A lot of information here about candidates for both state and federal offices, including finances, voting records, and interest group ratings. Unfortunately they don't have information about state/county/city level propositions.
As a side note to your well put remark - whatever happened to/. crowd's usual dislike of Sony (member RIAA)? To read most comments posted here would make you think Sony is the New Angles Co. (tm).
This is just a simple decision to end a failing practice in the marketplace. Nothing more.
There's just one thing that I'm really missing in FireFox on OS-X, namely the middle mouse click for openning and closing tabs. This works fine in Windows, so I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. I thought perhaps middle click detection is not fully functional in OS-X in generall, but the it does work in Safari for openning links.
Not to negate your point, but there is still a small problem with your solution: Any links going off the main page of the submitted site will still not be Coralized.
While I agree with your sentiment, I'm still amazed and amused by the crowd cheering for what -- when all is told -- amounts to a very good music outlet for RIAA.
And here I was thinking that the cool thing was not to support them or buy their music anymore.
I agree that the problem is not as severe as it is on commercial stations, but what do you consider all the corporate sponsorship spots to be?
I consider them to be very effective and relatively inexpensive advertising directed at a very well defined crowd. Not to mention a tax write-off. And they keep getting to be more and more like regular advertising in nature.
I've seen at least two instances of decades old (50's?) motorized boards in Santa Cruz; one in the surf museum, and another at a pizza shop. This is no new invention, and I suspect will fare just as well as the old ones. Real surfers don't seem to go for this sort of junk.
from a societal or survival-of-the-fittest point of view, the most successful society is the one most capable of destroying the others. that could be achieved by subsuming the other through culture and trade, but when in doubt, it's easier to just blow the other one up.
This may be true up to a point, but in a limitted fish pond -- which is not unlike what we're in -- it may prove to be a bit self destructive as well.
Flame? Dick-head? Methinks you got a bit too upset about this. You could perhaps be a bit more polite yourself if you want the high ground. Letters and protests are both good, and I personally think the original post was far more persuasive in tone than yours.
I doubt they get any electrical storms *ever* in this location. Very arid tourist town on the coast of Red Sea (just below the southern tip of Sinai desert.)
If I read your post correctly, you seem to imply that there will be a performance hit at the time a user performs a search. I don't think this is correct. I think Google does it's ranking while it crawls the web. So the performance problem is not as severe as you imply.
The idea is far from foolproof. Computers could be programmed to try multiple different phrases or spammers could hire people to manually create accounts. Also the idea does nothing to stop spammers harvesting email account details from the Net in the first place.
Any serious spamming outfit will quickly defeat this type of protection. It seems to me that the number of accounts a spammer needs to set up to generate spam can be fairly limited.
As the reply to your post by "mestar" clearly shows, "cognitive dissonance" is not what you meant. I just wanted to say that I'm truly amazed by all the posts following in this thread that assumed you had it right.
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Firefox 1.0PR passed with flying colors.
I had less success with FF 1.0 release for OS X. I tried the test a couple of times, and FF crashed both time midway through the tests.
I don't think this vulnerability is eliminated by using popup blocking. I tested Firefox 1.0 (OS X) with popups disabled, and it was vulnerable.
Also, what's wrong with a glass door in front of the PC?
How about heat buildup due to lack of air circulation?
Here's another site that works for all states:
vote-smart
A lot of information here about candidates for both state and federal offices, including finances, voting records, and interest group ratings. Unfortunately they don't have information about state/county/city level propositions.
As a side note to your well put remark - whatever happened to /. crowd's usual dislike of Sony (member RIAA)? To read most comments posted here would make you think Sony is the New Angles Co. (tm).
This is just a simple decision to end a failing practice in the marketplace. Nothing more.
There's just one thing that I'm really missing in FireFox on OS-X, namely the middle mouse click for openning and closing tabs. This works fine in Windows, so I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. I thought perhaps middle click detection is not fully functional in OS-X in generall, but the it does work in Safari for openning links.
Anyone here has any ideas?
Not to negate your point, but there is still a small problem with your solution: Any links going off the main page of the submitted site will still not be Coralized.
Any ideas about how to help with this limitation?
From the link:
If there is a distribution not here please contact the Webmaster at XFree86 dot Org and let her know.
Must have been there for a while.
While I agree with your sentiment, I'm still amazed and amused by the crowd cheering for what -- when all is told -- amounts to a very good music outlet for RIAA.
And here I was thinking that the cool thing was not to support them or buy their music anymore.
I'm confused.
NPR doesn't have that problem.
Really?
I agree that the problem is not as severe as it is on commercial stations, but what do you consider all the corporate sponsorship spots to be?
I consider them to be very effective and relatively inexpensive advertising directed at a very well defined crowd. Not to mention a tax write-off. And they keep getting to be more and more like regular advertising in nature.
I've seen at least two instances of decades old (50's?) motorized boards in Santa Cruz; one in the surf museum, and another at a pizza shop. This is no new invention, and I suspect will fare just as well as the old ones. Real surfers don't seem to go for this sort of junk.
Darn, it's already taken.
"...handy capped parking spots."
:)
Very handy, but why cap them?
The "point" is that this is the case of a *very* successful recording. In most cases, the artists end up with diddly/squat for their effort.
from a societal or survival-of-the-fittest point of view, the most successful society is the one most capable of destroying the others. that could be achieved by subsuming the other through culture and trade, but when in doubt, it's easier to just blow the other one up.
This may be true up to a point, but in a limitted fish pond -- which is not unlike what we're in -- it may prove to be a bit self destructive as well.
Flame? Dick-head? Methinks you got a bit too upset about this. You could perhaps be a bit more polite yourself if you want the high ground. Letters and protests are both good, and I personally think the original post was far more persuasive in tone than yours.
How do you do that?
I think it's more likely the diameter of the tube.
So what exactly is funny enough about this to get score 5? Some moderators are very easily amused, I guess.
I doubt they get any electrical storms *ever* in this location. Very arid tourist town on the coast of Red Sea (just below the southern tip of Sinai desert.)
Wow man, your English is short of the mark even by /. standards. I'm impressed.
If I read your post correctly, you seem to imply that there will be a performance hit at the time a user performs a search. I don't think this is correct. I think Google does it's ranking while it crawls the web. So the performance problem is not as severe as you imply.
The idea is far from foolproof. Computers could be programmed to try multiple different phrases or spammers could hire people to manually create accounts. Also the idea does nothing to stop spammers harvesting email account details from the Net in the first place.
Any serious spamming outfit will quickly defeat this type of protection. It seems to me that the number of accounts a spammer needs to set up to generate spam can be fairly limited.
I know it's consider incorrect around here ...
People in glass houses...
As the reply to your post by "mestar" clearly shows,
"cognitive dissonance" is not what you meant. I just
wanted to say that I'm truly amazed by all the posts
following in this thread that assumed you had it
right.
Sheep mentality.