Unfortunately we can't work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been undermined by the Department of Justice with its novel criminal prosecution of Megaupload. It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like.com /.net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.
When people ask "why use me.ga?" they're going to hear the Kim DotCom story. Eventually it'll be taken for granted that Hollywood has corrupted the Justice Department. This could be the PR move that turns ordinary people against Hollywood.
Video support is already here, and soon you'll be able to add plugins for almost any type of media publishing... including presentations or 3d model files. And we're planning for federation with OStatus so we can build a decentralized yet cohesive media hosting future.
(emp. mine, found here) Amazing that so many projects can't get this most basic communication right. A one sentence description should be a priority for any project, otherwise how do you know what you're making?
* Not "true" database replication, but functionally the same.
With Postgres it can be plain old SQL not some variant that has to be custom built for each table/DB (and which changes per SaaS platform).
Trying to replicate all the tables in all the DBs would be a huge pain, not to mention slower and development intensive, compared to true DB replication.
Salesforce don't like the whole pay for it once and keep it model. They like the pay once a month (SaaS) model. They are also pretty shitty at giving data back when you want it. You can have it but it's a bastard to get it out.
Salesforce makes SQL access difficult (or impossible). They can switch to Postgres without changing their web platform and then open the DBs for reporting, read replication, and sell write access. SQL is still the power-tool of enterprise integration.
If they are in another country, contact that government and have them arrest them. If they won't, sanctions. If that doesn't work threaten to cut their cable.
We can just have the FBI take command of local paramilitary units and raid their mansion.
The photo tour has one of the worst interfaces I've seen for viewing photos. Hiding half of the photo caption by default? Who comes up with this idiocy?
Worst. Interface. Ever. - It's slow! Collapsed text at the bottom. Little popup text links hidden in the photo. Photos are either resized or cropped.
A technology that challenges the recording industry's firm grim on paying people to make music? A system that gives artists a big cut of the revenue made by monetizing their music? Something that might actually change revenue models? The lawsuits will not stop until this is dead and buried.
> When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.
Someone needs to come up with some new "cool" way for people who hardly know each other can hang out and feel part something that doesn't involved sex, drugs, alcohol or smoking something. Smoking is a gateway to feel like you have friends.
I think the problem with this idea is that there's no acceptable "need" to go down there every few hours. People might look at you as a slacker hanging down there, whereas the smoker doesn't get deemed a slacker for "going for a smoke"..
Maybe smart phones can fill this role? Peer connections and transfer is a recurring theme for phones, and the Internet is full of "social". The social rules for cell phones aren't set in stone, and gathering in impromptu groups to 'bump' phones would let people meet strangers and chat, if that's the way the technology worked.
Here's an idea: An app that knows about your interests and notifies you when you're physically near someone who shares your interest. It wouldn't advertise what you're into, or ID the other person, just notify you when they're within, say, 25 feet. Then you can put in obscure things and find the few people in you life who share those interests.
Another idea: a comm station where people gather to use and take care of phones. It would have power, highspeed connections, virus scanning, docking stations (kvm), alternate systems for temporary use if your device is broken, etc...
That said, the culture on the internet is more cynical than people are talking around the watercooler.
Spot on. The Internet has changed everything, public legacies included. The facts can't be forgotten. Authors aren't vetted by the establishment. Even societal norms (don't speak ill of the dead) can't constrain the discussion in a multi-cultural environment.
People in the future aren't going to accept a glossy, official legacy when the details are easily available.
Browsers need to fix tracking, like they did for popups and malware sites. Aggressive technical measures can bring tracking networks in line. Tracking networks pay popular websites to include their crap and then sell the data they collect. Make it a pain for websites that include 300 tracking networks and we'll be attacking the money.
At the very least browsers should: * Lockdown the user-agent string * Force plugins (like flash) to either not have cookies (or storage), or let the browser control any tracking * Raise awareness by warning users when they are obviously being tracked * Limit the number of cookies generated by visiting a single web page -- don't let one page lead to 300 cookies from hundreds of domains
Here's an idea: the browser won't download anything from any 3rd party domain, unless the primary website asserts responsibility for the 3rd party domain (either in source or headers). No website would want to take responsibility for an advertising network, much less a tracking network. Advertisers would be under enormous scrutiny to not track people, because their clients would be the ones getting sued.
