The article seriously lacks any details. I still don't know if there's any innovation here and what this new method actually does so much better than other stuff.
Take the Tour de France example: of course software could correlate "Tour de France" to the mentioned keywords, I believe that, heck, I could write that. Many of us here could write something like that. Software could even notice it's one of the more important "tags", piece of cake. But I'm not impressed until it automatically knows that the tour is the sports event, Lance Armstrong is the person, and so on.. no idea of this system can do that.
Also, nothing is said about the difficulty in distinguishing similarly named items. Does the software correctly distinguish between Bush the president and Bush the band? Or for Paris Hilton, between the hotel and you-know-who? That's a real challenge in automated tagging (erm, "modeling"). Would the software correctly tag both the president and band in an article where the band does an anti- (or pro-) Bush song?
Gee, I don't know.. install it on a new harddrive, make a backup first. How is this any different than upgrading or reinstalling for any other purpose? Stupid Ask Slashdot, really.
I would however like to finally obsolete the User-Agent request header for a Standards/Capabilities header. It's possible to detect JavaScript support, Flash capabilities, sure.. but it should simply be something the client tells the server in the request in the first place.
I'm currently playing around with AJAX (shameless plug: a MySpace with better usability in PHP) but because I can't see if JavaScript is on or off on the server side easily, I have to generate pages which include interface definitions for both possibilities (where the JavaScript version is hidden and substitutes itself for the static version onLoad).
It would make development so much easier and would definitely assist people who do care about their visitors to aptly serve them pages optimised for their browser preferences.
Obviously the part before 'hehehe' is cut, but 'hell yeah' might be meant as irony.
I suppose we'll find out sooner or later, I doubt Jani will be silent on the issue much longer. Absence of a response isn't proof he did say and mean it, but it would certainly be very foolish in any other case.
If we follow Occam's razor then surely he would deny the words if the logs aren't true while if they are he would apologise for a sad, emotional rant. I suspect returning from his decision that he cannot work on PHP as long as Israeli Zend backs it is rather impossible at this point, but that decision in itself is respectable even for people like me who disagree with the logic (or even viewpoint) behind it. It is his right not to want to work with Israelis, but for his own sake I hope he tries to do some damage control.
And I think his PHP contributions are not the most notable background here. He's a UN peacekeeper and has in fact been stationed in Lebanon. If you think the PHP team is not going to be happy about this publicity, think of how the UN should feel when there own forces make such emotional hateful rants in public after a "friendly" fire incident - as bad as that incident may be. That might also be why he has no priority to defend himself towards the open source world, he's probably doing all he can by now to keep his job and avoid an official investigation. Or maybe he's preparing a libel case (or would IRC/Slashdot constitute slander?).
Please don't sympathise with UN peacekeepers who side with the terrorists after a friendly-fire incident. PHP happened to get this on Slashdot, but I don't think PHP is the most relevant issue here.
I understand what you're saying, it just surprises me that not a single person replied. It makes sense not to on that particular list, but people don't always make sense.
But I don't agree with you that the onus is on PHP to change its affiliations. Even when you allow Zend to be judged on its Israeli origin, you can't blame them for civilian deaths caused by the use of human shields by Israel's enemies. Of course people like Jani are free to sympathize with Hezbollah, but I hope I will never see the day that PHP itself turns away from Israel just to appease those who hate it and want to see it destroyed.
You really don't think "putting Arabs in gas chambers" is a rather strong comparison with the Nazis and the holocaust?
And Israeli lebensraum.. please. Once Hezbollah, Hamas and their friends finished pushing Israel into the Mediterranean they'll probably hate Jews for having occupied the sea. If Israel wanted lebensraum they would not have withdrawn from Lebanon in the first place, instead of doing so and then seeing the south turn into a Hezbollah missile launch facility.
So far it's Slashdot 59 - php.internals 0. Check the php.internals group.. no one seems to care, or at least no one feels like it's appropriate to respond. You'd think there would be more public outcry in the PHP community?
a non-fraudulent site could have a surge of users into clicking an add when he appears in slashdot, digg, boing-boing or any other high-trafic site that links other sites.
