However, whoever wrote this summary got one thing wrong at the end. A "Joe Job" - sending out fake spam to smear someone you dislike - is useless.
I submitted the story but did not write the following:
Frequent Slashdot contributor (and author of a book on Digital Cash) Peter Wayner wonders if "the way to get a business shut down is to send out a couple billion spam messages in its name."
The above was added by the editor. The article and linked PDF are about cutting off the payment processing for those selling the "spammed" products in order to indirectly reduce the amount of spam. They are not about going after companies who send the spam (either under their own name or those of others).
There are millions of game consoles out there - millions - and yet there aren't very many revisions of hardware per model. It's not hard for the manufacturers to test how these required updates are going to affect their hardware. But here we are again, a story about revisions of two major consoles having serious issues with a firmware update.
These required updates are ridiculous. We wouldn't put up with having to take our cars back to the dealer to have required maintenance done that would take away some feature or option we paid for, let alone having the maintenance leave the car in a troubled or non-working state.
There needs to be some sort of consumer protection to prevent these types of things. What's next, an update for our phones that prevents us from dialing 800 numbers because they are costing corporations too much money when we call?
First, taxation is in fact a restriction of trade. Indeed it is one of the primary restrictions of trade exercised by governments.
The tax is on the individual purchasing the goods, not the company selling them. They are not restricting the company or its ability to trade goods at all.
Second, requiring a company to collect taxes in a state in which it has no physical presence could be construed as taxation without representation, an issue which historically speaking is unpopular in the USA
The individual who is being taxed - the person who is purchasing the goods - is paying the sales tax of the state in which they reside. They are in fact represented in their own state. If they had to pay the sales tax of the state that the goods where shipped from then they would be paying taxes to a state in which they were not represented (if it was a state other than their own).
BTW, if I buy visit another state and buy something, or stay in a hotel, or participate in any transaction that is taxed I am being taxed without representation in that state.
Collecting taxes for multiple states will require that we spend money on employing people to review, understand, program, and monitor these activities.
It means the States will need to employ people in sales tax audit departments to increase the revenues each state collects. It should be a net gain for them.
This isn't restricting interstate commerce - it's just requiring companies that sell to states they are not located in to collect the sales/use tax for those states. It's adding requirements to collect taxes but not saying they can't sell to other states. If they don't collect the taxes the States will have to go after the companies and not the Federal government.
How about someone comes up with something scientifically significant without proving to be in bed with one side or the other?
Maybe because no one outside of the "beds" is concerned about this issue? If you get a research firm or university to study this matter they will be biased by the existence of, or lack of, wireless in their facility.
This is nice for the press, the bloggers and the curious, but do we really want all court proceedings 'broadcast' in this manner? Are we looking at a future where "live court reporting" takes place complete with ads and commentators? The quality will be even worse than the NFL channel's piss-poor play-by-play coverage of games.
It does, however, prove that high pixel density and high-resolution tablet displays are possible without unreasonable power requirements coming along in the process.
I'm not sure the power requirements are the biggest issue with this type of display. I think cost is going to be the biggest hurdle it has to clear before it finds its way into a tablet.
But if I prove I'm innocent, can I still check the QED box? Or does my last name have to be Feynman for that?
I'm so sorry, but Mr Feynman was a natural born citizen and did not have to submit to this type of lottery. I'm sure if he'd had to at least one of his book would have been devoted to this subject and its inherent complexities.
Companies have tracked spending on corporate credit cards since forever; after all, it's their money you're spending, not yours, and they don't want you to spend it on booze and hookers.
Those are just two of the many reasons I'm my own boss.
You don't think Modernity might have something to do with it along the lines of personal responsibility, amount of shame felt, sense of societal responsibility, etc etc. I think modernity might have a great deal to do with it.
Corporations may have the same rights as individuals but they certainly don't have the same feelings as people do. With enough PR spin and a few well advertised public outreach/goodwill programs even TEPCO will not be reviled with a few years. In the mean time it's not like the public has many options regarding switching providers of electricity.
That really suggests that, rather than be upset about the lack of open sources, people should be concerned as to why Google felt it reasonable to release software they're reluctant to release sources to because they're embarrassed.
Like many others in the tablet arena Google rushed something to market in order to stake out some early market share. Seems like we keep hearing similar stories. At least Honeycomb won't make it onto this.
