I would add a hearty vote of support for this as well. ezmlm on qmail should have no problems scaling to whatever you need for capacity. There are web interfaces available, and it automatically handles bounces, unsubscribing people after X number of bounces.
qmail's config system may seem different from what you're used to at first, but it's really quite intuitive when you understand the concepts behind it.
May I ask why you're not considering RADIUS? Authentication on a large scale is really what it's meant for. My ISP uses RADIUS to authenticate all PPP DSL customers. Just set the check items to only allow one connection. You won't have MAC authentication, but do you really need that? Just make sure everyone's got a secure username and password and switch to using RADIUS to authenticate them. It's faster, easier to maintain, and infinitely more scalable.
Run it down the furnace ducts. A friend of mine has done that to the last 3 houses where he's lived. Just make sure to use plenum-rated Cat-5 and route it out of the ducts at an unobtrusive location several feet from the furnace's heating element.
Wouldn't this violate fire code in almost all of the 50 states, even if the Cat5 is plenum rated? Whether it's carrying low or high voltage, my understanding is that you cannot run wiring through your ductwork (even plenum rated), except at a 90 degree angle across studs through a cold air return. I may be wrong, but I personally wouldn't do it. Wiring melts and burns during a house fire, and burning wiring running up through ductwork helps spread fires throughout the house that much faster.
The owner will never know.
Unless there's a fire in the house and the insurance inspector refuses the claim due to wiring in the ductwork that violates code. I would expect you'd be sued fairly quickly at that point for the value of the damage, and possibly some negligence damages as well??
First thing that I thought of...if you Really want Something That will
Play Ogg files, I Should think you could Try emailing the tech support addresses
of the various companies that currently make MP3 players, and see if they have any plans to support Ogg in the future? I personally own a Neo Jukebox (http://www.ssiamerica.com/), and when I asked them, they said that Ogg support was being worked on. No dates, unfortunately, but at least this could give you an idea what hardware to limit your search to, and will also let companies know that people are interested in an Ogg based player.
No "First Post" garbage...
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For what it's worth,
I think this article is
Right on target.
Sun hardware matched
To Apache software is really a
Perfect combination
Of a great OS with
Solaris, and security with Apache
That is unmatched by any other webserver.
I agree to a point, but to another degree, this is bullshit. My point being that you shouldn't HAVE to go through that much work just to get security on a web server.
This would be similar to GM telling you that if you want to be safe from side impact hits in your new car, you should relocate the steering wheel and gas pedal to the back seat, and sit in the back seat buckled in as tightly as possible. "There is no reason a properly configured automobile driver could not have survived both a front and side impact."
The only disadvantage to Coyote is that the distro. doesn't support HDDs, so you can't keep extensive log files.
Actually, you can. There's a way to pipe the logs from Coyote to a remote syslog host, which can be a unix box of some sort, or a syslog-like daemon running on a Windows box. From the Coyote Linux FAQ at http://www.dalantech.com/coyote-faq.shtml:
Q: Can I redirect the [syslog] log files to a syslog server/daemon on another computer on my network?
A: Yes! Coyote stores the logs in the RAM drive that it runs from. If you want better logging capabilities, set up a syslog server on your network that is listening for remote syslogs... you can then alter Coyote's/etc/syslog.conf file to redirect all log data to an external host.
If the syslog daemon resides on Linux/BSD/etc., first you need to set up your remote box to receive syslog messages from other hosts. To do that, the syslog daemon must be started as "syslogd -r". -r enables syslogd to receive remote logs./etc/init.d/syslog is usually the place where syslog is started. and restart it. Mine looks like this:
{stuff}... daemon syslog -r -m 0 {stuff}...
Now, on your Coyote box, open/etc/syslog.conf and replace the line:
#*.* @host.ip.address-or-name.here
with
*.* @192.168.0.20
or whatever the IP of the machine you want to log to.For example, to log EVERYTHING to the host at 192.168.0.2:
Disclaimer: I admin a qmail box, so unless you have qmail as your mail server, this probably won't work. (But you really should get it, because it rocks big time, even if you can't stand DJB)
You will need to have DJB's mess822 package installed as well. That said, I put these lines in my.qmail file (which directs how mail is delivered):
Line 1: Delivers any email where my address is in the To: or Cc: lines, and exits. Otherwise, it falls through to...
