A few years back one company's software identified my site under "Illegal: Gambling." Since it's a movie site, that was way off. I contacted the company and explained the situation to them. After a short exchange with 2 of their techs, they removed the tag from my site in their system.
Any filtering software needs a system for site owners to submit trouble tickets, and also employees, who can think independently, to review them and make corrections.
Apparently quite a few birds can also see UV. Knowing that, would it be possible to use a UV light system to steer birds away from windmills? It appears that bird deaths is a major problem point for the renewable energy source, so any passive way of warding birds away from them would be a good thing.
People, please stop selecting every option when you buy a computer. And stop installing everything you can find onto your new laptop. Whenever a friend or family member brings me a newly purchased Dell computer to look at, I spend no small amount of effort removing numerous programs that Dell, by default, thinks that every computer needs. Then I spend another 30 minutes removing various things that they or their offspring have installed, because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Them: "I just bought a new computer and installed some of my software on it. Now it's not working right. Can you take a look at it for me?" Me: "Sure. Wait, did you just buy this computer in 2013?" Them: "Yes." Me: "Why does it have TurboTax 2001 installed?" Them: "What if I need to open my 2001 tax return?" Me: "When is the last time you opened your 2001 tax return?" Them: "2002." Me: "Is this Napster? Did you install Napster on this?" Them: "Yes." Me: "Arrrggggghhh!"
This happens quite often. Usually, the bad guys are quite sneaky as well. They start a campaign running on the ad network that is served the bad guy's ad server. During the normal week, Monday to Friday, the ads behave and do nothing malicious. Come the weekend, when the ad network has limited staff (or for some networks, only on call support), the bad guys change the ad to serve malicious code. If they make it through the weekend without getting caught, they change the ad back to the normal one before Monday morning.
Sometimes the bad guys will impersonate a reputable company, and they can be quite convincing about it.
The only real way to stop this is to make it so that advertisers cannot change active ads without them being reviewed by the advertising firm. That means ads only being served from the ad network's servers (which will not go over well with all advertisers), more staff to ensure ads are reviewed in a timely fashion, and a number of other changes that everyone needs to adapt to.
A software solution to spot and halt bad ads would be ideal. However, it is difficult for most antivirus/antimalware software to scan the ads for malware, because new stuff pops up all the time.
Last month they announced their fusion breakthrough, and now they have a super drink. One can only imagine what wonders they will reveal in July, perhaps self buttering toast.
Bah. Wake me up when North Korea announces that they are going to release "Duke Nukem Forever."
There are quite a few webmasters who run their ads inside of iframes, as that usually avoids a slow ad holding up the rest of the page loading. The bad thing about that is that expandable ads (even polite, user-initiated) do not work. There are also some other tricks webmasters use, such as creating division tags and then using a bit of javascript trickery to move the ad loading to a point after the content loads.
Webmasters do hate slow ads (not to mention bad ads). I love direct sale campaigns on my site, because they almost always are run from my ad server. If that is slow, my whole site is slow anyway - and that happens very, very rarely (it has been months).
I am going to hit two points I didn't see mentioned.
The first is that the intensity of your exercise matters a lot. High intensity burns a lot more calories than medium or low intensity. Jog 3 miles at an easy pace. Now run 1.5 miles pushing yourself. You'll see a difference. The same goes for working other parts of the body. One routine I like to do is 10 pull-ups, 20 push-ups, 40 abs (bicycle crunches, obliques, etc.) - do 8 sets of that, then run 3 miles. When I'm trying to improve, I push myself and it works. However, I can do that same workout for weeks at just medium intensity (taking my time) and I don't see an improvement in my performance. High intensity also burns calories faster.
Oh, and a good exercise session will increase your metabolism for hours. Do it early.
Another issue is that when you eat your calories matters. Having a big meal helps to set your body's metabolism for the day. Your other meals should be sensible, but don't have a huge dinner and then go to bed 2 hours later. That's terrible for losing weight. I tell people trying to lose weight to have a healthy breakfast, decent lunch, and then keep dinner reasonable, and dinner cannot be right before bed. After dinner the only thing you should be doing is drinking water. Don't starve yourself; you have to take in calories or else your body slows down metabolism.
