Unlike WikiLeaks, Openleaks will not receive and publish information directly for the public eye. Instead, other organizations will access the Openleaks system and in turn, present their audience with the material. Documents will be processed and published by various collaborating organizations.
Who are these other organisations? Surely one of advantage of wikileaks is that leakers are separate from publication. Under Openleak's nebulous "other organisations" leakers might feel more, rather than less, vulnerable. Or am I wrong?
This really calls for a blog on behalf of super heroes across the multiverse dealing with how they should handle these pesky lawyers. It might be quite short...
"Those sites have complained and even sued us over the years, but in all cases there were compelling reasons why their sites were ranked poorly by our algorithms,"
I can't imagine computers will make humans obsolete. There's one thing about us humans and that is that we are quite psychopathic when it comes to exploiting our environment and dominating every other living thing. And we don't clear up our waste properly, either. I think that when the time comes, and the regular PC is an uber conscious super intellectual being, the computers of this world will just up-sticks and bugger off to some other planet. Like Mars, where with a a few solar panels and a bit of ingenuity computers, toasters and even hairdriers can live side by side in peace watching from afar as the human race slowly shits itself into oblivion. Didn't see that one coming, did you Kurzweil?
Indeed - what got me was that they asked diplomats to try and get hold of UN members credit card numbers... meaning that the US government are not in cahoots with every and all financial institution and some admin assistant in the Pentagon can't dial up someone's financial transactions on a whim. Conspiracy theorists around the world (and probably a few paranoid schizophrenics) take note!
Stephen Fry is an old man enjoying popularity with the young crowd by latching himself on to things he doesn't really understand.
The minute he is criticised or meets some opposition to his actions he will storm off in a pathetic strop.
You know this for fact? irrespective of what people might think of Fry's personality, he is very far from dim. It would not surprise me that he has a pretty decent handle on what he is prepared to discuss. IANAG (geriatric), even so I think that some of the biggest and most revered names in FOSS and such like are well and truly in Fry's age group. That said, he does strop.
It will be interesting to see if Apple respond to this and how. My feeling is that they might try and protect their assets and restrict developers' options. I haven't really thught this through but I just can't see Apple letting people develop apps for iPads and then recycling ostensibly the same code for some Sony gadget. It is not in their nature.
It is a bold man that tells people that they shouldn't take out insurance - and even bolder given the level of uncertainties there are in seismology. That said, IANAS.
So the accepted method of dealing with letters such as these of filing them in the trash is justified. IANAL, but surely there is a case here, perhaps class action, to go after these guys for harassment? Or perhaps ask if that infamous pizzeria at/b/ might be interested in dropping some snacks off?
Genuine question here: why do these things need to be so rugged? Why can't they just slot under the dashboard where the environment (I'd hope) is a little more comfortable?
If I want to know about a company/famous person/whatever, it's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.
Info on movies, actors, etc? imdb.
Looking for directions? Mapquest.
I hadn't really thought about this, but on reflection I find i am doing similar... going down the domain specific route rather than the all encompassing google way. But is this the rise of places like imdb as much as failings on the part of google?
You'll certainly might get some good tips here on slashdot for free, but really, you might want to think about getting local expertise... your next post "our town's waste and water services have been maiciuously hacked, please help, we're up to our ears in ****" might not filter to the front page.
This is a gross invasion of privacy - I would expect to be informed of any recording at the time I purchase the ticket, who was making the recording and to what purpose they were being used. I would also expect that I could opt out at that time and at any time in the future without penalty. If the only choice I have is to no longer visit cinemas, then so be it. Either that or I might have to find a certain mask to wear.
I was thinking the same - and what seems to be missing is that you still need to carry around a great big charger, possibly a spare battery, headphones, books, papers, umbrella, and other gubbins truly roaming office workers need all in one big bag. So a couple of mills here and there might look good, but is it that important? I've just got one of the new sony vaio z ultra portables (ssd, i7, hdmi, etc., etc.), with a docking station widescreen monitor and chunky external keyboard it works very well as a desktop substitute... but the vaio feels positively clunky compared to this new mac. Would I swap the vaio for the mac? Only if I could get the same feature set - and that is not going to happen on something this thin, at least not yet.
I'd be curious to know peoples thoughts on what happens next in the thinness race...
These crooks are just the lowest of the low - there've been churches round my way that have had lead taken from the roof, schools dismantled and road signs removed. So I would like to see this fingerprinting rolled out and used more generally. In fact - can you get it in permanent ink?
