Being able to remove copy protection is a good thing for some users, and completely irrelevant for everyone else. No user is ever going to say: 'Oh no. I can now play the music I bought for my PC on my Mac. I must install a patch so I can't do that anymore.'
"Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work."
We are talking about information, and WHO, WHERE and HOW, a user can access to that information (like a private document). Yes, maybe to the end-user this is not a BIG deal, but this could give access to sensitive information inside an organiztion... the whole DRM design goes to hell.
"We are uncertain what precise role he will play when he begins working for Google, but he has a broad range of skills and experience which we believe will be valuable to Google,"
This catch my attention, i dont see too many companies with that insightfull and visionary view. (IMO it's amazing).
The link seems down here is the CC Mirror. I can grab directly from the front page (I use Slashdotter, the firefox extension).
Totally agree, with what you say.
BTW is possible to search in Source Forge, where you can filter your search as web, or whateveryouwant. But in the parent post you can see the best choices.
Most importantly, change the system based on feedback from the workers.
This is the most important thing you say, because the developers tend to think like "ohh what an amazing app we develop" and then the user doesnt have the little button that does "ping" (As the "machine that does ping") where he wants, and... as a developer maybe its a little difficult to understand some of them, but is mandatory to know that "before we start the development", we must take (at least) 1 month (after we "finish" the app) to add all the changes they need.
Yes, i already know some of this websites, in fact i post anonymously on one.
I see this like an evolutionated human being (maybe i'm going too far), where the information win his own place. But also the lack of a know author lead to lose some "context".
When someone writes something is to COMUNICATE (maybe not always) what he/she wants, so it could (and will be) be that when the writer put on letters(symbols) what he/she is feeling, lose some of his/her feels and when somebody read the paper not everybody see/feel what he/she wants to share.
So share writes is about communication, and the lack of elements must be "patched" to avoid "noise" that leads to misunderstood.
If the text is an excelent write by the greatest writer ever, he will "patch" the anonymous sign (as he can). (There are some writers that don't need a sign, we can see through)
But ALL of this is great if nobody cares about EGO or Recognition, two factors that are involved with the greatest legacies of humanity.
Yes i love the idea of anonymous authors (with everything) but... i don't expect to be one of the persons who will change the world (like Socrates, Aristotle, Nietzsche...)
So it will be good to ask them what they think about this. (well they are dead... i mean a person like them.)
PS: Today we are in the days where an artist say what is or what is not art.
I like the idea, but its hard to get it done. The "marketplace" of course has the "power" to own the last mile AND also "we can OWN the world":) (its like the idea "Power to the people").
We are in/. we are geeks, nobody here will say "No!, let the companies own our freedom", of course not. But the average people, In the real world, doesn't give a shit. They pay a regular fee, complain a little about the ISP/telco and still using internet.
Its more easy to pay some money than get organized, with this "internet thing". (for the most it's not a big deal). Some users already get organized and own more than the last mile, building big internet access communities.
Its good if ALL get organized that way we don't care about the companies business and when they does some nasty thing like start limiting bw or restrict the access to some sites or.... OH! wait they already do that!
BrainlessAnarchist: WE MUST GET ORGANIZED NOW AND OWN THE INTERNET!! it is ours...
In fact, if we build the biggest network ever, it could be a way to give internet access, but then when everybody is on that new wide access network, we will be the ones who internet is connected to... and we can charge the companies with a fee for the permission to sell/offer us something.
PS: "changed the world forever with VisiCalc":) come-on
was sentenced to a year in a federal prison work camp and a lifetime ban on further federal grants.
Think, that the sentence was "soft".
Then i read the article, and start thinking...
Poehlman will be permanently barred from getting more federal research grants, and was ordered to write letters of retraction and correction to several scientific journals.
OK, I don't know him, but imagine the embarrassing situation of send retraction and correction letters to (in some way) HIS community.
IMO In this kind of "criminal acts" the worst is just leave the guy in society.
