That's all fine until anti-semitists use it to target Jews, or Christians use it to target Muslims, or radical Muslims to target Christians, or for corporations to wage commercial war - I think the point a lot of us are trying to make is that _no one_ should have this kind of power. It's important to have controls like the freedom of information act, but a database this wide covering so many people of normal citizenry is ludicrous.
My eeepc was a whole lot more useful once I got a different distro on it. Average Joe isn't going to feel comfortable installing linux on his own, editing boot records and reconfiguring this and that for three hours before the computer becomes useful. They want to hit a button and have a useful operating system in front of them.
That said, I've bought three eee's, one for me, my brother, and my wife. I've installed ubuntu and configured everything before giving them to the others, and they haven't had a problem since. My wife, who won't use windows because she's not used to it (she grew up with macs), says she likes ubuntu - I suspect her story would be different if she had to spend hours looking up instructions how to install it.
No, the fact of the matter is that Skype, when they stated that their software was encrypted end-to-end, lied. The question then remains, with the ongoing domestic spying operations in the United States, what is to keep software like Skype from applying such policies to all their closed-source software?
I think the poster's point is that Skype is enabling this behavior, and Skype, in case you haven't noticed, has a presence all over the world.
Judging from not only the votes in congress with respect to bills like the FISA Amendments Act, I would say that already, very few people care. The unfortunate reality I have found is that those of us truly concerned about these things represent a small percentage of the population.
For the most part, John Q. Public is happy to hand over their rights, and they _don't_ care - and I am scared.
The entire categorization schema that was in place was copyrighted by Nielsen and could not be used under our GFDL license.
the DMCA notice included at least the use of Nielsen's 'Designated Market Area' (DMA) classification system. As our Media market article says, Nielsen coined the term and holds a trademark on it. The takedown notice may have included more, but I think it is fairly clear that much at least was an issue. Hence
It looks like they used a categorizing scheme originally produced and copyrighted by Nielsen, which could warrant a legit takedown request - the complete takedown of the pages (especially such a large number of them), however, seems to be overkill.
That you can get a copyright on something like that, to me, seems ridiculous, but then again, I don't make money by selling people their own production numbers back to them.
Actually, that's not exactly true - the faster you go, the slope represents less of your total energy output - for example, a rider going 50 mph will burn roughly a cubed amount of additional energy per additional speed, whereas your energy gained due to slope is, at that point, negligible and increasing linearly.
Slope adds sin(atan(slope))*w as a parallel force to your vehicle, so for a slope of.01, you're talking about roughly 17 lbs of force for an average rider+machine. Compare that to the drag force at said speed, and you get the idea - it's not _that_ significant.
They are no less safe than uprights, so long as the rider is wary to wear reflective clothing, and to make sure to have proper reflection/lighting equipment on his/her vehicle...but you're right, we really need a good bike lane system for our city roadways.
Here in Athens, OH, they've just installed bike lanes on most of the city streets, and the number of cyclists around town has nearly tripled.
A state court recently upheld evidence in a case (I can't remember exactly when it was on Slashdot, but within the last month) in which a man stole information from a server and introduced it as evidence. If that's not enough legal precedent, then maybe a better route is to compare such a gathering of data to what happens to citizens by the NSA every day?
Actually, recumbents are just fine on hills, they just use different, rather untrained muscles - it takes time to get these into shape. Human power production and biomechanics are my area of study, and I've just finished a project developing a human-powered utility vehicle. It is truly amazing what you can do with 150 watts of power and some creative design.
I'd really like to see recumbents become more mainstream here in the US. They can make riding a lot more pleasant, and can make trips of up to 20-30 miles feasible for many people who thought otherwise. With the small market penetration though, they're in a vicious circle of high cost (typically >$1.5k). You can see my HPUV in action here.
This seems like an in-line move with the recent article about the international group working towards eliminating anonymity on the internet. How is this going to make things more secure? If I want to set off a bomb, I'm going to set off a bomb, with or without an open wireless router. Given the stated problem, this seems like an asinine response.
