like to see it on by default, with the setting to turn it off buried 5 menus deep. That would keep the clueless users who can't figure out how to silence their phones from being able to defeat it without the manual.
I don't know of any good way of accomplishing this, short of keeping everything in a big encrypted container (created with `dd' for example) and maybe chopping it up for transit. More trouble than it's worth. Suggestions welcomed.
Yup, rolling your own is kind of painful. You can get it all working then turn your back and its gone to hell on your for no obvious reason.
For that reason, I keep critical records and codebase in SpiderOak. Encryption happens in your machine, they do not have the key, and couldn't decrypt your data even if served with a warrant. Might not be suitable for a large collections, if for no other reason than the time and bandwidth involved.
They have free accounts, but I pay them some pittance each year for 100 gig.
True, and I really like the fact that you can set it up to keep file changes so that you can step back in time to retrieve last weeks code base, or deleted files. It has lots of flexibility.
But it does not do the other half of the OPs requirements, of mirroring or raiding the data to multiple physical locations.
I consider my data to be more secure and easier to access (it's literally seconds away from availability on any real operating system anywhere with internet access.
The thing about a cloud is that there are (if you choose the correct provider) multiple widely separated storage locations with redundant copies. Your setup, with both of your drives (and I wager also your backup copies) all sit in the same house.
On match. One thief. One flood. One thunder storm.
I agree that mirroring is the way to go, as long as all the cloud servers support some form of user-side encryption.
But I can see being worried about permanently closing down as well. Does the FBI give notice when they seize the server farm?
Also many of these services, especially the smaller ones are just resellers of Amazon if I'm not mistaken so in some cases even mirroring might not help, and any sort of raid 5 could leave you with nothing is more than one of your chosen mirror vendors was ultimately stored on the same upstream provider.
Calling these astroturfers out in public by name on the web is precisely the best way to blunt their attack. Sure they run off and create a new personality, and you have do it all over again.
If they want to discuss in civil discourse fine. Engage them and persuade them.
But if they just want to be attack dogs, name them and shame them then don't feed the trolls.
Slashdot Mirror
From that point on no one should touch it until it breaks and needs to be RMA'd or scrapped.
Reminds me of the old joke about the best Server Admin being a German Shepard and a sysop. The sysop is there to feed the German Shepard, and the German Shepard is there to make sure the sysop never gets near the server.
Oddly, the linked article goes gaga about the inflatable tent next to the steel enclosed portable data center. So put a few rounds thru the inflatable tent to get rid of those pesky sysops, and then do what you will with the data center. Why make it out of bullet proof steel?
It would seem that if Megaupload can produce a copy of the the first mentioned court order, and it pre-dates the raid, that it is case closed.
So the word "Doomsday" some how slipped right on past you?
The post he was replying to had it right.
The dooms day clock is in fact a prediction of doom, done with symbolism, and not very meaningful symbolism at that.
At least the Mayans set a date certain.
With the clock, those using it for their annual fear mongering, claim "oh its just symbolism", to weasel out of anything they can be held to, actual time frames, level of seriousness, or anything other than annual hand wringing.
Does the clock symbolize all of mans time here on earth, or only from the Pleistocene forward? Or maybe its the time scale of an average life? Or is it merely their opinion as to how messed up everything in THEIR lifetime, which, for most of these geezers them is rapidly approaching?
That this clock hasn't moved much at all since the 60s when both the US and the USSR were actively flying large numbers of nuclear weapons around in bombers just in case, up to now where they are wringing their hands about cyber technologies and global warming is clear indication that they will never stop their annual predication doom and gloom, and will adopt any cause that gives them even a once per year 15 minutes of relevance.
That they maintain plausible deniability by hiding behind scary symbolism only speaks to the bankruptcy of their worldview.
It is in fact a prediction, whether you agree or not.
Fear mongering has always been their principal aim.
Took you longer to post that than it would have taken to google it.
Thank you captain obvious.
Its not like any of us would have stumbled on that symbolism in 66 years since they started making their predictions.
We are all so dense you know.....
This "doomsday clock" hasn't ticked in years. The Atomic Scientists bulletin has used it for every Cause célèbre since the day it was invented. No amount of change will ever move those hands again, because there will always be another issue to adopt, another bandwagon to jump on, another social issue to champion.
Once the threat of nuclear war subsided from the fever pitch of the 60's, they, like most anti-everything protest movements, had to find other horses to ride, preferably one that couldn't reject them. So climate change it is. And cyber technologies!!
And if we don't heed them, we are reminded (annually it turns out) that We are DOOMED, Doomed I tell you!.
Before the TOS change, the free service left their content under their control (and copyright). Then, after the switch, the same service suddenly grabbed your copyright away from you and decided to do whatever they want with your stuff.
That is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE
The prior language (and the language they reverted to) said this:
you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service,
You have ZERO control once you accept that. Re-read the second link in the summary.
you can get away with something outrageous and just recant later if the users notice without suffering any negative long term effects.
Well, if you read the linked article, and both the New and Reverted language, you will see this was all about nothing. The reverted (original) language was just as bad as the language the triggered the outcry.
