I agree that Microsoft's goal is probably to push Silverlight and locking up the AJAX space with something they have control over... But I'm not sure the word 'rapid' could be used to talk about anything as it pertains to Javascript. The language fundamentally hasn't moved in the last decade.
There are some real benefits to Silverlight, there are also some real drawbacks in it's current versions but I don't see Silverlight as competing with Javascript. It's a competitor to Flash, not necessarily Javascript unless you step way back and try to summarize each technology in one sentence. Even then, it's a bit of a stretch.
Way to go, slashdot editors. As has been pointed out, the FBI already had suspect names and did a search for them. They didn't request all student aid applications to be sent to them for rifling through as they see fit.
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
Funny how a post questioning the tone of the article as being slightly biased gets modded down. I'm sure if the tables were turned and I was asking about the harsh tone of a Linux article on/. all would be well in the world.
I wonder... if the same report was written about a 2.[Odd] version of the Linux Kernel that was 6 months away from release would the title of the/. article be quite so harsh? Of course not. But this is/. where penguins rule the skies.
If the shuttle is orbiting every 90 minutes and you push off of it you're changing your orbit (and to an undetectable extent the shuttle's orbit). But wouldn't you crash into the shuttle at either 1/2 an orbit or 1 full orbit? I remember seeing something interesting about how satellites are positioned into orbit and seem to remember any thrust changing the satellites orbit into an irregular or eliptical orbit would still lead back to the same spot as where the engine was cut off...
You might not end up hitting the shuttle, but you'd be closest to the shuttle every 45 or 90 minutes, so you could probably use the SAFER to guide yourself back to intercept the shuttle at one of those points?
"there's always going to be some kind of coding they can provide SoE."
That's my point though... their code was of "script kiddies" quality. I'm not trying to sound like too much of a jerk, but any developer that wants to go take a look at that code will back me up. It was a bit scary.
After contributing a few minor additions to eqemu, the fact that SoE would hire those guys further harms my opinion of SoE (and that's saying something). The guys were obviously very solid reverse engineers, but questionable developers and what use does a software house like that have for a reverse engineering team?
Adding a new TLD for this is stupid at best. Even on a PDA that gets good reviews about their "extremely easy to use keyboard" typing is still unnatural. Cut every letter you can off of what I have to type and I'm a happy man.
I guess the optimal solution would be to come up with a.m TLD, then just have a default entry for your.m domain pointing to www.domain., so all I have to type to get to your mobile site is "slashdot.m" or "google.m" Looks odd, but I can live with that.
That hasn't been my experience at all. I run some PHP forums and I'm a.NET developer so I don't think I really qualify as an administrator. But my experience has been:
As far as dynamic web-page language/technology goes, PHP runs poorly, is a bit painful to install / configure compared to the.NET runtime which is almost a no-brainer install.
As far as databases go, MS SQL server comes with better tools than mysql, and generally requires less knowledge to administer.
Apache might be more configurable but editing Apache configuration XML has been problematic for me the limited times I've had to do it. IIS has most of that exposed in the UI, and there are generally more "30 second how-tos" for doing that stuff with the meta-data editor if you need to.
Linux vs. Windows comes down to the fact that I prefer Linux for a server OS but IIS / MS SQL don't run on Linux.
It's good to see level-headed, non-biased Slashdot articles. Crippled would mean that the firewall doesn't even have the ability to block outgoing data, it does, it's just not enabled by default.
This just in, most Linux distributions don't have firewalls enabled by default. News at 11!
"There should be a way to make it free for opensource community implementing and not to Microsoft."
There is a way. If the patent holder decides to license their technology for free to OSS then there you go. But it sounds like you're saying "I didn't invent this (I think it'll be argued that neither did Real Networks), but I like Open-Source software so there should be some form of exemption for OSS to ignore patents." Replace OSS with "huge corporate monopolies" and you could be a flack for Microsoft. Is that really the kind of life you want to lead?
I think technology patents in this country are pretty far gone right now, but that just means the system needs overhaul, not that we need to cover every piece of evidence that the system is broken with a gigantic band-aid (and a heavily biased one at that), masking the problem.
I was pretty proud of "Slashdot illuminati" but I wasn't really trolling for any reaction either way. I just saw the 100,000 lines of code and 700 developers figure and it struck me as something that would never happen in commercial software. Besides, anything posted here that even hints at suggesting OSS & Linux aren't the silver bullets of software development are pretty much guaranteed no positive mod-points.
"The project was founded in 1999 in Australia and has now grown to more than 100,000 lines of code contributed by over 700 developers."
And therein lies a large chunk of "the problem" for OSS projects if you ask me. It's much easier to manage 20 developers who each have to write 5,000 lines of code than to manage 700 developers who each write (I'm sure it doesn't work out like this) 143 lines of code. I'd love to have 700 people reviewing the code written by the 20, but 700 cooks in the kitchen it's extremely difficult to adhere to conventions for APIs, standard error handling, etc...
The solution for closed source projects to come inline with the perceived vastly superior security of OSS projects is to overload their projects with white-box testing harnesses and QA testers who know how to do white-box testing. Unfortunately that's extremely expensive so it gets pushed in favor of more black-box testing. I do believe OSS projects have a better security track record, but I don't believe it's nearly as large as the Slashdot illuminati make it out to be.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree that Microsoft's goal is probably to push Silverlight and locking up the AJAX space with something they have control over... But I'm not sure the word 'rapid' could be used to talk about anything as it pertains to Javascript. The language fundamentally hasn't moved in the last decade. There are some real benefits to Silverlight, there are also some real drawbacks in it's current versions but I don't see Silverlight as competing with Javascript. It's a competitor to Flash, not necessarily Javascript unless you step way back and try to summarize each technology in one sentence. Even then, it's a bit of a stretch.
