"So basically you're saying this is going to be a wild success at stopping spammers from flooding my comments. I mean, at least until the end where your line of reasoning starts to ignore logic."
No, what he's saying is that people will still be posting to the blogs that add rel=nofollow to the text. People, and not spammers. Those links people provide have "value".
Eventually, if spammers were to stop posting to blogs that have rel=nofollow tags, then every link posted to blogs that have rel=nofollow tags will be "valuable" and probably should be indexed.
I used to be very anti-XML. I'm starting to appreciate some parts of it, however. In particular, being able to validate an XML file against a DTD is pretty sweet for finding typos or other weird errors.
I do trust open source projects far more than closed source. I can read the extensions (.xpi files are just zip's). Still, I don't trust them all that much, either. Some hacker could hijack mozilla.org, sure.
All I'm saying is that signed applications are no more safe than unsigned applications, no more trustworthy, etc. I don't see any difference.
OK, so in your search you find that the extension was signed by a company in the Bermudas or India or something. Do you really care to take it further than that?
"Of course you have to trust the CA who issued the certificate that signed the control"
There are no trustworthy CAs. They've all made mistakes, and there will be mistakes in the future. The whole CA thing, mandated through browser warnings and such, is a "false sense of security" scam.
I agree in principle that standards written in a vacuum as you say tend to suck. However, they could release a "preliminary" spec, and I (and others interested) could write to that, give feedback, etc, and they could perhaps use it to develop a release-1.0 spec. Specifications can change as long as it's clear what specification a particular piece of software relies on.
Basically, they could start with some structure, to ensure that structure may always be present. Hopefully.:)
What I think is funny is the creationists that put the stickers on the books are suggesting that every other book you read is OK, but this particular book is one to be critically considered.
How about a school where they teach that every book should be critically considered? (Or, more appropriately, parents that teach their children that every book should be critically considered).
"Write to your congressman. Do it on paper no an email."
Include a check/bribe for their re-election campaign (it doesn't matter when in their term, they're already working on the campaign). Or it's going in the shredder.
Pitney Bowes calls me about postage stuff all the time, and it's not because someone submitted my name to them. Well, some company did, sure, but not some random neighbor. This Fitch guy is sounding more and more paranoid by the post.
'"The vast majority of anti-spyware providers do not consider WeatherBug to be spyware, including Aluria, our own anti-spyware provider," said AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein.'
Ha ha! Aluria is the software that sold out to WhenU. Too funny. Thanks for the link.
If it cost $1M to make a game that you don't reasonably think could sell >200k copies, you've made a bad call or two. $1M is a lot of money, and a lot more than most games cost.
"So here in America we want information to be ubiquitous and free. We want the capability to know anything about everything. However, at the same time we are afraid of our neighbors and other people around us knowing too much about us."
I think you're talking about two different "we"'s here. There may be some overlap, perhaps, but probably not all *that* much.
I have GT3 and I agree. It's pretty amazing. GT4 ought to be even better as it supports 900 degree (multi-turn) wheels. I'm enjoying that feature in NFSU2, but I'm missing some of the features of GT3 (I actually liked career mode)
We found FreeBSD doing that as well, except on servers with dual CPU motherboards. So, we install FreeBSD, run "mptable" to determine if it is a MP capable board, and build the kernel accordingly. Easy as premade microwavable pie.
Who cares why? It took me ~10 seconds to read that list and see the same article context. I don't really care about articles 6 months ago. I'm pointing out that in this case, as which as probably been the case many times in the past, simply pasting the title of the article in the search box was enough to see that it was a dupe.
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"So basically you're saying this is going to be a wild success at stopping spammers from flooding my comments. I mean, at least until the end where your line of reasoning starts to ignore logic."
No, what he's saying is that people will still be posting to the blogs that add rel=nofollow to the text. People, and not spammers. Those links people provide have "value".
Eventually, if spammers were to stop posting to blogs that have rel=nofollow tags, then every link posted to blogs that have rel=nofollow tags will be "valuable" and probably should be indexed.
I used to be very anti-XML. I'm starting to appreciate some parts of it, however. In particular, being able to validate an XML file against a DTD is pretty sweet for finding typos or other weird errors.
I do trust open source projects far more than closed source. I can read the extensions (.xpi files are just zip's). Still, I don't trust them all that much, either. Some hacker could hijack mozilla.org, sure.
All I'm saying is that signed applications are no more safe than unsigned applications, no more trustworthy, etc. I don't see any difference.
