Keep reading stories like this eh ? Your right, if Americans get a bloody nose or have to actually do work to protect our freedoms we should just quit. The EFF should close shop because it is too much work. Capitalism should come to a screeching hault because of Karl Marx. We should have kept Sadam Hussein in power so we can have a sense of invincability. We should just ignore all transgressions and create pseudocommunites that value Peace over Freedom. Jesus Christ, we should simply abandon our economic and diplomatic policies for the past century, flush them down the toilet. We don't need markets to sell our products, we don't need stability across the world.
I find it interesting (thought not shocking) how a newspaper, such as the NYT, will pull anything out of context to extract the best headline possible. I somehow doubt that Aluminum Tubes were the single piece of evidence that the current Administration had. It is more likely that this information was used as a small piece of evidence along with other information. Also, I think it is quite interesting that this is considered a Republican story. As I recall Democrats and Republicans had access to the same evidence that Bush did. Then again, that wouldn't make for a juicy headline for the masses. What was I thinking, honest news ? That would never sell (at least in NY).
The concept behind this "Next Social Revoloution"
or "unconscious cooperation" is no more than the current American
economic system in place today. The unconscious cooperation is
inherently Captitalism because it is based off of greed (not a bad
thing neccessarily). The P2P networks are merely a source for
information at cheap cost (e.g. Internet Connection), that is benifical
to the end user. This is no different then a Capitalism, the best
product at the lowest relative cost wins out. In this case P2P is
cheap, and gives the best product relative to price (e.g. not the
greatest video as far as quality, however low price). This "new
social revoloution" as described is no more then hipe words in a
headline used to draw attention to an inert idea.
America will not be left in the dust primarily
because our constitution and economic system allow us a wide range of
adaptation. This can be seen in the first few decades of the 20th
Century. In the beginning, of the 20th Century we had a Conservative
president. This was due to wide economic success, and the need for the
growth of business with out government inhabition. This allowed an
acceletated growth until the economy began to slow down with the
destabalization of America's economic market in Europe, and a more
Liberal president was elected due to low economic success, and the need
for economic assistance to the poor. The government and economy the
adapted to create a thriving war infrastructure that led to a boom in
the years after, and the election of Conservative president. This cycle
continues throughout the 20th century and will more than likely
continue into the 21st. This cycle shows the U.S's ability to change in
the advent of poor economic conditions to a different platform and
government operation. If a radical change in world economy would
happen, the U.S. would adapt with a different style of government which
is is allowed by our Constitution. This basically sums up to the sheer
fact in the United States that if you don't adapt, you die.
Capitalism thrives on the best, and dies from the
worst, if a business choses to attempt to squash a P2P network then
something else will be created. This is the spawn of the Open Source
network, and the internet. These systems which thrive the most in the
United States will continue to work because there are platforms in the
United States for them to. The sheer concept behind a new economy in
the nature of P2P spawned from Capitalism (yes, Google and Amazon were
spawned from Capitalism and still use it) defeating Capitalsim is
idiotic. These new industries have become successfull because they are
the best, and they work on the Capitalist system as such. They thrive
on a market of capitalism, and without the consumer buying that new
book, or searching for a product\service\information none of
these services would exist !
I think with the recent release of more an more all in one Cell-Phones we are seeing the end of the convergence\divergence debate. It seems that everything all-in-one devices are picking up much more steem than intercommunication devices. This can be seen with the geek-watch reported yesterday, as well as the new ipod phones.
It sounds like a great idea, I have to say I have been wating for such a cellphone for a while. I do have a few potential issues though. Battery life and size. While the Palm Cell phones were cool, they would eat a battery in about an hour and were about as sleek as carrying a forty pound rock.
That is a bit of a shock. They are normally the hoards of the industry. Then again, you would think they would LEARN from the fact their own magazine downed IE. Possibly integration of yet another Open Source Technology. By the way, who actually reads Slate ?
While an equation to make sure that a photo is not forged is all well and good, it is self deafeating. Just like simple encryption, which is good for people with simple problems, exploring the equation will yield a way to fool it. If you have someone who truely wants to forge a photo, they probably could still defeat the check.
