In a former life, I was managing the data for the alumni department of a college. They had several 'bogus' records in their data. The idea being that Mrs. Martha Jones (fictitious, but better than Jane Doe, no?) at such and so an address actually ended up in the home mailbox of the VP, or his mom, or the director in charge of mailings. If the mailing house managing the account ever sold the list (that would be early-90s data hacking), they would know because the VP would suddenly start getting non-college mail addressed to this fictitious name.
[pet_peeve] Last year, as a high school student, you may have been 'prospect' for Duke.
This year, as a freshman attending the institution, you may offer a 'perspective'. You actually had a lot of good things to say, but from the subject alone I would assume you were a 'prospective' freshman considering attending the university. [/pet_peeve]
Reminds me of my junior year, Complex Geometry. At the end of the term the professor announced that since no one had earned an A, a B+ was the high for the quarter. Not a popular announcement I can assure you, but in retrospect he was correct. It was tough subject matter, if you don't display a mastery of it you don't deserve an A.
No, the point is that the patent is an asset, and the management and board of SBC could reasonably be found negligent if they failed to leverage an asset that could enhance shareholder value. Given the existence of the patent they must pursue it or be sued and replaced by irate investors.
In the end it comes back to the U.S. Patent Office, and the fact that they keep issuing boneheaded patents! Remedy the illness, not the symptom...
Rather then spend the mod points, I'll just correct the fallacy... Your math is just a little bit _too_ simple.
$177M/quarter == $708M/year > $500M/year
Granted, a linear extrapolation may not be quite appropriate, but it make a good straw man. Anyway, without the PR they are looking at a loss of just over $200M for the year.
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Read the article again.
They mention that Sony had a parallel effort that was merged in, and a recent patch from ILM.
Not that four studios is a lot, but it's twice as many as two.
Not to defend him, but he is the vice president for 'sales and marketing'. In my book that means he's completely f*cking clueless with his head firmly lodged in his sphincter, at least until proven otherwise.
But that may be just my take on things...;-)
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but they actually do a pretty amazing job of reusing pieces, or at the very least molds. a new piece of branding may require something they haven't made before, but soon you see them used pretty creatively in other sets.
case in point... the 'flames' from the castle sets. looked like a one-off, no other use. until they showed up as coral (same mold, different color) in one of the undersea sets.
the same thing happens over and over again. every time I see a specialized piece, I cringe. and then I start to imagine what else their designers might do with that mold.
while it is true that that native myisam type drops all foreign key constraints on the floor, innodb does support foreign keys. and I'm pretty sure innodb integration into mysql was the whole point of this article.
I was flabbergasted when I read it, but it's true and it works...
try it yourself... build a couple of referential tables in mysql using the innodb table type. inserts into the child table will fail without correlating data in the parent. likewise deletes from the parent will fail if child data exists.
you've got a guy stopped by the police; up against the car while they search it. they finally find a stack of newspapers and take him away in handcuffs.
"New Haven, Conn. -- Citing creative differences, SatireWire's founder and sole employee, Andrew Marlatt, announced that as of today, the site will no longer be updated."
I wasn't saying it wasn't possible. I wasn't even saying it _should_ be done. I was merely contesting the assertion that there were simple configuration changes that would automagically make the problem go away.
if you truly want to employ a technical approach to stop deep linking, a successful approach will _not_ be as simplistic as the Neon Spiral Injector suggests. not by far.
as to 'impractical for anything mainstream'... all you need to do is launch a new window via javascript to load the linked page. most (all?) browsers don't send a referer header in this case. no client modification, no cut-and-paste, and definitely easy enough to be mainstream.
the above works for all the simple cases, but (as is often the case) falls apart at the fringe.
modern browsers do send the referer, but it is _NOT_ a required in the http specification. it is an optional header...
last I checked there were still some proxies in use (at various isps, companies) that quite appropriately strip out the referer header. in this case, the above cgi would prevent a user behind such a proxy from accessing any page but/index.html as any other link would be redirected back.
not entirely true... at my college, there was one section once a year of a class called 'Math as a Liberal Art', and it was limited to 25 seats or so. past that, any humanities students hoping to graduate (there was a math requirement) had to pass freshman calculus.
of course, this may well be the exception that proves the rule......
Does the name Dmitri Skylarov ring a bell? The U.S. government thinks it is entitled to prosecute a non-U.S. citizen for acts committed outside the U.S. Why would they not support the same far-reaching power for the Italian government? The U.S. opened a _BIG_ can of worms with the Skylarov prosecution... I've even begun to wonder if I should avoid travel to France, since under French law a website must provide a French version and my employer does not...
which is why they won't go after microsoft. they'll test first against someone too small to defend themselves. once they have a favorable decision or three they'll go after the deep pockets.
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_and_ ten minutes of 'face' time with an intern......
In a former life, I was managing the data for the alumni department of a college. They had several 'bogus' records in their data. The idea being that Mrs. Martha Jones (fictitious, but better than Jane Doe, no?) at such and so an address actually ended up in the home mailbox of the VP, or his mom, or the director in charge of mailings. If the mailing house managing the account ever sold the list (that would be early-90s data hacking), they would know because the VP would suddenly start getting non-college mail addressed to this fictitious name.
