Point taken. However, given that this is an after-the-implementation expository (after all, Extreme Programming is how old?) rather than new paradigm advocacy, it's obviously more than a fad.
Extreme Programming won't be labeled a fad until Microsoft gets ahold of it.
...While this book is fairly new on the shelf (Copyright October 2001)...
Since when is a year and a half "fairly new"? This makes me wonder if both this book in particular and extreme programming in general are really the Nirvana they appear to be? Is lack of promotion for or lack of substance with extreme programming the reason the Big Guns like IBM and Sun haven't promoted Extreme Programming Consulting services, or have they simply not found a way to co-opt the market yet?
If security is an issue, FTP with TCP wrappers is the way to go. Make sure the server's OS is patched, set all the security configurations for the FTP and the wrappers, disallow anonymous login, and encrypt the files with PGP. You could also create logins for downloading, and different logins for uploading. Do copious syslogging so you can see which login ID is doing (or trying to do) what.
An engineer, a computer programmer, and a civil engineer were arguing what profession would be the most equivalent to describe God.
The engineer insisted that the subtle structures of the various organs, the efficiency of reuse of basic design, and the way in which all the parts worked together as a whole clearly showed that God was most engineer like.
The computer programmer pointed to the complexity of the brain and the mind as proof that God was most like a programmer.
The civil engineer pointed to the urinary system.
"Who else but a civil engineer," he said, "would run a liquid waste pipeline through a recreational area?"
Any moderation that is done within the scope of the rules is fair; it may not be accurate, but it is fair. Misuse of the word "fair" is by far one of the most prevalent social ills today. So many people whine about "fair" when they really mean accuracy, or frequency, or some other quantitative attribute.
As far as moderation that is not accurate, or worse, blatantly dishonest, that is another matter. Sure, there are failings in the current moderation system. A large part of that has to do with the budget and resources available to Messrs. Taco, Hemos, et al. Slashdot has obviously reached the size where a QC of those moderating needs to be done. I'm not sure how much or how far meta-moderating is addressing that (if at all, if there is no subsequent action taken). Certainly more could be done on the part of those editing. The questions are how much, at what cost, and to what end?
I would suggest that a large part of the appeal of Slashdot is the high signal-to-noise ratio in the midst of a relatively open forum. Clearly a threashold has been reached where either the signal or the openness has to give a little to accomodate the other. Ultmately this is going to be whatever Taco and the others decide. It is looking like such a decision needs to come sooner rather than later.
I'm sure almost everyone has been the victim of unfair moderation (I know I have), and if you're the victim for too long, you fight back.
There's no such thing as "unfair" moderation. Fairness is not outcome-based, it's an equal application of the rules. Every registered slashdotter has the opportunity to moderate or meta-moderate. Anyone posting as an anonymous coward doesn't. These conditions are presented ratherly clearly.
If more posters, particularly those who complain about "unfair" moderation, would focus more on content then simply getting posted, much of the basis for this matter would simply go away.
I wrote "content" as opposed to "data" because the concept ought to apply to anything retrieved from a web site. True, the data is not copyrightable, but presentation, analysis, and comment on that data is. Given that the copyright holder has sole rights to derivative works, fair use is most definitely an issue, and something too many slashdotters are all too quick to ignore, IMO.
Insurance companies and health care organizations are increasingly relying on PGP in its various forms to met requirements for confidentiality and security of data imposed by the HIPAA legislation. Zimmermann's latest work has a potentially huge market this year, and potentially next year too, if there are more delays with implementing the "enforcement" aspects of the law.
If content is obtainted in a manner that is not in violation of copyright, the next question is that of fair use. It didn't sound from the article that the either module author intended or enabled anything explicitly unfair for using the data. If the website owner's in questions were objecting strictly to the method with which their web data was being accessed, their arguement holds no water.
