There is a bigger issue here... Netcraft should not be counting parked domains at all. It should be counting sites that actually have valid content. The big registrars parking services are well known and easily identifyable. You don't need to weed out 100% of parked domains, just the majority. When netcraft counts parked domains, the results lose meaning.
It's like a pollster calling phone numbers sequentially, and claiming that all unanswered calls indicate that the person has "no opinion" on the subject.
If you live where I do, a minivan or other small car just doesn't hold up. The roads are in horrible shape. People around here drive lots of pickups and SUV's because they are the only things that can withstand the potholes, frost heaves, and just plain old poor road construction. After replacing a few struts, motor mounts, and an axel, not to mention getting an alignment once every two months, you tend to understand these things.
Furthermore, most minivans are designed for 5'5" women with children. Get a few big men in the car with long legs and you get a large SUV. I always drive with the seat either all the way back, or almost all the way (depending on the vehicle.) This means that the back seat has ZERO leg room unless it's a big SUV, which is designed with more legroom in the back.
Frankly, the problem is that auto manufacturers don't build smaller autos that a) hold up to bad roads b) have a smooth ride or comfortable seats, and c) fit tall people. I think B is the bigger problem however.
The big problem with these services is not that they are crappy applications, but that you get into "All Your Data are belong to us" situations. It makes migrating to and from a service Very difficult, expensive, and timeconsuming - if you can do it at all.
I think the whole thing is very simple. Corporate buyers were willing to pay more for Thinkpads due to the IBM name and reputation. Whether or not you liked the boys in blue, the repuation of solid service and support was there. Without IBM's name behind the Thinkpad, the price gap is no longer tollerated. I'm a long-time thinkpad user, and recently bought a Dell (BIG mistake BTW...) as I also couldn't mentally cough up the extra $$$ if it wasn't IBM anymore (plus the fact that I could not get the display resolution / memory / etc. I was looking for in any of the Thinkpad models at the time. Models with lower specs were significantly more expensive on the order of $1K+. In fact, I STILL cant get the screen res I want.)
Windows someday can and will get more secure, it just needs time
CAN it be more secure? Will it? How MUCH time?
Hell, even the minor changes in SP2 caused a major uproar. The probelm MS has is that they need to retain compatability for 99.9% of the stuff or users will rebel.
IMHO, MS needs to RADICALlY change how apps install and run, interact with DLL's, how drivers work, etc. in order to get a handle on the problem. This will most likely break EVERYTHING. TCPA is a DRM solution and not a security solution. MS already has the ability to only allow digitally signed apps / drivers to run, but they don't do so for obvious good reasons.
MS needs to change it's mindset. For example: if you want to install an extension in Firefox, it first asks, if it is not signed, it warns, and then finally allows you to manually allow the extension to be installed. Compare this to IE which allows installing of a "helper object" with no user knowledge or intervention at all. Why did they do this in the first place? Why does IE STILL work this way TODAY?
Actually, they don't. *nix can have DEPENDANCY hell, needing certain versions of libs that are not there, but they don't share the same problem with Windows because the VERSION information is part of the filename. This means that you can have 534 versions of the same library installed and everything is still happy because apps will use whatever ver of the library that they need.
Windows just uses the SAME filenames for diverent versions (anyone remember the fiasco with MFC42.dll of which there were dozens of incompatible versions?
People that use AOL are insane. My 75 year old father-in-law finally got fed up with the ads and I switched him to a regular dial-up internet service. He is much happier, and finds it easier to use (I setup a bunch of well-named shortcuts on his desktop.) He is also totally computer illiterate (the TV remote is difficult - he had to get one with only 12 buttons) but does manage to navigate just fine.
The people still on AOL just don't know any better becasue they have never tred anything else.
OK, so I can go from crappy x10 to something SLIGHTLY less crappy.
No thanks, I'll go with something 25 years newer thankyouverymuch. Like Lonworks.
