Obviously it depends on how much you fly. So far this year I've flown 27 segments (take offs and landings) on work assignments. I wonder what's the average per person.
Cookies are used for storing your session information and preferences for sites. That's what the mechanism was designed for, and so far nothing better has come up to replace it.
In terms of tracking your preferences, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I don't like someone keeping track of my browsing preferences for unrelated sites. On another, I'd rather see ads that may interest me than yet another "punch the monkey" or "refinance your home". Most people hate ads because they are annoying and uninteresting to them, not because they are selling something. This is why Google is successful: they are good at improving the chances that the ad you see is related to what you are looking for.
According to the article, the valuation of both brands grew by 36%. Of course BlackBerry is much smaller, but they measure "fastest growth".
Not very meaningful anyway, since it's not very clear how they come up with the value for the brand or even who qualifies for the survey. E.g. if Joe's Rubber Duckies (tm) grew from $100 to $200, it beats all the above.
This type of spam (showing a page to the crawler and another to the user) is called cloaking. Cloakers have anticipated this sort of move and can detect a search engine's crawler by not just the user agent but also the IP address range it comes from and other heuristics. In order to beat them, search engines would have to crawl from unpredictable IP addresses and behave like regular users.
A while back I proposed a distributed approach like this in the Nutch mailing list. The problem is that it would be hard to implement and it may not be worth the effort, since there are cheaper ways to fight spam.
IANAL, but tt depends on where the downloaders are located, and whether downloading the content is illegal according to local laws and international treaties that apply. For example, there are lots of books that are public domain anywhere but in the US. It's not so clear cut.
It's a good idea. The problem is that the tracker would have to trust reports from peers about the validity of seeds. It would become a problem of who to trust, which would only be solved with some sort of moderation scheme.
Here's an interesting example of an escalation, going on right now. It seems that anti-p2p organizations are trying to pollute some torrents for TV shows such as six feet under (see discussion here).
What they do is put out a file of the same size but with random data. Since the torrent file has segment hashes to verify integrity, any segments downloaded from the bogus file will fail the checksum and waste downloaders' bandwidth.
The community of downloaders is fighting back by spreading black lists with the IP addresses of the bogus clients.
I would agree with you if it wasn't for the mechanism mentioned in the article. People get infected when they click on a link that exploits a vulnerability in their browsers.
Second, the comparison doesn't stand. Guns are meant to kill. Computers are not made with the purpose of being infected by viruses. Those who kill themselves, even out of stupidity, are using the main functionality of a gun.
This is a more complex problem. Viruses are much more of a problem now than they were fifteen years ago. The reason is simple: profit. As long as people can earn money by creating zombie computers, asking for ransom for your files or what have you, malicious hackers will find a way.
Think about phising attacks: all you need is a relatively uninformed victim and you have access to their bank account. Celebrity emails just target a different segment of potential victims. The real question to ask is, to what extent do computers need to protect users from their own stupidity? At this point and given the infection numbers, I believe that users are not as much to blame as software companies.
The main strength of BitTorrent is that it works on individual files. It is not a network, rather a protocol like ftp or http. Ftp sites that offer copyrighted content can be taken down, but the ftp protocol is alive and well.
I disagree. Being able to convert decimals to fractions is something that everybody should know. Teaching someone to look under the hood and know how things work is important. After that, they can choose to never look again and use a tool if they want.
I agree. For example, Cemex seems to be the top brand in Latin America. Well, I'm from Argentina and neither I nor anyone I know have ever heard of it.
I disabled html in comment posts a long time ago. Spammers don't care, their spambots keep spamming blindly. Statistically, they will find lots of sites that allow html.
I tried renaming the comments script and it worked for a while, but spammers are smart enough to work around that. Lately I had been getting spam even a few minutes after renaming the script.
I installed mt-blaclist, which pretty much solved the problem for me. It allows you to search by regular expression and massively de-spam and blacklist the urls they point to. All subsequent comments containing those urls or other known spam expressions get trashed automatically.
The closest Argentina gets to the equator is about 22 degrees south (not much closer than the south of Florida), whereas Brazil's launch center is two degrees from the equator.
I got my hotmail account in 1997, it was upgraded last month. I'd thought about giving it up several times but I can't because occasionally I receive email from friends I haven't seen in years. The main improvement is that now my inbox doesn't get full with spam and starts rejecting valid messages.
So far, the Blackberry is the only mobile device that I've found useful for web browsing and emailing. The qwerty keyboard is the main reason, it's much better than, say, the one in the Treo 600.
The new Blackberry looks like any other cellphone. I know that I'll never be able to compose email or search Google nearly as fast with the predictive input, no matter how good it might be.
Innovative software allows the four separate projections to be blended together so that no seams are seen between adjacent segments, joining the four images into a single picture with higher resolution than regular television sets.
Wow! Higher resolution than regular television sets. Even 800x600 would qualify.
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They already have. Check out our site, http://trendistic.com/ . We have been tracking trends on Twitter for the past year, and we've seen all sorts of phenomena, from grassroots campaigns: http://trendistic.com/iranelection/_90-days 5o get-followers-quick spam, politics, etc. http://trendistic.com/followers/_180-days (click anywhere on the chart to see what people were saying at the time).
