Just as McDonalds hamburgers aren't made for the purpose of causing childrent to be obese, and McDonalds coffee is not sold for the causing 3rd degree burns... but look how the courts went on that one.
Hmm.
(a) Food that can make you fat if you eat it irresponsibly over a long time. (b) Food that can do immediate, lasting physical damage requiring expensive surgeries if it happens to spill on you.
Because during the years when revenues drop, those same employees will fight like hell against taking a corresponding pay cut. Are you really sure you want to tie salaries directly to revenues?
That's not public AJAX webmail. Microsoft Exchange Server is software you install locally, for private access.
Depends on what you mean by "public". It's private and local in the respect that it authenticates and restricts access to authorized Exchange users. It's public and global in the sense that you can access it anywhere online via a web browser via your company's public web server.
A freemail web provider using Exchange could probably have used this, but for some reason none of them run Exchange.
Question is, was it necessary to "break in" to point out the problem? It could have been reported without going the extra step, but that's not as sensational.
Publishing a story that proves to be factually incorrect isn't usually considered good journalism.
The techniques have been in use since around 1998. The first component to allow client-side script to issue HTTP requests (XMLHTTP) was written by the Outlook Web Access team, which is a part of Microsoft Exchange Server, and it soon became a part of the Internet Explorer 4.0 installation [1]. Some observers consider the Outlook Web Access to be the first successful commercial Ajax application [...]
That sucks, but I think someone is being a bit sensational. They have almost a year to correct this.
I would imagine that the rate of orbital decay is not linear, since the atmosphere gets thicker at lower altitudes. Surely the quoted rate is the minimum the ISS will experience before the next boost, so that last 40 km will not take 40 weeks.
Patents exist since at least 1594 (earliest patents I know of), probably earlier. Your patent would be pretty much expired by now. Patents were invented to make people publish their inventions, protecting them for a short period of time, after that time everybody is free to use it. That probably worked in a slower paced world.
The same concept used to apply to copyright, which would eventually fall into the public domain. Our governments seem hell-bent on making copyright perpetual. How soon until they start applying this to patents?
I use firefox with flashblock and set to block popups because I don't like having any more windows open and some used to open in another window, the other window you were working on something in. Flash ads get boring after a couple loops.
Ditto. I sometimes forget how much crap Firefox + plugins saves me from, at least until I use an IE-only machine and get pummeled by them again.
I don't remeber how many addresses there are total, but its [sic] a lot.
Well, IPv4 address space can represent 2^32 = 4.29 billion addresses. A number of these are reserved, but that doesn't lower the number much. However, 4.29 billion is NOT a lot when you consider there are over 50% more people in the world than addresses.
IPv6, by contrast, has an address space that is the square of the square of that number: 2^128 = 3.4 nonillion (3.4e30) addresses. That's over three sextillion addresses per square inch of our planet, according to some references. I think we can agree THAT is a LOT.
I really shiver at the thought of UN nabobs getting their hands on it. Until someone can demonstrate precisely how giving it over to the UN would actually improve matters, I think we should all stick with the devil we know.
Anymore, the entire world uses and contributes to the Internet. It's gone beyond the USA. Do you have some concrete concerns about what would happen under UN control, or is this more anti-UN FUD?
I was just appalled at the number of spoiled, self-obsessed, ingrate college students who were advertising for coders to write their CompSci and Engineering projects for them.
Many of these post the exact assignment text given to them by their instructor. A little Googling usually turns up the class website, and the instructor is usually quite interested in hearing about this kind of academic fraud.
It probably depends what you run. We've been running Apache locally, serving Bugzilla and DAV access to our Subversion repositories, and it simply works and doesn't quit.
Not to mention that many appear to conflate open source and open formats. Microsoft can be a provider of OpenDocument format without having to open source their products. Perhaps they (and apparently Fox News) don't understand that.
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Just as McDonalds hamburgers aren't made for the purpose of causing childrent to be obese, and McDonalds coffee is not sold for the causing 3rd degree burns... but look how the courts went on that one.
Hmm.
(a) Food that can make you fat if you eat it irresponsibly over a long time.
(b) Food that can do immediate, lasting physical damage requiring expensive surgeries if it happens to spill on you.
One of these seems more severe than the other.
GP: Some say it isn't practical to expect air to make several ninety-degree turns and actually get to where it's supposed to go.
P: Tell that to the methane in my bowels.
Your definition of "air" disturbs me.
Though I metamoderation informative mods to something false down.
My English language parser just exploded.
Wish I had mod points. Informative posts like this sometimes drown in the FUD surrounding them.
