So that law enforcement can't access his data? What is his "business" area to be exact?
I love the irony of this comment being posted by an AC. Tell you what, post using your real name, address and phone number, and I'll tell you a dozen reasons why privacy, even from law enforcement, can be a legitimate business need.
Of course it can be impossible. Encrypt the data yourself, using a well-known, open-source, trusted and verified program, and keep the keys yourself. Dropbox can't decrypt anything then. Why anyone would trust them in the first place, especially a smart guy like Miguel, is beyond me.
Not even interview *skills*, but the intangibles mentioned in other threads here. Way back when I used to do the entry-level interviews, I'd tell people (not the ones I was interviewing) that the interview is generally over in about 10 seconds. Walk in, say "hello", shake hands, sit down, and in easily 80% of the cases it's over. The remaining half-hour is just for courtesy.
Maybe its time for open source/open moderated politics as well
Run for office. If you're in the US, the barriers to entry are surprisingly low.
All these people who bitch about corporate control of government are starting to piss me off. How many city council budget hearings do you attend? Zoning board reviews? School board meetings? How often do you write a letter (you know, ink-on-paper, in an envelope, with a first-class stamp) to any of your elected representatives? How many of your elected representatives can you name?
Not singling you out personally, just a good place to interject this. The process is *way* more open than most/.ers assume, it's just that people are too lazy to do anything at all.
request for equal treatment is labeled as 'special favors'
And the cable companies' franchise/exclusivity agreements with town/county governments are not special favors? Where I live, I have the "choice" of exactly one cable company. They cry for government regulation when it suits them, and decry it when it doesn't. Why should I be surprised?
watch how fast consumers drop ISPs that throttle them for reasons unrelated to congestion. "But I can stream HD video from MSN? Great, fuck you too, I don't use MSN, cancel my account!"
Just curious. How many high-speed low-latency connectivity providers can you choose from where you live? More than two?
I can't believe that such an obvious troll (I mean, c'mon, folks, "dick pubes"!?) is currently at +5, 70% Insightful and 30% Interesting. And that at least a dozen people took the time to actually try to counter the substance of what he wrote.
Yeah, come to think of it, you're right. Campus PATROL. But I don't think it was propaganda -- I recall hauling 16-foot lengths of lumber up to the fourth floor of Bexley some time in the wee hours after an, ahem, shopping trip to a lumberyard on Albany St, I think. Campus Patrol stopped by and looked, and made sure the van didn't stay parked on Mass Ave, but didn't ask anyone to produce a receipt or anything. Then they left.
Bottom line: Caltech's security guards are rent-a-cops; MIT's are policemen.
Never been to Caltech, but when I was at MIT [mumble-mumble] years ago, I think the primary job of the Campus Police was to make sure we didn't get arrested by the Cambridge Police.
Part of scripture states that if a brother commits sin and we know of it, but we do not speak to help him mend his ways, we too are liable for his sin.
Speak all you want. But when I ask you to shut up and stop bothering me, because I do not share your sense of what is sin and what isn't, have the decency to shut up. In the US, I used to think that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution gave me the right to not believe I had an everlasting soul I was endangering by looking at pictures of naked women.
I can't even understand how people can make these mistakes in the first place, and then these are often Americans and I'm a Swede!
I'm sure that is precisely the reason for the difference. I'm not familiar with the Swedish educational system, but I'm willing to bet you were taught English. In America, by contrast, the schools teach something called "Whole Language", which only vaguely resembles English. In fact, it specifically disdains correct spelling in primary school, and never actually gets around to teaching grammar. We have ended up with a result (as you can see here) perfectly consistent with what is taught in K-12 in America now.
This is rich, coming from Novell, which at no time in the last 10 years has had a single tool for managing fscking NetWare servers.
Don't get me wrong, I've been a Novell fanboi for a long time -- started with NetWare 2.15b, have multiple CNE certs, etc., etc. But they could never make up their own damn minds: Rconsole, NWAdmin, ConsoleOne (yeah, on a workstation, or on a server? Java apps which were "cross-platform" but different), iManage, shit, who knows what else? A pathetic mess pretty much forever.
"But Sony BMG won't be held accountable if music fans don't have an easy way to learn about the flawed software, the settlement, and how to submit claims. That's where EFF needs your help."
