Tell someone applying for a patent that they can either patent it, or make it an industry standard, but not both. If it becomes an ITU, ISO, IEEE or other professional body standard, all patents necessary to implement that standard become invalid.
How many groups would op for a patent instead of a standard?
I would consider Facebook's level of security pretty high. You can't get information on people or post comments without them first contacting you (either by reply or out of the blue). There are no extended sessions, either -- you have to login every time. This makes Facebook's software immune to this attack unless you are currently logged in.
I'm inclined to agree with you. What is this 1.023*10^12 stuff anyhow?
And I actually saw this in a magazine somewhere, a few years back. No idea where or when exactly, though. (They were talking about using it for football players so the coaches could radio them.)
The obvious different is that Myspace are specifically storing the copyrighted material on their site.
If Sony were allowing people to store all their betamax tapes of copied films in a Sony warehouse the case may have had a different outcome.
Yes it would, but that's not really what MySpace is doing.
MySpace isn't Napster in that it's specific use is for sharing media. MySpace is basically for blogging, at its core. (They've diversified, but that's still MySpace's big thing.) Just so happens that many of its users are posting copyrighted media.
A better metaphor would be if Sony rented out self-storage that a lot of people use for storing betamax tapes. (Of course, MySpace can provide a lot more storage a lot cheaper, but you still pay in the way of ad space.)
"The project should also take care not to cross the line from legitimate spam complaints to attacking spammers using DDoS-like techniques,"
That's what it basically sounds like.
They're automatically doing what spammers wanted people to do, based on the assumption that the spammers didn't set up the infrastructure necessary to support the e-mails they're sending.
> Wonder why a number of not-very-powerful embedded platforms, like calculators, are still partly programmed in ASM...
I know the high school-level caclulators from TI (TI-82, TI-83, TI-84) are almost entirely programmed in ASM. (I have been unable to find a compiler for it. I'm excluding TI-BASIC and languages requiring another app, like Ion.) I can't say for the more powerful college-level calculators (TI-89, Voyage 200), but I suspect that they are the same.
The aforementioned computer at the hotel doesn't need a hard drive to run an OS. Just a boot source, standard hardware, and a lot of RAM.
I see computers every day (they are at my school) that use USB flobby drives. Guess what? They can still boot off floppy disks. And they'll freak the same way if your flashdrive isn't bootable.
So why not carry your OS of choice on your disk and boot off that? The only software that you don't control is the BIOS.
"And a massive 99% of people don't need to understand that. Mail servers should be designed to ignore e-mails of a larger size than they can handle. It's not up to the users to understand KB, MB, GB, mail server loads, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SSH, whatever."
That's like suggesting that people don't need to know that a 36 foot (12m) 2x4 won't fit in a 12 foot (4m) car.
While they may not need to understand the history or the technical details behind the various protocols, they should at least recognize them and learn to make note of them.
The only difference between this and other jargon is that it's fairly intangible.
Oh, yeah. My computer literacy class did not have anything about KB, MB, GB, or anything that would leviate this problem. (I tested out of it. It seemed to all be how to use features of MS Office I'll never need. Like how to make a graphic into a textbox.)
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I would consider Facebook's level of security pretty high. You can't get information on people or post comments without them first contacting you (either by reply or out of the blue). There are no extended sessions, either -- you have to login every time. This makes Facebook's software immune to this attack unless you are currently logged in.
I'm inclined to agree with you. What is this 1.023*10^12 stuff anyhow?
And I actually saw this in a magazine somewhere, a few years back. No idea where or when exactly, though. (They were talking about using it for football players so the coaches could radio them.)
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Slashdot posts stories like this to create news. One could even create an article from the top comments.
At the very least, the discussion is far more interesting than TFA.
Nope. Mine is autohide. I need those 20 pixels.
... it's like the same.
"The project should also take care not to cross the line from legitimate spam complaints to attacking spammers using DDoS-like techniques,"
That's what it basically sounds like.
They're automatically doing what spammers wanted people to do, based on the assumption that the spammers didn't set up the infrastructure necessary to support the e-mails they're sending.
I was wondering that.
It would be funny if all electronics had to be constantly shot with x-rays so they behave the same as in a lab.
The next version tells you it has installed itself as a rootkit and opened a few security holes.
The version after just doesn't let you play it on a PC.
> Wonder why a number of not-very-powerful embedded platforms, like calculators, are still partly programmed in ASM...
I know the high school-level caclulators from TI (TI-82, TI-83, TI-84) are almost entirely programmed in ASM. (I have been unable to find a compiler for it. I'm excluding TI-BASIC and languages requiring another app, like Ion.) I can't say for the more powerful college-level calculators (TI-89, Voyage 200), but I suspect that they are the same.
The aforementioned computer at the hotel doesn't need a hard drive to run an OS. Just a boot source, standard hardware, and a lot of RAM.
I see computers every day (they are at my school) that use USB flobby drives. Guess what? They can still boot off floppy disks. And they'll freak the same way if your flashdrive isn't bootable.
So why not carry your OS of choice on your disk and boot off that? The only software that you don't control is the BIOS.
Think about that next time you're traveling.
"And a massive 99% of people don't need to understand that. Mail servers should be designed to ignore e-mails of a larger size than they can handle. It's not up to the users to understand KB, MB, GB, mail server loads, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SSH, whatever."
That's like suggesting that people don't need to know that a 36 foot (12m) 2x4 won't fit in a 12 foot (4m) car.
While they may not need to understand the history or the technical details behind the various protocols, they should at least recognize them and learn to make note of them.
The only difference between this and other jargon is that it's fairly intangible.
Oh, yeah. My computer literacy class did not have anything about KB, MB, GB, or anything that would leviate this problem. (I tested out of it. It seemed to all be how to use features of MS Office I'll never need. Like how to make a graphic into a textbox.)