This has nothing to do with apple and everything to do with government corruption.
Any corporation, particularly those with share holders, are going to do this if they possibly can legally. If they didn't for example, they would get sued by their shareholders, or fired, or what have you. What are they going to do? Take some moral stance to pay more taxes and make less money?
This is about politicians creating and/or maintaining loopholes like this for corporate friends for personal profit (in one way or another). Nothing else.
How about overly short paragraphs interspersed with lots of pictures spread over an unholy amount of pages, simple to get more pageviews for ad driven revenue.
Can't find the quote, but this topic reminds me of the Alien race that invents the most powerful source of energy to power one of its spaceships, goes to turn it on, and instantly ends the universe. Of course they have always ended it, and they always will.
I had a mental exercise the other day, where I imagined "What would you do, if you invented a power source that could solve all of the earths energy problems, however the wrong use could destroy the world?" It is a significant scientific discovery, but who would you trust with the technology? Would you see the peril and decide to take the knowlege to the grave, or how much do you trust the scientific community, the government, etc...?
Just another reason not to use US companies or store data in the US for any IT projects.
Patriot Act was bad enough, but at least it had the decency of being somewhat sneaky about it. This seems like it is just saying to the world, "Hey guess what? We are going to look at everything you have, and you know what? Too bad!"
The US is doing a great job moving all those IT jobs someplace else, well done.
Canada is really close by the way, we have awesome privacy laws, and it isn't all that cold by the border, we speak English, have a highly educated workforce, and now our dollar is probably worth more than the US... Oh our Corporate tax is also lower... Oh and free health care, so no need for expensive health care plans for employees. I would suggest you move all your IT related work north of the border.
You may have to put up with a few "ehs" and hockey playoffs, but its probably worth it in the long run.
Hmmm, neat. Never heard of it before. I'll have to look into it.
Cryptographically the software should be irrelevant, there must be a way around the technical issues. So long as you are able to transfer your key, you should be able to access your stuff elsewhere (though unless Dropbox, etc... supports that sort of thing, they likely will never work natively).
I think what we need is a service like this, which is crypto first, everything else second.
I can't see why someone cannot create a server cloud based crypto system based on TrueCrypt, or encfs, or whatever, that using web based software, encrypts your files locally, then uploads them to a stored source using the same crypto. All you would need to access it on another computer would be a Key, be that manual entry, or secondary with a passphrase, or some other scheme using a secondary independent system.
I think the problem is that for anyone to have any trust in it, it has to be open source, like a TrueCrypt, where as when a Company has some private secret software, that may be encrypting your stuff, maybe not, maybe their is a back door, maybe a duplicate key, who knows... Though Google has done open source with its OS I think, perhaps they should with this as well.
I mean I could care less about their Privacy Statement, if I am satisfied that I can encrypt my files sufficiently.
Though recently mine has gone up from 60 to 80GB. Though I know many on plans less than 30GB.
If you only use the small 5GB Google Drive, if it only hits once a month to update, that still could be a chunk of your bandwidth. If it hits several times a month to update, your cap could be gone.
Anyway, that really wasn't what I was talking about. Usually these services charge by the GB transfer fees on top of your actual storage. So 50GB is 10$ a month, plus 1$/GB transfer, or something like that.
Google Drive seems to have simplified pricing, but they likely have total control over the whole process... Or their prices may just change? who knows. However generally speaking, that is how most of the rest of those cloud based storage works.
The only thing I would use these services for would be to back up critical personal files, and without encryption, I would never do that with my critical personal files.
I suppose you could use it as a doc sharing platform, which is what it sounds like they are going for, but there are already a lot of ways to do that. I know that for example past a certain size, files are not very reasonable for email, and if you have to go outside your own network that can be a pain in the ass. Some IT for security reasons don't want everyone and their dog to set up FTP servers, and some clients either don't have, or are not technically aware enough for that method. This might fit that niche. However again, there exists a ton of other things that do this sort of thing also, but this might be a cheaper alternative to some (I know of several we have access to, but the license fees are a bit much). Really it depends on on ubiquitous it becomes, which I guess is a Google (YouTube, Gmail, Etc...) specialty...
The only problem with this is you need a local client to still track your files, otherwise you can encrypt all your files and upload them, but if you have 5GB of files you will be using 5GB every single upload, which will kill your bandwidth. Typically these backup things to a compare, and would only upload the 2% of files you changed that month.
