The cutting of reader had less to do with costs and more to do with pushing it's users into Google Plus (and Google Currents on Android). The simple truth is nearly any page that posts an RSS feed duplicates the content onto Twitter, Facebook, and G+ nowadays so the use of services like reader shinks more and more all the time.
Natural Gas burns clean. Environmentalists are not against natural gas produced conventionally. They are against fracking because it affects the water table and has been shown to affect seismic activity as well. States that are heavily fracking are playing with fire.
Creaating nuclear power efficiently today requires uranium, something that is very limited on this planet.
If Fukashima has not occurred, we would be currently looking at a global uranium shortage in the next 5 years as existing major sources (re-purposing from old warheads) dry up and are not replaced with new mines.
Whenever production of power plants comes back on track, we will once again be facing such a shortage.
There was a time in the 1800s where if you were a woman who defied your husband, you were a criminal.
There was a time not to long ago, within many people's lifetimes in fact, that if you were a black american and went off the plantation, you were a criminal.
There was a time even more recently where if you were a man having sex with another man, you were a criminal. In fact, in many US states this is still true.
How is a society supposed to change, evolve, and grow when the government is acting as big brother into the lives of everyone? If this kind of surveillance had been around 200 years ago, then women would still not have the vote and blacks would still be slaves, because anyone who dared think otherwise would be caught and arrested.
This is all we use in Canada for every election at every level. It works fine. You have 100% paper trail, electronic tallying speed, no "hanging chaff" nonsense. It's a tried and true technology that has been around for decades and decades and decades. I don't know why the US goofs around with these other systems, other then PORK PORK PORK PORK PORK
What this article is not mentioning nor any comment thus far asking is the very important question of what happens to Hulu's content deals when it gets sold? There is a reason Hulu has access to next-day TV from NBC, Fox, and ABC... because they own the damn company. There is a reason they have no shows from CBS. If Yahoo! or anyone else buys Hulu, will they still have access to next-day shows from most US networks? Would they lose ABC? Or would CBS come on board? These are very important questions because the US network access is basically the driver for all Hulu subscriptions... no one gets a Hulu account to look at second-rate movies.
I think you need to re-read the summary of this post and the linked article where it is suggested that these apps should be used for more day-to-day conversations.
I am not arguing that this app does not have a place. I am saying its place is not to supplant existing messaging services. It serves a niche, that is all.
Keeping chat history in the cloud with Google Talk / Hangouts is one of the features I love about the service the most. I can not even count the number of times that the ability to look at old chat logs has saved my butt.
The very "feature" SnapChat is promoting is also the reason I would never use their service... I want and need a cloud-based shared history for my chat logs, thanks. To me, they are just as important and ephemeral as emails.
Google+ Photos (aka Picasa) has 343 million active users. Flickr has 87million. I think Google has photo sharing figured out.
Google groups also dwarfs Yahoo groups. Not only do they have 30 years of back data but the sheer number of available groups is about 100x. I don't even know how you can compare Yahoo to Google in this respect, it is kind of nonsensical.
iGoogle is being retired because no one uses it. Just liek no one uses My Yahoo. Personalized home pages is about 10 years ago.
It is not the tech community, it is the business community.
5 Billion in profit may sound like a lot to you and me, but to a company with 11,000 employees it is chump change. There is a reason Yahoo only has a 7x P/E and a $27 stock price... the outlook is horrible. Yahoo's annual revenue has DECLINED every year since 2009. Compare to Google who has doubled there revenue since 2009, and grown it roughly 50% the past two years. Compare to Google, who makes 10x the revenue yahoo does with only 5x the headcount. It is a much more efficient money making machine than Yahoo.
If Yahoo doesn't stop the bleeding soon then the well will run dry. A company that makes no money can't carry 11,000 employees.
For starters, people actually use and like Google's products. Everyone uses Google search - everyone. There is a reason "to Google" is a verb people use in daily life and "to Bing" is not unless it is being forced down someone's throat by product placement. People use GMail en masse, again because they like it, not because people are telling them to or because it came with their ISP. People actively MOVE to GMail and make new accounts. Who uses Yahoo mail besides people trying to keep a decade-old email address alive - who are they new people flocking to it? Who are the people flocking to Yahoo search?
The one last bastion of Yahoo that Google has not yet conquered is Finance. Google Finance is nice, but Yahoo Finance is still better and much more complete. If I were Yahoo I would be putting a lot more focus into it's finance product... focus on what works. They should just get out of the email and social space totally.
This is what I have been saying for a dogs age. Security "professionals" have this all wrong because they neglect a very simple concept - NOT ALL ONLINE DATA IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT.
Frankly, I don't care if someone hacks my slashdot account. I don't care if someone hacks the account to the deals forum I visit. The worst that will happen is it will be a minor inconvenience to get the password reset, and they might post some troll information about me.
The only accounts that I have that I care about security are my banking accounts, my Facebook account, and my email account. That is pretty much it. I don't even care about Twitter really.
By forcing all random accounts to have strong passwords, you make the password management problem a lot more difficult than it should be for the average user.
