If you can't expect your botnet-ware to keep your machine secure, then it's time to replace it. That is why we keep it on there right? It's a simple tradeoff, all our identity for some peace of mind.
Your own platform? Excellent idea! Every ebook reader supports *plain text*. I for one would be quite happy with plain text for novels. I suppose you'll need a bit more for text books for the images, equations, footnotes and tables -- maybe there's some standard xml document type for mixing text and image?
Oh, wait. You said your *own platform*. Silly me, I thought you had an issue with Amazon's lock-in.
More interesting would be how much data is collected on each American each day.
Be sure to count each datum separately for each person to make sure it's a big number. Please also break it down into several categories, both private and government.
These days, computers cleanliness is just basic hygiene, so treat the consequence like any other infection. Quarantine it like any other diseased system. It'll either heal itself or you'll get to it when you get to it. You'll have to be a hard-ass for awhile, but they'll either learn some responsibility or find some other nerd to bully.
In other words, they are being very inconsiderate.
Sadly the ones you mentioned are pretty well established. Better to work on discouraging new ones and let the old ones die out.
But 'cmon. It's prophecy we're talking about. What's six days between god and muhammod. Dreams aren't exactly a high fidelity medium.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be opposed to applying laws equally to religions. If that means they're constantly in trouble for hate crimes or fraud, then all the better.
You may want to reconsider your distance from "open source zealotry". Your careful neutrality is admirable, but wait until it gets personal.
Open data format (or a broken one) is the way you get a driver to control the speed of vlc playback. What great motivation for consistent exercise! Then again, you wouldn't want to run afoul of DMCA while simply trying to access your health data; perhaps best to just leave it hidden away.
What about your data on their servers? Are you sure they're not sharing it with your insurance without your knowledge? What if the gov't is your insurance provider? I can only imagine the delight in their eyes from the real-time feed of your glucose levels. Conversely, does the equipment provider maintain it securely enough that you can use it as an alibi? Do they require a subpoena, so that your rights are protected from miscellaneous snoops out to injure your reputation? For that matter, what happens when they go out of business? Do you have to shop the liquidator auctions to find the disk with your data?
Paranoid? Perhaps, but are you that sure that your partner isn't going to suffer brain injury and go nuts? Have you ever wondered what happens to the kind persons who feed data to wikileaks?
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Luckily, I've setup my server farm in my old bomb shelter.
Read Plauger's Programming on Purpose series.
Then pick up another language. If you want to stay within the jvm universe, try jython or scala.
This is why one thoroughly examines a gift horse before rejecting it as more trouble than it's worth.
Anarchy leads to *tyranny*, dominance through violence.
That was a "simulation" of an attack that just happened to have "cyber" elements.
Luckily we're starting to get criminal statutes for copyright infringement?
Everyone, don your rubber suits and mirror shades!
If you can't expect your botnet-ware to keep your machine secure, then it's time to replace it. That is why we keep it on there right? It's a simple tradeoff, all our identity for some peace of mind.
But -- but -- That was my stolen property!
What are things coming to when you can't count on honor among thieves. I mean, thieves stealing from thieves? What is this world coming to!
Your own platform? Excellent idea! Every ebook reader supports *plain text*. I for one would be quite happy with plain text for novels. I suppose you'll need a bit more for text books for the images, equations, footnotes and tables -- maybe there's some standard xml document type for mixing text and image?
Oh, wait. You said your *own platform*. Silly me, I thought you had an issue with Amazon's lock-in.
Let me inspect your computer without a warrant or this EMP gun might just accidentally discharge in an inconvenient direction.
Did they get the information they were looking for?
Does "giving up" keep them from answering for their behavior in front of a judge?
I think the idea is to publish stupid patents to shame the idiot who filed it.
HTML renders in color too, you know.
I was under the impression that space shifting from CD to "mp3" was already settled as fair use. What goes?
I would be more interested in how much information was processed overall, as in without counting each tv show separately for each person watching it.
More interesting would be how much data is collected on each American each day.
Be sure to count each datum separately for each person to make sure it's a big number. Please also break it down into several categories, both private and government.
These days, computers cleanliness is just basic hygiene, so treat the consequence like any other infection. Quarantine it like any other diseased system. It'll either heal itself or you'll get to it when you get to it. You'll have to be a hard-ass for awhile, but they'll either learn some responsibility or find some other nerd to bully.
In other words, they are being very inconsiderate.
Sadly the ones you mentioned are pretty well established. Better to work on discouraging new ones and let the old ones die out.
But 'cmon. It's prophecy we're talking about. What's six days between god and muhammod. Dreams aren't exactly a high fidelity medium.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be opposed to applying laws equally to religions. If that means they're constantly in trouble for hate crimes or fraud, then all the better.
That's what they get for making testable predictions. That's also why they're not a religion.
Is this what we can expect from targeted marketing, now that They have more information on each of us than we do of ourselves?
Dude, not in public!
The erotic art in PB is often quite good. It's about time it gets center stage.
It's about time that PB embraces hentai-like realism. Their pictorials are usually so far from reality, it's laughable.
At least we won't have to debate whether or not the rack is real, so I can sleep easy for once.
You may want to reconsider your distance from "open source zealotry". Your careful neutrality is admirable, but wait until it gets personal.
Open data format (or a broken one) is the way you get a driver to control the speed of vlc playback. What great motivation for consistent exercise! Then again, you wouldn't want to run afoul of DMCA while simply trying to access your health data; perhaps best to just leave it hidden away.
What about your data on their servers? Are you sure they're not sharing it with your insurance without your knowledge? What if the gov't is your insurance provider? I can only imagine the delight in their eyes from the real-time feed of your glucose levels. Conversely, does the equipment provider maintain it securely enough that you can use it as an alibi? Do they require a subpoena, so that your rights are protected from miscellaneous snoops out to injure your reputation? For that matter, what happens when they go out of business? Do you have to shop the liquidator auctions to find the disk with your data?
Paranoid? Perhaps, but are you that sure that your partner isn't going to suffer brain injury and go nuts? Have you ever wondered what happens to the kind persons who feed data to wikileaks?