You mean sort of like holding suspects in countries where torture, er "enhanced interrogation" is legal so you can claim your not doing anything wrong?
I read the article and after you get passed the first part and down to the "steps" listed you will see that there are several different issues here, but no laws (that I can tell).
1) The web.
For the web content it looks like they want to be able to filter at will anything the independent body deems "harmful" but don't forget that they will have to prove its harmful and be able to justify their decisions. I am sure that they will see a lot of input from the educational institutions and rights groups on this. One would also note (as did the article) that this doesn't apply to private personal communications (which I take to mean email, chat, voip, etc). And don't forget Japan has a court system too, if this does become law it will see challenges to it. Also this seems to be just a report or recommendation at this point and is not a bill or a law and (according to the article) has not yet been proposed as a bill.
2) Mobile phone filtering for persons under 18.
If you read through this it is clear this was enacted because of parents concerns. Though filtering was available before it was not well advertised and very rarely used. This order (the article doesn't say its a law) just requires the filtering to be on by default and the owner of the phone (usually the parents) can request it (the filtering) to be disabled. So if the parent has a problem with there child's mobile web access being filtered they can just request it be turned off.
3) File Sharing.
This is at the behest of the RIAJ (Recording Industry Association of Japan). They are just doing the same thing as the RIAA. From my take on the article it looks like they are using the same reasoning and justifications as the RIAA have done, and I doubt they will be anymore successful.
So from what I can tell there are no laws or proposed bills yet (other then possibly the mobile phone web filtering, anyone know if this is a law or just a decree?) and there are groups out there speaking against them. They are using the public comments system and voicing their opinion. If you are a Japanese citizen or permanent resident and you have a problem with it voice your opinion about it too. But don't claim it to be more then it is. This same stuff has come up in the US before too, remember the war on porn anyone? Just don't forget that there will be plenty of opposition, after all we know what the internet is for.;)
I am not sure what your price range is but mine was fairly low and I found one that supported ogg and a mess of others. Its a Samsung YP-F1Z (1 GB), its small, light, has a belt clip, and gets 10 hours of playback time. It has a tonne of features and is easy to use. It even supports folders (1 layer only though). I am not sure that they make or sell this model anymore and I am not trying to plug a product. Just pointing out that if you do your research (which any good consumer should do) you can usually find a product that meets your needs that is within your budget.
Indeed, this would be akin to a county being held responsible for vehicular homicide because they maintain the road. That being said when was the last time you got "filtered" for driving the wrong color car?
Just food for thought, and sorry for the car analogy everyone!:)
From my understanding that is only so if the server or communications relay in the US is routing (relaying) traffic that does not originate from or is destined to the US. For example, if a person was calling from London to Mexico and it happened to go through a relay in the US its fair game. This is not the case (as I understand it) when one or other of the party communicating is in the US (and is a citizen?). For example, if I (a US citizen living in the US) call my finance who is Japanese (and lives in Japan) our call can NOT be wiretapped with out a court order as they (the government) would be violating my constitutional right to privacy. Thus our calls are off limits with out a warrant, even though she is not a US citizen or residing within the US.
I could be wrong but that is what I have understood from my research into the matter. I also believe that people genuinely expect that email is a confidential and private form of communication, otherwise no business would touch it for private communication with other businesses and customers (think on-line bill paying, purchasing, etc.)
Most of my emails are plain text, with no links in them or very few. On top of this they are all from people or organizations I know, if I don't recognize it I don't open it. If I think its SPAM or suspicious I use the handy "Report Spam" button. TFA even says that disabling java-script solves the security issue and if you use Firefox you can use extensions like no-script (as I believe was mentioned in another post here).
It seems pretty unfair to lay this only on Google's shoulders as XSS has been around for a long time and many web apps are vulnerable to it. Sure, the two year session cookie lifetime is a bit long and it would be better to have a 1 week lifetime or maybe even shorter. Does anyone know if there is a way to force Gmail to create a new session cookie? Does clearing your local cookies do so? If so that is another way to solve the issue. And what about using Gmail over SSL as is allowed by a couple different Firefox extensions?
