I don't know if all of the tasks are going to be from Amazon. It looks to me like anyone can submit "work" through the API, and the market will decide what gets done and what does not. If that 65 cent job sits long enough, and Amazon wants to get it done, they'll pony up more cash until someone thinks it's worthwhile.
They sell banner ads, they sell books. I would say it's "In connection with a commercial venture". I don't think the people who put out the Onion are unpaid volunteers.
I think it should be protected as parody, but it's definately a commercial site.
Isn't this the kind of automation prevention problem that capchas can solve reasonably well? Put image-text verificaiton on each step of creating or appending to a blog. If nothing else it will slow them down. Am I missing something?
We're using XSLTC (runtime compiled stylesheets) exclusively and the performance and memory profiles have been very good. There are very few considerations when switching to XSLTC, the only one that bit us was your template names can't start with a number. The template name gets used as a Java method name, so it must begin with a character.
I agree, xpath expressions and xsl tags you use for display control are code (it'a a complete language). I've seen rouge team members write some pretty wacky stuff into a JSP page though, opening database connections and such. I've NEVER had those kinds of problems developing with XSL. It keeps you and your team honest.
We use one servlet/many handlers to generate XML, and the presentation layer is XSL(T). So yes, you can do Java with no code in your presentation layer.
Doesn't PHP tend to be embedded in the page? I thought it was a more direct comparison to JSP than to Java. And like JSP I expected it violated the seperation of logic and presentation that I love so dearly. I've been avoiding PHP for the same reason I don't do JSP pages, I don't like code in the presentation layer.
I am prepared to have my mind blown here, can someone enlighten me?
The longer the war went on, the more (logged in user) votes you would need to swing the page to one side or the other. eventually it would settle on the more generally accepted version since presumably one side of the argument would be more able to get votes. There would be cases where people are polarized and both sides of an article could have a lot of votes (abortion?) where you could still have edit wars, but that could be the case today, and at least both sides of the edit war would need to be well written articles to garner votes. I think eventually it would swing towards neutrality as the number of votes to change the article becomes very high.
I wrote an application in the spring of 1995 for a debit card system that did exactly that. It used a dbase database to track how many minutes you had remaining on your debit card before deciding to connect your call. It was written in VOS for Dialogic hardware while I was working at US Digital in Flint. The whole system went into production and cards were sold. The company is no longer doing business under that name but the principals are still around, and I expect there is enough evidence left over to present prior art.
The patent never should have been granted, what an obvious thing to implement.
I'd love to have a crack at designing a peer review system for wikipedia, with reputation (karma). It seems to me the more edits a page has gotten, the closer to "right" it should be. So maybe a new article, anyone can write. But an article that has been around for a while, your edit goes into a reivew queue and needs 1 vote (meta mod) to become the live version. An established article, maybe 2 votes. maybe it's (number of edits/5)+1 votes, or some formula. The point is, established article should change more slowly, and need increasing amounts of review before they go live.
What if the headline read "She was a lawyer at Microsoft, and she intentionally lost the case, because she secretly thought Microsoft was wrong to charge for the update."
Funny, I remember MSFT crushing Netscape with IE 3.0, which was utter crap but came included with Windows. IE 3.0 ruined my life and did more to form my outlook towards Microsoft than anything since. I particularly remember the day I first saw "Mozilla (Compatible)" in their browser string, scrambling to figure out the flood of new support tickets. I wound up having to test sites against IE 3.0 until it fell to less than 5% penetration on a site that saw a lot of non-technical users. I'm still bitter.
I have an old manually switched AT power supply that is great for powering drives outside of cases. Very handy. It has a BRS on it, and it comes on without a mainboard and without jumpering anything. Nice to have 12V and 5V leads.
Not answering or hanging up quickly is actually the nicest thing you can do for them, short of buying what they're pitching. They are paying for employees and equipment by the minute. Assuming you're not paying by the minute for calls you receive, it's better to answer the phone and give them some plausible reason to hang on ("Oh, you want to talk to Dave! Hang on a sec"). Then set the handset down and see how long they wait. You could keep track of what bs line will keep them waiting the longest.
I'm genuinely surprised to see people hitching their positions on religion to the provability of a scientific theory. On NPR this morning they had a senator who was saying, and I'm paraphrasing, that if evolution is true than we have no moral responsibilities. And I think, Really? If we were to someday map the genome of every living thing and create a full tree data graph of the evolution of all life, that would be enough for Christians everywhere to start raping and pillaging?
