If customers had really wanted solutions that just worked and didn't have problems, then Unix would have been a much more dominant operating system in the late 80's and early 90's.
uunnhh.. not exactly.. IMHO, other factors like cheap price, openness/portability, nice GUI and usability should also be considered. i remember a time, when people used to be *afraid* of unix systems; as they were perceived to be difficult to understand and operation. (it still is but a lot of people)!
internet bandwidth usage grew by 50% with the introduction of bit-torrent technology. it today is nearly 1/3 of the total internet traffic. the net can handle overloads of traffic. the worst case would be that somebody somewhere will not be able to watch a streaming video. i don't see things "melting down" because of the world cup; except, maybe, a couple of national prides;)
1. find out- why they want the code? what all changes do they want to make?
2. if they do not want to change the core of the product, then look at alternatives: like releasing an API/dlls
3. if they want to change the core of your product, then you need to get a really good lawyer. determine things like who will own the code and the modified code; how much will they pay you (one time/yearly basis); scale of deployment of code; how many copies can they make; can they sell the code their/your code to others; can they use your code and start a business of their own (the way you do).. a better thing would be to say that everything else is restricted, and the other company can only do this-this-and-this
4. you need to have traceability in code also (in case there is a leak and you need to find out, from where)
5. look-up court cases/settlements on the web and see if you have missed out something
6. fix everything tightly, release code, get cash, and enjoy!
I totally agree with the despicable act that spamming is. But we should get a grip on how acute an issue it is. I am not a spammer, and if everything were seized from me and I were asked to explain how I got them - it would be difficult for me to explain. My nose is 100% clean, but still it would be difficult, and a royal pain.
There are remedial measures, ways and methods of dealing with these things - and they have been codified as laws. If some authority gets the right to sieze everything you have, then you will be the first person to complain against such draconian measures and human-rights violation.
There are more than one ways to convict spammers - including much stiffer penalties and more thorough accounting investigations. Spamming offends others, and spammers do make a lot of money out of it. But it doesnot physically/mentally harm anyone. There are worse crimes than spamming, and we should reserve some punishments for those as well;)
In the near future, Doc Terror, and his cyborg companion Hacker, unleash their forces to conquer Earth and spread malware!
Only one force can stop this evil: a handful of brave men; in specially created exoframes they can sniff packets anywhere to fuse with incredible anti-malware weapons. Beamed down from the space station Sky Vault, becoming man and machine,
The roots of Excel and spreadsheets like Lotus 1-2-3 and Visicalc. They used to be wildly popular in the corporate environment and was the killep app. A lot of corporate accounting was shifted to these spreadsheets.
Why is it that spreadsheets have become a bane today for such uses? Could it be that better software alternatives are available today? or that excel macro errors are quite often overlooked and people don't recheck the code/calculations via paper-pencil (too much work)?
it would be wiser to do a need based analysis of which tool to use. if one has to use excel, then the sheets need to be tested properly before being deployed. treating them as quick hacks - and not checking for errors - will lead to disastrous situations.
it is widely known in the developer community that a certificate does not invoke any sense of "trust". it just implies that someone paid a big wad of money to somebody in the "default trust 'em" list (verisign, et al.)!
a certified page represents just that, and nothing more. you should look at the cost aspect of it alone.
if you can dish-out the dough to get a certificate, by all means, go for it. if you can't then you can go for a cheaper certificate, or even your own certificate. you can ask your clients to trust your certificates and add them to the list of trusted certificates, or trust the certificate on a per-session basis.
you don't lose anything; and still get the job done.
it's a whole different ball-o-wax though if you're using your site for credit-card transactions. somehow, i wouldn't feel comfortable putting up the numbers on any site not verisign certified.
this year, it's Emotion, Economics, Emblem, and Europe
So are we going to see games based on tear-jerker soap operas...?
cut-scenes from the game: bill disappears (grief).. bill reappears (joy).. oh-no it's his evil twin (despair).. oh-no it was him (surprise).. oh-no! they're all dead (mourn).. oh-yes! they survived, what a miracle! (befuddled!)
needless to say, to win the game, you'll have to introduce the maximum number of twists in the tale.
