So in other words, having well-formed, XML-like code will make it easier for other people to scrape data from your pages (e.g. XHTMLized product database listings) to their own databases and regurgitate your content elsewhere.;-)
There is a minor potential payoff in that correct XHTML will be easier to parse for disabled users (think screen-readers, etc.). *Properly-written* HTML should not present a problem here either, but XHTML forces the markup to be properly-written.
I remember picking up "The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses" from the library in the early 90s; all of those listed pre-dated Windows. Apple is crying, "What? There are viruses?" as if this is some sort of recent development. What exactly am I missing?
I used to date one like that. No Wife 1.0 nags, adamant about an entire lifecycle with no child processes; seemed to be exactly what I was looking for at first. However, frequent, unexplained freak-outs and branches into la-la land, unstable and perpetually overclocked. Also, Sex Life 10.0 turned out to be an enterprise-edition site license.
...new masterpiece in the Second Life virtual landscape... storefront window on 5th Avenue and 39th Street in New York City... there's a Flickr slide show and her embedded Hipcast audio blog, and soon... YouTube.
That's... a place I'm not going to be, and 1..2..3..4 services that it just so happens that I don't use. Hey, if it keeps this marketing crap out of my morning paper, I'm all for it.
Wow, I'm impressed. I just turned 26, and I'm an embedded developer specializing in micropower sensor systems (on of my current projects is a wireless health monitoring system entirely powered by vibration), so every cycle I can shave from a repetitive calculation is less time I have to keep the core powered, which adds up after a few years:)
First, what's your time worth? For the time spent researching, (waiting on) downloading, installing, uninstalling, reinstalling 12 times a year, a fair percentage of people could have just worked those hours at a job instead and made enough money to cover a year's subscription to several of them with $ to spare.
Second, what's to stop you from just uninstalling on the 31st day, and reinstalling the same one? They've thought of that too; most trialware will leave some turds behind so it know's you've already had it (or previous version thereof) installed. Do you think all those turds expire themselves on the 366th day?;)
Third, and probably most important: Ever seen the trash ONE uninstall of McAfee leaves behind in the registry?
Thanks for summarizing TFA; I kind of figured before bothering to click that it was going to be some random blogger saying basically that they all sucked.
I don't own an ipod, but is it really true that after 4 generations of them, there still is no non-kludged way of passing control messages to/from a HU? Modulating song title data over FM, what are they smoking? The thing has not only USB and firewire pinouts on the dock port, but a bidirectional serial interface too.
Hell, I just "integrated" my own homebrew CompactFlash mp3 player (linky) into my dash, using the magic of line-in. The old Pioneer HU in my car has an IP-BUS dataport on the back that can send and receive commands (button presses, title display data)...if I were ambitious (I'm not), I could tie them together with a $2 CANbus level translator.
I think one of the child posts hit it on the head; it seems the ideal ipod integration hardware is Velcro and a line-in.
There is even the possibility or race conditions. You write a paper. Someone (your little brother, perhaps, since it's probably on your home computer) makes a copy and turns it in for their own class. Now it's up to which teacher is faster at submitting them for cheat-check to determine whether they are the plagarizer, or you are...
Rather than add yet another expensive piece of hardened electronics, this logging would almost certainly be built in as just another loop running on the existing engine computer (running the engine stuff [air/fuel mix, etc.] and the OBD interface)...even if you somehow got your engine to function without an ECU, in many states you can only drive it like that for maybe about a year until an emissions inspection comes up...for cars manufactured after 1996 when OBD-II became a requirement in the US, a connection to the OBD-II system (rather than a "tailpipe test") to ascertain the functionality of your car's emission-control systems determines whether you pass the emissions test. A missing or non-functional OBD-II port would be immediate grounds for failure.
Needless to say, any attempt to "fake out" the test with a bogus OBD-II port driven by your own microcontroller hidden in the dash would almost certainly land you in deep doodoo (fraud, or tampering with evidence, or some other nasty set of charges...those guys have no sense of humor). Unless your fake OBD microcontroller is actually connected to the engine sensors and functioning close to the real thing, that would be a pretty easy thing to catch. ("Hey, we just romped on the gas and the oxygen reading hasn't changed! Hmmm...")
How would any homeowner association be legally binding on someone who moved there before you established it? To put it in slashdot terms, that's like revising the EULA on packaged software someone bought years ago and trying to make it stick.
These guys did a presentation at RTECC this year, it was actually fairly interesting. The C/C++ tests range from finding the usual language-specific gotchas by static code analysis (malloc, pointer usage, my buffer overfloweth) to statistical analysis over the entire codebase, and flags suspicious sections. If you've been consistently using a variable in a specific way, then break from this in a couple places, you'll probably get a yellow flag. I'm told the full analysis takes an ungodly long time on large projects, though.
