Unfortunately, there isn't any magic formula that can give us a 100% definitive answer about whether a blog is just propaganda or an interesting collation of texts gleaned from elsewhere.
What should be 100% definitive, though, is that even lazy, disingenuous fanboyism is *not* "astroturfing".
I think so, too, but it's not like 1.3 GB is hard to fill. I send you and some others a 1.3 meg PowerPoint file, someone else replies to all with the file attached, two other people do the same thing, you archive them all to be on the safe side -- you've just filled 0.4% of it in ten minutes. (Or 0.39%. I can never keep those 1000's and 1024's straight.)
Well, that's half of the problem, but the idiots yelling "IT'S A VIOLATION OF TEH DMCA!!! YUO NEED TO MOVE TO RUSSIA!!!" on every case of perfectly legitimate reverse engineering are the other half. That's why it's important to explain that this guy is (unless he signed an NDA or the like) on perfectly safe ground, instead of feeding the persecution fantasies of the mob.
I don't understand what your concern is. You're not under an NDA, presumably, so I don't see where there's any legal issue at all. The part about maybe wanting a job there is another matter, obviously. (IANAL, also obviously...)
Yup, "and have been since it's inception" instantly marks him as a good fit for the Linux community!
Honestly, though, his reply was more polite and reasonable than the thread deserved. Do people really have nothing better to contribute to the LKML than silly hairsplitting about the difference between "Linux" and "the Linux kernel"?
I don't want to give advice about your particular situation without knowing more about it, but -- presenting a single position to the outside and allowing internal debate aren't contradictory. When a decision is made to not do things your way, not publically undercutting the plan is professionalism, not censorship. It's when you can't question things internally that there's something badly broken.
There are plenty of extremely popular foreign brands in Japan, from low-end (McDonalds, Coca Cola) to luxury (Louis Vuitton, Prada). It's a tough market, but not at all unprecedented to break into.
So, does ClamAV have such a page (as opposed to their virus defs and a searchable database of names of identified viruses)? If so, that answers the original question; if not, I'm not sure what your point is.
Because that's the single most precious asset the anti-virus makers have!!! There's no way they're going to give that away! And it doesn't seem like a huge priority for a volunteer effort as the sort of people capable of and interested in doing that work don't often get viruses.
I agree on the China end, but the Allah thing seems to have been a stopgap measure put in to block some idiot and reversed once he got bored and went away. No one would have noticed it if some blogger hadn't picked that brief interval to try to register some *allah* name, flipped out and hit the blogopanic blogobutton.
Given that Slashcode is full of features designed to thwart some specific jackass who hasn't been here in five years, at least Yahoo deserves credit for cleaning this up afterwards.
Yes, obviously there will be bubbles again. Human stupidity and greed are constants. I was responding to the OP's point, not declaring that we've now reached permanent equilibrium.
I hate to tell you this, but the days of high school grads getting a Cisco cert or reading an O'Reilly book and pulling down $80K in an entry level job are gone forever. That was a historical aberration and there's no economic policy that will bring it back.
I've read the linked article, the commentary article in Nature and the Paper itself, and am completely mystified as to what they're claiming. As best as I can tell, they subsetted their data and found that the (rather misleadingly named) "non-running" events were more informative than the set as a whole.
Coming back here, the discussion consists entirely of moronic comments about Windows. Would someone with a clue care to provide some useful commentary?
I'm not sure how you managed to get that from "Ultimately, Google.org will spend a sum that equals about 1% of the number of shares Google had when it went public. Based on the current stock price, that implies spending of more than $1.1 billion."
The fund has a $90M endowment, and "ultimately" I wouldn't base anything on the current stock price.
Personally, I'd rather have seen them run their business ethically than make money from providing censorship to China and give it back with some nebulous charitable scheme, but...
And yet there's enough interest to keep poker on three different channels around the clock, and people will watch Huey Lewis check raise Melissa Rivers. So, who knows?
Not that this is coming any time soon, but I'd be more likely to buy a rollable or foldable display that you could lay out on a table. Like the constantly rumored e-paper, but with a wireless connection to a computer elsewhere. Lock-in to a specific table is a lot less attractive, although when Microsoft comes out with such a thing, I'm looking forward to the yelling about how they're abusing their monopoly position in furniture.
How did you handle software licensing, especially for high-priced apps?
I'm just guessing, but if you use a keyserver for those apps, is it possible to limit it to certain IP's? i.e. set it up so your 20 Matlab licenses only work in a given lab?
