My then 2-year-old daughter was subjected to a patdown by security at Frankfurt airport a few years ago. Granted, it was a flight to US, so perhaps they were following some sort of US rule - I can't tell. We were going from one terminal to another, possibly dedicated to US flights (or may be not).
Either way, it was done by a German policewoman (again, not sure who they are, it's been a while, but they did appear to have police uniforms). They patted down pretty much everyone, as far as I recall. 2 year old child was not exempt. Fortunately, my daughter is a calm type - but she was quite a bit surprised. Nothing like that happened to her before (or since) in any other airport, at least not yet.
With that, and my multiple similar own experiences at European airports and elsewhere, I am not quite sure what is so different in Europe in terms of personal privacy or freedom. That's not to say it is a good thing - quite the contrary. I just don't get where the "Europe is more free than US" sentiment comes from.
As a matter of fact, Apple is a much smaller danger to Internet freedom than Google. A person can easily avoid using Apple products or systems (and save a ton of money while doing so). They are popular, but surely not mandatory. It is trivial to buy hardware and software that is not made by Apple (and most of the world still does:) )
At the same time, it's very hard to escape Google tentacles. Large percentage of web sites (perhaps majority) use Google-provided webmaster tools to track visitors and send information back to Google. So, unless user employs fairly sophisticated tools and does so very consistently - the only way to avoid Google grasp is to use virtually no Internet at all (certainly not for web browsing of any kind). That's a pretty big threat if you ask me.
But hey, what's obvious facts vs. Sergey bashing some of his biggest competitors:)
Just because a host is not directly addressable does not mean it should not be able to actually communicate with hosts outside. But I certainly don't want it to be "visible" or known. Just like I don't want anyone to be able to tell by looking at my home from the outside what brand of refrigerator I have or what's in my stove or dishwasher (even though they are connected to public utilities too), I don't want anyone to be able to (easily, at least) tell what network-connected devices I am using in my home. It's a basic tenet of privacy and security. Providing any type of unique per-device addressing defies this objective.
Think of it in terms of real world addresses. My house has one, but not each bedroom or item of furnishing. They are "things within the house" and the only way someone gets to talk to them is by mailing a letter to "Attn. : Commode, John Doe, 123 Main st, New York, NY 10001".
In addition - I don't have any publicly accessible servers at home and do not plan to ever get such. My servers are hosted in a dedicated facility and have publicly addressable IPs (of course:) ).
At the same time, I am strongly opposed to all the possible devices on my home network being visible/enumarated by hosts they need to access on the public Internet. These devices are only for me to know, and I go to great lengths to make sure that externally all access from my home network appears uniform and indistinguishable (for example, right now my web browser tells this web site that I am running Firefox 3.0 on the same Windows XP box:), irrespective of which computer or device I am using). Try doing that *without* "shitty NAT":)
:) As one of the original authors of some of the software that makes this Internet run (you probably are using it too, at least indirectly) I have a vague idea:) Not every host is supposed to be addressable. There is a very specific reason private non-publicly-addressable subnet ranges were created, for example. So, your claims are false - you simply don't know what the Internet is "supposed" to be like.
Except some of us *like* NAT for the added privacy it provides. Personally, I'd be a lot more willing to switch to IPv6 once there is a workable NAT masquerading solution that lets me hide all my devices behind a single address
As an aside, Linux is no help here, the iptables authors are religiously opposed to it, last time I checked. FreeBSD might work out in the end - we'll see. Once I can get this solution to run on a wifi router (like I do now with dWRT) - it's a go:)
No, this ain't no "in soviet Russia" joke, though it could be I guess.
The best math textbooks I saw were the old soviet math school textbooks. They had one (1) textbook for a given grade for the entire country. It was the same book, with minimal adaptations and changes year after year. These books covered science without any "added sugar" - and they worked. Of course, none of that exists anymore - but that's a whole another story.
In any case, this is one field where open source and competition will likely result in more of what we already have. Central planning fails at delivering consumer goods and services, but it worked quite well delivering scientific education.
Am I the only one whose first thought after reading the summary was - "man, that's a ton of greenhouse gas emissions and wasted fossil fuel for a joyride"?
