Your ISP might NAT your address, but I doubt you're changing your browser characteristics and your MAC address each session. So--> they have you. Don't think your truly anonymous. Go deeper instead and understand typification, how NAT, ARP, and routing really work, and how your browser will out-you every time.
My successes surround stable kernel builds, but I strip out tons of stuff, and have but a few daemons running as base. 12.04 was a good release, and it's been genned many 100s of times without much difficulty, altho there was a BadJava era where all kinds of crazy stuff happened.
The LTS server versions haven't given me problems, but I strip out most stuff.
And alas, altho KDE is great, I'm too invested in gaknome. I've been using Mint for desktop.... but it has all sorts of odd things that I've changed or wiped. I suppose I should get out of my rut and look again.
Straight-up Debian is nice, and it's stable, and it's sometimes painful to watch it evolve. Ubuntu's payload has all the stuff I need. I can strip it and make it light, then foist it up as a bunch of VMs and feed the instances through puppet or whatever, then tear them down easily.
With Deb or the RH/Fedora/CentOS/Oracle payloads, you have to take great pains to strip them down; Ubuntu is just easier. When I'm constructing payloads, it's easier to just strip junk out of Ubuntu, rather than build Deb up. I'm sooooo tired of either the kitchen sink of payloads, or the other side, which is the barest of bones, no upholstery at all, and maybe missing the steering wheel.
But this is more about Facebook as a meme to the parent of your message, rather than any specific compendium of data representing a cogently-derived opinion based on a preponderance of facts. Heaven forbid facts.
That said, I have little trust of Facebook, less of Google, and not much for anyone else but this isn't about me-- this is about some poor trusting soul (rather than the skeptical me) getting a browser hijack or MITM attacker or just plain raiding FB's repositories to milk out juicy auths and credentials.
Unity is an interesting idea, but Shutteworth is marching off a cliff with it. Mint takes the best bits and makes them better-- with rational UI choices-- for desktop users.
Ubuntu servers are still pretty lean and mean and understandable, however. Rip the Unity UI stuff away, and there's lots of stable Debian underneath and lots of great work.
Ubuntu One is a rational idea, too, as Shuttleworth wanted to bring the best of the Apple and Microsoft ecosystems, but didn't read his target audience very well, then mandated privacy invasions in terms of search. Add Unity's UI ideological fork to the sense that Ubuntu becomes a lot like Google, FB, and others that ignore outcries of commercial ad revenue rage at the sacrifice of privacy issues, and Shuttleworth takes Ubuntu rogue, IMHO.
In a way, it is. If they record your IP, anonymity goes away. "Anonymous data" from 204.37.19.23 is an oxymoron. Most every IP and CIDR is well-mapped.
We need only look in a mirror to find a violent and corrupt democracy.
One mountain at a time, as they say. First you fix what you can to prevent wholesale slaughter, rape, and pillage. Then you move on to the retail, bought and sold kind.
You can make choices, based on the information. Who's doing a better job of dictatorships? Vote them out with your monetary choices.
You're right-- these are extremes, and ways to polarize the question instead of attempting more cogent solutions to the problem(s) stated.
In the strictest sense, you should own all of the information about you that isn't needed to function in a civilized society. We ought to start from there. This, of course, bucks and batters against the very foundations of Google's business model to undermine Microsoft's model. We're not all altruistic, and know that there are sacrifices for using free cloud-based apps (as in cost, rather than code). But few individuals know how much their personal lives and online behavior is digested as data within the business models of varying online organizations. It's all behind the curtains, so to speak.
Modesty is an actual virtue. I know that doesn't seem very modern, but modesty, humility, and privacy are actually desirable-- and if they weren't, Google et al wouldn't care about your data. But they do.
Passive avoidance is no longer an option, and so it's up to individuals to guard their sense of privacy thru diligence. I therefore remove your context, and push it back to the individual's sense of propriety, whatever that might be.
Except that your hypervisor could be Xen, Citrix Xen, virt, vbox (just tried it and it's ugly but works), they say, soon: VMware. Haven't tried it on EC2, but containers is a concept that now bothers me because of its SunOS origins, just like SELinux bothers me because the NSA had tried to develop and evolve it.