Furthermore, all of these random one-off sites should be using OpenID / Google Login / Twitter / Yahoo / Facebook Login / SOMETHING, some form of identity federation... preferably supporting multiple of these. There is no reason that a mom & pop shop website should be managing identity credentials in this day and age, it is not required. Everyone on the planet has an account with SOME ONE of these providers, or an OpenId provider.
To extend your anoalogy... say you hate broccoli. But, every time your friends want to go out to eat. they always go to this trendy broccoli restaurant. They refuse to try other restaurants because all their friends eat at this one, and they see nothing wrong with this one, at least nothing bad enough for them to leave all their friends.
You can thus either find new friends, or eat broccoli.
Not only do they tell you all the information they have on you, they allow you to backup most of it, and delete it if you want. Try to do the same with Facebook or Microsoft or any other provider.
There are a lot of companies and organizations where this would be considered a benefit since they would no longer need to construct special buildings to block wireless from leaving high-security rooms / the building.
.. which means that as usual IE will be holding back web development for another 5 years. I am being serious. This is an ongoing problem for anyone who developers client-facing sites especially when long-term support is part of the requirement. Most companies simply can't justify having one group of engineers working on WebGL and then another group working on some other IE-only implementation... they do not have resources like this. You have limited resources and need to choose one solution that works across as many users as possible. And as much as the/. crowd hates to admit it, IE still comprises a good 40% of the browser share so something that excludes those people is not an option. Which means WebGL will not be a mainstream option for more years to come because a) IE drug their feet in adoption, and b) they won't move to a rapid release cycle.
.. I wish there was a "This video was funded by public donations" under the NASA ad at the end. I can see a lot of people in the theatre being needlessly jaded by the idea that their tax dollars were spent advertising a government agency, when that isn't the case here.
This seems like a really dumb move. What the team has done now is to raise the exposure level of this vulnerability by a HUGE margin. Now all any script kiddie needs to do is find a mirror of the code from 24 hours ago or any other recent period, which is likely quite trivial to do with an open source project as large as postgresql, and hunt for the vulnerability. They know it will be pretty bad since they did this action!
Slashdot Mirror
The cutting of reader had less to do with costs and more to do with pushing it's users into Google Plus (and Google Currents on Android). The simple truth is nearly any page that posts an RSS feed duplicates the content onto Twitter, Facebook, and G+ nowadays so the use of services like reader shinks more and more all the time.
Google Glass is not completely new? In what way?
Yes there has been VR before and there has been AR before but not like this and not in a format digestable by any consumer.
I seriously think Glass is going to change the way people operate.
Natural Gas burns clean. Environmentalists are not against natural gas produced conventionally. They are against fracking because it affects the water table and has been shown to affect seismic activity as well. States that are heavily fracking are playing with fire.
Creaating nuclear power efficiently today requires uranium, something that is very limited on this planet.
If Fukashima has not occurred, we would be currently looking at a global uranium shortage in the next 5 years as existing major sources (re-purposing from old warheads) dry up and are not replaced with new mines.
Whenever production of power plants comes back on track, we will once again be facing such a shortage.
There was a time in the 1800s where if you were a woman who defied your husband, you were a criminal.
There was a time not to long ago, within many people's lifetimes in fact, that if you were a black american and went off the plantation, you were a criminal.
There was a time even more recently where if you were a man having sex with another man, you were a criminal. In fact, in many US states this is still true.
How is a society supposed to change, evolve, and grow when the government is acting as big brother into the lives of everyone? If this kind of surveillance had been around 200 years ago, then women would still not have the vote and blacks would still be slaves, because anyone who dared think otherwise would be caught and arrested.
What do you mean.. worth 230 billion dollars vs. Oracles 160? Having 10x the EPS of Oracle? 19th on the Forbes 100 (vs Oracles 89th) ?
I would think Oracle would LOVE to be where IBM is now.
This is all we use in Canada for every election at every level. It works fine. You have 100% paper trail, electronic tallying speed, no "hanging chaff" nonsense. It's a tried and true technology that has been around for decades and decades and decades. I don't know why the US goofs around with these other systems, other then PORK PORK PORK PORK PORK
What this article is not mentioning nor any comment thus far asking is the very important question of what happens to Hulu's content deals when it gets sold? There is a reason Hulu has access to next-day TV from NBC, Fox, and ABC... because they own the damn company. There is a reason they have no shows from CBS. If Yahoo! or anyone else buys Hulu, will they still have access to next-day shows from most US networks? Would they lose ABC? Or would CBS come on board? These are very important questions because the US network access is basically the driver for all Hulu subscriptions... no one gets a Hulu account to look at second-rate movies.
If someone wrote something to me, then I want a record of it I can look up later. Forever, or until I later decide it is of no use to me.
I don't care if they wrote it in email, or Facebook, or IM. They wrote it down, I want a record.
I think you need to re-read the summary of this post and the linked article where it is suggested that these apps should be used for more day-to-day conversations.
I am not arguing that this app does not have a place. I am saying its place is not to supplant existing messaging services. It serves a niche, that is all.
Keeping chat history in the cloud with Google Talk / Hangouts is one of the features I love about the service the most. I can not even count the number of times that the ability to look at old chat logs has saved my butt.