You have to wonder if Microsoft will be implimenting this new standard in IE. I have done some webdevelopment and have really noticed that they rarely impliment any of the standards in there browser. Not to mention that they are on the board that approves these standards:P
I am running a PHP project at Uberhacker.Com . The goal of the project is to promote secure PHP programmming. The need has grown due to the recent popularity of the language and the short learning curve which allowed many unexperienced scriptors on the internet.
There are sadly many ways to get around GPL. One being the method they use by offering to ship the source only. This can be done in many different shapes to get around anything. You simply charge an irrate fee for packaging, documentation, or something of the sort. There are a few liscences that will not allow this, sadly they are not widely used.
Radio stations in the U.S. have long used statistics from ("illegal") P2P downloading services to influence what they play. Some have admitted it publicly. I think the industry is far more in bed with the "illegal" downloading services then they, or the RIAA would like to admit.
Easter Europe has fallen victim to e-commerce site bias. Many electronic file transfer agencies assume just to steer clear of E. Europe rather than dealing with fruad. This brings up the obvious question of better varification. Just think how much more these sites could make in commison if they invested a little in verification.
E-Voting will not be trusted for quite a while. There are difficulties with authentication, and spoofing. I am glad to here ACM is trying to do something about it, as opposed to other companies just trying to scream out "I am better Uncle Sam, give me funding !", can anyone else guess why this project isn't opensource yet. Possibly because money talks more than common sense ?
Re:A few things that could lead to scalability
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Actually... a web crawling script is quite small. I am not thinking in a Java mindset, but a CS one. Basic CS theory and knowledge can be applied most anywhere. PHP search scripts are quite usefull for internal site search, or a small network of sites. I also think that many should stop downing PHP as an unavaiable possibility for large projects. It is possible, you just need to be dynamic and well organized when doing so. A well coded site can work quite well, you just need to know what you are doing.
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Depth-First-Search. You can use PHP to create a simple search engine by using arrays, fopen, fread, and while() loops. If done improperly, you can eventually loop your script into oblivion creating big time inefficency.
Not always a good thing...
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It is not a good thing that there is a short learning curve on PHP. While it does put the ability for dynamic webcontent at the fingers of most users, it also creates a crapflood of insecure sites. Not to mention when a user may get into more advanced PHP programming and know nothing of basic CS (I know, not a big CS language, but some things must be known). Inefficent scripts will bog down sites, improper loops and insecurity can wreak havok on a network. I have recieved several emails in relation to a PHP security project that I run from university admins who have difficulty with insecure PHP coders and allowing them to have access to PHP servers and SQL databases that others use.
Java is used all across the Linux community !! It is used everywhere !! Why you ask ? Because it is universally compatible. If I were to write an application for a company with a mixed Win\Linux environment, Java would be the soloution. C can be used, however you have to worry about cross OS compatibility.
Re:A few things that could lead to scalability
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*Will Inherently Lead to Scalability* (Damn, can't type this early)
A few things that could lead to scalability
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On PHP and Scaling
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· Score: 5, Interesting
PHP inherntely will not lead to scalability, however, if you ever try to create any applications that use a DFS-type algorithm, it can happen. PHP (I know it is web-based, shouldn't ask too much) does not allow for extremely simple soloutions in DFS type algorithms that are apparent to most users. Many will end up with too many "while()" statements and bring down script efficency exponetialy.
Finally they have the Homeland Security has smarted up about something. I have read several articles that IE has yet to patch holes in their software they have known about for several years, and those holes are not the ones exploited by the recent trojan. Hmm... can anyone say "Recompile your browser in Windows and give it the IE identification (when you go to websites) and install Mono"
It is good to hear PostgreSQL is maturing.. the primary DB System for so long has been MySQL. PHP coders don't have too much for an alternative, if you anyone is interested in secure SQL programming (with PHP) check out Uberhacker.Com
This is yet another case of Political Representatives creating legeslation on topics they know little to nothing about. They figure if they can create one big blanket soloution it will fix the problem, but instead it simply stifles industry.
Large coorporations\industries are quite simply just taking the "easy" way out. The same thing happened with Microsofts settlement in Arizona, just give what you don't want. The prime example of this is the RIAA giving it's leftover stock of unsold CDs to schools then getting a Tax write off for it. Some chairity.
Unless you are in graphic design, and can afford the extrodanarily expensive card to do it, this is complete overkill. I have done some work in Flexo design, and know that you don't need such ultra high resouloution. Then again, it comes with the trend. Apple is doing it with their Uber-Sized monitors too.
