In adapting technology intended for targeted advertising to keep the article out of Britain, The Times addressed one of the concerns of news organizations publishing online: how to avoid running afoul of local publishing laws.
But they aren't publishing in Britain so the laws aren't local. I don't see what the problem is or why they felt the need to do this.
I got a voicemail on my mobile phone with Samuel Jackson's voice blabbing on about why I should go see the movie. After that I definitely wasn't going to go see it. Did anyone else get these voicemails?
check the blog's title for a laugh from the author's mental age by the way
It says IUnknown Deprecated. So he likes to code and got creative with the text using ASCII art instead of graphics. I take it you mean his mental age is pretty high, unless you have something against creative programmers.
Nevermind the fact that there are now millions of Dish Network customers that are using DVR recievers, that will find out about this case, find that they've lost the functionality that they have been paying for every month - and place the blame squarely on - guess who? - Tivo.
Oh, they won't be mad at Tivo. They aren't paying Tivo for anything. They'll be mad at Dish Network.
It doesn't matter if someone nefarious is on the same link-local segment sniffing all your traffic, if they can't identify through technological means who you are, and can't compel the provider through legal means either because they didn't keep that information or just won't give it over.
What about someone nefarious at the company that you are paying? What measures are in place to prevent someone there from sniffing traffic? What's to prevent them releasing information about particular (or all) users either by negligence or malace?
As you say, all this does is concentrate your incoming/outgoing connection through a Swedish ISP. Combined with the dubious anonominity of a credit card transaction this will only make this service a sizable target.
I think the point is that it's [...] fairly strongly protected legally in the jurisdiction it operates in.
Until one asshole starts uploading/downloading child porn and then the game is up for everyone using that service including all all those credit card transaction histories.
I still think purely decentralized services like TOR are, while less than perfect, a better idea than this.
I wasn't quite sure what a Darknet was so I had to read the wikipedia article. According to wikipedia it's a network where "users only connect to people they trust". If that's the case then that's different than what the linked article in the/. summary is talking about. According to it this is "a new Internet service that lets anybody send and receive files and information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged." If anyone can connect, I can't trust them all. It would only take one person within the web of trust to ruin it for everyone. Besides, if data eventually has to make it to me then there's always a way to locate the destination and source.
Could your server make use of the UserAgent instead? That says "BlackBerry"?
It's a hack but if you need to get the job done you could do that. The downside is that it would rely on having to have dynamically generated pages on your server. The BB developer docs recommend using Javascript for browser detection. That's another hack and frowned upon by the web standards crowd due to the problems that are inherent with it.
The solution that worked for me was that the BB ignores any style sheets with a specified media type. So I created a style sheet that defined basic styles and then created the one for desktop browsers and gave it a media type of "screen". That seemed to work but ultimately management changed their mind on supporting accesable web content to the BBs. We have few BB users in our company anyway.
Looking at the XenSource web site, they have three offices, two in the US and one in the UK. Considering that they are a spin out from Cambridge University (in the UK), developing software originating in Cambridge University, calling them US-based seems highly misleading.
XenSource is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. That makes them US-based.
The cost of your space has nothing to do with how you organize that space.
Yet it has everything to do with whether I delete things or not. Much space can be had for little money. Since email doesn't take up much space I lose nothing by keeping it around.
Your eyes still need to look at the tail of that 5000-message-blob in your inbox, EVERY TIME YOU OPEN IT.
I don't need to look at it. I only look at the tail of it unless I need to find something that I've looked at before.
Your brain has to subconciously categorize each of those messages.. EVERY TIME!
My brain? You claim to know a lot about me. If my brain is subconsciously categorizing my messages then I doubt it is doing it every time. Since 99% of my Inbox doesn't change most of the subconscious categorization is done and is already indexed. My brain only needs to diff the index against the new arrivals.
No wonder some people I know never get anything done until I've reminded them 5 times. They've got finished projects, to-do items, calendar items, junk mail, forwarded crap, outdated crap, and who-knows-what in their inbox.
So these people either lack good tools, the knowledge to use the tools they have, or don't have a good methodology that works for them to manage information. Do you have a point?
Do yourself, and the people you work with, a favor: keep your inbox reserved for new messages only.
If we're going to be giving orders, how about you not go around telling people how you think they should run their lives. You don't even know me. You have no idea of what tools I have for managing my personal information nor how efficient I am at finding information in it that I need. I think I'm quite capable of knowing how best to organize my information for my own retrieval. It's not my fault that your coworkers can't use basic email management tools and concepts.
do you keep your bills in your mailbox after the postman has delivered them? No, you probably put them in a "bills to pay" pile.
I sometimes do let them sit in the mailbox. Where I live the mailman still delivers mail door to door. My mailbox is a slot on the side of my garage (many other people have a small box on the wall of the house next to the front door). Mail goes into the slot and falls down into a box mounted on the wall inside. I have been known to leave some mail in there from time to time until I want to get to it. Otherwise I would just have to bring it inside and sit it somewhere until that time I was ready to get to it. Sometimes I don't check my snail mail except once a week (Saturday or Sunday). You got a problem with that?
