No need to attack. I stated my personal evaluation and decision. As far as decline: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1&qpsp=2008&qpnp=6&qptimeframe=Y It's clear they peaked in market share a couple years ago. I believe it is due to quality more than platform integration.
You can do your own performance evaluation, but I imagine you will find greater memory consumption with Firefox.
Options are good. I wish them well.
I switched to Firefox so many years ago for innovative features, but both Chrome and Safari have beat them out in performance and integrated capabilities. How many BS Firefox updates were there last year with nothing significant delivered. Once big fan and now I don't care what system they are on. Perhaps they should pull back and focus where they may be able to be good again.
(my.02)
Do No [intentional] Harm--NPD walks the line
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From a go-to-market POV, getting "buzz" and an initial user-base is the most difficult part of social network-based apps. To the old adage: ask for forgiveness, not permission. Personally, I think it is just fun for people to hate on Google (the big institution)... heck the Avant-garde of hatin' big business is even hatin' on Apple! Now that I just find funny... reminds me of that South Park "Smug" episode. I digress. Google will always struggle with using its data and users to its advantage without losing them.
To Google or any other company (Slashdot included), we're all just data points. There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those who get that and those who don't.
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Let us not forget that Internet download has discretion and timeliness on its side. Not many want to go down to the local porn store, risking their *** seeing their car in the lot, to thumb through porn--to inconvenient and public. Also, sexuality is driven by fleeting moments, so mailing for porn doesn't satisfy that need. This is all old news for Internet porn gurus... this just ups the quality and competes with subscription porn channels.
Go porn.
Indexing the www at the rate it grows is a tremendous task, and Google, through innovative technology and marketing, has brought a more productive Internet to most of the world. It is difficult to see it being done better, but, as recent articles pointed out, it is not difficult to manipulate those search results. The business of search ratings is large and growing. Customers of ISPs get large numbers of IP addresses from different blocks just so they can take advantage of its link score and sell this rating to customers, regardless of revence.
Do I use Google? F@#k, it's my homepage, but I long for the notion of "just great searching technology." Information warehouses like citeseer.com are fantastic. Let Google take the mainstream for quick fixes for the immediate gratification generation, but when you need truly credible sources and information you're staking your career, health, or financial well-being on DON'T let it rest solely in the hands of Larry and Sergey.
I'm a pirate: I have tens of thousands of mp3s on assorted computers, I haven't bought a M$ OS since '94, I don't peer with those who don't share at least 1000 files; I'm a consumer: I've spent over 50K on computer hardware and software in the last 3 years, I bought FarCry and Doom3 out of respect, I've paid to go to more concerts than I can possibly count.
The generation will decide the value of a dollar, and the expensive obstacles put in place to deter this natural leveling will be taken out of their end.
I always enjoy such articles....
Technology tranfer has been the cornerstone of innovation for how long?
Companies study other industries in order to bring innovation to tired processes and technologies. It is responsible for many of today's disruptive technological achievement. Was it South West Airlines who did formal research on pit crews at Daytona (or something like that)?
Regardless, keep up the good work... who knows the next great step in reverse engineering might come from examining how Vegas tears down their casino's, or is that just what I'm thinking for Windows.
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." --Albert Einstein
--j
So, it is now official. Nessus reports everything as a security hole;-)
I saw this presentation during Black Hat... it was impressive, but it just furthers the idea that perimeter security is merely a piece of the puzzle.
good stuff,
j
This operation "Broken Arrow" will not work. For one, yes you can identify legitimate sources if it is tcp traffic (or some UDP services). However, the bandwidth it would take to effectively stall or at least make the ISP take the hosts offline is far too much.
Then only real solution is a share technology across tier-1 ISP that identifies hosts participating in these attacks and just null-routes their IP. Certain organizations are already sharing DDoS-route servers, and if the major backbone are willing to accept another 1/4 million routes to the bit bucket, we may have something. Once the difficult attacks are taken care of, attackers will be left with easily identifiable blasts of bandwidth consuming garbage.
While a user may not attempt to fix their problem if they're running a bit slow, they will most certainly fix it when they can't access Google, online banking, or porn.
