... and with you goes your passwords, but not your data. It's still there for your benefactors to deal with.
Not if they don't know about it. Not if they (or you) don't care about it. If you want to leave something behind, please be conspicuous about it. If you really want your "data" to live beyond your life don't hide it behind a password.
The only "data" that I've created that I wish to live on after I'm gone is comprised of sound -- primarily musical -- recordings. Many of them are digital in origin. I have many recordings that reside on my hard disk in my Linux box. (Unfinished compositions, musical fragments, lack-luster performances, etc... If my descendants can crack the password good for them, but I doubt they will try so I don't "bank" on this "data" becoming available to those other than myself.)
If I were to be hit by the proverbial "beer truck" today my benefactors will find my collections of recordings on Cd's (and some tapes that are considered secondary to my Cd's) with pertinent documentation attached to each recording. (Many duplicates exist on minidisc. These recordings can be accessed without a password but who would want to go through that entire collection?) Of course there will come a day when Cd's won't be the medium of choice. When that day comes -- and if I declare the recordings worthy of living beyond my body -- I will transfer them to the medium of choice at the time.
Leave that which you want to be found in plain sight; that which you do not, leave to obscurity.
But sooner or later the time will come when you take that last breath, and with you goes your passwords, but not your data.
I understand that the audience here at slashdot.org is primarily comprised of "techies," but is the most significant thing that you -- even as a techie/scientist/nerd/whatever -- will or want to leave behind is some (encrypted) "data" protected by passwords? I hope to do more than "create data" while I'm here on this planet. I sincerely hope there is more to life than this. (Maybe I'm in for a rude awakening. Yesterdays chop wood and carry water could be today's program computer, execute program.)
Forget my passwords and forget my data, remember (your relationship with) me.
This post is way to late to get a good mod, but I just have to share my thoughts while I still can. Use 'em or lose 'em is my motto. Your rights, that is.
The facts are scarier than the myths, in my opinion. (If nothing else the trend is scary.)
"CAPPS II modernizes an existing program that was created in 1997 as an additional measure to help prevent a terrorist attack on passenger aircraft."
Notice the term "modernize." (CAPPS was rolled out in 1997, and look at it now in 2004. What will it look like in 2010?)
"CAPPS II will not use data mining techniques to profile and track citizens. Except for the slightly expanded Passenger Name Record (PNR) data that air carriers and reservation systems will collect, CAPPS II will not collect additional personal information about the traveler."
Notice the term "expanded". What other information will be included when the PNR is "expanded" or "modernized" again in a few years?
"(2) CAPPS II also performs a risk assessment, including a check against lists of terrorists and known or suspected threats, to detect individuals who may pose a terrorist-related threat or who have outstanding Federal or state warrants for crimes of violence."
Notice the term "suspected." Suspicion: "The act or an instance of suspecting something wrong without proof or on slight evidence."
"Once the system has computed a traveler's risk score, it will send an encoded message to be printed on the boarding pass indicating the appropriate level of screening. Eventually, this information is planned to be transmitted directly to screeners at security checkpoints."
Be on the lookout for "Earchsay isthay erroristtay umscay agbay" on your boarding pass!
I can't wait until they modernize and expand the Patriot Act. Scary stuff. Also I'm looking forward to an expanded, modernized CAPPS III. (Coming soon to automobiles, buses, subways, and sidewalks near you!) Nothing to hide, nothing to Fear, right? Well, nothing to hide today, but maybe much to fear in the future.
Basically, for the enterprise, Linux wasn't really an option until 2.6. With 2.6 only in its infancy, Linux still isn't an option. Solaris is though, 'cause it's got the features, the performance, the reliability, and it has been thoroughly tested on the anvil of time.
Linux was good good enough for Amazon.com back in 2001. They replaced SUN and HP with linux.
Sue Thomas, FB Eye. These cats should be FBI!
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Why aren't these guys looking at fuzzy surveillance cam recordings of suspected terrorists and decoding their conversations through lip reading? If they aren't doing so, they are probably AL Quide and should be sent to Guantanamo Bay immediately!
Sue Thomas would be proud. (And I'm sure Levi would be as well.)
