We all know he is a karma whore. Who cares? In case you are reading this Signal11, what are you up to? Have you made it to 1000 karma yet? You could be a record holder!
I log a few things on my server (what time, request, referrer) and have been noticing lots of requests for robots.txt. I've only registered my site with the One True Search Engine, so I would expect a hit to it once a month. But, I am getting 15 or so a day! I just assumed it was some stupid script kiddy who thought the robots.txt file would have something way cool like my root password...I placed a blank file in the web root, and thats it. Anyone else?
Someone must have the same wireless news feed that I get on my pager. Half the stories I see on Slashdot come from my pager! I try to submit them, but someone always gets to it before me.
Anyway, I saw this story earlier today, and wanted to go see what Bill the G. was crying about. I tried to register, using all of my normal free account names.. 'ihatespam' 'johndoe' 'janedoe' etc, and none of them would work! I tried my full name, I tried 'qwertyuiop' and 'poiuytrewq' and even 'qazxswedc' & 'zaqwsxc' to no luck. After nearly 10 minutes trying to get a new username, I gave up. It really, really pissed me off. I don't want a number appended to my name. Hell, I don't even want to register! Free the news! We already have to look at your advertising..
The point of this article is to ask: Does anyone know a way around 'the system?' One used to be able to go to partners.nytimes.com and head to the story, but it no longer works. Too many people from Slashdot.. Is there a name out there that someone can donate to the cause? Anyone?
Wow, watch me get marked down to redundant.. I just tried those same things, and posted the results.. I should have read the comments first! At least I am not alone in my wierd ramblings!
knows where I am! It says my IP address of 10.1.1.43 is located in the Netherlands! I even tried one of my other IP addresses, 192.168.3.15, and it said I was in the Netherlands! That thing sure is smart!
I completely agree with the RIAA about Napster. The MPAA and I are not on the same terms of agreement, but we still are closer on the issues. But this, this is too far. There is absolutely no reason this needs to be done.
Yes, millions of people break copyright law and distribute illegal music, but how many people are distributing 'illegal' copies of digital television shows? Has anyone even considered it? How are they going to go about giving them to the masses? Put them on video tape and send it to all their friends? Come on, if that was an effective solution, then Napster would have never come along, because people would be distributing their cassette tapes years ago! But they didn't, because it is too much trouble! No one is going to spend hours uploading and downloading a movie or a 30 minute talk show, or anything else. No one cares that much.
The only way that these digital shows are being 'pirated' is through several buddies getting together, swilling a few cheap beers, and watching the nudie channel, or the boxing match. The biggest profit they are making is from one of the friends who brought over the beer or chips.
I am so disgusted at this, I may do something that hurts. I may never watch TV again. Really, it will not be that big of a loss. I already do not watch it, and have not for over a year. I never could find anything worth watching, and I see that pattern continuing. Why should I sit in front of a television, watching an hour-long show, that is at least 20 minutes of commertials? There is no reason I need to pay the media services for the privilage of watching their advertising, making them more money. I can get my news from the newspaper, my entertainment will come from a wonderful thing called the library, and my social interaction will come from real people, not people pretending to be over glorified people on TV. Anything else, (as well as those) can be filled up by the Internet. Who needs television anymore?
After all, if the system was changed, and everyone knew what was going on, then how would Google.com go about making millions by raising certain listings?
Note: This is my lame attempt to be funny.. TO answer the question, how about making a search engine that is free, and NOT advertising based? Maybe if the bandwidth was free..
I got so disgusted with the having to register, and the slower response, and all the other crap, I just decided to throw up a mirror. How like me. If anyone is interested, the ad-less, faster, clean version is over at http://johncglass.com/mirror/distwars . htm
Could be. I watch my web server referer logs (the only thing I log) and of all the search engine requests, all but 3 have come from yahoo.com. Now they all come from google.yahoo.com. Its disgusting.
(the other ones were from hotbot.com and altavista.com)
Someone should spread the word about Google..
The Government (aka, the Man ) wants to do the same thing to Microsoft. Someone is going to point to Gaim or any other ones, and life will go on.
I think everyone should be left alone. AOL has brought people to the Internet. Face it. Most of you (myself included) would be out of a job, had AOL not brought millions of people to the Internet using their AOL Chat programs and ideas. Hell, take it another step forward, and watch me get marked down to flaimbait / offtopic / whatever, but had Microsoft not created a OS for stupid idiots, then AOL would not have created a system to allow them to communicate, which would bring hundreds of thousands of businesses to the Internet, looking for any extra money.
Some say porn built the current Internet, but I think AOL had a bigger hand: they provided an easy way for people to chat.
What, someone is surprised that after a billion dollar agreement Yahoo! would come away with just a better search service? Not likely. Yahoo used to have the second best search engine on the Internet, but too many people were leaving to use Google instead. I think Yahoo discovered this, and instead of losing their precious ad revenue, they fed huge amounts of money to Google (which has never made too much money) for their 'search service' but mostly to move their own directory listings up. There was nothing wrong with Yahoo's service, except everyone and their mother knew you had to pay them to be listed on the first 10 searches.
Are you surprised? I'm not.
