My organization has been using a few apache 2 installs, for serving static content and proxying requests for the mod_perl and tomcat servers. We started using it 6-8 months ago, and have had zero problems.
Kind of offtopic, but isn't Real beaten-down-by-windows-media-player? Doesn't Microsoft now controll the market?
No, sorry. My organization just did some fairly extensive research of the current live streaming options, and the quality and functionality of Real beat Windows Media soundly. Note that we focused on live streaming, not download-and-play.
Think about the type of people who become journalists: they're often "high-minded" and want to "help people" by educating the befuddled masses. They're typical bleeding-heart types who think something should be done, but don't want to get their hands dirty. They're biased, but in that irritating party-line way. They may not be actual PROGRESSIVES, but they still vote 97% Democrat.
A functioning democracy requires an informed populace. How can citizens make rational choices (at the polls, in the marketplace, or in their personal lives) without an accurate understanding of the world? And how can we learn what's going on beyond our own little personal routines without help from journalists? In theory, it's a very noble profession.
Of course the ugly reality is that something happens between the theory and the reality, and you're absolutely right that the alternating explanations of 'liberal bias' and 'conservative bias' fail to explain the crap that's commonly passed of as journalism in the US.
That book--which became a #1 best seller in the USA--is a contributing reason why many mass media outlets in the USA is suffering massive losses in TV viewers, radio listeners, and newspaper/periodical readers.
Maybe, but I doubt that many media consumers are shying away from big news outlets because they read a book flogging the tired 'liberal media bias' myth.
If this is an issue that concerns you, I suggest finding a convenient liberal and asking them how well the corporate media represents their views.
I've often found that even people who don't know the first thing about technology often have a sympathetic ear for topics like the DMCA and such, because they're already _very_ suspicious of media conglomerates, for a whole slew of other reasons
Definitely. In turn, I'd encourage everyone concerned about the DMCA and similar efforts to get informed about the other problems with the current state of media conglomeration - the DMCA, bad as it may be, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Explain to me how DRM will not allow you to make or distribute mp3 files. You can't because you don't know what you're talking about. The same way that verisign 'keeps' 128-bit SSL certs restricted - by artifically pricing them higher than many are able or willing to pay. If the relevant DRM technologies end up under one group's control, it's not hard to imagine that independant content authors will be sqeezed out - how many garage bands would pay, say, $3000 for a DRM authoring cert?
If they did away with corporations, something else identical with a different name would pop up, or the entire worlds economy would die in about a day.
Then how do you think this country functioned in the decades before corporations were granted the majority of the immunities they currently enjoy?
For every American that's worse off, there are many that are better off from having cheaper prices and higher quality driven by competition.
This is demonstrably false - check the distribution of wealth over the last 30 years (adjusted for inflation). More and more money is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
Your ideas about "cleaner air" and "hearing loss" indicate you don't know what OSHA is. The idea that collective bargaining is for solving those kinds of safety problems is about 50-100 years out of date.
Your ideas about OSHA are out of date, given the last few administration's failure to enforce workplace safety laws. Collective bargaining is the only hope for many workers to improve their working conditions.
I think that at this point in the development of capitalism, every inhabitant of the planet is born in the sucker list. And there are fewer ways out each day...
Some places are doing something about the telemarketing problem. For example, Minnesota recently created a list for residents who don't want to be cold-called by for-profit companies. Said companies are required to re-purchase fresh copies of the list a few times a year if they want to do telemarketing in the state. Something like 30% of the state had signed up in the first few weeks.
Non-Minnesotans might consider asking their representatives for their own such list...
There's no reason why you couldn't simulate the actions of neurons with sufficient numbers of transistors.
That's not a given. We don't understand enough about how brains work to know that a whole bunch of transistors will be big and fast enough to simulate the brain. There are physical limits to consider.
If computers can never think like we do, it's. ..because we're insufficiently intelligent to recreate the human brain (unsettling)
Why is that so unsettling? Our minds evolved to solve problems such as finding food and shelter, and getting along with other humans. Artificially recreating the human brain has never been a criteria for survival. As it happens, evolution has provided us with a nifty system for generating new minds with natural materials such as food and water - you just have to tolerate some crying and spitting up for a few years.
I just spent 12 months developing a reasonably complicated website/webapp for my organization, using mod_perl & HTML::Mason. I wholeheartedly recommend Mason for perl-savvy web developers; it does a really nice job of providing powerful tools without creating a steep learning curve. As long as you know perl, of course. Very snappy performance, to boot. I should probably buy a copy of the book as a 'thank-you' to the writers, who, in addition to their substantial coding work, are timely and helpful on the relevant mailing lists.
Unions were useful in their day. They eliminated harsh working conditions.
Read Fast Food Nation, and then either 1) reiterate your claim, explaining how a slaughterhouse as described by Schlosser doesn't constitute a harsh working condition, or 2) refute the factual evidence presented about slaughterhouses. Hint: no one in the meat industry has been able to find factual errors in Schlosser's account.
