I'm surprised we haven't heard any tipper gore jokes yet, having been the mother of sexually explicit lyric labels on CDs. Of course, a majority of people on slashdot don't buy CDs, so perhaps they didn't know =)
Actually there were other spams before Canter & Siegel, such as the Jesus Spam and Jay-Jay's College fund. What made C&S so hated was the fact that they were not only the first people to abuse the Internet using bulk-spam software, but as people complained more about them, they kept getting more popular by the day. They eventually wrote a terrible book on marketing and the Internet. People hated them with a passion when they announced they were going to start up a spam business.
For the record, Canter eventually got disbarred by the TN bar assoc. partly for spamming.
...just like you can't view MSNBC material unless you are running Windows or Macintosh - even if your browser is streamlined, and uses the MPlayer plugin that lets you view WMP. A subtle little marketing ploy that I hope will eventually make it into another anti-trust suit.
These are the same concerns people are having with FFB (Filters that Fight Back) which are capable of creating massive DoS's against a spammer, but don't really affect anyone else. I think blocking is certainly a step in the right direction, as it conserves bandwidth rather than consume it. AOL will definitely have to keep on their toes to make sure a legitimate website isn't blocked. Some of this can be automated, though - every time it thinks about blocking a website, crawl the site and perform the same type of language classification on it that you would a spam. The website should be even spammier than the email in most cases, or at least provide enough information to classify it as a spammy website. If it doesn't, throw up a red flag and let someone manually review it (or just drop it completely). The great thing about this function is that it not only blocks the spammer's method of contact, but it also makes it much more difficult for a spammer to move around. It's easy to use a different IP to send the spams, but to change your website every day or two is a bit more time consuming, and hopefully will exhaust spammers.
Didn't Bob Metcalfe, the father of Ethernet, also predict the Internet would collapse on itself by 1996? He ended up eating his words publicly, and now the ONLY thing Bob is well known for is inventing Ethernet. So be careful, mentioning 'Internet' and 'Collapse' will upset the Illuminati and ruin your career.
...and eric anholt, who is the key programmer on Xati, appears to still be in cuba, writing in his blog about sea shells and toilet paper instead of anything geek worthy like, uh, fdo.
The CVS'd version as of a week or two ago didn't even support GLX extensions. The ATI driver is much slower than XFree's, and a lot of features are missing (such as fonts management). I hope they continue to look at this tool for future versions, but until they can make it run with some of these important issues resolved, I hope they leave it in experimental distributions.
There's more to serving your country that whether or not you agree with the President. Somehow I doubt the audience that reads slashdot is also so polically adept that they would understand all of the issues our country has to deal with on a daily basis. I don't care if there were WMD or not, we made Saddam Hussein, put him in power, and it was our job to scrape him off the sidewalk after what he did to his own people.
Web apps written in C generally run much faster - and i'm talking about real apps here, where speed is important. Sure, PHP and PERL have their place, and can "fake it" real good in some areas, but a good, solid web-based application in C is not difficult to accomplish and provides much more polished results than PHP or PERL. Blah blah string processing blah blah...you can do all of that in C just as easily as they tout regex's in perl. If you need direct integration with Apache, it's not hard to write an Apache module to manage dynamic objects that can be served right from the process (although this is hardly really necessary). With the added speed and more importantly granular control over the application, I would never go back to writing PERL apps. It's a night and day difference. You should try it sometime - the myth that PERL or PHP are better for web apps was started by PERL and PHP programmers who needed to justify not knowing a lick of C.
Perhaps if you have no sense of what it means to serve your country in the first place, you ought to strongly consider moving to Canada, or some third world country where you belong.
I hate to burst your bubble, but my C web apps run circles around any PHP apps I've seen. PERL was recently benchmarked by Yahoo I believe as much faster than PHP. The reason I don't code PERL anymore is because of all the arrogant dumbasses on the scene...something that is about ten times worse in the PHP scene - kiddies who can't even write HTML but think they know a real language.
My point, however, is that there are many other languages that use MySQL just as much if not more than PHP, and adding in a special provision for PHP in the MySQL license is just spitting in other developer's faces...if MySQL wants to ride their cow to the farm, fine - but if they want any shot at being a real database tool, they need to open up to all languages and treat them all equally.
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They were just trying to make AOL Amish-friendly, and decided there wasn't a market for it. Imagine a beowulf cluster of Net Folders.
I'm surprised we haven't heard any tipper gore jokes yet, having been the mother of sexually explicit lyric labels on CDs. Of course, a majority of people on slashdot don't buy CDs, so perhaps they didn't know =)
... And we had to walk to work in the snow, with no shoes....uphill both ways....with no electric - oh wait.
Brightmail claims to have filtered 2 trillion emails, that's way more than 641 million passengers. Everyone knows brightmail's numbers are accurate.