If this group has informed Google about this then I am sure Google will work on finding a solution, they have a lot of very smart people working for them after all and I am sure that they can find a solution that will address the issue without affecting usability or the user's experience. If nothing else, just say no to HTML email and only click links you trust. Just my two cents.:)
Myself and some other students (back when I was in college) played with doing this via PCI SCSI cards, it worked to a point but wasn't quite the same as all you were really doing is providing SCSI access to each systems HDDs. Still it would have allowed quite fast data sharing if configured correctly. As we had no real goal, it was just one of those "I wonder if we can do it" times, we didn't play further then just the HDD connections and copying files across, which was very fast.:)
Perhaps slightly off topic but they also use bar codes a lot, they can scan them with their cell phone and immediately be brought to that web site. You will see them on advertisements, websites, magazines, etc but they don't look like US style bar codes, they are square in shape and made up of lots of little squares inside. Cell phones are huge in Japan, they are used for everything and just walking around you see people typing away on them like crazy.
Secondly, you have people buying computers with Vista, deciding they don't like it, and buying a license of XP instead.
If you have a MS lic for an OS or Office suite you can install either of the two versions before it, you can contact MS for the nessesary lic code. Our new machines will come with Vista Business lics with WinXP Pro installed, and we could have even asked for Win2k installed. I am not disagreeing with you at all, just pointing out a perhaps not so well known MS lic feature. That way you can always install Vista if/when you decide you are ready for it.
Perhaps, but the military is made up of citizens as well, including friends and relatives. If something like that came about here how do you know that the government would still have the entire military following its orders?
Just a thought.
Have you tried Turbo Tax with WINE ( http://www.winehq.org/ ) or CrossOver Office ( http://www.codeweavers.com/ ) which is based on WINE? Also you could use Parallels ( http://www.parallels.com/ ), VMware ( http://www.vmware.com/ ), or QEMU (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) to run windows as a guest system so you could have Turbo Tax. Also if you use Quicken you could run it in one of those as well, or move to a software like Moneydance ( http://www.moneydance.com/ ). I moved from Quicken to Moneydance and it transfered all my data quite nicely and works on Win/Lin/OSX natively.
Palm was there first. Or at least Handspring was, and Palm bought them. Haven't you heard of the Treo? The iPhone might be more sleek and stylish but it is definatly not the first all-in-one product in the market.
I have used several LSI boards, U320 SCSI (can't remember the model off hand) and MegaRAID SATA 150-4 models, and haven't had any troubles with Linux drivers. I am assuming you were talking about Linux anyway as you didn't specify. Also I have found LSI's support very helpful. If you are sure it is the LSI board that is the issue I would find the model number and call them up to see what they have to say. Their site is: http://www.lsilogic.com/ Their support site: http://www.lsilogic.com/support/tech_support.html
A little off topic but a good replacement for quicken (though commercial) is Moneydance (http://www.moneydance.com/) and it runs natively under Linux, Windows, and OS X. I switched from Quicken to it and all my data transfered just fine, its very feature rich too.:)
I am a K-12 admin to, though for a smaller district to be sure. Yet I have found many uses for open source software in the schools, most of our backbone is Linux save for three win2k servers (two running AD and one running RenPlace). I have two LTSP labs as well, one in the elementary school and one in the high school, the high school LTSP lab auths to AD (thanks to sadms) and mounts the users home dirs automatically (thanks to pam_mount). As for running games, iTunes, and other software, first of all do you really want them to do that at school (our staff/students don't have any ability to install software anyway and I pitty a school admin that allows it), and if you really did their are apps that let you do what you wish, you have winex (or what ever its called now) for games, you have wine or crossover office for other apps (though it might take tweaking to work well) and there is a KDE (I think) app out that works very much like iTunes and even works off the bat with ipods, though I don't use it and don't recall its name.
