don't seem to understand the difference between a search engine that indexes the internet and the original site that hosted the material.
Slippery slope, though. Google decided they want to add the ability to censor content. For one example, back when they wanted to do business in china, google.cn was able to spin results the way that government wants ( http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-04-n13.html )). No doubt they do similar censorship for other regionally outlawed content too.
Once they add such censorship features, they're not really a content-neutral search engine anymore.
But hire a lawyer experinced in small business sales to make sure heJ:
doesn't get paid in $5-mil in non-voting stocks with bizzare restrictions on when/how he can sell it that might be worth nothing before he can cash out.
doesn't sell something worth $50-mil for $5-mil.
It'd be pretty sad if tricky legalese makes his share worth nothing, and he needs to try a Paul Ceglia like lawsuit to get his facebook stock cashed out.
The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn't exist.... Amazon EC2... virtual supercomputer for an unnamed pharmaceutical giant that spans 30,000 processor cores, and it cost $1,279 an hour. "
That means people will look to technological solutions (client-side encryption) instead of blindly trusting that your cloud vendor only hires ethical people who won't misuse sensitive data.
When I lived in SF I set up my home network to provide free wireless to the coffee shop at the end of the block.
QOS routing prevented guest bandwidth from interfering with my own. I put the wireless thing outside my firewall to protect my network.
Occasional casual monitoring suggested that no-one abused the network from either a bandwidth or content point of view. And the only thing it had protecting it was a "please don't abuse this or I'll take it down" welcome message.
TL/DR: Most people are basically good, so it (like wikipedia) works and isn't abused as much as you might thing..
Disagree.
I think almost every company and big web site would not only run their own server, they would run servers many people use (just as they all provide email); and most any tiny hobby web site would run it (just as many small web sites host blogs & RSS feeds).
As solar gets cheaper and more common every year, incandescent bulbs will become the most environmentally friendly option.
I already have a number of friends who's rooftop solar produces more electricity than they consume; and at that point, the (environmentally friendly) glass and metal incandescent is better for the environment than the mercury-laden florescent.
But there is another issue here, one that is hardly ever mentioned and that's the coining of the term "innovation." This word, which was hardly used at all until two or three years ago, feels to me like a propaganda campaign and a successful one at that, dominating discussion in the computer industry. I think Microsoft did this intentionally, for they are the ones who seem to continually use the word. But what does it mean? And how is it different from what we might have said before? I think the word they are replacing is "invention." Bill Shockley invented the transistor, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce invented the integrated circuit, Ted Hof invented the microprocessor. Of course others claimed to have done those same three things, but the goal was always invention. Only now we innovate, which is deliberately vague but seems to stop somewhere short of invention. Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own. That's the intersection of innovation and sharp business.
One of the worrying things about using CC material is: What is a derivative work?
Even worse, which you consider how long a chain of derivatives-of-derivitatives-of-derivitatives-of-derivitatives-of-derivitatives can be.
Pretty much every work of art is influenced by pretty much every work of art an artist has ever seen. Perhaps they should cite them all, just in case some of them were CC-SA?
It's become something of a prerequisite degree for a lot of management jobs
I thought an MBA mostly means "I couldn't get a job during the latest economic downturn, so I did this to fill a gap on a resume".
A couple exceptions are an MBA from a top-3 school (say, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and nothing below those) - which means "I' have a rich and powerful network".
But I don't think anyone hires an MBA for whatever the heck they teach them (clerical powerpoint skills, I guess).
I thought most parents teach their kids "don't give your personal info to strangers".
Remember, Zuckerberg's a stranger to your kids no matter how many free things (services) he offers them, just as much as some guy offering free candy from an unmarked van.
We're a pretty heavy postgres shop, and Red Hat employing one of the top developers of that project (Tom) was the way we chose which distro to use (and actually pay for).
Not that we actually needed such support (he gives at least as support on the project mailing list) --- but for marking reasons we needed *a* tier-1 distro with "official" "support" --- so we chose to support them based on them supporting Tom.
Why do we need all these fucking gestures and shit? I guess most people still haven't figured out how to TYPE.
That is exactly *why* we need gesture recognition.
People communicate with each other -- and with their pets, and even with pre-verbal babies -- with gestures and not with keyboards.
I often use this as an example of why we continue to need better compute power --- until I can give my computer a dirty look or an obscene gesture to make it stop doing something I don't like, we'll continue to have a need for better human-computer interfaces.
This is *exactly* a step in the right direction -- where the computer learns how humans communicate -- instead of making humans have to learn something convenient for computers (pushing buttons / typing on keyboards).
