If it's equivilent to cookies, is there any reason they just didn't use real cookies? Even today some people are worried about the security of cookies, and IE has come a long way in protecting against all the little tricks that people use to trick people out of their cookies (framesets on domain X that include frame Y will not allow Y cookies to be read on either part of the frame). Why introduce another security hole? Cookie features are also much more mature. IE will allow you to block 3rd party cookies. The P3P standard uses cookies to set rules on allowing/denying cookies. Macromedia just wants everything to go their way, instead of using an established standard. People often critisize IE for letting the webmaster get too much control of the browser, changing the scroll bar color is nothing compared to a mic and webcam. Sure, they're trying to make it feature rich so users will download and use the plugin, but on the other end they're trying to give features to the web masters so they will buy Flash. And what's good for web masters isn't always good for users.
What I don't get is why OSDN decided to cuts its *volunteer* staff. First, developing for themes.org was a pain as it was. They had a VPN and wouldn't give access to new comers, even though I feel I'm a part of the community enough to be trusted. But if that wasn't enough, they decided to cut their *volunteer* staff. Which included developers and maintainers. They might start asking for volunteers again, but a lot of the staff I talked to were a little bit bitter and I doubt they will be rejoining. So Chris (who seemed like a nice guy the couple times I talked to him) decided to develop it on his own, which took months even though it seems he's just using the freshmeat code.
I think one of the mistakes was getting a company to set the deadlines. There was an occassion "No later than this" date, but since it was all volunteer, people wouldn't make long decisions on whether to go out a saturday or develop all night for nothing. So I guess the choices were "Cut the staff", "Pay the staff", or "Stop letting the company make the deadlines". I guess they chose 1 and 3.
I didn't spend much time on the project, but kept an ear out on things, and never got an explaination for this. So I would like to know, why the staff was cut?
I thought I would post some deep thoughts by Jack Handy, which is probably more reliable than anything you'd find from a Slashdot poster. I mean, who do you want to ask first, the fp guy or the goatse guy? There's people out there who spend their whole lives trying to determine if there's life on mars, and how it should be handled. So I'm willing to trust whatever they say. I just hope they're not on the other end doing their job 8 hours a day by going "Hmmm, I wonder if bacteria would be dangerous, lets ask Slashdot! I trust what SexyMan69 has to say."
Anyway, back to my point, Jack Handy rocks.
Whether they find a life there or not, I think Mars should be called an enemy planet.
Let me just quickly say, scripts like that is the stupidest abuse of referrers I've ever come across. The referrer is a great tool for following the flow of traffic. Not to police flow of traffic. The referrer is set in the browser, it is not something that all browsers (or have to) use. And it can be easily spoofed or disabled. If 10% of the websites blocked my traffic based on my referrer, I'd just find a browser that let me turn off the referrer. And I'm sure I'm not alone. So by abusing the referrer, it's more than possible for browsers to just stop sending it, and hurt websites that are trying to watch flow of traffic to help the users out.
The recruitment page uses.com because everyone (in the US) assumes that all domain names are.com. I've heard of browsers where you just type "yahoo" and it will assume that you mean yahoo.com. And even more so if you put "marines.com" on the bottom of an ad, most people will know that it's a web address. I can picture someone putting "marines.mil.com", because few internet users have heard of.mil. At least compared to.com.
These are numbers from last year, so I'd imagine they're a little bit higher. Slashdot had 1.2 million page views a day. Between the halt of classic.themes.org and the new one, t.o was getting about 120,000 page views a day. When an article was posted on slashdot saying "help *link*themes.org" it jumped up over 300,000 for a day or so and went down over a week or two to get back to 120,000. The guy that humiliated bernard shiffman also documented his slashdot experience, pretty interesting stuff.
No, he cannot be sued/imprisoned for the link. Sony would make the claim to Slashot, and it's their responsibility to take it down. If Slashdot doesn't comply in X days, then maybe someone can get their asses sued.
WHAT IS ADULTERY? Adultery is cohabitation by or sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his/her spouse. It is considered a misdemeanor in some states, although is rarely prosecuted except by the military.