From both personal experience and experience of those people I know socially (but not necessarily professionally) I see that, at least as of right now, finding a software development position that pays well (i.e. $150K) is quite doable, and age does not seem to be much of a handicap if any.
I am not a "young grad". I've been working in this field for 20 years. Anecdotally, my hairdresser keeps suggesting that I use hair color to hide gray hair (I figure - no one can be fooled that way, and I pretty much have to pour a bucket of paint over the head to "cover up", so why bother).
Even so, I've had a few offers just recently that were well in realm of what an experienced engineer could/should make. Curiously, some (all?) of the companies that made these offers also had outsourced development centers, along with those in US. I also know of a number of engineers who made employment changes in the recent past, including someone who is almost 60 y/o, and found position in the Bay area.
Personally, based on both my experience and discussion here, I feel that there are opposing forces at play at any time (i.e. "w need cheap graduate" vs. "we need an experienced guy"), and on the balance both groups encounter challenges and success in employment search approximately on par.
Megaupload was one of a few (3-4) sites where a cracked copy of my software product was uploaded. They were extremely slow in responding to DMCA request and clearly had interest in continuously providing an obviously illegally obtained copy of the software (because they make money from download fees, essentially re-selling content without paying me). I don't care much for Hollywood, but I do care about software I spend 24/7/365 writing and supporting.
I'll switch as soon as I find a viable NAT solution for IPv6. I *like* devices in my home network to be hidden behind a single IP address for privacy and convenience. I am not willing to allow these devices to use public IP.
I looked into this last year, and Linux was not a viable solution since current iptables developers are unwilling to provide IPv6 NAT for what can only be described as "religious" reasons (they know better what I need). FreeBSD provides rudimentary IPv6 NAT, but at the time it was not in a great shape.
Ideally, I'd prefer something built into DWRT or similar firmware, but will settle for anything else that I can make into a home router.
As soon as this is available, I am on IPv6 faster than you can say "switch"
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Because this is/. , reflexively anti-American regardless of right/wrong/otherwise. If it takes siding with Iran to stay the course, then so be it.
Not on iOS 4.3.3 - there is no such option here. So I can't turn off this "mis-feature" on my iPhone.
It seems Apple added it in iOS 5, and did so only after the public became somewhat aware of their diagnostic collection practices, as a measure of damage control perhaps?
Doesn't that mean that whoever has nukes here - can counteract any claim by other party on the moon, even if they themselves do not have the technology to actually go over there? I smell napalm.
Anyone can enter any phone number into donotcall.gov - yet no one seems to be particularly bothered. I am sure basic integrity checks (like requiring an email, and perhaps validating vs. known ssid) could be performed. However, once done - this method would be far superior. The current method is clearly just a sham. It's ok though - I own a few APs in different locations (states) and make sure to set the same MAC address on all of them.
So who owns the moon? I mean - will they have mineral rights licensed from someone? And is there an agreement as to who that might be? Sounds like a casus belli brewing.
Why not allow users to enter their MAC address on something like donottrack.google.com - and remove AP from their database based on the entered information? That would be a proper method, that would work instantly, rather than relying on periodic rescan of your general vicinity. It would also avoid having to reconfigure every computer, wireless printer and other devices on the network, having a ridiculous looking SSID and general douchebaggery.
mod this up. the "article" is a complete hog-wash. if anything, author just wanted to show-off a shiny new word he found, and do it in a way that attracts attention
Mod this up. Ghostery is the answer. They deterministically block 100s of trackers (by essentially refusing to load javascript/pages/what have you from their sites/of specific appearance etc). Blocks KISSmetrics just fine. Nothing to see here.
I thought they were throttling me ever since I got the contract. How else would you explain the lethargic data rates I am getting - what feels like 56Kbit modem or less. Oh, wait, someone can download too much data at those speeds and they'll throttle them *even more*? Oh, the humanity.
If government was doing this - it'd be an outcry of "oh, the privacy". Hackers - "cool stuff". I don't like these guys any more than I like the government and don't trust them any further than I could throw them.
