English isn't my first language either but it is the main language I am confronted with on Internet. That is what is important while measuring a language importance. I don't really care what the native language of people are when talking to them on/.
Of course Chinese rises on Internet. The thing with Chinese is that comparatively very few people use it as a secondary language. It is not effective as an international communication tool, what Internet is all about.
I know it is a debattable idea but to measure this, I would check the number of wikipedia articles in the various language. I think it gives an idea about how much people contribute to Internet in the various languages of the global village.
Recent history has shown that a president can start war on false claims, violate the constitution, torture some people and not be worried but that a president can be impeached for having extra-marital sex. It seems like the smallest the error, the bigger the consequences...
Last time I checked (several months ago) it was not thought that backward compatibility would be broken very hard. Most of the modification to do should be automatic so I think that a lot of packets that are still maintained will quickly be made compatible for python 3
Accepting a closed-source software from an economical rival as the main operating system of your computer installations is not a sane thing to do. The minimum that should be done is forcing Microsoft to open the code for confidential review by government officials.
You could just add the link : http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/ The law allows anyone to do this, reformat it into something else and publish it. I agree the government ought to do this, but there are worse ways of releasing a video than Youtube.
My point exactly : some things are harder to attack than other. A server would be far more valuable if infected than a dozen of enduser PCs but it happens more rarely. Marketshare has nothing to do with anything.
Stop this myth. It has more to do with ease of attack than market shares. There used to be (I don't know the numbers these days) more than 50% of servers on various unix. Still close to no virus there (and, I believe, none active).
1% of the market share would still make a valuable bot-net. Even 10% of this 1%. It translates into cash money. If it were easy, some people would have done it.
Agreed. All the basic knowledge about the field is in this book. Part of these are available freely online. You can be judge : http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
Agreed. As an European who likes the whole idea, I would happily get rid of the European Council which serves nothing except providing an easy point of entry to lobbyists and corruption.
Of course not, I just took advantage of your +5 post to gain visibility. I wanted to put that remark at the end of my post in an ironic and nifty way but well... I have the short term memory of a squirrel.
Plus it is a fact : people with dialup still exist. They are not behind a firewall, they have enough bandwidth to get infections but not enough to get patches. Is there a way to keep a computer secure with Windows without access to someone who can burn updates for you ?
It wouldn't be free. It would be paid by the government and the taxpayer. I'm not sure it could be worse than the current situation.
And if you believe this meltdown cause on P2P, just understand that they are not afraid of growing traffic but of diminishing control on the content. In case of heavy traffic, the solution has always been to throttle. How would this be any different ? It really sounds like a scheme to frighten senators into giving fed money.
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It is not too long to read all the +5 comments on an article. In fact it is shorter to read that particular article (which I didn't read in its entirety. Maybe it had good ideas but apparently it failed from understanding that I am not willing to read a random blogger's prose for 1 hour)
Selling a good idea is part of the idea. You don't think so ? One day, my former boss had a brilliant idea. He suggested that computers would be easier to set up if there weren't any wires connecting them to various thingies. We politely suggested to him that many wireless protocols existed but that there were numerous problems. He dismissed them as "technical problems". Ridiculous ? Well, by suggesting that one shouldn't need to be eloquent sell a good idea, you are no less ridiculous than a guy thinking that a good idea does not have to provide technical details about its implementation.
On a slightly related note. Did you know that steel (which is recognized as a useful invention and a good idea) had been rediscovered at least two times during Western Europe history ?
The question is : does this really change anything that privacy disappears before or after the theocracy is imposed. Because, you know, if condoms get illegal, privacy won't last very long. No, I really feel that the fight for privacy is lost but what we should ask for is symmetry : if the government has a spy camera in my bedroom, I want to have on in theirs. I'm ok with public cameras as long as its recording are 100% public and that police abuses are not censored.
Born in 1981. I disagree. There is no reason Amazon should get money on this. Just "pirate" it. It is a hole in the current laws and nobody will attack you for helping preserve a piece of human knowledge.
Do not even use a standard linux !
Use a SE linux or a BSD-like. Computer security is serious business in a few domains. In hospitals and military operations, authorizing a closed-source OS with the biggest malware and virus repository on the planet should be charged with felony or criminal negligence.
While looking for informations on Code Green, I came accross this 2002 Black hat conference that discusses the possibility of back striking an attacker in the case of the Nimda worm epidemic.
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-asia-02/bh-asia-02-mullen.pdf
You may be interested by this presentation.
Why do you dismiss the possibility of a vigilante-style anti-worm ? It happened for Code Red : a counter worm, named Code Green, used the same vulnerability to spread, infect PCs, then install a patch to close the security flaw and suppressed itself.
Code green caused some problems too but, well, it looks like an intriguing possibility.
* Automoderation is working fine for this.
* spammers don't care about having to wait 5 minutes, legitimate users do.
* Couldn't a karma above 10 disable this nagging feature ?
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English isn't my first language either but it is the main language I am confronted with on Internet. That is what is important while measuring a language importance. I don't really care what the native language of people are when talking to them on /.
