So you are keying your user's session by their incoming IP address?
That's interesting. Er - and you don't find that all the users logged into the same machine, or behind the same ISP's gateway are accessing the same session?
Funny, I knew cookies weren't perfect, but I thought they were as good as it gets when it comes to tracking users.
Tell me - when you go to www.dnsstuff.com and look at your external IP address at the top of the screen, do you see the same address as the guy at the next desk?
All of this just frightens the shit out of me. GPL v3 seems to be a noose that Open Source has created to hang itself with.
We use open source software so that if all else fails we can get it fixed. If that is going to leave us open to getting sued (because somebody else sued someone else and broke the license for us) then we can't use it - full stop.
You may think this is not the case, but as far as I can tell no one has a bloody clue what this license really means.
You may hate Novell for coming to a commercial agreement with Microsoft, but I'm a big fan of OpenSuse and would hate it to fail over all this nonsense.
Right, so if all the registered slashdot users donated $1000 (including the dead, the duplicates and all those old first post robot accounts), we are in with a chance?
Hmm. As I remember SCO decided to chase users for frightening amounts of money. A much more dirty trick than attacking a distro directly. Perhaps this does make sense for Novell.
As for Microsoft, could this mean that MS is on the back foot? Or is it perhaps that they really do need to interop, or make the appearance of it.
But one thing they cannot change is their IP addresses.
Sure they can. They've got access to botnets of random compromised PCs sitting in homes and offices around the world...
Yes, but those compromised PCs and ISP home user gateways are not sending us legitimate email. A legitimate email from the guy who owns the PC will be coming out through his company/ISP mail server which is unlikely to be the same.
That's right, and the other point made was that BASIC was always there. Your average kid knows how to turn on the machine and insert a game disk to start a game. In the past there was an intermediate step and it looked like this:
Ready>
Before they did anything else they were writing programs. Simple ones that started the game. Next they were playing with loops:
I was thinking of this as requiring an extension to HTML. Doing it using existing JavaScript technology would be tricky as it would mean running JavaScript inside the target page. Even if you find a way to do this, you cannot be sure that someone at Mozilla or Microsoft woun't see it as a security problem and close the hole.
I don't think it would be possible with AJAX unless the target document is on the same server, this is a restriction of XMLHttpRequest. (This where I would like to link to the "Security Alert" near the bottom).
That said, it might be possible to do this using a frameset. You link to a frameset on yout own server with the extra info passed as arguments. The frameset parses the arguments, loads the target page into a frame, then it scans the page for the text and then scrolls the frame.
Alternatively you could serve the target page via your own server inserting an anchor.
I always wanted to link to arbitary points in other people's documents, perhaps to a paragraph containing a particular piece of text. So I guess it would be xpath expressions in links that we need.
Telling someone "this wireless network is insecure until you set a WPA password. See manual for details." would go a long way
Telling someone that "this device will not function until you have set a password" would protect them even better. That is assuming that the device does actually require a password first:-)
It is a problem for a company to check the ads embedded on its pages when those ads are served by another company.
Only a general link is embedded in the page which causes the user's browser to makes a request to the ad companies server. Every time the link is used a different ad is served. The ad travels directly from the ad company to the user, nothing of it is seen by the company hosting the page.
The ad company likes this arrangement because they then know the ad they are paying for was really served. So the only control the hosting company has is by writing it into the contract, which as often they are the junior player, they probably don't have much control over. I know they could go to another ad company, but they will probably end up with similar terms there.
So I think you can try and hold the page owner responsible if you like, but I don't think this will have any practical impact. It's the ad company that has the opportunity to verify the ad is not anti-social, so it would be better sue them.
I also try to use the proper words. Many abbreviations such as lol have more than one meaning, and as an old fart I just don't enjoy having to re-type things twice to explain what I was trying to say the first time. Anyway I find that I have to carefully review what I have typed, to insert the missing "not" or "except".
However, I do use smilies. I find that when sending emails to people of different cultures (Lancashire for instance), a smilie may be the only clue they pick up on that you are not being entirely serious.:-)
... the world now knows what a good RDBMS MySQL is.
Oracle may do it's best to cripple it now, but people are suddenly waking up to the fact that even Oracle believes that other people have been producing a better product. Time to look more seriously at the alternatives.
There is more than one way to format a disk. If you do it with FDISK and don't provide the/MBR option it does not recreate the master boot record. If your virus is hiding there it will survive.
Do you really want to use software built on a model of the software is free but you pay for support?
Why not? If you don't like the support you are getting, move elsewhere. There is little to stop you with open source. And when you had all the support you need - stop paying. These are often no even options with closed source.
There would be a huge incentive to make software hard to use, buggy, etc.
I don't think you will find it works this way with open source. The guys writing the stuff do so because they are also using it (you have got to pay your bills after all). And if you don't fix it someone else will.
Slashdot Mirror
You are counting the number of hits, not the number of users.
So you are keying your user's session by their incoming IP address?
That's interesting. Er - and you don't find that all the users logged into the same machine, or behind the same ISP's gateway are accessing the same session?
Funny, I knew cookies weren't perfect, but I thought they were as good as it gets when it comes to tracking users.
