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Sites Wary of Adopting P3P
technogamy writes: "CNN is reporting on the industry's take on P3P, the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences.According to the article, the W3C is expected by April to formally adopt P3P -- of course, as many of you are aware, Microsoft's IE6 already includes an implementation of the client side of P3P. 'Because Microsoft's browser checks for P3P, sites risk getting flagged if they don't adopt it.' P3Pizing (or 'pethripizing') a complex site can evolve into a Herculean task...! (See also EPIC's critique of P3P.)"
Nobody is using it. Oh, and fp.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it wll be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying
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I've decided to retire the "Lunar82" identity.
Because I can't simply delete it, I have decided to
make it available to the public. The password is as follows. 123456789
Do what you want with it, I don't care.
Please talk to me
I am looking for a girlfriend.
If you have the same hobbies like me, it could be lovely! I love anime, sci-fi and gourmet home cooking.
I don't care much about looks, as long as you're not a monster, but I rather not go out with you if you are: fat, hairy, melancholic, depressing, over-sarcastic or a bad person.
If you think you comply, then answer this comment. Thank you.
PS: WTF is P3P? Why don't they explain? I'm too tired at this time of the night to browse for this thingie, goddamnit. Can't you add a little explanation?
My mom is a dog. My sister had sex with 100000 guys. In the same night.
Please talk to me
Yeah biatchez!
Holla out to all dem biatchez. w00t! w00t
Who moded me down?!?!?
:) I didn't lose karma! It's so cute.
That's so unfair! My posting was certainly on-topic.
I believe I deserve to have a girlfriend. Hmm.. but tell you what, I'm so happy that I used that "post anonymously" box.
You know what's annyoing, though? I made the topic with underscore, especially so that I'd be able to search for that comment later, but it seems that I can't search for comments with the underscore sign. The dumb search of slashdot converts the underscore into a space.
Anyway, I'm off to sleep. Good night!
Regards,
Trey Parker.
whether MS's browser monopoly is legal or not, this shows the hidden costs of monopolies in general. A lot of webpage serving is done on *nix boxes running apache -- machines that could surf the websites they're serving, because IE isn't available on that platform -- and because MS's monopoly of browsers (even fucking slashdot shows most readers use IE,) this puts MS in a powerful position to dictate what they consider important and proper. This isn't even about money, although I'm sure it'll cost a lot of money to pay to get various sites to comply, this is about effort and choices. As a webmaster, I don't want someone else dictating when I have to change my site's design, and I certainly don't want someone telling me that I have to do something. This is probably just the contrarian in me, and for all I know, p3p is the wave of the future and The One True Way and I'm a fool for not having done it already, but hey, it's my website and I'd like to fucking make decisions all on my own, thanks anyway, MS.
Support alternate browsers (like opera and mozilla,) if you're a Windows user.
FreeBSD for the impatient.