They've thrown every technique they could have thought of into the patent purely as a defensive mechanism to prevent other major engines from patenting them. Some of the techniques are thrown in as defensive FUD to prevent newbies from using them.
Some of these techniques are just plain old bizzare and might be way too difficult to approach algorithmically.
Some random thoughts... no disrespect meant to anyone..
Most corporations have been hiring shills for centuries. Shilling has been done online for years... bloggers, for unsophisticated marketers, are shills. Corporations should look at other ways of creating buzz if they cannot find a handful of users / customers who cannot say something good about them.
The best bloggers are loyal employees. Use them to show that the company has a soul and a heart. No need to hire outsiders... look within.
I've tried to hire some tech bloggers to help me develop content on a website or two... specially given that my skills are in putting together sites and not blogging or reporting or even writing coherent articles.
To me commerical blogging (from a non corporate but money making perspective) is essentially fairly similar to running or working for a newspaper. It has to be a very controlled equation that manages egos, commercial reality, discipline, ethics and discipline.
Egos: The most dedicated bloggers I've met (and I've met a fair few in person) walk around with their egos in their pants.. (and moan about not making enough money to pay their hosting bills). Sometimes it is this wonderful mix of poverty and passion that produces great blogs... usually it is passion.
Commercial Realities: At some point, people stop caring about the bloggers mundane life and start caring more about the news and information in the blog. In a corporate environment, no one cares about how much salt you put on your fish and chips... deal with it and develop a focus on what the readers want.. not what you want them to read.
Discipline: Can you produce a story or two a day that will keep readers coming back? Most blogs are abandoned, usually because the bloggers loose interest... If you can discipline yourself and produce a good story every day (hard to do in most areas) or week, you will see people return.. this will equate to $$s
Commerical Realities: At some point we all need to accept that anything commercial needs a disiplined approach. Commercial entities do not understand that the best journalists often don't file a story a day... they are good because of the quality and not the quantity. If their PR department cannot find something new about the company every day... I doubt a blogger will.
First level support can be moved anywhere... this is the type that tells the customer to check if cables are plugged in.
Second level support, the folks who do actual diagnostics, need to be in work areas where they can quickly attempt to duplicate problems, have access to hardware so that they can try and do some of the stuff they're asking customers to do (not just read some dumbarse scripts).
Third level support -- the folks who actually verify bugs, write the problem descriptions -- should have physical access to the developers. Nothing beats a tech support guy, who has replicated a problem, has the ability to bring a developer or engineer to his workarea and demonstrate it. It takes two to solve those problems.
All of this is with the assumption that the company cares about its customers and makes enough money from the sale, to sustain a multi-tiered support group.
And sadly, they have given the author and publisher publicity that could not be bought.
I'd say atleast a few thousand copies will sold thanks to the additional publicty.
>> Fact: Jobs could not have made Apple stop selling Wiley's products without support from a majority of the Board.
Doubt it. But that is just picking on a small point and not the context of the message, which is both companies made a commercial decisions -- end of story.
Ms Rice is understood to have telephoned the US ambassador in India, David Mulford, about the case.
The Bush administration's national security adviser and future secretary of state has let it be known she is furious at Mr Bajaj's humiliating treatment. He is, after all, a US citizen.
Any Indians been put in jail recently because of the Patriot Act? Never mind... not like the Indian govt would develop a new set of cojones.
With rumors of the Atkins group looking at carbs in cellphones, this may be the best news that overweight americans get. Your car has too much carbs... WALK 5 miles a day.
We need some sort of digital signing process for application installers.
1) Corporate networked PCs should not allow anything to be installed or executed, unless the package comes with a digitally signed certificate from the domain / enterprise administrator.
2) Home PCs should not allow any software to be installed or executed unless the administrative user has approved its installation.
This approval process can be remotely updated. Perhaps a DNS based mechanism allowing for private approvals and public checking (similar to RBL).
Eventually this has to lead to fine grained security, including registry access, disk access, system resource access and user access lists -- an application that goes beyond simple IP firewall type rules and goes into system sandboxing rules.
Rather than block, we prefer to use geotargeting from vendors like ip2country on projects where we don't want visitors from certain countries bugging us.
We mainly use it to block African IP blocks. We've had MAJOR problem with nigerian spammers signing up on forums and classifieds and sending their spam to our users using private messaging / blind email functions. Also saves us the hassle of having to read through dumb email solicitations requesting products to be shipped to Lagos.
Slashdot Mirror
Its ok, oil is not considered a chemical weapon. ;)
Scientists at Slashdot have created a perl script which can regenerate absolutely any typos, except for those introduced by the editors.
:)
This is the first time I've seen this on a website.
The implications are positively google.
I thought this warranted attention.
I'm betting it is the one that said something about the other cheek. ;)
I'm sorry, but if I have to take stuff seriously, can someone put it in plan simple english without these threatening big brother buzzwords?
"Internet Storm Center"
"turn the Infocon to yellow"
"Internet Threat Level meters"
"Symantec ThreatCon"
"DeepSight Threat Management System"
"Internet Security Systems X-Force"
"AlertCon"
Sounds like a bad CIA / X-Men / Matrix rip off movie.
