I am also curious about the money the government never sees: Ballmer was tax dodger in chief Microsoft as it kept $120 billion off shore. http://www.seattletimes.com/bu... and https://crosscut.com/2014/08/w...
I posted this story with more context about his tax dodging and Slashdot declined it.
Please check out my Building Your Startup series at Envato Tuts+. In it, I walk people through every step of building Meeting Planner. There are upcoming episodes on crowdfunding vs angel or VC investing. A lot if is development-oriented but there are wide-ranging anecdotes throughout.
The FBI told me that the text for the link simply said "article" and that the url was secret but did not include anything of The Seattle Times or Associated Press in it.
They did. See here: 13(b) the suspect was sophisticated enough to use compromised computers to disguise their actual IP address. The MySpace IP obtained in 12(b) helped determine this.
http://www.politechbot.com/doc...
p.s. keep in mind - the CIPAV might be more effective at gathering data that would lead to a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt whereas just the IP only gets them to basic identity of a location.
I've put a question into the FBI spokesperson about this. This is 2007 - so WiFi and laptop penetration was a bit less than it is today. But, theoretically, the CIPAV would leverage additional data from their laptop.
But, agreed - this would have been a logical step - trying to confirm if/why they tried this.
Most likely, the suspect used MySpace at an anonymous IP that wouldn't connect him. I expect that the IP address would not give them as deep data as to the identity of the specific user as the CIPAV would.
Agree at some level but I was following this EFF report
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/polls-continue-show-majority-americans-against-nsa-spying
"For instance in an AP poll, nearly 60 percent of Americans said they oppose the NSA collecting data about their telephone and Internet usage. In another national poll by the Washington Post and ABC News, 74 percent of respondents said the NSA's spying intrudes on their privacy rights."
Yeah, sorry - it'll be up again shortly. I've been having problems with Varnish cache on traffic spikes today. This is my WordPress setup with W3TC & Varnish in case you are interested: http://jeffreifman.com/detailed-wordpress-guide-for-aws/
that's what this is - it's just more robust than a 5 line script... and therefore allows you to monitor any number of pages and sites.
and honestly - $5 = no cost to me. It's when you start talking about $18/mo fees for this that I start to say, what?
I think people missed my point partly - for people that only run a blog or a few web sites, Nagios is complete overkill and it would take a long time to set up, figure out how to use and the steps I've seen for iOS integration are not simple. Ditto for Zabbix. I think if you really write out the steps for installing and configuring these tools to meet this scenario, your solution is way more cumbersome than this one.
MonitorApp is a pretty simple solution with an app that can be easily customized (it's PHP) and it's free. It supports email notifications - and you can hook those into any notification provider you want. I chose the Pushover API because I want to get notified on my phone with alerts - it's simple and elegant.
Plus, what's with all the negativity? If you don't like a post, skip it and read on - there's more coming.
You sound very frustrated.
Seriously, write up the steps for installing Nagios with iOS/Android integration and let's compare solutions. If Nagios can't keep it's own site up, maybe it's not the best solution for people running a blog or just a few sites.
It's easy to find other solutions but most require some paid level of service that quickly escalate if you want notifications or multiple servers: ScoutApp, Pingdom, Copperegg... Nagios & Zabbix are quite sophisticated but also have a lot of complexity.
I built MonitorApp because it's quite simple to monitor any number of servers in an integrated with my iPhone. Compare the screenshots of MonitorApp in this tutorial to Zabbix - http://www.zabbix.com/screenshots.php
When I started Geogram... I had never written a GIS app before and it took some time to sort out how to use the Zillow data with mysql, google maps and geolocation - this free OSS MapApp now provides working code for these scenarios for anyone interested in trying out GIS for the first time.
I would be interested in people's suggestions for other free sources for national and especially international neighborhood boundary data. I've reviewed some sources but haven't decided on one to use yet.
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I am also curious about the money the government never sees: Ballmer was tax dodger in chief Microsoft as it kept $120 billion off shore. http://www.seattletimes.com/bu... and https://crosscut.com/2014/08/w... I posted this story with more context about his tax dodging and Slashdot declined it.
Please check out my Building Your Startup series at Envato Tuts+. In it, I walk people through every step of building Meeting Planner. There are upcoming episodes on crowdfunding vs angel or VC investing. A lot if is development-oriented but there are wide-ranging anecdotes throughout.
