You're missing the point I assume the original poster was making.
Not all web servers provide last-modified or etag headers. Infoworld doesn't, so even a well written RSS reader has to bring the whole feed down as they have no way to know if it has changed or not.
" you already have a powerful means of authentication, the one allowing you to attach to the network and place calls."
In Europe it's already there, it's a SIM card. So again, what's the point? When authenication is implemented in hardware and can be easily passed around by the operator why implement a software solution?
Yes, but is anyone actually using Liberty? It's all very well signing companies on, but what web sites actually use the damned thing?
Reading the testimonials it's all fluffy, without implementation (excluding one company which seems to use it for internal enterprise authenication, which is a way different market to Passport)
In the UK that's true, under the Data Protection Act. Mark Thomas, a UK left wing comedian dedicated a show to this, from both police and private CCTV.
He even sent dancers in Macdonalds, and then asked for that footage.
But ICANN is not much better. They have no accountability, refuse to reform, their meetings are basically junkets to somewhere expensive, and they try to gouge registrars for $15.8m for next year, double the previous years. Lets also not forget the fiasco that was the ICANN At Large, where the directors users voted in where quickly thrown out when they tried to represent user viewpoints.
Oh, and the too great an influence the US government has on ICANN.
"Senators and congressmen
We'd hear it from the people of the town
They'd call us senators and congressmen
But every night all the lobbists would come around
And lay their money down"
and forgot to update the copyright dates everywhere? (Copyright 2003)
Anyone else find it amusing that a site that wants to teach people HTML doesn't even have a DTD and has to resort to putting "warez" in its metatags? Twice.
While that's almost an amusing troll I've noticed a trend recently where fake referrals are sent to random pages. I would guess this is to boast google page rankings, as some people will publish lists of referring sites on a crawlable page.
In the last two weeks a certain canadian IP sent fake referrals for various pages on
www.spankarchive.com
www.spanking-adult.com
www.spanking-porn.com
www.spanking-punishment.com
www.spankingstories.us
www.spankphotos.com
www.spankpics.net
Their ISP killed their account after 3 reported strikes.
Then there's em3.net, a scumware site that tried this last year. Following the links triggered attempted spyware downloads.
Actually if we want accuracy the spam filter levels in hotmail are (from the options page)
Default - obvious junk e-mail is caught.
Enhanced - most junk e-mail is caught.
Exclusive - you will only receive e-mail from addresses appearing in your Contacts, service announcements from Hotmail, and messages you have consented to receive from MSN.
Same here. A gmail invite sent to google arrived quite happily in my inbox, and I have hotmail's spam filter set to high. Test emails sent from my gmail account to hotmail did arrive.
But hey, lets not let the facts get in way of a knee jerk reaction <g>
Lets add to this the fact that the "story" for this reads like a press release, and one that lies at that.
"Many companies have unified login systems, like Yahoo! and Microsoft, but unlike MyUID, these databases cannot be put to use by any site"
So you can't use Passport on your own site? What utter bollocks. Oh look, there's the passport SDK.
But I can't run it on Linux you cry? Really? Step back a version, version 2.1 has code for Apache/CGI in it (Or did last time I looked). Admittedly the documentation for it is sparse to say the least.
Finally lets look at the story submitted. mastergoon. OK, lets look at who owns myuid.com,
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: MYUID.COM
Created on: 28-APR-04
Expires on: 29-APR-05
Last Updated on: 28-APR-04
Administrative Technical Contact:
O'Shea Kevin kevin@mastergoon.com
Oh look, it's another shill story. Someone sumbitting a story about his service without admitting it.
DRM systems are broken in minutes, sometimes days. Rarely, months
And from a Windows Media developer point of view (as opposed to purely technical), v2.2 of the MS Windows Media DRM has been around for at least 2 years, with no cracks.
unfuck, the way around MS DRM v1 didn't break the drm system, it bypassed it (sure you can argue it means the same, I'm using break in the context of the original speak, as in "yank the keys out, bypass the cipher").
Screamer didn't bypass the DRM either, it relied on you already having a license and it was then able to strip the DRM header away. Again it didn't attack the encryption or the ciphers. This was patched in about 2 weeks if my memory serves me right (ah the joy of repacking all that content) and has lasted since then without any exploits.
(note: I spent 2.5 years working with drm stuff, I am somewhat biased)
I don't think OD2 has to panic just yet. Considering how expensive Apple hardware is in the UK, OD2, with their Windows offering is aiming at a much larger audience (even if they are skipping out the iPod users). Add to that the fact that the labels all own part of OD2 and it's resonably secure right now.
What would be more interesting would be what would happen if Apple allowed licensing of FairPlay. I got out of the on-line music business last year, but for 1.5 years my old, UK based, company where bashing our heads against FairPlay. Apple refused to talk to us, despite having all the labels lined up behind us, and already performing Windows and Real releases for them. Now if OD2 got iPod DRMed AACs in their store....
Re:Signal to noise ratio plan.
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Then they should be parsing the pages, looking for the RSS meta tag, not guessing.
Re:journalistic credibility?
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Many (not all) blogs I've read tend to be unabashedly biased rants and take extreme positions
Well the article did link here. Is that the example you were looking for?
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Google started guess at RSS feed URLs, I noticed it (and blogged it, heh) on Sunday.
Despite the files not existing, and of course, no links to them, google tried to read
atom.xml
rss.xml
index.rdf
So, why? Are they going to adjust ranking on sites that are obviously blogs because they have feeds?
Why? Did it get worse when SP1 came out? That didn't install on pirated keys either.
It's only the service packs that won't install. Users can still install individual updates, these are still presented by WindowsUpdate and they are still downloaded by the automatic update service. In fact the automatic update service will never download a service pack, just individual security patches.