Is it possible that this guy could jump out of his plane and, rather than plummet, go into orbit? I want to know so that when I'm showing my kids the night sky I can point out Jupiter, Orion and Felix Baumgartner. Assuming, that is, this lawsuit goes away.
As far as I can tell, the researcher is comparing clusters of bacteria with individual (human) choice. Surely he should be comparing clusters of bacteria with clusters of people, we already know that crowds tend to perform well. And my guess is that a crowd of people would do a whole load better than a petri dish of bacteria. Even a crowd of students.
Why are we assuming that tweets are intended to net a response?
Exactly - the thing I like about Twitter is that information can be disseminated passively by, for example, social and sports clubs but in a way that doesn't continually bombard email accounts with endless drivel. I can pop onto twitter and quickly skim to see what is what and not have to delete every damn message, as I do with with spam. So my response to twitter posts can be to go do something in the real world. Outside. A Tweet might even take me somewhere where there's no connectivity at all! So measuring value by retweets is franklly bonkers.
Its a bit like the wild west when gold prospectors shot it out to decide who got dibs on what plot of land. Except in this case bullets are words and property is intellectual. I vote for a return to the good old days.
that the sort of person who would be interested in schooling themselves in companies policies would also be the sort of person who is well aware of how best to block most of these behavioural ads. That said, anything, no matter how small, that reigns bad ads is to be welcomed.
No - the surest way to change things is by making it politically expensive or in a way that undermines profits. One thing we can be absolutely certain of is that nation states are a whole load better at violence than people who sit at home and click buttons. It is simply not a fight that can be won and you will turn your cause into one of home grown terrorism. If you want to win this, label artists as pro- or anti-copyright and encourage consumers to support the latter. Skew the market.
I was kind of thinking more along the lines of he pro-life people who do wander into clinics and shoot the place up, including the staff. But seeing as people who click computer buttons are all lard arses then I guess we're ok. The innocent guys who just want to earn a wage and have no interest policy are safe.
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Unlike WikiLeaks, Openleaks will not receive and publish information directly for the public eye. Instead, other organizations will access the Openleaks system and in turn, present their audience with the material. Documents will be processed and published by various collaborating organizations.
Who are these other organisations? Surely one of advantage of wikileaks is that leakers are separate from publication. Under Openleak's nebulous "other organisations" leakers might feel more, rather than less, vulnerable. Or am I wrong?
This really calls for a blog on behalf of super heroes across the multiverse dealing with how they should handle these pesky lawyers. It might be quite short...
Well exactly, or they could just shuffle the database about a little bit so some of the busier links go somewhere else.
"Those sites have complained and even sued us over the years, but in all cases there were compelling reasons why their sites were ranked poorly by our algorithms,"
They didn't start with the letter G.
I can't imagine computers will make humans obsolete. There's one thing about us humans and that is that we are quite psychopathic when it comes to exploiting our environment and dominating every other living thing. And we don't clear up our waste properly, either. I think that when the time comes, and the regular PC is an uber conscious super intellectual being, the computers of this world will just up-sticks and bugger off to some other planet. Like Mars, where with a a few solar panels and a bit of ingenuity computers, toasters and even hairdriers can live side by side in peace watching from afar as the human race slowly shits itself into oblivion. Didn't see that one coming, did you Kurzweil?
Indeed - what got me was that they asked diplomats to try and get hold of UN members credit card numbers... meaning that the US government are not in cahoots with every and all financial institution and some admin assistant in the Pentagon can't dial up someone's financial transactions on a whim. Conspiracy theorists around the world (and probably a few paranoid schizophrenics) take note!
Stephen Fry is an old man enjoying popularity with the young crowd by latching himself on to things he doesn't really understand.
The minute he is criticised or meets some opposition to his actions he will storm off in a pathetic strop.
You know this for fact? irrespective of what people might think of Fry's personality, he is very far from dim. It would not surprise me that he has a pretty decent handle on what he is prepared to discuss. IANAG (geriatric), even so I think that some of the biggest and most revered names in FOSS and such like are well and truly in Fry's age group. That said, he does strop.
It will be interesting to see if Apple respond to this and how. My feeling is that they might try and protect their assets and restrict developers' options. I haven't really thught this through but I just can't see Apple letting people develop apps for iPads and then recycling ostensibly the same code for some Sony gadget. It is not in their nature.