Because during the years when revenues drop, those same employees will fight like hell against taking a corresponding pay cut. Are you really sure you want to tie salaries directly to revenues?
Are you suggesting the executives do?
Disclaimer: I am the chief architect of Globule, the experimental content-distribution network used to host www.minix3.org.
Translation: "Please load-test my network."
tekkies (love that spelling)
Are those fans of Tektronix or Shatner's TekWar?
That's not public AJAX webmail. Microsoft Exchange Server is software you install locally, for private access.
Depends on what you mean by "public". It's private and local in the respect that it authenticates and restricts access to authorized Exchange users. It's public and global in the sense that you can access it anywhere online via a web browser via your company's public web server.
A freemail web provider using Exchange could probably have used this, but for some reason none of them run Exchange.
Question is, was it necessary to "break in" to point out the problem? It could have been reported without going the extra step, but that's not as sensational.
Publishing a story that proves to be factually incorrect isn't usually considered good journalism.
PHP is usually poorly written.
Since 90% of everything is crap, this probably can be said of most other languages, too.
Weren't they? Sayeth the Wikipedia AJAX page:
Aa you say, according to California law the reporter who tested a user name and password and then reported the issue is guilty.
After all, the people who point out the problems are at fault, not those that caused the problems.
That sucks, but I think someone is being a bit sensational. They have almost a year to correct this.
I would imagine that the rate of orbital decay is not linear, since the atmosphere gets thicker at lower altitudes. Surely the quoted rate is the minimum the ISS will experience before the next boost, so that last 40 km will not take 40 weeks.
Intel has been the masters of their domain for a long time [...]
(Insert inane Seinfeld reference here.)
There were/are mathematicians who argue that 0^0 is 1, and those that argue that it's undefined.
Euler and Cauchy, respectively, among others. I'm pretty sure most slashdotters are not qualified to get in the middle of that argument.
Patents exist since at least 1594 (earliest patents I know of), probably earlier. Your patent would be pretty much expired by now.
Patents were invented to make people publish their inventions, protecting them for a short period of time, after that time everybody is free to use it. That probably worked in a slower paced world.
The same concept used to apply to copyright, which would eventually fall into the public domain. Our governments seem hell-bent on making copyright perpetual. How soon until they start applying this to patents?
How in the world is anyone going to tell if someone's selling their own obsolete Packard Bell computer with scuffed-up monitor or someone else's?
Someone could easily get around this by buying the item and then selling it, rather than selling it consignment.
I use firefox with flashblock and set to block popups because I don't like having any more windows open and some used to open in another window, the other window you were working on something in. Flash ads get boring after a couple loops.
Ditto. I sometimes forget how much crap Firefox + plugins saves me from, at least until I use an IE-only machine and get pummeled by them again.
Firefox: making the web sane and useful again.
I don't remeber how many addresses there are total, but its [sic] a lot.
Well, IPv4 address space can represent 2^32 = 4.29 billion addresses. A number of these are reserved, but that doesn't lower the number much. However, 4.29 billion is NOT a lot when you consider there are over 50% more people in the world than addresses.
IPv6, by contrast, has an address space that is the square of the square of that number: 2^128 = 3.4 nonillion (3.4e30) addresses. That's over three sextillion addresses per square inch of our planet, according to some references. I think we can agree THAT is a LOT.
I really shiver at the thought of UN nabobs getting their hands on it. Until someone can demonstrate precisely how giving it over to the UN would actually improve matters, I think we should all stick with the devil we know.
Anymore, the entire world uses and contributes to the Internet. It's gone beyond the USA. Do you have some concrete concerns about what would happen under UN control, or is this more anti-UN FUD?
I was just appalled at the number of spoiled, self-obsessed, ingrate college students who were advertising for coders to write their CompSci and Engineering projects for them.
Many of these post the exact assignment text given to them by their instructor. A little Googling usually turns up the class website, and the instructor is usually quite interested in hearing about this kind of academic fraud.
Or so I would imagine.
Apache on windows stable?
It probably depends what you run. We've been running Apache locally, serving Bugzilla and DAV access to our Subversion repositories, and it simply works and doesn't quit.
Not to mention that many appear to conflate open source and open formats. Microsoft can be a provider of OpenDocument format without having to open source their products. Perhaps they (and apparently Fox News) don't understand that.
...we're putting the "auto" into automobile.
The "auto" in "automobile" refers to the ability to propel itself, not steer or navigate itself.
GP: I don't know about anyone else but I think I just soiled myself with excitement.
P: Well, at least you didn't soil yourself with shit.
You ruined the joke. You were supposed to say "excrement".