In order to tell Omniture not to do anything on my machine, I have to give Omniture access to my machine. What sort of half-assed policy is this?
There are two alternatives. Either Omniture has some way of identifying your machine remotely without your assistance (say, a static IP with your computer having a public IP), and, beyond that, such a method was guaranteed to work across all users, or your machine has to tell them to buzz off. (The third option of making the system opt-in has similar issues of needing to query your machine for the presence of a cookie, but then the parent post would be railing about them talking to his machine without his permission.)
I believe I can safely appeal to community concensus that a permenent public way to ID a specific computer on the internet would be bad. Hence, we are left with cookies. Note, that the page you are visiting assumes that you are already connecting to Omniture's tracking server. So the solution is never to connect, but then it's not really Omniture's problem now is it?
Do the XP/Vista firewalls ask you the first time an app like this tries to make an outbound connection? Can you set them to or do you need to install a 3rd party firewall?
In XP it is either on by default or I turned it on so long ago I forgot how. I believe you can also give blanket permission for any app to use a specific port for UDP or TCP transmission. I think you can even combine these (Adobe can use port XXX because that is how I get updates, but not YYY because that connects to marketing.)
I wouldn't be surprised if it was off by default. The vast majority of windows security holes seem to be based on bad default settings.
I use a 3rd party firewall now, so maybe it changed since I used it last however.
Isn't it a tad tacky for NewYorkCountryLawyer to submit an article that quotes him in the text? I suppose, this being Slashdot, that no one will end up reading the article.
And NYCL, this wasn't meant as a dig. And, I was glad to get your opinion in the article.
Better CPU, more RAM, tuner (if the tuner takes non-coax input), Windows license (I think you can "downgrade" for free to XP). Plus, doesn't the Dell have a Bluray drive?
In truth, I would *buy* neither, instead buying the components. Given the choice between the two I would prefer the Dell. However, if I'm buying a machine that's hard to upgrade because it's all built into a monitor, it better have a keyboard and battery built in.
You can buy a Mac and if you hate OS X, you can just install Windows or Linux. You can't install OS X after you realized Windows Vista sucks on your brand new Dell.
I already know I don't like OS X. Go beyond that, really dislike it. I may be the only person in the world who would even prefer Vista to OS X. And since the question is which would you get, I'll take the Dell.
I know, I know, I'm supposed to salivate over OS X. But I don't.
If he posts on Slashdot, there is a good chance he doesn't allow 3rd party cookies or even referer-logging. So other than IP address, how would they know?
Once I figured out that Google only payed per click not per view, I started randomly clicking an add for the sites that I liked to support them. I've also clicked on interesting think geek items.
If you click on an ad for a website you liked, you just charged them money. They pay to serve you the ad, and when you click on it, because they are the advertisers.
On the other hand, if you click on the ads at a website you liked, then they generate money.
Think of the sites like TV stations. You wouldn't watch ads for Fox on ABC to support Fox, because ad revenue is based on viewers. You would watch ads for whatever on Fox.
Wired is reporting that information overload is being predicted by some analysts as the problem of the year for 2008.
This will be more than offset by the time-saving switch to Linux (2008, year of Linux on the Desktop!). A much bigger issue will be the distraction of playing Duke Nukem Forever. And all this is assuming the tubes of the internets don't burst from the exaflood. Lastly, all this will only be a problem until June when the Roombas take over the earth and sweep us all into neat little piles. I'm hoping to get swept next to Natalie Portman covered in grits.
Titanium is the only metal hydrogen peroxide reacts with.
Other than hydrogen peroxide breaking down in sunlight/over time and being used as one of the components in rocket fuel, there is also the matter that iron is an effective catalyist. Which is why hydrogen peroxide foams when you put it in a cut (red blood cells). Thank you 9th grade biology!
If I don't want you to video tape it, then copyright would be on my side.
Actually, it's anti-bootlegging laws that would be on your side. Copyrights only apply to works that have been "fixed", which, as I understand it, is pretty much any method of recording it (although the copyright would only apply to the fixed version.)
He patented a method of convincing business majors to fund the building of a statue by assuring that the exclusive rights to sell souvineers will be worth the onetime cost of construction...
You should prefer to listen to music created by ethical people who respect you (and this respect is shown with a licence such as Creative Commons).
Can the bullshit. Creative Commons is about giving up intellectual property rights because you feel the copyright system is broken. It has nothing to do with ethics. Some artists choose to retain their rights, some don't. The ones who don't show respect are the ones who hide rootkits on their CDs. Heck, I'm not even convinced if DRM (if clearly labeled at purchase time) is a morally bad thing to do, but I'm still on the fence about that.
