"I'd be astonished if the open-source community has in total done as many man-years of computer security code reviews as we have done in the last two months."
It's annoying how "the ignorant" masses will take anything Microsoft says as fact.
I doubt they are using this massive cluster all the time. They should donate CPU time. I wonder what would happen if they ran distributed.net or seti@home clients on ASCI. Do you think ASCI could actually/. seti@home? hmm...
My thought is that time travel will NEVER exist. Imagine a time machine is built in the future. Wouldn't someone use it to travel back to the present (2002 or even earlier)? I think we would see evidence of time travel and even exponential technological advancements (bringing technology from the future, most likely for profit)
The company I work for does third party fulfillment. During an advertising meeting I mentioned Google's AdWords Select. Basically you pay only for the the clicks, giving you unlimited impressions as long as your click through ratio stays above 0.5% So far, AdWords has paid for itself with new clients. I really hope that Overture doesn't win this one. Unfortunately, the patent seems to describe extactly how Adwords Select operates. The more money your willing to spend on a click, the higher up on the page your ad is shown.
After reading the defendants comments, I don't understand why they didn't sue petswarehouse.com for poor service, slow shipping and obvious misrepresentation of price. $15 million seems excessive for comments rightfully made by disgruntled customers. I mean, their company probably doesn't even make that much in a year.
It's funny, I can't recall a single junk email ever received from a legitimate US network address. Either the Japanese and Russians are the only enterprising spammers, or the US spammers aren't as 'legit' as they claim to be.
Actually, you're wrong. The comments posted on Slashdot are generally protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and are made available under protection of The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) 47 U.S.C. 230 ("Section 230") and supporting case law.
Both the statute (CDA's Section 230 provisions) and case law are very strong in the exemptions granted to the operators of a computer service from the duties and liabilities of a traditional publisher. Every direct challenge brought against an online service provider regarding speech contributed by a third-party has been defeated both at trial and in appellate court.
Zeran vs America Online. U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of defendant, AOL, that defendant was NOT responsible for defamatory statements made via its service by a third party per 230 of the CDA. Subsequent appeal was denied by US Supreme Court.
Ben Ezra, Weinstein, and Co., Inc. v. America Online Inc. The US District Court in New Mexico held that AOL "clearly qualifies" for Internet service provider immunity under 230 of the CDA. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals also upheld this finding.
Curzon Brown v. San Francisco Community College District Plantiff charged that TeacherReview.com was responsible for defamatory comments made on its web site about a professor at San Francisco City College. In settlement, plantiff abandoned claim and was forced to pay $10,000 to TeacherReview.com for legal fees.
I can relate warez to mp3s.. People hacking and cracking the software never intended on purchasing the software in the first place, so how can they claim a loss in profits? It's not like the CTO of some large corporation says "Hey Joe, before you go out and purchase Microsoft SQL Server, why don't you check #warez950 on EFNet first..."
It's only a matter of time before Google will be forced to "sell out" to stay in business. That being said, Google is one of the few dot coms I'd be wiling to pay a small monthly subscription.
As currently slated by yahoo.com and securedelivery.com, its more media hype than actual security. After reading the article, the transport of the original email from the sender to Yahoo! is plaintext over TCP/IP, No SSL. And as we all know, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Last I checked, its a free country and nobody is forcing you to pay for this service nor listen to the music. If it were to turn out too many commericals, people would stop buying the service.
Did I miss something? Since when has the Seagrams Corporation been a voice or leader on Internet technologies? Stick with your own business and stay out of ours.
The article was suppose to explain why not to use MySQL, but in my estimation, failed miserably. IMHO, MySQL has excellent performance based off it's advertised features. If you need ACID, buy Oracle. But, basically, don't buy a Honda Civic and complain that it doesn't have side impact air bags and 4 wheel disc anti-lock brakes, when they never advertised that it does. MySQL and Oracle are two completely different system, so don't waste our time comparing them.
Excellent point! I believe in using the right tools for the job. A comment posted here read "96% of the top 50 e-commerce sites use Oracle." Sure, if your website is handling customer orders and money you better use a RDBMS that supports commit/rollback, strong data integrity, etc.. However, we must remember the percentage of real time data driven sites using Oracle is FAR LESS. Thousands of sucessful websites depend on MySQL, and have been running flawlessy for years. Would I develop an e-commerce site using MySQL, the obvious answer is no. Would use it to organize my favorite drinks online? Yes!
Maybe I prefer to live an ignorant life but from what I can tell Napster users are the fans interested in the music. Metallica has always been there for their fans, not in the industry for the money. I grew up with Metallica in northern California and even had the chance to meet Lars. Before everyone starts bashing Metallica, calling them sellouts or what not, lets take a look at who started this whole mess.. LAWYERS. I'm willing to believe they (Metallica) have been consumed by their own industry, taking a little too much advise from lawyers and advisors. This is a prime example of what happens when people of power who are technology illiterate battle the other side.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/materials-02h.html
http://www.neilgunton.com/spambot_trap/
Mirror of conversation with Stephen Hawking
It's annoying how "the ignorant" masses will take anything Microsoft says as fact.
