For most countries you'd be right. Countries where peaceful opposition and democratic process still mean something. But some countries are just beyond saving at this point, anything short of open revolt by a large percentage of the population isn't going to make one bit of difference in the face of the lobbying and corruption that's crept in over the years. Good luck getting that started. Taking the fight to the man without millions of people marching behind you is just going to net you a swift trip to prison.
See, the US is one of those countries. So cut your losses, take your lessons learned, make a better life for you and your family elsewhere and make sure the same doesn't happen there.
The implementation shown at CeBIT is not based on WebGL, it uses RTFact which was developed in house at the University of Saarland. However the WebGL implementation is in development right now, and will be released later on to make the XML3D format more compatible with mainstream browsers (those without RTFact built in).
It may have been a letdown in terms of the goals of the project, but I think it was pretty successful in showing how much the government actually cares about these interactions. They're not after collaboration with the public in solving problems, they're after an image of openness, nothing more. Sure, if they run into an idea that's easy to implement and jives with their own agendas they'll run with it, but by and large it's just a marketing campaign.
"I've noticed that if you throw something into a water body like a lake or an ocean that the next day you come back and it's gone, so somehow it takes it away and filters it through and it just cleans it up like a garbage compacter or whatever. So it's not really littering if you ask me."
- Ricky, Trailer Park Boys
Sounds like a variation of what happened when AT&T blackholed 4chan's IP. In that case it was done to protect their network against a reflected SYN flood using spoofed packets that appeared to be coming from 4chan. I'd guess this time around it's another IP spoofing attack aimed at mobile devices instead. Although most ISP's filter spoofed packets at the first hop these days it only takes a couple that don't to pull off an attack like this.
tl;dr: 4chan has some enemies on the web, and I'll bet they're having a good laugh over this.
I wouldn't even call this good intention, it's nothing but an attempt to bypass some paper work at the expense of privacy.
They argue that e-mailing a court order is too slow. Well no, e-mailing it is nearly instantaneous, it's the response that's slow. That's a problem that shouldn't require unfettered access to private data to fix. A simple piece of legislation stating ISP's must respond to legal requests by law enforcement within x days should do it.
As for data not being retained long enough, 20 years ago police departments didn't have any web data at all, and they still managed to do their jobs. I'm sure they'd like to have 5 years of retained data to mine, but considering the implications for privacy and security I don't think this convenience is worth it.
Relative: "Oh, I just don't know what he would want! I can't make this decision for him..."
Doctor: "Well, thanks to recent breakthroughs we may be able to ask him directly. Lets just get him into this MRI..."
Doctor: "The results are clear, we were able to communicate with him and he was very adamant about stopping all treatment. He clearly does not want to live out his remaining days in this state, and I don't think anyone could blame him for that."
Relative: "If that's his wish then yes, lets stop all treatment."
Doctor: "I'm sorry m'aam, but that's no longer an option..."
"The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin."
That much I understand, what I don't understand is how people formerly employed by some of the biggest corporations in America can be given the power to represent the government in cases involving those same corporations.
There comes a point where we just have to draw the line and accept any further risks as simply being a part of life in this world. I would prefer to draw this line somewhere before being digitally strip searched just to be able to get on the flight I just paid $1200 for.
It seems ridiculous to you and me, but to the millions of people who aren't as versed in technology as the average/. user maybe not. A few weeks ago I finally caved and opened a Facebook account (albeit with fake info), solely to keep in touch with friends back home after moving to Europe. Quite a few of them are into the Farmville thing (mostly the women), so I checked that out and my first thought was "Wow, people actually pay money to buy things in this game?". I never would, but some of my friends have. I asked them why, why pay money for such ridiculously simple [crappy] games? "Why not?" they said.
I thought about it for a while, and I really didn't have a good answer. I've paid monthly fees to play MMOG's before. I pay money for a usenet account. To most of my friends spending money for these things would seem just as ridiculous. It's all a matter of perspective. For them, that tractor in Farmville is about as far as they've ventured into the gaming world outside of consoles, so why not spend a little money for it?
Now the really scary thing happened when I first opened my Facebook account. All the info I gave was fake, including my name, except the email address. I entered a really old Hotmail address that I stopped using years ago. Since then it's been my disposable email address for anything that wouldn't accept 10mintemail addresses. From this one piece of real information Facebook built a list of probable friends, and 80% of them were people I know. How they managed to pull this off with a 6 year old Hotmail address is beyond me.
