Personnaly if you are using Windoze use MSXML. Nothing gets close to it speedwise and it is very comfortable and (ACK!!!) W3C XML-DOM Compliant. (Sorry I don't use SAX)
Whats with this post? The article is three sentences. And the case is about as dull as a law case can be. The only connection it has with "News For Nerds" is the fact that it is a Chip-Making company....
They can't let him get away with it. This is no different then posing as someone else on EBay or even making a commercial site that is very similiar to a real one (then you purchase a domain with a very smiliar name and wait for the typos). The problem is jurisdiction. If the hacker(criminal) wasn't Japanaese but American can the Japanese sue him? All online sites need to include in their EULA a clause saying that any illegal activity that takes place on their server can be tried in their country.
ISRAEL, Jan. 24 An Israeli programmer who says he was libeled in Slashdot Inc.'s "comments" section of its Web site has sued the online Geek News site for refusing to remove statements he says damaged his Karma. Analysts say the case, sparked by an online comment about Linux, cuts to the heart of what makes slashdot work: the power of moderators and meta-moderators to keep an eye on each other.
In his lawsuit, MimsyBoro demands 2.5 million Karma points in punitive damages from Slashdot and [(-5) Redundant] from Neeley.
A spokesman for Slashdot said the company would not comment on pending litigation.
I am a programmer for a commercial company (yes I like to make money, and I program on WinTel). I year ago we had the XML craze we converted all our internal protocols to XML. I discovered that XML was just a lot of hype about nothing. There is nothing self-describing about it. Or maybe there is, just like the section names in an INI file describe the keys in them...
On the other hand the one thing that I did find XML useful for is easy parsing. If you use XML to develop a lower level protocol you end up with bloated 10k messages. But for high-level protocols or for configuration files it's great for only one reason: There are lots of ready-made tools. If you want to parse XML in Windows just load the IXMLDocument interface and it works at lightening speed. If you want to parse the messages in a web-browser through together a quick DOM parser or even use the build in DOM one! If you want to parse XML in PERL or C/C++ there are great libs. The only reason XML is good is because all the hype got people developing very neat tools. In one of my latest projects that needs to pass information between two programs written in different languages a used a Home-Made SOAP and designed a base class the persists using XML. I developed it in both langauges in under an hour!
So although it wastes bandwidth and there really isn't anything neat about it, it is comfortable I'll give it that.
You may think it wasn't a DOS. But trust me. I saw very small sites that no one knew about that suddenly "went down". I know for a fact that some of these sites were forcefully brought down!
I live in Israel and we had a similiar case. About half a year ago there was a terrorist attack on a unit of soldiers and the heads of state (or some other decision maker) decdied that no one is allowed to know any details of the case so that the families of the dead wouldn't find out before the official notice was made. Although people tried to spread the news using the Internet (because the TV networks and radio channeled only kept repeating "At this stage we are not allowed to disclose any more information") but what happened is that the big news sites were contacted by the goverment and kept everything queit and concurrently the Israeil Inteligence Agencies "Quited Down" various small sites and public news site or forums that tried to publish details. Although never officialy admitted the Israeli Intelligence just DOSed a few servers to keep everything quite.
So the question in how important is it that the information be kept secret
The reason is that although the prices are set on the supply/demand model since laying out new fiber is SOOOO expensive the ISPs perferred to lay a lot more fiber then they need. In order to not overflow the market with too much bandwidth thus causing the price of bandwidth through the floor the ISPs only use a certain portion of it.
Think about it in terms of inflation. If the ISPs released too much fiber the price of a megabyte of data would lower to the point where the ISPs won't be making any money. Hence they leave a certain percent of the fiber untouched till demand grows.
The reason is that ISPs are commercial entities. Shockingly they are in buisness to make money! It's all about supply and demand. There is a limited amount of bandwidth a connection can server and many many more people who want to use it.
They couldn't charge users a one-time-fee because then their revenue would slowly die off.
They couldn't charge users a fixed-flat-monthly fee because then one (or a few) users could take up all the bandwith (terabytes of data) for a flat fee, thus bringing the ISPs servers to a halt.
The pay-per-bandwidth model secures the ISP a fixed amount of revenue as long as it has demand, and it does.
first of all, I too don't understand why are they being forced to include Suns Java. I hate M$FT as much as the next geek but I believe in capitalisim and not in socialisim. If M$FT is big and sucsseful it is their RIGHT to choose what to include in their OS not the courts or SUNs. If they behaved badly(read monopolisticly) they should be fined not forced to help their comptetors. This isn't soviet russia (BTW in Soviet Russia M$FT forces the court to include Java in their OS). As much as I do hate those rich pigs I have to admit their software is good (yet buggy and annoying) and their marketing is great. On the otherhand it took me three tries to get mandrake installed right on my machine and in the first few weeks it crashed 3 times. I don't recommend linux for my grandma just yet. (Mandrake 9 to those who were wondering).
Bring on the mods
first of all I think you missed the sarcasam in my message
answer to answer 1: duh! - but it doesn't mean that it didn't hurt(annoy) them too.
answer to answer 2: I think AOL should also sue Amazon for all those extra emails its sending out to its users (again being cynical here)
answer to answer 3: The whole idea of the original comment was a rant that although this may be a victory against spam it does not help all those people who were hurt by spam. I'm pretty sure that if you would have to split 7 mil across 35 mil users you'd get a tiny amount.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." --The Book
The AOL users are the ones who were injured by all this spam, why is the money going to AOL and not distributed to all of it's user base in the past 4 years.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
--The Book
Slashdot Mirror
Personnaly if you are using Windoze use MSXML. Nothing gets close to it speedwise and it is very comfortable and (ACK!!!) W3C XML-DOM Compliant. (Sorry I don't use SAX)
Whats with this post? The article is three sentences. And the case is about as dull as a law case can be. The only connection it has with "News For Nerds" is the fact that it is a Chip-Making company....
