I absolutely agree that making a false claim is very wrong of them. But hey, they made a mistake, the person who received the email pointed that out to them, and they retracted their claim and apologized. I think that's very correct of them. (As long as they actually start being more careful about what they do in the future.)
I dislike the BSA just as you, but when you have a public FTP site up, then by definition, it's open to everybody. It's ok for hundreds of people to log in and download hundreds of megs worth of files, but not for BSA to just do an "ls"?? Come on...let's not push it.
And what do you mean by "bandwidth isn't exactly free, especially not in countries != US"?
I have one of these routers in Switzerland, and at least I changed the password to something slightly better... But I remember trying to access the administration interface from the outside, and I couldn't get in. I don't remember if there was a setting for allowing administrative access from the DSL interface, though.
So why are all these routers "vulnerable"? Mine isn't....
This isn't audiogalaxy's work... This is an (old) service from listen.com, which has been in existence for at least 6-8 months (if not more, I don't remember).
Since I never heard anything about listen.com buying audiogalaxy, it might just be audiogalaxy branding listen.com's service. (That's what speakeasy (my isp) does.)
It's really sad that audiogaxy isn't doing there own thing: their service was so cool:(
Its always the same thing...first they say that they've found a theoretical limit for a particular technology, so everybody should start looking for new technologies for a particular purpose.
But then they come back and say "Oh wait, we can do this little trick, and then we can use this technology for much longer: we no longer have this particular theoretical limit."
It was true for processors (they're still focusing on silicon semiconductors), it was true for modems (they thought we couldn't go past 28.8, then 33.3, and then 56k...) and now for storage.
We wish...seriously we get so many problems... And it's only gonna get worse very soon when everyone comes back, and all the new freshmen want to "test" their new connection.
Socket in a stored procedure?? I'm very curious as to why you need to open sockets in a stored procedure? Weren't sprocs designed to be used as an intermediary between apps and the database? If so, why do open sockets to connect to other places from your sproc?
(I don't mean to say that I'm right and you're wrong... But I'm actually interested in knowing why you do that...)
As a side question: isn't java too slow to be used for a sproc? I've never used it for that, so I don't really know...I've just always found java slow.
...and Aeron chairs... (you can see it on the picture).
Honestly, I still don't see what the big deal is with that chair. I got to sit on one for a few days. It _is_ preety comfortable, but honestly, a $50 chair isn't all that bad either...
Oh come on...I still remember the "webserver on a chip" I think...a tiny tiny little tiny chip that had a tcp/ip stack and a minimal web server. IIRC, it also couldn't handle the load (figures...)
My guess is (and if I remember correctly what happened to me a while back) that they ran their code in python 2.0 (that's the version they mention on the page), and so the pyc files will only work for 2.0. Both me and you have 2.1, and it apparently doesn't want to read it.
Anyone want to ask them to release the other 3 files in plain source (py files)?
I'm in a class at CMU with the head of the PSC...we've been having fun these past weeks, with him talking to us about this "machine". Seems their #1 objective right now is to submit the best possible score for the TOP 500. Apparently, the deadline was October 1st, but then they have some time after that to "rectify" their score...
There was a fun story apparently about a slowdown that was due to _one_ RAM dimm not seated properly... So 2999 processors were doing their job, but then waiting for the last processor to finish its job, which was taking much longer...
I've seen pictures of this beast. All I can say is: wow. So many cables, so many machines...
And apparently, they're not yet completely connected. Each box is supposed to have two connections to a "fat tree" quadrics network. Well right now they only have one... But it seems that Linpack isn't so communication oriented, so it's not too big a strain on the network.
I have mod_rewrite enabled so that any requests that specify a hostname other than www.mydomain.com get a redirect towards the full URI. However, I'm getting all requests being redirected, but they never actually follow the redirection...
I can't believe they're using karel here in CMU now...what are people gonna say about us...I'm glad I got credits and never got to do any of the intro classes. Anybody in 212 or 213 around?
Petreley, in his article that was linked from here on slashdot a few days ago had a point: if you can provide a single sign on service, it's pretty convenient. Heck, that's part of the reason why kerberos was ever invented (part of it is for better security, sure, but the convenience provided is pretty good). And doesn't seem like a better way for the net to evolve in? Especially if we ever hope to implement micro-payments. We can't just have each site that wants to sell you a 10 cents news article ask you to register for an account and then take your payment info (the probability of having your payment data stolen becomes so high too).
All this to say: passport provides a service which I think is going to become impoortant in the future. However, it seems that nobody likes the way it's being done. And hey, it's MS. So why can't the open source world provide an alternative, good solution?
I'm guessing that a company would probably have to be set up for that. But the mistakes to avoid are (at least):
- availability on all platforms (for the server side). Sure, we like stuff that works on linux and the BSDs, but there are windows servers out there, so make something available to all. (You could compete with MS on their own turf, and show them that you can do it better)
- have total transparency in your operations. I hate the word 'transparency', but I guess I finally understand it. In other words, don't hide anything from your users or clients, and they might just all come to you, seeing that you don't do anything bad.