Congressmen aren't allowed to understand technology. For more information, Ted Stevens will be reachable at a federal penitentiary near you sometime soon.
Looking at what the phone companies have done post 9/11, I'd be very surprised if the government would have any trouble putting this type of thing through with major ISPs. Now they even have legal precedent to protect them.
I am a process engineer, and this can be a significant problem. I've seen large-scale equipment shut down because of computer viruses, much less full control exploits - the resulting cost to rush in an IT worker (not usually onsite) with a new box, the lost production time and resulting hash-over of the whole plant's network was astronomical, because a floor worker had figured out how to get into IE from the terminal, which was supposed to be disabled.
The implications of this may not be that far-reaching in terms of industrial loss, but with the myriad of different systems that could be conceivably controlled by the same workstation, there are definitely some scary possibilities. Frankly, though, if there were that many computers at risk, the security holes in Windows alone would have likely already resulted in their demise if they weren't behind a good firewall.
Can you imagine the scrutiny you'd be inviting to your doorstep if you were the first one to buy a setup like that? Not only that, but look at how difficult it has been to instigate widespread use of PGP -- it's growing (and fast!), especially with more user-friendly interfaces such as Ubuntu's, but the sad reality is that most people really don't care.
I ask the exact same question all the time, and from fellow slashdotters, you'll get a 'hear hear', but from John Q. Public, you're more likely to get a 'I prefer my false sense of security over your privacy rights'. Downright aggravating, I know.
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*that's ironic _source_*
Heh...this from the Australians who recently designed software to track file transmissions over the internet in the US, and are having problems of their own with censorship.
"Soap Box, Ballot Box, Ammo Box. Use in that order. Starting now."
That's all fine until anti-semitists use it to target Jews, or Christians use it to target Muslims, or radical Muslims to target Christians, or for corporations to wage commercial war - I think the point a lot of us are trying to make is that _no one_ should have this kind of power. It's important to have controls like the freedom of information act, but a database this wide covering so many people of normal citizenry is ludicrous.
My eeepc was a whole lot more useful once I got a different distro on it. Average Joe isn't going to feel comfortable installing linux on his own, editing boot records and reconfiguring this and that for three hours before the computer becomes useful. They want to hit a button and have a useful operating system in front of them.
That said, I've bought three eee's, one for me, my brother, and my wife. I've installed ubuntu and configured everything before giving them to the others, and they haven't had a problem since. My wife, who won't use windows because she's not used to it (she grew up with macs), says she likes ubuntu - I suspect her story would be different if she had to spend hours looking up instructions how to install it.
Next time you're watching a rugby match, let me know how many pounds are in a stone again.
How about Imogen Heap? Last I knew, she did her own producing.
No, the fact of the matter is that Skype, when they stated that their software was encrypted end-to-end, lied. The question then remains, with the ongoing domestic spying operations in the United States, what is to keep software like Skype from applying such policies to all their closed-source software?
I think the poster's point is that Skype is enabling this behavior, and Skype, in case you haven't noticed, has a presence all over the world.
Judging from not only the votes in congress with respect to bills like the FISA Amendments Act, I would say that already, very few people care. The unfortunate reality I have found is that those of us truly concerned about these things represent a small percentage of the population.
For the most part, John Q. Public is happy to hand over their rights, and they _don't_ care - and I am scared.
You forget that in the region where the disease is purported to have originated, homosexuality is, in many cases, punishable by death.
Yeah, but it doesn't mean the results are any less dubious :-D
Watch it, Nielsen apparently lays copyright claims to their 'facts' (somehow), and will send you a DMCA notice in 3...2...1...
Yeah, but with the LHC broken down, we won't have any of those handy for a few months yet.