Are you sure you want your faith and religion to hang on the provability of a scientific theorem? Are you arrogant enough to say, "God could not have chosen to work this way"?
So in this case, this kid you're hiring has identified 100,000 good files for me in order to join my trust-clique? I would say that's money well spent by the RIAA.
Even if the NSA can decrypt your PGP files, you have to ask yourself, would they break cover to decrypt YOUR files and testify in court? I mean, what the hell are you encrypting?
I would hope it's context sensitive, so the key layouts change when you're holding down "CTRL". And like the AC said, a list of word completions on each letter key when you're in vi/emacs/bash.
This is the free market at work. IBM is exploiting a temporary difference in the amount of crap Indian developers will put up with, vs how much crap European developers will put up with. Good for them. Eventually the Indian developers will wise up and start wanting a little time for themselves, a few hours at night to spend with the kids, a few weeks off to see the ocean. Then IBM can pony up or move on, until there's no where else to go. The market for labour is just that, a market where two parties have to come to terms. The Europeans aren't wrong, they just got underbid.
Come on, nothing has a working battery life of much more than 3 hours. Look at the screen on this thing. If a 3 hour battery life is the best gripe you can come up with, this thing will sell like hotcakes.
Me, I'm griping about the storage. What, no 20GB harddrive? Where will I keep my movies?
Set up an unattended decrypt server on a hacked box somewhere. Make it require some proof of payment token that the server can verify, like a payapl payment id. then the server moves the money out of paypal before returning the decrypted key. you leave it run for however long it takes for it to be taken down.
a chosen plaintext attack might be an interesting defense. you could keep a series of chosen files with different extentions on your computer, so that when you get hit you have them for the decryption effort. Also you should wrap your monitor in tinfoil.;)
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I don't know if all of the tasks are going to be from Amazon. It looks to me like anyone can submit "work" through the API, and the market will decide what gets done and what does not. If that 65 cent job sits long enough, and Amazon wants to get it done, they'll pony up more cash until someone thinks it's worthwhile.
They sell banner ads, they sell books. I would say it's "In connection with a commercial venture". I don't think the people who put out the Onion are unpaid volunteers.
I think it should be protected as parody, but it's definately a commercial site.
Isn't this the kind of automation prevention problem that capchas can solve reasonably well? Put image-text verificaiton on each step of creating or appending to a blog. If nothing else it will slow them down. Am I missing something?
We're using XSLTC (runtime compiled stylesheets) exclusively and the performance and memory profiles have been very good. There are very few considerations when switching to XSLTC, the only one that bit us was your template names can't start with a number. The template name gets used as a Java method name, so it must begin with a character.
I agree, xpath expressions and xsl tags you use for display control are code (it'a a complete language). I've seen rouge team members write some pretty wacky stuff into a JSP page though, opening database connections and such. I've NEVER had those kinds of problems developing with XSL. It keeps you and your team honest.
We use one servlet/many handlers to generate XML, and the presentation layer is XSL(T). So yes, you can do Java with no code in your presentation layer.
Doesn't PHP tend to be embedded in the page? I thought it was a more direct comparison to JSP than to Java. And like JSP I expected it violated the seperation of logic and presentation that I love so dearly. I've been avoiding PHP for the same reason I don't do JSP pages, I don't like code in the presentation layer.
I am prepared to have my mind blown here, can someone enlighten me?
The longer the war went on, the more (logged in user) votes you would need to swing the page to one side or the other. eventually it would settle on the more generally accepted version since presumably one side of the argument would be more able to get votes. There would be cases where people are polarized and both sides of an article could have a lot of votes (abortion?) where you could still have edit wars, but that could be the case today, and at least both sides of the edit war would need to be well written articles to garner votes. I think eventually it would swing towards neutrality as the number of votes to change the article becomes very high.
I wrote an application in the spring of 1995 for a debit card system that did exactly that. It used a dbase database to track how many minutes you had remaining on your debit card before deciding to connect your call. It was written in VOS for Dialogic hardware while I was working at US Digital in Flint. The whole system went into production and cards were sold. The company is no longer doing business under that name but the principals are still around, and I expect there is enough evidence left over to present prior art.