That said, I've never actually used this software, so I can't say how thorough/complete these checks are or how many false positives are generated.
Your area must have friendlier ants. When I do that about 20 ants immediately attach themselves to my finger somehow, and start crawling rapidly up my arm and biting the hell out of me.
(1) they failed to post a notice or provide links for the removal of the malware.
Agreed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but for the LJ user to see a particular ad, the user has to be a) logged in with a username and password, b) with a "Sponsored+" account (or whatever it's called). Unless the ad system was implemented in a braindead way, there should be a record that Ad X was served to user Y. Having a logged-in user gives you a guaranteed way to track a specific user across sessions (the old standby of using cookies works, but they are easily deleted); there's the potential of such a rich history there that I doubt any advertiser would voluntarily pass it up. Therefore, it should be possible to notify specific users who the ad was served to, either via email or a notice in the ad space, without advertising to the whole world that there was a security compromise (which any company would be loathe to do; that's why this is on Slashdot and not the front page of LJ).
Granted, according to TFA the charge proposed is NOT an "AIM/GoogleTalk/etc. tax" as some are implying; it only applies once your data touches the PSTN...but it still seems fuzzy where the line is that makes me part of a "telecommunications service". When an unattended test at my lab faults and sends my phone a midnight SMS via LabView, am I (or our ISP, etc.) supposed to be paying into the FUSF for our half of the wire that leads to that cell carrier?
Based on that, it can power a double pole double throw relay. In the normally closed position the phone signals are routed to your house wiring. When a "bad" caller ID is encountered...
Wow. I totally misinterpreted that. It wasn't 'til the next sentence that I found out the "bad" caller wasn't getting 120V house current sent to his handset.:-(
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So in other words, having well-formed, XML-like code will make it easier for other people to scrape data from your pages (e.g. XHTMLized product database listings) to their own databases and regurgitate your content elsewhere. ;-)
There is a minor potential payoff in that correct XHTML will be easier to parse for disabled users (think screen-readers, etc.). *Properly-written* HTML should not present a problem here either, but XHTML forces the markup to be properly-written.
There was also a MAD TV skit a number of years ago for the "Mach 10" razor... yes, 10 blades. I remember a lot of removed skin and blood.
I remember picking up "The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses" from the library in the early 90s; all of those listed pre-dated Windows. Apple is crying, "What? There are viruses?" as if this is some sort of recent development. What exactly am I missing?
I used to date one like that. No Wife 1.0 nags, adamant about an entire lifecycle with no child processes; seemed to be exactly what I was looking for at first. However, frequent, unexplained freak-outs and branches into la-la land, unstable and perpetually overclocked. Also, Sex Life 10.0 turned out to be an enterprise-edition site license.
Crap. They told me Wife 1.0 was a security update.
...new masterpiece in the Second Life virtual landscape ... storefront window on 5th Avenue and 39th Street in New York City ... there's a Flickr slide show and her embedded Hipcast audio blog, and soon ... YouTube.
That's... a place I'm not going to be, and 1..2..3..4 services that it just so happens that I don't use. Hey, if it keeps this marketing crap out of my morning paper, I'm all for it.
Three cheers for "guerilla marketing"!
Ha! :)
You can have the five bucks... just come out here and get it
Wow, I'm impressed. I just turned 26, and I'm an embedded developer specializing in micropower sensor systems (on of my current projects is a wireless health monitoring system entirely powered by vibration), so every cycle I can shave from a repetitive calculation is less time I have to keep the core powered, which adds up after a few years :)
OK, I'll bite... I write mostly in assembler. How old am I? :)
Several reasons.
;)
First, what's your time worth? For the time spent researching, (waiting on) downloading, installing, uninstalling, reinstalling 12 times a year, a fair percentage of people could have just worked those hours at a job instead and made enough money to cover a year's subscription to several of them with $ to spare.
Second, what's to stop you from just uninstalling on the 31st day, and reinstalling the same one? They've thought of that too; most trialware will leave some turds behind so it know's you've already had it (or previous version thereof) installed. Do you think all those turds expire themselves on the 366th day?
Third, and probably most important: Ever seen the trash ONE uninstall of McAfee leaves behind in the registry?
So, wait, a free content-hosting company is starting to act like a free web host (1999)? The shock!
Thanks for summarizing TFA; I kind of figured before bothering to click that it was going to be some random blogger saying basically that they all sucked.