Now I realize that you have more workstations and staff to worry about taking care of then I do but you might be surprised how easily you could replace a good number of your windows only and proprietory apps with free and open source apps. For example havyou you tried Tux Type, Tux Paint, GIMP (in place of photoshop), Blender (in place of Adobe's vector software), OpenOffice.org (in place of MS Office), Firefox (in place of IE, I have IE dissabled on all our workstations as it had too many issues with spy/adware and switching ot firefox saved a lot of support calls), the list goes on and on.
Bottom line is if you don't look and play you will never know what is out there and avaliable, the apps I have listed can all be used on Windows, Linux, and OS X. So you may wish to look around, in this day in age saving the district money by using an alternative software that does the same or similar will allow you to strech your (I am assuming) meager budget farther. That makes you happy and it makes your boss and the school board happy too. Teachers seem always to complain, they complain moving from win98 to win2k to winxp and from Office 97, to xp, and etc. So don't let their complaining bother you too much, besides thats what inservices are for.:)
As far as I know most movie studios and speacial effects companies don't use Windows, and very few use Apples when it comes to video and speacial effects. Many of them do use software that runs on a UNIX derivitive, most notably SUN's Solaris or SGI's IRIX operating systems.
As for desktop publishing I don't know of a lot of high end publishers running Adobe PageMaker or Indesign, some smaller companies do but many large ones run products like Quark (spelling?). And have you tried Scribus? (www.scribus.net) A bit of a learning curve I admit but a very powerful app.
I am not doughting that you are not putting out what you used to but perhaps it has more to do with the training then the software? Just my opinion.
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"Japanese don't do this "sleeping in" thing."
:P
Tell that to my wife who gladly sleeps in, sometimes past noon on Saturdays and Sundays.
Though she does get up earlier to catch the train to Osaka to get to work.
I think the Navy just wants to try out their new railgun. :P
s/verve/nerve oops! And I even used preview. :(
Take that one step beyond surveillance, it probably doesn't take much verve toxin on a tiny needle (fly bite anyone?) to kill a person. :/
:(
I know that this could be a bit paranoid of me to think this but then, perhaps not?
Gee, that kind of looks like Linux with X doesn't it?
Also, isn't this basically what is being used on the Asus EeePC?
Here is the official Apple link:
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
You mean sort of like holding suspects in countries where torture, er "enhanced interrogation" is legal so you can claim your not doing anything wrong?
Can you imagine Vilociraptors with lasers on their heads? Scarry Sorry, couldn't help myself. ;)
I read the article and after you get passed the first part and down to the "steps" listed you will see that there are several different issues here, but no laws (that I can tell).
1) The web.
For the web content it looks like they want to be able to filter at will anything the independent body deems "harmful" but don't forget that they will have to prove its harmful and be able to justify their decisions. I am sure that they will see a lot of input from the educational institutions and rights groups on this. One would also note (as did the article) that this doesn't apply to private personal communications (which I take to mean email, chat, voip, etc). And don't forget Japan has a court system too, if this does become law it will see challenges to it. Also this seems to be just a report or recommendation at this point and is not a bill or a law and (according to the article) has not yet been proposed as a bill.
2) Mobile phone filtering for persons under 18.
If you read through this it is clear this was enacted because of parents concerns. Though filtering was available before it was not well advertised and very rarely used. This order (the article doesn't say its a law) just requires the filtering to be on by default and the owner of the phone (usually the parents) can request it (the filtering) to be disabled. So if the parent has a problem with there child's mobile web access being filtered they can just request it be turned off.
3) File Sharing.
This is at the behest of the RIAJ (Recording Industry Association of Japan). They are just doing the same thing as the RIAA. From my take on the article it looks like they are using the same reasoning and justifications as the RIAA have done, and I doubt they will be anymore successful.
