2001 called, they want their opinion back! People said the same thing about audio/video back in the day, now look at HTML5.
I'm *NOT* advocating that we just add every format into a browser, but should a good format emerge I don't see any reason not to add it to a browser. Better in the core browser than in an addon: speed and reliability are always better in the core browser.
Let's pretend you're a moderately large site getting a couple million hits a day. I'm guessing you don't have logging turned on because
#1) You'd have huge log files #2) Your disk throughput/server load is going to suffer #3) You don't even use logs for doing statistical analysis #4) You have lots of servers and would have to aggregate all the logs into one
Whose going to pay for the disks I'll need just to store the logs if the FBI wants to look at them? It's not going to be the FBI that's for sure. The logistics of storing that much data are insane on the Facebook/Google/Digg scale get pretty insane pretty quick.
My small server farm (three servers) does 1.5G of logs per day. Multiply that by two years and that's a 1095 gigs of logs!
The browsers need to start supporting free codecs now. Streaming h.264 is free for now, but that party is going to end at the end of 2010. If YouTube has to start paying royalties for every h.264 stream they serve up you better bet the whole game is going to change.
Theora/Dirac/Whatever start looking real good when consider that it keeps the web "free". Imagine if you had to pay everytime you served up a jpeg on your website? If you want to serve video from your site in a couple years, you may have to. I say we pick an open format now, to avoid all that headache now.
There is already a technically superior, non-patent encumbered, world wide standard with ubiquitous silicon support: ISO/MPEG
Where did you get the idea that MPEG is not patent encumbered? It's been patented since MPEG 1.
Not to mention the impending MPEG4 patent licensing bomb that's coming up next year. Remember all those sites streaming MPEG4 for free (I'm looking at you YouTube). It's going to be very expensive to stream MPEG4 after 2010.
Now is the time to start converting all that content to free format.
That's weird. No toolbars for me, this is a fresh laptop from Dell. Less than two weeks old. First thing I did was install IE7 Beta 2 and Firefox. It had all those search engines already in there. Perhaps is inherited the settings from IE6 and those were the default for that?
I don't know where you got your information. My copy of IE7 came with: MSN, Yahoo, Google, and Ebay. I quickly switched from MSN to Google in about 3 seconds. Then I remembered I was running IE7 and promptly switched back to Firefox.
The 360 is slated to launch in Korea on February 24th, and Australia, Taiwan and Singapore on March 2nd.
I'm confused... What happened to the worldwide launch all on the same day? Microsoft was really pimping that for a long time so no one country could claim technical dominance because they had Xbox 360s before another.
They recently changed the 6 month release cycle to a 9 month release cycle. I can't say I really blame them. Trying to put together an entire OS every six months is a pretty daunting task. The longer release cycle also means releases will stay "current" longer. Yum updates keep all your packages up to date anyway, so I think it's a win-win for everyone involved.
I commend RedHat for being able to get an OS out the door in six months (or close to it) the first four time. That just boggles my mind.
I've got to imagine that ANY lost revenue due to some guy creating a BK clone has to be offset by the number of additional customers BK must have got because they could claim the linux kernel was one of their clients.
I can't think of a bigger, more successful, more openly public project than the Linux kernel (maybe Mozilla). That makes a HELL of a bullet point on your marketing brochure. If I'm mom and pop software developer and I'm comparing versioning systems and I see "BK powers the linux kernel" I'm going to know this isn't some silly little program, it's legit.
I really have to imagine that the linux kernel did more for BK than BK did for the linux kernel.
Public radio is a great source of *interesting* talk radio. None of that "duh-whatever" radio you're talking about. Not only that, but they have shows that cover just about every possible interest: cars, technology, news, music, science, space, etc. And they're all interesting.
I highly recommend giving it a listen on your local affiliate. Once you realize you can't live without them, you'll probably end up donating some money like I did. I just wish I'd known about them sooner. They excellent!
If I were running a business with the sole purpose of selling stuff so I can make money, I would do my best to not turn away *ANY* customers.
What if Target/McDonalds/etc turned away one out of every ten customers walking in their door because they were too tall to enter the door? Is it the customer's fault they're too tall to enter the store? No it's the store's fault for not designing the door properly to best support ALL potential customers.
Just like building a bigger door is really easy, so is designing your site to work well in all browsers.
I don't know about your SP2 experiences but I've heard from SEVERAL people that installing SP2 has caused huge problems with their systems. This has caused even more people to not even attempt to install the SP to not be affected by the problems.
Just saying "upgrade to the latest service" isn't going to work for a lot of people. Those people that don't/can't upgrade are going to be vulnerable to viruses/spyware and THAT is enough reason to get a lot of people to switch.