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I don't know, but as I joined all our favorite Slashdot people (such as CmdrTaco, Hemos, ect)at their Linux World Expo booth, I watched them all boot down their RedHat and go into Windows98. Granted, we were playing Diablo2, but, you wonder how much hipocracy floats around here..
I'm proud to admit I use both. I use everything. Why? because it is my job!
When I checked out the site, it took me nearly 20 minutes to load the first page.. So, in respect to everyone else who may be slashdotting their servers, I opened a ton of windows, and grabbed the entire site, and mirrored it over at http://www.johncglass.com/mirror/solo heli.htm
Why? Because those pics are definately cool! Check em out on a site that runs a little faster~
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AOL / Time Warner is in the next movie!??
I log a few things on my server (what time, request, referrer) and have been noticing lots of requests for robots.txt. I've only registered my site with the One True Search Engine, so I would expect a hit to it once a month. But, I am getting 15 or so a day! I just assumed it was some stupid script kiddy who thought the robots.txt file would have something way cool like my root password...I placed a blank file in the web root, and thats it. Anyone else?
Enjoy!
goto http://johncglass.com/leethaxors.htm and you will learn about being l33t!
Anyway, I saw this story earlier today, and wanted to go see what Bill the G. was crying about. I tried to register, using all of my normal free account names.. 'ihatespam' 'johndoe' 'janedoe' etc, and none of them would work! I tried my full name, I tried 'qwertyuiop' and 'poiuytrewq' and even 'qazxswedc' & 'zaqwsxc' to no luck. After nearly 10 minutes trying to get a new username, I gave up. It really, really pissed me off. I don't want a number appended to my name. Hell, I don't even want to register! Free the news! We already have to look at your advertising..
The point of this article is to ask: Does anyone know a way around 'the system?' One used to be able to go to partners.nytimes.com and head to the story, but it no longer works. Too many people from Slashdot.. Is there a name out there that someone can donate to the cause? Anyone?
ITOlympics.com is a placeholder for someone's Cobalt. Try www.itolympics.org
and I'm so glad it was rejected. I had a better story, and better links. Kinda dissappointing..
Wow, watch me get marked down to redundant.. I just tried those same things, and posted the results.. I should have read the comments first! At least I am not alone in my wierd ramblings!
knows where I am! It says my IP address of 10.1.1.43 is located in the Netherlands! I even tried one of my other IP addresses, 192.168.3.15, and it said I was in the Netherlands! That thing sure is smart!
Yes, millions of people break copyright law and distribute illegal music, but how many people are distributing 'illegal' copies of digital television shows? Has anyone even considered it? How are they going to go about giving them to the masses? Put them on video tape and send it to all their friends? Come on, if that was an effective solution, then Napster would have never come along, because people would be distributing their cassette tapes years ago! But they didn't, because it is too much trouble! No one is going to spend hours uploading and downloading a movie or a 30 minute talk show, or anything else. No one cares that much.
The only way that these digital shows are being 'pirated' is through several buddies getting together, swilling a few cheap beers, and watching the nudie channel, or the boxing match. The biggest profit they are making is from one of the friends who brought over the beer or chips.
I am so disgusted at this, I may do something that hurts. I may never watch TV again. Really, it will not be that big of a loss. I already do not watch it, and have not for over a year. I never could find anything worth watching, and I see that pattern continuing. Why should I sit in front of a television, watching an hour-long show, that is at least 20 minutes of commertials? There is no reason I need to pay the media services for the privilage of watching their advertising, making them more money. I can get my news from the newspaper, my entertainment will come from a wonderful thing called the library, and my social interaction will come from real people, not people pretending to be over glorified people on TV. Anything else, (as well as those) can be filled up by the Internet. Who needs television anymore?
Note: This is my lame attempt to be funny.. TO answer the question, how about making a search engine that is free, and NOT advertising based? Maybe if the bandwidth was free..
I got so disgusted with the having to register, and the slower response, and all the other crap, I just decided to throw up a mirror. How like me. If anyone is interested, the ad-less, faster, clean version is over at http://johncglass.com/mirror/distwars . htm
(the other ones were from hotbot.com and altavista.com) Someone should spread the word about Google..
I think everyone should be left alone. AOL has brought people to the Internet. Face it. Most of you (myself included) would be out of a job, had AOL not brought millions of people to the Internet using their AOL Chat programs and ideas. Hell, take it another step forward, and watch me get marked down to flaimbait / offtopic / whatever, but had Microsoft not created a OS for stupid idiots, then AOL would not have created a system to allow them to communicate, which would bring hundreds of thousands of businesses to the Internet, looking for any extra money.
Some say porn built the current Internet, but I think AOL had a bigger hand: they provided an easy way for people to chat.
Are you surprised? I'm not.
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I did some searching around and found http://www.mirstation.com./news_news15. html It gives a more in-depth look at what the show hopes to do (other than draw ratings)
I have a feeling kids will just not shop at K-Mart or Walmart anymore. Off to Comp-USA or Buy.com to get my violent games..
http://www.johncglass.com/fun.htm
I'm proud to admit I use both. I use everything. Why? because it is my job!
DOn't you mean fishy?
Why? Because those pics are definately cool! Check em out on a site that runs a little faster~