Hmm.. I can see someone like Steve Erkel in a show called ... Pimp my server. :)
Err ... should be peroffspringhole. ;)
Probably, given that there is no link in the submission to the USPTO :)
They've thrown every technique they could have thought of into the patent purely as a defensive mechanism to prevent other major engines from patenting them. Some of the techniques are thrown in as defensive FUD to prevent newbies from using them.
.. what do I know ..
Some of these techniques are just plain old bizzare and might be way too difficult to approach algorithmically.
Oh well
There are so many Zombies in the EU. :)
Some random thoughts... no disrespect meant to anyone..
... bloggers, for unsophisticated marketers, are shills. Corporations should look at other ways of creating buzz if they cannot find a handful of users / customers who cannot say something good about them.
.. not what you want them to read.
... I doubt a blogger will.
Most corporations have been hiring shills for centuries. Shilling has been done online for years
The best bloggers are loyal employees. Use them to show that the company has a soul and a heart. No need to hire outsiders... look within.
I've tried to hire some tech bloggers to help me develop content on a website or two... specially given that my skills are in putting together sites and not blogging or reporting or even writing coherent articles.
To me commerical blogging (from a non corporate but money making perspective) is essentially fairly similar to running or working for a newspaper. It has to be a very controlled equation that manages egos, commercial reality, discipline, ethics and discipline.
Egos: The most dedicated bloggers I've met (and I've met a fair few in person) walk around with their egos in their pants.. (and moan about not making enough money to pay their hosting bills). Sometimes it is this wonderful mix of poverty and passion that produces great blogs... usually it is passion.
Commercial Realities: At some point, people stop caring about the bloggers mundane life and start caring more about the news and information in the blog. In a corporate environment, no one cares about how much salt you put on your fish and chips... deal with it and develop a focus on what the readers want
Discipline: Can you produce a story or two a day that will keep readers coming back? Most blogs are abandoned, usually because the bloggers loose interest... If you can discipline yourself and produce a good story every day (hard to do in most areas) or week, you will see people return.. this will equate to $$s
Commerical Realities: At some point we all need to accept that anything commercial needs a disiplined approach. Commercial entities do not understand that the best journalists often don't file a story a day... they are good because of the quality and not the quantity. If their PR department cannot find something new about the company every day
You MSN someone... you Google something. Sometimes you Google someone who want to MSN with the hope that there is something...
.. idle banter, but my point is, MSN is also a pretty damn popular word.
Sorry
I MSN people more than I google things.
It is no longer about right or wrong, it is about having the ability (or inability) to defend yourselves.
Well .. you can atleast make bonsai kittens! :)
First level support can be moved anywhere... this is the type that tells the customer to check if cables are plugged in.
Second level support, the folks who do actual diagnostics, need to be in work areas where they can quickly attempt to duplicate problems, have access to hardware so that they can try and do some of the stuff they're asking customers to do (not just read some dumbarse scripts).
Third level support -- the folks who actually verify bugs, write the problem descriptions -- should have physical access to the developers. Nothing beats a tech support guy, who has replicated a problem, has the ability to bring a developer or engineer to his workarea and demonstrate it. It takes two to solve those problems.
All of this is with the assumption that the company cares about its customers and makes enough money from the sale, to sustain a multi-tiered support group.
And sadly, they have given the author and publisher publicity that could not be bought.
I'd say atleast a few thousand copies will sold thanks to the additional publicty.
>> Fact: Jobs could not have made Apple stop selling Wiley's products without support from a majority of the Board.
Doubt it. But that is just picking on a small point and not the context of the message, which is both companies made a commercial decisions -- end of story.
Errr ... keep in mind, they'll soon be controlling significant amount of P2P^2 (peer 2 peer 2 phone 2 peer) traffic also. :)
Would you trust your voip packets to these guys?
>> SouthWest Airline's $79 one way to Vegas from Chicago.
Earth to Moon - $79
Back to Earth - $7,900,000
Too bad guns can't be mistaken for software.
Any Indians been put in jail recently because of the Patriot Act? Never mind
She's furious because of the eBay connection.
The way $.75 has been used might probably mislead a number of people into reading it as 75 dollars.
Keep this in perspective folks. 75 cents.
Simple steps? "Advanced customization of applications" is a simple step?
With rumors of the Atkins group looking at carbs in cellphones, this may be the best news that overweight americans get. Your car has too much carbs... WALK 5 miles a day.
The best place to get trained is google.com :)
We need some sort of digital signing process for application installers.
1) Corporate networked PCs should not allow anything to be installed or executed, unless the package comes with a digitally signed certificate from the domain / enterprise administrator.
2) Home PCs should not allow any software to be installed or executed unless the administrative user has approved its installation.
This approval process can be remotely updated. Perhaps a DNS based mechanism allowing for private approvals and public checking (similar to RBL).
Eventually this has to lead to fine grained security, including registry access, disk access, system resource access and user access lists -- an application that goes beyond simple IP firewall type rules and goes into system sandboxing rules.
Rather than block, we prefer to use geotargeting from vendors like ip2country on projects where we don't want visitors from certain countries bugging us.
We mainly use it to block African IP blocks. We've had MAJOR problem with nigerian spammers signing up on forums and classifieds and sending their spam to our users using private messaging / blind email functions. Also saves us the hassle of having to read through dumb email solicitations requesting products to be shipped to Lagos.