It's funny reading the comments here. Just goes to show that IBM's Linux strategy is really paying off. If this were any other pair of similarly sized companies, slashdot would be fully on the site of David, not Goliath.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm pro-IBM in this case, and think SCO is somewhere between moronic and suicidal. But it's definitely funny to see this level of grass-roots support for such a huge corporation.
Either we're open minded folk who can see right and wrong without prejudice, or we're so defensive about Linux that we'll side with anyone when Linux is attacked.
And sorry Mr. or Ms. EU Citizen, your website subscription now costs 15% to 25% more, starting July 1. Hope you like this added value.
I work with a porn site; starting July 1, US residents will pay $19.95, EU residents will pay $29.95. We have to charge more than the EU tax to cover the administration costs of sorting out 15 different tax zones.
And we'll certainly make it clear to EU residents *why* they're paying 50% more than people who live in the US. On the bright side, they won't really have a choice of going somewhere else, as any remotely major competitor of ours will also be charging more.
My petty side hopes that the US passes a law that EU internet companies have to collect state and local sales tax for the location where US buyers are. I reckon there are about 45,000 different local sales taxes in the US. The administrative costs alone would basically force EU companies to just not sell to US residents.
As per my post and the original topic, I was talking about watching a bunch of people and selling aggregate data. As I said, if Tivo sold my personal info, I'd be pissed. If they sell info about aggregate viewing habits that I'm included in, it's not a big deal and not an invasion of privacy.
Am I the only one who thinks that the extreme "privacy" fringe is doing a lot to discredit legitimate privacy concerns.
I care if Tivo sells a list of the programs to watch to a local advertiser who will then call me on the phone, bang on my door, or spam me with "special offers just for me." Tivo, in that case, is attempting to act as a middleman in setting up a business relationship that I have no interest in.
I do not care if Tivo sells data about how many people in California, or even my ZIP code, watched Buffy last night.
Now, there are issues with privacy policies; if Tivo has said that they wouldn't do this and then have, they've lied to their customers, and even the most paranoid privacy freak has a right to expect companies to live up their word.
But really, there are enough *very* significant privacy issues today that relate to *government* spying on *individuals* with no probably cause, warrant, etc.
I'm not at all sure that groups, such as "everyone who lives in my ZIP code" are, or should be, entitled to the same level of privacy protection that individuals deserve.
I mean, if I go down to the street corner and count how many people push the "push to cross" button and then sell that data to the people who make "push to cross" buttons, am I somehow violating peoples' privacy? If I do it in 10 cities? 100? Does it matter if I'm incorporated and have employees or not?
I'm willing to hear the other side, and I certainly subscribe to the slippery-slope argument, but for the most part I think this kind of corporate aggregation of data is at most a very minor concern in a world filled with huge privacy issues.
Also, there seems to be a lot of politics between 802.11g and a supporters, and that every article posted on the Internet about this subject might not be true, or could be politically motivated
Please, Slashdot, could we get all future stories posted in English? Or at least something resembling English?
Er, Koreans aren't familiar with the concept of free speech. And there's certainly no constitutional guarantee of it. Hard to end something that never started.
patches would need to be developed more quickly and deployed continuously in an automated mode. Admins would need better ways of locking down networks so an attack on one router is automatically recognized by all routers on the network; throttling back the throughput of suspicious packets on the network in order to limit damage; automating tools for ensuring that all network clients are compliant with security policies; and creating Web services technologies that do not interfere with application performance.
I'll try to work something up and deliver it sometime next week. Do you folks think I should also include complete public key security for every packet with no bandwidth or processor overhead?
You mean, tax us to pay for invasions of our privacy like Carnivore and Son Of Carnivore?
Otherwise, states don't pay for the "upkeep and maintenance" of the internet. This is not a gas tax that pays for roads, but a sales tax that goes into the general fund. If it's used for any internet-related purpose at all, it will be very anti-libertarian, like censorship, eavesdropping, etc.
I see a couple of problems here. Not to say it can't be done, of course, but it's not going to be that easy:
- Bit densities are getting so high that minor fluctuations in drive speed could cause all sorts of read/write errors.
- All operating systems that I've ever used seem to hit the disk periodically during idle time. In order to get the benefit here, you'd have to have some threshold for activity before spinning up. However, that could be catastrophic for any kind of real-time app, like video encoding. Allowing the drive to spin down would limit the kinds of apps you could use.
It's definitely an interesting idea, but I think it may fall into the causes-more-problems-than-it-solves category.
...What's with all of the C-Net and Infoworld stories showing up 2-3 days later on/.? It's not news if a major news outlet has had it on their front page for *days*.
I'd expect a god-only-knows-how-expensive plane like the JSF will probably include a fuel gauge, and the pilots will probably get some sort of training about when to use/not use the laser.
Intentionally radiating 900Kw of heat into the air is *not* a good strategy for a stealth aircraft.
