Because they don't give you permission to? And even they did, no one would bother without the source. I think that anyone who gives a shit, has moved away from proprietary web browsers. (And yes, I'm aware their rendering engine is under GPL as it's based on KHTML or w/e)
If people started beating people up, just to photograph (and sell it) - then I'm sure the law-makers would jump at the opportunity to legislate another aspect of our lives.
But the reality is, a lot a child abuse occurs for sole propose of child porn production.
Agree, although for me it has never got to the point of having my sleep interrupted. For a small amount of money ($70 - $200), I've setup a number of websites.
Their pages don't generate much traffic, so I said I'll host it for them and never discussed ongoing maintenance and changes. It's really been terrible. I get emailed (even phoned) all the time (esp. the guy that paid $70). Every week he'll wants something changed, or something modified.
I ended up drawing the line when he decided he wanted fancy roll-over menus instead of the current very functional one. I gave him a (large) quote just cause I was sick of it. We never spoke much after that.
With another, the business (who the site was for) was sold - so when I got in contact with the new owners. I told them, I'd continue to host it and charge a straight amount if he contacted me about the site and plus an hourly rate.
He thought it was very reasonable (after all, isn't it?) and actually has never bugged me once about anything.
The lesson is if you're going to setup a website, make sure you arrange the terms of ongoing maintenance. There's going to be a lot of it (esp. if you're doing it for free).
The other lesson would be don't do deals with friends. You'll both have completely different expectations of each other - and very well might ruin your friendship over it (unless you're a better person than me, and enjoy helping more than I do).
These days, if people want me to do any work - I tell them I don't know how. It really isn't worth it.
You have a point. With traditional services/product - if you want to support someone, you simply use them. Want to support Honda? Buy one.
However, when everything is free - this really doesn't work in the same sense. So I guess the option is donating or buying products from an open source company (like red hat). Another option would be instead of just donating - pay someone (possibly through a bounty system) to fix a bug or add a feature to some program.
Then again, there are some pretty cool projects that deserve a straight donation.
They're very different. It's not expected that this natural language parsing will replace SQL (anytime in the foreseeable future).
Every so often, I find myself wanting to use them natural language in google. Like today I wanted to find out about the symptoms of a codeine histamine reaction. Sure, I could search for 'codiene', read about it and follow links (on no doubt, wikipedia) until I find what I want - but being able to search with "What are the symptoms of codiene histamine reactions?" is quite powerful.
Although, to be honest I'd prefer to be able to search google with regex and hashes (like search for all pages/images that have a certain MD5 hash).
Porting windows isn't the issue. The selling point of windows is the apps. You switch from x86 to ARM and suddenly linux now has a very distinct advantage.
Ugh, care to elaborate?
Anyway, I think the solution is simple. Just publish a giant list of all mail servers not configured properly. It wouldn't be hard to write a script, to verify if a domain is configured or not.
It would function as a name and shame list. But more than that, all spammers would harvest from it, and absolutely smash the listed servers until they were forced to configure them properly.
It's good to finally see the patent system serving a purpose. Protecting us from nuclear terrorists. There's no way they couldn't infringe at least one patent!
And lets hope that server never sees the light of day again, not only is helping people find child porn, it's in possesion. Think of the children.
On a serious note. Am I the only one that scared by these prospects? I don't mind the whole "think of the children", as I'm not a bad/evil/pedophile.. but put in the position, I might have clicked the link. Not because I'm into that stuff, but a combination of curisoity, bordem and just wondering if that stuff exists might have driven me to click it. And according to TFA the mere act of clicking the link constitues "violating federal law, which criminalizes "attempts" to download child pornography with up to 10 years in prison.".
I probably should have posted this anonymously, but I'm sick of the idea that possesion of some pictures is one of the worst crimes in the world. Sure child abuse is terrible (And I'd have no hesitation against the death penality in severe cases). But having a picture of it? C'mon.
Probably because a 503 Service Unavailable might not break the app, just skip the validation stage. You need to do something to degrade the usefulness of the application (cause it to hang or break). Also an across the board 5 second wait, will mean developers will see the problem at development time - not only after it has already been deployed, causing problems and has been blocked.
Have they tried delaying the response by 5 or 6 seconds? It could cause a lot of applications to hang pretty badly. That or just serve a completely nonsensical schema every thousandth request. Gotta keep developers on their toes.
That's a pretty valid point. It's more surprising how much value is placed a single vote (80% wouldn't accept an iPod to not vote next election). Unless of course, the researchers gave them the idea it was a mass buy-out. Which would make sense. I sure as hell wouldn't support everyone getting an iPod instead of voting next election. However, if it only involved me - I'd jump at the opportunity for an ipod to save a trip to the ballot box.
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Because they don't give you permission to? And even they did, no one would bother without the source.
I think that anyone who gives a shit, has moved away from proprietary web browsers. (And yes, I'm aware their rendering engine is under GPL as it's based on KHTML or w/e)
Nice way to spin a Safari flaw.