This old crappy tech just needs to die. If I need to buy modules twice as expensive, I may as well get them that use a decent modern protocol with a large address space (64 bit addresses). These newer protocols also use signals that are much more likely to get through on the power lines with less distortion.
If anyone has seen the water show at the Belagio in Vegas, that runs Lonworks. Industrial grade stuff.
True. Verizon email is nortoriously bad. Funny, I received a notice of a class action lawsuit over it too! Verizon was doing massive blocking of european email for a while there (may still be doing it.)
Interesting. I was noticing the same pattern over the past couple weeks... Ended up doing a +3 spamassassin rule on everything coming from yahoo now, which cuts it down a lot. Ditto for Hotmail.
I think you meant port 587, the MSA port. Port 465 is a TLS on connect legacy port that MS refuses to let die (they decided not to support port 587 correctly - starttls specifically.)
I would think that corporate "Software Assurance" customers who are paying for continual updates and support, and have to support MANY legacy applications that may be affected by such flaws or patches would be (and ARE) demanding such notifications. Joe Bob Home User does't really care, but Fortune 100 Fred in IT sure does, especially when his job (which is to keep the companies infrastructure up and running) is on the line.
Nope. No motion detectors at all. The probelm is that the protocol has no error checking. There are no CRC's, ACK's, or retransmits or anything. It's just a very very simplistic crappy 30 year old protocol that does not handle real world conditions well. It needs to die.
I think it depends on how you read the claim. So let's say that they have a signal sucess rate of 99.97%: this probably means that 99.97% of the packets DID NOT NEED TO BE RETRANSMITTED - not that devices started doing stupid shit. Any good protocol that runs over a crappy medium like powerlines should have retransmits, acks, checksum hashes, etc. and will end up being very reliable in real life. This is very different from X10 which has NONE of that, and therefor toally sucks.
I've never had good luck with X10 devices. First, the products were crappy. The light swiches would eventually wear out after a year of normal use - the little springs inside break. Second, the protocol is flakey as hell. It's very simplistic, and also very suceptable to noise. Nothing worse that your bedroom light going on and off by itself in the middle of the night - no, whole house filtering didn't even work. I got tired of all the issues and removed it all despite the rather sizable investment.
I was really looking forward to Lonworks, where each device has a 64 bit address. The protocol is uber reliable over powerlines, and is soooooo much more capable. Unfortunately, the consumer market just has not taken off like the commercial market has. This may change as utilities like ENEL in Italy are deploying it across their entire grid into each residence.
Ditto for the most part. My eyes are really bad (-5.75) too.
One thing to note is that it's VERY hard to find an optometrist that can actually give you a good glasses prescription. Get the thinner lenses too - they reduce distortion.
My glasses now are the best I've had in 15 years. Just as good as my contacts - I find myself wearing them much more frequently. It's good to give your eyes a break from contacts anyway.
I had a treo 650, and dumped it. The phone quality sucks. The speaker is not as good as a traditional cell phone, and neither is the mic. Maybe it's the sound processing chip - who knows. I just know for a fact that sound quality is not as good as my motorola phone. Furthermore, the treo had a LOT more dropouts and did not work nearly as well in low-signal areas as my moto. The screen keypad on the treo ALSO sucks compared to a standard phone.
As a PDA, the screen is way too small, the keyboard sucks, and it doesn't NEARLY have enough memory.
As for bluetooth, Verizon cripples bluetooth on it's phones / PDAs. It no workie as a modem unless you go through the back door codes to re-enable it, and may many people have reported getting their service suspended for using their phone as a modem (bluetooth or otherwise.) Fuck that.
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Log capture in my 300 baud modem software. YEARS before the internet.
There is a bigger issue here... Netcraft should not be counting parked domains at all. It should be counting sites that actually have valid content. The big registrars parking services are well known and easily identifyable. You don't need to weed out 100% of parked domains, just the majority. When netcraft counts parked domains, the results lose meaning.
