Both Google and Yahoo! are supporting Wikipedia by providing hosting. Let's take a look at how a plain old hosting provider may influence its customers: http://www.verio.com/about/legal/aup.cfm
Note in particular: Other Activities -- Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that Verio determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.
Since Yahoo and Google are donating hosting, you could argue that they might hold even greater influence over Wikipedia (i.e. we're giving this to you for free so you have to play by all our rules).
I assume that Wikipedia's position is that since they will diversify across several donors, if one becomes too restrictive, the content in question could be moved to services provided by a different donnor.
For example, if Wikipedia had an article which put Google's search technology in a better light than Yahoo!, then Yahoo! might not want to have a part in hosting those articles. But because Wikipedia gets hosting donated from multiple sources, it could just move the offending material to a host not provided by Yahoo!
slashing the division's 2006 budget by nearly one-third -- from $75 million to $53 million.
Well, I guess every million counts. I wonder how that $4 million per year is spent? Could they go into a cost saving
mode (below the 10 full time staff they have working with the probe now) where they basically just collected data from the probe and stashed it for later study or does this thing need
to be actively managed to remain useful?
The non-sense is the frequency with which things have changed over the last decade or so. If you only drove around down there a couple of times a year (i.e. going to the airport, sporting event, etc) you would be faced with a new set of detours and re-routings every time. The signage was flacky at best. If everything stabalized, it shouldn't be too hard to drive through.
If you look around the country for major interstates coming together in downtown areas, you'll find plenty that are just as complicated as the one I linked in grandparent.
Incidently, in that photo, you can also see a swath of ground open for tunel construction. Once the big dig is completed things should at least stabalize (in theory). That doesn't meen there won't be things like the south bay interchange
It looks like Mass is the only state that they have full res on all the grid squares. Makes the place look like a baren wasteland along political lines...which is kind of funny.
When we played l33t wars in college Opera was the browser of choice for this very reason.
As I remember it, in the game, you get points for every turn you spend with certain gansters. You can also buy gansters in any quantity by "spending" the requisite number of turns...but it didn't "compound the interest", so your best bet would be to buy these things one at a time (instead of thousands at a time).
Anyway, we'd load up the form, submit it once and then put a stapler on F5 and go to dinner.
Then I wrote a script to automate all that, as well as play time the market on the drug trades. I made it so anyone in my gang could sign up for automanage by entering their account info on my website.
Then we all got kicked off for cheating. But it was fun while it lasted. Looks like the thing is still around too.
My alma mater offered several classes in game development with the goal of offering a variation of the CS major for game development. I imagine there are courses like those at many universities. Is it not "official" education until you can get a degree in the field?
What I just did with google maps is something that I don't _think_ you can do (at least as easily) with the others. Last year I went to an Indian restaurant that I liked...but I'd forgotten the name an location. I knew that it was near the Cambridgeside Galleria (mall), so I started my search by typing that in. The first pushpin thing was a match, so I zoomed in to get myself a nice big map of that part of cambridge. I then typed "Restaurants" as my search and the pushpins repopulated with all the restaurants in the area. Bingo, found it, quick and easy. Google was kind enough to also point me to a number of review sites and the like.
My experience with mapquest is that it is very finicky about what you search for, and will only accept very well formed addresses and intersections. Of course Mapquest's big business is in liscensing their tech. It will be interesting to see if Google does this also, and how the market is affected.
Finally an online mapping application that gives us a BIG window...if they could get good vector based printing to work, they could do away with those multi-cd desktop mapping apps.
I am aware of this argument, but it doesn't make much sense. People should want to switch to a different OS because it makes it easier to do everything they want. The only thing that needs to be copied from the windows world is the functionality (as a baseline): does it make it easy/possible to accomplish XYZ (from true OS tasks like getting new hardware up and running to application support like web browsing).
The interface to doing these things is stagnant, and in many areas a poor copy of the explorer interface. Yes, there are some concepts within the interface that will be the same from one environment to the next, but the people designing these things need to grow some balls and try to innovate themselves. It seems like the major graphical shells that run on Linux followed the design strategy of "when in doubt, copy windows"...the result is a tangled mish-mash that isn't particularly easy to use or intuitive.
As I hinted in a reply to sibling-post, my views were more desktop OS centric. Desktop should not need an admin because home users simply shouldn't have to think that hard to have a secure/stable computing environment. I don't really know why anyone would use a Windows box for much more than an active directory server on a LAN.
Perhaps my level of success with Windows is an artifact of lowered expectations...not in terms of security, but in terms of what you can do with it and still have it be secure. My Windows machines live behind a couple layers of firewall, and have most services shut off...I relegate the job of serving things to the public Internet to the Linux box (which also make extensive use of firewalls as a first line of defense).
IIS, IE, SMB... these aren't things I would want exposed to the public internet (incidentaly we run some intranet apps on IIS->IE, but the public site is running apache with all but the esentials turned off).
