SSH, you might be telling the emperor he has no clothes!
How hard is it to let the computer work using the offline copy of the actual software, and then simply realtime-save documents online (unless the Advanced Mode Opt Out is chosen)?
Does no one see the problem with "let's charge by the megabyte" merged with "we'll burn your cap pushing software internal data"?
Is it time for us to get out the Total Recall movie where some tycoon charges for air?
(Joke) I'm really starting to think the Year of the Linux Desktop will be like 2017, as a rebellion against the Now-Rainy Cloud. Take back your work! Use Linux! (/Joke)
I'm pessimistically betting they will. Why? Because Control is Fun! To me this looks like the fabled Trusted Computing, where trust means trusting the vendor and not you.
The less active stuff you do with your machine the more you can be a nice media consumer paying by the megabyte of streamed video.
Last I recall my contract law class, the elements of a contract are Offer Acceptance Consideration Capacity (mental) to enter a contract and - Legality of the Contract.
You can't enter a "Valid" contract for something illegal. That's why you see the clause that says if somehow one clause winds up illegal it doesn't squash the entire rest of the terms.
Everything on the web gets a Numerical Rating! Some people may get a +2. Spinal Tap gets +11. The RPG groups will have a field day with this. Haxxr0z will write loops to add +1 by bots. This will force a Captcha to slow the bots down.
CC companies are sneaky to be sure, but they do serve a purpose - they're a hedge against short term super-crunches. That's the real problem in society - a giant tragedy of the commons type thing (slight off, but I don't know the correct term). What I mean is that when landlords and mortgagers force a certain price for housing, while other companies force down wages, citizens get caught in a colossal game of musical chairs until they just can't hold on.
This first shows up as a micro-crunch - being 12 days short of being able to pay rent is enough for people to lose their homes. Voila Overdraft Protection. The unfortunate part is that once they're in the red, people aren't yet trained to eat bread and butter and 3-day cheese for 8 days straight to catch up to neutral, so THAT's when they get cooked with a balance that never dies.
Actually I'm having real trouble deciding why this is "morally wrong" or even "creepy" (which is the underhanded way of saying the same thing.) I see it as just another right to be negotiated.
Music Mashups are a vital creative flow - so why does it suddenly become "morally wrong" when it's a Visual Mashup? We all know the Character is (not supposed to be) the Actor. Go Go Hannibal Lector!
I'd call this just another case of the Uncanny Valley. After all, for the new Tron movie they needed a young version of a character, so they did almost exactly this - recreated him entirely in CGI. But it's Disney! So no moral problems there!
Discussion burst into flames when Ubuntu decided to switch its interface from Gnome to Unity. As a former windows user I went to right click everything in Gnome but none of the features were there. I never knew I was capable of that sort of pain, and one day I was some upset that I came home and kicked my dog. I tried to go online to buy the complete Beethoven Symphonies but in the Gnome copy of my browser it doesn't line up right so I misclicked and ended up with a mashup of music by Justin Bieber set to pictures of Tiffany, still sobbing for her pet rabbit, being contaminated... there shouldn't even have been any radioactive material IN a children's video.
To console myself I turned on the news whereupon the lead story was how Julian Assange was locked in a cage with a live bobcat and being sucked into the trans dimensional vortex of multinational politics.
Wow. Too smart for a FP but seriously skewed in some direction I can't fathom...
If the account is not sold, there's no way to judge fair market price... but even then at least per US tax law last I looked you can gift an asset to someone and then they pay no tax on it.
Then you go on to more adventures, but I'll stop here before I get deafened by whoosh because I'm sure you meant to be funny.
Per Yahoo they're on their secondary level false denial now, just to keep up appearances. If this were really the greatest security breach in 5 years they would have made this Code Purple and pulverized Wikileaks. But no, they're whining in slow motion about "going to mount investigations" despite having all five lead players in hand.
I repeat an earlier remark, that this is total Platypus Shit, hoping the chemical composition of such might slow down amateur forensics by a week.
Come on, really now, they already said the major players fed it to newspapers months ago "so they could study it".
Seriously, something is way fishy here. Combining a couple parts of other slashdot stories earlier:
Are they seriously saying that half or more of this wasn't public knowledge in the spy community already? Just as a fictional example, couldn't James Bond have dug this info out of people? Are they seriously saying document security was so good this hasn't already trickled around at the cable level?
Are they seriously saying they couldn't do anything to stop this? Screw making Assange a marytr, doesn't that level of Ops kill for a living?
Someone else brought up the Copyright Defense. Wouldn't this be releasing copyrighted info to the tune of 11.6 Billion in fines at the going rate?
What's up with the multi-month head start to the newspapers - "Here's the story that makes Old Media a hero - wanna bid on the exclusives?"
No, this is just a Mikhail Tal grade chess move. So full of quadra twists absolutely everyone misses the real point. If this is so unstoppable a leak, is that the quarterfinal push to shut down the net as we know it?
Slashdot Mirror
Now it says:
Chrome
You deserve a Chrome notebook.
Thank you for your interest. The form you are trying to access has either expired or reached its maximum registration limit.
However, there is one Riddle who shall not be named.
Yeah, is that another easter egg?
I really wanna know who's behind that email address!
SSH, you might be telling the emperor he has no clothes!
How hard is it to let the computer work using the offline copy of the actual software, and then simply realtime-save documents online (unless the Advanced Mode Opt Out is chosen)?
Does no one see the problem with "let's charge by the megabyte" merged with "we'll burn your cap pushing software internal data"?
Is it time for us to get out the Total Recall movie where some tycoon charges for air?
