Think about email. When you want to send mail to somebody, you just pull up your email account and do it. No fuss. You don't need to sign up for a Gmail account, a Hotmail account, an Outlook account, a Yahoo account, a gmx.net account and so on for every provider just to be able to send email to that provider's users. One account with one of them is enough to email a user of any of them.
I do like your analogy. I think it spells out fairly well the problem that Diaspora is trying to solve. To extend that a bit, email also exemplifies what can go wrong with such a system. For certain definitions of the word, email is a "federated" system as well. The problem is that the "federation" was not baked in from the beginning but was added on as icing later. I don't consider that the fault of the designers. These things just weren't particularly relevant when email was conceived. As a result of this however a high percentage of the email flowing through the system is spam with forged headers, etc. with little to no actual authentication. Any attempts to lock it down are mostly a case of "closing the barn door after the horses are out". A federated social media network will need to take this into account as a number one priority item. The first pass at Diaspora by its creators failed badly in this and many other aspects. Hopefully this next version will address this.
These things may include, but are not limited to, poetry, music, religion, philosphy, politics, psychology, relationships, nature, history, archaeology, painting, chess, cooking, sex and literature.
With any luck this will backfire since a key judge that made East Texas such a hotspot for patent infringement lawsuits retired from the US District Court last year.
This article does a pretty good job of looking at the situation in East Texas with regards to patent trials. It is an interesting read. It will be eye opening to some and a confirmation to others.
The telco can only rely on the data from their own equipment, that is they know the data was transmitted to the user but have no way to reliably tell if it was received.
If only TCP had some way to acknowledge that a packet was received by the endpoint so that connection participants knew if a packet was lost....
It will be a race to see who can write the quickest/wittiest browser extension/plugin to automagically fill in these surveys. Once it becomes transparent to the users, the marketing data will be total crap. Bonus points though for the developer that gains market share, then flips the evil bit and tailors the survey results based on the what the survey customer wants to see.
Not in my state. You only need the consent of one person. That's me and my scanner; I've heard many cellphone, portable, and HAM communications. Besides: Just like TV and radio you are broadcasting "in the open" and therefore have no more expectation of privacy than if you stood on a soapbox and started reading a book aloud.
It's not just rifle rounds. Even a.22 LR pistol has no problem breaking the sound barrier.
Interestingly most match.22 ammo is subsonic. Apparently when a.22 round transitions from supersonic to subsonic it has a tendency to tumble which is not good for accuracy.
If you are interested in playing this mod, you will need a game that uses the Source game engine. If you don't already have one, Steam has
Half Life 2 on sale right now for $3.40. It looks like this deal will be available until 1pm EDT.
Given that stupid people *will* take what these kinds of apps say as gospel, they need to be regulated to make sure they're giving reliable information.
How is this any different than people's reaction to the bullcrap ads that pharmaceutical companies run on TV?
To me, there is also an extra psychological multiplier at play because Nintendo is primarily selling products to kids. Products for children whose materials are sourced from "blood minerals" make people extra-uneasy.
"That's a nice reputation ya got there, specially with the kids. It'd be a shame if something happened to it. You wouldn't want anything like that to happen, right?"
You may be surprised to find out that your government already has the "records associated with your license plate".
And so do you. It's public record.
I'm not sure what state or country you live in, so maybe this is a local phenomena. In the state I live in the registration information associated with a license plate is not a matter of public record. You need a valid court order relating to a civil or criminal case before the department of motor vehicles will officially provide you with that information.
I think the problem with FB, now, is they're either too greedy or too big. It might be a case where several, smaller FB-like organizations, ran privately, would do the same job and more profitably.
Diaspora could fill this requirement. The key to several small versions is that they have to interconnect to form a useful whole. You still see your friend's posts regardless of whether you are on the same host or not. You will need a number of these companies or sites so that users have options and they will need to be able to migrate from one to another easily if you want something like this to gain traction. Different sites can have different privacy policies and the protocols that are used to communicate between sites support and enforce those policies.
This is a critical issue for any classification system which is attempting to identify a small subset of a large population, especially when there are serious consequences for those identified.
