There is some anecdotal evidence that Google's robot (Googlebot) can get confused when IP numbers are reassigned.
Oh yes, this was a real problem for me. I run poetrycontestonline.com and I also registered psychicweb.net in an insane fit, thinking I could capitalize on the Ms. Cleo and John Edward syndrome. I let psychicweb.net expire after pointing it to the same IP address as poetrycontestonline.com as a virtual host. For months after psychicweb.net expired, google thought that poetrycontestonline.com was psychicweb.net. A search for poetrycontestonline.com would yield cache links that had psychicweb.net as the domain name. Also, searches on things like "Free Poetry Contest" would yield links to psychicweb.net and not poetrycontestonline.com, which means that after the domain expired, I was effectively removed from google for almost a year.
I hope they got it fixed now, because this behavior was very annoying. Had my site been more of a real business site, I would have been pretty pissed off about it.
Quit pluging your favorite mp3 player and read the post.
Heh, he posted the post, I'm sure he read it.:)
BTW Cliff- I think this is a good precedent, rather than editorializing in the story, posting a comment instead. This is something people have been asking for for quite a while.
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Well, betting on a third party's performance may not be legal, such as done in craps, but in blackjack you only bet on your own performance right?
I'd say that could be the same as paying an entry fee to a contest of skill, which is legal generally. The laws vary widely from state to state, so it's probably not something that ever would be universal.
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I think you are confused. Games of skill for cash are legal everywhere. Think of a clay shooting competition with a money prize, or a golf tourney. Now, the casinos may have something to lose if blackjack were ruled a game of skill, because that means every non-gambling-regulated corner bar can have blackjack tables.
It's like those quarter pusher machines, if they meet ceratin requirements, they pass off as games of skill rather than gambling, though they are in a grey area, depending on the implementation. The courts have ruled that there needs to be certain elements for it to be considered a game of skill, like a button to stop the table movement, and a aimable coin slot, things like that.
Heh, the first thing I thought of also was Rearden steel.
That's pretty cool that it really happened though.
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EVERYONE!! THIS IS AS THIN AS A SHEET OF PAPER!!!
Use your heads
Not to beat a dead horse, but if you have trouble convincing the Slashdot crowd, how do you think the general public would feel about this? Assume there really is no risk, now convince the public to let you build one of these in their back yard.
I still don't buy that there is no risk, even if it is paper thin and can cause no damage on its own. The whole idea is that you are going to be lofting very heavy objects without thrust systems, a breakage would mean that this thrust-less heavy equipment would also come hurtling down. I guess this could be mitigated by parachutes, but lets just say, this technology is going to be a hard sell.
I don't get it. Carmack said no one had done side-scrolling on an IBM PC, you say your C=64 had it, and that the article is therefore flawed.
Well, I seem to remember SOPWITH.EXE had some pretty smooth side scrolling, and that was on a REAL IBM PC. They make it out to sound like Carmack invented double buffering, he did not.
My point was that even the original IBM PC was over 6 times faster than a C64, so smooth side scrolling on it is no feat.
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Pick a maximum yield on impact, and you have a maximum cable weight. Use a thin enough cable to meet this weight restriction, and you have an adequately disaster-proof elevator (it'll make a mess, but not wreck the world's climate).
Have you been asleep the last year? People got all uptight because a few thousand people died in some falling buildings, and you think the world would accept a space elevator "making a mess" by destroying a huge swath
Cracked monitor once (which was admittedly my fault), monitor hinge snapped (was NOT my fault), blown mainboard, misaligned cover twice, and bad charging circuit. It's decrepit. Next time I'm getting a VAIO.
Finding an open source (not GPL) graphics engine and picking the 3D modeling tools alone has taken months, and we still have not found a solution we like.
OK, let me get this straight. You want to find a graphics engine that you can rip off and sell, and you are bitching that you can't find anything good? Maybe it's because most people GPL their code to protect it from people like you.
Just because a firewall can be hacked through doesn't mean you just don't put one up -
That's like saying the best way to avoid a government raid on your cult compound is to build bigger walls. I think Waco shows otherwise. If they government wants to get you, and they have the legal grounds to do it, no technical measure will stand in their way.
And also, jobs lost to CGI will cause jobs to be created in other fields. CGI isn't just a lone guy hacking at a computer, even when looking at only the technical side, and ignoring the previous poster's good points about acting jobs.
Heh, Forensics is part of my job, it's part of any person's job if they are responsible for servers.
