I think the point is that Seagate is a subsidiary of Samsung, and the "ah-ha moment" he talks about in that post trial interview where after he takes the role of making the case for Apple, may have been more like "ah-ha, I can get some revenge."
I'm seeing a wired.com link, so looks like the editors went above and beyond the call of duty on this one (which is to say they did anything at all:-).
wonder if they get time and a half. if only they worked for apple with 180hrs over time right now working on the new iDevices (http://chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-415.html)
also, using "wut" in a thread titled "oh the humanity"... sigh.
Amazing if true. Would square with the million user UDIDs that a popular app is the collection source. I was thinking maybe a jailbreak app like cydia, but this is much more scandalous.
I wouldn't. Amazon as a system of getting goods makes sense, and if done right would cut down on gas consumption with everyone driving to the store separately. I happen to live in Seattle and have used AmazonFresh (grocery delivery) and have automatic monthly diaper delivery with AmazonMom and it's awesome. I look forward to a future where I don't need to drive anywhere to do my shopping, and can spend that time out hiking and having fun with my kid. Only thing that might be cool is an Amazon "try it" store where you can go check something out before getting it. Just drop the stuff off with my hose robot and it'll unpack, stock things in the fridge and elsewhere, and recycle the packaging, or better yet start using re-usable packaging and I'll just give it back in the AmazonFresh bins.
On the topic of local distribution centers, I'm sure that this will not be a full selection of Amazon products available for same day deliver, just a selection of the most popular items, which will still be nice to get faster.
Didn't mean to say that you were calling for that, just a lot of the previous posts on this thread. Reading below I found a link to this EFF article from Feb which says in part:
This tracking, discovered by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer, was a technical side-effect—probably an unintended side-effect—of a system that Google built to pass social personalization information (like, “your friend Suzy +1'ed this ad about candy”) from the google.com domain to the doubleclick.net domain.
As a side note, Vanilla cookie extension for Chrome is awesome.
How about actually punishing them for what they did. Everyone on this thread is going nuts trying to say that because on one browser they worked around a privacy setting (bad I know), they should all go to jail, especially the people that had nothing to do with it, and a large percent of their total revenue should be given over to a newly formed government agency dedicated to poking Google employees with sharp things.
How about the targeted ads that they showed affected users amounted to 2.25M revenue (probably a lot less, but whatever), and the fine is 10x that. That seems like a good disincentive.
[Flamebait]On balance Google is way better than the patent trolling Apple which is blocking the Nexus because of a BS universal search patent, how about Apple has to pay all the Google users who don't get this obvious feature a large percentage of their total revenue and we poke them with some sharp stuff?[/Flamebait]
Have a report spam option, as well as report fishing or illegal solicitation. It's not hard, just need to actually do something reasonable (I know, I know, it's a bureaucratic). Just send a text message to some service with the offending caller's number from the number you got spammed at, or have a web service and smart phones can have a report unwanted call option with a drop down on if it was just annoying, or if it was illicit in some way. Get more than X reports of spam and you get a warning, get more than Y reports of spam get fined and you can appeal. Get more than Z and you get barred from making more calls until you appeal.
problem solved... too bad it won't happen for another 20 years.
I understand that Sony as a corporation is not the best, but they don't operate child / forced labor camps or anything like that (to the best of my knowledge) and abide with the law. My position (which I'm sure many disagree with) is that if people want to be conciseness about something they should invest their time on a decent political campaign rather than trying to figure out what fortune 500 company isn't evil... because they all are in one way or another. Just get the best product at the best price so long as nothing egregious is going on with the seller, and invest time in breaking the stranglehold lobby groups have on our political system.
To stay on-topic, my father was a sound engineer for most of working years, and he insists that these Sony headphones and their studio monitor series are the best ever made. (disclaimer: linked using my associates tag). They are $75, if you want to stick hard on the $50 limit, these or these are very highly rated as well.
Why would you think that they wouldn't spy on their own people, especially with their relationship to the Palestinians? If anything, the fact that it's not showing up in the US would tend to prove the point that it was Israel. The US clearly isn't afraid to spy on it's own people.
