Well, I agree but... "(...)which bans the use of cell phones AND other portable electronic devices". I don't understand why every electronic device (at least those noticed by hostesses and stewards) should be turned off. My times I was told not to use a Digital camera while flying. Do they really belive a digital camera could annoy the airplane electronic devices? Or do they ban everything "just in case"? I love taking picture from the sky and I belive there's no risk for our safety involved in this... What about digital whatches? MP3 players? And what if I use my phone in "offline mode" just to listen to music?
Good work, Ben. Definetely interesting. VC mission is to generate money for their shareholders, and from this standpoint it's not strange they put money on these companies too: their logic is to invest money on many SW companies, hoping at least one would yield a big return on investments.
But, how far can they go? Shouldn't exist limits to prevent anyone from putting money on companies that violate other people's privacy?
" I am afraid the real problem is the intellegence of the average thief."
No, I don't believe so... I'm pretty sure care thieves are usually smarter than car owners. Furthermore, unless the car is well protected, it can be stolen (as it happens today) using a crane and loading it on a truck.
There's no need to turn the engine on in order to go away with a brand new beatiful BMW 530... I love the new one...
"(...)Of course, if the spammer is being paid per hit, the advertiser is spending a lot of money to advertise to/dev/null, so it's unlikely that they'll continue the current business model."
As far as your program is concerned, I believe the idea could be good... But only as long as company hosting the web server can "retaliate" on the spammer and is accurately monitoring its web server logs...
But I can't understand why we focus only on the spammers... As long as someone is willing to pay for this "mass marketing method", there'll be spammers around... Maybe using different media, the next big comm technology, whatever it'll be. The only way to hit their business model is fining companies who rely on spammers to promote their products. Maybe it isn't that easy defining what spam is if compared to other mass marketing systems, but I'm pretty sure we can manage to get something almost everyone agree upon.
In the end, if I want to promote my products, I can't ignore what channels an advertiser is going to use. And I must know that using spam to sell products has this counter effect of being fined. Why don't we have a look at their business model from this angle?
"...goes public instead can't Microsoft simply begin buying shares of Google to gain "ownership" of the company? "
Well, yes and no... Google is considering selling about a 10 to 15 percent stake to the public, to get something between $2 billion, according to NY Times. Tha's not enough to control the company, but could some how influence it. As a matter of fact, there are concerns about Goldman's close relationship with Microsoft and Yahoo. Goldman Sachs is among the banks that could handle the IPO.
MacOS X 10.3 vs. Linux? Or MacOS X data sheet?
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"MacOS X 10.3 vs. Linux" would make me think of an article detailing pro's and con's of the two OS. The article is interesting for me: I don't know almost anything about the panther thing... But it isn't a real comparison between Linux and MacOs X. The author only says there isn't any compelling reason for switching fron linux to panther.
Oh yes, and all the Vietnamese sweatshop workers that make $2 a day will most likly object to this. (...) This Open Source thing is a good thing. More countries need to do this.
Good point, in my opinion... Just wanted to let you tnow.;-)
They're forcing government owned companies to adopt open source sw. What's wrong with it? If they manage to save money (it's a poor country) they could spend on something else, I'm happy for them. As long as they do not force every people living there to use OSS (which doesn't seem to be the case), it's simply stupid to talk about risks for the freedom of choice.
I take it you've never calculated how many people lived during that time and compared it to how many people lived since? Or even just to how many people are alive right now?
Ok. The author simply chose that time range for some reasons we don't know, having not read that book yet. Nevertheless, we can legitimate wonder if that's the better choice. The population increase follows an exponential curve. Chances are there's much more diffence between 2000 AC and 800 BC rather than 4000 BC and 800 BC population figures.
Many accomplishments are older than 800 BC: just think of Greek philosophy, ancient Chinese culture... Writing had probably been invented 4000 years ago by where now Iraq is...
Ok, there were far less inhabitants on this planet; do this imply those inventions and achievements are less important?
Moreover, I expect those figures to have been, to some extent, weighted with the population. If not, those figures are not fair.