This paper: Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm from the University of Colorado Law School is the best summary why it won't work even if people do it:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006
TL/DR: There are just far too many ways to infer the real meanings from a network of hashes.
With Motorola's handset group now owned by Google, surely the other Android vendors like Samsung, HTC, and others can't be happy that they're dependant on a competitor for their OS.
If Nokia and HP create a more democratic consortium around WebOS and everyone could win.
The value of the goods is tiny compared to the value of the data on it. For example this access to his email account, that receives the password reset forms for his bank account.
weighting the seriousness of a crime on the monetary value of the goods stolen is inherently flawed.
On the contrary, the US doesn't do that enough.
It'd be kinda nice if someone spent 2,000,000 times as long in jail if he steals $20 million (using shady hedge fund tricks) than if he steals $10.
Many of the best programmers I know had degrees from other fields. Electrical Engineering; physics; math; etc.
So long as you're producing working code as opposed to papers about algorithms, I'd say a CS degree doesn't really matter that much at all.
I would have hoped all the normal standard practices would protect you almost totally from this....
Don't use an important password except over https where your browser doesn't raise red flags.
Use a VPN or ssh to connect to servers that are important to you.
Seems the same practices that protect you from your normal ISP would protect you from rogue access points too, no?
Yahoo had management problems ever since their old board was so enamored by AOL buying Time Warner that they wanted to become a copycat-media-company and decided to hire that Warner Bros Hollywood guy who didn't know anything about the internet.
If it weren't for that guy, Yahoo could have had it all.
* Geocities could have been Facebook+Myspace if they further developed their webrings social features.
* Altavista + Overture + Inktomi could have ruled search if they didn't decide to outsource their own search first to Google and then to Bing.
* Broadcast.com could have been Youtube if they encouraged user content.
* I would have stuck with Yahoo Mail if they had sane quotas and IMAP.
But they wanted to become AOL-Time-Warner-II so much that the board picked a Warner Brothers exec for CEO in 2001 or so; and nothing Jerry could do could fix that issue.
Slashdot Mirror
don't seem to understand the difference between a search engine that indexes the internet and the original site that hosted the material.
Slippery slope, though. Google decided they want to add the ability to censor content. For one example, back when they wanted to do business in china, google.cn was able to spin results the way that government wants ( http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-04-n13.html )). No doubt they do similar censorship for other regionally outlawed content too.
Once they add such censorship features, they're not really a content-neutral search engine anymore.
doesn't get paid in $5-mil in non-voting stocks with bizzare restrictions on when/how he can sell it that might be worth nothing before he can cash out.
doesn't sell something worth $50-mil for $5-mil. It'd be pretty sad if tricky legalese makes his share worth nothing, and he needs to try a Paul Ceglia like lawsuit to get his facebook stock cashed out.
- http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/nonexistent-supercomputer/
That means people will look to technological solutions (client-side encryption) instead of blindly trusting that your cloud vendor only hires ethical people who won't misuse sensitive data.
When I lived in SF I set up my home network to provide free wireless to the coffee shop at the end of the block.
QOS routing prevented guest bandwidth from interfering with my own. I put the wireless thing outside my firewall to protect my network.
Occasional casual monitoring suggested that no-one abused the network from either a bandwidth or content point of view. And the only thing it had protecting it was a "please don't abuse this or I'll take it down" welcome message.
TL/DR: Most people are basically good, so it (like wikipedia) works and isn't abused as much as you might thing..
noone will bother enough to run their own server.
Disagree. I think almost every company and big web site would not only run their own server, they would run servers many people use (just as they all provide email); and most any tiny hobby web site would run it (just as many small web sites host blogs & RSS feeds).
I already have a number of friends who's rooftop solar produces more electricity than they consume; and at that point, the (environmentally friendly) glass and metal incandescent is better for the environment than the mercury-laden florescent.
Why would they say this?
Microsoft co-marketing dollars: http://biz.yahoo.com/msft/p19.html
...Innovators and inventors...
I like the distinction Cringely made a decade ago between "invention" and "innovation": http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2003/pulpit_20030904_000784.html
But there is another issue here, one that is hardly ever mentioned and that's the coining of the term "innovation." This word, which was hardly used at all until two or three years ago, feels to me like a propaganda campaign and a successful one at that, dominating discussion in the computer industry. I think Microsoft did this intentionally, for they are the ones who seem to continually use the word. But what does it mean? And how is it different from what we might have said before? I think the word they are replacing is "invention." Bill Shockley invented the transistor, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce invented the integrated circuit, Ted Hof invented the microprocessor. Of course others claimed to have done those same three things, but the goal was always invention. Only now we innovate, which is deliberately vague but seems to stop somewhere short of invention. Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own. That's the intersection of innovation and sharp business.