Anyway that is the biggest problem, is that when you encrypt your files, the storage device cannot scrutinize your files for changes (which is the whole point of encryption more less in the first place).
I'm sure there must be a technical way around this, but I think either way it would involve an amount of trust in the provider.
For total personal protection you can do it, it would just be expensive as it would be a bandwidth hog.
Yes, though the only one I have used is TrueCrypt, which allows you to encrypt entire drives or volumes. It also does allow you to make a slower growing encrypted container.
However I suspect that since most of these work via bandwidth limitations, they do a check to see what has been updated before upload. If you say create a 5GB volume or even a Container, it will try to validate this time (not seeing contents), and upload the max each and every time. I know all of these services have limitations and/or changes for bandwidth (GB/Month). I don't see any way around that limitation. Only way to do it would be server side encryption, if you believe in that. "Yes, we promise to not look at and encrypt your files as soon as we get them!" "BTW, Bro, I see you made 60K on your 2010 tax return, and that your registered a car more than 6 years old, How would you like to buy a brand new Toyota?"
Anyway I would not use these services without my own personal encryption. Particularly if you are sending only your most critical and sensitive files.
Thanks Intel Jerks. Can you not design a new socket every 2 years please.
Basically if I upgrade this year I am stuck with it. Owning a Desktop should make it easier to upgrade! When I have to buy all new MB, Ram, CPU, etc every couple of years you are kind of defeating the whole purpose.
Now I have to decide if I want to wait an entire year for Haswell to come out or not (assuming it isn't delayed etc...)
The one problem with ideas like this (other than all of the technical ones), is the simple issue of supply and demand.
As soon as you capture an asteroid of sufficient size and worth to make it profitable, it would no longer be so. What I mean is if you flood the market with whatever is currently valuable, it will no longer be so, or at least not as much. So even if the thing was a great big gold nugget 100% pure floating in space, really close, at a reasonable orbit, and we somehow discovered technology to mine the thing, what do you think that amount of gold would do to the gold market? It would crash, and so would any commodity brought in sufficient quantities. Unless of course you control prices, stockpiling the stuff, only releasing so much onto the market every year to keep the price stabilized, etc... That would be a pretty controlled market.
So anyway you look at it, those asteroids carry a deadly virus, and the name of that virus is Communism. So those free thinking maverick industrialists in America should oppose this idea, as they are champions of Capitalism and the Free Market, and Apple Pie, and everything else that makes the USA great!
Civil Servants answer to political masters. If those political masters do not want or are cautious about the information in question, of course it is going to take a long time to get the requested answers. If the political masters do not care, or it is perceived as not an issue (or contentious), then it will take 15 minutes (depending on complexity of the question of course).
Presumably the political masters answer to the people.
So really they have no one to blame but themselves. (fresh out of sympathy, sorry)
38 Million km / 858km/h = 44290 h 44290 h / 24 = 1845d 1845d / 365 = 5 years.
So it would take a Boeing 767 cruising at 858 km/h for just over 5 years to reach Venus.
Which I have to tell you is a lot quicker than I thought it would be, so maybe my math is wrong. Though I am also not taking into consideration gravity, or lack of air, etc...
They did try to surrender peacefully, sort of, however it was not agreed to. They sued for conditional surrender, which would keep the Emperor as the figurehead leader of Japan. The US wanted an unconditional surrender, politically they could accept nothing less. I think the bombs convinced the Emperor that he would be the leader of ashes if they didn't relent (however even after bomb #1 they refused).
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Let me get this straight... The Sea Shadow is part of the Ghost Fleet?
They may not be able to build a stealthy ship, but they can certainly name stuff good! ;)
Though the Sea Wolf is a great name for a sub, but where is the Kraken!
I am just waiting for someone to create an Albatross Class of warship...
"Ensign congratulations, you have just been assigned to the Davie Jones, an Albatross Class vanguard attack cruiser!" *facepalm!*
This has nothing to do with apple and everything to do with government corruption.
Any corporation, particularly those with share holders, are going to do this if they possibly can legally. If they didn't for example, they would get sued by their shareholders, or fired, or what have you. What are they going to do? Take some moral stance to pay more taxes and make less money?
