The second revision of the second generation of Ananova email alerts (anyone remember this?) had two such encrypted addresses, the From address and the Reply-To address, which included an encrypted checksummed version of the customers address-id and the story-id of the message that was sent.
This was so that we could tell in bounced OR replied messages which customer sent the message and for which story, and it would loosely authenticate the user for performing "safe" operations on their email alert account.
Around the same time we started using cookies to store the number of times users visited each section of the Ananova website for the last 7 days in which they visited the site at all. This was to give us a vague idea of where their interests lay but we never used this data, and it wasn't checksummed, but it was binary packed and then based 62 encoded (couldn't find 64 characters ALL of which would not be url encoded, wasting cookie space)
Plenty of other web based projects use encrypted password tokens to show a user has authenticated without having to store or repeatedy transmit the password in replay-able form over the web.
Freshmeat.net lists MANY software applications as they are released, and as good search capabilities if you login.
Audacity is one of the best non-complex sound recorders and mixers going, using wxWidgets works and looks right under linux, windows and probably more (you look).
Its a clean UK magazine tarnished only slightly by the odd graphics card advert but this month it comes with a flyer for a "Mens Magazine" complete with samples of the kinds of pictures I can get.
Well d*rn, I dont buy mens magazines cos I don't want my mind tarnished by the decietful images, and I don't buy deceitful magazines that try to tarnish my mind on the sly like PC Pro.
I doubt PC Pro will miss my single subscription fee, but I won't miss PC Pro. I own my mind and I try to control what goes into it.
When I worked for Ananova we had some very good TV listings (no longer available).
After we had a case of some particular bad scaping we made available our listings in XML form for personal use and these were used by Ed Avis xmltv listings project.
The view I put to management was this: * People WERE going to keep scraping the listings and we couldn't stop them * They were doing a bad job and killing our servers as well as ruining our statistics * We may as well provide a the listings in the form they want subject to the same terms and conditions as the rest of the site.
They agreed providing we could do the work without taking too much time.
"A $368 Office license would carry nearly a $107 fee for Software Assurance. "
Thats less than $10 per month.
Considering the number of stupid websites that are aching to charge $5 per month subscriptions, $10 a month regular for real software doesn't seem so bad.
If its all your own work or if you have the co-operation of all authors you simply also offer commercial licensing at high rates. Then you have demonstratable loss.
I wrote a multi-threading library for Delphi 1.0 (16 bit windows) and by accident released some early source with it.
I later found another company having based a product on this.
The licensing terms explicitly granted "after the fact" licensing at very high rates.
I didn't cash in because an employee had taken the code without their knowledge and they weren't making much money anyway, and they had since wrapped it with a Delphi 2.0 threading-api compatable wrapper, so we cross-licensed and left it at that.
I was fed up of being hassled for not having a TV license. The form I had to fill in suggested I sent a solicitors letter as evidence the TV had been got rid of!
I regularly got letters which hinted darkly that representatives could be in my area soon...
I phoned the licensing authority to make a formal complain and ask for compensation for waiting in for these representatives who never showed up!
They phone back (yes!) and said they would put me on a list so I wouldn't get hassled again for a year. (is that all!)
I also complained that the letters did not make clear what the license was required for, the letters just tried to scare me.
It seems the license is required to install television equipment or receive (or watch) broadcast programmes only.
> The point is, bluetooth doesn't live up to > what it originally promised. Look behind > your TV and tell me that bluetooth could > be used to solve that mess of cables.
What kind of freaker promises have you been listening to if you though bluetooth was going to replace your audio and video cables?
You must be american,/. shows that traditionally americans don't "get" bluetooth. First we had the whinging that it wasn't wireless LAN, now we have the whinging it isn't wireless USB.
Bluetooth is ad-hoc low power short distance small communications even between small devices.
You guys think it will fail because it isn't something different that you like.
RS232 is simple as you say although the spec is bigger than two pages.