There are plenty of other examples, of course, that's simply the first that comes to mind. Harsh working conditions exist, and industry has figured out how to work with government to prevent safety regulations from being implemented.
Yes, there are some stupid lawsuits listed there, but I don't see anything comparable to enforced DRM, abuse of monopoly power against software companies, abuse of monopoly power against hardware manufacturers, undocumented routines built into the OS to cripple applications from competitors, etc.
I don't recommend deploying wireless to any type of network that you care about. Its just not there yet\
Maybe not basic wifi. If you don't mind locking yourself into a single vendor, Cisco has some extensions that are supposed to fix the worst flaws in WEP.
It would be foolish to put complete trust in its security, but the same obviously goes for wired networks.
I see; and testing IE5 and IE5.5 is different how?
Because, dear troll, Microsoft alleged at their respective release times that IE5 and 5.5 were 'release quality' software, while moz made it clear that 0.9.4 was still undergoing development.
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Much as I hate to say it, I think this case might represent the end of the free Internet as we know it. Ironic that it would be brought about by NPR, which is usually so supportive of the public.
Like that time they lobbied to prevent microtransmitters?
You may not think it's elitism but it is. You've basically just said "the lifestyle I choose is better than the lifestyle you choose". Which is not only arrogant, but completely meanigless. There is no more inherent quality in say, playing a sports video game, as opposed to actually playing the sport. It's all part of the personality of the person in question.
Elitest, maybe - but meaningless? I think not. Thousands of years of evolution have led our bodies to a configuration that depends on regular movement and activity. For those of us that are stuck in a chair for working hours, using our free time to sit on our asses for the hours at a stretch associated with online gaming isn't the greatest idea. Out of shape and suffering from repetitive stress injuries is no way to go through life.
I've used WebTrends for about a year, and couldn't be less impressed. Randomly chokes on logs that webalizer handles without trouble. Hard-to-use interface. Reports a number of things that you really can't tell from web logs.
you can use MMC, or Remote Desktop in an equally secure and easy fashion.
Are these methods really much better than, say, PC Anywhere? I regularly administer two boxes parked next to each other at a colo, one a linux box via ssh, another an NT 4 box via PC Anywhere. Ssh has a little lag now and again, but for the most part it's like working on a local system. PC Anywhere, however, is all but unusable on the same connection - it takes forever for the thing to realize that you've moved the mouse over an icon, clicked on it, etc. It's not like I'm trying to work across the world, either - these systems are just a few miles away.
It seems the author is trying to proffer REST [xml.com], a putatively alternative approach
What's putative about it? REST says, for example, that every method has its own URI, while SOAP bundles a service's methods together under one URI.
. ..the existing web architecture cannot be used to satisfy the additional security demands created by application level web services interaction protocols like SOAP. I do not see that as a "SOAP security problem"
The article's complaint is that, not only is existing web architecture incompatible with SOAP, but there don't seem to be guidelines for developing secure SOAP apps - developers are left to their own devices. The amount of trouble people have with existing, well-understood approaches to networked services (such as those that fall under REST) suggests that expecting application developers to come up with good solutions on their own is risky.
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My organization has been using a few apache 2 installs, for serving static content and proxying requests for the mod_perl and tomcat servers. We started using it 6-8 months ago, and have had zero problems.
Kind of offtopic, but isn't Real beaten-down-by-windows-media-player? Doesn't Microsoft now controll the market?
No, sorry. My organization just did some fairly extensive research of the current live streaming options, and the quality and functionality of Real beat Windows Media soundly. Note that we focused on live streaming, not download-and-play.
A functioning democracy requires an informed populace. How can citizens make rational choices (at the polls, in the marketplace, or in their personal lives) without an accurate understanding of the world? And how can we learn what's going on beyond our own little personal routines without help from journalists? In theory, it's a very noble profession.
Of course the ugly reality is that something happens between the theory and the reality, and you're absolutely right that the alternating explanations of 'liberal bias' and 'conservative bias' fail to explain the crap that's commonly passed of as journalism in the US.
That book--which became a #1 best seller in the USA--is a contributing reason why many mass media outlets in the USA is suffering massive losses in TV viewers, radio listeners, and newspaper/periodical readers.
Maybe, but I doubt that many media consumers are shying away from big news outlets because they read a book flogging the tired 'liberal media bias' myth.
If this is an issue that concerns you, I suggest finding a convenient liberal and asking them how well the corporate media represents their views.
Definitely. In turn, I'd encourage everyone concerned about the DMCA and similar efforts to get informed about the other problems with the current state of media conglomeration - the DMCA, bad as it may be, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Explain to me how DRM will not allow you to make or distribute mp3 files. You can't because you don't know what you're talking about.
The same way that verisign 'keeps' 128-bit SSL certs restricted - by artifically pricing them higher than many are able or willing to pay. If the relevant DRM technologies end up under one group's control, it's not hard to imagine that independant content authors will be sqeezed out - how many garage bands would pay, say, $3000 for a DRM authoring cert?