Did you happen to read this? http://jeffreifman.com/2014/05... I don't think they'd have me.
I've posted a summary of common questions from this piece here: http://jeffreifman.com/2014/10...
The FBI told me that the text for the link simply said "article" and that the url was secret but did not include anything of The Seattle Times or Associated Press in it.
I reached out to them. They didn't reach out to me. I thought the Internet was seeing this case wrong - and I stand by what I wrote.
They did. See here: 13(b) the suspect was sophisticated enough to use compromised computers to disguise their actual IP address. The MySpace IP obtained in 12(b) helped determine this. http://www.politechbot.com/doc...
p.s. keep in mind - the CIPAV might be more effective at gathering data that would lead to a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt whereas just the IP only gets them to basic identity of a location.
I've put a question into the FBI spokesperson about this. This is 2007 - so WiFi and laptop penetration was a bit less than it is today. But, theoretically, the CIPAV would leverage additional data from their laptop. But, agreed - this would have been a logical step - trying to confirm if/why they tried this.
Most likely, the suspect used MySpace at an anonymous IP that wouldn't connect him. I expect that the IP address would not give them as deep data as to the identity of the specific user as the CIPAV would.
I wrote this one for you: http://crosscut.com/2014/06/04...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://jeffreifman.com/2013/10/20/ten-ways-to-make-nsa-spying-popular-with-americans/?sdot
If you're having trouble seeing the live site, you can view the article here in the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://jeffreifman.com/2013/10/20/ten-ways-to-make-nsa-spying-popular-with-americans/?sdot
Agree at some level but I was following this EFF report https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/polls-continue-show-majority-americans-against-nsa-spying "For instance in an AP poll, nearly 60 percent of Americans said they oppose the NSA collecting data about their telephone and Internet usage. In another national poll by the Washington Post and ABC News, 74 percent of respondents said the NSA's spying intrudes on their privacy rights."
Fair enough :) But, it's been slashdotted a lot before and held up just fine. Perhaps need to add a maintenance section.
Yeah, sorry - it'll be up again shortly. I've been having problems with Varnish cache on traffic spikes today. This is my WordPress setup with W3TC & Varnish in case you are interested: http://jeffreifman.com/detailed-wordpress-guide-for-aws/
that's what this is - it's just more robust than a 5 line script ... and therefore allows you to monitor any number of pages and sites.
and honestly - $5 = no cost to me. It's when you start talking about $18/mo fees for this that I start to say, what?
I'd much rather pay $5 for an iOS app then break out my C compiler ;)
Thanks for taking me entirely literally!
I think people missed my point partly - for people that only run a blog or a few web sites, Nagios is complete overkill and it would take a long time to set up, figure out how to use and the steps I've seen for iOS integration are not simple. Ditto for Zabbix. I think if you really write out the steps for installing and configuring these tools to meet this scenario, your solution is way more cumbersome than this one. MonitorApp is a pretty simple solution with an app that can be easily customized (it's PHP) and it's free. It supports email notifications - and you can hook those into any notification provider you want. I chose the Pushover API because I want to get notified on my phone with alerts - it's simple and elegant. Plus, what's with all the negativity? If you don't like a post, skip it and read on - there's more coming.
You sound very frustrated. Seriously, write up the steps for installing Nagios with iOS/Android integration and let's compare solutions. If Nagios can't keep it's own site up, maybe it's not the best solution for people running a blog or just a few sites.
It's easy to find other solutions but most require some paid level of service that quickly escalate if you want notifications or multiple servers: ScoutApp, Pingdom, Copperegg ... Nagios & Zabbix are quite sophisticated but also have a lot of complexity.
I built MonitorApp because it's quite simple to monitor any number of servers in an integrated with my iPhone. Compare the screenshots of MonitorApp in this tutorial to Zabbix - http://www.zabbix.com/screenshots.php
Zabbix has a lot of complexity to its configuration process. You also seem to need a paid iOS app to do notifications. http://www.skinkers.com/2010/12/08/zabbix-push-notifications-for-iphone/
When I started Geogram ... I had never written a GIS app before and it took some time to sort out how to use the Zillow data with mysql, google maps and geolocation - this free OSS MapApp now provides working code for these scenarios for anyone interested in trying out GIS for the first time.
I would be interested in people's suggestions for other free sources for national and especially international neighborhood boundary data. I've reviewed some sources but haven't decided on one to use yet.