- From: Stavros Macrakis <macrakis@osf.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 17:34:47 -0400
- To: www-talk@w3.org
Paul Prescod said in <1.5.4.32.19960604134348.006b6038@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>:
> ...if you have a big data source ... to do a really wonky query
> ..., I might... upload my applet and you can bill me for the CPU...
>
James Aylett <sja20@hermes.cam.ac.uk> replied in
<Pine.LNX.3.93.960604150821.19611B-100000@crystal.clare.cam.ac.uk>:
...isn't this a usage in which a daemon is a bad way of doing
things?
It is a generalization of uploading queries to servers. Instead of
being restricted by the server's query language, you can provide your
own filters. A very sensible application.
Bearing in mind that you're charging people, it makes more sense
to send the applet to a person than a computer...
? I don't understand this at all. People are charged for many
services not provided by people.
...In addition, and even if you weren't charging people, how could
you stop people say uploading a Java applet... where it just spent
a while chugging away on your server doing part of an encryption
breaking job then communicating the result back...
_Especially_ if you're not charging, you're open to this sort of
use/abuse. If you _are_ charging, why consider it abuse at all? If
you're getting a lot of unrelated computational traffic, perhaps
you're undercharging....
-s
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