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ADSL at 2MB+ is available in towns, but perhaps not in all villages and there is also the possiblity of internet via your cable tv supplier.

Cable TV is fairly ubiqitous in Germany with penetration down to the smaller villages.

I recently implemented a new CAPTCHA system using Flash as "secure container" on my guestbook. The spam immediately and completely stopped. You can see it here.

I also wrote an article about using Flash together with CAPTCHAs to achieve 100% security, which can be found here:

Effektives Bot-Blocking mit Flash (Original German)
Effective Bot-Blocking with Flash (Babelfish-translated)

The article outlines the technical implementation, it's advantages and disadvantages and even discusses future hacking possibilities.

Well there is always the fish :D

sorry. i was just going by this interview.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fplusd.itmedia .co.jp%2Flifestyle%2Farticles%2F0601%2F13%2Fnews00 4.html

~ when asked about codec use, a sony rep stated they will use MPEG2 early on, after that gradually shift to H.264/avc.

sony is initially planning to use mpeg2 to encode their movies, and is "asking" for other studios to do the same for the time being. im assuming they dont wish to alienate consumers who buy Blu ray drives and find that their computer cant handle decoding the heavy data streams if they use higher compression this early. eventually they will move over to h.264. there is speculation that most studios do wish to move forward and use vc-1, but pressure from sony will most likely push them to h.264 for for no other reason besides politics. obviously sony doesnt want to support the codec of the company that supports rival tech.

Parole juste Wii

When I need to find an mp3 I usually use Altavista's audio search The video search has adult categories for porn too...

When I need to find an mp3 I usually use Altavista's audio search The video search has adult categories for porn too...

`We are moving to a Google that knows more about you.'

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Ironically, my captcha was "insight" :)

I can give you the link to the heise story. Doesn't mention the specific cases in the NYT article though, just 'eine neue Klagewelle'. Babelfish for whoever's interested.

Then google for "eierlegende Wollmilchsau", a hilarious german expression I stumbled upon recently. It means literally "egg-laying woolly milch sow".

Definition Babelfished from german for your pleasure.

No computer would mangle the pronoun usage like this! ;)

O rly?

• Google recommends: Altavista
• MSN recommends: Search.com
• Yahoo recommends: Yahoo
• Ask.com recommends: Ask.com
• Altavista recommends: Search.com
• Search.com recommends: Dogpile
• Dogpile recommends: Lycos
• Lycos recommends: Ask.com

Nobody at all recommends Google. More proof that Google search is not as good.

BTW: An IMHO good article abaout Free Speech in Germany from the stern magazine in German language you can find here: http://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/:Deutsche-Tabu s-Engholm-Badewanne/555064.html Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stern.de%2F politik%2Fausland%2F%3ADeutsche-Tabus-Engholm-Bade wanne%2F555064.html

dada21 also doesn't know that "BMW" as acronym means "Bring Mich Werkstatt" in German ;-)



(Ok, it really means "Bayerische Motorenwerke" (Bavarian engine works), but hey..)

It seems to put the same boilerplate on every search. OK, Chinese users will know there is censorship (as if they didn't know that already -- China isn't North Korea where they don't necessarily know other ideas exist) but this is hardly consistent with what I and the grandparent understood you to be saying, that specific items were noted as having been censored.

I think your #5 is really #4.

I don't condone the censorship, but we all know China would just filter all of Google in its entirety if they didn't make an attempt at complying with local laws.

According to http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=zh_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.google.c n%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtiananmen%2Bsquare
the bottom of the page says "According to the local law laws and regulations and the policy, the part searches the result not to demonstrate." which I'm sure means something along the lines of "your local laws forced us to remove some of the results from this search".

Again, I don't agree with this censorship, but that is the best it is going to get until the chinese people change their government themselves.

Thanks for the link! Here's one i found on the side of your translated page.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=en_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia. org%2Fwiki%2FTron_%2528hacker%2529

Thanks for the link! Here's one i found at the bottom of your translated page.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de% 2Ftp%2Fr4%2Fartikel%2F21%2F21750%2F1.html

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.or g%2Fwiki%2FTron_(Hacker)

Original Article of Yomiuri Shinbun(Japanese)
(Babelfish translation)

It is a very large hand. :-)

Hold on...what?

