There are plenty of things you can do to take advantage of computational resources in the cloud while remaining secure i.e. private information retrieval, secure multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, etc.
I think fully homomorphic encryption is still in the PoC stage and is too resource-intensive to be practical.
I smuggled the Firefox setup exe to work (corporate policy forbids installing unauthorised software). People in my team (at least five guys) installed FF from this, so I guess it cuts both ways.
My vote goes to Ben Pasero of RSSOwl. When I had some setup issues with RSSOwl, he was really helpful and stuck with me till I was up and running (a Gmail search of that conversation reveals no less than *14* messages).
but unless someone can provide something which at least has a gui
All major distros come with GUIs (KDE or Gnome).
which works OUT OF THE BOX (or at least with very little configuring)
I have installed Mandrake 10.0 and Suse 9.1 within the last six months or so and didn't face any problems. Both these distros have a very user-friendly installation procedure (when compared to something like Debian, for example).
"Q Since there have been so many questions about what the President was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda, denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? Did he testify before Congress that American troops committed war crimes in Vietnam? And did he throw somebody else's medals at the White House to protest a war America was still fighting?"
Something is seriously wrong with the American mainstream media if he was allowed to ask this question without raising at least a murmur from the other journalists present.
A company advertises a new premium package for its customers. So what? Does this merit a story in Slashdot, ene if said company is Amazon? I think not.
Microsoft cut off Netscape's air supply to prevent Navigator from making the OS irrelevant (by hosting the JVM). I don't think there is any such danger from Safari or Firefox.
Most of my music files are songs from my tape collection converted to MP3 format using Media Jukebox and KRecord. So my numbers go something like this:
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.?
10% (loads shotgun, checks the barricades on doors and windows and retires to the fortified basement)
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?
0% (iTunes Music Store not available in India)
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music?
0%
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs?
0%
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs?
0%
But Google is a business and they do need to make money and this would be a surefire way for them to lose money
Just a thought: is there a business opportunity for an ASP to host remote filesystems in this manner? A client would just need a dumbed-down PDA or some such thing (and an Internet connection, of course). Just my two cents.
Illegal it may be, but not immoral IMO, because it is no longer a free market in the way Adam Smith meant it. Big Business does so many unethical things (lobbying governments being the least of these) to screw over the common man that it's not even funny any more (this is especially true in India).
You do what you gotta do, I do what I gotta do. I know, it works both ways.
I didn't realise at that time that I could have used Knoppix to repair this (this might have worked, I think - comments welcome). I ended up reinstalling Debian.
Amen to that.
I ran Debian Woody for about two years, all the while thinking that 'unstable' meant 'prone to crashes' (I know, I am dumb). I moved to Mandrake 10 CE recently, and am happy with the latest GNOME, KDE, etc. I feel that the Mandrake bootsplash package has sucked up part of my soul, though:-)
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Thanks for the pointer to the MSR paper -- I was not aware of Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption.
There are plenty of things you can do to take advantage of computational resources in the cloud while remaining secure i.e. private information retrieval, secure multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, etc.
I think fully homomorphic encryption is still in the PoC stage and is too resource-intensive to be practical.
I smuggled the Firefox setup exe to work (corporate policy forbids installing unauthorised software). People in my team (at least five guys) installed FF from this, so I guess it cuts both ways.
My vote goes to Ben Pasero of RSSOwl. When I had some setup issues with RSSOwl, he was really helpful and stuck with me till I was up and running (a Gmail search of that conversation reveals no less than *14* messages).
Something is seriously wrong with the American mainstream media if he was allowed to ask this question without raising at least a murmur from the other journalists present.
A company advertises a new premium package for its customers. So what? Does this merit a story in Slashdot, ene if said company is Amazon? I think not.
1. Restitution for man's cruelty to animals
2. The suffering of animals looks more poignant to me (probably because their suffering is due to circumstances not of their making).
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Microsoft cut off Netscape's air supply to prevent Navigator from making the OS irrelevant (by hosting the JVM). I don't think there is any such danger from Safari or Firefox.
Just my two cents.
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You do what you gotta do, I do what I gotta do. I know, it works both ways.
Rajesh Jayaprakash
Deleting the symlink to libc.so.6.
I didn't realise at that time that I could have used Knoppix to repair this (this might have worked, I think - comments welcome). I ended up reinstalling Debian.
Amen to that. I ran Debian Woody for about two years, all the while thinking that 'unstable' meant 'prone to crashes' (I know, I am dumb). I moved to Mandrake 10 CE recently, and am happy with the latest GNOME, KDE, etc. I feel that the Mandrake bootsplash package has sucked up part of my soul, though :-)