The US has laws against hatespeech and inciting to riot, and they're pretty big on freedom of speech. When you look carefully just about every country has its limits.
It's hard to vote with your dollar when every ISP in your area has the same price, service and clauses in their contracts. This idea only works in a free and open market, and the telecom industry is neither.
This might be related, seems you can generate emails that appear to come from Google's own mail servers by altering a regular old URL. From there it's a short step to include a phishing site in the body of the email asking the user to verify his account details, or whatever. Maybe other webmail services have similar links.
I saw the Hotmail version of this phishing mail yesterday, it looks like it comes from an @live.ca address and asks the receiver to verify his account details at a link included in the email. The link is disguised to look like a valid mail.live.com link, but of course it goes to a phishing site instead.
Didn't Sins of a Solar Empire have a budget of just $1 million? Didn't the game sell more than 500,000 units? Wasn't it a good game? Maybe other developers should follow their lead, and for the record not every game has to be ported to all 3 consoles to make money.
Well as usual the summary got a little excited and left out an important piece of TFA: "...a patient discovered that she could read an illuminated clock in the family car for the first time in her life."
Still an amazing step forward, maybe if they finish treating both eyes the gains will be even more pronounced.
I think you're confusing what you want to see happen with what actually will. Contrary to popular belief, most of the people over at 4chan aren't terrorists, I very much doubt they'll do anything IRL that might get them into serious legal trouble. Even if the chance of being caught is next to nothing, cutting someone's fiber is a few steps beyond what they normally do. Some of the smarter people there have already realized the best way to fight this is through legal means, calling their support lines, writing them, getting the story to various news organizations etc.
Though it doesn't help that most of 4chan is inaccessible right now, due to (I would guess) another DDoS attack.
Because data is valuable, and most companies wouldn't delete anything without being forced to. I keep telling myself that maybe breaches like this will convince other companies to purge this kind of data when it's no longer needed, but so far it seems that greed still has the upper hand here. Can't say I'm surprised though.
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For most countries you'd be right. Countries where peaceful opposition and democratic process still mean something. But some countries are just beyond saving at this point, anything short of open revolt by a large percentage of the population isn't going to make one bit of difference in the face of the lobbying and corruption that's crept in over the years. Good luck getting that started. Taking the fight to the man without millions of people marching behind you is just going to net you a swift trip to prison.
See, the US is one of those countries. So cut your losses, take your lessons learned, make a better life for you and your family elsewhere and make sure the same doesn't happen there.
The implementation shown at CeBIT is not based on WebGL, it uses RTFact which was developed in house at the University of Saarland. However the WebGL implementation is in development right now, and will be released later on to make the XML3D format more compatible with mainstream browsers (those without RTFact built in).
It may have been a letdown in terms of the goals of the project, but I think it was pretty successful in showing how much the government actually cares about these interactions. They're not after collaboration with the public in solving problems, they're after an image of openness, nothing more. Sure, if they run into an idea that's easy to implement and jives with their own agendas they'll run with it, but by and large it's just a marketing campaign.
CSI is particularly bad for this, "see if you can enhance that license plate"
"I've noticed that if you throw something into a water body like a lake or an ocean that the next day you come back and it's gone, so somehow it takes it away and filters it through and it just cleans it up like a garbage compacter or whatever. So it's not really littering if you ask me."
- Ricky, Trailer Park Boys
Sounds like a variation of what happened when AT&T blackholed 4chan's IP. In that case it was done to protect their network against a reflected SYN flood using spoofed packets that appeared to be coming from 4chan. I'd guess this time around it's another IP spoofing attack aimed at mobile devices instead. Although most ISP's filter spoofed packets at the first hop these days it only takes a couple that don't to pull off an attack like this.
tl;dr: 4chan has some enemies on the web, and I'll bet they're having a good laugh over this.
I wouldn't even call this good intention, it's nothing but an attempt to bypass some paper work at the expense of privacy.
They argue that e-mailing a court order is too slow. Well no, e-mailing it is nearly instantaneous, it's the response that's slow. That's a problem that shouldn't require unfettered access to private data to fix. A simple piece of legislation stating ISP's must respond to legal requests by law enforcement within x days should do it.
As for data not being retained long enough, 20 years ago police departments didn't have any web data at all, and they still managed to do their jobs. I'm sure they'd like to have 5 years of retained data to mine, but considering the implications for privacy and security I don't think this convenience is worth it.
Relative: "Oh, I just don't know what he would want! I can't make this decision for him..."
