SiteFinder broke DNS for the purpose of making money. This is just a 'feature' similar to the one in Firefox....
As I recall, Microsoft was already doing this back when Verisign put SiteFinder in place. Maybe it wasn't loaded with ads at the time, but they were redirecting unresolvable domains to MSN search or something. It was widely held up as the right way to do it -- in the one application for which it was, well, applicable -- rather than SiteFinder's wrong way, which changed the response for every single network application, including those that relied on the previous specified behavior.
A lot of people argue that illegal immigrants don't pay taxes - and greatly they are right. They don't pay taxes, but you bet your sweet rear they file taxes. Most illegal immigrants make under $20k/year, and have MANY dependents. You bet they file. They file and they receive a VERY large refund, even though they NEVER pay a cent in to begin with. Think about that for a second, because that return they are getting is YOUR money.
How exactly does this work? The refund is the amount left over from what you have already paid (such as through withholding on your paycheck). Presumably if they're going to get a refund, they have to supply the IRS with a W2 or equivalent form indicating that they have already paid -- and the IRS ought to have files to back that up. If that balance starts at zero, there's nothing to refund in the first place.
Or are you saying that the IRS doesn't track the money that's given to it?
Not only that, but you can (get ready for it) download a binary from Mozilla. (Shocked, aren't you?) Meaning that it takes more effort than upgrading FF 1.5 on Fedora... but no more than installing FF 2 on Windows or Mac.
It's not as if Windows Update or Apple Software Update tracks new versions of Firefox.
Livna did not become Fedora Extras. Livna exists for the sole purpose of providing packages for Fedora that violate Fedora's policy of not including proprietary or patent-encumbered software. That's why it's full of things like video/audio codecs, NVIDIA drivers, etc. Fedora Extras has always been subject to the same policy as Fedora Core, so those packages couldn't be included in Extras either. (And now that Fedora Core and Fedora Extras are merging, it's moot).
What Livna *has* done is make sure that their packages are compatible with Fedora Extras, so it should (theoretically) be safe to include Core, Extras, and Livna in your yum configuration and treat them as one repository.
LampRecycle.org has information for the US and Canada. Surf around a bit and you'll probably end up on Earth 911, which has a database of local recycling centers.
There's at least one household hazardous waste collection facility in my area where you put whatever you want to recycle -- dead CF bulbs, old computer monitors, paint, whatever -- in the trunk of your car, drive up, pop the trunk, then fill out a form that swears you're only dropping off stuff from a home, not a business. They remove the waste from your trunk, close it, and you drive off.
For those with short memories, there's a legislator in California proposing the same idea, though over a five-year period instead of three.
I find the difference in approach interesting, though. The California proposal, judging by the press releases, seems to be about banning sale of incandescents. The Australian proposal is simply upping the energy efficiency standards to the point where incandescent bulbs no longer qualify.
Considering California actually has a higher population than Australia (estimated 36 million in 2005 vs. estimated 20 million in 2006), the California ban, if adopted, would actually have a greater effect.
Yes, but most hosting companies just switch it straight back on again, to stem the tide of complaints from users who downloaded an old script from somewhere but it doesn't work...
I was going to gripe about it being an issue for the hosting companies (we've had it disabled on our servers for several years), but now that I think about it, you're right: Register Globals is a "wings fall off" button.
"You mean have to take down the entire service just because it wasn't compiled against this or that library? That's INSANE! What the hell is Linux FOR?"
Really? Leaving aside the matter of using shared libraries, whenever I've had to add features to PHP it's gone like this:
Configure PHP with new options
Rebuild PHP
Reinstall PHP
service httpd configtest
service httpd restart
The only actual downtime occurs during step 5, which lasts maybe a second at most. This is Linux after all -- you can run the old version while you're installing the new one.
I saw a documentary about extracting the blood they ate and making clones of the animals it belongs to. All I remember is to stand still and you will be fine.
Ah, yes! I remember seeing the same historical documents! As I recall, the main conclusion to the research study was that chaos (theory) is the fundamental, driving force in the universe.
