I suspect that's why it is so much more popular in Asia...
Actually, not. The Philippines is considered the world capitol of "texting", and they use a mixture of English and Tagalog, with the standard shortened words (your==yr, etc.)
I've seen it first-hand, a few times. It costs a couple of pesos (less than a US nickel) to send a text, but talking is expensive. So they type incredibly long messages to each other.
A comment like this from Sun is unnecessary and appears childish. This kind of remark is unprofessional and serves no purpose except to build animosity.
Gee, childish, unprofessional remarks from a Sun employee? What's next? Lies from Redmond?
The snopes article validates my statement. While the author there starts out claiming that Gore didn't make the statement that he did, he changes his stance by the third paragraph. He points out that Gore started in Congress in 1977, well after the creation of arpanet, and that "it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the 'initiative in creating the Internet.'"
And, by the way, Bugs Bunny is a Warner Bros. character, unlikely to show up at Disneyland anytime soon.
Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet, and anyone who jokes about it is just showing their ignorance.
Sorry, those who argue this point are showing that they hold politics over reality. I just happened to be watching the interview when Gore made this exact statement:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
It was obvious at the time that his idea was to throw that statement in and hope that the interviewer (Wolf Blitzer) wouldn't say anything while legions of his knuckle-dragging supporters (the kind who are befuddled by a paper ballot) would find all the more reason to vote for him. The internet was the "big thing" at the time, and to have created it would have been an awesome feat in anyone's book.
Fortunately, he was called on it and his credibility took a well-earned hit.
Gore started out the term (with Clinton) saying that they were going to create the "information superhighway" to supercede the internet. It would be fast enough to send all sorts of multimedia (streaming video) over it, and change the world. The public started using that phrase (info superhighway) to describe the present internet, and Gore never said anything more. Worse yet, Clinton signed into law the DMCA (as Disney signed checks to the Democratic party) which would have made the "information superhighway" irrelevant, anyway.
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REPEAT AFTER ME: XML IS NOT A FILE FORMAT
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Internet World is reporting that initial reports from Office 2003 beta testers don't look good for those hoping to share documents with non-MS systems using the XML file format...
That's because XML is not a file format, it is instead a format for file formats. To quote the O'Reilly "Learning XML" book, page 2:
Note that despite its name, XML is not itself a markup language: it's a set of rules for building markup languages.
I've said this many times on/. (look at my history), but the fact that a particular format is XML-based says nothing of your ability to read it. I'm even going beyond the fact that Microsoft could simply stick their traditional file formats into a CDATA and claim XML compliancy.
The statement "If Microsoft used a standard XML format for their documents then anyone could read them" makes as much sense as an equally stupid statement like "If Microsoft just used 8-bit bytes in their file formats then anyone could read them".
Sorry to rant, but the level of cluelessness around XML is astounding. Please read up, there's a ton of useful information on XML around the internet.
The goals of corporation and goals of corporation managements don't always coinside.
And in that case the management have a fiduciary duty (read: legal obligation) to make sure that the betterment of the corporation comes first. Otherwise, they risk a shareholder lawsuit.
I was sort fo hoping against hope that MS would be moving further toward XML and therefore allowing greater standardization.
It's surprising how many people make dumb comments like this on Slashdot. Please go learn about XML then get back with us.
Briefly, XML is a format for data formats. Creating a document in an XML format doesn't mean it'll be readable by anybody else. It's the rough equivalent of saying "I wish Microsoft would start using 8-bit bytes in their data files..."
Okay, this may sound a little... I dunno, preachy, but this is something that's been bothering me a great deal recently. Is it necessary to use the word "hate" when you really mean "dislike"?
I would even go a step further. Rather than the active "dislike", how about the passive "I don't like Dave Barry"? I'm serious when I say this. There is no reason to actively dislike him, he's a fine enough fellow even if you don't find his humor to be humorous.
The fact that these guys accidently created a search engine that blows all the other ones away kinda says something about the laughable state of search engine technology before google, don't it?
I think it says more about the business of search engine technology at the time. All I ever used before Google was AltaVista, and I started using it back when it was a demo for DEC's 64-bit Alpha chip (side-note of irony is that the much better Google search engine uses all 32-bit Intel architecture). AV started out as 5 or 6 Alphas networked running Ultrix, and it simply indexed the web. I still use it for exact phrase matches, simply because it does a better job at that.
But when Google came out, AV had been split out into its own company, tried to become a "portal" (screw that, I just want search results), and was shamelessly selling top-billing in its search results to anybody with money. This was the norm for search engines at the time.
So Google stepped in and simply offered honest search results with no ads. I remember reading the Scientific American article before the site started, but I anxiously awaited it after that. But the thing that brought people to it in legions was the simple, honest results and lack of ads.