"But at least signing gives you verifiability."
OK, so in your search you find that the extension was signed by a company in the Bermudas or India or something. Do you really care to take it further than that?
"Of course you have to trust the CA who issued the certificate that signed the control"
There are no trustworthy CAs. They've all made mistakes, and there will be mistakes in the future. The whole CA thing, mandated through browser warnings and such, is a "false sense of security" scam.
A signed control can come from anywhere, too. A lot of spyware is signed.
"Perhaps Six Apart wasn't quite prepared for the responsibilities of a website of this size?"
Perhaps shit happens, and a blog service doesn't warrant the necessary investment to survive whatever caused this outage?
I agree in principle that standards written in a vacuum as you say tend to suck. However, they could release a "preliminary" spec, and I (and others interested) could write to that, give feedback, etc, and they could perhaps use it to develop a release-1.0 spec. Specifications can change as long as it's clear what specification a particular piece of software relies on.
:)
Basically, they could start with some structure, to ensure that structure may always be present. Hopefully.
FTFA "The goal of the Fast Infoset project is to generate interest among developers and eventually create a standardized binary format."
I'm not sure why they think that one has to come before the other.
Frankly, make it a standard so I can write proper code to handle it, and you'll have me (joe random developer) interested.
What I think is funny is the creationists that put the stickers on the books are suggesting that every other book you read is OK, but this particular book is one to be critically considered.
How about a school where they teach that every book should be critically considered? (Or, more appropriately, parents that teach their children that every book should be critically considered).
Registered to registerfly.com?
Well, anyways, if that whois stuff eventually traces back to the person (I don't see it here but maybe it does on some site) then that's not cool.
On this note, sorta, I wonder why slashdot editors don't link the user's name to their slashdot URL (http://slashdot.org/~user) ?
"Write to your congressman. Do it on paper no an email."
Include a check/bribe for their re-election campaign (it doesn't matter when in their term, they're already working on the campaign). Or it's going in the shredder.
However, have you noticed that in the above post, the pertinant linkage did not go to prostoalex's site? That's the difference.
I wonder if someone found the GPS unit, they'd be able to legally sell it on eBay? :)
Pitney Bowes calls me about postage stuff all the time, and it's not because someone submitted my name to them. Well, some company did, sure, but not some random neighbor. This Fitch guy is sounding more and more paranoid by the post.
I think if I wrote you a letter, and stored it in someone else's house, your family would have no right to force them to give it to you.
There's also the fact that the emails in his inbox were probably not written by him, and probably not dead people.
Medical records and such are different as they don't "expose" other people's privacy through their release.
'"The vast majority of anti-spyware providers do not consider WeatherBug to be spyware, including Aluria, our own anti-spyware provider," said AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein.'
Ha ha! Aluria is the software that sold out to WhenU. Too funny. Thanks for the link.
I wonder how many weeks (days?) until we see this happen with Microsoft's antispyware app?
If it cost $1M to make a game that you don't reasonably think could sell >200k copies, you've made a bad call or two. $1M is a lot of money, and a lot more than most games cost.
"So here in America we want information to be ubiquitous and free. We want the capability to know anything about everything. However, at the same time we are afraid of our neighbors and other people around us knowing too much about us."
I think you're talking about two different "we"'s here. There may be some overlap, perhaps, but probably not all *that* much.
"Many, many things are already age regulated - movies"
Nope, not regulated. Voluntary labeling.
"cars"
Nope. Maybe you meant driving licenses?
"sex"
Nope. Minors can have sex with each other.
"tobacco"
One right!
"liquor"
Two right!
"marriage"
Not exactly. You can't enter into a contract until you're 18. Marriage is a contract. Half right.
2.5 out of 6.
I have GT3 and I agree. It's pretty amazing. GT4 ought to be even better as it supports 900 degree (multi-turn) wheels. I'm enjoying that feature in NFSU2, but I'm missing some of the features of GT3 (I actually liked career mode)
We found FreeBSD doing that as well, except on servers with dual CPU motherboards. So, we install FreeBSD, run "mptable" to determine if it is a MP capable board, and build the kernel accordingly. Easy as premade microwavable pie.
What did becoming Christian have to do with it? I'm not Christian and I came to the same conclusion.
Who cares why? It took me ~10 seconds to read that list and see the same article context. I don't really care about articles 6 months ago. I'm pointing out that in this case, as which as probably been the case many times in the past, simply pasting the title of the article in the search box was enough to see that it was a dupe.