Line 2: Delivers any email where my address is in the Bcc: line, PROVIDED that the FROM address is listed in a special file in my home directory, called bccexempt. This way, it denies ANY bcc delivery to my address, unless I explicitly list the from address in my bccexempt file. It will then exit if it passes this test. Otherwise, it falls through to...
Line 3: Injects the phrase "THISISSPAM" into the subject line. This way, I can filter on the subject line in virtually ANY email reader on the planet. Another option would be to simply throw it into/dev/null, but this way I can adjust my bccexempt filter if I need to, because it also lists the FROM address in the subject if it's marked as spam. I just have my email reader filter for THISISSPAM in the subject line, and if it finds it, it marks it as read and dumps it into a separate folder away from my Inbox where I don't have to look at it, or even know it's there. Once every 2 or 3 weeks, I quickly browse through the list of spam addresses, and if I find any legitimate emails, I add the sender to my bccexempt list so the mail will be delivered into my Inbox.
Then I created a.qmail-safe file to handle the forwards where the legit email really gets sent to, and I have that dump into./Maildir/ to deliver normally.
The first month I had this in place, I received nearly 200 spams, and approximately 12 of those actually made it into my Inbox. This works so well because most spammers use BCC to send out their spam. This filter gives you control over who can BCC you. I know this doesn't stop spam at the source. I know it doesn't cut down on bandwidth usage. I know they can bypass it by mailing me directly. But I also know that there were 200 spams the first month that never entered my inbox.
I saw a story a few weeks back about how Patel had said something to the effect of "if users can find the songs, you should be able to block them" (At least, this was my interpretation. I could be totally off.)
If that's really what she meant, then the correct response would be, "Your honor, if American citizens can find a way to break the law, the police should be able to prevent them from doing it ahead of time."
Who are you going to sue if MySql goes down for a day?
Um...nobody. The exact same thing will happen if your Oracle database goes down for a day. Please don't tell me you honestly think you could win a lawsuit against Oracle for lost business if their database went down for a day? There's just no way. Read your EULA. I'm sure it excludes such things.
The smart thing to do is to take the money you'd use to hire the lawyers to sue someone, and instead pump it into planning and redundancy and disaster recovery procedures. If you don't take precautions like this, then you might as well give up now, because it won't be long before all your database are belong to us.
I think it's brilliant. Now I can create large scale solutions and distribute out my application logic layer to dedicated object servers between my front end and my database. When my servers are getting too much load, I just add another object server, only this time it's easier to add because I know I have many solutions for getting HTTP working to transport my object calls. I can bind soap to any port I want, not just port 80. I can firewall off the front end, and additionally put a firewall between the front end and my object servers, and do IP restrictions with IPChains and/or Apache so that only MY front end servers can access the SOAP objects on the object servers. There's no reason to use port 80 for ANY of this. Want greater security? Use an SSH pipe to redirect all your HTTP calls over SSH.
By using SOAP, I no longer have to fight with marshalling or any other headaches, because I'm using a protocol that I know works with very little fuss, and I can concentrate on writing objects instead of worrying about interoperability. Plus, I can write my objects in PERL, Python, C, C++, hell you could probably even write a wrapper for a BASH script. If, God forbid, you need to access VB objects from your Linux application, you can now do that.
I think this is a marvelous thing, and as long as you take some security precautions, I don't see any problems. If you are opening up your HTTP port to the world and you are running a SOAP object on that HTTP port, then stupidity is your crime, and your sentence will be executed appropriately.
You can already do this yourself if your ISP uses qmail and allows you to edit your own.qmail files. (Pay attention to Section 4.1.5 on extension addresses)
Of course, my guess is that the MPAA still makes money here, by charging the TV stations a fee for the rights to broadcast the movie. By tuning in, you reinforce the fact to the TV stations that it was a good deal for them to pay this licensing fee, since it got you to watch their station, and hence, their advertising.
Obviously the only real way to resist the MPAA is to not buy a DVD player, not go to movies, not rent movies, but to only watch, use, and endorse GNU/movies, on GNU/tv-stations, using your GNU/television and GNU/VCR.
What does it use for an electrical system?
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I don't think any of the articles mentioned this. What would this vehicle use to power its electric necessities? You need to have headlights, turn signals, a radio would be nice, a DVD player that pops out of the headliner to show Bugs Bunny clips, etc. Maybe a battery and some sort of alternator?
