In an academic setting, Web bugs might be used to detect plagiarism. A document could be bugged before it is distributed. An invisible Web bug could be placed within each paragraph in the document. If text were to be cut and pasted from the document, it is likely that a Web bug would be picked up also and copied into the new document.
If the creator of the original article is putting web bugs in her document, (I hope) she will end up "catching" more quoting than plagiarism of her article. The resulting signal-to-noise ratio in her web server logs would make the tracking pretty useless.
On the other hand, if it's being primarily used by graders to make sure that everything from sources that contain these things is quoted properly, there's no point in using a web bug - just insert enough invisible tags (an html example would be <b></b>) to later determine where the document came from. Then there's no reliance on the Internet at all, and people won't get paranoid about the green lights on their modems flashing every time they open up documents from certain people.
But what if I can't remember how to spell plagiarism? If I copy the word from the Privacy Foundation article and use it in an essay, is my teacher going to suspect me of illegally copying information?
Thank God for and formats that I can work with in text editors. And for honor codes, which mean people aren't constantly trying to figure out whether other people are cheating or not.
This sounds pretty familiar. It's only slightly more disturbing to me that MSWord has this hole than that Outlook Express, Netscape, and Mozilla have it.
By the way, this exploit hasn't been fixed in Mozilla's mail/news client yet. Bugzilla bug 28327: "No server hits at HTML mailnews reading - privacy" (major, M18, nsbeta3-)
It takes, say, 20 seconds to right-click an image in your favorite editor and give it a description.
it really depends on how detailed a description you want to give of each picture. do you say "this is a picture of [person's name] skiing" or "(picture of [person's name] skiing. she's at blah blah blah altitude, going at blah blah blah mph, blah blah blah"?
do you try to make it so that someone using lynx wouldn't be able to tell there was a picture there, or do you try hard not to hide the fact that there was an image there? how do you make sure that your goal was accomplished using each of the html-to-speech programs available?
The thinker will think and think about whatever you ask it to, in each case comparing its thoughts to the world previously defined by all those mindpixels and by its subsequent thoughts. When one of those thoughts doesn't fit the mindpixel world yet seems to be true, it is an original thought that extends the total corpus of human thought. And because it's your thinker, that thought is your property.
I doubt anyone will make much money using Mindpixel in this way. All of the good ideas have already been thought up by the Megamonkey project.
The emphasis should be less on clickthrough rates (which will always be trivial at best) and more on brand reconition. In other words, the ad itself is the point, just as it always was in print & broadcast media. If a small handful of people actually click on the thing then that's great too, but the point isn't to draw people in as much as it is to promote the quality of a brand by planting the idea in people's heads.
A related note: I once clicked on a banner ad that led to a page that gave some information on a health topic. You couldn't click anywhere to get to the top of the website -- it was a dead-end page. It might have been unintentional, but maybe they thought the best way to use the page to build brand recognition was to let the user leave after seeing the (informative) page.
For example, when viewing this post with a voice-capable browser you should be able to simply say "Google" or "Crypto-Gram" or "Big Ball of Mud" and be taken to the appropriate place.
I do remember reading that some major OSS group (Apache ?) uncovered a large number of serious buffer overflow exploits in the TCP/IP stack of nearly every OS out there, OSS or not.
Wonder whether they'll remember to also check for %-encoded URL's...
lol
i got kicked out of my school library for finding that hole and reporting it. funny thing is, i later found out i had signed something saying something to the effect of "if you find a security hole in our internet software, you are to report it asap" in order to be allowed to use the school library's computers.
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Some advertisers must agree with you that computers without monitors are computers.
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It is quite likely by the look and feel with Junkbuster on and Off that it relies on HTTP referrer in quite a few places. It is genuinely stupid, but some people see it as a "security measure".
How do you prevent cross-site attacks (such as someone posting to slashdot in your name, using your cookie) without checking http referrers (to make sure the last url you were at was the comments.pl page)? I guess you could include a cookie-like thing in each url, but that's ugly.
This will make it easier for both open-sourcers (galeon) and companies that can't do full open-source (netscape) to make versions of the project, but it won't make it any easier to bring in code from other (open-source) projects. Also, isn't one big point of having a single license for a project that you can always merge two forks if each has interesting/useful code?
A better solution would have been to create a "MPL 2.0" that says "you may relicense this code under the GPL 2.0 or higher." Assuming the MPL has one of those sneaky "or later a version of this license" clauses.
I think it's more likely that it would bring Windows people to Linux than Linux people to Windows.
I don't think it really matters whether making app X cross-platform brings more linux people to windows or more windows people to linux. What matters is that there is one more application that works on both platforms, making it easier to transition between the two. This gives people a choice as to which operating system(s) they run, and chances are they'll end up choosing whichever happens to be a better operating system:)
with redundant hard disks, you replace the broken hard drive as soon as you find out that it died. you can't do that with redundant mars probes.
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Internet Explorer 5 seems to start up so fast because it is already loaded. It gets loaded into RAM during the Windows bootup. Of course, this is also why it takes so long to bootup.
IMO that's a good thing. I like having a browser that load extremely quickly. It would be better if it were an option (as opposed to always on), though.
Hotmail's bulk filtering system isn't set up to let you recieve mail from legitamate e-mailing lists, unless (1) mailing list daemon is set up to make it seem like each e-mail is addressed to you, or (2) the mailing list is run by hotmail or a partner site. Since I'm on several majordomo lists, I can't use this feature without blocking a lot of e-mail that I want to recieve.
(Sorry if I sound like I'm attacking the person I'm replying to. I'm just slightly frustrated at Hotmail for promoting this as a spam blocking feature without making it work correctly, and somewhat suspicious about it since I started getting lots of spam right around the time this feature was added.)
