There are so many ways this money could have been better spent. How about opening a nice call center for all of your customers, Mr. Gates? (note: i realize this was his personal fortune, but the point stands. MS support is a pain)
How many starving children could you have fed. Doesn't pissing your cash into the wind kind of contradict having the largest charity fund on earth?
This dude is seriously bipolar.
What lack of consideration are you talking about? Just two weeks ago Slashdot ran an article about little robots playing soccer, epitomizing present-day situatedness in the field of AI (eg embodiment), not to mention that Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence laboratory has already pur forth a direct argument for situatedness. As a matter of fact, he could be considered the most knowledgeable member in the entire field of AI, so your philisophical musings are lacking substance.
Does it have a Wise Installation Wizard? Does it require any knowledge of anything that looks vaguely dissimilar to Windows?
Then no, it's not going to change anything, because having to know even one little thing about Linux is just as equal as having to know it all. Most Windows users don't even know what it looks like and the only gnomes they have seen are in their gardens.
Providing relevant ads to e-mails is not all that dissimiliar to providing relevant ads to newsgroups postings, which we already find in Google Groups. Google also states in its TOS that if the e-mail is detected as being sensitive in nature, they won't be providing ads. As some posters have feared, I see no reason for Google to ever go manually data-mining to see if the ads really are relevant when they already have 845 million test messages, not to mention internal personal e-mails.
If you are concerned with a computer algorithm 'reading' your e-mails, you are probably a little paranoid. If you are concerned with Google harvesting your information and habits, keep in mind that they would probably do it to make the service better, and besides, if you own a credit card and have ever purchased anything online, there are services that allow people to purchase your information for circa. $20
If you are an honest advocate of privacy and feel a genuine fear, lobby your congressman to get the laws changed. Regardless, Google is the least of your privacy and identity theft concerns.
I thought it quite ironic that in the 3 page brief they said,
"No simple silver bullets will solve the software security problem."
But truly, what is the most outstanding characteristic of a silver bullet? (aside from being silver of course). That they are expensive and nearly no one can afford them. No one, except perhaps Microsoft, who happens to be the co-chair of this 'task force'.
By getting the government to adopt this, isn't Microsoft essentially forwarding all of it's tech support trouble calls towards them?
Would Google be able to copyright the name Gmail? Looking at this search on dogpile.com we see that there are already freshmeat/sourceforge projects and products out there named "Gmail". Seems like they have been around a lot longer than Google's newly announced service.
Also, Alexa has a snapshot of what Gmail.com recently looked like.
Don't forget that IBM is still a corporation and has contractual obligations as well as a business to run. I think that its pretty cool they are publishing this at all, and far from immediately chastising them for everything they're not doing, I believe thanks are in order.
The bottom line is that without patching the breach in communication between the database owner and the search engine we will never be able to get past the challenge of the 'deep web'.
With static systems such as yours that provide no links to much or all of the information, the only way a search engine could ever index the database would be for the owner to actually send the database to Google (for example). Due to issues of trust (i.e. the database getting leaked such as Microsoft's source code), this is next to impossible.
The next likely alternative would be a simple change in database standards. If all of this information on the deep web really is free and publicly available, just not searchable due to a lack of technical innovation, then the simple solution is to have database owners publish index files of their databases which search engines could then incorporate into their indexes.
Many database owners will react in fear to this idea, as the difficulty of getting the information on their website often leads to revenue through you looking at more ads etc etc, however the recent advent of Google Print should quickly put their fears to rest. Google is indexing books, something very akin to a database, but does not offer the entire book for download, instead providing a preview and a link to where you can purchase the book. Similiarly, by providing a link to the database content, a user may still be required to register before they can search for their content. The point is that search engines are not responsible for actually giving us the content, just showing us where we can find it.
I believe that the indexing of databases by their owners will in the end lead to more people finding the information they want, and therefore more people visiting the site, in turn earning the content provider more business and giving the consumers what they want. The comparatively trivial roadblocks between us and the 'deel web' are undeserving of the daunting connotation attached to its name. All we need is a little innovation!
This is synonymous with the razor business. Have you ever noticed that Gillette practically gives away the razors? They make all their money selling you replacement blades. My for-work-only Epson Stylus Photo 915 cost around $200 dollars. I spend more than that on ink every 2-3 months.
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I think Freecache would have saved his neck on this one, but its too late for that now. http://freecache.org
There are so many ways this money could have been better spent. How about opening a nice call center for all of your customers, Mr. Gates? (note: i realize this was his personal fortune, but the point stands. MS support is a pain) How many starving children could you have fed. Doesn't pissing your cash into the wind kind of contradict having the largest charity fund on earth? This dude is seriously bipolar.
Does anyone else feel like its the end of the world after reading that article?
To negate the side-effects of stress in my IT related job I parallel it with reading books.