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My then 2-year-old daughter was subjected to a patdown by security at Frankfurt airport a few years ago. Granted, it was a flight to US, so perhaps they were following some sort of US rule - I can't tell. We were going from one terminal to another, possibly dedicated to US flights (or may be not).
Either way, it was done by a German policewoman (again, not sure who they are, it's been a while, but they did appear to have police uniforms). They patted down pretty much everyone, as far as I recall. 2 year old child was not exempt. Fortunately, my daughter is a calm type - but she was quite a bit surprised. Nothing like that happened to her before (or since) in any other airport, at least not yet.
With that, and my multiple similar own experiences at European airports and elsewhere, I am not quite sure what is so different in Europe in terms of personal privacy or freedom. That's not to say it is a good thing - quite the contrary. I just don't get where the "Europe is more free than US" sentiment comes from.
And don't get me started on CCTV in UK.
As a matter of fact, Apple is a much smaller danger to Internet freedom than Google. :) )
A person can easily avoid using Apple products or systems (and save a ton of money while doing so). They are popular, but surely not mandatory. It is trivial to buy hardware and software that is not made by Apple (and most of the world still does
At the same time, it's very hard to escape Google tentacles. Large percentage of web sites (perhaps majority) use Google-provided webmaster tools to track visitors and send information back to Google. So, unless user employs fairly sophisticated tools and does so very consistently - the only way to avoid Google grasp is to use virtually no Internet at all (certainly not for web browsing of any kind). That's a pretty big threat if you ask me.
But hey, what's obvious facts vs. Sergey bashing some of his biggest competitors :)
Just because a host is not directly addressable does not mean it should not be able to actually communicate with hosts outside. But I certainly don't want it to be "visible" or known.
Just like I don't want anyone to be able to tell by looking at my home from the outside what brand of refrigerator I have or what's in my stove or dishwasher (even though they are connected to public utilities too), I don't want anyone to be able to (easily, at least) tell what network-connected devices I am using in my home. It's a basic tenet of privacy and security. Providing any type of unique per-device addressing defies this objective.
Think of it in terms of real world addresses. My house has one, but not each bedroom or item of furnishing. They are "things within the house" and the only way someone gets to talk to them is by mailing a letter to "Attn. : Commode, John Doe, 123 Main st, New York, NY 10001".
In addition - I don't have any publicly accessible servers at home and do not plan to ever get such. My servers are hosted in a dedicated facility and have publicly addressable IPs (of course :) ).
At the same time, I am strongly opposed to all the possible devices on my home network being visible/enumarated by hosts they need to access on the public Internet. These devices are only for me to know, and I go to great lengths to make sure that externally all access from my home network appears uniform and indistinguishable (for example, right now my web browser tells this web site that I am running Firefox 3.0 on the same Windows XP box :), irrespective of which computer or device I am using). Try doing that *without* "shitty NAT" :)
:) As one of the original authors of some of the software that makes this Internet run (you probably are using it too, at least indirectly) I have a vague idea :)
Not every host is supposed to be addressable. There is a very specific reason private non-publicly-addressable subnet ranges were created, for example. So, your claims are false - you simply don't know what the Internet is "supposed" to be like.
Except some of us *like* NAT for the added privacy it provides. Personally, I'd be a lot more willing to switch to IPv6 once there is a workable NAT masquerading solution that lets me hide all my devices behind a single address
As an aside, Linux is no help here, the iptables authors are religiously opposed to it, last time I checked. FreeBSD might work out in the end - we'll see. Once I can get this solution to run on a wifi router (like I do now with dWRT) - it's a go :)
No, this ain't no "in soviet Russia" joke, though it could be I guess.
The best math textbooks I saw were the old soviet math school textbooks. They had one (1) textbook for a given grade for the entire country. It was the same book, with minimal adaptations and changes year after year. These books covered science without any "added sugar" - and they worked. Of course, none of that exists anymore - but that's a whole another story.
In any case, this is one field where open source and competition will likely result in more of what we already have. Central planning fails at delivering consumer goods and services, but it worked quite well delivering scientific education.
Funny, I meant the private jet ride to view the launch :) But the actual launch will do too :)
Am I the only one whose first thought after reading the summary was - "man, that's a ton of greenhouse gas emissions and wasted fossil fuel for a joyride"?