It's the society who really condemn him, think that every scientific guy will know that he is a fraud. Ok, maybe when he goes to the supermarket not everybody knows who is him, but he will be asking himself "Does he recognize me?".
Sorry for the late, but i want to read your full comment before answer.
Thanks for your time, i mean you was very detailed with your answer, i only have some "details" to add.
In general it seems that you are (or was) related to the Liberal party, well... I vote, of course, also study the options and like you, i vote the "lesser evil". But for real, i hate politics.
About the specifics kinds of images/abuses, i agree... I'm not a journalist but i prefer die trying to stop him that live all my life with that inside.
Yes as you said, i think that you are "being too politically correct":) but yes, you are right is important when you choose the channel/medium to transmit something that you use it right.
BTW the word liberal IMO is a big and subjective concept, so it's almost impossible to transmit with only one word what is the meaning of that word for me. In fact the words are symbols, so when i say to you liberal you think on your concept of liberal, for me is different... just that.
Now i know how you (and more people for sure) think (at least in part) AND you know that i (and more people) think in a different way.
It was good to read all your opinions (with all the detailed information), really.
Cheers
I don't see anything that says they will support users without a credit card (or any other sort of payment).
How do you see this?
IMO almost everybody who buy something on Internet has a Credit Card. right?
There is another "google-thing" that has came without a "public"-beta version? (AFAIK checkout doesn't has any public beta)
This is amazing... i never imagine that this could be possible.
It can also stimulate jawbone growth to fix a person's crooked smile and may eventually allow people to grow taller by stimulating bone growth, Chen said.
I'm far away to know something about odontology, so i ask to the slashdot doctors:
This stimulation process could be used to cure bone illness, like Osteoporosis or Osteosarcoma ??
As i stated on another post, maybe you and i, doesn't see the "liberal" concept in the same way. When i said that i was talking about the people who are (in excess) liberals. They think that people restriction of ANY kind, are wrong. (and when i say any i meant ANY)
In fact i know people who call themselves liberals and think that child porn will never be eradicated, any kind of filter/search is wrong we must don't do nothing against this.(They don't see this as a problem)
Yea that's what we need a bunch of infected files floating around out there so some asshole can compromise someonelses system and mass mail to pretty much anyone. [...]
But i'm not talking about compromising EVERY system, we infect some child porn files and leave in the wild (i.e. upload it to a porn servers), then we keep track of this file (i.e. it send us a heart-beat) and look were the majority converge and there... we have a file server. I'm not talking on run after everybody who has that file... it's insane.
Before the Internet most of this material was exchanged via the postal service, and that was dealt with without the need to open everybody mail. [...]
Yes and 20th Centuries ago, was fine if you has 10 "fagots" slaves... that's not the point. TODAY is a problem much bigger than when this material was exchanged via the postal service, and i agree with you the solution is not involved with open everybody mail.
And... if the people exchange the current material, they are sick sure, but they aren't criminals. I mean, its not a crime have this pictures (and IMO that's right) the crime is the abuse of a little child, so invade privacy has nothing to do here.
If you compromise servers (is like you assist to a pedophiles reunion) and in there you can investigate who are criminals.
[...] If people like these continue to support such ideas and policies without any serious and courageous resistance our descendants will curse us all as a few generations of mindless cowards that selfishly pissed away their liberty, hopes and dreams. [...]
Yes, totally agree. But BTW you doesn't sound too LIBERAL.:P
Is better this Ellington soft than have your own designed online publishing system?
With 10K you can pay a group of developers to do something really good, right?
Sorry for the Subject, but thats the name of the web page with lot of interesting info on Why dont use PayPal anymore.
Check it PayPal Sucks
Google has the AdSense thing, that makes GBuy really interesting for advertisers who (IMO) will not doubt for support GBuy if they are advertising with Google...
Now must be good for the users/buyers, i want to test it.
I always wondered about ants, a friend compares the Ants with some kind of socialism, because leaving a side the idea of "pawns" or "slaves" everybody work for a cause grater than him/herself.
