.. you must have a finite number of clients. Even assuming 500 passwords in that file, it would take anyone with the nerve only a short time to brute force the right password.
When I speak on the phone, none of it get's recorded unless someone makes a special effort to do so. I would hope my computing experience could be the same.
And I really hate the idea that a bunch of you people are thinking I'm some kind of major criminal for wanting it that way. If you happen to be one of the ones that think I should be happy to have everything logged
This is a really bad analogy, because you can't undo a phone conversation.
The ability to correct mistakes is one of the reasons personal computing became so popular in the workplace to begin with. Kind of hard to go back to a known good state without keeping a history.
You see, even in this case, when it comes to not taking the standard (like in the DVD case), us consumers will have to pay for drives which reads both kinds of disks. Which means we have to fork out more money for those drives, and those companies manufacturing those drives lose profits, which make them raise prices even more.
Yeah, because I know my DVD burner I just bought that can burn DVD+-RW/DVD+-R/DVD-RAM/CD-RW (that's 6 formats BTW, not just two) was way over priced.
I mean 40 dollars??? HELL it cost at least as much as an evenings dinner. How can anyone expect to pay that???
It's amazing how many day-to-day operations require the inadvertent use of Windows in our daily lives.
How about zero? I can do every thing the author wnt on about in this article in Linux.
It all has to do with what you are used to. When I have to switch "cold-turkey" to Windows I feel like my arms have been chopped off. And I am not even talking about console apps here... I am talking about the inability to do simple things like right click on a web link and click "Copy To.." and browse to a FTP site.
Emphasis on the "get a warrant". Without that warrant, it is not admissable. And because the plumber idd not have one, the original search is inadmissable.
Anyways, by the time the guys got back with the warrant, you'd have long since disposed of the evidence.
We have been using AJAX here for about 1.5 years (yes, before it was called "AJAX" - I still hate that name).
Anyways, the biggest problem with it is not AJAX itself, but the browsers. Both IE and Gecko seem to have huge memory leakage problems when it comes to repainting DOM nodes on the screen.
During normal use, where the whole page unloads each web page, this is not notiecable. But try writing an AJAX application whose page should be able to be open for hours or days. You will see that even dynamically updating 1/4 of the screen with new DOM ndoes every two minutes will cause the browser to consume all available memory on the box within 24 hours.
In IE, this eventually leads to nearly a full windows crash. In Firefox, the browser needs to be totally killed and restarted. Neither is a good thing(tm).
The goventment can legally force any provider of content to label it in any way they see fit. Doing so in no way hampers the freedom of speech, because the content is still there.
How is this any different from any person reporting anything else they see to the government?
It is no different, and is thus illegal.
If you invite a plumber into your house to fix a pipe, and during the process he snoops through your kitchen drawers and discovers a bloody knife, that evidence is not admissible in court. This is what protection against "unreasonable search and seizure" means.
There is no logical reason a computer technician should be snooping around in your data files for any reason, as they have no bearing on the operation of the machine. It would be the same if you brought your car in for an oil change and they started snooping through the trunk. It is totally uncalled for.
So this would open the doorway for regulation to go after merely indecent material on non-xxx domains. They could argue in court briefs that it's not preventing them from existing. This would make it far easier for the merely indecent material to be isolated out of the mainstream Internet. Then the filters get put in place and suddenly people get a controversey free Internet.
The constitution gives you a right to freedom of speech. It does not give your a right to have people want to hear what you have to say, nor does it give you a right to force people to listen to you.
Forcing porn site operators to operate on a.XXX TLD would be no different from forcing them to be rated X and thus not accessable to minors. it is not unconstitutional at all so long as it is available to those looking for it ( if the government forced Google to not index.XXX for example, *that* would be crossing the line ).
.. because the workaround is as simple as editing your hosts file, or using a free dyndns provider to make a forward, or any other number of easy to do solutions.
The only way filtering based on TLD would work would be if the proxy did a reverse lookup on every IP to see if it belonged to the TLD, which would also make it impossible for 1.2.3.4 to belong to both bigboobies.com and bigboobies.xxx, which the porn site operators will not like.
All Google does is index the web. In this case, it seems like there are more web pages/more highly linked pages about GW being a failure than anyone else.
Is this that hard to beleive? What would you rather it return for such a query? A dictionary definition? If you want a dictionary definition, use the define: oerator.
