Here's what's going on. Google has a flaw in their algorithm in the way it deals with 302 redirects. Instead of following the internet standard of following the 302 redirect to the new location and indexing that, Google sometimes applies the information, PageRank, and Google ranking position of the 302 destination page back to the page doing the redirecting.
This doesn't sound like a bug at all. This sounds more like Google actually bothered to implement the HTTP specification correctly, and the web site with the redirect did not. Go read it and pay careful attention to the subtle but important differences between 301 and 302. The methods by which user agents (including search engines) should handle these responses are outlined there.
I don't ever remember government computer systems ever being regarded as being anywhere near secure. Whether it's Microsoft Windows, unpatched Unix boxes, or incompetent sysadmins, government and military boxes have historically been regarded as some of the least secure on the Internet.
Has any progress been made in the last few years on improving the state of government computer security?
Next we'll be having/. stories covering the/. stories about the/. stories about the/. stories...
A good point, though, is that since the rise of Google, most of the other search engines have de-clutteredtheirsearchpages, removing almost everything from them.
I've been using Tor as only a client for a while now, and I have to say that it seems maybe a bit overloaded; I ran into a LOT of latency on interactive sessions; anywhere from 3 to 30 seconds or more would be normal. It could just be that intermediate routers were having trouble, but it's not yet something I can use daily for interactive sessions.
Normal web browsing is fine, albeit quite a bit slower than you're used to. Then again, that's the price of anonymity, I suppose.
As far as contributing, if I had the bandwidth to spare, I'd set up a Tor server and contribute. I do have Tor linked from my web site, though, for what that's worth.
Just exactly why should I be buying music and movies and other such content from low-life snakes who pull stunts like this?
This guy goes out to talk about the legal uses of P2P networks, and the recording industry gets him fired. How exactly do they expect to convince people to buy their products rather than downloading them, if they do this sort of thing?
Can someone explain to me why the Odyssey appears twice in the image? I can't for the life of me figure it out, and the explanation they posted really isn't helping.
This is just exactly what I've been looking for. I just have to wonder if the sort of power output this thing needs is entirely legal. Oh well, who cares until the FCC shows up. According to this page though, the range is 130km (80 miles) at sea level! Who needs a cell phone anymore unless you're going waaaay out of town. I suspect that's a typo though.
It's not so much that I don't want a cell phone, it's more that I don't see any use paying $40-50 a month for something I don't use more than 100 minutes a month. Even if I only got five miles of range out of it, it would easily cover 99% of my needs.
Right now the human race seems to think that whatever they say is worth listening too, much like stories posted by people on slashdot, in their webblogs, or this very comment. But sufficiently advanced minds aren't always interested in these things.
Especially when they're stories about how to talk to aliens, who probably aren't even listening, because to them we've still got about 10,000 years to go before we're sufficiently advanced to be worth bothering.
So I think a better way to go about it is, what could we send to an advanced civilization that would be interesting to them? Not to us.
Exactly. I can't think of a single thing on this planet that would be particularly interesting to aliens, except perhaps the natural resources. Think V.
Hm, the local Starbucks just got wi-fi not long ago. I think it's time to pay them a visit. The latest 2600 has a nice article on hijacking people's paid wi-fi connections in such places.
Er, open source people should not be working for Microsoft, as a general rule.
That sort of agreement is way overboard, and might not even be legal. Definitely refuse it. If they don't agree to your changes, walk. There are plenty of other jobs.
Funny, that. I just applied for a position internal to my company, and somehow I hope the hiring manager doesn't read/. or he'll see the last 24 of 735 flamebait and trolls I've posted. And that'll pretty much ruin any chance of getting the job.
RMS calls this treacherous computing, and with good reason. The BIOS is where everything starts; if a manufacturer doesn't want you doing something with your computer, that is where they would put it.
"Treacherous computing" is a more appropriate name, because the plan is designed to make sure your computer will systematically disobey you. In fact, it is designed to stop your computer from functioning as a general-purpose computer. Every operation may require explicit permission.
This makes it even more critical that we get free software BIOSes, and soon!
Okay, RMS is right; we need some action here. I run Linux exclusively on a piece of $#!+^H^H^H^H^H Dell hardware, and when they put out a BIOS update, getting it actually flashed involves the following misadventure:
Unzip the self-extracting archive.
Find the disk image included therein, and burn it to CD-RW as an ElTorito bootable CD. (With nothing in the data track.)
Boot from CD and flash BIOS.
Erase CD-RW.
Don't Profit!
I'd love to have an alternative to the BIOS which is open source, or free software, or both. That way I can finally claim to have a computer completely free of closed, proprietary software. And maybe have a chance of configuring the hardware a little better as well. Dell's BIOS is painfully short on options.
The State Department concedes that skimming is a legitimate threat, but says the chips will have a read range of inches, that eavesdropping at border stations would be very conspicuous and that the passports will have a shielding mechanism -- perhaps a foil case or a weave in the cover that will cloak the chip when the passport is closed.
They reached a strange agreement for an argument about personal privacy: In lieu of showing ID, Gilmore would consent to an extra-close search, putting up with a pat-down in order to keep his personal identity to himself. He was wanded, patted down and sent along.
As Gilmore headed up the boarding ramp a security guard yanked him from line. According to court papers, a security agent named Reggie Wauls informed Gilmore he would not be flying that day.
"He said, 'I didn't let you fly because you said you had an ID and wouldn't show it,' " Gilmore said. "I asked, 'Does that mean if I'd left it at home I'd be on the plane?' He said, 'I didn't say that.' "
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FreeBSD is the obvious choice, as it runs its services flawlessly.