After building a reputation, they still needed revenue, so they brought in ads but they didn't give up their honesty for it. The ads are clearly marked as such, and nobody minds. It's probably too late for the other search engines to try to make up the lost business.
Anyway, they make an honest living, it's an interesting way to differentiate yourself in a market (and says something about that market).
In Nashville, we have 16 webcams set up so that we can just look at the roads for ourselves. I'm not going to tell you the link because I don't want them to get slashdotted.
Seems that with our current rate of extinction it should be pretty easy. Hell, there may be no work to do; maybe all the ones tha we don't know about will be dead in 25 years anyway.
I wonder if they're ever going to realize that they're bleeding customers because we can go to godaddy.com (or 20 others like godaddy.com) and get the exact same thing for $9/year or less, which is 1/4 verisign/netsol's price.
Actually, I lied, it's not the exact same service. It's far better than anything verisign can fathom.
This is similar to the little pie chart you see on gas pumps claiming only 5% profit on gas sales. The problem is that profit is purely subjective since all expenses are subtracted from profit.
I won't even nit-pick your brilliant logic about subtracting expenses from profits. The fact is that gas stations typically charge no more than 5 cents per gallon above what they pay for the gasoline. In other words, if you pay $1/gallon, here's what it looks like:
Taxes: $.37
Cost from supplier: $.58
"Profits": $.05
Note that I put "profits" in quotes, because nitwits like yourself think that's what they are. Out of that money, they have to run the business. Nobody make money on gasoline.
That's why gas stations all have a little grocery store with cigarettes, lottery tickets, pop, milk, and over-priced grocery items. Most of those things (except perhaps milk) are high-markup items that bring in good revenue for the business, and actually make the profit.
"An interesting article about how vigilante justice on the Internet by anti-spam advocates can be just as threatening to the Internet as those proposed for copyright advocates."
Sorry, it's an uninteresting article about a lawyer who doesn't understand how to configure a mail server, then blames his foibles on somebody else who's simply pointing out that he has an open relay.
If Bret has a lawsuit to file, then I have an amicus brief to file....
Note in the fourth paragraph that they plan to keep using "pop-unders". It's like they answered the cluephone and then the line went dead.
As far as I'm concerned, this is just a publicity stunt (which worked, I'm afraid). If they really wanted to dump advertising which annoys the user by creating another window, then pop-unders would have went away as well.
They're already using vb-script in their xsl stylesheet, I can see Microsoft trying to weasel their way in here (or some Microsoft-based consulting company). We need to get some open source software that can be of use to them, and hopefully to state governments as well. Anyone game?
I have been running an ISP now for two and a half years, using Linux and FreeBSD exclusively. In that time, the following items have cropped up that I had to fix:
1. Bind hole (root exploit at the time, now it's chroot'd and running as named.named) 2. ftpd (root exploit, I turned ftpd off) 3. telnetd (root exploit, turned it off, too) 4. openssh (root exploit, simply recompile of new version) 5. current Apache bug, which even if it's an exploit is far from root or anything else useful
That comes down to a problem to be fixed every 6 months or so. This is real world. It doesn't matter a rat's ass to me what all shows up on Bugtraq, what matters is if someone is going to be able to hack my boxes. Most of the "bugs" aren't going to leave me open to remote exploit.
Given that, it's ludicrous to say that my setup is no more secure than a Windows/IIS setup. IIS updates come out weekly, sometimes requiring reboots. I literally don't have the time that it would take to run Windows here.
And IIS is probably the most-hacked piece of Windows. Want to compare it to Apache? Apache runs as nobody.nobody on most systems, or perhaps www.www. How about IIS? Hack Apache and you're an unprivileged user who'll have to rehack the box from the inside. Hack IIS and you're the Administrator. Even if Apache was as exploitable as IIS, it still wouldn't be as big a deal.
As the developer, you own the copyright to the code, and therefore the full right to do whatever you want with it, unless you explicitly sign away those rights (which you shouldn't do).
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I suspect that's why it is so much more popular in Asia...
Actually, not. The Philippines is considered the world capitol of "texting", and they use a mixture of English and Tagalog, with the standard shortened words (your==yr, etc.)
I've seen it first-hand, a few times. It costs a couple of pesos (less than a US nickel) to send a text, but talking is expensive. So they type incredibly long messages to each other.
A comment like this from Sun is unnecessary and appears childish. This kind of remark is unprofessional and serves no purpose except to build animosity.
Gee, childish, unprofessional remarks from a Sun employee? What's next? Lies from Redmond?