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ps: you can send somebody back-packing through europe to score some!;)
this year, it's Emotion, Economics, Emblem, and Europe
So are we going to see games based on tear-jerker soap operas...?
cut-scenes from the game: bill disappears (grief).. bill reappears (joy).. oh-no it's his evil twin (despair).. oh-no it was him (surprise).. oh-no! they're all dead (mourn).. oh-yes! they survived, what a miracle! (befuddled!)
needless to say, to win the game, you'll have to introduce the maximum number of twists in the tale.
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ps: you can send somebody back-packing through europe to score some!;)
i have worked for an embedded software solutions company. most of the software we wrote was customized to the cutomer's requirements, and we had a acceptance period for the customer to agree on all the deliverables.
that kind of approach can be used for purchasing software; however, it flushes the whole software-as-a-offsehelf-product idea down the drain. maybe this idea's implementation can be started with a target group and slowly expanded based on the usage/feedback
all of that is fine. but one has to understand that SPAM can be sent over any messaging system. one can fortify it a hundred ways - but if you want to accept mails from email addresses you haven't accepted mails from before, then you have to allow for spam to come in. if you already have a list of people you would accept mails from, then you can go ahead and put a filter now itself! it's a totally different ball game if somebody's computer gets 0wned by a bug and starts spamming you.
having said that, what i really don't like about the existing system is that sometimes mail gets lost; and i never get to know. it hasn't happened very many times - but has happened times enough to get me piqued!
1. well, i have 2 computers and only 3GB ram. i want them both to have 2Gb when i'm working on them. so i have to physically shuffle the 1gb module between the two computers. so, there are memory management issues.
2. sometimes the modules don't go in very well. they cause frequent crashes.
So what happens to EULA's like the one over at windows media photo specification (which was covered here)? They've put up a click through agreement, and any *random* person can come and see the specs. So can the specs be used by a competitor also; misused as not permitted by the EULA?
if not, then what would have happened if Snow had put this agreement up as a EULA in more fancy legalese and claimed for violation of contract?
essentially people don't realise they are at risk; or such a thing would happen.. until it happens. they think that it is too much of a hassle; who would go at great lengths to get their data? if i keep the data to just this system and provide physical security to the system; then i don't need to bother much about anything else. so the data is maintained locally and usually un-encrypted. there are no easy (as in trivial) solutions to encrypt all the data on the hdd in first place. so people take the easy way out.
what they don't realise, until it hits them is that their systems are hooked to the net, can go for service/repair or otherwise be exposed to external agents.
how many/.er's encrypt *all* their data on their HDDs? not many i presume. heck, even secrecy scared corporates and intelligence agencies don't do that.
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uunnhh.. not exactly.. IMHO, other factors like cheap price, openness/portability, nice GUI and usability should also be considered. i remember a time, when people used to be *afraid* of unix systems; as they were perceived to be difficult to understand and operation. (it still is but a lot of people)!
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and so we vote for open sourced systems for encrypted polling machines ;)
amen!
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there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics!
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1. find out- why they want the code? what all changes do they want to make?
2. if they do not want to change the core of the product, then look at alternatives: like releasing an API/dlls
3. if they want to change the core of your product, then you need to get a really good lawyer. determine things like who will own the code and the modified code; how much will they pay you (one time/yearly basis); scale of deployment of code; how many copies can they make; can they sell the code their/your code to others; can they use your code and start a business of their own (the way you do).. a better thing would be to say that everything else is restricted, and the other company can only do this-this-and-this
4. you need to have traceability in code also (in case there is a leak and you need to find out, from where)
5. look-up court cases/settlements on the web and see if you have missed out something
6. fix everything tightly, release code, get cash, and enjoy!