That, and I learned how to recognize a UNIX system.
One bug I'd like to see fixed is to get the damn middle button working on OS X. I mean, Opera and Safari let me open a link in a new tab by middle clicking it. And middle-clicking opens a link in new tabs on Linux and Windows.
What version are you using? This was fixed in Firefox 1.5 (Nov 2005!), at least for middle-clicking on a link. Among the bugs fixed in that release:
151249 - [Mac] Middle click on link does nothing on Mac OS X (should open link in new tab).
I haven't heard anything about it regressing in later 1.5 releases or in 2.0. The only Mac I use regularly is a laptop, and I usually just use the trackpad, so I haven't tried it recently. I guess tonight I'll plug in the mouse and test this again.
Hopefully, this statement will be enough to put those SCO-induced conspiracy theories to rest.
Vaughn-Nichols recently interviewed Darl McBride, who remains "not entirely convinced that Jones is a real person." He confirmed the subpoena attempt, then went on to say, "Pamela, if you read this, please, give me a call. We just want to chat."
Given SCO's history, I'd guess even if she did call, he wouldn't believe her. After all, anyone could be on the other end of that phone!
The law being vauge just means that the government will be free to go after whoever it wants. Don't like the website of your political rivials? Have it declared a "Socal Networking Website".
That'll be easier if the site in question includes, say, forums or chat rooms for campaign participation. I expect a number of people here are familiar with SpreadFirefox, which draws inspiration from political campaigns including the Howard Dean campaign and Bush in 30 Seconds. When you have a bunch of people on a website discussing how ways to promote your candidate, ways to convince people to donate, etc., you still have a bunch of people getting online to talk with each other.
Hmm... should a library run every book purchase past elected officials? How about determining how much shelf space to give to different categories? Should it be up to the library to decide it needs to set aside, say, 30% of its space for adult nonfiction and reference, and another 20% for children's nonfiction, or should that power be reserved for the state legislature? Is legislation needed for the library to file romance novels under adult fiction instead of putting them in with children's literature?
Your IE/FF figures of 70/20 and 40/44 are actually plausible for (relatively) normal sites that will work properly in all the major browsers and don't actively promote or relate to any one of them.
For the record, the 70/20 site is Hyperborea.org. The biggest draw there is a comic book fan site I've been running since 1996, which gets a mainstream, perhaps slightly geeky audience. It also contains my blog, some photos from conventions, my wife's website, and some smaller sites I built back in college. The 40/44 site is the Alternative Browser Alliance, a site promoting the use of non-IE browsers and cooperation (or at least civility) among their supporters. Most of its traffic comes from searches for alternative browsers, from technically-oriented sites, and from (interestingly enough) StumbleUpon.
In general I see the termed "gamed" as subjective. When outcomes are matched to an individual's expectations, they see the system as working, when they disagree with the outcome, they call it gaming.
Very true. For an example, look no further than the subset of SEO that sees no difference between settings up hundreds of automatically-generated pages linking to a site for the sole purpose of increasing search rankings and hundreds of individual people independently writing about (and linking to) a site. I've actually seen people in the linkfarm business claim that they're not doing anything different from bloggers.
This is basically equivalent to saying that there's no difference between one person writing 10 letters to a politician under assumed names, and 10 people writing their own letters.
Did we see a body? NO! This is comics, so it guarantees that, a year or several down the line, a new writer will bring Captain Copyright back, revealing that his death was faked, surprising allies and enemies alike with his return to glory!
Even if there were a body, all it means is they'd wait six months and pass the identity on to a new, teenage Captain Copyright, whose only link with the original is the name and the costume's color scheme -- and, of course, the same villains will show up, gunning for the All-New Captain Copyright.
Judging by the GP's remark about "robots/crawlers without a credit card," I'm guessing it means they're counting "known users" who have logged into the site. In that case, you can track them pretty accurately, as long as you're willing to ignore traffic from people who have an account, but aren't logged in.