It's like a pollster calling phone numbers sequentially, and claiming that all unanswered calls indicate that the person has "no opinion" on the subject.
If you live where I do, a minivan or other small car just doesn't hold up. The roads are in horrible shape. People around here drive lots of pickups and SUV's because they are the only things that can withstand the potholes, frost heaves, and just plain old poor road construction. After replacing a few struts, motor mounts, and an axel, not to mention getting an alignment once every two months, you tend to understand these things.
Furthermore, most minivans are designed for 5'5" women with children. Get a few big men in the car with long legs and you get a large SUV. I always drive with the seat either all the way back, or almost all the way (depending on the vehicle.) This means that the back seat has ZERO leg room unless it's a big SUV, which is designed with more legroom in the back.
Frankly, the problem is that auto manufacturers don't build smaller autos that a) hold up to bad roads b) have a smooth ride or comfortable seats, and c) fit tall people. I think B is the bigger problem however.
The big problem with these services is not that they are crappy applications, but that you get into "All Your Data are belong to us" situations. It makes migrating to and from a service Very difficult, expensive, and timeconsuming - if you can do it at all.
I think the whole thing is very simple. Corporate buyers were willing to pay more for Thinkpads due to the IBM name and reputation. Whether or not you liked the boys in blue, the repuation of solid service and support was there. Without IBM's name behind the Thinkpad, the price gap is no longer tollerated. I'm a long-time thinkpad user, and recently bought a Dell (BIG mistake BTW...) as I also couldn't mentally cough up the extra $$$ if it wasn't IBM anymore (plus the fact that I could not get the display resolution / memory / etc. I was looking for in any of the Thinkpad models at the time. Models with lower specs were significantly more expensive on the order of $1K+. In fact, I STILL cant get the screen res I want.)
Windows someday can and will get more secure, it just needs time
CAN it be more secure? Will it? How MUCH time?
Hell, even the minor changes in SP2 caused a major uproar. The probelm MS has is that they need to retain compatability for 99.9% of the stuff or users will rebel.
IMHO, MS needs to RADICALlY change how apps install and run, interact with DLL's, how drivers work, etc. in order to get a handle on the problem. This will most likely break EVERYTHING. TCPA is a DRM solution and not a security solution. MS already has the ability to only allow digitally signed apps / drivers to run, but they don't do so for obvious good reasons.
MS needs to change it's mindset. For example: if you want to install an extension in Firefox, it first asks, if it is not signed, it warns, and then finally allows you to manually allow the extension to be installed. Compare this to IE which allows installing of a "helper object" with no user knowledge or intervention at all. Why did they do this in the first place? Why does IE STILL work this way TODAY?
The same issues exist on *nix
Actually, they don't. *nix can have DEPENDANCY hell, needing certain versions of libs that are not there, but they don't share the same problem with Windows because the VERSION information is part of the filename. This means that you can have 534 versions of the same library installed and everything is still happy because apps will use whatever ver of the library that they need.
Windows just uses the SAME filenames for diverent versions (anyone remember the fiasco with MFC42.dll of which there were dozens of incompatible versions?
I never had problems ordering 500 token cards at a time from IBM (Distributors actually, but they were IBM cards.)
Google is your friend.
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People that use AOL are insane. My 75 year old father-in-law finally got fed up with the ads and I switched him to a regular dial-up internet service. He is much happier, and finds it easier to use (I setup a bunch of well-named shortcuts on his desktop.) He is also totally computer illiterate (the TV remote is difficult - he had to get one with only 12 buttons) but does manage to navigate just fine.
The people still on AOL just don't know any better becasue they have never tred anything else.
OK, so I can go from crappy x10 to something SLIGHTLY less crappy.
No thanks, I'll go with something 25 years newer thankyouverymuch. Like Lonworks.
This old crappy tech just needs to die. If I need to buy modules twice as expensive, I may as well get them that use a decent modern protocol with a large address space (64 bit addresses). These newer protocols also use signals that are much more likely to get through on the power lines with less distortion.
