Yes, I RTFA, and looked at how things work, the fact that PHP is being used is immaterial.
The basic functionality of TinyURL, NanoURL or any other service is to accept a string (presumably a URI) and return a shorter string that will serve as a pointer to it. If you want your application to accomplish that it doesn't matter what it was written in, people can store things other than URLs in your database. The protections against this sort of use/abuse suggested in the article are also language independent.
Hrmm, Though honestly I don't see removing a restriction the department isn't able to define or legally defend as a big deal, recent trends are worrysome. I can see a future where companies pay regular fees to some cartel for protection from patent related lawsuits. At first there will be numerous small cartels kicking around, fighting each other for business, suing each others 'clients', over time the biggest bankroll will prevail and a patent protection fee will become a regular part of doing business.
I hate popups, though I use a non-crappy browser so that problem is mostly delt with.
I dislike flash based ads for two reasons, the constant animation is distracting, and if I am interested I can't middle click to open in a new tab. I just deal with it.
Some sites are using those crappy layer based ads where stuff floats over the content. I just don't go to those sites.
To be honest, I beleive in the "social contract" mentioned on/. oh so long ago. I want to read these sites for free, so I am willing to view the ads that help pay for the content. I find that pop-up/unders violate this contract (breaking out of context) so I don't have an issue with blocking them.
The speed an engineering involved are really impressive. I'm actually surprised that a solar power car can make it up to those speeds, let alone average 100KM/h. Sounds like an awesome way to save on Gas! (when it's sunny, if only the car was street legal, etc).
My big problem wouldn't be my PC slowly moving out of sync with the networks, it's the fact that the networks are purposefully going out of sync with each other. I am now routinely switching from a show that just ended to something in the next time slot that's already started. It's stupid, and it only makes me value television less.
I own a PSP, and have since around their NA launch, I've never even considered buying a UMD movie. Why pay the same price as a DVD (that plays on my PC, Laptop & Television, and can be encoded to fit on my memory stick for the PSP) for a lower quality disc I can only use on one device?.
Now, if they sold DVD & UMD combo packs for like $3-$5CDN above the DVD only price, they might hook me in. But even then, the prices on portable DVD players are comming down so fast why bother? I've already got 100+ DVDs, buying one of those (while adding bulk to my tech bag) would make more sense.
Q (Short Version): Why is the regular downtime nesesary?
Q (Long Version): I've worked for several large firms, and in each case downtime was measured by the second or minute per day, not hours per month. To meet these requirements systems were designed to be easily swapped, upgrades were done by migrating connections to cloned machine, etc. etc. You obviously have some good infastructure in place, why can't upgrades be more seamless.
That being said, I read his articles because unlike a lot of techie type blogs: He can write, He writes about broader topics than say problems compiling OpenSSL on a widget box 2000 with RH, he often uses real numbers to support his opinions.
I'm actually okay with non-complete clauses, provided they come with some sort of an expiary date.
Knowledge is everything in the web world, we learn a lot from our employers, I'm okay with them telling me to avoid their line of work for a period after I finish my employment. Just because your knowledge may be with regards to Searching for example, and you are banned from working from a search centric company (ie google) doesn't mean your skills are useless. Help Postgress design a faster database for search queries. Help some company with huge amounts of data (say Vetran Affairs) index it better. There's other options.
And it's not like the guy in question is an idiot, he knew what he was doing when he signed his contract with Microsoft.
Theres a difference between being able to scan and a full WiFi detector. I want constant scanning, automatic strength updates (so I can choose my seating location apropriately) etc.
I worked for a large company, during my time there we made the switch to VOIP, with the nice Cisco phones. The whole deal was set up with POE to all the phones, which was great for a couple reasons: Power outages we could still use the phone (as mentioned in the article), one fewer cord on our desk (no power cord), one less stolen slot on the power bar.
The server room manager guy was a big fan of this system because it allowed him to reduce the number of UPS protected outlets outside of the server room (some models of the desk phones used at the help desk required their own power supply), and since it was now his problem a boost to his budget.
Something I would/LOVE/ to see is POE being used on the desktop to maintain power to your RAM during a power outage. Obviously there is a chain of things that would need to support this in order for it to work, but on an enterprise level I think it sounds like a good investment. Once the power is restored everyone's machine turns on to it's previous state.
I worked for a P2P firm for several years in a support role, and to be honest, I have never really even thought about problems like this before. The job sits proudly near the top of my resume, I even use the words "file sharing" somewhere within the job description (but I usually fall back and say "It's sorta like napster, but different" during an interview, just because then the suits get it). Even with that there I have landed jobs at a major multi-national, and for a small municipal utilities company.
