Likeliness of misspelling defined by: - Ratio of popularity (on Alexa or whatever) of the domain the user typed in and the most likely misspelled version - "Typographical distance" (a word i just invented, just use a metric that considers most of the popular types of typos, switched letters, neighboring keys etc) of the domain the user typed in to its most likely real spelling
If the likeliness is higher than 99% redirect straight to the real site, if its 50-99% display a question page ("You typed in slahsdot.org. Didn't you want to go to slashdot.org?") if it's below 50% just let the user to go what he typed in. Remember the answers the user gave to the selection page and use it to judge future typos.
But the issue is that alone by having typed in that domain, they have made money for its owner. Multiply that by 10,000 and you have already made a profit over the registration cost of the domain itself, and common typos of popular domains can easily make you a hundred times that many visits.
Revolutions aren't usually by definition improving the status quo by themselves. If you want to achieve that, slow and controlled political change seems to be the only way.
But what revolutions are good for is for shaking up deeply entrenched static situations. The result may be worse than the life before it, but it's also less controlled and therefore susceptible to being changed by softer methods.
The French Revolution (along with other revolution of a similarily bloody nature that first turned disastrous, but eventually led to decent results like many communist revolutions) is a good example, since their regimes had proven to not care about reasonable demands of the population, and in fact that refusal to work within democratic rules pushed the people into armed revolt. Without the brutal shake-up they would have likely seen business as usual for centuries more, instead of a decade or a few of unstable dictatorships followed by democratic improvements.
Also just FYI the American Revolution wasn't entirely nice americans vs evil english either. There were plenty of colonials loyal to the crown who were dispossessed, displaced and in some case murdered by secessionist mobs. It was definitely one of the least brutal revolutions though.
Also there was never the institutional racism that could've sparked civil distaste for such policies, nor a split value country where one part could be the conscience of the other. There's was never a law against sitting in front of the bus that somebody could've protested against.
Instead, racism in France was always something you did quietly. Many HR managers in low level industries throw applications with north african sounding names directly into the reject pile. If you're a brown skinned male in a white neighborhood, you cannot sit next to a white female on a bus or train or you'll always risk getting beaten up by some white power vigilante group. The police go around immigrant neighborhoods and beat up and arrest youths with the always convenient justification of them "resisting arrest".
If you call anyone up on these occurances, they will brush accusations of racism off and claim they're not happening. Even us college educated north african immigrants who "made it" and generally don't have to deal with racism as much are reminded at least once a week that we're somehow less equal than others either in dealing with random people on the street or the especially fun police harassments.
>> to see the real cause of their unemployment is in the mirror.
Oh they do see the reason for their unemployment in the mirror, it's just that they generally can't change it unless they go to Michael Jackson like lengths at ameliorating that particular condition.
A majority of them are "muslim" in the sense that it's what they write on census forms in the religion field. They are just as religious as those christians who go to church three times in their life for their baptism, marriage and burial. And as Islam lacks those forced religion moments (other than burial) they probably haven't seen the inside of a mosque in a very long time.
Other than those just-on-paper muslims there are also plenty of christian and diverse animist religion immigrants from central africa that are rioting with them.
Which idiot modded that insightful? The riots have nothing to do with religion - they're standard poverty riots just like Brixton 1985 and LA 1992, and you seriously have to stop masturbating about trying to evoke a global culture war at every opportunity you see.
But that is illegal whether covered by an EULA or not.
The point is that EULAs are just a waste of paper and bits because everything that's illegal is already illegal without them, and anything that's legal cannot be forbidden by them.
CCP "prohibits" in game currency sales just as any other MMOG company. That is: it's forbidden by the EULA but everyone does it. Current going rate is about 3 million ISK for a $. A short search on ebay or google will show you hundreds of offers for sale, and since Eve-Online runs on a single server it also cuts down on a lot of the logistics problems that sharded games put on ebayers with having to mantain stocks on different servers.
In fact, it's probably one of the most ebay-plagued games along with Lineage 2 and FF-IX because of its money-intensive PvP. Ironically, especially pirates (who consider resource gathering and trading as a means of income as boring) are among the prime ebayers. There's players who easily spend a few hundred dollars per month on Eve-Online money so they can be a bigshot in game without having to go through the arduous process of grinding money through tradeskills or NPC-hunting.
Mirroring isn't that ineffective. Lasers that aren't bolted down in a factory already suffer from a lot of problems: - Weak power supply which greatly shortens the possible pulse durations. People like to throw out huge kilo/mega-watt numbers, but the point is that peak power can only be mantained for micro- or even nanoseconds. - Divergence over long distances. Since you can't use huge optics on a plane, you will not get divergence below 1/10000 even with perfect technics due to physical limitations. So after a 10 kilometers, your beam will already be a meter wide. - Targeting. Pointing something at a target with accuracies of milliradians is hard, even if you do it on solid ground or in space. Aiming at a mach 5 fast missile from a vibrating plane can't be easy.