I agree... But I had a look at the blog text. Honestly, there's nothing in it that could embarass MSFT or put it in a bad light. In the end, the blog post is simply speaking of "new toys" arriving that day. It is not telling something like "we finally have decent hardware" or "finally a good OS in Redmond".
The security: I did not see the picture, like many of us. The guy, in what he writes, seems to have carefully taken a picture that could not provide other people with any kind of security information. I'm waiting for the blog to become available. We don't know if its company just wanted a reason to fire him, or if he realy posed a security issue. But I'm wondering what would have happened if the blog was something like "I love this company; It's a great place to work, this is a picture of the place where I work"... I'm not sure he would have been fired...
Do you usually eat silk or cotton? Well, I do eat corn flakes every morning, but I wouldn't put silk inside my milk... Hence, I'll eat those hard drives but not my T-shirt!;-)
I wonder the disclaimer on the HD: "Do not eat the hard drive. Biting the HD could damage stored bits and bytes"
Well, how do they count registered users? This number shouldn't change this way... We can clearly see the/. effect on the increasing number of anonymous users... But the registered ones? Is it a randomly generated integer (some sort of Gaussian distribution with its mean approx. = 14.7)?
Well, I saw many posts related to display size, price, features... But the security issue has been pretty ignored so far.
As well as your post is concerned, I wouldn't feel comfortable in lending my PDA to some stranger who need it to make an emergency call. But, moreover, I wouldn't feel safe at all in having all my sensitive data on a device always on-line. I'm not an expert, but there are many articles highlighting the risks of a tight integration between PDA and mobile phones in terms of security and privacy. I prefer to have two different devices...
Link to a PDF doc: http://www.issa-ct.org/events/archive/2003/0 301%20 CT_ISSA_WirelessSecurityPresentation.pdf
By disabling the messenger service, accordind to MSFT:
Impact of Workaround: If the Messenger service is disabled, messages from the Alerter service (for example notifications from your backup software or Uninterruptible Power Supply) are not transmitted. If the Messenger service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an error message is logged in the System event log.
I totally agree with you. But, IMHO, I believe having a web page with "dirty" images on it isn't a bigger danger to productivity and company's profits than spending the same time reading Italian cuisine receipts or/. posts.
Furthermore, as long as no more band costs are raised while navigating during lunch time or after the working day has ended, where the problem? Should a company's board be concerned with its revenues, costs and profits or its employees political, sexual or gastronomical preferences? Provided it isn't illegal stuff, of course.
It's a very sad world the one where sys admins spend their day implementing content-based filtering and censorship... PHBs who believe their employees are much better for company's revenues if they share the same political, sexual or gastronomical preferences are just that... Pointy Haired Bosses
Well, this WAS true. You really have to love Moz to use it before Moz 1.x. I believe since branch 1.4 Moz developers have been coming out with a very good product. C'mon, you can't really say the latest version of Mozilla is horrible...
Free speech does not mean a community can not moderate itself. As long as you are allowed to post your comment, without having it deleted by other users, there is free speech.
And, according to free speech principle, other members can say "I do not agree with you". That is, modding down a comment.
Download all necessary libraries and compile them on you own. They already offer you the source code... Should they also compile everything for Windows for free too? C'mon...
Or you can use Mozilla and implement the simple steps described here:
http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/xbl.html
This allows you to have Mozilla run Flash animations only if you click on their area within a web page. Pretty useful to avoid all those Flash ads and banners.
Creating artificial shortage isn't just unethical. Having no Enron employee convicted of fraud could simply show there are not enough (=discoverd) elements to convict anyone. Or, maybe, laws are not up to date with a new kind of crimes.
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Well, I agree but... "(...)which bans the use of cell phones AND other portable electronic devices".
I don't understand why every electronic device (at least those noticed by hostesses and stewards) should be turned off.
My times I was told not to use a Digital camera while flying. Do they really belive a digital camera could annoy the airplane electronic devices?
Or do they ban everything "just in case"? I love taking picture from the sky and I belive there's no risk for our safety involved in this...
What about digital whatches? MP3 players? And what if I use my phone in "offline mode" just to listen to music?