One of the worrying things about using CC material is: What is a derivative work?
Even worse, which you consider how long a chain of derivatives-of-derivitatives-of-derivitatives-of-derivitatives-of-derivitatives can be.
Pretty much every work of art is influenced by pretty much every work of art an artist has ever seen. Perhaps they should cite them all, just in case some of them were CC-SA?
OK so I installed this on a VM
Easy to uninstall...??? Snigger. Be sure to let us know how that works out for you...
rm -rf ~/.VirtualBox
Doesn't seem that hard.
It's become something of a prerequisite degree for a lot of management jobs
I thought an MBA mostly means "I couldn't get a job during the latest economic downturn, so I did this to fill a gap on a resume".
A couple exceptions are an MBA from a top-3 school (say, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and nothing below those) - which means "I' have a rich and powerful network".
But I don't think anyone hires an MBA for whatever the heck they teach them (clerical powerpoint skills, I guess).
I thought most parents teach their kids "don't give your personal info to strangers".
Remember, Zuckerberg's a stranger to your kids no matter how many free things (services) he offers them, just as much as some guy offering free candy from an unmarked van.
Ideally we shouldn't support companies who do this even if their hardware is reflashable.
I'm torn.
We *SHOULD* support them for selling hardware where you can install whatever software you like.
IMHO that's far more important than whatever bad decsisions they make with the bundled software.
We're a pretty heavy postgres shop, and Red Hat employing one of the top developers of that project (Tom) was the way we chose which distro to use (and actually pay for). Not that we actually needed such support (he gives at least as support on the project mailing list) --- but for marking reasons we needed *a* tier-1 distro with "official" "support" --- so we chose to support them based on them supporting Tom.
If it'll have F/OSS Linux drivers available at launch time, I'll pre-order one. Haven't touch windows for years, though.
Why do we need all these fucking gestures and shit? I guess most people still haven't figured out how to TYPE.
That is exactly *why* we need gesture recognition.
People communicate with each other -- and with their pets, and even with pre-verbal babies -- with gestures and not with keyboards.
I often use this as an example of why we continue to need better compute power --- until I can give my computer a dirty look or an obscene gesture to make it stop doing something I don't like, we'll continue to have a need for better human-computer interfaces.
This is *exactly* a step in the right direction -- where the computer learns how humans communicate -- instead of making humans have to learn something convenient for computers (pushing buttons / typing on keyboards).
This paper: Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm from the University of Colorado Law School is the best summary why it won't work even if people do it: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006 TL/DR: There are just far too many ways to infer the real meanings from a network of hashes.
With Motorola's handset group now owned by Google, surely the other Android vendors like Samsung, HTC, and others can't be happy that they're dependant on a competitor for their OS. If Nokia and HP create a more democratic consortium around WebOS and everyone could win.
based on the value of the goods.
The value of the goods is tiny compared to the value of the data on it. For example this access to his email account, that receives the password reset forms for his bank account.
weighting the seriousness of a crime on the monetary value of the goods stolen is inherently flawed.
On the contrary, the US doesn't do that enough.
It'd be kinda nice if someone spent 2,000,000 times as long in jail if he steals $20 million (using shady hedge fund tricks) than if he steals $10.
Many of the best programmers I know had degrees from other fields. Electrical Engineering; physics; math; etc. So long as you're producing working code as opposed to papers about algorithms, I'd say a CS degree doesn't really matter that much at all.
Neat how AT&T's pricing seems totally in line with how the MPAA values pirated downloads.
I would have hoped all the normal standard practices would protect you almost totally from this.... Don't use an important password except over https where your browser doesn't raise red flags. Use a VPN or ssh to connect to servers that are important to you. Seems the same practices that protect you from your normal ISP would protect you from rogue access points too, no?
This wasn't even Jerry's fault.
Yahoo had management problems ever since their old board was so enamored by AOL buying Time Warner that they wanted to become a copycat-media-company and decided to hire that Warner Bros Hollywood guy who didn't know anything about the internet.
If it weren't for that guy, Yahoo could have had it all.
* Geocities could have been Facebook+Myspace if they further developed their webrings social features.
* Altavista + Overture + Inktomi could have ruled search if they didn't decide to outsource their own search first to Google and then to Bing.
* Broadcast.com could have been Youtube if they encouraged user content.
* I would have stuck with Yahoo Mail if they had sane quotas and IMAP.
But they wanted to become AOL-Time-Warner-II so much that the board picked a Warner Brothers exec for CEO in 2001 or so; and nothing Jerry could do could fix that issue.
Sure, but Cisco probably outsourced the work to China.