The help EFF needs is in growing a pair of balls. This "settlement" will in no way hold Sony/BMG accountable, and is just rolling over for a buck. I guess the new "Electronic Frontier" is the almighty dollar.
But you're right, the analogy was strained, and the music-composition case would have been a much better one with which to lead. What cost Frank Zappa tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of dollars in the 1980's can be had by any interested amateur today. Where are all the musical geniuses?
There sure do seem to be a lot of creative people doing projects on the web today. What do you folks think of this?
Seems to me they're far outnumbered by the un-creative people.
Concepts like "good design" and "good programming" are skills that take training, practice and work. Woodworking tools are cheap, ubiquitous and far more capable than what was available 20, 40 or 60 years ago. Where are all the people building beautiful, elegant and functional furniture?
"Latin H" corresponds to cyrillic U+0425. How could you find anything about latin letters in a dictionary written in Ukrainian, and entirely in cyrillic alphabet, I have no idea.
If you're going to deny primary sources, then I'm not sure there's much point in continuing this.
Please refer to the Wikipedia article about Ukrainian phonology. As was pointed out on this thread days ago, the letter U+0425, which you call "Ha", is, in Ukrainian, "Kha", or a "voiceless velar fricative". The letter U+0413, which Unicode calls a "Ghe" and you call a "soft Ge" is, in Ukrainian, "He", or a "voiced glottal fricative", pronounced exactly like the first phoneme in the English word "hard".
Nobody but ignorant Westerners would ever think of stuffing either "HA" or "H" into the place of "soft GE", and if someone tried to do so, he would be accused in mocking Belarusian and Ukrainian pronunciation of common Slavic words.
So I finally had a chance to go look it up, and my copy of the 1958 USSR reprint of the 1907 Hrinchenko "Slovar Ukrains'koyi Movy" says of the letter now known as the glyph U+0413 "Latin H" and says of the letter now known as U+0490 "Latin G". Ingorant Westerner indeed.
Ukrainian and Belarusian languages have "soft GE" and "HA" that are completely different letters.
Please specify which letter you believe to be which, using Unicode glyphs. Please specify how you believe the words for "hunger" and "cold" to be spelled and/or pronounced, using current Ukrainian orthography (not Stalinist or Alexandrist orthography).
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So that law enforcement can't access his data? What is his "business" area to be exact?
I love the irony of this comment being posted by an AC. Tell you what, post using your real name, address and phone number, and I'll tell you a dozen reasons why privacy, even from law enforcement, can be a legitimate business need.
Of course it can be impossible. Encrypt the data yourself, using a well-known, open-source, trusted and verified program, and keep the keys yourself. Dropbox can't decrypt anything then. Why anyone would trust them in the first place, especially a smart guy like Miguel, is beyond me.
Want to be healthy? EAT RIGHT and EXERCISE. Period.
Oh, but that's so much *work*. I'd rather just take a pill. You're no fun at all.
Not even interview *skills*, but the intangibles mentioned in other threads here. Way back when I used to do the entry-level interviews, I'd tell people (not the ones I was interviewing) that the interview is generally over in about 10 seconds. Walk in, say "hello", shake hands, sit down, and in easily 80% of the cases it's over. The remaining half-hour is just for courtesy.
If I type in "irs.gov", I want to go to "irs.gov"
It's 2008. Does anybody type URL's any more?
Run for office. If you're in the US, the barriers to entry are surprisingly low.
All these people who bitch about corporate control of government are starting to piss me off. How many city council budget hearings do you attend? Zoning board reviews? School board meetings? How often do you write a letter (you know, ink-on-paper, in an envelope, with a first-class stamp) to any of your elected representatives? How many of your elected representatives can you name?
Not singling you out personally, just a good place to interject this. The process is *way* more open than most /.ers assume, it's just that people are too lazy to do anything at all.
Yes. They're called mainframes. Didn't you read the story the other day (too lazy to link) about how they're not going away? At NSA, they never did.
And the cable companies' franchise/exclusivity agreements with town/county governments are not special favors? Where I live, I have the "choice" of exactly one cable company. They cry for government regulation when it suits them, and decry it when it doesn't. Why should I be surprised?