When we went to fight for Saudi Arabia, or our oil interests, whichever you prefer, we were very carful not to offend anyone. Soldiers were told to drink only in their tents, and avoid the girl lovin' yeehaw cowboy attitude of America. But wait a second? They invited us! The politicians didn't care, and the rules still applied so we wouldn't alienate them.
But just because "they" may not like our ways, doesn't mean it's a bad thing, in some places there are no womens rights. The women might not even care because they've had it drilled in to their brains all their lives that they were meant to stay at home and not vote. It's been part of their culture for centuries, what makes the US right all of a sudden? Nothing really, but that doesn't make it easier to sit back and watch the women be oppresed and say "oh, they don't mind." So it's kinda, might makes right, and the US has the might.
There is the myth that church and state are seperated in the US. But none of the constitutional rights go against the ten commandments and we're one nation "under god". Why? Because we had to go by *something*. We couldn't make laws to make everybody happy, so we decided on "Christian" laws. We choose that adultery is bad, but in some parts of africa, it's expected to give your wife to company. Again, what makes the US right? Well, we have the aids problem a little more under control, but the only moral reasoning is that it comes from the bible. Still, in the US it's illegal.
What I'm trying to say is, we can't decide for people what is right or wrong. But if another culture sees our culture and likes it, why stop them from joining? Where does it cross the line from preserving their culture to oppressing them and isolating them from the outside world?
I think this does more to further spam, not just for himself, but for everyone. Especially if more people take up his strategy. If X company decides they wants to announce their product, and Y spammer says "Oh, we get 30% replies to all our email marketing." Then I think X company is a lot more likely to send out more spam because they think it's working. I think it's best never to buy anything from spammers for that reason. If it's really something you're interested in, and just desperately need, make sure not to give the spam credit for the sale. Say a friend referred you, and get your friend some bucks.
Well, any device that uses eletricity (electrons), and that's why he's going to use punchcards to save data, and steam power mechanically move it. Don't forget the other means of movin stuff, thermal and fluid.
Eh, he's got the right idea, but he screws it all up when he says "Here's a free clue: QUIT USING MICROSOFT SOFTWARE." He says "all the virii are attacking Outlook, so stop using it! So when he says "Quit using microsoft software", it's easier to agree to because he's almost right on the Outlook point. But I've talked to my friend that says the man hours lost at the company he works for are massive just upgrading from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000. Not because the upgrade takes a huge amount of time, but because there are 3 huge office buildings full of workstations. And while programmer bob is upgrading, he's not programming! And that's assuming that all the old software works on the new OS. Bottom line, they will be sticking with microsoft for a really long time. He has worked at the company for over 15 years, so he knows a bit more than sideshow-.
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You still have to trust the site to be honest in its privacy policy, but with P3P you can't obscure it, make it in legaleese, or have it be misinterpreted. P3P makes it so all *trusted* companies, C|Net, CNN, MSNBC, give you a standardized, automated, and consistent way of getting someone a privacy policy. Just because it is a trusted company does not mean they aren't selling your information. It might say in the privacy policy "Yes, we sell your personal information." But when was the last time you read the privacy policy for a site? P3P makes it automated so anyone and everyone can check the policy for every site they visit. (My site has the XML piece in there already, btw, still don't have the cookie part, probably never will)
When that one company decided to cut the slackware dev team, a friend of mine started the "Save slackware!" fund to help them out. I thought I would help out by carrying around the jar and asking for donations. The problem was, no one had any freaking clue what slackware was. They thought we were making some joke because of the name "slackware". I tried to explain to them it was just a linux distribution that they had their dev team cut. "What is linux? What is a dev team? Get a job!" We made like... $50 though. That was after a few months, people starting using the jar to make change and things. I wonder if my friend ever turned it in.
Well, I don't think you realize how much bandwidth is saved. My stats before gzip say 329,391 pages for 3.2 gigs. January (after gzip) was 285,289 pages, and 1.2 gigs. So I can serve out 4 times as many pages a month and still make our 5 gig quota.
