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		<title>Comment on Romania says yes to OOXML once again by How To Detect An Affair. &#124; 7Wins.eu</title>
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		<author>How To Detect An Affair. &#124; 7Wins.eu</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Compulsive Gambler: How To Detect One? &#171; Digital Casinoexchange traded funds &#171; webswidget.comWays to Catch a Cheater &#124; Infidelity Support - Infidelity Forum, News, and Info about Infidelity, Adultery and Cheating in a Marriage Shane Spencer Heard About A-Rod Tipping Pitches?Jane Green &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Divorce shows you their true colors&#8230;Microexpressions in High-Stakes Lies &#124; HumintellChinaGeeks &#187; Guest Post: The Children&#8217;s PalaceDiscover Business Card &#124; RelationshipgeekguyArs Aranea &#187; Romania says yes to OOXML once again [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Contact me by <p></p></title>
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		<author><p></p></author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Romania says yes to OOXML once again by Microsoft and Romania: Follow the Money &#124; All about MICROSOFT</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-114175</link>
		<author>Microsoft and Romania: Follow the Money &#124; All about MICROSOFT</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 06:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] OOXML ballots were a scandal in Romania [1, 2] (direct links), just like in the rest of the [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Romania says yes to OOXML once again by s5h.net &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Microsoft May be Exploiting Romania for Its Latest Corruption</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-114164</link>
		<author>s5h.net &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Microsoft May be Exploiting Romania for Its Latest Corruption</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on ODF contra OOXML by Skippy</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/91/#comment-111297</link>
		<author>Skippy</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/91/#comment-111297</guid>
		<description>Privind supremaţia nemeritată a Microsoft în domeniul office recomand analiza lui Andy Updegrove, [url=http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/index.php?topic=20071125145019553]War of the Words[/url], în special capitolul 3.

Nu înţeleg ce doreşti privind termenul "calitate discutabilă". Înseamnă că unii oameni nu sunt complet satisfăcuţi de calitatea suitei MS Office. Acesta este unul dintre motivele pentru care posibilitatea de a avea de ales dintre mai multe suite este important. Blocarea forţată a utilizatorilor pe o singură suită prin intermediul controlului formatelor este nocivă, este o tactică practicată de Microsoft timp de aproape o decadă, şi a fost contracarată abia recent, cu ajutorul OpenOffice şi ODF.

Ceea ce pentru Sun, IBM ş.a.m.d. înseamnă o bucată din piaţa office, dar are consecinţe importante pentru orice altă firmă care doreşte să intre şi să prospere pe această piaţă (lucru pînă acum aproape imposibil), cît şi pentru consumator, pentru care concurenţa va crea opţiuni din ce în ce mai avantajoase.

Blocarea alternativelor prin lock-in pe anumite formate este un lucru nociv şi acest lucru începe să fie conştientizat la nivel tot mai larg.

În încheiere, mă mir că nu ai verificat numărul exact de pagini ale specificaţiei OOXML, dar eşti convins că are în ea acele lucruri. Impresia pe care mi-a lăsat-o mie (şi multor altora) este mai degrabă de ceva făcut în pripă şi orientat spre aceeaşi politică de lock-in şi obscurantism, mai degrabă decît de platformă pentru deschidere în vreun sens oarecare. OOXML este doar un pretext de a pretinde oficial deschiderea, o mişcare politică, nu ceva realmente folositor.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Privind supremaţia nemeritată a Microsoft în domeniul office recomand analiza lui Andy Updegrove, <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/index.php?topic=20071125145019553">War of the Words</a>, în special capitolul 3.</p>
<p>Nu înţeleg ce doreşti privind termenul &quot;calitate discutabilă&quot;. Înseamnă că unii oameni nu sunt complet satisfăcuţi de calitatea suitei MS Office. Acesta este unul dintre motivele pentru care posibilitatea de a avea de ales dintre mai multe suite este important. Blocarea forţată a utilizatorilor pe o singură suită prin intermediul controlului formatelor este nocivă, este o tactică practicată de Microsoft timp de aproape o decadă, şi a fost contracarată abia recent, cu ajutorul OpenOffice şi ODF.</p>
<p>Ceea ce pentru Sun, IBM ş.a.m.d. înseamnă o bucată din piaţa office, dar are consecinţe importante pentru orice altă firmă care doreşte să intre şi să prospere pe această piaţă (lucru pînă acum aproape imposibil), cît şi pentru consumator, pentru care concurenţa va crea opţiuni din ce în ce mai avantajoase.</p>
<p>Blocarea alternativelor prin lock-in pe anumite formate este un lucru nociv şi acest lucru începe să fie conştientizat la nivel tot mai larg.</p>
<p>În încheiere, mă mir că nu ai verificat numărul exact de pagini ale specificaţiei OOXML, dar eşti convins că are în ea acele lucruri. Impresia pe care mi-a lăsat-o mie (şi multor altora) este mai degrabă de ceva făcut în pripă şi orientat spre aceeaşi politică de lock-in şi obscurantism, mai degrabă decît de platformă pentru deschidere în vreun sens oarecare. OOXML este doar un pretext de a pretinde oficial deschiderea, o mişcare politică, nu ceva realmente folositor.</p>
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		<title>Comment on ODF contra OOXML by SAMmy</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/91/#comment-111296</link>
		<author>SAMmy</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/91/#comment-111296</guid>
		<description>In primul rand consider ca premizele de la care se pleaca in acest articol sunt departe de a fi obiective si in acest sens vreau sa adresez 2 intrebari redactorului:
 - De ce definesti suprematia Microsoft in segmentul office "nemeritata"??? Ce inseamna "merit"??? Cine "merita" ce???
 - De ce definesti calitatea Microsoft Office ca fiind "discutabila"??? "Discutabil" la propriu??? Da! Orice este "discutabil"... Discutabil cu nuanta peiorativa??? Miroase a zelot!!!