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Keep reading stories like this eh ? Your right, if Americans get a bloody nose or have to actually do work to protect our freedoms we should just quit. The EFF should close shop because it is too much work. Capitalism should come to a screeching hault because of Karl Marx. We should have kept Sadam Hussein in power so we can have a sense of invincability. We should just ignore all transgressions and create pseudocommunites that value Peace over Freedom. Jesus Christ, we should simply abandon our economic and diplomatic policies for the past century, flush them down the toilet. We don't need markets to sell our products, we don't need stability across the world.
I find it interesting (thought not shocking) how a newspaper, such as the NYT, will pull anything out of context to extract the best headline possible. I somehow doubt that Aluminum Tubes were the single piece of evidence that the current Administration had. It is more likely that this information was used as a small piece of evidence along with other information. Also, I think it is quite interesting that this is considered a Republican story. As I recall Democrats and Republicans had access to the same evidence that Bush did. Then again, that wouldn't make for a juicy headline for the masses. What was I thinking, honest news ? That would never sell (at least in NY).
If this happens, I vow on my Gmail account that I will give every Slashdot member a Gmail account.
The concept behind this "Next Social Revoloution" or "unconscious cooperation" is no more than the current American economic system in place today. The unconscious cooperation is inherently Captitalism because it is based off of greed (not a bad thing neccessarily). The P2P networks are merely a source for information at cheap cost (e.g. Internet Connection), that is benifical to the end user. This is no different then a Capitalism, the best product at the lowest relative cost wins out. In this case P2P is cheap, and gives the best product relative to price (e.g. not the greatest video as far as quality, however low price). This "new social revoloution" as described is no more then hipe words in a headline used to draw attention to an inert idea.
America will not be left in the dust primarily because our constitution and economic system allow us a wide range of adaptation. This can be seen in the first few decades of the 20th Century. In the beginning, of the 20th Century we had a Conservative president. This was due to wide economic success, and the need for the growth of business with out government inhabition. This allowed an acceletated growth until the economy began to slow down with the destabalization of America's economic market in Europe, and a more Liberal president was elected due to low economic success, and the need for economic assistance to the poor. The government and economy the adapted to create a thriving war infrastructure that led to a boom in the years after, and the election of Conservative president. This cycle continues throughout the 20th century and will more than likely continue into the 21st. This cycle shows the U.S's ability to change in the advent of poor economic conditions to a different platform and government operation. If a radical change in world economy would happen, the U.S. would adapt with a different style of government which is is allowed by our Constitution. This basically sums up to the sheer fact in the United States that if you don't adapt, you die.
Capitalism thrives on the best, and dies from the worst, if a business choses to attempt to squash a P2P network then something else will be created. This is the spawn of the Open Source network, and the internet. These systems which thrive the most in the United States will continue to work because there are platforms in the United States for them to. The sheer concept behind a new economy in the nature of P2P spawned from Capitalism (yes, Google and Amazon were spawned from Capitalism and still use it) defeating Capitalsim is idiotic. These new industries have become successfull because they are the best, and they work on the Capitalist system as such. They thrive on a market of capitalism, and without the consumer buying that new book, or searching for a product\service\information none of these services would exist !
I think with the recent release of more an more all in one Cell-Phones we are seeing the end of the convergence\divergence debate. It seems that everything all-in-one devices are picking up much more steem than intercommunication devices. This can be seen with the geek-watch reported yesterday, as well as the new ipod phones.
It sounds like a great idea, I have to say I have been wating for such a cellphone for a while. I do have a few potential issues though. Battery life and size. While the Palm Cell phones were cool, they would eat a battery in about an hour and were about as sleek as carrying a forty pound rock.
That is a bit of a shock. They are normally the hoards of the industry. Then again, you would think they would LEARN from the fact their own magazine downed IE. Possibly integration of yet another Open Source Technology. By the way, who actually reads Slate ?
While an equation to make sure that a photo is not forged is all well and good, it is self deafeating. Just like simple encryption, which is good for people with simple problems, exploring the equation will yield a way to fool it. If you have someone who truely wants to forge a photo, they probably could still defeat the check.