The poster isn't incompetent necessarily, just completely lazy dumping his research project on an internet forum and hoping other people will google stuff for him while he goes and does what ever he does when he's not working.
I looked into doing this at my place in Seattle. There are a number of options with their own pros and cons. Direct microwave antenna on the roof to the fiber hub downtown was the best option for large buildings, but that's specific to my area and had a large cost of entry.
Ended up not doing anything and I highly recommend it. Best you can do is to tell everyone to go solve the problem themselves and if a few neighbors want to share a connection over a WiFi router that has QOS enabled and split the bill then the association won't report them to the ISP for violating the TOS.
To give you an idea of why this is almost certainly the best option, here is the list of things you should have done as soon as you got this task assigned to you:
do the actual work you've been assigned of getting the list of provider,
examining the different terms of service,
see what options exist,
do a cost benefit analysis,
decide how you want the liability to work,
determine who is responsible for responding to DMCA take-down notices when some teenager is hosting stolen content,
decide what happens if you have a heavy bit torrent user that is reported to you,
who pays the lawyers fees for dealing with issues that may arise,
what binding agreement you are going to give each of your units,
what if they are renting to other tenants,
what if they have an open wifi router connected,
who is going to draft the binding terms of service,
how much is it going to cost just to get the agreement worked out,
how cats and dogs are supposed to live together,
etc...
Google is actually good about publishing this data (much more than any other company I know of online). Would be good if they broke it down further by requester and state, but at least you get an idea from last years data:
5950 requests, complied with 93%, disclosed info on 11057 users.
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US/?p=2011-06
I've had 4 separate projects with 3 separate companies outsourced, 3 to Indian companies, and one to a Russian company. Two of the 3 Indian outsourcings were for testing of a product, and this is the one case where outsourcing can possibly work in my experience (1 of the 2 experiences was less than a total waste of money). What worked was having a liaison in-house that was available to talk to the dev team here, and work out how the product was changing daily, how the test matrix needed to adapt, and was there to clarify bug repros and whatnot. Every night he would do a call to the dev team in India to catch them up on everything that had happened that day, and every morning he would call again to get all the info on their progress. The success of the situation rested heavily on his competency to manage the offsite team and keep them on task with a changing target. This was still a pain in some cases as an in-house test team could just walk over and talk to the devs rather than having a 24hr turnaround on all things, but it worked out.
The other 3 outsourcings were not as well managed, and I would consider them of significantly less benefit than having in-house development and testing. Development outsourcing in particular needs a heavy hand and constant tending. No matter how detailed and specific your spec is, there are always implementation questions and nuances that need clarity, and blocking issues that need workarounds and having a creative discussion over how best to solve the issue is critical. Not to mention that the quality of the developers is a huge unanswered question and the code you get at the end of it is written by someone that gets paid for doing this contract, not for maintainability, adaptability and clarity of the code.
Since they arrested him they must have some good idea that its him, but it will be interesting to see what evidence they have, how it was collected, and how they can show it was only he who could have done the deed. With how easy it is to remotely control computers and especially if he had a wifi router, who's to say that his computer wasn't rooted and someone remotely did what he is accused of.
4chan is staying true to it's roots. Just yesterday they spent the whole night changing a Tea Party website to different incredibly offensive imagery and language after someone posted that the admin password was p9assw0rd. also reddit still had boat loads of cat pictures so there's that.
really though/. isn't doing too bad compared to ars or tech crunch. the only way i can stand them any more is through an rss feed, and even then just barely.
Here is my friends project. Super smart bunch of people. If the kickstarter bubble bursts (through a sullied reputation or scamming or whatever), another one will come along to replace it that learns from the mistakes of the past. It's a clearly good idea. Allowing small niche markets to find and fund engineering and creative talent is something that will always be desirable.
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Honestly curious why this is set up this way, it seems so inefficient and insecure.
Moxie had some cool thoughts on the matter here. And tried to create an alternative Convergence.io. Video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
I think the point is that Seagate is a subsidiary of Samsung, and the "ah-ha moment" he talks about in that post trial interview where after he takes the role of making the case for Apple, may have been more like "ah-ha, I can get some revenge."