The Bluetooth specs include shared access to a noisy medium, so theres a lot of pages to the specification just to get that working. Want to see how many pages of specs relating to the various networks there are? Including the actual media, the signal as well as the bottom layer protocols?
Bluetooth also includes a lot of bluetooth profiles. This are roughly equivalent to the HTTP, SMTP, IMAP etc specs as used for internet services. You want to see how many of those can fit on two pages?
The only reason bluetoth has innovation happening at the edges is because the in-between is the ether.
You want something as simple as 2 pages and a bit of soldering? How about morse code and AM modulation, cos thats all you'll get.
The original point was still good, that ignorant environmentalism in one fell swoop can cause around half a billion premature device failures in which can be included all the environmental costs of making replacement devices proportioned over the missing lifespan of the failed products.
The problem is, of course, the ignorance, not the environmentalism, but it goes to show that being aware of just the "environment" isn't enough to make decisions on.
I want audio and video software as part of my OS, nicely bundled and integrated.
I don't want to a half-baked OS that requires a lot more decisions to get a useful modern OS.
Maybe with MS have been "forcing suppliers to include its own media software", but have MS been preventing suppliers from also supplying other media software? The BBC article does not make clear.
It will be nice though if MS do "reveal more information to its competitors about how its operating system interacts with others and with software applications"
Yep, and time-to-market-with-new-features counts for an awful lot.
Which platform is easiest to develop for?
Thats a hard question, try this one: Which platform are you used to developing for?
Lets try this one: How much development do you need to do?
Now we are getting somewhere, how about this one: What's the shape of the market differentiation cost / value trade-off?
How about this one: How well can your marketing department, project managers, developers and suppliers find and keep close to A sweet spot on the market-differentiation cost/value chart, and then exploit this position?
Don't think linux will win because of "freedom" and "licensing" in the current mobile market.
And lets remember that the current Linux phone is really a java phone running on a linux kernel. Personally I like "linux" but I just wonder why it was needed on this phone; the best I could think of was that it could manage and arbitrate hardware access out of the box. But really it seems like a java phone.
I'm not a member of "team amiga" and I don't drink coffee but I imagine compulsory coffee during team amiga discussions would help keep the discussions on track.
Porn distributors exploit their customers in much the same way as drugs pushers, as well as exploiting the raw material. (No-one cares what happens to the opium poppy either as long as it makes heroin that sells well.)
I'm glad to see mobile phone companies taking such simple action to protect children from harm that other customers will inevitably use the network to distribute.
It WOULD NOT be practical to keep children from the streets because drugs pushers use the streets to, IT IS practical to take this step thanks to some of the features of modern digital processing.
So where's the FUD?
Its better than the mobile networks themselves teaming up to distribute the porn, I don't know how many are still planning to do this, but here's some news:
You are quite right, procmail could handle delivery to maildir anyway, so technically I should have said "use maildir format", but the significant change was also to install an imap/pop3 server that could handle the format.
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The second revision of the second generation of Ananova email alerts (anyone remember this?) had two such encrypted addresses, the From address and the Reply-To address, which included an encrypted checksummed version of the customers address-id and the story-id of the message that was sent.
This was so that we could tell in bounced OR replied messages which customer sent the message and for which story, and it would loosely authenticate the user for performing "safe" operations on their email alert account.
Around the same time we started using cookies to store the number of times users visited each section of the Ananova website for the last 7 days in which they visited the site at all. This was to give us a vague idea of where their interests lay but we never used this data, and it wasn't checksummed, but it was binary packed and then based 62 encoded (couldn't find 64 characters ALL of which would not be url encoded, wasting cookie space)
Plenty of other web based projects use encrypted password tokens to show a user has authenticated without having to store or repeatedy transmit the password in replay-able form over the web.
Sam
And are you going to take the word of the so-called "checkers" and "verifiers" or are you going to check and verify everything yourself?
Sam
Thats the point. Thats why I said "will their wear different colour hats at work and home" and "how will you know".
Parent indicated that e-voting would be fine when geeks run the show because geeks understand the system properly.
But as you know, it aint neccessarily so and it aint neccessarily any better even if they do know what they are doing.
