This may be a flawed analogy, but wouldn't it be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel? That impedes all the companies that sell only "normal" gasoline. They're stifling competition! If you want to use "normal" gasoline, buy a car that runs on that.
That is more than flawed... its plain wrong.
Lets try and fix it.
It would be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel, preventing companies from creating diesel in unapproved ways (from algae, corn, discarded food products), and then having some approval process for checking diesel that would prevent certain companies from selling fuel for the car.
How is this useful if the client has already received the objectionable data?
How many people are browsing sites that have potentially NSFW content with a boss standing over their shoulder? I'm guessing not many.
The problem with NSFW content is the big brother problem. How many corporate gateways are monitoring traffic?
If the content is still being sent to your computer and passing through the corporate gateway, big brother is still going to assume you are looking at it on company time and utilizing company resources. No matter how many client blocks you have in place.
Yeah its great, until you want to accept international orders.
The other big thing is that it does not support any type of automated voiding of orders.
Oh, not to mention the fact that it lacks any kind of integration points common with other payment API's (PayPal, Verisign...).
Plus, you can't integrate it with other google products like Google Analytics or Adwords. Since the user is not directed back to a congratulations page, you have no way to notify statistics applications of a succesful checkout.
I got sick of the syntax dialects of every SQL engine, so I started writing my applications using Hibernate and haven't looked back.
I learned HQL (Hibernate Query Language) and just use whatever database is handy at the time.
I usually start with MySQL 5, and then if I need more muscle (Read: the boss wants to spend money), I can switch the entire application to Oracle in about two hours.
You want ACID...? Use J2EE transactions and Hibernate, and never worry about which database you use again.
I've seen this technology before. The fruit was pears and they were sold in fours in a clear plastic packaging. The packaging was square shaped with each pear sitting in a corner. The top was domed and on the inside of the packaging was the sticker. I believe the discovery channel had a piece about this last year.
Who cares whether it's actually a human? What you really care is that they purchased your product. If the payment is tied to that, it becomes irrelevent who clicked or how they clicked.
They spent money because of your ad. So you can afford to pay for the ad.
And if an AI was the one who spent the money, great. As long as their credit card works.
This works now... but what happens when that scheme is broken?
ie:
Step 1: Script buys product from ad link.
Step 2: One minute later, script cancels said order before it is processed.
I'll assume the summary leaves out the crucial word "free" in there. If so, that's pretty damn clever. I just wonder how/if MS will get the music cartels to agree to it, other than wholescale bombing of their headquarters' into submission by the Windows Air Force.
Forget that, how will they enforce it? Violate the DMCA and try decrypting the songs? Hack Apple's servers for information?
Frankly though I'm surprised MS would be stupid enough to disable XP BEFORE VISTA ships though. People would be more inclined to buy a NEW product when their computer demands money than to fork over money to use a product they've had for free for 4 years.
You forget the whole point of a monopoly.
Why make money forcing people to buy one product, when you could make more money forcing them to buy two?
Who really wants to purchase VMware to run Solaris or Linux guests on a Windows host???
Um. I'm sure thats a majority of their market share.
At my workplace, everyone (including us developers) runs XP pro. All of our production servers are running Red Hat Enterprise. We created an identical configuration in VMWare for each production server. We use these emulated environments for testing rollouts before going live. Its very convenient, and if you mess something up, just grab a fresh copy of the environment off the internal file server.
Not liking windows is one thing, living in a box is another.
Well... at least I'll get a hell of a lot of money for my TiVo with lifetime sub on ebay.
Remember lifetime sub was for the lifetime of the unit, not your lifetime.
Also. The only thing that has changed is that they have dropped Lifetime subs and added more subscription options.
You'll still be able to go to a store and buy a unit, and get a service only subsription for $12 and change. You'll also be able to buy a second service only subscription and get the multi-service discount of $6 and change on the additional units.
The change is that if you don't want to eat the cost of a unit upfront, there are news subscription options where the cost is amortized for a couple of years.
Slashdot Mirror
Would be lovely to see a list of posts shared/liked by friends to your timeline rather than just things you've clicked on.
Could smart criminals just also run a Tor exit node, and just use it to blame anything that they get caught on?
A Tor exit node is just a tool used to obscure your location. Nothing more. So let's rephrase your question as such:
"Could smart criminals just tape over their house numbers, and just use it to blame anything that they get caught on?"
Uh... no...
A Tor exit node is the last "hop" or "layer" before data exits the encrypted tor network.
So let's rephrase the parent's question as such:
"Could smart criminals just operate a package exporting company and just blame other people when they get caught for exporting contraband?"
The answer is yes.
All these new skype features, yet they still lack basic spell checking.
Someone needs to drag their project manager out back and beat him with his Macbook.
