The problem is management. How many people does it take to verify that the 2 billion pages on the net (just a guess) are correctly labeled? Yahoo tried, and they had a good category list for years, but the net is just too big now for that to be economical.
perhaps ".com" for "commerce"? What we need is a resurgence of.org's for non-commercial sites. The communities of old can still exist, you just have to know where to look (just like in the old days)
While the concept to "punish" vendors for flawed products is a good one, trying to get the _government_ to do it is a bad one. For one reason, the government is very easily corrupted, and often looks the other way.
A better solution is to allow people to sue software companies that produce software that does not do what it is supposed to do. For example, if Microsoft says they have the most secure servers on the market, they damn well better be that.
As soon as a few lawsuits are filed, things will change for the better. There's too much being "protected" by microsoft software for them to continue business-as-usual for long if they get sued for every nimda/code red/etc out there doing damage.
However, if the company puts out patches (such as through windowsupdate) and the user fails to apply them in a timely manner, it's the user that screwed the pooch, not the producer.
Our college (2000 students, tech school, half computer's majors) had two T1's for the campus. The dorms gets a T1 and the rest of the campus gets the other T1. With 400 students in the dorms, it was always full and always slow. Most of the traffic was, of course, warez mp3's and movies. Instead of blocking the offenders, they screwed everyone. People got shut off just for downloading linux ISO's. People like me were locked out for trying to start a business.
While it is shared bandwidth, and should not be used for illegal sharing, it should NOT block legitimate purposes. College is a time to encourage innovation and trying new things, not worring about getting kicked out for trying a new OS or two.
A funny note, last month I found an fserve on #isoparadise running on a library computer, thus getting around the dorm bottleneck:)
Every time I hear people talk about how robots will "keep soldiers safe" I feel sick. We're killing people. Just because they're not American doesn't mean their lives are worth less (or more). Of the 20 odd million people in Afghanistan, only a few thousand (or tens of thousands) actually support the taliban and their attacks on other societies. The other 19,0xx,xxx people are just trying to get by, to live their lives.
Killing people is wrong, unconditionally. The sooner the US stops attacking countries (through direct action or selling weapons or fighting the drug war), the sooner they'll stop attacking us.
Sometimes it is the hardware, malicious programs, other programs, or the operating system too.
You're right that it isn't the user's fault, but the blame can fall on any of the developers of any running software or hardware on the system, not just the application's developer.
Or, to sum it up, blame microsoft since they do it all:)
I read an article a while back that claimed that the cause of most carpal tunnel syndrome was the use of the mouse rather than the keyboard.
From personal experience being a programming who has used dvorak for 3 years, and using as many keyboard shortcuts as possible, I've never had a problem with carpal tunnel.
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For most sites, I put in false information and put "privacy@site.com" as the email address. The only site that I have real info on is slashdot. Why? Because I trust slashdot to not use my information for nefarious means.
If a site forces me to give them information just so I can download a demo, I put in false info and will probably pirate a serial. The first rule of business is to keep your customers happy, forcing them to give up personal info just to try out your product is NOT the way to do that...
I *want* sites to remember "me" also, but "me" should be a simple cookie with a username and encrypted password, not my full bio.
uhhh.. NO! What I did on my site was make a table called "lastread" with the fields "user_id", "story_id" and "datelastread". Then put a button on the story page that says "mark all as read". When the user clicks on it, it updates his datelastread for that story to be now(). In the select statement for that story, just add " where datecreated > lastread.datelastread" to get only stories that have been added since the user last clicked "mark all as read".
Simple, and not much overhead. Users get one row in the database per story, and it still works with filters, sorting, etc. What is lost is comments that get modded up, after the user marks all read. This could be gotten around by adding a "effective_date" to the comment, which would change to now() when modded up.
1) It takes more time than that to verify the fixes, test the changes, and upload it to the satelite. Add in insurance costs since one bad opcode could shut down a $50 million satelite and they want to make sure it WORKS first.
2) The entire OSS community will not help out all at once. The people likely to help will be the one's interested.
3) Unless they have an excellent response system already in place, more hacks will be done in the time between fixes (at least in the beginning) than would happen now (through obscurity)
I completely support open standards, but it is sure a lot easier to START with them open, rather than investing a lot of money and effort and then opening them up...
I strongly support creating the restricted TLD.kids. Sites that would be allowed on the.kids domain would be the ones that are not offensive to anyone, anywhere. Browsers/ISP's would then need to have a setting to "allow ONLY connections to.kids sites". That way, when you're an adult you're allowed to do anything, but if you're a kid (or a parent, etc) then you can know that every site on.kids is "safe".
Too bad the US government decided to create.biz and.museum instead of.kids.
