I don't even know why this is news. Sun activity is very low right now, we're at the bottom of the cycle right now: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/
I think the article is suggesting that by letting 3rd party vendors distrubute their software, they are opening themselves and the users to all sorts of trouble.
If it's just a proxy, it's not even going to be able to see your https post data (just the URLS you're going to). There is a big difference between credit card, bank account numbers and just the URLs you're going to.
The submitter claims the software takes screenshots of every page the users visit.
This isn't what the actual article says. It says "virtual photos".
Most likely is that it's just collecting URLs.. and maybe the contents of the page.. There would be no reason to do screenshots... It would make things much more difficult to analyze.
Tmobile's plan is great for those that don't talk a lot. If you spending more than $0.10 a minute for your cell phone, than this plan is for you.
After the first year, if you use less than 1000 minutes, just keep getting $10 cards which last for 3 monhts and your unused minutes roll over to the new expiration. so, for a little used phone, it's only $40 per year.
Newer phones also includes basic web stuff for free.
This article completely(!) ignores AdSense. AdSense is the syndication of AdWords on content websites across the internet. It is a little less than 1/2 of google's profits. (The claim that 99% of their profits came from search alone is completely false)
Adwords ads and AdSense ads are many times one in the same thing, but of course there are differences. The main one being that Publishers get the majority (up to 80%) of the profit on clicks in Adsense.
That means that it is very likely that these are are also being shown on many content sites across the internet. It's also very likely that Google IS actually paying the publishers for clicks on these ads.
My non coder friends can't even register! You have to alter the HEAD portion of an HTML document that you own to authenticate yourself.
People with just a myspace page can't do that!
It works great for images. I remember when I first started using it. It cut the number of http requests to the server in 1/2, and substantially reduced the bandwidth usage.
However, if you are one to be changing images around, like using a Holiday logo or something, you have to change the image file name to force browsers to reload it.
I'm sorta surprised that slashdot doesn't use this on their images:
Well, I didn't actually see the end of the project, but we got a lot of it done. It was an awesome design, carbon fiber shell, aluminum frame and cool prop.
I support a carbon tax. Especially if it's phased in slowly, so that the market can react correctly.
All pollution costs are NOT CURRENTLY included in the price of American goods. The main sources of carbon pollution right now are cars and power plants. Everyone seems to think that it's big companies, but, it's not, it's you.
When there is a dollar attached to the pollution, companies will spend appropriate dollars to correct it (ie. use alternative fuels, or improve efficiency)
The China problem does not get solved by a US tax, it really works better if it's global. If the US adds the tax, and China doesn't, it'll just make the problem worse, as products from China will become even cheaper...
I don't think the "carbon neutral" thing works out right. Do you get credit for owning 100,000 acres of woods? Do you get credit for NOT cutting them down? What if you plant 1000 trees, and they all die?
You're so wrong.
It's all a matter of how much it has to cool.
if it has too cool 1 gram of water to -200C,
200C * 100/15% * 1g = 1333 grams
it'd need to warm 1 1/3 liter of water only 1 degree.
Mod this up. I think this is about the only acceptable way to profit from this situation.
While I have uncovered a number of security holes, I haven't ever profited directly from them. I added them to my resume and eventually got a job at a bank (where I uncovered more security holes). However, the only way to get a pulic reputation is to publish the hole.
Really, you should be asking what Saddam was doing with this document in the firstplace, and how close was he to getting the bomb.
U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra's reply:
"Yesterday's article by the New York Times highlights a number of important issues with respect to Iraq's WMD programs, as well as the importance of the documents that have been recovered in Iraq," said U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "I am pleased that the document release program continues to stimulate public discussion of these issues.
"With respect to the possibility that documents may have been released that should not have been released, I have always been clear that the Director of National Intelligence should take whatever steps necessary to withhold sensitive documents. In fact, as of today the DNI had withheld 59 percent of the documents that it had reviewed, and has become more risk-averse over time. If the DNI believes that the documents that were released were in the safe 40 percent, imagine what the 60 percent being withheld must contain.
