Microsoft is notorious for standards incompatibility from OS to IE to Office Doc Formats. This announcement is about interoperability thru standards support in the Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture. I believe that the WS standards are the key to the next level of integration with IT. This not only translates to lower cost of development and ownership of codebases but also begins to provide the next evolution of identity management, a pink elephant in service application industry.
If you had your own grid, what would you use it for? What could non-research companies use grids for? The only thing I could think of is compiling nightly builds.
There are flaws in our communications network. These people are feeding off of that. There needs to be a real infrustructure investment from everyone, all advanced governments, large businesses, and geeks. What if a terrorist group hires these guys to perform attacks or monitoring? They have control over a huge network of zombie computers.
But a bigger picture question is: Can this global information network be free of these parasitic intentions? Can we make the internet immune or adaptive to these parasites?
Afterall, it's not just the automated installations they had to resort to... they started trojan horses. With the near total number users uninformed about all the dangers of a computer, comes a critical mass of infected computers.
You can't educate the users of the internet. Everyone uses email, but many can't pass a high school test.
I argue that there are other networks also in this situation. The users aren't aware of the dangers, and the users are being compromised. Television. Cell phones. Economy.
The problem is it's not just the users here who are getting the short end of a stick. The merchants have a tough time. We talk about taking advantage of BarnsAndNoble and Borders affiliate programs. Most of the economy (as well as the online economy... it's all the same economy) is comprised of small business. All the "mom and pop" businesses and the big guys are paying affiliate fees for orders they would have gotten otherwise. The article says they're stealing other affiliates commissions. Nearly all online purchases made from these infected computers had a commission paid to spyware.
The affiliate companies love it, cause they look like they're making everyone money, but they're just getting their commission too. Some affiliate networks work with spyware, some spyware companies run their own affiliate networks.
By the way, ever wonder why their programs bring a computer to a crawl? They're running process distributed computing clients to win the cash prizes. In a way, they're helping further knowledge which might some day eradicate them.
I've been thinking about this for some time. You can get a Palm for $99, a color one for $149, and those come with a screen! Surely if they didn't have to be so small they could be sold at a lower price. If you take out the screen, buttons and slot and replace them with an ethernet port (you already have a usb port), you could probably get below $99. There's been plenty of times I wished I could just plug an ethernet cable into my Zire. I've already got all the apps I need to use the Internet on it.
How about having the email server automatically strip large attatchemts from emails, and replace them with a link to the file which was also automatically placed on an anon FTP server?
The "less skilled" employees won't realize the "secuirty" issue here.
It depends how frequently you used the CDs. Also, if you're toting them around to different computers on the same netowork, or you need constant access to many different CDs, check out:
dvdchanger.com these 200 disk CD/DVD changers range from $1000 to $6000. The things are REALLY cool, go check out the specs (anyone know how to build your own?)
If you're wooking for a CD wallet sorta thing, check out: Case Logic Nylon Case We use these at my work, we have well over 1000 CDs stored in these things. They work beautifully.
i want a portable device that you can put an audio cd into and, in addition to being able to to listen to the cd, rip the cd to mp3 using the on-board storage. this way, i can go to a party and say "hey, that's a kewl song, can i borrow the cd for four minutes?" then put the cd in the portable device, rip it and hand it back.
then when i go home, i can add it to my mp3 library, maybe even burn my own copy.
How about setting up some sort of limit on queries... like you can only do 10 queries an hour from a single IP address. I'm not saying that's the answer, but I imagine they can figure out some anti-spam algorithm to facilitate allowing only lagit queries.
This would truly be shopping through advertising, something the advertisers wish people did more often.
CJ allows merchants to upload a DB of product/service offerings. If merchants could upload a template for a banner ad, that filled in the text and price or other info for a particular product based on user preferences... that would be very keen.
I think I would tell/. what I was in the market for all the time. I want a new monitor, a RAID controller and FRS Radios. Then I could be reading slashdot and be shopping at the same time. The nice thing about this, is that I'd be really paying attention to the ads cause I'd be looking for ads for products I'm shopping for. If/. snuck in some ads that aren't part of my preferences I'd have to look at them cause I'm gonna think they might be for the items I said I was looking for.
Or even a diskless server... run it on hardware not so fragile. You could just increase the RAM in current relaying birds. Or, if the sats that are up there now have extra memory in them, maybe someone could use that as cache for the net. Hey, what ever happened to Iridium?
I get frustrated when people include my email address in a long list of TO or CC addresses. Then I recieve a lot of Reply to All emails that I have no interest in. To me, this is just as bad as spam. It takes the same amount of resources for me to deal with it.
Any suggestions on how to prevent friends from distributing your email address like this?
All of these scripting languages are available on both Windows and Linux (some on other OSes too). They took into consideration how easy it is to code in CF, why not take into consideration which OS a scripting language best runs on?
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Many low cost web hosts provide email hosting as part of their service. My web development company often reccomends Impulse Internet Services
For $10 a month (paid anually), they'll host your website and email.
There's many more out there just like these guys, you can try the builder.com directory of hosts.
BTW, if you sign up with Impulse, tell them that Katz & Mouse sent you their way;)
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Microsoft is notorious for standards incompatibility from OS to IE to Office Doc Formats. This announcement is about interoperability thru standards support in the Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture. I believe that the WS standards are the key to the next level of integration with IT. This not only translates to lower cost of development and ownership of codebases but also begins to provide the next evolution of identity management, a pink elephant in service application industry.
