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There is always IRT.org
or
WebMonkey

It's worse than that. Go to mp3.lycos.com. This is a blatant music search engine, giving people direct links to unauthorised mp3 files of copyrighted material on the web. Hell, they've even got links to the top ten artist searches, just in case you couldn't even be bothered to type in the name, and each song link has a "reliability rating" ...

But, gee, would the RIAA sue lycos?? Oh no! They'll just pick on some poor kid who can't pay to defend himself in order to frighten other kids away from file sharing.

Really, really pathetic.

Yeah those theiving bastards! That last especially. The whole lot should get the chair.

True, one must take everything one reads (why yes, even on the net) with a grain of salt and judge based on cross verification and one's on experience.

But even if some of the points are strained... there is some truth in most of them.

As for nothing better... here's an article from a genealogist, that is a few years old, pointing out that there were already better algorithms on the market.

The Department of Oxymoronic Mandarins must be well funded this year.

*bing* *bing* *bing*

Bonus points to PD for using the word Mandarin in a sentence not referring to an orange!

Good show!

The poster suggests creation of a group of women who are already interested in CS.

CS is not the same as IT.

Natural-science and engineering fields (a category which for some reason includes CS and math, despite the fact that neither is more "concrete" than philosophy) tend to be male-dominated environments, often to (and past) the point of creating an uncomfortable environment for other folks, even when such folks might otherwise be interested in the subject at hand.

Related, some people in our society are socialized in a way that rewards being good at math and math-like things. Some are not.

Often, people of different genders perceive the world generally. To answer your question directly: if we have more people of different genders (and other sorts of different backgrounds), they are likely to be able to bring different experiences and analyses to the field. This creates a richer environment for all. example

hm, interesting.

Maybe you should use a fricking dictionary before you try to play the asshole.

a classic

Now that the obvious joke is out of me, here are some more serious ideas....

one poster mentioend why not getting them outside and do something physical. With that in mind, you can look here at yes mag. Yes Mag is a good science and engineering magazine aimed at children around your cousins age. The website has links to articles, sites and some good from hands on science/engineering activities.

Another site I used heavily this past summer at the computer/tech camp I worked at was Space Kids

Actually looking at the national organzation, actua, that ran the camp I've worked at just now, they also have a list of project and links you can do here: Actua Projects

If you want to teach them something about programming, I've been looking around for Logo I believe this site has some good tutorial movies on how to use the program.

There also always the Bill Nye, Beakmen's of the world too which may be good starting grounds.

Compare and contrast...

Google

to Yahoo

to Inktomi (via hotbot)

You might want to start here to fix your problem.

You can go with a B&W Game Boy Camera or a color GBA mini camera.

But unfortunately, if you plug one of these cameras into a GBA SP system (rather than into an Afterburner-modded original GBA), the picture will be upside down...

Go here to learn the basics of HTML tags.

The section you're looking for is "Links".

Considering a huge amount of traffic will appears to come from Virginia (AOL's big ass proxy) it's funny that there's no local team to block.

why are people so opposed to Flash on the net? Are they equally resentful that images have "invaded" their text-only HTML world? My website uses tables ... how evil am *I*?

I mean, if you have a legitimate complaint (crashes your browser) or something, then that's fine, but I'm getting a little sick of people who consistently respond with knee-jerk negativity against anything remotely commercial, regardless of how useful and innovative it may be.

It's 2003. You don't still drive 30 mph in a '55 Chevy, why would you be so resistent to modern browser plugins?

Anyway, personally I'm glad that OS research is finally turning to the 3D realm. It only seems like the next natural progression in computer environments.

Carhenge!

If SCO is trying to get them bought atleast somebody is biting, if not IBM. Share pices are up 50%

From Minority Report Has Ad-ded Value:

"It's targeted marketing," said Jeff Boortz, creative director for the 14 spots while at 3 Ring and founder of Philadelphia-based Concrete Pictures. "The individual is only shown ads for products they want to buy. The goal is to promote a relationship between brands and the consumer. I don't think that's a bad thing."

What components should I get to maximize Photoshop and such?

Just click that widget in the upper left corner, dude. You don't need any tools or "components" for that.

Any sites that offer such advice?

Ok, you're insisting:
HOWTO: Maximize Button

So our fate is not in our hands because we have plumbing, electricity and the telephone? He had to kill three people to give us this vast wisdom? Maybe he could have used this magical long-distance communication, like you are, and just posted this online. Actually, he didn't want to, because there is too much 'noise' online so he had to threaten to kill people to get 'respectable news sources' like the NYT to print this tripe instead.

