If you look at them under a very high powered microscope
No good. The RIAA-sponsored Microscopy Analysis Abuse Prevention (MAAP) Act of 2412 outlawed the use of "optical enhancement technology" for purposes of reverse-engineering their intellectual property.
Gotta go, the DeLorean overheats if I leave it idling too long...
Have you guys given any thought to how much of the current IT world was
built by self-employed individuals? How is a single-person development
shop -- even one such as my own that's been in business since 1991 --
supposed to deploy browser-based software that requires security
certification, if a monopolistic company such as yours is allowed to
maintain arbitrary discriminatory policies such as this one?
Finally, how in the _world_ do you expect this policy to have any impact on
terrorists who have absolutely no historical record of abusing this type of
technology? Every time a corporation or government exhibits a
poorly-thought-out knee-jerk reaction such as yours to the events of
September 11, the score on the bad guys' side of the board jumps up a tick.
Given the rate of consolidation in the IT infrastructure world, in a few
years, Thawte/VeriSign will be the only game in town. Any suggestions as to
what steps I and similar lone-wolf developers can take when that happens?
Yes, I suppose it's quite relaxing, as long as you don't get your finger caught in the 220-volt rubber-stamping machine that you guys must have down in the basement.
Google already has a snapshot of the page. It has to, in order for you to search its results, yes?
Not in the least. Storing a page's contents in verbatim plaintext form is about the worst conceivable way to build a searchable database.
Oh, for Pete's sake...you must be a web designer. You know, customers needs are more important than webdorks' needs. Webdorks are not google's customers.
Wow, there's a first time for everything, I guess! Rest assured, nobody has EVER accused me of emphasizing design over content before today.:)
If you look at the extremely un-skillfully designed page referenced in my user info, you'll see a counter with close to 50,000 hits on it. That's neither a large nor a small number of hits for a personal geek page like mine, but the point I was implying earlier still stands. Namely, if I'd managed to accumulate only 5,000 hits over two years, do you think I'd bother adding any more content to that page?
Well, the Google cache makes that very scenario a distinct possibility. If 50,000 people are interested in my page for whatever reason, but I see only 10% of this level of interest reflected in page views, that's a problem, both for me and for the people who were following my various projects by surfing the Google cache.
Buzzword alert! Buzzword alert! Danger! Danger!
"Syndication" is not a buzzword. The concept of distributing content through multiple independent outlets is nothing new. That's exactly what the Google cache is starting to do, whether or not you (and they) have thought through all of the implications.
Yaknow, there's more to life than pleasing web dorks at every possible turn. They tend to forget that, due to the ability to design they have
... is one of the most interesting things to hit the Internet since Al Gore personally hooked up the first two Vaxes. People don't talk about it much, but a caching mechanism that efficient it has some rather far-reaching implications, not all of them necessarily good.
For example, more and more often I find myself just hitting the "Cached" link on a Google result, instead of bothering to go to the original site. Why put up with the threat of 404 errors with long timeouts, obnoxious Javascript, and pop-up ads, when you can get most of the content you're looking for straight from the search engine itself?
To some extent the Google cache threatens the ability of a site operator to gauge the site's popularity. If I were Google, I'd be tempted to turn the cache into a key part of the company's business: offer webmasters a "cache hosting" agreement (what's the difference between an original host and an up-to-date mirror?) that guarantees frequent updates and provides detailed statistical reporting, in exchange for a small monthly fee. Any advertising on the site would also need to be presented to the viewer of the cached copy.
IMHO something like this needs to happen, and soon. Otherwise, webmasters are going to become tempted to disable caching of their content to avoid lost page hits and ad revenue. And Google is going to get tired of paying for the bandwidth costs associated with being treated like a giant free hosting provider.
It's almost like a content-syndication feature, rather than a pure search-engine feature. I'll be surprised if their current caching model lasts much longer.
You're seriously in agreement with "I'm prepared to accept that there are valid issues in the protection of privacy, but none that can justify the loss of even one single life"?