Linus would be wise to consider a kernel fork that squeezed all the barnacles out of his triumphant OS and was lean and mean and rocked on small substrates where an #ifdef IBM_on_Power doesn't mean anything. Ye gawds how fat that kernel is getting.
It's a very good idea, with more finite applications in the real world. Think about it:
1) low, low, low attack profile 2) your kernel and outside perimeter better be perfect, but this is true in the real world anyway 3) less fuss and muss 4) low, low overhead instead of having to strip out init.d junk and daemons-without-a-cause 5) nice paravirtualization instead of sloggy driver emulation 6) modifiable kernel that can be altered so that memory entrance points can be scrambled up easily to prevent addressing hijacks.
So put your favorite httpd on it and run it more as an app virtualization rather than a whole freaking OS/app instance virtualization.
And it wasn't the iPhone 6, or something actually new, just new-price points to buffer marketshare dominance. Why?
Because the iPhone is just part of the revenue mix, and Apple makes more money on all the iTunes and apps you chew and use, accessorizing, and so forth. This was an iPhone 5(whatever) and doesn't do anything save combat lower price-point phones. And it's not the point at all. Apple continues to make hay while the sunshines. When that's over, they'll have handily have been able to evolve whatver is up their sleeve for the next product line launch, which will be endlessly speculated about, much to their liking. It's all about brand, and making revenues in as many rational ways as is possible with that brand, then doing it all over again before Ballmer wakes up, or Eric can pull his head from his butt long enough see the world.
My point exactly. Marketing is both more mature with iTunes, and pervasive. But such habituation doesn't necessarily cling clientele. And the number is ultimately domestic, as the density of Starbucks in the US is huge, not in the EU, Asia, SA, and Africa.
So, to use your figures, iOS has 40% share, and that leaves the rest with 60% share. But we're only talking the US, and only for purposes of comparing Pandora, who is limited to three countries in availability.
For insanity sakes, we add a pool of 60% to the mix that probably don't want iTunes, or have foresaken it for their phone base. Maybe they use it for iPods/iPads/etc.
Pandora's turf is pretty large, in an area with large amounts of disposable income. There are other competitors to both. One doesn't find the co-promotions of iTunes in Starbucks, etc. No Pandora, yet.
So I say fie on your assertion, and "cheaper" is also dubious as well. Looked at worldwide, the numbers change again. But I'm not judging the quality or marketing merits of either, only the statistical base that you draw from. Neither of us has the numbers or the amount of actual revenues for both. My sense is that iTunes might win because it's a better product. Pandora seems fun, but has great limitations. I use Spotify, the "free" version. And I support live music (example: last night).
Considered one way, Android has statistical leadership in terms of worldwide unit deployments currently in service. Then you can argue iOS static WiFi use.
Overall, I believe that worldwide, Android has statistical dominance. Now, let's apply that to the post, and see how it sorts out.
Android statistically overtaking iOS, coupled with a potential rise in other phones as life goes on, with varying licensing constraints for Pandora, competition from Spotify and a half dozen others, and the whole crux of this post is insane.
It's war, and more is better, and we all benefit from the competition. I could give a fleep for iTunes and its batty UI and DRM-ish approach. Pandora can be cute, but I want what I want, not what Pandora wants. The best is yet to come, if someone just had the guts to produce it and still reward musicians.
And so you take your EZ-Pass, iPass, or whatever, and put it into its metal box after you're past the toll-whatever.
Some of the tollbooths now take RFID-based credit cards. Same answer. These are radiological tokens. Kill the radio by putting it into a metal can, box, or even most ashtrays.
That it's tracked isn't surprising. I'm looking at your cam right now. Stop picking your nose.
You can wear protests as a badge of courage if you desire. But such efforts are more or less nihilistic. You mistake the government for giving much of a shit about what you think. This is no longer a government "by and for the people" rather, for campaign contributors and lackeys.
For whatever record, the government already knows what I did.
You expect conscience, and when you don't get one, you're amazed.
They get away with what they can get away with. This isn't about morality or customers, this is about revenue and Wall Street. Make no mistake. Punching them in the face is useless, corporations only feel pain when they lose revenue or stock value. Otherwise: no pain.
That's why they do this over and over, like zombies.
