I think the above is the whole reason why CSS was implemented; as a means to allowing a designer to keep a client's client from changing their precious design into something really heinous that could potentially screw up the aesthetics of the site they labored (yea, right) and spent $500,000 to create.
some of those were laws. the ratings were not. what I mean to say was that it's nice that some companies are taking the intiative without them becoming law
or did you just want to say the buzz-phrase "dangerous precedent"?
this is a GREAT precedent. this is a company possibly taking a pro-active stance in upholding statistics and ratings that says "this may be inappropriate for younger audiences"
rather than be told that a company has to start policing and it's seen as a rights issue, if a company does it of it's own accord and takes a moral stance, then that's a great perogative. yes, you might not agree with it, but then it can be your perogative to go elsewhere.
think of it like an ISP saying "there's nothing wrong with prOn on the internet. I'm just not going to host it on my servers"
you must be 18 or 21 to buy prOn.
you must be 18 to get into an R rated movie.
you must be 16 to drive, 18 to vote.
you must be 16 to buy cd's with a parental warning (may be inappropriate, obscene language, adult material, etc.)
you must be 18 to purchase a gun.
you must be 18 to purchase cigarettes.
you must be 21 to purchase alcohol.
I can go on and on.
so these are laws put forward and PASSED by local government officials (that were elected by the people to serve the people).
god forbid a company actually take a stand and police the law. do we want convenience stores selling our 12 yr olds cigarettes? do we want our young teenagers walking in to a liquor store and buying grain alcohol?
a law was passed to deter kids from purchasing violent games (same as violent movies and prOn) without parental consent. god forbid a company follow the law.
how long before a cryptologist breaks the algorith to determine whether the number is a valid entry? at that point, we'll have tons of fake cards and stuff getting billed to the wrong person.
it will end up being just like those $5 calling card scams that you see in NYC all the time.
I agree with you that maybe you were lucky. I never took classes that would have led to an actual job in college... and maybe that's what helped me. Instead of taking courses in web design, I taught myself. But I did take courses in religious studies, anthropology, and some CS courses which, looking back on, all helped me tons in getting me to where I am today, as well as preparing me for years from now.
so you're making 40k doing web design... how long do you think this will last? you think web design is going to be around for the next 10 yrs?
the difference is that people with a high school education are learning what they need to learn for today's market.
the people getting a college education are learning to think (hopefully) so that they can adjust to whatever job market and marketable skills they need.
I totally agree. And without coming off as snobbish, most of the time I can tell without looking at the resume which of the interviewees have attended top-ranking schools vs. community colleges eventhough many of their resume skillsets are identical. And the work they produce is quite different.
A college education isn't just to prepare you for a job (otherwise we'd all be going to technical schools), but is to teach you how to think, expand your mind, and make you a more rounded individual with increase problem-solving experience.
Just like a doctor, the point isn't to get rid of the symptoms, but to holistically educate the individual.
Very correct. Is wasn't the money analogy that I was attacking. If Katz's analogy was correct, he would have been implying that these non-national commerce company's were responsible to a higher power (god or the pope) and that eventually they were going to get hanged. Well, maybe that was his idea.
A better analogy would have been to the guilds that existed at the time and only answered to those within the guilds.
"Like the Knights Templar of the Middle Ages, these new cyber-republics will organize around principles that bear ltitle relation to nationality, at least geographic nationality. "
The knights templar were founded as a quasi-military benedictine monk sect. What they evolved into was something completely outlanding that touched on some of these principles, but in the end they were disbanded by the church and many of their leaders were burned at the stake for treason, heresy, and blasphemy.
Nice analogy JK.
considering the electricity problems that states like california have been having this summer, would giving people an incentive to leave their computer on all the time actually be detrimental to our safety?
imagine if all of the AOL newbies out there caught wind of this and decided that they'd all leave their crappy emachines and imacs online all of the time in 30 million household's worldwide. that's alot of energy that is being used up on our already taxed power grids.
there was actually a great article in the Industry Standard last month that talked about this energy problem. While processing and computerized applicances keep on growing in popularity, the whole internet infrastructure is built upon the assumption that we have a virtually unlimited source of electricity. Truth is that this summer California hit 95% total capacity. They were 2% away from having rolling brownouts. Some electric companies have even started PAYING their large corporate customers to take days off and to shut down their power supplies so that these electric companies can keep electricity flowing to the general public without causing safety risks.
While distributed computing might be a very kewl idea and concept, there comes a point when we need to fix the base limitation of the computerized world and that's the power grid.
how mission-critical is a cell phone? must it be online at all times? must it have zero down time?
for a DoS attack to be successful, the point is to flood a server that is required to be online at all times and that denial successfully takes them offline for an extended length of time.
this isn't a true DoS attack because the person sending it would have to send out a continual stream of these malformed messages that would get bounced back to them as soon as one brings down the phone. Also, the SMS provider software would shut down the point of entry if their load from a point becomes too large.
