It would seem that you're either terribly misinformed, have no conception of how a Parliament works, or some combination thereof. The vast majority of Palestinian voters did not and have never voted for any HAMAS-affiliated MP. The legitimate government of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian Authority, is run by President Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, who is fighting a civil war with HAMAS as we speak.
If I understand this correctly, it relies on physical differences being built into each physical example of the same chip design.
So, if I'm the manufacturer of these chips, presumably I'm going to have to know how to design each physical example, which means I will know what the differences between them are, which means that I will know which parts of the design make up the "lock", which means I will be able to omit that lock from the design if I choose.
I understand supporting free speech, but let's face facts here: drawing a picture of Mohammad wearing a bomb for a turban is pretty much exactly the definition of "provocation".
If you want to defend the right to be provocative, more power to you. But don't try to piss in my face and tell me it's raining: provocation was EXACTLY the goal of the cartoonist and the publishers in this case.
I think its fine, don't punish companies for doing what the NSA asks them to do, corporations are not responsible for upholding the rights of individuals.
Yeah! I mean, it wouldn't be fair to blame them when they were just following orders, now would it?
At the same time, there's nothing preventing them from simply outcompeting their competition.
To outcompete by leveraging your monopoly is still to outcompete, right? Clearly, though, there's something that (at least theoretically) prevents them from doing that: anti-trust laws.
Since MS has over 80% of the market share, one could easily say they are the de-facto standard and if Opera doesn't like it, they can interpret pages how MS does.
One could also say that because much of MS's large IE marketshare comes from their having leveraged their Windows monopoly, a breakup between MS-OSes and MS-Applications is needed.
Additionally, the ultimate fault is with web developers
No it isn't. Developers have to develop for the common browsers, and as you mentioned, IE has an insane market-share. So they're only doing what's sensible... the question is, why does a standards-incompatible and fairly crappy web browser have such a large market share? I think everyone reading Slashdot knows the answer to that one, whether they admit it or not.
MS was found to be anticompetitive because they strongarmed OEMs to not bundle non-MS products, and because they intentionally made Windows not work with applications that compete with other MS products.
So I take it you don't remember the bit about them having to unbundle IE from the desktop, making it stop acting as explorer.exe? Active Desktop?
Equating the use of proprietary file formats and non-comformity to "standards" that some group has adopted with anticompetitive practices is ludicrous.
Given the other circumstances, it isn't at all out of line to suggest that.
It's not the government's job to shut a company down because you don't like them.
No, but it is the government's job to stop monopolistic business practices.
Also, simply because MS has a monopoly market share with Windows does not allow any company to dictate to them how they engineer their products.
No, but it does mean that there are specific laws that come into play which DO dictate to them how they can and cannot engineer their products in order to leverage their monopoly.
Aircraft have been dealing with the problem of heat signatures produced by engines for a long time. Will this antenna really get as hot as the engines on an F-22?
Unlike their earlier Greek counterparts, Roman soldiers were forbidden from interfering with each other and were also forbidden from interfering with themslves
A.45 really does not have all that much more kick than a 9mm, especially if the latter is being fed hot (+P or +P+) ammo. The differences between the two are far less pronounced than the differences in two like-calibered pistols that are of different weights. A light pistol = more felt recoil. I've fired quite a few.45s (including variants of the most venerable Colt 1911) that feel less kicky, at least to me, than a Glock firing 9mm simply because the Glock is made from lighter weight material. Barrel length and porting/compensation are also important factors that influence felt recoil and muzzle flip.
You're dead on about the inaccurate portrayal of pistols in games, though. So often in even modern FPSs, the pistol is just a less damaging version of a rifle...just as accurate at distance, same ballistic characteristics, only less powerful. In real life, engaging anything with a pistol at distances beyond several tens of yards or so is not terribly practical.
Gotta nitpick a little here: you can most certainly strafe in Doom. Some weapons (the shotguns) do have a reload time. You can aim left and right (although I suppose this technically equates more closely to simply turning your body while remaining in the same position). And not all the targets simply run at you.