Great, we should now fight all wars this way. Let the computers battle it out amongst themselves.
I doubt they are using this massive cluster all the time. They should donate CPU time. I wonder what would happen if they ran distributed.net or seti@home clients on ASCI. Do you think ASCI could actually /. seti@home? hmm...
My thought is that time travel will NEVER exist. Imagine a time machine is built in the future. Wouldn't someone use it to travel back to the present (2002 or even earlier)? I think we would see evidence of time travel and even exponential technological advancements (bringing technology from the future, most likely for profit)
Mirror of http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/Niles.html
The company I work for does third party fulfillment. During an advertising meeting I mentioned Google's AdWords Select. Basically you pay only for the the clicks, giving you unlimited impressions as long as your click through ratio stays above 0.5% So far, AdWords has paid for itself with new clients. I really hope that Overture doesn't win this one. Unfortunately, the patent seems to describe extactly how Adwords Select operates. The more money your willing to spend on a click, the higher up on the page your ad is shown.
After reading the defendants comments, I don't understand why they didn't sue petswarehouse.com for poor service, slow shipping and obvious misrepresentation of price. $15 million seems excessive for comments rightfully made by disgruntled customers. I mean, their company probably doesn't even make that much in a year.
It's funny, I can't recall a single junk email ever received from a legitimate US network address. Either the Japanese and Russians are the only enterprising spammers, or the US spammers aren't as 'legit' as they claim to be.
Both the statute (CDA's Section 230 provisions) and case law are very strong in the exemptions granted to the operators of a computer service from the duties and liabilities of a traditional publisher. Every direct challenge brought against an online service provider regarding speech contributed by a third-party has been defeated both at trial and in appellate court.
I can relate warez to mp3s.. People hacking and cracking the software never intended on purchasing the software in the first place, so how can they claim a loss in profits? It's not like the CTO of some large corporation says "Hey Joe, before you go out and purchase Microsoft SQL Server, why don't you check #warez950 on EFNet first..."
It's only a matter of time before Google will be forced to "sell out" to stay in business. That being said, Google is one of the few dot coms I'd be wiling to pay a small monthly subscription.
I would be much more impressed to the the original hardware run Windows.
As currently slated by yahoo.com and securedelivery.com, its more media hype than actual security. After reading the article, the transport of the original email from the sender to Yahoo! is plaintext over TCP/IP, No SSL. And as we all know, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Are these signals encrypted? I would imagine they are. So where can I pick up an H Card for this great new service?
Last I checked, its a free country and nobody is forcing you to pay for this service nor listen to the music. If it were to turn out too many commericals, people would stop buying the service.
There is a difference. You can't compare UCE to MP3s. When I download a MP3 anonymously, I'm asking for the file. I don't ask for unsolicited email!
Did I miss something? Since when has the Seagrams Corporation been a voice or leader on Internet technologies? Stick with your own business and stay out of ours.
--Brent
Most of the civilized world knows the Seagrams Corp. and Dr. Dre, unless I just get out more than most.
--Brent
The article was suppose to explain why not to use MySQL, but in my estimation, failed miserably. IMHO, MySQL has excellent performance based off it's advertised features. If you need ACID, buy Oracle. But, basically, don't buy a Honda Civic and complain that it doesn't have side impact air bags and 4 wheel disc anti-lock brakes, when they never advertised that it does. MySQL and Oracle are two completely different system, so don't waste our time comparing them.
Excellent point! I believe in using the right tools for the job. A comment posted here read "96% of the top 50 e-commerce sites use Oracle." Sure, if your website is handling customer orders and money you better use a RDBMS that supports commit/rollback, strong data integrity, etc.. However, we must remember the percentage of real time data driven sites using Oracle is FAR LESS. Thousands of sucessful websites depend on MySQL, and have been running flawlessy for years. Would I develop an e-commerce site using MySQL, the obvious answer is no. Would use it to organize my favorite drinks online? Yes!
just my 2 cents.
Maybe I prefer to live an ignorant life but from what I can tell Napster users are the fans interested in the music. Metallica has always been there for their fans, not in the industry for the money. I grew up with Metallica in northern California and even had the chance to meet Lars. Before everyone starts bashing Metallica, calling them sellouts or what not, lets take a look at who started this whole mess.. LAWYERS. I'm willing to believe they (Metallica) have been consumed by their own industry, taking a little too much advise from lawyers and advisors. This is a prime example of what happens when people of power who are technology illiterate battle the other side.
Now if I get any problems wrong on this Friday's Final Exam in Physics I can claim I was using the new 'exact' gravitational constant =)