I would call this a simple software glitch that has the unfortunate problem of causing the phone's OS to crash.
call it a runtime error. call it a macintosh system error. it's just not a DoS
so it's a malformed message that causes the computer to freeze up. big deal. they're already fixing the problem on the server side so that a malformed message can't be routed through the server.
and if it happens to you, you simply pop out the battery and pop it back in. oh darn. that's really difficult.
it's not a hack. it's not even a DoS attack. it's simply a fuckup. it wouldn't be all that hard for the companies that make the SMS server software to fix the problem. (that's more than I can say for today's companies that get DoS attacks and can't do a damn thing to prevent them)
now, why is this in the "from the time-to-cancel-accounts? dept."?
you cancel an account, I doubt it gets deleted from their database. it's probably just flagged as inactive.
truth be told, it is an asset that can be resold. UNLESS they specifically told you when you signed up that they wouldn't resell this information. If so, and they do resell it, then those are probably grounds for a civil suit.
I personally can't remember if they stated in the submission form whether they stated that they wouldn't resell this information, so I can't say whether there is grounds for any suit. Also, they said that it's only in the case of bankruptcy, and I don't see that happening. Also, merger/takeover doesn't count as bankruptcy.
what does this mean for the much-hyped Transmeta chips?
undoubtably, these StrongARM chips are Transmeta's biggest competition. Why would serious competitors in the info appliance market choose Transmeta's unproven chips instead of the market leader Intel's fast and proven chips?
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I think the above is the whole reason why CSS was implemented; as a means to allowing a designer to keep a client's client from changing their precious design into something really heinous that could potentially screw up the aesthetics of the site they labored (yea, right) and spent $500,000 to create.
sorry, my mistake.
some of those were laws. the ratings were not. what I mean to say was that it's nice that some companies are taking the intiative without them becoming law
state troopers swipe 'em.
same with some international airlines.
not unless you show me a valid ID that states you're over the age of 17.
now go whining to John Katz to write an article about your rights being taken away from you.
why is this a dangerous precedent?
or did you just want to say the buzz-phrase "dangerous precedent"?
this is a GREAT precedent. this is a company possibly taking a pro-active stance in upholding statistics and ratings that says "this may be inappropriate for younger audiences"
rather than be told that a company has to start policing and it's seen as a rights issue, if a company does it of it's own accord and takes a moral stance, then that's a great perogative. yes, you might not agree with it, but then it can be your perogative to go elsewhere.
think of it like an ISP saying "there's nothing wrong with prOn on the internet. I'm just not going to host it on my servers"
you must be 18 or 21 to buy prOn.
you must be 18 to get into an R rated movie.
you must be 16 to drive, 18 to vote.
you must be 16 to buy cd's with a parental warning (may be inappropriate, obscene language, adult material, etc.)
you must be 18 to purchase a gun.
you must be 18 to purchase cigarettes.
you must be 21 to purchase alcohol.
I can go on and on.
so these are laws put forward and PASSED by local government officials (that were elected by the people to serve the people).
god forbid a company actually take a stand and police the law. do we want convenience stores selling our 12 yr olds cigarettes? do we want our young teenagers walking in to a liquor store and buying grain alcohol?
a law was passed to deter kids from purchasing violent games (same as violent movies and prOn) without parental consent. god forbid a company follow the law.
is this the vendor reader or the personal reader?
the original smart vendor reader had the problems.
i'll try to find documentation of it online
but considering this is a one-time thing, wouldn't it be harder to find the culprit and prosecute?
too bad they released the card without a reader that didn't blow up when they tried to use the card.
(this is a true story, the reader would short out if you actually tried to use it the way it was meant to be used)
how long before a cryptologist breaks the algorith to determine whether the number is a valid entry? at that point, we'll have tons of fake cards and stuff getting billed to the wrong person.
it will end up being just like those $5 calling card scams that you see in NYC all the time.
I agree with you that maybe you were lucky. I never took classes that would have led to an actual job in college... and maybe that's what helped me. Instead of taking courses in web design, I taught myself. But I did take courses in religious studies, anthropology, and some CS courses which, looking back on, all helped me tons in getting me to where I am today, as well as preparing me for years from now.
so you're making 40k doing web design... how long do you think this will last? you think web design is going to be around for the next 10 yrs?
the difference is that people with a high school education are learning what they need to learn for today's market.
the people getting a college education are learning to think (hopefully) so that they can adjust to whatever job market and marketable skills they need.