Here's another idea: Mozilla runs it's own adblock-style blocking list. Companies would have to convince Mozilla they're not tracking people, and possible sign legal agreements to enforce it. Mozilla could simply block any site they don't think is acting honorably. If they collected info on 0 byte images they'd know most of the worst players right away.
Another idea: browsers could auto-change identities every 10 minutes; like switching to a new profile. If cookies from active tabs were saved it would eliminate 80% of the problems without the user having to do anything.
How do you get from unfounded accusations ("fake takedowns, incentives for copyright violations") to "MegaUpload really was a criminal enterprise"?
If you think the takedown compliance was "fake" because it un-linked a file without deleting it, you should know that Google does the same thing with their music service -- uploaded music is hashed and linked, not stored uniquely. Accusing MegaUpload of "incentives" is as nebulous as it gets. What did they do that was illegal?
The Course resource looks like an amateur listing everything they could think of, and they still got it wrong. Look at "minimumAvailableCredit" and "maximumAvailableCredit". First, this is just bad data design: either lookup the min/max on the data tables, or if these are proscriptive then there's no way to deal with changes in regulations over time. Second, academic credits vary by many factors (like classroom hours, enrollment types like auditing, etc...) and it'll be meaningless to say the minimum is zero for every course. Third, "academic" credits are not the only type of credits that schools deal with (think lab credits, on-the-job credits, etc...).
This looks like they're trying to build a Cathedral
DNT was never going to work in any practical way. Advertisers weren't going to change because of a voluntary system. So were the proponents naive idealists or playing politics? DNT has made an issue out of data tracking (people++) but also given industry and politicians years of cover (theman++) while it's debated.
I can't help but see this as a near total victory for industry: they haven't actually changed at all. The core issue hasn't been debated in any technical sense (what counts as tracking? how long can data be kept?...) There's little to no discussion about civil rights and privacy. No discussion about security or the legal status of the data (what happens when lawyers want tracking data for a divorce case?).
DNT is an April Fools joke (evil bit) transformed into a mock-policy discussion.
In all likelihood, it would be a service that would be available *IF YOU WANT IT*
Christ, people, if you suffer from this type of PARANOIA regularly, seek professional help.
Optional today, required tomorrow. But don't worry because it'll work with Android and Windows Phone 8, and you'll get to choose the software you like best!
Swearing about PARANOIA seems more than a little unfair since the government has tried this strategy -- but without the iPhone -- before. It looks like they're currently calling it TSA PreCheck but they'll probably change it to "PhoneCheck".
Network Working Group Request for Comments: 3514 Category: Informational
The Do Not Track Flag in the IPv4 Header
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2013). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
Advertisers, marketers, data aggregators, and the like
often have difficulty distinguishing between people that have
money and those that are merely unusual. We define a
Do Not Track flag in the IPv4 header as a means of distinguishing
the two cases.
This story displays an incredibly low understanding about what a QR code even is, let alone how you would write a QR code reader for a secure environment. I'm surprised this even got accepted.
My reaction is just the opposite; slashdot is full of idiots. The submitter points out a simple fact, that consuming arbitrary input leads to vulnerabilities, and gave an example, QR codes misleading apps to a website. The vector would be different with currency, but Diebold can make a secure environment, right? Banks are important, the risks should be minimized, and a new technical attack vector should be of interest to geek website.
Almost every comment at 5 is mocking the idea of a QR code on money redirecting to a website, showing a lack of (basic) understanding or imagination. I guess slashdot needs every little thing spelled out for them.
HTML5 is the poster-child for designed-by-committee, slow-as-molasses processes that are out-paced by everyone else because, in the real world, things actually need to get done this decade, and the rest of us can't wait.
HTML5 was compromise of existing implementations and small improvements, adopted because the XHTML standards were being ignored. Your rant is misdirected: HTML5 is a solution to the lack of standards progress, not a cause of it.
Slashdot Mirror
sluts? Misogyny on Slashdot shouldn't be ignored, or dismissed as a joke. (and shame on the mods too)
From the page on server limitations:
Unfortunately we can't work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been undermined by the Department of Justice with its novel criminal prosecution of Megaupload. It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.
When people ask "why use me.ga?" they're going to hear the Kim DotCom story. Eventually it'll be taken for granted that Hollywood has corrupted the Justice Department. This could be the PR move that turns ordinary people against Hollywood.
If Canonical had asked "Support Ubuntu by including Amazon searches?" they could have kept the money and the goodwill.