Either you're talking about there not being a Chinese version of Wikipedia, the censorship of Wikipedia by the Chinese government, or the non-existence of a Chinese article describing "The Great Leap Forward". Even if any or all of the afformentioned were true, I cannot imagine why this would be a reason to restrict knowledge of this event to us (people outside of mainland China).

As far as I can tell, there is at least a Chinese Wikipedia (available through zh.wikipedia.org). And it too contains an article about "The Great Leap Forward" (trans.)

However, at the moment it is indeed not wholly available to people within China's borders.

The third block began on October 19, 2005, and once again there is no indication as to whether this block is temporary or permanent, or what the reasons or causes for this block are. According to the status page currently maintained on the Chinese Wikipedia, the Florida and Korea servers are blocked, while the Paris and Amsterdam servers are not. Dozens of editors from across Mainland China have reported that they can only access Wikipedia using proxy servers, although there are isolated reports that some users can access Wikipedia without using proxy.

As stated, it is still possible for those same people to access Wikipedia. And it might be unblocked completely in the future.

Please reconsider forcing censorship upon us.

Ask Babelfish . Or, since you seem so fluent in the language:

Ich gebe nicht zwei Scheiße, ob der vorhergehende oder gegenwärtige Satz auf Deutsch grammatisch korrekt ist.

Babelfish translation:

An amendment with the bill DADVSI, having for objective to assimilate to an offence of counterfeit, the edition, the diffusion and the promotion of any software likely to be used to place at the disposal of the information protected by the royalty and not integrating a tracing and inspecting device of the private use (technical measurement). Any software allowing the remote loading like certain software of discussion instantaneous (chat), any server software is concerned (P2P, HTTP, ftp, SSH...). This surrealist amendment was written at the origin by Vivendi Universal, then worked again by several Members of the Commission Sirinelli, a commission of the Higher Council of the Author's copyright and Artistic.

I corrected the word "chat" above - it got translated as "cat" (I thought the French were adamantly against using non-French words, especially in official documents - where'd they get the idea to use "chat"?). "Surrealist amendment"?

memo (in Spanish)? as in the first meaning? :P

For the non-Nederlanders, the Fish took care of this article quite nicely:

Spyware Sony seem violate copyright

Thursday 10 November 2005, 09.59 - the spyware which Sony on the computers of muziekfans install do not seem not only technical, but even also copyright in the hook.

In the rootkit pieces code appear sit which is identical to LAME, open source mp3-encoder. The licentie is exceeded.

Concerning software exercises the copyright with the so-called Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL). According to this licentie Sony must satisfy requirements to a number of. Thus they must tell that they use software in a copyright notice. Also the company the source code of open-sourcelibraries must provide or available to make. Finally the tussenvorm between must make source code and feasible code, the so-calledobject traffic-jams, meeleveren or available, with which others can make similar software.

Sony have only satisfied to none of these requirements, but provide a feasible programme. A computer expert, of whom the name is confessed at the redactie, discovered that on the cd Get Right With The man of Van Zant strings from the library version.c of Lame sits. This is make up from the string: "http://www.mp3dev.org/", "0.90", "LAME3.95", "3.95", "3.95".

But the expert has more proof. This way there so-called array largetbl sit at a place in the programme go.exe. This is a part that is used in the module tables.c of libmp3lame.

The discovery is possible far-reaching consequences has on the muziekgigant, which themselves claim only protect the copyrights. Rather judges in Germany forced several companies already make the source code public and the required spullen for compiling to provide. Also it is possible claim damageses.

Meanwhile details also other become clearly and this way complain the Electronic frontier foundation which the spyware make also legal listening music on iPods impossible. The organisation is busy with a list of cd's which publishes hidden programmatuur meeleveren to make and these on the Internet site.

Wouter Rutten of the NVPI emphasise that the commotie for Dutch a 'meaningless tale' is because the aware cd's are only in the United States and in Mexico available. The organisation offers information on the beveiliging of First 4 Internet to Cdlogo.nl by means of the site, however.

Several phone calls to SonyBMG continued call back in spite of promises to unanswered.

