My opinion is that if you post personally identifiable information to a public website
Part of the problem is that these are not entirely "public" websites, and there were promises about your privacy in Facebook's published policies. Over time those policies have changed, and by consequence the level of privacy has changed despite what was originally promised. If privacy changes are retrospective in effect to their application to your submitted information that's very, very bad. If your argument is that nobody should have any expectation of privacy even on a website with a published privacy policy and "privacy controls", I think that your argument is wrong and instead companies who don't stick to their own promises should face some consequences, as their users inevitably will.
Where I used to live my vote was utterly irrelevant because the Tory MP had such a large majority that they would get elected regardless of who I voted for.
So what you're saying is that this guy would get elected because he had an enormous majority of voter support...... and the problem is?
But can any of those besides the touch run the APPS?
If only there was some kind of network I could connect my netbook to that had all kinds of free or cheap software available for me to instantly download.
IANAL, but isn't it trademark infringement if your browser tries to look up Google by name and an ISP deliberately redirects to a different, similar service?
Maybe because people like to listen to streaming music while they work. Maybe because people like to do research online while they work. Maybe IM is a useful form of communication. Maybe you want to research your clients or competition or do SEO or some graphics tutorials or download an editor for something yada yada yada. Don't hire total noobs, do your job of installing the latest updates, run some anti-virus (insert McAfee joke here), and have an understood IT policy - understood meaning people understand your concerns, not just "the rules". You can never have perfect security, but you can have reasonable security without being an ass about it. You can also have a backup plan, like backing up documents on a schedule to a safe(r) system and having a disc image to recover a system from reasonably quickly.
Yours is an office I wouldn't work in, and maybe there is something to say for self-selection of the people that would.
My my, aren't we humans full of ourselves? Sure, our man-made clocks might be more precise. But extraterrestrial life across the universe doesn't have access to them, couldn't use them as a common reference, and they've only been around for the past ~60 Earth years.
In order to provide you with useful social experiences off of Facebook, we occasionally need to provide General Information about you to pre-approved third party websites and applications that use Platform at the time you visit them (if you are still logged in to Facebook). Similarly, when one of your friends visits a pre-approved website or application, it will receive General Information about you so you and your friend can be connected on that website as well (if you also have an account with that website).
Wait, Facebook, you don't "occasionally need to provide" anything. I did not ask or want you to provide "useful social experiences off of Facebook".
Leaking through walls is not always a feature. I can't get the maximum benefit of my Wifi setup because I live in an apartment building and all my neighbors have devices chattering on every channel. All their routers are probably defaulted to high power, and there's nothing I can realistically do to improve my situation except switch to 802.11n/5G, which I did, and now I'm seeing more routers on that frequency range too.
I don't want to lose my through-walls access, but if it could be heavily supplemented by light within my own home then I have an extra channel that my neighbors systems won't degrade. Even better if the lights can work as repeaters so if I leave some doors open I can get good signal around many corners, and better still if they also support several invisible frequencies so that my signal strength doesn't depend on bright lighting (or any lighting!) and devices like IR remotes don't interfere when you use them. I've also heard others complain their microwave kills their wifi, and I don't know if that's true or not, but if it is then there is another practical problem solved by this technology.
Tell people about the practical benefits. As far as any security related story, I don't care. I already use WPA2/AES. 99.99% of the population probably doesn't care beyond that, either.
If you're playing HD MKV files on Windows 7 just install DivX for Windows. It includes a media foundation component that lets Windows Media Player read the MKV file then decode it using DXVA. If you don't want to install the whole DivX bundle you can even get the component standalone from DivX Labs.
How many of us here on Slashdot save up for a while then periodically buy some pricey electronics gear either offline or from an online store? What do fraudulent purchases look like? Oh hey, it fits your spending pattern!
There are real risks associated with this. The biggest problem is data mining. By correlating my records against others you can see who is often in the same vicinity as me at the same time. Did I happen to be located near some suspects on more than one occasion? Maybe that implicates me as a risk, even if it was co-incidence. What if some statistician determines that the probability is too high to be co-incidence? Perhaps I know a suspect in some unrelated regard, yet I may still be put on some list somewhere depending on what is being investigated at the time. Afterall, all of this data is not going to be sifted through by hand - computers will be making decisions based on some statistics they've been programmed to look for.