Well said...this article was way too light on the technical details, and I'm skeptical that this company is just hiding insecurities behind their corporate buzzword. If the system is as secure as they claim, let them tell us how it works.
I spent a lot of time in college working in the computer labs with all manner of annoying idiocy going on around me all the time ("Ohmygoh, I like, slept with Bobby last night, and he like, called me Robert when he, you know, and I said, 'Robert? Do I LOOK like a guy to you?' Ohmygoh.")
That's fair, but that's also you. Not everyone would be able to "learn" to tune out distractions as you have, no matter how much opportunity they were given. It's just a bit insensitive to think that everyone else is either a) like you or b) defective. That's really what I take issue with.
I find a CD I've listened to 1000 times works best, because it's so familiar you can't really pay attention to it.
It depends on my mood...there are times when I couldn't get anything done listening to music. And then there are certain types of work that demand certain types of music for me. I listen to different stuff while working out than I would during a romantic evening or while driving or while coding.
I stand by my feelings on this. "Suck it up and get some headphones" is not a satisfactory way to handle the aural needs of a staff of knowledge workers. It's elementary, you don't stick a bunch of people into a noisy environment if you want them to be able to think clearly. I can't go queue up "dead silence" in XMMS, but sometimes that's whats required to really concentrate.
Some people can code listening to music. I can, depending on my mood. At other times, music is simply a distraction, as when I'm containing some huge state machine or data flow in my head and have to get it all down in code before I lose concentration. And that's just me...I've worked with people who were more productive listening to positively blaring rap.
If you want to insinuate that noise sensitivity is only a factor for the depressed, I'd ask you to go take a Chainsaw into the next PGA match in your area... Or the next surgery.... Or the next pr0n shoot for that matter. Concentration is, in varying degree, a factor of the noise level. This is thoroughly demonstrated and acknowledged throughout human history. If your employer is so clueless as to not realize that they're employing thinkers, or not take the logical and prudent steps to ensure the success of those employees, then they are not the place to be working. I agree with the author wholeheartedly, cubes are the bane of coders.
If you're smart, you'll arrive at the Best of Both Worlds solution. Make MacOS X 100% compatible with off-the-shelf PC hardware...as long as you have the $300 Macintosh Compatibility PCI Card. What the card actually does is almost inconsequential, though such a design would actually offer some technical advantages, in addition to the more obvious and important business advantages.
I don't mean to be territorial, don't get me wrong. This is a place of ideas, ideally...if you have ideas, awesome, let's hear 'em.
This "blog" just confirmed my suspicion that the whole thing amounts to little more than a particularly scammy way of issuing press releases.
To put it succinctly, if Hilary Rosen's first entry isn't about why I shouldn't hate the living shit out of Hilary Rosen, why on earth would I want to read a second? I turned off the TV and started researching my own news so I could avoid the latest propaganda from our government-sanctioned monopoly of a media biz.
namely that customer lock-in and DRM are bad only when they come from Microsoft or someone else, but A-OK when they come from Apple.
Oh please, there is no vendor lock-in with an iPod!!! How much more of a standard do you want than MP3!?!?
What Hilary is upset about is that Apple isn't sharing the on-line music profits with the people who didn't do anything to create an on-line music business. Twas hard to derive from a quick read of her post, which was the intention I'm sure, but that sums it up.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to congratulate Ms. Huffington on giving a voice to the silently oppressed celebrities and powerbrokers out there, who have for so long struggled to get their valuable messages out to the anxious public.
Truly, it warms my heart to see come to fruition the hopeful idealism of a youth spent dreaming of a world where who a person is matters as much or more than what that person is saying!
I've seen some pages that appear to be regular text, but are written by some godawful series of obfuscating javascript functions... If you're good enough you could decode it, but it's hard. Kinda a waste of time... if I wanted your design, I could use MSIE's "save html complete" and get an approximate code snapshot... or just code from scratch, it's not that hard.