This is about politicians creating and/or maintaining loopholes like this for corporate friends for personal profit (in one way or another). Nothing else.
How about overly short paragraphs interspersed with lots of pictures spread over an unholy amount of pages, simple to get more pageviews for ad driven revenue.
If like the rest of their devices it is totally useless after 2 years, then no thanks!
It is Critical Thinking, not Analytical Thinking which should decrease religious belief.
Can't find the quote, but this topic reminds me of the Alien race that invents the most powerful source of energy to power one of its spaceships, goes to turn it on, and instantly ends the universe. Of course they have always ended it, and they always will.
I had a mental exercise the other day, where I imagined "What would you do, if you invented a power source that could solve all of the earths energy problems, however the wrong use could destroy the world?" It is a significant scientific discovery, but who would you trust with the technology? Would you see the peril and decide to take the knowlege to the grave, or how much do you trust the scientific community, the government, etc...?
Just another reason not to use US companies or store data in the US for any IT projects.
Patriot Act was bad enough, but at least it had the decency of being somewhat sneaky about it. This seems like it is just saying to the world, "Hey guess what? We are going to look at everything you have, and you know what? Too bad!"
The US is doing a great job moving all those IT jobs someplace else, well done.
Canada is really close by the way, we have awesome privacy laws, and it isn't all that cold by the border, we speak English, have a highly educated workforce, and now our dollar is probably worth more than the US... Oh our Corporate tax is also lower... Oh and free health care, so no need for expensive health care plans for employees. I would suggest you move all your IT related work north of the border.
You may have to put up with a few "ehs" and hockey playoffs, but its probably worth it in the long run.
Hmmm, neat. Never heard of it before. I'll have to look into it.
Cryptographically the software should be irrelevant, there must be a way around the technical issues. So long as you are able to transfer your key, you should be able to access your stuff elsewhere (though unless Dropbox, etc... supports that sort of thing, they likely will never work natively).
I think what we need is a service like this, which is crypto first, everything else second.
I can't see why someone cannot create a server cloud based crypto system based on TrueCrypt, or encfs, or whatever, that using web based software, encrypts your files locally, then uploads them to a stored source using the same crypto. All you would need to access it on another computer would be a Key, be that manual entry, or secondary with a passphrase, or some other scheme using a secondary independent system.
I think the problem is that for anyone to have any trust in it, it has to be open source, like a TrueCrypt, where as when a Company has some private secret software, that may be encrypting your stuff, maybe not, maybe their is a back door, maybe a duplicate key, who knows... Though Google has done open source with its OS I think, perhaps they should with this as well.
I mean I could care less about their Privacy Statement, if I am satisfied that I can encrypt my files sufficiently.
In Canada you do... :(
Though recently mine has gone up from 60 to 80GB. Though I know many on plans less than 30GB.
If you only use the small 5GB Google Drive, if it only hits once a month to update, that still could be a chunk of your bandwidth. If it hits several times a month to update, your cap could be gone.
Anyway, that really wasn't what I was talking about. Usually these services charge by the GB transfer fees on top of your actual storage. So 50GB is 10$ a month, plus 1$/GB transfer, or something like that.
Google Drive seems to have simplified pricing, but they likely have total control over the whole process... Or their prices may just change? who knows. However generally speaking, that is how most of the rest of those cloud based storage works.
The only thing I would use these services for would be to back up critical personal files, and without encryption, I would never do that with my critical personal files.
I suppose you could use it as a doc sharing platform, which is what it sounds like they are going for, but there are already a lot of ways to do that. I know that for example past a certain size, files are not very reasonable for email, and if you have to go outside your own network that can be a pain in the ass. Some IT for security reasons don't want everyone and their dog to set up FTP servers, and some clients either don't have, or are not technically aware enough for that method. This might fit that niche. However again, there exists a ton of other things that do this sort of thing also, but this might be a cheaper alternative to some (I know of several we have access to, but the license fees are a bit much). Really it depends on on ubiquitous it becomes, which I guess is a Google (YouTube, Gmail, Etc...) specialty...
The only problem with this is you need a local client to still track your files, otherwise you can encrypt all your files and upload them, but if you have 5GB of files you will be using 5GB every single upload, which will kill your bandwidth. Typically these backup things to a compare, and would only upload the 2% of files you changed that month.
