If Google wanted to, it could do a fairly good job of separating commerce from information based on page content. Sure, there's overlap and it wouldn't be perfect, but it would be oodles better than what Google is providing now.
OK, let me understand you. If I have any complaints, any dissatisfaction with Google, I should not voice it. Love it or leave it? Nice outlook on life you got there.
Google needs to separate commercial pages from purely informational pages. Anyone searching for information (not sales products) gets inundated with e-commerce sites. It's a waste of time, building complex queries that weed out dominant company names. affiliate sites, and words like "cart."
Google needs to expand its advanced search options to include toggles for different ranking criteria. Anyone who has searched in vain knows this. I have several dead-end searches every week.
Google needs to change it's outdated automatic e-mail reply blurb. Staff may read every e-mail received but saying "[we] try to send personal responses to each message" is just baloney. That was true in the early years.
Google needs to get off its laurels and start listening to its customers again.
What did you expect from politicians? Did you really expect an effective law? If it doesn't line pockets or permit illegal activity, it's not worth their time of day.
I would be enranged if a different company began using my TV ad. My customers associate the original ad with my company. It doesn't matter if you remove my name and logo, the whole ad represents me.
I remember "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" or "Where's the beef?" or "Please don't squeeze the Sharman." Swap out the product or company name and people still remember the original.
I'm surprised (apparently?) that ad agencies own the advertisements being produced.
In the U.S., 80% (or more) of published news is generated from news releases. Entertainment news comes from the imagination of agents and marketing executives. Investigative journalism is largely dead, and the little bit that exists rarely goes beyond the local level.
Wait a minute, are you implying that our beloved corporate media is slow at providing us news; that we have read their news weeks or months earlier through non-U.S. media sources on the Internet? I remind you to hold your lip young man, lest you jeopardize our access to our God Given Right of a 24-hour Michael Jackson Watch and hourly updates on Britney's breast size. Damn you! I will not have you question our democracy and endanger our very way of life! Love it or leave it! Please, the exit is to your left.
Are you retarded? I think you're retarded. Olympians should not post on Slashdot. Kiss Bush goodnight and clutch your gold medal and go fishing with your flamebait.
> the perfect weapon would literally stop an enemy in his tracks, > yet harm neither hide nor hair.
Nope. The perfect weapon kills all of your enemies. 'What if' we killed no Iraqis in Bush's war? Instead of 50,000 insurgents, how many hundreds of thousands of guerrilla fighters would we be facing now? Guerilla fighters do not need electronics, just weapons and the ability to talk to each other face-to-face.
Death is preferable in so many things. Suppose you accidentally drive over a pedestrian. Your civil suit fines will be much higher if you maim the person instead of kill him because you're paying for pain & suffering to cover the rest of his life.
Back to war... if you don't kill your enemy, he lives to fight another day and teach his children to hate you too. War is about killing and always will be. If you can't stomach it, don't play that game.
>I love those ad campaings the MPAA and RIAA >have about how it hurts the working man
There is nothing funny about watching industry organizations beating the life out of a working man. We should increase our file trading to divert their attention so the working man can escape.
I'm going to market a line of privacy gloves. Everyone will be wearing them to protect themselves from identity theft. On the other side, I'll market thumbprint dusting and scanning tools, for educational purposes only, of course.
I wonder if I could live without Internet access at home. I know several people who manage computer labs who don't themselves own computers. I bet I could survive with just home e-mail service and use broadband at the office for shopping, etc. Dial-up doesn't sound so bad after all.
You got that right. It's rather interesting if you're not Mormon. (Not a flame. Plain truth for anyone who has experienced every neighbor trying to convert you.) Frankly, I'm surprised Utah wants high-speed access to a medium exploding with adult content.
>i see people leaving high-speed in droves to go back to dialup.
I'm on the verge of returning to dial-up. Two reasons. #1 I don't have the time to goof off online and #2 my local cable company is a monopolistic blood sucking leech.
How is it "stopping malware before it hits" if the FPX is detecting current activity and filtering it? That's reacting to malware after it has already begun to spread.
That's no surprise. A university mails your grades to the address you gave them. Obviously, after you applied to the university, you never updated your address with them.