I did google "Lew Giles" and nothing came up. AltaVista however came up with 55, Mooter came up with 13, and Teoma came up with 72.

They have a version of their privacy policy written in plain english?

You can always have Babelfish translate .

http://bbabelfish.altavista.com/b%5D/babelfish/tru rl_pagecontent?url=http://diepresse.at/Artikel.asp x?channel=h&ressort=ws&id=512951&lp=de_en

According to Alta Vista Babelfish it translates the subject from German to English as: "And how be enough gibt's for Dialup still?"

The comment itself translates to: "At present Dialup is probably still for sale, but in 3-4 years hardly still someone will probably pay for it, and within the Broadband range will have both MSN and AOL will oversleep. That can become thus probably only so a kind club of the dead Provider."

That's what Yves Chauvin is.

He wants to live reclusively, and doesn't plan to go to Sweden to receive his medal.

Source: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,3 78142,00.html
translation: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de% 2Fwissenschaft%2Fmensch%2F0%2C1518%2C378142%2C00.h tml

It seems that the game they used in the study is not a game called "Metro3D" but a game BY Metro3D called "London Taxi" (warning - babelfish translation), a Crazy Taxi-style game. More information in this blog.

Marijuana most definetely is addictive. Mostly mind-addiction, but some cases of physical addiction are known. Have a look at the article on jellinek http://www.jellinek.nl/vraagenantwoord/full-story. php?q=508&id=3[NL] http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=nl_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jellinek.nl %2Fvraagenantwoord%2Ffull-story.php%3Fq%3D508%26id %3D3 [fished] about this subject.

Google doesn't seem to translate Russian to English

You can then see whether the /. frontpage validates. As others have pointed out in this thread, it doesn't strictly comply.

Easy fix for when you are getting blocked, go to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and enter forums.worldofwarcraft.com in the appropriate area and have it translate Chinese-simp to English. I'm on a military network and they block most forums and and game related stuff like WoW. This way I still get to surf the forums when I have nothing going on.

I have a palm Tungsten E and I love reading E-Books on it.

Likewise - I'm gradually rediscovering the classics thanks to my T|E and Project Gutenberg.

If you haven't already discovered it, can I suggest you have a look at PalmFiction (babelfish translation if you can't read Russian :) - it's by far the best Ebook reader I've seen for the palm (reads .zip .gz .rtf .html .whatever straight from your SD card, antialiased fonts, great customisability ... and it's even opensource) It's the only software I've found that I'm comfortable reading long periods with ...

...for both CNN and slashdot. Seriously, Bild is the world's largest tabloid newspaper, and probably the worst of all of them.

Making fuel out of organic waste is nothing really new or revolutionary. Using dead animals for this is not illegal at all.

Read more at http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791 (German)
Babelfish translation http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bildblog.de %2F%3Fp%3D791

Just for fun, I did an Altavista search on 'Googles Slogan'.

The first (sponsored) link provided is captioned:

"Goggles Blowout"

Several of the other high links include the text:

"He says Google's slogan may be "Do No Evil", but it also ... " in the body.

An item captioned "Google's 'Haphazard' Ad Policy" is also highly ranked.

Not too many phone choices:

Wool of guard post elder brother and carbide quantity ten one design

Rambling ease: When with inside location relationship without only the computer and the Internet it is The Internet transformation possibility which uses the hand phone

Currency possibility of quality

Use bias characteristic: In the USB pot of the computer where the messenger is executed the imFONE It affixes only, it does and it recognizes with automatic movement.

Overseas business trip or travel hour, with Ming without with the inside hand phone the free Internet Transformation it does to be possible.

The annexed service which is various the directory number vice- function and the Internet transformation support (Currency sound recording, voice post-office box, currency recording and voice message massive support, The voice advertisement and integrated directory number vice- back) like that support

Some links for your enjoyment:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=ko_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imfone.co .kr%2Fshop%2Fshopdetail.html%3Fbrandcode%3D0020000 00002
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=ko_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imfone.co .kr%2F

Not too many phone choices:

Wool of guard post elder brother and carbide quantity ten one design

Rambling ease: When with inside location relationship without only the computer and the Internet it is The Internet transformation possibility which uses the hand phone

Currency possibility of quality

Use bias characteristic: In the USB pot of the computer where the messenger is executed the imFONE It affixes only, it does and it recognizes with automatic movement.

