This is Slashdot. I frankly think that the item neglects some of the interesting facts. For example: how would the Dutch government store the data? Will our data be stored in some opaque Excel format, for example?
This was predicted long ago in one of Joel's most popular essays. Joel Spolsky used to work in Microsoft and he foresaw the exploitation of cookie and information swap:
...One day, Expedia could start offering higher fares to customers who have more than a million dollars in their Investor stock portfolio. There's not really anything technically impossible about this, and it's probably legal, too......The scary thing is that if you use Internet Explorer, Microsoft controls your web browser...
This blog item does not have any mentioning of Markov models, which in my blunt opinion, proves that the author fails to grasp the real merit of the method.
The ability to look at sequences of words up to a certain depth (as much as brute-force permits) could get you nice textures in graphics and get good flow of coherent text (Sci-GEN from MIT comes to mind.
such as the contrasting the wide availability of computers in schools to the generally limited use among students
When you pay over $1000 per MS-based machine, that may be true. But as Linspire.com shows, students in Indiana will have their own Linux box at school:
I did not check the 'plug-in' closely enough at first, but let's face it:
Whoever retains those Web pages used a format that is utterly unnecessary. It comes to show ignorance in the field of Web design. Look at some of the others with Toy O/S who still cannot view the images. Why not provide us with a spreadsheet to download and view? You know, just to just get the idea of how this patent works? That's the quivalent of using the GIMP, don't you think?
*sorry about the rant*
When someone puts images under a heading called 'Images', you expect it to contain images, not a plug-in that Firefox is unable to install.
I am sorry, but I think the USPTO is committing a crime greater than that of Microsoft by disallowing me to read patents (government-supported service) on a modern Linux system.
Here's the issue with small-profile 'good writeups':
As soon as they appear in Slashdot, they vanish from the face of this Earth. Even the mirrors to/. do not appear to work, so what's the point. News that matter, but where's the news?
Very few sites, if any, will use JavaScript/child windows to request details. While I agree that some people are unaware of that, they probably ought to stay away from malicious sites to begin with.
Why would somebody want something so light-weight? It seems as if people enjoy being the exception so they make imparactical decisions. You would be better off running a major Linux distro... and guess what? It will cost you the same.
Hardware become smaller and cheaper. The CPU speed changes slowly; RAM and all of that malarkey matters very little at this point where the O/S just doesn't need it.
There are already ways by which laptops with Linux installed can be purchased. The major news is the HP initiative that can spark similar behaviour in IBM, Dell (who do SuSE), etc.
Slashdot Mirror
You make a good and valid point. It is not a review; it is a Preview, where P stands for 'pseudo'.
This seems like a service surprisingly similar to what was Slashdotted about two weeks ago:
http://www.trustedsource.org/
Was there really a point in recommending yet another tool which does practically(-ish) the same thing?
This is Slashdot. I frankly think that the item neglects some of the interesting facts. For example: how would the Dutch government store the data? Will our data be stored in some opaque Excel format, for example?
This was predicted long ago in one of Joel's most popular essays. Joel Spolsky used to work in Microsoft and he foresaw the exploitation of cookie and information swap:
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...One day, Expedia could start offering higher fares to customers who have more than a million dollars in their Investor stock portfolio. There's not really anything technically impossible about this, and it's probably legal, too... ...The scary thing is that if you use Internet Explorer, Microsoft controls your web browser...
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000
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This blog item does not have any mentioning of Markov models, which in my blunt opinion, proves that the author fails to grasp the real merit of the method.
The ability to look at sequences of words up to a certain depth (as much as brute-force permits) could get you nice textures in graphics and get good flow of coherent text (Sci-GEN from MIT comes to mind.
Person #1: How much memory have you got on that rusty PDA?
Person #2: 16 MB, why?
Person #1: Gimme a coupla seconds and I'd WHACK it!
Palm viruses were created as "proof of concept", but haven't been found in the wild frequently, if ever. The Treos might make the exceptions.
Either way, AV for the Palm is utterly unnecessary. Spend your money where it makes a difference.
such as the contrasting the wide availability of computers in schools to the generally limited use among students
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When you pay over $1000 per MS-based machine, that may be true. But as Linspire.com shows, students in Indiana will have their own Linux box at school:
http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressrelease
If it took them 80 years to find his manuscript, one wonders how much of his privacy is in jeopardy.
For the curious, I think it's been 2 or 3 years since Albert's manuscripts were put in:
http://alberteinstein.info/
I remember the announcement from Reuters at the time.
http://www.mopoke.co.uk/weather/
Scraping of BBC Weather, but it works!
The guy got CANNED, but so did we...
I did not check the 'plug-in' closely enough at first, but let's face it:
Whoever retains those Web pages used a format that is utterly unnecessary. It comes to show ignorance in the field of Web design. Look at some of the others with Toy O/S who still cannot view the images. Why not provide us with a spreadsheet to download and view? You know, just to just get the idea of how this patent works? That's the quivalent of using the GIMP, don't you think? *sorry about the rant*
When someone puts images under a heading called 'Images', you expect it to contain images, not a plug-in that Firefox is unable to install.
I am sorry, but I think the USPTO is committing a crime greater than that of Microsoft by disallowing me to read patents (government-supported service) on a modern Linux system.
Here's the issue with small-profile 'good writeups': As soon as they appear in Slashdot, they vanish from the face of this Earth. Even the mirrors to /. do not appear to work, so what's the point. News that matter, but where's the news?
http://www.networkmirror.com/nNGlOJLHQQQL6PP9/www. flexbeta.net/main/articles.php%3Faction%3Dshow%26i d%3D99.html
Use the mirror which runs on a sane server:
. flexbeta.net/main/comments.php%3Fcatid%3D1%26shown ews%3D13839.html
http://www.networkmirror.com/JOdkEXG2eLXwsioX/www
Only 5 minutes and the government has already killed that E-mail. Impressive!
The homebred Google toolbar is already far behind with PRGoogleBar ( http://www.prgooglebar.org/ ) out , a successor of the GoogleBar project.
Is it just my imagination, or is this warpping going to warp up the server? It's the blanket effect.
If one of these self-temprature-controlling containers (like the astronauts use in space) gets used, does it really save energy?
...then perhaps the flaw is in the user.
Very few sites, if any, will use JavaScript/child windows to request details. While I agree that some people are unaware of that, they probably ought to stay away from malicious sites to begin with.
Why would somebody want something so light-weight? It seems as if people enjoy being the exception so they make imparactical decisions. You would be better off running a major Linux distro... and guess what? It will cost you the same.
Who wouldn't buy, only to play the game that no-one can resist compiling Linux Kernel on the playstation. That sure can keep one up until 5 AM.
Salesman: Here you see the latest XBox which render a zillions polygons per second.
Customer: Does it come with gcc?
Salesman: Is that one of the latest patches?
Customer: *sign* Not interested...
Hardware become smaller and cheaper. The CPU speed changes slowly; RAM and all of that malarkey matters very little at this point where the O/S just doesn't need it.
So, smaller is equally good.
Sinatra singing Oops I did it Again?
There are some innovations which are novel, but aren't quite built to be of use.
There are already ways by which laptops with Linux installed can be purchased. The major news is the HP initiative that can spark similar behaviour in IBM, Dell (who do SuSE), etc.