altered mathematically to make unintellilligible? How exactly, then, do they tell what advertising, programs, and other media you are exposed to?
Sounds like the same one way hashing that applications like P2P use or music fingerprinting. Of course this assumes we should trust that they really are hashing it and/or they are not searching for other keywords?
Everyday when I think marketing and data mining have gone too far in the country, another technique is announced which is even worse.
If we have a government that would actually pass some meaningful privacy laws, affirming our right to privacy and giving us control our own information, there might be some checks and balances to this. In the meantime, its pretty lopsided and scary.
Should anyone be surprised. Come on people, this is going on with ALL traffic. AT&T just got caught. Why do you think Pres Bush claims it is too cumbersome to use the FISA court to get warrants? The truth is that when you are data mining all traffic, taking a shotgun approach, a warrant doesn't fit the surveillance paradigm.
I think people are confusing the issues here. If I send an email to a company online, I expect that company to protect my email according to their privacy policy. By 'contracting out' your email hosting to a third-party, in this case google, any privacy policy you adopt with me is meaningless.
This isn't about the government reading my mail with a subpeona. This is about my communications being disclosed to a third party whose sole business model is extracting the maximum advertising dollar out of that information without my permission.
As far as Sarbanes-Oxley, that law only applies to public companies registered with the SEC in the US. And even then since you have absolutely no control over what google does with the data, how could you have any assurances about data detention?
I have nothing but praise for the GMail hosting service. It really offers me and my site a professional web mail service.
Yeah, nothing is more professional than handing over your business email to google with their unlimited data retention policy. All my 'business' email with your organization will end up on googles server forever to be part of my demographic profile and who knows what else is done with it. All this and I didn't even sign up for gmail.
Next thing you know this will be solution for those FBI agents without fbi.gov addresses.
I installed this and used the 'Reply to Selected Text' feature. It inserts 'blockquote' tags. Shouldn't it insert 'cite' tags? I like my quotes to be italicised, not just indented. Indentation does not seem to be proper quoting to me.
I went under the Preferences and changed the Quick Reply Format. But it got me thinking what is the difference between blockquote + adding italics and simply the cite tag?
This is simply the evolution of popups into our physical world. More and more invasive advertising. Its not really advertising, its SPAM - unsoliticed and inserted at a place that is inappropriate.
What about advertisement screens in the toilet stall so that you are subjected to ads while taking a crap? "Having a problem! Try Brand-X Laxative!".
Since I do not own my DVDs and have already paid a license fee for the content and intellectual property, what fee structure is available for those of us that just want to upgrade to the additional content? Obviously that is not worth re-licensing what we already have, right?
I dont want the government to see that I regularly receive emails for Penis Enhancement, Viagra/Vicodin pills, and some guy with a foreign sounding name from Nigeria keeps emailing me wanting asking that I help a deposed head of state. I'm pretty sure all these items are linking me to some web of terror or something.
Funny how many scams are run on Ebay and they do little about it. Trying to contact a human is close to impossible. Their safe harbor department rarely gives a shit. Known scammers are allowed to keep their sellers id's even after numerous complaints.
Given Ebay history, my guess is that MS threatened to sue Ebay, so they are cooperating.
I too am looking at a Supermicro box right now with Dual Core Dual Opteron. However, go look at their website. Select 'Motherboards' or 'Products' or 'Systems'. There is no mention of AMD! Historically Supermicro has produced a lot of Intel systems, especially Xeon SMP--that is their bread and butter. Go look at their recent Press Releases - no mention of AMD.
I wonder if they have a marketing agreement with Intel.
I think he means they would apply a 'text' scanner to a 'binary' encrypted document and there are odds that those letters could be found in many binary document. Thereby you might still be 'flagged' coincidentally.
I run a site with a web forum and maintain a database. We only require City, State and even allow the user to hide that info. It is none of my business to know the actual physical address of the person. One of the best ways to ensure information is private is to not collect it in the first place so I don't.
This bill attempts to require maintaining records that are not currently maintained. It is obsurd.
The built-in AOL email click does handle URLs differently. Links that normally work with everyone else in the world are not clickable under AOL. Most AOL users dont understand the concept of cut/paste the link into a browser, so they get confused.
Basically, for AOL users, you need links need to be HTML (even in a text messages) so you must enclose links in an HREF tag.
