I encrypt all my HDDs in both my laptop and my computers. With Truecrypt it is as easy as a few clicks, so really there is no reason/not/ to do it.
Performance.
The argument that anyone who uses encryption must have "something to hide" is totally bogus. Do people who put locks on their doors have something to hide?
Yes. I'm hiding my stuff from all the people that might be tempted to steal it if they knew it was here.
Except that they are building their own cloud, not buying cloud infrastructure from a supplier like Amazon. They can then offer scientists time and space (arf) on their own cloud in the same way that Amazon do with the public but without any of the issues of releasing their data onto the internet.
Besides, there are multiple definitions of "cloud computing", and your example is just one of them. Another popular one at the moment is massively parallel data processing systems with huge amounts of storage (i.e. data grids).
Ideas don't fall under copyright and patents (I'm not arguing about "Intellectual Property" here, though I think the term is hogwash as we already have specific words and legal frameworks that cover everything that needs covering).
Patents cover devices, NOT ideas (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/patent/p-about/p-whatis.htm explicitly states that patents do not cover theories or methods, which surely is what an idea is until it has been implemented?).
Why would anyone in their right mind stay with that kind of company?
Because they don't know any better. Most people think that their broadband is slow because IE or Firefox takes 30+ seconds to start up - they wouldn't think that the ISP was to blame because the advert said that they'll get 8 megabits!
Clusters of machines aren't good for all problems, and Google doesn't use their huge clusters for everything... Some problems can only really be solved on a larger machine.
Hardware costs aren't the be all and end all any more either - one of the biggest costs is electricity (both for the machines and the cooling). It may well be that it is cheaper in the long run to have less of these than a huge cluster.
Anyway, to me it is quite clear why Oracle want Sparc and Solaris - have a good look at the Oracle product line, especially at products such as Exadata.
Sorry, I don't read tabloids. I live on a modern private housing estate with a reasonable number of "affording housing" units. The part-owned properties are fine, it's the people in the rented (with the rent paid for) that are the problem.
I've also had first hand experience of my property being damaged by these people (I've watched their kids scratching my car, damaging plants in my garden) and I've been threatened by their parents for telling them off (a family with 8 kids, mother had no idea what their kids were doing and that they weren't in school - then blamed the school).
These girls DO actively turn round in schools and state they have no interest in learning, and just want to get pregant, Ask any teacher that works with year 9-11 girls in a "deprived area", or one of the schools that councils have used for collecting children in this situation so that their other schools don't look bad and their league table results shine.
I'm saying the parents don't raise their kids because they've got no interest in doing so. They don't care what the kids get up to, and they don't care what they eat.
And those problems are real. Either you are lucky enough you don't have to experience it, or you don't care about it.
First of all, security cameras in businesses are owned and operated by businesses, not the government. Second of all, we are talking about inside a fucking home to monitor the actions of the parents and children in their personal life, not to spot people carrying machine guns into banks or crowded train stations.
The majority of the "millions" of cameras in the UK are owned by private businesses too, not the government.
And yes, this is inside the homes. And about frickin time too - these parents don't raise their kids, the kids have to figure it out for themselves. The 9 year old daughter has to look after the baby, the 13 year old gets bawled at for being in the way in the house, or wanting to watch something other than Jeremy Kyle on the TV. In some situations kids are subject to violence (and I've first hand seen kids explain that the burn marks on their arms are because their father stubs out cigarettes on them. And all of this goes on in populated areas, much of it integrated with expensive new housing, and the resulting crime from the kids affects everyone else (tyres slashed, WD40 windshields, petty theft, etc)
These aren't in private houses. They are in publically owned houses (or at least publically paid for houses). The UK has a very "good" benefits system - so "good" that it is the aspiration of thousands of teenage girls to get pregnant as early as possible such that they can get their own flat and benefits so they don't have to work. The biggest problem is we are now entering at least the second generation of this kind of thinking/upbringing, so the teens don't know any better. It isn't obvious what the solution is either.
Or you do what everyone with a sensible widescreen display does (which includes most HP, Dell etc office panels) and rotate it 90 degrees so it goes portrait.
At least this proves you can't trust wikipedia on it's own - but the numerous listed sources, and the reasoning for red meat being worse for you (ie higher fat and myoglobin content) suggest Pork is a red meat.
From wikipedia - "however, meats which are red when raw and turn white on cooking, like pork, are categorized by the United States Department of Agriculture as red meats.[3]" (referenced doc is sadly now 404).
Logging the GPS - your solution won't work for all applications. For my logging example sure (but requires extra OS support), but what about a traffic conditions alerting application? Or a GPS aware "todo list" that knows to alert you when you are near somewhere on your list. I might want the new TomTom app open in the foreground with that running in the background.
Re: IM - All the existing multi-IM solutions for the iPhone (ie that support background/push and can handle MSN, GTalk, Yahoo, etc.) require you to give your credentials to the app vendors serverside processes to do the authentication so they can keep the connections open when you disconnect. Whether they store it or simply proxy it who knows - but its another nasty, and in some cases is against the ToS of the IM provider.
- Any app that logs your position (whether from GPS or other location service)
- An instant messenger app that keeps your credentials on the phone and doesnt require you to give them over to some lame 3rd party app vendor to run on their servers (and likewise, twitter and other future online presence tools).
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I encrypt all my HDDs in both my laptop and my computers. With Truecrypt it is as easy as a few clicks, so really there is no reason /not/ to do it.
Performance.
The argument that anyone who uses encryption must have "something to hide" is totally bogus. Do people who put locks on their doors have something to hide?
Yes. I'm hiding my stuff from all the people that might be tempted to steal it if they knew it was here.