* lon3st4r *
There are remedial measures, ways and methods of dealing with these things - and they have been codified as laws. If some authority gets the right to sieze everything you have, then you will be the first person to complain against such draconian measures and human-rights violation.
There are more than one ways to convict spammers - including much stiffer penalties and more thorough accounting investigations. Spamming offends others, and spammers do make a lot of money out of it. But it doesnot physically/mentally harm anyone. There are worse crimes than spamming, and we should reserve some punishments for those as well ;)
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Only one force can stop this evil: a handful of brave men; in specially created exoframes they can sniff packets anywhere to fuse with incredible anti-malware weapons. Beamed down from the space station Sky Vault, becoming man and machine,
Power Xtreme!
The SANS turions
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Why is it that spreadsheets have become a bane today for such uses? Could it be that better software alternatives are available today? or that excel macro errors are quite often overlooked and people don't recheck the code/calculations via paper-pencil (too much work)?
it would be wiser to do a need based analysis of which tool to use. if one has to use excel, then the sheets need to be tested properly before being deployed. treating them as quick hacks - and not checking for errors - will lead to disastrous situations.
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*cough* *cough* the sarcasm is killing me.. arghhh!
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sorry for the above post. got it in here by mistake. should've been posted to a different article!
a certified page represents just that, and nothing more. you should look at the cost aspect of it alone.
if you can dish-out the dough to get a certificate, by all means, go for it. if you can't then you can go for a cheaper certificate, or even your own certificate. you can ask your clients to trust your certificates and add them to the list of trusted certificates, or trust the certificate on a per-session basis.
you don't lose anything; and still get the job done.
it's a whole different ball-o-wax though if you're using your site for credit-card transactions. somehow, i wouldn't feel comfortable putting up the numbers on any site not verisign certified.
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So are we going to see games based on tear-jerker soap operas...?
cut-scenes from the game: bill disappears (grief).. bill reappears (joy).. oh-no it's his evil twin (despair) .. oh-no it was him (surprise) .. oh-no! they're all dead (mourn).. oh-yes! they survived, what a miracle! (befuddled!)
needless to say, to win the game, you'll have to introduce the maximum number of twists in the tale.
* lon3st4r *
ps: you can send somebody back-packing through europe to score some! ;)
So are we going to see games based on tear-jerker soap operas...?
cut-scenes from the game: bill disappears (grief).. bill reappears (joy).. oh-no it's his evil twin (despair) .. oh-no it was him (surprise) .. oh-no! they're all dead (mourn).. oh-yes! they survived, what a miracle! (befuddled!)
needless to say, to win the game, you'll have to introduce the maximum number of twists in the tale.
* lon3st4r *
ps: you can send somebody back-packing through europe to score some! ;)
In the news today: Tanenbaum charged of subliminally brain-washing people on his microkernel design. People with tin-foil hats live to tell the day!
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this gives a whole new twist to the "not in the same state" excuse ;)
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that kind of approach can be used for purchasing software; however, it flushes the whole software-as-a-offsehelf-product idea down the drain. maybe this idea's implementation can be started with a target group and slowly expanded based on the usage/feedback
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having said that, what i really don't like about the existing system is that sometimes mail gets lost; and i never get to know. it hasn't happened very many times - but has happened times enough to get me piqued!
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2. sometimes the modules don't go in very well. they cause frequent crashes.
3. and as we all know about tabs, opera was there first!
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if not, then what would have happened if Snow had put this agreement up as a EULA in more fancy legalese and claimed for violation of contract?
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People could make a lot of money like this.^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^H
forget you ever heard that. mental note: TODO: money for nothing! ;)
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what they don't realise, until it hits them is that their systems are hooked to the net, can go for service/repair or otherwise be exposed to external agents.
how many /.er's encrypt *all* their data on their HDDs? not many i presume. heck, even secrecy scared corporates and intelligence agencies don't do that.
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