No decent web designer would create pages larger than that, and if IE ever supports PNGs right, this argument is moot.
IE supports PNGs just fine. In fact, I rarely use GIFs anymore because PNGs have finally become so widely adopted.
Now IE doesn't support the alpha channel natively; you have to use a DirectX hack, but that's hardly a show stopper.
Wouldn't it be as simple as doing a dictionary check on messages? If not a single recognizable word appears in x number of characters, it would be reasonable to assume the conversation is encrypted.
There's a difference between being a "cunning and ruthless manipulator" and illegaly trading stock on insider information. The later means you're a criminal, the former: just an asshole.
As a (somewhat) successful entrepreneur, I take exception to your statement. I've been running my own network services company for about a year now. I started it up with practically nothing. Granted, it's nothing as sexy as working on the next killer app with a staff of 3 dozen people, but it was a startup. And it was done without having to sell my soul to a VC vulture.
It's been my fulltime job since I started. My truck was fully paid for before I started, I live in a cheap one-bed apartment and I have three cases of ramen in my pantry as I write this. But, my bills are always paid on time and I have enough cash to grow my biz. In fact, I just leased a tiny bit office space last week. I had been working exclusively out of my home.
You don't need a lot of money to be successful. The #1 thing, by far, that you need is dogged persistence. It's rough and can be very nerve wracking. You have to have the ability to hang in there.
And.... since it's on-topic, I'm going to plug the messageboard in my sig. I started it a couple of weeks ago to help others in my situation. It pays to learn from other's mistakes and it's great to have the moral support. If you run your own biz or are thinking about starting one, please come check us out: SmallBizGeeks.com
Ummm.... Linux? There's more distros than I care to count. That certainly hasn't prevented large organizations from adopting one (or more) of those distros.
Yeah, that's the Simple File Sharing "feature" of XP Home Edition. Enabled by default, it can be annoying if you're used to doing things the "old way" (user friendly, but expert hostile). Just use this KB article to turn it off.
Bah... pure dystopian FUD. By many academics' definitions, a government is simply an entity that has a monopoly on the legal use physical force. Capital punishment, detention and confinement, etc. Every govenment has this in common and sometimes that's all they have in common. Just because some institution is powerful doesn't mean "it's one in the same as the government".
If a small developer could get a patent for $20, but then the next patent cost $40 and then $80 and so on, it would really discourage people from getting tons of patents....just a thought (I'm sure it's been suggested before...)
If you make patents cheaper than toner, how is this supposed to prevent companies from sweeping up countless bogus patents? The costs aren't the real issue here; I think you're looking at the wrong side of the equation. Look at PARC: A lot of bright people have churrned out a lot of novel patents. Should they be punished for that? What we need are greater standards to prevent junk patents; not playing pricing games in an attempt reduce the number applied for.
By stating that they *have* done a background check on a person, aren't they assuming liability (at least partially) if the person turns out to be a psycho?
A smarter way to do such a thing would be to "crawl" the whole site on localhost:80 instead of just indexing files, that way.htaccess and the such would be preserved throughout.
Yes, that would be safer. But one of the powers of local search engines is the ability to index content that isn't linked elsewhere on the site, e.g. old press releases, discontinued product documentation, etc. Sometimes you don't want to clutter up your site with irrelavant content, but you want to allow people who know what they're looking for to find it. This article isn't really groundbreaking. It's just another example of how technology can be a double-edged sword.
DVD-R / DVD+R capacities are 4.7GB. However, actual pressed, dual-layer DVDs are 8.54GB (single-sided). So the analogy is a bit incomplete.
A better analogy, of course, is how many hogshead of LoC does it hold?
True, but the FCC is actually a part of the Executive Branch and is therefore ultimately responsible to Bush and his staff. I'm sure Powell knows which way the wind blows.
