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Just take a quick look at IBM announce today they're making 38.8 million off Open-Source-based services on a single location in the span of four years.

If that is not money, I dare not fathom what is.

And who do you think occupational and clinical psychologists respond to, you pompous ass? I weep at popular idolization of state-sanctioned authority.

I'd actually consider joining ACM or IEEE at that point, because some day I want to get an article about bitgrid computing published.

--Mike--

Well, in more traditional media forms this person is called the "editor". You could say he is the one who gets to mod stories up or down, send them back to be rewritten and toss out the garbage before it gets published.

Some (but not all) blogs have editors. Slashdot has its editors as a front gate (simple accept/deny), as well as moderators to police the comments (and metamoderators to police the moderators). Atrios' Eshaton has no such editor, and even the comments are rarely policed.

I guess the biggest problem is that before the internet, the const of entry (printing press, broadcast studio) was high enough to ensure that a certain level of professionalism was present--otherwise the audience would refuse to pay/read/watch, and that high investment becomes a millstone. Websites don't have that finaicial risk, meaning less incentive to be professional.

Indeed. here are some reasons.

This new decision is from the Council, consisting of members nominally, but as we have seen not actually, responsible to their national parliaments.

Why the EU is so corrupt

Preventing the directive going ahead now is probably impossible. It would make more sense to get out of it by leaving the EU. If two countries were to leave, the whole edifice would probably collapse.

At this point, a blogger named PowerYogi posts the technique to his blog which can be found here. It seems to involve copying two identification numbers from a linked asp page to an unlinked asp page.

I dont know how many people here feel some kind of a Deja vu!
The U.S. Congress set us on this road in 1982, when it created a centralized appellate court for patent cases called the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. A decade later, Congress ordered that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), which up until then had been funded by tax revenues, instead fund itself through application and maintenance fees. Both changes were described as administrative and procedural rather than substantive.
From my thought store
So, it is certainly a bad idea!
Some improvements over the existing system should be thought about, rather than this.

O'Reilly has an article (appropriately titled "Not linking is not security") which includes a link to the detailed instructions for this "hack".

Basically, you scan the source of the page after login for your ID number and the security hash. Then you append that to your URL. The process is a whole seven steps and in the realm of nefarious hacks it's... neither.

this post is a step-by-step listing of the instructions.

And as this author also brings up, if someone tells you that personal and confidential information about your grad school application is unprotected on a public web server, would you be negligent not to check it out?

This is the blog of someone whom I am ... let's just say, "angry with right now." No, it has nothing to do with me directly, but suffice it to say some of the inflammatory (and retarded) logic this woman uses when she writes on her blog is extremely inflammatory to some people. Some of it WAS defammatory as well (we can prove that it was indeed false), but she has since removed the one snippett of evidence condemning her before I was able to mirror the offending content.

In any case, if any slashdotters what to have a fun time with a hyopcritical Christian who has upset me greatly, have at it! Yes, this is probably childish and stupid of me to incite such things via Slashdot, but hey, I need to vent my anger somewhere, and here is where everyone else seems to have fun doing so. I recommend reading the top 3-5 posts. Guaranteed a laugh, I promise.

Just recently Garrett Graf, who runs the political blog FishbowlDC, was granted access to the White House Press Briefing - the same thing Guckert/Gannon was maligned for attending without any "real" credentials.

Guckert/Gannon was not maligned for receiving a press pass. He was maligned for receiving a press pass using a false name, lying about his journalistic credentials, and lying about his involvement in illegal prostitution. All of this is well documented on blogs and legit news outlets.

(I don't want to step over the bounds into liberal conspiracy theories and bring up rsync with White House/GOPUSA press releases as "news", access to CIA Plume documents, and "go ahead Jeff" access to the press secretary and the President himself. Ooops. I just did.)

Funnily enough the precise reason I bought my MP3 player was to listen to quality radio programming from the BBC. I'm not into music that much, and far more interested in comedy and documentaries, which the BBC have in abundance on Radio2,4 and 7. Now I live in the States I'm actually listening to MORE radio than I ever did - all of it British - thank heavens for my stream-recording software. BBC's ListenAgain feature is wonderful.

"It seems like Netscape 8 has hit blogland, with generally positive review at blogspot.com...

The constitution finally gives the parliament teeth. At the moment the unelected commission can basically do what it likes, and the parliament has no power at all.

Nonsense. I suggest you read the actual constitution rather than swallowing the spin put forward by Bliar and his government. The changes in the power structures are minor and entirely cosmetic. The EU will remain as undemocratic as it has always been.

