Are emails _meant_ to be abused. Create an email address that is created for the sole purpose of receiving spam (you might want to use another for registrations).
Now, you could send everything to devnull, OR you could randomly select emails which you will "open", load the images and "click" on the link, going to the sites and visiting. Spammers will think these are active emails with people interested in their merchandise. They don't need to know it's a script.
Hmmm... we could call a project to do this devspam:0
Do note that the article mentions a 1 point drop for IE in june, but the last Zeitgeist browser stats are for May. I'll be happy if Google's June stats confirm the trend, otherwise it's too early to tell.
Oh great, they're looking at possibly, maybe doing more to support CSS3.
WTF? I don't want them to add more CSS, I want them to get what they have working like it should.
All the designers I have worked with are mad as hell. The amount of hacks they have to use to produce CSS that is cross-browser compatible and doesn't look like shit on IE is absurd, and the extra time spent on that is killing my budgets.
In other words, I'm mad as hell with IE and Microsoft. I don't really give a damn that IE doesn't have tabbed browsing, or that it ships with insecure defaults. Couldn't give a rat's ass about the lack of pop-up blocking. I care that every f'ing simple web design project's budget has to account for a few extra hours getting their shit working properly.
When FF hits 1.0, I'll go on a mission to convert as many people from IE. I hope others do the same; maybe this will help M$ wake up and smell the standards.
Now with WIFI, you'll be able to work whereever you go, could this have any sociological effect?
It will have an effect; what kind is unclear.
Others have already mentionned the possibility of finding gaming buddies and sharing music folders with people in your immediate vicinity/AP. With location-aware matchmaking services, you might end up chatting with the cute blonde that's also looking for some lovin'- OK, ok, this is/., but still, a guy can fantasize, no?
Groups has a quirk/bug that Deja managed to avoid: simply put, threads with like-titles are "merged together" in the "view thread" interface, despite not necessarily having anything to do with each other.
Doing it by title alone would be treacherous... but then people quote each other and threads tend to be clustered around in time. That should be a relatively straightforward task.
I actually look forward to visiting Canada every now and then so I can enjoy "decent" coffee at Tim Hortons (I'm sure many Canidians reading this are laughing their ass off right now).
Yup, LMAO. Not only does our beer kick ass, you look forward to drinking the worst coffee we brew.
There are a lot of cafes that are very hip, without the poseur stereotype associated with Starbucks. Many already offer free wireless and/or computer access.
If this model was easy to implement, a lot of them would probably go for it. Maybe an enterprising slashdotter will take this on?
This would be a much better option if it shipped with something else besides CRT monitors.
I know, I know, LCDs aren't cheap. But there are hidden costs here. CRTs give off more heat, which is not welcome when you need to have air-conditionning, something a lot of third-world countries do.
So you need extra power for the CRT and extra power for the air-conditionning. This in places that are not known for the most reliable power grids. Not only that, the cost of producing power can be very high, and the capital devoted to this could be put to better use in more labour-intensive areas.
Add to this the environmental implications. Power plants -especially if they don't have expensive scrubbers- degrade air quality, with all the health-care costs that that implies. And dare I mention the fact that disposing of all those monitors is going to be a toxic waste hazard?
This may seem like trivial points, but considering the number of screens we are talking about, it isn't. We have to consider the total cost to a country of any given solution before we proclaim it a cheap deal.
This is not to detract from HP's efforts. When we have better screens such efforts are going to pay off.
An afterthought troll? Geez... You could have left it at your original response.
I'll assume that if I lost, you mean that you won. If so, you are reinforcing the stereotype that a Yankee will stoop to channelling an ugly and brutish mythological creature in order to "win."
While there are good examples of technology transfers, you don't need to do much to prove that they have a better effect than most "save the children" funds, because most such funds have terrible track records.
As far as OSS, it's definitely an enabler.
It is seen as essential in some campaigns, e.g. tracking stories of people that have been disappeared or tortured by their own governments (you can't really lift yourself out of poverty in those conditions). Cost and trust issues drove them to OSS; they could be sure that the data they had would not be tampered with and could be securely and discreetly sent to those collating it.
OSS is also embedded in other applications that have already had an enormous impact. Since in a lot of so-called "developing" there are more cell-phones than landlines, because they are cheaper. Wireless and solar will probably become essential for connecting isolated villages to communication networks, bringing education, information about crops, market conditions, etc... (Note I'm assuming that the most impact you can have on such projects is in rural areas)
That said, most OSS is currently irrelevant for third-world conditions. To know what OSS projects to help on, you need to understand their needs a bit better. A previous poster mentionned geekcorps; you could also approach development organizations with an excellent track record, such as AFSC, InterPares, etc...
The joke was not facile US-bashing. As far as disarmament, your country's policies, more than those of any other country, suck. Star Wars... More weapons of mass destruction than any other country and the only country that has used all three... reponsible for proliferation, supporting repressive regimes (remember, Saddam, just like Osama, was YOUR man)...