Try reading (in one of those new fangled book thingies) some history about life before and during the industrial revolution. The 'average man's fate' was much less in his own hands than it is now. How can you choose your own fate when life expectancy is like like 30 years? Ever heard of slavery, serfdom, kingdoms, or indentured servitude? How would life be now without technology.. no antibiotics or other medical procedures besides leeches, no printing presses, no advanced learning available for 95% of the population, transportation by animal with no roads, no microwave, no space travel.. you get the idea. Sure technology can be intrusive and even dangerous, but there's no way I would want to go back to the way the things were.

One other minor point, Ted Kaczynski made a good show of living with no water or electricity, but where did his food, typewriter, paper, bomb equipment, address lookup, mail delivery or even clothes come from?

Just wait 'till you try using the Letter 'U' and the Numeral '2' together in a song! Like feathers blown out a chicken coop, watch those RIAA suits jump at the chance to sue your ass! Ahhh, isn't democracy and freedom wonderful? --M

Lycos' webmonkey has a basic chart.

To add to the cookie privacy issue, every link on HotBot searches redirects through click.hotbot.com (example that goes nowhere). The redirect doesn't seem to be holding up well either with about 10% of the pages I've tried hanging for 5-15 seconds before forwarding. Google also does QA monitoring, especially if you opt in with the google toolbar, but I've never seen it actually hang going to a search result. Both privacy policies say that personal information is kept private, but Google's privacy policy has fewer cop outs than does Lycos.

Sounds like the software that TIA needs already exists -- PROMIS!

And it has the seal of approval from the earlier Reagan/Bush constitutional scofflaws!

Note that the link to www.hotbot.com in the article redirects non-American users to the version for the country near them, and the versions of Hotbot for different countries don't include the meta-search feature. For example, here in the Netherlands, I'm redirected to www.hotbot.lycos.co.uk. Non-American users who want to see the search engine reviewed here should go directly to www.hotbot.lycos.com.

If you'd read their vague explanation you'd see that Mei-Feng was female...

It's true, though, there are so many sites out there that aren't in Western fonts - not just Asian sites, either. The only gaps in the language barrier tend to be company websites and sites by the educated and enterprising.

And tonight's number one most popular Lycos search phrase, omitted by Lycos staff from the zeitgeist results, was... best search.

Google's first on the list.

Lycos is a Boston based company. Their offices are on Totten Pond Rd. in Waltham, MA, just outside of Boston.

The WELL might not be as important or unique as it once was, and it may be true that it gets more press than it deserves, and it is true that at times it may be insular and navel-gazingly self-contratulatory, but to dismissively lump it in as one more BBS is completely unfair and even deeply ignorant.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation was organized and founded at the WELL. The annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conferences were started and are still ran at the WELL. Wired Magazine was partially organized on the WELL. The infamous and frauduluent cyberporn Time cover story that made passage of the CDA a foregone conclusion was systematically demolished and exposed and opposition organized at the WELL. And these are just the most salient examples.

I've been reading about decentralized news for quite awhile now and have been waiting for some real, concrete results/products to be released. As such, here are some of my Mozilla bookmarks from my Decentralized News folder. Please enjoy!

Scripting News
... Call us cockroaches if you want, I'm sure IBM thought Apple, Microsoft and Intel
were cute and dirty too, but distributed and decentralized news is rapidly ...
scriptingnews.userland.com/backIssues/2002/02/15 - 25k - Dec. 9, 2002 - Cached

Research News: TVC Alert, 31 May 2002
... Before summarizing software available for reading RSS/XML news feeds (end of article),
the author opines about the value of decentralized news or information ...
www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/may02/31may02.html - 38k - Cached

Hoosier Review
... used to their privileges as brokers of information in a top-down world, threatened
by the rise of new, bizarre, egalitarian and decentralized news sources? ...
www.hoosierreview.com/musgrave10.html - 12k - Cached

Netizens Info
... Non-electronic Reference Sources. Bellovin, Steve M. and Mark Horton, USENET
- A Distributed Decentralized News System, an unpublished manuscript, 1985. ...
www.columbia.edu/~hauben/CMC/netizen_thoughts.ht ml - 11k - Cached

www.columbia.edu/~hauben/CS/netizen_thoughts.txt
... and future of the data highway Non-electronic Reference Sources Bellovin, Steve
M. and Mark Horton, USENET - A Distributed Decentralized News System, an ...
8k - Cached
[ More results from www.columbia.edu ]