THANK YOU! I'm not a MS fanboy or anything, but this is a very good point. A well configured, well patched Windows machine (especially a server) isn't going to be very vulnerable. The same can be said of Linux. Further, an unpatched, poorly configured Windows machine will drop dead very quickly, and the same can be said for Linux. You might even argue that a talentless admin would have an _easier_ time securing up a Windows machine (since sever 2003, anyway, where all services shipped off).
Yes, there seem to be a lot more exploits found for Windows, and yes an unpatched windows box will probably drop dead _faster_ than a similarly out of date linux box, but a lot of this can be attributed to market penetration.
"We use these accounts to communicate with you folks, view internet sites, and conduct other non-sensitive bureau business such as sending out press releases," Special Agent Steve Lazarus, the FBI's media coordinator in Atlanta, said in an e-mail describing the problem.
He went on to say, "This b0x p0wn3d by daHax0r2000"
For such an un-inovative product, there sure seem to be a lot of desktop environments for Linux that like to copy Explorer prety completely. That's saying nothing of the underlying OS...but your shell is an important thing...at least when it comes to convincing people to switch OSs
My exact thoughts on being rooted. Its also another reason to have every one of your root passwords different.
I used to have fewer compartments, but my UNIX password at school was the same as my banking passwords and my school's server got rooted (in fact the attacker ran the rootkit from my account)...so that password got compromised and I had to change it in all the banks, etc...
In other news, the official layman's unit for measuring silicon is now beer bottles, joining football fields as the lay unit of length and football stadiums as the lay unit of volume.
I compartmentalize my passwords. And I rotate what password fits into any given compartment.
So the compartments, from most to least secure: -root on a machine (different for every account) -user accounts (for the Windows and *NIX machines I log onto) -email systems -financial sites -shopping sites (i.e. that store credit cards) -forums, etc... (sites for which I assume the jow schmoe admin can see my password in cleartext)
I generally rotate in a new password every year or two. So even if you r00t me, you still can't get into my bank account...for that you need to r00t my bank;)
The end of the world will come about as the CAPTCHA designers and bot writers go back and forth until the bot writers create a fully sensient AI that takes over the world and enslaves us all. Get over it.
Saying that one mouse button is less confusing is great (and probably true), but a) I don't think wheels are confusing, and they are very useful, yet absent from Apple mice
b) The Command, option and ctrl keys on the (mac) keyboard are each at least as confusing as another mouse button.
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Both Google and Yahoo! are supporting Wikipedia by providing hosting. Let's take a look at how a plain old hosting provider may influence its customers:
http://www.verio.com/about/legal/aup.cfm
Note in particular:
Other Activities -- Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that Verio determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.
Since Yahoo and Google are donating hosting, you could argue that they might hold even greater influence over Wikipedia (i.e. we're giving this to you for free so you have to play by all our rules).
I assume that Wikipedia's position is that since they will diversify across several donors, if one becomes too restrictive, the content in question could be moved to services provided by a different donnor.
For example, if Wikipedia had an article which put Google's search technology in a better light than Yahoo!, then Yahoo! might not want to have a part in hosting those articles. But because Wikipedia gets hosting donated from multiple sources, it could just move the offending material to a host not provided by Yahoo!
Not to be confused with Paramount ending the 10-year old Voyager program -- that happened three years ago.
slashing the division's 2006 budget by nearly one-third -- from $75 million to $53 million.
Well, I guess every million counts. I wonder how that $4 million per year is spent? Could they go into a cost saving
mode (below the 10 full time staff they have working with the probe now) where they basically just collected data from the probe and stashed it for later study or does this thing need
to be actively managed to remain useful?
The non-sense is the frequency with which things have changed over the last decade or so. If you only drove around down there a couple of times a year (i.e. going to the airport, sporting event, etc) you would be faced with a new set of detours and re-routings every time. The signage was flacky at best. If everything stabalized, it shouldn't be too hard to drive through.
If you look around the country for major interstates coming together in downtown areas, you'll find plenty that are just as complicated as the one I linked in grandparent.
Incidently, in that photo, you can also see a swath of ground open for tunel construction. Once the big dig is completed things should at least stabalize (in theory). That doesn't meen there won't be things like the south bay interchange
When google maps launched, I enjoyed taking advantage of the high zoom to look at absurd interchanges. Now in reality vision
Reply with your favorite confusing-as-hell-and-the-map-doesn't-help interchanges.
It looks like Mass is the only state that they have full res on all the grid squares. Makes the place look like a baren wasteland along political lines...which is kind of funny.
We know the warp ship won't be built until _after_ WWIII
When we played l33t wars in college Opera was the browser of choice for this very reason.
As I remember it, in the game, you get points for every turn you spend with certain gansters. You can also buy gansters in any quantity by "spending" the requisite number of turns...but it didn't "compound the interest", so your best bet would be to buy these things one at a time (instead of thousands at a time).
Anyway, we'd load up the form, submit it once and then put a stapler on F5 and go to dinner.
Then I wrote a script to automate all that, as well as play time the market on the drug trades. I made it so anyone in my gang could sign up for automanage by entering their account info on my website.
Then we all got kicked off for cheating. But it was fun while it lasted. Looks like the thing is still around too.
Right, so have you read about arch?
