Visitors to the RSF website are also invited to leave a voice message for Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang, expressing their views on the firm's involvement in China
Interestingly enough, you don't have to be a Chinese reporter for Yahoo to give away your private info. For every email you send from Yahoo mail, the IP address from where you sent is is disclosed to the receiver.
I think wikipedia would benefit from an automatic grading system.
Articles that have been there for a long time, that have been edited by a big number of editors, from different IP addresses, at a regular pace over long periods of time should be receive a mod up.
And the opposite: articles that were edited by a few authors, from a few or a single IP address, in a short period of time should be added an automatic warning when displayed.
Contributors can be graded too:
Modifying text in an article would count for an automatic negative vote of the modified sentence, and for an automatic positive vote for nearby sentences. The authors who contributed the moded up or moded down sentences will have their karma increased or decreased appropriately.
Daniel Brandt wrote a script that pinpoints all the plagiarized pages. That is a very unlikely scenario in real life. He should have selected a sample of random pages, and check which are plagiarized.
Claim surfing the web is risky because his firewalls only gives access to phishing sites
Say sex is dangerous, because he frequents a nightclub were all members have STD
Assert numbers don't have square roots because his population is made of negative numbers.
I didn't say you should be happy with nothing, I just said your are lucky. And I will explain why are you lucky.
I don't know where you live but if you live in the U.S. or U.K. then part of your tax money is being used by the government to pay to someone to read your slashdot post. If you lived in China, Iran, or the countries mentioned in your previous post, your tax money would be used to imprison you without being granted the right to call your wife That you are not taken from your bed at night for a post I called luck. That your government could do more to respect your rights and privacy is probably right too. That's all.
And please don't call me sir, specially if you are going to call me dumbass right afterwards.
Still it is interesting to pinpoint the difference between a democracy and an absolutist dictatorship (China, Iran, N. Korea, Cuba, Syria,...).
Democracies do surveillance, perhaps more than they should or need. Dictatorships do censorship, political prosecution and incarceration, banning, executions opponents etc.
So if you are being surveyed you can think of yourself as lucky.
That's probably what humans thought when they invented script. Now everything is documented and no doubts will ever arise regarding our time.
Remember that much of Archeology is not unearthing the findings but interpreting them. If you had today complete access to the Library of Alexandria, how much of it could you understand.
Historians and archaeologists will always be needed. And also in the future there might the chance of recording reality and replaying it as virtual reality, which may cause reading Wikipedia or today's multimedia as a very poor experience.
Don't confuse yourselves. Microsoft continues to refuse any admission of the existence of open source. This is done with the proprietary version of SUSE Linux, not with opensuse.
(BTW, in other opportunity we should discuss the phenomenon of companies that take -not develop- an open source project and derive from it its proprietary flagship product, like RedHat and SUSE and any others?).
They do the same in their MSDN, in every reference to Python (not that there are so much) they state that it works with ActiveState Python (no python.org, God forbid)
The internet is just another (powerful) means for... for just anything. You have free knowledge, easy collaboration, multi-party communication. And also dirty politics, lies, deception, crime, etc.
Internet (and YouTube and Google and Wikipedia and...) can only be good or bad only technicalwise. From a moral standpoint only the human user can be good or bad.
The greatness of Google's advertising program is that they are good for any budget. Just as the PC meant a computer for everyone, Google means everyone can advertise. So the interesting question is not whether people are spending more on Internet advertising, but whether businesses are spending less on TV.
I, for my part, hope that the answer is yes. TV is mass media in its worst form, and targets the lowest common denominator.
Even then, I think there are enough Chinese expatriates, Chinese companies operating abroad, foreign companies operating in China, etc. etc. etc. to make it worth.
I'm sure he means closing development centers in China (if at all). I don't think they will stop selling. If they make Office and Windows for Taiwan (and they make it for smaller markets too), then what will stop them to sell in China? They can stop fighting piracy in China and just see any revenue there as a gift. I'm sure there are people that will buy it, at least foreign companies operating in China.
Beware! The taskbar can reveal a lot of private information. Double check your submission and be sure to blur personal parts. But do not add or remove items. And don't open or close apps, send the taskbar as it looks now so we catch it in a natural position.
Feel free to add comments, I will post them too. I will not link the taskbars to sender's info.
1- As in IM, no one can email you if you have not emailed before.
2- For first time email, the receiving server could sent back a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaptchaCAPTCHA or a product of two large primes to factorize. The captcha would be solved by the human sender, or the factorization problem by her MUA. Nowadays email is almost instantaneous, this would not add a noticeable delay. All the protocol could be implemented over current email protocols with little modification to existing software.
Reliability; Using all web apps or a web based OS would be ridiculous. What happens when your DS3 circuit goes down at your company?
I work for a Fortune 500 and internal applications (even those hosted on server in my site) suffer far more outages (by many orders of magnitude) than gmail and google talk.
I think it is widely accepted that the problem maintaining 100% application uptime is more difficult than network connectivity.
What is an important factor is corporate wariness from hosting data off-site.
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As computer power increases, everything will be inside your browser. Now we are starting to have Office Apps in the browser. In the near future all your OS will be in your browser/server. Your good old Desktop OS will be just to start your browser.
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I think wikipedia would benefit from an automatic grading system.
Articles that have been there for a long time, that have been edited by a big number of editors, from different IP addresses, at a regular pace over long periods of time should be receive a mod up.
And the opposite: articles that were edited by a few authors, from a few or a single IP address, in a short period of time should be added an automatic warning when displayed.
