Now first of all I would like to preface this by saying that I basically agree with you. Google should not be forced to recommend certain sites if it chooses not to, and indeed if it was Google would become useless.
However, I find it ironic that when Google is involved, Slashdotters seem to subscribe to the "private companies should be allowed to do as they please" ideology, but when say Microsoft is involved, Slashdotters everywhere scream "MONOPOLY! DOWN WITH CORPORATE AMERICA!" and the like. Microsoft CANNOT legally break compatibility with competing software vendors' products, for example making Firefox not work on Windows because it competes with Internet Explorer, or making OpenOffice not work because it competes with MS Office. This is ILLEGAL and the fact that it is illegal is a good thing, I think we all agree.
Likewise, IF Google is determined to have a monopoly on the search engine market, some restrictions should be placed on how they index pages on their site. Now some will say that "no one is forcing you to use Google" but likewise no one is forcing you to use MS products. However, 95% of people do whether or not they are forced and Google can have a monopoly even though other search engines exist. For example, if Google suddenly decided to require companies pay for their page ranking, many lawsuits would follow, justifiable lawsuits, in my opinion.
All I'm saying is that private companies CANNOT do whatever they want just because they are private. There are some restrictions. I will admit that this is a losing if not a frivolous lawsuit, but simply because it is Google instead of MS does not make the suit evil.
There is a student in my Advanced Placement Computer Science class that had never seen or ran linux before.
We convinced our teacher that we HAVE to install Ubuntu so that everyone in his intro computer classes had a chance to mess around with and at least be familiar with it. This student had no idea how to use linux, even less the command prompt. Such things that I take for granted like Ctrl-C to stop programs, and ls/dir to list directories. The fact that he can go through programming classes without even knowing these is beyond me, but we have been using Windows since whenever it came out. The students that have not went home and messed with linux/cmd-prompt themselves have no idea on what they are missing out. I personally run Linux because it better suits me.
Unfortunately, the #1 choice is Windows, not because it is better, but because Linux is always considered with servers, hacking, or techie-guru stuff.
I installed Mandrake on my grandmother's computer and she uses it FINE. No complaints from her, other than that she likes it.
Obviously there needs to be choices, I am still waiting to be able to buy a Dell computer w/o Windows pre-installed.
I do not want there to be a linux movement, if somebody prefers Windows, let them use it, but come on, atleast give the opensource/free software a chance.
Are there any school systems that use just windows?
My school is 100% windows (well 99.9%, -.1 for the machine we set up), even the Video Editing room can not use Macs because of a deal with Microsoft & Dell.
What is Fuzzing?
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Many of you may be unfamiliar with the term "fuzzing."
I was when I read the article and have done some research and fuzzing is:
What is fuzzing? - Sending semi-random data to an application - Semi-random: good enough so it'll look like valid data, bad enough so it might break stuff - When people hear "fuzzing" they imediately think http, THERE IS MORE TO FUZZING THAN JUST HTTP !!! - You can fuzz: -- Network protocols -- Network stacks -- Arguments, signals, stdin, envvar, file descriptors,.... -- Api's (syscalls, library calls) -- Files
In general, most of the time it is a waste of time, but if you are "lucky" you could find a vulnerability and maybe with a little more research a way to exploit the code.
I am a programmer and when I find bugs in my code "pre-release" I find it benefitial. However, some of the bugs I have to spend a substantial amount of time debugging to finally find a fix.
With the code as large as Oracle's code is.. it could take an extremely long time.
I am a teenager and I have gotten in trouble with school for "hacking"
I had no malintentions, but I see why they have to do such penalties.
However, the main problem is that the code is not secure, not that I was messing around during a free period and found a way to bypass the "security."
I encourage students and others curious to set their own "box" up and use that to "hack" into.
I do not see hobbyist computer hacking as a REAL threat, because if they can hack into a system, that system is definitely NOT secure from true hackers with illegal, immoral fraud schemes, etc in mind.
Remember, set up your own comp to hack into, you will gain the knowledge from seeing how these things work, and not get in trouble.
I gurantee you that there is. You may not notice it for random web browsing, but ask someone who plays first person shooters which they prefer.