The problem isn't soley Bush nor is soley Powell. They're just lightning rods because they're easily identifiable. The problem is the whole puritanical attitude of the entire administration. While Bush has real power, in many cases he's also a figure head because one doesn't get elected President of the United States by himself; it's a massive team effort. The Prez is only one person out of many that is guiding this administration and setting priorities. It's reasonable to assume that if Gore had been elected, the FCC's marching orders might have been a bit different.
If you check the Boston.com article that's been posted by another user, you'll see that "Think Computer" was demanding payment to tell them about this bug. This sounds a little bit like extortion, don't you think? What gets even more interesting, is that I recognized this guy from an earlier story on Slashdot. He wrote a rambling, alarmist "whitepaper" about how unsecure WiFi was in the Boston subway. Furthermore, searching Massachusetts business filings doesn't show that any "Think Computer" corporate entity exists.
I believe that this is just some young kid who desperatly wants for himself to be seen as some sort of security expert. His techniques are highly unprofessional and insulting to those of us in the industry who do, in fact, have a clue as to how IT consulting works.
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I'll agree with you to a point, but consider the differences in scope. While PS2 testers have to get it right the first time, the entirety of their lab is that single machine. A PS2 only runs one app at a time, doesn't have user-swappable hardware (other than "offical" accessories), and has a very limited input device.
Yes, DirectX and similar APIs have done a lot to standardize Windows game development, it isn't a magic bullet. Unlike a game console, a PC is a general purpose computer. That jack-of-all-trades approach includes the limitation of not being the best at any of its functions. A specialized API can only take generic platform so far. Look at all the bugs you've found in your games. The first thing tech support will tell you is to upgrade/reinstall DirectX. That will take care of a lot of the problems, but not all. Maybe not even a majority. The rest of the problems are caused system configurations not anticipated by the QA guys. Granted, I'm not a console developer, so maybe someone who is will contradict me, but I think developing for a uniform platform would be much easier.
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I haven't ever had a PS2 game crash my PS2 and I certainly haven't had Quake crash my computer. I wouldn't expect any game to do that... Patched or not.
I'm not defending their lack of QA, but to be fair, the QA process for PC games is considerably harder than it is for a closed, proprietary gaming console. Your analogy to Quake is a bit more accurate, but you also have to keep in mind of the funds that smaller gaming companies have available. id has millions of dollars available to them--per title! As the technology keeps getting pushed further and further and games get more complex, you're going to have to be willing to accept some trade-offs. You have the choice of sometimes innovative, but stable, games from the mega publishers, or geniunely innovative titles from the smaller guys. The smaller studios generally can afford either the latest & greatest whizbang or rock solid stability, but not both. Yeah, it sucks that we can't have both, but that's just how things are when the gaming market is as cut-throat as it is.
InstantSSL pretty much seems to use "well, his credit card went through" as a means of authenticating who I said I was. With Verisign, I had to fax them my business records and wait a few days while they verified me and then personally called me.
Yes, but it's brillant marketing. The company only spent $1000. They've already gotten a link from the main page of Slashdot; what more press are they going to see now? The spyware removal business has gotten pretty competitive and now thousands more geeks know about their product. Kudos to the company for a neat, non-evil marketing idea.
2. Virtual hosts often share a single IP among many websites. You can't just authorize a name; SSL requires (from my understanding) a unique IP. That would make the IPv4 system even more strained.
SSL doesn't require a unique IP. The problem is that you can't use SSL with host headers, which is the trick that allows multiple websites to resolve to the same IP. Normally HTTP just serves back whatever content is on port 80 when a browser requests a connection. With HTTP/1.1 host headers were introduced which allowed the client to request a specfic hostname at that IP addresses, in effect allowing you to run multiple domains on a single IP address. This is was is incompatible with SSL.
As another poster already mentioned, their wildcart certs aren't $50, but I too will vouch for InstantSSL. But it's also much easier to get a cert from them than it is Verisign. (I haven't used Verisign in years, so myabe they've changed, but it used to be a PITA to get cert). To that end, I place more value in Verisign certs: Their certs cost more, in part, because they are in fact more secure. As much as a I detest that company, they would be smart to market this aspect of their product.
