Obfuscation techniques such as "me at don't spam me dot com" are fine for a technical audience like slashdot, but there are a *LOT* of people in the world who that will confuse the hell out of, and believe it or not it's not the spammers.
There are a lot of ways to do this with javascript, but by and far the slickest I've seen is this example using the JQuery library:
"Dropping dope science like Gallileo at Pisa" / "Dropping punk bitches every time I Squeeze-A"
If you listen to this album, there is also a strong warning to would-be "bitch-ass TA's"... when the man wants mocha, don't bring him late.
Ya heard?
Whatever these theiving spam bastards are up to totally works on Mail.app under 10.3.9.
I've got an old powerbook that won't take 10.4 so I'm stuck with 10.3. A few weeks ago spam started slipping through my filters. I thought I must have fouled them up somehow, so I blew away Mail.app's prefrerences and re-trained the spam filter, and it worked for like a day. Then I started getting bombed with spams getting through the filter again. Funny thing, Mail.app under 10.4 filters okay.
So there you go.
Not ground breaking, but I thought it worth mentioning.
I think the main point of my post is being missed. What I'm saying is that (at least in my experience) CORBA interoperability works only under the following scenarios:
A) All you're using is Java
B) All you're using is C/C++
C) Sometimes you can make C/C++ and Java work together (with a great deal of effort)
The main thrust of my original comment was that these scenarios by and large to not reflect what people are using to serve and consume webservices. Again, this is based on my own experience, but the LAMP architecture is completely out in the cold, and that's where I'm seeing the real proliferation of webservice type stuff. Maybe I just hang out in that scene to much and the rest of the world has moved on without us.
Anyone here ever REALLY try to use CORBA across languages and platforms? No... seriously, using something besides Java on both ends.
C? sorta okay, as long as you use C on both ends as well as the same ORB package. PHP? you're boned. Python? you're boned. Perl? there were some early weak attempts but pretty much, you're boned. Javascript? uhm... yeah, BONED.
So, wonder of wonders, an architecture for WEB SERVICES failed when it turned out that it was basically impossible to use with the most commonly used TOOLS FOR BUILDING WEB SERVICES.
CORBA was a really, really brilliant idea, but it's major failing was that it's core promise of interoperability across languages just never really paned out. Sure there were language mappings for a half dosen languages or so, but they never EVER worked together the way they were supposed to.
SOAP is to CORBA what LINUX is to SOLARIS. It's open, it's fairly easy to understand compared to it's counterpart, and while you can buy SOAP libraries, it's all there in the XML... if you want to build your own, it's completely within the realm of possibility.
More than anything, I think the fact that when things get really broken, you can always dump the raw XML to have a peek at whats going on is why SOAP has been more widely adopted.
They have dozens of programs designed to helping out disadvantaged children and poor performing students, while the gifted students are left to their own devices.
freakin' a! You know what? They also have a metric butt ton of hospitals while the healthy people are left to their own devices, too.
You want me to feel sorry for you because something has come easily to you while others struggle? If these little Eisteins are so damn "gifted" I'm sure they'll have no problem finding something useful to do with their extra time.
The gifted students are the ones that are going to make the biggest difference in the workplace, while the struggling students are simply going to fill up the jobs that dont take much skill.
Bull. Crap.
The fact that something comes easy to you does not mean that you will do anything with it. I know this from lots of personal experience. In my experience the "most gifted" among us often turn out to also be the "most lazy".
Determination and working hard, these are the true keys to success, even if you're not "born with it".
If I were some company looking to buy advertising, I'm pretty sure my first question would be:
"would this even work?"
I'm not speaking of the technology here, I'm speaking of the end result. That is
"will more people actually buy my thing because they were forced to watch a commercial they would have otherwise skipped?"
Methinks no. The reason commercial skipping is so damn popular with the kids these days is because commercials are BEING IGNORED ANYWAY. Fast forwarding through them just allows those on whom the advertising is wasted to IGNORE THE COMMERCIALS FASTER.
