Real supported GNU/Linux before there was even a stable browser. Realplayer was one of the first commercial apps that actually worked on GNU/Linux (Stallman, I love you, but you give me finger cramps. And, yeah, you hate Real, too, I'm sure.:) ).
I agree with your points about history and demonstrated human nature. There is nothing in my statement that ignores this; however, I think the land grab of the US was one of the more lucrative and easy grabs. I don't go around feeling guilty about this or anything. Nor do I go around asking myself "What would Lee Ving do?"
We stole land. We purchased land at a ridiculously low price from France and Russia. The land was fertile and had many varied natural resources. Our immigration policies were conducive to turning that land into an extremely productive economic engine. As an added bonus we speak the language of international business (currently). As for schools, simply being tought in English is a huge advantage.
All of that being said, we are also innovative and I would imagine, yes, we are good at startups. But I would guess this has more to do with the confidence that the last paragraph tends to give us. Misplaced confidence. Confidence that it was merely through our superior spirit, fortitude, and God's blessing that we are so successful.
Of course, that is rubbish. We got land and resources cheap or free, and the British Empire ensured our language would be the one used throughout the world for business
It doesn't matter, though, if it is misplaced confidence. We are innovative. We still have a lot of resources. I would just advise that those who think that we have something particularly special in our character or country that makes us better at (fill in the blank) should step back and think about where and how we got our riches.
Craig's pizza order analogy is much better than the freeway lanes analogy. Remember this one, folks, next time you try and explain net neutrality to somebody who doesn't know what QoS is.
Becaused of the context based ads exclusion clause w/ AdSense, this probably won't be allowed by Google to comingle with AdSense on the same page unless Google explicitly addresses this.
Microsoft has phoned home for a long time. I've seen reports of this as early as June, 2000. I'm sure there are earlier instances. Now, to be fair, Firefox phones home for updates. I don't remember seeing a big warning that this was done, or what data was saved at the server, but I like the feature. Of course, if Microsoft is so worried about this app running that they want the chance to turn it off at a days notice as they claim, then, well, this is in a different class of phoning home.
Mr Brin was in Washington to ask US senators to approve a plan that would safeguard "net neutrality" - the current online system which means all internet content is handled equally.
In meetings with Republican John McCain, a member of the Senate committee that oversees telecoms issues, he argued against a system that would allow telephone and cable companies to collect premium fees from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for faster delivery of their services
"The only way to have a fast lane that is useful - that people will pay a premium for - is if there are slow lanes," he said.
Is it just me, or is the last sentence an argument against net neutrality?
Yes. Add to that pictures of yourself and your friends, who your friends are, and personal details about yourself to the mix. The combination of Web 2.0 with privacy issues is scary. Maybe that isn't something you do, but you certainly are leaving a trail of Slashdot postings. You think that can't be mined? I had a long conversation just this morning about how if there is a good javascript server connection, most anything your browser knows, your server knows (or could know). Transmitting that is something the ISP knows. Be careful. I'm thinking spreadsheets belong on your PC. It... is... your... personal... computer. Cough.
In the past, as I'm sure most here know, encryption software was considered to be munitions. I actually purchased the Zimmerman book that was just PGP in source code format at the UW bookstore. The idea at the time was how can you control a book? Now, I know that laws have changed, and the US has relaxed its stance on this. Most distributions of GNU/Linux have SSH included.
This is fresh in my mind because I recently created a specialized GNU/Linux distribution and debated about whether or not to include SSL and SSH. Although I knew the status of this software had changed, I could not find any definitive regulations regarding crypto software. Certainly the last four years don't make me any less paranoid about getting burned by making a mistake here. There is a good presentation that specifically talks about these issues here in TFA. Yes, it does talk about how the munitions stance has relaxed, but I'm still not entirely sure that I don't have to notify some government agency that I'm including encryption if I distribute the root filesystem in binary form.
If these are deployed and left, they will become vulnerable eventually. Right from the beginning, a means to update any service that is listening needs to be built in, particularly with something as widespread as Apache. The user should have a choice: either update without asking, or receive a message when new updates are available, and a recurring message if the updates are not applied. The last thing we need are a million webservers that are deployed and then sit unpatched until the phones aren't used anymore.
There is an inflationary risk to retaining this data. ISPs will need to pass this cost along. I'd like to see some of these costs layed out. Who will pay? As an added bonus, with the new fabulous AJAX stuff y'all are putting in, everything I didn't push submit on could still be archived. Think about that.
I go for Postfix these days, but Sendmail is infinitely configurable, even (Turing complete. Finally, Eric is All Man.
As for the "getting hacked via sendmail issue", I've never known anybody that has, personally, or even a friend of a friend. I know more people that got hacked via SSH (some issue around 2000 or so, I forget, but it was bad).
If I had complicated needs for an MTA, I would assume that Sendmail would be more likely to support those needs than any other MTA. Simplicity is better, though, if possible.
