the drobo looks pretty cool. it has data redundancy (though not raid, something "better than raid" according to their site, and therefore proprietary), you can use any size drives, it's fully hot swappable and you really don't have to think about it much. it's very easy to upgrade to bigger disks too. it has some glaring downsides, like it's usb-2 only. i'd like to see NAS for GiGE and a firewire interface. also i've read on their forums about the loud fan, heat issues, etc. so i'm waiting for v2. but it's a cool idea and seems well architected.
Strange, you trust your mail server, the recipient's mail server, and all of the mail relays in between? The only way to have private e-mails is to encrypt the e-mail itself. Then the transport protocol is irrelevant to your privacy.
exactly. i don't. i don't kid myself about the stuff i send in email being private. point to point encryption is ok, but has a couple of serious problems: 1. both recipients have to know how to deal with it. this unfortunately is rare. 2. i'm sure in the US the NSA flags encrypted mail much higher and will mark you if you do it often. either way you still don't get privacy, just the who/from is enough to give a lot of information to anyone looking at the server logs...
The same could be said for postal mail, after all, all you had to do was steam open the envelope. Of course the legal response to that was to legislate severe penalties if you were foolish enough to do so, so why should email be any different.
apples and oranges. a government agency or single business takes postal mail from source to destination. the envelopes are sealed to some degree. and there are very serious punishments for opening mail not addressed to you. to intercept and open a postal mail you have to take definitive action.
with email, you might accidentally see the contents of an email while, for example, looking through the logs of your mail server or debugging a mail store. and it doesn't take much to sniff all traffic between two mail servers. not to mention that if you were searching for a particular keyword, oh say "terrorist" a simple regex is all you need.
point to point email needs to be encrypted but few mail clients support that. certainly not websites who in their ultimate stupidity will send you a password in plain text, for example.
i have a site i host with a friend of mine that uses adsense and i once clicked through on an ad because i actually wanted to buy what was being advertised (what a concept). it's against the ToS to click on those ads. but still, just one click. my account was shut down a few weeks later and i had to explain what happened to them to turn adsense on again. and we're not talking about giant monthly revenues here.
i'm sure there's a cookie/ip fingerprint 'cause i use the same computer i develop on to log into adsense so it's easy for them to "catch me". this is obviously pretty brain dead detection and if i actually wanted to commit click through fraud i'd do it from different computers, but even then it wouldn't be hard to catch a much higher CTR coming from certain ips and then investigate.
i just don't see the long term benefit to google ignoring click through fraud and it's hard for me to believe that google would endanger their cash cow for short term gains. this doesn't have anything to do with being evil or good. just good business sense.
another thing i noticed while working for a company that bought keywords. the marketing department bought maybe 25000 clicks and then watched them like a hawk and when the results were not so good they immediately blamed click through fraud, google's technology, what have you. but never once considered how idiotic their choice of keywords was, which was actually the case.
but the important thing with electricity production is that it concentrates the generation of energy in one place. the biggest problem with current energy usage is that the entire automobile/truck fleet still needs to be replaced if a new technology comes along. this will take DECADES. electricity plants can be updated at a much faster pace because you don't need to convince a billion consumers. if a technology gives more to the bottom line for generating electricity, you can bet plants will convert.
e.g. lets say there's a breakthrough in wind or nuclear. if we keep the IC vehicle fleet, we haven't changed much. if we had a fleet relying on the grid, then the vehicles would not have to be replaced.
the vehicle itself does not create significant pollution. this *is* important and should not be dismissed with "the energy has to come from somewhere" rhetoric. because the source of energy for this vehicle could be improved without replacing the vehicle.
anyone else think that the launch site looks like it's on some remote tropical island? okay, so it's not inside a volcano, but still... definitely evil villain style.
Amazon's ec2 is not free, but it's not expensive either. a compile farm alternative is the perfect use for ec2. you pay only for the cpu you need. so you don't have to maintain machines, virtual or otherwise, between milestones (for example).
as i see this the graphs show without a doubt that IIS makes more system calls than Apache. And that's it. I don't understand how this proves anything regarding Linux or Windows if you're running two different applications. Last I heard Apache runs on windows. Why not use the same version of apache instead?
