Why is cost an accurate indicator of the quality of someone's system? Do you have conversations with people bragging about how much more you paid for your system than theirs? "they only sound better in scenarios where a person has a stereo that runs more than about $1,000." Gimme a break. This is audiophile bullshit at its finest, all you want to do is justify the obscene amount of money you spent on fancy blue LEDs and optical interconnects that were dipped in holy water (reduces jitter). I'm picturing someone walking into the audio store and saying "I'd like to make my system sound $2000 better today."
Yeah, I tend to think the FCC does more harm than good. They've certainly screwed up in their quest to micromanage the airwaves, allowing a handful of conglomerates to control most radio and TV stations while imposing strange and arbitrary censorship rules on broadcasts. A little freedom could be what we need here.
As with any deregulation there are a lot of doomsayers who think the death of the FCC would be dangerous for emergency services. But this is a crutch argument, obviously we can protect emergency services and essential frequencies while opening the rest up for use by anyone. No, the doomsayers are mostly hams and big-radio statists, grasping at any argument that could save their obscene swaths of spectrum. Ham operators have huge bands all to themselves, for what amounts to a glorified boys' clubhouse. Open it up. Let us in.
That's just a critique of the wiki in general. Wikis have always been "open" to defacement but those problems have already been solved with pattern matching, rollbacks, page protection, etc. Sandboxes should either be monitored like real wiki pages, or excluded from searches.
Why do you need a wiki to do that? A wiki is just a web page. How is that any different than setting up a network of doorway sites? Google already knows to de-emphasize sites that all link to each other.
I agree that robots.txt is the correct solution for people who don't want their wiki abused.
However this is nothing like the issue of open proxies. The wikis aren't spewing any garbage traffic out into the Internet, they aren't actively attacking sites and being abused to send spam. It'd be great if Google fixed their pagerank system to detect weblog comment spam and wiki spam, but nobody should be thinking seriously about throwing "open wikis" on blacklists or cutting off their Internet access.
The United States is the home of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Linux is a leprosy; and is having a deleterious effect on the U.S. IT industry because it is steadily depreciating the value of the software industry sector.
Ironically, Professor Tanenbaum's recent comments only recapitulate many of the substantive contradictions regarding the early Linux kernel AdTI decided to discuss in Samizdat.
Aside from the fact that you're personally breaking the law, a real attacker could easily install a hacked firmware that would disable the router or sniff the user's passwords.
I thought the same thing. There are literally hundreds of thousands of these things out there, and they've been on the market for probably 6 months at least. I'm assuming that not all of the WRT54G's are vulnerable.
Sony takes this kitchen sink approach to their portables, which is why I think the first wave of iPod competitors will fail. They jammed every conceivable feature into their handhelds, completely forgetting that the appeal of PalmOS was to "keep it simple." Memory stick, camera, bluetooth, wifi, MP3 player, etc. They're expensive too, compared to other PalmOS devices.
The iPod competitor will fail if they release it in the US. It's too big, it'll cost too much, and basically it has too many features and buttons for the US market.
The problem with E2 is that users 'own' whatever they post. You have a ton of nodes that, while good, haven't been updated in years and nobody really visits them. E2 is really just a stupid contest to see who can get the most points. People try to be real witty so they can game the system and gain more powers. The editors also tend to be insular and elitist, in contrast to Wikipedia's almost fanatical permissiveness and acceptance of new contributors.
Plus it has the dimensions of a hockey puck, ugly black plastic, and is just bulky enough so as not to fit comfortably in a pocket. Brilliant! Perhaps Rio's next player will be shaped like a baseball, or possibly come with some sort of chin-strap. What will they think of next?
It appears he's only talking about validation, and he's still wrong. You can put any JavaScript you want into.NET, and you're free to roll your own validation code. The built in validation object model is OK for very simple validation tasks but on any complex page you're going to want to handle it yourself. And you're free to do it client-side or server-side, in whatever language you feel like.
That can't be true, because Linux is so easy to use. Linux is easy to use, that's what everyone here keeps telling me. It's like 100 times easier than Windows! I can't imagine why anyone would use Windows when Linux is this simple to get up and running.
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Why is cost an accurate indicator of the quality of someone's system? Do you have conversations with people bragging about how much more you paid for your system than theirs? "they only sound better in scenarios where a person has a stereo that runs more than about $1,000." Gimme a break. This is audiophile bullshit at its finest, all you want to do is justify the obscene amount of money you spent on fancy blue LEDs and optical interconnects that were dipped in holy water (reduces jitter). I'm picturing someone walking into the audio store and saying "I'd like to make my system sound $2000 better today."