Anyway that is the biggest problem, is that when you encrypt your files, the storage device cannot scrutinize your files for changes (which is the whole point of encryption more less in the first place).
I'm sure there must be a technical way around this, but I think either way it would involve an amount of trust in the provider.
For total personal protection you can do it, it would just be expensive as it would be a bandwidth hog.
Hey! That's the same password as my luggage!
Cause comes before Effect?
Yes, though the only one I have used is TrueCrypt, which allows you to encrypt entire drives or volumes. It also does allow you to make a slower growing encrypted container.
However I suspect that since most of these work via bandwidth limitations, they do a check to see what has been updated before upload. If you say create a 5GB volume or even a Container, it will try to validate this time (not seeing contents), and upload the max each and every time. I know all of these services have limitations and/or changes for bandwidth (GB/Month). I don't see any way around that limitation. Only way to do it would be server side encryption, if you believe in that. "Yes, we promise to not look at and encrypt your files as soon as we get them!" "BTW, Bro, I see you made 60K on your 2010 tax return, and that your registered a car more than 6 years old, How would you like to buy a brand new Toyota?"
Anyway I would not use these services without my own personal encryption. Particularly if you are sending only your most critical and sensitive files.
I approve of this message only so long as they name their consortium "Weyland-Yutani Corporation"...
Also comes with a NEW socket, 1150.
Thanks Intel Jerks. Can you not design a new socket every 2 years please.
Basically if I upgrade this year I am stuck with it. Owning a Desktop should make it easier to upgrade! When I have to buy all new MB, Ram, CPU, etc every couple of years you are kind of defeating the whole purpose.
Now I have to decide if I want to wait an entire year for Haswell to come out or not (assuming it isn't delayed etc...)
a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Yes because Iran's copying of other technology like missiles, is going oh so well. Last I check they only county to fail more tests was NK.
Maybe they should just photoshop a drone together from the start and save themselves the effort.
The one problem with ideas like this (other than all of the technical ones), is the simple issue of supply and demand.
As soon as you capture an asteroid of sufficient size and worth to make it profitable, it would no longer be so. What I mean is if you flood the market with whatever is currently valuable, it will no longer be so, or at least not as much. So even if the thing was a great big gold nugget 100% pure floating in space, really close, at a reasonable orbit, and we somehow discovered technology to mine the thing, what do you think that amount of gold would do to the gold market? It would crash, and so would any commodity brought in sufficient quantities. Unless of course you control prices, stockpiling the stuff, only releasing so much onto the market every year to keep the price stabilized, etc... That would be a pretty controlled market.
So anyway you look at it, those asteroids carry a deadly virus, and the name of that virus is Communism. So those free thinking maverick industrialists in America should oppose this idea, as they are champions of Capitalism and the Free Market, and Apple Pie, and everything else that makes the USA great!
I don't see this as surprising.
Civil Servants answer to political masters. If those political masters do not want or are cautious about the information in question, of course it is going to take a long time to get the requested answers. If the political masters do not care, or it is perceived as not an issue (or contentious), then it will take 15 minutes (depending on complexity of the question of course).
Presumably the political masters answer to the people.
So really they have no one to blame but themselves. (fresh out of sympathy, sorry)
Just for fun:
Distance from Earth to Venus at closest point: About 38,000,000km
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_distance_from_Venus_to_earth
Cruising Speed of a Boeing 767: 858 km/h
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_767
38 Million km / 858km/h = 44290 h
44290 h / 24 = 1845d
1845d / 365 = 5 years.
So it would take a Boeing 767 cruising at 858 km/h for just over 5 years to reach Venus.
Which I have to tell you is a lot quicker than I thought it would be, so maybe my math is wrong. Though I am also not taking into consideration gravity, or lack of air, etc...
Too bad Fiat already has the name 500, no one will be able to use it now!
They did try to surrender peacefully, sort of, however it was not agreed to. They sued for conditional surrender, which would keep the Emperor as the figurehead leader of Japan. The US wanted an unconditional surrender, politically they could accept nothing less. I think the bombs convinced the Emperor that he would be the leader of ashes if they didn't relent (however even after bomb #1 they refused).
Don't worry about it, its just for launching satellites!
If by that you mean horribly horribly corrupt, then yes you are correct.
Oh well it has worked for the US so far I suppose. I guess it isn't in the megawealthy corporate thieves best interest to have a nuclear war either...