So they repeat the offensive statements, say he won't win, then threaten him with a "very extensive" invasion of his privacy. National Review is shit.
Video support is already here, and soon you'll be able to add plugins for almost any type of media publishing... including presentations or 3d model files. And we're planning for federation with OStatus so we can build a decentralized yet cohesive media hosting future.
(emp. mine, found here) Amazing that so many projects can't get this most basic communication right. A one sentence description should be a priority for any project, otherwise how do you know what you're making?
* Not "true" database replication, but functionally the same.
With Postgres it can be plain old SQL not some variant that has to be custom built for each table/DB (and which changes per SaaS platform).
Trying to replicate all the tables in all the DBs would be a huge pain, not to mention slower and development intensive, compared to true DB replication.
Salesforce don't like the whole pay for it once and keep it model. They like the pay once a month (SaaS) model. They are also pretty shitty at giving data back when you want it. You can have it but it's a bastard to get it out.
Salesforce makes SQL access difficult (or impossible). They can switch to Postgres without changing their web platform and then open the DBs for reporting, read replication, and sell write access. SQL is still the power-tool of enterprise integration.
If they are in another country, contact that government and have them arrest them. If they won't, sanctions. If that doesn't work threaten to cut their cable.
We can just have the FBI take command of local paramilitary units and raid their mansion.
The photo tour has one of the worst interfaces I've seen for viewing photos. Hiding half of the photo caption by default? Who comes up with this idiocy?
Worst. Interface. Ever. - It's slow! Collapsed text at the bottom. Little popup text links hidden in the photo. Photos are either resized or cropped.
A technology that challenges the recording industry's firm grim on paying people to make music? A system that gives artists a big cut of the revenue made by monetizing their music? Something that might actually change revenue models? The lawsuits will not stop until this is dead and buried.
> When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.
Someone needs to come up with some new "cool" way for people who hardly know each other can hang out and feel part something that doesn't involved sex, drugs, alcohol or smoking something. Smoking is a gateway to feel like you have friends.
I think the problem with this idea is that there's no acceptable "need" to go down there every few hours. People might look at you as a slacker hanging down there, whereas the smoker doesn't get deemed a slacker for "going for a smoke"..
Maybe smart phones can fill this role? Peer connections and transfer is a recurring theme for phones, and the Internet is full of "social". The social rules for cell phones aren't set in stone, and gathering in impromptu groups to 'bump' phones would let people meet strangers and chat, if that's the way the technology worked.
Here's an idea: An app that knows about your interests and notifies you when you're physically near someone who shares your interest. It wouldn't advertise what you're into, or ID the other person, just notify you when they're within, say, 25 feet. Then you can put in obscure things and find the few people in you life who share those interests.
Another idea: a comm station where people gather to use and take care of phones. It would have power, highspeed connections, virus scanning, docking stations (kvm), alternate systems for temporary use if your device is broken, etc...
That said, the culture on the internet is more cynical than people are talking around the watercooler.
Spot on. The Internet has changed everything, public legacies included. The facts can't be forgotten. Authors aren't vetted by the establishment. Even societal norms (don't speak ill of the dead) can't constrain the discussion in a multi-cultural environment.
People in the future aren't going to accept a glossy, official legacy when the details are easily available.
Browsers need to fix tracking, like they did for popups and malware sites. Aggressive technical measures can bring tracking networks in line. Tracking networks pay popular websites to include their crap and then sell the data they collect. Make it a pain for websites that include 300 tracking networks and we'll be attacking the money.
At the very least browsers should:
* Lockdown the user-agent string
* Force plugins (like flash) to either not have cookies (or storage), or let the browser control any tracking
* Raise awareness by warning users when they are obviously being tracked
* Limit the number of cookies generated by visiting a single web page -- don't let one page lead to 300 cookies from hundreds of domains
Here's an idea: the browser won't download anything from any 3rd party domain, unless the primary website asserts responsibility for the 3rd party domain (either in source or headers). No website would want to take responsibility for an advertising network, much less a tracking network. Advertisers would be under enormous scrutiny to not track people, because their clients would be the ones getting sued.
Here's another idea: Mozilla runs it's own adblock-style blocking list. Companies would have to convince Mozilla they're not tracking people, and possible sign legal agreements to enforce it. Mozilla could simply block any site they don't think is acting honorably. If they collected info on 0 byte images they'd know most of the worst players right away.
