I'm no expert when it comes to this stuff so I'll just ask...
Are most people who enjoy using these giant, free, wireless networks still checking there mail with good old, send the password plaintext, POP? Are networks like this just a giant smorgasborg a free information floating around for anybody to grab? Considering your average Joe uses the same password for everything I would think this would be problematic.
What security mechanisms are place that makes this difficult?
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"We're absolutely not going away, and they're not giving up, so we got a big problem," says Mr McBride.
I imagine he is using 'we' in the royal sense meaning 'he.' It's a little shocking to me that so many people are devoting so much time to this. Wouldn't we be better off to just ignore him and let IBM squash him and his claim unnoticed as a something as unsubstantiated as his is should be.
Instead we spend an awful lot of time and energy talking and reading...and making SCO a household word. And worse, making people nervous about linux and open source software in general for (so far) no reason at all. This seems to be a guy who likes to make his money suing people and is getting some free publicity at everyone's expense. Until they are willing to pony up with some real evidence let them slither back to the obscurity more fitting companies that have nothing good to offer.
I, for one, like the referer heading. It is useful to see where traffic is coming from and it really stinks that AOL is going to encourage people to mess with it, remove it, or spoof it.
This will be the ONLY result of AOL's action. They may get a short break from livejournal links but people will work around it. The internet is about linking after all. If AOL want's to invent their own thing with their own rules they should make their own little private net like they used to have and they can remain one tight, happy, cloistered little clique.
Of course if the referer header becomes useless maybe it would be a good opportunity to fix one of the most influential spelling errors in recent time and start using the refeRRer header instead.
So how long would this thing need to listen to NPR before it can start spitting out nice, liberal-minded stories with the sweet ring of Nina Totenberg's voice?
As far as information thoery goes, there can't be too much more real information in your average NPR bit than in a few minutes of dance music.
Why? Because there is one company out there trying to sell a device that does something and then someone else comes along and sells something that undoes that first thing. Well, pretty soon someone else will happen along to sell a third thing that undoes the second thing's undoing of the first thing essentially redoing what the first thing did in the first place. Kind of like Sylvester McBean. Only McBean was especially devious because he was one person playing both sides. Kind of like the phone company selling your name to telemarketers and then selling you caller ID. and then selling the telemarketers lines that don't respond to caller ID, and then selling you a service to block telemarketers. Either way we are better off with out the whole thing.
You're comparing a hello world script to some text parsing code. Get real. Why don't you show me an applescript for parsing a weblog buddy and finding a particular string. I bet it doesn't go like this
Tell file "weblog" parse itself find "something useful" end tell
and I bet it is five times as long as a similar perl script
and slower
and I bet you won't find much help from the internet if you can't figure it out yourself.
"If we looked at what we do in software, if we could only compile and test our program once a year, we'd never get anything done. But that's the mode of aerospace.'"
There is a huge difference, though. If you screw up the syntax and your program doesn't compile you fix it recompile and go on with your work.
What is the rocket ship equivalent to a syntactical error? A bad o-ring? Mistakes cost more...much more. And although computer simulation is good, the real test, the equivalent of compiling and running, comes when you test it against physics. You can't do that a few times a day.
I've often wondered who uses applescript. Even in the days of OS 9 its dorky syntax never seemed appealing. Now with OS X you can use something like perl. If you use BBEdit you can run perl scripts right from the editor. I would think that the market for applescript is shrinking everyday.
In the biological world, if you catch a bad virus and don't defend against it, it will kill you. In the computer world their are idiots who just think their computer is acting weird or getting slow so they scrap it, filling landfills, and buy a new one, lining Microsoft's pockets.
If they could invent a computer virus that weeded out idiots who don't patch their systems permanently, it might help make computers stronger.
I just took a quick look at echostar's financial stats and they are operating with a profit margin of -15.5%, which I guess means they are losing money with every subscriber. It seems to me that by preventing people from subscribing, he is actually saving them from said loss and echostar should be paying him $500/month for a while.
I'm sure a lot of people have already switched over to InDesign, but as someone who has used Quark for years it is a difficult and annoying switch, but Quark left little choice for people. Quark 4 and 5 were buggy in classic and it was difficult to deal with fonts when using classic and OS X together. On the other hand, there are also a lot of people who are still hanging on to their G3s waiting until a native Quark is available before upgrading to OS X and buying a new G4 (or G5). These people are desperate for new computers with full harddrives, not enough memory, and worse, they can't use Safari. Also, when their mouse dies, it is difficult ot find an ADB mouse that works on a G3, so they end up buying a USB mouse and some dorky converter. The release of Quark 6 will finally allow them to upgrade. This must be a large group of people and hopefully it will translate into a good surge of sales for apple.
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I'm no expert when it comes to this stuff so I'll just ask...