It will be interesting if there are more popular the courses where the Mother Nature (specific insects behaviors) are applied to real world society.
BTW that's just an idea i want to share.
When i was on the Amazonian Jungle (from Peru to Brazil) i saw a LOT of insects (that kind of "bugs" that you only see on movies or books.
It was interesting the behavior of some insects...
The spiders are really BIG, and when we travel on boat at day you can't see any, as soon as the sun starts to hide, the spiders starts to work. Some people kill the spiders (in fact the first time i kill some too) then i realize Watching/analyzing the behavior of the spiders:
They try to stay away from you, but they feel like at night YOU are in his place, so they act overconfident, they build a lot of spiderwebs and the mosquitoes (there is a LOT of mosquitoes in the Jungle and they are BIG) goes directly to the spider.
So i think, well maybe if i leave the spiders alive, they will catch all the mosquitoes, eat well and no one bites me.
At the next day, it works, none bites me. So i start to really analyze that, it seems that the spider knows that the mosquito bit us, so the spiders build webs around us (they can build and unbuild webs really fast) and use us as a carnage.
I feel odd, really odd. I think that i am the one Designing the "model/system".
Also we have some ants-analyzing-days and is annoying how they work you can read a lot about ants, but when you saw/fell them working is amazing.
Its good to "feel" the Mother Nature to learn and "why not?" teach her.
I don't want to sound liberal, I'm against child pornography,...
That's an amazing equation. Liberals support child porn now, as well as terrorism.
You don't read the whole post or you simply don't understand it. In your out-of-context and unfair quote you forget the "but" part... (you tried to discredit my opinion with an unfair quote)
The "I'm against child porn" is just a remark, because there are some people who doesn't think like me.
Some people think that the pics or vids are in there (Internet, or elsewhere) and you must not prohibit neither track or filter this content. For them a pic or a vid is information, and no matter what it show must be freely and publicly available.
And maybe it sounds crazy but another people see all of this in a different way.
Someones think that if a 40 year old men have sex with a 15 child, there's nothing wrong. Other put the limit under 18...
Sometimes there is no physical abuse, the 14 years old girl maybe LOVE the old man, but... IMO it's wrong, the old men are abusing physiologically, but no everybody thinks the same way. (And i want to remark that I'm not talking about pedophiles, I'm talking about more "liberal" people.)
So YES some people could sound more liberal, and not everybody have the same "parameters". Not everybody are against pedophilia.
Where i work the Child Porn is an important Subject its not my area, but i still know what happens. You can't imagine the pics and videos that the specialist must see.(i never watch any)
The subject is really complicated, here you have a conjunction action from the top ISP companies, but there are some things we must know.
AOL, for instance, plans to check e-mail attachments that are already being scanned for viruses. If child porn is detected, AOL would refer the case to the missing-children's center for further investigation, as service providers are required to do under federal law.
This means that if "somebody" sends to me an image that triggers the filter I'm gonna be a "suspect" (at least for a while) so AOL refer the case and 1 minute later i have an investigation running on my private emails.
BTW... i don't want to sound paranoid, but this is a "way to start", then the database can include another kind of images (who knows?). Or just filter anything they want. The comparison with the Antivirus system (intentionally and not so technical related) put me more alert.
I don't want to sound liberal, I'm against child pornography, but i think that this is not the way to fight against it. If some sick-man (A) have a picture of some-more-sick-asshole(B) doing nasty things with a child, he(A) is a sick person but not a criminal, the asshole(B) must go to jail because he abuse (mental and physical) the boy (the other guy(A) must go to a doctor).
Another idea could be the "infection" of some images/files/videos and leave in the wild (this pedophiles bastards are not technical specialist, the majority of them are teachers, fathers or military related).
So we keep track of the files all over, and figured out "sources" where they upload this files not a "single email address" i mean where a lot of files converge from different places. Then, security experts with some legal support, 0wn the server and monitors everything... and the investigation continues.