- BE SECURE I'm sure we can't emphasize all that enough, but there needs to be the most secure installation, if you're going to store so much data. People are concerned about such things, so try to show them that you have the stictest security standards. And if any user ever choses not to store their credit card data with you, but just to have login/pw, then you should accept that.
Would it be all that hard to do something like that? Of course, the most important thing after setting up your company and developping all the software, would be to get the word out about it, and do some heavy marketing and advertising. And in these times, that might be harder than said.
There's exhaustion right here, right where Eugene is doing his research: CMU. We're running out of addresses, and look at this. Last semester they were handing out tshirts to those who agreed to use a dynamically assigned ip instead of a static, for both DSL and wireless users.
So really, I appreciate Eugene's research, especially if next year I'll be connecting through another ISP, that only gives me one static IP.
The specs page lists as one of the standard accessories a headset with microphone, IIRC. Anyone have any ideas why? I couldn't find anything else on their site.
That's a very cool possibility. I remember a while back I'd read Bill Gates' book, and he had a chapter of the then being built much hyped ultra-wired house. He said he was installing something where you'd wear a smal electronic pin, which would locate you in the house to the central computer. Then you'd get your phone calls transfered to the right place, have the music you want to hear follow you around, etc.
I found the idea great, but I don't know what happened to it. Now however, all technologies are here for Disney to do that. They should really consider it.
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I also notice some pretty bad inconsistencies. That same page from icopyright has an option to "buy" the right to email the article (something like 20 cents per message), yet the website with the story has its own link to a "email the story", where I doubt (I haven't tried all the way to create an account) that they're going to charge you.
Although what you say sounds reasonable, there's something that doesn't work out: if there is prior art, then the alleged invention has already been invented! If you spend ten years in your isolated world inventing something revolutionary only to find out when you're done that it's been done before, then I'd be tempted to say that you didn't do your proper research (and here of course I'm not referring to research before filing a patent, but just plain research about what you're doing)!
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I absolutely agree that making a false claim is very wrong of them. But hey, they made a mistake, the person who received the email pointed that out to them, and they retracted their claim and apologized. I think that's very correct of them. (As long as they actually start being more careful about what they do in the future.)
Maan
I dislike the BSA just as you, but when you have a public FTP site up, then by definition, it's open to everybody. It's ok for hundreds of people to log in and download hundreds of megs worth of files, but not for BSA to just do an "ls"?? Come on...let's not push it.
And what do you mean by "bandwidth isn't exactly free, especially not in countries != US"?
Maan
I can't find the maillist post anymore, but I remember reading that it was for at least linux and windows. Not sure about Mac.
Also, the tax software itself is in java, and known to run in windows and linux. So I guess there's a possibility that it can run on mac too.
Maan
I have one of these routers in Switzerland, and at least I changed the password to something slightly better... But I remember trying to access the administration interface from the outside, and I couldn't get in. I don't remember if there was a setting for allowing administrative access from the DSL interface, though.
So why are all these routers "vulnerable"? Mine isn't....
Maan
Sorry...I've never done this, but I just have to today:
Imagine a beowulf of slashdots!! Could that do it?
This isn't audiogalaxy's work... This is an (old) service from listen.com, which has been in existence for at least 6-8 months (if not more, I don't remember).
:(
Since I never heard anything about listen.com buying audiogalaxy, it might just be audiogalaxy branding listen.com's service. (That's what speakeasy (my isp) does.)
It's really sad that audiogaxy isn't doing there own thing: their service was so cool
Maan
Its always the same thing...first they say that they've found a theoretical limit for a particular technology, so everybody should start looking for new technologies for a particular purpose.
But then they come back and say "Oh wait, we can do this little trick, and then we can use this technology for much longer: we no longer have this particular theoretical limit."
It was true for processors (they're still focusing on silicon semiconductors), it was true for modems (they thought we couldn't go past 28.8, then 33.3, and then 56k...) and now for storage.
I'm not complaining, it's all cool!
Maan
We wish...seriously we get so many problems... And it's only gonna get worse very soon when everyone comes back, and all the new freshmen want to "test" their new connection.
Maan
Socket in a stored procedure?? I'm very curious as to why you need to open sockets in a stored procedure? Weren't sprocs designed to be used as an intermediary between apps and the database? If so, why do open sockets to connect to other places from your sproc?
(I don't mean to say that I'm right and you're wrong... But I'm actually interested in knowing why you do that...)
As a side question: isn't java too slow to be used for a sproc? I've never used it for that, so I don't really know...I've just always found java slow.
Maan
...and Aeron chairs... (you can see it on the picture).
Honestly, I still don't see what the big deal is with that chair. I got to sit on one for a few days. It _is_ preety comfortable, but honestly, a $50 chair isn't all that bad either...
Maan
Oh come on...I still remember the "webserver on a chip" I think...a tiny tiny little tiny chip that had a tcp/ip stack and a minimal web server. IIRC, it also couldn't handle the load (figures...)