Good work, Ben. Definetely interesting. VC mission is to generate money for their shareholders, and from this standpoint it's not strange they put money on these companies too: their logic is to invest money on many SW companies, hoping at least one would yield a big return on investments.
But, how far can they go? Shouldn't exist limits to prevent anyone from putting money on companies that violate other people's privacy?
mic.
" I am afraid the real problem is the intellegence of the average thief."
No, I don't believe so... I'm pretty sure care thieves are usually smarter than car owners.
Furthermore, unless the car is well protected, it can be stolen (as it happens today) using a crane and loading it on a truck.
There's no need to turn the engine on in order to go away with a brand new beatiful BMW 530...
I love the new one...
"(...)Of course, if the spammer is being paid per hit, the advertiser is spending a lot of money to advertise to /dev/null, so it's unlikely that they'll continue the current business model."
As far as your program is concerned, I believe the idea could be good... But only as long as company hosting the web server can "retaliate" on the spammer and is accurately monitoring its web server logs...
But I can't understand why we focus only on the spammers... As long as someone is willing to pay for this "mass marketing method", there'll be spammers around... Maybe using different media, the next big comm technology, whatever it'll be.
The only way to hit their business model is fining companies who rely on spammers to promote their products.
Maybe it isn't that easy defining what spam is if compared to other mass marketing systems, but I'm pretty sure we can manage to get something almost everyone agree upon.
In the end, if I want to promote my products, I can't ignore what channels an advertiser is going to use. And I must know that using spam to sell products has this counter effect of being fined.
Why don't we have a look at their business model from this angle?
mic.
"...goes public instead can't Microsoft simply begin buying shares of Google to gain "ownership" of the company? "
Well, yes and no...
Google is considering selling about a 10 to 15 percent stake to the public, to get something between $2 billion, according to NY Times.
Tha's not enough to control the company, but could some how influence it.
As a matter of fact, there are concerns about Goldman's close relationship with Microsoft and Yahoo. Goldman Sachs is among the banks that could handle the IPO.
"MacOS X 10.3 vs. Linux" would make me think of an article detailing pro's and con's of the two OS.
The article is interesting for me: I don't know almost anything about the panther thing...
But it isn't a real comparison between Linux and MacOs X.
The author only says there isn't any compelling reason for switching fron linux to panther.
Oh yes, and all the Vietnamese sweatshop workers that make $2 a day will most likly object to this. (...)
;-)
This Open Source thing is a good thing. More countries need to do this.
Good point, in my opinion...
Just wanted to let you tnow.
They're forcing government owned companies to adopt open source sw. What's wrong with it?
If they manage to save money (it's a poor country) they could spend on something else, I'm happy for them.
As long as they do not force every people living there to use OSS (which doesn't seem to be the case), it's simply stupid to talk about risks for the freedom of choice.
I take it you've never calculated how many people lived during that time and compared it to how many people lived since? Or even just to how many people are alive right now?
Ok. The author simply chose that time range for some reasons we don't know, having not read that book yet.
Nevertheless, we can legitimate wonder if that's the better choice.
The population increase follows an exponential curve. Chances are there's much more diffence between 2000 AC and 800 BC rather than 4000 BC and 800 BC population figures.
Many accomplishments are older than 800 BC: just think of Greek philosophy, ancient Chinese culture... Writing had probably been invented 4000 years ago by where now Iraq is...
Ok, there were far less inhabitants on this planet; do this imply those inventions and achievements are less important?
Moreover, I expect those figures to have been, to some extent, weighted with the population.
If not, those figures are not fair.
Imagine yourself in Afrika and a terrorist Tiger could eat your ass.
;-)
There aren't tigers in Africa. Apart from the ones kept within zoo...
Just to be pedantic, sorry!
Apart from this, isn't there any treaty against biological weapons proliferation the US, among other nations, signed?
I agree... But I had a look at the blog text. Honestly, there's nothing in it that could embarass MSFT or put it in a bad light.