Hey, I have an idea. Lets see how many system calls it takes to "serve up" a page of text. We'll use notepad on windows, and Open Office on Linux. Lets check out those system calls!
yeah, i guess email vs. im vs. phone doesn't make any sense either... o.O
sms is great when you want to give quick info to someone without requiring a respone (especially a voice one). like say you want to invite 10 folks to a party you just heard about. what's better? to call and interrupt 10 folks one at a time? or to SMS them the time and location and let them decide?
other nifty uses:
. send a shopping list to your spouse who's at the store
. send directions to someone looking for your house
. pass notes in class without instructor's knowledge
. receive reminders from google calendar
. receive and respond to service outages via nagios
these guys have a business plan or is this a sign that we've officially arrived back in 1999 via some wormhole? not only is this not a new idea, there is already excellent software that does this, and for free.
I like this point a lot. Because if you think about it, the Wii already has much of the same appeal that made the iPod so damn pervasive. And no, I don't mean it being white... But you have to admit the comparisons are many fold. The iPod was not technologically the most advanced mp3 player. The iPod was designed to be super user friendly. The iPod was released with (relative to the times) superb software support.
heh, of course mod me down (much easier than say, replying non-anonymously); how dare i say anything negative about firefox. but it's never offtopic to bring up microsoft when a firefox vulnerability is discussed, now is it? my point shouldn't have to be made. that vulnerability has not been addressed and it's pretty serious. why isn't it getting any more slashdot visibility? we've heard about this particular windows problem in several stories and lots of comments already.
(disclaimer: i'm not a windows fanboi, i primarily use firefox on os x and windows; it is double standards i despise)
years of air warrior, warbirds, and aces high showed how it can be done (captured territories, limited resources for the losing side, eventual arena reset, etc.)
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the drobo looks pretty cool. it has data redundancy (though not raid, something "better than raid" according to their site, and therefore proprietary), you can use any size drives, it's fully hot swappable and you really don't have to think about it much. it's very easy to upgrade to bigger disks too. it has some glaring downsides, like it's usb-2 only. i'd like to see NAS for GiGE and a firewire interface. also i've read on their forums about the loud fan, heat issues, etc. so i'm waiting for v2. but it's a cool idea and seems well architected.
on the other other hand they're one of the states with counties still embracing the prohibition.
Strange, you trust your mail server, the recipient's mail server, and all of the mail relays in between? The only way to have private e-mails is to encrypt the e-mail itself. Then the transport protocol is irrelevant to your privacy.
exactly. i don't. i don't kid myself about the stuff i send in email being private. point to point encryption is ok, but has a couple of serious problems:
1. both recipients have to know how to deal with it. this unfortunately is rare.
2. i'm sure in the US the NSA flags encrypted mail much higher and will mark you if you do it often. either way you still don't get privacy, just the who/from is enough to give a lot of information to anyone looking at the server logs...
The same could be said for postal mail, after all, all you had to do was steam open the envelope. Of course the legal response to that was to legislate severe penalties if you were foolish enough to do so, so why should email be any different.
apples and oranges. a government agency or single business takes postal mail from source to destination. the envelopes are sealed to some degree. and there are very serious punishments for opening mail not addressed to you. to intercept and open a postal mail you have to take definitive action.
with email, you might accidentally see the contents of an email while, for example, looking through the logs of your mail server or debugging a mail store. and it doesn't take much to sniff all traffic between two mail servers. not to mention that if you were searching for a particular keyword, oh say "terrorist" a simple regex is all you need.
point to point email needs to be encrypted but few mail clients support that. certainly not websites who in their ultimate stupidity will send you a password in plain text, for example.
i don't see google ignoring click through fraud.
i have a site i host with a friend of mine that uses adsense and i once clicked through on an ad because i actually wanted to buy what was being advertised (what a concept). it's against the ToS to click on those ads. but still, just one click. my account was shut down a few weeks later and i had to explain what happened to them to turn adsense on again. and we're not talking about giant monthly revenues here.
i'm sure there's a cookie/ip fingerprint 'cause i use the same computer i develop on to log into adsense so it's easy for them to "catch me". this is obviously pretty brain dead detection and if i actually wanted to commit click through fraud i'd do it from different computers, but even then it wouldn't be hard to catch a much higher CTR coming from certain ips and then investigate.
i just don't see the long term benefit to google ignoring click through fraud and it's hard for me to believe that google would endanger their cash cow for short term gains. this doesn't have anything to do with being evil or good. just good business sense.
another thing i noticed while working for a company that bought keywords. the marketing department bought maybe 25000 clicks and then watched them like a hawk and when the results were not so good they immediately blamed click through fraud, google's technology, what have you. but never once considered how idiotic their choice of keywords was, which was actually the case.
until mail servers talk over encrypted connections private email is a myth.
for some reason this freaks people out -> (:
given the mac's strength in graphic applications, how about making firefox respect and support icc profiles?