Slashdoters who are not aware of how the EU really operates should have a browse through this eurosceptic blog: http://www.eureferendum.blogspot.com/

they started off the day with a financials presentation, which was actually quite interesting. of course, i understand that they obviously will put a positive spin on everything, but the weight of the raw numbers is undeniable. both google's profits and revenue are growing at an unprecedented rate even while they are increasing their expenditures on capital and human resources. not to mention that google has been primarily focused on the u.s. market and is now turning their full attention to the global marketplace.

so after the interesting financials, the products team gave presentations reviewing product performance in 2004 and giving sneak peeks of the products we'll unveil in 2005. if you guys thought gmail and google groups were cool, you ain't seen nothing yet!

For those with extra hardware to run Astrerix@Home, consider running Folding@Home! ;-)

Most blogs seem quite lackluster and pointless; individuals use these online journals to post ramblings about their menial lives as though some great Internet audience waits on the edge of their seat for johnsmith348 to post the latest exciting update in the saga of his life on livejournal.com and will meet his every cutting comment with great applause.

Then there are these, these controversial blogs. There was one young woman who worked a government office job in Richmond who created an entire blog devoted to her sex-life and the politics of her job and what went on "under the table", to 'euphemize' it. Following the tsunami crisis, you have folks who play on the fame to harass victims of the tsunami and their families with sites such as "I Love Tsunamis", all using blogs to target the masses. Many people would argue that controversial content such as this should not be allowed to be published.

The only real reprocussion is that free speech is being taken to dramatic extremes on these blogs, like it or not.

One new iTunes feature that slipped by me was the new 'Apple Lossless Encoder'. Unlike music formats like MP3, AAC and Ogg Vorbis, lossless encoding results in no loss of quality - the music file sounds exactly like the original. The downside to this is that files compressed using lossless compression are typically quite a bit larger than their lossy counterparts. Now with this we can see great applications playing high quality audio. Thanks steve!! ---------Googel new feature: WEATHER, Read it on virtualkarma-------

The video game ratings system will add a new category to protect children under 10 from seeing certain kinds of violence, the board that administers the system said on Wednesday. The Entertainment Software Rating Board said ``E10+'' would mark games that might contain ``moderate amounts of cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, mild language and/or minimal suggestive themes.'' Link: http://virtualkarma.blogspot.com/2005/03/video-gam e-ratings-system-adds-new.html

The BBC is supposed to be anti-bias, but of course isn't in reality. There is an institutional left-wing bias, which although, not deliberate, certainly exists.
An independent inquiry http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4007449.stm recently found that the BBC had a pro-EU bias, which although not deliberate policy, manifested itself through not questioning certain assumptions.

This blog: http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ highlights how the BBC doesn't quite succeed in it's aim to be impartial.

And don't be confused by the fact that the BBC sees itself as being critical of the government of the day. Because the BBC may occasionally attack a Labour government, it doesn't mean that is no overall bias.

See Democrappy's analysis for more insight into the politics and neo-McCarthyism behind some of this.

Check out this article: http://downloadaborted.blogspot.com/

Do you remember an article on /. few days/weeks ago about possible slow demise of Microsoft? In his blog he writes: http://mark-lucovsky.blogspot.com/2005/02/shipping -software.html/ I would argue that Microsoft used to know how to ship software, but the world has changed...

I'm telling you man.. this is all about GooOS Link: http://virtualkarma.blogspot.com/2005/02/is-google -planning-gooos.html

Not that the FEC cares about RedCat19's livejournal opinion on Senator Kerry, but what about sites like Eschaton which for a long time had tens of thousands of readers knowing the owner only as 'Atrios'? Duncan Black didn't reveal his real name because of his employment. Certainly many bloggers don't want their employers to be able to search their political (or any other) opinions. How could the FEC regulate internet political content without forcing people to reveal their true names? Would they add people's blogs to those searchable databases of political donors? (Guess we'd finally be able to find out what percentage of bloggers are unemployed.)...

"In the once upon a time days of the First Age of Magic, the prudent sorcerer regarded his own true name as his most valued possession but also the greatest threat to his continued good health, for--the stories go--once an enemy, even a weak unskilled enemy, learned the sorcerer's true name, then routine and widely known spells could destroy or enslave even the most powerful. As times passed, and we graduated to the Age of Reason and thence to the first and second industrial revolutions, such notions were discredited. Now it seems that the Wheel has turned full circle (even if there never really was a First Age) and we are back to worrying about true names again:" Vinge

Ah, finally a story where a post about Natalie Portman will actually be on topic...