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Really? Suppose you've got two choices for articles to read:
1) Here's your upfront and identifiable bias: a bible-thumbing fundamentalist ranting and raving that evolution is nonsense, that abortion is murder, that atheism should be illegal, and that all non-Christians are sinners who will burn in hell
2) Here's your pseudo-objective type who probably has bias: A theology professor, who has studied the world's regligion in depth, discussing the similarities and differences between them and the challenges they face in an increasingly secular and technology-focused world.
Who would you rather listen to? Now, which example is closest to the tone of the/. community when Microsoft is even peripherally brought into the conversation?
Well, I outright don't get the steamboats/river-boat analogy.
"The guys who would stand in the back and set up pins" were run of the mill retail workers. They got other retail jobs. If you really support that analogy, you pretty much have to go for "compilers eliminated assembly language programmers," and, as a former assembly language programmer now working with compiled languages, I can assure you that I am very much still here and employed just fine.
If you think Sysadmins are as adaptable as typewritiers, I guess you've got a point.
Exactly my point. Any advance in self-healing operating systems will serve to *change* the job of sysadmins, not eliminate those jobs. This article should have been titled "Sysadmin jobs may change in the future as operating systems evolve," but of course that would have been so obvious that even the most rabid chicken little types would have responded with, "well, duh."
...computer management of cars has obsoleted all auto mechanics....food processors put every chef out of a job....handwriting recognition eliminated postal workers...."eliza" makes George Bush irrelevant.
Doesn't IBM realize that, by being a proponent of open source, they're obligated to say only nice things about every single open source project under the sun?
Doesn't anyone see the irony in the slashdot blurb? "It's surprising to see IBM diss MySQL; In other news, MySQL just got transactions!"
MySQL is a fine departmental database, but a lousy enterprise database. That will probably change, of course, but for the time being both Microsoft and IBM are right.
...of course, I may have a vested interest. I'm just in the process of researching the creating of Dirty Flicks. I'd like to start a business to but extra violence, sex, and profanity into boring holywood movies.
Just imagine what a lesbian shower scene or three could do for crap like Serving Sarah or Blue Crush.
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It's funny reading the comments here. Just goes to show that IBM's Linux strategy is really paying off. If this were any other pair of similarly sized companies, slashdot would be fully on the site of David, not Goliath.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm pro-IBM in this case, and think SCO is somewhere between moronic and suicidal. But it's definitely funny to see this level of grass-roots support for such a huge corporation.
Either we're open minded folk who can see right and wrong without prejudice, or we're so defensive about Linux that we'll side with anyone when Linux is attacked.
Cheers
-b
I work with a porn site; starting July 1, US residents will pay $19.95, EU residents will pay $29.95. We have to charge more than the EU tax to cover the administration costs of sorting out 15 different tax zones.
And we'll certainly make it clear to EU residents *why* they're paying 50% more than people who live in the US. On the bright side, they won't really have a choice of going somewhere else, as any remotely major competitor of ours will also be charging more.
My petty side hopes that the US passes a law that EU internet companies have to collect state and local sales tax for the location where US buyers are. I reckon there are about 45,000 different local sales taxes in the US. The administrative costs alone would basically force EU companies to just not sell to US residents.
Cheers
-b
Ooooh, nice. 10 karma points from one post. Try replying to yourself again! :)
Cheers
-b
You've been in deep-freeze for the past 100 years, haven't you? Welcome to America, circa 2003.
Cheers
-b
As per my post and the original topic, I was talking about watching a bunch of people and selling aggregate data. As I said, if Tivo sold my personal info, I'd be pissed. If they sell info about aggregate viewing habits that I'm included in, it's not a big deal and not an invasion of privacy.
-b
Am I the only one who thinks that the extreme "privacy" fringe is doing a lot to discredit legitimate privacy concerns.
I care if Tivo sells a list of the programs to watch to a local advertiser who will then call me on the phone, bang on my door, or spam me with "special offers just for me." Tivo, in that case, is attempting to act as a middleman in setting up a business relationship that I have no interest in.
I do not care if Tivo sells data about how many people in California, or even my ZIP code, watched Buffy last night.
Now, there are issues with privacy policies; if Tivo has said that they wouldn't do this and then have, they've lied to their customers, and even the most paranoid privacy freak has a right to expect companies to live up their word.
But really, there are enough *very* significant privacy issues today that relate to *government* spying on *individuals* with no probably cause, warrant, etc.
I'm not at all sure that groups, such as "everyone who lives in my ZIP code" are, or should be, entitled to the same level of privacy protection that individuals deserve.
I mean, if I go down to the street corner and count how many people push the "push to cross" button and then sell that data to the people who make "push to cross" buttons, am I somehow violating peoples' privacy? If I do it in 10 cities? 100? Does it matter if I'm incorporated and have employees or not?
I'm willing to hear the other side, and I certainly subscribe to the slippery-slope argument, but for the most part I think this kind of corporate aggregation of data is at most a very minor concern in a world filled with huge privacy issues.
