Forums and blogs are susceptible to post spam because most are large opensource or commercial scripts. The fact that there are thousands identical scripts makes them a prime target to spammers. The trick to prevent forum spam is to confuse the spam bots. Most all bots will fail to register a user if given something unexpected. For forums I administer, I wrote a vbulletin mod that requires a bit of human intuition to solve (not much mind you) such as have a text input field that must remain blank. This simple measure has prevented nearly 99% of forum post spam.
As previously stated, this new internet will be a surveillance (gov) / marketing (corp) tool that will resemble cable TV only providing approved "channels" (urls) and streams of content.
I wonder which browser's packets get priority. I can see ATT giving preference to their browser and degrading the competition preform in transit.
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Old news is better than no news... i guess./.ers have know that TOR exit notes where being sniffed for a while now and hackers certainly much longer than that.
It puts a smile on my face knowing that a small group of unpaid media hackers are able to crack the AACS encryption scheme what tooks many developers and millions in R&D to create, in just a few short weeks.
Focusing just on Apple's pipeline they are going to be in for some hard times ahead. Apple's iPhone is far to restricted to be adopted. Someone else will produce an iPhone killer before the iPhone even catches on.
Public libraries around the country are realizing the postion that "information brokers", (google comes to mind*) put them in. With tight budgets and limited technical knowledge they might need to find a new niche. By the way I volunteer at my local library, helping them with thier website, so i know how screwed they are.
Even with toughbooks the single biggest problem with portable computers is screen brightness. In direct sunlight lcd screens are not practical. I speak from expirence beacause I developed a business application for the tablet pc. I have recieved plenty of feedback from customers about how hard it was to use them in the field.
This sounds similar to a reputation system for editors combined with a moderation system. Changes to an article or entry would need to be passed up through a chain of editors with increasing rank or rep. Use the best of vbulletin and slashcode to fix wiki. (Gotta love all the buzzwords)
Applications and systems developed that are developed rapidly by a small set of programmers would benifit from closed source security especially when producing software for small niches. Systems that are developed on a large scale and mission critial applications benefit from open source models because that can utilize a large tester base.
Cable News channels pump stock all the time. CNN was touting Enron and Worldcom until the end. Pump and dump via spam is picked apart in detail while the cable news producers never get the attention these scum bags deserve.
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Forums and blogs are susceptible to post spam because most are large opensource or commercial scripts. The fact that there are thousands identical scripts makes them a prime target to spammers. The trick to prevent forum spam is to confuse the spam bots. Most all bots will fail to register a user if given something unexpected. For forums I administer, I wrote a vbulletin mod that requires a bit of human intuition to solve (not much mind you) such as have a text input field that must remain blank. This simple measure has prevented nearly 99% of forum post spam.
As previously stated, this new internet will be a surveillance (gov) / marketing (corp) tool that will resemble cable TV only providing approved "channels" (urls) and streams of content.
I wonder which browser's packets get priority. I can see ATT giving preference to their browser and degrading the competition preform in transit.
Old news is better than no news... i guess. /.ers have know that TOR exit notes where being sniffed for a while now and hackers certainly much longer than that.
Great, now we can await a round of finger pointing to begin over who is liable.
This can not come at any surprise to the /. crowd. Especially from Dell.
It is hard to believe any Myspace account could be worth that much.
I am going to patent the process of reforming a patent system.
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Wasnt there just a /. article about water power logic? ... oh yeah there was
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Will the book come with weekly updates?
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It puts a smile on my face knowing that a small group of unpaid media hackers are able to crack the AACS encryption scheme what tooks many developers and millions in R&D to create, in just a few short weeks.
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Focusing just on Apple's pipeline they are going to be in for some hard times ahead. Apple's iPhone is far to restricted to be adopted. Someone else will produce an iPhone killer before the iPhone even catches on.
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Virtualized machines running a base os integrated with an online os / data storage.
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Wouldn't it be easier for microsft to move to India than to move India here?
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If you slow light down wouldnt that also effect the rate of time that the photon experience.
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Fines or listening to your ipod while crossing streets and yet no fine to cab drivers with rank b.o.
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Public libraries around the country are realizing the postion that "information brokers", (google comes to mind*) put them in. With tight budgets and limited technical knowledge they might need to find a new niche. By the way I volunteer at my local library, helping them with thier website, so i know how screwed they are.
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Even with toughbooks the single biggest problem with portable computers is screen brightness. In direct sunlight lcd screens are not practical. I speak from expirence beacause I developed a business application for the tablet pc. I have recieved plenty of feedback from customers about how hard it was to use them in the field.
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This sounds similar to a reputation system for editors combined with a moderation system. Changes to an article or entry would need to be passed up through a chain of editors with increasing rank or rep. Use the best of vbulletin and slashcode to fix wiki. (Gotta love all the buzzwords)
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With public relation statements like this coupled with the DRM 'ed iTunes how can Steve and Apple lose?
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Applications and systems developed that are developed rapidly by a small set of programmers would benifit from closed source security especially when producing software for small niches. Systems that are developed on a large scale and mission critial applications benefit from open source models because that can utilize a large tester base.
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Thats great. Now why cant we get images of the landers on the moon?
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I would work without my trusty TI-89.
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"Public access equals government censorship". This is a quote destin to inflame the /. community.
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Cable News channels pump stock all the time. CNN was touting Enron and Worldcom until the end. Pump and dump via spam is picked apart in detail while the cable news producers never get the attention these scum bags deserve.
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