It's an alternate browser history that persists after history and cache have been cleared. It's handy for tracking some of a browsers activity, especially the dirty stuff which is mostly flash based.
Because companies can't afford to employ staff sufficient to handle the highest call volumes, when taxed with heavy loads many call centers will overflow into other call centers. An overflow operator is lucky to have a script let alone access to your customer file.
There is something of a philosophical fine line between protecting freedoms and providing freedoms. Abstract principles such as freedom, freedom of speech, etc., are, the theory goes, inherent rights, but without the rule of law, be it written or otherwise implied, history has demonstrated time and again that our freedoms are subject to the powers-that-be(tm).
Try explaining to 19th century black America that they were born with inherent rights and that they have simply failed to exercise them. If the cost of exercising your freedom requires that you trade too much (your life perhaps), are you really free?
Now, back to software. There are many who believe (FSF, for one) that as our lives becomes everyday more encumbered, more entwined with software and technology that we should each and all have equal rights to its benefits and that, if one is so inclined, the right to know what exactly the source code (software's rule of law) says and does. So the argument goes.
Schools also are created by someone, though we consider access to them a "basic social right." And freedom, for example, is realized only in the context of our constitution (in the U.S., atleast) and bill of rights - is freedom then also a product?
And for the small lot of us running Linux or BSD on an "exotic" architecture, Flash isn't an option. (To my knowledge, Flash is only available as a binary, and I don't know of any free alternatives.)
It's open in as much as the code is published for all to review, and so long as cvs records who commits what etc, i think affidavits are redundant.
The open nature of open source only serves to further validate the legitimacy of the code. We've seen many an example of closed applications infringing and being found out despite the fact that no source is available. I know when I see an application with functionality comparable to my application or to any application's code I'm may be familiar with, I'm apt to do at least a strings check.
With open source there is no closet in which to hide skeletons.
If the law can't be bothered to handle it (prosecution), and it can't be settled peacefully ("elegant" technology), I have no problem with a gun battle in the streets as long as the "victims" that you're fighting for approve of it.
On the internet code says what you can and can't do. Code is law. I don't know what "Law" you speak of, but from where I sit, we're it.
Now, if someone has a serious proposal for retooling the SMTP or has some other workable solution to the problem, and has a plan for rolling it out, I'm all ears.
Serious proposals abound, the problem is of course adoption. Unfortunatly, "rolling out" will likely require that Microsoft first support a newer (preferably open) protocol, or that U.S. Gov requires all Goverment offices migrate to a more secure method of delivery.
The spammers are going to destroy e-mail in the process.
Enough with the hype. Businesses that truly rely on email have already taken measures to prevent delivery of spam to their employees. Heck, even my decrepid parents brag that after installing anti-spam software they now see a small fraction of the spam they are accustomed to. So have a walk through your local software reseller; there you will find atleast a shelf dedicated to anti-spam titles. (AntiSpam next too AntiVirus - who'd have guessed?)
Everyone wants the fix sooner rather than later, but short term, GW-styled "BRING 'EM ON" tactics will only further complicate matters.
Hypothetical or otherwise, you are advocating that we resort to measures tantamount to meat-space physical violence, and advocating that we do as much before we've exhausted other options.
What would happen if the cummunity took care of the problem doing what the community does best: technology, code, etc.? And just because Bayesian filters are, in your oppinion, a failure, does not mean technical solutions are through. Who knows? perhaps SMTP is due to be retired. But that's the point, we haven't even begun to really address this.
Ultimatly, it won't be spam that "kills the internet," it's persons of your ilk that are far too quick with this vigilanti crap and calls for regulation. I think we'd all rather see an elegant solution here. I think we'd all rather NOT see More DOS attacks. I think we'd all rather NOT see More internet regulation.
Right. And when we're done with the scurvy spammers, we'll let loose on MS! We'll wipe em off the face of the internet! Why stop?!? Nigeria has it coming!
Parent is utter bullshit. What self respecting geek approaches any problem with brute force before atleast attemping alternatives?