Trust me - GW will not be on the top of the failure list forever. In another few years we will have a new most-hated person. This is the nature of a real web index, because it is the nature of the web, and of society itself - it is fickle.
Ah, there we go! Just quickly change the odds behind the backs of the players so you can reek in more... and market it as "personalized" playing experience. There is no step two...
You can't do that, it is illegal, at least in Nevada.
If you would rad up on the subject a bit more, you would see the point of this change is that the casino can compute far in advance the results for every pull of the slot, so that they can know the payout percentages in advance. This way, they can schedule the big jackpots, for instance.
Main point is, they cannot change the odds of machines on the fly - the odds need to be posted.
Anyway, why don't you re-try this argument when GMail has been around as long as Yahoo mail. I'd say for "playing catch-up" to Yahoo mail, Google has done a fucking brilliant job. You can thank the competition at GMail for your GBs of free email storage.
Actually, I had 2 GB of free email at Yahoo before GMail even existed. I think it has to do with my ISP having a deal with them, but whatever.
Also thank Google for Yahoo's slimmed down search engine page [yahoo.com]. If I ever used Yahoo, I'd probably bookmark that as my starting page over their mind-numbingly dense portal homepage.
How can you complain about the content of a 100% customizeable page? If it is mind-numbingly dense, then that is because that is the way you like it.
http://my.yahoo.com has more customizeable content than any other page I ahve ever seen. Plus you can add your own RSS feeds.
Where else can I find the likes of Y! Calender / Mail / Address book, all integrated, for free? Point me there and I might jump ship.
GMail is great for email, but it's address book is a POS, and there is no calendering whatsoever. Meanwhile, over at Y!, I have a calender that not only shows me the weather forecast for the week embedded into it, but it also issues me reminder notices via Y! IM for important dates.
Not to mention the vast usefulness of other Y! services like Launch! and Y! Photos.
Google may be leading the way as far as search, maps, and email goes, but for other services, *they* are the ones playing catch-up. For example, see their "Customized" home page, which http://my.yahoo.com/ had beat about 3 years ago.
There are 10 million MMORPG users in the world and their population is doubling every two years. Hold your hand about three feet above your monitor. That's where the graph will be in 2010.
Yeah. Just like how we have over 20 billion people in the world now , and the DJA is climbing above 20,000.
You can't just take a current trend, and extrapolate it into infinity. It is total bollocks. For one, many *many* of those "10 million users" are the same people with accounts on more than one game. For another, the number of MMORPG gamers will reach a critical mass, once it reaches the number of people who don't like to spend over 10 hours a week on their home computer - you know, people who GO OUTSIDE.
You mean that slashdot was posting a story that jumped to a wildly irrational conclusion without reading the linked data source, thus leading to hundreds of people posting even more irrational conclusions based soley on the incorrect story summary?
Say it ain't so! I can't believe this happened. here is to hoping it never happens again.
Echo and.Net are From-based web apps. Every click / button push results in a form being submitted to the server, and the whole page being re-drawn. This is no different than any other form of web development done for the past 15 years, the only benefit is ease of development or deployment on the server side.
AJAX (or whatever other name you want to give to this remoting method) is not like this. It uses the XMLHttpRequest object to submit and fetch data to/from the server without requiring a new page load, and manipulates the page using the DOM to render the results.
This results in a much smoother experience for the end user, but it usually requires quite a large shift away from the old paradigm - for example, AJAX and Stuts do not mix well. So if you have a large web app already written in Struts, and want to AJAX-ify a few parts of it to give a better UI, it can be more trouble than it is worth (it requires totally re-thinking how you do input validation, for example).
Correct me if I am wrong, but none of these are color lasers. Even the cheapest color laser will run you at least $400 AFAIK.
Even the infrequent printer like me likes to be able to print off a color picture once in awhile. And a color map is much easier to follow than a B+W one.
The question is, are you someone who prints off a page from Google Maps once/twice a month, and an occasional photo, or are you someone who prints off huge online novels to read later?
Sure, cost-per-page is much lower for a laser - *over the long haul*. Personally, I print less than 100 pages per year. I am lucky if I even go through one color ink cartridge before the ink inside just dries out from non-use.
I don't print enough that I would *ever* be able to recover the much higher initial investment of a laser printer. By the time my cost per page savings would recover the $350 more it would cost me (in say, 10 years), the printer would liekly not even work with the computer anymore.
