If you want to see performance and privacy in your Android device, run Cyanogenmod on it. My Galaxy S and now my Galaxy SII are practically different phones since I replaced the factory load.
...they will never sell off the data because that is their most valuable asset
Because, of course, user data is a limited resource that is static and non-renewable.
Of course they sell it! Like bread, user data goes stale - people make new connections, gain new interests, move to new places, get new jobs - new new new! Sell the data today because tomorrow there will be more, and different data.
Also, this option really doesn't change anything what Facebook knows about you
Except that you're suicidal. I can count the number of insurance companies that aren't interested in buying THAT data on NO HANDS.
How many kids will be snatched up by their local flavor of child protective services when it becomes known that they spoke with a crisis counselor?
What I don't understand is why you can't achieve both log security and log usefulness with the existing tools.
In a previous job (seems like a different life) - I set up all of the servers to utilize remote syslog. The syslog server then offered the log directory as a read-only NFS exports to each of the servers.
It was quick, it was easy, and it was secure. You could view the local logs on individual servers, but you couldn't alter them in any way except by generating log output.
If he had something real, he'd go through the accepted channels and right now would likely be getting ready to cash his first massive check from some Big Pharma company.
He's been doing this since the 80's. The FDA had at one point attempted to patent his research.
Why would big pharma want cancer cured? Oh, yeah, I remember now - so they can stop selling all of those expensive cancer drugs.
You could always do the research yourself, fund it, fund the prototype phase, ramp up the manufacturing facilities and then bribe the equipment manufacturers to immediately use your new hardware in their current product lines.
That sounds do-able. Would you be happy with that kind of immediacy?
Why are you destroying the disks? Do you not need any of that data?
Why not request an addendum to the contract that postpones the destruction until a time when the contract is not renewed, or the disks fail (whichever comes first)?
As suggested by others, DBAN is good, or my preferred method is: write garbage
It's more portable than anything else, and it's capable of more than popups. I can only see this trend utilizing processing power better than the (now fading) model of "do it all on the server". How many more people will use PGP if it's built into their webmail client? They won't need to install anything, configure anything - just use.
There are a number of things I'd like to push to the browser. With accompanying server fallbacks, browser processing could greatly reduce my server load which would increase the number of users I could serve.
Try not to think of it in terms of "if it can be done", think of it more in the terms of "can I distribute the tasks".
I was referring to the person who had something constructive and informative to say.
Simply cutting the TX pair won't do the trick, there are many more configurations necessary for the network to accept this type of connection. Negotiation is a process where two end points determine the capabilities of the other end and "negotiate" a connection. Without bi-directional communication, you must configure the transmitting end with static values, then inform the receiving end what those values are. Simply cutting wires won't work. The work involved takes more than a pair of side cutters.
"Lumpy" isn't a nickname I gave to you, it is the name of the person who originally suggested the uni-directional cable method. I was not referring to you.
Understanding what the term means is completely different from understanding how it is accomplished.
I've been building and maintaining networks for over a decade and have never even considered a uni-directional connection before I read this today. Of course, the systems I'm familiar with are specifically for internet access, so bi-directional communication and firewalls had become my norm.
I was responsible for the backup solution for one of my employers. We had the main server mirroring to a backup server, and on Saturdays I would perform a full backup to tape which was stored off-site. After a few months of Saturdays, I explained that not only would it be safer to use several portable HDs, and - but cheaper as well.
My actual intentions were entirely selfish. Backing up to tape was a very manual process (changing tapes), while backing up to a portable HD can be easily automated. Friday afternoon I would attach the removable HD and activate the backup automation. At midnight, the backup procedure would occur and instead of spending several hours in the office on Saturday, I would show up long enough to turn off the alarm, check the backup log, grab the HD, and re-arm the alarm.
I never bothered to mention how much time I was saving to my boss, so I continued to leave hours early on Fridays.
My point was that there isn't a fundamental difference between roms like Cyanogen and factory roms. Sure, there is some eye-candy that some love and some hate - but that eye-candy doesn't add any real functionality and can make the phone more difficult to use/learn. Once my wife realized that putting a different rom on the phone doesn't make it an alien environment, she was hip to the idea.
Cyanogen is really nice! It's fast, consistent, reliable and not something that should be feared. It's not really a new environment - it's just a really cleanly implemented environment.
My wife was against me modding her phone, until she got fed up with the glitchy behavior. Noticing how well CM works on my phone, now she's begging me to upgrade hers. It's really not much different than the factory roms, it is just more stable and doesn't have all of the integrated garbage. Not much of a learning curve.
I don't understand how they can latch onto the "sounding out" theory when there are so many examples of ancient cultures using hieroglyphs. There aren't any letters to sound-out in these ancient languages, yet the cultures that used them extensively didn't have problems understanding them.
Catching up with elementary school, what about catching up to the ancient Egyptians?
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If you want to see performance and privacy in your Android device, run Cyanogenmod on it. My Galaxy S and now my Galaxy SII are practically different phones since I replaced the factory load.
Who said anything about getting a payout? I think people would find their policies cancelled.
...they will never sell off the data because that is their most valuable asset
Because, of course, user data is a limited resource that is static and non-renewable.
Of course they sell it! Like bread, user data goes stale - people make new connections, gain new interests, move to new places, get new jobs - new new new! Sell the data today because tomorrow there will be more, and different data.
Also, this option really doesn't change anything what Facebook knows about you
Except that you're suicidal. I can count the number of insurance companies that aren't interested in buying THAT data on NO HANDS.
