I've started playing Yahoo! Buzz games for a few months now (I dropped a virtual packet on FireFox). It's called Yahoo! Buzz game. These folks seem to gather their data from Yahoo ! search queries and from the logs on who clicked what. Which is why it seems to really follow the non-geek popularity levels too well - Google is what the geeks use (which is why I almost always seem to lose there).
This is just Google calling Market surveys by another name. I'm sure I can dig up a couple of WalMart papers about the same thing in the real world. Sort of vote with your money approach vs tell us approach (demand vs desire).
I remember seeing an Office 10 somewhere on a Mac or something - but I've never run into an Office 11. Maybe they just thought that since they are already too late, they'll just skip a release ?:)
There's good news but, Clippy is dead !!. But a ghost of the demon remains...
What's new in Office 12
* Tabbed browsing * Missing menus * Clippy replaced with a Ghost * Shortcuts change for no reason * Task oriented design
Translated as :
* Ripoff off Firefox * Bye bye familiarity * Transparency showoffs * Alt keys are teh suck * All users are idiots
Some people might switch to OO.org just to keep the old macros alive but still read the new.doc files.
One window for all your needs. You need an ISP, email service, search, shopping... use Google.
I see this distinct trend ever since their IPO. They are trying to build a network of their own. It's almost frightening how blind most of my friends are towards this. For example, by using Jabber google becomes the community pet, but they keep a closed community by preventing S2S communication. AOL was massively successful this way building their network on top of telephone lines. Google is doing it on top of the current internet -- google web accelerator and things like this. It is like DRM, sooner or later everyone else will be using it and you'll have a tough choice to make.
Yahoo ! is no better, but at least people don't blindly trust Y! to do the right thing. I think I still have a couple of mags from 1992 when Bill Gates was the man who could do nothing wrong.
It's a purely poplularity determined phenomenon. If their customers want it for platform XYZ and Oracle sees big bucks coming from them - they will partner up with Satan himself.
People have been telling me that Oracle on Linux will drive migration to Linux. I think that Oracle is just riding on Linux rather than vice versa.
Ah, all those flame wars on the LUG lists... I'm pretty sure this move doesn't have anything to do with the fact that whatever IBM has is Open Source - just a business decision based on popularity.
The minidumps generated by XP are actually extremely powerful, assuming you've got good project management. You can load up the minidump in a debugger and it will restore the application state at the time of the crash. It can load the debugging info and symbol maps from local files, so you can still ship release binaries.
7 is the number of weeks, the number of deadly sins, the distinct notes on the octave, colors of the rainbow, the pH of water, the day God rested, the number of seas, display segments, the number of horcruxes for lord voldemort, the usual number in a witches' coven, shakespeare's ages of man.
All in all it's the magical number for power. On the other hand 6 is the evil number.
We've seen Snow White and the Seven dwarfs, Dance of the Seven veils, The Seven Samurai, Seven of Nine, James Bond 007
7 is also the smallest mersenne prime to boot. This has been a useless post - on the other hand, all the research hasn't been to waste.
A patch every month ?. Do they hold onto the patches if it happened to be one that slipped a schedule and became available on the thursday after the first release. Do they wait an entire month before shipping in the next ?.
I've often heard tuesday mid-morning was the best time to release a new package - mostly hearsay. Any bit of truth in it ?
Tuesday's are considered unlucky in Indian lore - to undertake new things. Wednesdays are the day of beginnings - but it's already Wed here by the time it's released worldwide.
Let me take a wild guess - in my mysql database ?.
Poor performance with IOMeter's file server, workstation, and database access patterns suggests that the Deskstar is inappropriate for multi-user environments with heavy read and write demands.
Which excludes this as a DB backing store or CVS server ?.
I don't need a 500 GB disk for serving static webpages, which are best done with enough RAM to push them all or something like akamai. It's noisy while it's idle and draws power like a hungry hog. I expect that it needs a decent bit of cooling too.
Lastly this is a 7,2000 RPM disk that costs 320 odd dollars. What do you think ?.
I think Usefriendly answered that question - http://low.iq.