I totally agree. And without coming off as snobbish, most of the time I can tell without looking at the resume which of the interviewees have attended top-ranking schools vs. community colleges eventhough many of their resume skillsets are identical. And the work they produce is quite different.
A college education isn't just to prepare you for a job (otherwise we'd all be going to technical schools), but is to teach you how to think, expand your mind, and make you a more rounded individual with increase problem-solving experience.
Just like a doctor, the point isn't to get rid of the symptoms, but to holistically educate the individual.
Very correct. Is wasn't the money analogy that I was attacking. If Katz's analogy was correct, he would have been implying that these non-national commerce company's were responsible to a higher power (god or the pope) and that eventually they were going to get hanged. Well, maybe that was his idea.
A better analogy would have been to the guilds that existed at the time and only answered to those within the guilds.
"Like the Knights Templar of the Middle Ages, these new cyber-republics will organize around principles that bear ltitle relation to nationality, at least geographic nationality. " The knights templar were founded as a quasi-military benedictine monk sect. What they evolved into was something completely outlanding that touched on some of these principles, but in the end they were disbanded by the church and many of their leaders were burned at the stake for treason, heresy, and blasphemy. Nice analogy JK.
considering the electricity problems that states like california have been having this summer, would giving people an incentive to leave their computer on all the time actually be detrimental to our safety?
imagine if all of the AOL newbies out there caught wind of this and decided that they'd all leave their crappy emachines and imacs online all of the time in 30 million household's worldwide. that's alot of energy that is being used up on our already taxed power grids.
there was actually a great article in the Industry Standard last month that talked about this energy problem. While processing and computerized applicances keep on growing in popularity, the whole internet infrastructure is built upon the assumption that we have a virtually unlimited source of electricity. Truth is that this summer California hit 95% total capacity. They were 2% away from having rolling brownouts. Some electric companies have even started PAYING their large corporate customers to take days off and to shut down their power supplies so that these electric companies can keep electricity flowing to the general public without causing safety risks.
While distributed computing might be a very kewl idea and concept, there comes a point when we need to fix the base limitation of the computerized world and that's the power grid.
so this should be called a triggered runtime error instead of a DoS
how mission-critical is a cell phone? must it be online at all times? must it have zero down time?
for a DoS attack to be successful, the point is to flood a server that is required to be online at all times and that denial successfully takes them offline for an extended length of time.
this isn't a true DoS attack because the person sending it would have to send out a continual stream of these malformed messages that would get bounced back to them as soon as one brings down the phone. Also, the SMS provider software would shut down the point of entry if their load from a point becomes too large.
I would call this a simple software glitch that has the unfortunate problem of causing the phone's OS to crash.
call it a runtime error. call it a macintosh system error. it's just not a DoS
so it's a malformed message that causes the computer to freeze up. big deal. they're already fixing the problem on the server side so that a malformed message can't be routed through the server. and if it happens to you, you simply pop out the battery and pop it back in. oh darn. that's really difficult. it's not a hack. it's not even a DoS attack. it's simply a fuckup. it wouldn't be all that hard for the companies that make the SMS server software to fix the problem. (that's more than I can say for today's companies that get DoS attacks and can't do a damn thing to prevent them)
now, why is this in the "from the time-to-cancel-accounts? dept."?
you cancel an account, I doubt it gets deleted from their database. it's probably just flagged as inactive.
truth be told, it is an asset that can be resold. UNLESS they specifically told you when you signed up that they wouldn't resell this information. If so, and they do resell it, then those are probably grounds for a civil suit.
I personally can't remember if they stated in the submission form whether they stated that they wouldn't resell this information, so I can't say whether there is grounds for any suit. Also, they said that it's only in the case of bankruptcy, and I don't see that happening. Also, merger/takeover doesn't count as bankruptcy.
you know, make it so that old phones will no longer work on the new standard or network that has lots of cool new features...
oh, wait. they're already doing that. it's called 3G.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Getting a Win2K computer to print is amazingly easy. Almost as easy as using the chooser on a macintosh.
Start-> Settings-> Printers-> Add Printer
and viola! you're in a Winbloze wizard that will find any damn printer on your network.
now how is that harder than trying to accomplish the same thing on a linux box?
I wouldn't say that this is a safe statement considering the actions lately against Altavista's mp3 search engine as well as the AOL search engine.
Search engines that link to copyrighted files (mp3's) are being witch-hunted.
no offense, but I disagree with your signature.
Italian men as well as many europeans men carry large "wallets" that could be called purses by americans.
many english actually call a wallet a purse.
also, did you ever see the Seinfeld episode about the male purse?
what does this mean for the much-hyped Transmeta chips?
undoubtably, these StrongARM chips are Transmeta's biggest competition. Why would serious competitors in the info appliance market choose Transmeta's unproven chips instead of the market leader Intel's fast and proven chips?