These are excellent points. I have a client -- all I've done is set up a product database for them -- that is doing really well with a fairly plain site. The key is that they have a good product & business model that includes commission-based selling for others in their field that don't have websites.
Although my client is best described as "mom & pop", they are active in professional organizations, go to conventions & have a tremendous network of colleagues & "competitors who work with them".
I often tell folks that the key to a good website is content. The key to a good business is having a good product & service, as well as a business model that works.
I don't know if making it "easier" for businesses to go online will solve problems resulting from a sorry business model. Ask any unemployed dot-communist;-)
The pointy-headed bosses that make the decisions are clueless. And bet the farm that Unicast is NOT using words like "pop-up" or "pop-under" to describe this obnoxious demon spawn.
Things like this make me more and more convinced that computer science curricula should be 75% ethics & 25% coding. What kind of demented person would write this kind of bovine by-product? Um, I think I've found my answer in the holy writ:
<MUSIC>
Money doesn't talk it swears.
Obscenity, who really cares?
Propaganda all is phony.
</MUSIC>
- "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", Bob Dylan
A creationist ever being able to think objectively is even less probable.
This may be because evolutionists have spent millions of years evolving objective thought, while creationists have not.
I once published a monograph on this subject in the old Journal of Irreproducible Results. (I am most emphatically not making this up.) The phylogenetic tree was something like this:
primordial slime ---> creationist
primordial slime ---> fish ---> frog ---> lizard ---> lemur ---> ape ---> evolutionist
...if human interactions could be mathematically modeled...
Given enough data, computing type & grant funding, 99 monkeys can develop an empirical mathematical model for almost anything. The words "dynamic" & "nonlinear" suggest to me that Gottman's model isn't particularly elegant, just a mishmash to make the data fit a formulaic format.
Lies! Damned lies! Statistics!
Or to quote Jimmy Buffett, "I don't want that much organization in my life! I want Junior Mints!"
One might want to make money by providing a service with the permission of the original content provider. Note that the original comment said "to deliver content for other websites" and not "to deliver content ripped off from other websites"...
That said, a fair number of people, notably politicans & thieves, make their living stealing other people's stuff;-)
Geez you're defensive about your use of DSL. Most DSL services are run by the same large, faceless, "greedy" enterprises as cable, and most share the same sort of legaleze and restrictions. Is there something fundamental about DSL that makes it this bastion of freedom that you proclaim? Bah.
Just my 0.02 worth, but there is a helluva big difference between a telco technician & a cable service guy. As the old saw goes, "Cable outfits hire the guys that couldn't make the cut at the phone company."
Sure, lots of folks get frustrated with the techs' ability to get a DSL modem running, but simple line maintenance for most telcos is far more thorough than cable outfits can provide.
Hell, our cable company can't even get all their advertised channels running & the service is out far more often than our phone line. This may be because the nearest cable tech that they even call an "engineer" is over 150 miles away!
Using a Palm application like JackFlash, you can move files into the extra ROM area where the OS is stored. This doesn't work well for read-write databases, but is great for executables or read-only data. The data will survive a hard reset, which will erase the contents of user RAM.
But the best way to deal with dictionaries, thesauri & maps is to put them on an SD card...
2) If your just linking to other people stuff, the RSS link will go to them -- do I really owe you advertising bucks if all you do is link?
Well, in the case of those who have to write "scrapers" to deliver content for other websites (that get the traffic via the links & thus get to "expose" any advertising they may run), it would be nice to have some way to generate revenue & recoup development time.
OTOH, my RSS's are popular with hacker types, geeks & computer security folks who might get, um, a mite peeved by advertising if I were to embed it somehow in the XML...
An great point. A few months ago, I wrote a scraper that would grab the latests posts to the computer security mailing lists archived at insecure.org & convert them into valid RSS feeds. These rapidly became the most retrieved files on my website. Unfortunately, I can't even count these in a traffic analysis to a potential advertiser. Oh well... nobody buys from my ads anyway;-)
And oh yeah, if you want to use those RSS's, they're at djeaux.com. Free & free of advertising!
IBM has been thrashing around in the tar pit for years. Rebranding another manufacturer's device with the IBM logo is not innovation.
I view this as IBM's final admission that it's not a player in the real-world PDA market. I also view the recent push for tablet PCs as Microsoft's admission of the same.
