Search for the term "search engine" on Google, and Google is ranked first.
Search for the term "search engine" on Teoma, and Teoma is ranked nowhere in the results! (On the first page, at least). Lycos ranks tops there.
You decide.
Way to go, troll.
Why do I need to be told a login is required? Won't I find that out soon enough?
Saves me a wasted click. Why should I go to the LA Times' site, and then be turned away due to a stupid 'free registration' policy? Wouldn't you want to know if a store is open or closed before you leave your house and head for it?
Why reference the NYTimes?
You must be new around here. The NYT's useless policy has been mentioned many times, and people have implemented trivial workarounds. And LAT has switched to this 'free registration' thing recently.
What's this "coping a pose" reference?
What are you, a prude?
Is the LATimes copying from the NYTimes...
Seeing that NYT has had this 'free registration' BS for years, and LAT just started doing this, you make the call. (I hope 'BS' is not too hip for you...)
....Could the editor perhaps clarify their opinions in an appropriate forum,....
Learn to read. The italics stuff is that submitted by the submitter; the non-italics text is the editor's opinion/remarks . It is plain as daylight. Maybe you should lurk here longer?
Oh, and by the way: welcome to Slashdot! Next time, pick a name and post using that name.
From their page: We have encountered instances where companies and individuals constructed entire commercial Web "radio" sites based on links to NPR and similar audio. We have also encountered Web sites of issue advocacy groups that have positioned the audio link to an NPR story such that one cannot tell that NPR is not supporting their cause.
Can someone point out to me some examples of these violations? I'd like to see for myself what these "companies and individuals" are doing, that caused NPR to implement this policy! I'd also like to see how stupid one has to be, to confuse Random Joe's site with NPR's site. And finally, if these said sites are copying the 'look and feel' of NPR's site, there are other time-tested remedies available.
From my experience, these may not be actual offenses, but 'theoretical possibilities' that NPR's lawyers may have raised. It is common for the lawyers to say "Geez.. yaknow, what if XYZ happens? We better protect ourselves just in case!".
A couple hundred nerds in my area going to meet geek chicks and finding that none of them turn up.
Thats because "geek chicks" are a myth, a legend. This notion of "geek chicks" has been around for decades, to keep your coke-bottle-glasses geek from stopping his coding and trying to get a social life.
A "geek chick" occupies the same position in the 'real' world as the Unicorn, Sasquatch, Tibetan Yeti and the Loch Ness monster.
There are rumors of a "geek chick" film (a-la the Patterson/Gimlin film) floating around, but nothing conclusive has been found.
I am not a muslim, but the reason muslims don't eat pork is because the pig is considered a dirty animal. If you've been to one of the third-world countries, you would've seen pigs wallowing in sewers, and that is probably where it comes from.
Speaking of not eating pork: can you tell me why people in the Western culture don't eat dog meat? Would you call that superstition too?
People here appear to be a bit confused between the two. I think what they (CA?) are saying is that they can, with some certainty, predict when a spontaneous injury may occur to an athlete. These "injuries" are not of the get-hit-in-the-head/collide-with-opponent type; of course you can't predict those! But there are some injuries (like a torn ligament or a fracture) that can occur while the player is just playing. These you may be able to predict with some certainty, because the body may have given signals earlier about the existing weakness (maybe some antibodies are created, or some other such tracers can be found). Of course, not having seen what kind of inputs the system uses, it is a tough call to say whether this is real or just witchcraft.
The problem with such 'statistical' tools is that statistics can easily be
faked. For example: since they are looking for a 1:1 ratio between SYNs and FINs, all the DDoS initiator has to do is alternate between SYNs and FINs.
Also, as others have mentioned, there's not much anyone can do about faked source IPs. Egress filtering would be a way to counter this, but for some reason not many ISPs do it.
Forgive my ignorance, but would someone mind enlightening the stupid as to who she is? What genre, how good is her music, etc? I might just buy the song if it's any good.
Does the 5GHz frequency mean that my Pringles can won't work anymore? Anyone have some recommendations on some tasty antenna packaging system for 5GHz?
OK, maybe the number of deaths wasn't a record, but the Space Shuttle Challanger disaster should rank up there as a technological disaster (anyone remember Feynman's presentation about the O-rings?)
If everyone calls it hacking, it's hacking by definition
Boy, this takes the cake for lameness. "If everyone calls it..". Who is everyone? If everyone around you calls you a fool, would that make you one?
What are these "multiple definitions" you speak of? Is stealing anything "hacking"? Should we let the ignorant in the media label anything as they see fit, and just follow them like sheep? Use your brains, for cryin' out loud.
