The main gripe there was about HTML and the lack of enforced standards was that every browser company came up with their own rules.
Now, with XML, every company can come up with their own rules and it's magically OK, because the standard allows for that.
Just as it's hard to write for all of the various HTML standards out there, it will be hard to write for the one XML standard that is implemented in so many different ways.
What better way to legitimize spam in the eyes of our politicions than by supporting their rhetoric. See, the spammers are rallying behind Dubya! They're not so bad!...
The Microsoft/Netscape/Mozilla/Verisgn "conspiracy"(for lack of a better term) made the cost barrier far, far too high by requiring that certificates be issued only by "trusted" authorities for encrypted web pages. (And requiring that if the website owner doesn't fork out the cash, the user gets prompted with an ugly/annoying dialog suggesting that something may be wrong, causing confusion.)
It's unfortunate that MS/NS (and now Mozilla) went along with this. A better system would allow for unauthenticated SSL (with no CA warning), for sites you just don't care so much about, like/.:-), and then authenticated SSL for banks, porn, etc important things.
ITYM "your gay". If I ever saw "You're gay!" - that is, with proper capitalization, spelling and punctuation, I'd probably be so distracted I'd be 0wned the next second later.
I'm not sure if this counts as/.'ing, but/. is quite frequently broken. It forgets that you are logged in, unable to verify your cookie I assume, and sometimes you can't even view articles, they just take you to the homepage.
Then the next day it all works again (I only check a couple of times a day, so to be fair, it could have been fixed the same day)
So yeah, I haven't researched this, but I'm wondering why going from 12V->42V would open up so many possibilities. Can't the voltage be stepped up already? Or stepped down from 42V for "legacy" 12V devices, if you want to do the mod yourself? I'm probably missing some key thing here like "By 42V, we also mean more wattage/amperage, you idiot!"
IANAL, but I think that means you are responsible for your own attorneys' fees involved - you don't have to pay Microsoft's bill. You just have to say "Microsoft didn't do it". IANAL.
I agree with the moderation here. Of the two nearly identical posts, this one had one fewer ?. I think we can all agree that two ?'s is better than three ?'s. Although, the (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) of the other post is attractive.
"if you get on a spam list, take the necessary steps to get yourself off of it."
We have. Months and months ago. Yet we remain.
I too equate "SPEWS" with "joe bob's spam list" - I'm glad someone else sees them the same way I do.
"it's much better to spend your time making sure you do not get on spam lists to begin with, than to spend your time dealing with your customers complaints about getting spam."
We get fewer complaints about spam than we do about SPEWS' irresponsible listing.
..and then you block much legitimate e-mail as well, from dnsbls that don't keep their database up to date. I've lost track of how long we've been in one, many many months since the spammer has left though.
"If only more companies would look to Electronic Arts - the one shining example of a company against software testing."
"We've spared SimCity 4 the inhumanity and cruelty of testing, " said Maxis founder Will Wright. "Just as humans adapted to wearing synthetic and cotton fibers instead of furs, so will they adapt to untested software."
..and how do we program them? It'd be a great protest to have 50 people with pre-programmed RFID tags in their pockets walked in to the Benetton shop (not wearing ANY Benetton clothing, of course), and then walked out, setting off alarms. Imagine the cost of having to check each person.
Yes, I think that'd be a better protest than the "I just won't buy there" idea.
Agreed. However, if this is too drastic, you can have the same level of security by having a/readonly mount. If someone got root, they could remount that as read-write, just as they could screw with your DocumentRoot w/ the CD method, but it gives you the flexibility to do the same.
Of course, under some OSs you can make it so filesystem mounts can't be changed without a reboot. It all comes down to how much convenience you need for yourself, and perhaps your end-users. (I know many companies that are not in a position to audit all customer CGI scripts for security holes, DOS holes, etc).
What state are you in? Does it provide similar exemptions (charities, politicians, surveys)? There's not enough information here to relate the two laws.
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"If the schema itself is poorly designed, that's a problem with the schema, not the syntax!"
;)
This will be what we hear, non-stop, for years, as XML becomes the standard for every document.
Where once we'll have said:
"We can't read this Microsoft document because it is using a proprietary format"
we will say:
"We can't read this Microsoft document because it is using a proprietary schema of XML"
and in the end, ultimately, nothing will be different. Except documents will be slightly larger to allow for XML tags.
The main gripe there was about HTML and the lack of enforced standards was that every browser company came up with their own rules.
Now, with XML, every company can come up with their own rules and it's magically OK, because the standard allows for that.
Just as it's hard to write for all of the various HTML standards out there, it will be hard to write for the one XML standard that is implemented in so many different ways.