MetaLog
... just recycled news from major outlets. But what the weblogs did do
was provide a decentralized news source. At a time when all of ...
www.larkfarm.com/metalog.asp - 18k - Dec. 9, 2002 -

Michael Barone
... years ago. That's how it's bound to be in a country with increasingly
decentralized news media and a fragmented electorate. The ...
www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone100300.a sp - 17k - Dec. 9, 2002 - Cached

SubIntSoc.net: The Suboctagon Report - The Center Cannot Hold, ...
... Another example: personal video cameras. People on the streets with cameras formed
a decentralized news-gathering system that the TV networks couldn't match. ...
subintsoc.net/suboctagon_20011121.php - 39k - Dec. 9, 2002 - Cached

Wired Online: Brain Tennis
... Or will the many-to-many nature of the Net lead to self-correcting, decentralized
news media that nobody owns and everybody contributes to? ...
hotwired.lycos.com/braintennis/96/23/index2a.htm l - 11k -

You really can't argue that this ISN'T informative, though.

Here's yet another example. (I submitted this various forms to the /. editor gods 3 times in the last two days, but they don't seem to think it worthy of your attention) :

According to this article , Universal Vivendi will be making 43,000 tracks available for sale, at $0.99/track, on 28 different web sites (that will get commissions for the sales). In what can best be described as a monumental example of still not getting it, UMG will be selling the tracks in the proprietary DRM hobbled Liquid Audio format . A quote in the article from a UMG unit president demonstrates that years of listening to the kind of stuff big labels sell does indeed damage the hearing (and possibly the corporate brain) when he said (please try not to laugh too hard, folks) "We have listened to the public, and we are offering the music that people want at a reasonable price that fairly compensates the artists, songwriters and [other] individuals who make their living in the music industry". Apparently UMG thinks that a restricted format is what the public wants. As to "fairly compensating artists (and) songwriters", I have yet to hear any UMG artists announce that their contracts have been ripped up. Just to double check that last point, I looked outside - there is still only one moon in the sky.

Finally, for the 3 of you that don't also peruse the Register, here's an interesting item that the music industry should pay attention to: File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers

It seems that the harder the music industry tries to resist, the more likely it is that they're writing their own epitaphs.

>Excluding all other search engines would clearly be abuse of monopoly power.

Google isn't a monopoly.

Right, well, he frequently used to post on YNOT News - an adult webmaster information board.

Doesn't mean he was one, of course. He definitely used to be 'chief operating officer' of Infonent.com, Inc. His current fax is (408)979-7969... and an example of his current work is here.

Of course, he also gets mentioned in Sex Tracker press releases. He claims to be an 'anti-porn advocate', which is interesting, given the work he does protecting the valuable intellectual property of Cinnamonbunz, 'the largest collection of sexy, erotic models!' and Suze Randall the erotic photographer.

I wondered if this had anything to do with him (if it does, he's got some nerve 'I hope you don't mind me taking a graphic from your homepage!') particularly given the reference to driving and the Skyline Blvd. address again. He works for an erotic photographer, amongst others.

Let's see what else; if that is him, he has a web page on AOL of all places
. Plugging that new information into Google we also get maki177@aol.com as a potential address; if you search Google for maki177, you discover 'makiboy' is an alias apparently used by whichever Mark Ishikawa this one is, and taking this chain of improbability to its logical conclusion we discover makiboy@hotmail.com, NYC Jock/Ballet Sissy, and, last but not least, In Search Of... Men Seeking Men. The last includes the interesting blurb, "would like to hear from or meet other trim, athletic guys, 18 - 30s, who enjoy footed nylon or lycra tights. Shiny lycra is best, but nylon is okay too, as long as the tights are footed."

Oh, and he lies to his ballet-loving pals about his age :-)

Hey, makiboy, it's all publicly available information. Now you see why people don't go snooping - they might come to the wrong conclusion - if this is wrong?

Answers on a postcard please to:

"We lurve those tights!",
19020 Skyline Blvd.
Los Gatos, CA 95033

The small print: Half of this information is speculative, uncertain, and totally devoid of context. Don't think of it as fact. But it's a similar style to the information he'll use to report you to the cops - therefore, I would consider it to be poetic justice of a sort.

Bryan Hoch, the guy who operated metsonline before the clueless fucktards at MLB closed it down is now being paid to write a column called METS ONLINE for Fox Sports.

...You, the other 6 billion people on this planet, and the countless billions of animals on this planet pollute every time you exhale.

The point is we don't have a choice but to exhale. But we do have a choice to consume gasoline or not. What you stated only adds to the need for alternative power sources.

