People have been questioning the likes of PC Magazine, PC Week, InfoWorld, and other publications for years and years. It's not like this whole issue is anything new.
Interestingly, a *substantial* number of stories right here at Slashdot are submitted by shills from the very publications you mention. I've often wondered if there was some kind of relationship between the high number of such "stories" and advertising at Slashdot.
(And yes, this has been done before - by the Israelis)
I'm assuming that this is the part that caused the parent to be modded "Flamebait". But if it's true, can that be? If it's a factual statement that contains no political innuendo, than how can it be "Flamebait" except to people whit exceptionally thin skin (in which case they shouldn't be surfing Slashdot anyway)?
Organizations based in the countries Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma), with whom we are prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to participate. Mentoring organizations that are taking part in Google Summer of Code 2007 may add additional controls on which students may participate in the program under their auspices. Also if you look iranian, or have an iranian sounding name, you run the risk they will cancel your project.
Where the Hell did that come from? Obviously Google might have restrictions based on some of the United States questionable foreign policies regarding commerce, but the last sentence of yours is asinine, not ironic or funny unless your sense of humor is dryer than a desiccant chamber, or related to any particular section of reality. "Looking Iranian"? Isn't that a rather hyperbolic statement?
Really, is it that hard for you to resist your obsessive compulsive behavior and not click on the link for stories you aren't interested in?
Yes, very difficult. Especially when Slashdot "editors" behave so irresponsibly by putting these stories with outrageous headlines out like a couple of big juicy tits on a platter where any normal person simply can't resist.
What's the date on the patent, though? This sounds no different to what the Sinclair Spectrum was doing with its multiple shift keys 25 years ago.
People, US law and "prior art" are irrelevant here. This is *not* a US patent, it's a Nigerian patent, to be decided in Nigerian courts. Who will almost certainly favor the Nigerian company.
Of course, when you realize that every single Israeli citizen old enough to serve is drafted into the military and is in the active reserves for the remaining time, you should no longer be surprised to have employed a member of the Mossad. You should expect it to happen.
A lot of US residents have been in the military. I doesn't mean they have the 24 hour number to Intel on speed dial, or work for the CIA...
Hey, what about the fact that if it's Anonymous, it has NO credibility? Why would this guy care if some anonymous jerk said that "he rapes any 5 year old he comes in contact with and kills kittens because he thinks it's cute?"
Because quite a few people, including employers, potential employers, relatives, and a large percentage of the "general public" do buy what random anonymous bloggers say. It does make a difference.
And remember, they are not "random anonymous bloggers", they are "journalists".
If what you mean is that Google is beholden to the law in the countries in which it operates.
Hmmm. Let's switch out a few things...
Concentration camp worker: Hey, just following the laws of the land...
Remember Yahoo and the Chinese dissident? Just following the laws of the land in China, what's the problem? Seriously, just because a company is "publicly traded" and in business to make money doesn't mean they should do so at all costs regardless of morality.
At a university, you would literally be cutting out much of your social life if you never used facebook
Your post illustrates one of the things wrong with many university students today (primarily in the United States), and that is an emphasis weighted in favor of socializing over serious study. This is reflected in the overall quality of US collage graduates (there are exceptions), which is low. Yet another factor that will end up sealing America's fate as a Second Tier Nation...
Lets see, they are selling lots of them, and slowly gaining market penetration. I don't see that as a 'failure'.
Microsoft says they are in "short supply" thus implying that they are selling like hotcakes. But this isn't what it seems. In fact they are simply not distributing a whole lot to make it seem as though the short supply is a function of demand.
Even if you have it off, 911 has permission to override it to get your location.
The "feature" is spacifically tied to 911, in other workds the manual spacifically says if you want 911 tracking you *must* turn it on. Are you saying that when I turn it off, Verizon is out and out LIEING to me?
You have clearly never watched Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
No, I think the Brits where quite sensible in Stranglove. It's the Americans that where out of whack:
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?
General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.
Another reason I prefer not to own a cell phone. Modern ones all have at least rudimentary location tracking built in.
On my phone (a Motorola Razr V3 serviced by Verizon), tracking can be turned on or off. For me, I leave it on so that when I'm out and about on country roads and Forest Service roads, which I am a lot, they can find me when I call 911.
But I wonder, can "they" track me even when I turn the "feature" off? Maybe "they" see through the little camera on the phone? Can "they" hear waht I'm saying even when the phone is "closed"?