What better way to legitimize spam in the eyes of our politicions than by supporting their rhetoric. See, the spammers are rallying behind Dubya! They're not so bad! ...
Ah yes. Perhaps we should just vote for better congressmen. What's that you say? They're all like this? Oh well.
The Microsoft/Netscape/Mozilla/Verisgn "conspiracy"(for lack of a better term) made the cost barrier far, far too high by requiring that certificates be issued only by "trusted" authorities for encrypted web pages. (And requiring that if the website owner doesn't fork out the cash, the user gets prompted with an ugly/annoying dialog suggesting that something may be wrong, causing confusion.)
/. :-), and then authenticated SSL for banks, porn, etc important things.
It's unfortunate that MS/NS (and now Mozilla) went along with this. A better system would allow for unauthenticated SSL (with no CA warning), for sites you just don't care so much about, like
Where are the "vote" parrots now? "If you don't like it, vote!" Oh wait, you can't vote on things like this.
ITYM "your gay". If I ever saw "You're gay!" - that is, with proper capitalization, spelling and punctuation, I'd probably be so distracted I'd be 0wned the next second later.
And minutes from now I will still not care about the self-serviant awards ceremonies. I'll spare you the updates of everything else I dislike.
I'm not sure if this counts as /.'ing, but /. is quite frequently broken. It forgets that you are logged in, unable to verify your cookie I assume, and sometimes you can't even view articles, they just take you to the homepage.
Then the next day it all works again (I only check a couple of times a day, so to be fair, it could have been fixed the same day)
So yeah, I haven't researched this, but I'm wondering why going from 12V->42V would open up so many possibilities. Can't the voltage be stepped up already? Or stepped down from 42V for "legacy" 12V devices, if you want to do the mod yourself? I'm probably missing some key thing here like "By 42V, we also mean more wattage/amperage, you idiot!"
So then the question remains "Where do I refuel it with hydrogen?"
IANAL, but I think that means you are responsible for your own attorneys' fees involved - you don't have to pay Microsoft's bill. You just have to say "Microsoft didn't do it". IANAL.
Luckily, in this case, MySQL 3 is not good, so they'd just have to get past the engrained(sic) part.
I agree with the moderation here. Of the two nearly identical posts, this one had one fewer ?. I think we can all agree that two ?'s is better than three ?'s. Although, the (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) of the other post is attractive.
The music industry will get the list of names, addresses, etc, of the people involved in the class action suit.
$50M is a lot for the list, but still, it is a list of music buyers. They may not recoup all of their money, but you can bet they'll try.
So does that make Mandrake "Freedom Linux"?
"How the hell can I cite where in a book I got a quotation if there is no standard pagination? Count paragraphs?"
How the hell did people do it before computers? What do you do when you're citing an offline book? How does XML magically handle that?
"if you get on a spam list, take the necessary steps to get yourself off of it."
We have. Months and months ago. Yet we remain.
I too equate "SPEWS" with "joe bob's spam list" - I'm glad someone else sees them the same way I do.
"it's much better to spend your time making sure you do not get on spam lists to begin with, than to spend your time dealing with your customers complaints about getting spam."
We get fewer complaints about spam than we do about SPEWS' irresponsible listing.
They retail for the low, low price of 49.95! Act now!
..and then you block much legitimate e-mail as well, from dnsbls that don't keep their database up to date. I've lost track of how long we've been in one, many many months since the spammer has left though.
"not had ONE single false positive."
How do you know? Do they send you a monthly report on what was blocked or something?
"If only more companies would look to Electronic Arts - the one shining example of a company against software testing."
"We've spared SimCity 4 the inhumanity and cruelty of testing, " said Maxis founder Will Wright. "Just as humans adapted to wearing synthetic and cotton fibers instead of furs, so will they adapt to untested software."
..and how do we program them? It'd be a great protest to have 50 people with pre-programmed RFID tags in their pockets walked in to the Benetton shop (not wearing ANY Benetton clothing, of course), and then walked out, setting off alarms. Imagine the cost of having to check each person.
Yes, I think that'd be a better protest than the "I just won't buy there" idea.
Agreed. However, if this is too drastic, you can have the same level of security by having a /readonly mount. If someone got root, they could remount that as read-write, just as they could screw with your DocumentRoot w/ the CD method, but it gives you the flexibility to do the same.
Of course, under some OSs you can make it so filesystem mounts can't be changed without a reboot. It all comes down to how much convenience you need for yourself, and perhaps your end-users. (I know many companies that are not in a position to audit all customer CGI scripts for security holes, DOS holes, etc).
What state are you in? Does it provide similar exemptions (charities, politicians, surveys)? There's not enough information here to relate the two laws.