OK, suppose MSN changed the statistic out of pure evilness. SO WHAT? Virtually no one reads that statistic. In fact, search engines should only show that stat in advanced searches specifically because few people ever use it for any purpose. MSN still has 8 million hits for that search combination readable by anyone and everyone conducting the search. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but you devalue the Linux argument by whining over something so trivial.
Gee, maybe it's a bug. Yeah, I know, Microsoft never suffers from bugs.
Anyone and everyone can see the "next" button at the top and bottom of the screen. Few people look at the "total number of hits" tally because 99.99% of the time there are lots of hits -- who cares anymore? That's a remnant of the days when web pages were scarce. This is totally a non-issue.
There's a world of difference between passing notes in class and what can be found on the Internet. What used to be scarce and hard to come by without significant effort is now easily accessible with virtually no effort.
What gets me is that the same idiots who make snide remarks like "you want to have your kid live in a cage until they're 18?" are the same asshats who complain it's the parent's fault when a child misuses the Internet, resulting a child's abuse or even death. You can't have it both ways. The Internet is a fabulous tool that can be terribly misused and can in fact be dangerous in the hands of a child. It is outright negligence to not be monitoring your child's activity online and the law agrees with me.
Hmm, yeah, let's let our pre-teen kids be exposed to the adult world, learning to emulate adults at the age of 5. Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's do it all in the name of trust.
Interesting sentiment, but if the law in my state makes me (as a parent) legally responsible for my child, you can bet your ass I'm tracking everything that happens on the computer, even if the computer is located in the living room.
Let me get this straight. I print a document from the web site, give it to my trustee, and my trustee is responsible for contacting the web site to inform it that I have died? I'll just give my final messages directly to my trustee and cut out the middleman.
What fish? I did not ship you any fish. I don't even like fish. What the hell are you talking about? Are you on drugs? You type like you're smoking crack. But how are you smoking crack and typing at the same time? You must be a speed freak. Damn I hate you tweakers. You come here and work for less than minimum wage and take all our jobs. Go back to New Jersey. We don't want your kind here.
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If Google wanted to, it could do a fairly good job of separating commerce from information based on page content. Sure, there's overlap and it wouldn't be perfect, but it would be oodles better than what Google is providing now.
OK, let me understand you. If I have any complaints, any dissatisfaction with Google, I should not voice it. Love it or leave it? Nice outlook on life you got there.
Google needs to separate commercial pages from purely informational pages. Anyone searching for information (not sales products) gets inundated with e-commerce sites. It's a waste of time, building complex queries that weed out dominant company names. affiliate sites, and words like "cart."
Google needs to expand its advanced search options to include toggles for different ranking criteria. Anyone who has searched in vain knows this. I have several dead-end searches every week.
Google needs to change it's outdated automatic e-mail reply blurb. Staff may read every e-mail received but saying "[we] try to send personal responses to each message" is just baloney. That was true in the early years.
Google needs to get off its laurels and start listening to its customers again.
What did you expect from politicians? Did you really expect an effective law? If it doesn't line pockets or permit illegal activity, it's not worth their time of day.
No, I googled the word. Plenty of people conceive of that word in a fashion that differs from the manufacturer's original intention.
I would be enranged if a different company began using my TV ad. My customers associate the original ad with my company. It doesn't matter if you remove my name and logo, the whole ad represents me.
I remember "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" or "Where's the beef?" or "Please don't squeeze the Sharman." Swap out the product or company name and people still remember the original.
I'm surprised (apparently?) that ad agencies own the advertisements being produced.
In the U.S., 80% (or more) of published news is generated from news releases. Entertainment news comes from the imagination of agents and marketing executives. Investigative journalism is largely dead, and the little bit that exists rarely goes beyond the local level.
Wait a minute, are you implying that our beloved corporate media is slow at providing us news; that we have read their news weeks or months earlier through non-U.S. media sources on the Internet? I remind you to hold your lip young man, lest you jeopardize our access to our God Given Right of a 24-hour Michael Jackson Watch and hourly updates on Britney's breast size. Damn you! I will not have you question our democracy and endanger our very way of life! Love it or leave it! Please, the exit is to your left.
Are you retarded? I think you're retarded. Olympians should not post on Slashdot. Kiss Bush goodnight and clutch your gold medal and go fishing with your flamebait.
> the perfect weapon would literally stop an enemy in his tracks,
> yet harm neither hide nor hair.
