You are assuming that this is the only method that these bots are created when this is not the case. Bot nets are rooted often without the users knowledge and without them needing to 'agree' to an installation due to zero-day's and bad engineering decisions. Your assumption that the only way to get anything installed on an OS is through social engineering is a fallacy and a misconception that only companies that have badly engineered products would want you to believe.
It's not really Microsoft's problem, but they still help to solve it.
Bad engineering isn't their problem? You seem to lack a basic understanding of computers yourself and shouldn't be operating the one you are on. I hereby revoke your license.
Yeah but I need to start trying out WebGL (which works in all major browser EXCEPT IE) and need a decent debugger which IE has never really had. That may have changed recently and they may have an improved debugger but they still don't support WebGL and I still prefer Firebug so *shrug*. They're still playing catchup from the days they decided that they could sit on their monopolized asses.
Actually that's incorrect on a technicality. That's the goal of a CORPORATION... not a COMPANY. A corporation's goal is to raise it's stock price. A company's goal is to make money.
yep have to admit when all the mortgage things happened, the credit unions remained unscathed. My wife and I asked our credit union about that and they said they don't report to a board but only report to their members so they are not under alot of pressure to make giant risky investments; they are only their for their members. And while other banks were being taken over left and right, you didn't see hardly any credit unions being taken over.
The best way to preserve privacy is to pollute databases. Data miners now use a variety of sources to 'confirm' information (whether you are male, married, income, political affiliation etc) and the more often you can pollute those databases, the better. If they cannot get a greater than %60 accuracy on your data, you are not a good lead for them.
Well you got me on a technicality; it's supported through the canvas tag (part of the HTML5 spec) and WebGL is an open standard with it's own spec and is supported by all browsers... except IE. Making it the lone hold out and a throwback. This is SVG and CSS all over again. Where other browsers advance, IE stands back and waits and as a result, gets lapped by progress.
So those who use HTML5 and want 3D applications will just all be converting to Chrome, Safari or Firefox as a result. No harm done.
I don't know how IE has an HTML5 advantage since they have to do a WebGL conversion to DirectX which causes all renders to take 3X as long. You can hear it talked about in this demo from Fractallab(http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/07/tom-subblue-reddard.html#comments) an online fractal generator built in HTML5 using WebGL.
Why would you want to remember every post and every tweet and every picture? Its a DAMN good things that there is data loss at least for the mundane. I don't want people seeing everything I first posted when I from my first websites and my first forays into the web. LET IT DIE ALREADY YOU FRIGGIN INTERNET VAMPIRES!
Also... this should be obvious but I should point out that such a model could NOT work on a subscription basis of charging a monthly/yearly fee or per license fee up front until AFTER a large enough knowledge base was created first. Then they could change models. This will of course anger alot of people as changing access/charge models like this always does anger people but having created this knowledge base and created the relationship with people who use this as a source of revenue, this will be the number one place for support for large open source applications (aside from the projects themselves).
Additionally, you could even charge people a nominal yearly fee for access as what you would be creating is an online knowledge base for support and trouble shooting of just about every open source project in the world. This would be WORTH a monthly/yearly fee and most companies would gladly pay a small 'per license fee' or one lump sum fee just for the support.
Considering the route Canonical is going, you could easily work out an agreement with them more than likely (as long as they got THEIR cut) and eventually expand into phone support allowing those with most accurate records to be called via a voip number which would be routed through a web interface (thus allowing logging of times and handling of availability).
Better. Supply open source support for sourceforge/open source projects.
Allow people to signup (with valid paypal account) and they go into a support pool for open source projects. People who answer questions correctly (or get most points) get most pay while fewer points get a smaller percentage of pay for that question.
People who wish to pay for support can sign up for an unlimited number of questions or pay per question asked. The amount would be based on each project and the popularity and number of downloads of said project (or something like that).
Percentage of pay could also go to maintainers of project.
Better design helps with a more flexible codebase. Having to code around Drupal rather than just placing controller/model/view in their appropriate directories and allowing the container to manager plugins for ACLs/etc, can create a spaghetti coded nightmare in the longrun. Sure you can whip up code samples quickly but is it a longterm, maintainable and extensible code structure? No because it lacks structure. This is something that a framework provides.
