This is correct. Tor has the ability to "anonymously" host tor-network-only sites and services.
And yes, Tor is pretty much just a multi-layered proxy (and is thus an "onion router"). Tor doesn't encrypt traffic on it's own at the source or destination, and you generally need to use Tor along with something like Privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) in order for it to be useful for surfing.
So... instead of using wifi and GPS for pinpoint accurate pinpoint awareness, Microsoft's answer is of course the less efficient and error prone one: nothing but image recognition. How will this perform in low light conditions or areas that haven't been previously photographed and added to the database?
I already have Wikitude on my Android phone and it's outstanding, so I don't see a breakthrough or any innovation here. Just another example of MS doing things the harder, slower, more error-prone way and calling it "innovation."
I'll second (or maybe 5th, since I've seen other posts above) Evernote - http://www.evernote.com/
"But Thumbtack developers think their service has a difference."
Yeah, MS always says that when they're 2+ years late to the idea party.
Evernote is super simple, syncs to my machine for offline access, has mobile access, takes input from photos (the iSight on my MacBook is great for this), accepts new items via email so I can email cell phone pics or notes... and it has built-in OCR on every item.
For most users, this is all well and good. For anyone with large amounts of data it's pointless.
Only updates files that have changed? OK. In the last 24 hours, the file weight of items I've changed is over 650mb. And it's the weekend, I'm barely working.
I've tried Mozy and Jungle Disk. Even after waiting for a decade for the 1st load to get onto the server, my nightly backups still aren't finished by the time I start work again in the morning. That's no good, which is why I say that remote over-the-net storage for large amounts of data is not practical.
Two 1TB hard drives thrown into Firewire enclosures. One stays in a fireproof disk safe at my office, the second goes into a safety deposit box across town. I flip-flop the drives every month, both of which are a mirror of a "live" disk running on my primary workstation.
I'm a freelance graphic designer, my client files end up getting massive. 300 to 600 to 1200 dpi images, multi-layer PSD's in multiple stages of revision, complete bundles of print-ready pieces, digital art with file sized upwards of 300mb each... I only retain client data on a "live" disk for a year, then it gets archived. After 3 years, some if not most of that data gets purged. 500 gig really isn't that much when you consider files types other than text data.
For any large amount of data, S3 or Mozy or Gmail will NOT work. It's not practical to spend a month to upload just one interation of your data to these services.
Storing critical or even mildly important data only in your house or office is just stupid. Fire, theft, flood, earthquake... any calamity will eat your data and there's nothing you can do. Planning to grab your hard drive on the way out of the house in the event of a fire is pretty short-sighted and unrealistic. If you're fighting to breathe or save your kids from burning to death, you are NOT going to waste time yanknig hard drives out of your computer. Further, if you're not home (which is more likely) your brilliant plan is useless.
High capacity hard drives are cheap. External enclosures are cheap. Don't rely on loading one up and forgetting about it for 5 years because it's likely to fail. Someone above said to keep your data "hot", and you should. Get into a routine and cycle your drives monthly, semi-annually or annually.
Mozy is great... until you get into large amounts of data. Uploading > 500 gig to Mozy will take a freaking month just for one cycle so you can forget about recurring and timely backups. Same for Amazon S3 or any other over-the-net remote storage.
You have 4 boxes and all of the peripherals needed to run them. You're not just archiving data, you're archiving hardware. Great for some, but pretty impractical for most.
Granted, it's not all personal per se, but I have well over 500 gig of data that needs to be backed up and archived. I'm a freelance graphic designer, my client files end up getting massive. 300 to 600 dpi images, multi-layer PSD's in multiple stages of revision... It's massive.
I only retain client data on a "live" disk for a year, then it goes into storage. After 3 years, some if not most of that data gets purged.
500 gig really isn't that much when you consider files types other than text data.
I'm very confident in this setup, also because I can yank out my drives in under 30 seconds in case of fire...
That requires you to be home. Utterly useless in the event of theft, or any other calamity while you're away - which is the most likely time for such things to happen.
500 gig of data on Gmail? For small amounts of data, sure, but not for anything substantial.
Further, Gmail is not and should not be relied upon as a long-term storage space. It's still just a free account on a service that's still "beta" with no guarantee whatsoever that data will be retained.
Comast has restricted groups for some time, and we all knew that this total shutoff of Usenet for Comcast was coming sooner or later. So what? Comcast's stripped down Usenet was practically useless anyway.
