Google ignore the fact that there is a massive difference between a public place being public and a public place being available to everyone on the internet (including data gathering servers, and all kinds of face recognition technologies).
That, or you ignore the fact that legally and for all purposes of the word public, there isn't.
Unless your creditcard is abused there is no unfortunate consequence to having shared it. Even if you get it replaced, the effort of updating information as needed (you'll still share it with merchants, won't you?) is trivial.
Only a fool gives their credit card to everything.
A creditcard is supposed to be shared with merchants, such as Sony or Microsoft.
It doesn't (or better, I'm unaware of it) but it does catch successful logins from unlikely places, which must have eventually happened. It happened to me when I was at a friend's house in Norway. I believe I had to provide extra credentials and I was notified (I think by e-mail) that someone had logged in from Trondheim. Not sure about the details (some of it could have been a trial for Places). Then again, nothing special happened from a Fon hotspot on Madeira (Portugese island), nor from my new work, so I'm not sure it's still in place.
Still, most Facebook breaches seem to be "fb rape"s done when someone isn't paying attention to their logged in account, not brute force attacks. The question here is: what kind of people does GP associate with that anyone even cares enough to abuse his account? It's a non-issue for most.
I guess credit card data is not important to protect
It isn't, really.
All creditcard companies take full risk and let you contest any charge for free*. Both reconfirmed this to me, Amex even discouraged me to replace my card with them because they have monitored zero abuse or strange behaviour so far (CCV numbers were NOT on file IIRC) and do not see the need for immediate action.
This won't cost me a dime and even in the case of fraud minimal time to sort out and from experience I know any necessary replacement card will arrive within five business days. The biggest risk here is for merchants who deliver services or ship physical goods to non-billing addresses as they might actually lose labour or assets.
Also, weak-password end-users are blameless here. My relatively weak 6-digit numerical password was apparently good to never have abused me in any way I've ever been able to notice. Fact remains, not our passwords were compromised, it was a system with 77 million PSN accounts. I do use much stronger passwords for other services, but in reality a weak password is an overrated risk. Common breaches are exploits and "Facebook rapes". Also, barely anyone cares about your personal passwords. Corporate ones are valuable. Consumer ones, not so much (again *).
* At least here in the Netherlands. YMMV, I'm aware that consumer protection might be worse than ours in other parts of the world.
Exactly as what happened to The Borg in the Star Trek universe.
At least Trek countered in DS9 with the Dominion. An enemy who, while ultimately defeated, managed to install fear for several seasons.
The Iranian people are generally nice and progressive, it's their government that sucks. So go fuck yourself, I'm sure your country (whichever) has some assholes in charge itself.
Nothing that RFC 1149 can't fix. And not just as a joke. Of course we're not talking about real-time streaming of Youtube here, but data will find a way to get in and out of Iran. You can prevent people from ever finding out about Internet (North Korea), but once they had it, it's impossible to take it away completely.
University/College is only an educational institute. It teaches you nothing that you can't learn yourself in your chosen field through self-study and research.
College gives you:
- A well stocked library
- A ready made peer group, with whom you can discuss the subjects
- A structured approach to the content
- Ready access to experts (tutors, lecturers and professors)
- time
Internet is a better stocked library. Where you can find a greater amount of peers with similar interests. With many levels of structure to match your own learning preferences. With actual experts amongst your peers in open source participation (maybe also in university but in colleges? no way). And you'll have plenty of time for all that when you drop out of college.
If you believe this scenario, jumping on board now is the right thing to do: you'd still be an early adopter as Slashdot reader. You wouldn't be filthy rich, but rich nonetheless, compared to everyone who doesn't jump in until it is integrated into Farmville. Hm, now there's an idea: mine Bitcoins through a Facebook application.
They being Reuters, Sony - as you quoted - didn't draw that conclusion. They mentioned the ongoing attack and of course it would seem relevant, but they carefully denied knowing of any relation between the two.
Finland isn't part of Scandinavia...
When so many cronies get behind linux, all the cronies in your office won't mind using it.
They already don't and many of them will have a Linux-based phone, router, or gadget. Or don't mind whether an internet service is Linux-hosted.
Linux found major acceptance years ago. The traditional desktop is still struggling to obtain market share, but the reason is not that people mind using Linux. When my non-technical friends or relatives use my laptop at home (guest account, of course) they don't mind the Linux Mint interface and have in fact not once complained or even as much as bothered to mention things were a bit different.
But almost nobody sends files via http. Way too primitive. FTP is still king there, followed by torrent.
Right, almost nobody uploads pictures and videos through Facebook, Twitpic, Flickr or Youtube.
At 100g/m2 paper thickness is 0.097mm.
2 TB / 250kB per page is 8 million pages, for a total thickness of 776 meter. The ordinary Federal filing cabinet has five 710mm drawers which means 1093 filing cabinets.
But 250kB per page is rather large even for PDF, at a quite typical 300ppi you're closer to 50kB/page. So make that 5480 filing cabinets.
Then consider that most tips will be text-based (e-mails and telephone transcripts), not graphics or bloated document attachments. in which case you should easily be able to go down to 5kB/page (my resume is 6.3kB in HTML plus site-wide CSS and prints out as 3 pages). So make that 54800 filing cabinets.
I know plenty of grocery stores that would struggle to store that many.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