Wait, they don't mean that kind of internet body?

Drat.

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"Ooooooohhhh! Google might possibly at some point in the future hint at the potential release of an eventual press statement about the possibility of a new piece of software that might be distributed. I think I just wet myself with excitement!"

Google's working on a lot more than you think they are. You think they're going after Yahoo? Think bigger. They're aiming to topple Microsoft, and so far they're doing a good job. Think along the lines of client/server computing on a global scale and I think you'd be getting pretty close to what Google's trying to do. Don't say I didn't warn you...

what ever they looked at they do have a point. Here is one article that speaks about "Firefox false sense of security"... NOT a troll, I didnt write this article. Its from PCWorld.com This is pure information

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Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

Trust me. All this is heading towards Google OS

But I thought Windows was PROVEN by research to be safer than linux. Dont believe me? Read this article: windows safer then linux

Exactly, This does not tell us anything we did not know before. How many honeypot papers have told us this already.

It is sad that the internet has become so hostile. At work I connected one of our servers to a connection on the outside of our firewall for some remote support (didn't have the VPN papers signed yet). The moment that I enabled the nic, the server informed me that the RPC Service has failed and the computer will shut down.

I was foolish for not checking the patch levels. I assumed that someone else was on top of that. A mistake I will not make again. But home users have problems of their own. They don't know they have to keep it up patched. If I had my grandma running Linux, I would be the one patching it. What about converting all my friends and family to Linux. I would be so overwhelmed keeping each one current.

As it stands, I format, install XP /w SP2, change their user accounts to limited access, install spyware detection, antivirus, leave the firewall and automatic updates on, and finally put firefox on the desktop.

At the same time, I have to explain why XP is better than the 98 or ME that came with the computer, what SP2 is and why it takes so long, what a firewall is, what firefox is, why I created a special admin account for them to install stuff with and why the should never surf the web while logged into admin with the red background.

And if you are a slashdot regular, I am not telling you anything new. I should release this as a news story, but as we all know, this is not news. Its just the way it is.

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Kevin Marquette
antispyware

Exactly, This does not tell us anything we did not know before. How many honeypot papers have told us this already.

It is sad that the internet has become so hostile. At work I connected one of our servers to a connection on the outside of our firewall for some remote support (didn't have the VPN papers signed yet). The moment that I enabled the nic, the server informed me that the RPC Service has failed and the computer will shut down.

I was foolish for not checking the patch levels. I assumed that someone else was on top of that. A mistake I will not make again. But home users have problems of their own. They don't know they have to keep it up patched. If I had my grandma running Linux, I would be the one patching it. What about converting all my friends and family to Linux. I would be so overwhelmed keeping each one current.

As it stands, I format, install XP /w SP2, change their user accounts to limited access, install spyware detection, antivirus, leave the firewall and automatic updates on, and finally put firefox on the desktop.

At the same time, I have to explain why XP is better than the 98 or ME that came with the computer, what SP2 is and why it takes so long, what a firewall is, what firefox is, why I created a special admin account for them to install stuff with and why the should never surf the web while logged into admin with the red background.

And if you are a slashdot regular, I am not telling you anything new. I should release this as a news story, but as we all know, this is not news. Its just the way it is.

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Kevin Marquette
antispyware

You're probably mistaken about generator companies. There probably won't be all that many, unless they are maintaining the panels on the roofs of buildings and carports. If you put the generation right next to the points of use, you don't need any more transmission and distribution equipment and your capital costs go way, way down; the companies which sell power along with a contract to maintain a roof are going to beat the other guys, because they'll get their real-estate for free.

Note also that if the cost target can be hit (note that Nanosolar doesn't have any recent press releases, so take carefully) the cost minimum for electricity will not be late at night, but in the mid-morning when the panels hit their full output but demand for e.g. A/C hasn't come up yet. Expect new markets to come out of the opportunities for arbitrage.

And as long as morning juice is cheap, why not charge your car and replace some motor fuel?

Well, the technical knowledge is required of the CEO, but not deep down technical knowledge, like being able to parse Assembly code thrown out by debugger. Gerstner understood his business, and understoof the fact that engineers design stuff while sales people sell it.

I've read his book about his experience at IBM and most of it dealt with getting rid of middle layer (IBM had so many managers, that half of the time the secretaries of the managers would arrive at a meeting instead of the managers). Guess who else suffers from managerial overflow.

Also Gerstner started layoffs in groups that did not produce any valuable products and that grew enormously by hiring, but never delivering real results. Some smart people there, but not capable of delivering a 1.0. The layoffs caused lots of criticism.