Ryan said that although AOL will initially focus on scanning e-mail attachments, the goal is to ultimately develop techniques for checking other distribution techniques as well, such as instant messaging or Web uploads.
Also the P2P networks has a LOT of "pedophilic" shares, but you can't run after every sick people, you must go to the source and condemn the one who abuse the child.
I don't like the idea of "monitors everything -> searching for something". I think it must be like i said before... its a HUGE difference.
Well i was bored and i read the Article, so.. here i quote the (IMO) important stuff. I don't like neither use FC but I admire the effort of his developers, they are doing an excellent work.
However, at the time of writing we have yet to personally try out FC6T1 on any of these Intel-based Macintosh computers.
With Core 6 Test 1, not many visible Anaconda changes have been implemented. However, one of the notable features is IPV6 support in the installer. Anaconda had locked up a few times when attempting to detect previously installed Fedora installations, or even when clicking the next button. With the i386 DVD we had also run into a problem with the repodata being for the FC6 i386 CDs, thus during the installation process we were asked for the CDs even though all of the packages could be found on the DVD. One of the features that will hopefully make its way into Fedora Core 6 is the ability to add the Fedora Extras, or other custom RPM repositories
The Pup applet shows on the desktop when there are new updates in the repository, while hovering the mouse over the applet will yield the amount of packages that need to be updated
Another notable advancement with FC6T1 is the integration of a new printing system -- a new system-config-printer and CUPS v1.2.1. The new system-config-printer interface is very easy to work with.
The road to GNOME 2.16 is certainly shaping up quite nicely, and we have been pleased by the GNOME 2.15 development releases thus far.
Yes, KDE continues to be bundled in Fedora Core 6 contrary to belief that it may move to being community managed, and/or moved into the Extras project.
Some of the other items in the Fedora Wiki for Core 6 include trimming down the Core, replacing sysklogd with syslog-ng, use early log-in and get rid of rhgb, sound server replacement, better firewall configuration utility, home user backup, support Fedora Extras and custom repositories during the installation, CD image generation tool, encrypted file systems, and more.
Don't fly kites with metal string. (Or any kite. Lightning travels on non-metallic paths sometimes.)
Yes. Here (in my city) we have a big beach and generally there are a lot of guys surfing. One day (during a lightning storm) one of them with a little piece of metal in his board was hited by a light (he dies instantly).
It seems that you know what you are talking about, i remember that day... all the local news suddenly becomes, "experts on electrical storms". They give a lot of recommendations (do not wear cell phones, leave rings and metal things at home, etc.)
I was surprised because the metal piece has the size of a memory stick (imagine that). I don't know about lightning storms... but i imagine that at this particular case the sea is more important than wear something metallic or not.
First.. why does everything need to be innovative? Sometimes something is made just to WORK WELL* compared to what was released before it.
Yes, you are right... but the new name brings me the "innovation idea". It's not MSN 9, they treat this IM like a "new concept in IMs". (or at least that's the way i feel it)
Secondly, do some research on your IM history. MSN and Yahoo! have been in talks for the last few years about interoperability, and it's never been about Google, it's about AIM. AIM are the freaks who won't let anyone touch their IM protocols because they have everything to lose since they have the most number of IM users.
Well there is a lot of free IMs that support interoperability (also with AIM), i never saw this "alliance" so open, like in this year. And if never been about Google, now it will be.
At first sight it looks really fancy, the same "design" but with improvements... but I don't see REAL INNOVATION.
Windows Live Messenger
Its interesting that new name, they move from the MSN idea to this Windows Live but it will be good if they include REAL live chat. A long time ago when everybody has ICQ you can see char by char what is typing the other person. (More than one friend ask me if there is a way yo do that).
Soon: talk to your Yahoo! friends, too
Is an interesting move, it's not surprising... the alliance against Google is here. (now they need to figured out the best way to include PayPal on this) Maybe include paypal and passport and a UNIFIED IM are the next steps.