If anyone has seen the water show at the Belagio in Vegas, that runs Lonworks. Industrial grade stuff.
True. Verizon email is nortoriously bad. Funny, I received a notice of a class action lawsuit over it too! Verizon was doing massive blocking of european email for a while there (may still be doing it.)
Interesting. I was noticing the same pattern over the past couple weeks... Ended up doing a +3 spamassassin rule on everything coming from yahoo now, which cuts it down a lot. Ditto for Hotmail.
I think you meant port 587, the MSA port. Port 465 is a TLS on connect legacy port that MS refuses to let die (they decided not to support port 587 correctly - starttls specifically.)
I would think that corporate "Software Assurance" customers who are paying for continual updates and support, and have to support MANY legacy applications that may be affected by such flaws or patches would be (and ARE) demanding such notifications. Joe Bob Home User does't really care, but Fortune 100 Fred in IT sure does, especially when his job (which is to keep the companies infrastructure up and running) is on the line.
Nope. No motion detectors at all. The probelm is that the protocol has no error checking. There are no CRC's, ACK's, or retransmits or anything. It's just a very very simplistic crappy 30 year old protocol that does not handle real world conditions well. It needs to die.
I think it depends on how you read the claim. So let's say that they have a signal sucess rate of 99.97%: this probably means that 99.97% of the packets DID NOT NEED TO BE RETRANSMITTED - not that devices started doing stupid shit. Any good protocol that runs over a crappy medium like powerlines should have retransmits, acks, checksum hashes, etc. and will end up being very reliable in real life. This is very different from X10 which has NONE of that, and therefor toally sucks.
And for something actually commercial that is wide open, there is the CAN protocol: http://www.can-cia.org/can/
I've never had good luck with X10 devices. First, the products were crappy. The light swiches would eventually wear out after a year of normal use - the little springs inside break. Second, the protocol is flakey as hell. It's very simplistic, and also very suceptable to noise. Nothing worse that your bedroom light going on and off by itself in the middle of the night - no, whole house filtering didn't even work. I got tired of all the issues and removed it all despite the rather sizable investment.
I was really looking forward to Lonworks, where each device has a 64 bit address. The protocol is uber reliable over powerlines, and is soooooo much more capable. Unfortunately, the consumer market just has not taken off like the commercial market has. This may change as utilities like ENEL in Italy are deploying it across their entire grid into each residence.
Ditto for the most part. My eyes are really bad (-5.75) too.
One thing to note is that it's VERY hard to find an optometrist that can actually give you a good glasses prescription. Get the thinner lenses too - they reduce distortion.
My glasses now are the best I've had in 15 years. Just as good as my contacts - I find myself wearing them much more frequently. It's good to give your eyes a break from contacts anyway.
A linksys RV082 works quite well for VPN's like this, and are reasonably priced.
... Or by using one of the many dyndns services, or even running your own dyndns service.
Pay the phone company the extra five bucks a month for an IP at each site.
In Verizon land, it's $30 / month nearly doubling the cost of a business line. Still worth it IMHO.
I had a treo 650, and dumped it. The phone quality sucks. The speaker is not as good as a traditional cell phone, and neither is the mic. Maybe it's the sound processing chip - who knows. I just know for a fact that sound quality is not as good as my motorola phone. Furthermore, the treo had a LOT more dropouts and did not work nearly as well in low-signal areas as my moto. The screen keypad on the treo ALSO sucks compared to a standard phone.
As a PDA, the screen is way too small, the keyboard sucks, and it doesn't NEARLY have enough memory.
As for bluetooth, Verizon cripples bluetooth on it's phones / PDAs. It no workie as a modem unless you go through the back door codes to re-enable it, and may many people have reported getting their service suspended for using their phone as a modem (bluetooth or otherwise.) Fuck that.
Yes, it was months ago. Just makes my point even MORE valid about devices that don't offer much flash.