According to heise.de (German only, sorry), Toshiba will release a DVD player equipped with a Cell processor that will upscale the DVD content. That article only talks of "DVD" all the time, there's no mention of a new format.
Writing documentation though... that might be something I can do!
Unfortunately, that's not something that's covered by the Summer of Code (documentation does not count as code), as much as many open source projects would welcome that.
Try finding an open source project you care about and help them with their documentation. I'm sure they'd be grateful.
Hmm, interesting. That quote was originally in this short post about e-voting - but he seems to have changed it since.
I still have the original version in my RSS reader. There, the last paragraph reads
I think it's been very frustrating for computer experts who've been highly critical of electronic voting machines. The decisions to use them were being made by bureaucrats who were either incapable, unwilling -- or, worst of all, too dishonest -- to recognize the accountability problems with them. In general, computer people love computers -- so when computer people tell you "don't use computers for that", or "don't use these computers for that", you really ought to listen.
OpenID is not a solution to spam. It even says so right on the OpenID.net homepage. And there have already been reported cases of "OpenID spam". i.e. spammers using OpenID to log into a site so that they can spam it.
You give script your email address, it sends you an email and you follow a validation link within the email. We've already had bots parsing the (randomly generated) password out of the confirmation emails. If they can do that, then I don't see why they shouldn't be able to do the same with a validation link...
Now, spam bots are using text in images to avoid filters. The spammers have caught up for now, but just wait another couple months/year and anti-spam technology will catch up
Which of course means that the anti-spammers are now helping to break CAPTCHAs. In other words, in order to fight the email spammers, they are helping the web/comment spammers...
IP addresses: The big boys use open proxies all over the world. You'll often get spam which is clearly from the same source but comes from IP addresses all over the place.
User agent strings: Again, the big boys use proper user agents so that they look like regular browsers.
Referrers: Those are unreliable even with human visitors, as proxies (as e.g. used by companies) often filter those out. By relying on referrers you'll block a good portion of your regular visitors.
Having said that, there are tools like Bad Behavior which take a closer look at the HTTP requests, checking for non-conforming HTTP requests and typical indications of spam bots that do work quite well most of the time.
It's true that a few companies managed to sneak some patents through that are effectively software patents. However, they can't enforce them since then somebody would stand up against them, the patents would have to be reviewed - and very likely revoked.
The bit rate is one thing that is kind of weird. It seems like it is different for ever song. However, it is always good usually in the 180-200+ range.
I wouldn't call 1&1 "little". In fact, they're part of Germany's biggest conglomerate of internet firms, aptly named "United Internet", which also own outfits like GMX and web.de
Thanks for the plug. Unfortunately, we're having DNS issues at this very moment. Makes us look bad, but doesn't actually have anything to do with the software.
* sigh * Murphy in full effect...
bye, Dirk
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Off hand I don't remember how to force it to do so, but Tiger does have this feature.
The hidden option was removed from the System Preferences in 10.4.2 or thereabouts. I can confirm that it worked, though. I rotated the display on my iBook and had a hard time resetting it. Try moving the mouse pointer with a mouse pad that's rotated by 90 degrees...
Surely you've heard of Atom? Do you suggest to display an "RSS" icon for that, too? Or have two icons? What if a site offers both formats?
Nah, a single, neutral icon is the better choice here. Granted, it may not be the most intuitive one imaginable, but it should not mention the technology behind the feed.
Actually, that's an old web wisdom: Don't mention the mechanics. Looks like the Firefox and IE developers got that one right for once.
Yep, same here. After 2 or 3 months, they asked back to hear from me(!) if it had been corrected. I said "nope" and that's the last thing I've ever heard from them...
There have been previous incidents where machines that were infected by Sober variants (Sober.G and Sober.Q, it seems) have later begun churning out neonazi spam.
So either the Sober author is indeed a neonazi or the neonazis rented the Sober-infected botnets.
Just minutes before heading over to Slashdot I read this which concludes that while Sony's software does contain some of the LAME tables, it doesn't seem to use them.
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It's also been on eMusic since November 24.
It looks like one, but it's not one of hte white Intel Macbooks
It's a 12" iBook G4
An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. -- Adlai Stevenson
No: Does accepting OpenID logins protect me from spam?
There have already been cases of "OpenID spam".
According to heise.de (German only, sorry), Toshiba will release a DVD player equipped with a Cell processor that will upscale the DVD content. That article only talks of "DVD" all the time, there's no mention of a new format.
Unfortunately, that's not something that's covered by the Summer of Code (documentation does not count as code), as much as many open source projects would welcome that.
Try finding an open source project you care about and help them with their documentation. I'm sure they'd be grateful.
Well, one of the questions on the signup form is
So Google does encourage the organisations to think about that problem in advance, too.
They apparently licensed Songbird properly. So at least that bit isn't shady ...
OpenID is not a solution to spam. It even says so right on the OpenID.net homepage. And there have already been reported cases of "OpenID spam". i.e. spammers using OpenID to log into a site so that they can spam it.
IP addresses: The big boys use open proxies all over the world. You'll often get spam which is clearly from the same source but comes from IP addresses all over the place.
User agent strings: Again, the big boys use proper user agents so that they look like regular browsers.
Referrers: Those are unreliable even with human visitors, as proxies (as e.g. used by companies) often filter those out. By relying on referrers you'll block a good portion of your regular visitors.
Having said that, there are tools like Bad Behavior which take a closer look at the HTTP requests, checking for non-conforming HTTP requests and typical indications of spam bots that do work quite well most of the time.
There are no software patents in the EU. Period.
It's true that a few companies managed to sneak some patents through that are effectively software patents. However, they can't enforce them since then somebody would stand up against them, the patents would have to be reviewed - and very likely revoked.
Those are not "Google Groups". Ever heard of Usenet?
Matt Cutts actually describes the procedure on his blog.
I wouldn't call 1&1 "little". In fact, they're part of Germany's biggest conglomerate of internet firms, aptly named "United Internet", which also own outfits like GMX and web.de
Thanks for the plug. Unfortunately, we're having DNS issues at this very moment. Makes us look bad, but doesn't actually have anything to do with the software.
* sigh * Murphy in full effect ...
bye, Dirk
The hidden option was removed from the System Preferences in 10.4.2 or thereabouts. I can confirm that it worked, though. I rotated the display on my iBook and had a hard time resetting it. Try moving the mouse pointer with a mouse pad that's rotated by 90 degrees ...
Surely you've heard of Atom? Do you suggest to display an "RSS" icon for that, too? Or have two icons? What if a site offers both formats?
Nah, a single, neutral icon is the better choice here. Granted, it may not be the most intuitive one imaginable, but it should not mention the technology behind the feed.
Actually, that's an old web wisdom: Don't mention the mechanics. Looks like the Firefox and IE developers got that one right for once.
Yep, same here. After 2 or 3 months, they asked back to hear from me(!) if it had been corrected. I said "nope" and that's the last thing I've ever heard from them ...
There have been previous incidents where machines that were infected by Sober variants (Sober.G and Sober.Q, it seems) have later begun churning out neonazi spam.
So either the Sober author is indeed a neonazi or the neonazis rented the Sober-infected botnets.
Just minutes before heading over to Slashdot I read this which concludes that while Sony's software does contain some of the LAME tables, it doesn't seem to use them.