When Sony went with Palmsource, the handwriting was on the wall. Let's face it, Sony leads IBM & Microsoft in the quest for world domination. Proof of concept? Count the Sony products in your home. Then count the IBM & Microsoft products. Add up the cost. 'Nuff said.
But if ALL the high speed isp's start charging "by the bit", then why would they care if their p2p customers start bitching.
Go read the old fairy tale about killing a valuable goose. Critical mass has zilch to do with it: The vast masses of home Internet users would simply ask themselves, "Beer or Internet?" And the answer would be "beer"!
For about the last 20 years or so, unless one takes out a service contract, the telco is responsible only for the line to the outside of the building. I am responsible for the interior wiring & any extension phones that split off internally from the gray box outside.
Why would the telco suddenly be able to impose a different standard on data communications? Just because an AT&T engineer has proposed some (time consuming) method to do something doesn't mean it will be done. A similar attitude about POTS is what got mighty Ma Bell busted lo these many years ago...
Taking this one stumble father, I note that there is only one "computer" attached physically to the Bellsouth DSL line: a little cheap Linksys router, which having a processor & some flash ROM, qualifies as a "computer." Other computers do not connect directly to the DSL line, they connect to that router.
Any telco/ISP that "cracks down" on home networking this way is just plain stupid & needs to go back to the mandatory customer service training workshops! In fact, that's where our dear AT&T enginner needs to be this very afternoon. It's the corporate equivalent of Chinese water torture!
The following bit from Gobble's announcement bugs me, especially item #5:
"Things to keep in mind:
1) If you participate in illegal file-sharing networks, your
computer now belongs to the RIAA.
2) Your BlackIce Defender(tm) firewall will not help you.
3) Snort, RealSecure, Dragon, NFR, and all that other crap
cannot detect this attack, or this type of attack.
4) Don't fuck with the RIAA again, scriptkids.
5) We have our own private version of this hydra actively
infecting p2p users, and building one giant ddosnet."
If this isn't a hoax, then RIAA has been complicit in the development of a large network for staging DDOS attacks. Regardless of the Berman bill, that would seem to be "cyberterrorism" to me.
So, the question isn't whether Slashdot thinks this is a hoax but whether the FBI thinks it's a hoax...
djeaux
Actually, this is Europe, so I like to think it does not boil down to money.
So Americans' cherished notions about a "free" press don't necessarily apply, either.
I think your analogy is similarly flawed, but I'll take it one step farther. An even better analogy is if you put $1000 under a loose brick in the middle of your living room floor & leave the door open. Someone comes along, sees the door open, walks in & helps himself.
And that, my friend, is called stealing in almost all civilized countries (and the US, too!)
I am not saying here that the news gatherer "hacked" Inventia. S/he did the equivalent of reading a memo off somebody's desk without their knowledge. That's a time-honored trick in the news media & if we dispense with our belief in the hoax of a free press, it's unethical as hell.
My bet is the Reuter's "reporter" thought, "Oh boy! This will really screw up Inventia. I'll be promoted! My lucky day!"
That said, I think part of the license that you hold (you don't own the license, you license the software: the money you pay is to have the opportunity to abide by the license) <snip>
Oh ho! So Microsoft actually owns this buggy conglomeration of mismatched code it calls an OS! Why do they charge me for the upgrades to their stuff that just happens to be sitting in my house & office? Have they no pride in ownership?
There's no debate. Perl LETS you make a bigger mess than any other language, ever!!
Of course, whether one chooses to make a mess or not is a bit of freedom that Perl allows. And as many others have posted, freedom of choice is not usually desired in a team programming setting.
My gut hunch -- based totally on reading too many Scott Adams cartoons -- is that the pointy-haired boss came in & said, "This PHP stuff is all over the net. It's new & trendy. We will use PHP.":-D
Good idea.
It could traverse the web, locate IIS servers & gracefully convert them to *NIX:-D
And how about a worm that defrags your hard drive, cleans up temp files & deletes all that hidden porn?
>> Let's hope Reuters won't budge, and the judge will have a clue.
LOL! It will all boil down to what venue hears the case & how much money the plaintiff & defendant each spend.