Eh... I remember using www.webcrawler.com on Lynx. Why use another browser or search engine, they both work, right?
Look at Google Maps. One could thing that there was little innovation left in online mapping: Yahoo and Mapquest had the market cornered. Along comes Google and makes me cool "oh, cool!" all over again.
There are some dynmaic dns utilities that automatically poll and screen scrape IP addresses off pages such as this. A client that I use polls every minute, cycling through about 15 different sites. This means that I myself am accounting for a hit every 15 mins to whatismyip.com. Yet, I never see the content on the page and rarely even think about it. Not exactly making the ideal situation for those bidding on the domain. Plus, add in the number of techies who aren't inclined to click on banner ads when they're actively trying to troubleshoot (the most likely use of the site), and the extreme ease of setting up a competing service. Nah... the winning bidder isn't getting much of a deal here.
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Wouldn't it be as simple as doing a dictionary check on messages? If not a single recognizable word appears in x number of characters, it would be reasonable to assume the conversation is encrypted.
There's a difference between being a "cunning and ruthless manipulator" and illegaly trading stock on insider information. The later means you're a criminal, the former: just an asshole.
As a (somewhat) successful entrepreneur, I take exception to your statement. I've been running my own network services company for about a year now. I started it up with practically nothing. Granted, it's nothing as sexy as working on the next killer app with a staff of 3 dozen people, but it was a startup. And it was done without having to sell my soul to a VC vulture.
It's been my fulltime job since I started. My truck was fully paid for before I started, I live in a cheap one-bed apartment and I have three cases of ramen in my pantry as I write this. But, my bills are always paid on time and I have enough cash to grow my biz. In fact, I just leased a tiny bit office space last week. I had been working exclusively out of my home.
You don't need a lot of money to be successful. The #1 thing, by far, that you need is dogged persistence. It's rough and can be very nerve wracking. You have to have the ability to hang in there.
And.... since it's on-topic, I'm going to plug the messageboard in my sig. I started it a couple of weeks ago to help others in my situation. It pays to learn from other's mistakes and it's great to have the moral support. If you run your own biz or are thinking about starting one, please come check us out: SmallBizGeeks.com
Ummm.... Linux? There's more distros than I care to count. That certainly hasn't prevented large organizations from adopting one (or more) of those distros.
Yeah, that's the Simple File Sharing "feature" of XP Home Edition. Enabled by default, it can be annoying if you're used to doing things the "old way" (user friendly, but expert hostile). Just use this KB article to turn it off.
Computrace, amongst others.
Bah... pure dystopian FUD. By many academics' definitions, a government is simply an entity that has a monopoly on the legal use physical force. Capital punishment, detention and confinement, etc. Every govenment has this in common and sometimes that's all they have in common. Just because some institution is powerful doesn't mean "it's one in the same as the government".
BitTorrent accounts for 35% of *all* Internet traffic. I think it's safe to say it's already been adopted by the masses.
My Internet using ass certainly doesn't need any more than one scoop. :-(
Just be thankful it's not "offer only valid if you jog to the store".
By stating that they *have* done a background check on a person, aren't they assuming liability (at least partially) if the person turns out to be a psycho?
DVD-R / DVD+R capacities are 4.7GB. However, actual pressed, dual-layer DVDs are 8.54GB (single-sided). So the analogy is a bit incomplete. A better analogy, of course, is how many hogshead of LoC does it hold?
Bush & Co. outspent Kerry by more than $40 million dollars. It took me 60 seconds to verify this.
True, but the FCC is actually a part of the Executive Branch and is therefore ultimately responsible to Bush and his staff. I'm sure Powell knows which way the wind blows.
The problem isn't soley Bush nor is soley Powell. They're just lightning rods because they're easily identifiable. The problem is the whole puritanical attitude of the entire administration. While Bush has real power, in many cases he's also a figure head because one doesn't get elected President of the United States by himself; it's a massive team effort. The Prez is only one person out of many that is guiding this administration and setting priorities. It's reasonable to assume that if Gore had been elected, the FCC's marching orders might have been a bit different.