So generally while technical knowledge is advised, more often than not it's the CEO's organizational skills and ability to spend X dollars to earn Y dollars where Y>X.

DEP actually can be evaded because it supplies no ASLR. If the attacker can reasonably know where some data exists in memory--particularly, his exploit and msvcrt.dll for memcpy() and VirtualAlloc()--he can basically switch DEP off during an attack. Believe it or not, this is pretty easy if everything is in the same place every program run.

Fortunately in Linux we have PaX, which supplies much better protection than W^X, Exec Shield, or DEP with "competetive" (i.e. comparable, potentially lower; it can actually viably compete) compatibility. Red Hat of course has convinced the GCC devs to make GCC mark everything to have an executable stack if the compiler is at all not sure that it can operate without one; but PaX ignores that and still only "breaks" a few packages (and nVidia's glx).

PaX, GrSecurity, IBM's SSP (ProPolice), and PIE executable binaries should pave the future on Linux; but people are trying so hard to avoid them. It's not even much work to maintain a distro using those.

DEP is basically like vanilla Linux on AMD64.

Gerard of Linux from Scratch is my Open Source Hero! He thought me how to make my own Linux Distro and the support he provides by jumping into the list and patienty and accurately identifying the problem was too good. Once I got a reply from him over the mistake I had made, I felt certain that problem is gonna solve now. WIth so far I have observed Gerard has been very friendly, understanding. Some Linux guys are not so humble with their Linux undertakings and they tend to believe that they are doing some thing great and enterprenual. But being simple,.helping and enjoying are the things which we linux folks want.

License plates say it better

Wikipedia is biased. This doesn't mean that they deliberately falsify information, that's not what "bias" means. What it does mean is that the the presentation of facts in Wikipedia is not politically neutral. I can't tell whether this bias comes from the collective political leanings of the editor community, or is merely an emergent phenomena of medium. But it is there.

Two recent blogs take a look at this. Of course, these blogs are also biased, but at least they admit it! Sometimes you need a bias on the right to point out the bias on the left. Since this is a recent issue on the right leaning blogs, expect the left leaning blogs to find biases in the opposite direction next week.

The first blog from a week ago is from Kesher Talk, which includes several examples of the bias. The other is from yesterday from Done With Mirrors, also mentioned on Instapundit. Edits to correct the biases in stories are being rejected! Trivialities are being magnified. A claim of controversy on a neutral fact will taint it and keep it out of a story.

Wikipedia needs to stop claiming it is objective and unbiased, because it's simply isn't true.

Hmm.. as a Musician I totally understand you, I just finally paid off my wells fargo credit card. IMHO

BofA #1 for sucking (they lost 5 g's of my parents money because they "transfered it wrong", we eventually got the money back, but it was "unaccounted for" for almost a month.

Wells Fargo #2 for sucking. They prey on recent immigrants, gave me a 3 thousand dollar limit CC even though I had no credit history, and routinely charged me late fee when I mailed the payment two weeks before it was due (Utah to California doesn't take two weeks). And offer no other way to pay it. So I'll be cutting up their card right after I call and cancel it (I can't wait!)

Honestly if you have the chance, stick to a local credit union, they're just alot better

http://overwhelmedblue.blogspot.com/

I can't even get my own links correct, how sad is that.

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Kevin Marquette
Antispyware

I can't even get my own links correct, how sad is that.

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Kevin Marquette
Antispyware

Oh Cr*p,
I can see it now.

Gator like spyware injecting flash adds on the client side.

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flash based spyware

There are plenty of good blogs by physicists, and programmers that I read regularly. I have learned about functional programming languages worth learning from them; about some interesting physics articles, etc.

It is hard to find the good blogs, of course, but once one has found one, he can go on via their blogrolls.

Some good blogs: Bruce Eckel's On the Thought, physicist Jacques Distler's Musings, Lambda the Ultimate: The Programming Languages' Weblog, cosmologist Sean Carroll's Preposterous Universe, etc.

There are plenty of good blogs by physicists, and programmers that I read regularly. I have learned about functional programming languages worth learning from them; about some interesting physics articles, etc.

It is hard to find the good blogs, of course, but once one has found one, he can go on via their blogrolls.

Some good blogs: Bruce Eckel's On the Thought, physicist Jacques Distler's Musings, Lambda the Ultimate: The Programming Languages' Weblog, cosmologist Sean Carroll's Preposterous Universe, etc.

Well, Lycoris is pretty restrictive. But then, it was developed by a former Microsoft employee...