I tend to side with Intentia until we know more. Everyone here is assuming that the files weren't password protected, that they weren't on a non-production server, etc. In short, we're taking Reuter's hook-line-and-sinker and running with it.
Reuter's takes the position that they are a news media outlet & therefore exempt from the normal sort of behavior that's expected from the rest of us. If Reuter's took a "tip" from a disgruntled employee, used a password or accessed a site that otherwise wasn't "announced", that's just "good news gathering". And they'll pretend they don't have to disclose their sources, as if they were physicians or something.
Like someone else said, just because you forget to lock the store does not absolve somebody from stealing your stuff.
Just on matter of principle, I hope Reuter's gets its goose cooked.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda is about all you're getting here. The guy didn't have to install the stuff -- you coulda signed off for him, shoulda requested to install it yourself, yada yada yada.
Just uninstall the crap the dude put on your machine. I went thru some heartburn with the PPoE software (self-install) for my DSL -- heartburn as in a complete HDD reformat & OS reinstall -- only to find that the #1 instruction for the router I plugged in was "uninstall any PPoE dialer software that came from your ISP"... In short, you may find yourself having to take all that garbage off anyway.
Get everything cleaned up. A complaint to the cable company or (if they have a municipal "monopoly" as you say) to your city council about the privacy stuff might be in order, too.
Then sit back & rock. That broadband will make you forget the hassles soon enough!
Slashdot Mirror
Although my client is best described as "mom & pop", they are active in professional organizations, go to conventions & have a tremendous network of colleagues & "competitors who work with them".
I often tell folks that the key to a good website is content. The key to a good business is having a good product & service, as well as a business model that works.
I don't know if making it "easier" for businesses to go online will solve problems resulting from a sorry business model. Ask any unemployed dot-communist ;-)
Things like this make me more and more convinced that computer science curricula should be 75% ethics & 25% coding. What kind of demented person would write this kind of bovine by-product? Um, I think I've found my answer in the holy writ:
<MUSIC>
</MUSIC>- "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", Bob Dylan
I once published a monograph on this subject in the old Journal of Irreproducible Results. (I am most emphatically not making this up.) The phylogenetic tree was something like this:
primordial slime ---> creationist
primordial slime ---> fish ---> frog ---> lizard ---> lemur ---> ape ---> evolutionist
Huxley said it better, of course...
Lies! Damned lies! Statistics!
Or to quote Jimmy Buffett, "I don't want that much organization in my life! I want Junior Mints!"
Dylanbase
Bob Dylan Boot Database
BobsBoots
# The Bob Dylan CD Field Recordings Review Page Of William J. Clinton
Couldn't resist this as a follow-up to anything posted by "Dylan Zimmerman" :-D
Now, if ClearChannel would maybe put Love And Theft on their rotation...
That said, a fair number of people, notably politicans & thieves, make their living stealing other people's stuff ;-)
djeaux
Sure, lots of folks get frustrated with the techs' ability to get a DSL modem running, but simple line maintenance for most telcos is far more thorough than cable outfits can provide.
Hell, our cable company can't even get all their advertised channels running & the service is out far more often than our phone line. This may be because the nearest cable tech that they even call an "engineer" is over 150 miles away!
djeaux
But the best way to deal with dictionaries, thesauri & maps is to put them on an SD card...
djeaux
OTOH, my RSS's are popular with hacker types, geeks & computer security folks who might get, um, a mite peeved by advertising if I were to embed it somehow in the XML...
And oh yeah, if you want to use those RSS's, they're at djeaux.com. Free & free of advertising!
IBM has been thrashing around in the tar pit for years. Rebranding another manufacturer's device with the IBM logo is not innovation. I view this as IBM's final admission that it's not a player in the real-world PDA market. I also view the recent push for tablet PCs as Microsoft's admission of the same. When Sony went with Palmsource, the handwriting was on the wall. Let's face it, Sony leads IBM & Microsoft in the quest for world domination. Proof of concept? Count the Sony products in your home. Then count the IBM & Microsoft products. Add up the cost. 'Nuff said.
Go read the old fairy tale about killing a valuable goose. Critical mass has zilch to do with it: The vast masses of home Internet users would simply ask themselves, "Beer or Internet?" And the answer would be "beer"!