Keep in mind, though, that there can be multiple companies with the same name. In the US, the law is that they have to be in dissimalar businesses or be geographically separate (I think). So, for example, which corporation gets mcdonalds.com? mcdonalds fast food or mcdonalds wholesale foods? Is it might makes right?
ICANN was supposed to arbitrate based on which group "deserves" the name, but we all know they tend to favor corporations heavily over normal people...
It should be noted that all the mentioned currencies have had their exchange rate fixed to the Euro since 1999. Now is only the first time that people have actually been able to touch the new money.
To encourage adoption of fr33 audio codecs, I'd like to convert my mp3's to ogg's... I'm not interested in re-ripping everything yet, and I know that quality won't be better, but when ogg's start showing up all over the net more people will catch on. So, is there a free easy tool to convert from mp3 to ogg, automaticaly?
How much paper spam is distributed by the world's postal systems? I know my box is stuffed three times a week with crap I'll never buy. Is there a corelation between the cost/paperspam/volume and the cost/emailspam/volume?
I'm at about 20,000. 50 a day adds up quick... Most of it is duplicates too. Fortunately, about 90% are courtieous enough to put "unsubscribe" in the body so they get easily filtered.
Why not allow a certain amount of free hits per day (or free bytes). Beyond that, people would have to pay to get in (in the form of micro, or monthly, or collective (buy for everyone)) sort of payments. That would allow you to cap your prices, and recoup the money it costs to serve more people. My site gets 10 gigs/month for $26, plus $10/gig over that. If each file is 100k, that's 10,000 people that could be served for every $10 payment. Fortunately, the only time I went over 10 gigs was when I got slashdotted and hit 10 gigs 26 hours later:)
I don't understand the difference between file extensions and metadata. If you set your file to be application/exe (or whatever an executable format is) then how is that different from making it a.exe (in the windows world).
It seems to me that as long as data files (such as.txt or/text) can be executed, the problem will exist.
I use paypal to handle my banner ad payments. I average $200 a month. I've heard about problems with paypal freezing accounts, so I try to keep the amount stored at paypal to $50 or less. It's so easy to transfer money out to my real bank account that even if they freeze my account, I'm only out $50.
You could even to a daily transfer if you recieve enough money to justify that.
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The problem is management. How many people does it take to verify that the 2 billion pages on the net (just a guess) are correctly labeled? Yahoo tried, and they had a good category list for years, but the net is just too big now for that to be economical.
perhaps ".com" for "commerce"? What we need is a resurgence of .org's for non-commercial sites. The communities of old can still exist, you just have to know where to look (just like in the old days)
While the concept to "punish" vendors for flawed products is a good one, trying to get the _government_ to do it is a bad one. For one reason, the government is very easily corrupted, and often looks the other way.
A better solution is to allow people to sue software companies that produce software that does not do what it is supposed to do. For example, if Microsoft says they have the most secure servers on the market, they damn well better be that.
As soon as a few lawsuits are filed, things will change for the better. There's too much being "protected" by microsoft software for them to continue business-as-usual for long if they get sued for every nimda/code red/etc out there doing damage.
However, if the company puts out patches (such as through windowsupdate) and the user fails to apply them in a timely manner, it's the user that screwed the pooch, not the producer.
While it is shared bandwidth, and should not be used for illegal sharing, it should NOT block legitimate purposes. College is a time to encourage innovation and trying new things, not worring about getting kicked out for trying a new OS or two.
A funny note, last month I found an fserve on #isoparadise running on a library computer, thus getting around the dorm bottleneck :)
holy smokes! purple clashes horribly with the rest of the site!
I would suggest making it blacker...
Yow!
heh heh, .blah should have been a TLD.
"come visit us at business.blah"
1) BUY HEADPHONES
:)
I agree about noise pollution, but when I can't listen to music while I work I go crazy. Music provides a beat to code to
There's a big difference as far as distraction between listening to NPR and listening to background music...
Every time I hear people talk about how robots will "keep soldiers safe" I feel sick. We're killing people. Just because they're not American doesn't mean their lives are worth less (or more). Of the 20 odd million people in Afghanistan, only a few thousand (or tens of thousands) actually support the taliban and their attacks on other societies. The other 19,0xx,xxx people are just trying to get by, to live their lives.
Killing people is wrong, unconditionally. The sooner the US stops attacking countries (through direct action or selling weapons or fighting the drug war), the sooner they'll stop attacking us.
You said "Internet Shopping" when you should have said "AOL Shopping". If I want to buy a book online I don't want to be forced to sign up with AOL.
Repeat after me: AOL is not the internet.
Uh, wrong.
:)
Sometimes it is the hardware, malicious programs, other programs, or the operating system too.