Way to go, slashdot editors. As has been pointed out, the FBI already had suspect names and did a search for them. They didn't request all student aid applications to be sent to them for rifling through as they see fit.
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
/. all would be well in the world.
Funny how a post questioning the tone of the article as being slightly biased gets modded down. I'm sure if the tables were turned and I was asking about the harsh tone of a Linux article on
Ah Slashdot, how I love you.
I wonder... if the same report was written about a 2.[Odd] version of the Linux Kernel that was 6 months away from release would the title of the /. article be quite so harsh? Of course not. But this is /. where penguins rule the skies.
If the shuttle is orbiting every 90 minutes and you push off of it you're changing your orbit (and to an undetectable extent the shuttle's orbit). But wouldn't you crash into the shuttle at either 1/2 an orbit or 1 full orbit? I remember seeing something interesting about how satellites are positioned into orbit and seem to remember any thrust changing the satellites orbit into an irregular or eliptical orbit would still lead back to the same spot as where the engine was cut off...
You might not end up hitting the shuttle, but you'd be closest to the shuttle every 45 or 90 minutes, so you could probably use the SAFER to guide yourself back to intercept the shuttle at one of those points?
I might be completely off, but that sounds right.
"there's always going to be some kind of coding they can provide SoE."
That's my point though... their code was of "script kiddies" quality. I'm not trying to sound like too much of a jerk, but any developer that wants to go take a look at that code will back me up. It was a bit scary.
After contributing a few minor additions to eqemu, the fact that SoE would hire those guys further harms my opinion of SoE (and that's saying something). The guys were obviously very solid reverse engineers, but questionable developers and what use does a software house like that have for a reverse engineering team?
He was stealing/butchering a quote from Star Wars Episode III. In the quote in the movie they're talking about a woman.
m.slashdot.org
.m TLD, then just have a default entry for your .m domain pointing to www.domain., so all I have to type to get to your mobile site is "slashdot.m" or "google.m" Looks odd, but I can live with that.
m.google.com
Adding a new TLD for this is stupid at best. Even on a PDA that gets good reviews about their "extremely easy to use keyboard" typing is still unnatural. Cut every letter you can off of what I have to type and I'm a happy man.
I guess the optimal solution would be to come up with a
You left out the obvious nemesis in this day and age. The Bush Administration has evidence that terrorists plan to land on the moon.
We must not let the terrorists complete their evil plans to build a moonbase known as Moon Unit Zappa!
"[+] idiot, jackthompson, stupid, fud, esrb (tagging beta)"
It's great to see the Slashdot tagging system, still in beta, hits the mark so completely.
The American worker moves to Bangalore, forwards their support calls there, and lives out the rest of their days sipping champagne and eating caviar.
That hasn't been my experience at all. I run some PHP forums and I'm a .NET developer so I don't think I really qualify as an administrator. But my experience has been:
.NET runtime which is almost a no-brainer install.
As far as dynamic web-page language/technology goes, PHP runs poorly, is a bit painful to install / configure compared to the
As far as databases go, MS SQL server comes with better tools than mysql, and generally requires less knowledge to administer.
Apache might be more configurable but editing Apache configuration XML has been problematic for me the limited times I've had to do it. IIS has most of that exposed in the UI, and there are generally more "30 second how-tos" for doing that stuff with the meta-data editor if you need to.
Linux vs. Windows comes down to the fact that I prefer Linux for a server OS but IIS / MS SQL don't run on Linux.
It's good to see level-headed, non-biased Slashdot articles. Crippled would mean that the firewall doesn't even have the ability to block outgoing data, it does, it's just not enabled by default.
This just in, most Linux distributions don't have firewalls enabled by default. News at 11!
"There should be a way to make it free for opensource community implementing and not to Microsoft."
There is a way. If the patent holder decides to license their technology for free to OSS then there you go. But it sounds like you're saying "I didn't invent this (I think it'll be argued that neither did Real Networks), but I like Open-Source software so there should be some form of exemption for OSS to ignore patents." Replace OSS with "huge corporate monopolies" and you could be a flack for Microsoft. Is that really the kind of life you want to lead?
I think technology patents in this country are pretty far gone right now, but that just means the system needs overhaul, not that we need to cover every piece of evidence that the system is broken with a gigantic band-aid (and a heavily biased one at that), masking the problem.
I was pretty proud of "Slashdot illuminati" but I wasn't really trolling for any reaction either way. I just saw the 100,000 lines of code and 700 developers figure and it struck me as something that would never happen in commercial software. Besides, anything posted here that even hints at suggesting OSS & Linux aren't the silver bullets of software development are pretty much guaranteed no positive mod-points.
"The project was founded in 1999 in Australia and has now grown to more than 100,000 lines of code contributed by over 700 developers."
And therein lies a large chunk of "the problem" for OSS projects if you ask me. It's much easier to manage 20 developers who each have to write 5,000 lines of code than to manage 700 developers who each write (I'm sure it doesn't work out like this) 143 lines of code. I'd love to have 700 people reviewing the code written by the 20, but 700 cooks in the kitchen it's extremely difficult to adhere to conventions for APIs, standard error handling, etc...
The solution for closed source projects to come inline with the perceived vastly superior security of OSS projects is to overload their projects with white-box testing harnesses and QA testers who know how to do white-box testing. Unfortunately that's extremely expensive so it gets pushed in favor of more black-box testing. I do believe OSS projects have a better security track record, but I don't believe it's nearly as large as the Slashdot illuminati make it out to be.