Are most people who enjoy using these giant, free, wireless networks still checking there mail with good old, send the password plaintext, POP? Are networks like this just a giant smorgasborg a free information floating around for anybody to grab? Considering your average Joe uses the same password for everything I would think this would be problematic.
What security mechanisms are place that makes this difficult?
I imagine he is using 'we' in the royal sense meaning 'he.' It's a little shocking to me that so many people are devoting so much time to this. Wouldn't we be better off to just ignore him and let IBM squash him and his claim unnoticed as a something as unsubstantiated as his is should be.
Instead we spend an awful lot of time and energy talking and reading...and making SCO a household word. And worse, making people nervous about linux and open source software in general for (so far) no reason at all. This seems to be a guy who likes to make his money suing people and is getting some free publicity at everyone's expense. Until they are willing to pony up with some real evidence let them slither back to the obscurity more fitting companies that have nothing good to offer.
I, for one, like the referer heading. It is useful to see where traffic is coming from and it really stinks that AOL is going to encourage people to mess with it, remove it, or spoof it. This will be the ONLY result of AOL's action. They may get a short break from livejournal links but people will work around it. The internet is about linking after all. If AOL want's to invent their own thing with their own rules they should make their own little private net like they used to have and they can remain one tight, happy, cloistered little clique. Of course if the referer header becomes useless maybe it would be a good opportunity to fix one of the most influential spelling errors in recent time and start using the refeRRer header instead.
So how long would this thing need to listen to NPR before it can start spitting out nice, liberal-minded stories with the sweet ring of Nina Totenberg's voice?
As far as information thoery goes, there can't be too much more real information in your average NPR bit than in a few minutes of dance music.
Is Darpa behind this?
Is this called TIA = Total Iranian Anonymizer?
Seriously, what self respecting Irani is going to trust a US government sponsored privacy service when no US citizens would?
Why? Because there is one company out there trying to sell a device that does something and then someone else comes along and sells something that undoes that first thing. Well, pretty soon someone else will happen along to sell a third thing that undoes the second thing's undoing of the first thing essentially redoing what the first thing did in the first place. Kind of like Sylvester McBean. Only McBean was especially devious because he was one person playing both sides. Kind of like the phone company selling your name to telemarketers and then selling you caller ID. and then selling the telemarketers lines that don't respond to caller ID, and then selling you a service to block telemarketers. Either way we are better off with out the whole thing.
If only we could get some RSA technology to block this guy from continuing to contribute bogus posts.
Seriously, the whole thing reminds me of Sylvester McBean's magical Star-On Star-Off Machine.
You're comparing a hello world script to some text parsing code. Get real. Why don't you show me an applescript for parsing a weblog buddy and finding a particular string. I bet it doesn't go like this
Tell file "weblog"
parse itself
find "something useful"
end tell
and I bet it is five times as long as a similar perl script
and slower
and I bet you won't find much help from the internet if you can't figure it out yourself.
"If we looked at what we do in software, if we could only compile and test our program once a year, we'd never get anything done. But that's the mode of aerospace.'" There is a huge difference, though. If you screw up the syntax and your program doesn't compile you fix it recompile and go on with your work. What is the rocket ship equivalent to a syntactical error? A bad o-ring? Mistakes cost more...much more. And although computer simulation is good, the real test, the equivalent of compiling and running, comes when you test it against physics. You can't do that a few times a day.
I've often wondered who uses applescript. Even in the days of OS 9 its dorky syntax never seemed appealing. Now with OS X you can use something like perl. If you use BBEdit you can run perl scripts right from the editor. I would think that the market for applescript is shrinking everyday.
In the biological world, if you catch a bad virus and don't defend against it, it will kill you. In the computer world their are idiots who just think their computer is acting weird or getting slow so they scrap it, filling landfills, and buy a new one, lining Microsoft's pockets. If they could invent a computer virus that weeded out idiots who don't patch their systems permanently, it might help make computers stronger.
I just took a quick look at echostar's financial stats and they are operating with a profit margin of -15.5%, which I guess means they are losing money with every subscriber. It seems to me that by preventing people from subscribing, he is actually saving them from said loss and echostar should be paying him $500/month for a while.
I'm sure a lot of people have already switched over to InDesign, but as someone who has used Quark for years it is a difficult and annoying switch, but Quark left little choice for people. Quark 4 and 5 were buggy in classic and it was difficult to deal with fonts when using classic and OS X together. On the other hand, there are also a lot of people who are still hanging on to their G3s waiting until a native Quark is available before upgrading to OS X and buying a new G4 (or G5). These people are desperate for new computers with full harddrives, not enough memory, and worse, they can't use Safari. Also, when their mouse dies, it is difficult ot find an ADB mouse that works on a G3, so they end up buying a USB mouse and some dorky converter. The release of Quark 6 will finally allow them to upgrade. This must be a large group of people and hopefully it will translate into a good surge of sales for apple.