Just curious. How many high-speed low-latency connectivity providers can you choose from where you live? More than two?
I can't believe that such an obvious troll (I mean, c'mon, folks, "dick pubes"!?) is currently at +5, 70% Insightful and 30% Interesting. And that at least a dozen people took the time to actually try to counter the substance of what he wrote.
True. And 10g is obese, too. You can buy a commercial model for only $239 that's 3.6 g.
You mean like this?
Yeah, come to think of it, you're right. Campus PATROL. But I don't think it was propaganda -- I recall hauling 16-foot lengths of lumber up to the fourth floor of Bexley some time in the wee hours after an, ahem, shopping trip to a lumberyard on Albany St, I think. Campus Patrol stopped by and looked, and made sure the van didn't stay parked on Mass Ave, but didn't ask anyone to produce a receipt or anything. Then they left.
Never been to Caltech, but when I was at MIT [mumble-mumble] years ago, I think the primary job of the Campus Police was to make sure we didn't get arrested by the Cambridge Police.
Speak all you want. But when I ask you to shut up and stop bothering me, because I do not share your sense of what is sin and what isn't, have the decency to shut up. In the US, I used to think that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution gave me the right to not believe I had an everlasting soul I was endangering by looking at pictures of naked women.
I'm sure that is precisely the reason for the difference. I'm not familiar with the Swedish educational system, but I'm willing to bet you were taught English. In America, by contrast, the schools teach something called "Whole Language", which only vaguely resembles English. In fact, it specifically disdains correct spelling in primary school, and never actually gets around to teaching grammar. We have ended up with a result (as you can see here) perfectly consistent with what is taught in K-12 in America now.
Don't get me wrong, I've been a Novell fanboi for a long time -- started with NetWare 2.15b, have multiple CNE certs, etc., etc. But they could never make up their own damn minds: Rconsole, NWAdmin, ConsoleOne (yeah, on a workstation, or on a server? Java apps which were "cross-platform" but different), iManage, shit, who knows what else? A pathetic mess pretty much forever.
Novell, it's over. You were better, but you lost.
"But Sony BMG won't be held accountable if music fans don't have an easy way to learn about the flawed software, the settlement, and how to submit claims. That's where EFF needs your help."
The help EFF needs is in growing a pair of balls. This "settlement" will in no way hold Sony/BMG accountable, and is just rolling over for a buck. I guess the new "Electronic Frontier" is the almighty dollar.
Biscuit joiners? Laser-guided compound miter saws?
But you're right, the analogy was strained, and the music-composition case would have been a much better one with which to lead. What cost Frank Zappa tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of dollars in the 1980's can be had by any interested amateur today. Where are all the musical geniuses?
Seems to me they're far outnumbered by the un-creative people.
Concepts like "good design" and "good programming" are skills that take training, practice and work. Woodworking tools are cheap, ubiquitous and far more capable than what was available 20, 40 or 60 years ago. Where are all the people building beautiful, elegant and functional furniture?
Given that you've said you've spent probably north of $6,000 on DVD's, no, I can't tell. Please tell me how conservative that is.
Then don't. Who held a goddam gun to your head and forced you to buy a new TV?
If you're going to deny primary sources, then I'm not sure there's much point in continuing this.
Please refer to the Wikipedia article about Ukrainian phonology. As was pointed out on this thread days ago, the letter U+0425, which you call "Ha", is, in Ukrainian, "Kha", or a "voiceless velar fricative". The letter U+0413, which Unicode calls a "Ghe" and you call a "soft Ge" is, in Ukrainian, "He", or a "voiced glottal fricative", pronounced exactly like the first phoneme in the English word "hard".
So I finally had a chance to go look it up, and my copy of the 1958 USSR reprint of the 1907 Hrinchenko "Slovar Ukrains'koyi Movy" says of the letter now known as the glyph U+0413 "Latin H" and says of the letter now known as U+0490 "Latin G". Ingorant Westerner indeed.
Please specify which letter you believe to be which, using Unicode glyphs. Please specify how you believe the words for "hunger" and "cold" to be spelled and/or pronounced, using current Ukrainian orthography (not Stalinist or Alexandrist orthography).