Nevermind also that half of the TOR network end nodes are monitored and sniff your traffic and can modify your browsing session in various ways. Just imagine the fun when you happen to use an end node that serves you a drive-by download exploit instead of the page you requested.
At least it will arrive securely and anonymously - and isn't that what it's really all about?;-)
Maybe some people are getting mentally 'lazy'. I guess they could have said the same thing about all of the technology developed during the industrial revolution. I know that I'm certainly less apt to cut my grass "by hand" now that I have a nice power mower... and that car sure comes in hand when I don't feel like carrying stuff home from the store.
I blame Sony for not having security sufficient to prevent such an attack in the first place. What, did we have a Win '08 server facing the 'net without a firewall??
No, it was a PS3 that used to serve as a Linux firewall. Unfortunately they 'patched' it and now it doesn't run Linux anymore.
I realize you wanted to be first but couldn't afford it. We'd be happy to rent you a comparable posting position for an outrageous interest rate and some undisclosed tracking software.
Big companies, that have decided to put crucial operations on Amazon computers are apt to pay up for the equivalent of computing insurance, analysts say. Netflix, the movie rental site, has become a large customer of the Amazon cloud. Most of its Web technology — customer movie queues, search tools and the like — runs in Amazon data centers.
Netflix said it had sailed through the last couple of days unscathed. “That’s because Netflix has taken full advantage of Amazon Web Services’ redundant cloud architecture,” which insures against technical malfunctions in any one location, said Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesman.
Slashdot Mirror
Or am I missing something?
What we're all missing is the list of these fake URL-shortening sites. Neither the article or the full PDF listed them.
Was this done for its customers' families or for its future parent, AT&T?
You really need to ask? This was done for profits whether AT&T acquires them or not.
Have they claimed Vaporware Award 2011 before?
They did, but it turns out it was just a premature announcement. ;-)
However, whoever wrote this summary got one thing wrong at the end. A "Joe Job" - sending out fake spam to smear someone you dislike - is useless.
I submitted the story but did not write the following:
Frequent Slashdot contributor (and author of a book on Digital Cash) Peter Wayner wonders if "the way to get a business shut down is to send out a couple billion spam messages in its name."
The above was added by the editor. The article and linked PDF are about cutting off the payment processing for those selling the "spammed" products in order to indirectly reduce the amount of spam. They are not about going after companies who send the spam (either under their own name or those of others).
There are millions of game consoles out there - millions - and yet there aren't very many revisions of hardware per model. It's not hard for the manufacturers to test how these required updates are going to affect their hardware. But here we are again, a story about revisions of two major consoles having serious issues with a firmware update.
These required updates are ridiculous. We wouldn't put up with having to take our cars back to the dealer to have required maintenance done that would take away some feature or option we paid for, let alone having the maintenance leave the car in a troubled or non-working state.
There needs to be some sort of consumer protection to prevent these types of things. What's next, an update for our phones that prevents us from dialing 800 numbers because they are costing corporations too much money when we call?
First, taxation is in fact a restriction of trade. Indeed it is one of the primary restrictions of trade exercised by governments.
The tax is on the individual purchasing the goods, not the company selling them. They are not restricting the company or its ability to trade goods at all.
Second, requiring a company to collect taxes in a state in which it has no physical presence could be construed as taxation without representation, an issue which historically speaking is unpopular in the USA
The individual who is being taxed - the person who is purchasing the goods - is paying the sales tax of the state in which they reside. They are in fact represented in their own state. If they had to pay the sales tax of the state that the goods where shipped from then they would be paying taxes to a state in which they were not represented (if it was a state other than their own).
BTW, if I buy visit another state and buy something, or stay in a hotel, or participate in any transaction that is taxed I am being taxed without representation in that state.
Collecting taxes for multiple states will require that we spend money on employing people to review, understand, program, and monitor these activities.
It means the States will need to employ people in sales tax audit departments to increase the revenues each state collects. It should be a net gain for them.
This isn't restricting interstate commerce - it's just requiring companies that sell to states they are not located in to collect the sales/use tax for those states. It's adding requirements to collect taxes but not saying they can't sell to other states. If they don't collect the taxes the States will have to go after the companies and not the Federal government.