I'm seeing a wired.com link, so looks like the editors went above and beyond the call of duty on this one (which is to say they did anything at all :-).
wonder if they get time and a half. if only they worked for apple with 180hrs over time right now working on the new iDevices (http://chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-415.html)
... sigh.
also, using "wut" in a thread titled "oh the humanity"
Amazing if true. Would square with the million user UDIDs that a popular app is the collection source. I was thinking maybe a jailbreak app like cydia, but this is much more scandalous.
Thanks, if I had mod points I'd mod you up, this is what I was looking for.
Or just use Google Hangouts or Skype. They both let you talk to people on PCs and work over 3g and are free.
It looks like this could work well with a Synology configured for disk redundancy, plus a home router with VPN (dd-wrt or tomato).
I wouldn't. Amazon as a system of getting goods makes sense, and if done right would cut down on gas consumption with everyone driving to the store separately. I happen to live in Seattle and have used AmazonFresh (grocery delivery) and have automatic monthly diaper delivery with AmazonMom and it's awesome. I look forward to a future where I don't need to drive anywhere to do my shopping, and can spend that time out hiking and having fun with my kid. Only thing that might be cool is an Amazon "try it" store where you can go check something out before getting it. Just drop the stuff off with my hose robot and it'll unpack, stock things in the fridge and elsewhere, and recycle the packaging, or better yet start using re-usable packaging and I'll just give it back in the AmazonFresh bins.
On the topic of local distribution centers, I'm sure that this will not be a full selection of Amazon products available for same day deliver, just a selection of the most popular items, which will still be nice to get faster.
This tracking, discovered by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer, was a technical side-effect—probably an unintended side-effect—of a system that Google built to pass social personalization information (like, “your friend Suzy +1'ed this ad about candy”) from the google.com domain to the doubleclick.net domain.
As a side note, Vanilla cookie extension for Chrome is awesome.
How about actually punishing them for what they did. Everyone on this thread is going nuts trying to say that because on one browser they worked around a privacy setting (bad I know), they should all go to jail, especially the people that had nothing to do with it, and a large percent of their total revenue should be given over to a newly formed government agency dedicated to poking Google employees with sharp things.
How about the targeted ads that they showed affected users amounted to 2.25M revenue (probably a lot less, but whatever), and the fine is 10x that. That seems like a good disincentive.
[Flamebait]On balance Google is way better than the patent trolling Apple which is blocking the Nexus because of a BS universal search patent, how about Apple has to pay all the Google users who don't get this obvious feature a large percentage of their total revenue and we poke them with some sharp stuff?[/Flamebait]
Have a report spam option, as well as report fishing or illegal solicitation. It's not hard, just need to actually do something reasonable (I know, I know, it's a bureaucratic). Just send a text message to some service with the offending caller's number from the number you got spammed at, or have a web service and smart phones can have a report unwanted call option with a drop down on if it was just annoying, or if it was illicit in some way. Get more than X reports of spam and you get a warning, get more than Y reports of spam get fined and you can appeal. Get more than Z and you get barred from making more calls until you appeal.
problem solved... too bad it won't happen for another 20 years.
But MySQL can only return NULL 3,500 times in one second, this MemSQL thing can return NULL 80,000 times per second. That's 2285.71% faster!
And be named ICANN, more like ICANT!
[crickets]
I understand that Sony as a corporation is not the best, but they don't operate child / forced labor camps or anything like that (to the best of my knowledge) and abide with the law. My position (which I'm sure many disagree with) is that if people want to be conciseness about something they should invest their time on a decent political campaign rather than trying to figure out what fortune 500 company isn't evil... because they all are in one way or another. Just get the best product at the best price so long as nothing egregious is going on with the seller, and invest time in breaking the stranglehold lobby groups have on our political system.
To stay on-topic, my father was a sound engineer for most of working years, and he insists that these Sony headphones and their studio monitor series are the best ever made. (disclaimer: linked using my associates tag). They are $75, if you want to stick hard on the $50 limit, these or these are very highly rated as well.
Why would you think that they wouldn't spy on their own people, especially with their relationship to the Palestinians? If anything, the fact that it's not showing up in the US would tend to prove the point that it was Israel. The US clearly isn't afraid to spy on it's own people.
