...of whether innovation happens in closed-source software anymore.
"Surely there's at least one white crow--some ground-breaking app that was conceived and implemented in open source?"
Software in general has been rehashes and refinements since UNIX, CP/M, VisiCalc, Mosaic, Mac System 1.0 and Wolfenstein 3D. Name a single ground-breaking app that was conceived and implemented in the last 10 years. Try it, it's harder than it sounds...
Meh, "TENNIS", "BOWLING" and "GETTING FRESH AIR" got so-so reviews from gamespot.
I'm holding out for "HEY YOU KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN", and "IN MY DAY WE PLAYED WITH STICKS AND ROCKS, AND WE LIKED IT". They sound like titles you might be interested in too...
That's why I was thinking Playstation 3s instead of PCs. Instead of 2 x86 cores, you get 7 SPEs and 1 PPE clocked at 3.2GHz per unit. 750 consoles (or better, racks holding 750 PS3 logic boards) would fit in a basement or 2-car garage. It wouldn't fit an amateur's budget, though.
The real trick would be getting the power company to connect the necessary 2,000 amp service to your house...
They might want to specify that Microsoft should be compelled to follow published w3c standards, not just accepted standards. The "standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities" today are pretty much "Code everything for IE6. If there's free time after that's done and the pub isn't open yet, test in Firefox"...
Deep Crack and Distributed.Net's network of nearly 100,000 PCs on the Internet won DES Challenge III in 22 hours and 15 minutes....in 1999, when the Pentium 200MHz was king. Today you could do the same with a garage full of Playstation 3s and some secondhand network hardware.
Shortly after developing the same app for a traditional desktop becomes easy. If you want to write a spreadsheet app, the problems are the same whether you're building the interface with AJAX or Win32 or Java or QT.
Some of us see taking something for nothing as unethical; by reselling Wiis at $100 markup, you're creating zero value and taking $100 profit for it. The unethicality is compounded when the end result is that poor (ok, middle-class) children aren't getting a Wii for Christmas because the speculators bought them all and priced Santa Claus (a.k.a. mommy and daddy) out of the market.
You're missing the more important objection to pay-per-email: "Who the hell are you and why should we trust your organization to collect pennies from every email user in the world. What are you spending all those pennies on, anyway?"
Or to put it in the form of the oft-quoted spam solution checklist: (X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
You're missing the point. Keeping ISPs from eavesdropping on bittorrent is nice, but that only saves you from throttling and forged RST packets, not lawsuits.
Assuming the pirated song is in a public torrent, MediaSentry can and join the swarm and start requesting chunks of data. If their client can connect to my client and download chunks of whatever file they're "protecting" today, I'm equally hosed whether those chunks are coming from a file stored on my hard drive or forwarded from someone five layers down in the onion. End-to-end encryption doesn't help when the attacker controls an endpoint.
Clinton's Law: As any political thread grows longer, the probability that someone will invoke the "Some member of the other party did something similar at some time in the past; therefore it's OK when someone in our party does it now" defense approaches 1.
The javascript security model doesn't allow client-side javascript to read or write files on the client's machine.
Right, and any hole that lets javascript get around that (like the.chm viewer vulnerability) will be patched soon after it starts getting exploited by malware. There have been other attacks using the same "drive-by download" (find a plugin with weak security and local filesystem access, use javascript to make it drop and execute a malware downloader) technique. Keeping up to date with Windows patches blocks all of them that I know about (though that's not very many), but there's more to it than just a one-time patch to keep javascript from writing to local files.
The articles are from 2004-2005, so the specific.chm exploit they talk about in the first few has been patched on most machines by now, but that sort of javascript shenanigans that download and execute files without the user's knowledge are still being used to spead malware. Presumably they shouldn't work in Vista's IE sandbox, since they depend on IE being able to call outside executables, but I don't know for sure.
After 9/11, federal law requires airline travelers to surrender their toothpaste and bottled water, too.
Not to say there isn't a need for real physical security in your company, just that dragging 9/11 and federal regulation into the discussion hurts your case more than it helps.
I can't get through your layered firewalls and paranoid exchange configuration directly. However, I can send a few users email with "CLICK HEAR FOR CUTE LOLCATS PICZ" links. When they visit that site, they get humorous cat image macros and some nasty javascript that silently scans your intranet for vulnerable applications, or uploads a few random.doc files, or sends me all their cookies, etc.
