Hear hear! That's the first thing I thought when I read the line by this fool. You have a right to time-shift record and if you feel bad about it, then you are seriously misinformed.
"I am getting flamed to high heaven in Slate's Fray for a piece of mine they just posted talking about some of the built-in limitations of the Google PageRank system. The general critique seems to be that I don't understand how to refine a search, which I guess I should have made clear in the piece itself. (I do, for the record. I also think Google is absolutely brilliant.) But as you can see if you follow the link, it's not a piece about how to use Google more effectively; it's a piece about ways that Google's system implicitly pushes us in certain directions, which makes it less like an authoritative reference source, and more like an op-ed page. (Nothing wrong with that, just something we should keep in mind.) Normally I quote from the articles themselves in this blog, but today I think I'll quote from a followup comment that I posted in the Fray..."
How, pray tell, does an offline e-mail occur? Fax, sorta? What if I draft the message and print it out then mail it to you? Is that an offline e-mail?:-)
We just had an Akamai deployment that was setup in a week (though they claim to have had the FBI up in a day, post 9/11). Major cache updates are propagated in minutes or hours (depending on how you are configuring the change.)
Akamai isn't cheap, but having done both, it is cheaper than setting up your own infrastructure.
We run the web infrastructure for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on our DataHost platform. Starting about 2 hours ago (when the unveiling press conference ended) we've been sustaining over 20Mbits per second of traffic. As I look at the monitor now, we're doing 33Mbits/sec. Most of the traffic has been US-based, though we expect an overnight surge as Asia wakes up. Gotta go back and look at histograms now - Bolivia just took a keen interest in the new $20 note. Don't forget to stop by the BEP store (http://www.moneyfactory.com/store) and pick-up some neat collectibles (though, nothing with the new twenty until later this year). All the info on the new twenty is at http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney.
I bet there aren't really "key bloggers of influence". Bloggers out there are writing about "Raging Cow" astroturfing with no compensation thus attaining the original goal of spreading brand awareness (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q =%22Raging+Cow%22+blog). Nobel Marketing Prize 2003.
The question posted was how much Internet traffic is porn not how much Internet porn traffic is porn. At voynetworks, it's well into the 5 nines.
That being said, thanks for the interesting post. A follow-up Slashdot interview with JWSmythe could ask what he and his colleagues do at work when they're not surfing for porn. 700 Club? Jerry Falwell?
Remember the contest for guessing when MIR would come down? I think we should have a contest for when the next duplicate will appear. The winner gets a thinkgeek certificate. Then I could actually look forward to the dupes.
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Here's my suggestion, once an editor notes a duplicate story, change its category to "dupe" then allow users to filter out "dupes" from their pages (haven't seen a JonKatz rant in years...). Or would this get rid of too many ad-views?
Here's my suggestion, once an editor notes a duplicate story, change its category to "dupe" then allow users to filter out "dupes" from their pages (haven't seen a JonKatz rant in years...)
Here's the conspiracy comment: considering the number of people that comment on a duplicate story (just to bitch about it being a dupe), Slashdot gets the ad-eyballs with very little effort. There is a built-in impetus to post duplicates to stir traffic. It's a delicate balance but my guess is that they elected timothy to be the dupe-poster and to manage the flow of dupe postings.
And, I'll probably repost this with each dupe. At least each timothy dupe.
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I'm no expert, but re: your sig, I think Boromir was son of the Denethor II, Steward of Gondor. Faramir was Boromir's brother. Neither Boromir, Faramir, nor Denethor were ever Kings of Gondor. Just an observation.
Having work in the "e-government" scene I can tell you that county vehicle registrations services have been setup by people with less knowledge than the average Slashdotter, with sites running on unpatched IIS4 boxes.
Setting up a universal e-filing service for the IRS is not only cost-prohibitive, it is also begging for trouble. The principal reason (given the current technology) that this service doesn't exist is because it is more intelligent for the IRS to have a handful of authorized e-filing agents than to allow anybody and their brother to spam the agency with data.
Given the current technology, it is safer for the IRS to take your paper filing than to ask you to e-file directly. It is cheapest for the IRS to have you e-file through an authorized agent.
Finally, last I checked, you weren't FORCED to use TurboTax, were you?
Two thoughts, semi-related...
1) if I have a client request a restore of backed-up data, I bill them T&M for the procedure (especially if tapes have to be retrieved from off-site storage). Does the government ever pay for such a service?
2) If I'm subpoenaed, to what effort do I have to go to make the data usable to the prosecutor? Can I hand over a DLT? Can I print out the log files and hand over multiple reams of paper? Can I provide them the data on media without an obligation to provide them hardware to read that media (say, a really old syquest)?
This subpoena says "bring with him/her all logs recording the I.P. addresses and/or users who visited" but makes no mention of an obligation to provide them in the format most usable to the AG.
And a third thought, I'm curious as to how a Facsimile was delivered to a voice number:-)
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This is your passport to 12 months of Xbox Live service! You'll enter this code when you are creating your Xbox Live account."
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Except, of course, that LA to LV is about 400x the distance that this rover covered. Certainly it may be a start, just not much of a start.
Way beyond my meager comprehension!
Hear hear! That's the first thing I thought when I read the line by this fool. You have a right to time-shift record and if you feel bad about it, then you are seriously misinformed.