So by recanting, they fell back to the original language which gives them FULL RIGHTS TO EVERYTHING you post on instagram:
you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service
Not sorry to see it meet its demise in any case.
FUD, smoke, and mirrors. Getting a shell on one linux router is not such a coup.
Well, once you get root on the router you pretty much own everything behind it as well, because most people rely on
the router to protect them.
I'd guess there are probably more assholes like this than forgetfuls like me.
But that would be the wrong comparison, would it not?
Since these assholes are (for the moment at least) a small minority of those in the theater, you have to count all those that light up their phones only AFTER the movie IS OVER as non-assholes. And the forgetful, like yourself, as accidental deviations from the non-asshole group.
That puts the thing in proper prospective I think. Where are those ushers with the merciless flashlight that I remember from my youth?
Oh, crap! ;-)
My theory can't possibly hold water till I go back to college and earn a degree in Physics.
Sheldon Cooper, is that you?
Mod Parent Insightful.
The fact that everyone and their brother has a camera at the ready these days, or, more likely, the odds that at least someone is recording live video is increasingly common.
The videos of strange events, as mentioned in the story, or a line of airplane seats coming across the highway and smacking a car, just happening to get caught by a driver recording his trip with his mounted cell camera, are becoming common. As cameras become more ubiquitous, there is virtually nowhere you can go these days and NOT be near someone who has a camera.
But taking your same line of reasoning from a different direction: Why haven't we got ANY (non-faked) pictures of Big Foot yet, or Aliens landing, etc? ?
Can it be that, after a suitable period of time with a sufficient number of observers, the Absence of Evidence actually becomes Evidence of Absence? In a world where virtually every unusual event has a high probability of being photographed, can the Appeal to Ignorance continue to be hand-waived away?
You can surely feel your phone buzzing, can't you?
Maybe you need to try putting the phone in a MORE inside pocket.
It couldn't possibly detect meetings, or pocket/purse with any reliability.
Theaters, maybe, but even that will be unreliable.
What is needed is the presence of some inexpensive low power transmitter (wifi access point, Bluetooth, Simulated Cell Tower CID, that can't actually be connected to, but which triggers phone silencing/dimming behavior. Users would probably still demand the ability to override this feature.
Does your mom run Tasker?
the people disrupting the movie won't care about this. and probably won't enable it even if their phone had it.
Most of the people who disrupt movies are not jerks, just forgetful, or they came in a few seconds late and missed the ever present "Cell Phone Off" request that appears on the screen in every theater I've been to in the last 5 years.
This would save a lot of embarrassment and I suspect a lot of people would turn it on if it worked properly.
If they do get it working properly, I'd like to see it on by default, with the setting to turn it off buried 5 menus deep. That would keep the clueless users who can't figure out how to silence their phones from being able to defeat it without the manual.
I don't know of any good way of accomplishing this, short of keeping everything in a big encrypted container (created with `dd' for example) and maybe chopping it up for transit. More trouble than it's worth. Suggestions welcomed.
Yup, rolling your own is kind of painful. You can get it all working then turn your back and its gone to hell on your for no obvious reason.
For that reason, I keep critical records and codebase in SpiderOak.
Encryption happens in your machine, they do not have the key, and couldn't decrypt your data even if served with a warrant.
Might not be suitable for a large collections, if for no other reason than the time and bandwidth involved.
They have free accounts, but I pay them some pittance each year for 100 gig.
Or, in the case of some of these paid astroturfers, a mob posing as one.
If you keep a second machine up with the Spideroak program running, it will mirror your data.
That is an option. But its not a requirement.
SpiderOak operates in three distinct modes
Backup
Sync
Share
Each are individually selectable.
True, and I really like the fact that you can set it up to keep file changes so that you can step back in time to retrieve last weeks code base, or deleted files. It has lots of flexibility.
But it does not do the other half of the OPs requirements, of mirroring or raiding the data to multiple physical locations.
I consider my data to be more secure and easier to access (it's literally seconds away from availability on any real operating system anywhere with internet access.
The thing about a cloud is that there are (if you choose the correct provider) multiple widely separated storage locations with redundant copies.
Your setup, with both of your drives (and I wager also your backup copies) all sit in the same house.
On match. One thief. One flood. One thunder storm.
I agree that mirroring is the way to go, as long as all the cloud servers support some form of user-side encryption.
But I can see being worried about permanently closing down as well.
Does the FBI give notice when they seize the server farm?
Also many of these services, especially the smaller ones are just resellers of Amazon if I'm not mistaken so in some
cases even mirroring might not help, and any sort of raid 5 could leave you with nothing is more than one of
your chosen mirror vendors was ultimately stored on the same upstream provider.
Correct.
Calling these astroturfers out in public by name on the web is precisely the best way to blunt their attack.
Sure they run off and create a new personality, and you have do it all over again.
If they want to discuss in civil discourse fine. Engage them and persuade them.
But if they just want to be attack dogs, name them and shame them then don't feed the trolls.