They can't let him get away with it. This is no different then posing as someone else on EBay or even making a commercial site that is very similiar to a real one (then you purchase a domain with a very smiliar name and wait for the typos). The problem is jurisdiction. If the hacker(criminal) wasn't Japanaese but American can the Japanese sue him? All online sites need to include in their EULA a clause saying that any illegal activity that takes place on their server can be tried in their country.
Please let me have your phone-number so I can sue you for calling me an insensitive clod!n Spammer.html
Thanks in advance, Bernard Shifman [ is a moron ]
http://www.petemoss.com/spamflames/ShifmanIsAMoro
ISRAEL, Jan. 24 An Israeli programmer who says he was libeled in Slashdot Inc.'s "comments" section of its Web site has sued the online Geek News site for refusing to remove statements he says damaged his Karma. Analysts say the case, sparked by an online comment about Linux, cuts to the heart of what makes slashdot work: the power of moderators and meta-moderators to keep an eye on each other.
In his lawsuit, MimsyBoro demands 2.5 million Karma points in punitive damages from Slashdot and [(-5) Redundant] from Neeley. A spokesman for Slashdot said the company would not comment on pending litigation.
I am a programmer for a commercial company (yes I like to make money, and I program on WinTel). I year ago we had the XML craze we converted all our internal protocols to XML. I discovered that XML was just a lot of hype about nothing. There is nothing self-describing about it. Or maybe there is, just like the section names in an INI file describe the keys in them...
On the other hand the one thing that I did find XML useful for is easy parsing. If you use XML to develop a lower level protocol you end up with bloated 10k messages. But for high-level protocols or for configuration files it's great for only one reason: There are lots of ready-made tools. If you want to parse XML in Windows just load the IXMLDocument interface and it works at lightening speed. If you want to parse the messages in a web-browser through together a quick DOM parser or even use the build in DOM one! If you want to parse XML in PERL or C/C++ there are great libs. The only reason XML is good is because all the hype got people developing very neat tools. In one of my latest projects that needs to pass information between two programs written in different languages a used a Home-Made SOAP and designed a base class the persists using XML. I developed it in both langauges in under an hour!
So although it wastes bandwidth and there really isn't anything neat about it, it is comfortable I'll give it that.
You may think it wasn't a DOS. But trust me. I saw very small sites that no one knew about that suddenly "went down". I know for a fact that some of these sites were forcefully brought down!
I live in Israel and we had a similiar case. About half a year ago there was a terrorist attack on a unit of soldiers and the heads of state (or some other decision maker) decdied that no one is allowed to know any details of the case so that the families of the dead wouldn't find out before the official notice was made. Although people tried to spread the news using the Internet (because the TV networks and radio channeled only kept repeating "At this stage we are not allowed to disclose any more information") but what happened is that the big news sites were contacted by the goverment and kept everything queit and concurrently the Israeil Inteligence Agencies "Quited Down" various small sites and public news site or forums that tried to publish details. Although never officialy admitted the Israeli Intelligence just DOSed a few servers to keep everything quite. So the question in how important is it that the information be kept secret
The reason is that although the prices are set on the supply/demand model since laying out new fiber is SOOOO expensive the ISPs perferred to lay a lot more fiber then they need. In order to not overflow the market with too much bandwidth thus causing the price of bandwidth through the floor the ISPs only use a certain portion of it. Think about it in terms of inflation. If the ISPs released too much fiber the price of a megabyte of data would lower to the point where the ISPs won't be making any money. Hence they leave a certain percent of the fiber untouched till demand grows.
The reason is that ISPs are commercial entities. Shockingly they are in buisness to make money! It's all about supply and demand. There is a limited amount of bandwidth a connection can server and many many more people who want to use it. They couldn't charge users a one-time-fee because then their revenue would slowly die off.
They couldn't charge users a fixed-flat-monthly fee because then one (or a few) users could take up all the bandwith (terabytes of data) for a flat fee, thus bringing the ISPs servers to a halt.
The pay-per-bandwidth model secures the ISP a fixed amount of revenue as long as it has demand, and it does.
first of all, I too don't understand why are they being forced to include Suns Java. I hate M$FT as much as the next geek but I believe in capitalisim and not in socialisim. If M$FT is big and sucsseful it is their RIGHT to choose what to include in their OS not the courts or SUNs. If they behaved badly(read monopolisticly) they should be fined not forced to help their comptetors. This isn't soviet russia (BTW in Soviet Russia M$FT forces the court to include Java in their OS). As much as I do hate those rich pigs I have to admit their software is good (yet buggy and annoying) and their marketing is great. On the otherhand it took me three tries to get mandrake installed right on my machine and in the first few weeks it crashed 3 times. I don't recommend linux for my grandma just yet. (Mandrake 9 to those who were wondering). Bring on the mods
first of all I think you missed the sarcasam in my message
answer to answer 1: duh! - but it doesn't mean that it didn't hurt(annoy) them too. answer to answer 2: I think AOL should also sue Amazon for all those extra emails its sending out to its users (again being cynical here)
answer to answer 3: The whole idea of the original comment was a rant that although this may be a victory against spam it does not help all those people who were hurt by spam. I'm pretty sure that if you would have to split 7 mil across 35 mil users you'd get a tiny amount.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." --The Book
The AOL users are the ones who were injured by all this spam, why is the money going to AOL and not distributed to all of it's user base in the past 4 years. "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." --The Book
The problem with James is that instead of playing pool youll be stuck trying to understand what clippy the faggot is saying and forget to shoot.
One of the greatest error messages I got lately is: "undefined is undefine"