When all these factors are considered, your laser isn't the instant death machine anymore they often get painted as in movies (or what they actually can be in a more controlled settings), but you'll be just able to deliver enough energy to the target to destroy it under ideal circumstances. If the builder of the target missile was then smart enough to raise the reflectivity of his missile from the expected 50% to 90%, you're suddenly missing 4/5 of your laser power.
An even bigger problem would be that after a few years, any relationship between the start of a month and the moon phase would go horribly out of sync due to those extra 1-2 days.
But then again , in the strictest sense of the word "provide", neither do the intended targets of the legislation: Bittorrent websites, DC++ servers and their ilk. They just provide an indexing service for content provided by third parties, similar to Google.
If they want this law to have any teeth against P2P services, it must be written broadly enough to hurt google too.
Just do a search for: "index of" metallica mp3 and you will see that Google provides just as good a p2p search engine as any DC++ server.
Tinfoil hattery aside, it seems that Roland gathers stories from the Internet, does a short writeup about them on his own site, then submits that writeup to/.
In the end: - Slashdot editors save time by not having to write abstracts themselves - Slashdot readers get interesting stories - Roland gets ad revenue for his work
So everybody wins something. Not too terrible of a deal.
It should require that the smart gun technology is good enough that manufacturers are willing to at least accept civil liability in case that an authorized user gets locked out, and a crime cannot be prevented due to the malfunction.
You have a choice. You can not buy from Apple, and look for someone to sell you one without DRM.
This argument works both ways. Apple also has the choice to not sell any songs. If they don't do that I can't crack it. If they do sell a song, I reserve the right to do whatever I want with it.
Hardocp got an exclusive Doom 3 demo because of nVidia. That might have given them a little incentive to nudge the results slightly into the right direction.
This is a nice theory, but you should remember Murphy's rule of combat "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy".
All military commanders have nice thought out plans how they are going to wipe the enemy without a single loss to their troops, but when it comes down to reality, people start to realize that the enemy also has exactly these plans.
Such well thought out scenarios like you paint there only happen in war games when the OpFor is playing especially nice and lets the four star general win to not endanger their military career (unlike this)
In actual combat, you can count on being taken by surprised by some enemy action and having to reform your plans on the go or lose.
Slashdot Mirror
Likeliness of misspelling defined by:
- Ratio of popularity (on Alexa or whatever) of the domain the user typed in and the most likely misspelled version
- "Typographical distance" (a word i just invented, just use a metric that considers most of the popular types of typos, switched letters, neighboring keys etc) of the domain the user typed in to its most likely real spelling
If the likeliness is higher than 99% redirect straight to the real site, if its 50-99% display a question page ("You typed in slahsdot.org. Didn't you want to go to slashdot.org?") if it's below 50% just let the user to go what he typed in. Remember the answers the user gave to the selection page and use it to judge future typos.
Especially because even if you'd sell your seats at $100/piece, they'd just get taken up by resellers and sold on the black market for 250 bux each.
But the issue is that alone by having typed in that domain, they have made money for its owner. Multiply that by 10,000 and you have already made a profit over the registration cost of the domain itself, and common typos of popular domains can easily make you a hundred times that many visits.
Revolutions aren't usually by definition improving the status quo by themselves. If you want to achieve that, slow and controlled political change seems to be the only way.
But what revolutions are good for is for shaking up deeply entrenched static situations. The result may be worse than the life before it, but it's also less controlled and therefore susceptible to being changed by softer methods.
The French Revolution (along with other revolution of a similarily bloody nature that first turned disastrous, but eventually led to decent results like many communist revolutions) is a good example, since their regimes had proven to not care about reasonable demands of the population, and in fact that refusal to work within democratic rules pushed the people into armed revolt. Without the brutal shake-up they would have likely seen business as usual for centuries more, instead of a decade or a few of unstable dictatorships followed by democratic improvements.
Also just FYI the American Revolution wasn't entirely nice americans vs evil english either. There were plenty of colonials loyal to the crown who were dispossessed, displaced and in some case murdered by secessionist mobs. It was definitely one of the least brutal revolutions though.
A robot kit for just 100 bux? Did it work decently?
Also there was never the institutional racism that could've sparked civil distaste for such policies, nor a split value country where one part could be the conscience of the other. There's was never a law against sitting in front of the bus that somebody could've protested against.
Instead, racism in France was always something you did quietly. Many HR managers in low level industries throw applications with north african sounding names directly into the reject pile. If you're a brown skinned male in a white neighborhood, you cannot sit next to a white female on a bus or train or you'll always risk getting beaten up by some white power vigilante group. The police go around immigrant neighborhoods and beat up and arrest youths with the always convenient justification of them "resisting arrest".
If you call anyone up on these occurances, they will brush accusations of racism off and claim they're not happening. Even us college educated north african immigrants who "made it" and generally don't have to deal with racism as much are reminded at least once a week that we're somehow less equal than others either in dealing with random people on the street or the especially fun police harassments.
>> to see the real cause of their unemployment is in the mirror.
Oh they do see the reason for their unemployment in the mirror, it's just that they generally can't change it unless they go to Michael Jackson like lengths at ameliorating that particular condition.