No but if my neighbor has some really expensive rare flower that the wind blows the seeds on to my yard the flowers that grow as a result are mine.
If I have a stream flowing through my property and someone upstream dynamites open a mountain and gold flows on to my property that becomes my gold.
Those aren't perfect analogies but they work. The examples you mention above are crimes against people. It's never OK to harm another person (in my book).
I'm not advocating breaking the law. I'm just saying that if that signal is coming in to my house and I can capture/remodulate/transfer/etc. *without* affecting anyone else I should be able to do that. That should not be against the law. Just like it shouldn't be against the law for me to claim the flowers/gold that ended up on my property.
My problem with this bill is that the HDTV signal that comes in to my house/business (and includes the broadcast flag) is using the public airways. So unless I decide to wrap my entire house in aluminum foil that signal is coming in to my house whether I like it or not. I don't have any real control if I choose to not receive that signal.
Assuming that it is coming into my house univited (say I don't have an HDTV and thus can't use the signal) shouldn't I be able to do whatever I want with that signal when it gets in my house/business? As long as I'm not profitting off that signal that's coming in to my house I really think that should fall under fair-use.
Legally that's probably not the case, but it SHOULD be. How many wireless signals are "beamed" into our houses everyday that we have no control of? Cell phones, HAM Radio, wireless internet, GPS signals, etc.
If it's coming on to my property, that I pay taxes for I *should* be able to use it however I want.
The problem isn't that this flag will actually stop people from recording/retransmitting/converting any signal. The problems is that it makes it ILLEGAL to do so.
It's very similar to watching a DVD on Linux. It takes about 5 seconds to install a piece of software to play a DVD on Linux, but everytime you do that you're breaking the law. It's not that it's IMPOSSIBLE to watch a DVD, it's that it's ILLEGAL to watch a DVD on Linux.
Now illegal in this sense doesn't mean the cops are going to break down your door, it just means that's you have to make a decision to skirt that part of the law.
So it's more important that we be ALLOWED (under the law) to watch that DVD, or that HDTV signal however we want.
Especially since that signal is coming in to my house/business over public airways. If it's coming in to my house, and I have no (reasonable) recourse with which to stop it, I should be able to do whatever I want with the signal once it gets there. But that's another argument.
The ISP that I work at did exactly that. We were getting on average 2 to 3 complaints a week about spam leaving out network from customer IP addresses. We're a relatively small ISP too! Not to mention the only fix was to call said customer and explain what an open relay/trojan is and then help them fix it. The time required to do this for each customer was pretty horrendous.
So we decided to block that port outbound for all IPs unless a customer requests it (if they're running a mail server etc...). Very few people even notice, it works out pretty well actually.
Last time I checked email was a global technology. Am I the only one that thinks it's strange that the (FTC an entirely US organization) is making decisions about something like this? Isn't there a more appropriate internation technology body that should be handling this? Ultimately this will have to become an ISO standard to get implemented across all mail serving platforms. Wouldn't it make sense to get a global consensus before the US starts making decisions about how best to deal with SPAM.
I live in the US, but if I didn't I wouldn't want the US government telling me how to handle SPAM.
I'm not sure I totally agree with what you say. You see I'm one of the rare Slashdotters that actually READ the article.
By refusing to offer IE's security upgrades to users of older operating systems except through paid upgrades to XP, Microsoft may be turning the lemons of its browser's security reputation into the lemonade of a powerful upgrade selling point.
While I'm not sure it's 100% as cut and dried as what the/. title suggests, it does say that some security releases may not make it back down to the old OSes.
Do believe he's referring to the apostrophe in It's which it seems that EVERYONE seems to get wrong. You never use an apostrophe in it's to show possesion. EVER!
Ultimately what it comes down is the fact the he's a nutball. No question there. The silly thing is that he's being deported BACK to the US for playing in an effing CHESS TOURNAMENT! Come on! Don't we have some terrorists we should be finding? Last I heard Osama was still on the loose. Good thing we caught that chess guy from 1972!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While I agree with you that Mr. Fischer is a little extreme with regards to his political reviews, that's his right. You can say all the crazy whacked out things you want, even things that aren't true. That's what freedom is speech is all about. That's what this country is founded on. It's only when you begin to act on these feelings that you run afoul of the law.
There are certainly other people just like him living free in the US spouting just as much insane madness, but they're not being investigated by the feds. If you don't believe me have a walk through downtown USA outside a homeless shelter. Having a contrary opinion is NOT a crime. If it were all of us/F?OSS/i people would probably be in jail. If Mr. Gates had his way anyway.
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2001 called, they want their opinion back! People said the same thing about audio/video back in the day, now look at HTML5.
I'm *NOT* advocating that we just add every format into a browser, but should a good format emerge I don't see any reason not to add it to a browser. Better in the core browser than in an addon: speed and reliability are always better in the core browser.