How many kids will be snatched up by their local flavor of child protective services when it becomes known that they spoke with a crisis counselor?
Incorrect. Nobody had to say it.
Oh, well I'm still being modded "troll"... oh well.
I could have used mod points, but I already replied to another post. I'm not as worried about my karma bonus as you are.
I find that almost all XKCD links posted on /. are relevant. Just not this one. And I've never spilled bile in the direction of XKCD.
Had the subject read "Random XKCD" or "Unrelated XKCD" I would have accepted that and moved on without comment.
Did you just post the URL of a random XKCD?
From the post:
...enriching their communities...
Does KFC operate in Africa?
No, the other side would have seized the opportunity for publicity:
Terrorist attack on nuclear facility foiled
What I don't understand is why you can't achieve both log security and log usefulness with the existing tools.
In a previous job (seems like a different life) - I set up all of the servers to utilize remote syslog. The syslog server then offered the log directory as a read-only NFS exports to each of the servers.
It was quick, it was easy, and it was secure. You could view the local logs on individual servers, but you couldn't alter them in any way except by generating log output.
If he had something real, he'd go through the accepted channels and right now would likely be getting ready to cash his first massive check from some Big Pharma company.
He's been doing this since the 80's. The FDA had at one point attempted to patent his research.
Why would big pharma want cancer cured? Oh, yeah, I remember now - so they can stop selling all of those expensive cancer drugs.
For a quack, it's interesting to note that he got FDA approval for one of his treatments:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/131693.php
You could always do the research yourself, fund it, fund the prototype phase, ramp up the manufacturing facilities and then bribe the equipment manufacturers to immediately use your new hardware in their current product lines.
That sounds do-able. Would you be happy with that kind of immediacy?
Why are you destroying the disks? Do you not need any of that data?
Why not request an addendum to the contract that postpones the destruction until a time when the contract is not renewed, or the disks fail (whichever comes first)?
As suggested by others, DBAN is good, or my preferred method is:
write garbage
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/disk
then write zeros
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk
It's more portable than anything else, and it's capable of more than popups. I can only see this trend utilizing processing power better than the (now fading) model of "do it all on the server". How many more people will use PGP if it's built into their webmail client? They won't need to install anything, configure anything - just use.
There are a number of things I'd like to push to the browser. With accompanying server fallbacks, browser processing could greatly reduce my server load which would increase the number of users I could serve.
Try not to think of it in terms of "if it can be done", think of it more in the terms of "can I distribute the tasks".
I was referring to the person who had something constructive and informative to say.
Simply cutting the TX pair won't do the trick, there are many more configurations necessary for the network to accept this type of connection. Negotiation is a process where two end points determine the capabilities of the other end and "negotiate" a connection. Without bi-directional communication, you must configure the transmitting end with static values, then inform the receiving end what those values are. Simply cutting wires won't work. The work involved takes more than a pair of side cutters.
"Lumpy" isn't a nickname I gave to you, it is the name of the person who originally suggested the uni-directional cable method. I was not referring to you.
Haven't you heard? Literacy is a skill that's taught in college. Elementary and High School teachers don't teach it, so they aren't practicing it regularly. The grade school focus is more on tasks like diagnosing ADD.
Understanding what the term means is completely different from understanding how it is accomplished.
I've been building and maintaining networks for over a decade and have never even considered a uni-directional connection before I read this today. Of course, the systems I'm familiar with are specifically for internet access, so bi-directional communication and firewalls had become my norm.
Thanks for the education Lumpy!
I was responsible for the backup solution for one of my employers. We had the main server mirroring to a backup server, and on Saturdays I would perform a full backup to tape which was stored off-site. After a few months of Saturdays, I explained that not only would it be safer to use several portable HDs, and - but cheaper as well.
My actual intentions were entirely selfish. Backing up to tape was a very manual process (changing tapes), while backing up to a portable HD can be easily automated. Friday afternoon I would attach the removable HD and activate the backup automation. At midnight, the backup procedure would occur and instead of spending several hours in the office on Saturday, I would show up long enough to turn off the alarm, check the backup log, grab the HD, and re-arm the alarm.
I never bothered to mention how much time I was saving to my boss, so I continued to leave hours early on Fridays.
Per TFA:
The watch is a concept piece only, and will be presented at the Baselworld watch show in 2012.
Maybe if enough people begged, they might make a production run.
I wouldn't mind having one, but I'm not holding my breath.
My point was that there isn't a fundamental difference between roms like Cyanogen and factory roms. Sure, there is some eye-candy that some love and some hate - but that eye-candy doesn't add any real functionality and can make the phone more difficult to use/learn. Once my wife realized that putting a different rom on the phone doesn't make it an alien environment, she was hip to the idea.
Cyanogen is really nice! It's fast, consistent, reliable and not something that should be feared. It's not really a new environment - it's just a really cleanly implemented environment.
TROLL? C'mon, that was funny!
My wife was against me modding her phone, until she got fed up with the glitchy behavior. Noticing how well CM works on my phone, now she's begging me to upgrade hers. It's really not much different than the factory roms, it is just more stable and doesn't have all of the integrated garbage. Not much of a learning curve.
Yo mama!
I don't understand how they can latch onto the "sounding out" theory when there are so many examples of ancient cultures using hieroglyphs. There aren't any letters to sound-out in these ancient languages, yet the cultures that used them extensively didn't have problems understanding them.
Catching up with elementary school, what about catching up to the ancient Egyptians?