If it doesn't cover that, imagine what police and politicians and corporate bad actors could get away with
I don't know where you live, but police and other officials are "public organs" and not private entities around here when they are acting officially, so none of the privacy protection laws/rights apply. You may film or otherwise record them as long as you don't obstruct them in the process (and it's not easy to defend that right due to paranoid and arbitrary US-influenced anti-terror legislation that is often interpreted to contradict these rights popping up everywhere).
How does personal information about other people and their pictures constitute "free speech"? What a dumb attempt to defend the Googles and Facebooks who want to monetize every bit of information, no matter how harmful or embarrassing it is...
Many posts and articles point out that current and used hardware is extremely expensive in Africa, i.e. significantly more expensive than comparable stuff in the US/Europe. If that is actually true, can anyone explain what the reasons are? Is it due to import taxes, expensive logistics, sales taxes, lack of infrastructure? Isn't Africa an interesting market for multinationals / companies like Dell for selling low-end hardware (apparently asian companies are entering Africa aggressively, but with very low quality offers)? Also, what prevents Africans from mail-ordering hardware from the US/Europe (other than fear of scams:-P)?
Code readability / maintainability (for other people too)
Deadlines
Cost (yes, $$$ including long-term maintenance and even cost of your own time)
All the other things, like whether to use a revision control system, an IDE, particular technology etc. are constraints provided by your environment or chosen based on intermediate results of your "research".
Where do we buy competing products not manufactured with the same or worse working conditions? Also, among the firms producing their stuff in China, Apple is probably paying one of the highest tax rates in the US (definetely higher than Google and MS, 24% says this source), so they don't seem a particularly good target to me. The idea of boycotting Apple alone is so pointless that one has to question the motives of the journalists who are blowing that horn...
They don't. It's some worthless f.cks who apparently repesent these countries and signed ACTA, I live in Austria and I don't even know the name of the creep who signed on behalf of this country. At its core, the EU is a rotten oligarchy where many decisions are made contrary to the will of the citizens. Other such examples are the SWIFT and passenger data sharing agreements.
I don't see Notch (=> Minecraft) having these issues with so-called piracy. I perfectly understand people who feel ripped off by titles that raise expectations and then disappoint all honest customers.
Seriously, what are they thinking? HTML5 support in FF is absymal (how hard is it to implement sliders a.k.a. input type=range?), memory consumption is ridiculously high (despite all claims to the contrary), who cares about the Nth alternative for a solved problem? After they retardedly jumped 5 major version numbers in 6 months without any important changes and lost a big chunk of the market, they should slowly get their act together...
... that those most eager to collect personal information and track everyone's activity would be eager to get everyone to adopt IPv6, which assigns a fixed prefix to each Internet user/access contract and a unique address to each device (i.e. those currently hidden behind routers and corporate NAT gateways). IPv6 is the worst privacy breach and danger to system security we're facing right now, go Lemmings go!
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Question: if they are truly "zero knowledge", why would they care? They cannot identify infringing data anyway, if it's true. Furthermore, we know that being in the US, they will have to comply with government requests to access your data and they are not allowed to tell you. Also, while IANAL, their terms offer many loopholes, such as the possibility to employ (very) weak encryption in cases where some 3rd party desires access to your data. Therefore I'd trust Wuala more, it's based in Europe, where such secret subpoenas are (AFAIK) not possible. For people who have an absolute need for "privacy" (or for breaking the law, which in some free speech-impaired countries is very dangerous), there's still Freenet, which can be used as a (cumbersome) file storage...
Wuala both use client side encryption and do not have access to your data.
Wuala warns you (or did in some version of the T&C) that law enforcement agencies might force them to deploy a client update to you to turn off (or compromise otherwise) encryption. I guess there's no 100% safe haven in this area, unless you use an open source client without automatic updates...
I'm a Wuala user myself, so perhaps I've overlooked something - but how does Dropbox hope to earn money? By selling additional disk space or turning the free accounts into paid ones once people begin to rely on them?
Catalyst seems to be the framework everyone "ought to know" and recommends, but very few people actually seem to use it successfully for complex projects (as opposed to e.g. Mason). Its main drawback for me is that I hate reading through 1000s of lines of generated code. Frameworks should hide complexity, not autogenerate it and throw it into your face. If I were to choose something new (over plain mod_perl2), I'd look at Mojolicious::Lite or Mason 2 and I'd definetely use Plack/PSGI. The main lesson I learnt over the past 15 years (and several 100.000 loc) of web development in Perl is that while Perl gives you quick results with very little effort, some of the effort it spares you, you will miss soon after because it would have prevented ugly bugs. Also, its Unicode support is (still) terrible.