Sharing Folders
I'm still waiting for All Peers because the easy-to-share with friends all over the net is really good. Yes of course, there is a LOT of ways to do this, but for the average users it isn't a "easy ToDo thing"
BTW its the right time to find some vulns on this "Easy Share", with Ms behind there must be an "easy ToFind Vuln".
Whether this is a new bug or not, it's certainly not a new type of bug.
No.. it's not, but in the article says it very clear:
From The Article:
Device driver hacking is technically challenging, but the field has become more appealing in recent years, thanks in part to new software tools that make it easier for less technically savvy hackers, known as script kiddies, to attack wireless cards, Maynor said in an interview.
This vuln is for an specific driver, we still don't know what is the flaw either the wireless device... but the important thing here is that they are pointing out the insecurity of drivers development:
From The Article:
Part of the problem is that the engineers who write device drivers often do not have security in mind, he said.
A second problem is that vendors also make devices do more than they really need to in order to be certified as compliant with a particular wireless standard. That piling on of features can open security holes as well, he said.
BTW I like the "mystery" but IMO if they will wait till August 2nd, somebody will discover it too.
Ferrari then posted the call online, and the response was tremendous.
AOL sent him an apology and said the customer service rep was no longer with the company.
At this "sensitive" moment will be interesting to test the customer service by cancelling someone else's account...
John Doe - "Hello I'm Mr. Green i want to cancel my account.
Customer Service Rep - "Done. Good bye Mr. Green"
I'm sure that over time, quality professors could be developed, but "build more schools!" won't work as well.
Don't be so sure about that, in theory you are right, but you are overestimating the "laziness" of the average human being.
The number of good professors doesn't growth so much in the lasts decades (it will be good if i have some material to sustain this).
Maybe the solution will be a "re-write" of "Education Models" rather than feed the actual one.
Sadly the "University Education" is an Economy Model/market...
And I'm sure that if in China there are only 2.5M students is more a "Political/Economic Decision" than a lack of resources.
In fact, IMO flock is like Firefox with a bunch of cool extensions.
i dont want to sound troll, but if you take Camino (just for name one browser) you see some "innovation" but i don't see any in flock.
Maybe becouse i dont understand all this Web 2.0 thing, dont know...
BTW if you doesn't have any artistic talent you can still Help decide who Wins
FTA: If you don't enter the contest but you still want to help decide who comes out on top, sign up for the UCS Action Network. We'll let you know when the 12 finalists are identified and the voting period begins.
FTA: If you're a scientist or engineer, sign the Scientist Statement on Scientific Integrity. If you're not a scientist or engineer, sign the Citizens' Call-to-Action. By signing either document, you'll show your support for independent science and have the opportunity to be kept informed about ways to defend science from political interference.
Slashdot Mirror
Its not ONLY about music, DRM From Wikipedia : We are talking about information, and WHO, WHERE and HOW, a user can access to that information (like a private document). Yes, maybe to the end-user this is not a BIG deal, but this could give access to sensitive information inside an organiztion... the whole DRM design goes to hell.
Just my 2 cents
Cheers
The link seems down here is the CC Mirror. I can grab directly from the front page (I use Slashdotter, the firefox extension).
BTW is possible to search in Source Forge, where you can filter your search as web, or whateveryouwant. But in the parent post you can see the best choices.
This is the most important thing you say, because the developers tend to think like "ohh what an amazing app we develop" and then the user doesnt have the little button that does "ping" (As the "machine that does ping") where he wants, and... as a developer maybe its a little difficult to understand some of them, but is mandatory to know that "before we start the development", we must take (at least) 1 month (after we "finish" the app) to add all the changes they need.
Yes, i already know some of this websites, in fact i post anonymously on one.
I see this like an evolutionated human being (maybe i'm going too far), where the information win his own place. But also the lack of a know author lead to lose some "context".