This is somewhat similar to the "what constitutes a license" arguement regarding database licenses, the contention being a warm body vs. a connection. In the case of these perl modules, just because there's not a warm body explicitly directing the access of the data should not automatically qualify that access as a breach of copyright.
It would be worth the effort to question both of the website owners as to what exactly did they consider the breach of copyright to be? My guess is that neither of them will be willing or able to express their concerns with enough technical detail or legal specificity to present a valid explanation.
None of the telecom's are in the same sort of entrepreneurial mode as in the mid 90's. AT&T is sitting on a pile o' cash, and IIRC, Sprint is almost as liquid (is their 1-800 scam lawsuit still pending?). Given the new economy is in large part information driven, and given that the telcos are the information drivers at the base level, doesn't it make sense to get them to start spending some of that cash? That would not only make the current economy more liquid (not quite a concern, yet), but facilitate the creation of jobs, or at least mitigate more lay-offs in the related industries and eventually have a spill-over affect into the mainstream economy.
If it takes limited or even full-scale regulation to get them to cough-up, then ought not Congress to consider those options?
I despise Tolkien and all the other sappy fantasists who take themselves seriously, so take with the appropriately-sized grain of salt.
You might not despise Tolkien quite so much if you understood him better. He was serious about his writing, but he got a bit bent out of shape himself when others took his writings so seriously that they started digging for allagorical application to Real World Stuff.
Also, given the amount of death, destruction, and general despair found in Tolkien's works, I am surprised at the sappy label. Unless, of course, you're basing that entirely on The Hobbit, in which case you're just another over-generalizer.
What's the frequency Kenneth?
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The data will be beamed over FM radio airwaves to the gadgets, wherever they are. Consumers will pay $120 to $300 for the watches and perhaps $99 more a year for the data service.
Once the frequency is know, anyone with a shortwave will be able to pick-up the information. Of course MS could have it sent digitized and encrypted, but how long until that gets hacked? Could this be the precursor to DRM for radio?
Sure they do. If they can do a search to spam an unsuccessful bidder with other auctions the bidder "might" be interested in, they can certainly do automated searches for key words, patterns of feedback, etc. Of course, this is after-the-fact stuff.
What they really need to do is change their TOS to state that a seller is just as contractually and legally obligated to sell an item as a bidder is to buy it. And then back it up with some action. Then they need to establish partnerships with the various Atttornies General offices in the US (and their counterparts in other countries) instead of this adversarial, screaming-and-dragging-their-feet-thing they have going on right now.
There have been two major legal cases involving fraud on ebay: the art scam a few years ago, and the recently prosecuted computer scam. It shouldn't take a third case to make eBay change their ways, but it probably will.
<i>The section on the seventies is (you will forgive me) before my time. The book tells us about "Pong", the early days of Atari, but I don't think I played on any of those machines.</i><p> Then there are those of us who still have a Pong console.:-)
Ballmer said: "It's weird! IBM says 'Hey British Aerospace! Buy Linux.... From SuSE."
What he doesn't get is what IBM and HP have already realized: supporting a proprietary OS in order to sell hardware isn't cost effective anymore. As the cost of hardware continues to fall, the price pressure on software is going to increase. It'll be fun to watch if MS finally gets this before or after the PC hardware and Windows software price curves cross.
Do you see a place in literature for the explicit inclusion of Open Source software? Not necessarily "brand dropping", but references and even integral plot elements involving software in particular and technology in general that is Open Source?
The first Xanth trilogy begins with this root-for-the-underdog perspective and later develops into the continuing undertone that the former slave is just as good as the old-money rich--and even better for not becoming one of them in spite of the new wealth. The Open vs. Close source business and technology models of today are following a similar storyline. Have you considered crossing over some of this real-life drama into your work?
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Point taken. However, given that this is an after-the-implementation expository (after all, Extreme Programming is how old?) rather than new paradigm advocacy, it's obviously more than a fad.
Extreme Programming won't be labeled a fad until Microsoft gets ahold of it.