Since I don't really know that much about this stuff, a question. If they can have a few of these in a "can" to make a multicolor spotlight, what would be the chances of using 3 of these just like the 3 individual colored lamps used in front projection TV's? Would it be cost effective if it could be done?
If you're having trouble deciding who to vote for
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I don't know about any bias or anything like that on these sites, but there is a wealth of information about issues and candidates. The quiz was particularly helpful for me.
It doesn't have to be a lesser of two evils! Go to http://www.speakout.com/votematch/in dex 2.asp, take their quiz, and find out which candidate most closely matches your beliefs. Then VOTE FOR THEM! Even if they're a minor 3rd party candidate! You are note throwing your vote away if you vote how you believe. Over time, enough people voting for the candidate they best believe in CAN make a difference.
Remember back around 1992 or 1993 when all we had was Windows and OS/2, and Linux was a "3rd party candidate"? People got fed up with OS/2 and Windows and started turning to Linux. Likewise, eventually, people are going to get fed up with the two major political parties and turn to smaller parties that actively work to help people rather than solidify their political cash flow.
The power will come back to the people. But you can't help it get there by voting for the "lesser of two evils". Especially when there's so many other alternatives.
The difference is that with COM/CORBA you modify objects through their interfaces, so everything is done via function calls (possibly many of them). In contrast, to modify an object in the common runtime you can just change it directly, since each language uses the same data representation, same address space and same garbage collector
Contrasted with this:
And any language that can generate.NET components can be used as a scripting language in ASP+ or can be used to program web services (well, in theory anyway, but several interfaces need to be implemented to make that happen)
They get done saying that you no longer modify objects through interfaces, and then turn around two paragraphs later and say that interfaces need to be implemented to support this? I don't understand. They just got through saying we DIDN'T need to call objects by their interface. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.
To me, it looks like MS is making a pot of stew with all the leftovers they've found around the kitchen. I think they're trying to be compatible with too many things and support too much, and I can't imagine you can do that AND have great performance, AND not have a buggy product.
Also, I'm worried for the security of such a beast. I believe you can do a lot by forcing it to run in a virtual machine. But I have seen MS in the past, and they tend to allow things to go beyond an envelope such as that in order to provide additional functionality. Unfortunately, this seems to open gaping security holes and tends to bite them in the ass rather hard.
Go to http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml. Do a search for "Addtron switching hubs". The 3rd entry is the one by Earle Robinson that had the "ad" link embedded in it in the original Slashdot article.
Apparently the link isn't there when you do a power search?
I clicked on the link, and it took me to a page with a post discussing modems, where the word "modem" was a hyperlink. Clicking on that took me to a page WITHIN DEJA.COM where people could rate a particular modem.
Does this really constitute advertising? Much of Slashdot appears to be up in arms about this, but what if the link had taken you to a page where every review of that particular modem SUCKED, and basically said "Don't buy this modem, it's a pile of junk"? From what I've seen, there's nothing to stop anyone from creating such a review.
I don't really see how this is a bad thing. It is simply a link within a post that takes you to a place to get more information, good or bad, about a certain type of product. Does this constitute altering the content of the post? I don't think so. No more than making someone's email address a "mailto:" hotlink in a browser. You won't get that as a hotlink in some text based newsreaders, and I'll bet the original poster didn't format their post with their email address as a hotlink...does this mean now deja.com is altering someone's post by making their email address a hotlink?
How about when you put a URL into your post? On a text based newsreader, this won't be a hotlink, it'll just be a URL listed in the text. But on deja.com, it's a hotlink. Does this mean deja.com is altering the content of your post? What if you didn't want it to be a hotlink? Not only that, but deja.com has a redirect for virtually every hotlink that sends it through deja.com first before sending it to the site listed in the URL. Does this mean deja.com is altering the content of your post? They've been doing this since the dawn of deja.com, and nobody's complained yet.
If the hyperlinks they insert take me to another page on deja.com where I can write a review, good or bad, for a product in question, I don't see how this can be anything but a good thing for someone searching the newsgroups for information. Especially since they put their little orange triangle in front of it so you know it's a deja inserted link.