"I think it would take a whole lot longer to train the system to respond to the hundreds of thousands of words you might want to use"
You don't need 100s of thousands of words. For example, Basic English only needs 850 words to express The Bible (minus names, of course).
In fact I've read somewhere (can't find the link) that we can communicate quite easily in english using only a 200 word vocabulary.
but the important thing with electricity production is that it concentrates the generation of energy in one place. the biggest problem with current energy usage is that the entire automobile/truck fleet still needs to be replaced if a new technology comes along. this will take DECADES. electricity plants can be updated at a much faster pace because you don't need to convince a billion consumers. if a technology gives more to the bottom line for generating electricity, you can bet plants will convert.
e.g. lets say there's a breakthrough in wind or nuclear. if we keep the IC vehicle fleet, we haven't changed much. if we had a fleet relying on the grid, then the vehicles would not have to be replaced.
the vehicle itself does not create significant pollution. this *is* important and should not be dismissed with "the energy has to come from somewhere" rhetoric. because the source of energy for this vehicle could be improved without replacing the vehicle.
bummer, they just scrubbed :(
24-48 hour delay. they are defueling
anyone else think that the launch site looks like it's on some remote tropical island? okay, so it's not inside a volcano, but still... definitely evil villain style.
Amazon's ec2 is not free, but it's not expensive either. a compile farm alternative is the perfect use for ec2. you pay only for the cpu you need. so you don't have to maintain machines, virtual or otherwise, between milestones (for example).
as i see this the graphs show without a doubt that IIS makes more system calls than Apache. And that's it. I don't understand how this proves anything regarding Linux or Windows if you're running two different applications. Last I heard Apache runs on windows. Why not use the same version of apache instead?
Hey, I have an idea. Lets see how many system calls it takes to "serve up" a page of text. We'll use notepad on windows, and Open Office on Linux. Lets check out those system calls!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWUaQVZHzyI
At the 2004 Macworld Expo, Steve revealed that one customer had bought $29,500 worth of music.
The only thing known about this customer is their email address: qa-018772@apple.com
yeah, i guess email vs. im vs. phone doesn't make any sense either... o.O
sms is great when you want to give quick info to someone without requiring a respone (especially a voice one). like say you want to invite 10 folks to a party you just heard about. what's better? to call and interrupt 10 folks one at a time? or to SMS them the time and location and let them decide?
other nifty uses:
. send a shopping list to your spouse who's at the store
. send directions to someone looking for your house
. pass notes in class without instructor's knowledge
. receive reminders from google calendar
. receive and respond to service outages via nagios
etc. etc. etc.
these guys have a business plan or is this a sign that we've officially arrived back in 1999 via some wormhole? not only is this not a new idea, there is already excellent software that does this, and for free.
I like this point a lot. Because if you think about it, the Wii already has much of the same appeal that made the iPod so damn pervasive. And no, I don't mean it being white... But you have to admit the comparisons are many fold. The iPod was not technologically the most advanced mp3 player. The iPod was designed to be super user friendly. The iPod was released with (relative to the times) superb software support.
craiglist is one of the first major websites that not only implements but also enforces SPF.
heh, of course mod me down (much easier than say, replying non-anonymously); how dare i say anything negative about firefox. but it's never offtopic to bring up microsoft when a firefox vulnerability is discussed, now is it? my point shouldn't have to be made. that vulnerability has not been addressed and it's pretty serious. why isn't it getting any more slashdot visibility? we've heard about this particular windows problem in several stories and lots of comments already.
(disclaimer: i'm not a windows fanboi, i primarily use firefox on os x and windows; it is double standards i despise)
meanwhile the firefox team still hasn't fixed the password manager vulnerability...
years of air warrior, warbirds, and aces high showed how it can be done (captured territories, limited resources for the losing side, eventual arena reset, etc.)
better than any password manager: http://www.passwordmaker.org/
no one cares about a plain old CS degree except bitter old dudes. these days what you need is a CS:S degree...