If you sent a link to a 'normal' user you would use:
http://www.slashdot.org
The same link to an AOLer is:
<A HREF="http://www.slashdot.org/">Click here for Slashdot</A>
Thats just not true. The status quo of having to jump through hoops to get on their 'white list' has been discontinued and will be replaced with this certified sendor bullshit. I run a web site and AOL is the main provider that causes us problems. We've been put on the whitelist, but occasionally some threshold of people click the 'this is spam' button instead of the delete button. My site started as a mailing list in 1996. Last year, I terminated the mailing list because of problems with AOL users. (We still provide a local NNTP newsgroup and syncronized webforum). The list was high volume, about 200-400 messages per day. We still need to send AOL users messages when people signup (free) for our site. Or when people forget their passwords. Or when people send us questions, etc.
Even trying to contact AOL to figure out what is going on is a pain. I've had our mailserver blocked before and gone through the process of trying to get it fixed, only to have my 'support ticket' closed because I'm already on the whitelist. If I'm on the whitelist, why did I get blocked?
I've implemented SPF (despite the fact that I don't like it) which hopefully will allow my mail to go through using the 'dynamic list'. However, last time I tried to signup for the dynamic white list, I was rejected because they said I was already on the list.
Not to mention that I need special code in the PHP software because AOL renders hyperlinks different so AOL users need the 'Click here to activate your account' link specially crafted.
The only other problem ISP is earthlink and their challenge email system. That just doesn't work with an automated site. When users signup, I send an email to the address they provide to confirm the email address (avoid typos, bogus email, etc) and even though I give them advance warning to add our sending email address to their whitelist or address book, 99% of the time people don't do that or probably dont even understand what that means.
So all the search engines companies like Google who betrayed their principles and aided the Communist censorship machine find out that they are expendable despite their ass kissing? Hmm, who would have predicted...
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like the same one way hashing that applications like P2P use or music fingerprinting. Of course this assumes we should trust that they really are hashing it and/or they are not searching for other keywords?
Everyday when I think marketing and data mining have gone too far in the country, another technique is announced which is even worse.
If we have a government that would actually pass some meaningful privacy laws, affirming our right to privacy and giving us control our own information, there might be some checks and balances to this. In the meantime, its pretty lopsided and scary.
Should anyone be surprised. Come on people, this is going on with ALL traffic. AT&T just got caught. Why do you think Pres Bush claims it is too cumbersome to use the FISA court to get warrants? The truth is that when you are data mining all traffic, taking a shotgun approach, a warrant doesn't fit the surveillance paradigm.
Why don't they just copy them?
I think people are confusing the issues here. If I send an email to a company online, I expect that company to protect my email according to their privacy policy. By 'contracting out' your email hosting to a third-party, in this case google, any privacy policy you adopt with me is meaningless.
This isn't about the government reading my mail with a subpeona. This is about my communications being disclosed to a third party whose sole business model is extracting the maximum advertising dollar out of that information without my permission.
As far as Sarbanes-Oxley, that law only applies to public companies registered with the SEC in the US. And even then since you have absolutely no control over what google does with the data, how could you have any assurances about data detention?
Yeah, nothing is more professional than handing over your business email to google with their unlimited data retention policy. All my 'business' email with your organization will end up on googles server forever to be part of my demographic profile and who knows what else is done with it. All this and I didn't even sign up for gmail.
Next thing you know this will be solution for those FBI agents without fbi.gov addresses.
Thats so Jesus.
I installed this and used the 'Reply to Selected Text' feature. It inserts 'blockquote' tags. Shouldn't it insert 'cite' tags? I like my quotes to be italicised, not just indented. Indentation does not seem to be proper quoting to me.
I went under the Preferences and changed the Quick Reply Format. But it got me thinking what is the difference between blockquote + adding italics and simply the cite tag?
No, no, no - it should be:
history | awk '{print $2}' | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10
This is simply the evolution of popups into our physical world. More and more invasive advertising. Its not really advertising, its SPAM - unsoliticed and inserted at a place that is inappropriate.
What about advertisement screens in the toilet stall so that you are subjected to ads while taking a crap? "Having a problem! Try Brand-X Laxative!".
Clockwork Orange
Since I do not own my DVDs and have already paid a license fee for the content and intellectual property, what fee structure is available for those of us that just want to upgrade to the additional content? Obviously that is not worth re-licensing what we already have, right?