A majority of them are "muslim" in the sense that it's what they write on census forms in the religion field. They are just as religious as those christians who go to church three times in their life for their baptism, marriage and burial. And as Islam lacks those forced religion moments (other than burial) they probably haven't seen the inside of a mosque in a very long time.
Other than those just-on-paper muslims there are also plenty of christian and diverse animist religion immigrants from central africa that are rioting with them.
Which idiot modded that insightful? The riots have nothing to do with religion - they're standard poverty riots just like Brixton 1985 and LA 1992, and you seriously have to stop masturbating about trying to evoke a global culture war at every opportunity you see.
http://files.filefront.com/mine/;4157978;;/fileinf o.html
Not epic but well choreographed and funny.
But that is illegal whether covered by an EULA or not.
The point is that EULAs are just a waste of paper and bits because everything that's illegal is already illegal without them, and anything that's legal cannot be forbidden by them.
It's porn.
Although what I'm wondering is, what's with the 21+ years old restriction? I thought you could legally watch porn at 18.
CCP "prohibits" in game currency sales just as any other MMOG company. That is: it's forbidden by the EULA but everyone does it. Current going rate is about 3 million ISK for a $. A short search on ebay or google will show you hundreds of offers for sale, and since Eve-Online runs on a single server it also cuts down on a lot of the logistics problems that sharded games put on ebayers with having to mantain stocks on different servers.
In fact, it's probably one of the most ebay-plagued games along with Lineage 2 and FF-IX because of its money-intensive PvP. Ironically, especially pirates (who consider resource gathering and trading as a means of income as boring) are among the prime ebayers. There's players who easily spend a few hundred dollars per month on Eve-Online money so they can be a bigshot in game without having to go through the arduous process of grinding money through tradeskills or NPC-hunting.
Mirroring isn't that ineffective.
Lasers that aren't bolted down in a factory already suffer from a lot of problems:
- Weak power supply which greatly shortens the possible pulse durations. People like to throw out huge kilo/mega-watt numbers, but the point is that peak power can only be mantained for micro- or even nanoseconds.
- Divergence over long distances. Since you can't use huge optics on a plane, you will not get divergence below 1/10000 even with perfect technics due to physical limitations. So after a 10 kilometers, your beam will already be a meter wide.
- Targeting. Pointing something at a target with accuracies of milliradians is hard, even if you do it on solid ground or in space. Aiming at a mach 5 fast missile from a vibrating plane can't be easy.
When all these factors are considered, your laser isn't the instant death machine anymore they often get painted as in movies (or what they actually can be in a more controlled settings), but you'll be just able to deliver enough energy to the target to destroy it under ideal circumstances.
If the builder of the target missile was then smart enough to raise the reflectivity of his missile from the expected 50% to 90%, you're suddenly missing 4/5 of your laser power.
The sword was worth a good 5000 yuan on the open market. Adjusting that for GDP, that's around $3000 in the US.
Now how many americans have gotten murdered over $3000 or less? A lot.
An even bigger problem would be that after a few years, any relationship between the start of a month and the moon phase would go horribly out of sync due to those extra 1-2 days.
But then again , in the strictest sense of the word "provide", neither do the intended targets of the legislation: Bittorrent websites, DC++ servers and their ilk. They just provide an indexing service for content provided by third parties, similar to Google.
If they want this law to have any teeth against P2P services, it must be written broadly enough to hurt google too.
Just do a search for:
"index of" metallica mp3
and you will see that Google provides just as good a p2p search engine as any DC++ server.
Tinfoil hattery aside, it seems that Roland gathers stories from the Internet, does a short writeup about them on his own site, then submits that writeup to /.
In the end:
- Slashdot editors save time by not having to write abstracts themselves
- Slashdot readers get interesting stories
- Roland gets ad revenue for his work
So everybody wins something. Not too terrible of a deal.
They'll go wallet.google.com anyway.
It should require that the smart gun technology is good enough that manufacturers are willing to at least accept civil liability in case that an authorized user gets locked out, and a crime cannot be prevented due to the malfunction.
Stop.
You have a choice. You can not buy from Apple, and look for someone to sell you one without DRM.
This argument works both ways. Apple also has the choice to not sell any songs. If they don't do that I can't crack it. If they do sell a song, I reserve the right to do whatever I want with it.
Hardocp got an exclusive Doom 3 demo because of nVidia. That might have given them a little incentive to nudge the results slightly into the right direction.
Fear of a Bot Planet
You have to be really desperate for arguments if you're quoting a 40 year old TV series.
This is a nice theory, but you should remember Murphy's rule of combat "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy".
All military commanders have nice thought out plans how they are going to wipe the enemy without a single loss to their troops, but when it comes down to reality, people start to realize that the enemy also has exactly these plans.
Such well thought out scenarios like you paint there only happen in war games when the OpFor is playing especially nice and lets the four star general win to not endanger their military career (unlike this)
In actual combat, you can count on being taken by surprised by some enemy action and having to reform your plans on the go or lose.