...While this book is fairly new on the shelf (Copyright October 2001)...
Since when is a year and a half "fairly new"? This makes me wonder if both this book in particular and extreme programming in general are really the Nirvana they appear to be? Is lack of promotion for or lack of substance with extreme programming the reason the Big Guns like IBM and Sun haven't promoted Extreme Programming Consulting services, or have they simply not found a way to co-opt the market yet?
If security is an issue, FTP with TCP wrappers is the way to go. Make sure the server's OS is patched, set all the security configurations for the FTP and the wrappers, disallow anonymous login, and encrypt the files with PGP. You could also create logins for downloading, and different logins for uploading. Do copious syslogging so you can see which login ID is doing (or trying to do) what.
An engineer, a computer programmer, and a civil engineer were arguing what profession would be the most equivalent to describe God.
The engineer insisted that the subtle structures of the various organs, the efficiency of reuse of basic design, and the way in which all the parts worked together as a whole clearly showed that God was most engineer like.
The computer programmer pointed to the complexity of the brain and the mind as proof that God was most like a programmer.
The civil engineer pointed to the urinary system.
"Who else but a civil engineer," he said, "would run a liquid waste pipeline through a recreational area?"
In physicis, Work is defined as Force applied over a Distance, or W=FD.
Force is defined as Mass times Acceleration.
Consequently, this undeniably proves that we are all crazy for having jobs, as Work = MAD
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have software raid and the disk the os/boot/raidconfig files are on goes, you have a dead box.
Yes, you are wrong. If you are RAIDing your boot partition, you are doing RAID 1 (mirrors), and the boot sector and OS are on both drives.
Any software that allows for RAIDing the boot partition to any other RAID type than mirrored is seriously broken.
Any moderation that is done within the scope of the rules is fair; it may not be accurate, but it is fair. Misuse of the word "fair" is by far one of the most prevalent social ills today. So many people whine about "fair" when they really mean accuracy, or frequency, or some other quantitative attribute.
As far as moderation that is not accurate, or worse, blatantly dishonest, that is another matter. Sure, there are failings in the current moderation system. A large part of that has to do with the budget and resources available to Messrs. Taco, Hemos, et al. Slashdot has obviously reached the size where a QC of those moderating needs to be done. I'm not sure how much or how far meta-moderating is addressing that (if at all, if there is no subsequent action taken). Certainly more could be done on the part of those editing. The questions are how much, at what cost, and to what end?
I would suggest that a large part of the appeal of Slashdot is the high signal-to-noise ratio in the midst of a relatively open forum. Clearly a threashold has been reached where either the signal or the openness has to give a little to accomodate the other. Ultmately this is going to be whatever Taco and the others decide. It is looking like such a decision needs to come sooner rather than later.
I'm sure almost everyone has been the victim of unfair moderation (I know I have), and if you're the victim for too long, you fight back.
There's no such thing as "unfair" moderation. Fairness is not outcome-based, it's an equal application of the rules. Every registered slashdotter has the opportunity to moderate or meta-moderate. Anyone posting as an anonymous coward doesn't. These conditions are presented ratherly clearly.
If more posters, particularly those who complain about "unfair" moderation, would focus more on content then simply getting posted, much of the basis for this matter would simply go away.
I wrote "content" as opposed to "data" because the concept ought to apply to anything retrieved from a web site. True, the data is not copyrightable, but presentation, analysis, and comment on that data is. Given that the copyright holder has sole rights to derivative works, fair use is most definitely an issue, and something too many slashdotters are all too quick to ignore, IMO.
Insurance companies and health care organizations are increasingly relying on PGP in its various forms to met requirements for confidentiality and security of data imposed by the HIPAA legislation. Zimmermann's latest work has a potentially huge market this year, and potentially next year too, if there are more delays with implementing the "enforcement" aspects of the law.