At least from my own personal experience, I can say that while I'm FFing the commercials, if I see a commercial that I'm actually interested in, I'll back it up and have a look.
So maybe a little free advice for Phillips: flag the commercials if you want to, but you're not going to sell advertisers on this unless you do something like prevent outright skipping, but allow FFing. Under that scenario, you're letting the end user filter his or her own commercial content... the most accurate possible method of targeting ads.
Hell, if Phillips really wants to make some cash with this, capture data about which commercials are actually watched... only charge advertisers for watched ads... a'la google adsense.
So NPR & iTunes should show the way.
Here's how it's done.
Everyone and anyone can subscribe to a low-bitrate podcast distributed via rss & bit-torrent for free. Sure, it sounds a little baffled, and it has the Lexus commercials at the beginning and end, and bit-torrent is probably blocked and or frowned upon by your network administrator at work. It's inconvinient, but freely available to the public and at low distribution cost.
The for-pay feed is high quality, and has 'bonus material' and no 'underwritted by pseudo-advertisements. Also, its distributed through someone like iTunes, who already has the infrastructure to deal with payments, authentication and bandwidth).
iTunes or whoever can take a skim off the top of the subscription fees to cover administration costs, or they can donate their services for a huge tax writeoff, and community goodwill for showing the rest of the community how to propperly make money of this thing we call podcasting.
win-win-win.
Can some jackass snag the for-pay feed and re-distribute for free? Sure, but there will always be some number of people who find it better/easier/nicer to just subscribe (as long as the price-point is reasonable). Maybe they get a coffee mug or a tote bag or something.
It's always been that way with NPR though, the responsible few subsidize the freeloading many. As well, it should be;-)
Bah! Marriage is the mechanism a culture uses to force it's people to actually take care of their kids. That's it, plain and simple.
No seriously, love, happieness, little prancing fairies, unicorns, and rainbows are nice, but at the real core of it, that's not what it's about.
Somewhere, way back at the dawn of Man, it was like this:
Dude: "I wanna have sex with you", Chick: "yeah that dosen't sound too bad" Parents: "WTF? I just finished raising your little asses, and I ain't gonna take care of the fruit of your loins"
end result, the parents meet with the tribal elders, and they come up with a contract that says:
"okay, if you're gonna have sex, you're gonna stay together and deal with the little screaming bundles of joy that result, if you don't there will be severe penalties... maybe we'll let her take all your sheep or something"
So after that, a lot of dudes were like "yyyeah, I just wanna hit it and quit it... maybe I'll just take it home and spank it or something". But chicks get horny too... and so there was a lot of sneaking around and shit, and it wasn't really working.
So the culture had to start selling it to the girls as a pre-requisite for getting in of the pants. That's when religion got a hold of it, I'm sure, and people started damning their eternal souls as a result of their reproductive drive. Also probably why cultures started elaborate marriage ceremonies, where the woman is made into "royalty for a day"...
In order for any civilization to survive, it's children must be raised in a stable, loving environment. I'm talking in an evolutionary since here, not in some sort of fundamentalist since. This is why every successfull culture (by which I mean long lived ones) provides for some sort of marriage contract/ceremony, whatever.
It's to make sure the kids are taken care of, not that YOU are taken care of.
Which is why I think gay marriage should be a pre-requisite for gay adoption.
I too was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. My parents had the same knee-jerk reaction as yours: it's the drug companies cooking up a "disorder" that describes normal childhood behavior, then selling the "cure".
However, it turns out that there actually WAS something different about the way my brain was working. So my academic life was a nonstop trail of failure all the way through 5th grade, when my mom (the voice of reason) convinced my father to stop expecting me to "buckle down" and let me actually get the ritalin prescription.
Well what the hell do you know? The next grading period I was on the damn honor roll. The ritalin didn't make me smart, it gave me the tool I needed so that all my other efforts would be fruitful: the ability to really concentrate.