Let's pretend you're a moderately large site getting a couple million hits a day. I'm guessing you don't have logging turned on because
#1) You'd have huge log files
#2) Your disk throughput/server load is going to suffer
#3) You don't even use logs for doing statistical analysis
#4) You have lots of servers and would have to aggregate all the logs into one
Whose going to pay for the disks I'll need just to store the logs if the FBI wants to look at them? It's not going to be the FBI that's for sure. The logistics of storing that much data are insane on the Facebook/Google/Digg scale get pretty insane pretty quick.
My small server farm (three servers) does 1.5G of logs per day. Multiply that by two years and that's a 1095 gigs of logs!
The browsers need to start supporting free codecs now. Streaming h.264 is free for now, but that party is going to end at the end of 2010. If YouTube has to start paying royalties for every h.264 stream they serve up you better bet the whole game is going to change.
Theora/Dirac/Whatever start looking real good when consider that it keeps the web "free". Imagine if you had to pay everytime you served up a jpeg on your website? If you want to serve video from your site in a couple years, you may have to. I say we pick an open format now, to avoid all that headache now.
There is already a technically superior, non-patent encumbered, world wide standard with ubiquitous silicon support: ISO/MPEG
Where did you get the idea that MPEG is not patent encumbered? It's been patented since MPEG 1.
Not to mention the impending MPEG4 patent licensing bomb that's coming up next year. Remember all those sites streaming MPEG4 for free (I'm looking at you YouTube). It's going to be very expensive to stream MPEG4 after 2010.
Now is the time to start converting all that content to free format.
That's weird. No toolbars for me, this is a fresh laptop from Dell. Less than two weeks old. First thing I did was install IE7 Beta 2 and Firefox. It had all those search engines already in there. Perhaps is inherited the settings from IE6 and those were the default for that?
I don't know where you got your information. My copy of IE7 came with: MSN, Yahoo, Google, and Ebay. I quickly switched from MSN to Google in about 3 seconds. Then I remembered I was running IE7 and promptly switched back to Firefox.
I'm confused... What happened to the worldwide launch all on the same day? Microsoft was really pimping that for a long time so no one country could claim technical dominance because they had Xbox 360s before another.
They recently changed the 6 month release cycle to a 9 month release cycle. I can't say I really blame them. Trying to put together an entire OS every six months is a pretty daunting task. The longer release cycle also means releases will stay "current" longer. Yum updates keep all your packages up to date anyway, so I think it's a win-win for everyone involved.
I commend RedHat for being able to get an OS out the door in six months (or close to it) the first four time. That just boggles my mind.
I've got to imagine that ANY lost revenue due to some guy creating a BK clone has to be offset by the number of additional customers BK must have got because they could claim the linux kernel was one of their clients.
I can't think of a bigger, more successful, more openly public project than the Linux kernel (maybe Mozilla). That makes a HELL of a bullet point on your marketing brochure. If I'm mom and pop software developer and I'm comparing versioning systems and I see "BK powers the linux kernel" I'm going to know this isn't some silly little program, it's legit.
I really have to imagine that the linux kernel did more for BK than BK did for the linux kernel.
I'm operating under the assumption that you live in the US, but it probably applies even if you don't.
NPR!
Public radio is a great source of *interesting* talk radio. None of that "duh-whatever" radio you're talking about. Not only that, but they have shows that cover just about every possible interest: cars, technology, news, music, science, space, etc. And they're all interesting.
I highly recommend giving it a listen on your local affiliate. Once you realize you can't live without them, you'll probably end up donating some money like I did. I just wish I'd known about them sooner. They excellent!
If I were running a business with the sole purpose of selling stuff so I can make money, I would do my best to not turn away *ANY* customers.
What if Target/McDonalds/etc turned away one out of every ten customers walking in their door because they were too tall to enter the door? Is it the customer's fault they're too tall to enter the store? No it's the store's fault for not designing the door properly to best support ALL potential customers.
Just like building a bigger door is really easy, so is designing your site to work well in all browsers.
I don't know about your SP2 experiences but I've heard from SEVERAL people that installing SP2 has caused huge problems with their systems. This has caused even more people to not even attempt to install the SP to not be affected by the problems.
Just saying "upgrade to the latest service" isn't going to work for a lot of people. Those people that don't/can't upgrade are going to be vulnerable to viruses/spyware and THAT is enough reason to get a lot of people to switch.
No but if my neighbor has some really expensive rare flower that the wind blows the seeds on to my yard the flowers that grow as a result are mine.
If I have a stream flowing through my property and someone upstream dynamites open a mountain and gold flows on to my property that becomes my gold.
Those aren't perfect analogies but they work. The examples you mention above are crimes against people. It's never OK to harm another person (in my book).