If content is obtainted in a manner that is not in violation of copyright, the next question is that of fair use. It didn't sound from the article that the either module author intended or enabled anything explicitly unfair for using the data. If the website owner's in questions were objecting strictly to the method with which their web data was being accessed, their arguement holds no water.
This is somewhat similar to the "what constitutes a license" arguement regarding database licenses, the contention being a warm body vs. a connection. In the case of these perl modules, just because there's not a warm body explicitly directing the access of the data should not automatically qualify that access as a breach of copyright.
It would be worth the effort to question both of the website owners as to what exactly did they consider the breach of copyright to be? My guess is that neither of them will be willing or able to express their concerns with enough technical detail or legal specificity to present a valid explanation.
None of the telecom's are in the same sort of entrepreneurial mode as in the mid 90's. AT&T is sitting on a pile o' cash, and IIRC, Sprint is almost as liquid (is their 1-800 scam lawsuit still pending?). Given the new economy is in large part information driven, and given that the telcos are the information drivers at the base level, doesn't it make sense to get them to start spending some of that cash? That would not only make the current economy more liquid (not quite a concern, yet), but facilitate the creation of jobs, or at least mitigate more lay-offs in the related industries and eventually have a spill-over affect into the mainstream economy.
If it takes limited or even full-scale regulation to get them to cough-up, then ought not Congress to consider those options?
mark
I despise Tolkien and all the other sappy fantasists who take themselves seriously, so take with the appropriately-sized grain of salt.
You might not despise Tolkien quite so much if you understood him better. He was serious about his writing, but he got a bit bent out of shape himself when others took his writings so seriously that they started digging for allagorical application to Real World Stuff. Also, given the amount of death, destruction, and general despair found in Tolkien's works, I am surprised at the sappy label. Unless, of course, you're basing that entirely on The Hobbit, in which case you're just another over-generalizer.
The data will be beamed over FM radio airwaves to the gadgets, wherever they are. Consumers will pay $120 to $300 for the watches and perhaps $99 more a year for the data service.
Once the frequency is know, anyone with a shortwave will be able to pick-up the information. Of course MS could have it sent digitized and encrypted, but how long until that gets hacked? Could this be the precursor to DRM for radio?
Sure they do. If they can do a search to spam an unsuccessful bidder with other auctions the bidder "might" be interested in, they can certainly do automated searches for key words, patterns of feedback, etc. Of course, this is after-the-fact stuff.
What they really need to do is change their TOS to state that a seller is just as contractually and legally obligated to sell an item as a bidder is to buy it. And then back it up with some action. Then they need to establish partnerships with the various Atttornies General offices in the US (and their counterparts in other countries) instead of this adversarial, screaming-and-dragging-their-feet-thing they have going on right now.
There have been two major legal cases involving fraud on ebay: the art scam a few years ago, and the recently prosecuted computer scam. It shouldn't take a third case to make eBay change their ways, but it probably will.
<i>The section on the seventies is (you will forgive me) before my time. The book tells us about "Pong", the early days of Atari, but I don't think I played on any of those machines.</i><p> :-)
Then there are those of us who still have a Pong console.
Ballmer said: "It's weird! IBM says 'Hey British Aerospace! Buy Linux.... From SuSE." What he doesn't get is what IBM and HP have already realized: supporting a proprietary OS in order to sell hardware isn't cost effective anymore. As the cost of hardware continues to fall, the price pressure on software is going to increase. It'll be fun to watch if MS finally gets this before or after the PC hardware and Windows software price curves cross.
Do you see a place in literature for the explicit inclusion of Open Source software? Not necessarily "brand dropping", but references and even integral plot elements involving software in particular and technology in general that is Open Source?
The first Xanth trilogy begins with this root-for-the-underdog perspective and later develops into the continuing undertone that the former slave is just as good as the old-money rich--and even better for not becoming one of them in spite of the new wealth. The Open vs. Close source business and technology models of today are following a similar storyline. Have you considered crossing over some of this real-life drama into your work?