for a moment, i kinda laughed to myself saying "who the hell would use DOS still"...
yet at that very moment i had the lowly task of wiping hard drives clean and was using a utility called KillDisk.
i i popped it in and to my amazement FreeDOS began loading program files;)
While Dr. Mockapetris believes that de-numberizing the way we remember/contact people is the way of the future, I believe this does nothing to
further help the much needed cause of finding people, places, things. THAT, I believe, is the way of the future, and "doing away with phone numbers" simply does not help that.
"It is quite possible that phone numbers will have disappeared and people will just use menus off their phone. I don't think there is particular value in having them."
Did he forget what his DNS is even based on? no matter how many layers of indirection he places on top of the current system, you can't replace the fact that people need to be identified uniquely in one way or another. If he believes a person can be remembered more easily by myphone@whatever.com (or whatever other convention he uses other than phone numbers) he still misses the point on how we obtain these names/numbers in the first place.
When reading this article, i've tried to forget the fact that he has his own DNS management company now, yet his inisistence on building an "alternative" phone-numbering infrastructure and using his clout of being "the father of DNS" only hints that he really has no new "vision" of the future and is trying to profit on whatever soon-to-be-outdated technology he happened to invent.
DNS certainly helped the internet grow enourmously.. but if you think about it now, its really not needed as much any more other than advertising. Alternative forms of gathering your bookmarks/phone contacts/unknowns is the future.
"Mac Word 6.0 was a crappy product," admitted Microsoft Mac programmer Rick Schaut on his blog. "And we spent some time trying to figure out how not to do that again."
so, does anyone know where the blogs are for the XP programmers?
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those emails could possibly also contain embedded image tags (known as web beacons). when you open an email and attempt to 'download' the image, some server on the net knows it was you who retreieved the image and has just verified that your email address is active and spammable.
well.. is Google actually monitoring his account's spam filtering abilities? The gmail service may still be in beta, but from the article: "He wants to know a)how long it takes to fill up a gig of space and b)how well Gmail's spam filters work." it looks like this guy is on his own. and therefore any critical public review this early probably wouldn't be in google's best interest (but i think they'll have no problem getting people to sign up anyways). it would be good if he can report his 'official findings' to google to help with their filtering techniques.
not true?
he was talking about browsers ("a browser is a browser is...").
email clients are a totally different class of application and usage. I agree with the parent, the only thing I would say is that most people whom I try to help migrate to Mozilla usually say "ew, it looks like.. Netscape". seriously, what it came down to was looks. show them firefox with its shiny new themes and similar controls to IE and they become aquainted and happy relatively quickly. I think the old instability and crap feel of Netscape 4.7 has done alot to *hurt* the mozilla browsers up until (hopefully) Firefox.
Hi,
I am from Team Pokeme. yes it is true that we have hacked Pokemon! sorry for the change in website content, but we had no idea our efforts would be so popular! hacking the Pokemon mini truely gives us a sense of worth to the community.
We will keep you informed of the following new developements as they are finished:
1. auto kiddie-pr0n grabber for the Pokemon mini! (thanks to CmdrTaco)
2. remote slashdot poll h4x0r! (thanks to CowboyNeal)
3. Apache port serving up only "bah come back later" over our AOL dialins. (thanks to simoniker)
aren't we teh bomb!!!!11!~!
- your l33t Pokemon mini h4x0rs! (thanks to our moms)
are there any "success stories" of proprietary software going open source? i guess the definition of "success story" is subject to opinion.
Success for the releaser? (Sun)
Success for the community?
do we even need our own channel? i'd rather visit sites like slashdot and the like before spending more hours in front of the idiot box than i need to.
out of many of the muggings near my school (U of I, Chicago), rarely do they ever result in violence. I too would rather give up my goods than take a life. we should also worry about the societal circumstances that cause these muggers and crooks to do such things and work on fixing them. could be better parenting, school funding, what not.
merely protecting yourself or camoflauging your equipment does nothing to prevent the act in the first place.
gimme a break. just because Kerry was a "war hero" doesn't mean he knows what is best when it comes to military spending. Further, it doesn't mean he has what it takes to be a President.
Personally, I think Kerry had alot to do with why Americans were so turned off by verterans in the years following the war. He thinks he was "trying to bring them home" by telling congressional committees and national television about war crimes and unnecessary killings by our troops, yet what he really did was give Vietnam vets a bad name for so many years to come.
This quote says it all: "John Rechy, author of the best-selling 1963 novel "City of Night" and winner of the PEN-USA West lifetime achievement award, is one of several prominent authors who have apparently pseudonymously written themselves five-star reviews, Amazon's highest rating. Mr. Rechy, who laughed about it when approached, sees it as a means to survival when online stars mean sales."
i remember a while back when Amazon had some glitch in their book review system that posted reviewer's names and email addresses accidentally for a short period of time. Turned out that alot of authors of the books were "reviewing" their own books, and giving themselves great reviews.
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for a moment, i kinda laughed to myself saying "who the hell would use DOS still"...
;)
yet at that very moment i had the lowly task of wiping hard drives clean and was using a utility called KillDisk.
i i popped it in and to my amazement FreeDOS began loading program files
maybe someone can whip up a Windows virus that does this automatically? shouldn't be too hard, right? =P
While Dr. Mockapetris believes that de-numberizing the way we remember/contact people is the way of the future, I believe this does nothing to further help the much needed cause of finding people, places, things. THAT, I believe, is the way of the future, and "doing away with phone numbers" simply does not help that.