My all-in-one HP inkjet / scanner / copiter cost only $69 CDN, and has HP supported Linux drivers. I have been using it now for 8 months, and the cartridges are both still 75% full. I am extremely satisfied with my purchase and doubt I would have had any better luck with another printer (although I wish I had splurged and gotten the one with the built in memory card reader, that would be handy).
Why do you assume that these stores are using your information to provide you with better service? Yes, that may sometimes be its ancillary effect, but their overall focus and intent is to squeeze as much money out of you as they possibly can. Read some of the studies sometime as to how they use this information.
Because the most cost-effective way top use marketing research to make money, is to use it to please customers, so that they spend more money at your store.
One store, by studying its databases, found that men often buy beer and diapers on Thursday evenings on the way home from work. Knowing that men are less price sensitive than women generally, and also that such "home from work" purchasers are less likely to be using coupons and comparing prices, the store decided to wildly jack up its prices on beer and diapers on Thursday evenings.
Assuming this is true (link, please?), then that is a pretty stupid company and is likely out of business by now. A smart company (as long as they are not in a monopoly position) offers sales and discounts on products while in peak demand, they don't jack up the prices. Why? because it is worth a lot more to take a small hit on one item to get someone into *your* store, rather than a competitor. This is called "loss-leading", and is the main reason stores have sales. Why? Because...
They will likely buy other items on that trip
They will appreciate the good prices, and thus be more likely to come back
It will re-enforce the idea that "this store has good deals". Over time, said consumer will not even bother to check the other store prices, but assume they are equal to or cheaper than your competitors, even though this may not be the case.
The thing to remember about companies is that they are *always* after their best interests. This is not always a good thing (see environmental damage, insane IP laws, etc). But sometimes it is, such as in the case of customer profiling.
Other than as a means to sell you *what* you want, *when* you want, of what use is it to a company, or anyone else for that matter, to know that you like to buy a six pack whenever you buy a pizza?
What is the point of this? All it would do is screw up all the marketing research, resulting in them shoving more crap you don't care about down your throat whenever you go to buy groceries.
Personally, I hope to hell they learn everything they can about me so that my shopping experience will go smoother and faster.
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.. you must have a finite number of clients. Even assuming 500 passwords in that file, it would take anyone with the nerve only a short time to brute force the right password.
When I speak on the phone, none of it get's recorded unless someone makes a special effort to do so. I would hope my computing experience could be the same.
And I really hate the idea that a bunch of you people are thinking I'm some kind of major criminal for wanting it that way. If you happen to be one of the ones that think I should be happy to have everything logged
This is a really bad analogy, because you can't undo a phone conversation.
The ability to correct mistakes is one of the reasons personal computing became so popular in the workplace to begin with. Kind of hard to go back to a known good state without keeping a history.
This is why machines have hard drives.
You see, even in this case, when it comes to not taking the standard (like in the DVD case), us consumers will have to pay for drives which reads both kinds of disks. Which means we have to fork out more money for those drives, and those companies manufacturing those drives lose profits, which make them raise prices even more.
Yeah, because I know my DVD burner I just bought that can burn DVD+-RW/DVD+-R/DVD-RAM/CD-RW (that's 6 formats BTW, not just two) was way over priced.
I mean 40 dollars??? HELL it cost at least as much as an evenings dinner. How can anyone expect to pay that???
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It's amazing how many day-to-day operations require the inadvertent use of Windows in our daily lives.
How about zero? I can do every thing the author wnt on about in this article in Linux.
It all has to do with what you are used to. When I have to switch "cold-turkey" to Windows I feel like my arms have been chopped off. And I am not even talking about console apps here... I am talking about the inability to do simple things like right click on a web link and click "Copy To.." and browse to a FTP site.
Emphasis on the "get a warrant". Without that warrant, it is not admissable. And because the plumber idd not have one, the original search is inadmissable.
Anyways, by the time the guys got back with the warrant, you'd have long since disposed of the evidence.
We have been using AJAX here for about 1.5 years (yes, before it was called "AJAX" - I still hate that name).
Anyways, the biggest problem with it is not AJAX itself, but the browsers. Both IE and Gecko seem to have huge memory leakage problems when it comes to repainting DOM nodes on the screen.
During normal use, where the whole page unloads each web page, this is not notiecable. But try writing an AJAX application whose page should be able to be open for hours or days. You will see that even dynamically updating 1/4 of the screen with new DOM ndoes every two minutes will cause the browser to consume all available memory on the box within 24 hours.