Sam
Is that black-hat geeks?
or white-hat geeks?
Or tinfoil-hat geeks?
Or will the geeks that run e-voting machines wear different colour hats at home and work?
Will these be the same geeks that write spamming software?
How will you know?
It's all about trust, and right now someone else is making the decision about who we can trust.
Sam
In the meantime, whi not side step the issue and provide a link to a page that provides a link to a status page?
Or provide a link to a page that provides links to lots of status pages (past orders).
Then you can examine the patent at your leisure.
Sam
http://freshmeat.net/projects/audacity/
Freshmeat.net lists MANY software applications as they are released, and as good search capabilities if you login.
Audacity is one of the best non-complex sound recorders and mixers going, using wxWidgets works and looks right under linux, windows and probably more (you look).
Sam
Today I cancel my subscription to PC Pro.
Its a clean UK magazine tarnished only slightly by the odd graphics card advert but this month it comes with a flyer for a "Mens Magazine" complete with samples of the kinds of pictures I can get.
Well d*rn, I dont buy mens magazines cos I don't want my mind tarnished by the decietful images, and I don't buy deceitful magazines that try to tarnish my mind on the sly like PC Pro.
I doubt PC Pro will miss my single subscription fee, but I won't miss PC Pro. I own my mind and I try to control what goes into it.
Sam
When I worked for Ananova we had some very good TV listings (no longer available).
After we had a case of some particular bad scaping we made available our listings in XML form for personal use and these were used by Ed Avis xmltv listings project.
The view I put to management was this:
* People WERE going to keep scraping the listings and we couldn't stop them
* They were doing a bad job and killing our servers as well as ruining our statistics
* We may as well provide a the listings in the form they want subject to the same terms and conditions as the rest of the site.
They agreed providing we could do the work without taking too much time.
Sam
"A $368 Office license would carry nearly a $107 fee for Software Assurance. "
Thats less than $10 per month.
Considering the number of stupid websites that are aching to charge $5 per month subscriptions, $10 a month regular for real software doesn't seem so bad.
Sam
If its all your own work or if you have the co-operation of all authors you simply also offer commercial licensing at high rates. Then you have demonstratable loss.
I wrote a multi-threading library for Delphi 1.0 (16 bit windows) and by accident released some early source with it.
I later found another company having based a product on this.
The licensing terms explicitly granted "after the fact" licensing at very high rates.
I didn't cash in because an employee had taken the code without their knowledge and they weren't making much money anyway, and they had since wrapped it with a Delphi 2.0 threading-api compatable wrapper, so we cross-licensed and left it at that.
Sam
I was fed up of being hassled for not having a TV license. The form I had to fill in suggested I sent a solicitors letter as evidence the TV had been got rid of!
I regularly got letters which hinted darkly that representatives could be in my area soon...
I phoned the licensing authority to make a formal complain and ask for compensation for waiting in for these representatives who never showed up!
They phone back (yes!) and said they would put me on a list so I wouldn't get hassled again for a year. (is that all!)
I also complained that the letters did not make clear what the license was required for, the letters just tried to scare me.
It seems the license is required to install television equipment or receive (or watch) broadcast programmes only.
Sam
The same way the cat is taught that some things are only done in the litter tray!
Sam
Give your cat some cables of its own.
Hang a few up, coil a few around it's cat box.
It should be easier to direct the cat to its own cables than keep it away altogether.
Sam
Does anyone know where to find this S.M.A.R.T. data.
I've also had SCSI discs going bad and with bad cables with no warning in any visible logs.
Sam
> The point is, bluetooth doesn't live up to
/. shows that traditionally americans don't "get" bluetooth. First we had the whinging that it wasn't wireless LAN, now we have the whinging it isn't wireless USB.
> what it originally promised. Look behind
> your TV and tell me that bluetooth could
> be used to solve that mess of cables.
What kind of freaker promises have you been listening to if you though bluetooth was going to replace your audio and video cables?