Maan
Even better (IMHO...): my computer case "floats on water (however,isn't 100% waterproof)"
Maan
Yeah well sometimes its slow as hell...I'm actually surprised it's working so well now...
Maan
Well I'll just join in and say congrats! I hope you two have fun :)
Maan
My guess is (and if I remember correctly what happened to me a while back) that they ran their code in python 2.0 (that's the version they mention on the page), and so the pyc files will only work for 2.0. Both me and you have 2.1, and it apparently doesn't want to read it.
Anyone want to ask them to release the other 3 files in plain source (py files)?
Maan
I'm in a class at CMU with the head of the PSC...we've been having fun these past weeks, with him talking to us about this "machine". Seems their #1 objective right now is to submit the best possible score for the TOP 500. Apparently, the deadline was October 1st, but then they have some time after that to "rectify" their score...
There was a fun story apparently about a slowdown that was due to _one_ RAM dimm not seated properly... So 2999 processors were doing their job, but then waiting for the last processor to finish its job, which was taking much longer...
I've seen pictures of this beast. All I can say is: wow. So many cables, so many machines...
And apparently, they're not yet completely connected. Each box is supposed to have two connections to a "fat tree" quadrics network. Well right now they only have one... But it seems that Linpack isn't so communication oriented, so it's not too big a strain on the network.
Maan
I have mod_rewrite enabled so that any requests that specify a hostname other than www.mydomain.com get a redirect towards the full URI. However, I'm getting all requests being redirected, but they never actually follow the redirection...
Maan
I can't believe they're using karel here in CMU now...what are people gonna say about us...I'm glad I got credits and never got to do any of the intro classes. Anybody in 212 or 213 around?
Maan
Petreley, in his article that was linked from here on slashdot a few days ago had a point: if you can provide a single sign on service, it's pretty convenient. Heck, that's part of the reason why kerberos was ever invented (part of it is for better security, sure, but the convenience provided is pretty good). And doesn't seem like a better way for the net to evolve in? Especially if we ever hope to implement micro-payments. We can't just have each site that wants to sell you a 10 cents news article ask you to register for an account and then take your payment info (the probability of having your payment data stolen becomes so high too).
All this to say: passport provides a service which I think is going to become impoortant in the future. However, it seems that nobody likes the way it's being done. And hey, it's MS. So why can't the open source world provide an alternative, good solution?
I'm guessing that a company would probably have to be set up for that. But the mistakes to avoid are (at least):
- availability on all platforms (for the server side). Sure, we like stuff that works on linux and the BSDs, but there are windows servers out there, so make something available to all. (You could compete with MS on their own turf, and show them that you can do it better)
- have total transparency in your operations. I hate the word 'transparency', but I guess I finally understand it. In other words, don't hide anything from your users or clients, and they might just all come to you, seeing that you don't do anything bad.
- BE SECURE I'm sure we can't emphasize all that enough, but there needs to be the most secure installation, if you're going to store so much data. People are concerned about such things, so try to show them that you have the stictest security standards. And if any user ever choses not to store their credit card data with you, but just to have login/pw, then you should accept that.
Would it be all that hard to do something like that? Of course, the most important thing after setting up your company and developping all the software, would be to get the word out about it, and do some heavy marketing and advertising. And in these times, that might be harder than said.
So, can we dream of something like that?
Maan
It's probably not as nice and polished, but it probably does the job: http://164.195.100.11/netahtml/search-bool.html
Maan
There's exhaustion right here, right where Eugene is doing his research: CMU. We're running out of addresses, and look at this. Last semester they were handing out tshirts to those who agreed to use a dynamically assigned ip instead of a static, for both DSL and wireless users.
So really, I appreciate Eugene's research, especially if next year I'll be connecting through another ISP, that only gives me one static IP.
Maan
The specs page lists as one of the standard accessories a headset with microphone, IIRC. Anyone have any ideas why? I couldn't find anything else on their site.
Maan
That's a very cool possibility. I remember a while back I'd read Bill Gates' book, and he had a chapter of the then being built much hyped ultra-wired house. He said he was installing something where you'd wear a smal electronic pin, which would locate you in the house to the central computer. Then you'd get your phone calls transfered to the right place, have the music you want to hear follow you around, etc.
I found the idea great, but I don't know what happened to it. Now however, all technologies are here for Disney to do that. They should really consider it.
I also notice some pretty bad inconsistencies. That same page from icopyright has an option to "buy" the right to email the article (something like 20 cents per message), yet the website with the story has its own link to a "email the story", where I doubt (I haven't tried all the way to create an account) that they're going to charge you.
The web is becoming a messy and messed up place.
Maan
Although what you say sounds reasonable, there's something that doesn't work out: if there is prior art, then the alleged invention has already been invented! If you spend ten years in your isolated world inventing something revolutionary only to find out when you're done that it's been done before, then I'd be tempted to say that you didn't do your proper research (and here of course I'm not referring to research before filing a patent, but just plain research about what you're doing)!
Maan