Look at the huge volume of frothing anti-Apple hate Maynor stirred up with this exploit (and the overreaction to his non-demonstration and insinuations that Apple's lawyers pressured him to shut up).
Anyone who creates a real self-propegating worm for OSX that infects end-users' machines would be revered as a god among men, or at least among Windows fanboys. The fact that a year later after Maynor's exploit and two years after the first smarmy "I'm a Mac" ad nobody has done it tell me there's more to OSX security than Windows having 90% market share.
Why? I've heard this claim made a lot, but there does not seem to be any logical argument to back it.
It's hard to solve a problem that you can't even define.
We can build machines that are better than humans at a lot of tasks, but we'll need much better concepts of what intelligence really is before we can even start thinking about how to design a a general AI that is smarter than a human all around.
All through recorded history we've had philosophers thinking about thinking, and we're not visibly closer to an answer to "what does it mean to say 'I think'" than the ancient Greeks were. It tends to make one pessimistic about the age of thinking machines being right around the corner...
Star Trek has been out of new plot ideas since about season 4 of TNG. It was apparent when they made DS9 into a Babylon-5 ripoff, it was obvious all throughout Voyager and and it should have been apparent to even to a retarded 3-hour-old tribble after the Nazi episode of Enterprise. Departure from canon = good.
Slashdot Mirror
The two faced attitude of Slashdot rears it's ugly head again.
It's almost like there's more than one of us here, isn't it...
Clearly, he doesn't remember the Slashdot of 1998.
...of whether innovation happens in closed-source software anymore.
"Surely there's at least one white crow--some ground-breaking app that was conceived and implemented in open source?"
Software in general has been rehashes and refinements since UNIX, CP/M, VisiCalc, Mosaic, Mac System 1.0 and Wolfenstein 3D.
Name a single ground-breaking app that was conceived and implemented in the last 10 years. Try it, it's harder than it sounds...
Meh, "TENNIS", "BOWLING" and "GETTING FRESH AIR" got so-so reviews from gamespot.
I'm holding out for "HEY YOU KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN", and "IN MY DAY WE PLAYED WITH STICKS AND ROCKS, AND WE LIKED IT". They sound like titles you might be interested in too...
That's why I was thinking Playstation 3s instead of PCs. Instead of 2 x86 cores, you get 7 SPEs and 1 PPE clocked at 3.2GHz per unit. 750 consoles (or better, racks holding 750 PS3 logic boards) would fit in a basement or 2-car garage. It wouldn't fit an amateur's budget, though.
The real trick would be getting the power company to connect the necessary 2,000 amp service to your house...
They might want to specify that Microsoft should be compelled to follow published w3c standards, not just accepted standards. The "standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities" today are pretty much "Code everything for IE6. If there's free time after that's done and the pub isn't open yet, test in Firefox"...
Deep Crack and Distributed.Net's network of nearly 100,000 PCs on the Internet won DES Challenge III in 22 hours and 15 minutes. ...in 1999, when the Pentium 200MHz was king. Today you could do the same with a garage full of Playstation 3s and some secondhand network hardware.
"When will AJAX development finally be easy?"
Shortly after developing the same app for a traditional desktop becomes easy. If you want to write a spreadsheet app, the problems are the same whether you're building the interface with AJAX or Win32 or Java or QT.
Some of us see taking something for nothing as unethical; by reselling Wiis at $100 markup, you're creating zero value and taking $100 profit for it. The unethicality is compounded when the end result is that poor (ok, middle-class) children aren't getting a Wii for Christmas because the speculators bought them all and priced Santa Claus (a.k.a. mommy and daddy) out of the market.
You're missing the more important objection to pay-per-email: "Who the hell are you and why should we trust your organization to collect pennies from every email user in the world. What are you spending all those pennies on, anyway?"
Or to put it in the form of the oft-quoted spam solution checklist:
(X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
There's a reason Java ME has gone nowhere, and Google is trying to succeed where Java has failed.
I take it that by "nowhere" you mean "into pretty much every phone in use today, with one notable exception (iPhone)"...
Moller's problem is Moller, not America.
He's had the skycar in development for 30 years, as you say, and in that time it's made one unmanned tethered flight. One. Fucking. Flight.
It's a failure, time to move on.