There is treason, there is sedition. There is free speech. One doesn't necessarily trump the other. Snowden, Manning, and others did what they felt was right, and no matter how right, they're ready to go to jail. Not the CEO of Yahoo; she's interested in staying out of jail.
That's where the reality is. You can cite the Constitution, even legal precedent, but jail is very real.
Is it a horrid era that allows the contemptous behavior of the government, en masse, against its citizens? Absolutely. But we allowed fear to govern law, and money to pimp our legislators. But jail is real. Marissa Meyer doesn't want to go there. Would you? Really?
They're a carrier. To expect Verizon or AT&T etc to behave like a wonderful, equitable business partner is to expect the earth to move from orbit on the propulsion of sparrow flatulence.
Charging for stuff is what they do, and they will relentlessly continue to try. And each time, like every other time, we'll crush them.
Do your part: tell those crazy telecom guys: monopolies were granted, not earned. We'll take away your easements, your rights of way, your utility company plates, and your seat at the table-- again. Your bribes to Congress and the legislature, and your armies of highly paid lawyers will lose once more, but you big bad boys-- you'll go back to your shareholders and exclaim one more time: we tried!!
Even when pi or rho or other "random" numbers are used for seeds as "magic" numbers, additional hashing and rehashing is needed to give further difficulty to decryption by those NOT having the key numbers.
With each new algorithm there is an army chomping at the bit (pardon the pun) to decrypt it, if not for fun or enlightenment, for the profit of the decrypted information value-- if any.
The problem here is trust. The NSA has blown its trust completely, beyond identifiability. Other initiatives, like SELinux, and security initiatives are now also in question, as well as anything the NSA has touched. They're dirty, and make Americans and the world not trust in their own government. We were supposed to be the good guys, we Yanks, and guess what? It was all a lie. Now the NSA has made an enemy of civil people, and civil people will need to protect themselves extra-governmentally, because the government has proven it's not protecting the interests of its citizenry.
Sorry to astroturf, but seeds are no longer the problem. The problem is trust.
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Don't know much about scripting, do you?
Your ISP might NAT your address, but I doubt you're changing your browser characteristics and your MAC address each session. So--> they have you. Don't think your truly anonymous. Go deeper instead and understand typification, how NAT, ARP, and routing really work, and how your browser will out-you every time.
My successes surround stable kernel builds, but I strip out tons of stuff, and have but a few daemons running as base. 12.04 was a good release, and it's been genned many 100s of times without much difficulty, altho there was a BadJava era where all kinds of crazy stuff happened.
The LTS server versions haven't given me problems, but I strip out most stuff.
And alas, altho KDE is great, I'm too invested in gaknome. I've been using Mint for desktop.... but it has all sorts of odd things that I've changed or wiped. I suppose I should get out of my rut and look again.
Straight-up Debian is nice, and it's stable, and it's sometimes painful to watch it evolve. Ubuntu's payload has all the stuff I need. I can strip it and make it light, then foist it up as a bunch of VMs and feed the instances through puppet or whatever, then tear them down easily.
With Deb or the RH/Fedora/CentOS/Oracle payloads, you have to take great pains to strip them down; Ubuntu is just easier. When I'm constructing payloads, it's easier to just strip junk out of Ubuntu, rather than build Deb up. I'm sooooo tired of either the kitchen sink of payloads, or the other side, which is the barest of bones, no upholstery at all, and maybe missing the steering wheel.
You're absolutely right.
But this is more about Facebook as a meme to the parent of your message, rather than any specific compendium of data representing a cogently-derived opinion based on a preponderance of facts. Heaven forbid facts.
That said, I have little trust of Facebook, less of Google, and not much for anyone else but this isn't about me-- this is about some poor trusting soul (rather than the skeptical me) getting a browser hijack or MITM attacker or just plain raiding FB's repositories to milk out juicy auths and credentials.
Unity is an interesting idea, but Shutteworth is marching off a cliff with it. Mint takes the best bits and makes them better-- with rational UI choices-- for desktop users.
Ubuntu servers are still pretty lean and mean and understandable, however. Rip the Unity UI stuff away, and there's lots of stable Debian underneath and lots of great work.