This flamebait got modded up? FreeBSD doesn't get hacked into because hardly anyone is using it on the public Internet.
I did try to use FreeBSD several times (each time the major number changes, actually) and I was less than impressed. Ports didn't seem to have any advantage over Gentoo portage, and contrary to the parent's opinion, portage is a lot more flexible and reliable.
As for doing things the "old way," that's fine if that's what you want, but really, do you want old and busted, or new hotness? Put some more new hotness into FreeBSD, and I'll give it another trial.
...but there's definitely a negative stigma attached to working for Microsoft.
Bad jokes aside, we need to encourage these girls to get into Linux, rather than Microsoft, thus saving them from Bill's evil influence as early as possible.
We can see light from lightyears away. Moons in our solar system don't give off light, and reflect very little. It's the difference between looking around in full daylight, and trying to find a lost marble in the near total blackness of your bedroom.
Hey, Visa, if you think your RFID system is so secure, publish all the nice technical details on how it works, so we can be confident of its security. Otherwise I'm going to take my low-tech X-Acto knife and cut that RFID tag right out of the card. Considering that anybody can hack an RFID tag now, I'm not particularly inclined to trust this thing.
Especially since it would be easy enough to wave an RFID reader at people's purses, back pockets, etc. At, say, $24 each, in a large crowd, you could amass quite a bit of money, and many people would never know it happened.
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This doesn't sound like a bug at all. This sounds more like Google actually bothered to implement the HTTP specification correctly, and the web site with the redirect did not. Go read it and pay careful attention to the subtle but important differences between 301 and 302. The methods by which user agents (including search engines) should handle these responses are outlined there.
Has any progress been made in the last few years on improving the state of government computer security?
Next we'll be having /. stories covering the /. stories about the /. stories about the /. stories...
A good point, though, is that since the rise of Google, most of the other search engines have de-cluttered their search pages, removing almost everything from them.
The image graphs can be found here.
Normal web browsing is fine, albeit quite a bit slower than you're used to. Then again, that's the price of anonymity, I suppose.
As far as contributing, if I had the bandwidth to spare, I'd set up a Tor server and contribute. I do have Tor linked from my web site, though, for what that's worth.
This guy goes out to talk about the legal uses of P2P networks, and the recording industry gets him fired. How exactly do they expect to convince people to buy their products rather than downloading them, if they do this sort of thing?
Can someone explain to me why the Odyssey appears twice in the image? I can't for the life of me figure it out, and the explanation they posted really isn't helping.
It's not so much that I don't want a cell phone, it's more that I don't see any use paying $40-50 a month for something I don't use more than 100 minutes a month. Even if I only got five miles of range out of it, it would easily cover 99% of my needs.
See, for instance, PostgreSQL Case Studies and from the pgsql-advocacy mailing list comes some more: Finally, a list of *big* companies using PostgreSQL for *serious* projects. Why use PostgreSQL? Here's why for some examples.
Especially when they're stories about how to talk to aliens, who probably aren't even listening, because to them we've still got about 10,000 years to go before we're sufficiently advanced to be worth bothering.
Exactly. I can't think of a single thing on this planet that would be particularly interesting to aliens, except perhaps the natural resources. Think V.
Hm, the local Starbucks just got wi-fi not long ago. I think it's time to pay them a visit. The latest 2600 has a nice article on hijacking people's paid wi-fi connections in such places.
However, the CNN article does state that AFP asked to be removed from Google News and that Google did not remove them, thus the lawsuit.
That sort of agreement is way overboard, and might not even be legal. Definitely refuse it. If they don't agree to your changes, walk. There are plenty of other jobs.
Funny, that. I just applied for a position internal to my company, and somehow I hope the hiring manager doesn't read /. or he'll see the last 24 of 735 flamebait and trolls I've posted. And that'll pretty much ruin any chance of getting the job.
That's what OpenBIOS are doing!
This makes it even more critical that we get free software BIOSes, and soon!
- Unzip the self-extracting archive.
- Find the disk image included therein, and burn it to CD-RW as an ElTorito bootable CD. (With nothing in the data track.)
- Boot from CD and flash BIOS.
- Erase CD-RW.
- Don't Profit!
I'd love to have an alternative to the BIOS which is open source, or free software, or both. That way I can finally claim to have a computer completely free of closed, proprietary software. And maybe have a chance of configuring the hardware a little better as well. Dell's BIOS is painfully short on options.This flamebait got modded up? FreeBSD doesn't get hacked into because hardly anyone is using it on the public Internet.
I did try to use FreeBSD several times (each time the major number changes, actually) and I was less than impressed. Ports didn't seem to have any advantage over Gentoo portage, and contrary to the parent's opinion, portage is a lot more flexible and reliable.
As for doing things the "old way," that's fine if that's what you want, but really, do you want old and busted, or new hotness? Put some more new hotness into FreeBSD, and I'll give it another trial.
Bad jokes aside, we need to encourage these girls to get into Linux, rather than Microsoft, thus saving them from Bill's evil influence as early as possible.
We can see light from lightyears away. Moons in our solar system don't give off light, and reflect very little. It's the difference between looking around in full daylight, and trying to find a lost marble in the near total blackness of your bedroom.
Especially since it would be easy enough to wave an RFID reader at people's purses, back pockets, etc. At, say, $24 each, in a large crowd, you could amass quite a bit of money, and many people would never know it happened.
To show International Domain Names in Unicode, set the "network.IDN_show_punycode" preference to false.
001 - Country code (it's zero-padded to 3 digits)
819 - Area/city/RIN code (go look it up)
It's not uncommon, if you have ANI, to receive the entire number for calls received from other countries now.