In the lab perhaps this is true. In the field, or at least in the US, the critical issue seems to be whether there are serious consequences for those who are doing the identifying. If misidentification bear no consequences to the identifiers, then false positives are viewed as a minor issue at best.
Blair K., Certified Master of the Scrum, responded: "Well, that doesn't sound like a very agile process to me! "Certified" and "compliant with a standard" sound pretty waterfallish. Why not just have a 15-minute standup and decide to launch the plane? At last the aerospace industry could deliver aircraft on time and under budget."
That's not a problem. The only passengers on the first flight after each sprint has to be the developers, managers, and QA team though.
True but how far do you go or what do you do to guarantee that the out-sourced company is fully compliant with HIPAA security and privacy regulations? Look at this scenario (btw, I work in IT in a hospital): Upload patient data via VPN (fully encrypted, AES, etc.) to a data mining company for patient safety study. The company shown they've been audited by security auditors and passed. However, they don't mention they're upgrading their systems and something gets missed during the upgrade and BAM! patient data revealed. I think in that scenario, the provider, having shown due diligence, may get by without a fine but if the records revealed amount to =>500 patients, they'll still get listed on the wall of shame.
If you are outsourcing your data for studies, then all personally identifying information should be scrubbed or anonymized.
Sure OS developers can gain something from it, even if it's outdated. Just recently, Warow 1.0 was released. This project was built around the Quake 2 engine. It was modernized some to look quite nice.:)
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Think about email. When you want to send mail to somebody, you just pull up your email account and do it. No fuss. You don't need to sign up for a Gmail account, a Hotmail account, an Outlook account, a Yahoo account, a gmx.net account and so on for every provider just to be able to send email to that provider's users. One account with one of them is enough to email a user of any of them.
I do like your analogy. I think it spells out fairly well the problem that Diaspora is trying to solve. To extend that a bit, email also exemplifies what can go wrong with such a system. For certain definitions of the word, email is a "federated" system as well. The problem is that the "federation" was not baked in from the beginning but was added on as icing later. I don't consider that the fault of the designers. These things just weren't particularly relevant when email was conceived. As a result of this however a high percentage of the email flowing through the system is spam with forged headers, etc. with little to no actual authentication. Any attempts to lock it down are mostly a case of "closing the barn door after the horses are out". A federated social media network will need to take this into account as a number one priority item. The first pass at Diaspora by its creators failed badly in this and many other aspects. Hopefully this next version will address this.
You forgot to list anal probing.
No, it was there. It just wasn't spelled out in detail.
"intrusive FBI investigations and tax audits"
but no one I knew hardly gave a shit.
So everyone you knew at least gave a shit, and did you mean that literally or figuratively?
These things may include, but are not limited to, poetry, music, religion, philosphy, politics, psychology, relationships, nature, history, archaeology, painting, chess, cooking, sex and literature.
Although not necessarily in that order.
So are we saying that Apple has been caught "red handed"?
This article does a pretty good job of looking at the situation in East Texas with regards to patent trials. It is an interesting read. It will be eye opening to some and a confirmation to others.
The telco can only rely on the data from their own equipment, that is they know the data was transmitted to the user but have no way to reliably tell if it was received.
If only TCP had some way to acknowledge that a packet was received by the endpoint so that connection participants knew if a packet was lost....
It will be a race to see who can write the quickest/wittiest browser extension/plugin to automagically fill in these surveys. Once it becomes transparent to the users, the marketing data will be total crap. Bonus points though for the developer that gains market share, then flips the evil bit and tailors the survey results based on the what the survey customer wants to see.
Frankly, they can do whatever the fuck they want. I've been blocking ads since the last century and this bullshit won't change anything.
There are ads on the Internet?
-User of adblockplus since 2006
Not in my state. You only need the consent of one person. That's me and my scanner; I've heard many cellphone, portable, and HAM communications. Besides: Just like TV and radio you are broadcasting "in the open" and therefore have no more expectation of privacy than if you stood on a soapbox and started reading a book aloud.
If I am interpreting 18 U.S.C. 2511 - Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited correctly, your interception of these signals becomes illegal the moment you tell anyone about what you heard or take any action in any way based on what you heard.
