Yeah, I agree. If what they were saying about "some rich mega-billionaire wants to 'own' Wikipedia" , and will do anything (including having their lackies putting articles in the LA Times to get people used to the idea), then I'm sure we'll see a large proportion of the community swayed by this, and the others will possibly fork it, but Wikipedia already have the branding.
Interestingly, when I ran the concept of "Richard Branson's Virgin company owning Wikipedia" past a colleague, they thought it was a great idea as it gives this 'community driven website full of errors' some legitimacy.
It scares the hell out of me. I'd like to see Wikipedia remain free, 'open source' and without corporate overlords. - Perhaps all this fuss about the 'elite of wikipedia' has been seeded by them so the community will welcome a corporate overlord while making the inner circle of wikipedia very rich.....
It is all just aligning too nicely for it not to be driven by some clever marketing/business team. / tinfoil hat
If I want to purchase MP3 s legally online, I go to amazon.com, purchase the.mp3 file, and load it onto the player of my choice including ipods
Which might put Apple in an interesting anti-trust position when Amazon (or similar) write a 3rd party app (with the new SDK) for the iPhone which links directly to their Amazon sales portal. Will Apple block this app? Is that an anti-trust issue? Does this SDK mean the iPhone is now a 'platform' much like the PC, or a 'device' allowing Apple to rule it in total?
(I cant take credit for this idea, as I heard it on This Week In Tech this morning - just repeating it for all y'all.)
I'm not disagreeing that it's a bit tinfoil-hattish to protect the information, but there's no reason to provide it either. It serves no purpose for people who don't belong there in the first place and people who do belong there can get the information from the correct source.
Agree 100%. Also, to back up your last comment, they actually publish this newcomers guide (PDF) which has more than enough info to help a terrorist social engineer their way inside, as well as maps of buildings etc.... and its from the source itself!
think of the long term strategic advantage gained by targeting a particular area there. One school perhaps, that covers a particular asian or middle eastern language. You can hamper intelligence collection significantly by one well placed attack.
This... article explains that we too often fall for protecting ourselves from our fears, when it is actually quite irrational based on the probability of what you've suggested.
And we're making it harder by disclosing more risks than ever to more people than ever. Not only does all of this disclosure make us feel helpless, but it also gives us ever more of those images and experiences that trigger the intuitive response without analytical rigor to override the fear.
Anyway, you don't need Google streetview. You can go straight to their website for driving directions and a advice on getting a visitor pass.
Concepts like Senator Storms should make her a dinosaur, but have seemingly allowed her to evolve and keep a job in politics.
And one day she will need a plumber/engineer/doctor/etc.. that cannot fix what needs fixing because they've spent their entire education studying religion, and not science...
If she is that keen on religious teachings, perhaps this might help her:
"Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." (I Timothy 2:11-14)
The difference is, I think, that security through diversification and outsourcing requires a fairly mature business environment with many players to choose from. If you're the bakery who's considering eliminating your delivery department and going with an outside vendor for that purpose, you'd want to make sure there were many choices of delivery services, so that you're not tied too closely to one. If lots of choices and diversity don't exist, it might make sense to keep it in-house.
Good insight and great comment and makes perfect sense. Incidentally, I'm trying to justify why our organization should keep a certain capability in house and I'd like to use exact argument. I don't suppose you know off the top of your head where this principle is explained in greater depth - academic papers or text book?
I'll be looking myself, but if you've got a reference, it would be appreciated.
Because the dark matter, by definition, is invisible to telescopes.....
Reminds me of a certain Red Dwarf episode (obviously discussing Black holes instead of Dark Matter):
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Rimmer: But five of them? Five massively collapsed stars, millions of miles across. How could you miss them?
Holly: It's typical, isn't it? You wait three million years with nothing, then five come along all at once.
I have to say, thanks for your reply. I've since been using dm-crypt on my two Ubuntu laptops (the full encrypted install) with hibernate mode set should the lid be closed. i.e someone unplugging it and walking out my house with it.
I can imagine many student houses with 4 or more people living there, assuming it takes a few months to get noticed and sent you first warning, another couple to get your second and another couple of months to get cut off, you could then sign up again under another name and go for another round...
And then have to resort to Identity Theft..... You see, just like the posts above said: p2p DOES lead to harder criminal stuff!!!
Like when your laptop is stolen while it's in sleep mode. This is rather a common situation.