So from what I can tell there are no laws or proposed bills yet (other then possibly the mobile phone web filtering, anyone know if this is a law or just a decree?) and there are groups out there speaking against them. They are using the public comments system and voicing their opinion. If you are a Japanese citizen or permanent resident and you have a problem with it voice your opinion about it too. But don't claim it to be more then it is. This same stuff has come up in the US before too, remember the war on porn anyone? Just don't forget that there will be plenty of opposition, after all we know what the internet is for. ;)
I am not sure what your price range is but mine was fairly low and I found one that supported ogg and a mess of others. Its a Samsung YP-F1Z (1 GB), its small, light, has a belt clip, and gets 10 hours of playback time. It has a tonne of features and is easy to use. It even supports folders (1 layer only though). I am not sure that they make or sell this model anymore and I am not trying to plug a product. Just pointing out that if you do your research (which any good consumer should do) you can usually find a product that meets your needs that is within your budget.
Indeed, this would be akin to a county being held responsible for vehicular homicide because they maintain the road. That being said when was the last time you got "filtered" for driving the wrong color car?
:)
Just food for thought, and sorry for the car analogy everyone!
From my understanding that is only so if the server or communications relay in the US is routing (relaying) traffic that does not originate from or is destined to the US. For example, if a person was calling from London to Mexico and it happened to go through a relay in the US its fair game. This is not the case (as I understand it) when one or other of the party communicating is in the US (and is a citizen?). For example, if I (a US citizen living in the US) call my finance who is Japanese (and lives in Japan) our call can NOT be wiretapped with out a court order as they (the government) would be violating my constitutional right to privacy. Thus our calls are off limits with out a warrant, even though she is not a US citizen or residing within the US.
I could be wrong but that is what I have understood from my research into the matter. I also believe that people genuinely expect that email is a confidential and private form of communication, otherwise no business would touch it for private communication with other businesses and customers (think on-line bill paying, purchasing, etc.)
Just my two cents,
And according to that site Google already fixed the issue.
I promised to release the POC as soon as Google fix it, well they did. So, here is how it works:...Most of my emails are plain text, with no links in them or very few. On top of this they are all from people or organizations I know, if I don't recognize it I don't open it. If I think its SPAM or suspicious I use the handy "Report Spam" button. TFA even says that disabling java-script solves the security issue and if you use Firefox you can use extensions like no-script (as I believe was mentioned in another post here).
It seems pretty unfair to lay this only on Google's shoulders as XSS has been around for a long time and many web apps are vulnerable to it. Sure, the two year session cookie lifetime is a bit long and it would be better to have a 1 week lifetime or maybe even shorter. Does anyone know if there is a way to force Gmail to create a new session cookie? Does clearing your local cookies do so? If so that is another way to solve the issue. And what about using Gmail over SSL as is allowed by a couple different Firefox extensions?
If this group has informed Google about this then I am sure Google will work on finding a solution, they have a lot of very smart people working for them after all and I am sure that they can find a solution that will address the issue without affecting usability or the user's experience. If nothing else, just say no to HTML email and only click links you trust. Just my two cents. :)
Myself and some other students (back when I was in college) played with doing this via PCI SCSI cards, it worked to a point but wasn't quite the same as all you were really doing is providing SCSI access to each systems HDDs. Still it would have allowed quite fast data sharing if configured correctly. As we had no real goal, it was just one of those "I wonder if we can do it" times, we didn't play further then just the HDD connections and copying files across, which was very fast. :)
Perhaps slightly off topic but they also use bar codes a lot, they can scan them with their cell phone and immediately be brought to that web site. You will see them on advertisements, websites, magazines, etc but they don't look like US style bar codes, they are square in shape and made up of lots of little squares inside. Cell phones are huge in Japan, they are used for everything and just walking around you see people typing away on them like crazy.
If you have a MS lic for an OS or Office suite you can install either of the two versions before it, you can contact MS for the nessesary lic code. Our new machines will come with Vista Business lics with WinXP Pro installed, and we could have even asked for Win2k installed. I am not disagreeing with you at all, just pointing out a perhaps not so well known MS lic feature. That way you can always install Vista if/when you decide you are ready for it.
I know this is a bit off topic but given your post I just can't help but to respond with this: Toaster oven linux appliance :)
- Petaris
"The World is Open. Are You?"