Spamers spam, it's their job. Our job is to come up with a technical fix, not to bluggen mom & pop ISPs with DOS attacks.
we get that you have secret special info and that you will be presenting said info on secret special info talk show, however, would you mind too terribly much detailing the same here?
this entire blathering post smells like that guy on the bus who is kind enough to explain how stephen king murdered john lennon.
Related, I think, is the necessity that We The Consumer insist information trafficking products fully disclose what information is collected, how said information is used and, most importantly, present the option to disable any and all of everything!
I had similar ideas in my town, figuring the local shop would be proud to offer free service if only to spite the starbucks just accross the street. I was wrong. Turns out this shop is already setup with a wireless provider and on terms no better than starbucks'. It's crap, and, from what I can tell, nobody pays for or uses it.
I've heard it said that something has to be enconomically viable to exist. I say free wifi in coffee shops has long been as "viable" as the cup my coffee comes in.
It's a given that, as a huge and popular production, the oscars are not insignifigant as an industry - they're just insignifigant in as much as they are out of touch.
Furthermore, that the Oscars are in part responsible for airing supposid new and rising talent, is even more disturbing for precisely the same reasons.
i undestand the drive to have everyone communicating, however i also think that our industry benifits when disperate products and their protocols are forced to interoperate.
I construe a Demand to appear and to be questioned as an attack.
SCO is attacking the principles of open source. RMS & Linus are both fathers and guardians of the ideals SCO is waging war against. And it's much easier for SCO to tar & feather a person than an ideal.
And the particulary worrisome fact is that we've made such drastic changes following only a single domestic attack. Imagine how far this administration (any administration for that matter) might go following a 10/11, 11/11, and 12/11. I can imagine a few (more?)/.rs would be find themselves in cages smaller than their mothers basement.
much like what you're doing above, i'm only speculating, however, i'd gamble that the bush administration isn't keen on web developers working over their web content.
the white house is a massive organization that under this administration prides itself on it's business like management style. they have people that are paid to manage image and this is image - big time.
these changes (if there are infact changes) are, IMHO, most certainly spun through the chain of command before being commited.
Slashdot Mirror
intergalactic death joke.
It's an alternate browser history that persists after history and cache have been cleared. It's handy for tracking some of a browsers activity, especially the dirty stuff which is mostly flash based.
Expensive databases replacing redundant and quickly dated libraries of expensive books.
Dept of Witch Hunts.
nt
Because companies can't afford to employ staff sufficient to handle the highest call volumes, when taxed with heavy loads many call centers will overflow into other call centers. An overflow operator is lucky to have a script let alone access to your customer file.
There is something of a philosophical fine line between protecting freedoms and providing freedoms. Abstract principles such as freedom, freedom of speech, etc., are, the theory goes, inherent rights, but without the rule of law, be it written or otherwise implied, history has demonstrated time and again that our freedoms are subject to the powers-that-be(tm).
Try explaining to 19th century black America that they were born with inherent rights and that they have simply failed to exercise them. If the cost of exercising your freedom requires that you trade too much (your life perhaps), are you really free?
Now, back to software. There are many who believe (FSF, for one) that as our lives becomes everyday more encumbered, more entwined with software and technology that we should each and all have equal rights to its benefits and that, if one is so inclined, the right to know what exactly the source code (software's rule of law) says and does. So the argument goes.
Schools also are created by someone, though we consider access to them a "basic social right." And freedom, for example, is realized only in the context of our constitution (in the U.S., atleast) and bill of rights - is freedom then also a product?
And for the small lot of us running Linux or BSD on an "exotic" architecture, Flash isn't an option. (To my knowledge, Flash is only available as a binary, and I don't know of any free alternatives.)
It's open in as much as the code is published for all to review, and so long as cvs records who commits what etc, i think affidavits are redundant.
The open nature of open source only serves to further validate the legitimacy of the code. We've seen many an example of closed applications infringing and being found out despite the fact that no source is available. I know when I see an application with functionality comparable to my application or to any application's code I'm may be familiar with, I'm apt to do at least a strings check.
With open source there is no closet in which to hide skeletons.
first read this "Sir Mix-A-Lot Using Weed To Distribute Music"?
err....
you make some compelling points, but man do you come off like a cheap parody of Bagdad Bob.
On the internet code says what you can and can't do. Code is law. I don't know what "Law" you speak of, but from where I sit, we're it.