I hope my luck continues and I manage to avoid people who would hold that sort of thing against me. That being said, working for the P2P company was a great experiance, I learned a lot, I managed to grow my responsibilities as I saw fit, .
I don't think I would ever buy a UMD movie, even though I own a PSP, and end up on long road trips regularily. I just don't see the value in spending full price on a movie locked into a single format for a small device. I currently use PSP Video 9, and encode various films or shorts and save them on my 1GB memory stick.
I could however seeing myself spend between $2-$5CDN extra on a DVD to get both formats included in the box (since we are after all paying for the movie, not the media.... right?). Or, even better, renting a couple at the video store before I head out.
I think theres a great market for this type of thing. Give these special DVD players to the people who get the Acadamy screeners, then encode the screeners apropriately. Sure the video out can still be copied and recorded, but at that point it would be trivial for the player to watermark the video out with some identifying data for the legitimate owner.
I think this could work in limited distribution, protected content, non-consumer situations.
The problem with sunset clauses was recently discovered in california, where a law requiring a major portion of punitive damage awards be given to the state rather than to the individual (which makes sense since the entire point of punitive damages is the slap on the wrist, the plantiff is awarded for their own suffering or whatever through another type of damages). This law was given a multi-year sunset clause (where it automatically falls from force after a few years). The laywers picked up on this, and just held off on bringing any cases to court where punitive damages would be awarded.
While it's true that the law could just be renewed, it gives all the lobby groups a second chance at getting their own special needs taken care of, or having the bill become the parent for an un-attractive rider that ends up killing the whole thing.
Business names don't have to be unique, in fact when you register a business they warn you that without a trademark there is no protection for your business name. Registering a business only gives you the right to use that name, it does not prevent anyone else from doing the same.
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Yes, I RTFA, and looked at how things work, the fact that PHP is being used is immaterial.
The basic functionality of TinyURL, NanoURL or any other service is to accept a string (presumably a URI) and return a shorter string that will serve as a pointer to it. If you want your application to accomplish that it doesn't matter what it was written in, people can store things other than URLs in your database. The protections against this sort of use/abuse suggested in the article are also language independent.
Hrmm, Though honestly I don't see removing a restriction the department isn't able to define or legally defend as a big deal, recent trends are worrysome. I can see a future where companies pay regular fees to some cartel for protection from patent related lawsuits. At first there will be numerous small cartels kicking around, fighting each other for business, suing each others 'clients', over time the biggest bankroll will prevail and a patent protection fee will become a regular part of doing business.
I hate popups, though I use a non-crappy browser so that problem is mostly delt with.
/. oh so long ago. I want to read these sites for free, so I am willing to view the ads that help pay for the content. I find that pop-up/unders violate this contract (breaking out of context) so I don't have an issue with blocking them.
I dislike flash based ads for two reasons, the constant animation is distracting, and if I am interested I can't middle click to open in a new tab. I just deal with it.
Some sites are using those crappy layer based ads where stuff floats over the content. I just don't go to those sites.
To be honest, I beleive in the "social contract" mentioned on
The speed an engineering involved are really impressive. I'm actually surprised that a solar power car can make it up to those speeds, let alone average 100KM/h. Sounds like an awesome way to save on Gas! (when it's sunny, if only the car was street legal, etc).
Congrats team Nuna!
My big problem wouldn't be my PC slowly moving out of sync with the networks, it's the fact that the networks are purposefully going out of sync with each other. I am now routinely switching from a show that just ended to something in the next time slot that's already started. It's stupid, and it only makes me value television less.
I own a PSP, and have since around their NA launch, I've never even considered buying a UMD movie. Why pay the same price as a DVD (that plays on my PC, Laptop & Television, and can be encoded to fit on my memory stick for the PSP) for a lower quality disc I can only use on one device?.
Now, if they sold DVD & UMD combo packs for like $3-$5CDN above the DVD only price, they might hook me in. But even then, the prices on portable DVD players are comming down so fast why bother? I've already got 100+ DVDs, buying one of those (while adding bulk to my tech bag) would make more sense.
Q (Short Version): Why is the regular downtime nesesary?
Q (Long Version): I've worked for several large firms, and in each case downtime was measured by the second or minute per day, not hours per month. To meet these requirements systems were designed to be easily swapped, upgrades were done by migrating connections to cloned machine, etc. etc. You obviously have some good infastructure in place, why can't upgrades be more seamless.
I'm surprised at how rarely this is pointed out.
That being said, I read his articles because unlike a lot of techie type blogs: He can write, He writes about broader topics than say problems compiling OpenSSL on a widget box 2000 with RH, he often uses real numbers to support his opinions.