If someone is exercising and thinks they are watching what they eat, I also tell them to keep a journal of everything they eat and drink (except water). They often find they've picked up calories in expected places, like sports drinks or a food item.
There's a lot more to losing weight and getting in shape, but I'm pressed for time.
Unlimited is obviously a gimmick, as there are limits to anything. Most "unlimited" plans have rules about usage, be it CPU or other, that allows the host to suspend the account. "unlimited" plans that cost $9.95 a month should be viewed with a critical eye. You get what you pay for with hosting. Before buying a hosting plan do some research on what hosts provide quality service, what price they charge, and what can be expected in terms of support. Oh, and always keep local backups of your data, and never sign up for an extended contract.
1&1 does not have a great reputation on www.webhostingtalk.com. Anyone with an interest in reading about the perils of unlimited plans (or hosting in general) should browse around that site.
I was not able to participate in Raging Boll, where he boxed some Internet critics of his films. I am a bit more physically inclined than the individuals that he faced in that PR stunt.
I know that, somewhere, a crazy genetic engineer is holding one of those little venomous beasts in his hand and thinking to himself, "These are cool. I wish they were bigger!"
His office is right next door to the insane scientist who is trying to breed 40 lb tarantulas, and down the hall from the aquarium-hugging genius who wants to cross flying fish with piranhas.
I was just talking to a friend about this 2 days ago. The problem for Blu-ray is that they have been putting an awful lot of newer films out, but half (or more) of that is crap. They need to find those cult films, those movies that people always buy for their collections, not the ones they rent, and put them out. Todd, the friend, mentioned that "The Nightmare Before Christmas" Blu-ray was stunning, and that he had finally seen a Blu-ray of "The Thing."
Some films that jumped to mind: The Wizard of Oz, The Dark Crystal, almost anything by Harryhausen, the original Star Wars trilogy, the Man with No Name trilogy, Saving Private Ryan, and any of the good Godzilla or Gamera films.
The format is fighting an uphill battle against the fact that DVD is great; DVD is what the consumer expects now. Blu-ray is higher definition, and the cases are a little smaller, but it needs the titles. Just like a gaming console: you can have a great console, but you need some great titles to get people to buy it.
Ha! Like Ian McDonald's bit in the story "The Days of Solomon Gursky" that angry teenagers made for the best pilots in attack spacecraft. There's also another story by Poul Anderson, "The Saturn Game," that deals with astronauts becoming very involved in an RPG they spin between themselves to pass the time.
[quote] So how did they keep your eyes immobilized during REM sleep? Something just isn't right. [quote]
Afraid that I do not have a good answer for you there. I can only tell you what I had to do for that month. I did get drops a few times a day, and I do not know exactly what they did. The doctor's visits were bad, because I was strapped into some sort of head vise and my eye pressed into what felt like a metal cup. Not a lot of fun for a 12 year old.
I sustained a serious eye injury when I was about 12 that required me to stay in bed, on my back - only on my back, not my side - for a month. The injured eye was covered with a bandage. I could not read, watch TV, or do anything that might cause the eye to be used (apparently the covered eye would move in unison with the uninjured one if I read or watched TV).
So, except for necessary restroom breaks, and a short bath every 2 or 3 days, I was stuck in that bed with just a radio for entertainment. It was not pleasant. Even less pleasant because Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" was the big hit at the time. That song still causes an unpleasant Pavlov reaction over two decades later.
Society benefits the most when something that is created is in the public domain, meaning that nobody holds a copyright. Society, as a whole, owns the work. Shakespeare's plays, most of the writings of Mark Twain, and music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach are in the public domain. Everyone is free to create alternate versions, perform them, or even make a movie with them without getting permission or paying royalties.
However, society also recognizes that people might not have any reason to write books, make movies, or sing songs if everyone else can immediately copy their work. Copyright is a carrot offered by society to help promote the creation of new works. When you get down to it, society is saying, "We understand that there must be some reason for you to create. If you create something, then cannot benefit from it, you will not have a reason to create more works. So, to encourage you, here is a limited period of protection so that you might benefit."