Of course Chinese rises on Internet. The thing with Chinese is that comparatively very few people use it as a secondary language. It is not effective as an international communication tool, what Internet is all about.
I know it is a debattable idea but to measure this, I would check the number of wikipedia articles in the various language. I think it gives an idea about how much people contribute to Internet in the various languages of the global village.
Recent history has shown that a president can start war on false claims, violate the constitution, torture some people and not be worried but that a president can be impeached for having extra-marital sex. It seems like the smallest the error, the bigger the consequences...
Sounds like Ballmer to me...
Ironically, the XKCD referring to python is now false : Hello world is not
print "Hello world"
anymore but in 3.0 :
print("Hello world")
But I guess the point is still valid.
Last time I checked (several months ago) it was not thought that backward compatibility would be broken very hard. Most of the modification to do should be automatic so I think that a lot of packets that are still maintained will quickly be made compatible for python 3
Accepting a closed-source software from an economical rival as the main operating system of your computer installations is not a sane thing to do. The minimum that should be done is forcing Microsoft to open the code for confidential review by government officials.
You could just add the link : http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/ The law allows anyone to do this, reformat it into something else and publish it. I agree the government ought to do this, but there are worse ways of releasing a video than Youtube.
My point exactly : some things are harder to attack than other. A server would be far more valuable if infected than a dozen of enduser PCs but it happens more rarely. Marketshare has nothing to do with anything.
Linus Torvalds put them on 4chan and lets the world backup it.
Because we all know that a scientific background is a terrible thing to have as a technician.
Stop this myth. It has more to do with ease of attack than market shares. There used to be (I don't know the numbers these days) more than 50% of servers on various unix. Still close to no virus there (and, I believe, none active).
1% of the market share would still make a valuable bot-net. Even 10% of this 1%. It translates into cash money. If it were easy, some people would have done it.
Agreed. All the basic knowledge about the field is in this book. Part of these are available freely online. You can be judge : http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
Agreed. As an European who likes the whole idea, I would happily get rid of the European Council which serves nothing except providing an easy point of entry to lobbyists and corruption.
Of course not, I just took advantage of your +5 post to gain visibility. I wanted to put that remark at the end of my post in an ironic and nifty way but well... I have the short term memory of a squirrel.
Plus it is a fact : people with dialup still exist. They are not behind a firewall, they have enough bandwidth to get infections but not enough to get patches. Is there a way to keep a computer secure with Windows without access to someone who can burn updates for you ?
It wouldn't be free. It would be paid by the government and the taxpayer. I'm not sure it could be worse than the current situation.
And if you believe this meltdown cause on P2P, just understand that they are not afraid of growing traffic but of diminishing control on the content. In case of heavy traffic, the solution has always been to throttle. How would this be any different ? It really sounds like a scheme to frighten senators into giving fed money.
It is not too long to read all the +5 comments on an article. In fact it is shorter to read that particular article (which I didn't read in its entirety. Maybe it had good ideas but apparently it failed from understanding that I am not willing to read a random blogger's prose for 1 hour)
Selling a good idea is part of the idea. You don't think so ? One day, my former boss had a brilliant idea. He suggested that computers would be easier to set up if there weren't any wires connecting them to various thingies. We politely suggested to him that many wireless protocols existed but that there were numerous problems. He dismissed them as "technical problems". Ridiculous ? Well, by suggesting that one shouldn't need to be eloquent sell a good idea, you are no less ridiculous than a guy thinking that a good idea does not have to provide technical details about its implementation.
On a slightly related note. Did you know that steel (which is recognized as a useful invention and a good idea) had been rediscovered at least two times during Western Europe history ?
The question is : does this really change anything that privacy disappears before or after the theocracy is imposed. Because, you know, if condoms get illegal, privacy won't last very long. No, I really feel that the fight for privacy is lost but what we should ask for is symmetry : if the government has a spy camera in my bedroom, I want to have on in theirs. I'm ok with public cameras as long as its recording are 100% public and that police abuses are not censored.
Born in 1981. I disagree. There is no reason Amazon should get money on this. Just "pirate" it. It is a hole in the current laws and nobody will attack you for helping preserve a piece of human knowledge.
Do not even use a standard linux !
Use a SE linux or a BSD-like. Computer security is serious business in a few domains. In hospitals and military operations, authorizing a closed-source OS with the biggest malware and virus repository on the planet should be charged with felony or criminal negligence.
In fact that reminds me of the movie Abyss.
And if you want inventivity, you will have to look toward SF writers, not movie directors.
While looking for informations on Code Green, I came accross this 2002 Black hat conference that discusses the possibility of back striking an attacker in the case of the Nimda worm epidemic. http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-asia-02/bh-asia-02-mullen.pdf You may be interested by this presentation.
Why do you dismiss the possibility of a vigilante-style anti-worm ? It happened for Code Red : a counter worm, named Code Green, used the same vulnerability to spread, infect PCs, then install a patch to close the security flaw and suppressed itself.
Code green caused some problems too but, well, it looks like an intriguing possibility.
* Automoderation is working fine for this.
* spammers don't care about having to wait 5 minutes, legitimate users do.
* Couldn't a karma above 10 disable this nagging feature ?