I once knew a band... they went to a big record company and gave them their music to listen... the manager then told them "kids, you are good, but this music won't sell as it is - if you change it in such and such way we can discuss a contract". The band disagreed and told all their friends how bad the big companies are. They don't just select the good bands, they actively force the bands to change their music
Oh no, a company tried to make money. It must be an evil conspiracy!!!
Companies don't make art, they make products. Sometimes a product is art, sometimes art is a product, but usually they don't go together.
Also, being forced to work within constraints often produces superior art.
there is nothing wrong with making money in some way as well. I don't say that all music should be gratis (no pay). I say that it is more human and more genuine to give it under a free licence, outside the large buareucracies of RIAA et al, and then accept donations, or sell some other sort of product associated with the music.
Very generous of you. I don't see why musicians shouldn't get paid for their music, as opposed to begging for support or selling t-shirts.
Lenny comes up with the best idea. Traffic lights only have red and yellow, no green. Traffic is speeded up immensely.
It was Lindsay Lohan who came up with the idea ("We discovered that people drive fastest through yellow lights..."). Lenny, not understanding why he was going so fast, said, "I'm making record time today... if only I had somewhere to be."
Absinthe seems like one of those "kind of questionable" things just like internet gambling was 7-8 years ago. (Enforced rarely and made illegal by virtue of re-interpretation/application of an old law.)
The NYTimes just had an article about how Absinthe was thought to be one of those "kind of questionable things" but the law that made it illegal was overturned as part of a more massive anti-prohibition law. So many people thought it was technically illegal, but in reality it was fine.
On many of these electrics, you do need to plug-in to get your initial charge. Isn't that causing just as much, if not more, pollution than burning oil locally?
Actually, you probably burn less coal than what is needed to distill the gas from the crude. Add that to the fact that you are centralizing the problem, so that cleaning filters/optimizations/alternative power generation has to be done once, and you get huge wins.
Network LOD? They do some nice things with voice over network and reliability, but still most of the work is for the coders.
The network LOD was a server based technology to limit the packets sent, not a new protocol. The demo was for fast-paced games. Game servers often spam packets to their clients, which limits the total number in an FPS to 8, 16, or 32. They took an old version of Unreal (so the network would be the bottleneck), and showed their technology allowing 150+ clients in a single match at reasonable framerates as opposed to the 1-3 FPS it ran out without network LOD.
Basically, the server sends updates most frequently about objects that impact the player more, with the end result being fewer packets and similar experience.
The traditional protection afforded to journalists' sources exists to ensure that information which is important to, or which impacts the public good will be brought to light. But in this case the information does not serve any high and lofty public purpose: this isn't Watergate or the Pentagon Papers, it's some company's product lineup.
The quickest way to lose civil rights is to allow the government to decide who qualifies for them. Hence, the ACLU defending the scum of the earth. I mean, the KKK is not making any kind of point that we would recognize as being furthering intellectual discourse or whatever the justification you think is the reason for free speech.
if you're going to wrap yourself in the Constitution, you need to go to the judge with something better than "Well, we really only did it because we can, and because we thought it'd be cool."
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. You should consult a lawyer!
As far as selling the code, there are two primary concerns. One is legal and a question of rights. The other is a practical matter. Pretty much any method of releasing your source to someone to study will necessitate giving copies of the code away for free. So there is a practical concern that people would aquire your code in that manner and thus the market would be eliminated. Even if you are not concerned about this possibility, if you are trying to get another party to license/sell it for you, then they may be concerned. The other concern you seem to have expressed is a concern that releasing it under a license will prevent you from releasing it under a different license. Most licenses, such as the creative commons ones, are nonexclusive. This means you can release your code in two different ways, although people will have the option to choose either one. So the license you will use so that people can learn will have to be unattractive enough to people who want to use the plugin will pay instead.
What may have confused you about the dual-licensing is the irrevokability of a license. Basically, once you give me a copy of the code with a license, you cannot take it back. If the license you give it to me under allows me to give it to other people, you can never prevent me from doing so. Some licenses can be revoked if the terms are broken, but some cannot.
As far as licenses go, I'm not sure which may interest you. You do not want to make your software free, so those are out. The problem is that most freely available licenses on the internet presume that people can distribute your code for noncommerical purposes (at least). Really, all you are interested in is the ability to use your code as educational material, not as a project in and of itself. I would recommend you look at the non-free licenses section. You also may want to look at the Qt Free Edition License. The last option may be the creative commons sampling plus license. The creative commons website expressly recommends against using it for software, but I don't understand the reasoning behind that.
Don't let the zealots make you feel bad for only exposing your code for educational purposes. Learning from other people's code is the best rational for exposing source (as opposed to forking/modifing/use) in my mind. Good luck.
Sorry, if I take my computer to get it repaired (and I have), I yank the hard drives. ALWAYS... It's just common sense, and if a criminal can't amass enough common sense to do the same, well, they deserve to be arrested, tried, and convicted.