If only Google had a database full of sites that link to each other..
I have no experience with fair use plans in the UK, but given the choice between "unlimited" and a provider that actually quotes data limits and surcharges, I'd always pick the latter if there was anything critical or even remotely serious happening over the connection. "Unlimited" is usually a nice way to say "we'll kick you out whenever we like". All contracts offer a termination clause. Companies who offer a price for traffic beyond a certain limit benefit will find a way to keep you happy. Those who claim to offer true unlimited traffic for a fixed fee eventually realise they can not actually provide you with it and then use the termination clause. Let that happen to you once or twice and you'll soon realise not to trust unlimited traffic.
1. That is not an official rule. I've quite thoroughly gone through every little tiny seemingly insignificant available rule when writing Atlantik/monopd.
2. Although obviously there's no physical money, I did of course write the ever-so-popular "Free Parking collects fines" rule as option.;-)
(I have always wondered *why* do they bother to travel to Cancun if they are going to get into the same places they have in the USA)
For the same reason they still listen to domestic music on their iPod instead of local music, and are they still in touch with their friends at home instead of locals only. People travel to other places to have some new experiences, if any at all, not to change their entire life. Travel has become a commodity for many people.. if you don't see all of the local stuff in Cancun at once, you can surely return another time. There's no longer a real need to complete soak up a foreign culture at a trip and clearly there hasn't been a desire to do so when return visits became accessible to the masses.
I used to label my city trips as holidays, but these days flying to London or Copenhagen (from Amsterdam) is little more to me than hanging with mates and going out elsewhere, experiencing some local culture but still doing what I like doing best.
My bank uses a two-way security system as well. The second code is required when entering a transaction and is sent as a text message to a mobile phone each time a transaction (or set of) is required (the SMS notes transaction ID and amount). The phone number can be changed on-line, but in order to activate a new number one needs to enter a security code which is only sent by registered snail mail.
What I like about this system is that sending out SMS messages actually has a cost attached, so it's much less likely to be used by phishers. Furthermore, the usability of the system is way better than any code which has to be generated from a special device issued by the bank. I would most likely not carry around such a device whereever I go, while I do with my phone and therefore can do Internet banking anywhere I'd like to.
Please leave Satan out of this. He never did any serious harm when compared to a God who, according to the accounts of his own worshippers, ordered actual rape and genocide (on the Midianites, Numbers 31).
In most European countries mobile numbers are assigned using a dedicated prefix pool, while in the US the numbers are assigned using the existing pool for the area code of purchase. So in the US there isn't a method for a caller to distinguish between landline and cell phone numbers. This may have been the reason to let the receiving end pay for (their?) part of the connection, in the same way as what happens for calls received while roaming.
Some people actually do offer such videos, ranging from the professional and amateur pornography scenes to more innocent non-nudes on MySpace.
Anyway, voluntarily exposing some private parts of yourself is not a breach of privacy, just a choice not to exercise that right. In tolerant subcultures this right will simply not be exercised as often
This is not new, though. Historically children have been truly little more than slaves. It has only been half a century since they actually acquired purchasing power and a culture of their own. Now Internet helps them to express themselves. That trend will continue. Especially aging societies it is not unlikely that eventually teenagers and young adults will eventually be the ruling class because they will eventually be the largest demographic bracket with actual economical output. The only reason the status quo is doing these things is not because of a desire to extend power, but it's a desperate struggle to keep whatever power it has left.
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Like all robots, the default programming consists of this simple algorythm
The danceable beat of underwater plant life? Odd.
The article seriously lacks any details. I still don't know if there's any innovation here and what this new method actually does so much better than other stuff.
Take the Tour de France example: of course software could correlate "Tour de France" to the mentioned keywords, I believe that, heck, I could write that. Many of us here could write something like that. Software could even notice it's one of the more important "tags", piece of cake. But I'm not impressed until it automatically knows that the tour is the sports event, Lance Armstrong is the person, and so on.. no idea of this system can do that.