In the end, the blog post is simply speaking of "new toys" arriving that day. It is not telling something like "we finally have decent hardware" or "finally a good OS in Redmond".
The security: I did not see the picture, like many of us. The guy, in what he writes, seems to have carefully taken a picture that could not provide other people with any kind of security information. I'm waiting for the blog to become available.
We don't know if its company just wanted a reason to fire him, or if he realy posed a security issue.
But I'm wondering what would have happened if the blog was something like "I love this company; It's a great place to work, this is a picture of the place where I work"...
I'm not sure he would have been fired...
Tools --> Internet Options --> Advanced --> Browsing
then uncheck "Enable Install On Demand" check-boxes.
See
This for further information
Yes, viamichelin is a very good site, altough some annoying ads and pop-ups (easily avoided with Moz.).
I like it.
Sorry for that.
Do you usually eat silk or cotton? ;-)
Well, I do eat corn flakes every morning, but I wouldn't put silk inside my milk...
Hence, I'll eat those hard drives but not my T-shirt!
I wonder the disclaimer on the HD: "Do not eat the hard drive. Biting the HD could damage stored bits and bytes"
Well, how do they count registered users? This number shouldn't change this way... /. effect on the increasing number of anonymous users...
We can clearly see the
But the registered ones? Is it a randomly generated integer (some sort of Gaussian distribution with its mean approx. = 14.7)?
Well, I saw many posts related to display size, price, features...
0 301%20 CT_ISSA_WirelessSecurityPresentation.pdf
But the security issue has been pretty ignored so far.
As well as your post is concerned, I wouldn't feel comfortable in lending my PDA to some stranger who need it to make an emergency call.
But, moreover, I wouldn't feel safe at all in having all my sensitive data on a device always on-line.
I'm not an expert, but there are many articles highlighting the risks of a tight integration between PDA and mobile phones in terms of security and privacy.
I prefer to have two different devices...
Link to a PDF doc:
http://www.issa-ct.org/events/archive/2003/
By disabling the messenger service, accordind to MSFT:
Impact of Workaround: If the Messenger service is disabled, messages from the Alerter service (for example notifications from your backup software or Uninterruptible Power Supply) are not transmitted. If the Messenger service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an error message is logged in the System event log.
I totally agree with you. /. posts.
But, IMHO, I believe having a web page with "dirty" images on it isn't a bigger danger to productivity and company's profits than spending the same time reading Italian cuisine receipts or
Furthermore, as long as no more band costs are raised while navigating during lunch time or after the working day has ended, where the problem?
Should a company's board be concerned with its revenues, costs and profits or its employees political, sexual or gastronomical preferences?
Provided it isn't illegal stuff, of course.
It's a very sad world the one where sys admins spend their day implementing content-based filtering and censorship...
PHBs who believe their employees are much better for company's revenues if they share the same political, sexual or gastronomical preferences are just that... Pointy Haired Bosses
Michele
Given that Telco are also WiFi service providers,
I, for one, welcome our Telco overlords!
Well, actually according to you it would be ten eyes every one eye...
It's a very pity western countries governments aren't as smart as you... What a waste of strategic vision and intelligence...
You'll have my vote!!
Well, this WAS true. You really have to love Moz to use it before Moz 1.x.
I believe since branch 1.4 Moz developers have been coming out with a very good product.
C'mon, you can't really say the latest version of Mozilla is horrible...
Free speech does not mean a community can not moderate itself.
As long as you are allowed to post your comment, without having it deleted by other users, there is free speech.
And, according to free speech principle, other members can say "I do not agree with you". That is, modding down a comment.
Download all necessary libraries and compile them on you own.
They already offer you the source code... Should they also compile everything for Windows for free too?
C'mon...
Or you can use Mozilla and implement the simple steps described here:
http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/xbl.html
This allows you to have Mozilla run Flash animations only if you click on their area within a web page.
Pretty useful to avoid all those Flash ads and banners.
Creating artificial shortage isn't just unethical. Having no Enron employee convicted of fraud could simply show there are not enough (=discoverd) elements to convict anyone.
Or, maybe, laws are not up to date with a new kind of crimes.