Well oddly enough, the numbers do not always accurately portray the location of birth or where you were issued the number as numbers are some counties cannot use anymore numbers within their allotted region code and have to then rely on nearby region codes to allot numbers. It does give you a general idea however thus allowing one to reduce the number of 'bob jones' to look for within a metropolitan region and within a specific issuing period.
For every single C*O and marketing person that stands up and says how Microsoft LOVES open source, for every time Techcrunch and Techflash spouts how Microsoft is now open source friendly, things like this continue to happen. Their excuse no doubt is that no one would be making money when an open source product can sell just as well; not everyone wants to compile the source code!!
But I suppose now I will have the 'mandated by Microsoft' attacks because I stated the obvious and get modded down. So be it. Someone has to speak up and state what everyone is thinking.
And by the way, that thought pattern of the fact that 'someone thinks something different than you therefore they MUST serve satan' is more religious brainwashing nonsense. It's that kind of thing that makes religious people seem zealous, ignorant and arrogant. The fact alone that you are assuming that your thinking is SO CORRECT that a group of people who thinks differently that you must somehow fall within your belief system by making them all 'evil' regardless of the fact that they are morally and ethically fine people shows nothing but arrogance and contempt for your own brain.
Proving yet again that you can sit people in front of a TV and they will always watch the stupidest thing on. Put him up against a timeslot of poodles licking their balls and I'll bet he'll get a real run for his money.
He's figured out what every snake oil salesman and con-man has figured out for the last million years: that every mark is stupid and the vast majority of the populace is a mark. They are their to be fleeced regardless of the consequences. And once he has gotten as much money as he can and had as much fun with the local farmers daughters, he leaves town with the local residents wondering what the hell happened.
Dude! Did I not state 'if you can't see the irony, you've been watching too much FAUX NEWS'???? Seriously, read before you post otherwise you are just as bad as Beck.
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You are assuming that this is the only method that these bots are created when this is not the case. Bot nets are rooted often without the users knowledge and without them needing to 'agree' to an installation due to zero-day's and bad engineering decisions. Your assumption that the only way to get anything installed on an OS is through social engineering is a fallacy and a misconception that only companies that have badly engineered products would want you to believe.
It's not really Microsoft's problem, but they still help to solve it.
Bad engineering isn't their problem? You seem to lack a basic understanding of computers yourself and shouldn't be operating the one you are on. I hereby revoke your license.
Yeah but I need to start trying out WebGL (which works in all major browser EXCEPT IE) and need a decent debugger which IE has never really had. That may have changed recently and they may have an improved debugger but they still don't support WebGL and I still prefer Firebug so *shrug*. They're still playing catchup from the days they decided that they could sit on their monopolized asses.
Actually that's incorrect on a technicality. That's the goal of a CORPORATION... not a COMPANY. A corporation's goal is to raise it's stock price. A company's goal is to make money.
yep have to admit when all the mortgage things happened, the credit unions remained unscathed. My wife and I asked our credit union about that and they said they don't report to a board but only report to their members so they are not under alot of pressure to make giant risky investments; they are only their for their members. And while other banks were being taken over left and right, you didn't see hardly any credit unions being taken over.
The best way to preserve privacy is to pollute databases. Data miners now use a variety of sources to 'confirm' information (whether you are male, married, income, political affiliation etc) and the more often you can pollute those databases, the better. If they cannot get a greater than %60 accuracy on your data, you are not a good lead for them.
Technically you would be right. But Factually you are wrong.
You're right, testing the HTML5 canvas tag for support of 3D should not be allowed. What was I thinking?
Well you got me on a technicality; it's supported through the canvas tag (part of the HTML5 spec) and WebGL is an open standard with it's own spec and is supported by all browsers... except IE. Making it the lone hold out and a throwback. This is SVG and CSS all over again. Where other browsers advance, IE stands back and waits and as a result, gets lapped by progress.
So those who use HTML5 and want 3D applications will just all be converting to Chrome, Safari or Firefox as a result. No harm done.
I don't know how IE has an HTML5 advantage since they have to do a WebGL conversion to DirectX which causes all renders to take 3X as long. You can hear it talked about in this demo from Fractallab(http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/07/tom-subblue-reddard.html#comments) an online fractal generator built in HTML5 using WebGL.