If he knew how to yank the hard drives (and put them back in), would he need to pay someone to install his DVD drive? I suppose he could always go to Circuit City and get them to remove them and reinstall them... oh, oh, yeah.
Things that I have either heard of or seen coming from Redmond:
Analysis of a video feed to generate a 3D model of the scene being filmed.
That minority space wall, but without a special glove and working.
Network LOD for fast-paced games that let one server drive hunrderds of clients.
2D neural-net based code that learned to drive a car (still only in the simulation phase.).
Any of which could have had multiple patents. A lot of what they do is impractical as a product now (the wall for instance), but is an investment in the future. Like in the early 90's when they purchased tons of digital rights. And some, like the Network LOD, are designed for developers to tie them into MS products.
But Microsoft, like AT&T when it had too much money, take a bunch of academics, give them money, and tell them to do cool things. After all, the whole deparment will pay for itself with a couple of nifty inventions.
I completely agree that a perpetual motion machine is vaporware. My car can run for miles and miles on vapors and I think this would be an excellent technology to pursue for a perpetual motion machine. Maybe the exhaust vapors can be pumped back into the fuel tank? Someone should really get on that!
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There are two alternatives. Either Omniture has some way of identifying your machine remotely without your assistance (say, a static IP with your computer having a public IP), and, beyond that, such a method was guaranteed to work across all users, or your machine has to tell them to buzz off. (The third option of making the system opt-in has similar issues of needing to query your machine for the presence of a cookie, but then the parent post would be railing about them talking to his machine without his permission.)
I believe I can safely appeal to community concensus that a permenent public way to ID a specific computer on the internet would be bad. Hence, we are left with cookies. Note, that the page you are visiting assumes that you are already connecting to Omniture's tracking server. So the solution is never to connect, but then it's not really Omniture's problem now is it?
In XP it is either on by default or I turned it on so long ago I forgot how. I believe you can also give blanket permission for any app to use a specific port for UDP or TCP transmission. I think you can even combine these (Adobe can use port XXX because that is how I get updates, but not YYY because that connects to marketing.)
I wouldn't be surprised if it was off by default. The vast majority of windows security holes seem to be based on bad default settings.
I use a 3rd party firewall now, so maybe it changed since I used it last however.
Isn't it a tad tacky for NewYorkCountryLawyer to submit an article that quotes him in the text? I suppose, this being Slashdot, that no one will end up reading the article.
And NYCL, this wasn't meant as a dig. And, I was glad to get your opinion in the article.
Better CPU, more RAM, tuner (if the tuner takes non-coax input), Windows license (I think you can "downgrade" for free to XP). Plus, doesn't the Dell have a Bluray drive?
In truth, I would *buy* neither, instead buying the components. Given the choice between the two I would prefer the Dell. However, if I'm buying a machine that's hard to upgrade because it's all built into a monitor, it better have a keyboard and battery built in.
I already know I don't like OS X. Go beyond that, really dislike it. I may be the only person in the world who would even prefer Vista to OS X. And since the question is which would you get, I'll take the Dell.
I know, I know, I'm supposed to salivate over OS X. But I don't.
Patents allow you to recoup costs. Patents do not require that have costs.
Causation is one reason for correlation. Correlation is not one reason for causation.
Or, more generally,( A --> B ) -/-> ( B --> A ). Yay symbolic logic.
Yes. And if you are too poor to afford your own translator, than a shitty mistranslation of Japanese prior art counts...
IANAL, nor am I bitter.
If he posts on Slashdot, there is a good chance he doesn't allow 3rd party cookies or even referer-logging. So other than IP address, how would they know?
If you click on an ad for a website you liked, you just charged them money. They pay to serve you the ad, and when you click on it, because they are the advertisers.
On the other hand, if you click on the ads at a website you liked, then they generate money.
Think of the sites like TV stations. You wouldn't watch ads for Fox on ABC to support Fox, because ad revenue is based on viewers. You would watch ads for whatever on Fox.
Iron is the catalyst.
This will be more than offset by the time-saving switch to Linux (2008, year of Linux on the Desktop!). A much bigger issue will be the distraction of playing Duke Nukem Forever. And all this is assuming the tubes of the internets don't burst from the exaflood. Lastly, all this will only be a problem until June when the Roombas take over the earth and sweep us all into neat little piles. I'm hoping to get swept next to Natalie Portman covered in grits.
Other than hydrogen peroxide breaking down in sunlight/over time and being used as one of the components in rocket fuel, there is also the matter that iron is an effective catalyist. Which is why hydrogen peroxide foams when you put it in a cut (red blood cells). Thank you 9th grade biology!
Actually, it's anti-bootlegging laws that would be on your side. Copyrights only apply to works that have been "fixed", which, as I understand it, is pretty much any method of recording it (although the copyright would only apply to the fixed version.)
IANAL.