You're right that it isn't the user's fault, but the blame can fall on any of the developers of any running software or hardware on the system, not just the application's developer.
Or, to sum it up, blame microsoft since they do it all
I read an article a while back that claimed that the cause of most carpal tunnel syndrome was the use of the mouse rather than the keyboard.
From personal experience being a programming who has used dvorak for 3 years, and using as many keyboard shortcuts as possible, I've never had a problem with carpal tunnel.
For most sites, I put in false information and put "privacy@site.com" as the email address. The only site that I have real info on is slashdot. Why? Because I trust slashdot to not use my information for nefarious means.
If a site forces me to give them information just so I can download a demo, I put in false info and will probably pirate a serial. The first rule of business is to keep your customers happy, forcing them to give up personal info just to try out your product is NOT the way to do that...
I *want* sites to remember "me" also, but "me" should be a simple cookie with a username and encrypted password, not my full bio.
I don't believe in god, but I don't think it should be on the FCC's bad-word list...
Simple, and not much overhead. Users get one row in the database per story, and it still works with filters, sorting, etc. What is lost is comments that get modded up, after the user marks all read. This could be gotten around by adding a "effective_date" to the comment, which would change to now() when modded up.
Who pays for spam? The people who's computers it goes through.
Think if the paper-spammers started putting "postage will be paid by adressee" on their ads.
Bad idea, for the following reasons:
1) It takes more time than that to verify the fixes, test the changes, and upload it to the satelite. Add in insurance costs since one bad opcode could shut down a $50 million satelite and they want to make sure it WORKS first.
2) The entire OSS community will not help out all at once. The people likely to help will be the one's interested.
3) Unless they have an excellent response system already in place, more hacks will be done in the time between fixes (at least in the beginning) than would happen now (through obscurity)
I completely support open standards, but it is sure a lot easier to START with them open, rather than investing a lot of money and effort and then opening them up...
I strongly support creating the restricted TLD .kids. Sites that would be allowed on the .kids domain would be the ones that are not offensive to anyone, anywhere. Browsers/ISP's would then need to have a setting to "allow ONLY connections to .kids sites". That way, when you're an adult you're allowed to do anything, but if you're a kid (or a parent, etc) then you can know that every site on .kids is "safe".
.biz and .museum instead of .kids.
Too bad the US government decided to create
Keep in mind, though, that there can be multiple companies with the same name. In the US, the law is that they have to be in dissimalar businesses or be geographically separate (I think). So, for example, which corporation gets mcdonalds.com? mcdonalds fast food or mcdonalds wholesale foods? Is it might makes right?
:)
ICANN was supposed to arbitrate based on which group "deserves" the name, but we all know they tend to favor corporations heavily over normal people...
That said, I really hate squatters
It should be noted that all the mentioned currencies have had their exchange rate fixed to the Euro since 1999. Now is only the first time that people have actually been able to touch the new money.
To encourage adoption of fr33 audio codecs, I'd like to convert my mp3's to ogg's... I'm not interested in re-ripping everything yet, and I know that quality won't be better, but when ogg's start showing up all over the net more people will catch on. So, is there a free easy tool to convert from mp3 to ogg, automaticaly?
How much paper spam is distributed by the world's postal systems? I know my box is stuffed three times a week with crap I'll never buy. Is there a corelation between the cost/paperspam/volume and the cost/emailspam/volume?
Travis
I'm at about 20,000. 50 a day adds up quick... Most of it is duplicates too. Fortunately, about 90% are courtieous enough to put "unsubscribe" in the body so they get easily filtered.
Travis
Why not allow a certain amount of free hits per day (or free bytes). Beyond that, people would have to pay to get in (in the form of micro, or monthly, or collective (buy for everyone)) sort of payments. That would allow you to cap your prices, and recoup the money it costs to serve more people. My site gets 10 gigs/month for $26, plus $10/gig over that. If each file is 100k, that's 10,000 people that could be served for every $10 payment. Fortunately, the only time I went over 10 gigs was when I got slashdotted and hit 10 gigs 26 hours later :)
Travis
I don't understand the difference between file extensions and metadata. If you set your file to be application/exe (or whatever an executable format is) then how is that different from making it a .exe (in the windows world).
.txt or /text) can be executed, the problem will exist.
It seems to me that as long as data files (such as
Or maybe I just don't understand the problem...
I use paypal to handle my banner ad payments. I average $200 a month. I've heard about problems with paypal freezing accounts, so I try to keep the amount stored at paypal to $50 or less. It's so easy to transfer money out to my real bank account that even if they freeze my account, I'm only out $50.
You could even to a daily transfer if you recieve enough money to justify that.
Travis