The entire categorization schema that was in place was copyrighted by Nielsen and could not be used under our GFDL license.
the DMCA notice included at least the use of Nielsen's 'Designated Market Area' (DMA) classification system. As our Media market article says, Nielsen coined the term and holds a trademark on it. The takedown notice may have included more, but I think it is fairly clear that much at least was an issue. Hence
It looks like they used a categorizing scheme originally produced and copyrighted by Nielsen, which could warrant a legit takedown request - the complete takedown of the pages (especially such a large number of them), however, seems to be overkill.
That you can get a copyright on something like that, to me, seems ridiculous, but then again, I don't make money by selling people their own production numbers back to them.
Actually, that's not exactly true - the faster you go, the slope represents less of your total energy output - for example, a rider going 50 mph will burn roughly a cubed amount of additional energy per additional speed, whereas your energy gained due to slope is, at that point, negligible and increasing linearly.
.01, you're talking about roughly 17 lbs of force for an average rider+machine. Compare that to the drag force at said speed, and you get the idea - it's not _that_ significant.
Slope adds sin(atan(slope))*w as a parallel force to your vehicle, so for a slope of
They are no less safe than uprights, so long as the rider is wary to wear reflective clothing, and to make sure to have proper reflection/lighting equipment on his/her vehicle...but you're right, we really need a good bike lane system for our city roadways.
Here in Athens, OH, they've just installed bike lanes on most of the city streets, and the number of cyclists around town has nearly tripled.
A state court recently upheld evidence in a case (I can't remember exactly when it was on Slashdot, but within the last month) in which a man stole information from a server and introduced it as evidence. If that's not enough legal precedent, then maybe a better route is to compare such a gathering of data to what happens to citizens by the NSA every day?
Actually, recumbents are just fine on hills, they just use different, rather untrained muscles - it takes time to get these into shape. Human power production and biomechanics are my area of study, and I've just finished a project developing a human-powered utility vehicle. It is truly amazing what you can do with 150 watts of power and some creative design.
I'd really like to see recumbents become more mainstream here in the US. They can make riding a lot more pleasant, and can make trips of up to 20-30 miles feasible for many people who thought otherwise. With the small market penetration though, they're in a vicious circle of high cost (typically >$1.5k). You can see my HPUV in action here.
You're the first one to get that right in the several years it's been my sig! Other acceptable answers would have been 42, "Ni" or Bangkok, Thailand.
Makes you wonder about the kind of society America has become.
There, fixed that for you.
This seems like an in-line move with the recent article about the international group working towards eliminating anonymity on the internet. How is this going to make things more secure? If I want to set off a bomb, I'm going to set off a bomb, with or without an open wireless router. Given the stated problem, this seems like an asinine response.
Congressmen aren't allowed to understand technology. For more information, Ted Stevens will be reachable at a federal penitentiary near you sometime soon.
Looking at what the phone companies have done post 9/11, I'd be very surprised if the government would have any trouble putting this type of thing through with major ISPs. Now they even have legal precedent to protect them.
I am a process engineer, and this can be a significant problem. I've seen large-scale equipment shut down because of computer viruses, much less full control exploits - the resulting cost to rush in an IT worker (not usually onsite) with a new box, the lost production time and resulting hash-over of the whole plant's network was astronomical, because a floor worker had figured out how to get into IE from the terminal, which was supposed to be disabled.
The implications of this may not be that far-reaching in terms of industrial loss, but with the myriad of different systems that could be conceivably controlled by the same workstation, there are definitely some scary possibilities. Frankly, though, if there were that many computers at risk, the security holes in Windows alone would have likely already resulted in their demise if they weren't behind a good firewall.
Can you imagine the scrutiny you'd be inviting to your doorstep if you were the first one to buy a setup like that? Not only that, but look at how difficult it has been to instigate widespread use of PGP -- it's growing (and fast!), especially with more user-friendly interfaces such as Ubuntu's, but the sad reality is that most people really don't care.
I ask the exact same question all the time, and from fellow slashdotters, you'll get a 'hear hear', but from John Q. Public, you're more likely to get a 'I prefer my false sense of security over your privacy rights'. Downright aggravating, I know.