Well, I'm a pro-Microsoft developer and I think Ken Brown is an idiot.
Yeah, I tend to think the FCC does more harm than good. They've certainly screwed up in their quest to micromanage the airwaves, allowing a handful of conglomerates to control most radio and TV stations while imposing strange and arbitrary censorship rules on broadcasts. A little freedom could be what we need here.
As with any deregulation there are a lot of doomsayers who think the death of the FCC would be dangerous for emergency services. But this is a crutch argument, obviously we can protect emergency services and essential frequencies while opening the rest up for use by anyone. No, the doomsayers are mostly hams and big-radio statists, grasping at any argument that could save their obscene swaths of spectrum. Ham operators have huge bands all to themselves, for what amounts to a glorified boys' clubhouse. Open it up. Let us in.
That's just a critique of the wiki in general. Wikis have always been "open" to defacement but those problems have already been solved with pattern matching, rollbacks, page protection, etc. Sandboxes should either be monitored like real wiki pages, or excluded from searches.
Why do you need a wiki to do that? A wiki is just a web page. How is that any different than setting up a network of doorway sites? Google already knows to de-emphasize sites that all link to each other.
You can exclude the sandbox from indexing without affecting the rest of the site.
I agree that robots.txt is the correct solution for people who don't want their wiki abused.
However this is nothing like the issue of open proxies. The wikis aren't spewing any garbage traffic out into the Internet, they aren't actively attacking sites and being abused to send spam. It'd be great if Google fixed their pagerank system to detect weblog comment spam and wiki spam, but nobody should be thinking seriously about throwing "open wikis" on blacklists or cutting off their Internet access.
I don't think it means anything at all.
Linux is a leprosy; and is having a deleterious effect on the U.S. IT industry because it is steadily depreciating the value of the software industry sector.
Ironically, Professor Tanenbaum's recent comments only recapitulate many of the substantive contradictions regarding the early Linux kernel AdTI decided to discuss in Samizdat.
What an idiot.
Don't be a dick, you know exactly what I mean.
Aside from the fact that you're personally breaking the law, a real attacker could easily install a hacked firmware that would disable the router or sniff the user's passwords.
Is your web server behind the Linksys NAT? That would work around this "vulnerability."
I thought the same thing. There are literally hundreds of thousands of these things out there, and they've been on the market for probably 6 months at least. I'm assuming that not all of the WRT54G's are vulnerable.
Sony takes this kitchen sink approach to their portables, which is why I think the first wave of iPod competitors will fail. They jammed every conceivable feature into their handhelds, completely forgetting that the appeal of PalmOS was to "keep it simple." Memory stick, camera, bluetooth, wifi, MP3 player, etc. They're expensive too, compared to other PalmOS devices.
The iPod competitor will fail if they release it in the US. It's too big, it'll cost too much, and basically it has too many features and buttons for the US market.
The problem with E2 is that users 'own' whatever they post. You have a ton of nodes that, while good, haven't been updated in years and nobody really visits them. E2 is really just a stupid contest to see who can get the most points. People try to be real witty so they can game the system and gain more powers. The editors also tend to be insular and elitist, in contrast to Wikipedia's almost fanatical permissiveness and acceptance of new contributors.
It's not offtopic you sniveling shitstains. Read the PDF, kthx.
Tex Bigballs made the front page of Slashdot. Congrats.
Plus it has the dimensions of a hockey puck, ugly black plastic, and is just bulky enough so as not to fit comfortably in a pocket. Brilliant! Perhaps Rio's next player will be shaped like a baseball, or possibly come with some sort of chin-strap. What will they think of next?
It appears he's only talking about validation, and he's still wrong. You can put any JavaScript you want into .NET, and you're free to roll your own validation code. The built in validation object model is OK for very simple validation tasks but on any complex page you're going to want to handle it yourself. And you're free to do it client-side or server-side, in whatever language you feel like.
Actually it looks like a pretty decent device, I just thought it was funny that it "plays BMP."
Books online.. don't you have books online? You can install it off the server disk. It's indispensable.
The law firm misspelled their own name in the subpoena: "Boise Schiller & Flexner".
So that means you're volunteering to go find land mines? If not: shut up.
That can't be true, because Linux is so easy to use. Linux is easy to use, that's what everyone here keeps telling me. It's like 100 times easier than Windows! I can't imagine why anyone would use Windows when Linux is this simple to get up and running.
Most DVD players can't play MPEG-4 at all. DVDs and SVCDs are both MPEG-2.