Except that they are building their own cloud, not buying cloud infrastructure from a supplier like Amazon. They can then offer scientists time and space (arf) on their own cloud in the same way that Amazon do with the public but without any of the issues of releasing their data onto the internet.
Besides, there are multiple definitions of "cloud computing", and your example is just one of them. Another popular one at the moment is massively parallel data processing systems with huge amounts of storage (i.e. data grids).
Ideas don't fall under copyright and patents (I'm not arguing about "Intellectual Property" here, though I think the term is hogwash as we already have specific words and legal frameworks that cover everything that needs covering).
Copyright covers written and recorded works, NOT ideas (check http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy.htm in the "Fast Facts" box).
Patents cover devices, NOT ideas (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/patent/p-about/p-whatis.htm explicitly states that patents do not cover theories or methods, which surely is what an idea is until it has been implemented?).
Because they don't know any better. Most people think that their broadband is slow because IE or Firefox takes 30+ seconds to start up - they wouldn't think that the ISP was to blame because the advert said that they'll get 8 megabits!
Clusters of machines aren't good for all problems, and Google doesn't use their huge clusters for everything... Some problems can only really be solved on a larger machine.
Hardware costs aren't the be all and end all any more either - one of the biggest costs is electricity (both for the machines and the cooling). It may well be that it is cheaper in the long run to have less of these than a huge cluster.
Anyway, to me it is quite clear why Oracle want Sparc and Solaris - have a good look at the Oracle product line, especially at products such as Exadata.
Here in the UK carriers block stolen phones from their IMEI all the time, and have a cross-carrier list of such phones.
Sorry, I don't read tabloids. I live on a modern private housing estate with a reasonable number of "affording housing" units. The part-owned properties are fine, it's the people in the rented (with the rent paid for) that are the problem.
I've also had first hand experience of my property being damaged by these people (I've watched their kids scratching my car, damaging plants in my garden) and I've been threatened by their parents for telling them off (a family with 8 kids, mother had no idea what their kids were doing and that they weren't in school - then blamed the school).
These girls DO actively turn round in schools and state they have no interest in learning, and just want to get pregant, Ask any teacher that works with year 9-11 girls in a "deprived area", or one of the schools that councils have used for collecting children in this situation so that their other schools don't look bad and their league table results shine.
I'm saying the parents don't raise their kids because they've got no interest in doing so. They don't care what the kids get up to, and they don't care what they eat.
And those problems are real. Either you are lucky enough you don't have to experience it, or you don't care about it.
First of all, security cameras in businesses are owned and operated by businesses, not the government. Second of all, we are talking about inside a fucking home to monitor the actions of the parents and children in their personal life, not to spot people carrying machine guns into banks or crowded train stations.
The majority of the "millions" of cameras in the UK are owned by private businesses too, not the government.
And yes, this is inside the homes. And about frickin time too - these parents don't raise their kids, the kids have to figure it out for themselves. The 9 year old daughter has to look after the baby, the 13 year old gets bawled at for being in the way in the house, or wanting to watch something other than Jeremy Kyle on the TV. In some situations kids are subject to violence (and I've first hand seen kids explain that the burn marks on their arms are because their father stubs out cigarettes on them. And all of this goes on in populated areas, much of it integrated with expensive new housing, and the resulting crime from the kids affects everyone else (tyres slashed, WD40 windshields, petty theft, etc)
These aren't in private houses. They are in publically owned houses (or at least publically paid for houses). The UK has a very "good" benefits system - so "good" that it is the aspiration of thousands of teenage girls to get pregnant as early as possible such that they can get their own flat and benefits so they don't have to work. The biggest problem is we are now entering at least the second generation of this kind of thinking/upbringing, so the teens don't know any better. It isn't obvious what the solution is either.
It's called leadership.
Maybe I already have 10TB of data that I want to store for years to come?
Or you do what everyone with a sensible widescreen display does (which includes most HP, Dell etc office panels) and rotate it 90 degrees so it goes portrait.
I pasted the wrong wikipedia link. oops.
It should have been this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_meat
At least this proves you can't trust wikipedia on it's own - but the numerous listed sources, and the reasoning for red meat being worse for you (ie higher fat and myoglobin content) suggest Pork is a red meat.
From wikipedia - "however, meats which are red when raw and turn white on cooking, like pork, are categorized by the United States Department of Agriculture as red meats.[3]" (referenced doc is sadly now 404).
And making it happen before you are 29 and an old codger that can't keep up is another! :-)
Logging the GPS - your solution won't work for all applications. For my logging example sure (but requires extra OS support), but what about a traffic conditions alerting application? Or a GPS aware "todo list" that knows to alert you when you are near somewhere on your list. I might want the new TomTom app open in the foreground with that running in the background.
Re: IM - All the existing multi-IM solutions for the iPhone (ie that support background/push and can handle MSN, GTalk, Yahoo, etc.) require you to give your credentials to the app vendors serverside processes to do the authentication so they can keep the connections open when you disconnect. Whether they store it or simply proxy it who knows - but its another nasty, and in some cases is against the ToS of the IM provider.
The MDict version was created in June 2006, and I believe uses a dump from 2003 so that the files don't get too big for the MDict database format.
Why is this any different than any other encyclopedia, or any other source for that matter?
whoosh
He said vast...
- Any app that logs your position (whether from GPS or other location service)
- An instant messenger app that keeps your credentials on the phone and doesnt require you to give them over to some lame 3rd party app vendor to run on their servers (and likewise, twitter and other future online presence tools).
I'm sure I can think of others.
Have you tried Inspector ?
Why is that mac going to have Firefox on it? Most Mac users are perfectly happy with Safari.
Pork is classed as a red meat (in case your post wasn't intended to be insightful!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4088824.stm
And bucketloads of other sources.
No you don't