You must be american,
Bluetooth is ad-hoc low power short distance small communications even between small devices.
You guys think it will fail because it isn't something different that you like.
Sam
RS232 is simple as you say although the spec is bigger than two pages.
The Bluetooth specs include shared access to a noisy medium, so theres a lot of pages to the specification just to get that working. Want to see how many pages of specs relating to the various networks there are? Including the actual media, the signal as well as the bottom layer protocols?
Bluetooth also includes a lot of bluetooth profiles. This are roughly equivalent to the HTTP, SMTP, IMAP etc specs as used for internet services. You want to see how many of those can fit on two pages?
The only reason bluetoth has innovation happening at the edges is because the in-between is the ether.
You want something as simple as 2 pages and a bit of soldering? How about morse code and AM modulation, cos thats all you'll get.
Sam
The original point was still good, that ignorant environmentalism in one fell swoop can cause around half a billion premature device failures in which can be included all the environmental costs of making replacement devices proportioned over the missing lifespan of the failed products.
The problem is, of course, the ignorance, not the environmentalism, but it goes to show that being aware of just the "environment" isn't enough to make decisions on.
Sam
He means "not used" period.
Do a google search on "dark fibre" (avoid the textiles links)
Lessig in is "The Future of Ideas" refers to this, the fiscal value of the communication commons depends on managing the scarcity.
Try this story where we learn about the lack of scarcity on London.
I did a search for "microscope" and "usb" since it would be usb, right (once you talk about a webcam)?
on google or even your old pal thinkgeek
I want audio and video software as part of my OS, nicely bundled and integrated.
I don't want to a half-baked OS that requires a lot more decisions to get a useful modern OS.
Maybe with MS have been "forcing suppliers to include its own media software", but have MS been preventing suppliers from also supplying other media software? The BBC article does not make clear.
It will be nice though if MS do "reveal more information to its competitors about how its operating system interacts with others and with software applications"
Yep, and time-to-market-with-new-features counts for an awful lot.
Which platform is easiest to develop for?
Thats a hard question, try this one:
Which platform are you used to developing for?
Lets try this one:
How much development do you need to do?
Now we are getting somewhere, how about this one:
What's the shape of the market differentiation cost / value trade-off?
How about this one:
How well can your marketing department, project managers, developers and suppliers find and keep close to A sweet spot on the market-differentiation cost/value chart, and then exploit this position?
Don't think linux will win because of "freedom" and "licensing" in the current mobile market.
And lets remember that the current Linux phone is really a java phone running on a linux kernel. Personally I like "linux" but I just wonder why it was needed on this phone; the best I could think of was that it could manage and arbitrate hardware access out of the box. But really it seems like a java phone.
I'm not a member of "team amiga" and I don't drink coffee but I imagine compulsory coffee during team amiga discussions would help keep the discussions on track.
It's not FUD at all.
Porn distributors exploit their customers in much the same way as drugs pushers, as well as exploiting the raw material. (No-one cares what happens to the opium poppy either as long as it makes heroin that sells well.)
I'm glad to see mobile phone companies taking such simple action to protect children from harm that other customers will inevitably use the network to distribute.
It WOULD NOT be practical to keep children from the streets because drugs pushers use the streets to, IT IS practical to take this step thanks to some of the features of modern digital processing.
So where's the FUD?
Its better than the mobile networks themselves teaming up to distribute the porn, I don't know how many are still planning to do this, but here's some news:
Playboy have teamed up with Virgin Mobile to plan a pornographic site for the 3G system in Europe. (and others, read the link)
Maybe they sawthe light
Or maybe just thinking again
BSD is designed. Linux is grown. Perhaps that's the only succinct way to describe it, and possibly the most correct.
/.er who posted the first page, but the author).
He jests (not kind
BSD has grown from each previous BSD and then from each previous UNIX. How he can say this is more "designed" than Linux I'm not sure.
Sam
You are quite right, procmail could handle delivery to maildir anyway, so technically I should have said "use maildir format", but the significant change was also to install an imap/pop3 server that could handle the format.
Sam