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Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but why not just toss the kids outside and station a college near-drop-out to shout "run, fat-ass!" at them every few minutes. That certainly sounds cheaper.
Ask.com: Google's up-and-coming rival?!
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The title of the article is "Ask.com: Google's up-and-coming rival", but I still want to know (and this is the third time I've asked):
Why is Ask.com considered a Google "rival" if it primarily serves Google ads?
(How do I know? It serves an ad I've only placed through Google.)
Yeah, I agree. Ironically, short cert expirations tend to cheese off the "I must individually trust every cert for security purposes" people more than anyone else (because it's inconvenient for them). I wish more people read this thread...
My favorite line about SSL Cert revocation came from a security presentation where a guy went through about thirty slides covering about 4 or 5 different ways people actually tried to make cert revocation work. At the end he said "and if you find a way that actually works 100%, see me after class."
I think the point is: don't ever get caught in a situation in which you need to revoke certificates, because it's likely you'll never completely be able to revoke them for everyone. (i.e., protect your SSL cert backups)
Also, people who are posting stuff about individually trusting new server certs are kind of missing the point; sometimes an issuer wants to revoke a cert you may have already individually trusted too.
The first twelve quests are relatively simple treasure hunt type tasks that have you exploring the environment looking for different items. They have a castle with a few rooms, a dungeon area, a pixie treehouse, a crypt, and some other areas....my wife and I completed the twelve quests in two hours working together. I would encourage you to do it on your own, but we were dragging a two year old and my wife is seven months pregnant.
Anyone else think "time to grow the hell up?" You're in an amusement park and are "dragging" a two-year old?
"Google is positioned so strongly that if they offered an OS, they could pose a significant threat to M$."
Positioned strongly, you say? Who currently owns the OS on most desktops and laptops?
The other knock on Google is that they've reversed the whole "don't be evil" slogan by bending over for China, reading your Gmail and phoning your desktop searches home, so I'm not certain they could put a dent in the holier-than-thou "run Linux or Mac OS for world peace" crowd either.
HEADLINE: "Lessons learned in Iraq may show up in future household 'avatars'"
Oh goodie. Another "you may have blown $500 billion kicking the shit out a third-world country, but you DID get a better household gadget out of the deal" article.
Seriously, what's the lesson "learned" here? That there's potentially a consumer market for remote-controlled devices that feature a camera, a robotic arm and some wheels? (Aren't these things called "drones" anyway?)
Yeah, that was my point. Lots of newbies are flocking to PHP, so lots of PHP apps contain newbie mistakes. In general, however, I'd say that PHP seems to be the exception to the "open source should be secure" rule. For example, PHPNuke continues to be wildly popular package even though most security folks will usually shut down and quarantine any server they find it on...
I don't see people complaining about C because it lets you point into kernel space and write garbage. If that happens, C programmers will point and laugh and say, "Ha ha, you silly newbie programmer!" not "Ha ha, C is retarded!"
This very issue would appear to be at the heart of many existing C (or C++) vs. Java arguments. The claim is/was that newbie programmers are not as dangerous if given Java.
"don't blame the language... it's the "programmers" who are to blame for not understanding how to write secure apps."
Hmmm...I thought that's what I said (although there have been some pretty bad holes in the core PHP bits themselves). On the other hand, "dumb entry-level programmers" was also one of the main knocks against IIS's ASP in its early days. (ASPX seems to have largely fixed this by being much less friendly than ASP to entry-level types.);)
"Anyone proficient with Linux had to climb the steep learning curve. Part of getting over the top for me was reading a hundred different Linux and Unix related books."
I remember my start in the *nix world (circa 1993) was a half-page typed command reference. One of the commands was "man". Another got me onto the new-fangled newgroups where every other question I needed answered was. It might just be me, but most of the Linux gurus I know picked up the environment a bit quicker than a "couple weeks"...without any books.
GS: How do people find out about you if you're so behind the scenes? Is it just sort of word of mouth through developer culture? KS: Yes. In Japan, Tose is very well known (among developers). We're trying to expand our presence in the US and Europe too.
MA: So, secretly marketing. Not everybody knows us, especially in the States, so in 2003 I came here. The first time we visited with publishers, nobody knew us. We'd just get to the door, and they'd ignore us. "Go home."
Mission accomprished. All SrashDot deveropers are berong to us...
This is a great way to get enterprise support...if your idea of "enterprise support" is a couple of high-schoolers with a couple months of Linux experience on their two-box networks telling you what to do. (Plus, "I migrated EDS from Cleveland to San Antonio and all I got was this lousy XBox?")
I wonder if OpenLogic takes coupons and IOUs as payment in lieu of cash? (Don't laugh too hard; many class-action suits end with the plantiffs getting coupons.)
Sorry I'm not first...but I'm only allowed out of my coding cell for two breaks in each twelve hour shift. Quality of life? I'd say it's pretty good. We get three meals a day, including one hot meal, and sometimes we get a mouse pad or eye drops if we invent something that saves render time. Well, gotta go - I heard we just got the rights to code the game for Charlie's Angels III; I know I'll need to pull a couple all-nighters just getting those stupid line breaks in the string tables lined up again.
"That would be a major departure for Microsoft, the software maker that is legendary for toiling on its own until it captures a new market. "
Dunno if I buy that. See:
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/200 5/10/microsoft_will_.html "QDOS became MS-DOS, ForeThought became Powerpoint, SoftDesign became Microsoft Project, Vermeer became FrontPage, PlaceWare became Live Meeting, Vicinity became a key part of MapPoint, nCompass Labs became Content Management Server, Bungie Studios became Halo, HotMail, Visio, Great Plains, Groove Networks"
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Vat is theez "magazine" you zpeak of? Paper with printed picturez? And you muzt pay for theez inconvienent and unzearchable zing? Bah...you muzt zhow me theez "magazine" before I comment - I cannot believe zuch a thing exiztz!