On the other hand, if you jump on all the IE specific functionality you have a few issues. Will it work on old versions of ie? Will it work if people have their active X controls set to "high security"? Will IE break your sites functionality in a security upgrade?
This is a good point. In case the submitter isn't aware, IE7 removed or disabled a lot of IE-specific functionality relied on by web apps. Functionality based on the standard specs, however, not only worked across IE6, Firefox, and others, but needed minimal adjustment -- if any at all -- to work in IE7.
In my own experience, most of the changes I needed to make with IE7 involved disabling workarounds for IE6-specific bugs.
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You, sir, need to enroll in basic economics, stat.
Or at least search the net for the words "supply" and "demand."
As I recall, Microsoft was already doing this back when Verisign put SiteFinder in place. Maybe it wasn't loaded with ads at the time, but they were redirecting unresolvable domains to MSN search or something. It was widely held up as the right way to do it -- in the one application for which it was, well, applicable -- rather than SiteFinder's wrong way, which changed the response for every single network application, including those that relied on the previous specified behavior.
I can personally confirm that Opera Mini, which worked fine on my T-Mobile RAZR a couple of weeks ago, is no longer able to connect to the internet.
Maybe T-Mobile's blocking it. Maybe there's some sort of network error. But there does seem to be something to this.
I met Herb. Repeatedly. Concurrently, even.
How exactly does this work? The refund is the amount left over from what you have already paid (such as through withholding on your paycheck). Presumably if they're going to get a refund, they have to supply the IRS with a W2 or equivalent form indicating that they have already paid -- and the IRS ought to have files to back that up. If that balance starts at zero, there's nothing to refund in the first place.
Or are you saying that the IRS doesn't track the money that's given to it?
An old joke, but appropriate here:
How do you determine the IQ of a committee?
Take the average IQ in the room and divide it by the number of people in the committee.
Not only that, but you can (get ready for it) download a binary from Mozilla. (Shocked, aren't you?) Meaning that it takes more effort than upgrading FF 1.5 on Fedora... but no more than installing FF 2 on Windows or Mac.
It's not as if Windows Update or Apple Software Update tracks new versions of Firefox.
Livna did not become Fedora Extras. Livna exists for the sole purpose of providing packages for Fedora that violate Fedora's policy of not including proprietary or patent-encumbered software. That's why it's full of things like video/audio codecs, NVIDIA drivers, etc. Fedora Extras has always been subject to the same policy as Fedora Core, so those packages couldn't be included in Extras either. (And now that Fedora Core and Fedora Extras are merging, it's moot).
What Livna *has* done is make sure that their packages are compatible with Fedora Extras, so it should (theoretically) be safe to include Core, Extras, and Livna in your yum configuration and treat them as one repository.
LampRecycle.org has information for the US and Canada. Surf around a bit and you'll probably end up on Earth 911, which has a database of local recycling centers.
There's at least one household hazardous waste collection facility in my area where you put whatever you want to recycle -- dead CF bulbs, old computer monitors, paint, whatever -- in the trunk of your car, drive up, pop the trunk, then fill out a form that swears you're only dropping off stuff from a home, not a business. They remove the waste from your trunk, close it, and you drive off.
For those with short memories, there's a legislator in California proposing the same idea, though over a five-year period instead of three.
I find the difference in approach interesting, though. The California proposal, judging by the press releases, seems to be about banning sale of incandescents. The Australian proposal is simply upping the energy efficiency standards to the point where incandescent bulbs no longer qualify.
Considering California actually has a higher population than Australia (estimated 36 million in 2005 vs. estimated 20 million in 2006), the California ban, if adopted, would actually have a greater effect.
I was going to gripe about it being an issue for the hosting companies (we've had it disabled on our servers for several years), but now that I think about it, you're right: Register Globals is a "wings fall off" button.
Really? Leaving aside the matter of using shared libraries, whenever I've had to add features to PHP it's gone like this:
The only actual downtime occurs during step 5, which lasts maybe a second at most. This is Linux after all -- you can run the old version while you're installing the new one.
