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Speaking from personal experience, Google's sloppy handling of meta-tags (which can tell web spiders/crawlers to "go away" and not index a given site) is a long standing issue which won't go away overnight. On LiveJournal, an individual user is allowed to select a check-box on their settings page which determines whether search engines may index that user's journal or not. I've got my journal set up to disallow indexing.

Theoretically, Google should not turn up search results from my journal.

However, the reality is, people have sometimes been able to find entries in my journal using Google. This got me in hot water a while back, because I had a public journal entry pertaining to my use of a wireless access point installed on the network of a certain company... That was how I got traced.

Without commenting on the ethics or morality of what I did, or whether I deserved the fallout that came after, I'd like to point out that none of this would have happened if Google had respected the meta-tags on my journal, which expressly forbade indexing.

So the only way for Google to honor the wishes of the New York Times is to give the NYT preferential treatment -- and even then, a few articles might slip through the cracks. I used to think that web caching and indexing sites regardless of the wishes of the site owner was no big deal. Now, I'm not sure where I stand.

Speaking from personal experience, Google's sloppy handling of meta-tags (which can tell web spiders/crawlers to "go away" and not index a given site) is a long standing issue which won't go away overnight. On LiveJournal, an individual user is allowed to select a check-box on their settings page which determines whether search engines may index that user's journal or not. I've got my journal set up to disallow indexing.

Theoretically, Google should not turn up search results from my journal.

However, the reality is, people have sometimes been able to find entries in my journal using Google. This got me in hot water a while back, because I had a public journal entry pertaining to my use of a wireless access point installed on the network of a certain company... That was how I got traced.

Without commenting on the ethics or morality of what I did, or whether I deserved the fallout that came after, I'd like to point out that none of this would have happened if Google had respected the meta-tags on my journal, which expressly forbade indexing.

So the only way for Google to honor the wishes of the New York Times is to give the NYT preferential treatment -- and even then, a few articles might slip through the cracks. I used to think that web caching and indexing sites regardless of the wishes of the site owner was no big deal. Now, I'm not sure where I stand.

Forget about the crappy Segway robot and check out the Segway Texas Edition

Relevant LiveJournal.com TOS:

LiveJournal.com claims no ownership or control over any Content posted by its users. The author retains all patent, trademark, and copyright to all Content posted within available fields, and is responsible for protecting those rights, but is not entitled to the help of the LiveJournal.com staff in protecting such Content;

LiveJournal.com reserves the right, without limitation except by law, to serve user Content on the web according to the security provisions set forth by the author. LiveJournal.com also reserves the right, without limitation, to resell any portion of a user's LiveJournal back to that individual;

Seems pretty harmless to me. Hopefully AOL's will be similar. I'm sure they already have similar clauses in the ToS for their customer web hosting "service".

No thanks.

It's already hard to understand some people over the phone, without MP3 encoding potentially making that even worse (with the number of dialup customers AOL still has, I don't see them using a decent bitrate just yet). This isn't counting nasal voices if someone happens to be sick.

Typed blog updates, on the other hand, are a lot easier to understand (even with a ton of typos), are possible to skim through to get a general idea, etc. You also bypass all of the "um"s and "uh"s that go with the monologues of a lot of people.

Me, I'll just stick with the blog system I already have. Updates either through the web or with a dedicated client, RSS feeds (both incoming and outgoing) and not tied to a specific ISP.

I believe you have confused a weblog with a diary.
weblog weblog weblog
diary

Dumbass.

There's a difference between LJ, the codebase, and LJ.com, the site. LJ.com is owned by a for-profit business called Danga Interactive, Inc.. LJ also has a community to discuss how to make money from LJ.

(I have no connection with LJ other than keeping a journal there-- the above is mostly just stuff I found with Google.)

I know the consensus is that AOL sucks; mod me down if you must. Considering their contribution of a stupendous project like mozilla (funding, many full time Netscape developers, hosting, existing software, robust set of tools, all donated to make the best browser free software), I hope any good ideas they come out with increases the # of their subscribers.

A blogging feature not original, or particularly timely, but there is no time like the present. This is a great idea for AOL to add great value to their free AIM service (and AOL). I'd say most people have an intrinsic need to espouse their daily lives in a public setting. Current blogging offers require, at least, a smidgen of tech-know-how to find livejournal, download a client, or whatever. With AOL, the user only needs to know what a "Journal" is and have AIM/AOL installed; I believe the service will be quite popular.