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I work for a company that became a CLEC a few months ago, and we are doing alright. We found a place that Qwest didn't provide to, but still had a central office. Cable providers aren't big out there, they use satellite tv. I'm not sure why they don't use satellites for internet, but meh. We put in our own gear and are providing right now. I've never been in the CO, so I can't confirm the problems. Probably the biggest pain is they have this 200 page manual you have to read to use the system and make orders for the line. If you put the wrong number in the ITQID field (don't remember exactly, but there are so many stupid acronyms), they reject it. I'm not sure what the results of the law would be exactly, but by the sounds of it, it wouldn't be good for the company.
Yeah, I have the Solstice waterproof and breathable vertical parka ($250), with zip in fleece ($80), Omnitech waterproof and breathable pants ($80), and Patagonia long underwear ($60). So... $470. But I still wouldn't pay $500 for the self warming jacket. Even in snow I'm as warm as could be with that gear, but I can imagine for places that are colder than the local mountains.
Windows ME already has an update feature like this, it sits in the taskbar and pops up every once in a while and says "New updates available" and will direct you to windows update. Almost like Nortons live-update. Which is great for a workstation. Except on a server, I never see the taskbar, and the only time I see the screen is when I am there to update it. I think a feature that would get updates automagically would be awesome. Maybe they should disable the feature by default if it's causing problems, but if there is a way to enable it, it has to be in the EULA to keep them from be liable for damages resulting from the update. Also, OfficeXP already does a better job with piracy, you can't use the same CD to install on all your computers (same license, anyway). But you're right, I wouldn't be surprised if they were looking for a pirated version OfficeXP.
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But the thing that you don't see is that books are a passive, or so to speak, medium.
Should they ban shoot 'em up "choose your own adventure" books?
If it's equivilent to cookies, is there any reason they just didn't use real cookies? Even today some people are worried about the security of cookies, and IE has come a long way in protecting against all the little tricks that people use to trick people out of their cookies (framesets on domain X that include frame Y will not allow Y cookies to be read on either part of the frame). Why introduce another security hole? Cookie features are also much more mature. IE will allow you to block 3rd party cookies. The P3P standard uses cookies to set rules on allowing/denying cookies. Macromedia just wants everything to go their way, instead of using an established standard. People often critisize IE for letting the webmaster get too much control of the browser, changing the scroll bar color is nothing compared to a mic and webcam. Sure, they're trying to make it feature rich so users will download and use the plugin, but on the other end they're trying to give features to the web masters so they will buy Flash. And what's good for web masters isn't always good for users.
What I don't get is why OSDN decided to cuts its *volunteer* staff. First, developing for themes.org was a pain as it was. They had a VPN and wouldn't give access to new comers, even though I feel I'm a part of the community enough to be trusted. But if that wasn't enough, they decided to cut their *volunteer* staff. Which included developers and maintainers. They might start asking for volunteers again, but a lot of the staff I talked to were a little bit bitter and I doubt they will be rejoining. So Chris (who seemed like a nice guy the couple times I talked to him) decided to develop it on his own, which took months even though it seems he's just using the freshmeat code.
I think one of the mistakes was getting a company to set the deadlines. There was an occassion "No later than this" date, but since it was all volunteer, people wouldn't make long decisions on whether to go out a saturday or develop all night for nothing. So I guess the choices were "Cut the staff", "Pay the staff", or "Stop letting the company make the deadlines". I guess they chose 1 and 3.
I didn't spend much time on the project, but kept an ear out on things, and never got an explaination for this. So I would like to know, why the staff was cut?
I thought I would post some deep thoughts by Jack Handy, which is probably more reliable than anything you'd find from a Slashdot poster. I mean, who do you want to ask first, the fp guy or the goatse guy? There's people out there who spend their whole lives trying to determine if there's life on mars, and how it should be handled. So I'm willing to trust whatever they say. I just hope they're not on the other end doing their job 8 hours a day by going "Hmmm, I wonder if bacteria would be dangerous, lets ask Slashdot! I trust what SexyMan69 has to say."