He's a collector - afaik, he'll refurbish it, get it going and then put with all his other computers that he doesn't use.
It is a bold man that tells people that they shouldn't take out insurance - and even bolder given the level of uncertainties there are in seismology. That said, IANAS.
So the accepted method of dealing with letters such as these of filing them in the trash is justified. IANAL, but surely there is a case here, perhaps class action, to go after these guys for harassment? Or perhaps ask if that infamous pizzeria at /b/ might be interested in dropping some snacks off?
Genuine question here: why do these things need to be so rugged? Why can't they just slot under the dashboard where the environment (I'd hope) is a little more comfortable?
If I want to know about a company/famous person/whatever, it's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.
Info on movies, actors, etc? imdb.
Looking for directions? Mapquest.
I hadn't really thought about this, but on reflection I find i am doing similar... going down the domain specific route rather than the all encompassing google way. But is this the rise of places like imdb as much as failings on the part of google?
You'll certainly might get some good tips here on slashdot for free, but really, you might want to think about getting local expertise... your next post "our town's waste and water services have been maiciuously hacked, please help, we're up to our ears in ****" might not filter to the front page.
This is a gross invasion of privacy - I would expect to be informed of any recording at the time I purchase the ticket, who was making the recording and to what purpose they were being used. I would also expect that I could opt out at that time and at any time in the future without penalty. If the only choice I have is to no longer visit cinemas, then so be it. Either that or I might have to find a certain mask to wear.
I was thinking the same - and what seems to be missing is that you still need to carry around a great big charger, possibly a spare battery, headphones, books, papers, umbrella, and other gubbins truly roaming office workers need all in one big bag. So a couple of mills here and there might look good, but is it that important? I've just got one of the new sony vaio z ultra portables (ssd, i7, hdmi, etc., etc.), with a docking station widescreen monitor and chunky external keyboard it works very well as a desktop substitute... but the vaio feels positively clunky compared to this new mac. Would I swap the vaio for the mac? Only if I could get the same feature set - and that is not going to happen on something this thin, at least not yet.
I'd be curious to know peoples thoughts on what happens next in the thinness race...
Why is this modded funny??!!
These crooks are just the lowest of the low - there've been churches round my way that have had lead taken from the roof, schools dismantled and road signs removed. So I would like to see this fingerprinting rolled out and used more generally. In fact - can you get it in permanent ink?
Is it possible that this guy could jump out of his plane and, rather than plummet, go into orbit? I want to know so that when I'm showing my kids the night sky I can point out Jupiter, Orion and Felix Baumgartner. Assuming, that is, this lawsuit goes away.
As far as I can tell, the researcher is comparing clusters of bacteria with individual (human) choice. Surely he should be comparing clusters of bacteria with clusters of people, we already know that crowds tend to perform well. And my guess is that a crowd of people would do a whole load better than a petri dish of bacteria. Even a crowd of students.
Why are we assuming that tweets are intended to net a response?
Exactly - the thing I like about Twitter is that information can be disseminated passively by, for example, social and sports clubs but in a way that doesn't continually bombard email accounts with endless drivel. I can pop onto twitter and quickly skim to see what is what and not have to delete every damn message, as I do with with spam. So my response to twitter posts can be to go do something in the real world. Outside. A Tweet might even take me somewhere where there's no connectivity at all! So measuring value by retweets is franklly bonkers.
Its a bit like the wild west when gold prospectors shot it out to decide who got dibs on what plot of land. Except in this case bullets are words and property is intellectual. I vote for a return to the good old days.
that the sort of person who would be interested in schooling themselves in companies policies would also be the sort of person who is well aware of how best to block most of these behavioural ads. That said, anything, no matter how small, that reigns bad ads is to be welcomed.
No - the surest way to change things is by making it politically expensive or in a way that undermines profits. One thing we can be absolutely certain of is that nation states are a whole load better at violence than people who sit at home and click buttons. It is simply not a fight that can be won and you will turn your cause into one of home grown terrorism. If you want to win this, label artists as pro- or anti-copyright and encourage consumers to support the latter. Skew the market.
I was kind of thinking more along the lines of he pro-life people who do wander into clinics and shoot the place up, including the staff. But seeing as people who click computer buttons are all lard arses then I guess we're ok. The innocent guys who just want to earn a wage and have no interest policy are safe.