If people started beating people up, just to photograph (and sell it) - then I'm sure the law-makers would jump at the opportunity to legislate another aspect of our lives.
But the reality is, a lot a child abuse occurs for sole propose of child porn production.
Agree, although for me it has never got to the point of having my sleep interrupted. For a small amount of money ($70 - $200), I've setup a number of websites.
Their pages don't generate much traffic, so I said I'll host it for them and never discussed ongoing maintenance and changes. It's really been terrible. I get emailed (even phoned) all the time (esp. the guy that paid $70). Every week he'll wants something changed, or something modified.
I ended up drawing the line when he decided he wanted fancy roll-over menus instead of the current very functional one. I gave him a (large) quote just cause I was sick of it. We never spoke much after that.
With another, the business (who the site was for) was sold - so when I got in contact with the new owners. I told them, I'd continue to host it and charge a straight amount if he contacted me about the site and plus an hourly rate.
He thought it was very reasonable (after all, isn't it?) and actually has never bugged me once about anything.
The lesson is if you're going to setup a website, make sure you arrange the terms of ongoing maintenance. There's going to be a lot of it (esp. if you're doing it for free).
The other lesson would be don't do deals with friends. You'll both have completely different expectations of each other - and very well might ruin your friendship over it (unless you're a better person than me, and enjoy helping more than I do).
These days, if people want me to do any work - I tell them I don't know how. It really isn't worth it.
Read the post I was replying to. He thought the article was about a slashdot troll (named Twitter and his sock-puppets).
I've heard of not reading the article, but perhaps you should read the summary. Hint: They're talking about the micro-blogging service.
He will, if you keep giving him so much attention. He's a troll (and a damn successful one). Stop feeding him.
Just like in all contracts I make: I may, but have not obligation to pay any tax or follow any law at my sole discretion.
Sorry, doesn't work.
You have a point. With traditional services/product - if you want to support someone, you simply use them. Want to support Honda? Buy one.
However, when everything is free - this really doesn't work in the same sense. So I guess the option is donating or buying products from an open source company (like red hat). Another option would be instead of just donating - pay someone (possibly through a bounty system) to fix a bug or add a feature to some program.
Then again, there are some pretty cool projects that deserve a straight donation.
They're very different. It's not expected that this natural language parsing will replace SQL (anytime in the foreseeable future).
Every so often, I find myself wanting to use them natural language in google. Like today I wanted to find out about the symptoms of a codeine histamine reaction. Sure, I could search for 'codiene', read about it and follow links (on no doubt, wikipedia) until I find what I want - but being able to search with "What are the symptoms of codiene histamine reactions?" is quite powerful.
Although, to be honest I'd prefer to be able to search google with regex and hashes (like search for all pages/images that have a certain MD5 hash).
Porting windows isn't the issue. The selling point of windows is the apps. You switch from x86 to ARM and suddenly linux now has a very distinct advantage.
Ugh, care to elaborate? Anyway, I think the solution is simple. Just publish a giant list of all mail servers not configured properly. It wouldn't be hard to write a script, to verify if a domain is configured or not. It would function as a name and shame list. But more than that, all spammers would harvest from it, and absolutely smash the listed servers until they were forced to configure them properly.
It's good to finally see the patent system serving a purpose. Protecting us from nuclear terrorists. There's no way they couldn't infringe at least one patent!
And lets hope that server never sees the light of day again, not only is helping people find child porn, it's in possesion. Think of the children.
.. but put in the position, I might have clicked the link. Not because I'm into that stuff, but a combination of curisoity, bordem and just wondering if that stuff exists might have driven me to click it. And according to TFA the mere act of clicking the link constitues "violating federal law, which criminalizes "attempts" to download child pornography with up to 10 years in prison.".
On a serious note. Am I the only one that scared by these prospects? I don't mind the whole "think of the children", as I'm not a bad/evil/pedophile
I probably should have posted this anonymously, but I'm sick of the idea that possesion of some pictures is one of the worst crimes in the world. Sure child abuse is terrible (And I'd have no hesitation against the death penality in severe cases). But having a picture of it? C'mon.
Probably because a 503 Service Unavailable might not break the app, just skip the validation stage. You need to do something to degrade the usefulness of the application (cause it to hang or break). Also an across the board 5 second wait, will mean developers will see the problem at development time - not only after it has already been deployed, causing problems and has been blocked.
Have they tried delaying the response by 5 or 6 seconds? It could cause a lot of applications to hang pretty badly. That or just serve a completely nonsensical schema every thousandth request. Gotta keep developers on their toes.
That's a pretty valid point. It's more surprising how much value is placed a single vote (80% wouldn't accept an iPod to not vote next election). Unless of course, the researchers gave them the idea it was a mass buy-out. Which would make sense. I sure as hell wouldn't support everyone getting an iPod instead of voting next election. However, if it only involved me - I'd jump at the opportunity for an ipod to save a trip to the ballot box.