Obviously, this was going to happen sooner or later as online selling matured. I believe that many smaller, independent operations will run afoul of this until the change becomes common knowledge. Something all of those little online retailers will need is a website where they can go to check the current sales tax for the state they are shipping to (if their online ordering system does not calculate it automatically).
If we really wanted to stop him from making movies, the time was during the "Raging Boll" boxing matches. Putting somebody in the ring against him that could actually throw down should have been the goal. Try to pound Uwe's head hard enough to cause brain damage.
That would have either stopped the movies from coming, or, at the very least, improved their quality.
Copyright has absolutely nothing to do with "An artist should be able to live off of their work for their entire life." Society should not support someone for something that they did more than seventy years in the past.
Society benefits the most when something is public domain. That way everyone can use, enjoy it, etc. However, Society tells artists "I understand that you have more reason to create if, for a limited time, you can benefit from what you create. To encourage you, we will offer you a limited period of control over your work - so that you may benefit. At the end of that, it becomes everyone's property. In this manner, we all will benefit."
Without wanting to blow my own trumpet, my comment was modded +5, and you were the only one (apparently) who misunderstood it.
Quit trying to turn the tables and attack me to cover your own stupidity and/or laziness. Wrong. I disagree with you that people who are not experts should stay silent on issues. That is BS. The whole reason for Slashdot and forums is that if you take enough people focusing on one subject, you usually get what amounts to a thesis (when you find all the important information/thoughts) on that subject.
The people who modded you most likely agree with your first sentence, but Slashdot karma is so fickle that trumpeting one post as being "the truth" because it was modded up is ludicrous.
Keep calling me stupid because I disagree with you. I have noted that people are 100X more likely to call someone stupid online.
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A few years back one company's software identified my site under "Illegal: Gambling." Since it's a movie site, that was way off. I contacted the company and explained the situation to them. After a short exchange with 2 of their techs, they removed the tag from my site in their system.
Any filtering software needs a system for site owners to submit trouble tickets, and also employees, who can think independently, to review them and make corrections.
Apparently quite a few birds can also see UV. Knowing that, would it be possible to use a UV light system to steer birds away from windmills? It appears that bird deaths is a major problem point for the renewable energy source, so any passive way of warding birds away from them would be a good thing.
People, please stop selecting every option when you buy a computer. And stop installing everything you can find onto your new laptop. Whenever a friend or family member brings me a newly purchased Dell computer to look at, I spend no small amount of effort removing numerous programs that Dell, by default, thinks that every computer needs. Then I spend another 30 minutes removing various things that they or their offspring have installed, because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Them: "I just bought a new computer and installed some of my software on it. Now it's not working right. Can you take a look at it for me?"
Me: "Sure. Wait, did you just buy this computer in 2013?"
Them: "Yes."
Me: "Why does it have TurboTax 2001 installed?"
Them: "What if I need to open my 2001 tax return?"
Me: "When is the last time you opened your 2001 tax return?"
Them: "2002."
Me: "Is this Napster? Did you install Napster on this?"
Them: "Yes."
Me: "Arrrggggghhh!"
...just to play "Questron" again.
And "Forbidden Forest"
And "Wizard's Crown"
While I'm making wishes, maybe they could let it run the 3DO version of "Star Control II" as well.
No, I don't want an emulator. I want all the same colors and the same beeps, though I do want it to run faster than my C64 did.
This happens quite often. Usually, the bad guys are quite sneaky as well. They start a campaign running on the ad network that is served the bad guy's ad server. During the normal week, Monday to Friday, the ads behave and do nothing malicious. Come the weekend, when the ad network has limited staff (or for some networks, only on call support), the bad guys change the ad to serve malicious code. If they make it through the weekend without getting caught, they change the ad back to the normal one before Monday morning.
Sometimes the bad guys will impersonate a reputable company, and they can be quite convincing about it.
The only real way to stop this is to make it so that advertisers cannot change active ads without them being reviewed by the advertising firm. That means ads only being served from the ad network's servers (which will not go over well with all advertisers), more staff to ensure ads are reviewed in a timely fashion, and a number of other changes that everyone needs to adapt to.
A software solution to spot and halt bad ads would be ideal. However, it is difficult for most antivirus/antimalware software to scan the ads for malware, because new stuff pops up all the time.