I'm not advocating breaking the law. I'm just saying that if that signal is coming in to my house and I can capture/remodulate/transfer/etc. *without* affecting anyone else I should be able to do that. That should not be against the law. Just like it shouldn't be against the law for me to claim the flowers/gold that ended up on my property.
My problem with this bill is that the HDTV signal that comes in to my house/business (and includes the broadcast flag) is using the public airways. So unless I decide to wrap my entire house in aluminum foil that signal is coming in to my house whether I like it or not. I don't have any real control if I choose to not receive that signal.
Assuming that it is coming into my house univited (say I don't have an HDTV and thus can't use the signal) shouldn't I be able to do whatever I want with that signal when it gets in my house/business? As long as I'm not profitting off that signal that's coming in to my house I really think that should fall under fair-use.
Legally that's probably not the case, but it SHOULD be. How many wireless signals are "beamed" into our houses everyday that we have no control of? Cell phones, HAM Radio, wireless internet, GPS signals, etc.
If it's coming on to my property, that I pay taxes for I *should* be able to use it however I want.
The problem isn't that this flag will actually stop people from recording/retransmitting/converting any signal. The problems is that it makes it ILLEGAL to do so.
It's very similar to watching a DVD on Linux. It takes about 5 seconds to install a piece of software to play a DVD on Linux, but everytime you do that you're breaking the law. It's not that it's IMPOSSIBLE to watch a DVD, it's that it's ILLEGAL to watch a DVD on Linux.
Now illegal in this sense doesn't mean the cops are going to break down your door, it just means that's you have to make a decision to skirt that part of the law.
So it's more important that we be ALLOWED (under the law) to watch that DVD, or that HDTV signal however we want.
Especially since that signal is coming in to my house/business over public airways. If it's coming in to my house, and I have no (reasonable) recourse with which to stop it, I should be able to do whatever I want with the signal once it gets there. But that's another argument.
It's all about rights, not capabilities.
The "internet" was never designed to be a global communication network. It's grown well beyond what it was intended.
The FTC assuming that it can make a decision for the Internet as a whole regarding email seems presumptuous though.
The ISP that I work at did exactly that. We were getting on average 2 to 3 complaints a week about spam leaving out network from customer IP addresses. We're a relatively small ISP too! Not to mention the only fix was to call said customer and explain what an open relay/trojan is and then help them fix it. The time required to do this for each customer was pretty horrendous.
So we decided to block that port outbound for all IPs unless a customer requests it (if they're running a mail server etc...). Very few people even notice, it works out pretty well actually.
Last time I checked email was a global technology. Am I the only one that thinks it's strange that the (FTC an entirely US organization) is making decisions about something like this? Isn't there a more appropriate internation technology body that should be handling this? Ultimately this will have to become an ISO standard to get implemented across all mail serving platforms. Wouldn't it make sense to get a global consensus before the US starts making decisions about how best to deal with SPAM.
I live in the US, but if I didn't I wouldn't want the US government telling me how to handle SPAM.
I'm not sure I totally agree with what you say. You see I'm one of the rare Slashdotters that actually READ the article.
/. title suggests, it does say that some security releases may not make it back down to the old OSes.
By refusing to offer IE's security upgrades to users of older operating systems except through paid upgrades to XP, Microsoft may be turning the lemons of its browser's security reputation into the lemonade of a powerful upgrade selling point.
While I'm not sure it's 100% as cut and dried as what the
Do believe he's referring to the apostrophe in It's which it seems that EVERYONE seems to get wrong. You never use an apostrophe in it's to show possesion. EVER!
Except in the rare *laugh* cases like these.
I'm glad someone else posted this. I was just about to. This is BY FAR the worst movie I've EVER seen.
Ultimately what it comes down is the fact the he's a nutball. No question there. The silly thing is that he's being deported BACK to the US for playing in an effing CHESS TOURNAMENT! Come on! Don't we have some terrorists we should be finding? Last I heard Osama was still on the loose. Good thing we caught that chess guy from 1972!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While I agree with you that Mr. Fischer is a little extreme with regards to his political reviews, that's his right. You can say all the crazy whacked out things you want, even things that aren't true. That's what freedom is speech is all about. That's what this country is founded on. It's only when you begin to act on these feelings that you run afoul of the law.
/F?OSS/i people would probably be in jail. If Mr. Gates had his way anyway.
There are certainly other people just like him living free in the US spouting just as much insane madness, but they're not being investigated by the feds. If you don't believe me have a walk through downtown USA outside a homeless shelter. Having a contrary opinion is NOT a crime. If it were all of us
I think most people who have the skills to write something like a compiler generally want to make a living from their work
You mean except for those dirty commie gcc guys!