You have to wonder if Microsoft will be implimenting this new standard in IE. I have done some webdevelopment and have really noticed that they rarely impliment any of the standards in there browser. Not to mention that they are on the board that approves these standards :P
I am running a PHP project at Uberhacker.Com . The goal of the project is to promote secure PHP programmming. The need has grown due to the recent popularity of the language and the short learning curve which allowed many unexperienced scriptors on the internet.
There are sadly many ways to get around GPL. One being the method they use by offering to ship the source only. This can be done in many different shapes to get around anything. You simply charge an irrate fee for packaging, documentation, or something of the sort. There are a few liscences that will not allow this, sadly they are not widely used.
Radio stations in the U.S. have long used statistics from ("illegal") P2P downloading services to influence what they play. Some have admitted it publicly. I think the industry is far more in bed with the "illegal" downloading services then they, or the RIAA would like to admit.
Easter Europe has fallen victim to e-commerce site bias. Many electronic file transfer agencies assume just to steer clear of E. Europe rather than dealing with fruad. This brings up the obvious question of better varification. Just think how much more these sites could make in commison if they invested a little in verification.
E-Voting will not be trusted for quite a while. There are difficulties with authentication, and spoofing. I am glad to here ACM is trying to do something about it, as opposed to other companies just trying to scream out "I am better Uncle Sam, give me funding !", can anyone else guess why this project isn't opensource yet. Possibly because money talks more than common sense ?
Actually... a web crawling script is quite small. I am not thinking in a Java mindset, but a CS one. Basic CS theory and knowledge can be applied most anywhere. PHP search scripts are quite usefull for internal site search, or a small network of sites. I also think that many should stop downing PHP as an unavaiable possibility for large projects. It is possible, you just need to be dynamic and well organized when doing so. A well coded site can work quite well, you just need to know what you are doing.
Depth-First-Search. You can use PHP to create a simple search engine by using arrays, fopen, fread, and while() loops. If done improperly, you can eventually loop your script into oblivion creating big time inefficency.
It is not a good thing that there is a short learning curve on PHP. While it does put the ability for dynamic webcontent at the fingers of most users, it also creates a crapflood of insecure sites. Not to mention when a user may get into more advanced PHP programming and know nothing of basic CS (I know, not a big CS language, but some things must be known). Inefficent scripts will bog down sites, improper loops and insecurity can wreak havok on a network. I have recieved several emails in relation to a PHP security project that I run from university admins who have difficulty with insecure PHP coders and allowing them to have access to PHP servers and SQL databases that others use.
Java is used all across the Linux community !! It is used everywhere !! Why you ask ? Because it is universally compatible. If I were to write an application for a company with a mixed Win\Linux environment, Java would be the soloution. C can be used, however you have to worry about cross OS compatibility.
*Will Inherently Lead to Scalability* (Damn, can't type this early)
PHP inherntely will not lead to scalability, however, if you ever try to create any applications that use a DFS-type algorithm, it can happen. PHP (I know it is web-based, shouldn't ask too much) does not allow for extremely simple soloutions in DFS type algorithms that are apparent to most users. Many will end up with too many "while()" statements and bring down script efficency exponetialy.
Finally they have the Homeland Security has smarted up about something. I have read several articles that IE has yet to patch holes in their software they have known about for several years, and those holes are not the ones exploited by the recent trojan. Hmm... can anyone say "Recompile your browser in Windows and give it the IE identification (when you go to websites) and install Mono"
It is good to hear PostgreSQL is maturing.. the primary DB System for so long has been MySQL. PHP coders don't have too much for an alternative, if you anyone is interested in secure SQL programming (with PHP) check out Uberhacker.Com
This is yet another case of Political Representatives creating legeslation on topics they know little to nothing about. They figure if they can create one big blanket soloution it will fix the problem, but instead it simply stifles industry.
Large coorporations\industries are quite simply just taking the "easy" way out. The same thing happened with Microsofts settlement in Arizona, just give what you don't want. The prime example of this is the RIAA giving it's leftover stock of unsold CDs to schools then getting a Tax write off for it. Some chairity.
Unless you are in graphic design, and can afford the extrodanarily expensive card to do it, this is complete overkill. I have done some work in Flexo design, and know that you don't need such ultra high resouloution. Then again, it comes with the trend. Apple is doing it with their Uber-Sized monitors too.