Not only this, and I haven't read TFA yet, but if there is really a concept that it's fine to access my data without a warrant as long as it's not real time (i.e. "certain times in the past"), why couldn't you tap all my conversations today, and just wait until tomorrow to listen to them? It invades my privacy just as much.
The DivX people now also support DivX Plus, which is H.264/AAC/MKV including surround sound, multilingual subtitles, chapter points, metadata, multiple titles, and more:)
DivX Plus devices were also announced at CES. Look for Blu-Ray players from Philips and the FreeAgent Theater+ HD Media Player from Seagate initially. There's even a Handbrake preset here.
Protip: DivX Plus is H.264/AAC/MKV, and DivX desktop software has been playing and creating it for the past year. DivX Plus Web Player lets you embed it in your web pages and serve it from any HTTP server, and the first DivX Plus certified devices were announced at CES. You can even find DivX Plus presets for Handbrake here!
DivX Plus is H.264/AAC/MKV. The DivX software bundles already include a free player and web player, and DivX Plus certified devices were announced at CES.
Without commenting on why Handbrake has dropped support for AVI (I'm sure they have their reasons), it is a simply bit of a shame for users looking to make highly portable content. DivX is one of the most widely supported formats on devices ranging from portable media players, DVD and Blu-Ray players, digital TV's, set-top boxes, and even mobile phones. It's always been a major goal to make it extremely easy for people to take content from their computer and move it into their living room or take it with them on the go, and there are now over 250 million DivX devices out there.
There is of course now also DivX Plus, which uses H.264/AAC/MKV, and Handbrake can still output that. You can actually already find a preset for Handbrake here. Devices certified for DivX Plus will be arriving this year, with announcements already covering Philips and Seagate. DivX Plus Web Player already supports these files so you can upload your DivX or DivX Plus file to any standard HTTP server and embed it directly in your web pages. It enables viewers to watch these files in embedded, windowed, or full-screen modes and save them for device transfer later. DivX Player provides free playback on Windows and Mac, and we also include an MKV splitter for Microsoft Media Foundation in Windows 7. By consequence of that, you can watch DivX Plus files with hardware acceleration and already stream them to Windows Media Center Extender and UPNP devices.
So again, for so many people who own DivX devices, it's unfortunate, but there are also many other tools out there that will do the job. It's at least nice to see them supporting MKV, which will work in DivX Plus devices in future.
I hate to break it to you, but if you blow into the bag multiple times, then get taken back to the machine in the station and STILL blow above the limit, then your guilty as fuck.
I suppose, as the GP says, this is just one example of why we are supposed to have a presumption of innocence. It's an extremely slippery slope once you forego a persons right to defend themselves, especially when it's the f'ing police, part of the justice system foregoing it.
These private URL shortening sites shouldn't exist anyway. They're just a hack to support long urls on mediums that can't handle proper html-style linked text (aka hypertext). Those mediums are buggy should be upgraded (if only by footnote style guidelines).
Have fun upgrading SMS in the network back end, all the handsets that support it, and how it's billed across all carriers globally.
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My opinion is that if you post personally identifiable information to a public website
Part of the problem is that these are not entirely "public" websites, and there were promises about your privacy in Facebook's published policies. Over time those policies have changed, and by consequence the level of privacy has changed despite what was originally promised. If privacy changes are retrospective in effect to their application to your submitted information that's very, very bad. If your argument is that nobody should have any expectation of privacy even on a website with a published privacy policy and "privacy controls", I think that your argument is wrong and instead companies who don't stick to their own promises should face some consequences, as their users inevitably will.
I suggest you take a look at this timeline from the EFF:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline
Where I used to live my vote was utterly irrelevant because the Tory MP had such a large majority that they would get elected regardless of who I voted for.
So what you're saying is that this guy would get elected because he had an enormous majority of voter support... ... and the problem is?
But can any of those besides the touch run the APPS?