Please notice that this is a U.S. code, so unless your state had seceeded from the the US lately, it is applicable.
It's not just rifle rounds. Even a .22 LR pistol has no problem breaking the sound barrier.
Interestingly most match .22 ammo is subsonic. Apparently when a .22 round transitions from supersonic to subsonic it has a tendency to tumble which is not good for accuracy.
If you are interested in playing this mod, you will need a game that uses the Source game engine. If you don't already have one, Steam has Half Life 2 on sale right now for $3.40. It looks like this deal will be available until 1pm EDT.
Warrant based on what? You need something to get the process started.
Where have you been? Right now it just takes a Benjamin or two to get the ball rolling.
If they are taking in a ton of money and spending it, they are spending it on something and that gives them power.
Congressmen don't come cheap you know.
Given that stupid people *will* take what these kinds of apps say as gospel, they need to be regulated to make sure they're giving reliable information.
How is this any different than people's reaction to the bullcrap ads that pharmaceutical companies run on TV?
To me, there is also an extra psychological multiplier at play because Nintendo is primarily selling products to kids. Products for children whose materials are sourced from "blood minerals" make people extra-uneasy.
"That's a nice reputation ya got there, specially with the kids. It'd be a shame if something happened to it. You wouldn't want anything like that to happen, right?"
If you weren't a little late you could patent using the natural resonant vibration frequency of a quartz crystal to keep time.
Given the way that the Patent Office is handing out patents like Halloween candy, I say go ahead and submit it.
You may be surprised to find out that your government already has the "records associated with your license plate".
And so do you. It's public record.
I'm not sure what state or country you live in, so maybe this is a local phenomena. In the state I live in the registration information associated with a license plate is not a matter of public record. You need a valid court order relating to a civil or criminal case before the department of motor vehicles will officially provide you with that information.
Thanks.
I think the problem with FB, now, is they're either too greedy or too big. It might be a case where several, smaller FB-like organizations, ran privately, would do the same job and more profitably.
Diaspora could fill this requirement. The key to several small versions is that they have to interconnect to form a useful whole. You still see your friend's posts regardless of whether you are on the same host or not. You will need a number of these companies or sites so that users have options and they will need to be able to migrate from one to another easily if you want something like this to gain traction. Different sites can have different privacy policies and the protocols that are used to communicate between sites support and enforce those policies.
This is a critical issue for any classification system which is attempting to identify a small subset of a large population, especially when there are serious consequences for those identified.
In the lab perhaps this is true. In the field, or at least in the US, the critical issue seems to be whether there are serious consequences for those who are doing the identifying. If misidentification bear no consequences to the identifiers, then false positives are viewed as a minor issue at best.
Blair K., Certified Master of the Scrum, responded: "Well, that doesn't sound like a very agile process to me! "Certified" and "compliant with a standard" sound pretty waterfallish. Why not just have a 15-minute standup and decide to launch the plane? At last the aerospace industry could deliver aircraft on time and under budget."
That's not a problem. The only passengers on the first flight after each sprint has to be the developers, managers, and QA team though.
And should it be limited to people with slashdot ID's of 4 digits or fewer?
Yes it should. Just be sure to schedule it in time for the early bird specials and wrap it up before 8pm so everyone can get to bed on time.
True but how far do you go or what do you do to guarantee that the out-sourced company is fully compliant with HIPAA security and privacy regulations? Look at this scenario (btw, I work in IT in a hospital): Upload patient data via VPN (fully encrypted, AES, etc.) to a data mining company for patient safety study. The company shown they've been audited by security auditors and passed. However, they don't mention they're upgrading their systems and something gets missed during the upgrade and BAM! patient data revealed. I think in that scenario, the provider, having shown due diligence, may get by without a fine but if the records revealed amount to =>500 patients, they'll still get listed on the wall of shame.
If you are outsourcing your data for studies, then all personally identifying information should be scrubbed or anonymized.
Sure OS developers can gain something from it, even if it's outdated. Just recently, Warow 1.0 was released. This project was built around the Quake 2 engine. It was modernized some to look quite nice. :)
Did you mean Warsow ?