When someone writes something is to COMUNICATE (maybe not always) what he/she wants, so it could (and will be) be that when the writer put on letters(symbols) what he/she is feeling, lose some of his/her feels and when somebody read the paper not everybody see/feel what he/she wants to share.
So share writes is about communication, and the lack of elements must be "patched" to avoid "noise" that leads to misunderstood.
If the text is an excelent write by the greatest writer ever, he will "patch" the anonymous sign (as he can). (There are some writers that don't need a sign, we can see through)
But ALL of this is great if nobody cares about EGO or Recognition, two factors that are involved with the greatest legacies of humanity.
Yes i love the idea of anonymous authors (with everything) but... i don't expect to be one of the persons who will change the world (like Socrates, Aristotle, Nietzsche...)
So it will be good to ask them what they think about this. (well they are dead... i mean a person like them.)
PS: Today we are in the days where an artist say what is or what is not art.
Leaving a side some comments about the article...
:) (its like the idea "Power to the people").
/. we are geeks, nobody here will say "No!, let the companies own our freedom", of course not. But the average people, In the real world, doesn't give a shit. They pay a regular fee, complain a little about the ISP/telco and still using internet.
:) come-on
I like the idea, but its hard to get it done. The "marketplace" of course has the "power" to own the last mile AND also "we can OWN the world"
We are in
Its more easy to pay some money than get organized, with this "internet thing". (for the most it's not a big deal). Some users already get organized and own more than the last mile, building big internet access communities.
Its good if ALL get organized that way we don't care about the companies business and when they does some nasty thing like start limiting bw or restrict the access to some sites or.... OH! wait they already do that!
BrainlessAnarchist: WE MUST GET ORGANIZED NOW AND OWN THE INTERNET!! it is ours...
In fact, if we build the biggest network ever, it could be a way to give internet access, but then when everybody is on that new wide access network, we will be the ones who internet is connected to... and we can charge the companies with a fee for the permission to sell/offer us something.
PS: "changed the world forever with VisiCalc"
Think, that the sentence was "soft".
Then i read the article, and start thinking...
OK, I don't know him, but imagine the embarrassing situation of send retraction and correction letters to (in some way) HIS community.
IMO In this kind of "criminal acts" the worst is just leave the guy in society.
It's the society who really condemn him, think that every scientific guy will know that he is a fraud. Ok, maybe when he goes to the supermarket not everybody knows who is him, but he will be asking himself "Does he recognize me?".
Sorry for the late, but i want to read your full comment before answer.
:) but yes, you are right is important when you choose the channel/medium to transmit something that you use it right.
Thanks for your time, i mean you was very detailed with your answer, i only have some "details" to add.
In general it seems that you are (or was) related to the Liberal party, well... I vote, of course, also study the options and like you, i vote the "lesser evil". But for real, i hate politics.
About the specifics kinds of images/abuses, i agree... I'm not a journalist but i prefer die trying to stop him that live all my life with that inside.
Yes as you said, i think that you are "being too politically correct"
BTW the word liberal IMO is a big and subjective concept, so it's almost impossible to transmit with only one word what is the meaning of that word for me. In fact the words are symbols, so when i say to you liberal you think on your concept of liberal, for me is different... just that.
Now i know how you (and more people for sure) think (at least in part) AND you know that i (and more people) think in a different way.
It was good to read all your opinions (with all the detailed information), really.
Cheers
For now Google CheckOut its CreditCard only...
I don't see anything that says they will support users without a credit card (or any other sort of payment).
How do you see this?
IMO almost everybody who buy something on Internet has a Credit Card. right?
There is another "google-thing" that has came without a "public"-beta version? (AFAIK checkout doesn't has any public beta)
I'm far away to know something about odontology, so i ask to the slashdot doctors:
This stimulation process could be used to cure bone illness, like Osteoporosis or Osteosarcoma ??
Thanks in advance.