I threw a FreeNAS server up on my home network one day. The next day I decided to back up an XP box that had never been backed up before using the included backup program over the net. The following week I mistakenly deleted files in cygwin (watch out for the/cygdrive/driveletter, it is hidden from / and doesn't follow normal rules... that's my story anyway) and had to restore the XP box. I was able to restore the system over the network from the FreeNAS box. It was a *very* quick restore. Anyway, I like FreeNAS as a quick and easy way to do network backups/restores. The install is very quick and painless, and the BSD it runs on is stable and fast. Agreed about the security issues for corporate use, unless it is just a cheap way to make a drive and an old box into a complete recovery device... just turn it off when you aren't recovering.
Yes, I would share some responsibility, I agree. How much responsibility depends on how aware I was about the dangers of that switch in my analogy. Ditto for Blue Security.
BTW, I am now a little clearer on what the free DNS guy meant. Or, more significantly, I am clearer on the issues involved with this kind of escalation in the war.
I could go on and on, but, well, this is a pretty old thread at this point.
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Even if you don't give credit to Blue Security for their version of the story, saying they DDoSd SixApart is misleading, because, well, they didn't. Maybe they are partly responsible, but it is more like if I know a bunch of outlaws are going to show up any minute because I POd their leader. Before they arrive I switch the numbers on my house with my neighbor. The outlaws arrive and trash my neighbor's house. I am not a "trasher of houses", although it is quite possible my neighbor could sue me for misrepresenting the number of my house. This must come up alot in other areas. He's Spartacus!
What do you mean by "Blue Security isn't out of the woods yet legally and their DDoS of SixApart is far from a closed case."
SixApart was attacked by the same people that attacked Blue Security. Blue security changed their DNS to point at their blog.
Granted, changing the DNS records under the circumstances was irresponsible; however, your quote is misleading.
Agreed on the Coleco Adam. I saw it in Chicago at the CES in '83. It looked to me like the demo boxes were fake at the show. I'm not sure if the "death of the early 80s video game" stories every take into account what Coleco's Adam did to the industry or not.
3 was good. 4 was very sucky. It sticks in my mind as one of the worst releases of any widely used software. I disagree about the zip drive. I never had one fail. Not that it isn't kinda irrelevant now.
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Real supported GNU/Linux before there was even a stable browser. Realplayer was one of the first commercial apps that actually worked on GNU/Linux (Stallman, I love you, but you give me finger cramps. And, yeah, you hate Real, too, I'm sure. :) ).
Yes. This is real, and being deployed: http://www.solarpower.org/art11.html
I agree with your points about history and demonstrated human nature. There is nothing in my statement that ignores this; however, I think the land grab of the US was one of the more lucrative and easy grabs. I don't go around feeling guilty about this or anything. Nor do I go around asking myself "What would Lee Ving do?"
We stole land. We purchased land at a ridiculously low price from France and Russia. The land was fertile and had many varied natural resources. Our immigration policies were conducive to turning that land into an extremely productive economic engine. As an added bonus we speak the language of international business (currently). As for schools, simply being tought in English is a huge advantage.
All of that being said, we are also innovative and I would imagine, yes, we are good at startups. But I would guess this has more to do with the confidence that the last paragraph tends to give us. Misplaced confidence. Confidence that it was merely through our superior spirit, fortitude, and God's blessing that we are so successful.
Of course, that is rubbish. We got land and resources cheap or free, and the British Empire ensured our language would be the one used throughout the world for business
It doesn't matter, though, if it is misplaced confidence. We are innovative. We still have a lot of resources. I would just advise that those who think that we have something particularly special in our character or country that makes us better at (fill in the blank) should step back and think about where and how we got our riches.
Craig's pizza order analogy is much better than the freeway lanes analogy. Remember this one, folks, next time you try and explain net neutrality to somebody who doesn't know what QoS is.
There is some Odyssey 2 console homebrew stuff here for those of you interested in that old and often neglected console.
Becaused of the context based ads exclusion clause w/ AdSense, this probably won't be allowed by Google to comingle with AdSense on the same page unless Google explicitly addresses this.
Microsoft has phoned home for a long time. I've seen reports of this as early as June, 2000. I'm sure there are earlier instances. Now, to be fair, Firefox phones home for updates. I don't remember seeing a big warning that this was done, or what data was saved at the server, but I like the feature. Of course, if Microsoft is so worried about this app running that they want the chance to turn it off at a days notice as they claim, then, well, this is in a different class of phoning home.
Mr Brin was in Washington to ask US senators to approve a plan that would safeguard "net neutrality" - the current online system which means all internet content is handled equally.
In meetings with Republican John McCain, a member of the Senate committee that oversees telecoms issues, he argued against a system that would allow telephone and cable companies to collect premium fees from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for faster delivery of their services
"The only way to have a fast lane that is useful - that people will pay a premium for - is if there are slow lanes," he said.