Precisely. "Encrypted HTML" is nonsense of the first order -- if a browser can receive, understand, and display a page, it must have access to the source in a form it can parse, which means *you* can parse it, too.
IANAL, but isn't this guy pretty obviously engaging in deceptive marketing?
See this post on news.admin.net-abuse.email: Orlando Soto sells spamming tools to desperate webmasters. Funny he didn't mention that to the journalist...
And double funny that the journalist didn't, you know, do some research and figure this out for himself.
Basically, the WSJ has through incompetence (at best) given a spamming scammer some free PR, which said spammer naturally used to tell a ceaseless stream of lies in the hopes of spawning more gullible people to relieve of their money. When was the last time you got spammed to buy a pinball machine, anyway?
In my 20+ years involved with programming and software development, I have never seen a quality collection of software like this made available for sale for such a low price!
And lemme guess, before you became "involved with programming and software development" you were what, a used car salesman?
* Instant Unzip - This small, easy to use program walks you step-by-step through the process of Unzipping a ZIP file you have received. A must have utility!
Wow. Unzip. Truly a must have utility, which is I'm sure why MS built one into their OS.
* HTML Compressor - Compress the size of your HTML files (web pages) so they take up less space, bandwidth and also so they can't be viewed as easily by others.
Hard to tell from the description what this is, but could it be the matching ZIP routine to that fancy-schmancy "unzip" thing they're selling you?
* IP Blocker - Protect yourself against a new type of annoying pop up spam message called IP Ads that can be sent directly to your computer anytime while you are online.
Darn those "IP Ads"!!! Darn them all to heck!!!
* HTML Encryptor - Encrypts your web page so it is unreadable by human eyes trying to view the source code. Has various features to protect page elements from theft.
Awesome. I really must find out how he's managed to develop an encryption algorythm which is already understood by every browser including Netscape 1.1N but which is completely uncrackable by human beings!
[snip pages of equivalent crap that can be yours for the low low price of $24.95]
I'd be amused if I weren't so sure at least one person had bought this crap.
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Summary of the verdict: An ISP can demand that a spammer stops (ab)using the computer systems of the ISP for sending unsollicited email to its customers. If he continues after that, the spammer is infringing the ISP's rights.
Holy sensible-court-opinions, Batman!!!
Go figure, somewhere on planet earth there's a legal system that puts the rights of individuals and legitimate businesses ahead of those of penis-pill-hawking, bandwidth-thieving, filter-evading, virus-sending, windoze-mass-trojaning criminals? What is the world coming to?!? Next thing you know, some court somewhere is going to suggest that surreptitiously installing user-tracking software on someone's computer without their actual knowledge and consent is as illegal for a bizness as it is for one of them ebil counter-culture hacker types.
Does anyone know anything about the Dutch immigration process?
I've been using my own manual version of their technique to avoid giving out your e-mail address for many many years now...I'm well aware of what they do.
I admit it is an interesting irony, Mailinator's home page advertising for ServerBeach. Don't let that stop you from looking into Mailinator, though. Consider it like frequenting a grocery store that also sells cigarettes?
It's more like frequenting a pharmacy that has a reputation for including free cyanide with your aspirin tablet purchase.
Basically what you're doing by giving out Mailinator addresses is putting them in the middle of your connections. Consider the potential implications, not just for you but for idiot lusers out there who this is obviously geared towards (since admins presumably know about/etc/mail/aliases). I would expect personal information at the address/telephone number level is constantly flowing through there, with at least a marginal amount of SSN and CC#.
Is there a way to use Mailinator safely, in a way that does not expose you to any risk at all? Sure, but who cares. Its how its presented, who its presented to, and where its presented from that have me concerned. Who is watching the watchers?
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They voted for a Hamas terrorist government
It would seem that you're either terribly misinformed, have no conception of how a Parliament works, or some combination thereof. The vast majority of Palestinian voters did not and have never voted for any HAMAS-affiliated MP. The legitimate government of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian Authority, is run by President Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, who is fighting a civil war with HAMAS as we speak.