Seriously Iraq is just a clarion call for the faithful to join battle. The message conveyed is you know what happened when you let a Secular women's lib dick-tator like Saddam rule your country ?... You get cut off, starved, castrated of all your armoury by UN and pounded from the south by US.
I've already written about my opinions in my journal - admittedly on a monday morning on a caffeine overdose.
This sort of sounds like a keyboard with 10 buttons - you know you need 6 or 7 to type out english usually. And why would a mouse need to blink away when the battery is low ?. I've always bought stuff for it's low maintenance - which is why I have a single cheap optical mouse, an old AT keyboard (clickety, clack) and a CRT. They just work...
More complicated things have a habit of failing easily in the heat and humidity. Mostly it's the insects but the dust does help too. I've seen 40$ keyboards just lose it while my old faithful just keeps tapping on (bought in 1999)
Well, MySQL AB is a for-profit company, they sell things to people. And, last time I looked into it, SCO wasn't gassing people or mowing down rain forrest, or something. Sure, they are obnoxious, but the truth is, so are many commercial companies we deal with every day.
SCO has a bad habit of burning anybody they come in contact with including partners and other fools who enter into contract with them. It could be a sock puppet move to choke MySQL with some legal infraction and sink a few hundred thousand of MySQL money. It's quite bad when an important FOSS company like MySQL takes such a decision, considering the risks involved. More of a Get the money NOW fly-by-night operator attitude.
In addition, it's very probable that most of those jobs are for non-critical, non-core projects. This frees up the local developers to work on more important projects.
Did you realize what you just gave away ?. It's called racial elitisim, but now with a nationalistic fringe attitude. You start off by giving away the unwanted and least important jobs to the immigrants or just plain offshore them, and before you know it you have a huge population of educated unemployed and per-capita income just comes crashing down.
Do you know how I know this ?. Look at my own state - Kerala. It has one of the highest literacy rates and unemployement rates - with most of the blue collar labour, food and money coming from outside states. The economy is in a mess, thanks to a government flip from Left to Right and back every 5 years. You try guessing why I'm not living there.. there are no Jobs.
On several Apollo missions, astronauts planted mirrors facing Earth. The mirror were useful for measuring the distance of the moon from the Earth...
What is being debated is not whether USA actually sent a space-craft to moon. What is being debated is whether that space-craft actually had any human beings on board. It's been 3 decades since that that trip to Moon, but I still can't calculate any shielding plates which will be light enough for the rocket fuel mass of Apollo 13 (28,945 kg) and yet still protect 3 astronauts from the radiation belts around the earth.
What really scares me about these trips is not the fact that we went to the Moon, it's 30 years later and we don't seem to have the technology/money/motive to do a repeat performance. Either that or it was all a fake to one up on Soviet Union. After all Star Wars came out a few years later and proves all the faking techniques were in good form.
Funny how facts available to everyone can be ignored by people with an axe to grind.
And yes, I have an axe to grind. I well and truly
believe that NASA sent up a space craft to the Moon - but it stretches my credulity a bit to believe that they sent 3 people on it. One day, I personally might visit Moon and see the Moon rover, those famous footprints or the rest of the lander module - but they are just not evidence enough for the presence of BigFoot or Neil Amstrong there.
Of course, you want to believe.. I don't blame you. If I was a patriotic american and this was proved to be a hoax (which would've need a decade of work to even properly hoax) would be a pathetic symbol of one-up-manship gone bad. I wouldn't want that - but don't blame me for being a Skeptic .
That's what science taught me to do - challenge, question and understand.
Have you ever read right to read ?. To me it's scary that what I own can't be shared with my kin.
This is all the thin edge of a wedge. Once DRM becomes standard and status-quo - this will start flowing into more things than just returning audio books automatically. The essential point of libraries was to solve the scarcity of books, which never occurs with such digital media.
It would be a good idea to remember what Freedom is - it's the freedom to do anything, but the consequences are yours to face. If the government starts such a pre-crime prevention, it comes close to a facsist utopia - we are not the first to be tempted by such a dream.
After all God didn't put a fence around the forbidden fruit, did he ?.
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The system monitors the number of external connections being made and if a higher network activity is detected, the computer is disconnected to prevent the infection of further machines on the network.