The web is growing every day with more and more content that is dynamically generated. What we need is something that will at least give search engines a grasp of what's buried under all of that.
Sure, many sites with dynamic content provide an engine that will allow THEIR dynamic content to be searched, but that doesn't help if you're using a major search engine to find ALL the sites with relevant information, not just relevant information on ONE site. We need a way for the engines that search dynamic content to report back to the big search engines what they have in their databases.
And then we can deal with all the security and privacy issues that will probably come with it.
Here's some irony for you. I worked on the development team that wrote VUE's test driver until about a year ago. At the time I left, and I'd imagine currently, the driver will only run on Windows. So have fun taking your Linux certification on a Windows machine.
The Rage Fury MAXX also sports the ATI Rage Theatre chip that enhances DVD playback and offers impressive video encoding.
From Sharky Extreme:
Since the gamer is ATi's projected customer, no TV-out support was considered necessary. This means the Rage Theatre chip present on the Rage Fury Pro and All-In-Wonder 128 Pro cards is absent on the otherwise power-packed MAXX.
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I would add a hearty vote of support for this as well. ezmlm on qmail should have no problems scaling to whatever you need for capacity. There are web interfaces available, and it automatically handles bounces, unsubscribing people after X number of bounces.
qmail's config system may seem different from what you're used to at first, but it's really quite intuitive when you understand the concepts behind it.
May I ask why you're not considering RADIUS? Authentication on a large scale is really what it's meant for. My ISP uses RADIUS to authenticate all PPP DSL customers. Just set the check items to only allow one connection. You won't have MAC authentication, but do you really need that? Just make sure everyone's got a secure username and password and switch to using RADIUS to authenticate them. It's faster, easier to maintain, and infinitely more scalable.
First thing that
I thought of...if you
Really want
Something
That will
Play
Ogg files, I
Should think you could
Try emailing the tech support addresses
of the various companies that currently make MP3 players, and see if they have any plans to support Ogg in the future? I personally own a Neo Jukebox (http://www.ssiamerica.com/), and when I asked them, they said that Ogg support was being worked on. No dates, unfortunately, but at least this could give you an idea what hardware to limit your search to, and will also let companies know that people are interested in an Ogg based player.
For what it's worth,
I think this article is
Right on target.
Sun hardware matched
To Apache software is really a
Perfect combination
Of a great OS with
Solaris, and security with Apache
That is unmatched by any other webserver.
I agree to a point, but to another degree, this is bullshit. My point being that you shouldn't HAVE to go through that much work just to get security on a web server.
This would be similar to GM telling you that if you want to be safe from side impact hits in your new car, you should relocate the steering wheel and gas pedal to the back seat, and sit in the back seat buckled in as tightly as possible. "There is no reason a properly configured automobile driver could not have survived both a front and side impact."
The default configuration should be more secure.
Actually, you can. There's a way to pipe the logs from Coyote to a remote syslog host, which can be a unix box of some sort, or a syslog-like daemon running on a Windows box. From the Coyote Linux FAQ at http://www.dalantech.com/coyote-faq.shtml:
Disclaimer: I admin a qmail box, so unless you have qmail as your mail server, this probably won't work. (But you really should get it, because it rocks big time, even if you can't stand DJB)
.qmail file (which directs how mail is delivered):
/usr/local/bin/iftocc /dev/null' /bin/sed "s/^S[Uu][Bb][Jj][Ee][Cc][Tt]:/Subject: THISISSPAM ($SENDER) /" | qmail-inject -a username-safe@mydomain.com
/dev/null, but this way I can adjust my bccexempt filter if I need to, because it also lists the FROM address in the subject if it's marked as spam. I just have my email reader filter for THISISSPAM in the subject line, and if it finds it, it marks it as read and dumps it into a separate folder away from my Inbox where I don't have to look at it, or even know it's there. Once every 2 or 3 weeks, I quickly browse through the list of spam addresses, and if I find any legitimate emails, I add the sender to my bccexempt list so the mail will be delivered into my Inbox.
.qmail-safe file to handle the forwards where the legit email really gets sent to, and I have that dump into ./Maildir/ to deliver normally.
You will need to have DJB's mess822 package installed as well. That said, I put these lines in my
|condredirect username-safe@mydomain.com
|condredirect username-safe@mydomain.net sh -c 'echo $SENDER | grep -f bccexempt >
|/var/qmail/bin/preline -df
Line 1: Delivers any email where my address is in the To: or Cc: lines, and exits. Otherwise, it falls through to...