Ubuntu One is a rational idea, too, as Shuttleworth wanted to bring the best of the Apple and Microsoft ecosystems, but didn't read his target audience very well, then mandated privacy invasions in terms of search. Add Unity's UI ideological fork to the sense that Ubuntu becomes a lot like Google, FB, and others that ignore outcries of commercial ad revenue rage at the sacrifice of privacy issues, and Shuttleworth takes Ubuntu rogue, IMHO.
Talk about a single point of failure... ye gawds.
In a way, it is. If they record your IP, anonymity goes away. "Anonymous data" from 204.37.19.23 is an oxymoron. Most every IP and CIDR is well-mapped.
My thought exactly. Each transition was the end of one era, and the beginning of another more suited. Darwinism at work, if in an ugly way.
We need only look in a mirror to find a violent and corrupt democracy.
One mountain at a time, as they say. First you fix what you can to prevent wholesale slaughter, rape, and pillage. Then you move on to the retail, bought and sold kind.
You can make choices, based on the information. Who's doing a better job of dictatorships? Vote them out with your monetary choices.
You're right-- these are extremes, and ways to polarize the question instead of attempting more cogent solutions to the problem(s) stated.
In the strictest sense, you should own all of the information about you that isn't needed to function in a civilized society. We ought to start from there. This, of course, bucks and batters against the very foundations of Google's business model to undermine Microsoft's model. We're not all altruistic, and know that there are sacrifices for using free cloud-based apps (as in cost, rather than code). But few individuals know how much their personal lives and online behavior is digested as data within the business models of varying online organizations. It's all behind the curtains, so to speak.
Modesty is an actual virtue. I know that doesn't seem very modern, but modesty, humility, and privacy are actually desirable-- and if they weren't, Google et al wouldn't care about your data. But they do.
Passive avoidance is no longer an option, and so it's up to individuals to guard their sense of privacy thru diligence. I therefore remove your context, and push it back to the individual's sense of propriety, whatever that might be.
Except that your hypervisor could be Xen, Citrix Xen, virt, vbox (just tried it and it's ugly but works), they say, soon: VMware. Haven't tried it on EC2, but containers is a concept that now bothers me because of its SunOS origins, just like SELinux bothers me because the NSA had tried to develop and evolve it.
Linus would be wise to consider a kernel fork that squeezed all the barnacles out of his triumphant OS and was lean and mean and rocked on small substrates where an #ifdef IBM_on_Power doesn't mean anything. Ye gawds how fat that kernel is getting.
Ok, GodWin by NSA trump card. Sorry.
It's a very good idea, with more finite applications in the real world. Think about it:
1) low, low, low attack profile
2) your kernel and outside perimeter better be perfect, but this is true in the real world anyway
3) less fuss and muss
4) low, low overhead instead of having to strip out init.d junk and daemons-without-a-cause
5) nice paravirtualization instead of sloggy driver emulation
6) modifiable kernel that can be altered so that memory entrance points can be scrambled up easily to prevent addressing hijacks.
So put your favorite httpd on it and run it more as an app virtualization rather than a whole freaking OS/app instance virtualization.
And it wasn't the iPhone 6, or something actually new, just new-price points to buffer marketshare dominance. Why?
Because the iPhone is just part of the revenue mix, and Apple makes more money on all the iTunes and apps you chew and use, accessorizing, and so forth. This was an iPhone 5(whatever) and doesn't do anything save combat lower price-point phones. And it's not the point at all. Apple continues to make hay while the sunshines. When that's over, they'll have handily have been able to evolve whatver is up their sleeve for the next product line launch, which will be endlessly speculated about, much to their liking. It's all about brand, and making revenues in as many rational ways as is possible with that brand, then doing it all over again before Ballmer wakes up, or Eric can pull his head from his butt long enough see the world.
My point exactly. Marketing is both more mature with iTunes, and pervasive. But such habituation doesn't necessarily cling clientele. And the number is ultimately domestic, as the density of Starbucks in the US is huge, not in the EU, Asia, SA, and Africa.
So, to use your figures, iOS has 40% share, and that leaves the rest with 60% share. But we're only talking the US, and only for purposes of comparing Pandora, who is limited to three countries in availability.
For insanity sakes, we add a pool of 60% to the mix that probably don't want iTunes, or have foresaken it for their phone base. Maybe they use it for iPods/iPads/etc.