Another idea: browsers could auto-change identities every 10 minutes; like switching to a new profile. If cookies from active tabs were saved it would eliminate 80% of the problems without the user having to do anything.
How do you get from unfounded accusations ("fake takedowns, incentives for copyright violations") to "MegaUpload really was a criminal enterprise"?
If you think the takedown compliance was "fake" because it un-linked a file without deleting it, you should know that Google does the same thing with their music service -- uploaded music is hashed and linked, not stored uniquely. Accusing MegaUpload of "incentives" is as nebulous as it gets. What did they do that was illegal?
DNT is a starting point (an egg) it could grow into something useful or die.
DNT is 5+ years old and has resulted in nothing. It's an industry excuse.
The Course resource looks like an amateur listing everything they could think of, and they still got it wrong. Look at "minimumAvailableCredit" and "maximumAvailableCredit". First, this is just bad data design: either lookup the min/max on the data tables, or if these are proscriptive then there's no way to deal with changes in regulations over time. Second, academic credits vary by many factors (like classroom hours, enrollment types like auditing, etc...) and it'll be meaningless to say the minimum is zero for every course. Third, "academic" credits are not the only type of credits that schools deal with (think lab credits, on-the-job credits, etc...).
This looks like they're trying to build a Cathedral
DNT was never going to work in any practical way. Advertisers weren't going to change because of a voluntary system. So were the proponents naive idealists or playing politics? DNT has made an issue out of data tracking (people++) but also given industry and politicians years of cover (theman++) while it's debated.
I can't help but see this as a near total victory for industry: they haven't actually changed at all. The core issue hasn't been debated in any technical sense (what counts as tracking? how long can data be kept?...) There's little to no discussion about civil rights and privacy. No discussion about security or the legal status of the data (what happens when lawyers want tracking data for a divorce case?).
DNT is an April Fools joke (evil bit) transformed into a mock-policy discussion.
Canonical: You're getting your morals turned around. Community should come before money. Forget what the spirit of Ubuntu was supposed to represent?
Imagine they had said: you can help support developers by installing these apps. Oh well, Xubuntu 12.04 is LTS.
In all likelihood, it would be a service that would be available *IF YOU WANT IT*
Christ, people, if you suffer from this type of PARANOIA regularly, seek professional help.
Optional today, required tomorrow. But don't worry because it'll work with Android and Windows Phone 8, and you'll get to choose the software you like best!
Swearing about PARANOIA seems more than a little unfair since the government has tried this strategy -- but without the iPhone -- before. It looks like they're currently calling it TSA PreCheck but they'll probably change it to "PhoneCheck".
I for one welcome our new Dice overlords.
I'd like to remind them that as a trusted moderator I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKbFb6TPVEA
"It is necessary to get behind someone before you can stab them in the back." -- Sir Humphrey.
If you want to kill DNT, first get behind it, then make sure you get to define what DNT means, how it's implemented and regulated.
Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 3514
Category: Informational
The Do Not Track Flag in the IPv4 Header
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2013). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
Advertisers, marketers, data aggregators, and the like
often have difficulty distinguishing between people that have
money and those that are merely unusual. We define a
Do Not Track flag in the IPv4 header as a means of distinguishing
the two cases.
Read more at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
This story displays an incredibly low understanding about what a QR code even is, let alone how you would write a QR code reader for a secure environment. I'm surprised this even got accepted.
My reaction is just the opposite; slashdot is full of idiots. The submitter points out a simple fact, that consuming arbitrary input leads to vulnerabilities, and gave an example, QR codes misleading apps to a website. The vector would be different with currency, but Diebold can make a secure environment, right? Banks are important, the risks should be minimized, and a new technical attack vector should be of interest to geek website.
Almost every comment at 5 is mocking the idea of a QR code on money redirecting to a website, showing a lack of (basic) understanding or imagination. I guess slashdot needs every little thing spelled out for them.
HTML5 is the poster-child for designed-by-committee, slow-as-molasses processes that are out-paced by everyone else because, in the real world, things actually need to get done this decade, and the rest of us can't wait.
HTML5 was compromise of existing implementations and small improvements, adopted because the XHTML standards were being ignored. Your rant is misdirected: HTML5 is a solution to the lack of standards progress, not a cause of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#History
if you listen to the people making money off HFT, there is no problem, and HFT benefits everyone through "increased liquidity".
Who wants to take me up on this offer: I get cash and you get "increased liquidity". Any takers?