What if French/Indian relationship goes bad? How's that different? :)
From both personal experience and experience of those people I know socially (but not necessarily professionally) I see that, at least as of right now, finding a software development position that pays well (i.e. $150K) is quite doable, and age does not seem to be much of a handicap if any.
I am not a "young grad". I've been working in this field for 20 years. Anecdotally, my hairdresser keeps suggesting that I use hair color to hide gray hair (I figure - no one can be fooled that way, and I pretty much have to pour a bucket of paint over the head to "cover up", so why bother).
Even so, I've had a few offers just recently that were well in realm of what an experienced engineer could/should make. Curiously, some (all?) of the companies that made these offers also had outsourced development centers, along with those in US. I also know of a number of engineers who made employment changes in the recent past, including someone who is almost 60 y/o, and found position in the Bay area.
Personally, based on both my experience and discussion here, I feel that there are opposing forces at play at any time (i.e. "w need cheap graduate" vs. "we need an experienced guy"), and on the balance both groups encounter challenges and success in employment search approximately on par.
:) Funny, you are very close on most counts :) Good one :)
Megaupload was one of a few (3-4) sites where a cracked copy of my software product was uploaded. They were extremely slow in responding to DMCA request and clearly had interest in continuously providing an obviously illegally obtained copy of the software (because they make money from download fees, essentially re-selling content without paying me). I don't care much for Hollywood, but I do care about software I spend 24/7/365 writing and supporting.
I'll switch as soon as I find a viable NAT solution for IPv6. I *like* devices in my home network to be hidden behind a single IP address for privacy and convenience. I am not willing to allow these devices to use public IP.
I looked into this last year, and Linux was not a viable solution since current iptables developers are unwilling to provide IPv6 NAT for what can only be described as "religious" reasons (they know better what I need). FreeBSD provides rudimentary IPv6 NAT, but at the time it was not in a great shape.
Ideally, I'd prefer something built into DWRT or similar firmware, but will settle for anything else that I can make into a home router.
As soon as this is available, I am on IPv6 faster than you can say "switch"
Because this is /. , reflexively anti-American regardless of right/wrong/otherwise. If it takes siding with Iran to stay the course, then so be it.
Not on iOS 4.3.3 - there is no such option here. So I can't turn off this "mis-feature" on my iPhone.
It seems Apple added it in iOS 5, and did so only after the public became somewhat aware of their diagnostic collection practices, as a measure of damage control perhaps?
Doesn't that mean that whoever has nukes here - can counteract any claim by other party on the moon, even if they themselves do not have the technology to actually go over there? I smell napalm.
Anyone can enter any phone number into donotcall.gov - yet no one seems to be particularly bothered.
I am sure basic integrity checks (like requiring an email, and perhaps validating vs. known ssid) could be performed. However, once done - this method would be far superior.
The current method is clearly just a sham. It's ok though - I own a few APs in different locations (states) and make sure to set the same MAC address on all of them.
So who owns the moon? I mean - will they have mineral rights licensed from someone? And is there an agreement as to who that might be? Sounds like a casus belli brewing.
Why not allow users to enter their MAC address on something like donottrack.google.com - and remove AP from their database based on the entered information? That would be a proper method, that would work instantly, rather than relying on periodic rescan of your general vicinity. It would also avoid having to reconfigure every computer, wireless printer and other devices on the network, having a ridiculous looking SSID and general douchebaggery.
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mod this up. the "article" is a complete hog-wash. if anything, author just wanted to show-off a shiny new word he found, and do it in a way that attracts attention
Mod this up. Ghostery is the answer. They deterministically block 100s of trackers (by essentially refusing to load javascript/pages/what have you from their sites/of specific appearance etc).
Blocks KISSmetrics just fine. Nothing to see here.
I thought they were throttling me ever since I got the contract. How else would you explain the lethargic data rates I am getting - what feels like 56Kbit modem or less. Oh, wait, someone can download too much data at those speeds and they'll throttle them *even more*? Oh, the humanity.
If government was doing this - it'd be an outcry of "oh, the privacy". Hackers - "cool stuff".
I don't like these guys any more than I like the government and don't trust them any further than I could throw them.