Except that spammers will try random letter sequences. (I knew I shouldn't have chosen a three letter username with my ISP.) Your best bet might somethingreallylongandconvoluted@whereveryou.are.
Truth is the name of Florida's campaign to keep kids from smoking. They may have spread nationwide by now; their commercials are reportedly pretty effective.
As for the JavaScript issue, it pisses me off to say this, but I wouldn't expect anything soon, if ever. Users have been screaming for more fine-grained control over the JavaScript/DOM sandbox for years and years (particularly wrt window.open()), and Netscape/Mozilla and Microsoft haven't done jack to this date.
There's always WebWasher and iCab (iCab's a Mac browser, though).
(* -- 'Clams' are a derogatory term for scientologists. Its origin comes from another part of the 'church' scripture, in which Hubbard theorized that human beings evolved from clams. Folks, I could not make this up.)
But if you were a paranoid nut like Hubbard, it might have occurred to you.:)
Scientology's explanation is that all religions have elements that are generally kept secret until a person reaches a certain level in them, and that trade secrets are just a "secular" way for them to enforce this.
Because who would want to remain when they heard the story of...Xenu?
I'm pretty sure that most sites break up their articles into multiple pages to boost ad impressions and add more opportunities for banner placement, not usability.
Sometimes I wish/. would consider breaking up huge pages, for those of us with antiquated computers and connections...
I am definitely not a lawyer, but since filtering software is or will be mandatory, there might be a case here -- since the guvmint's indirectly blocking access to, say, Peacefire in all schools.
I've found one place where using SafeWeb doesn't help -- a local university's library has a local filter that blocks any url with "member" or "mail" in it. Too bad SafeWeb can't somehow scramble the URL of the site you're going to so the local admins can't see where you're going... ("I see you went to monster.com through SafeWeb, Smith -- you're fired!")
Web sites either grant or deny permission to search engines based on the/robots.txt file. If a web site wants to be indexed, they put permissive rules in robots.txt. Verio is spidering for their own commercial gain, and ignoring a number of posted policies against it. That is apparently what the judge has ruled on, violating an explicit request not to harvest. What is funny is that register.com doesn't have a robots.txt file, so does that give people permission to spider the site?
robots.txt...it's not just a good idea, it's the law.
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How the hell do you pronounce JXTA?
Copyright 2000 Kozmo.com, Inc.
Hopefully Kozmo won't see this before they disintegrate, or else they could use the DMCA to get Slashdot to pull this comment...
And then there's SpamCop, which gives you the satisfaction of getting booted from their ISP.
Except that spammers will try random letter sequences. (I knew I shouldn't have chosen a three letter username with my ISP.) Your best bet might somethingreallylongandconvoluted@whereveryou.are.
The settlement will probably wind up being $5 off any Microsoft product. Or $400 when you join MSN for several decades.
Some more recently produced commercials and products say "smile"(tm).
Truth is the name of Florida's campaign to keep kids from smoking. They may have spread nationwide by now; their commercials are reportedly pretty effective.
like bringing everything to a crawl is difficult.
Did someone call?
DMan is referring to me nuking many of his writeups that were cut-and-pasted from other sources without credit when I was an editor.
If it makes you feel better, D, I lost my editor privileges shortly thereafter for going nuts killing nodes. So there.
-j
...that million nodes includes stuff that's been deleted (trolls, lame writeups, crap that I wrote).
:)
And now that there's a story about E2 here, we can expect our beloved but slow Everything to be even slower. Damn you, Taco!
-j
This lowers Texas on the list of "states to move to" when my lease runs out.
Texas elected George W. Bush governor twice, and they're still on your list?
As for the JavaScript issue, it pisses me off to say this, but I wouldn't expect anything soon, if ever. Users have been screaming for more fine-grained control over the JavaScript/DOM sandbox for years and years (particularly wrt window.open()), and Netscape/Mozilla and Microsoft haven't done jack to this date.
There's always WebWasher and iCab (iCab's a Mac browser, though).
(* -- 'Clams' are a derogatory term for scientologists. Its origin comes from another part of the 'church' scripture, in which Hubbard theorized that human beings evolved from clams. Folks, I could not make this up.)
:)
But if you were a paranoid nut like Hubbard, it might have occurred to you.
Scientology's explanation is that all religions have elements that are generally kept secret until a person reaches a certain level in them, and that trade secrets are just a "secular" way for them to enforce this.
Because who would want to remain when they heard the story of...Xenu?
Actually, the Mac configuration is pretty simple, though I think it's just adding ".new.net" to the end of, say, http://disney.xxx. (Like so.)
-jon (note to self: learn more about DNS before posting about it...)
I'm pretty sure that most sites break up their articles into multiple pages to boost ad impressions and add more opportunities for banner placement, not usability.
/. would consider breaking up huge pages, for those of us with antiquated computers and connections...
Sometimes I wish
-j
One of the new domains is supposed to be .nom, which is reserved for individuals.
.nom wasn't approved in the first batch of new domains.
Not for a while, if ever --
-j
However, there are many slaves of E2. Damn its evil silicon heart!
-j
Fox News is arguably a news channel.
Yes, but this didn't air on Fox News, it aired on Fox as an entertainment program.
-j
I am definitely not a lawyer, but since filtering software is or will be mandatory, there might be a case here -- since the guvmint's indirectly blocking access to, say, Peacefire in all schools.
I've found one place where using SafeWeb doesn't help -- a local university's library has a local filter that blocks any url with "member" or "mail" in it. Too bad SafeWeb can't somehow scramble the URL of the site you're going to so the local admins can't see where you're going... ("I see you went to monster.com through SafeWeb, Smith -- you're fired!")
Lately I have been involved in the trialing of
several products
Trialing is a word?
-j
It also doesn't help when people use things like Junkbuster to further eliminate any chance these companies have of making money.
Chances are, if you use something like Junkbuster, you wouldn't click on the ads anyway.
-jon
Web sites either grant or deny permission to search engines based on the /robots.txt file. If a web site wants to be indexed, they put permissive rules in robots.txt. Verio is spidering for their own commercial gain, and ignoring a number of posted policies against it. That is apparently what the judge has ruled on, violating an explicit request not to harvest. What is funny is that register.com doesn't have a robots.txt file, so does that give people permission to spider the site?
robots.txt...it's not just a good idea, it's the law.
-jon
Funny, many spammers say the exact same thing. And they'd never lie, would they?
-jon