We did it like you describe. We had some problems with people doing dumb stuff and we just stuck post-its on the monitors describing how to use the "top" command.
[you@server1 ~]$ top
PID USER %CPU COMMAND
1960 you 2.3 top
2457 Bob 97.0 bitcoin
[you@server1 ~]$ write Bob DUDE! wtf?!?!
etc...
Now THIS is the level of paranoia that I like to see.
It's funny what you'll believe when you can't believe anything anymore.
Sounds fishy to me...
Perhaps the NSA (or another agency) has another Snowden on their hands and paid Exodus for this "release" to scare the leaker into not sending their data out...
Because NVIDIA paid to have this story put up. That's why.
They should treat packages shipped on different days all the same.
By doing this they are basically throttling how many DVD's I'm able to watch. http://netflix.frogcircus.org/
They're trying to force me to watch their own streaming content rather than the DVD's I actually want to watch! They are trying to remove competition for their own content.
They should be open an Neutral about when they process shipments. They should "arrive" when they actually arrive at their facility, irrelevant of the content of the DVD or the date it arrived in their facility. We need Shipping Neutrality from Netflix!
Ok, jokes aside, this is fairly ironic.
I think you're missing the point.
The targeted ads may or may not be a problem. Fine...
But there is a very clear and obvious bad side to this, even if you want targeted ads, I doubt you want geocities to be still retaining the data on how you trafficked that Herpes treatment site site back in 1997. The company has no financial interest in keeping that data, but why delete it? They've no cause to...
So often we get so caught up in "the principle" of an issue we completely miss easy opportunities to remedy 99% of the problem. If you attack "Targeted ads" directly you're going to be literally arguing that some industries should just die. Tens of thousands of people lose their jobs (not me, I only deal with it peripherally) and you may very well be right! But how difficult will that fight be? You'll have a huge lobbying industry fighting you etc... The board meeting in that regard is going to go something like "Ok, if this bill passes, we're out of business... how much money should we spend to stop it?!? How much do we have?"
Argue for increased regulation on how long data is kept, what kind of data can be kept, and how it can be exchanged between businesses? i.e. Now you have to delete that data from 1997... That's a far different board meeting... "Um... we have data that old? Christ, just delete it..."
The point of what I was saying is that there are low hanging fruit. Support the kind of regulation I suggest... LOTS of people will support that kind of reform, even many of the advertisers. Then, if you want to go for the jugular later, fine, but if you fail you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Made of carbon? Damn! We're lucky we've been producing all this carbon with our cars or we'd never have a chance to solve this climate change problem!
So it's designed to stop the threat that does not exist, and therefore should be excused for failures against the one that does? That makes little sense.
Doesn't exist? Iran definitely has Chemical and Biological weapons. They used them in the Iran/Iraq war.
They also definitely have ballistic missiles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...
Irrational. When the damage done by the ineffective rockets is less than the cost to shoot them down, the money could clearly be better spent elsewhere.
That would be true even if the conflict were not one of choice, but is doubly so in the current situation.
So how much is your family worth? When the rocket falls on your house are you going to be arguing how much money was saved by not bothering to shoot it down?
The reasons for the wars... I'll not argue. Both sides are insanely stupid. But making the argument that these anti-missile batteries are useless is just more anti-Israel BS.
I can see the privacy implications this has, but how in the world would such a method successfully discern between 2 identical devices?
I work with marketing software on and off. There are thousands of data points collected when you visit a site that cares enough to ID you. This would be just one. If this ID narrows the device down to 10 or so... and they also have date stamps, general location data based on your IP, browser type, etc? They can ID you specifically, pretty easily. I've not seen this particular method come up myself... in fact, most of the time the ways the marketing software ID's you is irrelevant to the site owner. They just buy the software and install it. Done. The general doesn't care that there's 1 new landmine in his arsenal when he's already blanketed the field with thousands of them.
Also, you need to understand that goal here... they don't care who you are. They just want to know that you are visitor 52467, and all the other times you were here you looked at products X, P and Q so they can display more information on those products. They also salt the site with "Free" offers that all you need to claim them is to input your contact information. Once you do that they link that contact information to your browsing history and shoot it over to a salesman and/or send you a personally designed advertisement to your email.
This may all sound dumb and horribly invasive... but it's amazingly successful. There is absolutely no way these companies would give it up voluntarily. Many of them wouldn't be in business without that sort of data... I'm not even sure you'd like it if it were gone. Getting ads is annoying, getting ads for African American hair styling products when you're a redhead is infuriating. Targeted ads are a good thing, it's the completely unaddressed side affects of that data collection that's a problem.
What needs to happen is laws governing how long the data can be kept need to be passed. As of now, it's kept forever as far as I know... because... well, why not? And who the data is shared with needs to be regulated. The intercooperation of these companies is pretty scary. Amazon should not know what I'm searching for on WebMD, and the fact of the matter is, as of now, pretty much every major site you visit is sharing data with every other site you visit for mutual profit. This likely includes government websites. I've seen the marketing companies brag about their government contracts so that's a tad scary. Lastly, pretty much all regulation is not-so-cleverly avoided by simply changing the tech. The regulation needs to be broad and easy to understand. As of now they do things like "Well, that's not a person, that's a device!" or "Is that really data?" etc... Bill Clinton word style play shouldn't absolve you of negligence.
The Iron Dome is designed to stop Iranian ballistic missiles tipped with Chemical, biological and in the future nuclear weapons. The fact that it has trouble hitting Hamas's glorified model rockets doesn't make it any less effective in its true mission. And eve if it really was only 5% effective, I'd take 5% less ballistic missiles headed at my town thank you.
It's simple, you hire people to do the jobs that need getting done.
We, the employees are largely to blame though. I work with a lot of contractors that love their flexibility and how great it is... until the market takes a crap on their heads. Tech workers need to stop pretending like they'll be 18 forever. I know when things get bad you can hide in the basement and play wow until they pick back up, but really? Wouldn't it be better to just work a normal job and not have to screw around like that?
...the people who were laid off could not apply for 5 months.
Why would you apply to work for the same company that just kicked you to the curb? I'd tell 'em to go to hell.
Never let pride get in the way of sound business sense. If my options were working the grill at Arbies or Microsoft, the next words out of my mouth would be "Yes Mr Balmer, laying off all us slackers really taught us a lesson sir. Would you like me to buff all your golf clubs now?"
Roll out Ipads... this is all I could think of:
http://vimeo.com/11480457
People want to read something like "The iPhone has a secret backdoor for the NSA!!!". Anything much longer than that will never be read or understood by most people.
It's hopeless. Ask 100 people who have heard of this and 95 of them will tell you that it is proven now that the iPhone has a secret backdoor for the NSA over which all data can just be read by them.
(And I'm not even saying that it has NO such backdoor. Maybe it has. But this isn't it. This just isn't designed for mass surveillance, it needs a cooperating user and individual access to a device the user has connected his iPhone to. Maybe it's a side door for law enforcement and/or forensics additionally to a debugging tool.)
Except for the fact that Apples handing all of your data over to the NSA anyway. Apple has a very cozy relationship with the US federal government.
http://cdn.bgr.com/2013/11/app...
But at least Apple held off for longer than some of the others:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...
Long story short? The NSA doesn't need this backdoor, it's a lot easier to just go strait to apple.
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous
