And for those who haven't read the article, one of the key things as far as I am concerned is the fact that the plaintiff won an award of $539.00 (including court costs). Multiply that by a-very-large-number-of-spam victims and I think some damage will be done.
I'm curious, what exactly will the "milestone" of version 1.0 of Wine actually mean ? I would doubt that it'll ever be 100% compatible with Windows 98/XP. So what feature list is the development team trying to complete before calling it 1.0 ?
I think that pretty much any other product would have been deemed a failure if it had endured a 10 year development life and not reached version 1.0. Unless of course we're talking about Duke Nukem Forever...
My experience of Wine is common to most people's I think; it looks like a great idea, but as soon as you try to run any non-trivial program, it simply locks up/doesn't work. I've looked at their website and looked at all the "passed" indicators on their test cases. That doesn't help me run my apps much though... do they need more test cases ? Are they simply too abstract ??
This whole thing about PIN numbers just kills me. In New Zealand, you can walk into a bank branch and (upon supplying ID) get a new bank card and choose your own PIN. The card is totally anonymous so there's no way anybody could perform any kind of cryptographic hash against, for example, the card number embossed on the card (because there isn't one that identifies you) to get the PIN.
Oh no ! Now unauthorised crackers are going to be able to read all my spam ! They'll no doubt have the same problem as me trying to find solicited emails in there somewhere...
Well, as odd as this might sound, when anybody checks anything to our source control that breaks the build, they have to go out and buy the entire development team a coffee and/or chocolate cookies. This worked like a charm. It not only raises awareness and makes people more careful, it has actually increased moral in the team as we look forward to the weekly build to see who has cocked it up:-)
Considering the significant financial muscle of Yahoo and Overture, I hope that Google can continue to maintain their lead
Well unless Yahoo and Overture intend to pay me to do searhes, rather than the other way around, I'm not sure financial muscle has much to do with it. Google is fast, convenient and accurate. 'Nuff said.
From the article: Nor, as far as I can tell, is the problem so bad in most other countries....
It was the same in the UK when I was growing up. But there the class system makes a difference too. Public schools (which, ironically, and the type of schools in the UK that are not free) are not immune, but are somewhat less likely, to persecution of the smart kids. Regular secondary schools, however, sound about the same as the american schools talked about in the article.
Citizens Bank, a financial institution serving the Northeast, shut down the accounts of 8,800 customers whose card numbers had been accessed after being notified by MasterCard on Friday, bank spokeswoman Pamela Crawley said. All of those accounts were safe, she said.
I'll bet those people are just *thrilled* to have their accounts locked out. How many people are going to find their card mysteriously declined when doing their weekly grocery shop then ? I'm betting the bank hasn't made 8,800 phone calls to explain their position.
Hell of a way for VISA/MC to limit their liability - just cancel their cards ??
the $100 million National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). It is hoped that the project will lead to the preservation of data that is constantly changing on the Internet...
1. Who is to be the judge of what is worth saving ? I mean, let's be honest, there's a *truckload* of 'internet' out there !!
2. Wouldn't $100 million be better spent on a new hospital or two ? Just a thought...
These benchmarks would be from the theserverside.com. And as for locks, you can have the most "featherweight" lock in the world, but if it's in a 'bad' place in the code, it'll still throttle your performance.
Exactly...I would NOT say Solaris runs Java "like the wind" IBM's JRE is better anyhow
Perhaps, but the IBM engine has other troubles - in particular it does not scale across multiple processors. You get the same performance on one versus eight CPUs in the benchmarks I've seen. These are the same symptoms you typically see in heap intensive multithreaded C++ programs run in SMP. Whether or not that's the cause of the WebSphere scaling problems I don't know (unlikely I think). More likely it's just some sychronisation primitive(s) that they need to tune or remove.
'Sun confirmed the memo's authenticity, but said that the document is two years old and that the problems it describes have been fixed
The problem is that many of these issues are not fixed in the 1.3 JVM, which is still the one that most enterprise systems ship with (WebLogic for example). I've just done a six month contract performance testing a WebLogic 6.1 J2EE application on Solaris and I can tell you now that performance of their JVM is less than stellar. Memory requirements, for example, are insane.
And the reason for this is that UDP does not guarantee either order or delivery of packets. Unless you are in a Microsoft only environment, however, where both of these are in fact guaranteed. Microsoft did this to support DCOM, whose preferred protocol is, of course, UDP.
The important point is that it should be the PARENTS doing this...
My parents brought me up with a moral code that included not causing injury to others. So does that mean that we should drop murder laws, because our parents should have brought us up better ?
I'm no expert on the Constitution, indeed I'm not even American. But it seems to me that you have this all back to front. It's not about restricting the rights of adults, but protecting the innocent and more vulerable in society, in this case children.
Assuming that working censorware could be put in place (this, of course, is a whole other discussion) as an adult would you not be prepared to waive your rights to view porn etc. over a public computer in order to shield children from it ?
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Yes, but only in 16 colours at 640x480. For more you need a special "primeval sludge" upgrade.
And for those who haven't read the article, one of the key things as far as I am concerned is the fact that the plaintiff won an award of $539.00 (including court costs). Multiply that by a-very-large-number-of-spam victims and I think some damage will be done.
I'm curious, what exactly will the "milestone" of version 1.0 of Wine actually mean ? I would doubt that it'll ever be 100% compatible with Windows 98/XP. So what feature list is the development team trying to complete before calling it 1.0 ?
I think that pretty much any other product would have been deemed a failure if it had endured a 10 year development life and not reached version 1.0. Unless of course we're talking about Duke Nukem Forever...
My experience of Wine is common to most people's I think; it looks like a great idea, but as soon as you try to run any non-trivial program, it simply locks up/doesn't work. I've looked at their website and looked at all the "passed" indicators on their test cases. That doesn't help me run my apps much though... do they need more test cases ? Are they simply too abstract ??
Just my $0.02 worth
This whole thing about PIN numbers just kills me. In New Zealand, you can walk into a bank branch and (upon supplying ID) get a new bank card and choose your own PIN. The card is totally anonymous so there's no way anybody could perform any kind of cryptographic hash against, for example, the card number embossed on the card (because there isn't one that identifies you) to get the PIN.
Now I just need some enterprise class pr0n to store one of these suckers...
Taleb makes a living from unforeseen events...
That's his job ? Doesn't that make a cashflow forecast a bit tricky ?
Bank Manager: Mr Taleb, you're mortgage payment bounced this month
Taleb: Oh. I never saw that coming...
Apparantly the flow only affects webmail...
Oh no ! Now unauthorised crackers are going to be able to read all my spam ! They'll no doubt have the same problem as me trying to find solicited emails in there somewhere...Speaking of the DMCA -- it has built-in provisions for making precisely this kind of judge-free takedown by an ISP!
What provisions are these ? Are they pro-user or pro-copyright holder ? I don't understand...
Well, as odd as this might sound, when anybody checks anything to our source control that breaks the build, they have to go out and buy the entire development team a coffee and/or chocolate cookies. This worked like a charm. It not only raises awareness and makes people more careful, it has actually increased moral in the team as we look forward to the weekly build to see who has cocked it up :-)
emotions are affected by noises they cannot hear...
My emotions are affected by cars and beowolf clusters I cannot own.Considering the significant financial muscle of Yahoo and Overture, I hope that Google can continue to maintain their lead
Well unless Yahoo and Overture intend to pay me to do searhes, rather than the other way around, I'm not sure financial muscle has much to do with it. Google is fast, convenient and accurate. 'Nuff said.
From the article: Nor, as far as I can tell, is the problem so bad in most other countries....
It was the same in the UK when I was growing up. But there the class system makes a difference too. Public schools (which, ironically, and the type of schools in the UK that are not free) are not immune, but are somewhat less likely, to persecution of the smart kids. Regular secondary schools, however, sound about the same as the american schools talked about in the article.
banks losing billions a year to fraud...
Who do you think is paying for that exactly ? Higher interest rates, bank charges etc etc. They don't lose anything, believe me.Citizens Bank, a financial institution serving the Northeast, shut down the accounts of 8,800 customers whose card numbers had been accessed after being notified by MasterCard on Friday, bank spokeswoman Pamela Crawley said. All of those accounts were safe, she said.
I'll bet those people are just *thrilled* to have their accounts locked out. How many people are going to find their card mysteriously declined when doing their weekly grocery shop then ? I'm betting the bank hasn't made 8,800 phone calls to explain their position.
Hell of a way for VISA/MC to limit their liability - just cancel their cards ??Now what we need is something like this that the glass bottom doored opens up on: the world's longest waterslide :-)
the $100 million National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). It is hoped that the project will lead to the preservation of data that is constantly changing on the Internet...
1. Who is to be the judge of what is worth saving ? I mean, let's be honest, there's a *truckload* of 'internet' out there !!
2. Wouldn't $100 million be better spent on a new hospital or two ? Just a thought...
Jesus Christ, that was so long ago...
Yes, around 2003 years I think. Not sure about your BBS though.
Thanks, I'll be here all week...
And these would be which benchmarks, exactly?
These benchmarks would be from the theserverside.com. And as for locks, you can have the most "featherweight" lock in the world, but if it's in a 'bad' place in the code, it'll still throttle your performance.Pays the bills ;-)
Exactly...I would NOT say Solaris runs Java "like the wind" IBM's JRE is better anyhow
Perhaps, but the IBM engine has other troubles - in particular it does not scale across multiple processors. You get the same performance on one versus eight CPUs in the benchmarks I've seen. These are the same symptoms you typically see in heap intensive multithreaded C++ programs run in SMP. Whether or not that's the cause of the WebSphere scaling problems I don't know (unlikely I think). More likely it's just some sychronisation primitive(s) that they need to tune or remove.'Sun confirmed the memo's authenticity, but said that the document is two years old and that the problems it describes have been fixed
The problem is that many of these issues are not fixed in the 1.3 JVM, which is still the one that most enterprise systems ship with (WebLogic for example). I've just done a six month contract performance testing a WebLogic 6.1 J2EE application on Solaris and I can tell you now that performance of their JVM is less than stellar. Memory requirements, for example, are insane.And the reason for this is that UDP does not guarantee either order or delivery of packets. Unless you are in a Microsoft only environment, however, where both of these are in fact guaranteed. Microsoft did this to support DCOM, whose preferred protocol is, of course, UDP.
The important point is that it should be the PARENTS doing this...
My parents brought me up with a moral code that included not causing injury to others. So does that mean that we should drop murder laws, because our parents should have brought us up better ?
/flamebait
I'm no expert on the Constitution, indeed I'm not even American. But it seems to me that you have this all back to front. It's not about restricting the rights of adults, but protecting the innocent and more vulerable in society, in this case children.
Assuming that working censorware could be put in place (this, of course, is a whole other discussion) as an adult would you not be prepared to waive your rights to view porn etc. over a public computer in order to shield children from it ?
13.7 billion years old, flat, 4.4% baryons, 22% dark matter and 73% dark energy
Reminds me of my ex-girlfriend. She was about the size of a small universe too.