Feel free to assume I'm just an ill-informed idiot. In the meantime, I'll just assume you're uncomfortable with the fact that your country's policies are despicable, invoking god and forgetting to spell when someone tries to point it out with humour*
Every network in the world could recognize the virus type activity and allocate them lesser or zero resources, maybe sending them a "Virus detected, please run antivirus software or contact your IT Department" notice
Could also work if it communicated "$IP being DDOSed, please trace back and isolate those who are doing this"?
Basically, I think we really should be thinking about how to build an immune system for a network and what minimal behaviour from the nodes would achieve it.
Is this overkill? Perhaps. But sometimes such heavyhanded policies make sense, especially when it comes to making war.
Overkill... war... yup:)
If you start with the premise that organized violence and mass killing is the way to solve social conflicts, you can expect many more absurdities to flow from that. That a strategy requires heavyhanded policies that are near impossible to perfect is a sign that it needs rethinking. With the technology we have, information is more and more difficult to contain, so this problem is not going away any time soon.
There are methods of defence that are actually made more effective by making your plans public. When data about a system would compromise it, it's too brittle. Information about where your wind generators are placed and how they work is not going to make them more of a target- compare with nuclear or other centralized facilities. Civilian-based defense takes that to a whole new level.
Similarly, going open-source means your business model is a lot less vulnerable than a closed-source one, because the value you add is not tied to something that is near impossible to control.
You could use it for that. More likely it's just going to be a cross between bathroom literature and geocities. Edifying stuff to be sure.
We might have to think about how we erase the graffiti, and how we want to search the content. We might need to look for new meta-information. Already one commercial application stands out: a Google like interface to select the most useful comments in an area.
Oh, and yeah, this would be awesome for geocaching!:)
if it can work in a country with a billion people (India), it can work in a country with 200+ million people..
Talk to just about any Indian, and they'll confess that their government is corrupt.
If more Americans didn't have a knee-jerk reaction to the mere suggestion that some of their elected officials were corrupt; if such suggestions weren't met by derisive comments about "conspiracy theories", I would be inclined to agree.
But as long as the naive and/or the corrupt design a system, you can't expect it to work.
I wonder how much the watermarks overlap... and how detectable they would be. One obvious avenue would be to take 2 or more different DVDs with unique watermarks, and merge them to get rid of the identifying traces -blurring some parts if required.
Dunno... but given how fast some DRM is being circumvented here, it wouldn't be surprising if that escalation hadn't been foreseen.
Exactly. It's not the prettiest, but I've seen it happen too. Basically, all the DAO layer was in one file, but it had over 100 functions, all static. Oh, and Java/sql does make for a lot of boilerplate...
I just refactored the whole thing so that we ended up with fewer files (e.g. InventoryDAO, UserDAO...). The only advantage was making things more intuitive for coders, and creating less locks with source control.
In any case, 8000 lines for a single file is not a big deal maintenance-wise. I'd sooner have a system with a huge DAO than a bunch of PHP or JSP pages with no clear separation of concerns.
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Sad really... I thought it would do much better
Are emails _meant_ to be abused. Create an email address that is created for the sole purpose of receiving spam (you might want to use another for registrations).
:0
Now, you could send everything to devnull, OR you could randomly select emails which you will "open", load the images and "click" on the link, going to the sites and visiting. Spammers will think these are active emails with people interested in their merchandise. They don't need to know it's a script.
Hmmm... we could call a project to do this devspam
Do note that the article mentions a 1 point drop for IE in june, but the last Zeitgeist browser stats are for May. I'll be happy if Google's June stats confirm the trend, otherwise it's too early to tell.
So, was that a typo, or did you actually mean that?
I use FireFox, and develop e-commerce websites.
I cater only to those with standards compliant browsers, but then I might have to live in a cardboard box.
Barring the annihilation of that ignominy called Internet Explorer, I'll settle for them having good CSS.
Oh great, they're looking at possibly, maybe doing more to support CSS3.
WTF? I don't want them to add more CSS, I want them to get what they have working like it should.
All the designers I have worked with are mad as hell. The amount of hacks they have to use to produce CSS that is cross-browser compatible and doesn't look like shit on IE is absurd, and the extra time spent on that is killing my budgets.
In other words, I'm mad as hell with IE and Microsoft. I don't really give a damn that IE doesn't have tabbed browsing, or that it ships with insecure defaults. Couldn't give a rat's ass about the lack of pop-up blocking. I care that every f'ing simple web design project's budget has to account for a few extra hours getting their shit working properly.
When FF hits 1.0, I'll go on a mission to convert as many people from IE. I hope others do the same; maybe this will help M$ wake up and smell the standards.
Others have already mentionned the possibility of finding gaming buddies and sharing music folders with people in your immediate vicinity/AP. With location-aware matchmaking services, you might end up chatting with the cute blonde that's also looking for some lovin'- OK, ok, this is
Ok, with all the hype about a mile high club, what are the odds that people will pay $100k/night to boink in zero or near-zero gravity?
It sure as hell sounds more fun than going to Niagara Falls...
There are a lot of cafes that are very hip, without the poseur stereotype associated with Starbucks. Many already offer free wireless and/or computer access.