The snopes article validates my statement. While the author there starts out claiming that Gore didn't make the statement that he did, he changes his stance by the third paragraph. He points out that Gore started in Congress in 1977, well after the creation of arpanet, and that "it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the 'initiative in creating the Internet.'"
And, by the way, Bugs Bunny is a Warner Bros. character, unlikely to show up at Disneyland anytime soon.
MDC
Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet, and anyone who jokes about it is just showing their ignorance.
Sorry, those who argue this point are showing that they hold politics over reality. I just happened to be watching the interview when Gore made this exact statement:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
It was obvious at the time that his idea was to throw that statement in and hope that the interviewer (Wolf Blitzer) wouldn't say anything while legions of his knuckle-dragging supporters (the kind who are befuddled by a paper ballot) would find all the more reason to vote for him. The internet was the "big thing" at the time, and to have created it would have been an awesome feat in anyone's book.
Fortunately, he was called on it and his credibility took a well-earned hit.
Gore started out the term (with Clinton) saying that they were going to create the "information superhighway" to supercede the internet. It would be fast enough to send all sorts of multimedia (streaming video) over it, and change the world. The public started using that phrase (info superhighway) to describe the present internet, and Gore never said anything more. Worse yet, Clinton signed into law the DMCA (as Disney signed checks to the Democratic party) which would have made the "information superhighway" irrelevant, anyway.
MDC
Internet World is reporting that initial reports from Office 2003 beta testers don't look good for those hoping to share documents with non-MS systems using the XML file format...
That's because XML is not a file format, it is instead a format for file formats. To quote the O'Reilly "Learning XML" book, page 2:
Note that despite its name, XML is not itself a markup language: it's a set of rules for building markup languages.
I've said this many times on /. (look at my history), but the fact that a particular format is XML-based says nothing of your ability to read it. I'm even going beyond the fact that Microsoft could simply stick their traditional file formats into a CDATA and claim XML compliancy.
The statement "If Microsoft used a standard XML format for their documents then anyone could read them" makes as much sense as an equally stupid statement like "If Microsoft just used 8-bit bytes in their file formats then anyone could read them".
Sorry to rant, but the level of cluelessness around XML is astounding. Please read up, there's a ton of useful information on XML around the internet.
MDC
The goals of corporation and goals of corporation managements don't always coinside.
And in that case the management have a fiduciary duty (read: legal obligation) to make sure that the betterment of the corporation comes first. Otherwise, they risk a shareholder lawsuit.
MDC
I was sort fo hoping against hope that MS would be moving further toward XML and therefore allowing greater standardization.
It's surprising how many people make dumb comments like this on Slashdot. Please go learn about XML then get back with us.
Briefly, XML is a format for data formats. Creating a document in an XML format doesn't mean it'll be readable by anybody else. It's the rough equivalent of saying "I wish Microsoft would start using 8-bit bytes in their data files..."
Okay, this may sound a little... I dunno, preachy, but this is something that's been bothering me a great deal recently. Is it necessary to use the word "hate" when you really mean "dislike"?
I would even go a step further. Rather than the active "dislike", how about the passive "I don't like Dave Barry"? I'm serious when I say this. There is no reason to actively dislike him, he's a fine enough fellow even if you don't find his humor to be humorous.
The fact that these guys accidently created a search engine that blows all the other ones away kinda says something about the laughable state of search engine technology before google, don't it?
I think it says more about the business of search engine technology at the time. All I ever used before Google was AltaVista, and I started using it back when it was a demo for DEC's 64-bit Alpha chip (side-note of irony is that the much better Google search engine uses all 32-bit Intel architecture). AV started out as 5 or 6 Alphas networked running Ultrix, and it simply indexed the web. I still use it for exact phrase matches, simply because it does a better job at that.
But when Google came out, AV had been split out into its own company, tried to become a "portal" (screw that, I just want search results), and was shamelessly selling top-billing in its search results to anybody with money. This was the norm for search engines at the time.
So Google stepped in and simply offered honest search results with no ads. I remember reading the Scientific American article before the site started, but I anxiously awaited it after that. But the thing that brought people to it in legions was the simple, honest results and lack of ads.
After building a reputation, they still needed revenue, so they brought in ads but they didn't give up their honesty for it. The ads are clearly marked as such, and nobody minds. It's probably too late for the other search engines to try to make up the lost business.
Anyway, they make an honest living, it's an interesting way to differentiate yourself in a market (and says something about that market).
MDC
I wonder what the threat level would be in that case. Maybe they'd move it to red.
Mike Masnick wrote up his experience getting slammed by a somewhat new kind of spam attack that doesn't get much hype
Now he gets to write about a somewhat old type of DOS attack known as "getting slashdotted". Actually, his site seems to be holding up well.