I don't own an ipod, but is it really true that after 4 generations of them, there still is no non-kludged way of passing control messages to/from a HU? Modulating song title data over FM, what are they smoking? The thing has not only USB and firewire pinouts on the dock port, but a bidirectional serial interface too.
Hell, I just "integrated" my own homebrew CompactFlash mp3 player (linky) into my dash, using the magic of line-in. The old Pioneer HU in my car has an IP-BUS dataport on the back that can send and receive commands (button presses, title display data)...if I were ambitious (I'm not), I could tie them together with a $2 CANbus level translator.
I think one of the child posts hit it on the head; it seems the ideal ipod integration hardware is Velcro and a line-in.
There is even the possibility or race conditions. You write a paper. Someone (your little brother, perhaps, since it's probably on your home computer) makes a copy and turns it in for their own class. Now it's up to which teacher is faster at submitting them for cheat-check to determine whether they are the plagarizer, or you are...
I wonder if Google Earth has an overhead photo of the building...
So how did they get around Dallas/Maxim?
Unless they're inserting some kind of Ipod-esqe "cradle" as an electron-laundering scheme.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030922
Would that be "intentional interference with prospective economic advantage"? ;)
Rather than add yet another expensive piece of hardened electronics, this logging would almost certainly be built in as just another loop running on the existing engine computer (running the engine stuff [air/fuel mix, etc.] and the OBD interface)...even if you somehow got your engine to function without an ECU, in many states you can only drive it like that for maybe about a year until an emissions inspection comes up...for cars manufactured after 1996 when OBD-II became a requirement in the US, a connection to the OBD-II system (rather than a "tailpipe test") to ascertain the functionality of your car's emission-control systems determines whether you pass the emissions test. A missing or non-functional OBD-II port would be immediate grounds for failure.
Needless to say, any attempt to "fake out" the test with a bogus OBD-II port driven by your own microcontroller hidden in the dash would almost certainly land you in deep doodoo (fraud, or tampering with evidence, or some other nasty set of charges...those guys have no sense of humor). Unless your fake OBD microcontroller is actually connected to the engine sensors and functioning close to the real thing, that would be a pretty easy thing to catch. ("Hey, we just romped on the gas and the oxygen reading hasn't changed! Hmmm...")
He might just have been very, very bored.
Imagine how much it must suck being in a situation where, if you wanted to make friends, you literally had to MAKE them...
How would any homeowner association be legally binding on someone who moved there before you established it? To put it in slashdot terms, that's like revising the EULA on packaged software someone bought years ago and trying to make it stick.
These guys did a presentation at RTECC this year, it was actually fairly interesting. The C/C++ tests range from finding the usual language-specific gotchas by static code analysis (malloc, pointer usage, my buffer overfloweth) to statistical analysis over the entire codebase, and flags suspicious sections. If you've been consistently using a variable in a specific way, then break from this in a couple places, you'll probably get a yellow flag. I'm told the full analysis takes an ungodly long time on large projects, though.
That said, I've never actually used this software, so I can't say how thorough/complete these checks are or how many false positives are generated.
Your area must have friendlier ants. When I do that about 20 ants immediately attach themselves to my finger somehow, and start crawling rapidly up my arm and biting the hell out of me.
(1) they failed to post a notice or provide links for the removal of the malware.
Agreed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but for the LJ user to see a particular ad, the user has to be a) logged in with a username and password, b) with a "Sponsored+" account (or whatever it's called). Unless the ad system was implemented in a braindead way, there should be a record that Ad X was served to user Y. Having a logged-in user gives you a guaranteed way to track a specific user across sessions (the old standby of using cookies works, but they are easily deleted); there's the potential of such a rich history there that I doubt any advertiser would voluntarily pass it up. Therefore, it should be possible to notify specific users who the ad was served to, either via email or a notice in the ad space, without advertising to the whole world that there was a security compromise (which any company would be loathe to do; that's why this is on Slashdot and not the front page of LJ).
Granted, according to TFA the charge proposed is NOT an "AIM/GoogleTalk/etc. tax" as some are implying; it only applies once your data touches the PSTN...but it still seems fuzzy where the line is that makes me part of a "telecommunications service". When an unattended test at my lab faults and sends my phone a midnight SMS via LabView, am I (or our ISP, etc.) supposed to be paying into the FUSF for our half of the wire that leads to that cell carrier?
Based on that, it can power a double pole double throw relay. In the normally closed position the phone signals are routed to your house wiring. When a "bad" caller ID is encountered...
:-(
Wow. I totally misinterpreted that. It wasn't 'til the next sentence that I found out the "bad" caller wasn't getting 120V house current sent to his handset.