Doctor: "Well, thanks to recent breakthroughs we may be able to ask him directly. Lets just get him into this MRI..."
Doctor: "The results are clear, we were able to communicate with him and he was very adamant about stopping all treatment. He clearly does not want to live out his remaining days in this state, and I don't think anyone could blame him for that."
Relative: "If that's his wish then yes, lets stop all treatment."
Doctor: "I'm sorry m'aam, but that's no longer an option..."
It may have been funny if it weren't so sad...
"The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin."
-Quellcrist Falconer
That much I understand, what I don't understand is how people formerly employed by some of the biggest corporations in America can be given the power to represent the government in cases involving those same corporations.
This was worthy of a front page post? I saw that video earlier, thought "heh" and moved on with my day. Is there really anything more to discuss here?
If you sew lead into your pants you'll just be pulled aside and asked to take them off. You don't have anything to hide, do you citizen?
There comes a point where we just have to draw the line and accept any further risks as simply being a part of life in this world. I would prefer to draw this line somewhere before being digitally strip searched just to be able to get on the flight I just paid $1200 for.
It seems ridiculous to you and me, but to the millions of people who aren't as versed in technology as the average /. user maybe not. A few weeks ago I finally caved and opened a Facebook account (albeit with fake info), solely to keep in touch with friends back home after moving to Europe. Quite a few of them are into the Farmville thing (mostly the women), so I checked that out and my first thought was "Wow, people actually pay money to buy things in this game?". I never would, but some of my friends have. I asked them why, why pay money for such ridiculously simple [crappy] games? "Why not?" they said.
I thought about it for a while, and I really didn't have a good answer. I've paid monthly fees to play MMOG's before. I pay money for a usenet account. To most of my friends spending money for these things would seem just as ridiculous. It's all a matter of perspective. For them, that tractor in Farmville is about as far as they've ventured into the gaming world outside of consoles, so why not spend a little money for it?
Now the really scary thing happened when I first opened my Facebook account. All the info I gave was fake, including my name, except the email address. I entered a really old Hotmail address that I stopped using years ago. Since then it's been my disposable email address for anything that wouldn't accept 10mintemail addresses. From this one piece of real information Facebook built a list of probable friends, and 80% of them were people I know. How they managed to pull this off with a 6 year old Hotmail address is beyond me.
Rick Mercer (Canada's version of Jon Stewart) did a great explanation of this very system and how it works, using that event as an example. Funny too.
The US has laws against hatespeech and inciting to riot, and they're pretty big on freedom of speech. When you look carefully just about every country has its limits.
Finally we'll all get to figure out how to use the three seashells!
Gloves and a face mask.
It's hard to vote with your dollar when every ISP in your area has the same price, service and clauses in their contracts. This idea only works in a free and open market, and the telecom industry is neither.
This might be related, seems you can generate emails that appear to come from Google's own mail servers by altering a regular old URL. From there it's a short step to include a phishing site in the body of the email asking the user to verify his account details, or whatever. Maybe other webmail services have similar links.
I saw the Hotmail version of this phishing mail yesterday, it looks like it comes from an @live.ca address and asks the receiver to verify his account details at a link included in the email. The link is disguised to look like a valid mail.live.com link, but of course it goes to a phishing site instead.
Didn't Sins of a Solar Empire have a budget of just $1 million? Didn't the game sell more than 500,000 units? Wasn't it a good game? Maybe other developers should follow their lead, and for the record not every game has to be ported to all 3 consoles to make money.
Well as usual the summary got a little excited and left out an important piece of TFA: "...a patient discovered that she could read an illuminated clock in the family car for the first time in her life."
Still an amazing step forward, maybe if they finish treating both eyes the gains will be even more pronounced.
Or if he eats organic food maybe he's not-so-dead right, am I right?
I think you're confusing what you want to see happen with what actually will. Contrary to popular belief, most of the people over at 4chan aren't terrorists, I very much doubt they'll do anything IRL that might get them into serious legal trouble. Even if the chance of being caught is next to nothing, cutting someone's fiber is a few steps beyond what they normally do. Some of the smarter people there have already realized the best way to fight this is through legal means, calling their support lines, writing them, getting the story to various news organizations etc.
Though it doesn't help that most of 4chan is inaccessible right now, due to (I would guess) another DDoS attack.
Because data is valuable, and most companies wouldn't delete anything without being forced to. I keep telling myself that maybe breaches like this will convince other companies to purge this kind of data when it's no longer needed, but so far it seems that greed still has the upper hand here. Can't say I'm surprised though.