Man, that's scary as hell. Never mind a police state... enough people like you, and the United States will become a prison.
Doing business on eBay implies a certain risk, though I do think eBay should have some sort of protection for the seller (as in not charging them a fee) if the buyer bails
They do. It's called a Final Value Fee (FVF) refund.
At Intel, the trend seems to be for new-generation processors to be released 2-3 years later than predicted, while still benefiting from Moore's Law in the meantime.
For example, Merced was originally projected for release in 1998, at clock speeds around 300 MHz. (Source: Usenet postings from early 1995.)
My guess is that it will be 2010 before we see the gigatransistor chip this article is talking about, and that it will be at least somewhat faster than 20 GHz when it does appear.
Pardon me for nitpicking, but it really bothers me how "you" is so easily assumed to mean Americans on Slashdot. Newsflash people: Not everybody on the Internet is an American!!!. Is it really that difficult to alter your statement ever so slightly so that you refer to your country's population explicitly?? It would save people like me who aren't blessed enough to belong to your country from great heartache.
You haven't been paying attention, friend. Here's a newsflash for you: what happened on September 11 was not an attack on America. It was an attack on civilization.
My guess is you're from Europe or the UK, and that you've painstakingly conditioned yourself to walk around with your nose stuck in the air because you're somehow "better" than Americans. I guess that attitude is good for attracting interest from AOL users who claim to be women, or something... I certainly can't think of any other justification for it. At any rate, if you inhabit any Western democracy or even any number of progressive Asian states, you may be under the false impression that you're not vulnerable to the same sort of attacks against your own homeland, against your own interests. Think again.
Secondly, Does any one of you have any evidence linking Osama/Taliban directly with the WTC attacks?
The evidence that has been gathered to date has been extensive, and has proven satisfactory to most of the leaders of the civilized world (there's that word again, civilized.) Will we be able to demonstrate bin Laden's culpability to everyone's satisfaction? Probably not. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing. But yes, the evidence exists; it is strong; and in any event, bin Laden's outrageous litany of past crimes make our response long overdue.
I'd suggest you learn to deal with it, because that's the way the world's going to work from now on.
If you're going to be needing hard drives for anything critical, or are storing huge amounts of data (excess of 15Gb), I would definately suggest avoiding any Maxtor product, or you run the risk of losing important data.
Interesting. I've probably installed a dozen Maxtor DiamondMax drives (the cheap ones sold at CompUSA in the red boxes) over the past three years or so, with zero failures.
They're all in systems that are never powered down; maybe that's the secret to getting good service out of Maxtor drives?
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I'm really not interested in using any language in which 'a'+'b'='c' is true. Maybe that's just me, though.
Seriously, a lot of work goes into the UI design at apple, and it's a shame that it's constantly ripped off.
You're right, it's not just a shame, but a travesty! These thieves have to be stopped. This aggression will not stand. What kind of worthless, sociopathic people would deliberately rip off important UI design elements from another compan...
HF radio propagation, and to a lesser extent VHF, depends on the relative height and RF permeability of the D, E, and F1 / F2 layers of the ionosphere. Both of these properties can change dramatically when the earth is bombarded with charged particles and high-energy photons from solar flares.
Normal ionospheric behavior is the reason why AM broadcast radio reception varies so much between daytime and nighttime hours. The lower (D) layer of the ionosphere is much thinner and higher at night when it's not being hammered by as much solar radiation. The AM broadcast band is near the very bottom of the high-frequency radio spectrum, and long-distance propagation of lower radio frequencies depends primarily on refraction by the D layer. So whenever the D layer rises, the "skip zone" around a given transmitter grows considerably. It's common to see nearby AM stations fade out at night, while even low-power transmissions become audible from thousands of miles away.
Solar flares have the same basic effect as the day/night cycle, but to a much larger degree. They usually just hose the entire HF spectrum, but sometimes the effect is very different. Under the right conditions, "ducts" and other layering effects can occur in the ionosphere, capable of propagating signals extreme distances with much less than normal loss. When you pick up a 5-watt ham radio station in Australia on your handheld shortwave radio in Texas, it's a safe bet that some unusual solar and/or geomagnetic activity is taking place.