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but why not just toss the kids outside and station a college near-drop-out to shout "run, fat-ass!" at them every few minutes. That certainly sounds cheaper.
Why is Ask.com considered a Google "rival" if it primarily serves Google ads?
(How do I know? It serves an ad I've only placed through Google.)
Yeah, I agree. Ironically, short cert expirations tend to cheese off the "I must individually trust every cert for security purposes" people more than anyone else (because it's inconvenient for them). I wish more people read this thread...
My favorite line about SSL Cert revocation came from a security presentation where a guy went through about thirty slides covering about 4 or 5 different ways people actually tried to make cert revocation work. At the end he said "and if you find a way that actually works 100%, see me after class."
I think the point is: don't ever get caught in a situation in which you need to revoke certificates, because it's likely you'll never completely be able to revoke them for everyone. (i.e., protect your SSL cert backups)
Also, people who are posting stuff about individually trusting new server certs are kind of missing the point; sometimes an issuer wants to revoke a cert you may have already individually trusted too.
Anyone else think "time to grow the hell up?" You're in an amusement park and are "dragging" a two-year old?
Positioned strongly, you say? Who currently owns the OS on most desktops and laptops?
The other knock on Google is that they've reversed the whole "don't be evil" slogan by bending over for China, reading your Gmail and phoning your desktop searches home, so I'm not certain they could put a dent in the holier-than-thou "run Linux or Mac OS for world peace" crowd either.
Um, it's a search toolbar, not an OS. I'm sure M$ still happily cashes Dell's checks for each copy of the OS that ships with nearly every model...
No. Most Slashdotters are under fifty, I think.
Next week's topic: Are Star Wars references still cool?
Oh goodie. Another "you may have blown $500 billion kicking the shit out a third-world country, but you DID get a better household gadget out of the deal" article.
Seriously, what's the lesson "learned" here? That there's potentially a consumer market for remote-controlled devices that feature a camera, a robotic arm and some wheels? (Aren't these things called "drones" anyway?)
Yeah, that was my point. Lots of newbies are flocking to PHP, so lots of PHP apps contain newbie mistakes. In general, however, I'd say that PHP seems to be the exception to the "open source should be secure" rule. For example, PHPNuke continues to be wildly popular package even though most security folks will usually shut down and quarantine any server they find it on...
This very issue would appear to be at the heart of many existing C (or C++) vs. Java arguments. The claim is/was that newbie programmers are not as dangerous if given Java.
Hmmm...I thought that's what I said (although there have been some pretty bad holes in the core PHP bits themselves). On the other hand, "dumb entry-level programmers" was also one of the main knocks against IIS's ASP in its early days. (ASPX seems to have largely fixed this by being much less friendly than ASP to entry-level types.) ;)
Security experts already know PHP is the beginner's choice. See:
http://www.sans.org/top20/#c3 (Top 20 Vulnerabilities)
"There has not been a single week during the last year that a problem was not reported in some software using PHP."
I remember my start in the *nix world (circa 1993) was a half-page typed command reference. One of the commands was "man". Another got me onto the new-fangled newgroups where every other question I needed answered was. It might just be me, but most of the Linux gurus I know picked up the environment a bit quicker than a "couple weeks"...without any books.
OK, let me see if I have the SlashDot speech code down.
"All your X are belong to us." (Poor grammar.)
+1 Funny
"...are berong to us." (Poor pronunciation.)
-1 Troll
Look about right?
KS: Yes. In Japan, Tose is very well known (among developers). We're trying to expand our presence in the US and Europe too.
MA: So, secretly marketing. Not everybody knows us, especially in the States, so in 2003 I came here. The first time we visited with publishers, nobody knew us. We'd just get to the door, and they'd ignore us. "Go home."
Mission accomprished. All SrashDot deveropers are berong to us...
Buying land in a virtual world is like buying land in a third-world country. You just got nationalized, bitch!
...as good as the Dungeons and Dragons movie?
I still use a VCR...as far as I can tell, it still zips past the ads.
You know it's incomplete when a search for "porn" comes back empty.
Wasn't multicast (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6552/produc ts_ios_technology_home.html) supposed to take care of this?
This is a great way to get enterprise support...if your idea of "enterprise support" is a couple of high-schoolers with a couple months of Linux experience on their two-box networks telling you what to do. (Plus, "I migrated EDS from Cleveland to San Antonio and all I got was this lousy XBox?")
I wonder if OpenLogic takes coupons and IOUs as payment in lieu of cash? (Don't laugh too hard; many class-action suits end with the plantiffs getting coupons.)
Sorry I'm not first...but I'm only allowed out of my coding cell for two breaks in each twelve hour shift. Quality of life? I'd say it's pretty good. We get three meals a day, including one hot meal, and sometimes we get a mouse pad or eye drops if we invent something that saves render time. Well, gotta go - I heard we just got the rights to code the game for Charlie's Angels III; I know I'll need to pull a couple all-nighters just getting those stupid line breaks in the string tables lined up again.
Dunno if I buy that. See:
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/200 5/10/microsoft_will_.html
"QDOS became MS-DOS, ForeThought became Powerpoint, SoftDesign became Microsoft Project, Vermeer became FrontPage, PlaceWare became Live Meeting, Vicinity became a key part of MapPoint, nCompass Labs became Content Management Server, Bungie Studios became Halo, HotMail, Visio, Great Plains, Groove Networks"
Or...n dows/story/0,10801,78739,00.html
m ar05/03-10GrooveQA.mspx
o soft-sybari.html
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/wi
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/021405-micr