Anyway, I'm off to the store to buy more aluminum foil (with cash in coin form, of course)...
It's funny how a lot of people here insist that extremely restrictive licenses like the GPLv3 are perfectly OK for software developer to attach to their Intellectual Property, but when MegaCorp or someone else who owns IP tries to enforce terms of ownership, it's an evil bad thing...
But if you get all wrapped up in how 1998ish and "amature" the Web design is, you miss what the actual text says.
For those who are into HARDWARE, it's quite a fascinating tale of the evolution of deep sea moorings from instruments that recorded on photographic film to the high-tech devices we have today.
There are a lot of interesting stories about these things that I've heard from my dad, including how the Russians used to steal them for the technology...
The Buoy Group operated at Oregon State University for more than 35 years. It was active in the development and use of deep-sea mooring techniques and instruments, particularly current meters and meteorological instruments. The Buoy Group was a major participant in the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and operated the WOCE Current Meter Data Assembly Center.
In the early 1960s the recently formed OSU Department of Oceanography began to make observations off the Oregon coast. June Patullo, one of the Department's founding members, recognized that mooring work should be a part of the data collection effort. Dale Pillsbury, who later led the Buoy Group, was hired at this time by Wayne Burt. Together with Bob Still and Dennis Barstow, who already were making hydrographic observations, he became involved in the initial mooring effort.
The earliest data in the present archive were obtained with Braincon current meters and thermographs beginning in 1965. The Braincon instruments recorded on photographic film and produced time series one or two months in length, with a sampling interval as short as 5 minutes. Reading the film was difficult and time-consuming. Each frame of a current meter film showed a dot of light whose position encoded a speed and direction. These early experiments were conducted under the supervision of June Patullo and took place in shallow water over the Oregon continental shelf.
The Buoy Group began to deploy Aanderaa current meters in 1972. These instruments were first used in the Coastal Upwelling Experiment (CUE-1). This was the Buoy Group's first large-scale experiment and was conducted jointly with scientists from PMEL and the University of Washington. By this time the Group was being managed by Dr. Robert L. Smith, who was also a PI of CUE-1. CUE-1 was the first of a series of experiments off the US west coast, Peru and West Africa to examine coastal dynamics, particularly upwelling, in relation to biological production.
The Buoy Group's first Aanderaas (the RCM4 and RCM5) employed a mechanical encoder and recorded 10-bit numbers on magnetic tape. Speed was measured with a type of Savonius rotor. In terms of accuracy and ease of use, these current meters represented a major advance over the Braincon instruments. A significant drawback, however, was the mismatch between speed and direction. Speed was recorded as an average over the sampling interval, whereas direction was measured instantaneously at the end of the interval. A second problem was the mechanical encoder, which employed a rotating arrangement of pins and wedges to transform voltages into 10-bit binary numbers. Although the mechanism was ingenious, there was a tendency for the pins to stick, injecting spurious powers of 2 into the result.
The original Aanderaas eventually were upgraded to solid state electronics. This happened in the late 1980's. The modified instruments retained the Savonius-style rotor and large vane of the earlier design, although by this time Aanderaa had introduced a paddlewheel rotor and a smaller vane. These current meters, which were designated RCM7 and RCM8, recorded in CMOS RAM and employed a vector-averaging scheme. They were inherently reliable and corrected most of the failings of the RCM4 and RCM5. The RCM7 and RCM8 remained mainstays of Buoy Group operations until the Group disbanded.
Our initial experience with vector-averaging current meters, however, involved the InterOcean S4. We began experimenting with S4's in the mid-1980's. The S4 was spherical and contained no moving parts. It measured current components by assessing voltages generated as water passed through high-frequency magnetic fields created by a coil at the instrument's equator. S4's were employed in only a few Buoy Group experiments. The instrument was unstable and difficult to calibrate. Because the constant term in its speed calibration tended to drift it was not reliable in low-velocity environments.
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The problem with the guy you're talking about is not that he pointed out some issues with TOR, but that he then proceeded to disclose 100's of user ID and password combos. Totally unnecessary and irresponsible.
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TOR is a great concept but horribly slow and certainly insecure by default
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And, one involves a corrupt government, while the other involves laws that apply to (among other things), private healthcare companies.
Honestly, how many Google stories in one day? One week? Perhaps we can do like mailing lists and distil it down to a single weekly summary?
And remember, they are not "random anonymous bloggers", they are "journalists".
Sometimes paranoia == talking out of one's ass.