By looking at the Netcraft Sco Uptime chart it doesn't seem that uptime on their website is a priority. Who goes to sco.com anyway, except for us nerds on a link from slashdot? I imagine most support is done via telephone, as is the case with most other operating systems.
The whole front page of SCO's website is dedictated to the virus. If you were running SCO you wouldn't have this problem, so why is it freatured on their website? Probably just fodder for the next lawsuit is my guess.
You turn to Solaris because that's what Sun machines use, and Sun machines can offer a ton of computing power while still being a lot less money then large scale mainframe offerings from IBM and Sgi.
You can also turn to HP-UX where you'll get about twice the processing power of a Sun box at the same price.
Music is more "simple math" or "arithmetic" than algebra.
from yourdictionary.com:
arithmetic : a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them b : a treatise on arithmetic
algebra : a generalization of arithmetic in which letters representing numbers are combined according to the rules of arithmetic.
A quarter note = X BPMs (Beats per minutes), ie a quarter note = 60 BPM is 1 beat per second. (This is the closest you get to algebra.) From there it's division and multiplication. (arithmetic.)
I aced algebra, but I failed "discrete math" twice in a row. Now this could be becuase this course was only offered after lunch... and my lunch at the time was a 6-pack of beer...
This was supposed to be a "gateway" to computer science thinking. And I have a career as a CS cat, but when 2 times 1 = 97 in a particular universe of discourse it's meaningless...
(Oh yeah, and alebra was a prerequisite of this course.)
A libary is however a public entity and I don't really see a problem with records being public for that matter.
If the records are public, why then can only the FBI look at those "public records" and not tell the rest of us (public) what those records are or how they used them?
According to the NPR story the FBI doesn't even tell the Library what they did and returned the computers repartitioned, again not telling the Library, much less the public, what they did.
NASA was formed to one up the Russians, not to do scientific research.
From http://history.nasa.gov/brief.html
"... Formed as a result of the Sputnik crisis of confidence, NASA inherited the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other government organizations, and almost immediately began working on options for human space flight...."
Every movie with some sort of action scene since "The Matrix" has used their own version of "Bullet Time" and this is no exception. Will it ever stop?!? I guess this is now a must-do... Hollywood has taken the red pill. The first time was cool, but now it's just a cliche.
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More like trying to hide from echelon.
Oh yeah... it runs linux.
It's Maxey Flats, KY.
(Poster then continues on to educate Slashdot readers on the "real" legal facts...)
Thanks for your legal advice!
That's why I'm on the internet to begin with... so I DON'T have to interact with other people. (Well, except for slashdot.)
Not if they don't know about it. Not if they (or you) don't care about it. If you want to leave something behind, please be conspicuous about it. If you really want your "data" to live beyond your life don't hide it behind a password.
The only "data" that I've created that I wish to live on after I'm gone is comprised of sound -- primarily musical -- recordings. Many of them are digital in origin. I have many recordings that reside on my hard disk in my Linux box. (Unfinished compositions, musical fragments, lack-luster performances, etc... If my descendants can crack the password good for them, but I doubt they will try so I don't "bank" on this "data" becoming available to those other than myself.)
If I were to be hit by the proverbial "beer truck" today my benefactors will find my collections of recordings on Cd's (and some tapes that are considered secondary to my Cd's) with pertinent documentation attached to each recording. (Many duplicates exist on minidisc. These recordings can be accessed without a password but who would want to go through that entire collection?) Of course there will come a day when Cd's won't be the medium of choice. When that day comes -- and if I declare the recordings worthy of living beyond my body -- I will transfer them to the medium of choice at the time.
Leave that which you want to be found in plain sight; that which you do not, leave to obscurity.
To the best of my knowledge wills and the like can't be submitted with password protection.
I understand that the audience here at slashdot.org is primarily comprised of "techies," but is the most significant thing that you -- even as a techie/scientist/nerd/whatever -- will or want to leave behind is some (encrypted) "data" protected by passwords? I hope to do more than "create data" while I'm here on this planet. I sincerely hope there is more to life than this. (Maybe I'm in for a rude awakening. Yesterdays chop wood and carry water could be today's program computer, execute program.)
Forget my passwords and forget my data, remember (your relationship with) me.
