All good points, and HTML design habits definitely shouldn't be legislated, however bad they may be. Does this whole thing sould like political correctness to anyone?
You're not handicapped or crippled, you're physically/mobility challenged. You're not retarded, you're mentally challanged. You're not blind, you're visiually impaired.
Part and parcel of this philosophy is the belief that 'challenged' people should be able to, want to, or even HAVE to lead normal lives.
If you're blind, you just have to accept that you're different and have limited abilities and there are certain things you just can't do! And should you happen upon a website you can't read because it has no alt tags, you don't sue the webmaster. You leave and go elsewhere.
If I visit a page with broken HTML that prevents it from rendering at all, I don't hit the speed-dial to my lawyer and start litigation, I go somewhere else and don't come back.
It's very simple. This story just boggles my mind and makes a farce out of the legal system.
Option 3 would not be acceptable, as more and more high volume sites distribute their content. Images often come from a different machine than the page itself. Slashdot does it.
Yup, all the first 10 digits from every line are ISBN numbers... I doubt the rest of them refer to the book in any way, why would they offer the same books as the prize?;)
Since the contenst is targeted to a much wider audience, I doubt the code will be 'cryptographic'. Most likely a combination of substitution, context, maybe something like 'first letter from the second word from excerpts for all books with titles starting with A'. You know, just a clever puzzle/riddle to play with. You probably WILL need the clues.
Their site is butt ugly and not deserving of any visitors. I couldn't find anything there... and the weather bar? What place is THAT for? It ain't sunny where I'm at now...
Even though I can't speak a word of Spanish (and had no idea what quepasa meant) I'd be more likely to visit it than whatshappenin. Easier to type in at least.
Obviously just someone who bought a domain and is trying to make a quick buck, hmm?
The 'rocket fuel' you refer to is hydrogen and oxygen. And as anyone who's seen those Ford-Ballard fuel cell commercials will tell you, the exhaust is pure, hot water.
The article was anything but impartial and well balanced, I found.
The description why cable modems are cool (page 2) applies equally well to DSL. In fact, take the first few paragraphs, replace cable with DSL and you have a perfectly good and valid piece of writing.
To say that a DSL line is shared with the phone service is a lame excuse. The phone line bandwidth is so tiny compared to the total frequency range of the line DSL uses, that it's not even an issue, certainly nothing even close to the amount of sharing going on on cable lines.
In the same paragraph saying that cable is the king of bandwidth and that the writer gets 7 mb/s is the statement that the modem is limited to 600 kb/s. So which is it?
And then the dismissal of the issue of line sharing (page 3). If you get 600kb/s on a cable modem, and that's enough to satisy you, then DSL will do fine as well. I routinely get 600kb/s on DSL and I'm near the bottom of the serviceability scale for DSL.
Then you have the upload speeds. How can standard cable service even compete with the ul caps?
And prices for DSL are coming down fast these days, at least over here (Calgary, Canada). You can get a 768kb/s line for some $50/month (Canadian!, that's like 5 cents US), which almost matches cable service prices.
I will admit, that from reading warious posts around/. and other forums, DSL service (as in people service) sucks; this gives a lot of advantage to cable service. But the article is not a well balanced article on cable vs DSL; rather it's cable vs 'something I've never really tried just heard about and I hate it and I think cable is oh so cool' article.
So lets keep things in perspective; this article does cut through some of the hype about cable, but merely mentions DSL in passing as some other internet technology.
While before ebay people have always had collecting as a hobby, obsession even, ebay connects so many people, creating a huge number of suppliers of any given item or category. Certainly larger than in RL where a dedicated collector might exhaust all local or regional suppliers. On ebay, there is always someone willing to sell something. I'm sure if you put out a call for peoples' mothers' ashes, you'd find more than a few people taking your offer.
I can see how ebay makes normally reasonable collectors obsessed; you just can't have a complete collection of anything, there's always more to buy. And just when you think you've got it all, there will be yet another seller soon, and there you go adding to your collection again.