Plus anyone with a webhost that supports perl or php can setup their own personal blog or even a community of blogs.

If you think that AOL will win because of "Exciting Software" to ease updates then you might want to take a look at this page. With livejournal being opensource I can't help but think that AOL won't take the time to re-invent the wheel, they'll just use what's already widley available.

Anyone know if the LJ crew has been approached for a "buy-out", I mean remember when AOL was going into the net radio business and bought WinAmp and some streaming service?

I always find it ironic when people post on Slashdot that they never read weblogs. Slashdot is a weblog! Weblogs can be collective, personal and filled with bad poetry, or just recent news stories. They can have original writing or boobies. Weblogs are lots of things, and Sturgeon's Law applies.

Recently I installed LiveJournal's server code on a slackware 8 box. The standard version of apache that comes with slackware didn't have mod_perl in it, so I downloaded the newest httpd, which at the time was 2.0.46. I downloaded the appropriate mod_perl as well. This combination compiled fine, but I couldn't use it. LiveJournal is written for the old mod_perl, which doesn't work with apache 2.0.x, and therefore LiveJournal wouldn't work with what I had. I had to rip out apache 2.0.46 and fall back to 1.3.27 with the appropriate mod_perl. Really sucks that the supporting projects can't keep up while maintaining compatibility.

Recently I installed LiveJournal's server code on a slackware 8 box. The standard version of apache that comes with slackware didn't have mod_perl in it, so I downloaded the newest httpd, which at the time was 2.0.46. I downloaded the appropriate mod_perl as well. This combination compiled fine, but I couldn't use it. LiveJournal is written for the old mod_perl, which doesn't work with apache 2.0.x, and therefore LiveJournal wouldn't work with what I had. I had to rip out apache 2.0.46 and fall back to 1.3.27 with the appropriate mod_perl. Really sucks that the supporting projects can't keep up while maintaining compatibility.

I was just about to go out and buy a new 'stop-gap' motherboard so I could upgrade to the new Athlon CPUs. I paid about $140 for this mobo (Abit KT7-Raid it has built in raid) and I was expecting to last the whole Athlon cycle.

I read about the adaptor on toms hardware, but I didn't know it also let you use slower FSB settings. This kicks ass!

Sorry for the sincerity, as opposed to the cynical vindictive that so characterizes discussion between intelligent people these days, it's just that I'm just very happy about this. :)

The internet is a right for people in the US. I recently came across the journal of a homeless person. The journal is online of course. So in the US at least, anyone really can access it, provided they walk a little.

...when Xjournal does everything it does, and a hell of a lot more?

If any of you Opera users find the "Free-X Statement" link akin to a Spinal Tap album cover, the site hasn't been defaced or removed. Try another browser, Opera 7.0 appears not to render their page readably. Undoubtedly the site's fault, not Opera's, of course.

(me.)

Gecko may be dead as to KHTML as you say, but one could not have guessed this when Mozilla started.

Actually, after reading this in jwz's blog, I'd have to say it was pretty damn easy to guess what would happen to Mozilla when it first started out.

Hmmm... according to FCC article 15, this newspaper just openly and admittingly committed a felony. Just getting an IP address constitutes committing this felony, [snip]

And if you want to be realy "informative" quote the right source.

Nice copy'n'paste from http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/397771. html?thread=2531787.
However you forgot to mention it.

It's true! Just take a look at this!

The dead have risen and are taking over the net!

Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell> /msg atnt haha. idiot.
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI> :~(
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)

Didn't say they wouldn't use it, but I was specifically trying to point out the flaws in his reasoning, over trying to hand proper facts in. Trying to argue that they won't have an AGP slot because they're 'phasing out NVidia' is a moot point. They'd still have an AGP slot for whatever video card they use, or at the least to support high-end graphics cards the user may buy seperately. It would castrate them to not have an AGP slot in todays market. :-)

WolfWings was here...

Okay, a quick counter to most of your points...

Apple has called their PCs G-number like Intel calls their Pentiums. You expect them to give up that branding over a simple technicality? Not bloody likely. That G5 means a PowerPC 970 chip inside means very little to marketing. It's definately the next generation of chip though, so increment the number accordingly.

1.0Ghz FSB impossible? Actually the PPC970 calls for a 0.9Ghz FSB. Sounds like a simple case of overclocking for their super-top-of-the-line machine, something video card makers have been doing for years now.