If I understand this correctly, it relies on physical differences being built into each physical example of the same chip design.
So, if I'm the manufacturer of these chips, presumably I'm going to have to know how to design each physical example, which means I will know what the differences between them are, which means that I will know which parts of the design make up the "lock", which means I will be able to omit that lock from the design if I choose.
What am I missing?
I understand supporting free speech, but let's face facts here: drawing a picture of Mohammad wearing a bomb for a turban is pretty much exactly the definition of "provocation".
If you want to defend the right to be provocative, more power to you. But don't try to piss in my face and tell me it's raining: provocation was EXACTLY the goal of the cartoonist and the publishers in this case.
I think its fine, don't punish companies for doing what the NSA asks them to do, corporations are not responsible for upholding the rights of individuals.
Yeah! I mean, it wouldn't be fair to blame them when they were just following orders, now would it?
At the same time, there's nothing preventing them from simply outcompeting their competition.
To outcompete by leveraging your monopoly is still to outcompete, right? Clearly, though, there's something that (at least theoretically) prevents them from doing that: anti-trust laws.
Since MS has over 80% of the market share, one could easily say they are the de-facto standard and if Opera doesn't like it, they can interpret pages how MS does.
One could also say that because much of MS's large IE marketshare comes from their having leveraged their Windows monopoly, a breakup between MS-OSes and MS-Applications is needed.
Additionally, the ultimate fault is with web developers
No it isn't. Developers have to develop for the common browsers, and as you mentioned, IE has an insane market-share. So they're only doing what's sensible... the question is, why does a standards-incompatible and fairly crappy web browser have such a large market share? I think everyone reading Slashdot knows the answer to that one, whether they admit it or not.
MS was found to be anticompetitive because they strongarmed OEMs to not bundle non-MS products, and because they intentionally made Windows not work with applications that compete with other MS products.
So I take it you don't remember the bit about them having to unbundle IE from the desktop, making it stop acting as explorer.exe? Active Desktop?
Equating the use of proprietary file formats and non-comformity to "standards" that some group has adopted with anticompetitive practices is ludicrous.
Given the other circumstances, it isn't at all out of line to suggest that.
It's not the government's job to shut a company down because you don't like them.
No, but it is the government's job to stop monopolistic business practices.
Also, simply because MS has a monopoly market share with Windows does not allow any company to dictate to them how they engineer their products.
No, but it does mean that there are specific laws that come into play which DO dictate to them how they can and cannot engineer their products in order to leverage their monopoly.
So THAT's where you've been, eh? The channel's not the same without ya.
Aircraft have been dealing with the problem of heat signatures produced by engines for a long time. Will this antenna really get as hot as the engines on an F-22?
Unlike their earlier Greek counterparts, Roman soldiers were forbidden from interfering with each other and were also forbidden from interfering with themslves
Ahhhh yes, "Directivus Primus".
A .45 really does not have all that much more kick than a 9mm, especially if the latter is being fed hot (+P or +P+) ammo. The differences between the two are far less pronounced than the differences in two like-calibered pistols that are of different weights. A light pistol = more felt recoil. I've fired quite a few .45s (including variants of the most venerable Colt 1911) that feel less kicky, at least to me, than a Glock firing 9mm simply because the Glock is made from lighter weight material. Barrel length and porting/compensation are also important factors that influence felt recoil and muzzle flip.
You're dead on about the inaccurate portrayal of pistols in games, though. So often in even modern FPSs, the pistol is just a less damaging version of a rifle...just as accurate at distance, same ballistic characteristics, only less powerful. In real life, engaging anything with a pistol at distances beyond several tens of yards or so is not terribly practical.
Gotta nitpick a little here: you can most certainly strafe in Doom. Some weapons (the shotguns) do have a reload time. You can aim left and right (although I suppose this technically equates more closely to simply turning your body while remaining in the same position). And not all the targets simply run at you.
