it's not new indeed. Another example of the same idea is to record the URLs the user actualy visits, which WhittleBit seems to do as well.
A search engine that's learning from these click-through alone is Striver.
It's based on paper by Thorsten Joachims dealing with Support Vector Machine based ranking. Pretty cool stuff, but (to my knowledge) the current algorithms don't scale to the size of a full-scale web search engine.
Also IIRC the explicit user feedback didn't work too well in some experiments conducted by information retrieval researchers (I don't have a link handy for this one)...
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IIRC German law is much different about trade secrets than US law. Unless this person used illegal means to get access to that information, it is the responsibility of the company to protect their trade secrets. They can sue of course, but they are unlikely to win if it is their own damn fault. The lawyer (sounded like he is an external) who forgot to have him sign the NDA might be liable for damages, though.
(Usual disclaimer applies; IANAL and my law-classes were a while ago).
The interesting thing about this case is that the RIAA walked up to Verizon and demanded the customers name. No subpoena, no court order. They claimed that the DMCA gives them the right to do so and that there is no court order necessary...
So basicaly the cops need a court order, private lobyist groups don't. Somehow this doesn't sound right, does it? IANAL but I think the right thing(tm) to do would have been the RIAA suing John Doe and the court issuing a subpoena for Verizon. If the RIAA wins this case, then there will be a dangerous precedent for copyright holders to get customer data without any sort of oversight from courts.
I see several difficulties with a free SSL-CA (as I see with free DNS/TLDs/whatever):
It's a great idea, but... who will use them? To be more specific: Verisigns capital is that it's root-certificate is in every browser on this planet. I don't want to know how much cash they had to throw at M$ to get their cert. into IE, but I doubt that a free CA can come up with that amount. Sure, we can probably get the certs into mozilla etc. and joe-schmoe IE-user can add the root-cert to his known certificates, but question is: what impression will your trustworthy buissiness give him, if he gets lots of warnings when on accessing your gimme-your-visa page. 'It's the value of trust(tm)':-)
Here are the most important informations out of the article:
SAP will release SAP DB to GPL (or LGPL) tomorrow at LinuxWorld in Frankfurt/Main. The SQL-Database is mostly used in conjunction with their flagship-product SAP R3 (which does also offer connectivity to other DBs like Informix, Oracle or DB2). SAP DB is the first (bigger) piece of software ever released to open source by SAP.
So:
-Yet another SQL-database;-)
-They won't release SAP R3 as open source...
TYPED DRAWING sounds like this isn't a trademark for the word "coke", but for some kind of logo. In this case he might have good chances to win his case against The Coca-Cola-Company...
Copying music for private purposes is, as far as i know, perfectly legal in germany, since you pay a fee on every tape etc. you buy. The GEMAs task is to distribute this collected money, so this whole piracy/freedom-of-use debate is a bit different here. It even looks like posession of pirated Mp3s is legal, but distribution is not (but i'm no lawyer).
The freedom of speech is kind of limited, if it comes to NeoNazi and other "extreme"-stuff. The german government has tried some time befor to get some sites of the net (zuendel et.al.), but hasn't had much success with it. I think this is result of some old anti-nazi-laws, which were introduced after WW-II. The whole thing is then called "Volksverhetzung" (distributing hate-speech) and you will definitly get yourself into trouble, if you deny the Holocaust...
Slashdot Mirror
here. Includes snort signature etc.
it's not new indeed. Another example of the same idea is to record the URLs the user actualy visits, which WhittleBit seems to do as well. A search engine that's learning from these click-through alone is Striver. It's based on paper by Thorsten Joachims dealing with Support Vector Machine based ranking. Pretty cool stuff, but (to my knowledge) the current algorithms don't scale to the size of a full-scale web search engine. Also IIRC the explicit user feedback didn't work too well in some experiments conducted by information retrieval researchers (I don't have a link handy for this one)...
IIRC German law is much different about trade secrets than US law. Unless this person used illegal means to get access to that information, it is the responsibility of the company to protect their trade secrets. They can sue of course, but they are unlikely to win if it is their own damn fault. The lawyer (sounded like he is an external) who forgot to have him sign the NDA might be liable for damages, though.
(Usual disclaimer applies; IANAL and my law-classes were a while ago).
The interesting thing about this case is that the RIAA walked up to Verizon and demanded the customers name. No subpoena, no court order. They claimed that the DMCA gives them the right to do so and that there is no court order necessary...
So basicaly the cops need a court order, private lobyist groups don't. Somehow this doesn't sound right, does it? IANAL but I think the right thing(tm) to do would have been the RIAA suing John Doe and the court issuing a subpoena for Verizon. If the RIAA wins this case, then there will be a dangerous precedent for copyright holders to get customer data without any sort of oversight from courts.
I see several difficulties with a free SSL-CA (as I see with free DNS/TLDs/whatever):
:-)
It's a great idea, but... who will use them? To be more specific: Verisigns capital is that it's root-certificate is in every browser on this planet. I don't want to know how much cash they had to throw at M$ to get their cert. into IE, but I doubt that a free CA can come up with that amount. Sure, we can probably get the certs into mozilla etc. and joe-schmoe IE-user can add the root-cert to his known certificates, but question is: what impression will your trustworthy buissiness give him, if he gets lots of warnings when on accessing your gimme-your-visa page. 'It's the value of trust(tm)'
just my two cents...
Here are the most important informations out of the article:
;-)
SAP will release SAP DB to GPL (or LGPL) tomorrow at LinuxWorld in Frankfurt/Main. The SQL-Database is mostly used in conjunction with their flagship-product SAP R3 (which does also offer connectivity to other DBs like Informix, Oracle or DB2). SAP DB is the first (bigger) piece of software ever released to open source by SAP.
So:
-Yet another SQL-database
-They won't release SAP R3 as open source...
TYPED DRAWING sounds like this isn't a trademark for the word "coke", but for some kind of logo. In this case he might have good chances to win his case against The Coca-Cola-Company...
Copying music for private purposes is, as far as i know, perfectly legal in germany, since you pay a fee on every tape etc. you buy. The GEMAs task is to distribute this collected money, so this whole piracy/freedom-of-use debate is a bit different here. It even looks like posession of pirated Mp3s is legal, but distribution is not (but i'm no lawyer).
The freedom of speech is kind of limited, if it comes to NeoNazi and other "extreme"-stuff. The german government has tried some time befor to get some sites of the net (zuendel et.al.), but hasn't had much success with it. I think this is result of some old anti-nazi-laws, which were introduced after WW-II. The whole thing is then called "Volksverhetzung" (distributing hate-speech) and you will definitly get yourself into trouble, if you deny the Holocaust...