In IE, this eventually leads to nearly a full windows crash. In Firefox, the browser needs to be totally killed and restarted. Neither is a good thing(tm).
Your argument has absolutely no bearing on mine.
The goventment can legally force any provider of content to label it in any way they see fit. Doing so in no way hampers the freedom of speech, because the content is still there.
I never said it would succeed in doing anything. I just said the govenment can legally force them to label it as such.
If they want to waste the time, who gives a rats ass.
How is this any different from any person reporting anything else they see to the government?
It is no different, and is thus illegal.
If you invite a plumber into your house to fix a pipe, and during the process he snoops through your kitchen drawers and discovers a bloody knife, that evidence is not admissible in court. This is what protection against "unreasonable search and seizure" means.
There is no logical reason a computer technician should be snooping around in your data files for any reason, as they have no bearing on the operation of the machine. It would be the same if you brought your car in for an oil change and they started snooping through the trunk. It is totally uncalled for.
So this would open the doorway for regulation to go after merely indecent material on non-xxx domains. They could argue in court briefs that it's not preventing them from existing. This would make it far easier for the merely indecent material to be isolated out of the mainstream Internet. Then the filters get put in place and suddenly people get a controversey free Internet.
The constitution gives you a right to freedom of speech. It does not give your a right to have people want to hear what you have to say, nor does it give you a right to force people to listen to you.
Forcing porn site operators to operate on a .XXX TLD would be no different from forcing them to be rated X and thus not accessable to minors. it is not unconstitutional at all so long as it is available to those looking for it ( if the government forced Google to not index .XXX for example, *that* would be crossing the line ).
.. because the workaround is as simple as editing your hosts file, or using a free dyndns provider to make a forward, or any other number of easy to do solutions.
The only way filtering based on TLD would work would be if the proxy did a reverse lookup on every IP to see if it belonged to the TLD, which would also make it impossible for 1.2.3.4 to belong to both bigboobies.com and bigboobies.xxx, which the porn site operators will not like.
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So what was your point again? Oh yeah - you had none.
All Google does is index the web. In this case, it seems like there are more web pages/more highly linked pages about GW being a failure than anyone else.
Is this that hard to beleive? What would you rather it return for such a query? A dictionary definition? If you want a dictionary definition, use the define: oerator.
Trust me - GW will not be on the top of the failure list forever. In another few years we will have a new most-hated person. This is the nature of a real web index, because it is the nature of the web, and of society itself - it is fickle.
Ah, there we go! Just quickly change the odds behind the backs of the players so you can reek in more... and market it as "personalized" playing experience. There is no step two...
You can't do that, it is illegal, at least in Nevada.
If you would rad up on the subject a bit more, you would see the point of this change is that the casino can compute far in advance the results for every pull of the slot, so that they can know the payout percentages in advance. This way, they can schedule the big jackpots, for instance.
Main point is, they cannot change the odds of machines on the fly - the odds need to be posted.
you would know we are talking about SERVICES, not searching.
http://my.yahoo.com/ is no more about web searching, than http://slashdot.org/ is about buying cars.
Anyway, why don't you re-try this argument when GMail has been around as long as Yahoo mail. I'd say for "playing catch-up" to Yahoo mail, Google has done a fucking brilliant job. You can thank the competition at GMail for your GBs of free email storage.
Actually, I had 2 GB of free email at Yahoo before GMail even existed. I think it has to do with my ISP having a deal with them, but whatever.
Also thank Google for Yahoo's slimmed down search engine page [yahoo.com]. If I ever used Yahoo, I'd probably bookmark that as my starting page over their mind-numbingly dense portal homepage.
How can you complain about the content of a 100% customizeable page? If it is mind-numbingly dense, then that is because that is the way you like it.
http://my.yahoo.com has more customizeable content than any other page I ahve ever seen. Plus you can add your own RSS feeds.
... how come no one is?
Where else can I find the likes of Y! Calender / Mail / Address book, all integrated, for free? Point me there and I might jump ship.
GMail is great for email, but it's address book is a POS, and there is no calendering whatsoever. Meanwhile, over at Y!, I have a calender that not only shows me the weather forecast for the week embedded into it, but it also issues me reminder notices via Y! IM for important dates.
Not to mention the vast usefulness of other Y! services like Launch! and Y! Photos.