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If the creator of the original article is putting web bugs in her document, (I hope) she will end up "catching" more quoting than plagiarism of her article. The resulting signal-to-noise ratio in her web server logs would make the tracking pretty useless.
On the other hand, if it's being primarily used by graders to make sure that everything from sources that contain these things is quoted properly, there's no point in using a web bug - just insert enough invisible tags (an html example would be <b></b>) to later determine where the document came from. Then there's no reliance on the Internet at all, and people won't get paranoid about the green lights on their modems flashing every time they open up documents from certain people.
But what if I can't remember how to spell plagiarism? If I copy the word from the Privacy Foundation article and use it in an essay, is my teacher going to suspect me of illegally copying information?
Thank God for and formats that I can work with in text editors. And for honor codes, which mean people aren't constantly trying to figure out whether other people are cheating or not.
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By the way, this exploit hasn't been fixed in Mozilla's mail/news client yet.
Bugzilla bug 28327: "No server hits at HTML mailnews reading - privacy" (major, M18, nsbeta3-)
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Let's just add alt="" to each image! That will make it standards compliant!
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it really depends on how detailed a description you want to give of each picture. do you say "this is a picture of [person's name] skiing" or "(picture of [person's name] skiing. she's at blah blah blah altitude, going at blah blah blah mph, blah blah blah"?
do you try to make it so that someone using lynx wouldn't be able to tell there was a picture there, or do you try hard not to hide the fact that there was an image there? how do you make sure that your goal was accomplished using each of the html-to-speech programs available?
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I doubt anyone will make much money using Mindpixel in this way. All of the good ideas have already been thought up by the Megamonkey project.
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A related note: I once clicked on a banner ad that led to a page that gave some information on a health topic. You couldn't click anywhere to get to the top of the website -- it was a dead-end page. It might have been unintentional, but maybe they thought the best way to use the page to build brand recognition was to let the user leave after seeing the (informative) page.
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But they do have an Affiliate program that used to give you 3 cents/search and now gives you 1 cent/search.
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"Computer, Click on Big Ball of Mud"
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I do remember reading that some major OSS group (Apache ?) uncovered a large number of serious buffer overflow exploits in the TCP/IP stack of nearly every OS out there, OSS or not.
samba maybe?
Wonder whether they'll remember to also check for %-encoded URL's...
lol
i got kicked out of my school library for finding that hole and reporting it. funny thing is, i later found out i had signed something saying something to the effect of "if you find a security hole in our internet software, you are to report it asap" in order to be allowed to use the school library's computers.
Some advertisers must agree with you that computers without monitors are computers.
CHEAP PC! ONLY $200*+!
*Monitor not included
+After $400 mail-in rebate with purchase of 3 years of internet service
are you sure that article was intended to be humorous?
if the main feature of netcaptor is having several sites open in different "tabs", you could probably code that up as an XUL skin.
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I can't recall a single book I've read on SQL Server that did not instruct the reader to change the sa password immediately after installing.
Couldn't someone crack your system before you finish changing the password?
It is quite likely by the look and feel with Junkbuster on and Off that it relies on HTTP referrer in quite a few places. It is genuinely stupid, but some people see it as a "security measure".
How do you prevent cross-site attacks (such as someone posting to slashdot in your name, using your cookie) without checking http referrers (to make sure the last url you were at was the comments.pl page)? I guess you could include a cookie-like thing in each url, but that's ugly.
This will make it easier for both open-sourcers (galeon) and companies that can't do full open-source (netscape) to make versions of the project, but it won't make it any easier to bring in code from other (open-source) projects. Also, isn't one big point of having a single license for a project that you can always merge two forks if each has interesting/useful code?
A better solution would have been to create a "MPL 2.0" that says "you may relicense this code under the GPL 2.0 or higher." Assuming the MPL has one of those sneaky "or later a version of this license" clauses.
I think it's more likely that it would bring Windows people to Linux than Linux people to Windows.
:)
I don't think it really matters whether making app X cross-platform brings more linux people to windows or more windows people to linux. What matters is that there is one more application that works on both platforms, making it easier to transition between the two. This gives people a choice as to which operating system(s) they run, and chances are they'll end up choosing whichever happens to be a better operating system
with redundant hard disks, you replace the broken hard drive as soon as you find out that it died. you can't do that with redundant mars probes.
Internet Explorer 5 seems to start up so fast because it is already loaded. It gets loaded into RAM during the Windows bootup. Of course, this is also why it takes so long to bootup.
IMO that's a good thing. I like having a browser that load extremely quickly. It would be better if it were an option (as opposed to always on), though.
The key here is education.
One man's education is another man's propoganda.
umm,
- he had an interesting and potentially useful point
- he didn't attack netscape, mozilla, java, or sun
how was his post a flame?
Hotmail's bulk filtering system isn't set up to let you recieve mail from legitamate e-mailing lists, unless (1) mailing list daemon is set up to make it seem like each e-mail is addressed to you, or (2) the mailing list is run by hotmail or a partner site. Since I'm on several majordomo lists, I can't use this feature without blocking a lot of e-mail that I want to recieve.
(Sorry if I sound like I'm attacking the person I'm replying to. I'm just slightly frustrated at Hotmail for promoting this as a spam blocking feature without making it work correctly, and somewhat suspicious about it since I started getting lots of spam right around the time this feature was added.)
From hotmail:
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[checkbox] E-mail from all trusted Hotmail and Passport users.
[checkbox] Content from Microsoft and MSN.
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Also, direct mail from these addresses and/or domains to my Inbox. (Be sure to use either spaces or commas to separate entries.)
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