Reminds me of the phrase "Google is the death of DNS". Who cares what the URL of a page is, as long as it has the desired content? Right?
Plus, since Google has been integrated into Firefox's address bar as an automatic "I Feel Lucky", people who lazily type "yahoo" rather than "http://www.yahoo.com/" are influencing the results.
The story was first brought to light by Slashdot on Saturday.
Um...what did Slashdot have to do with it? It looks like this fellow started complaining on Friday:
http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21
Obi-Wan: "The article that I'm looking for should be right..." (points at screen) "here."
Librarian: "If an article is not on Slashdot, then it does not exist." (Turns abruptly and walks away)
> the primary benefit for Oracle is that they'll be able to offer bundled support with people who already have Oracle support and want the convenience of dealing with one company for all their support needs
This is not a trivial point.
Brand recognition goes a long way when a company is shopping for support. Companies that already pay for Oracle support might be very willing to tack-on MySQL support from them, rather than to establish a new relationship with MySQL.
Also, since Oracle will be distributing the MySQL database themselves, the unsuspecting middle-manager might think that "MySQL" is just another Oracle offering, or component of their architecture. It's the old "bundled with" implies "created by" heuristic.
> Once a person is a "person of interest", then allow them to keep going, but track them closely.
And that is precisely why I will not purchase content which is watermarked - I'd hate to be put on one of those McCarthy-esque "person of interest" lists.
You might - if you can find an available XSS vulnerability to use as a vector. TFA assumes this blithely for the sake of demonstration, but it's a big assumption.
Further, the slashdot summary suggests that Prototyping is a design flaw in JavaScript/ECMAScript. This wrong for two reasons:
The article doesn't mention this.
Prototyping is not a design flaw.
Prototyping is a very useful language feature that can be used to do all sorts of things that would otherwise be cumbersome or impossible. Ruby is a prototyped language - a feature which is responsible for much of the 'magic' of Rails.
The article does outline a number of Ajax related vulnerabilities, but like most vulnerabilities, they can be mitigated or avoided entirely if paid attention to - much like the SQL injections of old.
Arguing that Prototyping or Ajax makes JavaScript unsafe is fud. These are powerful language features that (like any powerful feature) can be used for evil if an injection mechanism is available.
If you have trouble connecting from any of those locations, please send the tech department an email describing the issue. Or alternatively, join the Avis's #nosignal IRC channel.
Who cares what the mods think? Just keep posting what YOU think.
<sarcasm> You must be new here. Let me be the first to welcome you... </sarcasm>
But seriously - with the majority of readers ignoring anything with a rating of less than +4 or +5, what's the point of making a comment that has no chance of being moderated up?
Slashdot Mirror
Reminds me of the phrase "Google is the death of DNS". Who cares what the URL of a page is, as long as it has the desired content? Right?
Plus, since Google has been integrated into Firefox's address bar as an automatic "I Feel Lucky", people who lazily type "yahoo" rather than "http://www.yahoo.com/" are influencing the results.
Librarian: "If an article is not on Slashdot, then it does not exist." (Turns abruptly and walks away)
> the primary benefit for Oracle is that they'll be able to offer bundled support with people who already have Oracle support and want the convenience of dealing with one company for all their support needs
This is not a trivial point.
Brand recognition goes a long way when a company is shopping for support. Companies that already pay for Oracle support might be very willing to tack-on MySQL support from them, rather than to establish a new relationship with MySQL.
Also, since Oracle will be distributing the MySQL database themselves, the unsuspecting middle-manager might think that "MySQL" is just another Oracle offering, or component of their architecture. It's the old "bundled with" implies "created by" heuristic.
Google Image search still works just fine
That's what she said.
> Once a person is a "person of interest", then allow them to keep going, but track them closely.
And that is precisely why I will not purchase content which is watermarked - I'd hate to be put on one of those McCarthy-esque "person of interest" lists.
I really liked GATTACA
(Well, back when it was just a movie that is.)
Further, the slashdot summary suggests that Prototyping is a design flaw in JavaScript/ECMAScript. This wrong for two reasons:
- The article doesn't mention this.
- Prototyping is not a design flaw.
Prototyping is a very useful language feature that can be used to do all sorts of things that would otherwise be cumbersome or impossible. Ruby is a prototyped language - a feature which is responsible for much of the 'magic' of Rails.The article does outline a number of Ajax related vulnerabilities, but like most vulnerabilities, they can be mitigated or avoided entirely if paid attention to - much like the SQL injections of old.
Arguing that Prototyping or Ajax makes JavaScript unsafe is fud. These are powerful language features that (like any powerful feature) can be used for evil if an injection mechanism is available.
If you have trouble connecting from any of those locations, please send the tech department an email describing the issue. Or alternatively, join the Avis's #nosignal IRC channel.
If Wikipedia ever finds itself with too many editors, this would be a way to get rid of a bunch.
Kinda. More like:
"If Wikipedia ever finds itself with too many ethical editors, this would be a way to get rid of a bunch, while keeping the rest."
There is an eBay API.
Ah, but can I buy a Google API Key on eBay now that they're not being given away? Preliminary searches indicate 'no'.
Who cares what the mods think? Just keep posting what YOU think.
<sarcasm> You must be new here. Let me be the first to welcome you ... </sarcasm>
But seriously - with the majority of readers ignoring anything with a rating of less than +4 or +5, what's the point of making a comment that has no chance of being moderated up?
Whoa dude, the Luddite movement ended like 200 years ago
We all want our children to live a better life than we do today
But what about us?
... just to help M$ bottom line.
I think you mean the top line.
Well, we know there's at least one first person shooter.
People don't read stuff.
OMG! Pirates! This'll teach those Ninjas good!
(About halfway through the video they start playing the Curse of Black Pearl theme song).
Apparently kissing does make it better.
"meh" with a shrug
No, it doesn't provide x-ray vision. They'd require a cure for head-in-ass-edness first.
Please mod parent up: +1 hilarious
I got mine back in '93. There was only 1 software engineering class, the rest was math, hardware/circuits, or programming.
I got mine back in '04. Same thing, only 1 SE class, but less programming then what you describe - to my horror and dismay.
I felt a great disturbance in the Tubes, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
> surely people will start producing sites that match exactly what it wants to see in order to get traffic
This already happens - in fact, there are companies that will help you do it (for a fee). Hittail for one example.
I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.