As i stated on another post, maybe you and i, doesn't see the "liberal" concept in the same way. When i said that i was talking about the people who are (in excess) liberals. They think that people restriction of ANY kind, are wrong. (and when i say any i meant ANY)
In fact i know people who call themselves liberals and think that child porn will never be eradicated, any kind of filter/search is wrong we must don't do nothing against this.(They don't see this as a problem)
But i'm not talking about compromising EVERY system, we infect some child porn files and leave in the wild (i.e. upload it to a porn servers), then we keep track of this file (i.e. it send us a heart-beat) and look were the majority converge and there... we have a file server. I'm not talking on run after everybody who has that file... it's insane.
Yes and 20th Centuries ago, was fine if you has 10 "fagots" slaves... that's not the point. TODAY is a problem much bigger than when this material was exchanged via the postal service, and i agree with you the solution is not involved with open everybody mail.
And... if the people exchange the current material, they are sick sure, but they aren't criminals. I mean, its not a crime have this pictures (and IMO that's right) the crime is the abuse of a little child, so invade privacy has nothing to do here.
If you compromise servers (is like you assist to a pedophiles reunion) and in there you can investigate who are criminals.
Yes, totally agree. But BTW you doesn't sound too LIBERAL.
Bye
Is better this Ellington soft than have your own designed online publishing system?
With 10K you can pay a group of developers to do something really good, right?
Sorry for the Subject, but thats the name of the web page with lot of interesting info on Why dont use PayPal anymore.
Check it PayPal Sucks
Google has the AdSense thing, that makes GBuy really interesting for advertisers who (IMO) will not doubt for support GBuy if they are advertising with Google...
Now must be good for the users/buyers, i want to test it.
I always wondered about ants, a friend compares the Ants with some kind of socialism, because leaving a side the idea of "pawns" or "slaves" everybody work for a cause grater than him/herself. It will be interesting if there are more popular the courses where the Mother Nature (specific insects behaviors) are applied to real world society.
BTW that's just an idea i want to share.
When i was on the Amazonian Jungle (from Peru to Brazil) i saw a LOT of insects (that kind of "bugs" that you only see on movies or books.
It was interesting the behavior of some insects...
The spiders are really BIG, and when we travel on boat at day you can't see any, as soon as the sun starts to hide, the spiders starts to work. Some people kill the spiders (in fact the first time i kill some too) then i realize Watching/analyzing the behavior of the spiders:
They try to stay away from you, but they feel like at night YOU are in his place, so they act overconfident, they build a lot of spiderwebs and the mosquitoes (there is a LOT of mosquitoes in the Jungle and they are BIG) goes directly to the spider.
So i think, well maybe if i leave the spiders alive, they will catch all the mosquitoes, eat well and no one bites me.
At the next day, it works, none bites me. So i start to really analyze that, it seems that the spider knows that the mosquito bit us, so the spiders build webs around us (they can build and unbuild webs really fast) and use us as a carnage.
I feel odd, really odd. I think that i am the one Designing the "model/system".
Also we have some ants-analyzing-days and is annoying how they work you can read a lot about ants, but when you saw/fell them working is amazing.
Its good to "feel" the Mother Nature to learn and "why not?" teach her.
The "I'm against child porn" is just a remark, because there are some people who doesn't think like me.
Some people think that the pics or vids are in there (Internet, or elsewhere) and you must not prohibit neither track or filter this content. For them a pic or a vid is information, and no matter what it show must be freely and publicly available.
And maybe it sounds crazy but another people see all of this in a different way.
Someones think that if a 40 year old men have sex with a 15 child, there's nothing wrong. Other put the limit under 18...
Sometimes there is no physical abuse, the 14 years old girl maybe LOVE the old man, but... IMO it's wrong, the old men are abusing physiologically, but no everybody thinks the same way. (And i want to remark that I'm not talking about pedophiles, I'm talking about more "liberal" people.)
So YES some people could sound more liberal, and not everybody have the same "parameters". Not everybody are against pedophilia.
The subject is really complicated, here you have a conjunction action from the top ISP companies, but there are some things we must know.