Decidedly low-tech, but effective.
funny, but not entirely accurate. not that one can be completely accurate when discussing mythological creatures, but......
a pegasus is simply a winged horse. a _unicorn_ has a horn.
so, how do the cost of ownership comparisons look now? ;-)
[pet_peeve]
Last year, as a high school student, you may have been 'prospect' for Duke.
This year, as a freshman attending the institution, you may offer a 'perspective'. You actually had a lot of good things to say, but from the subject alone I would assume you were a 'prospective' freshman considering attending the university.
[/pet_peeve]
Reminds me of my junior year, Complex Geometry. At the end of the term the professor announced that since no one had earned an A, a B+ was the high for the quarter. Not a popular announcement I can assure you, but in retrospect he was correct. It was tough subject matter, if you don't display a mastery of it you don't deserve an A.
No, the point is that the patent is an asset, and the management and board of SBC could reasonably be found negligent if they failed to leverage an asset that could enhance shareholder value. Given the existence of the patent they must pursue it or be sued and replaced by irate investors.
In the end it comes back to the U.S. Patent Office, and the fact that they keep issuing boneheaded patents! Remedy the illness, not the symptom...
I'm pretty sure you mean M.U.L.E.
u csd.edu/~amany/mule.html
http://www.eidolons-inn.de/mule/
http://weber.
I wasted _many_ an hour playing this game as a kid...
Rather then spend the mod points, I'll just correct the fallacy... Your math is just a little bit _too_ simple.
$177M/quarter == $708M/year > $500M/year
Granted, a linear extrapolation may not be quite appropriate, but it make a good straw man. Anyway, without the PR they are looking at a loss of just over $200M for the year.
Read the article again.
They mention that Sony had a parallel effort that was merged in, and a recent patch from ILM.
Not that four studios is a lot, but it's twice as many as two.
Not to defend him, but he is the vice president for 'sales and marketing'. In my book that means he's completely f*cking clueless with his head firmly lodged in his sphincter, at least until proven otherwise.
;-)
But that may be just my take on things...
but they actually do a pretty amazing job of reusing pieces, or at the very least molds. a new piece of branding may require something they haven't made before, but soon you see them used pretty creatively in other sets.
case in point... the 'flames' from the castle sets. looked like a one-off, no other use. until they showed up as coral (same mold, different color) in one of the undersea sets.
the same thing happens over and over again. every time I see a specialized piece, I cringe. and then I start to imagine what else their designers might do with that mold.
while it is true that that native myisam type drops all foreign key constraints on the floor, innodb does support foreign keys. and I'm pretty sure innodb integration into mysql was the whole point of this article.
I was flabbergasted when I read it, but it's true and it works...
try it yourself... build a couple of referential tables in mysql using the innodb table type. inserts into the child table will fail without correlating data in the parent. likewise deletes from the parent will fail if child data exists.
my favorite is the car search.
you've got a guy stopped by the police; up against the car while they search it. they finally find a stack of newspapers and take him away in handcuffs.
ouch!
read up on quantum crypto.
I don't know, I could probably fill 320GB with just the porn _spam_ I've received in the last few months.
5. Have you ever sold any illegal drug for profit?
wait? so if I didn't profit, I'm still ok? whoo-hoo!!! I mean, I might have failed econ but at least I won't fail the FBI questionaire.
did you even read the article?!?
"New Haven, Conn. -- Citing creative differences, SatireWire's founder and sole employee, Andrew Marlatt, announced that as of today, the site will no longer be updated."
[emphasis added]
- mark
Douglas Adams, something to the effect of 'anyone who wants the office should never be allowed to take it'.
- mark
I wasn't saying it wasn't possible. I wasn't even saying it _should_ be done. I was merely contesting the assertion that there were simple configuration changes that would automagically make the problem go away.
if you truly want to employ a technical approach to stop deep linking, a successful approach will _not_ be as simplistic as the Neon Spiral Injector suggests. not by far.
as to 'impractical for anything mainstream'... all you need to do is launch a new window via javascript to load the linked page. most (all?) browsers don't send a referer header in this case. no client modification, no cut-and-paste, and definitely easy enough to be mainstream.
- mark
the above works for all the simple cases, but (as is often the case) falls apart at the fringe.
/index.html as any other link would be redirected back.
modern browsers do send the referer, but it is _NOT_ a required in the http specification. it is an optional header...
last I checked there were still some proxies in use (at various isps, companies) that quite appropriately strip out the referer header. in this case, the above cgi would prevent a user behind such a proxy from accessing any page but
- mark
not entirely true... at my college, there was one section once a year of a class called 'Math as a Liberal Art', and it was limited to 25 seats or so. past that, any humanities students hoping to graduate (there was a math requirement) had to pass freshman calculus.
of course, this may well be the exception that proves the rule......
- mark
I just checked the tar file in the openssh-3.4p1-1.src.rpm that I updated all of my boxen from, and it contains
459c1d0262e939d6432f193c7a4ba8a8 openssh-3.4p1.tar.gz
_whew_!
- mark
Does the name Dmitri Skylarov ring a bell? The U.S. government thinks it is entitled to prosecute a non-U.S. citizen for acts committed outside the U.S. Why would they not support the same far-reaching power for the Italian government? The U.S. opened a _BIG_ can of worms with the Skylarov prosecution... I've even begun to wonder if I should avoid travel to France, since under French law a website must provide a French version and my employer does not...
- mark
which is why they won't go after microsoft. they'll test first against someone too small to defend themselves. once they have a favorable decision or three they'll go after the deep pockets.
- mark