Is it just me, or is the last sentence an argument against net neutrality?
"there's unlimited supply and there is no reason why i tell you it was all a frame they only did it 'cos of fame who?"
Yes. Add to that pictures of yourself and your friends, who your friends are, and personal details about yourself to the mix. The combination of Web 2.0 with privacy issues is scary. Maybe that isn't something you do, but you certainly are leaving a trail of Slashdot postings. You think that can't be mined? I had a long conversation just this morning about how if there is a good javascript server connection, most anything your browser knows, your server knows (or could know). Transmitting that is something the ISP knows. Be careful. I'm thinking spreadsheets belong on your PC. It... is... your... personal... computer. Cough.
In the past, as I'm sure most here know, encryption software was considered to be munitions. I actually purchased the Zimmerman book that was just PGP in source code format at the UW bookstore. The idea at the time was how can you control a book? Now, I know that laws have changed, and the US has relaxed its stance on this. Most distributions of GNU/Linux have SSH included.
This is fresh in my mind because I recently created a specialized GNU/Linux distribution and debated about whether or not to include SSL and SSH. Although I knew the status of this software had changed, I could not find any definitive regulations regarding crypto software. Certainly the last four years don't make me any less paranoid about getting burned by making a mistake here. There is a good presentation that specifically talks about these issues here in TFA. Yes, it does talk about how the munitions stance has relaxed, but I'm still not entirely sure that I don't have to notify some government agency that I'm including encryption if I distribute the root filesystem in binary form.
If these are deployed and left, they will become vulnerable eventually. Right from the beginning, a means to update any service that is listening needs to be built in, particularly with something as widespread as Apache. The user should have a choice: either update without asking, or receive a message when new updates are available, and a recurring message if the updates are not applied. The last thing we need are a million webservers that are deployed and then sit unpatched until the phones aren't used anymore.
There is an inflationary risk to retaining this data. ISPs will need to pass this cost along. I'd like to see some of these costs layed out. Who will pay? As an added bonus, with the new fabulous AJAX stuff y'all are putting in, everything I didn't push submit on could still be archived. Think about that.
What I want to know, is it free as in speech, or...
Well, how many widely used MTAs are written by somebody that put in a backdoor? Sendmail wizard (WIZ) backdoor allows anonymous remote root access
I go for Postfix these days, but Sendmail is infinitely configurable, even (Turing complete. Finally, Eric is All Man.
As for the "getting hacked via sendmail issue", I've never known anybody that has, personally, or even a friend of a friend. I know more people that got hacked via SSH (some issue around 2000 or so, I forget, but it was bad).
If I had complicated needs for an MTA, I would assume that Sendmail would be more likely to support those needs than any other MTA. Simplicity is better, though, if possible.
I threw a FreeNAS server up on my home network one day. The next day I decided to back up an XP box that had never been backed up before using the included backup program over the net. The following week I mistakenly deleted files in cygwin (watch out for the /cygdrive/driveletter, it is hidden from / and doesn't follow normal rules... that's my story anyway) and had to restore the XP box. I was able to restore the system over the network from the FreeNAS box. It was a *very* quick restore. Anyway, I like FreeNAS as a quick and easy way to do network backups/restores. The install is very quick and painless, and the BSD it runs on is stable and fast. Agreed about the security issues for corporate use, unless it is just a cheap way to make a drive and an old box into a complete recovery device... just turn it off when you aren't recovering.
Yes, I would share some responsibility, I agree. How much responsibility depends on how aware I was about the dangers of that switch in my analogy. Ditto for Blue Security. BTW, I am now a little clearer on what the free DNS guy meant. Or, more significantly, I am clearer on the issues involved with this kind of escalation in the war. I could go on and on, but, well, this is a pretty old thread at this point. out
Even if you don't give credit to Blue Security for their version of the story, saying they DDoSd SixApart is misleading, because, well, they didn't. Maybe they are partly responsible, but it is more like if I know a bunch of outlaws are going to show up any minute because I POd their leader. Before they arrive I switch the numbers on my house with my neighbor. The outlaws arrive and trash my neighbor's house. I am not a "trasher of houses", although it is quite possible my neighbor could sue me for misrepresenting the number of my house. This must come up alot in other areas. He's Spartacus!
What do you mean by "Blue Security isn't out of the woods yet legally and their DDoS of SixApart is far from a closed case." SixApart was attacked by the same people that attacked Blue Security. Blue security changed their DNS to point at their blog. Granted, changing the DNS records under the circumstances was irresponsible; however, your quote is misleading.
Agreed on the Coleco Adam. I saw it in Chicago at the CES in '83. It looked to me like the demo boxes were fake at the show. I'm not sure if the "death of the early 80s video game" stories every take into account what Coleco's Adam did to the industry or not.
3 was good. 4 was very sucky. It sticks in my mind as one of the worst releases of any widely used software. I disagree about the zip drive. I never had one fail. Not that it isn't kinda irrelevant now.