The problem is not just with cookies in this case. Read the damn article. Web bugs and other such tricks that cannot be blocked by a regular user (or even a 'power' user) are at issue here.
No, no, you're confised about this a little. EMusic sells mp3 files. They intend to track down people uploading those files via Napster. They could care less about equivalent tracks encoded by someone else.
Yes, this same methodology is the source of all stupid laws. Let them write any law they want, it'll be invalidated/overturned at the very first challange anyways. However, until it is, it's still a law and is to be obeyed, and it's suprisingly difficult and expensive for an average person to fight a law. And the more people cave in because it's simpler the stronger it becomes.
So with patents, it's like this: let them patent anything they want, if it's a bad patent it'll be revoked when challanged. Problem is until such time it's still a patent and everyone has to do a search before they do anything to avoid infringing. And every person that opts to pay the fee rather than fight it (because it's easier and cheaper) makes the claim that much stronger.
Somehow I don't think the population at large is worried about a 'glut' of foreign workers. I think they're more concerned with a shortage of qualified workers (and of course the election). Come on, moderators, mark this as flamebait that this is.
I'll be called an elitist and marked as flamebait and troll, but I have to say this.
Gnutella network traffic exceeds bandwidth capabilities of dial-up users? Drop them. You can't take the heat, get out. Wanna play with the big boys, pay up.
I'm running Napster, and there's nothing more annoying that downloading from a 56k source, or waiting for a 56 guy to finish. 56k people (for this very same reason in fact) also don't like sharing any files. They can't. Any additional traffic will drive their leeching speeds to the floor.
That's what they are, leeches. Because they can't share and contribute constructively to the network. Napster keeps a central database, which frees up dial-up users from handling network messages, so they're still tolerable on that service. But on Gnutella there's no place for anyone running 56k or less.
I for one won't feel sorry about this development. A good portion of users will drop off, but they're just users, no matter how much thet want they can't be servers.
Check out earlier stories about RAMBUS (just do a search). Every second thread is about how they shouldn't have the patents because of JEDEC participation.
The short version is that RAMBUS got on meetings of the JEDEC group designing next generation RAM technologies. The result was supposed to be open and patent-free (or at least royalty free) to the members. Unfortunatelly RAMBUS sprinkled in some ideas for which they had patents pending (or patented something they learned in these meetings after they left JEDEC, it's still unclear to which happened). The patents were granted and now we have this mess.
Yeah, not only is.tm a country code already, trademarks are not unique. You can have Microsoft the software corp and Microsoft the toothbrush brand. How is.tm supposed to help that?
I was looking at the list of the new TLDs and also noticed a conspicuous absence of the biggest Internet apps.
Take.travel... travel sites (planning, booking, etc) are the most popular business destinations.
.news? What about _news_?!?! Huh? Isn't the Internet supposed to be a huge source of news?
Similarly, a.net and.host would also be excellent additions.
But no, we get.biz... yeah, so corps now need to all go out and register their corresponding.biz, or sue whoever got there first, because, after all,.biz and.com are so similar in function I can just see tm dilution and confusion written all over.biz
.pro? as opposed to.amateur?.novice?
.info? what's the purpose?
.aero? a large donation from a big aerospace player brought us this one perhaps?
I won't even comment on.coop... Perhaps.co-op works better, otherwise it's just k-ooh-p.
Really, given the amount of time, money and exposure this process received I', very disappointed that's all we got.
What could be the possible reason for using 'dot-slash' as a TLD? I won't even begin to comment on how stupid and sad that would be as a TLD, so I'm assuming the poster meant to be funny and some moderator didn't quite pick up on it.
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The digital tokens used are the internet equivalent of the old upload/download ratios of BBS days...
And we all know what ratios did to BBSes, don't we? Uh, I need to UL another 200k to be able to get this file... lets see what kind of crap I can scrape together to push myself over the quota...
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Exactly what I noticed. You can't 'share' files on Mojo since you have to pay to have them hosted and available to others (and you can't host your own content). While MN is an interesting project, it is not really suited to file sharing in the sense Napster or Gnutella are.
Microsoft's JVM is better, as is their implementation of ECMA/JavaScript (embarrasingly for both Sun and Netscape, really).
There's nothing wrong with Netscape's JavaScript. It just supports a broken DOM model and so is cumbersome to use (often using 4-5 levels of indirection to do the simplest things like getting the value of a form field). My understanding is this is being fixed, and pretty soon you won't need two versions of JS on your pages.
All of Intel's chips have codenames as well, except they don't stick when released. AMD's do, I guess their marketing department takes a different view on this.
I hope someone sees this and mods me up... I was thoroughly pissed off at the whole 'smart' menu thing. What a useless piece of crap. Didn't someone teach MS GUI designers not to change the interface on the user and move things around seemingly at random?
Check this out: http://www.regedit.com/
It may not make you like Windows, but makes it tolerable enough to use on a regular basis. Besides a registry hack to turn off the smart menus in Explorer and IE, it has lots of other useful things.
