Here's another interesting fact: Did you know that a full 40% of sick days are taken on mondays and fridays? Shocking, really:-) Seriously, just the spin that is put on the publication of the results can be as misleading as biased data. Which is why we can distinguish 3 kinds of lies: lies, big f. lies and statistics.
Munich's Linux switchover is proving more costly and complex than anticipated...
Ok, it's more costly and complex than anticipated, but not necessarily more costly and complex than deploying a Microsoft solution (or just keeping it in place, for that matter).
I agree with the first answer to this post. What they are suggesting isn't necessarily an end solution. It's a method that can be included in packages that use a combination of methods.
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...their method should prove highly effective when paired up with more sophisticated, but more cumbersome, filtering methods.
I used to think the same as you about stripping comments when counting lines of code. However, you have to consider the fact that if there are errors in a comment, a programmer could misunderstand the subtleties of a function and modify it incorrectly as a result.
On the other hand, I still consider that code lines are still more important than comment lines when it comes to measuring quality of source code. Feels like we're stuck comparing apples and oranges.
The proverbial case "the chicken or the egg"
If you don't start encrypting today, you don't contribute to reach the critical mass. If everybody thinks like that, widespread use of encryption is gonna take a long time to come.
If I decide (which I would love to) start encrypting today, many people would wonder what sort of shady business I have gotten into
If Hotmail or Yahoo starts making encryption easy to use, many people would wonder what sort of business they are encouraging/supporting.
Oh, and Microsoft would probably "enhance" their encryption with other "features", making compatibility with other services impossible anyway.;-)
Funny that you mention yourself that you didn't RTFA.
What Shirky is saying is that by suing its customers, the RIAA is giving the long-awaited incentive to people to use alternatives to Kazaa that use encryption to protect privacy.
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Here's another interesting fact: Did you know that a full 40% of sick days are taken on mondays and fridays? :-)
Shocking, really
Seriously, just the spin that is put on the publication of the results can be as misleading as biased data. Which is why we can distinguish 3 kinds of lies: lies, big f. lies and statistics.
Ok, it's more costly and complex than anticipated, but not necessarily more costly and complex than deploying a Microsoft solution (or just keeping it in place, for that matter).
Does a computer emit a 60-hertz field?
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I would like to share in all humility my own method of spam filtering:
;-)
I use a super-extra-secret e-mail that I give only to my friends.
Not only is it an RPG, but all those security problems made it a massively multiplayer one, too. ;-)
I used to think the same as you about stripping comments when counting lines of code. However, you have to consider the fact that if there are errors in a comment, a programmer could misunderstand the subtleties of a function and modify it incorrectly as a result.
On the other hand, I still consider that code lines are still more important than comment lines when it comes to measuring quality of source code. Feels like we're stuck comparing apples and oranges.
If you don't start encrypting today, you don't contribute to reach the critical mass. If everybody thinks like that, widespread use of encryption is gonna take a long time to come.
If Hotmail or Yahoo starts making encryption easy to use, many people would wonder what sort of business they are encouraging/supporting.
Oh, and Microsoft would probably "enhance" their encryption with other "features", making compatibility with other services impossible anyway.
One problem I see is that now the RIAA would have a more easily impressionable person to send the subpoena to.
I like the basic idea, though.
Funny that you mention yourself that you didn't RTFA. What Shirky is saying is that by suing its customers, the RIAA is giving the long-awaited incentive to people to use alternatives to Kazaa that use encryption to protect privacy.
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