Obviously it depends on how much you fly. So far this year I've flown 27 segments (take offs and landings) on work assignments. I wonder what's the average per person.
And how about the remote controlled goldfish?
Cookies are used for storing your session information and preferences for sites. That's what the mechanism was designed for, and so far nothing better has come up to replace it.
In terms of tracking your preferences, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I don't like someone keeping track of my browsing preferences for unrelated sites. On another, I'd rather see ads that may interest me than yet another "punch the monkey" or "refinance your home". Most people hate ads because they are annoying and uninteresting to them, not because they are selling something. This is why Google is successful: they are good at improving the chances that the ad you see is related to what you are looking for.
According to the article, the valuation of both brands grew by 36%. Of course BlackBerry is much smaller, but they measure "fastest growth".
Not very meaningful anyway, since it's not very clear how they come up with the value for the brand or even who qualifies for the survey. E.g. if Joe's Rubber Duckies (tm) grew from $100 to $200, it beats all the above.
This type of spam (showing a page to the crawler and another to the user) is called cloaking. Cloakers have anticipated this sort of move and can detect a search engine's crawler by not just the user agent but also the IP address range it comes from and other heuristics. In order to beat them, search engines would have to crawl from unpredictable IP addresses and behave like regular users.
A while back I proposed a distributed approach like this in the Nutch mailing list. The problem is that it would be hard to implement and it may not be worth the effort, since there are cheaper ways to fight spam.
IANAL, but tt depends on where the downloaders are located, and whether downloading the content is illegal according to local laws and international treaties that apply. For example, there are lots of books that are public domain anywhere but in the US. It's not so clear cut.
It's a good idea. The problem is that the tracker would have to trust reports from peers about the validity of seeds. It would become a problem of who to trust, which would only be solved with some sort of moderation scheme.
Here's an interesting example of an escalation, going on right now. It seems that anti-p2p organizations are trying to pollute some torrents for TV shows such as six feet under (see discussion here).
What they do is put out a file of the same size but with random data. Since the torrent file has segment hashes to verify integrity, any segments downloaded from the bogus file will fail the checksum and waste downloaders' bandwidth. The community of downloaders is fighting back by spreading black lists with the IP addresses of the bogus clients.
I would agree with you if it wasn't for the mechanism mentioned in the article. People get infected when they click on a link that exploits a vulnerability in their browsers.
Second, the comparison doesn't stand. Guns are meant to kill. Computers are not made with the purpose of being infected by viruses. Those who kill themselves, even out of stupidity, are using the main functionality of a gun.
This is a more complex problem. Viruses are much more of a problem now than they were fifteen years ago. The reason is simple: profit. As long as people can earn money by creating zombie computers, asking for ransom for your files or what have you, malicious hackers will find a way.
Think about phising attacks: all you need is a relatively uninformed victim and you have access to their bank account. Celebrity emails just target a different segment of potential victims. The real question to ask is, to what extent do computers need to protect users from their own stupidity? At this point and given the infection numbers, I believe that users are not as much to blame as software companies.
The main strength of BitTorrent is that it works on individual files. It is not a network, rather a protocol like ftp or http. Ftp sites that offer copyrighted content can be taken down, but the ftp protocol is alive and well.
I disagree. Being able to convert decimals to fractions is something that everybody should know. Teaching someone to look under the hood and know how things work is important. After that, they can choose to never look again and use a tool if they want.
An open-source web search engine. The project has been around for a couple of years and it's backed by Apache.
I agree. For example, Cemex seems to be the top brand in Latin America. Well, I'm from Argentina and neither I nor anyone I know have ever heard of it.
I disabled html in comment posts a long time ago. Spammers don't care, their spambots keep spamming blindly. Statistically, they will find lots of sites that allow html.
I tried renaming the comments script and it worked for a while, but spammers are smart enough to work around that. Lately I had been getting spam even a few minutes after renaming the script.
I installed mt-blaclist, which pretty much solved the problem for me. It allows you to search by regular expression and massively de-spam and blacklist the urls they point to. All subsequent comments containing those urls or other known spam expressions get trashed automatically.
It happened over three weeks ago. The news is on Keyhole's front page.
How long until cockroaches adapt and stop following the robot? I bet it won't take very long. A cockroach can yield thousands of offspring every year.
The closest Argentina gets to the equator is about 22 degrees south (not much closer than the south of Florida), whereas Brazil's launch center is two degrees from the equator.
I got my hotmail account in 1997, it was upgraded last month. I'd thought about giving it up several times but I can't because occasionally I receive email from friends I haven't seen in years. The main improvement is that now my inbox doesn't get full with spam and starts rejecting valid messages.
So why is that a problem with my solution? 199981 is the first one, 199982 is another, etc, but they are only looking for the first.
A quick 10-line c program gives this answer.
So far, the Blackberry is the only mobile device that I've found useful for web browsing and emailing. The qwerty keyboard is the main reason, it's much better than, say, the one in the Treo 600. The new Blackberry looks like any other cellphone. I know that I'll never be able to compose email or search Google nearly as fast with the predictive input, no matter how good it might be.
The article sheds no light on this:
Innovative software allows the four separate projections to be blended together so that no seams are seen between adjacent segments, joining the four images into a single picture with higher resolution than regular television sets.
Wow! Higher resolution than regular television sets. Even 800x600 would qualify.