What is there here that can't be done with software ?. Oh, wait.. that needs Microsoft to do it. Doing it at the WiFi card level might give intel an advantage - but most likely they'll just push this into the driver code. Then we're back to the "why doesn't Microsoft do this" - though in truth, we should chuck it and use Linux.
It essentially means that the moment I run bittorrent, Intel's new WiFi chip will throw
me off the network. That's what it'll do for most of us.
> The access point times the time it takes a packet to arrive the client and go back. Using this time, the access point can predict the location of the user and tell whether a client device is inside or outside the allowed area, for example office wall.
Similarly all Ethernet cards will have something that allows only packets addressed to it's MAC address to be read. And then someone will find out a way to work around that. I could rephrase when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns - but this is even worse. Intel will create APs which have an artificially limited range to prevent you from taking your laptop to the crapper. This is almost like the userfriendly joke about laptops chained to the desk form of security.
Truly these are ideas to be sold, not products. Once people buy in on the security of these things, intel hopes to make a killing for no extra-work (yes, we have to buy the NEW secure WiFi cards and then just boot up that AP, let's get mailing status reports - leaving a router with "linksys" wide open). Security needs care and control - just cheap hacks on hardware will not do .
To carry your ATM card in tin-foil faraday cage because it can be read by a device hidden in your office elevator ?.
PIN codes are just there to protect a person's card from random pickpocketing. Also this "exploit" needs access to the mail containing the PIN , before the user reads it and changes it. It is very unlikely that somebody will be able to do this easily - the obvious suspects being your kid brother who signed for your credit card when it came at your home and your shopping crazy sister. It needs very clear physical access on day-to-day basis.
This belongs in the same category as mothers steaming opening letters - maybe you should read Saki's shock tactics about how to handle that scenario.
It was called Google Desktop "search" ....
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> Google Desktop. Many new features are introduced including improved Outlook filtering, Gmail indexing,
Ok. So it still says "Our one trick pony is our search". And still no thunderbird indexing ?. I've been saved by Bloomba once because it indexed my Imap cache of my personal mail.
> a new Sidebar which displays RSS feeds, a Gmail inbox, news, scratch pad and more.
How original.. I wonder if all these were google innovations or just re-acquired tools pushed into one window (like my firefox side-bar which acts as an RSS window, Javascript console and DOM inspector together). And what's a scratch pad, some kind of notepad in a window ?.
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Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated.
If it has Gecko or MSHTML inside and is web enabled, the lack of an addressbar does not make it any less of a browser. I slowly see an AOL'ish trend of google to draw customers into their all you need in one window approach which worked so well for AOL for many years. I don't like that kind of lock-in by anybody.
You know why I don't install Google toolbar, web-accelerator or Yahoo ! companions ?. I grew up in a web where everything was addressed and could be accessed by me with almost any capable tool in the market - these guys are trying to dictate tools for me according to their content marketing. They already know which websites I hit (Ads), what I look for (search), what I buy (froogle), whom I mail (gmail) and now they want in on the Desktop too. I don't want them to be the know-all spooks.
> Google Desktop. Many new features are introduced including improved Outlook filtering, Gmail indexing,
Ok. So it still says "Our one trick pony is our search". And still no thunderbird indexing ?. I've been saved by Bloomba once because it indexed my Imap cache of my personal mail.
> a new Sidebar which displays RSS feeds, a Gmail inbox, news, scratch pad and more.
How original.. I wonder if all these were google innovations or just re-acquired tools pushed into one window (like my firefox side-bar which acts as an RSS window, Javascript console and DOM inspector together). And what's a scratch pad, some kind of notepad in a window ?.
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Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated.
If it has Gecko or MSHTML inside and is web enabled, the lack of an addressbar does not make it any less of a browser. I slowly see an AOL'ish trend of google to draw customers into their all you need in one window approach which worked so well for AOL for many years. I don't like that kind of lock-in by anybody.
You know why I don't install Google toolbar, web-accelerator or Yahoo ! companions ?. I grew up in a web where everything was addressed and could be accessed by me with almost any capable tool in the market - these guys are trying to dictate tools for me according to their content marketing. They already know which websites I hit (Ads), what I look for (search), what I buy (froogle), whom I mail (gmail) and now they want in on the Desktop too. I want the freedom of choice !!.. The last time this happened , Windows 95 crept in being "cool GUI thing" by the happening company of that period - Microsoft.