So by manipulating the data whoever maintains it can totally detach Cameron from reality and steer the Prime Minister's policy - because as we all know, computers never lie.;-)
Why don't they improve Sone, the Freenet social network plugin? It already supports "web of trust" principles and could help drag Freenet out of the "for illegal stuff only" quicksand it seems to have been stuck in for the past couple of years... Freenet is by design resistant to censorship and denial-of-service attacks and can only get better if more people use it actively.
Or is it that they just don't really know anything? Think about it. In IT, the knowledgable ones never get promoted because funding is slashed
Managers tend to (and need to) know different things than plain IT workers and the latter are probably just as glad they do not need to know these things as the managers are.
. In todays world, knowing nothing but how to BS, deceive others, getting an MBA online and being a sociopathic asshole is the only fast track to IT management.
You are just ranting. If a manager somehow manages to get you to do 3x the work you used to do and still stick around, he is brillliant. If he does only what you describe in your rant, the company will fail and whether you believe it or not, the majority of companies tend to avoid ridiculously stupid promotion and hiring decisions.
There are plenty of good, quiet PC tower cases with 10 disk slots nowdays, for example the Fractal Design Define XL. Noise should not be a problem this way, if it isn't with your current solution. Migrating your old board into such a spacious case should not be an issue.
Personally, I would try to avoid more than 10 disks for home use because it'll become a hassle replacing the defective ones at some point. With 3TB SATA disks available at the moment, you can get around 24TB with enough redundancy (RAID-5 with 1 spare or RAID-6; "enough" meaning that you don't have to switch it off when 1 disk dies until you can replace it). No redundancy i.e. RAID-0 should be out of the question if you value your data.
To connect and handle the disks, you can look for a SATA RAID controller like the 3ware 9650SE-12ML. It's not cheap - noticeably more expensive than 2-3 additional plain SATA controllers, but easier to handle than software-RAID and bootable (Linux still needs an ugly workaround to boot from software RAID-5). On the other hand, I found it easier to migrate to bigger disks one-by-one using software-RAID than with various (expensive) RAID controllers, but YMMV.
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If it doesn't cover that, imagine what police and politicians and corporate bad actors could get away with
I don't know where you live, but police and other officials are "public organs" and not private entities around here when they are acting officially, so none of the privacy protection laws/rights apply. You may film or otherwise record them as long as you don't obstruct them in the process (and it's not easy to defend that right due to paranoid and arbitrary US-influenced anti-terror legislation that is often interpreted to contradict these rights popping up everywhere).
How does personal information about other people and their pictures constitute "free speech"? What a dumb attempt to defend the Googles and Facebooks who want to monetize every bit of information, no matter how harmful or embarrassing it is ...
Many posts and articles point out that current and used hardware is extremely expensive in Africa, i.e. significantly more expensive than comparable stuff in the US/Europe. If that is actually true, can anyone explain what the reasons are? Is it due to import taxes, expensive logistics, sales taxes, lack of infrastructure? Isn't Africa an interesting market for multinationals / companies like Dell for selling low-end hardware (apparently asian companies are entering Africa aggressively, but with very low quality offers)? Also, what prevents Africans from mail-ordering hardware from the US/Europe (other than fear of scams :-P)?
Awaiting the first youtube videos...
All the other things, like whether to use a revision control system, an IDE, particular technology etc. are constraints provided by your environment or chosen based on intermediate results of your "research".
Fiction. Laser reflector makes the case, however...
Does it? Because the Soviets left some too and officially they never walked on the moon ...
Where do we buy competing products not manufactured with the same or worse working conditions? Also, among the firms producing their stuff in China, Apple is probably paying one of the highest tax rates in the US (definetely higher than Google and MS, 24% says this source), so they don't seem a particularly good target to me. The idea of boycotting Apple alone is so pointless that one has to question the motives of the journalists who are blowing that horn ...
why so many nations want to sign this monstrosity
They don't. It's some worthless f.cks who apparently repesent these countries and signed ACTA, I live in Austria and I don't even know the name of the creep who signed on behalf of this country. At its core, the EU is a rotten oligarchy where many decisions are made contrary to the will of the citizens. Other such examples are the SWIFT and passenger data sharing agreements.
in case you didn't know it. ;-)
I don't see Notch (=> Minecraft) having these issues with so-called piracy. I perfectly understand people who feel ripped off by titles that raise expectations and then disappoint all honest customers.
Seriously, what are they thinking? HTML5 support in FF is absymal (how hard is it to implement sliders a.k.a. input type=range?), memory consumption is ridiculously high (despite all claims to the contrary), who cares about the Nth alternative for a solved problem? After they retardedly jumped 5 major version numbers in 6 months without any important changes and lost a big chunk of the market, they should slowly get their act together...
