Umm. I would suggest that being unaware of the state of a piece of data on your file system is more or less the exact opposite of fault tolerance and redundancy.
Do you delete files using cat/dev/random?
Few file systems go any length to make sure your file is no longer recoverable after deletion...
Mh. I must go check this out. Previously when I've seen any 3 CMS being mentioned in one sentence, the third one (besides Drupal and Joomla) was Typo3... strangely, I never heard of SilverStripe before.
Exactly; Godwin's Law is formulated as a natural law, not as a rule of behavior. You do not so much "violate" or "obey" it as "reinforce" or "avoid reinforcing" it .
Employers search Google about their candidates, partners about their potential dates. Who needs a centralized database - or even a format convention - for online reputation when it is already possible to get a good first impression of any person by the web trail they leave?
If anything, leaving this without a formal standard or central authority heads off problems with privacy or manipulation.
Formal reputation systems are useful at a local level. It works on Ebay, where there is only one type of transaction (a sale), and all reputation and references stems from how the party behaves on either end of the transaction. When transactions and relations become more complex, it might be best just to provide the raw information and let people make up their own minds about each other.
This is a good article, although it only touches on the topic in one section late in the text:
Stephenson's Cryptonomicon contained a good idea for how to thwart disk forensics. First, while the server room was being raided, an EMP fried the computers themselves, and when the hard drives were taken out of the room, they passed through a strong magnetic coil hidden inside the door frame.
This probably wouldn't work in practice (especially legally), but it does get rid of the data.
Sure, sure, the translation sucks, but I'm amazed at how well the real point of the article came through:
the explanations of the Minister of the Interior for computer security are pure lip-service. Here systematically the legal and organizational framework is created, in order to make citizens and enterprises defenseless opposite computer attacks, restaurant economics and also the Bundestrojaner. Safety research can take place only in an unacceptable legal gray area.
So do I. The early warning sign is that I'm starting to think of Beowulf clusters of insensitive clods in Soviet Russia, and also thinking that is funny...
HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) for a few cents each
Brings to mind a dystopian (and fictional) future where robots lord it over us but still need us to process large amounts of data for them. Like the Matrix, but without violating the laws of Thermodynamics. That'd make a cool SF novel, I think...
...that Google doesn't already have? I used Feedburner once a year or two ago (with my Blogger blog); as I remember, the really useful features they offered were conversion between Atom and RSS, and media enclosures for podcasts...
Last I heard, Blogger has that now. Or perhaps Feedburner got new features too?
I haven't got the foggiest idea of what laws apply in this case, but when you hand in an exam or essay, aren't you asserting that what you submitted is entirely your work? I know I had to sign a statement to that effect when I handed in my final assignment last week.
This is not like selling RPG gold or violating a site's Terms of Service. This sounds more like a deliberate deception for personal gain, to paraphrase Wikipedia on Fraud.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not that popular/good.
/.er hadn't heard of Asimov or Tolkien, but Card?
Something wouldn't be right if a
eBay stands accused of infringing on a software patent?
The irony is so delicious...
Does VoIP or computer-processed call management even work without buffering the data in memory?
He'z zpelled with an 's'. ;)
Indeed. Select "Plain Old Text" in the list below (it's actually default for me).
:)
See?
Linebreak!
It's magic.
I wonder if you could forge evidence that L. Ron Hubbard denounced software patents as being a thorn in the eye of Xenu.
There. Problem solved. Just sit back and watch the carnage.
Root for Verizon or root for software patents? My head's exploding.
I need to see this positively. It's a Win-Win situation. Whatever the outcome, the bad guy loses.
Do you delete files using cat
Few file systems go any length to make sure your file is no longer recoverable after deletion...
Mh. I must go check this out. Previously when I've seen any 3 CMS being mentioned in one sentence, the third one (besides Drupal and Joomla) was Typo3... strangely, I never heard of SilverStripe before.
I don't queston its quality (hell, I haven't even tried it). But still:
There was this web company who was sick of every web company having their own CMS, so they made their own CMS?
telnet? Pfft. When I used to be a wee kid, we encoded our TCP packets by hand and by golly we liked it!
Exactly; Godwin's Law is formulated as a natural law, not as a rule of behavior. You do not so much "violate" or "obey" it as "reinforce" or "avoid reinforcing" it .
Oh, but I'd like to see that.
Bonus points if instead of throwing a chair he slams his boot on the table instead... the irony would be so sweet.
Employers search Google about their candidates, partners about their potential dates. Who needs a centralized database - or even a format convention - for online reputation when it is already possible to get a good first impression of any person by the web trail they leave?
If anything, leaving this without a formal standard or central authority heads off problems with privacy or manipulation.
Formal reputation systems are useful at a local level. It works on Ebay, where there is only one type of transaction (a sale), and all reputation and references stems from how the party behaves on either end of the transaction. When transactions and relations become more complex, it might be best just to provide the raw information and let people make up their own minds about each other.
This is a good article, although it only touches on the topic in one section late in the text:
A Group is its own worst enemy, by Clay Shirky
Except that the HTML generated by MS Word sucks. It's quirky and bloated with meta information.
Or would, if it hadn't been slashdotted. It's been loading for a few minutes now... :/
Stephenson's Cryptonomicon contained a good idea for how to thwart disk forensics. First, while the server room was being raided, an EMP fried the computers themselves, and when the hard drives were taken out of the room, they passed through a strong magnetic coil hidden inside the door frame.
This probably wouldn't work in practice (especially legally), but it does get rid of the data.
Nothing lost in translation there.
So do I. The early warning sign is that I'm starting to think of Beowulf clusters of insensitive clods in Soviet Russia, and also thinking that is funny...
My last name is Clod, you insensitive... agh, forget it.
Brings to mind a dystopian (and fictional) future where robots lord it over us but still need us to process large amounts of data for them. Like the Matrix, but without violating the laws of Thermodynamics. That'd make a cool SF novel, I think...
...that Google doesn't already have? I used Feedburner once a year or two ago (with my Blogger blog); as I remember, the really useful features they offered were conversion between Atom and RSS, and media enclosures for podcasts...
Last I heard, Blogger has that now. Or perhaps Feedburner got new features too?
Because I'm having serious trouble picking a side here.
I haven't got the foggiest idea of what laws apply in this case, but when you hand in an exam or essay, aren't you asserting that what you submitted is entirely your work? I know I had to sign a statement to that effect when I handed in my final assignment last week.
This is not like selling RPG gold or violating a site's Terms of Service. This sounds more like a deliberate deception for personal gain, to paraphrase Wikipedia on Fraud.
Shouldn't that be the source?