Perhaps, but the military is made up of citizens as well, including friends and relatives. If something like that came about here how do you know that the government would still have the entire military following its orders? Just a thought.
Have you tried Turbo Tax with WINE ( http://www.winehq.org/ ) or CrossOver Office ( http://www.codeweavers.com/ ) which is based on WINE? Also you could use Parallels ( http://www.parallels.com/ ), VMware ( http://www.vmware.com/ ), or QEMU (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) to run windows as a guest system so you could have Turbo Tax. Also if you use Quicken you could run it in one of those as well, or move to a software like Moneydance ( http://www.moneydance.com/ ). I moved from Quicken to Moneydance and it transfered all my data quite nicely and works on Win/Lin/OSX natively.
Just some Ideas,
Palm was there first. Or at least Handspring was, and Palm bought them. Haven't you heard of the Treo? The iPhone might be more sleek and stylish but it is definatly not the first all-in-one product in the market.
I have used several LSI boards, U320 SCSI (can't remember the model off hand) and MegaRAID SATA 150-4 models, and haven't had any troubles with Linux drivers. I am assuming you were talking about Linux anyway as you didn't specify. Also I have found LSI's support very helpful. If you are sure it is the LSI board that is the issue I would find the model number and call them up to see what they have to say. Their site is: http://www.lsilogic.com/ Their support site: http://www.lsilogic.com/support/tech_support.html
A little off topic but a good replacement for quicken (though commercial) is Moneydance (http://www.moneydance.com/) and it runs natively under Linux, Windows, and OS X. I switched from Quicken to it and all my data transfered just fine, its very feature rich too. :)
I am a K-12 admin to, though for a smaller district to be sure. Yet I have found many uses for open source software in the schools, most of our backbone is Linux save for three win2k servers (two running AD and one running RenPlace). I have two LTSP labs as well, one in the elementary school and one in the high school, the high school LTSP lab auths to AD (thanks to sadms) and mounts the users home dirs automatically (thanks to pam_mount). As for running games, iTunes, and other software, first of all do you really want them to do that at school (our staff/students don't have any ability to install software anyway and I pitty a school admin that allows it), and if you really did their are apps that let you do what you wish, you have winex (or what ever its called now) for games, you have wine or crossover office for other apps (though it might take tweaking to work well) and there is a KDE (I think) app out that works very much like iTunes and even works off the bat with ipods, though I don't use it and don't recall its name.
Now I realize that you have more workstations and staff to worry about taking care of then I do but you might be surprised how easily you could replace a good number of your windows only and proprietory apps with free and open source apps. For example havyou you tried Tux Type, Tux Paint, GIMP (in place of photoshop), Blender (in place of Adobe's vector software), OpenOffice.org (in place of MS Office), Firefox (in place of IE, I have IE dissabled on all our workstations as it had too many issues with spy/adware and switching ot firefox saved a lot of support calls), the list goes on and on.
Bottom line is if you don't look and play you will never know what is out there and avaliable, the apps I have listed can all be used on Windows, Linux, and OS X. So you may wish to look around, in this day in age saving the district money by using an alternative software that does the same or similar will allow you to strech your (I am assuming) meager budget farther. That makes you happy and it makes your boss and the school board happy too. Teachers seem always to complain, they complain moving from win98 to win2k to winxp and from Office 97, to xp, and etc. So don't let their complaining bother you too much, besides thats what inservices are for. :)
Just my thoughts
As far as I know most movie studios and speacial effects companies don't use Windows, and very few use Apples when it comes to video and speacial effects. Many of them do use software that runs on a UNIX derivitive, most notably SUN's Solaris or SGI's IRIX operating systems.
As for desktop publishing I don't know of a lot of high end publishers running Adobe PageMaker or Indesign, some smaller companies do but many large ones run products like Quark (spelling?). And have you tried Scribus? (www.scribus.net) A bit of a learning curve I admit but a very powerful app.
I am not doughting that you are not putting out what you used to but perhaps it has more to do with the training then the software? Just my opinion.