Google may be leading the way as far as search, maps, and email goes, but for other services, *they* are the ones playing catch-up. For example, see their "Customized" home page, which http://my.yahoo.com/ had beat about 3 years ago.
There are 10 million MMORPG users in the world and their population is doubling every two years. Hold your hand about three feet above your monitor. That's where the graph will be in 2010.
Yeah. Just like how we have over 20 billion people in the world now , and the DJA is climbing above 20,000.
You can't just take a current trend, and extrapolate it into infinity. It is total bollocks. For one, many *many* of those "10 million users" are the same people with accounts on more than one game. For another, the number of MMORPG gamers will reach a critical mass, once it reaches the number of people who don't like to spend over 10 hours a week on their home computer - you know, people who GO OUTSIDE.
You mean that slashdot was posting a story that jumped to a wildly irrational conclusion without reading the linked data source, thus leading to hundreds of people posting even more irrational conclusions based soley on the incorrect story summary?
Say it ain't so! I can't believe this happened. here is to hoping it never happens again.
Echo and .Net are From-based web apps. Every click / button push results in a form being submitted to the server, and the whole page being re-drawn. This is no different than any other form of web development done for the past 15 years, the only benefit is ease of development or deployment on the server side.
AJAX (or whatever other name you want to give to this remoting method) is not like this. It uses the XMLHttpRequest object to submit and fetch data to/from the server without requiring a new page load, and manipulates the page using the DOM to render the results.
This results in a much smoother experience for the end user, but it usually requires quite a large shift away from the old paradigm - for example, AJAX and Stuts do not mix well. So if you have a large web app already written in Struts, and want to AJAX-ify a few parts of it to give a better UI, it can be more trouble than it is worth (it requires totally re-thinking how you do input validation, for example).
Even the infrequent printer like me likes to be able to print off a color picture once in awhile. And a color map is much easier to follow than a B+W one.
The question is, are you someone who prints off a page from Google Maps once/twice a month, and an occasional photo, or are you someone who prints off huge online novels to read later?
Sure, cost-per-page is much lower for a laser - *over the long haul*. Personally, I print less than 100 pages per year. I am lucky if I even go through one color ink cartridge before the ink inside just dries out from non-use.
I don't print enough that I would *ever* be able to recover the much higher initial investment of a laser printer. By the time my cost per page savings would recover the $350 more it would cost me (in say, 10 years), the printer would liekly not even work with the computer anymore.
My all-in-one HP inkjet / scanner / copiter cost only $69 CDN, and has HP supported Linux drivers. I have been using it now for 8 months, and the cartridges are both still 75% full. I am extremely satisfied with my purchase and doubt I would have had any better luck with another printer (although I wish I had splurged and gotten the one with the built in memory card reader, that would be handy).
the CPU is 266 MHz and it has 128 MB of RAM
But.... does it run Linux?
Why do you assume that these stores are using your information to provide you with better service? Yes, that may sometimes be its ancillary effect, but their overall focus and intent is to squeeze as much money out of you as they possibly can. Read some of the studies sometime as to how they use this information.
Because the most cost-effective way top use marketing research to make money, is to use it to please customers, so that they spend more money at your store.
One store, by studying its databases, found that men often buy beer and diapers on Thursday evenings on the way home from work. Knowing that men are less price sensitive than women generally, and also that such "home from work" purchasers are less likely to be using coupons and comparing prices, the store decided to wildly jack up its prices on beer and diapers on Thursday evenings.
Assuming this is true (link, please?), then that is a pretty stupid company and is likely out of business by now. A smart company (as long as they are not in a monopoly position) offers sales and discounts on products while in peak demand, they don't jack up the prices. Why? because it is worth a lot more to take a small hit on one item to get someone into *your* store, rather than a competitor. This is called "loss-leading", and is the main reason stores have sales. Why? Because...
The thing to remember about companies is that they are *always* after their best interests. This is not always a good thing (see environmental damage, insane IP laws, etc). But sometimes it is, such as in the case of customer profiling.
Other than as a means to sell you *what* you want, *when* you want, of what use is it to a company, or anyone else for that matter, to know that you like to buy a six pack whenever you buy a pizza?
What is the point of this? All it would do is screw up all the marketing research, resulting in them shoving more crap you don't care about down your throat whenever you go to buy groceries.
Personally, I hope to hell they learn everything they can about me so that my shopping experience will go smoother and faster.