"It is quite possible that phone numbers will have disappeared and people will just use menus off their phone. I don't think there is particular value in having them."
Did he forget what his DNS is even based on? no matter how many layers of indirection he places on top of the current system, you can't replace the fact that people need to be identified uniquely in one way or another. If he believes a person can be remembered more easily by myphone@whatever.com (or whatever other convention he uses other than phone numbers) he still misses the point on how we obtain these names/numbers in the first place.
When reading this article, i've tried to forget the fact that he has his own DNS management company now, yet his inisistence on building an "alternative" phone-numbering infrastructure and using his clout of being "the father of DNS" only hints that he really has no new "vision" of the future and is trying to profit on whatever soon-to-be-outdated technology he happened to invent.
DNS certainly helped the internet grow enourmously.. but if you think about it now, its really not needed as much any more other than advertising.
Alternative forms of gathering your bookmarks/phone contacts/unknowns is the future.
what kind of questions do you ask for in determining an applicant's character, pride in work, and initiative?
"Mac Word 6.0 was a crappy product," admitted Microsoft Mac programmer Rick Schaut on his blog. "And we spent some time trying to figure out how not to do that again."
so, does anyone know where the blogs are for the XP programmers?
this comes questionably close to the release of the 2.6.7 Linux Kernel.
those emails could possibly also contain embedded image tags (known as web beacons). when you open an email and attempt to 'download' the image, some server on the net knows it was you who retreieved the image and has just verified that your email address is active and spammable.
well.. is Google actually monitoring his account's spam filtering abilities? The gmail service may still be in beta, but from the article:
"He wants to know a)how long it takes to fill up a gig of space and b)how well Gmail's spam filters work."
it looks like this guy is on his own. and therefore any critical public review this early probably wouldn't be in google's best interest (but i think they'll have no problem getting people to sign up anyways). it would be good if he can report his 'official findings' to google to help with their filtering techniques.
isn't gmail still in 'beta' stages? if so, isn't a review of spam filtering techniques a little premature?
not true?
he was talking about browsers ("a browser is a browser is...").
email clients are a totally different class of application and usage. I agree with the parent, the only thing I would say is that most people whom I try to help migrate to Mozilla usually say "ew, it looks like.. Netscape".
seriously, what it came down to was looks.
show them firefox with its shiny new themes and similar controls to IE and they become aquainted and happy relatively quickly.
I think the old instability and crap feel of Netscape 4.7 has done alot to *hurt* the mozilla browsers up until (hopefully) Firefox.
a message from team pokeme to slashdot...
Hi,
I am from Team Pokeme. yes it is true that we have hacked Pokemon!
sorry for the change in website content, but we had no idea our efforts would be so popular! hacking the Pokemon mini truely gives us a sense of worth to the community.
We will keep you informed of the following new developements as they are finished:
1. auto kiddie-pr0n grabber for the Pokemon mini! (thanks to CmdrTaco)
2. remote slashdot poll h4x0r! (thanks to CowboyNeal)
3. Apache port serving up only "bah come back later" over our AOL dialins. (thanks to simoniker)
aren't we teh bomb!!!!11!~!
- your l33t Pokemon mini h4x0rs! (thanks to our moms)
are there any "success stories" of proprietary software going open source? i guess the definition of "success story" is subject to opinion.
Success for the releaser? (Sun)
Success for the community?
omg. post your liberal crap somewhere else.
mod this down: off topic.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
finally a use for the little bastards.
no videos of that I suppose? ; )
do we even need our own channel? i'd rather visit sites like slashdot and the like before spending more hours in front of the idiot box than i need to.
I totally missed the TechTv hype... did it have any Linux "programming"?
out of many of the muggings near my school (U of I, Chicago), rarely do they ever result in violence. I too would rather give up my goods than take a life. we should also worry about the societal circumstances that cause these muggers and crooks to do such things and work on fixing them. could be better parenting, school funding, what not.
merely protecting yourself or camoflauging your equipment does nothing to prevent the act in the first place.
gimme a break. just because Kerry was a "war hero" doesn't mean he knows what is best when it comes to military spending. Further, it doesn't mean he has what it takes to be a President.
Personally, I think Kerry had alot to do with why Americans were so turned off by verterans in the years following the war.
He thinks he was "trying to bring them home" by telling congressional committees and national television about war crimes and unnecessary killings by our troops, yet what he really did was give Vietnam vets a bad name for so many years to come.
7 years?
Maybe they should fork over that money to the *current situation* and give the troops some bullet-proof vests NOW!
here is an archived link to the nytimes article (which requires payment for view on their site now since it is past a month old or so).
Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers
This quote says it all: "John Rechy, author of the best-selling 1963 novel "City of Night" and winner of the PEN-USA West lifetime achievement award, is one of several prominent authors who have apparently pseudonymously written themselves five-star reviews, Amazon's highest rating. Mr. Rechy, who laughed about it when approached, sees it as a means to survival when online stars mean sales."
i remember a while back when Amazon had some glitch in their book review system that posted reviewer's names and email addresses accidentally for a short period of time. Turned out that alot of authors of the books were "reviewing" their own books, and giving themselves great reviews.
because it contains prebuilt packages for everything? go gentoo =)
what do the notes attached to the lcds say? anything meaningful?
either selling or reselling, its pretty lame. shouldn't ebay be notified of such things?