This may be a flawed analogy, but wouldn't it be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel? That impedes all the companies that sell only "normal" gasoline. They're stifling competition! If you want to use "normal" gasoline, buy a car that runs on that.
That is more than flawed... its plain wrong.
Lets try and fix it.
It would be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel, preventing companies from creating diesel in unapproved ways (from algae, corn, discarded food products), and then having some approval process for checking diesel that would prevent certain companies from selling fuel for the car.
http://www.optimum.net/DNSRedirect/DoOptOut
Do they pay us to pump their fuel?
How is this useful if the client has already received the objectionable data?
How many people are browsing sites that have potentially NSFW content with a boss standing over their shoulder? I'm guessing not many.
The problem with NSFW content is the big brother problem. How many corporate gateways are monitoring traffic?
If the content is still being sent to your computer and passing through the corporate gateway, big brother is still going to assume you are looking at it on company time and utilizing company resources. No matter how many client blocks you have in place.
Well... If the punishment was death by stoning, would you even care if it was possible?
Yeah its great, until you want to accept international orders.
The other big thing is that it does not support any type of automated voiding of orders.
Oh, not to mention the fact that it lacks any kind of integration points common with other payment API's (PayPal, Verisign...).
Plus, you can't integrate it with other google products like Google Analytics or Adwords. Since the user is not directed back to a congratulations page, you have no way to notify statistics applications of a succesful checkout.
Thanks, but no thanks.
ORM for PHP
I got sick of the syntax dialects of every SQL engine, so I started writing my applications using Hibernate and haven't looked back.
I learned HQL (Hibernate Query Language) and just use whatever database is handy at the time.
I usually start with MySQL 5, and then if I need more muscle (Read: the boss wants to spend money), I can switch the entire application to Oracle in about two hours.
You want ACID...? Use J2EE transactions and Hibernate, and never worry about which database you use again.
"Garbage Collection is cool cuz you don't have to, like, remember to delete stuff"
Shudder.
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I've seen this technology before. The fruit was pears and they were sold in fours in a clear plastic packaging. The packaging was square shaped with each pear sitting in a corner. The top was domed and on the inside of the packaging was the sticker. I believe the discovery channel had a piece about this last year.
Here is the video:
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They also don't want homeless people sleeping in the warm atm room.
Who cares whether it's actually a human? What you really care is that they purchased your product. If the payment is tied to that, it becomes irrelevent who clicked or how they clicked. They spent money because of your ad. So you can afford to pay for the ad. And if an AI was the one who spent the money, great. As long as their credit card works.
This works now... but what happens when that scheme is broken?
ie:
Step 1: Script buys product from ad link.
Step 2: One minute later, script cancels said order before it is processed.
Its a cat and mouse game.
The point is that there doesn't seem to be a readily apparent means of doing this with any sort of reliability.
Unless you can come up with one, maybe you should refrain from the name calling.
Coward.
So what stops someone from forging the ID3 tags to get free songs from microsoft?
I'll assume the summary leaves out the crucial word "free" in there. If so, that's pretty damn clever. I just wonder how/if MS will get the music cartels to agree to it, other than wholescale bombing of their headquarters' into submission by the Windows Air Force.
Forget that, how will they enforce it?
Violate the DMCA and try decrypting the songs?
Hack Apple's servers for information?
Frankly though I'm surprised MS would be stupid enough to disable XP BEFORE VISTA ships though. People would be more inclined to buy a NEW product when their computer demands money than to fork over money to use a product they've had for free for 4 years. You forget the whole point of a monopoly. Why make money forcing people to buy one product, when you could make more money forcing them to buy two?
Silly me thinking this was actually an interesting article about China's Redberry platform.
Wouldn't this be more like;
-Famous closeted Brit sells homosexual love e-mails to tabloid.
-Tabloid publishes them.
-Brit sues Tabloid.
The man was simply publishing information that was sold to him.
At my workplace, everyone (including us developers) runs XP pro. All of our production servers are running Red Hat Enterprise. We created an identical configuration in VMWare for each production server. We use these emulated environments for testing rollouts before going live. Its very convenient, and if you mess something up, just grab a fresh copy of the environment off the internal file server.
Not liking windows is one thing, living in a box is another.
Well... at least I'll get a hell of a lot of money for my TiVo with lifetime sub on ebay.
Remember lifetime sub was for the lifetime of the unit, not your lifetime.
Also. The only thing that has changed is that they have dropped Lifetime subs and added more subscription options.
You'll still be able to go to a store and buy a unit, and get a service only subsription for $12 and change. You'll also be able to buy a second service only subscription and get the multi-service discount of $6 and change on the additional units.
The change is that if you don't want to eat the cost of a unit upfront, there are news subscription options where the cost is amortized for a couple of years.
do you live in china?
I kid... i kid...
oops... Columns != Rows... my mistake.
Babye karma..