From CAPPS II: Myths and Facts:
The facts are scarier than the myths, in my opinion. (If nothing else the trend is scary.)
"CAPPS II modernizes an existing program that was created in 1997 as an additional measure to help prevent a terrorist attack on passenger aircraft."
Notice the term "modernize." (CAPPS was rolled out in 1997, and look at it now in 2004. What will it look like in 2010?)
"CAPPS II will not use data mining techniques to profile and track citizens. Except for the slightly expanded Passenger Name Record (PNR) data that air carriers and reservation systems will collect, CAPPS II will not collect additional personal information about the traveler."
Notice the term "expanded". What other information will be included when the PNR is "expanded" or "modernized" again in a few years?
"(2) CAPPS II also performs a risk assessment, including a check against lists of terrorists and known or suspected threats, to detect individuals who may pose a terrorist-related threat or who have outstanding Federal or state warrants for crimes of violence."
Notice the term "suspected." Suspicion: "The act or an instance of suspecting something wrong without proof or on slight evidence."
"Once the system has computed a traveler's risk score, it will send an encoded message to be printed on the boarding pass indicating the appropriate level of screening. Eventually, this information is planned to be transmitted directly to screeners at security checkpoints."
Be on the lookout for "Earchsay isthay erroristtay umscay agbay" on your boarding pass!
I can't wait until they modernize and expand the Patriot Act. Scary stuff. Also I'm looking forward to an expanded, modernized CAPPS III. (Coming soon to automobiles, buses, subways, and sidewalks near you!) Nothing to hide, nothing to Fear, right? Well, nothing to hide today, but maybe much to fear in the future.
Sue Thomas would be proud. (And I'm sure Levi would be as well.)
J.The whole front page of SCO's website is dedictated to the virus. If you were running SCO you wouldn't have this problem, so why is it freatured on their website? Probably just fodder for the next lawsuit is my guess.
J.
> This in no way limits your privacy your rights or anything else.
Not until the FBI comes to said company under some new "Patriot/Homeland Security" law and demands the palm/finger prints of all of its employees.
Yeah, no effect to privacy at all.
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You can also turn to HP-UX where you'll get about twice the processing power of a Sun box at the same price.
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
Music is more "simple math" or "arithmetic" than algebra.
from yourdictionary.com:
arithmetic : a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them b : a treatise on arithmetic
algebra : a generalization of arithmetic in which letters representing numbers are combined according to the rules of arithmetic.
A quarter note = X BPMs (Beats per minutes), ie a quarter note = 60 BPM is 1 beat per second. (This is the closest you get to algebra.) From there it's division and multiplication. (arithmetic.)
8th notes = quarter notes/2.
16th notes = quarter notes/4 or 8th notes/2.
A dotted quarter note = 1.5 times a quarter note
A dotted 8th = an 8th note times 1.5, etc.
Not so much algebra as simple math or arithmetic.
Actually music is much more complex (listen to jazz) but music notation is definitely math based, but not really algebra.
J.
I aced algebra, but I failed "discrete math" twice in a row. Now this could be becuase this course was only offered after lunch... and my lunch at the time was a 6-pack of beer...
This was supposed to be a "gateway" to computer science thinking. And I have a career as a CS cat, but when 2 times 1 = 97 in a particular universe of discourse it's meaningless...
(Oh yeah, and alebra was a prerequisite of this course.)
Bah.
If the records are public, why then can only the FBI look at those "public records" and not tell the rest of us (public) what those records are or how they used them?
According to the NPR story the FBI doesn't even tell the Library what they did and returned the computers repartitioned, again not telling the Library, much less the public, what they did.
These are not "public records."
1984 has come and gone my friends.
NASA was formed to one up the Russians, not to do scientific research.
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From http://history.nasa.gov/brief.html
"... Formed as a result of the Sputnik crisis of confidence, NASA inherited the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other government organizations, and almost immediately began working on options for human space flight.
Every movie with some sort of action scene since "The Matrix" has used their own version of "Bullet Time" and this is no exception. Will it ever stop?!? I guess this is now a must-do... Hollywood has taken the red pill. The first time was cool, but now it's just a cliche.
J.