My alma mater offered several classes in game development with the goal of offering a variation of the CS major for game development. I imagine there are courses like those at many universities. Is it not "official" education until you can get a degree in the field?
http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Majors/IMGD/
What I just did with google maps is something that I don't _think_ you can do (at least as easily) with the others. Last year I went to an Indian restaurant that I liked...but I'd forgotten the name an location. I knew that it was near the Cambridgeside Galleria (mall), so I started my search by typing that in. The first pushpin thing was a match, so I zoomed in to get myself a nice big map of that part of cambridge. I then typed "Restaurants" as my search and the pushpins repopulated with all the restaurants in the area. Bingo, found it, quick and easy. Google was kind enough to also point me to a number of review sites and the like.
My experience with mapquest is that it is very finicky about what you search for, and will only accept very well formed addresses and intersections. Of course Mapquest's big business is in liscensing their tech. It will be interesting to see if Google does this also, and how the market is affected.
Finally an online mapping application that gives us a BIG window...if they could get good vector based printing to work, they could do away with those multi-cd desktop mapping apps.
I am aware of this argument, but it doesn't make much sense. People should want to switch to a different OS because it makes it easier to do everything they want. The only thing that needs to be copied from the windows world is the functionality (as a baseline): does it make it easy/possible to accomplish XYZ (from true OS tasks like getting new hardware up and running to application support like web browsing).
The interface to doing these things is stagnant, and in many areas a poor copy of the explorer interface. Yes, there are some concepts within the interface that will be the same from one environment to the next, but the people designing these things need to grow some balls and try to innovate themselves. It seems like the major graphical shells that run on Linux followed the design strategy of "when in doubt, copy windows"...the result is a tangled mish-mash that isn't particularly easy to use or intuitive.
My base 32 encoding system is alredy patent pending, and it knocks the socks off base 30.
As I hinted in a reply to sibling-post, my views were more desktop OS centric. Desktop should not need an admin because home users simply shouldn't have to think that hard to have a secure/stable computing environment. I don't really know why anyone would use a Windows box for much more than an active directory server on a LAN.
Perhaps my level of success with Windows is an artifact of lowered expectations...not in terms of security, but in terms of what you can do with it and still have it be secure. My Windows machines live behind a couple layers of firewall, and have most services shut off...I relegate the job of serving things to the public Internet to the Linux box (which also make extensive use of firewalls as a first line of defense).
... these aren't things I would want exposed to the public internet (incidentaly we run some intranet apps on IIS->IE, but the public site is running apache with all but the esentials turned off).
IIS, IE, SMB
THANK YOU! I'm not a MS fanboy or anything, but this is a very good point. A well configured, well patched Windows machine (especially a server) isn't going to be very vulnerable. The same can be said of Linux. Further, an unpatched, poorly configured Windows machine will drop dead very quickly, and the same can be said for Linux. You might even argue that a talentless admin would have an _easier_ time securing up a Windows machine (since sever 2003, anyway, where all services shipped off).
Yes, there seem to be a lot more exploits found for Windows, and yes an unpatched windows box will probably drop dead _faster_ than a similarly out of date linux box, but a lot of this can be attributed to market penetration.
"We use these accounts to communicate with you folks, view internet sites, and conduct other non-sensitive bureau business such as sending out press releases," Special Agent Steve Lazarus, the FBI's media coordinator in Atlanta, said in an e-mail describing the problem.
He went on to say, "This b0x p0wn3d by daHax0r2000"
For such an un-inovative product, there sure seem to be a lot of desktop environments for Linux that like to copy Explorer prety completely. That's saying nothing of the underlying OS...but your shell is an important thing...at least when it comes to convincing people to switch OSs
That reminds me of that excelent IBM ad with Avery Brooks (Ben Sisko on DS9):
"How many libraries of congress per second can your network handle?"
My exact thoughts on being rooted. Its also another reason to have every one of your root passwords different.
I used to have fewer compartments, but my UNIX password at school was the same as my banking passwords and my school's server got rooted (in fact the attacker ran the rootkit from my account)...so that password got compromised and I had to change it in all the banks, etc...
In other news, the official layman's unit for measuring silicon is now beer bottles, joining football fields as the lay unit of length and football stadiums as the lay unit of volume.
I compartmentalize my passwords. And I rotate what password fits into any given compartment.
;)
So the compartments, from most to least secure:
-root on a machine (different for every account)
-user accounts (for the Windows and *NIX machines I log onto)
-email systems
-financial sites
-shopping sites (i.e. that store credit cards)
-forums, etc... (sites for which I assume the jow schmoe admin can see my password in cleartext)
I generally rotate in a new password every year or two. So even if you r00t me, you still can't get into my bank account...for that you need to r00t my bank
The end of the world will come about as the CAPTCHA designers and bot writers go back and forth until the bot writers create a fully sensient AI that takes over the world and enslaves us all. Get over it.
Saying that one mouse button is less confusing is great (and probably true), but
a) I don't think wheels are confusing, and they are very useful, yet absent from Apple mice
b) The Command, option and ctrl keys on the (mac) keyboard are each at least as confusing as another mouse button.