Overseas business trip or travel hour, with Ming without with the inside hand phone the free Internet Transformation it does to be possible.

The annexed service which is various the directory number vice- function and the Internet transformation support (Currency sound recording, voice post-office box, currency recording and voice message massive support, The voice advertisement and integrated directory number vice- back) like that support

Some links for your enjoyment:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=ko_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imfone.co .kr%2Fshop%2Fshopdetail.html%3Fbrandcode%3D0020000 00002
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=ko_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imfone.co .kr%2F

I confirm the lawyer. "Su" is the first character of "su4 du4", meaning speed. "So" is the first character of "so1 suo3", or search.

See http://babel.altavista.com/tr?&trtext=speed+rummag e&lp=en_zh, and you should see 4 characters if your browser supports it. Take the first and the third, and that's "suso".

I don't blame blackicye though. I didn't recognize "suso" at first either. Since Mandarin Chinese syllables have 4 inflections (5 if you want to classify short as an inflection), we'd have to mentally run through at least a few combinations before we recognize a phrase.

And yes, I'm a native speaker. Mandarin and Hangzhou dialect.

I can't be the first one to point this out, I'm sure:

http://www.altavista.com/

http://search.msn.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/

Before we were blacklisted, we made 0 outgoing phone sales calls. Everyone found us, contacted us, and made us money. Now, we could have some problems; we could go under if we can't afford to hire a sales team.

Your complaint is not with Google but with the company that made false accusations against you. You have perhaps considered legal recourse against them? So far as I can see Google did the proper thing suspended you until they could check the facts and then reinstated you post haste.

You have a legitimate complaint, but it ain't with google.

I don't think monopoly means what you think it does.

Heh well first, I actualy like the start.com page, but not as much as google. To me it doesn't matter much who comes out with it first, as it is who makes it better. The entire industry is about copying and improving on things, and I fault neither google nor microsoft for that.

AltaVista: Delivers Internet's first Web index (1995). Search results page generated dynamically, based on input from the user.

http://www.altavista.com/about/

"AltaVista, a business of Overture Services, Inc..."

http://www.content.overture.com/d/

"Overture products are now Yahoo! Search Marketing products..."

So, it's theirs anyway :)

http://www.altavista.com/audio/default has been around for quite some time. How is this an innovation?

And localization was never a feature. In fact localization is just another word for push ads.

Where I come from, "localization" means "accessibility to people who read another language instead of English". It's necessary at least until the Babel Fish becomes more practical.

Will2k_is_here makes an excelent point. I don't have to deal with Joe Six Pack too much, (mostly someone requesting that I help a friend of their's out) but I still see "Blue e == Internet" behavior. Another post in this thread requests that we all remember MS history. I'd imagine that's a reference to the MS getting anything, staking their claim, and getting something almost workable out by the 3.1 release.

So far MS is clearly losing in the UI, and in content freshness. Does it matter? The NO side of me remembers that of the Joe Six Pack contacts I've had in the past couple of months, at least half had never heard of at least one of two major non-MS properties. Specifically, the Google search service, and the Firefox Web browser.

No way am I counting MS out. I might even bet on them, except for one thing: APIs. I'm betting that Google APIs will attract a lot of geek talent. And that Google can capitalize on this in a way that doesn't involve a 'pay to use' model.

Google has hired a lot of talent. It's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out.

And, as a first closing thought, how do we define 'long term'? I'd love to see Google do well, but I haven't drunk all of the Google 'Do No Evil' KoolAid. Google has become a verb. To those who use it a lot, it's become a single point of failure. Redundancy is good. The more good search services that are out there, the better. One dominant engine has also given birth to Googlewashing http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/03/antiwar_sl ogan_coined_repurposed/. Not a Good Thing.

I still use other general services, such as Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com/. Specialized engines also abound, such as The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/.

The second and last closing thought is a question. Referring to Joe Six Pack just sounds demeaning as hell. Slashdotters know who I mean, and probably realize that I don't mean to sound like some elitist prick.

What term do you use?