User: djjoemex

Re:Microsoft's Problem

On: Gates' Replacement says Microsoft Must Simplify

I really think that Code Testing has become a nightmare. Microsoft just doesn't beleive in new Operating Systems, just see this chart.

• Windows 1.0 1985
• Windows 2.0 1987
• Windows 3.0 1990
• Windows 3.1x 1992
• Windows 95 1995
• Windows 98 1998
• Windows Me 2000
• Windows XP 2001
• Windows Vista 2008?

I wonder if Windows Vista will be sold as a product before Bill Gates departure

Re:Simple Solution

On: U.S. Pressures ISPs on Data Retention

What really concerns me is the fact that they could sneak your email attachments.

I use email to store my work and send it so I can work in many computers (office, home, friend's house, etc) and many times this is confidential data I worked for months.

Am I going to need to encrypt all my email attachments using GNU PG from now on. For me its no problem, but Is it legal to encrypt all your data using a 512 bit key?

Re:... Yes and no

On: Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE?

In my experience having learned Java and C++ without IDE's was a professors subject.
My PhD teacher of advanced data structures said that we first need to know to understand how to build balanced binary trees, red-black trees, graphs and other structures without any library so we can implement the algorithms by ourselves.

The Standard Template Library of C++ or the java.util APIs in Java give you many implementations of data structures, search and ordering algorithms, if you use an IDE you can quickly make use of other libraries from packages.
But I think IDE's and these libraries should be used by small projects where it does not make diference if you use Mege sort or Quick sort in an array class. In large projects, all algorithms and data structures should be completely re-written, and it doesn't matter if you use an IDE or not, because you'll be using your own code.

I agree, medium business is more vulnerable

On: The World's Top Cybercriminals

I've seen in the report that many hackers are atacking big sized companies like Walmart, and I can see that this affects companies that haven't got the budget to obtain intrusion detection systems provided by companies involved in machine learning.

Today the advances in neural networks, genetic algorithms, data mining and expert systems can be used in big companies to prevent credit card fraud and spam. Many of this systems use combined searching techniques with genetic programming to give outstanding results.

The problem is that this kind of software is expensive and I haven't seen any bing company using open source for this kind of software so maybe the medium sized business must make an investment in open source technology to provide open sollutions for smaller companies in the future.

I think this is very bad idea

On: Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s

I once heard a podcast withChristopher "Monty" Montgomeryand other geeks saying that MP3 and Music traffic in Internet now has 90% of bandwith use. Is this all about big companies trying to stop the next revolution that Internet 2 (not web 2) will have for all of us?

I have 3 comments for this ignorant corrupt senator wich has to hear:

1. If you haven't seen statistics of Internet Searching I can tell you that nowadays more than 90% of these searches go only for searching music, artists, and media. This means that latence in Internet traffic today would be better if users find a special ID for media items, stored in a central database like free-db.org where every single music track, video, picture is catalogued, so there could be cache searches for one single song hit, avoiding thousands of the same searches (try searching Daddy Yankee - Gasolina on google and you'll see what i mean). This could be great however it's not a standard and the backbone of Internet 2 must choose if this is viable in the next generation of Internet (see http://www.internet2.edu/ )
   
2. There is a plan to make all telecommunications in the world via packet switching, instead of circuit-based switching see GNU-Gatekeeper where you don't need to have special telephone service installed in order to build a VoIP infrastructure in your P2P network. This means that cable companies are now going to do some real business with cheaper VoIP Internet calls. However they are at risk too, some interesting protocols trying to encapsule this packet networks are JXTA. This little baby protocol (in its earliest versions) has its own Address-to-Name translation system independent of DNS. I think this is another issue that Internet 2 Consortium has to deal with. If there is in the near future an exponential growing of these independent P2P networks where the old Internet law doesn't exist, i think the big companies will be buried just as they are doing right to mp3 broadcasters now in America.
   
3. Because of this issues, big companies and are predicting that Internet 2 will be free- from sponsors in such a way that people will stop to buy their products. (Why a average citizen in a medium-size economy like Latin America will buy a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drive if you can use XviD and AC3-audio to see the same quality in a 700MB disk?) So this is the big issue, and i think this is the reason why these companies are doing corruption in digg.