Last month they announced their fusion breakthrough, and now they have a super drink. One can only imagine what wonders they will reveal in July, perhaps self buttering toast.
Bah. Wake me up when North Korea announces that they are going to release "Duke Nukem Forever."
More people have fallen in holes playing "E.T." on the Atari than in real life, and that's not a great game by anyone's standards.
There are quite a few webmasters who run their ads inside of iframes, as that usually avoids a slow ad holding up the rest of the page loading. The bad thing about that is that expandable ads (even polite, user-initiated) do not work. There are also some other tricks webmasters use, such as creating division tags and then using a bit of javascript trickery to move the ad loading to a point after the content loads.
Webmasters do hate slow ads (not to mention bad ads). I love direct sale campaigns on my site, because they almost always are run from my ad server. If that is slow, my whole site is slow anyway - and that happens very, very rarely (it has been months).
I am going to hit two points I didn't see mentioned.
The first is that the intensity of your exercise matters a lot. High intensity burns a lot more calories than medium or low intensity. Jog 3 miles at an easy pace. Now run 1.5 miles pushing yourself. You'll see a difference. The same goes for working other parts of the body. One routine I like to do is 10 pull-ups, 20 push-ups, 40 abs (bicycle crunches, obliques, etc.) - do 8 sets of that, then run 3 miles. When I'm trying to improve, I push myself and it works. However, I can do that same workout for weeks at just medium intensity (taking my time) and I don't see an improvement in my performance. High intensity also burns calories faster.
Oh, and a good exercise session will increase your metabolism for hours. Do it early.
Another issue is that when you eat your calories matters. Having a big meal helps to set your body's metabolism for the day. Your other meals should be sensible, but don't have a huge dinner and then go to bed 2 hours later. That's terrible for losing weight. I tell people trying to lose weight to have a healthy breakfast, decent lunch, and then keep dinner reasonable, and dinner cannot be right before bed. After dinner the only thing you should be doing is drinking water. Don't starve yourself; you have to take in calories or else your body slows down metabolism.
If someone is exercising and thinks they are watching what they eat, I also tell them to keep a journal of everything they eat and drink (except water). They often find they've picked up calories in expected places, like sports drinks or a food item.
There's a lot more to losing weight and getting in shape, but I'm pressed for time.
Unlimited is obviously a gimmick, as there are limits to anything. Most "unlimited" plans have rules about usage, be it CPU or other, that allows the host to suspend the account. "unlimited" plans that cost $9.95 a month should be viewed with a critical eye. You get what you pay for with hosting. Before buying a hosting plan do some research on what hosts provide quality service, what price they charge, and what can be expected in terms of support. Oh, and always keep local backups of your data, and never sign up for an extended contract.
1&1 does not have a great reputation on www.webhostingtalk.com. Anyone with an interest in reading about the perils of unlimited plans (or hosting in general) should browse around that site.
Does he beat Uwe Boll in cinematic disasters?
I was not able to participate in Raging Boll, where he boxed some Internet critics of his films. I am a bit more physically inclined than the individuals that he faced in that PR stunt.
I know that, somewhere, a crazy genetic engineer is holding one of those little venomous beasts in his hand and thinking to himself, "These are cool. I wish they were bigger!"
His office is right next door to the insane scientist who is trying to breed 40 lb tarantulas, and down the hall from the aquarium-hugging genius who wants to cross flying fish with piranhas.
This has "Sci Fi Channel Original" (Movie) written all over it.
I was just talking to a friend about this 2 days ago. The problem for Blu-ray is that they have been putting an awful lot of newer films out, but half (or more) of that is crap. They need to find those cult films, those movies that people always buy for their collections, not the ones they rent, and put them out. Todd, the friend, mentioned that "The Nightmare Before Christmas" Blu-ray was stunning, and that he had finally seen a Blu-ray of "The Thing."
Some films that jumped to mind: The Wizard of Oz, The Dark Crystal, almost anything by Harryhausen, the original Star Wars trilogy, the Man with No Name trilogy, Saving Private Ryan, and any of the good Godzilla or Gamera films.
