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FloatingRuler-net4.zip (357.56 kB - downloaded 470 times.)^ You're devious... I love it!
But this is a classic use of FUD to sow the ground for other uses. You know... it's for the children. Do I even need to post a link to that Carlin skit again?-wraith808 (September 10, 2013, 08:42 PM)
Might as well though! I'll let you do the honours! 
Our Mission
Provide more timely and relevant information to school administrators so that they can better intervene in the lives of children, and ultimately provide these kids with a more optimal chance to become productive citizens with positive peer connections.
Our Vision
By providing information as early as possible, intervention methodologies will be far more effective when bullying or other isolating events occur.
Star Trek Into Darkness - a fun ride but nothing to write home about. Hardcore Trekkies would appreciate it more, I suppose.-nosh (September 10, 2013, 08:26 PM)
Personally, I'd like more people to help light a fire under Renegade's butt to get him to finish this ruler. I have found it to be quite useful for just about anything I could need a ruler on my screen for.-app103 (September 08, 2013, 06:01 PM)
Google could be held liable for civil damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers, a federal appeals court ruled today in decision that found collection of unencrypted content from wireless routers isn’t exempt from the Wiretap Act.
The decision, by the U.S. 9th Circuit court of Appeals, upholds an earlier ruling by a Silicon Valley federal judge presiding over nearly a dozen combined lawsuits seeking damages from Google for eavesdropping on open Wi-Fi networks from its Street View mapping cars. The vehicles, which rolled through neighborhoods around the world, were equipped with Wi-Fi–sniffing hardware to record the names and MAC addresses of routers to improve Google location-specific services. But the cars also secretly gathered snippets of Americans’ data.
“Surely Congress did not intend to condone such an intrusive and unwarranted invasion of privacy when it enacted the Wiretap Act to protect against the unauthorized interception of electronic communications,’” the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.
I'm really not that interested in improving email at this point. It's essentially a walking dead technology already and for good reason. Email is, and always will be, the electronic equivalent of intra office memos. It's simply not an appropriate model for people's modern day needs.
I don't know what the solution will look like but I am convinced it will be peer to peer rather than server-client oriented. The bigger question is how to build a distributed but still user friendly security model. That probably starts with some combination of hardware and software/firmware which doesn't exist just yet but is likely just over the horizon.-Vurbal (September 10, 2013, 09:35 AM)
Ironman 3 (2013) - Ten million things being juggled all at once, trying to compensate for the lack of a solid, gripping storyline. There's only so much spectacular CGI can do to hold my interest. This movie's so long I swear I could hear the ironman suit creak during the last few scenes.-nosh (August 24, 2013, 02:31 PM)
Just watched The Dyatlov Pass Incident - another FFF, (Found Footage Film).-4wd (September 09, 2013, 10:21 PM)
Director: Renny Harlin
Yes. We do need it. But I'm not aware of anything that is "prime time" ready to use.-Renegade (September 09, 2013, 10:58 PM)
I must be slipping - it would seem you missed the sarcasm in my reply
-Target (September 09, 2013, 11:11 PM)
As for the actual service/product - looks interesting. It seems that there are more like this popping up. But "email"? Man... I'm so sick of email. It's just so broken. I really think we need to scrap it and just start over with something new. A simple communications platform for letters, short messages, attachments, audio, video, audio/video/rich media messages, etc. People keep dumping resources into a broken platform.-Renegade (September 05, 2013, 11:45 PM)
but do we really need it? there must thousands of newer, more exciting and innovative social mediums to develop and exploit before we even need to consider such a thing-Target (September 09, 2013, 05:37 PM)
@Ren - I'm amazed there's a conspiracy story you didn't recognize immediately. (You must be up to something pretending your didn't recognize it right away!-40hz (September 09, 2013, 11:27 AM)
Nothing so dramatic.
More like the imposition of an arbitrary and unrestrained automated kennel keeper who drags its dogs around on a very short leash, and punishes with impunity any signs of disobedience or spirit.
If it succeeds, it will be the first step in the eradication of what most of us think it means to be human. The high price paid in exchange for the imagined peace and safety of the beehive or termite colony.
Welcome insects! Your self-appointed overlords have been expecting you.-40hz (September 09, 2013, 10:06 AM)
) The feds pay for 60 percent of Tor’s development. Can users trust it?
This week, we learned that the NSA had managed to circumvent much of the encryption that secures online financial transactions and other activities we take for granted on the Internet. How? By inserting backdoors into the very commercial software designed to keep sensitive medical records, bank files and other information private.
The NSA’s sustained attempt to get around encryption calls into question many of the technologies people have come to rely on to avoid surveillance. One indispensable tool is Tor, the anonymizing service that takes a user’s Internet traffic and spits it out from some other place on the Web so that its origin is obscured.
So far there’s no hard evidence that the government has compromised the anonymity of Tor traffic. But some on a Tor-related e-mail list recently pointed out that a substantial chunk of the Tor Project’s 2012 operating budget came from the Department of Defense, which houses the NSA.
Bungling drug smugglers set £50million of hash on fire and jumped overboard after being caught by coastguard in the Mediterranean
- Freighter was 'buzzed' by a helicopter from the Italian coastguard
- Ship was Tanzania-registered, with nine people on board jumping into sea
- 30 tonnes of hash had been loaded on in Turkey
The thing about it is that I think that most people would agree that e-mail is broken. There currently isn't a viable solution to the problem itself, so in the meantime, do you ignore that there is a problem until something else comes along? Or do you work within the constraints of what exists in order to hopefully make it a little bit better until the time that the next innovation happens?-wraith808 (September 08, 2013, 11:35 PM)
"The following seven TV episodes describe beating a polygraph" - go to jail.-TaoPhoenix (September 08, 2013, 02:23 PM)
Journalists Face Criminal Complaint For Mentioning Name of Pirate Site
This week journalists faced an attack on their right to report following their publication of an article on piracy. The piece, an interview with the operator of an unauthorized ebook site, angered publishers when the reporters named the site in question. The editors of two publications were subsequently hit with a criminal complaint in which they were accused of assisting copyright infringement. Meanwhile the operator of the site informs TorrentFreak that they intend to go international.
Just how far should liability for copyright infringement be stretched?
In years gone by it was fairly widely accepted that if you host infringing material without permission then that is illegal. Now we are used to the idea that linking to that material is also illegal, and even indexing a link that links to a page that links to a mere torrent file can be painted as infringement.
Book publishers in Germany, however, think they can take this never ending game to a whole new level.
The Register @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/-tn_dang (September 08, 2013, 10:07 AM)
Now I'd like to invite some suggestions for sites to include. What I'm looking for sites that are active (i.e. new content weekly), and deserve some recognition, and that you would include on a list of favorite websites to visit regularly. The first sites that come immediately to mind are ones like: TechSupportAlert, Ghacks, dottech, freewaregenius, etc.-mouser (September 06, 2013, 07:03 PM)