...about these Googleholes:
"I am getting flamed to high heaven in Slate's Fray for a piece of mine they just posted talking about some of the built-in limitations of the Google PageRank system. The general critique seems to be that I don't understand how to refine a search, which I guess I should have made clear in the piece itself. (I do, for the record. I also think Google is absolutely brilliant.) But as you can see if you follow the link, it's not a piece about how to use Google more effectively; it's a piece about ways that Google's system implicitly pushes us in certain directions, which makes it less like an authoritative reference source, and more like an op-ed page. (Nothing wrong with that, just something we should keep in mind.) Normally I quote from the articles themselves in this blog, but today I think I'll quote from a followup comment that I posted in the Fray..."
http://stevenberlinjohnson.com
You too can participate in the roast by finding his e-mail address on Google.
http://www.microsoft.com/tv/ and don't forget to check out their ridiculous promo videos.
How, pray tell, does an offline e-mail occur? Fax, sorta? What if I draft the message and print it out then mail it to you? Is that an offline e-mail? :-)
We just had an Akamai deployment that was setup in a week (though they claim to have had the FBI up in a day, post 9/11). Major cache updates are propagated in minutes or hours (depending on how you are configuring the change.)
Akamai isn't cheap, but having done both, it is cheaper than setting up your own infrastructure.
He still lurks... (http://interviews.slashdot.org/~JonKatz/). I blocked him a long time ago, though.
Sjgman9, You can download it. Nobody else, just you. Please post your receipts, too. JIC.
Looks like we peaked at over 50Mbits per second at 2PM EDT. At that point, traffic was over 1000 hits per second.
We run the web infrastructure for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on our DataHost platform. Starting about 2 hours ago (when the unveiling press conference ended) we've been sustaining over 20Mbits per second of traffic. As I look at the monitor now, we're doing 33Mbits/sec. Most of the traffic has been US-based, though we expect an overnight surge as Asia wakes up. Gotta go back and look at histograms now - Bolivia just took a keen interest in the new $20 note. Don't forget to stop by the BEP store (http://www.moneyfactory.com/store) and pick-up some neat collectibles (though, nothing with the new twenty until later this year). All the info on the new twenty is at http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney.
Good grief, moderator. It's not Interesting, it's Funny. RTFC.
finally, a tv i can easily take to the bathroom when i wnt to take a long, uh ... bath.
I bet there aren't really "key bloggers of influence". Bloggers out there are writing about "Raging Cow" astroturfing with no compensation thus attaining the original goal of spreading brand awareness (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q =%22Raging+Cow%22+blog). Nobel Marketing Prize 2003.
Before you jump to conclusions about people, do you ask them if their burns are legitimate backups to preserve the original media? :-)
The question posted was how much Internet traffic is porn not how much Internet porn traffic is porn. At voynetworks, it's well into the 5 nines.
That being said, thanks for the interesting post. A follow-up Slashdot interview with JWSmythe could ask what he and his colleagues do at work when they're not surfing for porn. 700 Club? Jerry Falwell?
Wouldn't the minimal range of an RFID alleviate almost all privacy concerns?
Remember the contest for guessing when MIR would come down? I think we should have a contest for when the next duplicate will appear. The winner gets a thinkgeek certificate. Then I could actually look forward to the dupes.
Here's my suggestion, once an editor notes a duplicate story, change its category to "dupe" then allow users to filter out "dupes" from their pages (haven't seen a JonKatz rant in years...). Or would this get rid of too many ad-views?
Here's my suggestion, once an editor notes a duplicate story, change its category to "dupe" then allow users to filter out "dupes" from their pages (haven't seen a JonKatz rant in years...)
Here's the conspiracy comment: considering the number of people that comment on a duplicate story (just to bitch about it being a dupe), Slashdot gets the ad-eyballs with very little effort. There is a built-in impetus to post duplicates to stir traffic. It's a delicate balance but my guess is that they elected timothy to be the dupe-poster and to manage the flow of dupe postings.
And, I'll probably repost this with each dupe. At least each timothy dupe.
I'm no expert, but re: your sig, I think Boromir was son of the Denethor II, Steward of Gondor. Faramir was Boromir's brother. Neither Boromir, Faramir, nor Denethor were ever Kings of Gondor. Just an observation.
Having work in the "e-government" scene I can tell you that county vehicle registrations services have been setup by people with less knowledge than the average Slashdotter, with sites running on unpatched IIS4 boxes.
Setting up a universal e-filing service for the IRS is not only cost-prohibitive, it is also begging for trouble. The principal reason (given the current technology) that this service doesn't exist is because it is more intelligent for the IRS to have a handful of authorized e-filing agents than to allow anybody and their brother to spam the agency with data.
Given the current technology, it is safer for the IRS to take your paper filing than to ask you to e-file directly. It is cheapest for the IRS to have you e-file through an authorized agent.
Finally, last I checked, you weren't FORCED to use TurboTax, were you?
1) if I have a client request a restore of backed-up data, I bill them T&M for the procedure (especially if tapes have to be retrieved from off-site storage). Does the government ever pay for such a service?
2) If I'm subpoenaed, to what effort do I have to go to make the data usable to the prosecutor? Can I hand over a DLT? Can I print out the log files and hand over multiple reams of paper? Can I provide them the data on media without an obligation to provide them hardware to read that media (say, a really old syquest)?
This subpoena says "bring with him/her all logs recording the I.P. addresses and/or users who visited" but makes no mention of an obligation to provide them in the format most usable to the AG.
And a third thought, I'm curious as to how a Facsimile was delivered to a voice number :-)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=11047&item=1947212605
For kicks, I then clicked on Support (http://www.xbox.com/support/xboxlivesupport.htm) and then "Get an Xbox Live Starter Kit." (http://www.xbox.com/LIVE/connect/starterkits.htm) which tells me (mid-way down the page) that:
This is your passport to 12 months of Xbox Live service! You'll enter this code when you are creating your Xbox Live account."
Hope this helps.