Say's who? I wish folk would stop asserting in statements that the public is 100% behind something.
Just this morning, I heard one of our Firefighters union representatives (who are in the midst of industrial action in the UK) say that the public were "100% beind them".
Computers aren't ready to find resources for themselves.
Nobody (read very few people) use UDDI because it's a silly idea. "Hey, let's just set-up a computer in the machine room and let it go discover some web services....". How the hell is that supposed to work????
Likewise with self discovery of information on the semantic web. We are many many years off allowing a computer to acquire and use information on its own (in mission/business critical systems at any rate). Simply taking an information source off the semantic web without any form of human verification as to authenticity and validity is asking for trouble.
What is it the culmination of? How is it decided who plays?
www.superbowl.com doesn't help.
Just curious.
What is it going to take
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to restore confidence?
As a start-up today, one of the biggest hurdles is getting a potential customer to take you seriously.
Even if you are a sensible start-up, funded out of your own pocket - and even profitable on a small scale - you are tarred with the same brush as the multi-million dollar collapses of two years ago.
I have to work very hard to convince a potential customer that i'll still be here in 12 months time, and it takes human intervention - i've not yet figured out how to do it through the website.
In 15-20 years time, Tech Support at companies is going to be SOOOO much easier.
Currently, there are old farts that work at our place that take about 20 minutes to position the mouse cursor over the appropriate widget, and another 4 minutes to pluck up the courage to actually click on it.
Last weekend I watched my 4 year old nephew as he fired up a PC, quickly and confidently navigated the START menu to his games folder, loaded a football game, and equally quickly and confidently maximimsed the window etc. What made it more interesting was that I then showed him Microsoft Paint. This was the first time he'd seen the program - but he immediately went for the Maximise button to make the application fill the screen.
This means that he'd learnt the concept of the Maximise button - i.e. his understanding was deeper than simply pressing it as part of the start-up procedure of playing his football game.
I guess I may just be underestimating the abilities of 4 year olds, but I tell you, when this generation leave school and get jobs tech support will be a thing of the past...
IANAL, but the agreement would hold just as true as it would in the United States - because it is an arse covering agreement between 2 private parties, not a legal restriction to prevent you from flying it. They would need an injunction for that - which in that case would probably only be effective in the United States.
Because it is just an arse covering agreement it would probably be seen as binding(ish) by any court in any country that you ended up suing them in.
Of course you could probably only sue them in the United States, so in that case; yes the agreement will hold just as true for you as a Canadian as it would for any United States citizen.
There is no reason why it should be any different to any other IT outsourcing contract.
They will have SLAs (Service Level Agreements) with their customers that lay out quite legally what their obligations are and their limitations of liability.
And yes, I am sure they will have Liability Insurance as a second level of back-up; just like a painter decorator has incase they spill paint all over your carpet.
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These have not changed and every person gets the same results each time.
Google guy conveniently over looked this - different people get the same different result each time.
I'd say it was more to do with Google varying results based on your query history, which is tracked through a cookie.
I purchased "Internet Access".
That to me means access to the Internet on whatever port or protocol I wish.
Technically it is now illegal for ntl: to advertise themselves as an ISP.
...provided that the pop-up was generated legitamately by the website you visited. Don't like it? Don't go back.
Gater style pop-ups are another matter...
Entire concert on CD within 10 minutes of the last note.
Entire concert on Kazaa within 1 hour of the last note!
... than most of the women I can see from my desk spend applying hand cream.
They are posting articles that correspond to OSDN affiliation elsewhere, and posting the URLs under related links.
/. for doing this, just thought i'd point it out incase anybody hadn't noticed.
I'm not getting at
I used to be a lumberjack but i'm all right now.
Everybody here's fine with
Say's who? I wish folk would stop asserting in statements that the public is 100% behind something.
Just this morning, I heard one of our Firefighters union representatives (who are in the midst of industrial action in the UK) say that the public were "100% beind them".
Which we're not.
because I don't want ntl: meddlin' with electricity. They're dangerous enough in charge of a cable system.
(UK in-joke, sorry)
Computers aren't ready to find resources for themselves.