How about someone comes up with something scientifically significant without proving to be in bed with one side or the other?
Maybe because no one outside of the "beds" is concerned about this issue? If you get a research firm or university to study this matter they will be biased by the existence of, or lack of, wireless in their facility.
This is nice for the press, the bloggers and the curious, but do we really want all court proceedings 'broadcast' in this manner? Are we looking at a future where "live court reporting" takes place complete with ads and commentators? The quality will be even worse than the NFL channel's piss-poor play-by-play coverage of games.
It does, however, prove that high pixel density and high-resolution tablet displays are possible without unreasonable power requirements coming along in the process.
I'm not sure the power requirements are the biggest issue with this type of display. I think cost is going to be the biggest hurdle it has to clear before it finds its way into a tablet.
But if I prove I'm innocent, can I still check the QED box? Or does my last name have to be Feynman for that?
I'm so sorry, but Mr Feynman was a natural born citizen and did not have to submit to this type of lottery. I'm sure if he'd had to at least one of his book would have been devoted to this subject and its inherent complexities.
Um, a pending past?
It means you have to leave the QED box unchecked on the lottery form.
Companies have tracked spending on corporate credit cards since forever; after all, it's their money you're spending, not yours, and they don't want you to spend it on booze and hookers.
Those are just two of the many reasons I'm my own boss.
You don't think Modernity might have something to do with it along the lines of personal responsibility, amount of shame felt, sense of societal responsibility, etc etc. I think modernity might have a great deal to do with it.
Corporations may have the same rights as individuals but they certainly don't have the same feelings as people do. With enough PR spin and a few well advertised public outreach/goodwill programs even TEPCO will not be reviled with a few years. In the mean time it's not like the public has many options regarding switching providers of electricity.
That really suggests that, rather than be upset about the lack of open sources, people should be concerned as to why Google felt it reasonable to release software they're reluctant to release sources to because they're embarrassed.
Like many others in the tablet arena Google rushed something to market in order to stake out some early market share. Seems like we keep hearing similar stories. At least Honeycomb won't make it onto this.
Um, so the 10 movies I've watched since the PSN outage on my PS3 were beamed into my head using telepathy?
Ah, I see you're using their new beta telepathic service "NeuralNetFlix". It's currently being tested in and around Alphaville.
Nevermind also that half of the TOR network end nodes are monitored and sniff your traffic and can modify your browsing session in various ways. Just imagine the fun when you happen to use an end node that serves you a drive-by download exploit instead of the page you requested.
At least it will arrive securely and anonymously - and isn't that what it's really all about? ;-)
To protect myself against these poisoned image search results I make sure I always use Lynx when I search for images.
Since when does the ability to extract an unprotected archive format count as hacking?
Hack, Hackers, Hacking - those words have lost their original meaning (much like Expert has).
Maybe some people are getting mentally 'lazy'. I guess they could have said the same thing about all of the technology developed during the industrial revolution. I know that I'm certainly less apt to cut my grass "by hand" now that I have a nice power mower ... and that car sure comes in hand when I don't feel like carrying stuff home from the store.
Wild speculation! Is TG a news source or an opinion piece?
I guess that depends on if 'TG' stands for 'Total Garbage' (which is my opinion of the TFA).
I blame Sony for not having security sufficient to prevent such an attack in the first place. What, did we have a Win '08 server facing the 'net without a firewall??
No, it was a PS3 that used to serve as a Linux firewall. Unfortunately they 'patched' it and now it doesn't run Linux anymore.
OMG FIRST!
I realize you wanted to be first but couldn't afford it. We'd be happy to rent you a comparable posting position for an outrageous interest rate and some undisclosed tracking software.
How To Encourage Better Research Software?
Use serious grant money to pay for it - even if it's paying students at a university.
Big companies, that have decided to put crucial operations on Amazon computers are apt to pay up for the equivalent of computing insurance, analysts say. Netflix, the movie rental site, has become a large customer of the Amazon cloud. Most of its Web technology — customer movie queues, search tools and the like — runs in Amazon data centers.
Netflix said it had sailed through the last couple of days unscathed. “That’s because Netflix has taken full advantage of Amazon Web Services’ redundant cloud architecture,” which insures against technical malfunctions in any one location, said Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesman.
Sounds like it worked for some.