Slashdot Mirror
No need to attack. I stated my personal evaluation and decision. As far as decline: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1&qpsp=2008&qpnp=6&qptimeframe=Y It's clear they peaked in market share a couple years ago. I believe it is due to quality more than platform integration. You can do your own performance evaluation, but I imagine you will find greater memory consumption with Firefox. Options are good. I wish them well.
I switched to Firefox so many years ago for innovative features, but both Chrome and Safari have beat them out in performance and integrated capabilities. How many BS Firefox updates were there last year with nothing significant delivered. Once big fan and now I don't care what system they are on. Perhaps they should pull back and focus where they may be able to be good again. (my .02)
From a go-to-market POV, getting "buzz" and an initial user-base is the most difficult part of social network-based apps. To the old adage: ask for forgiveness, not permission. Personally, I think it is just fun for people to hate on Google (the big institution)... heck the Avant-garde of hatin' big business is even hatin' on Apple! Now that I just find funny... reminds me of that South Park "Smug" episode. I digress. Google will always struggle with using its data and users to its advantage without losing them. To Google or any other company (Slashdot included), we're all just data points. There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those who get that and those who don't. --
Let us not forget that Internet download has discretion and timeliness on its side. Not many want to go down to the local porn store, risking their *** seeing their car in the lot, to thumb through porn--to inconvenient and public. Also, sexuality is driven by fleeting moments, so mailing for porn doesn't satisfy that need. This is all old news for Internet porn gurus... this just ups the quality and competes with subscription porn channels. Go porn.
Even slashdot is slpping... the rain just keeps on fallin'
Indexing the www at the rate it grows is a tremendous task, and Google, through innovative technology and marketing, has brought a more productive Internet to most of the world. It is difficult to see it being done better, but, as recent articles pointed out, it is not difficult to manipulate those search results. The business of search ratings is large and growing. Customers of ISPs get large numbers of IP addresses from different blocks just so they can take advantage of its link score and sell this rating to customers, regardless of revence.
Do I use Google? F@#k, it's my homepage, but I long for the notion of "just great searching technology." Information warehouses like citeseer.com are fantastic. Let Google take the mainstream for quick fixes for the immediate gratification generation, but when you need truly credible sources and information you're staking your career, health, or financial well-being on DON'T let it rest solely in the hands of Larry and Sergey.
--c'est tu--
I like the satire...
I'm a pirate: I have tens of thousands of mp3s on assorted computers, I haven't bought a M$ OS since '94, I don't peer with those who don't share at least 1000 files; I'm a consumer: I've spent over 50K on computer hardware and software in the last 3 years, I bought FarCry and Doom3 out of respect, I've paid to go to more concerts than I can possibly count.
The generation will decide the value of a dollar, and the expensive obstacles put in place to deter this natural leveling will be taken out of their end.
--c'est la vie--
I always enjoy such articles.... Technology tranfer has been the cornerstone of innovation for how long? Companies study other industries in order to bring innovation to tired processes and technologies. It is responsible for many of today's disruptive technological achievement. Was it South West Airlines who did formal research on pit crews at Daytona (or something like that)? Regardless, keep up the good work... who knows the next great step in reverse engineering might come from examining how Vegas tears down their casino's, or is that just what I'm thinking for Windows. "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." --Albert Einstein --j
So, it is now official. Nessus reports everything as a security hole ;-)
I saw this presentation during Black Hat... it was impressive, but it just furthers the idea that perimeter security is merely a piece of the puzzle.
good stuff,
j
This operation "Broken Arrow" will not work.
For one, yes you can identify legitimate sources if it is tcp traffic (or some UDP services). However, the bandwidth it would take to effectively stall or at least make the ISP take the hosts offline is far too much.
Then only real solution is a share technology across tier-1 ISP that identifies hosts participating in these attacks and just null-routes their IP. Certain organizations are already sharing DDoS-route servers, and if the major backbone are willing to accept another 1/4 million routes to the bit bucket, we may have something. Once the difficult attacks are taken care of, attackers will be left with easily identifiable blasts of bandwidth consuming garbage.
While a user may not attempt to fix their problem if they're running a bit slow, they will most certainly fix it when they can't access Google, online banking, or porn.
You just salvaged my day. Funny stuff. Hit it right on the head ;-)
--j