(Joke) I'm really starting to think the Year of the Linux Desktop will be like 2017, as a rebellion against the Now-Rainy Cloud. Take back your work! Use Linux! (/Joke)
They're in all the Java update wizards for one.
So can we jai - unlock our iPhones now?
I'm pessimistically betting they will. Why? Because Control is Fun!
To me this looks like the fabled Trusted Computing, where trust means trusting the vendor and not you.
The less active stuff you do with your machine the more you can be a nice media consumer paying by the megabyte of streamed video.
No.
Last I recall my contract law class, the elements of a contract are
Offer
Acceptance
Consideration
Capacity (mental) to enter a contract
and - Legality of the Contract.
You can't enter a "Valid" contract for something illegal.
That's why you see the clause that says if somehow one clause winds up illegal it doesn't squash the entire rest of the terms.
Everything on the web gets a Numerical Rating!
Some people may get a +2. Spinal Tap gets +11.
The RPG groups will have a field day with this.
Haxxr0z will write loops to add +1 by bots.
This will force a Captcha to slow the bots down.
NT
TFA = about 20k
Web 2.0 crap plus ads= 1.6 megs
or some such
Lynx Lives Again!
Sorry, I disagree.
CC companies are sneaky to be sure, but they do serve a purpose - they're a hedge against short term super-crunches. That's the real problem in society - a giant tragedy of the commons type thing (slight off, but I don't know the correct term). What I mean is that when landlords and mortgagers force a certain price for housing, while other companies force down wages, citizens get caught in a colossal game of musical chairs until they just can't hold on.
This first shows up as a micro-crunch - being 12 days short of being able to pay rent is enough for people to lose their homes. Voila Overdraft Protection. The unfortunate part is that once they're in the red, people aren't yet trained to eat bread and butter and 3-day cheese for 8 days straight to catch up to neutral, so THAT's when they get cooked with a balance that never dies.
Actually I'm having real trouble deciding why this is "morally wrong" or even "creepy" (which is the underhanded way of saying the same thing.) I see it as just another right to be negotiated.
Music Mashups are a vital creative flow - so why does it suddenly become "morally wrong" when it's a Visual Mashup? We all know the Character is (not supposed to be) the Actor. Go Go Hannibal Lector!
I'd call this just another case of the Uncanny Valley. After all, for the new Tron movie they needed a young version of a character, so they did almost exactly this - recreated him entirely in CGI. But it's Disney! So no moral problems there!
"He is a founding member of two networks of chief privacy officers"
After all, he protects the Allspark right?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Transformers_(film)
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Peter_Cullen
Bonus - they're both Canadian.
Why would I order it? Wouldn't I get 7 cans for free every day? Of course 1 of them might have Arsenic based life forms.
Is there anyone online that lets you remote in to a public copy dedicated for educational purposes?
Unity Unity Unity Unity! Come on!!
Discussion burst into flames when Ubuntu decided to switch its interface from Gnome to Unity. As a former windows user I went to right click everything in Gnome but none of the features were there. I never knew I was capable of that sort of pain, and one day I was some upset that I came home and kicked my dog. I tried to go online to buy the complete Beethoven Symphonies but in the Gnome copy of my browser it doesn't line up right so I misclicked and ended up with a mashup of music by Justin Bieber set to pictures of Tiffany, still sobbing for her pet rabbit, being contaminated ... there shouldn't even have been any radioactive material IN a children's video.
To console myself I turned on the news whereupon the lead story was how Julian Assange was locked in a cage with a live bobcat and being sucked into the trans dimensional vortex of multinational politics.
Ecuador Likes Julian Assange.
Wow. Too smart for a FP but seriously skewed in some direction I can't fathom...
If the account is not sold, there's no way to judge fair market price ... but even then at least per US tax law last I looked you can gift an asset to someone and then they pay no tax on it.
Then you go on to more adventures, but I'll stop here before I get deafened by whoosh because I'm sure you meant to be funny.
We had a Bush League President for a while.
"Let's get some shoes!"
What does Bing do?
Per Yahoo they're on their secondary level false denial now, just to keep up appearances. If this were really the greatest security breach in 5 years they would have made this Code Purple and pulverized Wikileaks. But no, they're whining in slow motion about "going to mount investigations" despite having all five lead players in hand.
I repeat an earlier remark, that this is total Platypus Shit, hoping the chemical composition of such might slow down amateur forensics by a week.
Come on, really now, they already said the major players fed it to newspapers months ago "so they could study it".
Totally sniping here but I can spare it. ...
50 megs is a lot of data
I bet the ones the insurance companies care about fit in 25 megs!
Let it all be real even!
"Praise with faint damnation".
Seriously, something is way fishy here. Combining a couple parts of other slashdot stories earlier:
Are they seriously saying that half or more of this wasn't public knowledge in the spy community already? Just as a fictional example, couldn't James Bond have dug this info out of people? Are they seriously saying document security was so good this hasn't already trickled around at the cable level?
Are they seriously saying they couldn't do anything to stop this? Screw making Assange a marytr, doesn't that level of Ops kill for a living?
Someone else brought up the Copyright Defense. Wouldn't this be releasing copyrighted info to the tune of 11.6 Billion in fines at the going rate?
What's up with the multi-month head start to the newspapers - "Here's the story that makes Old Media a hero - wanna bid on the exclusives?"
No, this is just a Mikhail Tal grade chess move. So full of quadra twists absolutely everyone misses the real point. If this is so unstoppable a leak, is that the quarterfinal push to shut down the net as we know it?