You see many, many people complaining their livelihood is being removed by technology - factory workers into robots, craftsmen replaced by factories.... musical groups replaced by one producer and a machine. Local businesses going under because transportation technology is good enough that importing is cheaper.
You are right, I misspoke. What I meant was, "you don't see anybody _doing anything_ about that". By "saying" I meant the decisionmakers, those who are now championing the cause of the RIAA and their ilk.
Technology is a double-edged sword. Sometimes it helps you, sometimes it hurts. You can't just take the good without the bad.
Let me explain. A 100 years ago, when there was no concept of recordings, musicians performed in the public. Anybody who was adept enough could listen to their music, and perform it as his own a few miles down the road.
Then came the recording technology. Suddenly, a musician could be in a 1000 places at once, performing live! Wunderbar, isn't technology great? This also gave birth the recording companies.
Then came the digital music. It allowed the recording companies to make millions of identical copies of a piece of music. The industry was happier than ever, with record revenues(no pun intended).
Now, suddenly this digital revolution has turned around and bit them on the ass, with P2P, DiVX, etc. Suddenly, the recording industry wants to control the technology now.
The fact of the matter is, you don't see anybody else complaining that their livelihood is being hurt by technology! Why should there be an exception for the RIAA?
I agree, asking such a question on/. is like asking a Vegetarian's forum "how do I gut a deer, and which pieces are the best tasting?"
Having said that, I'd recommend that if possible, go with well-known companies like InfoSys, Wipro and Tata. They have extensive offices in the US and Canada, and in the unlikely event that legal recourse is needed, you can drag them into court.
The world has always been a very nasty place. Even before the Internet, people were finding new reasons to butcher each other. Anyone remember Rwanda? Somalia? The Iran-Iraq war? Gassing of the Kurds? These events happened just before the Internet really came into widespread use.
Internet is just a new tool on the block, and it will cause new alliances to be formed, and old alliances to break. After the dust settles down, the butchery will
continue unabated.
In the end, it is the family that counts. It is upto the parents of young children to bring them up not to hate others based on the flimsiest of differences (skin color, shape of eyes, language, etc.). If you have been following recent events in Pakistan, you will see that kids over there are being trained to hate the west with a vengeance in 1000s of madrassas all over that country. It is as if the grown-ups have some unfinished business, and want the kids to grow up and finish it for them.
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Someone please mod the parent up.
Coverage where I live atm (Egypt) is patchy beyond belief,
Try it on top of one of those things called the 'pyramids', maybe the coverage will be better...
Search for the term "search engine" on Google, and Google is ranked first.
Search for the term "search engine" on Teoma, and Teoma is ranked nowhere in the results! (On the first page, at least). Lycos ranks tops there.
You decide.
Why do I need to be told a login is required? Won't I find that out soon enough?
Saves me a wasted click. Why should I go to the LA Times' site, and then be turned away due to a stupid 'free registration' policy? Wouldn't you want to know if a store is open or closed before you leave your house and head for it?
Why reference the NYTimes?
You must be new around here. The NYT's useless policy has been mentioned many times, and people have implemented trivial workarounds. And LAT has switched to this 'free registration' thing recently.
What's this "coping a pose" reference?
What are you, a prude?
Is the LATimes copying from the NYTimes...
Seeing that NYT has had this 'free registration' BS for years, and LAT just started doing this, you make the call. (I hope 'BS' is not too hip for you...)
Learn to read. The italics stuff is that submitted by the submitter; the non-italics text is the editor's opinion/remarks . It is plain as daylight. Maybe you should lurk here longer?
Oh, and by the way: welcome to Slashdot! Next time, pick a name and post using that name.
I mean, come on! Where's the track record? Why can't Microsoft deliver a good, secure OS before making a ham-handed attempt at 'Palladium' ??
Sometimes I wonder if the 'soft' in 'Microsoft' comes from the softness of their brains...
We have encountered instances where companies and individuals constructed entire commercial Web "radio" sites based on links to NPR and similar audio. We have also encountered Web sites of issue advocacy groups that have positioned the audio link to an NPR story such that one cannot tell that NPR is not supporting their cause.
Can someone point out to me some examples of these violations? I'd like to see for myself what these "companies and individuals" are doing, that caused NPR to implement this policy! I'd also like to see how stupid one has to be, to confuse Random Joe's site with NPR's site. And finally, if these said sites are copying the 'look and feel' of NPR's site, there are other time-tested remedies available.
From my experience, these may not be actual offenses, but 'theoretical possibilities' that NPR's lawyers may have raised. It is common for the lawyers to say "Geez.. yaknow, what if XYZ happens? We better protect ourselves just in case!".