"That said, it is also important to emphasize that the IAEA, contrary to its assertions, never raised any concerns about this material with the United States Government before going to the press. Similarly, the DNI's office has informed me that no agency of the U.S. Government had raised any issues about the potential or actual release of these documents before yesterday. If there were such problems, they would have been better addressed through the appropriate channels rather than the press.
"These documents also raise several additional issues of interest. First, it is extraordinary that the New York Times now acknowledges that the captured documents demonstrate that '[Saddam] Hussein's scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.' This only reinforces the value of these documents in understanding the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime. Only 1 percent of the estimated 120 million pages of captured documents have been reviewed, and we must continue working to promptly understand these materials. If there is concern about Saddam's nuclear program, there should be similar concern about potential connections between Saddam and al-Qaeda suggested in the documents.
"Second, my staff's preliminary review of the documents in question suggests that at least some of them may be internal IAEA documents. There is a serious question of why and how the Iraqi these documents in the first place. We need to explore that carefully - I certainly hope there will be no evidence that the IAEA had been penetrated by Saddam's regime.
"Finally, it is disappointing but not surprising that the New York Times would continue to participate in such blatant and transparent political ploys, including what I believe are improper efforts by the IAEA to interfere with U.S. domestic affairs. The sad reality is that the New York Times has done far more damage to U.S. national security by the disclosure of vital, classified, intelligence programs than is likely to be caused by the inadvertent disclosure of decades-old information that had already been in the hands of Saddam's regime."
Exactly. Use paypal, but not some fancy shopping cart. You don't want a fancy "music" site either, you just want to sell. Paypal is easy enough for non programmers, especially if you have a few items that you can configure individually.
Paypal offers micro payments for digital downloads. Fees are reduced
is you're offering products less than $12 and it's a digital download. If you sell a song for $1, you'd get $0.90. Much more than for regular paypal.
The real solution is to let the boss know who has access to see these things. They might stop putting the most sensitive stuff through the open email system.
"Version 2.0 also improves on the tabbed-windows interface that Mozilla innovated"
That is seriously debatable.
I will NOT upgrade to version 2.0 till they offer the old version again. It's seriously harder to use for power users.
This is the single reason I will NOT be using this browser. They completely screw up tabbed browsing. In the release notes, it says "Improved tabbed browsing" what a joke. Power users who like to look at many tabs and close many tabs quickly will find this new version very difficult to use.
No, it's just that more teens lie about their age. Since they no longer have to keep their age under 16 to keep their profile private, and they raise their age to make it harder to find them. You wouldn't believe the number of young looking 99 year old people in Alaska.
"Google has no plans to monetise this product-search capability"
Wrong, Google makes money when people buy things with the google checkout. They are creating a whole "buy it now" ebay type site with a single checkout. Fees are lower than paypal, and the checkout process is quick and easy. Google even gives you an anonymized email address during the checkout for each store. If only enough vendors would jump onboard, the site could really rock.
Slashdot Mirror
A few years ago we had that X28 flare!
This is hardly a revolutionary site. The addition of voting on articles makes it a little more like a digg site.
I think the article is suggesting that by letting 3rd party vendors distrubute their software, they are opening themselves and the users to all sorts of trouble.
If it's just a proxy, it's not even going to be able to see your https post data (just the URLS you're going to). There is a big difference between credit card, bank account numbers and just the URLs you're going to.
This isn't what the actual article says. It says "virtual photos". Most likely is that it's just collecting URLs.. and maybe the contents of the page.. There would be no reason to do screenshots... It would make things much more difficult to analyze.
In fact, you probably have a table top particle accelerator in your house. http://science.howstuffworks.com/atom-smasher2.htm
Yes, a CRT is also considered a particle accelerator!
Yes it has. Table top particle acceleration has been. Maybe not this menthod, but less powerful ones.
After the first year, if you use less than 1000 minutes, just keep getting $10 cards which last for 3 monhts and your unused minutes roll over to the new expiration. so, for a little used phone, it's only $40 per year.