I dont want the government to see that I regularly receive emails for Penis Enhancement, Viagra/Vicodin pills, and some guy with a foreign sounding name from Nigeria keeps emailing me wanting asking that I help a deposed head of state. I'm pretty sure all these items are linking me to some web of terror or something.
Funny how many scams are run on Ebay and they do little about it. Trying to contact a human is close to impossible. Their safe harbor department rarely gives a shit. Known scammers are allowed to keep their sellers id's even after numerous complaints.
Given Ebay history, my guess is that MS threatened to sue Ebay, so they are cooperating.
I too am looking at a Supermicro box right now with Dual Core Dual Opteron. However, go look at their website. Select 'Motherboards' or 'Products' or 'Systems'. There is no mention of AMD! Historically Supermicro has produced a lot of Intel systems, especially Xeon SMP--that is their bread and butter. Go look at their recent Press Releases - no mention of AMD.
I wonder if they have a marketing agreement with Intel.
Where the hell was the Microsoft research team/press release when it was time to 'warn' us about the Sony style rootkit?
Sounds like selective research in order to fudge TCO and pump up Trusted Computing.
Burns: What!? Blast his hide to Hades! [thunder roars outside]
And I was going to buy that ivory back-scratcher...
Howard Dean must be in mission control. I'm sure I heard the 'scream' at end of MOI. Nearly burst my eardrums.
Pass the peanuts!!!!
Yeah, when I've called an IT guy to come give me a bid, a mid 80's Tandy 102 is the device I want to see him carrying.
I think he means they would apply a 'text' scanner to a 'binary' encrypted document and there are odds that those letters could be found in many binary document. Thereby you might still be 'flagged' coincidentally.
I run a site with a web forum and maintain a database. We only require City, State and even allow the user to hide that info. It is none of my business to know the actual physical address of the person. One of the best ways to ensure information is private is to not collect it in the first place so I don't.
This bill attempts to require maintaining records that are not currently maintained. It is obsurd.
I built a solar powered repeater for my Internet access. Where is my cookie?!
.slashdot.org
Name: user
Content: 10566:WEFiwgefWEFHwfweih
Domain:
Path: /
Send For: Any type of connection
Expires: 05/01/2006 10:12:12 AM
The built-in AOL email click does handle URLs differently. Links that normally work with everyone else in the world are not clickable under AOL. Most AOL users dont understand the concept of cut/paste the link into a browser, so they get confused.
Basically, for AOL users, you need links need to be HTML (even in a text messages) so you must enclose links in an HREF tag.
If you sent a link to a 'normal' user you would use:
http://www.slashdot.org
The same link to an AOLer is:
<A HREF="http://www.slashdot.org/">Click here for Slashdot</A>
Thats just not true. The status quo of having to jump through hoops to get on their 'white list' has been discontinued and will be replaced with this certified sendor bullshit. I run a web site and AOL is the main provider that causes us problems. We've been put on the whitelist, but occasionally some threshold of people click the 'this is spam' button instead of the delete button. My site started as a mailing list in 1996. Last year, I terminated the mailing list because of problems with AOL users. (We still provide a local NNTP newsgroup and syncronized webforum). The list was high volume, about 200-400 messages per day. We still need to send AOL users messages when people signup (free) for our site. Or when people forget their passwords. Or when people send us questions, etc.
Even trying to contact AOL to figure out what is going on is a pain. I've had our mailserver blocked before and gone through the process of trying to get it fixed, only to have my 'support ticket' closed because I'm already on the whitelist. If I'm on the whitelist, why did I get blocked?
I've implemented SPF (despite the fact that I don't like it) which hopefully will allow my mail to go through using the 'dynamic list'. However, last time I tried to signup for the dynamic white list, I was rejected because they said I was already on the list.
Not to mention that I need special code in the PHP software because AOL renders hyperlinks different so AOL users need the 'Click here to activate your account' link specially crafted.
The only other problem ISP is earthlink and their challenge email system. That just doesn't work with an automated site. When users signup, I send an email to the address they provide to confirm the email address (avoid typos, bogus email, etc) and even though I give them advance warning to add our sending email address to their whitelist or address book, 99% of the time people don't do that or probably dont even understand what that means.
So all the search engines companies like Google who betrayed their principles and aided the Communist censorship machine find out that they are expendable despite their ass kissing? Hmm, who would have predicted...
Snaps to Microsoft!