Can we fault Linus ?.. no. After all he's not charging for the software, but the use of his trademark by these companies.
Bad PR ?... yes, it's the "Free software" that gets hit, with people not realizing that this is about trademarks. You guys like intellectual property when it belongs to you" should also surface soon about Trademarks and Patents. But it's another question whether after ~9 years of trademarking, this is the first enforcing attempt, which might cast a bad shadow over the case. Trademarks have to be defended on first notice of offence.
All in all, blatant misuse of power for little monetary gain and lot of bad PR (at least in the short term). Promote "Linux" and kill parts of "Free" and "community" in there.
After all, the road to hell is paved with noble intentions.
> Now, if I've got copper inside. I pull up to the house one night and I notice the front window is open and there is some cat5 ran across my yard from your car window to my switch.
Until they introduce, small 6 inch long sniffer gumstix which filter a lot and send the results hourly to the hacker from inside your firewall (DCHP.. the works btw).
I've actually seen such a device in action - it works very well. It's very easily put in place to look like a blanker (I saw it 2 years ago) for a network port - by a friend or neighbour's kid who has come over to borrow a cup of sugar. It was actually demo'd at an industrial espionage detection agency booth.
Ok, to answer your ever allegation
Macromedia and other code is way over fat
What is fat are images in Flash or whatever. Flash in itself is a very compact framework. I could build an hour long video in Flash in around an MB of storage.
Most HTML editors also produce fat code
Most of recent HTML you see is generated by a program, not an HTML editor.
Most codecs produce lousy compression and very lossy, too
What codecs ?. Divx ?.. It's more of a mathematical problem.
Dynamic HTML is fatter still, including the page you're reading
DHTML is less fat than others because it is designed to reduce round-trips around to the server.
CSS simply adds to the problem by oversending code/data
Why ?. Because you load the css file from the cache instead of downloading the huge HTML with all those color tags ?.
XML is another bucket of overkill; every page sends a new schema, and a bunch of unneeded, duplicate info
Almost all web access is cached, so what are you talking about ?. XML schema verification is very rarely done and mostly used as a documentation rather than downloaded for every hit to a file.
Poor local/user cache mgmt causes too many
page reloads
People browsing dynamic content cause page reloads. Not cache management. HTTP 1.1 was very well designed with caches in mind.
RSS/Atom feeds send tons of duplicate new hits, and is a waste of good bandwidth
RSS can easily be cached with a reverse proxy, look at how my.yahoo.com does it. Atom is harder to cache thanks to the POST method.
This is all seven bit stuff, every single line of it, yet we use no basic compression on the Internet to send pages, because somehow, that would be evil. I say, use source compression with understandable decoders that have security built into them on the client, then compress the hell out of the entire Internet!
Content-Encoding: deflate, gzip
It's there in any decent browser out there. Use mod_deflate or mod_gzip on server side.
If People are so stupid, what can we do. That's why I use TLS on my mail servers and SSL on my webservers and SSH on to my work boxes.
The broadband we use to day are like the 1960 Pontiacs-- muscle cars designed to burn rubber, when all we wanted to do was to get from here to there quickly and nicely and safely.
One single answer - pr0n. It's a fast pr0n delivery mechanism and that's why it came up so fast. I think that's why Japan and Korea have come up so quickly with it - due to lack of availabilit y of the real stuff:)
Internet is not controlled by a single person. It has evolved into it's current form. For that to have happened, all developments that survived on the internet should have favoured the development of a better and faster internet. Basic evolution theory says that internet will not step back and de-evolve, even if it is to work better that way. The only sustainable change would have been faster pipes and I don't see the end of it (Mp3s in 1999, Divx in 2005... files only grow bigger).
> There are lots of known chemicals that kill HIV. The trick is finding one that leaves the patient alive.
A study in 2000 proved that 3 South African prostitutes were resistant to HIV strains from the region. They also found a significant group of kenyan prostitutes with relative immunities to small doses of HIV virii. Interestingly as soon as the women started getting money from the researchers for co-operation with the studies, they lost their immunity.