The very "feature" SnapChat is promoting is also the reason I would never use their service... I want and need a cloud-based shared history for my chat logs, thanks. To me, they are just as important and ephemeral as emails.
Google+ Photos (aka Picasa) has 343 million active users. Flickr has 87million. I think Google has photo sharing figured out.
Google groups also dwarfs Yahoo groups. Not only do they have 30 years of back data but the sheer number of available groups is about 100x. I don't even know how you can compare Yahoo to Google in this respect, it is kind of nonsensical.
iGoogle is being retired because no one uses it. Just liek no one uses My Yahoo. Personalized home pages is about 10 years ago.
It is not the tech community, it is the business community.
5 Billion in profit may sound like a lot to you and me, but to a company with 11,000 employees it is chump change. There is a reason Yahoo only has a 7x P/E and a $27 stock price... the outlook is horrible. Yahoo's annual revenue has DECLINED every year since 2009. Compare to Google who has doubled there revenue since 2009, and grown it roughly 50% the past two years. Compare to Google, who makes 10x the revenue yahoo does with only 5x the headcount. It is a much more efficient money making machine than Yahoo.
If Yahoo doesn't stop the bleeding soon then the well will run dry. A company that makes no money can't carry 11,000 employees.
For starters, people actually use and like Google's products. Everyone uses Google search - everyone. There is a reason "to Google" is a verb people use in daily life and "to Bing" is not unless it is being forced down someone's throat by product placement. People use GMail en masse, again because they like it, not because people are telling them to or because it came with their ISP. People actively MOVE to GMail and make new accounts. Who uses Yahoo mail besides people trying to keep a decade-old email address alive - who are they new people flocking to it? Who are the people flocking to Yahoo search?
The one last bastion of Yahoo that Google has not yet conquered is Finance. Google Finance is nice, but Yahoo Finance is still better and much more complete. If I were Yahoo I would be putting a lot more focus into it's finance product... focus on what works. They should just get out of the email and social space totally.
This is what I have been saying for a dogs age. Security "professionals" have this all wrong because they neglect a very simple concept - NOT ALL ONLINE DATA IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT.
Frankly, I don't care if someone hacks my slashdot account. I don't care if someone hacks the account to the deals forum I visit. The worst that will happen is it will be a minor inconvenience to get the password reset, and they might post some troll information about me.
The only accounts that I have that I care about security are my banking accounts, my Facebook account, and my email account. That is pretty much it. I don't even care about Twitter really.
By forcing all random accounts to have strong passwords, you make the password management problem a lot more difficult than it should be for the average user.
Furthermore, all of these random one-off sites should be using OpenID / Google Login / Twitter / Yahoo / Facebook Login / SOMETHING, some form of identity federation... preferably supporting multiple of these. There is no reason that a mom & pop shop website should be managing identity credentials in this day and age, it is not required. Everyone on the planet has an account with SOME ONE of these providers, or an OpenId provider.
To extend your anoalogy... say you hate broccoli. But, every time your friends want to go out to eat. they always go to this trendy broccoli restaurant. They refuse to try other restaurants because all their friends eat at this one, and they see nothing wrong with this one, at least nothing bad enough for them to leave all their friends.
You can thus either find new friends, or eat broccoli.
This is why everyone uses Facebook.
If you are super paranoid and don't want anything sent to Google then just install Cyanogenmod and don't install any Google apps.
or "the soccer mom effect"
You need to look up Google Dashboard.
Not only do they tell you all the information they have on you, they allow you to backup most of it, and delete it if you want. Try to do the same with Facebook or Microsoft or any other provider.
There are a lot of companies and organizations where this would be considered a benefit since they would no longer need to construct special buildings to block wireless from leaving high-security rooms / the building.
.. which means that as usual IE will be holding back web development for another 5 years. I am being serious. This is an ongoing problem for anyone who developers client-facing sites especially when long-term support is part of the requirement. Most companies simply can't justify having one group of engineers working on WebGL and then another group working on some other IE-only implementation... they do not have resources like this. You have limited resources and need to choose one solution that works across as many users as possible. And as much as the /. crowd hates to admit it, IE still comprises a good 40% of the browser share so something that excludes those people is not an option. Which means WebGL will not be a mainstream option for more years to come because a) IE drug their feet in adoption, and b) they won't move to a rapid release cycle.
The guy was not just building traps. He knew what they were being used for. That is the difference here.
Building traps for a client = legal.
Building traps for a client when you know they are using them to do illegal activities = illegal.
Great so this guy has been running this server for the past 9 years sucking down $30 / month in power for what purpose exactly?
.. I wish there was a "This video was funded by public donations" under the NASA ad at the end. I can see a lot of people in the theatre being needlessly jaded by the idea that their tax dollars were spent advertising a government agency, when that isn't the case here.
This seems like a really dumb move. What the team has done now is to raise the exposure level of this vulnerability by a HUGE margin. Now all any script kiddie needs to do is find a mirror of the code from 24 hours ago or any other recent period, which is likely quite trivial to do with an open source project as large as postgresql, and hunt for the vulnerability. They know it will be pretty bad since they did this action!