Nope. The perfect weapon kills all of your enemies. 'What if' we killed no Iraqis in Bush's war? Instead of 50,000 insurgents, how many hundreds of thousands of guerrilla fighters would we be facing now? Guerilla fighters do not need electronics, just weapons and the ability to talk to each other face-to-face.
Death is preferable in so many things. Suppose you accidentally drive over a pedestrian. Your civil suit fines will be much higher if you maim the person instead of kill him because you're paying for pain & suffering to cover the rest of his life.
Back to war... if you don't kill your enemy, he lives to fight another day and teach his children to hate you too. War is about killing and always will be. If you can't stomach it, don't play that game.
Evidently the concept of irony is not lost on most /.ers. I have seen like 5 posts that look identical to mine in the last minute. :)
>I love those ad campaings the MPAA and RIAA
>have about how it hurts the working man
There is nothing funny about watching industry organizations beating the life out of a working man. We should increase our file trading to divert their attention so the working man can escape.
I'm going to market a line of privacy gloves. Everyone will be wearing them to protect themselves from identity theft. On the other side, I'll market thumbprint dusting and scanning tools, for educational purposes only, of course.
I wonder if I could live without Internet access at home. I know several people who manage computer labs who don't themselves own computers. I bet I could survive with just home e-mail service and use broadband at the office for shopping, etc. Dial-up doesn't sound so bad after all.
> Perhaps Utah is different from where i live...
You got that right. It's rather interesting if you're not Mormon. (Not a flame. Plain truth for anyone who has experienced every neighbor trying to convert you.) Frankly, I'm surprised Utah wants high-speed access to a medium exploding with adult content.
>i see people leaving high-speed in droves to go back to dialup.
I'm on the verge of returning to dial-up. Two reasons. #1 I don't have the time to goof off online and #2 my local cable company is a monopolistic blood sucking leech.
How is it "stopping malware before it hits" if the FPX is detecting current activity and filtering it? That's reacting to malware after it has already begun to spread.
That's no surprise. A university mails your grades to the address you gave them. Obviously, after you applied to the university, you never updated your address with them.
OK, suppose MSN changed the statistic out of pure evilness. SO WHAT? Virtually no one reads that statistic. In fact, search engines should only show that stat in advanced searches specifically because few people ever use it for any purpose. MSN still has 8 million hits for that search combination readable by anyone and everyone conducting the search. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but you devalue the Linux argument by whining over something so trivial.
Gee, maybe it's a bug. Yeah, I know, Microsoft never suffers from bugs.
Anyone and everyone can see the "next" button at the top and bottom of the screen. Few people look at the "total number of hits" tally because 99.99% of the time there are lots of hits -- who cares anymore? That's a remnant of the days when web pages were scarce. This is totally a non-issue.
Click the "Next" button a few times on that "Linux Windows" search.
You'll see:
Results 31-45 of about 8897853
There's a world of difference between passing notes in class and what can be found on the Internet. What used to be scarce and hard to come by without significant effort is now easily accessible with virtually no effort.
What gets me is that the same idiots who make snide remarks like "you want to have your kid live in a cage until they're 18?" are the same asshats who complain it's the parent's fault when a child misuses the Internet, resulting a child's abuse or even death. You can't have it both ways. The Internet is a fabulous tool that can be terribly misused and can in fact be dangerous in the hands of a child. It is outright negligence to not be monitoring your child's activity online and the law agrees with me.
Hmm, yeah, let's let our pre-teen kids be exposed to the adult world, learning to emulate adults at the age of 5. Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's do it all in the name of trust.
Interesting sentiment, but if the law in my state makes me (as a parent) legally responsible for my child, you can bet your ass I'm tracking everything that happens on the computer, even if the computer is located in the living room.
Let me get this straight. I print a document from the web site, give it to my trustee, and my trustee is responsible for contacting the web site to inform it that I have died? I'll just give my final messages directly to my trustee and cut out the middleman.
What fish? I did not ship you any fish. I don't even like fish. What the hell are you talking about? Are you on drugs? You type like you're smoking crack. But how are you smoking crack and typing at the same time? You must be a speed freak. Damn I hate you tweakers. You come here and work for less than minimum wage and take all our jobs. Go back to New Jersey. We don't want your kind here.