Pandora's turf is pretty large, in an area with large amounts of disposable income. There are other competitors to both. One doesn't find the co-promotions of iTunes in Starbucks, etc. No Pandora, yet.
So I say fie on your assertion, and "cheaper" is also dubious as well. Looked at worldwide, the numbers change again. But I'm not judging the quality or marketing merits of either, only the statistical base that you draw from. Neither of us has the numbers or the amount of actual revenues for both. My sense is that iTunes might win because it's a better product. Pandora seems fun, but has great limitations. I use Spotify, the "free" version. And I support live music (example: last night).
Considered one way, Android has statistical leadership in terms of worldwide unit deployments currently in service. Then you can argue iOS static WiFi use.
Overall, I believe that worldwide, Android has statistical dominance. Now, let's apply that to the post, and see how it sorts out.
Android statistically overtaking iOS, coupled with a potential rise in other phones as life goes on, with varying licensing constraints for Pandora, competition from Spotify and a half dozen others, and the whole crux of this post is insane.
It's war, and more is better, and we all benefit from the competition. I could give a fleep for iTunes and its batty UI and DRM-ish approach. Pandora can be cute, but I want what I want, not what Pandora wants. The best is yet to come, if someone just had the guts to produce it and still reward musicians.
And so you take your EZ-Pass, iPass, or whatever, and put it into its metal box after you're past the toll-whatever.
Some of the tollbooths now take RFID-based credit cards. Same answer. These are radiological tokens. Kill the radio by putting it into a metal can, box, or even most ashtrays.
That it's tracked isn't surprising. I'm looking at your cam right now. Stop picking your nose.
You can wear protests as a badge of courage if you desire. But such efforts are more or less nihilistic. You mistake the government for giving much of a shit about what you think. This is no longer a government "by and for the people" rather, for campaign contributors and lackeys.
For whatever record, the government already knows what I did.
This is a monopolistic corporation.
You expect conscience, and when you don't get one, you're amazed.
They get away with what they can get away with. This isn't about morality or customers, this is about revenue and Wall Street. Make no mistake. Punching them in the face is useless, corporations only feel pain when they lose revenue or stock value. Otherwise: no pain.
That's why they do this over and over, like zombies.
There is treason, there is sedition. There is free speech. One doesn't necessarily trump the other. Snowden, Manning, and others did what they felt was right, and no matter how right, they're ready to go to jail. Not the CEO of Yahoo; she's interested in staying out of jail.
That's where the reality is. You can cite the Constitution, even legal precedent, but jail is very real.
Is it a horrid era that allows the contemptous behavior of the government, en masse, against its citizens? Absolutely. But we allowed fear to govern law, and money to pimp our legislators. But jail is real. Marissa Meyer doesn't want to go there. Would you? Really?
They're a carrier. To expect Verizon or AT&T etc to behave like a wonderful, equitable business partner is to expect the earth to move from orbit on the propulsion of sparrow flatulence.
Charging for stuff is what they do, and they will relentlessly continue to try. And each time, like every other time, we'll crush them.
Do your part: tell those crazy telecom guys: monopolies were granted, not earned. We'll take away your easements, your rights of way, your utility company plates, and your seat at the table-- again. Your bribes to Congress and the legislature, and your armies of highly paid lawyers will lose once more, but you big bad boys-- you'll go back to your shareholders and exclaim one more time: we tried!!
Even when pi or rho or other "random" numbers are used for seeds as "magic" numbers, additional hashing and rehashing is needed to give further difficulty to decryption by those NOT having the key numbers.
With each new algorithm there is an army chomping at the bit (pardon the pun) to decrypt it, if not for fun or enlightenment, for the profit of the decrypted information value-- if any.
The problem here is trust. The NSA has blown its trust completely, beyond identifiability. Other initiatives, like SELinux, and security initiatives are now also in question, as well as anything the NSA has touched. They're dirty, and make Americans and the world not trust in their own government. We were supposed to be the good guys, we Yanks, and guess what? It was all a lie. Now the NSA has made an enemy of civil people, and civil people will need to protect themselves extra-governmentally, because the government has proven it's not protecting the interests of its citizenry.
Sorry to astroturf, but seeds are no longer the problem. The problem is trust.