Disclaimer: I'm a ham operator myself, but it's been a long time since I operated on any frequency below 10 GHz, so some or all of the details above may be shaky.:) I'm not sure about the exact mechanism of ionospheric excitation during a solar flare, for instance: it might be due primarily to heavy charged particles from the solar wind, or it might be due to high-energy photons knocking loose a few extra electrons here and there. Any physics types around who can clarify?
The above quotation that you seem to consider as representative of the Muslim world is in fact the view of an extremist who believes in "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion"
Wow. Is your local fire department OK with you piling up that much straw in one place? I never indicated that I considered that quotation as "representative of the Muslim world." It is representative of one particular man who shouldn't even be referred to as a Muslim.
Are you really comparing Islam to fascism, bin Laden to Hitler, 2001 to 1939?
Yes. Read that quote again. Then read Mein Kampf. Then tell me the difference.
Do you really see a relation between what happenned on September 11th and anything else that has ever happened before in modern history?
No. Historically, such events have been someone else's problem. Not anymore. This was our own personal Krystallnacht.
That would scare me shitless.
That would certainly be a step up from your current state.
I think that it's high time America gave a long, hard try in understanding of the Islamic world a bit better and accepting how crap its Middle Eastern policies have been.
We are sure of Allah's victory and our victory against the Americans and the Jews as
promised by the prophet peace be up on him: 'Judgment day shall not come
until the Muslims fight the Jews, whereas the Jews will hide behind trees
and stones, and the tree and the stone will speak and say 'Muslim, behind me
a Jew come and kill him', except for the al-Ghargad tree, which is a Jewish
plant."
doesn't scare you shitless?
Don't forget to say 'hi' to Neville Chamberlain. His head is in the next ostrich-hole over from you.
... is that this joker actually seems to think we are occupying Iraq.
If we leave Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night like a beaten dog, I hope we at least have the courtesy to inform the Saudis and Kuwaitis of our intention. They'll be overrun by Saddam by the middle of next week, and they might appreciate the warning.
The 'net is full of people who have never even unfolded a newspaper, much less opened a history book, yet who are only too happy to tell us all what we ought to do. I guess such, er, diversity of opinion is one of the benefits of living in a free society, though.
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You're obviously not experienced in the ways of politicians and government employees. Cynicism is the baseline. It gets worse from there.
Yes, it does. Aren't you glad the people you describe above aren't designing your software?
Yet.
If you look at them under a very high powered microscope
No good. The RIAA-sponsored Microscopy Analysis Abuse Prevention (MAAP) Act of 2412 outlawed the use of "optical enhancement technology" for purposes of reverse-engineering their intellectual property.
Gotta go, the DeLorean overheats if I leave it idling too long...
the job is not at all difficult
Yes, I suppose it's quite relaxing, as long as you don't get your finger caught in the 220-volt rubber-stamping machine that you guys must have down in the basement.
Google already has a snapshot of the page. It has to, in order for you to search its results, yes?
:)
Not in the least. Storing a page's contents in verbatim plaintext form is about the worst conceivable way to build a searchable database.
Oh, for Pete's sake...you must be a web designer. You know, customers needs are more important than webdorks' needs. Webdorks are not google's customers.
Wow, there's a first time for everything, I guess! Rest assured, nobody has EVER accused me of emphasizing design over content before today.
If you look at the extremely un-skillfully designed page referenced in my user info, you'll see a counter with close to 50,000 hits on it. That's neither a large nor a small number of hits for a personal geek page like mine, but the point I was implying earlier still stands. Namely, if I'd managed to accumulate only 5,000 hits over two years, do you think I'd bother adding any more content to that page?
Well, the Google cache makes that very scenario a distinct possibility. If 50,000 people are interested in my page for whatever reason, but I see only 10% of this level of interest reflected in page views, that's a problem, both for me and for the people who were following my various projects by surfing the Google cache.