Now, what's to say they'll actually USE that AGP slot by default? No offense, but even Apple has to recognize that all the super-deluxe, top-of-the-line video cards use AGP slots now. And what about ATI, or Matrox? Both offer Mac-compatable video cards, and both require AGP slots to be used. Apple's not about to kick all three of the major video-card makers completely out of their ballpark, phasing NVidia out or not.

And apparently you missed the feature recently here on /. about USB 2.0 meaning jack squat thanks to the recent bait-and-switch by the USB association? I note there's no 'Hi-Speed' mark by the USB 2.0 ports listed. Sounds like 1.1 to me, with Marketing wiggling their way in early.

I won't touch on the 'one versus 1' debate though. The image may have been mis-numbered on an upload, so we may have seen a sneak-peak at a revamped online store with the image to boot. It's hardly unfeasable to have a completely new layout accompany a major product announcement. The car makers do that all the time when they revamp their website to coincide with new product cycles, why not the computer makers too? Especially one as noisy in the industry as Apple? :-)

Anyways, that's enough from me... WolfWings out...

Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell> /msg atnt haha. idiot.
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI> :~(
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)

Found this little gem on Spot's LiveJournal Account:
Repeated here to avoid slashdot affect:

Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell> /msg atnt haha. idiot.
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI> :~(
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)

Actual Transcripts of the discussions between SCO, IBM and Linux vendors ..

http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/397771. html?thread=2531787

The current version doesn't, but a new beta version is supposed to come out soon.(this month, I think, or next)
also supposed to have a sloughfull of new features, like Jabber, Unicode support and Tabbed windows
you might want to have a look at Cerulean's Development log for more information.

hepkitten takes it deep in the ass goatse-style

If you're not jacking it to fat mommy-bellied twentysomethings who had a kid at the age of sixteen, wrote a web browser before mosaic was a twinkle in the internet's eye while writing important mathematical and physical papers then this skanky slut is the one for you!

check her out on #insub on EFNet and maybe if you paypal her you'll be jerking like a king tonight!

1309!!!

You could take a look at this
There's a nice writeup of how to extract the cramfs.

A bit more OT. Did you know that the Linksys WAP54G access point is based on Linux?. Somewhat strange, that there are no linux drivers for Broadcom 802.11g wireless NICs.

The key to getting PNG to work properly with Internet explorer is to flatten your image down to 256 colors (indexed). This also allows only single-bit transparency.

This is what I did with my user image for livejournal. Sure, it's not as nice as full 24-bit transparency, but it's everything you were able to get with (non-animated) GIFs, except with smaller files. (And, unlike most GIF usage, legal without buying a license)

Doing this to an image inside GIMP is pretty simple: Image->Mode->Indexed.

There's also the bizarre CSS3 trick mentioned in other comments to this article; I haven't tried that yet.

Yeah, as I was reading that article, I was struck by how handy something like a secure version of LiveJournal would be to an intelligence organization. Each analyst could post things up, works in progress, tidbits of interest, or formal product, which could then be syndicated by other analysts and consumers of analytic content in a fluid manner (NB: obviously would need some additional access, authentication, and authorization infrastructure to regulate who can syndicate what). Further, the LJ codebase would allow feedback on each entry in the analyst's "text stream", or I should say "media stream". And as a bonus, clients exist to talk to LJ servers from pretty much any platform, and most don't require any knowledge of HTML or similar technologies by the end user. The source code for the LJ server system as well as most of the clients is available here but as usual for any outside product, it'd probably be wise to commission a source review of it before putting it into production in a secure environment. (This may be one way to help fund the projects, if possible, by commissioning project developers to contribute to the security process, and allowing the non-agency-specific security changes to be rolled back into the public sphere, analogous to the NSA's SELinux.)

Yeah, as I was reading that article, I was struck by how handy something like a secure version of LiveJournal would be to an intelligence organization. Each analyst could post things up, works in progress, tidbits of interest, or formal product, which could then be syndicated by other analysts and consumers of analytic content in a fluid manner (NB: obviously would need some additional access, authentication, and authorization infrastructure to regulate who can syndicate what). Further, the LJ codebase would allow feedback on each entry in the analyst's "text stream", or I should say "media stream". And as a bonus, clients exist to talk to LJ servers from pretty much any platform, and most don't require any knowledge of HTML or similar technologies by the end user. The source code for the LJ server system as well as most of the clients is available here but as usual for any outside product, it'd probably be wise to commission a source review of it before putting it into production in a secure environment. (This may be one way to help fund the projects, if possible, by commissioning project developers to contribute to the security process, and allowing the non-agency-specific security changes to be rolled back into the public sphere, analogous to the NSA's SELinux.)