Should it come as a surprise that the Human immunodeficency virus is killed by something in crocodile serum ?. There are things in the human blood stream which can kill off HIV, but most of us lack these mutated T-cells (which are killed off by the normal cells) in sufficent quantity to beat the infection completely.
> Apple licensed Xerox's IP by giving them a substantial amount of Apple stock, actually.
Apple employees were given access to the Xerox research facility and attend talks conducted by the staff. A lot of Xerox techs of the time had complained a lot - but it's funny how the same thing happened to Apple, but the techs thought it was cool to demo pre-production stuff in detail.
Apple also poached some of the techs who disagreed with the Xerox management - they were scooped up by Apple when they were bitter about under-funded UI development projects (Jef Raskin etc..).
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I've started playing Yahoo! Buzz games for a few months now (I dropped a virtual packet on FireFox). It's called Yahoo! Buzz game. These folks seem to gather their data from Yahoo ! search queries and from the logs on who clicked what. Which is why it seems to really follow the non-geek popularity levels too well - Google is what the geeks use (which is why I almost always seem to lose there).
This is just Google calling Market surveys by another name. I'm sure I can dig up a couple of WalMart papers about the same thing in the real world. Sort of vote with your money approach vs tell us approach (demand vs desire).I remember seeing an Office 10 somewhere on a Mac or something - but I've never run into an Office 11. Maybe they just thought that since they are already too late, they'll just skip a release ? :)
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There's good news but, Clippy is dead !!. But a ghost of the demon remains
What's new in Office 12
* Tabbed browsing
* Missing menus
* Clippy replaced with a Ghost
* Shortcuts change for no reason
* Task oriented design
Translated as :
* Ripoff off Firefox
* Bye bye familiarity
* Transparency showoffs
* Alt keys are teh suck
* All users are idiots
Some people might switch to OO.org just to keep the old macros alive but still read the new
One window for all your needs. You need an ISP, email service, search, shopping... use Google.
I see this distinct trend ever since their IPO. They are trying to build a network of their own. It's almost frightening how blind most of my friends are towards this. For example, by using Jabber google becomes the community pet, but they keep a closed community by preventing S2S communication. AOL was massively successful this way building their network on top of telephone lines. Google is doing it on top of the current internet -- google web accelerator and things like this. It is like DRM, sooner or later everyone else will be using it and you'll have a tough choice to make.
Yahoo ! is no better, but at least people don't blindly trust Y! to do the right thing. I think I still have a couple of mags from 1992 when Bill Gates was the man who could do nothing wrong.
It's a purely poplularity determined phenomenon. If their customers want it for platform XYZ and Oracle sees big bucks coming from them - they will partner up with Satan himself. People have been telling me that Oracle on Linux will drive migration to Linux. I think that Oracle is just riding on Linux rather than vice versa.
Ah, all those flame wars on the LUG lists... I'm pretty sure this move doesn't have anything to do with the fact that whatever IBM has is Open Source - just a business decision based on popularity.All in all it's the magical number for power. On the other hand 6 is the evil number.
We've seen Snow White and the Seven dwarfs, Dance of the Seven veils, The Seven Samurai, Seven of Nine, James Bond 007
7 is also the smallest mersenne prime to boot. This has been a useless post - on the other hand, all the research hasn't been to waste.
A patch every month ?. Do they hold onto the patches if it happened to be one that slipped a schedule and became available on the thursday after the first release. Do they wait an entire month before shipping in the next ?.
I've often heard tuesday mid-morning was the best time to release a new package - mostly hearsay. Any bit of truth in it ?
Tuesday's are considered unlucky in Indian lore - to undertake new things. Wednesdays are the day of beginnings - but it's already Wed here by the time it's released worldwide.
I don't need a 500 GB disk for serving static webpages, which are best done with enough RAM to push them all or something like akamai. It's noisy while it's idle and draws power like a hungry hog. I expect that it needs a decent bit of cooling too.
Lastly this is a 7,2000 RPM disk that costs 320 odd dollars. What do you think ?.Seriously Iraq is just a clarion call for the faithful to join battle. The message conveyed is you know what happened when you let a Secular women's lib dick-tator like Saddam rule your country ? ... You get cut off, starved, castrated of all your armoury by UN and pounded from the south by US.
