This nospam business is getting really annoying. If you don't want to get spam, start doing agressive filtering.
Another nice thing is to give an email in the form name+domain@yourdomain.com where domain is the domain of the people you're giving your email address to. Lets you track down where the spammers got your address and then filter it all out.
Yeah speaking to a guy I met in a pub last night who is a model maker working on the set, he said all the actors are there and getting down to it. They're filming for 8 weeks and then heading to Tanzania to film.
I wouldn't block ads out if they weren't so annoying. It's impossible to read text on a screen with some annoying animation hovering over it.
There are still plenty of ways for web sites to intermediate themselves into the value chain. Say, for example, slashdot started its own shopping mall. Instead of them putting whatever products someone paid to have in there available, they'd have only products that the Slashdot team thought were cool. So long as/. never breaks that trust, people would buy stuff.
What network cards do you guys use? That cool new toy you just covered, where can I get it? Oh looky, I could buy it from the place you linked to but who would I rather trust with my personal details?
Mabye we can use something like this on Earth so that we can still keep hurtling around in dead dinosour powered tin cans and wiping our butts with Amazon, Indonesian and Malay rainforest?
Free beer software is the same as shareware. They all want to be Bill Gates but don't have the distribution and existing monopoly to pull it off. If they believed in free software, their software would be free.
Language will evolve and with any-to-any communication will merge into a fabric of langauges. Kinda like taxilinga out of Snow Crash.
"They said it was based on English but not one word in a hundred was recognizable...Taxilinga is melliflous babble with a few harsh foreign sounds, like butter spiced with broken glass."
I have often wondered about the quality of information Slashdot often posts. A nasty post to/. could easily ruin a person's career, business or reputation within the free software community, with little chance for recompense. Sure you can defend yourself in the forums, but I'd guess at most 10% of readers look at the forums on a given item.
Now that/. has more resources, will some of those be put towards doing the usual fact checking "ordinary" journalists (should) do?
What I mean is that if John Smith is mentioned in a bad light, you ring/email/whatever the person to see their side of the story before posting it.
This is a problem I came up against a few years ago and tried to solve at the time. I never got fart enough down the path to release a standard or anything, but I'll explain the thinking.
Basically the problem is that search robots can get stuck in loops on your site if it's a database-driven one. Equally if the database contains something like stock quotes or postcodes it would just succeed in filling the engines with contextless gibberish.
So instead, the plan was to get people to manually export their database into a flat text file referenced from the robots.txt file. The text file would in some way have a data field and an address field. So the data field has the content itself as plain text and the address tells the search engines where they should send people, rather than referring them to that text file.
Now there's another big problem that the author hasn't mentioned. How do you find real-time information?
Here's the scenario: You hear from a friend that a school in Dublin, Ireland has just been closed down due to sexual harrassment from the principal. Since this is your field, you want to find out more. The major sources: CNN, BBC, ABC etc aren't covering it. You know that some local new site will cover it though. So how do you find it?
Right now, the only way would be to find the Brand in a subject index like Yahoo, then hope they cover it. Looking for Dublin Time might work. But why can't you search for sexual harrassment school dublin?
The answer lies in a real-time database of news, requiring the news services to either update a file with all the news in it or perhaps in some way push information into the search engines.
One approach to this problem is Moreover who index news themselves without the benefit of metadata. These guys are very clued in about metadata though.
Slashdot Mirror
A good thing from the social change movement that seems appropriate here:
Never attribute to a conspiracy what can be more reasonably explained by a fuckup.
This nospam business is getting really annoying. If you don't want to get spam, start doing agressive filtering.
Another nice thing is to give an email in the form name+domain@yourdomain.com where domain is the domain of the people you're giving your email address to. Lets you track down where the spammers got your address and then filter it all out.
Erm, Bluetooth uses spread-spectrum in the microwave range, not the shortwave range. It's much shorter than shortwave.
Short distance is perhaps what was meant?
Yeah speaking to a guy I met in a pub last night who is a model maker working on the set, he said all the actors are there and getting down to it. They're filming for 8 weeks and then heading to Tanzania to film.
I wouldn't block ads out if they weren't so annoying. It's impossible to read text on a screen with some annoying animation hovering over it.
There are still plenty of ways for web sites to intermediate themselves into the value chain. Say, for example, slashdot started its own shopping mall. Instead of them putting whatever products someone paid to have in there available, they'd have only products that the Slashdot team thought were cool. So long as /. never breaks that trust, people would buy stuff.
What network cards do you guys use? That cool new toy you just covered, where can I get it? Oh looky, I could buy it from the place you linked to but who would I rather trust with my personal details?
Mabye we can use something like this on Earth so that we can still keep hurtling around in dead dinosour powered tin cans and wiping our butts with Amazon, Indonesian and Malay rainforest?
Free beer software is the same as shareware. They all want to be Bill Gates but don't have the distribution and existing monopoly to pull it off. If they believed in free software, their software would be free.
Language will evolve and with any-to-any communication will merge into a fabric of langauges. Kinda like taxilinga out of Snow Crash.
Think 3D environment with LCD shutter goggles.
Course I'll only ever be impressed by VR when I can do real-time, fully immersive, 3D fractal fly-throughs :)
Now that /. has more resources, will some of those be put towards doing the usual fact checking "ordinary" journalists (should) do?
What I mean is that if John Smith is mentioned in a bad light, you ring/email/whatever the person to see their side of the story before posting it.
This is a problem I came up against a few years ago and tried to solve at the time. I never got fart enough down the path to release a standard or anything, but I'll explain the thinking.
Basically the problem is that search robots can get stuck in loops on your site if it's a database-driven one. Equally if the database contains something like stock quotes or postcodes it would just succeed in filling the engines with contextless gibberish.
So instead, the plan was to get people to manually export their database into a flat text file referenced from the robots.txt file. The text file would in some way have a data field and an address field. So the data field has the content itself as plain text and the address tells the search engines where they should send people, rather than referring them to that text file.
Now there's another big problem that the author hasn't mentioned. How do you find real-time information?
Here's the scenario: You hear from a friend that a school in Dublin, Ireland has just been closed down due to sexual harrassment from the principal. Since this is your field, you want to find out more. The major sources: CNN, BBC, ABC etc aren't covering it. You know that some local new site will cover it though. So how do you find it?
Right now, the only way would be to find the Brand in a subject index like Yahoo, then hope they cover it. Looking for Dublin Time might work. But why can't you search for sexual harrassment school dublin?
The answer lies in a real-time database of news, requiring the news services to either update a file with all the news in it or perhaps in some way push information into the search engines.
One approach to this problem is Moreover who index news themselves without the benefit of metadata. These guys are very clued in about metadata though.