In calitatea mea de utilizator fara prejudecati atat de software apartinand suitei Microsoft Office, cat si de produse OpenOffice in paralel, uneori chiar simultan - pentru atingerea aceluiasi obiectiv, consider ca analiza acestui versus este in primul rand INCOMPLETA si pe alocuri INCORECTA (si dupa cum stim orice algoritm - logic sau nu, pentru a fi valid, trebuie sa fie atat CORECT, cat si COMPLET). In acelasi timp, analiza formatelor dezvoltate, propuse, acceptate sau nu, este o "gluma" - in sens peiorativ... Ceva tendentios si malign, din gama "somnul ratiunii naste monstri..." 
sau ma rog, pentru cititorii de forum-uri "de specialitate" ceva de genul "Linux vs. Windows"...

Concluzia mea: Analiza obiectiva este dificila (eng. "hard work") - presupune "knowledge" (cunostinte) si "know-how" (experienta, implementare), deci... Lasati-va!

Alte "fapte":
 - Sun este tot o "corporatie", nu de talia Microsoft, dar speranta moare ultima, odata cu incompetenta... ;)
 - StarOffice este o suita "office" de la Sun pe bani... e drept costa mai putin decat Microsoft Office, dar parerea mea este ca "it costs as much as it pays..."
 - Sun a "deschis" StarOffice dand astfel nastere OpenOffice-ului, realizand faptul ca doar asa poate aduna masa critica de utilizatori incat sa poata "face scandal" si musca o bucatica din cascavalul Microsoft
 - Intre timp R&#38;D-ul Microsoft nu a dormit si a adaugat in ritm alert produse noi suitei Office, din ce in ce mai complexe, performante si interoperabile dand nastere mai multor "solutii"...
 - Motivul  pentru care specificatia ODF are 600-700 de pagini iar cea OOXML are 6000* este faptul ca OOXML prevede chestii pe care cei de la Sun/OpenOffice nici nu le-au visat, in schimb pe care Microsoft le are deja pe agenda de lucru...