There's a multitude of needlecrafts, including some that are less popular, like nalebinding. That might be too girly, though. Perhaps you might want to build your own canoe from strips of cedar. (Don't laugh - I know some folks who do this) Or how about leather crafting? I hear there's a big market[*] for whips and cat'o'nines and leather clothing, oh my!

[*]This is not to suggest that any of the hobby pursuits I suggested should be used as a source of income, just that some hobby pursuits can be a source of income. Some of mine are. (My [incomplete/in-progress] list is located here.

I think MIT developed something along these lines a long time ago. (Here's a link.) The idea was not to empower the government, but to provide a sort of Super PDA for the individual. Oddly enough, I think it uses Emacs.

Another interesting system was Gelernter's LifeStreams, which time-indexed everything...

Of course, half the world seems to be blogging all the time anyway, which tend to be weak on the indexing and searching, but provide a nice low barrier-to-entry for inputting all kinds of trivial crap about one's life.

It's not necessarily entirely about dystopian government power ;-)

This idea is rather like something that's already available on LiveJournal. Users have the option to list anywhere up to 100 interests. You can then search for people who have a specific interest listed (it brings up both people and communities), but even better is if you're a paid member - you can search for people who share the highest number of common interests. The only down-side is that sometimes when you find a really cool person, their journal will have been inactive for a year or two.

Not exactly.

Yeah considering the worm never really got anything from that site in the first place. because the geocities account never existed.

From http://www.livejournal.com/users/kalyan/84241.html

Pretty Interesting because this site does not exist and the username was never created with Yahoo!.

That's a really good question. What kind of input are you giving Google? Are you being specific enough? I mean...when I want lyrics, I usually type "lyrics Flinch". If I'm interested in reading speculations on whether Hussein is really dead, I type "Hussein dead" (and I'm not as apt to get anything like this, as when I search for "Saddam Hussein").

What are you talking about? Are you saying that the average content of Blogger is any different from the average content of Livejournal? They're just different branded terms for the same thing- a personal site following a chronological updated format, containing whatever people want to put in them. For example, in my livejournal, which I call a livejournal because it uses code from www.livejournal.com, I write articles on politics, movies, creativity, or any other topic I happen to feel like writing about. On very infrequent occasions, I may write about what I did during a day. This is no different from someone who's journal slathers on about their day constantly- these sites, whether livejournal or blogger or whatever, provide a public forum for us to get our ideas and feelings down on paper for anyone who happens to want to read them.

... is what I have in my hot little hands.

Evidence: photo of all fifty pre-opening night tickets.

Me and my friends will be the absolute first people in the SF Bay Area to see The Matrix: Reloaded ... how's THAT for geek bragging rights? ;)

Practice, my son. Lots of practice.

Also, a trip to this page to learn the latest in the art of puppy kicking and other such related activites.

He totally is - he even blogs and IMs the President...

Indeed, some of those K5 posts are shockingly bad. Here's one random weblog talking about just how bad some of the things on that thread are.

"Uncharacteristic silliness" compared to how K5's userbase usually acts is an understatement. It's almost like reading Slashdot with the threshold set at 0...

...but I took issue with a couple points made by Mr. Lloyd. I have a lengthy discussion of it over on my journal, but basically, I thought his discussion of consciousness and artificial intelligence was a bit flawed. Also, while I agree with his assertion that the machines of the Matrix would probably rely more heavily on cold fusion than human biothermal/bioelectric energy, I doubt that the machines would throw away the biothermal/bioelectric energy generated by the humans plugged into the Matrix. Indeed, that energy would probably be used to offset the cost of keeping things running.

If Lloyd had spent less time hand-waving about quantum mechanics and consciousness (and reading way, way too much into a couple lines spoken by Agent Smith during Morpheus' interrogation), the article would have been far better. As it is, Lloyd came across as a kind of philosophy snob.

case in point: http://www.livejournal.com/users/d_cheney/

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I liek men.

no way dooder. that first psot was godly.

--
Captain Face

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