03-23-2013, 02:25 PM | #46 |
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There is also a big difference for people who are paranoid (or not?) about people legally accessing your data, at least in the US. Data on your own PC in your own home is protected by your fourth amendment rights, and requires a warrant to access. Data stored by an online provider is not, and requires only a subpoena, with a lower standard of proof required.
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Is Goggle's definition of a "cloud printer" simply a "wireless" printer? I have never seen that written down in an official way. The way they talk about a "cloud printer" makes it seem really special and different. |
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To get the key from you the Govt would require the utmost authority. My secret, secret and even more secret stuff has quite a lot of encryption. But on the other hand, if the Govt brings me that legal paper and I have checked with my lawyer to be sure it is valid, then sure here is the key. And by the way many of the services that store your data along with a starting amount of free storage will encrypt it or let you provide the key. |
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03-23-2013, 04:30 PM | #49 |
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The printers are cheap - but the ink is insanely expensive... Something like $0.15 per mililiter when you go cheap and buy black ink (without a kit or cartridge) - and easily $0.50/ml and higher once you buy with a cartridge. Compare to, say, home heating fuel here in Nova Scotia, which is currently $1.36/l - or $0.00136/ml! Even the cheapest bottles of printer ink puts almost any other liquid commodity to shame for its price.
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03-23-2013, 04:32 PM | #50 |
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03-23-2013, 04:38 PM | #51 |
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I got the Raspberry Pi running as a Google Cloud Print server today, as per murraypaul's suggestion above. I can now print from my Chromebook to my old printers (which aren't Cloud Print ready) without needing to switch on my Windows machine.
I haven't quite figured out how to make the daemon service start automatically if I reboot the Pi - at least, I know I need to create a script for the init.d folder, but my script's not working - but that's my lack of Linux knowledge, I suspect. (If anyone else has got this working I'd love to have a copy of the script!) However, for now it's a simple matter to open a terminal window into the Pi from the Chromebook and type "cloudprint -a" if the Pi has been rebooted. Graham |
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You can back up data that you keep on the cloud just like you can back up data that you keep on local storage. And being stored locally is no guarantee that someone won't attempt to hack it.
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The Chromebook that my wife got last week was setup with her email accounts, one gmail the other a local ISP. Within two days she was being targeted with ads related to topics discussed in her email and her browsing history - even though ALL cookies are turned off and history not saved. You can have the cloud and anything related to Google - they have one purpose, to profile you for marketing. |
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...while a LOT of other people (once they are made aware of just how badly their privacy is being invaded, both online and off) would much rather the ads be based on the intended audience of the web site being visited rather than being based on data mining of our private information
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Where did you buy your Chromebook? Did you import from USA or did you find one in the UK? |
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Welcome to the Internet...Unless you want a government or interested party to not know a thing about you..... You should just go off the Grid, live on a mountain in an undisclosed location, with no electricity or address, then maybe few people will know about you. You could send emails to MR via random post offices to Switzerland c/o Alex.
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It is a great product. It has been demonstrated something different.
Chromebook will be challenger for existing laptop. |
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