But I wonder, can "they" track me even when I turn the "feature" off? Maybe "they" see through the little camera on the phone? Can "they" hear waht I'm saying even when the phone is "closed"?
Anyway, I'm off to the store to buy more aluminum foil (with cash in coin form, of course)...
On the other hand, 90% of the sites that came up in my test of "feeling lucky" had Google Ads anyway.
It's funny how a lot of people here insist that extremely restrictive licenses like the GPLv3 are perfectly OK for software developer to attach to their Intellectual Property, but when MegaCorp or someone else who owns IP tries to enforce terms of ownership, it's an evil bad thing...
But if you get all wrapped up in how 1998ish and "amature" the Web design is, you miss what the actual text says.
For those who are into HARDWARE, it's quite a fascinating tale of the evolution of deep sea moorings from instruments that recorded on photographic film to the high-tech devices we have today.
There are a lot of interesting stories about these things that I've heard from my dad, including how the Russians used to steal them for the technology...
The Buoy Group operated at Oregon State University for more than 35 years. It was active in the development and use of deep-sea mooring techniques and instruments, particularly current meters and meteorological instruments. The Buoy Group was a major participant in the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and operated the WOCE Current Meter Data Assembly Center.
In the early 1960s the recently formed OSU Department of Oceanography began to make observations off the Oregon coast. June Patullo, one of the Department's founding members, recognized that mooring work should be a part of the data collection effort. Dale Pillsbury, who later led the Buoy Group, was hired at this time by Wayne Burt. Together with Bob Still and Dennis Barstow, who already were making hydrographic observations, he became involved in the initial mooring effort.
The earliest data in the present archive were obtained with Braincon current meters and thermographs beginning in 1965. The Braincon instruments recorded on photographic film and produced time series one or two months in length, with a sampling interval as short as 5 minutes. Reading the film was difficult and time-consuming. Each frame of a current meter film showed a dot of light whose position encoded a speed and direction. These early experiments were conducted under the supervision of June Patullo and took place in shallow water over the Oregon continental shelf.
The Buoy Group began to deploy Aanderaa current meters in 1972. These instruments were first used in the Coastal Upwelling Experiment (CUE-1). This was the Buoy Group's first large-scale experiment and was conducted jointly with scientists from PMEL and the University of Washington. By this time the Group was being managed by Dr. Robert L. Smith, who was also a PI of CUE-1. CUE-1 was the first of a series of experiments off the US west coast, Peru and West Africa to examine coastal dynamics, particularly upwelling, in relation to biological production.
The Buoy Group's first Aanderaas (the RCM4 and RCM5) employed a mechanical encoder and recorded 10-bit numbers on magnetic tape. Speed was measured with a type of Savonius rotor. In terms of accuracy and ease of use, these current meters represented a major advance over the Braincon instruments. A significant drawback, however, was the mismatch between speed and direction. Speed was recorded as an average over the sampling interval, whereas direction was measured instantaneously at the end of the interval. A second problem was the mechanical encoder, which employed a rotating arrangement of pins and wedges to transform voltages into 10-bit binary numbers. Although the mechanism was ingenious, there was a tendency for the pins to stick, injecting spurious powers of 2 into the result.
The original Aanderaas eventually were upgraded to solid state electronics. This happened in the late 1980's. The modified instruments retained the Savonius-style rotor and large vane of the earlier design, although by this time Aanderaa had introduced a paddlewheel rotor and a smaller vane. These current meters, which were designated RCM7 and RCM8, recorded in CMOS RAM and employed a vector-averaging scheme. They were inherently reliable and corrected most of the failings of the RCM4 and RCM5. The RCM7 and RCM8 remained mainstays of Buoy Group operations until the Group disbanded.
Our initial experience with vector-averaging current meters, however, involved the InterOcean S4. We began experimenting with S4's in the mid-1980's. The S4 was spherical and contained no moving parts. It measured current components by assessing voltages generated as water passed through high-frequency magnetic fields created by a coil at the instrument's equator. S4's were employed in only a few Buoy Group experiments. The instrument was unstable and difficult to calibrate. Because the constant term in its speed calibration tended to drift it was not reliable in low-velocity environments.
Dale Pill
My father has been dropping computers into the ocean for 30 years. Learn more here: http://cmrecords.net/osu/history.htm
The problem with the guy you're talking about is not that he pointed out some issues with TOR, but that he then proceeded to disclose 100's of user ID and password combos. Totally unnecessary and irresponsible.