A basic familiarity of forensic ideas is necessary if you are to preserve data in the event of a major break-in that causes a large economic loss. It's not something only for cops.
There have been ongoing discussions about how to preserve the integrity of live data, it seems the consensus is that the best you can do is document every move you make, and use industry standard tools.
In the case of a break-in where a big loss of money is involved and charges might be pressed, it seems it's best for the admin of the server to just take as few steps as necessary to preserve the integrity of the network, and to document everything.
It's tricky business from what I gather of lurking there.
It has nothing to do with "sensitive" research. We shouldn't be forced to scurry into our holes like so many mice, there is supposed to be a presumption of innocence in this country.
I'm a member of the forensics mailing list at security focus, and I can assure you no FBI investigator would be stupid enough to turn off the computer until live data was collected. (If the local cops got involved first, then all bets are off). The only benefit to a RAM disk would be the lack of traces left behind if it were rebooted regularly.
Preventing this abuse through legal means is a far better solution. Trying to address a legal problem through technical means is about as dumb as the many attempts to solve technical problems through legal means.
Ephedrine is not a herb, it is a chemical. I'm well aware to what I am referring to.
Pseudoephedrine and Ephedrine are closely chemically related, either could be used in the production of amphetamines, which really has the government itchy. Go to WalMart and try to buy 10 boxes of Sudafed and you will see what I mean.
The only reason I know this stuff is because I am active in the drug law reform movement.
You are wrong about pseudoephedrine and ephedrine not being closly chemically related. They are nearly identical.
For example: http://www.ephedra.demon.nl/stories/chem ical.htm
On heating ephedrine hydrochloride with 5% hydrochloric acid, under pressure, at 170-180C (248) or with 25% acid, at 100C, the compound is partially converted to pseudo-ephedrine (20, 32, 40).
Slashdot Mirror
There is some anecdotal evidence that Google's robot (Googlebot) can get confused when IP numbers are reassigned.
Oh yes, this was a real problem for me. I run poetrycontestonline.com and I also registered psychicweb.net in an insane fit, thinking I could capitalize on the Ms. Cleo and John Edward syndrome. I let psychicweb.net expire after pointing it to the same IP address as poetrycontestonline.com as a virtual host. For months after psychicweb.net expired, google thought that poetrycontestonline.com was psychicweb.net. A search for poetrycontestonline.com would yield cache links that had psychicweb.net as the domain name. Also, searches on things like "Free Poetry Contest" would yield links to psychicweb.net and not poetrycontestonline.com, which means that after the domain expired, I was effectively removed from google for almost a year.
I hope they got it fixed now, because this behavior was very annoying. Had my site been more of a real business site, I would have been pretty pissed off about it.
Quit pluging your favorite mp3 player and read the post.
:)
Heh, he posted the post, I'm sure he read it.
BTW Cliff- I think this is a good precedent, rather than editorializing in the story, posting a comment instead. This is something people have been asking for for quite a while.
Well, betting on a third party's performance may not be legal, such as done in craps, but in blackjack you only bet on your own performance right?
I'd say that could be the same as paying an entry fee to a contest of skill, which is legal generally. The laws vary widely from state to state, so it's probably not something that ever would be universal.
I think you are confused. Games of skill for cash are legal everywhere. Think of a clay shooting competition with a money prize, or a golf tourney. Now, the casinos may have something to lose if blackjack were ruled a game of skill, because that means every non-gambling-regulated corner bar can have blackjack tables.
It's like those quarter pusher machines, if they meet ceratin requirements, they pass off as games of skill rather than gambling, though they are in a grey area, depending on the implementation. The courts have ruled that there needs to be certain elements for it to be considered a game of skill, like a button to stop the table movement, and a aimable coin slot, things like that.
The alternative is using a form POST method, in which case you would not be able to directly link to it at all.
/index.shtml.
Ironic, this is the error slashdot gave me when I tried to post this message:
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL
Heh, the first thing I thought of also was Rearden steel.
That's pretty cool that it really happened though.
EVERYONE!! THIS IS AS THIN AS A SHEET OF PAPER!!!
Use your heads
Not to beat a dead horse, but if you have trouble convincing the Slashdot crowd, how do you think the general public would feel about this? Assume there really is no risk, now convince the public to let you build one of these in their back yard.
I still don't buy that there is no risk, even if it is paper thin and can cause no damage on its own. The whole idea is that you are going to be lofting very heavy objects without thrust systems, a breakage would mean that this thrust-less heavy equipment would also come hurtling down. I guess this could be mitigated by parachutes, but lets just say, this technology is going to be a hard sell.