Use a service like Easynews.com for Usenet instead. I've been with them for years and they're great.
Although it'll never happen, Thomas Jefferson had it right 221 years ago:
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty....
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
You're totally forgetting the most important reason to jailbreak an iPhone (from my perspective, at least) - being able to use an iPhone some network other than AT&T.
I don't use AT&T, I'm happy with my current provider and refuse to change providers just for the iPhone. So, jailbreaking the 3G is still very much relevant, and will continue to be as long as Apple forces the use of AT&T.
"...there is only one operating system to use if you are dependent on Microsoft apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel"
Not quite. Word and Excel run beautifully in Wine on *nix, and with Google Docs and OpenOffice there's no need to be tied to MS Office at all. Outlook, on the other hand doesn't run to well in Wine, although there are loads of alternatives.
"...from delivering credible alternatives to Yahoo! and Google."
I find it a little hard to believe that Yahoo, especially in their current state, actually wants to encourage even more competition against themselves. I think the real target here is more competition for Google, not for Yahoo, and Yahoo seems OK with giving away their own tech if it helps knock Google down a few notches.
Undercover also runs as a root process so that the thief doesn't have to login in order to get his mugshot taken and info sent.
And, even more importantly, Undercover gives the thief no indication whatsoever that the iSight is in use, that pics have been take or data has been sent. Back to My Mac is seriously flawed in that it shows the Photo Booth countdown and gives all sorts of clues that it's taking photos.
Also, Undercover is fully automated so that you don't have to manually connect and take pics. You just have to report your Mac as stolen and they do the rest.
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Finally a material strong enough to build the ultimate Tilt-aWhirl
My inescapable train of thought while reading the summary:
Google Wave Federation.
Goole Wave?
Federation?
Genesis Wave.
KAAAAAHHHHHHN!!!!!
https isn't bullet-proof, and doesn't do a thing on its own to mask the source and destination of traffic. It only encrypts the traffic itself.
Those are hardly anonymous, as they still reveal your location, MAC address and a whole lot more.
Further, the aim here isn't just source anonymity (where you are), but also destination anonymity (the site/location you are sending data TO).
This is correct. Tor has the ability to "anonymously" host tor-network-only sites and services.
And yes, Tor is pretty much just a multi-layered proxy (and is thus an "onion router"). Tor doesn't encrypt traffic on it's own at the source or destination, and you generally need to use Tor along with something like Privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) in order for it to be useful for surfing.
So... instead of using wifi and GPS for pinpoint accurate pinpoint awareness, Microsoft's answer is of course the less efficient and error prone one: nothing but image recognition. How will this perform in low light conditions or areas that haven't been previously photographed and added to the database?
I already have Wikitude on my Android phone and it's outstanding, so I don't see a breakthrough or any innovation here. Just another example of MS doing things the harder, slower, more error-prone way and calling it "innovation."
I'll second (or maybe 5th, since I've seen other posts above) Evernote - http://www.evernote.com/
"But Thumbtack developers think their service has a difference."
Yeah, MS always says that when they're 2+ years late to the idea party.
Evernote is super simple, syncs to my machine for offline access, has mobile access, takes input from photos (the iSight on my MacBook is great for this), accepts new items via email so I can email cell phone pics or notes... and it has built-in OCR on every item.
For most users, this is all well and good. For anyone with large amounts of data it's pointless.
Only updates files that have changed? OK. In the last 24 hours, the file weight of items I've changed is over 650mb. And it's the weekend, I'm barely working.
I've tried Mozy and Jungle Disk. Even after waiting for a decade for the 1st load to get onto the server, my nightly backups still aren't finished by the time I start work again in the morning. That's no good, which is why I say that remote over-the-net storage for large amounts of data is not practical.
Two 1TB hard drives thrown into Firewire enclosures. One stays in a fireproof disk safe at my office, the second goes into a safety deposit box across town. I flip-flop the drives every month, both of which are a mirror of a "live" disk running on my primary workstation.
I'm a freelance graphic designer, my client files end up getting massive. 300 to 600 to 1200 dpi images, multi-layer PSD's in multiple stages of revision, complete bundles of print-ready pieces, digital art with file sized upwards of 300mb each...
I only retain client data on a "live" disk for a year, then it gets archived. After 3 years, some if not most of that data gets purged. 500 gig really isn't that much when you consider files types other than text data.