I had a good doctor and over a period of years she reduced the dosage gradually, so that I was able to "train my brain" to concentrate on it's own without the artificial chemical.
ADD Medications are not "mere sedatives", and you sir are full of the rottenest kind of horse malarkey to suggest that they aren't doing anyone any real good.
They call it "science", sir, because it's based on facts.
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> isn't something you should expect to build a whole program...
oh, horse crap on that.
Over 6 years ago, I built a GUI front end to a workflow system (read: database + some business logic) using perl/Tk. An entire department runs the app on it's unix workstations from an NFS mount, and they've been doing it day-in and day-out for that entire 6 year period. All kinds of people have mangled that thing to hell and back, using it in the most inapropriate of ways, yet it's never been broken.
Perl is what it is, man. It got it's name in the 90's as a web programming language, and I guess it got typecast. Heh... I guess that'd be "weak typecasting" in this case...
Saying perl is dead because PHP r0x0rz so hard is like saying hammers are dead because of nail guns. Pounding nails ain't the only thing a hammer can do.
Oh man, you guys are totally missing the point!
Mention p2p and everyone immediately rushes to the war3z and pr0n conclusion.
so you have millions of people with the allPeers installed... and you can say, automatically include yourself in a group of users... say people who read slashdot, or digg, or metafilter, or boingboing, whatever.
Then you follow a link from one of those pages, and the load time exceeds a threshold, or you get a 503... the the extension automatically starts searching peers in the appropriate group for chunks of the page, bitTorrent style.
that might not be what allPeers does today, but it's not too much to think that it could.
Slashdot Mirror
My man here is right on.
Obfuscation techniques such as "me at don't spam me dot com" are fine for a technical audience like slashdot, but there are a *LOT* of people in the world who that will confuse the hell out of, and believe it or not it's not the spammers.
There are a lot of ways to do this with javascript, but by and far the slickest I've seen is this example using the JQuery library:
http://15daysofjquery.com/safer-mailto-links/8/
Snarky kids put copyrighted material on internet for free download, get bought by search engine for 1.7 billion dollars. check.
... where can I line up to get my wheelbarrow filled with VC cash?
the term "metaverse" used on slashdot. check.
so
I don't want to miss out this time!
"Dropping dope science like Gallileo at Pisa" / "Dropping punk bitches every time I Squeeze-A" If you listen to this album, there is also a strong warning to would-be "bitch-ass TA's" ... when the man wants mocha, don't bring him late.
Ya heard?
Whatever these theiving spam bastards are up to totally works on Mail.app under 10.3.9.
I've got an old powerbook that won't take 10.4 so I'm stuck with 10.3.
A few weeks ago spam started slipping through my filters. I thought I must have fouled them up somehow, so I blew away Mail.app's prefrerences and re-trained the spam filter, and it worked for like a day. Then I started getting bombed with spams getting through the filter again. Funny thing, Mail.app under 10.4 filters okay.
So there you go.
Not ground breaking, but I thought it worth mentioning.
The only way High-Def content on an iPod will ever be semi-usable / worth it:
An iPod that plays high-def video via a built in minerature DLP projector with a super efficient high-yeild LED lamp.
Point the iPod at a wall, and you've got a real portable big screen.
It's not beyond the realm of possibility. Of course, putting out that kind of light is gonna eat the battery.
I think the main point of my post is being missed. What I'm saying is that (at least in my experience) CORBA interoperability works only under the following scenarios:
A) All you're using is Java
B) All you're using is C/C++
C) Sometimes you can make C/C++ and Java work together (with a great deal of effort)
The main thrust of my original comment was that these scenarios by and large to not reflect what people are using to serve and consume webservices. Again, this is based on my own experience, but the LAMP architecture is completely out in the cold, and that's where I'm seeing the real proliferation of webservice type stuff. Maybe I just hang out in that scene to much and the rest of the world has moved on without us.