MDC
In Nashville, we have 16 webcams set up so that we can just look at the roads for ourselves. I'm not going to tell you the link because I don't want them to get slashdotted.
MDC
I'm sure Ken Laye et al had terrible credit before he started at Enron.
Too bad I don't have mod points, you'd be at -1...
At the top of the sponsored links:
& ba nner_id=10004115
Want to get even?
Make your boss pay! Report illegal software.
http://1.httpads.com/httpads/click.php?sid=2543
Redirects to:
http://www.bsa.org/usa/report/report.php
Note that the BSA is using PHP!
Server: Apache/1.3.27 OpenSSL/0.9.6g (Unix) AuthMySQL/2.20 PHP/4.1.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2
I wonder if BSA member Microsoft knows that....
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Seems that with our current rate of extinction it should be pretty easy. Hell, there may be no work to do; maybe all the ones tha we don't know about will be dead in 25 years anyway.
MDC
I wonder if they're ever going to realize that they're bleeding customers because we can go to godaddy.com (or 20 others like godaddy.com) and get the exact same thing for $9/year or less, which is 1/4 verisign/netsol's price.
Actually, I lied, it's not the exact same service. It's far better than anything verisign can fathom.
ebayupdates.com has been slashdotted out of business, maybe we just need to have a daily story about them.
As a side note, someone from that area should find out if it's zoned for commercial use. Might be a good way to get the city to harrass the spammer.
You can access it with a credit card.
This is similar to the little pie chart you see on gas pumps claiming only 5% profit on gas sales. The problem is that profit is purely subjective since all expenses are subtracted from profit.
I won't even nit-pick your brilliant logic about subtracting expenses from profits. The fact is that gas stations typically charge no more than 5 cents per gallon above what they pay for the gasoline. In other words, if you pay $1/gallon, here's what it looks like:
Taxes: $.37
Cost from supplier: $.58
"Profits": $.05
Note that I put "profits" in quotes, because nitwits like yourself think that's what they are. Out of that money, they have to run the business. Nobody make money on gasoline.
That's why gas stations all have a little grocery store with cigarettes, lottery tickets, pop, milk, and over-priced grocery items. Most of those things (except perhaps milk) are high-markup items that bring in good revenue for the business, and actually make the profit.
"An interesting article about how vigilante justice on the Internet by anti-spam advocates can be just as threatening to the Internet as those proposed for copyright advocates."
Sorry, it's an uninteresting article about a lawyer who doesn't understand how to configure a mail server, then blames his foibles on somebody else who's simply pointing out that he has an open relay.
If Bret has a lawsuit to file, then I have an amicus brief to file....
Note in the fourth paragraph that they plan to keep using "pop-unders". It's like they answered the cluephone and then the line went dead.
As far as I'm concerned, this is just a publicity stunt (which worked, I'm afraid). If they really wanted to dump advertising which annoys the user by creating another window, then pop-unders would have went away as well.
Michael
They're already using vb-script in their xsl stylesheet, I can see Microsoft trying to weasel their way in here (or some Microsoft-based consulting company). We need to get some open source software that can be of use to them, and hopefully to state governments as well. Anyone game?
I have been running an ISP now for two and a half years, using Linux and FreeBSD exclusively. In that time, the following items have cropped up that I had to fix:
1. Bind hole (root exploit at the time, now it's chroot'd and running as named.named)
2. ftpd (root exploit, I turned ftpd off)
3. telnetd (root exploit, turned it off, too)
4. openssh (root exploit, simply recompile of new version)
5. current Apache bug, which even if it's an exploit is far from root or anything else useful
That comes down to a problem to be fixed every 6 months or so. This is real world. It doesn't matter a rat's ass to me what all shows up on Bugtraq, what matters is if someone is going to be able to hack my boxes. Most of the "bugs" aren't going to leave me open to remote exploit.
Given that, it's ludicrous to say that my setup is no more secure than a Windows/IIS setup. IIS updates come out weekly, sometimes requiring reboots. I literally don't have the time that it would take to run Windows here.
And IIS is probably the most-hacked piece of Windows. Want to compare it to Apache? Apache runs as nobody.nobody on most systems, or perhaps www.www. How about IIS? Hack Apache and you're an unprivileged user who'll have to rehack the box from the inside. Hack IIS and you're the Administrator. Even if Apache was as exploitable as IIS, it still wouldn't be as big a deal.
Michael
As the developer, you own the copyright to the code, and therefore the full right to do whatever you want with it, unless you explicitly sign away those rights (which you shouldn't do).
So if you want to open source it, go for it.
Michael