Line 2: Delivers any email where my address is in the Bcc: line, PROVIDED that the FROM address is listed in a special file in my home directory, called bccexempt. This way, it denies ANY bcc delivery to my address, unless I explicitly list the from address in my bccexempt file. It will then exit if it passes this test. Otherwise, it falls through to...
Line 3: Injects the phrase "THISISSPAM" into the subject line. This way, I can filter on the subject line in virtually ANY email reader on the planet. Another option would be to simply throw it into
Then I created a
The first month I had this in place, I received nearly 200 spams, and approximately 12 of those actually made it into my Inbox. This works so well because most spammers use BCC to send out their spam. This filter gives you control over who can BCC you. I know this doesn't stop spam at the source. I know it doesn't cut down on bandwidth usage. I know they can bypass it by mailing me directly. But I also know that there were 200 spams the first month that never entered my inbox.
-D
...but some companies handle crisis differently.
NCS Pearson, McGraw-Hill's largest competitor, screwed up big time on standardized tests for the state of Minnesota. But they handled it a lot better.
I saw a story a few weeks back about how Patel had said something to the effect of "if users can find the songs, you should be able to block them" (At least, this was my interpretation. I could be totally off.)
If that's really what she meant, then the correct response would be, "Your honor, if American citizens can find a way to break the law, the police should be able to prevent them from doing it ahead of time."
Who are you going to sue if MySql goes down for a day?
Um...nobody. The exact same thing will happen if your Oracle database goes down for a day. Please don't tell me you honestly think you could win a lawsuit against Oracle for lost business if their database went down for a day? There's just no way. Read your EULA. I'm sure it excludes such things.
The smart thing to do is to take the money you'd use to hire the lawyers to sue someone, and instead pump it into planning and redundancy and disaster recovery procedures. If you don't take precautions like this, then you might as well give up now, because it won't be long before all your database are belong to us.
I think it's brilliant. Now I can create large scale solutions and distribute out my application logic layer to dedicated object servers between my front end and my database. When my servers are getting too much load, I just add another object server, only this time it's easier to add because I know I have many solutions for getting HTTP working to transport my object calls. I can bind soap to any port I want, not just port 80. I can firewall off the front end, and additionally put a firewall between the front end and my object servers, and do IP restrictions with IPChains and/or Apache so that only MY front end servers can access the SOAP objects on the object servers. There's no reason to use port 80 for ANY of this. Want greater security? Use an SSH pipe to redirect all your HTTP calls over SSH.
By using SOAP, I no longer have to fight with marshalling or any other headaches, because I'm using a protocol that I know works with very little fuss, and I can concentrate on writing objects instead of worrying about interoperability. Plus, I can write my objects in PERL, Python, C, C++, hell you could probably even write a wrapper for a BASH script. If, God forbid, you need to access VB objects from your Linux application, you can now do that.
I think this is a marvelous thing, and as long as you take some security precautions, I don't see any problems. If you are opening up your HTTP port to the world and you are running a SOAP object on that HTTP port, then stupidity is your crime, and your sentence will be executed appropriately.
You can already do this yourself if your ISP uses qmail and allows you to edit your own .qmail files. (Pay attention to Section 4.1.5 on extension addresses)
Of course, my guess is that the MPAA still makes money here, by charging the TV stations a fee for the rights to broadcast the movie. By tuning in, you reinforce the fact to the TV stations that it was a good deal for them to pay this licensing fee, since it got you to watch their station, and hence, their advertising.
Obviously the only real way to resist the MPAA is to not buy a DVD player, not go to movies, not rent movies, but to only watch, use, and endorse GNU/movies, on GNU/tv-stations, using your GNU/television and GNU/VCR.
I don't think any of the articles mentioned this. What would this vehicle use to power its electric necessities? You need to have headlights, turn signals, a radio would be nice, a DVD player that pops out of the headliner to show Bugs Bunny clips, etc. Maybe a battery and some sort of alternator?
Since I don't really know that much about this stuff, a question. If they can have a few of these in a "can" to make a multicolor spotlight, what would be the chances of using 3 of these just like the 3 individual colored lamps used in front projection TV's? Would it be cost effective if it could be done?