I've already written about my opinions in my journal - admittedly on a monday morning on a caffeine overdose.This sort of sounds like a keyboard with 10 buttons - you know you need 6 or 7 to type out english usually. And why would a mouse need to blink away when the battery is low ?. I've always bought stuff for it's low maintenance - which is why I have a single cheap optical mouse, an old AT keyboard (clickety, clack) and a CRT. They just work...
More complicated things have a habit of failing easily in the heat and humidity. Mostly it's the insects but the dust does help too. I've seen 40$ keyboards just lose it while my old faithful just keeps tapping on (bought in 1999)
SCO has a bad habit of burning anybody they come in contact with including partners and other fools who enter into contract with them. It could be a sock puppet move to choke MySQL with some legal infraction and sink a few hundred thousand of MySQL money. It's quite bad when an important FOSS company like MySQL takes such a decision, considering the risks involved. More of a Get the money NOW fly-by-night operator attitude.
If you didn't understand what I was talking about - take a peek at Shirt sleeves showing .Did you realize what you just gave away ?. It's called racial elitisim, but now with a nationalistic fringe attitude. You start off by giving away the unwanted and least important jobs to the immigrants or just plain offshore them, and before you know it you have a huge population of educated unemployed and per-capita income just comes crashing down.
Do you know how I know this ?. Look at my own state - Kerala. It has one of the highest literacy rates and unemployement rates - with most of the blue collar labour, food and money coming from outside states. The economy is in a mess, thanks to a government flip from Left to Right and back every 5 years. You try guessing why I'm not living there .. there are no Jobs.
Will you immigrate ?.What is being debated is not whether USA actually sent a space-craft to moon. What is being debated is whether that space-craft actually had any human beings on board. It's been 3 decades since that that trip to Moon, but I still can't calculate any shielding plates which will be light enough for the rocket fuel mass of Apollo 13 (28,945 kg) and yet still protect 3 astronauts from the radiation belts around the earth.
What really scares me about these trips is not the fact that we went to the Moon, it's 30 years later and we don't seem to have the technology/money/motive to do a repeat performance. Either that or it was all a fake to one up on Soviet Union. After all Star Wars came out a few years later and proves all the faking techniques were in good form.Funny how facts available to everyone can be ignored by people with an axe to grind.
And yes, I have an axe to grind. I well and truly believe that NASA sent up a space craft to the Moon - but it stretches my credulity a bit to believe that they sent 3 people on it. One day, I personally might visit Moon and see the Moon rover, those famous footprints or the rest of the lander module - but they are just not evidence enough for the presence of BigFoot or Neil Amstrong there.
Of course, you want to believe.. I don't blame you. If I was a patriotic american and this was proved to be a hoax (which would've need a decade of work to even properly hoax) would be a pathetic symbol of one-up-manship gone bad. I wouldn't want that - but don't blame me for being a Skeptic .That's what science taught me to do - challenge, question and understand.
This is all the thin edge of a wedge. Once DRM becomes standard and status-quo - this will start flowing into more things than just returning audio books automatically. The essential point of libraries was to solve the scarcity of books, which never occurs with such digital media.
It would be a good idea to remember what Freedom is - it's the freedom to do anything, but the consequences are yours to face. If the government starts such a pre-crime prevention, it comes close to a facsist utopia - we are not the first to be tempted by such a dream.After all God didn't put a fence around the forbidden fruit, did he ?.
What is there here that can't be done with software ?. Oh, wait .. that needs Microsoft to do it. Doing it at the WiFi card level might give intel an advantage - but most likely they'll just push this into the driver code. Then we're back to the "why doesn't Microsoft do this" - though in truth, we should chuck it and use Linux.
It essentially means that the moment I run bittorrent, Intel's new WiFi chip will throw me off the network. That's what it'll do for most of us.
> The access point times the time it takes a packet to arrive the client and go back. Using this time, the access point can predict the location of the user and tell whether a client device is inside or outside the allowed area, for example office wall.Similarly all Ethernet cards will have something that allows only packets addressed to it's MAC address to be read. And then someone will find out a way to work around that. I could rephrase when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns - but this is even worse. Intel will create APs which have an artificially limited range to prevent you from taking your laptop to the crapper. This is almost like the userfriendly joke about laptops chained to the desk form of security.