Or am I misunderstanding your point?
Ah, yes! I remember seeing the same historical documents! As I recall, the main conclusion to the research study was that chaos (theory) is the fundamental, driving force in the universe.
That, and I learned how to recognize a UNIX system.
OK, I can confirm that with Firefox 2 on Mac OS X Tiger, using my Logitech USB mouse, I can do the following:
The bug's been fixed.
What version are you using? This was fixed in Firefox 1.5 (Nov 2005!), at least for middle-clicking on a link. Among the bugs fixed in that release:
I haven't heard anything about it regressing in later 1.5 releases or in 2.0. The only Mac I use regularly is a laptop, and I usually just use the trackpad, so I haven't tried it recently. I guess tonight I'll plug in the mouse and test this again.
Vaughn-Nichols recently interviewed Darl McBride, who remains "not entirely convinced that Jones is a real person." He confirmed the subpoena attempt, then went on to say, "Pamela, if you read this, please, give me a call. We just want to chat."
Given SCO's history, I'd guess even if she did call, he wouldn't believe her. After all, anyone could be on the other end of that phone!
That'll be easier if the site in question includes, say, forums or chat rooms for campaign participation. I expect a number of people here are familiar with SpreadFirefox, which draws inspiration from political campaigns including the Howard Dean campaign and Bush in 30 Seconds. When you have a bunch of people on a website discussing how ways to promote your candidate, ways to convince people to donate, etc., you still have a bunch of people getting online to talk with each other.
Hmm... should a library run every book purchase past elected officials? How about determining how much shelf space to give to different categories? Should it be up to the library to decide it needs to set aside, say, 30% of its space for adult nonfiction and reference, and another 20% for children's nonfiction, or should that power be reserved for the state legislature? Is legislation needed for the library to file romance novels under adult fiction instead of putting them in with children's literature?
For the record, the 70/20 site is Hyperborea.org. The biggest draw there is a comic book fan site I've been running since 1996, which gets a mainstream, perhaps slightly geeky audience. It also contains my blog, some photos from conventions, my wife's website, and some smaller sites I built back in college. The 40/44 site is the Alternative Browser Alliance, a site promoting the use of non-IE browsers and cooperation (or at least civility) among their supporters. Most of its traffic comes from searches for alternative browsers, from technically-oriented sites, and from (interestingly enough) StumbleUpon.
Very true. For an example, look no further than the subset of SEO that sees no difference between settings up hundreds of automatically-generated pages linking to a site for the sole purpose of increasing search rankings and hundreds of individual people independently writing about (and linking to) a site. I've actually seen people in the linkfarm business claim that they're not doing anything different from bloggers.
This is basically equivalent to saying that there's no difference between one person writing 10 letters to a politician under assumed names, and 10 people writing their own letters.
Or the classic "mystery men" (a term which goes back at least to the 1930s).
Did we see a body? NO! This is comics, so it guarantees that, a year or several down the line, a new writer will bring Captain Copyright back, revealing that his death was faked, surprising allies and enemies alike with his return to glory!
Even if there were a body, all it means is they'd wait six months and pass the identity on to a new, teenage Captain Copyright, whose only link with the original is the name and the costume's color scheme -- and, of course, the same villains will show up, gunning for the All-New Captain Copyright.
Judging by the GP's remark about "robots/crawlers without a credit card," I'm guessing it means they're counting "known users" who have logged into the site. In that case, you can track them pretty accurately, as long as you're willing to ignore traffic from people who have an account, but aren't logged in.
This is a good point. In case the submitter isn't aware, IE7 removed or disabled a lot of IE-specific functionality relied on by web apps. Functionality based on the standard specs, however, not only worked across IE6, Firefox, and others, but needed minimal adjustment -- if any at all -- to work in IE7.
In my own experience, most of the changes I needed to make with IE7 involved disabling workarounds for IE6-specific bugs.
Hey, if you want to block millions of potential visitors, that's your prerogative. Personally, I'd like to keep the doors open for them.