Nobody (read very few people) use UDDI because it's a silly idea. "Hey, let's just set-up a computer in the machine room and let it go discover some web services....". How the hell is that supposed to work????
Likewise with self discovery of information on the semantic web. We are many many years off allowing a computer to acquire and use information on its own (in mission/business critical systems at any rate). Simply taking an information source off the semantic web without any form of human verification as to authenticity and validity is asking for trouble.
Here's an alternative way to use the Security Zones of Internet Explorer to protect you from crap like this.
First, set the "Trusted Sites" zone to the "MEDIUM" level.
THIS MAKES YOUR TRUSTED SITES ZONE THE SAME AS THE NORMAL INTERNET ZONE.
(People seem to flame this idea as a security risk without understanding that last bit)
Then, modify the "Internet Zone" and disable Active Scripting.
Finally, add all your favourite sites to the "Trusted Sites" zone.
You can now enjoy the full functionality of JavaScript etc. on your frequently visited sites including the usual protection of the Internet Zone.
Any site not in the Trusted Sites list cannot use JavasSript and so prevents pop-ups and other nasties such as self installing spy-ware.
Right, so everybody is referring to prior art that seemingly invalidates this patent.
What is the procedure for presenting this prior art in order to help this museum site that is being picked on?
Is it the museum site that has to present the prior art in court? Or what?
Thanks - it's nice to know a bit about what everybody is talking about.
I mean seriously.
What is it the culmination of? How is it decided who plays?
www.superbowl.com doesn't help.
Just curious.
to restore confidence?
As a start-up today, one of the biggest hurdles is getting a potential customer to take you seriously.
Even if you are a sensible start-up, funded out of your own pocket - and even profitable on a small scale - you are tarred with the same brush as the multi-million dollar collapses of two years ago.
I have to work very hard to convince a potential customer that i'll still be here in 12 months time, and it takes human intervention - i've not yet figured out how to do it through the website.
I didn't like literally mean Tech Support would be wiped out. Struth.
In 15-20 years time, Tech Support at companies is going to be SOOOO much easier.
Currently, there are old farts that work at our place that take about 20 minutes to position the mouse cursor over the appropriate widget, and another 4 minutes to pluck up the courage to actually click on it.
Last weekend I watched my 4 year old nephew as he fired up a PC, quickly and confidently navigated the START menu to his games folder, loaded a football game, and equally quickly and confidently maximimsed the window etc. What made it more interesting was that I then showed him Microsoft Paint. This was the first time he'd seen the program - but he immediately went for the Maximise button to make the application fill the screen.
This means that he'd learnt the concept of the Maximise button - i.e. his understanding was deeper than simply pressing it as part of the start-up procedure of playing his football game.
I guess I may just be underestimating the abilities of 4 year olds, but I tell you, when this generation leave school and get jobs tech support will be a thing of the past...
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.."Security through obscurity is no security"..
Can you explain what a password is if it isn't security through obscurity?
Consider a website that has on the front page a login box with the prompt "Admin Password:".
How is that any more secure than an "security through obscurity" approach, whereby the developer has made himself the following admin URL:
http://www.example.com/3458976394534/admin.html
Both the password, and the hidden URL are equally hard to guess. Yet people go on about how security through obscurity is no security.
Is anybody with me on this?
Softcore pr0n, on a 2 inch by 1 inch screen.
LOL.
IANAL, but the agreement would hold just as true as it would in the United States - because it is an arse covering agreement between 2 private parties, not a legal restriction to prevent you from flying it. They would need an injunction for that - which in that case would probably only be effective in the United States.
Because it is just an arse covering agreement it would probably be seen as binding(ish) by any court in any country that you ended up suing them in.
Of course you could probably only sue them in the United States, so in that case; yes the agreement will hold just as true for you as a Canadian as it would for any United States citizen.
You have to sign-up for an AdultCheck(TM) ID before you can get an account.
There is no reason why it should be any different to any other IT outsourcing contract.
They will have SLAs (Service Level Agreements) with their customers that lay out quite legally what their obligations are and their limitations of liability.
And yes, I am sure they will have Liability Insurance as a second level of back-up; just like a painter decorator has incase they spill paint all over your carpet.
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