What else is sceince & government keeping from us, untill they have finished studying it.
Has anyone from /. / OSTG ever thought about asking NYT for system like the blogger registration-free linking thing?
Just a thought
I'm actually okay with non-complete clauses, provided they come with some sort of an expiary date.
Knowledge is everything in the web world, we learn a lot from our employers, I'm okay with them telling me to avoid their line of work for a period after I finish my employment. Just because your knowledge may be with regards to Searching for example, and you are banned from working from a search centric company (ie google) doesn't mean your skills are useless. Help Postgress design a faster database for search queries. Help some company with huge amounts of data (say Vetran Affairs) index it better. There's other options.
And it's not like the guy in question is an idiot, he knew what he was doing when he signed his contract with Microsoft.
Theres a difference between being able to scan and a full WiFi detector. I want constant scanning, automatic strength updates (so I can choose my seating location apropriately) etc.
Yeah, I'm greedy, but I am giving something up.
If the update included software to turn my PSP into a WiFi detector it would be worth sacraficing and/all opportunities to use homebrew apps.
What is the preffered non-real alternative to play .ram files these days?
What about a couple of extra hard drives and a FedEx envelope?
I worked for a large company, during my time there we made the switch to VOIP, with the nice Cisco phones. The whole deal was set up with POE to all the phones, which was great for a couple reasons: Power outages we could still use the phone (as mentioned in the article), one fewer cord on our desk (no power cord), one less stolen slot on the power bar.
/LOVE/ to see is POE being used on the desktop to maintain power to your RAM during a power outage. Obviously there is a chain of things that would need to support this in order for it to work, but on an enterprise level I think it sounds like a good investment. Once the power is restored everyone's machine turns on to it's previous state.
The server room manager guy was a big fan of this system because it allowed him to reduce the number of UPS protected outlets outside of the server room (some models of the desk phones used at the help desk required their own power supply), and since it was now his problem a boost to his budget.
Something I would
Password safe is awesome
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/
Bruce Schneier recomends it in many/most of his monthly crypt-o-grams
http://www.schneier.com/
I worked for a P2P firm for several years in a support role, and to be honest, I have never really even thought about problems like this before. The job sits proudly near the top of my resume, I even use the words "file sharing" somewhere within the job description (but I usually fall back and say "It's sorta like napster, but different" during an interview, just because then the suits get it). Even with that there I have landed jobs at a major multi-national, and for a small municipal utilities company.
I hope my luck continues and I manage to avoid people who would hold that sort of thing against me. That being said, working for the P2P company was a great experiance, I learned a lot, I managed to grow my responsibilities as I saw fit, .
I don't think I would ever buy a UMD movie, even though I own a PSP, and end up on long road trips regularily. I just don't see the value in spending full price on a movie locked into a single format for a small device. I currently use PSP Video 9, and encode various films or shorts and save them on my 1GB memory stick.
I could however seeing myself spend between $2-$5CDN extra on a DVD to get both formats included in the box (since we are after all paying for the movie, not the media.... right?). Or, even better, renting a couple at the video store before I head out.
I think theres a great market for this type of thing. Give these special DVD players to the people who get the Acadamy screeners, then encode the screeners apropriately. Sure the video out can still be copied and recorded, but at that point it would be trivial for the player to watermark the video out with some identifying data for the legitimate owner.
I think this could work in limited distribution, protected content, non-consumer situations.
The problem with sunset clauses was recently discovered in california, where a law requiring a major portion of punitive damage awards be given to the state rather than to the individual (which makes sense since the entire point of punitive damages is the slap on the wrist, the plantiff is awarded for their own suffering or whatever through another type of damages). This law was given a multi-year sunset clause (where it automatically falls from force after a few years). The laywers picked up on this, and just held off on bringing any cases to court where punitive damages would be awarded.
While it's true that the law could just be renewed, it gives all the lobby groups a second chance at getting their own special needs taken care of, or having the bill become the parent for an un-attractive rider that ends up killing the whole thing.
I've seen a lot of spin on this thing, that tries to make Microsoft out to be the bad guy in this situation.
This sounds like it's good for consumers, and Microsofts wishes to track down the retailers that are defrauding customers don't seem out of line.
Now either 'to' was added to the title, or I need to get some more sleep.
Doesn't the article title contridict what the summary says.
Could the title be 'China soon to topple US...'?
Business names don't have to be unique, in fact when you register a business they warn you that without a trademark there is no protection for your business name. Registering a business only gives you the right to use that name, it does not prevent anyone else from doing the same.