Anyone here ever REALLY try to use CORBA across languages and platforms? ... seriously, using something besides Java on both ends.
... yeah, BONED.
... if you want to build your own, it's completely within the realm of possibility.
No
C? sorta okay, as long as you use C on both ends as well as the same ORB package.
PHP? you're boned.
Python? you're boned.
Perl? there were some early weak attempts but pretty much, you're boned.
Javascript? uhm
So, wonder of wonders, an architecture for WEB SERVICES failed when it turned out that it was basically impossible to use with the most commonly used TOOLS FOR BUILDING WEB SERVICES.
CORBA was a really, really brilliant idea, but it's major failing was that it's core promise of interoperability across languages just never really paned out. Sure there were language mappings for a half dosen languages or so, but they never EVER worked together the way they were supposed to.
SOAP is to CORBA what LINUX is to SOLARIS. It's open, it's fairly easy to understand compared to it's counterpart, and while you can buy SOAP libraries, it's all there in the XML
More than anything, I think the fact that when things get really broken, you can always dump the raw XML to have a peek at whats going on is why SOAP has been more widely adopted.
you elitist ass.
They have dozens of programs designed to helping out disadvantaged children and poor performing students, while the gifted students are left to their own devices.
freakin' a! You know what? They also have a metric butt ton of hospitals while the healthy people are left to their own devices, too.
You want me to feel sorry for you because something has come easily to you while others struggle? If these little Eisteins are so damn "gifted" I'm sure they'll have no problem finding something useful to do with their extra time.
The gifted students are the ones that are going to make the biggest difference in the workplace, while the struggling students are simply going to fill up the jobs that dont take much skill.
Bull. Crap.
The fact that something comes easy to you does not mean that you will do anything with it. I know this from lots of personal experience. In my experience the "most gifted" among us often turn out to also be the "most lazy".
Determination and working hard, these are the true keys to success, even if you're not "born with it".
If I were some company looking to buy advertising, I'm pretty sure my first question would be:
... the most accurate possible method of targeting ads.
... only charge advertisers for watched ads ... a'la google adsense.
"would this even work?"
I'm not speaking of the technology here, I'm speaking of the end result.
That is
"will more people actually buy my thing because they were forced to watch a commercial they would have otherwise skipped?"
Methinks no. The reason commercial skipping is so damn popular with the kids these days is because commercials are BEING IGNORED ANYWAY. Fast forwarding through them just allows those on whom the advertising is wasted to IGNORE THE COMMERCIALS FASTER.
At least from my own personal experience, I can say that while I'm FFing the commercials, if I see a commercial that I'm actually interested in, I'll back it up and have a look.
So maybe a little free advice for Phillips: flag the commercials if you want to, but you're not going to sell advertisers on this unless you do something like prevent outright skipping, but allow FFing. Under that scenario, you're letting the end user filter his or her own commercial content
Hell, if Phillips really wants to make some cash with this, capture data about which commercials are actually watched
So NPR & iTunes should show the way. Here's how it's done. Everyone and anyone can subscribe to a low-bitrate podcast distributed via rss & bit-torrent for free. Sure, it sounds a little baffled, and it has the Lexus commercials at the beginning and end, and bit-torrent is probably blocked and or frowned upon by your network administrator at work. It's inconvinient, but freely available to the public and at low distribution cost. The for-pay feed is high quality, and has 'bonus material' and no 'underwritted by pseudo-advertisements. Also, its distributed through someone like iTunes, who already has the infrastructure to deal with payments, authentication and bandwidth). iTunes or whoever can take a skim off the top of the subscription fees to cover administration costs, or they can donate their services for a huge tax writeoff, and community goodwill for showing the rest of the community how to propperly make money of this thing we call podcasting. win-win-win. Can some jackass snag the for-pay feed and re-distribute for free? Sure, but there will always be some number of people who find it better/easier/nicer to just subscribe (as long as the price-point is reasonable). Maybe they get a coffee mug or a tote bag or something. It's always been that way with NPR though, the responsible few subsidize the freeloading many. As well, it should be ;-)
Bah!