If only there was some kind of network I could connect my netbook to that had all kinds of free or cheap software available for me to instantly download.
Someone put Al Gore on this immediately!
No, it's incredibly rare for anyone to vandalise a camera.
I spend most of my time driving around the UK and I have never seen a vandalised camera.
Maybe it is incredibly profitable to repair them quickly?
Further thought: I don't know if Firefox does look up Google by name when given a malformed hostname, or only does so after a DNS lookup fails.
IANAL, but isn't it trademark infringement if your browser tries to look up Google by name and an ISP deliberately redirects to a different, similar service?
You'd make the kind of admin I despise.
Maybe because people like to listen to streaming music while they work. Maybe because people like to do research online while they work. Maybe IM is a useful form of communication. Maybe you want to research your clients or competition or do SEO or some graphics tutorials or download an editor for something yada yada yada. Don't hire total noobs, do your job of installing the latest updates, run some anti-virus (insert McAfee joke here), and have an understood IT policy - understood meaning people understand your concerns, not just "the rules". You can never have perfect security, but you can have reasonable security without being an ass about it. You can also have a backup plan, like backing up documents on a schedule to a safe(r) system and having a disc image to recover a system from reasonably quickly.
Yours is an office I wouldn't work in, and maybe there is something to say for self-selection of the people that would.
My my, aren't we humans full of ourselves? Sure, our man-made clocks might be more precise. But extraterrestrial life across the universe doesn't have access to them, couldn't use them as a common reference, and they've only been around for the past ~60 Earth years.
Exactly!
Quoting the draft from TC's report:
In order to provide you with useful social experiences off of Facebook, we occasionally need to provide General Information about you to pre-approved third party websites and applications that use Platform at the time you visit them (if you are still logged in to Facebook). Similarly, when one of your friends visits a pre-approved website or application, it will receive General Information about you so you and your friend can be connected on that website as well (if you also have an account with that website).
Wait, Facebook, you don't "occasionally need to provide" anything. I did not ask or want you to provide "useful social experiences off of Facebook".
P.S. THIS STINKS OF BEACON
Leaking through walls is not always a feature. I can't get the maximum benefit of my Wifi setup because I live in an apartment building and all my neighbors have devices chattering on every channel. All their routers are probably defaulted to high power, and there's nothing I can realistically do to improve my situation except switch to 802.11n/5G, which I did, and now I'm seeing more routers on that frequency range too.
I don't want to lose my through-walls access, but if it could be heavily supplemented by light within my own home then I have an extra channel that my neighbors systems won't degrade. Even better if the lights can work as repeaters so if I leave some doors open I can get good signal around many corners, and better still if they also support several invisible frequencies so that my signal strength doesn't depend on bright lighting (or any lighting!) and devices like IR remotes don't interfere when you use them. I've also heard others complain their microwave kills their wifi, and I don't know if that's true or not, but if it is then there is another practical problem solved by this technology.
Tell people about the practical benefits. As far as any security related story, I don't care. I already use WPA2/AES. 99.99% of the population probably doesn't care beyond that, either.
DXVA is not a format, it is a method of video acceleration, and recent netbook adapters accelerate H.264.
Side: I've been watching H.264 HD MKV videos on a netbook since last September with this ;)
If you're playing HD MKV files on Windows 7 just install DivX for Windows. It includes a media foundation component that lets Windows Media Player read the MKV file then decode it using DXVA. If you don't want to install the whole DivX bundle you can even get the component standalone from DivX Labs.
it matches the customers spending pattern
What does that have to do with it?
How many of us here on Slashdot save up for a while then periodically buy some pricey electronics gear either offline or from an online store? What do fraudulent purchases look like? Oh hey, it fits your spending pattern!
There are real risks associated with this. The biggest problem is data mining. By correlating my records against others you can see who is often in the same vicinity as me at the same time. Did I happen to be located near some suspects on more than one occasion? Maybe that implicates me as a risk, even if it was co-incidence. What if some statistician determines that the probability is too high to be co-incidence? Perhaps I know a suspect in some unrelated regard, yet I may still be put on some list somewhere depending on what is being investigated at the time. Afterall, all of this data is not going to be sifted through by hand - computers will be making decisions based on some statistics they've been programmed to look for.