Serious proposals abound, the problem is of course adoption. Unfortunatly, "rolling out" will likely require that Microsoft first support a newer (preferably open) protocol, or that U.S. Gov requires all Goverment offices migrate to a more secure method of delivery.
Enough with the hype. Businesses that truly rely on email have already taken measures to prevent delivery of spam to their employees. Heck, even my decrepid parents brag that after installing anti-spam software they now see a small fraction of the spam they are accustomed to. So have a walk through your local software reseller; there you will find atleast a shelf dedicated to anti-spam titles. (AntiSpam next too AntiVirus - who'd have guessed?)
Everyone wants the fix sooner rather than later, but short term, GW-styled "BRING 'EM ON" tactics will only further complicate matters.
Hypothetical or otherwise, you are advocating that we resort to measures tantamount to meat-space physical violence, and advocating that we do as much before we've exhausted other options.
What would happen if the cummunity took care of the problem doing what the community does best: technology, code, etc.? And just because Bayesian filters are, in your oppinion, a failure, does not mean technical solutions are through. Who knows? perhaps SMTP is due to be retired. But that's the point, we haven't even begun to really address this.
Ultimatly, it won't be spam that "kills the internet," it's persons of your ilk that are far too quick with this vigilanti crap and calls for regulation. I think we'd all rather see an elegant solution here. I think we'd all rather NOT see More DOS attacks. I think we'd all rather NOT see More internet regulation.
Right. And when we're done with the scurvy spammers, we'll let loose on MS! We'll wipe em off the face of the internet! Why stop?!? Nigeria has it coming!
Parent is utter bullshit. What self respecting geek approaches any problem with brute force before atleast attemping alternatives?
Spamers spam, it's their job. Our job is to come up with a technical fix, not to bluggen mom & pop ISPs with DOS attacks.
looks like a nice collection... would be nicer yet if the audio was available in mp3 or ogg format.
i'm writing my representative! err
Your basic assumption is exactly why we do have a problem: if man introduced carp to .au, who is to stop man from introducing GE carp elsewhere?
And evil bastards always have private jets, so they'll simply smuggle teh fish about in the fuel tanks... right?
neato post, i guess.
we get that you have secret special info and that you will be presenting said info on secret special info talk show, however, would you mind too terribly much detailing the same here?
this entire blathering post smells like that guy on the bus who is kind enough to explain how stephen king murdered john lennon.
Related, I think, is the necessity that We The Consumer insist information trafficking products fully disclose what information is collected, how said information is used and, most importantly, present the option to disable any and all of everything!
I had similar ideas in my town, figuring the local shop would be proud to offer free service if only to spite the starbucks just accross the street. I was wrong. Turns out this shop is already setup with a wireless provider and on terms no better than starbucks'. It's crap, and, from what I can tell, nobody pays for or uses it.
I've heard it said that something has to be enconomically viable to exist. I say free wifi in coffee shops has long been as "viable" as the cup my coffee comes in.
It's a given that, as a huge and popular production, the oscars are not insignifigant as an industry - they're just insignifigant in as much as they are out of touch.
Furthermore, that the Oscars are in part responsible for airing supposid new and rising talent, is even more disturbing for precisely the same reasons.
since when are we for a sole reigning standards?
i undestand the drive to have everyone communicating, however i also think that our industry benifits when disperate products and their protocols are forced to interoperate.
SCO is attacking the principles of open source. RMS & Linus are both fathers and guardians of the ideals SCO is waging war against. And it's much easier for SCO to tar & feather a person than an ideal.
And the particulary worrisome fact is that we've made such drastic changes following only a single domestic attack. Imagine how far this administration (any administration for that matter) might go following a 10/11, 11/11, and 12/11. I can imagine a few (more?) /.rs would be find themselves in cages smaller than their mothers basement.
much like what you're doing above, i'm only speculating, however, i'd gamble that the bush administration isn't keen on web developers working over their web content. the white house is a massive organization that under this administration prides itself on it's business like management style. they have people that are paid to manage image and this is image - big time. these changes (if there are infact changes) are, IMHO, most certainly spun through the chain of command before being commited.