What lack of consideration are you talking about? Just two weeks ago Slashdot ran an article about little robots playing soccer, epitomizing present-day situatedness in the field of AI (eg embodiment), not to mention that Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence laboratory has already pur forth a direct argument for situatedness. As a matter of fact, he could be considered the most knowledgeable member in the entire field of AI, so your philisophical musings are lacking substance.
Does it have a Wise Installation Wizard? Does it require any knowledge of anything that looks vaguely dissimilar to Windows?
Then no, it's not going to change anything, because having to know even one little thing about Linux is just as equal as having to know it all. Most Windows users don't even know what it looks like and the only gnomes they have seen are in their gardens.
The Navy is renting this vessel for 11.4 million dollars a year (including operating costs).
You can't violate a treaty you haven't signed.
Providing relevant ads to e-mails is not all that dissimiliar to providing relevant ads to newsgroups postings, which we already find in Google Groups. Google also states in its TOS that if the e-mail is detected as being sensitive in nature, they won't be providing ads. As some posters have feared, I see no reason for Google to ever go manually data-mining to see if the ads really are relevant when they already have 845 million test messages, not to mention internal personal e-mails.
If you are concerned with a computer algorithm 'reading' your e-mails, you are probably a little paranoid. If you are concerned with Google harvesting your information and habits, keep in mind that they would probably do it to make the service better, and besides, if you own a credit card and have ever purchased anything online, there are services that allow people to purchase your information for circa. $20
If you are an honest advocate of privacy and feel a genuine fear, lobby your congressman to get the laws changed. Regardless, Google is the least of your privacy and identity theft concerns.
Go on, take the e-mail and run
word. plus they're like, GOOGLE, dude. Google can have my baby. :)
start a torrent!!!
Hey thanks. Why don't you start a torrent so we can all help, though?
well, if he knew about it he could simply ask archive.org to remove it and they would oblige. :) (i backed it up for good measure)
Anyone else see this picture of Sergey in a speed-o? Here is another one of him IN DRAG. I kid you not!
I thought it quite ironic that in the 3 page brief they said,
"No simple silver bullets will solve the software security problem."
But truly, what is the most outstanding characteristic of a silver bullet? (aside from being silver of course). That they are expensive and nearly no one can afford them. No one, except perhaps Microsoft, who happens to be the co-chair of this 'task force'.
By getting the government to adopt this, isn't Microsoft essentially forwarding all of it's tech support trouble calls towards them?
YAAS? That could mean anything. What kind of scientist?
Would Google be able to copyright the name Gmail? Looking at this search on dogpile.com we see that there are already freshmeat/sourceforge projects and products out there named "Gmail". Seems like they have been around a lot longer than Google's newly announced service.
Also, Alexa has a snapshot of what Gmail.com recently looked like.
Don't forget that IBM is still a corporation and has contractual obligations as well as a business to run. I think that its pretty cool they are publishing this at all, and far from immediately chastising them for everything they're not doing, I believe thanks are in order.
Is anyone getting audio for this feed? Perhaps it will start up near the launch.
Steven Hawking could soon be 'back on his feet' again with this technology.
The bottom line is that without patching the breach in communication between the database owner and the search engine we will never be able to get past the challenge of the 'deep web'.
With static systems such as yours that provide no links to much or all of the information, the only way a search engine could ever index the database would be for the owner to actually send the database to Google (for example). Due to issues of trust (i.e. the database getting leaked such as Microsoft's source code), this is next to impossible.
The next likely alternative would be a simple change in database standards. If all of this information on the deep web really is free and publicly available, just not searchable due to a lack of technical innovation, then the simple solution is to have database owners publish index files of their databases which search engines could then incorporate into their indexes.
Many database owners will react in fear to this idea, as the difficulty of getting the information on their website often leads to revenue through you looking at more ads etc etc, however the recent advent of Google Print should quickly put their fears to rest. Google is indexing books, something very akin to a database, but does not offer the entire book for download, instead providing a preview and a link to where you can purchase the book. Similiarly, by providing a link to the database content, a user may still be required to register before they can search for their content. The point is that search engines are not responsible for actually giving us the content, just showing us where we can find it.
I believe that the indexing of databases by their owners will in the end lead to more people finding the information they want, and therefore more people visiting the site, in turn earning the content provider more business and giving the consumers what they want. The comparatively trivial roadblocks between us and the 'deel web' are undeserving of the daunting connotation attached to its name. All we need is a little innovation!
'Search Systems is another good site. They make '17,834' public databases accessible.
This is synonymous with the razor business. Have you ever noticed that Gillette practically gives away the razors? They make all their money selling you replacement blades. My for-work-only Epson Stylus Photo 915 cost around $200 dollars. I spend more than that on ink every 2-3 months.
Can you provide a cite for this spam you are talking about?
500,000 Yen = 3,996.48 dollars.