Well said...this article was way too light on the technical details, and I'm skeptical that this company is just hiding insecurities behind their corporate buzzword. If the system is as secure as they claim, let them tell us how it works.
I spent a lot of time in college working in the computer labs with all manner of annoying idiocy going on around me all the time ("Ohmygoh, I like, slept with Bobby last night, and he like, called me Robert when he, you know, and I said, 'Robert? Do I LOOK like a guy to you?' Ohmygoh.")
That's fair, but that's also you. Not everyone would be able to "learn" to tune out distractions as you have, no matter how much opportunity they were given. It's just a bit insensitive to think that everyone else is either a) like you or b) defective. That's really what I take issue with.
I find a CD I've listened to 1000 times works best, because it's so familiar you can't really pay attention to it.
It depends on my mood...there are times when I couldn't get anything done listening to music. And then there are certain types of work that demand certain types of music for me. I listen to different stuff while working out than I would during a romantic evening or while driving or while coding.
I stand by my feelings on this. "Suck it up and get some headphones" is not a satisfactory way to handle the aural needs of a staff of knowledge workers. It's elementary, you don't stick a bunch of people into a noisy environment if you want them to be able to think clearly. I can't go queue up "dead silence" in XMMS, but sometimes that's whats required to really concentrate.
Some people can code listening to music. I can, depending on my mood. At other times, music is simply a distraction, as when I'm containing some huge state machine or data flow in my head and have to get it all down in code before I lose concentration. And that's just me...I've worked with people who were more productive listening to positively blaring rap.
If you want to insinuate that noise sensitivity is only a factor for the depressed, I'd ask you to go take a Chainsaw into the next PGA match in your area... Or the next surgery.... Or the next pr0n shoot for that matter. Concentration is, in varying degree, a factor of the noise level. This is thoroughly demonstrated and acknowledged throughout human history. If your employer is so clueless as to not realize that they're employing thinkers, or not take the logical and prudent steps to ensure the success of those employees, then they are not the place to be working. I agree with the author wholeheartedly, cubes are the bane of coders.
If you're smart, you'll arrive at the Best of Both Worlds solution. Make MacOS X 100% compatible with off-the-shelf PC hardware...as long as you have the $300 Macintosh Compatibility PCI Card. What the card actually does is almost inconsequential, though such a design would actually offer some technical advantages, in addition to the more obvious and important business advantages.
Yeah... from what I've seen it'd more likely need to be the other way around.
(By the way, isn't it really annoying when someone will say absolutely anything, even if it contradicts something they said earlier, depending
You have your answer.
I don't mean to be territorial, don't get me wrong. This is a place of ideas, ideally...if you have ideas, awesome, let's hear 'em.
This "blog" just confirmed my suspicion that the whole thing amounts to little more than a particularly scammy way of issuing press releases.
To put it succinctly, if Hilary Rosen's first entry isn't about why I shouldn't hate the living shit out of Hilary Rosen, why on earth would I want to read a second? I turned off the TV and started researching my own news so I could avoid the latest propaganda from our government-sanctioned monopoly of a media biz.
namely that customer lock-in and DRM are bad only when they come from Microsoft or someone else, but A-OK when they come from Apple.
Oh please, there is no vendor lock-in with an iPod!!! How much more of a standard do you want than MP3!?!?
What Hilary is upset about is that Apple isn't sharing the on-line music profits with the people who didn't do anything to create an on-line music business. Twas hard to derive from a quick read of her post, which was the intention I'm sure, but that sums it up.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to congratulate Ms. Huffington on giving a voice to the silently oppressed celebrities and powerbrokers out there, who have for so long struggled to get their valuable messages out to the anxious public.
Truly, it warms my heart to see come to fruition the hopeful idealism of a youth spent dreaming of a world where who a person is matters as much or more than what that person is saying!
Thank you, Ariana.
I've seen some pages that appear to be regular text, but are written by some godawful series of obfuscating javascript functions... If you're good enough you could decode it, but it's hard. Kinda a waste of time... if I wanted your design, I could use MSIE's "save html complete" and get an approximate code snapshot... or just code from scratch, it's not that hard.
