It somewhat reminds me of "The Circuit" from the Greg Mendel trilogy.
The difference here is the asker sets the price.
I think this service could have more merit if there was some kind of feedback mechanism, or a bid/ask type mechanism.
I could see a question I know how to answer, but I'm sure not going to do it for the $5 the people ask. Researchers should have to compete for answers, and then someone should correlate it all and make sure everyone gets paid.
You are saying that if someone has a patent on something, they should not enforce it? Or is it only some patent holders who should not be allowed to try to exercise the rights granted to them by the people, by way of a patent?
Which patents are they? ones that you yourself determine are 'lame' ? Who decides?
The USPTO is handing out patents. That means those who get them have the right to try to enforce them. IF you want change, attack the USPTO, not the people applying for them.
Well, it seems this FIRST requreis that there is a violation in the first place.. meaning unauthorized use/access of a system.
So you accidentally erased some files, even though it was a totally unexpected side-effect of whta you did, and you DEFINATELY didn't mean for it to happen...
You weren't supposed to be there in the first place.
the point, I think, is that for any of this to apply you first have to be accessing some system without authorization.
So you broke into some system and didn't MEAN to turn out the power to the life support units in the hospital.. it was because of shoddy configuration. What is there to understand? You weren't supposed to be there.
If you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing, and that has consequences you didn't plan on/intend for, then who's fault is it? Yours.
No state is maintained from one ftp connection to the next. No state is maintained from one telephone call to the next. No state is maintained from one quake session to the next.
Why do you assume we should have ONLY ONE application level protocol? There is a REASON that the Internet is based on IP, and not, say, TCP only. or UDP. Or GRE.
Or anything else we have yet to invent.
Because we don't yet know the best way to use the network.
Maybe we haven't adopted BEEP because you don't just 'create' a standard by declaring your stuff is better. Maybe it's because peopel ALREADY know how to do regular socket programming.
It sure IS ethical to come up with robots to fight your wars for you. A soldier is a tool. So is a robot.
War is not fair.
THe one thing it will mean is those in command will be more directly responsible for the actions of the drones rather than blaming it on soldiers misbehaving/chain of command breakdown/whatever.
just remember, he didn't come to us to get pestered by questions, we went to him. And he's not trying to convince anyone else to do it, nor is he claiming he's some kind of genius. Did you miss the part where he says he doesn't care if others support it or not, he'd do it anyway?
He's just claiming to be a guy who's building a rocket.
I know when we tell everyone about a new virus, and yet another reminder not to run things even if they are from someone you know, some otherwise intelligent people still go out and run it, and when you ask, they say "Well I know you warned me, but MY friends would never do something like that"
So I can see it now "Well I know there was a warning out.. but he SAID it was an emergency"
If people are expecting security-in-a-box from an IDS, of course it's not going to live up to their expectations.
An IDS is nothing more than something to alert you to any abnormal conditions. It's a tool to help filter out the noise and show you what you want to know.
There is a difference between ideology and reality.
So many open source hippie zealots (OSHZs) like to flame on about how all the problems that people attribute to linux are the fault of Microsoft not playing nice.
Okay, yes that's true, yes that's because of their monopolistic abuses. But that doesn't make those problems go away, or make them any less real.
All you OSHZs need to realize that there is a huge difference between criticizing a platform on technical merits and criticizing a platform on practical merits.
Linux is simply not a viable solution, yet, for my mom, my sister, or my aunt. This is not due to *ANY* technical inferiority, it's just a fact. THe software available, the way the industry/market works precludes using linux as a desktop OS in many cases. Why is that so hard to accept?
I know linux well, very well. I know what it can and can't do. I know I *can* use it for my daily operations. I could get by with it quite well, but it would take me more time. Every time there is an upgrade to some MS product, I have to wait and/or fiddle with Linux until I get things more or less compatable again. Now.. I used to like that stuff.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc? You are making the most common mistake in statistics.
Netcraft saying that the boxes with the longest times are BSD only implies there is most likely some kind of relationship between BSD and long uptimes; it does not imply that BSD is responsible for those uptimes.
It could be that the class of administrators who like BSD happen to have administrative practices that preclude rebooting often.
It could be that for some reason BSD is only used in very static configurations where the kinds of activities that would cause you to want to reboot are simply not done.
Actually, VISA Primarily arm-twists it's merchants; not the cardholders. If you are getting pressured *AT ALL* by your credit card issuer, switch cards. You are THIER customer. They NEED you.
Yeah... I mean, given that some people can't use their eyes, the rest of us shouldn't either so the world can be 'fair'.
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Feathers?
KFC stopped being called "Kentucky Fried Chicken" sevearl years ago and just went with KFC. In fact you see KFC's in many countries, and nobody has nay idea what it means.
The real reason is they had to stop claiming it was chicken... look at the menu sometime.
"Kentiucky Fried Creature" is more accurate... if a featherless brainless blob of meat grown in a vat still qualifies as a 'creature'
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A republic can also be a democracy.
The US is a republic.
So is Ireland.
So are many, many others.
Okay
But that's as long as they don't use any native methods, right?
So I can write something that will run on multiple platforms.. you mean like java does now?
It somewhat reminds me of "The Circuit" from the Greg Mendel trilogy.
The difference here is the asker sets the price.
I think this service could have more merit if there was some kind of feedback mechanism, or a bid/ask type mechanism.
I could see a question I know how to answer, but I'm sure not going to do it for the $5 the people ask. Researchers should have to compete for answers, and then someone should correlate it all and make sure everyone gets paid.
This is a good idea they are chasing.
Any idea, though, what happens with answered questions? If I paid for the research to be done, someone else shouldn't be able to get it for free.