Also, nothing is said about the difficulty in distinguishing similarly named items. Does the software correctly distinguish between Bush the president and Bush the band? Or for Paris Hilton, between the hotel and you-know-who? That's a real challenge in automated tagging (erm, "modeling"). Would the software correctly tag both the president and band in an article where the band does an anti- (or pro-) Bush song?
"Even more spectacular is that the number of female subscribers to Slashdot has doubled from 0.001% to 0.002%."
Could tanks still fire their weapons if coated in this?
Come on lad, Birds of Prey cannot fire when they are cloaked. That's Trek 101, basically.
Sure, but likewise I hate European software/devices that won't let me use a 12-hour clock.
Gee, I don't know.. install it on a new harddrive, make a backup first. How is this any different than upgrading or reinstalling for any other purpose? Stupid Ask Slashdot, really.
I would however like to finally obsolete the User-Agent request header for a Standards/Capabilities header. It's possible to detect JavaScript support, Flash capabilities, sure.. but it should simply be something the client tells the server in the request in the first place.
I'm currently playing around with AJAX (shameless plug: a MySpace with better usability in PHP) but because I can't see if JavaScript is on or off on the server side easily, I have to generate pages which include interface definitions for both possibilities (where the JavaScript version is hidden and substitutes itself for the static version onLoad).
It would make development so much easier and would definitely assist people who do care about their visitors to aptly serve them pages optimised for their browser preferences.
Obviously the part before 'hehehe' is cut, but 'hell yeah' might be meant as irony.
I suppose we'll find out sooner or later, I doubt Jani will be silent on the issue much longer. Absence of a response isn't proof he did say and mean it, but it would certainly be very foolish in any other case.
If we follow Occam's razor then surely he would deny the words if the logs aren't true while if they are he would apologise for a sad, emotional rant. I suspect returning from his decision that he cannot work on PHP as long as Israeli Zend backs it is rather impossible at this point, but that decision in itself is respectable even for people like me who disagree with the logic (or even viewpoint) behind it. It is his right not to want to work with Israelis, but for his own sake I hope he tries to do some damage control.
And I think his PHP contributions are not the most notable background here. He's a UN peacekeeper and has in fact been stationed in Lebanon. If you think the PHP team is not going to be happy about this publicity, think of how the UN should feel when there own forces make such emotional hateful rants in public after a "friendly" fire incident - as bad as that incident may be. That might also be why he has no priority to defend himself towards the open source world, he's probably doing all he can by now to keep his job and avoid an official investigation. Or maybe he's preparing a libel case (or would IRC/Slashdot constitute slander?).
Please don't sympathise with UN peacekeepers who side with the terrorists after a friendly-fire incident. PHP happened to get this on Slashdot, but I don't think PHP is the most relevant issue here.
I understand what you're saying, it just surprises me that not a single person replied. It makes sense not to on that particular list, but people don't always make sense.
But I don't agree with you that the onus is on PHP to change its affiliations. Even when you allow Zend to be judged on its Israeli origin, you can't blame them for civilian deaths caused by the use of human shields by Israel's enemies. Of course people like Jani are free to sympathize with Hezbollah, but I hope I will never see the day that PHP itself turns away from Israel just to appease those who hate it and want to see it destroyed.
You really don't think "putting Arabs in gas chambers" is a rather strong comparison with the Nazis and the holocaust?
And Israeli lebensraum.. please. Once Hezbollah, Hamas and their friends finished pushing Israel into the Mediterranean they'll probably hate Jews for having occupied the sea. If Israel wanted lebensraum they would not have withdrawn from Lebanon in the first place, instead of doing so and then seeing the south turn into a Hezbollah missile launch facility.