If oil is not to be drilled as much, then prepare to take some money out of your retirement fund in order to pay for simple daily things.

Sure, that's what could happen if it's not done in a concerted manner. But that's what governments are for. Laws, international treaties and economic dispositions are everyday thought of and put in action. The Kyoto Protocol is an example of what could be done. On that subject, please read: this . You'll notice that the Americans have a history of selfish spoiled-child-like attitude of not wanting to let go of their bad habits.

Do you think people as a whole don't have any sort of control over the economy? You think money is a concept that lives by itself? That it's a machine that can't be controlled nor tuned for the good of humanity?

There are ways to compensate for the shift in the economic balance without putting everyone into poverty, but it would require everyone's little contribution.

That makes me think: What is President Bush's family wealth built on? Isn't it oil? Hmm no wonder he's so quiet on the matter.

For those who are too young to know what means: click this

The article didn't make it clear (at least to me) why [no[n] physical property] made a difference.

The Dreamcast, the PS2, the XBox and the GameCube all also lost money per sale at their initial releases.

This is not true. Sony and nintendo both let the public believe that they were getting more then they paid for, but Sony broke even on the PS2 initially, and Nintendo has admitted that they've never sold a machine they haven't made a profit on.

At this point, after the price drop, Sony is making almost $100 per unit. Nintendo claims to be able to produce the gamecube for ~$100.

Also, the market conditions have never been better for video games. In fact, Sony has sold 30 million PS2s in less then 2 years, and expects to sell another 8 million by christmas (19 million for the whole of 2002). The only console doing poorly right now is the Xbox, which has sold just over 3 million and is expected to sell just 2-3 million additional machines by christmas (5 million for the whole of 2002).

Why not just make it a link? Then you can use as long a URL as you like and not worry about the filters trashing it.

HTML really isn't that hard. :)

I'll have to agree, based on what I know about them. From $0.05 to $24, and back to $0.45, all without profit or real sales, is quite a ride.

There's quite an active discussion of them over at the Reging bull stock chat site.

A very long but extremely informative post about these financial issues is here.

I'll have to agree, based on what I know about them. From $0.05 to $24, and back to $0.45, all without profit or real sales, is quite a ride.

There's quite an active discussion of them over at the Reging bull stock chat site.

A very long but extremely informative post about these financial issues is here.

thau

. . .when webmonkey was he best thing out there for newbie web programmers. It's sad, but they sort of fell off at some point. But in the beginning, when it was all about client-side scripting, wasn't none better than Thau! The dude still cracks me up.

They even had a UNIX cheat sheet and tutorial for when we grew up and began working on the server-side of things.

HTML Help
WASP would be a good place for all newbs to start.
WASP
Find Tutorials is a good general tutorial finder.

PHP
First LAMP tutorial
PHP.net
PHP Help

There are tons of good .asp sites out there, but my guess is that's not what slashdotters are looking for....

Lactose intolerance is actually a survival trait in mammals; gets you independant of Mommy and her teats more quickly, which means she can be lunch for the local predators without it affecting you unduly.

(did I just say that?)

This article on Webmonkey explains how IE6 is going to make it easier for designers to create web pages viewable by all browsers, by becoming more standards-compliant. It is over a year old, but explains IE6's use of the DOCTYPE declaration, which allows designers to write standards compliant code for almost any browser (and throw microsoft's old propriatary standards out the window if they choose).

http://webmd.lycos.com/content/article/1671.51282
So too much of just about anything is probably bad.
But I see your point in that much of what we eat is
probably not good for us.
But you can never avoid all danger
So eat, drink and be merry!!

It's simply amazing that this got them in trouble.

Google Search Engine

Yahoo has blocked the search of DeCSS

Lycos

Altavista

MetaCrawler

Go. Now Overture. Owned By Disney/ABC

CNet (Search.com)

Add Any I left out :-)

Yeah, I know it's just a big list of links...

Apache and FW Performance Tips
Apache.org Performance Tuning
Apache Tuning Tips
Apache Tuning Directives
Tuning Your Apache Server
TUNING.txt
PHP-DEV: Database Connection Problems
PHP Everywhere: Tuning Apache and PHP for Speed
Tuning Apache Web Servers for Speed

and last, but not least, my favorite:

Web Server Tuning

I'd also recommend reading up on tuning the linux kernel.

-techwolf

Ian, I'm sorry that I called you nasty names. I didn't know that you were gay, and I try to always support my gay brothers and sisters. Peace out.