Truly these are ideas to be sold, not products. Once people buy in on the security of these things, intel hopes to make a killing for no extra-work (yes, we have to buy the NEW secure WiFi cards and then just boot up that AP, let's get mailing status reports - leaving a router with "linksys" wide open). Security needs care and control - just cheap hacks on hardware will not do .To carry your ATM card in tin-foil faraday cage because it can be read by a device hidden in your office elevator ?.
PIN codes are just there to protect a person's card from random pickpocketing. Also this "exploit" needs access to the mail containing the PIN , before the user reads it and changes it. It is very unlikely that somebody will be able to do this easily - the obvious suspects being your kid brother who signed for your credit card when it came at your home and your shopping crazy sister. It needs very clear physical access on day-to-day basis.
This belongs in the same category as mothers steaming opening letters - maybe you should read Saki's shock tactics about how to handle that scenario.
Ok. So it still says "Our one trick pony is our search". And still no thunderbird indexing ?. I've been saved by Bloomba once because it indexed my Imap cache of my personal mail.
> a new Sidebar which displays RSS feeds, a Gmail inbox, news, scratch pad and more.How original .. I wonder if all these were google innovations or just re-acquired tools pushed into one window (like my firefox side-bar which acts as an RSS window, Javascript console and DOM inspector together). And what's a scratch pad, some kind of notepad in a window ?.
> Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated.If it has Gecko or MSHTML inside and is web enabled, the lack of an addressbar does not make it any less of a browser. I slowly see an AOL'ish trend of google to draw customers into their all you need in one window approach which worked so well for AOL for many years. I don't like that kind of lock-in by anybody.
You know why I don't install Google toolbar, web-accelerator or Yahoo ! companions ?. I grew up in a web where everything was addressed and could be accessed by me with almost any capable tool in the market - these guys are trying to dictate tools for me according to their content marketing. They already know which websites I hit (Ads), what I look for (search), what I buy (froogle), whom I mail (gmail) and now they want in on the Desktop too. I don't want them to be the know-all spooks.Ok. So it still says "Our one trick pony is our search". And still no thunderbird indexing ?. I've been saved by Bloomba once because it indexed my Imap cache of my personal mail.
> a new Sidebar which displays RSS feeds, a Gmail inbox, news, scratch pad and more.How original .. I wonder if all these were google innovations or just re-acquired tools pushed into one window (like my firefox side-bar which acts as an RSS window, Javascript console and DOM inspector together). And what's a scratch pad, some kind of notepad in a window ?.
> Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated.If it has Gecko or MSHTML inside and is web enabled, the lack of an addressbar does not make it any less of a browser. I slowly see an AOL'ish trend of google to draw customers into their all you need in one window approach which worked so well for AOL for many years. I don't like that kind of lock-in by anybody.
You know why I don't install Google toolbar, web-accelerator or Yahoo ! companions ?. I grew up in a web where everything was addressed and could be accessed by me with almost any capable tool in the market - these guys are trying to dictate tools for me according to their content marketing. They already know which websites I hit (Ads), what I look for (search), what I buy (froogle), whom I mail (gmail) and now they want in on the Desktop too. I want the freedom of choice !!.. The last time this happened , Windows 95 crept in being "cool GUI thing" by the happening company of that period - Microsoft.Can we fault Linus ?.. no. After all he's not charging for the software, but the use of his trademark by these companies.
Bad PR ?... yes, it's the "Free software" that gets hit, with people not realizing that this is about trademarks. You guys like intellectual property when it belongs to you" should also surface soon about Trademarks and Patents. But it's another question whether after ~9 years of trademarking, this is the first enforcing attempt, which might cast a bad shadow over the case. Trademarks have to be defended on first notice of offence.
All in all, blatant misuse of power for little monetary gain and lot of bad PR (at least in the short term). Promote "Linux" and kill parts of "Free" and "community" in there.
After all, the road to hell is paved with noble intentions.
