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Blogger: 'You're not a photograph of a kid - you're a collection of pixels downloaded onto a blogger's PC monitor from a web-server.'
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– Most attacks target vulnerabilities in commonly used software, such as web-server or blogging programs.
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Second the websites you visit may be your own which may solve points 1,2,4,5,6,7 points 3,8 maybe it has abuilt in web-server giving point 10 is silly because you knew I meant rich javascript, cause you threatend my life for mentioning it. whatever,
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But as scrutiny of Palin's possible religious beliefs grew through September 2008, that video content became suddenly unavailable and a statement church website declared that heavy traffic had overwhelmed the church web-server which hosts the Wasilla Assembly of God's website.
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This sounds like something similar to notice-and-takedown, but there's a gigantic difference: the cost of connecting a DSL circuit is vastly higher than the cost of putting some files on a web-server.
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For one thing, it's wholly ineffective against P2P file-sharing -- notice-and-takedown only works on stuff hosted on an ISP's web-server, not on a customer's own PC.
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Having access to AppleEvents (inter-application communication) directly from a web-server, and thus almost within the web-browser could be pretty useful though.
Could AppleScript be the next scripting language of the web? | FactoryCity 2006
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Wired Magazine reports on a new kind of ISP: an "invisible" hosting service, based in the former Soviet Union, which uses a network of compromised machines and some redirection-fu to make it very hard to determine where a web-server actually lives.
Boing Boing: October 5, 2003 - October 11, 2003 Archives 2003
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This post also misses the fact that this is a background process accessed via the browser, so pretty much a web-server.
Mozilla’s Raindrop Looks To Make Your Inbox Personal Again Leena Rao 2005
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IBM's new uServ web-server is meant to for P2P usage on consumer desktops, and implements proxies and firewall traversal.
Boing Boing: December 2, 2001 - December 8, 2001 Archives 2001
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