Ahhh, the continued irrational exhuberance of Web 2.0. Where's the beef?
If you want a real site for getting movie recommendations then try http://www.moviefreak.org/ or any of a number of movie recommendation sites that will give you better results w/o all the Web 2.0 hype.
Thats an easy opinion to take when you're young, but when you have to join the real world and effectively communicate with those around you it just doesn't cut it. If you can't get your point across in an acceptable dialect, people will ignore you or make fun of you. While you may think that's wrong, proper spelling and grammar (which I do not claim to always follow to the letter) are two areas of conformance I agree with.
If you don't think it matters, watch how many people comment when CmdrTaco or one of the others uses atrocious spelling and/or grammar. While it may be acceptable in certain communities (such as this one, to a degree), try turning in a paper to a professor or a design document to your boss and see how far it flies.
Just the addition of an IP address encoded as part of the session key will block out *most* of the people who could grab your cookie for this hack. The only ones it doesn't affect are those with the same IP address as the unsuspecting Hotmail user, which would occur if the Hotmail user was behind the same proxy as the perpetrator. Its an easy change to make, since they are (assumedly) already going back to verify the session key in some respect.
Forget about having a non-profit organization who actually *patents* things and release to the public domain (which costs a lot of time and money). Just have a non-profit organization that collects prior art (in the form of old ideas not yet patented and new ideas not yet patented) in some form and stores it away to refute these types of claims that would arise in the future. It would be a great resource as a repository that anyone and everyone could submit to, as long as it was categorized in a reasonable manner.
Again, probably not that original of an idea, but is anybody doing something like this?
This may be a bit of a naive approach and probably not original, but what about creating a non-profit organization (with funding from concerned programmers, companies, etc.) whose only job is to file patents on the sort of supposedly non-obvious things that are being patented and to legally release them into the public domain. I realize that most big companies would *never* want to fund something like this, but I would imagine there are some concerned bodies who would be willing to fund it.
I think this idea has some merit, but may not be feasible or even financially possible. Any comments?
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Ahhh, the continued irrational exhuberance of Web 2.0. Where's the beef?
If you want a real site for getting movie recommendations then try http://www.moviefreak.org/ or any of a number of movie recommendation sites that will give you better results w/o all the Web 2.0 hype.
Thats an easy opinion to take when you're young, but when you have to join the real world and effectively communicate with those around you it just doesn't cut it. If you can't get your point across in an acceptable dialect, people will ignore you or make fun of you. While you may think that's wrong, proper spelling and grammar (which I do not claim to always follow to the letter) are two areas of conformance I agree with.
If you don't think it matters, watch how many people comment when CmdrTaco or one of the others uses atrocious spelling and/or grammar. While it may be acceptable in certain communities (such as this one, to a degree), try turning in a paper to a professor or a design document to your boss and see how far it flies.
Just the addition of an IP address encoded as part of the session key will block out *most* of the people who could grab your cookie for this hack. The only ones it doesn't affect are those with the same IP address as the unsuspecting Hotmail user, which would occur if the Hotmail user was behind the same proxy as the perpetrator. Its an easy change to make, since they are (assumedly) already going back to verify the session key in some respect.
Hate to reply to my own post, but here goes...
Forget about having a non-profit organization who actually *patents* things and release to the public domain (which costs a lot of time and money). Just have a non-profit organization that collects prior art (in the form of old ideas not yet patented and new ideas not yet patented) in some form and stores it away to refute these types of claims that would arise in the future. It would be a great resource as a repository that anyone and everyone could submit to, as long as it was categorized in a reasonable manner.
Again, probably not that original of an idea, but is anybody doing something like this?
This may be a bit of a naive approach and probably not original, but what about creating a non-profit organization (with funding from concerned programmers, companies, etc.) whose only job is to file patents on the sort of supposedly non-obvious things that are being patented and to legally release them into the public domain. I realize that most big companies would *never* want to fund something like this, but I would imagine there are some concerned bodies who would be willing to fund it.
I think this idea has some merit, but may not be feasible or even financially possible. Any comments?