Until they introduce, small 6 inch long sniffer gumstix which filter a lot and send the results hourly to the hacker from inside your firewall (DCHP .. the works btw).
I've actually seen such a device in action - it works very well. It's very easily put in place to look like a blanker (I saw it 2 years ago) for a network port - by a friend or neighbour's kid who has come over to borrow a cup of sugar. It was actually demo'd at an industrial espionage detection agency booth.They removed
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<clouds>
<skipHours>
<skipDays>
<textInput>
<source> element
<pics> element
<guid> element's optional "isPemraLink" attribute
And added
The <comments> element's optional "type" attribute
The <pubDate> element's optional "type" attribute
The <ttl> element's optional "span" attribute
Looks like good news for bloggers and God knows what for stuff like GeoRSS or BlogTorrents
I've been waiting for that a long time now
What is fat are images in Flash or whatever. Flash in itself is a very compact framework. I could build an hour long video in Flash in around an MB of storage.
Most HTML editors also produce fat codeMost of recent HTML you see is generated by a program, not an HTML editor.
Most codecs produce lousy compression and very lossy, tooWhat codecs ?. Divx ? .. It's more of a mathematical problem.
Dynamic HTML is fatter still, including the page you're readingDHTML is less fat than others because it is designed to reduce round-trips around to the server.
CSS simply adds to the problem by oversending code/dataWhy ?. Because you load the css file from the cache instead of downloading the huge HTML with all those color tags ?.
XML is another bucket of overkill; every page sends a new schema, and a bunch of unneeded, duplicate infoAlmost all web access is cached, so what are you talking about ?. XML schema verification is very rarely done and mostly used as a documentation rather than downloaded for every hit to a file.
Poor local/user cache mgmt causes too many page reloadsPeople browsing dynamic content cause page reloads. Not cache management. HTTP 1.1 was very well designed with caches in mind.
RSS/Atom feeds send tons of duplicate new hits, and is a waste of good bandwidthRSS can easily be cached with a reverse proxy, look at how my.yahoo.com does it. Atom is harder to cache thanks to the POST method.
This is all seven bit stuff, every single line of it, yet we use no basic compression on the Internet to send pages, because somehow, that would be evil. I say, use source compression with understandable decoders that have security built into them on the client, then compress the hell out of the entire Internet!Content-Encoding: deflate, gzip
couldn't easily have our favorite pcap file filters find credit cards.It's there in any decent browser out there. Use mod_deflate or mod_gzip on server side.
If People are so stupid, what can we do. That's why I use TLS on my mail servers and SSL on my webservers and SSH on to my work boxes.
The broadband we use to day are like the 1960 Pontiacs-- muscle cars designed to burn rubber, when all we wanted to do was to get from here to there quickly and nicely and safely.One single answer - pr0n. It's a fast pr0n delivery mechanism and that's why it came up so fast. I think that's why Japan and Korea have come up so quickly with it - due to lack of availabilit y of the real stuff :)
Internet is not controlled by a single person. It has evolved into it's current form. For that to have happened, all developments that survived on the internet should have favoured the development of a better and faster internet. Basic evolution theory says that internet will not step back and de-evolve, even if it is to work better that way. The only sustainable change would have been faster pipes and I don't see the end of it (Mp3s in 1999, Divx in 2005Whaddya know, it really is Dubya !
A study in 2000 proved that 3 South African prostitutes were resistant to HIV strains from the region. They also found a significant group of kenyan prostitutes with relative immunities to small doses of HIV virii. Interestingly as soon as the women started getting money from the researchers for co-operation with the studies, they lost their immunity.
Should it come as a surprise that the Human immunodeficency virus is killed by something in crocodile serum ?. There are things in the human blood stream which can kill off HIV, but most of us lack these mutated T-cells (which are killed off by the normal cells) in sufficent quantity to beat the infection completely.Apple employees were given access to the Xerox research facility and attend talks conducted by the staff. A lot of Xerox techs of the time had complained a lot - but it's funny how the same thing happened to Apple, but the techs thought it was cool to demo pre-production stuff in detail.
Apple also poached some of the techs who disagreed with the Xerox management - they were scooped up by Apple when they were bitter about under-funded UI development projects (Jef Raskin etc..).