Precisely. "Encrypted HTML" is nonsense of the first order -- if a browser can receive, understand, and display a page, it must have access to the source in a form it can parse, which means *you* can parse it, too.
IANAL, but isn't this guy pretty obviously engaging in deceptive marketing?
Though I was of course using the gender neutral form of "himself", I stand corrected. ;)
See this post on news.admin.net-abuse.email: Orlando Soto sells spamming tools to desperate webmasters. Funny he didn't mention that to the journalist...
And double funny that the journalist didn't, you know, do some research and figure this out for himself.
Basically, the WSJ has through incompetence (at best) given a spamming scammer some free PR, which said spammer naturally used to tell a ceaseless stream of lies in the hopes of spawning more gullible people to relieve of their money. When was the last time you got spammed to buy a pinball machine, anyway?
Let's take a look at just what Mr. Soto's real connection to spam is:
In my 20+ years involved with programming and software development, I have never seen a quality collection of software like this made available for sale for such a low price!
And lemme guess, before you became "involved with programming and software development" you were what, a used car salesman?
* Instant Unzip - This small, easy to use program walks you step-by-step through the process of Unzipping a ZIP file you have received. A must have utility!
Wow. Unzip. Truly a must have utility, which is I'm sure why MS built one into their OS.
* HTML Compressor - Compress the size of your HTML files (web pages) so they take up less space, bandwidth and also so they can't be viewed as easily by others.
Hard to tell from the description what this is, but could it be the matching ZIP routine to that fancy-schmancy "unzip" thing they're selling you?
* IP Blocker - Protect yourself against a new type of annoying pop up spam message called IP Ads that can be sent directly to your computer anytime while you are online.
Darn those "IP Ads"!!! Darn them all to heck!!!
* HTML Encryptor - Encrypts your web page so it is unreadable by human eyes trying to view the source code. Has various features to protect page elements from theft.
Awesome. I really must find out how he's managed to develop an encryption algorythm which is already understood by every browser including Netscape 1.1N but which is completely uncrackable by human beings!
[snip pages of equivalent crap that can be yours for the low low price of $24.95]
I'd be amused if I weren't so sure at least one person had bought this crap.
Summary of the verdict: An ISP can demand that a spammer stops (ab)using the computer systems of the ISP for sending unsollicited email to its customers. If he continues after that, the spammer is infringing the ISP's rights.
Holy sensible-court-opinions, Batman!!!
Go figure, somewhere on planet earth there's a legal system that puts the rights of individuals and legitimate businesses ahead of those of penis-pill-hawking, bandwidth-thieving, filter-evading, virus-sending, windoze-mass-trojaning criminals? What is the world coming to?!? Next thing you know, some court somewhere is going to suggest that surreptitiously installing user-tracking software on someone's computer without their actual knowledge and consent is as illegal for a bizness as it is for one of them ebil counter-culture hacker types.
Does anyone know anything about the Dutch immigration process?
Malinator doesn't filter spam. Read the FAQ.
I've been using my own manual version of their technique to avoid giving out your e-mail address for many many years now...I'm well aware of what they do.
I admit it is an interesting irony, Mailinator's home page advertising for ServerBeach. Don't let that stop you from looking into Mailinator, though. Consider it like frequenting a grocery store that also sells cigarettes?
/etc/mail/aliases). I would expect personal information at the address/telephone number level is constantly flowing through there, with at least a marginal amount of SSN and CC#.
It's more like frequenting a pharmacy that has a reputation for including free cyanide with your aspirin tablet purchase.
Basically what you're doing by giving out Mailinator addresses is putting them in the middle of your connections. Consider the potential implications, not just for you but for idiot lusers out there who this is obviously geared towards (since admins presumably know about
Is there a way to use Mailinator safely, in a way that does not expose you to any risk at all? Sure, but who cares. Its how its presented, who its presented to, and where its presented from that have me concerned. Who is watching the watchers?