Why would the telco suddenly be able to impose a different standard on data communications? Just because an AT&T engineer has proposed some (time consuming) method to do something doesn't mean it will be done. A similar attitude about POTS is what got mighty Ma Bell busted lo these many years ago...
Taking this one stumble father, I note that there is only one "computer" attached physically to the Bellsouth DSL line: a little cheap Linksys router, which having a processor & some flash ROM, qualifies as a "computer." Other computers do not connect directly to the DSL line, they connect to that router.
Any telco/ISP that "cracks down" on home networking this way is just plain stupid & needs to go back to the mandatory customer service training workshops! In fact, that's where our dear AT&T enginner needs to be this very afternoon. It's the corporate equivalent of Chinese water torture!
Admittedly, it was slower than a lawnmower, but it was a "d.o.s." nonetheless...
Remember:
politics (poly + ticks) = "many blood sucking parasites"
If this isn't a hoax, then RIAA has been complicit in the development of a large network for staging DDOS attacks. Regardless of the Berman bill, that would seem to be "cyberterrorism" to me.
So, the question isn't whether Slashdot thinks this is a hoax but whether the FBI thinks it's a hoax... djeaux
And adding 4 or 5 bigass fans to a non-overclocked system is analogous to the time-honored Hooker Cherry Bomb muffler on a 6-cylinder '78 Nova?
So Americans' cherished notions about a "free" press don't necessarily apply, either.
I think your analogy is similarly flawed, but I'll take it one step farther. An even better analogy is if you put $1000 under a loose brick in the middle of your living room floor & leave the door open. Someone comes along, sees the door open, walks in & helps himself.
And that, my friend, is called stealing in almost all civilized countries (and the US, too!)
I am not saying here that the news gatherer "hacked" Inventia. S/he did the equivalent of reading a memo off somebody's desk without their knowledge. That's a time-honored trick in the news media & if we dispense with our belief in the hoax of a free press, it's unethical as hell.
My bet is the Reuter's "reporter" thought, "Oh boy! This will really screw up Inventia. I'll be promoted! My lucky day!"
Oh ho! So Microsoft actually owns this buggy conglomeration of mismatched code it calls an OS! Why do they charge me for the upgrades to their stuff that just happens to be sitting in my house & office? Have they no pride in ownership?
Reflecting on this, what other industry requires a customer to sign an NDA for a lease or purchase? Anybody sign NDAs for the last car they bought? :-D
Of course, whether one chooses to make a mess or not is a bit of freedom that Perl allows. And as many others have posted, freedom of choice is not usually desired in a team programming setting.
My gut hunch -- based totally on reading too many Scott Adams cartoons -- is that the pointy-haired boss came in & said, "This PHP stuff is all over the net. It's new & trendy. We will use PHP." :-D
Good idea. It could traverse the web, locate IIS servers & gracefully convert them to *NIX :-D
And how about a worm that defrags your hard drive, cleans up temp files & deletes all that hidden porn?
>> Let's hope Reuters won't budge, and the judge will have a clue. LOL! It will all boil down to what venue hears the case & how much money the plaintiff & defendant each spend. I tend to side with Intentia until we know more. Everyone here is assuming that the files weren't password protected, that they weren't on a non-production server, etc. In short, we're taking Reuter's hook-line-and-sinker and running with it. Reuter's takes the position that they are a news media outlet & therefore exempt from the normal sort of behavior that's expected from the rest of us. If Reuter's took a "tip" from a disgruntled employee, used a password or accessed a site that otherwise wasn't "announced", that's just "good news gathering". And they'll pretend they don't have to disclose their sources, as if they were physicians or something. Like someone else said, just because you forget to lock the store does not absolve somebody from stealing your stuff. Just on matter of principle, I hope Reuter's gets its goose cooked.
Just uninstall the crap the dude put on your machine. I went thru some heartburn with the PPoE software (self-install) for my DSL -- heartburn as in a complete HDD reformat & OS reinstall -- only to find that the #1 instruction for the router I plugged in was "uninstall any PPoE dialer software that came from your ISP"... In short, you may find yourself having to take all that garbage off anyway.
Get everything cleaned up. A complaint to the cable company or (if they have a municipal "monopoly" as you say) to your city council about the privacy stuff might be in order, too.
Then sit back & rock. That broadband will make you forget the hassles soon enough!