The patent never should have been granted, what an obvious thing to implement.
I'd love to have a crack at designing a peer review system for wikipedia, with reputation (karma). It seems to me the more edits a page has gotten, the closer to "right" it should be. So maybe a new article, anyone can write. But an article that has been around for a while, your edit goes into a reivew queue and needs 1 vote (meta mod) to become the live version. An established article, maybe 2 votes. maybe it's (number of edits/5)+1 votes, or some formula. The point is, established article should change more slowly, and need increasing amounts of review before they go live.
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What if the headline read "She was a lawyer at Microsoft, and she intentionally lost the case, because she secretly thought Microsoft was wrong to charge for the update."
What do you think it means to be lawyer?
Plus, that would be one long headline.
Funny, I remember MSFT crushing Netscape with IE 3.0, which was utter crap but came included with Windows. IE 3.0 ruined my life and did more to form my outlook towards Microsoft than anything since. I particularly remember the day I first saw "Mozilla (Compatible)" in their browser string, scrambling to figure out the flood of new support tickets. I wound up having to test sites against IE 3.0 until it fell to less than 5% penetration on a site that saw a lot of non-technical users. I'm still bitter.
I have an old manually switched AT power supply that is great for powering drives outside of cases. Very handy. It has a BRS on it, and it comes on without a mainboard and without jumpering anything. Nice to have 12V and 5V leads.
Not answering or hanging up quickly is actually the nicest thing you can do for them, short of buying what they're pitching. They are paying for employees and equipment by the minute. Assuming you're not paying by the minute for calls you receive, it's better to answer the phone and give them some plausible reason to hang on ("Oh, you want to talk to Dave! Hang on a sec"). Then set the handset down and see how long they wait. You could keep track of what bs line will keep them waiting the longest.
I'm genuinely surprised to see people hitching their positions on religion to the provability of a scientific theory. On NPR this morning they had a senator who was saying, and I'm paraphrasing, that if evolution is true than we have no moral responsibilities. And I think, Really? If we were to someday map the genome of every living thing and create a full tree data graph of the evolution of all life, that would be enough for Christians everywhere to start raping and pillaging?
Are you sure you want your faith and religion to hang on the provability of a scientific theorem? Are you arrogant enough to say, "God could not have chosen to work this way"?
So in this case, this kid you're hiring has identified 100,000 good files for me in order to join my trust-clique? I would say that's money well spent by the RIAA.
Even if the NSA can decrypt your PGP files, you have to ask yourself, would they break cover to decrypt YOUR files and testify in court? I mean, what the hell are you encrypting?
You're thinking of Sucrosa(tm). The origonal news release is no longer available but there's a reprint here:
r ticles/sucrosa.html
http://dcl.wustl.edu/~jzacks/Psych301/protected/a
I would hope it's context sensitive, so the key layouts change when you're holding down "CTRL". And like the AC said, a list of word completions on each letter key when you're in vi/emacs/bash.
What a mess.
Require them to use only Ethanol in the production of Ethanol. Either they'll prove a net positive, or come to a grinding halt.
You didn't mention it, have you checked out Altered Carbon and Broken Angels? Highly recommended.
This is the free market at work. IBM is exploiting a temporary difference in the amount of crap Indian developers will put up with, vs how much crap European developers will put up with. Good for them. Eventually the Indian developers will wise up and start wanting a little time for themselves, a few hours at night to spend with the kids, a few weeks off to see the ocean. Then IBM can pony up or move on, until there's no where else to go. The market for labour is just that, a market where two parties have to come to terms. The Europeans aren't wrong, they just got underbid.
Come on, nothing has a working battery life of much more than 3 hours. Look at the screen on this thing. If a 3 hour battery life is the best gripe you can come up with, this thing will sell like hotcakes.
Me, I'm griping about the storage. What, no 20GB harddrive? Where will I keep my movies?
Set up an unattended decrypt server on a hacked box somewhere. Make it require some proof of payment token that the server can verify, like a payapl payment id. then the server moves the money out of paypal before returning the decrypted key. you leave it run for however long it takes for it to be taken down.
a chosen plaintext attack might be an interesting defense. you could keep a series of chosen files with different extentions on your computer, so that when you get hit you have them for the decryption effort. Also you should wrap your monitor in tinfoil. ;)