If you had your own grid, what would you use it for? What could non-research companies use grids for? The only thing I could think of is compiling nightly builds.
There are flaws in our communications network. These people are feeding off of that. There needs to be a real infrustructure investment from everyone, all advanced governments, large businesses, and geeks. What if a terrorist group hires these guys to perform attacks or monitoring? They have control over a huge network of zombie computers.
But a bigger picture question is: Can this global information network be free of these parasitic intentions? Can we make the internet immune or adaptive to these parasites?
Afterall, it's not just the automated installations they had to resort to... they started trojan horses. With the near total number users uninformed about all the dangers of a computer, comes a critical mass of infected computers.
You can't educate the users of the internet. Everyone uses email, but many can't pass a high school test.
I argue that there are other networks also in this situation. The users aren't aware of the dangers, and the users are being compromised. Television. Cell phones. Economy.
The problem is it's not just the users here who are getting the short end of a stick. The merchants have a tough time. We talk about taking advantage of BarnsAndNoble and Borders affiliate programs. Most of the economy (as well as the online economy... it's all the same economy) is comprised of small business. All the "mom and pop" businesses and the big guys are paying affiliate fees for orders they would have gotten otherwise. The article says they're stealing other affiliates commissions. Nearly all online purchases made from these infected computers had a commission paid to spyware.
The affiliate companies love it, cause they look like they're making everyone money, but they're just getting their commission too. Some affiliate networks work with spyware, some spyware companies run their own affiliate networks.
By the way, ever wonder why their programs bring a computer to a crawl? They're running process distributed computing clients to win the cash prizes. In a way, they're helping further knowledge which might some day eradicate them.
Who am I? And how do I know all this?
I've been thinking about this for some time. You can get a Palm for $99, a color one for $149, and those come with a screen! Surely if they didn't have to be so small they could be sold at a lower price. If you take out the screen, buttons and slot and replace them with an ethernet port (you already have a usb port), you could probably get below $99. There's been plenty of times I wished I could just plug an ethernet cable into my Zire. I've already got all the apps I need to use the Internet on it.
And this is different than windows... how?
Mine have gone to plaid!
One more reason to use a Mac.
Let's have some fun with this...
What interesting words start with "po" ??
How about having the email server automatically strip large attatchemts from emails, and replace them with a link to the file which was also automatically placed on an anon FTP server?
The "less skilled" employees won't realize the "secuirty" issue here.
It depends how frequently you used the CDs. Also, if you're toting them around to different computers on the same netowork, or you need constant access to many different CDs, check out: dvdchanger.com these 200 disk CD/DVD changers range from $1000 to $6000. The things are REALLY cool, go check out the specs (anyone know how to build your own?)
If you're wooking for a CD wallet sorta thing, check out: Case Logic Nylon Case We use these at my work, we have well over 1000 CDs stored in these things. They work beautifully.
i want a portable device that you can put an audio cd into and, in addition to being able to to listen to the cd, rip the cd to mp3 using the on-board storage. this way, i can go to a party and say "hey, that's a kewl song, can i borrow the cd for four minutes?" then put the cd in the portable device, rip it and hand it back.
then when i go home, i can add it to my mp3 library, maybe even burn my own copy.
what do you think?
How about setting up some sort of limit on queries... like you can only do 10 queries an hour from a single IP address. I'm not saying that's the answer, but I imagine they can figure out some anti-spam algorithm to facilitate allowing only lagit queries.
I have lots of friends back home, and I'm sure one of them could put up a gateway... maybe this is the wave of the future!
This would truly be shopping through advertising, something the advertisers wish people did more often.
/. what I was in the market for all the time. I want a new monitor, a RAID controller and FRS Radios. Then I could be reading slashdot and be shopping at the same time. The nice thing about this, is that I'd be really paying attention to the ads cause I'd be looking for ads for products I'm shopping for. If /. snuck in some ads that aren't part of my preferences I'd have to look at them cause I'm gonna think they might be for the items I said I was looking for.
CJ allows merchants to upload a DB of product/service offerings. If merchants could upload a template for a banner ad, that filled in the text and price or other info for a particular product based on user preferences... that would be very keen.
I think I would tell
Or even a diskless server... run it on hardware not so fragile. You could just increase the RAM in current relaying birds. Or, if the sats that are up there now have extra memory in them, maybe someone could use that as cache for the net. Hey, what ever happened to Iridium?
why not throw some cache servers up on sapce, cut down on latency?
1) If I can't give me friends my email address then what's the point of having email?
:)
2) I have a domain, unlimited email address, but I have to pick one for my reply-to address.
3) I don't want to filter my friends, and it's a pain in the ass to filter my friends' friends... this shouldn't happen in the first place.
4) I like this idea
I get frustrated when people include my email address in a long list of TO or CC addresses. Then I recieve a lot of Reply to All emails that I have no interest in. To me, this is just as bad as spam. It takes the same amount of resources for me to deal with it.
Any suggestions on how to prevent friends from distributing your email address like this?
i try to correct people and they don't understand what i'm talking about. ...unless they'er a /. reader of course.
All of these scripting languages are available on both Windows and Linux (some on other OSes too). They took into consideration how easy it is to code in CF, why not take into consideration which OS a scripting language best runs on?
Many low cost web hosts provide email hosting as part of their service. My web development company often reccomends Impulse Internet Services
;)
For $10 a month (paid anually), they'll host your website and email.
There's many more out there just like these guys, you can try the builder.com directory of hosts.
BTW, if you sign up with Impulse, tell them that Katz & Mouse sent you their way