Buzzword alert! Buzzword alert! Danger! Danger!
"Syndication" is not a buzzword. The concept of distributing content through multiple independent outlets is nothing new. That's exactly what the Google cache is starting to do, whether or not you (and they) have thought through all of the implications.
Yaknow, there's more to life than pleasing web dorks at every possible turn. They tend to forget that, due to the ability to design they have
Trust me, I couldn't agree more!
... is one of the most interesting things to hit the Internet since Al Gore personally hooked up the first two Vaxes. People don't talk about it much, but a caching mechanism that efficient it has some rather far-reaching implications, not all of them necessarily good.
For example, more and more often I find myself just hitting the "Cached" link on a Google result, instead of bothering to go to the original site. Why put up with the threat of 404 errors with long timeouts, obnoxious Javascript, and pop-up ads, when you can get most of the content you're looking for straight from the search engine itself?
To some extent the Google cache threatens the ability of a site operator to gauge the site's popularity. If I were Google, I'd be tempted to turn the cache into a key part of the company's business: offer webmasters a "cache hosting" agreement (what's the difference between an original host and an up-to-date mirror?) that guarantees frequent updates and provides detailed statistical reporting, in exchange for a small monthly fee. Any advertising on the site would also need to be presented to the viewer of the cached copy.
IMHO something like this needs to happen, and soon. Otherwise, webmasters are going to become tempted to disable caching of their content to avoid lost page hits and ad revenue. And Google is going to get tired of paying for the bandwidth costs associated with being treated like a giant free hosting provider.
It's almost like a content-syndication feature, rather than a pure search-engine feature. I'll be surprised if their current caching model lasts much longer.
You're seriously in agreement with "I'm prepared to accept that there are valid issues in the protection of privacy, but none that can justify the loss of even one single life"?
Man, that's scary as hell. Never mind a police state... enough people like you, and the United States will become a prison.
Doing business on eBay implies a certain risk, though I do think eBay should have some sort of protection for the seller (as in not charging them a fee) if the buyer bails
They do. It's called a Final Value Fee (FVF) refund.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Uh huh. That kind of thinking is how we ended up with the Taliban.
Do you think that being nasty to the person on the phone (ie. call-centre-galley-slave)
You need to spend some time with a dictionary. I don't think you have a good grasp of the meaning of the word slave.
At Intel, the trend seems to be for new-generation processors to be released 2-3 years later than predicted, while still benefiting from Moore's Law in the meantime.
For example, Merced was originally projected for release in 1998, at clock speeds around 300 MHz. (Source: Usenet postings from early 1995.)
My guess is that it will be 2010 before we see the gigatransistor chip this article is talking about, and that it will be at least somewhat faster than 20 GHz when it does appear.
Pardon me for nitpicking, but it really bothers me how "you" is so easily assumed to mean Americans on Slashdot. Newsflash people: Not everybody on the Internet is an American!!!. Is it really that difficult to alter your statement ever so slightly so that you refer to your country's population explicitly?? It would save people like me who aren't blessed enough to belong to your country from great heartache.
You haven't been paying attention, friend. Here's a newsflash for you: what happened on September 11 was not an attack on America. It was an attack on civilization.
My guess is you're from Europe or the UK, and that you've painstakingly conditioned yourself to walk around with your nose stuck in the air because you're somehow "better" than Americans. I guess that attitude is good for attracting interest from AOL users who claim to be women, or something... I certainly can't think of any other justification for it. At any rate, if you inhabit any Western democracy or even any number of progressive Asian states, you may be under the false impression that you're not vulnerable to the same sort of attacks against your own homeland, against your own interests. Think again.
Secondly, Does any one of you have any evidence linking Osama/Taliban directly with the WTC attacks?
The evidence that has been gathered to date has been extensive, and has proven satisfactory to most of the leaders of the civilized world (there's that word again, civilized.) Will we be able to demonstrate bin Laden's culpability to everyone's satisfaction? Probably not. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing. But yes, the evidence exists; it is strong; and in any event, bin Laden's outrageous litany of past crimes make our response long overdue.