It's about time someone tried to circumvent the W3C.
As long as it's Mozilla? Come on, if Microsoft add something outside a standard there are cries of "embrace and extend", "evil monopoly" and so on. Why is it OK for Mozilla to do skip? Next thing you know the <blink> tag will come back.
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Not all web servers provide last-modified or etag headers. Infoworld doesn't, so even a well written RSS reader has to bring the whole feed down as they have no way to know if it has changed or not.
" you already have a powerful means of authentication, the one allowing you to attach to the network and place calls."
In Europe it's already there, it's a SIM card. So again, what's the point? When authenication is implemented in hardware and can be easily passed around by the operator why implement a software solution?
Reading the testimonials it's all fluffy, without implementation (excluding one company which seems to use it for internal enterprise authenication, which is a way different market to Passport)
He even sent dancers in Macdonalds, and then asked for that footage.
But ICANN is not much better. They have no accountability, refuse to reform, their meetings are basically junkets to somewhere expensive, and they try to gouge registrars for $15.8m for next year, double the previous years. Lets also not forget the fiasco that was the ICANN At Large, where the directors users voted in where quickly thrown out when they tried to represent user viewpoints.
Oh, and the too great an influence the US government has on ICANN.
I am about to fall asleep as I have sat up all night refreshing slashdot in an attempt to get a first post in.
Berman : "How do I fix this"
Braga : "Particle of the week"
Senator Cher
Singing
Anyone else find it amusing that a site that wants to teach people HTML doesn't even have a DTD and has to resort to putting "warez" in its metatags? Twice.
Their ISP killed their account after 3 reported strikes.
Then there's em3.net, a scumware site that tried this last year. Following the links triggered attempted spyware downloads.
(If anyone is truely interested I have a partial list at http://idunno.org/misc/referralSpammers.aspx)
I'm currently set to "enhanced"
No, they're really asking for gmail invites to be sent to their "test" hotmail account. Just to check of course ...
Same here. A gmail invite sent to google arrived quite happily in my inbox, and I have hotmail's spam filter set to high. Test emails sent from my gmail account to hotmail did arrive.
But hey, lets not let the facts get in way of a knee jerk reaction <g>
Lets add to this the fact that the "story" for this reads like a press release, and one that lies at that.
"Many companies have unified login systems, like Yahoo! and Microsoft, but unlike MyUID, these databases cannot be put to use by any site"
So you can't use Passport on your own site? What utter bollocks. Oh look, there's the passport SDK.
But I can't run it on Linux you cry? Really? Step back a version, version 2.1 has code for Apache/CGI in it (Or did last time I looked). Admittedly the documentation for it is sparse to say the least.
Finally lets look at the story submitted. mastergoon. OK, lets look at who owns myuid.com,
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: MYUID.COM
Created on: 28-APR-04
Expires on: 29-APR-05
Last Updated on: 28-APR-04
Administrative Technical Contact:
O'Shea Kevin kevin@mastergoon.com
Oh look, it's another shill story. Someone sumbitting a story about his service without admitting it.
When did slashdot become a press release site?
I don't accept that. AAC/Fairplay was "cracked" (again it's stipping the encryption - not breaking it), even though people copy music to MP3
DRM systems are broken in minutes, sometimes days. Rarely, months
And from a Windows Media developer point of view (as opposed to purely technical), v2.2 of the MS Windows Media DRM has been around for at least 2 years, with no cracks.
unfuck, the way around MS DRM v1 didn't break the drm system, it bypassed it (sure you can argue it means the same, I'm using break in the context of the original speak, as in "yank the keys out, bypass the cipher").
Screamer didn't bypass the DRM either, it relied on you already having a license and it was then able to strip the DRM header away. Again it didn't attack the encryption or the ciphers. This was patched in about 2 weeks if my memory serves me right (ah the joy of repacking all that content) and has lasted since then without any exploits.
(note: I spent 2.5 years working with drm stuff, I am somewhat biased)
Yea, because all his other sci-fi appearance in , Johnny Mnemonic was great
Of course you can't blame him for Matrix 2 and 3, it would have been impossible to rescue those plots.
Then again, aside from Blade Runner, and even that's debatable, have any PKD conversions been anything other than pulp sci-fi?
He promised to email a personalised apology to everyone he affected, and as an added bonus, offer a low low price subscription to apologise.for.me
I don't think OD2 has to panic just yet. Considering how expensive Apple hardware is in the UK, OD2, with their Windows offering is aiming at a much larger audience (even if they are skipping out the iPod users). Add to that the fact that the labels all own part of OD2 and it's resonably secure right now.
What would be more interesting would be what would happen if Apple allowed licensing of FairPlay. I got out of the on-line music business last year, but for 1.5 years my old, UK based, company where bashing our heads against FairPlay. Apple refused to talk to us, despite having all the labels lined up behind us, and already performing Windows and Real releases for them. Now if OD2 got iPod DRMed AACs in their store ....
Then they should be parsing the pages, looking for the RSS meta tag, not guessing.
Well the article did link here. Is that the example you were looking for?
Despite the files not existing, and of course, no links to them, google tried to read
So, why? Are they going to adjust ranking on sites that are obviously blogs because they have feeds?
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Why? Did it get worse when SP1 came out? That didn't install on pirated keys either.
It's only the service packs that won't install. Users can still install individual updates, these are still presented by WindowsUpdate and they are still downloaded by the automatic update service. In fact the automatic update service will never download a service pack, just individual security patches.
As long as it's Mozilla? Come on, if Microsoft add something outside a standard there are cries of "embrace and extend", "evil monopoly" and so on. Why is it OK for Mozilla to do skip? Next thing you know the <blink> tag will come back.