Wrong, anyone can duplicate a telephone book, it's public domain information (laws of course vary by country). The catch is you can't use a mechanical means to do so, because the layout etc are copyrighted.
There are lots of directories already that use a subset of the yellow pages.
That's pretty weird, huh? I also spend lots of time online, but I can easily get by for days without net access or even a computer. Just find other things to do.
The Wired artice says that this will work with a WinAmp plugin (cool), but the x10 website says RealJukebox is required. Last thing I need is to install RJ on my machine. WinAmp works just fine thank you.
Someone who is willing to actually buy a track or a CD or whatever that has been locked with this MS scheme and crack it with unfuck, or who has done it already.
On one side I'm hearing that unfuck is a crack, on the other side MS says unfuck just samples the soundcard as the locked file is playing.
This was the part I really found very odd as well... isn't this exactly what browsers already do with secure sites? If the certificate is not signed by a KNOWN authority, a warning will pop up. Even if the false signer used the name/address of Verisign or whoever.
Are we being fed FUD on slashdot?
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Incidentally i think i'll switch to SCSI as well next time around, mostly because 4 IDE device limit is out of control
Well, that's odd because I'm running 5 IDE devices as I write this, and there is room for 3 more. Some MBs now support 4 chains (33 and 33/66 UDMA), like the ABit BE6.
Why is the process of getting DSL so complicated in the US? Why do you have to deal with 3 parties to get your DSL line? Is it because of the regulations?
Here in Canada telcos have to allow co-location so that individual ISPs can put their own DSL equipment (DSLAMs) where the phone switches are. So the ISP deals with the telco to get you a phone line if needed, remove line conditioning, worry about monthly line charges, provide modem and routing equipment, and give you bandwidth on the backend. All with you filling out one piece of paper, and paying one charge.
Would not the DSL providers also offer Internet services in the US? Why would you deal with both an ISP and a DSL company, and the telco to boot? If the telecomm regulations down there allow for it, the market is ripe for an all-in-one DSL provider.
Why does it have to be a satellite? Could it not have been a stray missile hitting some building by accident (or even on purpose) and knocking down some data lines or servers? Just because the sites are down does not mean there is some high ranking conspiracy to deprive poor little us of information, or to isolate Serbia.
Judging from the fact that the site is now up, it is unlikely that the satellite service (if there was any) was severed, rather it was a temporary outage. Maybe the power went off?
Doesn't matter what the reasons for starting now are. You have to start somewhere, and it rarely is at the first sign of trouble. Maybe since we missed the boat already we should just give up, hmm?
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Actually, no, IIS would print out an SSI error and stop generating the page. Anyone know how to prevent this?
You're not handicapped or crippled, you're physically/mobility challenged. You're not retarded, you're mentally challanged. You're not blind, you're visiually impaired.
Part and parcel of this philosophy is the belief that 'challenged' people should be able to, want to, or even HAVE to lead normal lives.
If you're blind, you just have to accept that you're different and have limited abilities and there are certain things you just can't do! And should you happen upon a website you can't read because it has no alt tags, you don't sue the webmaster. You leave and go elsewhere.
If I visit a page with broken HTML that prevents it from rendering at all, I don't hit the speed-dial to my lawyer and start litigation, I go somewhere else and don't come back.
It's very simple. This story just boggles my mind and makes a farce out of the legal system.
Option 3 would not be acceptable, as more and more high volume sites distribute their content. Images often come from a different machine than the page itself. Slashdot does it.
Yup, all the first 10 digits from every line are ISBN numbers... I doubt the rest of them refer to the book in any way, why would they offer the same books as the prize? ;)
Since the contenst is targeted to a much wider audience, I doubt the code will be 'cryptographic'. Most likely a combination of substitution, context, maybe something like 'first letter from the second word from excerpts for all books with titles starting with A'. You know, just a clever puzzle/riddle to play with. You probably WILL need the clues.