Thats because "geek chicks" are a myth, a legend. This notion of "geek chicks" has been around for decades, to keep your coke-bottle-glasses geek from stopping his coding and trying to get a social life.
A "geek chick" occupies the same position in the 'real' world as the Unicorn, Sasquatch, Tibetan Yeti and the Loch Ness monster.
There are rumors of a "geek chick" film (a-la the Patterson/Gimlin film) floating around, but nothing conclusive has been found.
I'm waiting to hear from others who are brave enough to do the upgrade. How painful is it? How many days of downtime are we looking at? :-)
I am not a muslim, but the reason muslims don't eat pork is because the pig is considered a dirty animal. If you've been to one of the third-world countries, you would've seen pigs wallowing in sewers, and that is probably where it comes from.
Speaking of not eating pork: can you tell me why people in the Western culture don't eat dog meat? Would you call that superstition too?
People here appear to be a bit confused between the two. I think what they (CA?) are saying is that they can, with some certainty, predict when a spontaneous injury may occur to an athlete. These "injuries" are not of the get-hit-in-the-head/collide-with-opponent type; of course you can't predict those! But there are some injuries (like a torn ligament or a fracture) that can occur while the player is just playing. These you may be able to predict with some certainty, because the body may have given signals earlier about the existing weakness (maybe some antibodies are created, or some other such tracers can be found). Of course, not having seen what kind of inputs the system uses, it is a tough call to say whether this is real or just witchcraft.
I've looked around at their Challenge site, and can't find any data. I'd like to see what this data looks like...
lets say I said Montreal Canadians .... ? What would you say?
I'd say they are Montreal Canadiens, and not Canadians
A bit different to some people. Just like "InterMilan" and "AC Milan".
Also, as others have mentioned, there's not much anyone can do about faked source IPs. Egress filtering would be a way to counter this, but for some reason not many ISPs do it.
Is it really that difficult to do a Google search ?
Maybe Katz can learn a thing or two about reviewing flicks from Daryl.
Does the 5GHz frequency mean that my Pringles can won't work anymore? Anyone have some recommendations on some tasty antenna packaging system for 5GHz?
Your initial state was something close to a point, too.
OK, maybe the number of deaths wasn't a record, but the Space Shuttle Challanger disaster should rank up there as a technological disaster (anyone remember Feynman's presentation about the O-rings?)
Boy, this takes the cake for lameness. "If everyone calls it..". Who is everyone? If everyone around you calls you a fool, would that make you one?
What are these "multiple definitions" you speak of? Is stealing anything "hacking"? Should we let the ignorant in the media label anything as they see fit, and just follow them like sheep? Use your brains, for cryin' out loud.
Repeat after me: this is not hacking.
Repeat after me: this is not hacking.
Repeat after me: this is not hacking.
This kind of activity is cracking, theft, robbery, a crime; but it is most definitely not hacking.
You are right, I misspoke. What I meant was, "you don't see anybody _doing anything_ about that". By "saying" I meant the decisionmakers, those who are now championing the cause of the RIAA and their ilk.
Let me explain. A 100 years ago, when there was no concept of recordings, musicians performed in the public. Anybody who was adept enough could listen to their music, and perform it as his own a few miles down the road.
Then came the recording technology. Suddenly, a musician could be in a 1000 places at once, performing live! Wunderbar, isn't technology great? This also gave birth the recording companies.
Then came the digital music. It allowed the recording companies to make millions of identical copies of a piece of music. The industry was happier than ever, with record revenues(no pun intended).
Now, suddenly this digital revolution has turned around and bit them on the ass, with P2P, DiVX, etc. Suddenly, the recording industry wants to control the technology now.
The fact of the matter is, you don't see anybody else complaining that their livelihood is being hurt by technology! Why should there be an exception for the RIAA?
Having said that, I'd recommend that if possible, go with well-known companies like InfoSys, Wipro and Tata. They have extensive offices in the US and Canada, and in the unlikely event that legal recourse is needed, you can drag them into court.
Internet is just a new tool on the block, and it will cause new alliances to be formed, and old alliances to break. After the dust settles down, the butchery will continue unabated.
In the end, it is the family that counts. It is upto the parents of young children to bring them up not to hate others based on the flimsiest of differences (skin color, shape of eyes, language, etc.). If you have been following recent events in Pakistan, you will see that kids over there are being trained to hate the west with a vengeance in 1000s of madrassas all over that country. It is as if the grown-ups have some unfinished business, and want the kids to grow up and finish it for them.
I guess they should also build a server to go with that LCD projector, just for such an occasion.