*Nu am verificat aceasta informatie insa presupun ca macar raportul este unul apropiat de realitate... :P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In primul rand consider ca premizele de la care se pleaca in acest articol sunt departe de a fi obiective si in acest sens vreau sa adresez 2 intrebari redactorului:<br />
 - De ce definesti suprematia Microsoft in segmentul office &quot;nemeritata&quot;??? Ce inseamna &quot;merit&quot;??? Cine &quot;merita&quot; ce???<br />
 - De ce definesti calitatea Microsoft Office ca fiind &quot;discutabila&quot;??? &quot;Discutabil&quot; la propriu??? Da! Orice este &quot;discutabil&quot;&#8230; Discutabil cu nuanta peiorativa??? Miroase a zelot!!!</p>
<p>In calitatea mea de utilizator fara prejudecati atat de software apartinand suitei Microsoft Office, cat si de produse OpenOffice in paralel, uneori chiar simultan - pentru atingerea aceluiasi obiectiv, consider ca analiza acestui versus este in primul rand INCOMPLETA si pe alocuri INCORECTA (si dupa cum stim orice algoritm - logic sau nu, pentru a fi valid, trebuie sa fie atat CORECT, cat si COMPLET). In acelasi timp, analiza formatelor dezvoltate, propuse, acceptate sau nu, este o &quot;gluma&quot; - in sens peiorativ&#8230; Ceva tendentios si malign, din gama &quot;somnul ratiunii naste monstri&#8230;&quot;<br />
sau ma rog, pentru cititorii de forum-uri &quot;de specialitate&quot; ceva de genul &quot;Linux vs. Windows&quot;&#8230;</p>
<p>Concluzia mea: Analiza obiectiva este dificila (eng. &quot;hard work&quot;) - presupune &quot;knowledge&quot; (cunostinte) si &quot;know-how&quot; (experienta, implementare), deci&#8230; Lasati-va!</p>
<p>Alte &quot;fapte&quot;:<br />
 - Sun este tot o &quot;corporatie&quot;, nu de talia Microsoft, dar speranta moare ultima, odata cu incompetenta&#8230; ;)<br />
 - StarOffice este o suita &quot;office&quot; de la Sun pe bani&#8230; e drept costa mai putin decat Microsoft Office, dar parerea mea este ca &quot;it costs as much as it pays&#8230;&quot;<br />
 - Sun a &quot;deschis&quot; StarOffice dand astfel nastere OpenOffice-ului, realizand faptul ca doar asa poate aduna masa critica de utilizatori incat sa poata &quot;face scandal&quot; si musca o bucatica din cascavalul Microsoft<br />
 - Intre timp R&amp;amp;D-ul Microsoft nu a dormit si a adaugat in ritm alert produse noi suitei Office, din ce in ce mai complexe, performante si interoperabile dand nastere mai multor &quot;solutii&quot;&#8230;<br />
 - Motivul  pentru care specificatia ODF are 600-700 de pagini iar cea OOXML are 6000* este faptul ca OOXML prevede chestii pe care cei de la Sun/OpenOffice nici nu le-au visat, in schimb pe care Microsoft le are deja pe agenda de lucru&#8230;</p>
<p>*Nu am verificat aceasta informatie insa presupun ca macar raportul este unul apropiat de realitate&#8230; :P</p>
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		<title>Comment on Smiley JS Buttons by DaemonLV</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/18/#comment-111238</link>
		<author>DaemonLV</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you!</description>
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		<title>Comment on Smiley JS Buttons by prav</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/18/#comment-110818</link>
		<author>prav</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/18/#comment-110818</guid>
		<description>I like this :lol: :grin: :smile:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like this <img src='http://aranea.zuavra.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/biggrin.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> <img src='http://aranea.zuavra.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/grin.gif' alt=':grin:' class='wp-smiley' /> <img src='http://aranea.zuavra.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/smile.gif' alt=':smile:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Internet Explorer: scrollTop vs DOCTYPE by Skippy</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/5/#comment-110271</link>
		<author>Skippy</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, I'll look into it.</description>
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		<title>Comment on Internet Explorer: scrollTop vs DOCTYPE by Phil</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/5/#comment-110264</link>
		<author>Phil</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/5/#comment-110264</guid>
		<description>The code you posted won't detect which scrollTop to use properly when scrollTop is zero - it will be treated as false. The following can detect it properly:

(document.documentElement&#38;&#38;(typeof document.documentElement.scrollTop != 'undefined'))?  document.documentElement.scrollTop:document.body.scrollTop;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The code you posted won&#039;t detect which scrollTop to use properly when scrollTop is zero - it will be treated as false. The following can detect it properly:</p>
<p>(document.documentElement&amp;amp;&amp;amp;(typeof document.documentElement.scrollTop != &#039;undefined&#039;))?  document.documentElement.scrollTop:document.body.scrollTop;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Despre intuitivitatea programelor de calculator by Alex</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/101/#comment-109744</link>
		<author>Alex</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/101/#comment-109744</guid>
		<description>Eu vroiam să exprim altceva ... și anume situația în care se ajunge dacă-ți tratezi utilizatorii ca pe niște idioți care trebuie ținuți de mână. Problema principală este cu design-urile ce nu sunt adecvate pentru programatori, în numele ușurinței de folosire. Tu încerci să exprimi altceva și te gândești la dificultatea de învățare / adaptare ... și intuitivitatea nu presupune că interfața este utilizabilă instantaneu, ci mai degrabă că o interfață intuitivă este mapată pe felul nostru de-a fi.