... maybe we'll let her take all your sheep or something"
... maybe I'll just take it home and spank it or something". But chicks get horny too ... and so there was a lot of sneaking around and shit, and it wasn't really working.
...
Marriage is the mechanism a culture uses to force it's people to actually take care of their kids. That's it, plain and simple.
No seriously, love, happieness, little prancing fairies, unicorns, and rainbows are nice, but at the real core of it, that's not what it's about.
Somewhere, way back at the dawn of Man, it was like this:
Dude: "I wanna have sex with you",
Chick: "yeah that dosen't sound too bad"
Parents: "WTF? I just finished raising your little asses, and I ain't gonna take care of the fruit of your loins"
end result, the parents meet with the tribal elders, and they come up with a contract that says:
"okay, if you're gonna have sex, you're gonna stay together and deal with the little screaming bundles of joy that result, if you don't there will be severe penalties
So after that, a lot of dudes were like "yyyeah, I just wanna hit it and quit it
So the culture had to start selling it to the girls as a pre-requisite for getting in of the pants. That's when religion got a hold of it, I'm sure, and people started damning their eternal souls as a result of their reproductive drive. Also probably why cultures started elaborate marriage ceremonies, where the woman is made into "royalty for a day"
In order for any civilization to survive, it's children must be raised in a stable, loving environment. I'm talking in an evolutionary since here, not in some sort of fundamentalist since. This is why every successfull culture (by which I mean long lived ones) provides for some sort of marriage contract/ceremony, whatever.
It's to make sure the kids are taken care of, not that YOU are taken care of.
Which is why I think gay marriage should be a pre-requisite for gay adoption.
I too was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. My parents had the same knee-jerk reaction as yours: it's the drug companies cooking up a "disorder" that describes normal childhood behavior, then selling the "cure".
However, it turns out that there actually WAS something different about the way my brain was working. So my academic life was a nonstop trail of failure all the way through 5th grade, when my mom (the voice of reason) convinced my father to stop expecting me to "buckle down" and let me actually get the ritalin prescription.
Well what the hell do you know? The next grading period I was on the damn honor roll. The ritalin didn't make me smart, it gave me the tool I needed so that all my other efforts would be fruitful: the ability to really concentrate.
I had a good doctor and over a period of years she reduced the dosage gradually, so that I was able to "train my brain" to concentrate on it's own without the artificial chemical.
ADD Medications are not "mere sedatives", and you sir are full of the rottenest kind of horse malarkey to suggest that they aren't doing anyone any real good.
They call it "science", sir, because it's based on facts.
> isn't something you should expect to build a whole program ...
... I guess that'd be "weak typecasting" in this case ...
oh, horse crap on that.
Over 6 years ago, I built a GUI front end to a workflow system (read: database + some business logic) using perl/Tk. An entire department runs the app on it's unix workstations from an NFS mount, and they've been doing it day-in and day-out for that entire 6 year period. All kinds of people have mangled that thing to hell and back, using it in the most inapropriate of ways, yet it's never been broken.
Perl is what it is, man. It got it's name in the 90's as a web programming language, and I guess it got typecast. Heh
Saying perl is dead because PHP r0x0rz so hard is like saying hammers are dead because of nail guns. Pounding nails ain't the only thing a hammer can do.
Oh man, you guys are totally missing the point! Mention p2p and everyone immediately rushes to the war3z and pr0n conclusion. so you have millions of people with the allPeers installed ... and you can say, automatically include yourself in a group of users ... say people who read slashdot, or digg, or metafilter, or boingboing, whatever.
Then you follow a link from one of those pages, and the load time exceeds a threshold, or you get a 503 ... the the extension automatically starts searching peers in the appropriate group for chunks of the page, bitTorrent style.
that might not be what allPeers does today, but it's not too much to think that it could.