Unless I'm mistaken, this will not effect google and fark... "The article says online portals that are already subscribed to an online service won't be affected"
Newspapers and broadcasters that currently liscense AP's material for their print/broadcast mediums will now have to pay an additional liscense fee to reproduce it within their online properties.
Many of the viruses, trojans patch the hole and open a back door. This is so someone doesn't own their owned box.
As for cleaning these machines... I always advise that a complete format and reinstall be done on any machine found to be compromised. My standard procedure is to get it running to the point where I can backup necessary files (even ghost the drive if I'm worried about losing important data), then format and clean install.
Bittorrent is only beneficial when there are seeders. The problem with distributing paid for content via bittorrent is that while a couple of sales an hour may be enough to sustain your business, it is not enough to ensure good d/l speeds.
The customer would see just how good your product is as soon as they try to d/l it, at which point they would have already paid for it.
GATES:... Also the idea of how the phone and the PC are coming together. Where you will be able to see the calls that you missed, or even when your phone rings see immediately who that is that's calling,...
"Local minutes aren't free. 500 minutes means 500 minutes."
That's their very base plan ($19.95). They also offer free in province and 500 min. north america for $34.99. - 500 minutes means 500 minutes!
Advertising is not meant to be a direct sales tool, entirely.
Until the internet, the only way to track sales through marketing was offering a promotion like 10% off coupons printed in a newspaper. Advertising serves the purpose of brand awareness.
Charging only for sales due to advertising is like giving away the chicken but keeping the eggs.
Who pays google how much is only part of the equation. Many sites run google ads because it provides good return. If google made less, they would pay out less and people would start dropping their ads. In turn, they would generate less sales, get less, pay less... you get the point.
The solution must be a way to confidently identify fraudulent clicks.
I'm pretty sure a similar concept of using oil and or water was employed for image scanning some years ago...? Perhaps it was a primitive form of the same concept?
this article references using an oil mount technique for high end drum scanners to eliminate dust and scratches from the scan. Although not entirely related, from the same family of concepts.
SecurityFocus has a recent column about where AV companies stand on spyware.
Most interesting is the clear market distinction that is being drawn between spyware and virus. We've seen the technical argument about how they cannot be categorized the same, but I figured that these markets would have fully merged by now.
And versiontracker isn't going to be sufficient to generate the traditional bring-Internet-to-its-knees virus storm a bunch of Windows boxen are capable of.
So market share. Which was the what the original poster was arguing against.
Not a lot of people are going to enter their password to authenticate the virus to install on their machine when it gets to the next Mac down the road via email
Mac users are so used to being imune that I would suspect a high success rate.
The main point is that there is no real benefit in chowning a small percentage of the market share.
a potential Mac exploit of this nature that spread via email would have to have its own MTA or a lot more complexity than a simple script on Windows where Outlook and the OS does all the work for you
Like Sendmail?
An email based exploit or maliciously altered software package for Mac would not be a difficult endevour.
Apple script. Authenticated Installers. Modifiable package contents.
"So why does this theme change the background of the selection to a dark colour, so that the hardest text to read on the screen is the very text the user is most focused on? Would it not be better to make this text stand out from the rest by making it brighter and easier to read?"
This insinuates that all other text somehow be made harder to read all the time. When necessary, selected text would then become easier to read. Or perform a reverse highlight of sorts.
The idea is there but the proposed solution needs some work, for which I do not claim to have the answers.
My experience is that you use flash when you want people to look at something but you have nothing to say.
Unless used to visual enhance or to help relay your information through interactivity, flash tends to be used as filler.
Who ever decided that you need a flash intro to your site? It's so common now that almost every web developers' price list comes with flash intro - $xxx.
Of course every flash intro must also have the 'skip intro' link so that users can skip what you paid $xxx for them to see.
Another point along these lines is that many of the big players in print media are becoming the big players in web media. This is for a couple of reasons, one of them being that they have the vehicle to drive traffic to their sites.
On the other hand, the first thing they attempt to do is transfer the print media revenue models directly to the web.
as a web developer for a large canadian newspaper, the hardest part of my job is dealing with ad reps who's backround is selling print media.
People need to start looking at the web in different ways, developing new revenue models.
One thing that has been missed here is that/. is mostly links to other content providers. I'm not saying that it does not provide a service, but there are 2 ways you can look at this fact if more sites require subscriptions:
1) Slashdot will simply be links to sites that require a per month fee.
2) The number of sources drop because there is no free content.
Even worse about #1 is that you may have to subscribe to/. only to need to subscribe then to all it's sources...
Slashdot Mirror
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Maybe we can coin the term "Phorum Phishing"
Have you ever used Quark? Freehand is Illustrator + Quark and still better than the sum of both.
GoLive is ass.
I'm pissed!
Newspapers and broadcasters that currently liscense AP's material for their print/broadcast mediums will now have to pay an additional liscense fee to reproduce it within their online properties.