...or rather sending spam (not email). d'oh.
Wouldn't this make people accessories to the crime of sending email?
Actually there were other spams before Canter & Siegel, such as the Jesus Spam and Jay-Jay's College fund. What made C&S so hated was the fact that they were not only the first people to abuse the Internet using bulk-spam software, but as people complained more about them, they kept getting more popular by the day. They eventually wrote a terrible book on marketing and the Internet. People hated them with a passion when they announced they were going to start up a spam business. For the record, Canter eventually got disbarred by the TN bar assoc. partly for spamming.
If you count that in PERL years, it's 110 years.
The fires have even consumed unplugged lamps and an entire apartment. Black scorch marks still scar the apartment walls.
Did this community do a lot of eBay shopping?
.... all of their artists in jail?
Influential San Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dan Gillmore Dan Gillmore wrote this submission, didn't he?
...just like you can't view MSNBC material unless you are running Windows or Macintosh - even if your browser is streamlined, and uses the MPlayer plugin that lets you view WMP. A subtle little marketing ploy that I hope will eventually make it into another anti-trust suit.
My Pentium-4M laptop runs at 2Ghz, an gives me about 2 1/2 hours of battery life.
There's a reason most geeks only use one hand to navigate.
Nonexistant?
Why would it piss off people from atlanta? We don't have any water nearby.
It IS out opt...find another ISP if you don't like it. It's not like there's a shortage of those.
These are the same concerns people are having with FFB (Filters that Fight Back) which are capable of creating massive DoS's against a spammer, but don't really affect anyone else. I think blocking is certainly a step in the right direction, as it conserves bandwidth rather than consume it. AOL will definitely have to keep on their toes to make sure a legitimate website isn't blocked. Some of this can be automated, though - every time it thinks about blocking a website, crawl the site and perform the same type of language classification on it that you would a spam. The website should be even spammier than the email in most cases, or at least provide enough information to classify it as a spammy website. If it doesn't, throw up a red flag and let someone manually review it (or just drop it completely). The great thing about this function is that it not only blocks the spammer's method of contact, but it also makes it much more difficult for a spammer to move around. It's easy to use a different IP to send the spams, but to change your website every day or two is a bit more time consuming, and hopefully will exhaust spammers.
Didn't Bob Metcalfe, the father of Ethernet, also predict the Internet would collapse on itself by 1996? He ended up eating his words publicly, and now the ONLY thing Bob is well known for is inventing Ethernet. So be careful, mentioning 'Internet' and 'Collapse' will upset the Illuminati and ruin your career.
...and eric anholt, who is the key programmer on Xati, appears to still be in cuba, writing in his blog about sea shells and toilet paper instead of anything geek worthy like, uh, fdo.
The CVS'd version as of a week or two ago didn't even support GLX extensions. The ATI driver is much slower than XFree's, and a lot of features are missing (such as fonts management). I hope they continue to look at this tool for future versions, but until they can make it run with some of these important issues resolved, I hope they leave it in experimental distributions.
There's more to serving your country that whether or not you agree with the President. Somehow I doubt the audience that reads slashdot is also so polically adept that they would understand all of the issues our country has to deal with on a daily basis. I don't care if there were WMD or not, we made Saddam Hussein, put him in power, and it was our job to scrape him off the sidewalk after what he did to his own people.
Web apps written in C generally run much faster - and i'm talking about real apps here, where speed is important. Sure, PHP and PERL have their place, and can "fake it" real good in some areas, but a good, solid web-based application in C is not difficult to accomplish and provides much more polished results than PHP or PERL. Blah blah string processing blah blah...you can do all of that in C just as easily as they tout regex's in perl. If you need direct integration with Apache, it's not hard to write an Apache module to manage dynamic objects that can be served right from the process (although this is hardly really necessary). With the added speed and more importantly granular control over the application, I would never go back to writing PERL apps. It's a night and day difference. You should try it sometime - the myth that PERL or PHP are better for web apps was started by PERL and PHP programmers who needed to justify not knowing a lick of C.
Perhaps if you have no sense of what it means to serve your country in the first place, you ought to strongly consider moving to Canada, or some third world country where you belong.
I hate to burst your bubble, but my C web apps run circles around any PHP apps I've seen. PERL was recently benchmarked by Yahoo I believe as much faster than PHP. The reason I don't code PERL anymore is because of all the arrogant dumbasses on the scene...something that is about ten times worse in the PHP scene - kiddies who can't even write HTML but think they know a real language.
My point, however, is that there are many other languages that use MySQL just as much if not more than PHP, and adding in a special provision for PHP in the MySQL license is just spitting in other developer's faces...if MySQL wants to ride their cow to the farm, fine - but if they want any shot at being a real database tool, they need to open up to all languages and treat them all equally.