Really? I thought most disk encryption software disabled suspend & hibernate modes specifically to prevent this. (Truecrypt/Ubuntu-dmcrypt to anyway.)
Goes back to the practice of unmounting encrypted partitions when they're not in use. Truecrypt file/folder encryption will do this for you in setting/preferences.
Next, you need to have a floppy, cdrom, or USB stick with your specially crafted OS on it and somehow get the system to reboot into that special OS (mind you at this point you probably don't know for sure if the laptop is using full disk encryption, or even what brand)
So simply setting the hard drive as the only boot device in BIOS, and password protecting BIOS could slow down the attacker enough. (they'd have to disasemble the laptop, reset the bios, reboot).
As someone pointed out to me a few days ago: Firewire (usually?) has DMA access, so it would be possible to interface the laptop via firewire and do a full memory dump. Then go to work on that to get the key. - requires physical access to the powered laptop of course. Of course, if you have no firewire devices you could have a script do a 'shutdown -H now' on detection of a firewire device.
Its like some really bad slasher flick where the bad guy just..... won't.... fucking.... die...., and the audience gets tired of all the inventive ways in which they are bought back to life....
Are you suggesting that visiting Slashdot and viewing the html source is breaking their copyright?
not at all. But copying all of slashdot to keep a record, is that not bordering on it? - well at least they'd try and accuse you of it....
either way, the other reply to my post (GP) answered it. - you don't need to. You just accuse them, and file for discovery afterward... or somesuch. (IANAL-AIDEPOOTV)
Slashdot Mirror
And interestingly, while a Lieutenant is lower in rank than a Major, a Lieutenant General is higher than a Major General.
I've always wondered who came up with such a confusing order....
IIRC RTFA is common. BTW, IANAL
Yeah, I agree. If what they were saying about "some rich mega-billionaire wants to 'own' Wikipedia" , and will do anything (including having their lackies putting articles in the LA Times to get people used to the idea), then I'm sure we'll see a large proportion of the community swayed by this, and the others will possibly fork it, but Wikipedia already have the branding.
Interestingly, when I ran the concept of "Richard Branson's Virgin company owning Wikipedia" past a colleague, they thought it was a great idea as it gives this 'community driven website full of errors' some legitimacy.
It scares the hell out of me. I'd like to see Wikipedia remain free, 'open source' and without corporate overlords. - Perhaps all this fuss about the 'elite of wikipedia' has been seeded by them so the community will welcome a corporate overlord while making the inner circle of wikipedia very rich.....
It is all just aligning too nicely for it not to be driven by some clever marketing/business team. / tinfoil hat
(I cant take credit for this idea, as I heard it on This Week In Tech this morning - just repeating it for all y'all.)
In today's news
"Microsoft releases open source operating system"
"Mans head explodes from intense confusion after reading news article about Microsoft releasing Open Source OS"
If she is that keen on religious teachings, perhaps this might help her:
awesome, cheers.
I'll be looking myself, but if you've got a reference, it would be appreciated.
It was the last part that freaked me out: "robots that will decide on where, when and who to kill, according to the professor "
I sure hope this professor is a nice person.
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Rimmer: But five of them? Five massively collapsed stars, millions of miles across. How could you miss them?
Holly: It's typical, isn't it? You wait three million years with nothing, then five come along all at once.
I have to say, thanks for your reply. I've since been using dm-crypt on my two Ubuntu laptops (the full encrypted install) with hibernate mode set should the lid be closed. i.e someone unplugging it and walking out my house with it.
Yes I think ISP's should block that too.
Goes back to the practice of unmounting encrypted partitions when they're not in use. Truecrypt file/folder encryption will do this for you in setting/preferences.
Then you start disassembling the laptop to reset the BIOS - or to pull the physical ram.
As someone pointed out to me a few days ago: Firewire (usually?) has DMA access, so it would be possible to interface the laptop via firewire and do a full memory dump. Then go to work on that to get the key. - requires physical access to the powered laptop of course. Of course, if you have no firewire devices you could have a script do a 'shutdown -H now' on detection of a firewire device.
The Defense Rests.
Its like some really bad slasher flick where the bad guy just..... won't.... fucking.... die...., and the audience gets tired of all the inventive ways in which they are bought back to life....
either way, the other reply to my post (GP) answered it. - you don't need to. You just accuse them, and file for discovery afterward.