You're missing the point. Keeping ISPs from eavesdropping on bittorrent is nice, but that only saves you from throttling and forged RST packets, not lawsuits.
Assuming the pirated song is in a public torrent, MediaSentry can and join the swarm and start requesting chunks of data. If their client can connect to my client and download chunks of whatever file they're "protecting" today, I'm equally hosed whether those chunks are coming from a file stored on my hard drive or forwarded from someone five layers down in the onion. End-to-end encryption doesn't help when the attacker controls an endpoint.
(The former AC, now home from work)
Clinton's Law: As any political thread grows longer, the probability that someone will invoke the "Some member of the other party did something similar at some time in the past; therefore it's OK when someone in our party does it now" defense approaches 1.
The javascript security model doesn't allow client-side javascript to read or write files on the client's machine.
.chm viewer vulnerability) will be patched soon after it starts getting exploited by malware. There have been other attacks using the same "drive-by download" (find a plugin with weak security and local filesystem access, use javascript to make it drop and execute a malware downloader) technique. Keeping up to date with Windows patches blocks all of them that I know about (though that's not very many), but there's more to it than just a one-time patch to keep javascript from writing to local files.
Right, and any hole that lets javascript get around that (like the
Read the SANS ISC diary series called "Follow the bouncing malware" http://www.google.com/search?q=%22follow+the+bouncing+malware%22+site:sans.org&hl=en (link to google because the ISC diary archive search sucks) It goes into deep detail on how malware downloaders work (or worked in the not-so-distant past).
.chm exploit they talk about in the first few has been patched on most machines by now, but that sort of javascript shenanigans that download and execute files without the user's knowledge are still being used to spead malware. Presumably they shouldn't work in Vista's IE sandbox, since they depend on IE being able to call outside executables, but I don't know for sure.
The articles are from 2004-2005, so the specific
After 9/11, federal law requires airline travelers to surrender their toothpaste and bottled water, too.
Not to say there isn't a need for real physical security in your company, just that dragging 9/11 and federal regulation into the discussion hurts your case more than it helps.
In those days, xkill was in my dock!
Remember Netscape 4.x? xkill was in EVERYBODY'S dock, and it got used daily.
Outside becomes the new inside.
.doc files, or sends me all their cookies, etc.
I can't get through your layered firewalls and paranoid exchange configuration directly. However, I can send a few users email with "CLICK HEAR FOR CUTE LOLCATS PICZ" links. When they visit that site, they get humorous cat image macros and some nasty javascript that silently scans your intranet for vulnerable applications, or uploads a few random
SLI is parallel on the scanline-level (that's why it's called "scanline interleaving", remember?).
That's old SLI (3Dfx era). When nVidia brought SLI back they redefined the acronym as "scalable link interface".
Look at the huge volume of frothing anti-Apple hate Maynor stirred up with this exploit (and the overreaction to his non-demonstration and insinuations that Apple's lawyers pressured him to shut up).
Anyone who creates a real self-propegating worm for OSX that infects end-users' machines would be revered as a god among men, or at least among Windows fanboys. The fact that a year later after Maynor's exploit and two years after the first smarmy "I'm a Mac" ad nobody has done it tell me there's more to OSX security than Windows having 90% market share.
Even stupider, they show just how far behind the times they are by measuring things in "emails, songs and pictures". Welcome to 1998, friends.
I prefer to have my bandwidth cap quoted in station wagons of DLT tapes per month...
...and I though 1240 in 9 years was about enough!
Why? I've heard this claim made a lot, but there does not seem to be any logical argument to back it.
It's hard to solve a problem that you can't even define.
We can build machines that are better than humans at a lot of tasks, but we'll need much better concepts of what intelligence really is before we can even start thinking about how to design a a general AI that is smarter than a human all around.
All through recorded history we've had philosophers thinking about thinking, and we're not visibly closer to an answer to "what does it mean to say 'I think'" than the ancient Greeks were. It tends to make one pessimistic about the age of thinking machines being right around the corner...
PP is not a troll, he's right.
Star Trek has been out of new plot ideas since about season 4 of TNG. It was apparent when they made DS9 into a Babylon-5 ripoff, it was obvious all throughout Voyager and and it should have been apparent to even to a retarded 3-hour-old tribble after the Nazi episode of Enterprise. Departure from canon = good.
Sincerely, a former Trek fan.