So that means we can run Office.NET and, presumably, every other MS application that is built to .NET standards?
If not, what's the big deal?
Okay.
So.
Let me get this straight.
You are saying that if someone has a patent on something, they should not enforce it? Or is it only some patent holders who should not be allowed to try to exercise the rights granted to them by the people, by way of a patent?
Which patents are they? ones that you yourself determine are 'lame' ? Who decides?
The USPTO is handing out patents. That means those who get them have the right to try to enforce them. IF you want change, attack the USPTO, not the people applying for them.
What is pitiful about enforcing your patent?
Well, it seems this FIRST requreis that there is a violation in the first place.. meaning unauthorized use/access of a system.
So you accidentally erased some files, even though it was a totally unexpected side-effect of whta you did, and you DEFINATELY didn't mean for it to happen...
You weren't supposed to be there in the first place.
the point, I think, is that for any of this to apply you first have to be accessing some system without authorization.
So you broke into some system and didn't MEAN to turn out the power to the life support units in the hospital.. it was because of shoddy configuration. What is there to understand? You weren't supposed to be there.
If you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing, and that has consequences you didn't plan on/intend for, then who's fault is it? Yours.
I see that you are talking about the Web Browser as an application, as looking at a series of HTML pages.
I suppose it all depends on your point of view. When I transfer a file via HTTP, it's just as stateless as, say, FTP.
Auto-reconnect logic, as you call it, would work just as well with HTTP as it does with FTP. It's a function of the client, not the protocol.
No state is maintained from one ftp connection to the next.
No state is maintained from one telephone call to the next.
No state is maintained from one quake session to the next.
By that definition, all protocols are stateless.
I know that. That was the point.
The point was, we don't NEED a single protocol, we already have one, it's called IP.
If we don't need stateful connections, why are most of the protocols you mention using a stateful connection?
Why do you assume we should have ONLY ONE application level protocol? There is a REASON that the Internet is based on IP, and not, say, TCP only. or UDP.
Or GRE.
Or anything else we have yet to invent.
Because we don't yet know the best way to use the network.
Maybe we haven't adopted BEEP because you don't just 'create' a standard by declaring your stuff is better. Maybe it's because peopel ALREADY know how to do regular socket programming.
Who knows.
It sure IS ethical to come up with robots to fight your wars for you. A soldier is a tool. So is a robot.
War is not fair.
THe one thing it will mean is those in command will be more directly responsible for the actions of the drones rather than blaming it on soldiers misbehaving/chain of command breakdown/whatever.
just remember, he didn't come to us to get pestered by questions, we went to him.
And he's not trying to convince anyone else to do it, nor is he claiming he's some kind of genius.
Did you miss the part where he says he doesn't care if others support it or not, he'd do it anyway?
He's just claiming to be a guy who's building a rocket.
I see what you are up to.
Nifty.
Stole my idea dammit.
Funny thing is, this probably won't help.
I know when we tell everyone about a new virus, and yet another reminder not to run things even if they are from someone you know, some otherwise intelligent people still go out and run it, and when you ask, they say "Well I know you warned me, but MY friends would never do something like that"
So I can see it now "Well I know there was a warning out.. but he SAID it was an emergency"
can be a bit thick..
I usually just run a few pages out of the photocopier with the lid open.
If people are expecting security-in-a-box from an IDS, of course it's not going to live up to their expectations.
An IDS is nothing more than something to alert you to any abnormal conditions. It's a tool to help filter out the noise and show you what you want to know.
So you mean now we can have people's domains revoked because the information they gave the registrar is not technically correct? WHOO!
That's only like, 3/4 of the domains out there!
There is a difference between ideology and reality.
So many open source hippie zealots (OSHZs) like to flame on about how all the problems that people attribute to linux are the fault of Microsoft not playing nice.
Okay, yes that's true, yes that's because of their monopolistic abuses.
But that doesn't make those problems go away, or make them any less real.
All you OSHZs need to realize that there is a huge difference between criticizing a platform on technical merits and criticizing a platform on practical merits.
Linux is simply not a viable solution, yet, for my mom, my sister, or my aunt. This is not due to *ANY* technical inferiority, it's just a fact. THe software available, the way the industry/market works precludes using linux as a desktop OS in many cases. Why is that so hard to accept?
I know linux well, very well. I know what it can and can't do. I know I *can* use it for my daily operations. I could get by with it quite well, but it would take me more time. Every time there is an upgrade to some MS product, I have to wait and/or fiddle with Linux until I get things more or less compatable again. Now.. I used to like that stuff.
But it takes too much time.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc? You are making the most common mistake in statistics.
Netcraft saying that the boxes with the longest times are BSD only implies there is most likely some kind of relationship between BSD and long uptimes; it does not imply that BSD is responsible for those uptimes.
It could be that the class of administrators who like BSD happen to have administrative practices that preclude rebooting often.
It could be that for some reason BSD is only used in very static configurations where the kinds of activities that would cause you to want to reboot are simply not done.
It could be anything.
Actually, VISA Primarily arm-twists it's merchants; not the cardholders. If you are getting pressured *AT ALL* by your credit card issuer, switch cards. You are THIER customer. They NEED you.
Yeah... I mean, given that some people can't use their eyes, the rest of us shouldn't either so the world can be 'fair'.
Feathers?
KFC stopped being called "Kentucky Fried Chicken" sevearl years ago and just went with KFC. In fact you see KFC's in many countries, and nobody has nay idea what it means.
The real reason is they had to stop claiming it was chicken... look at the menu sometime.
"Kentiucky Fried Creature" is more accurate... if a featherless brainless blob of meat grown in a vat still qualifies as a 'creature'