Apropo, Google face frecvent A/B testing. Din câte au dat de înțeles la Google IO, ei nu cred că design-ul este o artă. Deasemenea ei sunt de părere că facilitățile create pentru începători ajung să stea în calea celor avansați. Personal sunt de acord cu ei (deși cred că design-ul este parțial o artă).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eu vroiam să exprim altceva &#8230; și anume situația în care se ajunge dacă-ți tratezi utilizatorii ca pe niște idioți care trebuie ținuți de mână. Problema principală este cu design-urile ce nu sunt adecvate pentru programatori, în numele ușurinței de folosire. Tu încerci să exprimi altceva și te gândești la dificultatea de învățare / adaptare &#8230; și intuitivitatea nu presupune că interfața este utilizabilă instantaneu, ci mai degrabă că o interfață intuitivă este mapată pe felul nostru de-a fi.</p>
<p>Apropo, Google face frecvent A/B testing. Din câte au dat de înțeles la Google IO, ei nu cred că design-ul este o artă. Deasemenea ei sunt de părere că facilitățile create pentru începători ajung să stea în calea celor avansați. Personal sunt de acord cu ei (deși cred că design-ul este parțial o artă).</p>
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		<title>Comment on Contact me by <p></p></title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/contact/#comment-108910</link>
		<author><p></p></author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/contact/#comment-108910</guid>
		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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		<title>Comment on Romania says yes to OOXML once again by MrSmersh</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-106890</link>
		<author>MrSmersh</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-106890</guid>
		<description>I Computer Solution joined in October or so... MS regional director is a country title.  And we can continue over and over with inaccuracies interpretations and so. 
And as we have talked over and over on Tic-Lobby and everywhere please "get the facts first then talk". 
Why do not talk about of avoid the discussion on the text of the standard and instead hiding under the Rob (or name you favorite corporate employee ) mantle, and other discussions on the kind: 
“it is bad!” 
“why so?” 
“because somebody …. said that!” 
“you have tried to do that?, it exist in the current version of the standard, you have looked ?”
“….”
Also bare in mind that the vote composition YES/NO/Abstained remained virtually unchanged between voting, and even Microsoft cannot perform this kind of miracle. So I suppose you could say that is pretty consistent with the position of the Romanian market.
Look at the end of the day if the corporations did not mess in this process we will still be a few trampled with documents in ASRO trying to get some work done. You add 2-3 corporations and you have this mess of corporate war waged in the ISO.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I Computer Solution joined in October or so&#8230; MS regional director is a country title.  And we can continue over and over with inaccuracies interpretations and so.<br />
And as we have talked over and over on Tic-Lobby and everywhere please &quot;get the facts first then talk&quot;.<br />
Why do not talk about of avoid the discussion on the text of the standard and instead hiding under the Rob (or name you favorite corporate employee ) mantle, and other discussions on the kind:<br />
“it is bad!”<br />
“why so?”<br />
“because somebody …. said that!”<br />
“you have tried to do that?, it exist in the current version of the standard, you have looked ?”<br />
“….”<br />
Also bare in mind that the vote composition YES/NO/Abstained remained virtually unchanged between voting, and even Microsoft cannot perform this kind of miracle. So I suppose you could say that is pretty consistent with the position of the Romanian market.<br />
Look at the end of the day if the corporations did not mess in this process we will still be a few trampled with documents in ASRO trying to get some work done. You add 2-3 corporations and you have this mess of corporate war waged in the ISO.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Romania says yes to OOXML once again by The Linux Index &#187; Jani Monoses: Romania maintains OOXML approval</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-105854</link>
		<author>The Linux Index &#187; Jani Monoses: Romania maintains OOXML approval</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-105854</guid>
		<description>[...] many more details in English check this blog, while Romanian readers can check out this [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] many more details in English check this blog, while Romanian readers can check out this [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Romania says yes to OOXML once again by The size matters; especially in Romania :( &#124; Lucian Savluc - Blog</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-105691</link>
		<author>The size matters; especially in Romania :( &#124; Lucian Savluc - Blog</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-105691</guid>
		<description>[...] I found this article pretty interesting and pretty self explanatory. Although the author is playing with suppositions, I would suggest you read, think and decide for yourself. What is your common sense saying? &#8220;Romania says yes to OOXML once again&#8221; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] I found this article pretty interesting and pretty self explanatory. Although the author is playing with suppositions, I would suggest you read, think and decide for yourself. What is your common sense saying? &amp;#8220;Romania says yes to OOXML once again&amp;#8221; [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Romania says yes to OOXML once again by Skippy</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-105666</link>
		<author>Skippy</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-105666</guid>
		<description>Yes, you are perfectly right of course. The 25th was the day of the vote. I have corrected the text in the meanwhile, thanks for pointing it out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, you are perfectly right of course. The 25th was the day of the vote. I have corrected the text in the meanwhile, thanks for pointing it out.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Romania says yes to OOXML once again by Bogdan Bivolaru</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-105640</link>
		<author>Bogdan Bivolaru</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/#comment-105640</guid>
		<description>"Several participants have reported that the actual meeting, which took place on March 23, was well organized and civil, and that heated outbursts were few and restricted to the debate portion of the discussions."