The format is fighting an uphill battle against the fact that DVD is great; DVD is what the consumer expects now. Blu-ray is higher definition, and the cases are a little smaller, but it needs the titles. Just like a gaming console: you can have a great console, but you need some great titles to get people to buy it.
I think we can all agree that it is nice to see the director of "The Star Wars Holiday Special" working again.
I jest, but how many of you are going to check the IMDb now?
Ha! Like Ian McDonald's bit in the story "The Days of Solomon Gursky" that angry teenagers made for the best pilots in attack spacecraft. There's also another story by Poul Anderson, "The Saturn Game," that deals with astronauts becoming very involved in an RPG they spin between themselves to pass the time.
[quote]
So how did they keep your eyes immobilized during REM sleep? Something just isn't right.
[quote]
Afraid that I do not have a good answer for you there. I can only tell you what I had to do for that month. I did get drops a few times a day, and I do not know exactly what they did. The doctor's visits were bad, because I was strapped into some sort of head vise and my eye pressed into what felt like a metal cup. Not a lot of fun for a 12 year old.
I sustained a serious eye injury when I was about 12 that required me to stay in bed, on my back - only on my back, not my side - for a month. The injured eye was covered with a bandage. I could not read, watch TV, or do anything that might cause the eye to be used (apparently the covered eye would move in unison with the uninjured one if I read or watched TV).
So, except for necessary restroom breaks, and a short bath every 2 or 3 days, I was stuck in that bed with just a radio for entertainment. It was not pleasant. Even less pleasant because Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" was the big hit at the time. That song still causes an unpleasant Pavlov reaction over two decades later.
From a fair use essay I wrote:
Society benefits the most when something that is created is in the public domain, meaning that nobody holds a copyright. Society, as a whole, owns the work. Shakespeare's plays, most of the writings of Mark Twain, and music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach are in the public domain. Everyone is free to create alternate versions, perform them, or even make a movie with them without getting permission or paying royalties.
However, society also recognizes that people might not have any reason to write books, make movies, or sing songs if everyone else can immediately copy their work. Copyright is a carrot offered by society to help promote the creation of new works. When you get down to it, society is saying, "We understand that there must be some reason for you to create. If you create something, then cannot benefit from it, you will not have a reason to create more works. So, to encourage you, here is a limited period of protection so that you might benefit."
Emphasis on the limited.
...it is written in pencil, and comes with an eraser and a pencil so that I can treat it like the real Wikipedia.
Obviously, this was going to happen sooner or later as online selling matured. I believe that many smaller, independent operations will run afoul of this until the change becomes common knowledge. Something all of those little online retailers will need is a website where they can go to check the current sales tax for the state they are shipping to (if their online ordering system does not calculate it automatically).
If we really wanted to stop him from making movies, the time was during the "Raging Boll" boxing matches. Putting somebody in the ring against him that could actually throw down should have been the goal. Try to pound Uwe's head hard enough to cause brain damage.
That would have either stopped the movies from coming, or, at the very least, improved their quality.
I did as well. Didn't know it was out on DVD now, so I thank you kindly, sir.
Off to Amazon I go...
Copyright has absolutely nothing to do with "An artist should be able to live off of their work for their entire life." Society should not support someone for something that they did more than seventy years in the past.
Society benefits the most when something is public domain. That way everyone can use, enjoy it, etc. However, Society tells artists "I understand that you have more reason to create if, for a limited time, you can benefit from what you create. To encourage you, we will offer you a limited period of control over your work - so that you may benefit. At the end of that, it becomes everyone's property. In this manner, we all will benefit."
That is the intent of copyright.
Quit trying to turn the tables and attack me to cover your own stupidity and/or laziness. Wrong. I disagree with you that people who are not experts should stay silent on issues. That is BS. The whole reason for Slashdot and forums is that if you take enough people focusing on one subject, you usually get what amounts to a thesis (when you find all the important information/thoughts) on that subject.
The people who modded you most likely agree with your first sentence, but Slashdot karma is so fickle that trumpeting one post as being "the truth" because it was modded up is ludicrous.
Keep calling me stupid because I disagree with you. I have noted that people are 100X more likely to call someone stupid online.