Not one "professional" gaming team uses a wireless mouse.
You think they would, no cords to mongle with, etc.
However, they use wired because there IS lag. It may not be a big deal for common computing, but if you looked at specs.. there is lag
Plus, does this product do power too? One of the most efficient features of USB is to let the utilities get the power they need to run too. Some utilities will still need to be plugged in somewhere (or battery packs) to work 100%.
Sounds good, but maybe not?
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Well, yeah, it sounds great and will probably be great for lots of things.
However, performance will drop on these items, even the fastest wireless gaming mouses have a semi-noticable lag when you use them. This lag in other items could create problems, like obfuscated code going to printers, etc.
Also, a security issue if you live in close-quarters (apartments, office buildings) because people could sniff the "packets" between the hub and device. They could watch you on your webcam, when you have your webcam software off.
Well, it will probably be good, the cons are not too bad, I will actually probably buy one myself.
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Now first of all I would like to preface this by saying that I basically agree with you. Google should not be forced to recommend certain sites if it chooses not to, and indeed if it was Google would become useless.
However, I find it ironic that when Google is involved, Slashdotters seem to subscribe to the "private companies should be allowed to do as they please" ideology, but when say Microsoft is involved, Slashdotters everywhere scream "MONOPOLY! DOWN WITH CORPORATE AMERICA!" and the like. Microsoft CANNOT legally break compatibility with competing software vendors' products, for example making Firefox not work on Windows because it competes with Internet Explorer, or making OpenOffice not work because it competes with MS Office. This is ILLEGAL and the fact that it is illegal is a good thing, I think we all agree.
Likewise, IF Google is determined to have a monopoly on the search engine market, some restrictions should be placed on how they index pages on their site. Now some will say that "no one is forcing you to use Google" but likewise no one is forcing you to use MS products. However, 95% of people do whether or not they are forced and Google can have a monopoly even though other search engines exist. For example, if Google suddenly decided to require companies pay for their page ranking, many lawsuits would follow, justifiable lawsuits, in my opinion.
All I'm saying is that private companies CANNOT do whatever they want just because they are private. There are some restrictions. I will admit that this is a losing if not a frivolous lawsuit, but simply because it is Google instead of MS does not make the suit evil.
Pen Based PDA's will be replaced by better tablet pcs.
I am not sure why they have not caught on a lot more, they offer tons on functionality, and decent uptimes.
Take handwritten notes and have them stored in digital format stored immediately?
Why not?
this machine will look at the moon (which we know has a cheese core)
and count how many craters there are..
What relevant data can come out of crater counting..
There is these categories
None - Nothing Has Hit It
One - One Object Hit
A Few - Not many Objects have hit it
A LOT - It gets hit alot.
now.. what would we need to know that has a difference between 20000 impact craters and 20001 impact craters
nothing as far as im concerned.
I use Stallman as a mousetrail on my website.
http://www.playfullyclever.com/
Where we can find out the most info. not about water..
It is everyone's dream to find water here or there, but its a waste of BILLIONS if thats what you are up there looking for.
There are much better things to spend the money on, like Windows Vista, which is RUMORed to be going on shelves for $500 a POP.
I believe this is a very valuable point.
There is a student in my Advanced Placement Computer Science class that had never seen or ran linux before.
We convinced our teacher that we HAVE to install Ubuntu so that everyone in his intro computer classes had a chance to mess around with and at least be familiar with it. This student had no idea how to use linux, even less the command prompt. Such things that I take for granted like Ctrl-C to stop programs, and ls/dir to list directories. The fact that he can go through programming classes without even knowing these is beyond me, but we have been using Windows since whenever it came out. The students that have not went home and messed with linux/cmd-prompt themselves have no idea on what they are missing out. I personally run Linux because it better suits me.
Unfortunately, the #1 choice is Windows, not because it is better, but because Linux is always considered with servers, hacking, or techie-guru stuff.
I installed Mandrake on my grandmother's computer and she uses it FINE. No complaints from her, other than that she likes it.