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What should be 100% definitive, though, is that even lazy, disingenuous fanboyism is *not* "astroturfing".
...and keep your receipts and remember to take the tax deduction!!!!
Sorry -- you're running WINE on a G4? How do you do that?
I think so, too, but it's not like 1.3 GB is hard to fill. I send you and some others a 1.3 meg PowerPoint file, someone else replies to all with the file attached, two other people do the same thing, you archive them all to be on the safe side -- you've just filled 0.4% of it in ten minutes. (Or 0.39%. I can never keep those 1000's and 1024's straight.)
Well, that's half of the problem, but the idiots yelling "IT'S A VIOLATION OF TEH DMCA!!! YUO NEED TO MOVE TO RUSSIA!!!" on every case of perfectly legitimate reverse engineering are the other half. That's why it's important to explain that this guy is (unless he signed an NDA or the like) on perfectly safe ground, instead of feeding the persecution fantasies of the mob.
I don't understand what your concern is. You're not under an NDA, presumably, so I don't see where there's any legal issue at all. The part about maybe wanting a job there is another matter, obviously. (IANAL, also obviously...)
Yup, "and have been since it's inception" instantly marks him as a good fit for the Linux community!
Honestly, though, his reply was more polite and reasonable than the thread deserved. Do people really have nothing better to contribute to the LKML than silly hairsplitting about the difference between "Linux" and "the Linux kernel"?
I don't want to give advice about your particular situation without knowing more about it, but -- presenting a single position to the outside and allowing internal debate aren't contradictory. When a decision is made to not do things your way, not publically undercutting the plan is professionalism, not censorship. It's when you can't question things internally that there's something badly broken.
I have to admit -- I followed that link expecting to see that he'd built a train between his house and Yahoo, not an AJAX app...
I'm guessing the world has embraced the w4r3z model over either of the ones you mention.
There are plenty of extremely popular foreign brands in Japan, from low-end (McDonalds, Coca Cola) to luxury (Louis Vuitton, Prada). It's a tough market, but not at all unprecedented to break into.
So, does ClamAV have such a page (as opposed to their virus defs and a searchable database of names of identified viruses)? If so, that answers the original question; if not, I'm not sure what your point is.
Because that's the single most precious asset the anti-virus makers have!!! There's no way they're going to give that away! And it doesn't seem like a huge priority for a volunteer effort as the sort of people capable of and interested in doing that work don't often get viruses.
Wow, you must be insanely well-adjusted. That barely scratches the surface of my bitterness!
That's exactly what he's saying, that when the game meets everyone's expectations, they'll release it.
No, it's a grave offense to Jews to use the name of our bread that way.
Given that Slashcode is full of features designed to thwart some specific jackass who hasn't been here in five years, at least Yahoo deserves credit for cleaning this up afterwards.
Yes, obviously there will be bubbles again. Human stupidity and greed are constants. I was responding to the OP's point, not declaring that we've now reached permanent equilibrium.
I hate to tell you this, but the days of high school grads getting a Cisco cert or reading an O'Reilly book and pulling down $80K in an entry level job are gone forever. That was a historical aberration and there's no economic policy that will bring it back.
1) In the Elitzur-Vaidman thought experiment, which part corresponds to the on-off switch?
2) Is the "non-running" experiment physically performed differently from the normal method, or is it a refinement made in the data?
Coming back here, the discussion consists entirely of moronic comments about Windows. Would someone with a clue care to provide some useful commentary?
I'm not sure how you managed to get that from "Ultimately, Google.org will spend a sum that equals about 1% of the number of shares Google had when it went public. Based on the current stock price, that implies spending of more than $1.1 billion."
The fund has a $90M endowment, and "ultimately" I wouldn't base anything on the current stock price.
Personally, I'd rather have seen them run their business ethically than make money from providing censorship to China and give it back with some nebulous charitable scheme, but...
And yet there's enough interest to keep poker on three different channels around the clock, and people will watch Huey Lewis check raise Melissa Rivers. So, who knows?
Not that this is coming any time soon, but I'd be more likely to buy a rollable or foldable display that you could lay out on a table. Like the constantly rumored e-paper, but with a wireless connection to a computer elsewhere. Lock-in to a specific table is a lot less attractive, although when Microsoft comes out with such a thing, I'm looking forward to the yelling about how they're abusing their monopoly position in furniture.
I'm just guessing, but if you use a keyserver for those apps, is it possible to limit it to certain IP's? i.e. set it up so your 20 Matlab licenses only work in a given lab?