If you check the Boston.com article that's been posted by another user, you'll see that "Think Computer" was demanding payment to tell them about this bug. This sounds a little bit like extortion, don't you think? What gets even more interesting, is that I recognized this guy from an earlier story on Slashdot. He wrote a rambling, alarmist "whitepaper" about how unsecure WiFi was in the Boston subway. Furthermore, searching Massachusetts business filings doesn't show that any "Think Computer" corporate entity exists.
I believe that this is just some young kid who desperatly wants for himself to be seen as some sort of security expert. His techniques are highly unprofessional and insulting to those of us in the industry who do, in fact, have a clue as to how IT consulting works.
I'll agree with you to a point, but consider the differences in scope. While PS2 testers have to get it right the first time, the entirety of their lab is that single machine. A PS2 only runs one app at a time, doesn't have user-swappable hardware (other than "offical" accessories), and has a very limited input device.
Yes, DirectX and similar APIs have done a lot to standardize Windows game development, it isn't a magic bullet. Unlike a game console, a PC is a general purpose computer. That jack-of-all-trades approach includes the limitation of not being the best at any of its functions. A specialized API can only take generic platform so far. Look at all the bugs you've found in your games. The first thing tech support will tell you is to upgrade/reinstall DirectX. That will take care of a lot of the problems, but not all. Maybe not even a majority. The rest of the problems are caused system configurations not anticipated by the QA guys. Granted, I'm not a console developer, so maybe someone who is will contradict me, but I think developing for a uniform platform would be much easier.
I'm not defending their lack of QA, but to be fair, the QA process for PC games is considerably harder than it is for a closed, proprietary gaming console. Your analogy to Quake is a bit more accurate, but you also have to keep in mind of the funds that smaller gaming companies have available. id has millions of dollars available to them--per title! As the technology keeps getting pushed further and further and games get more complex, you're going to have to be willing to accept some trade-offs. You have the choice of sometimes innovative, but stable, games from the mega publishers, or geniunely innovative titles from the smaller guys. The smaller studios generally can afford either the latest & greatest whizbang or rock solid stability, but not both. Yeah, it sucks that we can't have both, but that's just how things are when the gaming market is as cut-throat as it is.
InstantSSL pretty much seems to use "well, his credit card went through" as a means of authenticating who I said I was. With Verisign, I had to fax them my business records and wait a few days while they verified me and then personally called me.
Security isn't always about the tech.
Yes, but it's brillant marketing. The company only spent $1000. They've already gotten a link from the main page of Slashdot; what more press are they going to see now? The spyware removal business has gotten pretty competitive and now thousands more geeks know about their product. Kudos to the company for a neat, non-evil marketing idea.
As another poster already mentioned, their wildcart certs aren't $50, but I too will vouch for InstantSSL. But it's also much easier to get a cert from them than it is Verisign. (I haven't used Verisign in years, so myabe they've changed, but it used to be a PITA to get cert). To that end, I place more value in Verisign certs: Their certs cost more, in part, because they are in fact more secure. As much as a I detest that company, they would be smart to market this aspect of their product.
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Eh... I remember using www.webcrawler.com on Lynx.
Why use another browser or search engine, they both work, right?
Look at Google Maps. One could thing that there was little innovation left in online mapping: Yahoo and Mapquest had the market cornered. Along comes Google and makes me cool "oh, cool!" all over again.
There are some dynmaic dns utilities that automatically poll and screen scrape IP addresses off pages such as this. A client that I use polls every minute, cycling through about 15 different sites. This means that I myself am accounting for a hit every 15 mins to whatismyip.com. Yet, I never see the content on the page and rarely even think about it. Not exactly making the ideal situation for those bidding on the domain. Plus, add in the number of techies who aren't inclined to click on banner ads when they're actively trying to troubleshoot (the most likely use of the site), and the extreme ease of setting up a competing service. Nah... the winning bidder isn't getting much of a deal here.