Pardon me, the official CT210 meeting wasn't it on March 25? If not, which is then the Official ASRO meeting?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Several participants have reported that the actual meeting, which took place on March 23, was well organized and civil, and that heated outbursts were few and restricted to the debate portion of the discussions.&quot;</p>
<p>Pardon me, the official CT210 meeting wasn&#039;t it on March 25? If not, which is then the Official ASRO meeting?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Hacking and the real world by Skippy</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/96/#comment-104983</link>
		<author>Skippy</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/96/#comment-104983</guid>
		<description>Hackers are not more ethical or noble than common thieves and I did say they should not be treated any better.

[i]Yes in an ideal world doors cannot be broken, cars cannot be started without their keys and servers are correctly secured.[/i]

I do not want to lump these things together.

In the first two examples the burden of security is placed primarily on the user. That is largely unfair to them and a major disruption of normal life. We cannot live our lives in fear, and that is why societies have moved away from prevention and focused on punishing and recovery after the fact.

The digital world is different. It is possible to do security properly before anything bad happens. This is in fact how digital security should be done. Prevention and security by design are possible and should be enforced. And the burden on the user should be minimal.

It's a myth that proper security is harder or more expensive to do than the kind of half-assed "security" we get nowadays. It is in fact often easier and cheaper, both up front and in the long term. Those that would like you to believe otherwise are either self-interested, incompetent, or have to deal with legacy systems which were not designed properly to begin with.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hackers are not more ethical or noble than common thieves and I did say they should not be treated any better.</p>
<p><em>Yes in an ideal world doors cannot be broken, cars cannot be started without their keys and servers are correctly secured.</em></p>
<p>I do not want to lump these things together.</p>
<p>In the first two examples the burden of security is placed primarily on the user. That is largely unfair to them and a major disruption of normal life. We cannot live our lives in fear, and that is why societies have moved away from prevention and focused on punishing and recovery after the fact.</p>
<p>The digital world is different. It is possible to do security properly before anything bad happens. This is in fact how digital security should be done. Prevention and security by design are possible and should be enforced. And the burden on the user should be minimal.</p>
<p>It&#039;s a myth that proper security is harder or more expensive to do than the kind of half-assed &quot;security&quot; we get nowadays. It is in fact often easier and cheaper, both up front and in the long term. Those that would like you to believe otherwise are either self-interested, incompetent, or have to deal with legacy systems which were not designed properly to begin with.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Hacking and the real world by Adrian</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/96/#comment-104969</link>
		<author>Adrian</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/96/#comment-104969</guid>
		<description>Why is the hacker penetrating a server more "ethical" than a common burglar entering a home ? Just because he's smarter ?!?

Yes in an ideal world doors cannot be broken, cars cannot be started without their keys and servers are correctly secured.

But we do not live in an ideal world, we live in a real one where we have to juggle with variables like cost, time, business competition, available human resources.

PS Banks' vaults get broken, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is the hacker penetrating a server more &quot;ethical&quot; than a common burglar entering a home ? Just because he&#039;s smarter ?!?</p>
<p>Yes in an ideal world doors cannot be broken, cars cannot be started without their keys and servers are correctly secured.</p>
<p>But we do not live in an ideal world, we live in a real one where we have to juggle with variables like cost, time, business competition, available human resources.</p>
<p>PS Banks&#039; vaults get broken, too.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Agregarea de trafic: furt sau practică acceptată? by &#187; Blog Archive</title>
		<link>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/95/#comment-104252</link>
		<author>&#187; Blog Archive</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/95/#comment-104252</guid>
		<description>[...] extra, am mai citit doua pareri pertinente pe subiect, aici si aici [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] extra, am mai citit doua pareri pertinente pe subiect, aici si aici [&#8230;]</p>
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