Then how do you think this country functioned in the decades before corporations were granted the majority of the immunities they currently enjoy?
This is demonstrably false - check the distribution of wealth over the last 30 years (adjusted for inflation). More and more money is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
Some of us voted for a third party that actually wins some races. (not to mention having a coherent platform, strong candidates, etc.)
Your ideas about OSHA are out of date, given the last few administration's failure to enforce workplace safety laws. Collective bargaining is the only hope for many workers to improve their working conditions.
I think that at this point in the development of capitalism, every inhabitant of the planet is born in the sucker list. And there are fewer ways out each day...
Some places are doing something about the telemarketing problem. For example, Minnesota recently created a list for residents who don't want to be cold-called by for-profit companies. Said companies are required to re-purchase fresh copies of the list a few times a year if they want to do telemarketing in the state. Something like 30% of the state had signed up in the first few weeks.
Non-Minnesotans might consider asking their representatives for their own such list...
That's not a given. We don't understand enough about how brains work to know that a whole bunch of transistors will be big and fast enough to simulate the brain. There are physical limits to consider.
If computers can never think like we do, it's. .
Why is that so unsettling? Our minds evolved to solve problems such as finding food and shelter, and getting along with other humans. Artificially recreating the human brain has never been a criteria for survival. As it happens, evolution has provided us with a nifty system for generating new minds with natural materials such as food and water - you just have to tolerate some crying and spitting up for a few years.
I just spent 12 months developing a reasonably complicated website/webapp for my organization, using mod_perl & HTML::Mason. I wholeheartedly recommend Mason for perl-savvy web developers; it does a really nice job of providing powerful tools without creating a steep learning curve. As long as you know perl, of course. Very snappy performance, to boot. I should probably buy a copy of the book as a 'thank-you' to the writers, who, in addition to their substantial coding work, are timely and helpful on the relevant mailing lists.
Read Fast Food Nation , and then either 1) reiterate your claim, explaining how a slaughterhouse as described by Schlosser doesn't constitute a harsh working condition, or 2) refute the factual evidence presented about slaughterhouses. Hint: no one in the meat industry has been able to find factual errors in Schlosser's account.
There are plenty of other examples, of course, that's simply the first that comes to mind. Harsh working conditions exist, and industry has figured out how to work with government to prevent safety regulations from being implemented.
No. Nintendo is not a lesser evil.
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/oddit
Yes, there are some stupid lawsuits listed there, but I don't see anything comparable to enforced DRM, abuse of monopoly power against software companies, abuse of monopoly power against hardware manufacturers, undocumented routines built into the OS to cripple applications from competitors, etc.
Maybe not basic wifi. If you don't mind locking yourself into a single vendor, Cisco has some extensions that are supposed to fix the worst flaws in WEP.
It would be foolish to put complete trust in its security, but the same obviously goes for wired networks.
Because, dear troll, Microsoft alleged at their respective release times that IE5 and 5.5 were 'release quality' software, while moz made it clear that 0.9.4 was still undergoing development.
Like that time they lobbied to prevent microtransmitters?
Elitest, maybe - but meaningless? I think not. Thousands of years of evolution have led our bodies to a configuration that depends on regular movement and activity. For those of us that are stuck in a chair for working hours, using our free time to sit on our asses for the hours at a stretch associated with online gaming isn't the greatest idea. Out of shape and suffering from repetitive stress injuries is no way to go through life.
I've used WebTrends for about a year, and couldn't be less impressed. Randomly chokes on logs that webalizer handles without trouble. Hard-to-use interface. Reports a number of things that you really can't tell from web logs.
On the plus side, the PHBs love it.
So, what you're saying is that remote desktop doesn't require a source of compressed air?
Are these methods really much better than, say, PC Anywhere? I regularly administer two boxes parked next to each other at a colo, one a linux box via ssh, another an NT 4 box via PC Anywhere. Ssh has a little lag now and again, but for the most part it's like working on a local system. PC Anywhere, however, is all but unusable on the same connection - it takes forever for the thing to realize that you've moved the mouse over an icon, clicked on it, etc. It's not like I'm trying to work across the world, either - these systems are just a few miles away.
It seems the author is trying to proffer REST [xml.com], a putatively alternative approach
.the existing web architecture cannot be used to satisfy the additional security demands created by application level web services interaction protocols like SOAP. I do not see that as a "SOAP security problem"
What's putative about it? REST says, for example, that every method has its own URI, while SOAP bundles a service's methods together under one URI.
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The article's complaint is that, not only is existing web architecture incompatible with SOAP, but there don't seem to be guidelines for developing secure SOAP apps - developers are left to their own devices. The amount of trouble people have with existing, well-understood approaches to networked services (such as those that fall under REST) suggests that expecting application developers to come up with good solutions on their own is risky.
Oh wait ... are you talking about Doctorow and Sterling, or Slashdot?
I thought he was talking about Congress.
Valve is responsible for Half-Life, yes, but Counterstrike started as a mod, with all content created for fun by some random guys.