This means that if "somebody" sends to me an image that triggers the filter I'm gonna be a "suspect" (at least for a while) so AOL refer the case and 1 minute later i have an investigation running on my private emails.
BTW... i don't want to sound paranoid, but this is a "way to start", then the database can include another kind of images (who knows?). Or just filter anything they want. The comparison with the Antivirus system (intentionally and not so technical related) put me more alert.
I don't want to sound liberal, I'm against child pornography, but i think that this is not the way to fight against it. If some sick-man (A) have a picture of some-more-sick-asshole(B) doing nasty things with a child, he(A) is a sick person but not a criminal, the asshole(B) must go to jail because he abuse (mental and physical) the boy (the other guy(A) must go to a doctor).
Another idea could be the "infection" of some images/files/videos and leave in the wild (this pedophiles bastards are not technical specialist, the majority of them are teachers, fathers or military related). So we keep track of the files all over, and figured out "sources" where they upload this files not a "single email address" i mean where a lot of files converge from different places. Then, security experts with some legal support, 0wn the server and monitors everything... and the investigation continues.
Also the P2P networks has a LOT of "pedophilic" shares, but you can't run after every sick people, you must go to the source and condemn the one who abuse the child.
I don't like the idea of "monitors everything -> searching for something". I think it must be like i said before... its a HUGE difference.
It seems that you know what you are talking about, i remember that day... all the local news suddenly becomes, "experts on electrical storms". They give a lot of recommendations (do not wear cell phones, leave rings and metal things at home, etc.)
I was surprised because the metal piece has the size of a memory stick (imagine that). I don't know about lightning storms... but i imagine that at this particular case the sea is more important than wear something metallic or not.
Well there is a lot of free IMs that support interoperability (also with AIM), i never saw this "alliance" so open, like in this year. And if never been about Google, now it will be.
Its interesting that new name, they move from the MSN idea to this Windows Live but it will be good if they include REAL live chat. A long time ago when everybody has ICQ you can see char by char what is typing the other person. (More than one friend ask me if there is a way yo do that).
Is an interesting move, it's not surprising... the alliance against Google is here. (now they need to figured out the best way to include PayPal on this) Maybe include paypal and passport and a UNIFIED IM are the next steps.
I'm still waiting for All Peers because the easy-to-share with friends all over the net is really good. Yes of course, there is a LOT of ways to do this, but for the average users it isn't a "easy ToDo thing"
BTW its the right time to find some vulns on this "Easy Share", with Ms behind there must be an "easy ToFind Vuln".
From The Article: This vuln is for an specific driver, we still don't know what is the flaw either the wireless device... but the important thing here is that they are pointing out the insecurity of drivers development:
From The Article:
BTW I like the "mystery" but IMO if they will wait till August 2nd, somebody will discover it too.
John Doe - "Hello I'm Mr. Green i want to cancel my account.
Customer Service Rep - "Done. Good bye Mr. Green"
The number of good professors doesn't growth so much in the lasts decades (it will be good if i have some material to sustain this).
Maybe the solution will be a "re-write" of "Education Models" rather than feed the actual one.
Sadly the "University Education" is an Economy Model/market...
And I'm sure that if in China there are only 2.5M students is more a "Political/Economic Decision" than a lack of resources.
In fact, IMO flock is like Firefox with a bunch of cool extensions.
i dont want to sound troll, but if you take Camino (just for name one browser) you see some "innovation" but i don't see any in flock.
Maybe becouse i dont understand all this Web 2.0 thing, dont know...
PS: Im not a MAC user (and i will not be)
For me there's no doubt about it.
But now you can wait for the next Word Processor from google.
Writely the Web Word Processor is part of Google since march of this year.
To be clear the features of Writely before goes to google are:
I asume that Google will add integration, spell checker, and other cool features.
Now writely has closed off new registrations until they move Writely to Google's systems, but you can Receive an email when registration opens back.
Well, if I had any artistic talent...
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