I see nothing wrong with this
I was very disappointed when I tested this new technology under the "Quebec" platform...
Although it appeared to be working properly on my end, the "Quebec" technologies where somehow incompatible.
I saw it in December:
Firefox 933,550 sessions, 23.73%
Internet Explorer 887,065 sessions, 22.55%
Many of the viruses, trojans patch the hole and open a back door. This is so someone doesn't own their owned box.
As for cleaning these machines... I always advise that a complete format and reinstall be done on any machine found to be compromised. My standard procedure is to get it running to the point where I can backup necessary files (even ghost the drive if I'm worried about losing important data), then format and clean install.
Bittorrent is only beneficial when there are seeders. The problem with distributing paid for content via bittorrent is that while a couple of sales an hour may be enough to sustain your business, it is not enough to ensure good d/l speeds.
The customer would see just how good your product is as soon as they try to d/l it, at which point they would have already paid for it.
Umm, it's called caller-id Bill.
Kevin Poulsen provides some more details on SecurityFocus.
"Local minutes aren't free. 500 minutes means 500 minutes."
That's their very base plan ($19.95). They also offer free in province and 500 min. north america for $34.99. - 500 minutes means 500 minutes!
I wonder if this will be available over AOL Dial-up?
I hope that was a joke!
Advertising is not meant to be a direct sales tool, entirely.
Until the internet, the only way to track sales through marketing was offering a promotion like 10% off coupons printed in a newspaper. Advertising serves the purpose of brand awareness.
Charging only for sales due to advertising is like giving away the chicken but keeping the eggs.
Who pays google how much is only part of the equation. Many sites run google ads because it provides good return. If google made less, they would pay out less and people would start dropping their ads. In turn, they would generate less sales, get less, pay less... you get the point.
The solution must be a way to confidently identify fraudulent clicks.
this article references using an oil mount technique for high end drum scanners to eliminate dust and scratches from the scan. Although not entirely related, from the same family of concepts.
Most interesting is the clear market distinction that is being drawn between spyware and virus. We've seen the technical argument about how they cannot be categorized the same, but I figured that these markets would have fully merged by now.
So market share. Which was the what the original poster was arguing against.
Not a lot of people are going to enter their password to authenticate the virus to install on their machine when it gets to the next Mac down the road via email
Mac users are so used to being imune that I would suspect a high success rate.
The main point is that there is no real benefit in chowning a small percentage of the market share.
a potential Mac exploit of this nature that spread via email would have to have its own MTA or a lot more complexity than a simple script on Windows where Outlook and the OS does all the work for you
Like Sendmail?
An email based exploit or maliciously altered software package for Mac would not be a difficult endevour.
Apple script. Authenticated Installers. Modifiable package contents.
This insinuates that all other text somehow be made harder to read all the time. When necessary, selected text would then become easier to read. Or perform a reverse highlight of sorts.
The idea is there but the proposed solution needs some work, for which I do not claim to have the answers.
My experience is that you use flash when you want people to look at something but you have nothing to say.
Unless used to visual enhance or to help relay your information through interactivity, flash tends to be used as filler.
Who ever decided that you need a flash intro to your site? It's so common now that almost every web developers' price list comes with flash intro - $xxx.
Of course every flash intro must also have the 'skip intro' link so that users can skip what you paid $xxx for them to see.
or even cities in Canada... What the f**k is that supposed to mean?
In fact, it can operate as an external drive, booting up a machine and running applications.
I didn't think you could run software or an OS on it...?
Any Mac can easily be configured to allow changes only by administrators
Wouldn't this only stop you from making changes to the host machine... you could still copy files _from_ it.
a locked dummy file in an application's package will protect the entire file from being copied without a password.
You can copy files you do not own to a location that you do own (iPod). Only you would not be able to modify or remove the original.
I'm pretty sure these are not facts, flame me if I am wrong.
Sorry to get you riled, just stood out.
Sounds like a nice setup. Like the Mac desktop part.
cheers.
Another point along these lines is that many of the big players in print media are becoming the big players in web media. This is for a couple of reasons, one of them being that they have the vehicle to drive traffic to their sites.
On the other hand, the first thing they attempt to do is transfer the print media revenue models directly to the web.
as a web developer for a large canadian newspaper, the hardest part of my job is dealing with ad reps who's backround is selling print media.
People need to start looking at the web in different ways, developing new revenue models.
PRINT REVENUE MODELS DO NOT WORK ONLINE!
"load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00"
yup... they tend to keep running when you don't use them.
Haha, Slashdot - the newest Pyramid scheme.
One thing that has been missed here is that /. is mostly links to other content providers. I'm not saying that it does not provide a service, but there are 2 ways you can look at this fact if more sites require subscriptions:
/. only to need to subscribe then to all it's sources...
1) Slashdot will simply be links to sites that require a per month fee.
2) The number of sources drop because there is no free content.
Even worse about #1 is that you may have to subscribe to