Cheers
-b
Please, Slashdot, could we get all future stories posted in English? Or at least something resembling English?
Cheers
-b
...just don't forget to make your resume a 2GB PDF file.
Cheers
-b
Er, Koreans aren't familiar with the concept of free speech. And there's certainly no constitutional guarantee of it. Hard to end something that never started.
Cheers
-b
I'll try to work something up and deliver it sometime next week. Do you folks think I should also include complete public key security for every packet with no bandwidth or processor overhead?
Cheers
-b
You mean, tax us to pay for invasions of our privacy like Carnivore and Son Of Carnivore?
Otherwise, states don't pay for the "upkeep and maintenance" of the internet. This is not a gas tax that pays for roads, but a sales tax that goes into the general fund. If it's used for any internet-related purpose at all, it will be very anti-libertarian, like censorship, eavesdropping, etc.
-b
You know, I've got a refrigerator and freezer at home, full of food.
I can order pizza, chinese food, even indian food to be delivered to my house.
Everything froum donuts to burritos in every 7-11/gas station.
Restuarants and fast food stores *everywhere*.
I can order food online, look at recipes online, even review restaurants and decide where to go online.
Now 3G wireless phones
How long until MS's new watches have menus being broadcast straight to your wrist?
Can the food market ever reach full saturation? Has anyone ever said "y'know what? I think I have enough food already"?
Cheers
-b
"Why can't we all just get along?"
-b
I see a couple of problems here. Not to say it can't be done, of course, but it's not going to be that easy:
- Bit densities are getting so high that minor fluctuations in drive speed could cause all sorts of read/write errors.
- All operating systems that I've ever used seem to hit the disk periodically during idle time. In order to get the benefit here, you'd have to have some threshold for activity before spinning up. However, that could be catastrophic for any kind of real-time app, like video encoding. Allowing the drive to spin down would limit the kinds of apps you could use.
It's definitely an interesting idea, but I think it may fall into the causes-more-problems-than-it-solves category.
Cheers
-b
...How many "Cerf the Net" jokes have you heard? What's the best one?
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...you need a gun. Do your part to help evolution.
So maybe I'm a bit misanthropic.
-b
...What's with all of the C-Net and Infoworld stories showing up 2-3 days later on /.? It's not news if a major news outlet has had it on their front page for *days*.
-b
I'd expect a god-only-knows-how-expensive plane like the JSF will probably include a fuel gauge, and the pilots will probably get some sort of training about when to use/not use the laser.
Cheers
-b
Intentionally radiating 900Kw of heat into the air is *not* a good strategy for a stealth aircraft.
Cheers
-b
Really? Suppose you've got two choices for articles to read:
/. community when Microsoft is even peripherally brought into the conversation?
1) Here's your upfront and identifiable bias: a bible-thumbing fundamentalist ranting and raving that evolution is nonsense, that abortion is murder, that atheism should be illegal, and that all non-Christians are sinners who will burn in hell
2) Here's your pseudo-objective type who probably has bias: A theology professor, who has studied the world's regligion in depth, discussing the similarities and differences between them and the challenges they face in an increasingly secular and technology-focused world.
Who would you rather listen to? Now, which example is closest to the tone of the
Cheers
-b
Well, I outright don't get the steamboats/river-boat analogy.
"The guys who would stand in the back and set up pins" were run of the mill retail workers. They got other retail jobs. If you really support that analogy, you pretty much have to go for "compilers eliminated assembly language programmers," and, as a former assembly language programmer now working with compiled languages, I can assure you that I am very much still here and employed just fine.
If you think Sysadmins are as adaptable as typewritiers, I guess you've got a point.
Cheers
-b
Exactly my point. Any advance in self-healing operating systems will serve to *change* the job of sysadmins, not eliminate those jobs. This article should have been titled "Sysadmin jobs may change in the future as operating systems evolve," but of course that would have been so obvious that even the most rabid chicken little types would have responded with, "well, duh."
Cheers
-b
...computer management of cars has obsoleted all auto mechanics. ...food processors put every chef out of a job. ...handwriting recognition eliminated postal workers. ..."eliza" makes George Bush irrelevant.
Hmm. On second thought...
-b
Doesn't IBM realize that, by being a proponent of open source, they're obligated to say only nice things about every single open source project under the sun?
Doesn't anyone see the irony in the slashdot blurb? "It's surprising to see IBM diss MySQL; In other news, MySQL just got transactions!"
MySQL is a fine departmental database, but a lousy enterprise database. That will probably change, of course, but for the time being both Microsoft and IBM are right.
Cheers
-b
...of course, I may have a vested interest. I'm just in the process of researching the creating of Dirty Flicks. I'd like to start a business to but extra violence, sex, and profanity into boring holywood movies.
Just imagine what a lesbian shower scene or three could do for crap like Serving Sarah or Blue Crush.
Cheers
-b