Even though I can't speak a word of Spanish (and had no idea what quepasa meant) I'd be more likely to visit it than whatshappenin. Easier to type in at least.
Obviously just someone who bought a domain and is trying to make a quick buck, hmm?
The 'rocket fuel' you refer to is hydrogen and oxygen. And as anyone who's seen those Ford-Ballard fuel cell commercials will tell you, the exhaust is pure, hot water.
permanently storing memory stores temporarily stored
You are storing in permanent memory[,] stores that are currently in temporary memory.
How's that confusing?
The description why cable modems are cool (page 2) applies equally well to DSL. In fact, take the first few paragraphs, replace cable with DSL and you have a perfectly good and valid piece of writing.
To say that a DSL line is shared with the phone service is a lame excuse. The phone line bandwidth is so tiny compared to the total frequency range of the line DSL uses, that it's not even an issue, certainly nothing even close to the amount of sharing going on on cable lines.
In the same paragraph saying that cable is the king of bandwidth and that the writer gets 7 mb/s is the statement that the modem is limited to 600 kb/s. So which is it?
And then the dismissal of the issue of line sharing (page 3). If you get 600kb/s on a cable modem, and that's enough to satisy you, then DSL will do fine as well. I routinely get 600kb/s on DSL and I'm near the bottom of the serviceability scale for DSL.
Then you have the upload speeds. How can standard cable service even compete with the ul caps?
And prices for DSL are coming down fast these days, at least over here (Calgary, Canada). You can get a 768kb/s line for some $50/month (Canadian!, that's like 5 cents US), which almost matches cable service prices.
I will admit, that from reading warious posts around /. and other forums, DSL service (as in people service) sucks; this gives a lot of advantage to cable service. But the article is not a well balanced article on cable vs DSL; rather it's cable vs 'something I've never really tried just heard about and I hate it and I think cable is oh so cool' article.
So lets keep things in perspective; this article does cut through some of the hype about cable, but merely mentions DSL in passing as some other internet technology.
Ugh, it's too early for this...
uhm, stupendous maybe?
I can see how ebay makes normally reasonable collectors obsessed; you just can't have a complete collection of anything, there's always more to buy. And just when you think you've got it all, there will be yet another seller soon, and there you go adding to your collection again.
issuing your own certificates recently?
There are lots of directories already that use a subset of the yellow pages.
That's pretty weird, huh? I also spend lots of time online, but I can easily get by for days without net access or even a computer. Just find other things to do.
I wonder which one it is.
On one side I'm hearing that unfuck is a crack, on the other side MS says unfuck just samples the soundcard as the locked file is playing.
Can anyone state for sure which one it is?
Questions are always informative, or didn't you know that?
Are we being fed FUD on slashdot?
Well, that's odd because I'm running 5 IDE devices as I write this, and there is room for 3 more. Some MBs now support 4 chains (33 and 33/66 UDMA), like the ABit BE6.
Here in Canada telcos have to allow co-location so that individual ISPs can put their own DSL equipment (DSLAMs) where the phone switches are. So the ISP deals with the telco to get you a phone line if needed, remove line conditioning, worry about monthly line charges, provide modem and routing equipment, and give you bandwidth on the backend. All with you filling out one piece of paper, and paying one charge.
Would not the DSL providers also offer Internet services in the US? Why would you deal with both an ISP and a DSL company, and the telco to boot? If the telecomm regulations down there allow for it, the market is ripe for an all-in-one DSL provider.
Judging from the fact that the site is now up, it is unlikely that the satellite service (if there was any) was severed, rather it was a temporary outage. Maybe the power went off?
They definitely ARE worth $30, but at the same time will NOT give you 15 fps on quake 2/3. Quake 1 should run fine though.
Oh man, that 2nd paragraph almost read like a Segfault article. Actually, someone should write one about this.
Doesn't matter what the reasons for starting now are. You have to start somewhere, and it rarely is at the first sign of trouble. Maybe since we missed the boat already we should just give up, hmm?