Anyway, back to my point, Jack Handy rocks.
Whether they find a life there or not, I think Mars should be called an enemy planet.
(Yeah, it's Jupiter. So sue me.)
Let me just quickly say, scripts like that is the stupidest abuse of referrers I've ever come across. The referrer is a great tool for following the flow of traffic. Not to police flow of traffic. The referrer is set in the browser, it is not something that all browsers (or have to) use. And it can be easily spoofed or disabled. If 10% of the websites blocked my traffic based on my referrer, I'd just find a browser that let me turn off the referrer. And I'm sure I'm not alone. So by abusing the referrer, it's more than possible for browsers to just stop sending it, and hurt websites that are trying to watch flow of traffic to help the users out.
The recruitment page uses .com because everyone (in the US) assumes that all domain names are .com. I've heard of browsers where you just type "yahoo" and it will assume that you mean yahoo.com. And even more so if you put "marines.com" on the bottom of an ad, most people will know that it's a web address. I can picture someone putting "marines.mil.com", because few internet users have heard of .mil. At least compared to .com.
These are numbers from last year, so I'd imagine they're a little bit higher. Slashdot had 1.2 million page views a day. Between the halt of classic.themes.org and the new one, t.o was getting about 120,000 page views a day. When an article was posted on slashdot saying "help *link*themes.org" it jumped up over 300,000 for a day or so and went down over a week or two to get back to 120,000. The guy that humiliated bernard shiffman also documented his slashdot experience, pretty interesting stuff.
No, he cannot be sued/imprisoned for the link. Sony would make the claim to Slashot, and it's their responsibility to take it down. If Slashdot doesn't comply in X days, then maybe someone can get their asses sued.
Here's a snippet from http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/violent_crimes/ adultery.htm
WHAT IS ADULTERY?
Adultery is cohabitation by or sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his/her spouse. It is considered a misdemeanor in some states, although is rarely prosecuted except by the military.
When we went to fight for Saudi Arabia, or our oil interests, whichever you prefer, we were very carful not to offend anyone. Soldiers were told to drink only in their tents, and avoid the girl lovin' yeehaw cowboy attitude of America. But wait a second? They invited us! The politicians didn't care, and the rules still applied so we wouldn't alienate them.
But just because "they" may not like our ways, doesn't mean it's a bad thing, in some places there are no womens rights. The women might not even care because they've had it drilled in to their brains all their lives that they were meant to stay at home and not vote. It's been part of their culture for centuries, what makes the US right all of a sudden? Nothing really, but that doesn't make it easier to sit back and watch the women be oppresed and say "oh, they don't mind." So it's kinda, might makes right, and the US has the might.
There is the myth that church and state are seperated in the US. But none of the constitutional rights go against the ten commandments and we're one nation "under god". Why? Because we had to go by *something*. We couldn't make laws to make everybody happy, so we decided on "Christian" laws. We choose that adultery is bad, but in some parts of africa, it's expected to give your wife to company. Again, what makes the US right? Well, we have the aids problem a little more under control, but the only moral reasoning is that it comes from the bible. Still, in the US it's illegal.
What I'm trying to say is, we can't decide for people what is right or wrong. But if another culture sees our culture and likes it, why stop them from joining? Where does it cross the line from preserving their culture to oppressing them and isolating them from the outside world?
...or maybe just nuke the whole area and you take down 6 of them
If we get nuked and the world ends, I think there are more important things to worry about than your email pr0n.
What if I just want to highlight an icon?
I think this does more to further spam, not just for himself, but for everyone. Especially if more people take up his strategy. If X company decides they wants to announce their product, and Y spammer says "Oh, we get 30% replies to all our email marketing." Then I think X company is a lot more likely to send out more spam because they think it's working. I think it's best never to buy anything from spammers for that reason. If it's really something you're interested in, and just desperately need, make sure not to give the spam credit for the sale. Say a friend referred you, and get your friend some bucks.