For any large amount of data, S3 or Mozy or Gmail will NOT work. It's not practical to spend a month to upload just one interation of your data to these services.
Storing critical or even mildly important data only in your house or office is just stupid. Fire, theft, flood, earthquake... any calamity will eat your data and there's nothing you can do. Planning to grab your hard drive on the way out of the house in the event of a fire is pretty short-sighted and unrealistic. If you're fighting to breathe or save your kids from burning to death, you are NOT going to waste time yanknig hard drives out of your computer. Further, if you're not home (which is more likely) your brilliant plan is useless.
High capacity hard drives are cheap. External enclosures are cheap. Don't rely on loading one up and forgetting about it for 5 years because it's likely to fail. Someone above said to keep your data "hot", and you should. Get into a routine and cycle your drives monthly, semi-annually or annually.
Mozy is great... until you get into large amounts of data. Uploading > 500 gig to Mozy will take a freaking month just for one cycle so you can forget about recurring and timely backups.
Same for Amazon S3 or any other over-the-net remote storage.
Simple?
You have 4 boxes and all of the peripherals needed to run them. You're not just archiving data, you're archiving hardware. Great for some, but pretty impractical for most.
Granted, it's not all personal per se, but I have well over 500 gig of data that needs to be backed up and archived. I'm a freelance graphic designer, my client files end up getting massive. 300 to 600 dpi images, multi-layer PSD's in multiple stages of revision... It's massive. I only retain client data on a "live" disk for a year, then it goes into storage. After 3 years, some if not most of that data gets purged. 500 gig really isn't that much when you consider files types other than text data.
How are you going to get power into that fireproof safe without compromising it's integrity and thus fire protection?
I'm very confident in this setup, also because I can yank out my drives in under 30 seconds in case of fire...
That requires you to be home. Utterly useless in the event of theft, or any other calamity while you're away - which is the most likely time for such things to happen.
500 gig of data on Gmail? For small amounts of data, sure, but not for anything substantial.
Further, Gmail is not and should not be relied upon as a long-term storage space. It's still just a free account on a service that's still "beta" with no guarantee whatsoever that data will be retained.
An "archival PC" - or anything else locally stored - is useless in the event of a fire, theft, flood or some other calamity.
Undercover, from Orbicule, has been doing something similar for Mac laptops for a long time:
http://www.orbicule.com/
I really like the disappear-while-scrolling "feature". Brilliant.
Comast has restricted groups for some time, and we all knew that this total shutoff of Usenet for Comcast was coming sooner or later.
So what? Comcast's stripped down Usenet was practically useless anyway.
Use a service like Easynews.com for Usenet instead. I've been with them for years and they're great.
Although it'll never happen, Thomas Jefferson had it right 221 years ago:
...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
You're totally forgetting the most important reason to jailbreak an iPhone (from my perspective, at least) - being able to use an iPhone some network other than AT&T.
I don't use AT&T, I'm happy with my current provider and refuse to change providers just for the iPhone. So, jailbreaking the 3G is still very much relevant, and will continue to be as long as Apple forces the use of AT&T.
"...there is only one operating system to use if you are dependent on Microsoft apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel"
Not quite. Word and Excel run beautifully in Wine on *nix, and with Google Docs and OpenOffice there's no need to be tied to MS Office at all. Outlook, on the other hand doesn't run to well in Wine, although there are loads of alternatives.
Does this mean we'll start seeing nano particles as a new form of free radicals, complete with store shelves full of "nano anti-oxidants"?
Great. What we really need is more snake oil pseudo-medicinal junk for sale, because clearly there isn't enough already.
"...from delivering credible alternatives to Yahoo! and Google."
I find it a little hard to believe that Yahoo, especially in their current state, actually wants to encourage even more competition against themselves. I think the real target here is more competition for Google, not for Yahoo, and Yahoo seems OK with giving away their own tech if it helps knock Google down a few notches.
Undercover also runs as a root process so that the thief doesn't have to login in order to get his mugshot taken and info sent.
And, even more importantly, Undercover gives the thief no indication whatsoever that the iSight is in use, that pics have been take or data has been sent. Back to My Mac is seriously flawed in that it shows the Photo Booth countdown and gives all sorts of clues that it's taking photos.
Also, Undercover is fully automated so that you don't have to manually connect and take pics. You just have to report your Mac as stolen and they do the rest.