The poster isn't incompetent necessarily, just completely lazy dumping his research project on an internet forum and hoping other people will google stuff for him while he goes and does what ever he does when he's not working.
I looked into doing this at my place in Seattle. There are a number of options with their own pros and cons. Direct microwave antenna on the roof to the fiber hub downtown was the best option for large buildings, but that's specific to my area and had a large cost of entry.
Ended up not doing anything and I highly recommend it. Best you can do is to tell everyone to go solve the problem themselves and if a few neighbors want to share a connection over a WiFi router that has QOS enabled and split the bill then the association won't report them to the ISP for violating the TOS.
To give you an idea of why this is almost certainly the best option, here is the list of things you should have done as soon as you got this task assigned to you:
do the actual work you've been assigned of getting the list of provider,
examining the different terms of service,
see what options exist,
do a cost benefit analysis,
decide how you want the liability to work,
determine who is responsible for responding to DMCA take-down notices when some teenager is hosting stolen content,
decide what happens if you have a heavy bit torrent user that is reported to you,
who pays the lawyers fees for dealing with issues that may arise,
what binding agreement you are going to give each of your units,
what if they are renting to other tenants,
what if they have an open wifi router connected,
who is going to draft the binding terms of service,
how much is it going to cost just to get the agreement worked out,
how cats and dogs are supposed to live together,
etc...
Google is actually good about publishing this data (much more than any other company I know of online). Would be good if they broke it down further by requester and state, but at least you get an idea from last years data: 5950 requests, complied with 93%, disclosed info on 11057 users. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US/?p=2011-06
Always link to the printable version in the future please! http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/26828-techshop-paradise-for-tinkerers (still have the splash, but then it's one page not 5 or whatever).
I'd revise that to a 'Probably not'.
I've had 4 separate projects with 3 separate companies outsourced, 3 to Indian companies, and one to a Russian company. Two of the 3 Indian outsourcings were for testing of a product, and this is the one case where outsourcing can possibly work in my experience (1 of the 2 experiences was less than a total waste of money). What worked was having a liaison in-house that was available to talk to the dev team here, and work out how the product was changing daily, how the test matrix needed to adapt, and was there to clarify bug repros and whatnot. Every night he would do a call to the dev team in India to catch them up on everything that had happened that day, and every morning he would call again to get all the info on their progress. The success of the situation rested heavily on his competency to manage the offsite team and keep them on task with a changing target. This was still a pain in some cases as an in-house test team could just walk over and talk to the devs rather than having a 24hr turnaround on all things, but it worked out.
The other 3 outsourcings were not as well managed, and I would consider them of significantly less benefit than having in-house development and testing. Development outsourcing in particular needs a heavy hand and constant tending. No matter how detailed and specific your spec is, there are always implementation questions and nuances that need clarity, and blocking issues that need workarounds and having a creative discussion over how best to solve the issue is critical. Not to mention that the quality of the developers is a huge unanswered question and the code you get at the end of it is written by someone that gets paid for doing this contract, not for maintainability, adaptability and clarity of the code.
Since they arrested him they must have some good idea that its him, but it will be interesting to see what evidence they have, how it was collected, and how they can show it was only he who could have done the deed. With how easy it is to remotely control computers and especially if he had a wifi router, who's to say that his computer wasn't rooted and someone remotely did what he is accused of.
4chan is staying true to it's roots. Just yesterday they spent the whole night changing a Tea Party website to different incredibly offensive imagery and language after someone posted that the admin password was p9assw0rd. also reddit still had boat loads of cat pictures so there's that.
/. isn't doing too bad compared to ars or tech crunch. the only way i can stand them any more is through an rss feed, and even then just barely.
really though
Here is my friends project. Super smart bunch of people. If the kickstarter bubble bursts (through a sullied reputation or scamming or whatever), another one will come along to replace it that learns from the mistakes of the past. It's a clearly good idea. Allowing small niche markets to find and fund engineering and creative talent is something that will always be desirable.
Yes.
maybe not so doubtful after all... http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/04/27/1311255/microsoft-patches-major-hotmail-0-day-flaw-after-widespread-exploitation