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Data Never Sleeps
How much media is generated every minute
I’m typing this post while connected to my Time Capsule router. You’d never know that from looking at the Airport Utility, which can’t identify the router on the network. Never run into this problem before updating to Snow Lion.
Fun aside: last night my MBP couldn’t find its backup images on the router. The ‘solution’ was to delete the existing image bundle on the Time Capsule – I could navigate to them in Finder – and then OSX could see the Time Capsule and backup to it.
Rob Graham has a good look at the challenges facing SandForce controllers – which are used by a large number of the solid state hard drives on the consumer market – as related to disk encryption. I highly recommend reading it but, if you just don’t have the time, here’s the key takeaway: “The problem with a SandForce controller is that all its features are lost when using full disk encryption, but all its downsides remain. Thus, if you plan on using an SSD for your notebook computer, you should plan on getting something other than a SandForce controller.”
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On Pay Equity
I’m certain that, in some countries, efforts to achieve pay equity in this manner would result in Parliament legislating the ‘striker’ to work. Such legislation would be ‘necessary’ on grounds that efforts to achieve pay equity threatened the national economy and, thus, had to be moved to binding mediation without the employer being forced to deal with the existing market situation.
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Free Speech Zone
The contemporary “free speech” zone
Lawful access legislation and its associated powers are not new. In the wrong hands, however, these powers ‘legitimize’ the gross abuse of citizens. I highly recommend you watch this investigative news piece on Sweden’s Teliasonera and how lawful access is used by dictators reliant on Teliasonera’s equipment.
If you can’t watch it all then at least watch the interview with the company’s representative, starting at around minute 52. It’s a chilling interview that exposes how ‘good’ Western companies enables human rights abuses around the world in the name of profit and ‘enabling’ communication.
This is a terrific graphic that breaks down how Google collected data from wi-fi networks with Streetview vehicles
Excited Pixels 