I'd suggest you learn to deal with it, because that's the way the world's going to work from now on.
So a vertical monopole antenna with an omnidirectional planar radiation pattern is now considered a dipole, huh?
If you're going to be needing hard drives for anything critical, or are storing huge amounts of data (excess of 15Gb), I would definately suggest avoiding any Maxtor product, or you run the risk of losing important data.
Interesting. I've probably installed a dozen Maxtor DiamondMax drives (the cheap ones sold at CompUSA in the red boxes) over the past three years or so, with zero failures.
They're all in systems that are never powered down; maybe that's the secret to getting good service out of Maxtor drives?
I'm really not interested in using any language in which 'a'+'b'='c' is true. Maybe that's just me, though.
Because gcc crashes when you try to pass more than 32 megabytes on the stack.
"Doctor, doctor. It hurts when I do this!"
Seriously, a lot of work goes into the UI design at apple, and it's a shame that it's constantly ripped off.
You're right, it's not just a shame, but a travesty! These thieves have to be stopped. This aggression will not stand. What kind of worthless, sociopathic people would deliberately rip off important UI design elements from another compan...
Oh, wait.
We're talking about Apple, right?
Never mind.
HF radio propagation, and to a lesser extent VHF, depends on the relative height and RF permeability of the D, E, and F1 / F2 layers of the ionosphere. Both of these properties can change dramatically when the earth is bombarded with charged particles and high-energy photons from solar flares.
:) I'm not sure about the exact mechanism of ionospheric excitation during a solar flare, for instance: it might be due primarily to heavy charged particles from the solar wind, or it might be due to high-energy photons knocking loose a few extra electrons here and there. Any physics types around who can clarify?
Normal ionospheric behavior is the reason why AM broadcast radio reception varies so much between daytime and nighttime hours. The lower (D) layer of the ionosphere is much thinner and higher at night when it's not being hammered by as much solar radiation. The AM broadcast band is near the very bottom of the high-frequency radio spectrum, and long-distance propagation of lower radio frequencies depends primarily on refraction by the D layer. So whenever the D layer rises, the "skip zone" around a given transmitter grows considerably. It's common to see nearby AM stations fade out at night, while even low-power transmissions become audible from thousands of miles away.
Solar flares have the same basic effect as the day/night cycle, but to a much larger degree. They usually just hose the entire HF spectrum, but sometimes the effect is very different. Under the right conditions, "ducts" and other layering effects can occur in the ionosphere, capable of propagating signals extreme distances with much less than normal loss. When you pick up a 5-watt ham radio station in Australia on your handheld shortwave radio in Texas, it's a safe bet that some unusual solar and/or geomagnetic activity is taking place.
Disclaimer: I'm a ham operator myself, but it's been a long time since I operated on any frequency below 10 GHz, so some or all of the details above may be shaky.
The views in that quote are based on a religious arguement, the views expressed by Hitler in Mein Kampf were political.
:(
True enough, but I don't see that it makes much difference to their respective victims.
You're totally right -- sorry.
Read the 1998 ABC News interview. What part of doesn't scare you shitless?
Don't forget to say 'hi' to Neville Chamberlain. His head is in the next ostrich-hole over from you.
U.S. leaders realized that using assassination as a political tool made it likely that others would do the same.
And what do you know? Not using assassination as a political tool also appears to make it likely that others will do the same.
Bummer, huh.
... is that this joker actually seems to think we are occupying Iraq.
If we leave Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night like a beaten dog, I hope we at least have the courtesy to inform the Saudis and Kuwaitis of our intention. They'll be overrun by Saddam by the middle of next week, and they might appreciate the warning.
The 'net is full of people who have never even unfolded a newspaper, much less opened a history book, yet who are only too happy to tell us all what we ought to do. I guess such, er, diversity of opinion is one of the benefits of living in a free society, though.
"Those who would trade their freedom for security deserve neither." - Ben Franklin.
Your post could have come from bin Laden himself, my friend. He couldn't ask for a better ally.