Tell me - when you go to www.dnsstuff.com and look at your external IP address at the top of the screen, do you see the same address as the guy at the next desk?
All of this just frightens the shit out of me. GPL v3 seems to be a noose that Open Source has created to hang itself with.
We use open source software so that if all else fails we can get it fixed. If that is going to leave us open to getting sued (because somebody else sued someone else and broke the license for us) then we can't use it - full stop.
You may think this is not the case, but as far as I can tell no one has a bloody clue what this license really means.
You may hate Novell for coming to a commercial agreement with Microsoft, but I'm a big fan of OpenSuse and would hate it to fail over all this nonsense.
Oh back then all the pirates were in boats.
Right, so if all the registered slashdot users donated $1000 (including the dead, the duplicates and all those old first post robot accounts), we are in with a chance?
So it was leaked? Right
Jethro! Jethro! Get up! Fetch yer pitch fork.
We'r goin' over to Novell's. Bring the dogs, an summin that'll burn.
Forkin? Forkin? We'll givem forkin!
Hmm. As I remember SCO decided to chase users for frightening amounts of money. A much more dirty trick than attacking a distro directly. Perhaps this does make sense for Novell.
As for Microsoft, could this mean that MS is on the back foot? Or is it perhaps that they really do need to interop, or make the appearance of it.
Yes, but those compromised PCs and ISP home user gateways are not sending us legitimate email. A legitimate email from the guy who owns the PC will be coming out through his company/ISP mail server which is unlikely to be the same.
Great! Now we just need someone to get up there and paint over the hole in the ozone layer.
Could it be used for direct translations into management speak?
"It is a crock of shit, and smells as of a sewer." -> "It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful."
I think it was Phil Collins that said that if Labour ever got into power he would go to live in the States.
Yoo Hoo! Go on Phil, push off!
Would anyone like to spam the Illinois district court? Just to help them understand the nature of the case.
Before they did anything else they were writing programs. Simple ones that started the game. Next they were playing with loops:
And er,
I was thinking of this as requiring an extension to HTML. Doing it using existing JavaScript technology would be tricky as it would mean running JavaScript inside the target page. Even if you find a way to do this, you cannot be sure that someone at Mozilla or Microsoft woun't see it as a security problem and close the hole.
I don't think it would be possible with AJAX unless the target document is on the same server, this is a restriction of XMLHttpRequest. (This where I would like to link to the "Security Alert" near the bottom).
That said, it might be possible to do this using a frameset. You link to a frameset on yout own server with the extra info passed as arguments. The frameset parses the arguments, loads the target page into a frame, then it scans the page for the text and then scrolls the frame.
Alternatively you could serve the target page via your own server inserting an anchor.
I always wanted to link to arbitary points in other people's documents, perhaps to a paragraph containing a particular piece of text. So I guess it would be xpath expressions in links that we need.
They don't make them any more. You could try a scrap yard. Get an extra wheel while you are there.
http://www.3wheelers.com/robin.html
Telling someone that "this device will not function until you have set a password" would protect them even better. That is assuming that the device does actually require a password first
It is a problem for a company to check the ads embedded on its pages when those ads are served by another company.
Only a general link is embedded in the page which causes the user's browser to makes a request to the ad companies server. Every time the link is used a different ad is served. The ad travels directly from the ad company to the user, nothing of it is seen by the company hosting the page.
The ad company likes this arrangement because they then know the ad they are paying for was really served. So the only control the hosting company has is by writing it into the contract, which as often they are the junior player, they probably don't have much control over. I know they could go to another ad company, but they will probably end up with similar terms there.
So I think you can try and hold the page owner responsible if you like, but I don't think this will have any practical impact. It's the ad company that has the opportunity to verify the ad is not anti-social, so it would be better sue them.
I also try to use the proper words. Many abbreviations such as lol have more than one meaning, and as an old fart I just don't enjoy having to re-type things twice to explain what I was trying to say the first time. Anyway I find that I have to carefully review what I have typed, to insert the missing "not" or "except".
:-)
However, I do use smilies. I find that when sending emails to people of different cultures (Lancashire for instance), a smilie may be the only clue they pick up on that you are not being entirely serious.
People send me Excel spreadsheets and they seem work fine in OO Calc.
However, the database is still flakey. That coredumps all over the shop. Or at least it did a couple of months ago.
... the world now knows what a good RDBMS MySQL is.
Oracle may do it's best to cripple it now, but people are suddenly waking up to the fact that even Oracle believes that other people have been producing a better product. Time to look more seriously at the alternatives.
There is more than one way to format a disk. If you do it with FDISK and don't provide the /MBR option it does not recreate the master boot record. If your virus is hiding there it will survive.
Why not? If you don't like the support you are getting, move elsewhere. There is little to stop you with open source. And when you had all the support you need - stop paying. These are often no even options with closed source.
I don't think you will find it works this way with open source. The guys writing the stuff do so because they are also using it (you have got to pay your bills after all). And if you don't fix it someone else will.
Dave Winer seems to some sort of bee in his bonnet over OpenDoc. He doesn't seem to say why.