It wasn't the fit=stupid stereotype. It was the big=bully stereotype and the geek=lunch money stolen stereotype. Neither was really an insult.
Do you ever beat yourself up for lunch money?
Well, any device that uses eletricity (electrons), and that's why he's going to use punchcards to save data, and steam power mechanically move it. Don't forget the other means of movin stuff, thermal and fluid.
Eh, he's got the right idea, but he screws it all up when he says "Here's a free clue: QUIT USING MICROSOFT SOFTWARE." He says "all the virii are attacking Outlook, so stop using it! So when he says "Quit using microsoft software", it's easier to agree to because he's almost right on the Outlook point. But I've talked to my friend that says the man hours lost at the company he works for are massive just upgrading from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000. Not because the upgrade takes a huge amount of time, but because there are 3 huge office buildings full of workstations. And while programmer bob is upgrading, he's not programming! And that's assuming that all the old software works on the new OS. Bottom line, they will be sticking with microsoft for a really long time. He has worked at the company for over 15 years, so he knows a bit more than sideshow-.
You still have to trust the site to be honest in its privacy policy, but with P3P you can't obscure it, make it in legaleese, or have it be misinterpreted. P3P makes it so all *trusted* companies, C|Net, CNN, MSNBC, give you a standardized, automated, and consistent way of getting someone a privacy policy. Just because it is a trusted company does not mean they aren't selling your information. It might say in the privacy policy "Yes, we sell your personal information." But when was the last time you read the privacy policy for a site? P3P makes it automated so anyone and everyone can check the policy for every site they visit. (My site has the XML piece in there already, btw, still don't have the cookie part, probably never will)
When that one company decided to cut the slackware dev team, a friend of mine started the "Save slackware!" fund to help them out. I thought I would help out by carrying around the jar and asking for donations. The problem was, no one had any freaking clue what slackware was. They thought we were making some joke because of the name "slackware". I tried to explain to them it was just a linux distribution that they had their dev team cut. "What is linux? What is a dev team? Get a job!" We made like ... $50 though. That was after a few months, people starting using the jar to make change and things. I wonder if my friend ever turned it in.
Well, I don't think you realize how much bandwidth is saved. My stats before gzip say 329,391 pages for 3.2 gigs. January (after gzip) was 285,289 pages, and 1.2 gigs. So I can serve out 4 times as many pages a month and still make our 5 gig quota.
Don't worry, I believe you, and so does Google
I work for a company that became a CLEC a few months ago, and we are doing alright. We found a place that Qwest didn't provide to, but still had a central office. Cable providers aren't big out there, they use satellite tv. I'm not sure why they don't use satellites for internet, but meh. We put in our own gear and are providing right now. I've never been in the CO, so I can't confirm the problems. Probably the biggest pain is they have this 200 page manual you have to read to use the system and make orders for the line. If you put the wrong number in the ITQID field (don't remember exactly, but there are so many stupid acronyms), they reject it. I'm not sure what the results of the law would be exactly, but by the sounds of it, it wouldn't be good for the company.
I be orbitin' around you baby
Yeah, I have the Solstice waterproof and breathable vertical parka ($250), with zip in fleece ($80), Omnitech waterproof and breathable pants ($80), and Patagonia long underwear ($60). So ... $470. But I still wouldn't pay $500 for the self warming jacket. Even in snow I'm as warm as could be with that gear, but I can imagine for places that are colder than the local mountains.
Windows ME already has an update feature like this, it sits in the taskbar and pops up every once in a while and says "New updates available" and will direct you to windows update. Almost like Nortons live-update. Which is great for a workstation. Except on a server, I never see the taskbar, and the only time I see the screen is when I am there to update it. I think a feature that would get updates automagically would be awesome. Maybe they should disable the feature by default if it's causing problems, but if there is a way to enable it, it has to be in the EULA to keep them from be liable for damages resulting from the update. Also, OfficeXP already does a better job with piracy, you can't use the same CD to install on all your computers (same license, anyway). But you're right, I wouldn't be surprised if they were looking for a pirated version OfficeXP.