I hate to critqie this as if it were a real paper, but...
Here's the problem: You monopolists appear to believe that you have a right to business as usual. You believe that if the rules of the marketplace change, it's not fair. You believe that you somehow deserve the private planes, the great parties, and the obscene profits.
"obscene profits" is an alert phrase. It means the writer is a borderline (or full) socialist. Once you accept that some level of profit is obscene, it opens up the question "obscene according to whom?" And usually the implication is that the person writing (or their government) should decide what is an "acceptable" level of profit.
I think you are putting the emphasis on the wrong word. It isn't "protect users from [some bad outcome]" it is "protect [mailicious] users from [doing something bad]"
My guess is that they meant to use "prevent", not "protect".
One of our server got used by a phisher as a means for checking his hotmail, which received all the replies from his phishing expeditions. This particular one was the eBay one. I would say that the replies broke down about this way:
30% sent in funny, or fake data 60% answered with their eBay logins, but nothing else
The scary was the last 10%. They put in essentially every bit of personal data they had -- credit card numbers, their ATM PIN, social security numbers, even their checking account number and routing number!
We called the FBI and the credit card companies, and none of them wanted to talk to us because we weren't personally harmed, and had no monetary damages.
They really don't have anything better to do. Spirit was completely under software control -- all they could do was monitor the incoming data, which was nine minutes old. If anything went wrong, there was nothing to do
It was really exciting to watch on NASA TV, though.
I've had the chance to meet both Dave Barry and William Gibson at book signings. Dave was just a regular guy, friendly as heck. William Gibson was a *total* jerk.
Sierra had a sense of humor too. I think in Leisure Suit Larry 2, if you hit the boss key it popped up a simulated word processor with a resignation letter in it.
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"obscene profits" is an alert phrase. It means the writer is a borderline (or full) socialist. Once you accept that some level of profit is obscene, it opens up the question "obscene according to whom?" And usually the implication is that the person writing (or their government) should decide what is an "acceptable" level of profit.
We don't want to go down that road.
I think you are putting the emphasis on the wrong word. It isn't "protect users from [some bad outcome]" it is "protect [mailicious] users from [doing something bad]"
My guess is that they meant to use "prevent", not "protect".
One of our server got used by a phisher as a means for checking his hotmail, which received all the replies from his phishing expeditions. This particular one was the eBay one. I would say that the replies broke down about this way:
30% sent in funny, or fake data
60% answered with their eBay logins, but nothing else
The scary was the last 10%. They put in essentially every bit of personal data they had -- credit card numbers, their ATM PIN, social security numbers, even their checking account number and routing number!
We called the FBI and the credit card companies, and none of them wanted to talk to us because we weren't personally harmed, and had no monetary damages.
With a name like "VGF-AP1" you know it is going to be sexy technology. That is so much more catchy and memorable than iPod.
They really don't have anything better to do. Spirit was completely under software control -- all they could do was monitor the incoming data, which was nine minutes old. If anything went wrong, there was nothing to do
It was really exciting to watch on NASA TV, though.
Most of the RDF tools are in Java, but some folks doing C# may be interested in Drive, and excellent RDF parser for C#.
I've had the chance to meet both Dave Barry and William Gibson at book signings. Dave was just a regular guy, friendly as heck. William Gibson was a *total* jerk.
Sierra had a sense of humor too. I think in Leisure Suit Larry 2, if you hit the boss key it popped up a simulated word processor with a resignation letter in it.