I found these sites to be extremely helpful:
http://www.issues2000.org
http://www.speakout.com/votematch/index2.asp
I don't know about any bias or anything like that on these sites, but there is a wealth of information about issues and candidates. The quiz was particularly helpful for me.
It doesn't have to be a lesser of two evils! Go to http://www.speakout.com/votematch/in dex 2.asp, take their quiz, and find out which candidate most closely matches your beliefs. Then VOTE FOR THEM! Even if they're a minor 3rd party candidate! You are note throwing your vote away if you vote how you believe. Over time, enough people voting for the candidate they best believe in CAN make a difference.
Remember back around 1992 or 1993 when all we had was Windows and OS/2, and Linux was a "3rd party candidate"? People got fed up with OS/2 and Windows and started turning to Linux. Likewise, eventually, people are going to get fed up with the two major political parties and turn to smaller parties that actively work to help people rather than solidify their political cash flow.
The power will come back to the people. But you can't help it get there by voting for the "lesser of two evils". Especially when there's so many other alternatives.
Contrasted with this:
They get done saying that you no longer modify objects through interfaces, and then turn around two paragraphs later and say that interfaces need to be implemented to support this? I don't understand. They just got through saying we DIDN'T need to call objects by their interface. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.
To me, it looks like MS is making a pot of stew with all the leftovers they've found around the kitchen. I think they're trying to be compatible with too many things and support too much, and I can't imagine you can do that AND have great performance, AND not have a buggy product.
Also, I'm worried for the security of such a beast. I believe you can do a lot by forcing it to run in a virtual machine. But I have seen MS in the past, and they tend to allow things to go beyond an envelope such as that in order to provide additional functionality. Unfortunately, this seems to open gaping security holes and tends to bite them in the ass rather hard.
Go to http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml. Do a search for "Addtron switching hubs". The 3rd entry is the one by Earle Robinson that had the "ad" link embedded in it in the original Slashdot article.
Apparently the link isn't there when you do a power search?
I clicked on the link, and it took me to a page with a post discussing modems, where the word "modem" was a hyperlink. Clicking on that took me to a page WITHIN DEJA.COM where people could rate a particular modem.
Does this really constitute advertising? Much of Slashdot appears to be up in arms about this, but what if the link had taken you to a page where every review of that particular modem SUCKED, and basically said "Don't buy this modem, it's a pile of junk"? From what I've seen, there's nothing to stop anyone from creating such a review.
I don't really see how this is a bad thing. It is simply a link within a post that takes you to a place to get more information, good or bad, about a certain type of product. Does this constitute altering the content of the post? I don't think so. No more than making someone's email address a "mailto:" hotlink in a browser. You won't get that as a hotlink in some text based newsreaders, and I'll bet the original poster didn't format their post with their email address as a hotlink...does this mean now deja.com is altering someone's post by making their email address a hotlink?
How about when you put a URL into your post? On a text based newsreader, this won't be a hotlink, it'll just be a URL listed in the text. But on deja.com, it's a hotlink. Does this mean deja.com is altering the content of your post? What if you didn't want it to be a hotlink? Not only that, but deja.com has a redirect for virtually every hotlink that sends it through deja.com first before sending it to the site listed in the URL. Does this mean deja.com is altering the content of your post? They've been doing this since the dawn of deja.com, and nobody's complained yet.
If the hyperlinks they insert take me to another page on deja.com where I can write a review, good or bad, for a product in question, I don't see how this can be anything but a good thing for someone searching the newsgroups for information. Especially since they put their little orange triangle in front of it so you know it's a deja inserted link.
The web is growing every day with more and more content that is dynamically generated. What we need is something that will at least give search engines a grasp of what's buried under all of that.
Sure, many sites with dynamic content provide an engine that will allow THEIR dynamic content to be searched, but that doesn't help if you're using a major search engine to find ALL the sites with relevant information, not just relevant information on ONE site. We need a way for the engines that search dynamic content to report back to the big search engines what they have in their databases.
And then we can deal with all the security and privacy issues that will probably come with it.
Here's some irony for you. I worked on the development team that wrote VUE's test driver until about a year ago. At the time I left, and I'd imagine currently, the driver will only run on Windows. So have fun taking your Linux certification on a Windows machine.