So far it's Slashdot 59 - php.internals 0. Check the php.internals group.. no one seems to care, or at least no one feels like it's appropriate to respond. You'd think there would be more public outcry in the PHP community?
a non-fraudulent site could have a surge of users into clicking an add when he appears in slashdot, digg, boing-boing or any other high-trafic site that links other sites.
If only Google had a database full of sites that link to each other..
I have no experience with fair use plans in the UK, but given the choice between "unlimited" and a provider that actually quotes data limits and surcharges, I'd always pick the latter if there was anything critical or even remotely serious happening over the connection. "Unlimited" is usually a nice way to say "we'll kick you out whenever we like". All contracts offer a termination clause. Companies who offer a price for traffic beyond a certain limit benefit will find a way to keep you happy. Those who claim to offer true unlimited traffic for a fixed fee eventually realise they can not actually provide you with it and then use the termination clause. Let that happen to you once or twice and you'll soon realise not to trust unlimited traffic.
1. That is not an official rule. I've quite thoroughly gone through every little tiny seemingly insignificant available rule when writing Atlantik/monopd.
;-)
2. Although obviously there's no physical money, I did of course write the ever-so-popular "Free Parking collects fines" rule as option.
"The dinosaurs went extinct because they didn't have a space program."
Or, we merely presume they are because we haven't found any traces of it.
Even more ironic: many pro-choicers are against the death penalty.
..write your own and make it suck less.
;-)
But don't all be like me.
(I have always wondered *why* do they bother to travel to Cancun if they are going to get into the same places they have in the USA)
For the same reason they still listen to domestic music on their iPod instead of local music, and are they still in touch with their friends at home instead of locals only. People travel to other places to have some new experiences, if any at all, not to change their entire life. Travel has become a commodity for many people.. if you don't see all of the local stuff in Cancun at once, you can surely return another time. There's no longer a real need to complete soak up a foreign culture at a trip and clearly there hasn't been a desire to do so when return visits became accessible to the masses.
I used to label my city trips as holidays, but these days flying to London or Copenhagen (from Amsterdam) is little more to me than hanging with mates and going out elsewhere, experiencing some local culture but still doing what I like doing best.
My bank uses a two-way security system as well. The second code is required when entering a transaction and is sent as a text message to a mobile phone each time a transaction (or set of) is required (the SMS notes transaction ID and amount). The phone number can be changed on-line, but in order to activate a new number one needs to enter a security code which is only sent by registered snail mail.
What I like about this system is that sending out SMS messages actually has a cost attached, so it's much less likely to be used by phishers. Furthermore, the usability of the system is way better than any code which has to be generated from a special device issued by the bank. I would most likely not carry around such a device whereever I go, while I do with my phone and therefore can do Internet banking anywhere I'd like to.
Please leave Satan out of this. He never did any serious harm when compared to a God who, according to the accounts of his own worshippers, ordered actual rape and genocide (on the Midianites, Numbers 31).
I really want to know what happens when they run out of power though?
Or when the communication protocols get hacked and these babies hop right back to surround your own headquarters..
In most European countries mobile numbers are assigned using a dedicated prefix pool, while in the US the numbers are assigned using the existing pool for the area code of purchase. So in the US there isn't a method for a caller to distinguish between landline and cell phone numbers. This may have been the reason to let the receiving end pay for (their?) part of the connection, in the same way as what happens for calls received while roaming.
Some people actually do offer such videos, ranging from the professional and amateur pornography scenes to more innocent non-nudes on MySpace.
Anyway, voluntarily exposing some private parts of yourself is not a breach of privacy, just a choice not to exercise that right. In tolerant subcultures this right will simply not be exercised as often
This is not new, though. Historically children have been truly little more than slaves. It has only been half a century since they actually acquired purchasing power and a culture of their own. Now Internet helps them to express themselves. That trend will continue. Especially aging societies it is not unlikely that eventually teenagers and young adults will eventually be the ruling class because they will eventually be the largest demographic bracket with actual economical output. The only reason the status quo is doing these things is not because of a desire to extend power, but it's a desperate struggle to keep whatever power it has left.