I'm surprised that you'd bring that up since in the rest of your email you seem to know me well enough that you'd lecture me on my email management methodology.
Hey, regarding your comment here, the browser in the BlackBerry doesn't support the handheld media type. Unfortunately I know this from experience from trying to make our company intranet pages look okay on the BB.
I'm terrified that everything I've ever searched for in google is similarly logged in a data center somewhere...
You obviously haven't seen Google's search history feature.
Why do you say that? He said "is similarly logged" not "might be similarly logged". He's probably terrified because he knows that Google is keeping a history of searches.
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But they aren't publishing in Britain so the laws aren't local. I don't see what the problem is or why they felt the need to do this.
And so they don't have to take anti-rejection drugs every day for the rest of their life. Let's not forget that.
How do you know?
It might not be. Where I live (California) it's illegal to dial a number and play a pre-recorded message for advertising.
I got a voicemail on my mobile phone with Samuel Jackson's voice blabbing on about why I should go see the movie. After that I definitely wasn't going to go see it. Did anyone else get these voicemails?
It says IUnknown Deprecated. So he likes to code and got creative with the text using ASCII art instead of graphics. I take it you mean his mental age is pretty high, unless you have something against creative programmers.
What you want is Nutch. Check out some example search sites.
Oh, they won't be mad at Tivo. They aren't paying Tivo for anything. They'll be mad at Dish Network.
Then the greeks would be bearing mushrooms, mushrooms?
It's only encrypted to the ISP in Sweden. From there it's unencrypted net access originating from the Swedish ISP.
What about someone nefarious at the company that you are paying? What measures are in place to prevent someone there from sniffing traffic? What's to prevent them releasing information about particular (or all) users either by negligence or malace?
As you say, all this does is concentrate your incoming/outgoing connection through a Swedish ISP. Combined with the dubious anonominity of a credit card transaction this will only make this service a sizable target.
Until one asshole starts uploading/downloading child porn and then the game is up for everyone using that service including all all those credit card transaction histories.
I still think purely decentralized services like TOR are, while less than perfect, a better idea than this.
I wasn't quite sure what a Darknet was so I had to read the wikipedia article. According to wikipedia it's a network where "users only connect to people they trust". If that's the case then that's different than what the linked article in the /. summary is talking about. According to it this is "a new Internet service that lets anybody send and receive files and information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged." If anyone can connect, I can't trust them all. It would only take one person within the web of trust to ruin it for everyone. Besides, if data eventually has to make it to me then there's always a way to locate the destination and source.
This article seems like BS.
It's a hack but if you need to get the job done you could do that. The downside is that it would rely on having to have dynamically generated pages on your server. The BB developer docs recommend using Javascript for browser detection. That's another hack and frowned upon by the web standards crowd due to the problems that are inherent with it.
The solution that worked for me was that the BB ignores any style sheets with a specified media type. So I created a style sheet that defined basic styles and then created the one for desktop browsers and gave it a media type of "screen". That seemed to work but ultimately management changed their mind on supporting accesable web content to the BBs. We have few BB users in our company anyway.
Yet it has everything to do with whether I delete things or not. Much space can be had for little money. Since email doesn't take up much space I lose nothing by keeping it around.
I don't need to look at it. I only look at the tail of it unless I need to find something that I've looked at before.
My brain? You claim to know a lot about me. If my brain is subconsciously categorizing my messages then I doubt it is doing it every time. Since 99% of my Inbox doesn't change most of the subconscious categorization is done and is already indexed. My brain only needs to diff the index against the new arrivals.
So these people either lack good tools, the knowledge to use the tools they have, or don't have a good methodology that works for them to manage information. Do you have a point?
If we're going to be giving orders, how about you not go around telling people how you think they should run their lives. You don't even know me. You have no idea of what tools I have for managing my personal information nor how efficient I am at finding information in it that I need. I think I'm quite capable of knowing how best to organize my information for my own retrieval. It's not my fault that your coworkers can't use basic email management tools and concepts.
I sometimes do let them sit in the mailbox. Where I live the mailman still delivers mail door to door. My mailbox is a slot on the side of my garage (many other people have a small box on the wall of the house next to the front door). Mail goes into the slot and falls down into a box mounted on the wall inside. I have been known to leave some mail in there from time to time until I want to get to it. Otherwise I would just have to bring it inside and sit it somewhere until that time I was ready to get to it. Sometimes I don't check my snail mail except once a week (Saturday or Sunday). You got a problem with that?
I'm surprised that you'd bring that up since in the rest of your email you seem to know me well enough that you'd lecture me on my email management methodology.
Hey, regarding your comment here, the browser in the BlackBerry doesn't support the handheld media type. Unfortunately I know this from experience from trying to make our company intranet pages look okay on the BB.
I vote for "CmdrTaco Bridge".
I didn't know it was a popular site. It looked like some guys personal blog.