Not only this, and I haven't read TFA yet, but if there is really a concept that it's fine to access my data without a warrant as long as it's not real time (i.e. "certain times in the past"), why couldn't you tap all my conversations today, and just wait until tomorrow to listen to them? It invades my privacy just as much.
They aren't even deciding what you can communicate, since TPB is a tracker. They're deciding whom you can communicate with altogether.
"What?" indeed.
This is exactly the same technique as the EFF DES cracker used in 1998, except using FGPAs instead of custom chips.
http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTML/19980716_eff_des_faq.html#howsitwork
The DivX people now also support DivX Plus, which is H.264/AAC/MKV including surround sound, multilingual subtitles, chapter points, metadata, multiple titles, and more :)
Check it out:
http://www.divx.com/en/electronics/solutions/high-definition/divx-plus-hd-showcase
DivX Plus devices were also announced at CES. Look for Blu-Ray players from Philips and the FreeAgent Theater+ HD Media Player from Seagate initially. There's even a Handbrake preset here.
- Al / DivX person ;)
Protip: DivX Plus is H.264/AAC/MKV, and DivX desktop software has been playing and creating it for the past year. DivX Plus Web Player lets you embed it in your web pages and serve it from any HTTP server, and the first DivX Plus certified devices were announced at CES. You can even find DivX Plus presets for Handbrake here!
DivX Plus Web Player can play H.264/AAC/MKV (DivX Plus) or ASP/MP3/AVI (DivX) in your browser. We use Direct3D on Windows and OpenGL on Mac.
The future seems to be H264/AAC.
DivX Plus is H.264/AAC/MKV. The DivX software bundles already include a free player and web player, and DivX Plus certified devices were announced at CES.
Without commenting on why Handbrake has dropped support for AVI (I'm sure they have their reasons), it is a simply bit of a shame for users looking to make highly portable content. DivX is one of the most widely supported formats on devices ranging from portable media players, DVD and Blu-Ray players, digital TV's, set-top boxes, and even mobile phones. It's always been a major goal to make it extremely easy for people to take content from their computer and move it into their living room or take it with them on the go, and there are now over 250 million DivX devices out there.
There is of course now also DivX Plus, which uses H.264/AAC/MKV, and Handbrake can still output that. You can actually already find a preset for Handbrake here. Devices certified for DivX Plus will be arriving this year, with announcements already covering Philips and Seagate. DivX Plus Web Player already supports these files so you can upload your DivX or DivX Plus file to any standard HTTP server and embed it directly in your web pages. It enables viewers to watch these files in embedded, windowed, or full-screen modes and save them for device transfer later. DivX Player provides free playback on Windows and Mac, and we also include an MKV splitter for Microsoft Media Foundation in Windows 7. By consequence of that, you can watch DivX Plus files with hardware acceleration and already stream them to Windows Media Center Extender and UPNP devices.
So again, for so many people who own DivX devices, it's unfortunate, but there are also many other tools out there that will do the job. It's at least nice to see them supporting MKV, which will work in DivX Plus devices in future.
I hate to break it to you, but if you blow into the bag multiple times, then get taken back to the machine in the station and STILL blow above the limit, then your guilty as fuck.
Or are you?
I suppose, as the GP says, this is just one example of why we are supposed to have a presumption of innocence. It's an extremely slippery slope once you forego a persons right to defend themselves, especially when it's the f'ing police, part of the justice system foregoing it.
Seriously. What is an "anti-smoking vaccine"? Do you mean a "smoking vaccine"?
We have H1N1 vaccines, not Anti-H1N1 vaccines...
These private URL shortening sites shouldn't exist anyway. They're just a hack to support long urls on mediums that can't handle proper html-style linked text (aka hypertext). Those mediums are buggy should be upgraded (if only by footnote style guidelines).
Have fun upgrading SMS in the network back end, all the handsets that support it, and how it's billed across all carriers globally.
That's a great idea. Except when lines fall or circuits get shut down etc. you might loose communications with your control system.