... that those most eager to collect personal information and track everyone's activity would be eager to get everyone to adopt IPv6, which assigns a fixed prefix to each Internet user/access contract and a unique address to each device (i.e. those currently hidden behind routers and corporate NAT gateways). IPv6 is the worst privacy breach and danger to system security we're facing right now, go Lemmings go!
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Question: if they are truly "zero knowledge", why would they care? They cannot identify infringing data anyway, if it's true. Furthermore, we know that being in the US, they will have to comply with government requests to access your data and they are not allowed to tell you. Also, while IANAL, their terms offer many loopholes, such as the possibility to employ (very) weak encryption in cases where some 3rd party desires access to your data. Therefore I'd trust Wuala more, it's based in Europe, where such secret subpoenas are (AFAIK) not possible. For people who have an absolute need for "privacy" (or for breaking the law, which in some free speech-impaired countries is very dangerous), there's still Freenet, which can be used as a (cumbersome) file storage...
Wuala both use client side encryption and do not have access to your data.
Wuala warns you (or did in some version of the T&C) that law enforcement agencies might force them to deploy a client update to you to turn off (or compromise otherwise) encryption. I guess there's no 100% safe haven in this area, unless you use an open source client without automatic updates ...
I'm a Wuala user myself, so perhaps I've overlooked something - but how does Dropbox hope to earn money? By selling additional disk space or turning the free accounts into paid ones once people begin to rely on them?
it only prints the mechanical parts and none of the electronic parts needed to make a makerbot work ...
... when they run out of toilet paper while crapping on enemy soldiers' bodies...
Catalyst seems to be the framework everyone "ought to know" and recommends, but very few people actually seem to use it successfully for complex projects (as opposed to e.g. Mason). Its main drawback for me is that I hate reading through 1000s of lines of generated code. Frameworks should hide complexity, not autogenerate it and throw it into your face. If I were to choose something new (over plain mod_perl2), I'd look at Mojolicious::Lite or Mason 2 and I'd definetely use Plack/PSGI. The main lesson I learnt over the past 15 years (and several 100.000 loc) of web development in Perl is that while Perl gives you quick results with very little effort, some of the effort it spares you, you will miss soon after because it would have prevented ugly bugs. Also, its Unicode support is (still) terrible.
... and along with it all the government agencies that have supported and executed legislation against freedom of speech / fair use.
So by manipulating the data whoever maintains it can totally detach Cameron from reality and steer the Prime Minister's policy - because as we all know, computers never lie. ;-)
Why don't they improve Sone, the Freenet social network plugin? It already supports "web of trust" principles and could help drag Freenet out of the "for illegal stuff only" quicksand it seems to have been stuck in for the past couple of years... Freenet is by design resistant to censorship and denial-of-service attacks and can only get better if more people use it actively.
Or is it that they just don't really know anything? Think about it. In IT, the knowledgable ones never get promoted because funding is slashed
Managers tend to (and need to) know different things than plain IT workers and the latter are probably just as glad they do not need to know these things as the managers are.
. In todays world, knowing nothing but how to BS, deceive others, getting an MBA online and being a sociopathic asshole is the only fast track to IT management.
You are just ranting. If a manager somehow manages to get you to do 3x the work you used to do and still stick around, he is brillliant. If he does only what you describe in your rant, the company will fail and whether you believe it or not, the majority of companies tend to avoid ridiculously stupid promotion and hiring decisions.
It's just a cute story of one (unsuccessful) developer of a "cute" app. Yawn. Someone is apparently making around $2B in iOS app sales though.
There are plenty of good, quiet PC tower cases with 10 disk slots nowdays, for example the Fractal Design Define XL. Noise should not be a problem this way, if it isn't with your current solution. Migrating your old board into such a spacious case should not be an issue.
Personally, I would try to avoid more than 10 disks for home use because it'll become a hassle replacing the defective ones at some point. With 3TB SATA disks available at the moment, you can get around 24TB with enough redundancy (RAID-5 with 1 spare or RAID-6; "enough" meaning that you don't have to switch it off when 1 disk dies until you can replace it). No redundancy i.e. RAID-0 should be out of the question if you value your data.
To connect and handle the disks, you can look for a SATA RAID controller like the 3ware 9650SE-12ML. It's not cheap - noticeably more expensive than 2-3 additional plain SATA controllers, but easier to handle than software-RAID and bootable (Linux still needs an ugly workaround to boot from software RAID-5). On the other hand, I found it easier to migrate to bigger disks one-by-one using software-RAID than with various (expensive) RAID controllers, but YMMV.
the primary goal of Chrome is to make the web advance as much and as quickly as possible. That's it.
I believe this as much as that Google uses dodgy tax evasion tricks to make the world a better place, or perhaps help the economy...