Obviously there needs to be choices, I am still waiting to be able to buy a Dell computer w/o Windows pre-installed.
I do not want there to be a linux movement, if somebody prefers Windows, let them use it, but come on, atleast give the opensource/free software a chance.
Are there any school systems that use just windows?
My school is 100% windows (well 99.9%, -.1 for the machine we set up), even the Video Editing room can not use Macs because of a deal with Microsoft & Dell.
Many of you may be unfamiliar with the term "fuzzing."
....
I was when I read the article and have done some research and fuzzing is:
What is fuzzing?
- Sending semi-random data to an application
- Semi-random: good enough so it'll look like valid data, bad
enough so it might break stuff
- When people hear "fuzzing" they imediately think http, THERE IS MORE TO FUZZING THAN JUST HTTP !!!
- You can fuzz:
-- Network protocols
-- Network stacks
-- Arguments, signals, stdin, envvar, file descriptors,
-- Api's (syscalls, library calls)
-- Files
In general, most of the time it is a waste of time, but if you are "lucky" you could find a vulnerability and maybe with a little more research a way to exploit the code.
More information can be found at this PDF Article - http://static.23.nu/md/Pictures/FUZZING.PDF (Very Large 90+ Pages)
They are still around? They dont really fit into the "browser wars" at all.
Maybe, but I doubt it.. People are either going to go with Internet Explorer or FireFox/Opera for customization.
What if they CANT fix the problem immediately.
I am a programmer and when I find bugs in my code "pre-release" I find it benefitial. However, some of the bugs I have to spend a substantial amount of time debugging to finally find a fix.
With the code as large as Oracle's code is.. it could take an extremely long time.
This is unfortunate.
There are a few problems with politics, the main one of being forced to use such a everything this way.. I am an independent and that is how I vote.
However, "democrats" could never vote for a "republican" based on the fact that they are "republican" alone.
Hopefully there will be a change in how the U.S.A. citizens vote, but I do not see that happening in the forseeable future.
Finally, Microsoft is catching up with the times. How about a decent operating system now?
*crosses fingers and hopes Vista is decent*
I am a teenager and I have gotten in trouble with school for "hacking"
I had no malintentions, but I see why they have to do such penalties.
However, the main problem is that the code is not secure, not that I was messing around during a free period and found a way to bypass the "security."
I encourage students and others curious to set their own "box" up and use that to "hack" into.
I do not see hobbyist computer hacking as a REAL threat, because if they can hack into a system, that system is definitely NOT secure from true hackers with illegal, immoral fraud schemes, etc in mind.
Remember, set up your own comp to hack into, you will gain the knowledge from seeing how these things work, and not get in trouble.
Isn't this the basis of capitalism?
Competition creates better products with lower prices.
This is capitalism on the internet at its finest.
This is a cool video about the subject, what would happen if Google and Amazon merged.
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
This is ajax technology. It has been spreading rampant around the web recently.
www.ajaxian.com is a great resource for AJAX type information.
also wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
This technology, if used write, well revolutionize many web sites.
Realtime sports w/o flash (Already seen on ESPN.com Scoreboard)
Probably a few sites with stock market tickers.. etc.
I really love AJAX!
I gurantee you that there is. You may not notice it for random web browsing, but ask someone who plays first person shooters which they prefer.
Not one "professional" gaming team uses a wireless mouse.
You think they would, no cords to mongle with, etc.
However, they use wired because there IS lag. It may not be a big deal for common computing, but if you looked at specs.. there is lag
Plus, does this product do power too? One of the most efficient features of USB is to let the utilities get the power they need to run too. Some utilities will still need to be plugged in somewhere (or battery packs) to work 100%.
Well, yeah, it sounds great and will probably be great for lots of things.
However, performance will drop on these items, even the fastest wireless gaming mouses have a semi-noticable lag when you use them. This lag in other items could create problems, like obfuscated code going to printers, etc.
Also, a security issue if you live in close-quarters (apartments, office buildings) because people could sniff the "packets" between the hub and device. They could watch you on your webcam, when you have your webcam software off.
Well, it will probably be good, the cons are not too bad, I will actually probably buy one myself.