If this model was easy to implement, a lot of them would probably go for it. Maybe an enterprising slashdotter will take this on?
This would be a much better option if it shipped with something else besides CRT monitors.
I know, I know, LCDs aren't cheap. But there are hidden costs here. CRTs give off more heat, which is not welcome when you need to have air-conditionning, something a lot of third-world countries do.
So you need extra power for the CRT and extra power for the air-conditionning. This in places that are not known for the most reliable power grids. Not only that, the cost of producing power can be very high, and the capital devoted to this could be put to better use in more labour-intensive areas.
Add to this the environmental implications. Power plants -especially if they don't have expensive scrubbers- degrade air quality, with all the health-care costs that that implies. And dare I mention the fact that disposing of all those monitors is going to be a toxic waste hazard?
This may seem like trivial points, but considering the number of screens we are talking about, it isn't. We have to consider the total cost to a country of any given solution before we proclaim it a cheap deal.
This is not to detract from HP's efforts. When we have better screens such efforts are going to pay off.
An afterthought troll? Geez... You could have left it at your original response.
I'll assume that if I lost, you mean that you won. If so, you are reinforcing the stereotype that a Yankee will stoop to channelling an ugly and brutish mythological creature in order to "win."
While there are good examples of technology transfers, you don't need to do much to prove that they have a better effect than most "save the children" funds, because most such funds have terrible track records.
As far as OSS, it's definitely an enabler.
It is seen as essential in some campaigns, e.g. tracking stories of people that have been disappeared or tortured by their own governments (you can't really lift yourself out of poverty in those conditions). Cost and trust issues drove them to OSS; they could be sure that the data they had would not be tampered with and could be securely and discreetly sent to those collating it.
OSS is also embedded in other applications that have already had an enormous impact. Since in a lot of so-called "developing" there are more cell-phones than landlines, because they are cheaper. Wireless and solar will probably become essential for connecting isolated villages to communication networks, bringing education, information about crops, market conditions, etc... (Note I'm assuming that the most impact you can have on such projects is in rural areas)
That said, most OSS is currently irrelevant for third-world conditions. To know what OSS projects to help on, you need to understand their needs a bit better. A previous poster mentionned geekcorps; you could also approach development organizations with an excellent track record, such as AFSC, InterPares, etc...
The joke was not facile US-bashing. As far as disarmament, your country's policies, more than those of any other country, suck. Star Wars... More weapons of mass destruction than any other country and the only country that has used all three... reponsible for proliferation, supporting repressive regimes (remember, Saddam, just like Osama, was YOUR man)...
Feel free to assume I'm just an ill-informed idiot. In the meantime, I'll just assume you're uncomfortable with the fact that your country's policies are despicable, invoking god and forgetting to spell when someone tries to point it out with humour*
*Canadian/Brit spelling. So sue me.
Yeah, didn't they can have the US heading the disarmament committee?
Basically, I think we really should be thinking about how to build an immune system for a network and what minimal behaviour from the nodes would achieve it.
If you start with the premise that organized violence and mass killing is the way to solve social conflicts, you can expect many more absurdities to flow from that. That a strategy requires heavyhanded policies that are near impossible to perfect is a sign that it needs rethinking. With the technology we have, information is more and more difficult to contain, so this problem is not going away any time soon.
There are methods of defence that are actually made more effective by making your plans public. When data about a system would compromise it, it's too brittle. Information about where your wind generators are placed and how they work is not going to make them more of a target- compare with nuclear or other centralized facilities. Civilian-based defense takes that to a whole new level.
Similarly, going open-source means your business model is a lot less vulnerable than a closed-source one, because the value you add is not tied to something that is near impossible to control.
We might have to think about how we erase the graffiti, and how we want to search the content. We might need to look for new meta-information. Already one commercial application stands out: a Google like interface to select the most useful comments in an area.
Oh, and yeah, this would be awesome for geocaching!
If more Americans didn't have a knee-jerk reaction to the mere suggestion that some of their elected officials were corrupt; if such suggestions weren't met by derisive comments about "conspiracy theories", I would be inclined to agree.
But as long as the naive and/or the corrupt design a system, you can't expect it to work.
Perhaps they are now wondering how to rebrand Gecko :)
I wonder how much the watermarks overlap... and how detectable they would be. One obvious avenue would be to take 2 or more different DVDs with unique watermarks, and merge them to get rid of the identifying traces -blurring some parts if required.
Dunno... but given how fast some DRM is being circumvented here, it wouldn't be surprising if that escalation hadn't been foreseen.
Exactly. It's not the prettiest, but I've seen it happen too. Basically, all the DAO layer was in one file, but it had over 100 functions, all static. Oh, and Java/sql does make for a lot of boilerplate...
I just refactored the whole thing so that we ended up with fewer files (e.g. InventoryDAO, UserDAO...). The only advantage was making things more intuitive for coders, and creating less locks with source control.
In any case, 8000 lines for a single file is not a big deal maintenance-wise. I'd sooner have a system with a huge DAO than a bunch of PHP or JSP pages with no clear separation of concerns.