Contributors can be graded too:
Modifying text in an article would count for an automatic negative vote of the modified sentence, and for an automatic positive vote for nearby sentences. The authors who contributed the moded up or moded down sentences will have their karma increased or decreased appropriately.
I didn't say you should be happy with nothing, I just said your are lucky.
And I will explain why are you lucky.
I don't know where you live but if you live in the U.S. or U.K. then part of your tax money is being used by the government to pay to someone to read your slashdot post.
If you lived in China, Iran, or the countries mentioned in your previous post, your tax money would be used to imprison you without being granted the right to call your wife
That you are not taken from your bed at night for a post I called luck.
That your government could do more to respect your rights and privacy is probably right too.
That's all.
And please don't call me sir, specially if you are going to call me dumbass right afterwards.
Still it is interesting to pinpoint the difference between a democracy and an absolutist dictatorship (China, Iran, N. Korea, Cuba, Syria, ...).
Democracies do surveillance, perhaps more than they should or need.
Dictatorships do censorship, political prosecution and incarceration, banning, executions opponents etc.
So if you are being surveyed you can think of yourself as lucky.
That's probably what humans thought when they invented script. Now everything is documented and no doubts will ever arise regarding our time.
Remember that much of Archeology is not unearthing the findings but interpreting them. If you had today complete access to the Library of Alexandria, how much of it could you understand.
Historians and archaeologists will always be needed. And also in the future there might the chance of recording reality and replaying it as virtual reality, which may cause reading Wikipedia or today's multimedia as a very poor experience.
Don't confuse yourselves.
Microsoft continues to refuse any admission of the existence of open source. This is done with the proprietary version of SUSE Linux, not with opensuse.
(BTW, in other opportunity we should discuss the phenomenon of companies that take -not develop- an open source project and derive from it its proprietary flagship product, like RedHat and SUSE and any others?).
They do the same in their MSDN, in every reference to Python (not that there are so much) they state that it works with ActiveState Python (no python.org, God forbid)
The internet is just another (powerful) means for... for just anything.
...) can only be good or bad only technicalwise.
You have free knowledge, easy collaboration, multi-party communication.
And also dirty politics, lies, deception, crime, etc.
Internet (and YouTube and Google and Wikipedia and
From a moral standpoint only the human user can be good or bad.
Because it frees programmers that can join the Army!
So post this URL to the Konqueror people (at least I will get some more hits in my blog...).
The greatness of Google's advertising program is that they are good for any budget.
Just as the PC meant a computer for everyone, Google means everyone can advertise.
So the interesting question is not whether people are spending more on Internet advertising, but whether businesses are spending less on TV.
I, for my part, hope that the answer is yes.
TV is mass media in its worst form, and targets the lowest common denominator.
Sorry for catching me in my ignorance.
:)
Even then, I think there are enough Chinese expatriates, Chinese companies operating abroad, foreign companies operating in China, etc. etc. etc. to make it worth.
Except if you prove me wrong again...
I'm sure he means closing development centers in China (if at all).
I don't think they will stop selling. If they make Office and Windows for Taiwan (and they make it for smaller markets too), then what will stop them to sell in China?
They can stop fighting piracy in China and just see any revenue there as a gift. I'm sure there are people that will buy it, at least foreign companies operating in China.
That's curious as its a standard blogger blog (with google analytics).
Do other blogger blogs crash Konqueror too?
Which exact URL causes the crash?
It also has a beginner's privacy bug: (full disclosure: my blog) http://tech-dissect.blogspot.com/2006/10/firefox-p rivacy-bug.html.
In short: Ctrl-Shift-Del doesn't delete everything you expect it to delete, your browse history can still be recovered.
there will be free Ben & Jerry for CIA analysts and that overseas operatives will carry lava lamps?
and ever since I don't need to password protect anything, nobody but me can use the computer now.
Let's do an interesting collective experiment:
Send me screen shot of your taskbar as it looks now. Send it to slashdotwindows@gmail.com in any popular graphic format (jpg, gif, bmp, png).
I will post them all in my blog (http://tech-dissect.blogspot.com/).
Beware! The taskbar can reveal a lot of private information. Double check your submission and be sure to blur personal parts. But do not add or remove items. And don't open or close apps, send the taskbar as it looks now so we catch it in a natural position.
Feel free to add comments, I will post them too. I will not link the taskbars to sender's info.
I think 2 simple solutions can be combined.
1- As in IM, no one can email you if you have not emailed before.
2- For first time email, the receiving server could sent back a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaptchaCAPTCHA or a product of two large primes to factorize.
The captcha would be solved by the human sender, or the factorization problem by her MUA. Nowadays email is almost instantaneous, this would not add a noticeable delay. All the protocol could be implemented over current email protocols with little modification to existing software.
Reliability; Using all web apps or a web based OS would be ridiculous. What happens when your DS3 circuit goes down at your company?
I work for a Fortune 500 and internal applications (even those hosted on server in my site) suffer far more outages (by many orders of magnitude) than gmail and google talk.
I think it is widely accepted that the problem maintaining 100% application uptime is more difficult than network connectivity.
What is an important factor is corporate wariness from hosting data off-site.
is that it can run Linux executables!
As computer power increases, everything will be inside your browser.
Now we are starting to have Office Apps in the browser.
In the near future all your OS will be in your browser/server.
Your good old Desktop OS will be just to start your browser.
The click-less interface is nice. But I miss the audible feedback. They should play a small "click" each time a button is activated.