(As an interesting sidenote, under the security section I was stunned to read even if you choose not to hide file extensions, some file types insist on hiding them anyways. Like.shs... You can turn that off too..lnk is really the only safe one to leave.)
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The problem is not just with cookies in this case. Read the damn article. Web bugs and other such tricks that cannot be blocked by a regular user (or even a 'power' user) are at issue here.
No, no, you're confised about this a little. EMusic sells mp3 files. They intend to track down people uploading those files via Napster. They could care less about equivalent tracks encoded by someone else.
So with patents, it's like this: let them patent anything they want, if it's a bad patent it'll be revoked when challanged. Problem is until such time it's still a patent and everyone has to do a search before they do anything to avoid infringing. And every person that opts to pay the fee rather than fight it (because it's easier and cheaper) makes the claim that much stronger.
Somehow I don't think the population at large is worried about a 'glut' of foreign workers. I think they're more concerned with a shortage of qualified workers (and of course the election). Come on, moderators, mark this as flamebait that this is.
Damn, according to an career aptitude test, or whatever they call it, I was supposed to be a bus driver ;)
So you're saying they're packing the place with women so they can look progressive and non-discriminatory?
engineering = geeks
phys ed = cute dopey chicks
Gnutella network traffic exceeds bandwidth capabilities of dial-up users? Drop them. You can't take the heat, get out. Wanna play with the big boys, pay up.
I'm running Napster, and there's nothing more annoying that downloading from a 56k source, or waiting for a 56 guy to finish. 56k people (for this very same reason in fact) also don't like sharing any files. They can't. Any additional traffic will drive their leeching speeds to the floor.
That's what they are, leeches. Because they can't share and contribute constructively to the network. Napster keeps a central database, which frees up dial-up users from handling network messages, so they're still tolerable on that service. But on Gnutella there's no place for anyone running 56k or less.
I for one won't feel sorry about this development. A good portion of users will drop off, but they're just users, no matter how much thet want they can't be servers.
Read what I mean, not what I write.
The short version is that RAMBUS got on meetings of the JEDEC group designing next generation RAM technologies. The result was supposed to be open and patent-free (or at least royalty free) to the members. Unfortunatelly RAMBUS sprinkled in some ideas for which they had patents pending (or patented something they learned in these meetings after they left JEDEC, it's still unclear to which happened). The patents were granted and now we have this mess.
Of course how breaking into a car points out anything about digital (c) management is left as an excercise for the reader.
Yeah, not only is .tm a country code already, trademarks are not unique. You can have Microsoft the software corp and Microsoft the toothbrush brand. How is .tm supposed to help that?
Despite all the previewing I missed that one... that should be .reg and .host...
Take .travel... travel sites (planning, booking, etc) are the most popular business destinations.
Similarly, a .net and .host would also be excellent additions.
But no, we get .biz... yeah, so corps now need to all go out and register their corresponding .biz, or sue whoever got there first, because, after all, .biz and .com are so similar in function I can just see tm dilution and confusion written all over .biz
I won't even comment on .coop... Perhaps .co-op works better, otherwise it's just k-ooh-p.
Really, given the amount of time, money and exposure this process received I', very disappointed that's all we got.
What could be the possible reason for using 'dot-slash' as a TLD? I won't even begin to comment on how stupid and sad that would be as a TLD, so I'm assuming the poster meant to be funny and some moderator didn't quite pick up on it.
And we all know what ratios did to BBSes, don't we? Uh, I need to UL another 200k to be able to get this file... lets see what kind of crap I can scrape together to push myself over the quota...
Exactly what I noticed. You can't 'share' files on Mojo since you have to pay to have them hosted and available to others (and you can't host your own content). While MN is an interesting project, it is not really suited to file sharing in the sense Napster or Gnutella are.
There's nothing wrong with Netscape's JavaScript. It just supports a broken DOM model and so is cumbersome to use (often using 4-5 levels of indirection to do the simplest things like getting the value of a form field). My understanding is this is being fixed, and pretty soon you won't need two versions of JS on your pages.
http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/alien_index
yes, there's a karma cap. Refer to the whole signal 11 or shoeboy or whoever melodrama a while back.
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Is it abuse-windows-users day today?
All of Intel's chips have codenames as well, except they don't stick when released. AMD's do, I guess their marketing department takes a different view on this.
Ping: ICMP
Quake: UDP?
I can see the last one as the most reasonable one, after the whole Melissa and Love fiasco, protecting users from .txt.vbs files.
Check this out: http://www.regedit.com/
It may not make you like Windows, but makes it tolerable enough to use on a regular basis. Besides a registry hack to turn off the smart menus in Explorer and IE, it has lots of other useful things.
(As an interesting sidenote, under the security section I was stunned to read even if you choose not to hide file extensions, some file types insist on hiding them anyways. Like .shs... You can turn that off too. .lnk is really the only safe one to leave.)