Newer phones also includes basic web stuff for free.
Adwords ads and AdSense ads are many times one in the same thing, but of course there are differences. The main one being that Publishers get the majority (up to 80%) of the profit on clicks in Adsense. That means that it is very likely that these are are also being shown on many content sites across the internet. It's also very likely that Google IS actually paying the publishers for clicks on these ads.
My non coder friends can't even register! You have to alter the HEAD portion of an HTML document that you own to authenticate yourself. People with just a myspace page can't do that!
However, if you are one to be changing images around, like using a Holiday logo or something, you have to change the image file name to force browsers to reload it.
I'm sorta surprised that slashdot doesn't use this on their images:
wget -S --spider http://images.slashdot.org/logo.png
--08:31:01-- http://images.slashdot.org/logo.png
=> `logo.png'
Resolving images.slashdot.org... 66.35.250.55
Connecting to images.slashdot.org|66.35.250.55|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:30:12 GMT
Server: Boa/0.94.14rc17
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=43200
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=1000
Content-Length: 7256
Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:02:14 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Length: 7,256 (7.1K) [image/png]
200 OK
Well, I didn't actually see the end of the project, but we got a lot of it done. It was an awesome design, carbon fiber shell, aluminum frame and cool prop.
I support a carbon tax. Especially if it's phased in slowly, so that the market can react correctly.
All pollution costs are NOT CURRENTLY included in the price of American goods. The main sources of carbon pollution right now are cars and power plants. Everyone seems to think that it's big companies, but, it's not, it's you.
When there is a dollar attached to the pollution, companies will spend appropriate dollars to correct it (ie. use alternative fuels, or improve efficiency)
The China problem does not get solved by a US tax, it really works better if it's global. If the US adds the tax, and China doesn't, it'll just make the problem worse, as products from China will become even cheaper...
I don't think the "carbon neutral" thing works out right. Do you get credit for owning 100,000 acres of woods? Do you get credit for NOT cutting them down? What if you plant 1000 trees, and they all die?
You're so wrong. It's all a matter of how much it has to cool. if it has too cool 1 gram of water to -200C, 200C * 100/15% * 1g = 1333 grams it'd need to warm 1 1/3 liter of water only 1 degree.
While I have uncovered a number of security holes, I haven't ever profited directly from them. I added them to my resume and eventually got a job at a bank (where I uncovered more security holes). However, the only way to get a pulic reputation is to publish the hole.
U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra's reply:
Paypal offers micro payments for digital downloads. Fees are reduced is you're offering products less than $12 and it's a digital download. If you sell a song for $1, you'd get $0.90. Much more than for regular paypal.
Well, you can already buy some pretty $$ diamonds at walmart like this $8K one http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=5273238
The real solution is to let the boss know who has access to see these things. They might stop putting the most sensitive stuff through the open email system.
autozone.com has a good set of repair manuals online. Sometimes a little hard to navigate, but, I'm guessing the copyright isn't that $$?
"Version 2.0 also improves on the tabbed-windows interface that Mozilla innovated" That is seriously debatable. I will NOT upgrade to version 2.0 till they offer the old version again. It's seriously harder to use for power users.
This is the single reason I will NOT be using this browser. They completely screw up tabbed browsing. In the release notes, it says "Improved tabbed browsing" what a joke. Power users who like to look at many tabs and close many tabs quickly will find this new version very difficult to use.
No, it's just that more teens lie about their age. Since they no longer have to keep their age under 16 to keep their profile private, and they raise their age to make it harder to find them. You wouldn't believe the number of young looking 99 year old people in Alaska.
My guess is that they are actually just watching YOUTUBE videos on Myspace pages. youtube is by far the #1 video provider.
"Google has no plans to monetise this product-search capability" Wrong, Google makes money when people buy things with the google checkout. They are creating a whole "buy it now" ebay type site with a single checkout. Fees are lower than paypal, and the checkout process is quick and easy. Google even gives you an anonymized email address during the checkout for each store. If only enough vendors would jump onboard, the site could really rock.