He patented a method of convincing business majors to fund the building of a statue by assuring that the exclusive rights to sell souvineers will be worth the onetime cost of construction...
Can the bullshit. Creative Commons is about giving up intellectual property rights because you feel the copyright system is broken. It has nothing to do with ethics. Some artists choose to retain their rights, some don't. The ones who don't show respect are the ones who hide rootkits on their CDs. Heck, I'm not even convinced if DRM (if clearly labeled at purchase time) is a morally bad thing to do, but I'm still on the fence about that.
Oh no, a company tried to make money. It must be an evil conspiracy!!!
Companies don't make art, they make products. Sometimes a product is art, sometimes art is a product, but usually they don't go together.
Also, being forced to work within constraints often produces superior art.
Very generous of you. I don't see why musicians shouldn't get paid for their music, as opposed to begging for support or selling t-shirts.
It was Lindsay Lohan who came up with the idea ("We discovered that people drive fastest through yellow lights..."). Lenny, not understanding why he was going so fast, said, "I'm making record time today... if only I had somewhere to be."
The NYTimes just had an article about how Absinthe was thought to be one of those "kind of questionable things" but the law that made it illegal was overturned as part of a more massive anti-prohibition law. So many people thought it was technically illegal, but in reality it was fine.
Actually, you probably burn less coal than what is needed to distill the gas from the crude. Add that to the fact that you are centralizing the problem, so that cleaning filters/optimizations/alternative power generation has to be done once, and you get huge wins.
I thought Diebold used Access.
The network LOD was a server based technology to limit the packets sent, not a new protocol. The demo was for fast-paced games. Game servers often spam packets to their clients, which limits the total number in an FPS to 8, 16, or 32. They took an old version of Unreal (so the network would be the bottleneck), and showed their technology allowing 150+ clients in a single match at reasonable framerates as opposed to the 1-3 FPS it ran out without network LOD.
Basically, the server sends updates most frequently about objects that impact the player more, with the end result being fewer packets and similar experience.
The quickest way to lose civil rights is to allow the government to decide who qualifies for them. Hence, the ACLU defending the scum of the earth. I mean, the KKK is not making any kind of point that we would recognize as being furthering intellectual discourse or whatever the justification you think is the reason for free speech.
Actually, I think you can.
IANAL
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. You should consult a lawyer!
As far as selling the code, there are two primary concerns. One is legal and a question of rights. The other is a practical matter. Pretty much any method of releasing your source to someone to study will necessitate giving copies of the code away for free. So there is a practical concern that people would aquire your code in that manner and thus the market would be eliminated. Even if you are not concerned about this possibility, if you are trying to get another party to license/sell it for you, then they may be concerned. The other concern you seem to have expressed is a concern that releasing it under a license will prevent you from releasing it under a different license. Most licenses, such as the creative commons ones, are nonexclusive. This means you can release your code in two different ways, although people will have the option to choose either one. So the license you will use so that people can learn will have to be unattractive enough to people who want to use the plugin will pay instead.
What may have confused you about the dual-licensing is the irrevokability of a license. Basically, once you give me a copy of the code with a license, you cannot take it back. If the license you give it to me under allows me to give it to other people, you can never prevent me from doing so. Some licenses can be revoked if the terms are broken, but some cannot.
As far as licenses go, I'm not sure which may interest you. You do not want to make your software free, so those are out. The problem is that most freely available licenses on the internet presume that people can distribute your code for noncommerical purposes (at least). Really, all you are interested in is the ability to use your code as educational material, not as a project in and of itself. I would recommend you look at the non-free licenses section. You also may want to look at the Qt Free Edition License. The last option may be the creative commons sampling plus license. The creative commons website expressly recommends against using it for software, but I don't understand the reasoning behind that.
Don't let the zealots make you feel bad for only exposing your code for educational purposes. Learning from other people's code is the best rational for exposing source (as opposed to forking/modifing/use) in my mind. Good luck.
If he knew how to yank the hard drives (and put them back in), would he need to pay someone to install his DVD drive? I suppose he could always go to Circuit City and get them to remove them and reinstall them... oh, oh, yeah.
Things that I have either heard of or seen coming from Redmond:
Any of which could have had multiple patents. A lot of what they do is impractical as a product now (the wall for instance), but is an investment in the future. Like in the early 90's when they purchased tons of digital rights. And some, like the Network LOD, are designed for developers to tie them into MS products.
But Microsoft, like AT&T when it had too much money, take a bunch of academics, give them money, and tell them to do cool things. After all, the whole deparment will pay for itself with a couple of nifty inventions.
I completely agree that a perpetual motion machine is vaporware. My car can run for miles and miles on vapors and I think this would be an excellent technology to pursue for a perpetual motion machine. Maybe the exhaust vapors can be pumped back into the fuel tank? Someone should really get on that!