Why would you want to remember every post and every tweet and every picture? Its a DAMN good things that there is data loss at least for the mundane. I don't want people seeing everything I first posted when I from my first websites and my first forays into the web. LET IT DIE ALREADY YOU FRIGGIN INTERNET VAMPIRES!
Also... this should be obvious but I should point out that such a model could NOT work on a subscription basis of charging a monthly/yearly fee or per license fee up front until AFTER a large enough knowledge base was created first. Then they could change models. This will of course anger alot of people as changing access/charge models like this always does anger people but having created this knowledge base and created the relationship with people who use this as a source of revenue, this will be the number one place for support for large open source applications (aside from the projects themselves).
Additionally, you could even charge people a nominal yearly fee for access as what you would be creating is an online knowledge base for support and trouble shooting of just about every open source project in the world. This would be WORTH a monthly/yearly fee and most companies would gladly pay a small 'per license fee' or one lump sum fee just for the support.
Considering the route Canonical is going, you could easily work out an agreement with them more than likely (as long as they got THEIR cut) and eventually expand into phone support allowing those with most accurate records to be called via a voip number which would be routed through a web interface (thus allowing logging of times and handling of availability).
Better. Supply open source support for sourceforge/open source projects.
Allow people to signup (with valid paypal account) and they go into a support pool for open source projects. People who answer questions correctly (or get most points) get most pay while fewer points get a smaller percentage of pay for that question.
People who wish to pay for support can sign up for an unlimited number of questions or pay per question asked. The amount would be based on each project and the popularity and number of downloads of said project (or something like that). Percentage of pay could also go to maintainers of project.
Its ok... your a PHP developer. People don't expect much of you. (see thats how you deliver it... and thats what your mom said)
Better design helps with a more flexible codebase. Having to code around Drupal rather than just placing controller/model/view in their appropriate directories and allowing the container to manager plugins for ACLs/etc, can create a spaghetti coded nightmare in the longrun. Sure you can whip up code samples quickly but is it a longterm, maintainable and extensible code structure? No because it lacks structure. This is something that a framework provides.
Go GROOVY/GRAILS!! (my plug)
if you are using PHP and want purity with the ease of scripting language, you seriously need to jump ship.
Well oddly enough, the numbers do not always accurately portray the location of birth or where you were issued the number as numbers are some counties cannot use anymore numbers within their allotted region code and have to then rely on nearby region codes to allot numbers. It does give you a general idea however thus allowing one to reduce the number of 'bob jones' to look for within a metropolitan region and within a specific issuing period.
sure... here you go. [insert deity here] bless the internet.
For every single C*O and marketing person that stands up and says how Microsoft LOVES open source, for every time Techcrunch and Techflash spouts how Microsoft is now open source friendly, things like this continue to happen. Their excuse no doubt is that no one would be making money when an open source product can sell just as well; not everyone wants to compile the source code!!
But I suppose now I will have the 'mandated by Microsoft' attacks because I stated the obvious and get modded down. So be it. Someone has to speak up and state what everyone is thinking.
And by the way, that thought pattern of the fact that 'someone thinks something different than you therefore they MUST serve satan' is more religious brainwashing nonsense. It's that kind of thing that makes religious people seem zealous, ignorant and arrogant. The fact alone that you are assuming that your thinking is SO CORRECT that a group of people who thinks differently that you must somehow fall within your belief system by making them all 'evil' regardless of the fact that they are morally and ethically fine people shows nothing but arrogance and contempt for your own brain.
Proving yet again that you can sit people in front of a TV and they will always watch the stupidest thing on. Put him up against a timeslot of poodles licking their balls and I'll bet he'll get a real run for his money.
He's figured out what every snake oil salesman and con-man has figured out for the last million years: that every mark is stupid and the vast majority of the populace is a mark. They are their to be fleeced regardless of the consequences. And once he has gotten as much money as he can and had as much fun with the local farmers daughters, he leaves town with the local residents wondering what the hell happened.
ALL HAIL MOON GOD!!!
Dude! Did I not state 'if you can't see the irony, you've been watching too much FAUX NEWS'???? Seriously, read before you post otherwise you are just as bad as Beck.