I don't get it. Carmack said no one had done side-scrolling on an IBM PC, you say your C=64 had it, and that the article is therefore flawed.
Well, I seem to remember SOPWITH.EXE had some pretty smooth side scrolling, and that was on a REAL IBM PC. They make it out to sound like Carmack invented double buffering, he did not.
My point was that even the original IBM PC was over 6 times faster than a C64, so smooth side scrolling on it is no feat.
"We had clear examples of console games [like Mario] that did smooth scrolling," John Carmack says, "but [in 1990] no one had done it on an IBM PC."
Funny, my C64 had many side scrolling games, smooth as can be.
The article is also full of other technical inaccuracies, it's almost as if the people who wrote it knew nothing of the game industry.
It would be long enough to fall onto land, no matter what ocean you put it in.
OK, so who wants to write a patch for the pbmupc utility?
pbmupc: type code must be one digit, and manufacturer and product codes must be five digits
See SCSI/IDE for another example.
Pick a maximum yield on impact, and you have a maximum cable weight. Use a thin enough cable to meet this weight restriction, and you have an adequately disaster-proof elevator (it'll make a mess, but not wreck the world's climate).
Have you been asleep the last year? People got all uptight because a few thousand people died in some falling buildings, and you think the world would accept a space elevator "making a mess" by destroying a huge swath
make sure it doesn't boot the CD this time, w8, enter name, w8, enter timezone/language etc, w8, enter IP(etc) or choose dhcp. w8, log in.
Where is this "w8" key?
Oh, maybe your "a","i", and "t" keys are broken.... No that can't be it, you used them elsewhere in your message.
Maybe you have trouble spelling "wait"? I can understand, it is a pretty complicated word to spell.
Maybe you enjoy destroying the credibility of your whole message, and eroding the meaning of the english language with AOL leet chat speak?
Some people I just don't get.
Cracked monitor once (which was admittedly my fault), monitor hinge snapped (was NOT my fault), blown mainboard, misaligned cover twice, and bad charging circuit.
It's decrepit. Next time I'm getting a VAIO.
Haha, out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Finding an open source (not GPL) graphics engine and picking the 3D modeling tools alone has taken months, and we still have not found a solution we like.
OK, let me get this straight. You want to find a graphics engine that you can rip off and sell, and you are bitching that you can't find anything good? Maybe it's because most people GPL their code to protect it from people like you.
Just because a firewall can be hacked through doesn't mean you just don't put one up -
That's like saying the best way to avoid a government raid on your cult compound is to build bigger walls. I think Waco shows otherwise. If they government wants to get you, and they have the legal grounds to do it, no technical measure will stand in their way.
And also, jobs lost to CGI will cause jobs to be created in other fields. CGI isn't just a lone guy hacking at a computer, even when looking at only the technical side, and ignoring the previous poster's good points about acting jobs.
Heh, Forensics is part of my job, it's part of any person's job if they are responsible for servers.
A basic familiarity of forensic ideas is necessary if you are to preserve data in the event of a major break-in that causes a large economic loss. It's not something only for cops.
There have been ongoing discussions about how to preserve the integrity of live data, it seems the consensus is that the best you can do is document every move you make, and use industry standard tools.
In the case of a break-in where a big loss of money is involved and charges might be pressed, it seems it's best for the admin of the server to just take as few steps as necessary to preserve the integrity of the network, and to document everything.
It's tricky business from what I gather of lurking there.
It has nothing to do with "sensitive" research. We shouldn't be forced to scurry into our holes like so many mice, there is supposed to be a presumption of innocence in this country.
The wasted vote argument is tired.
Just go vote for who you believe in, and it doesn't matter who wins. It is most definitely possible to lose the battle to win the war.
I'm a member of the forensics mailing list at security focus, and I can assure you no FBI investigator would be stupid enough to turn off the computer until live data was collected. (If the local cops got involved first, then all bets are off). The only benefit to a RAM disk would be the lack of traces left behind if it were rebooted regularly.
Preventing this abuse through legal means is a far better solution. Trying to address a legal problem through technical means is about as dumb as the many attempts to solve technical problems through legal means.
Ephedrine is not a herb, it is a chemical. I'm well aware to what I am referring to.
Pseudoephedrine and Ephedrine are closely chemically related, either could be used in the production of amphetamines, which really has the government itchy. Go to WalMart and try to buy 10 boxes of Sudafed and you will see what I mean.
The only reason I know this stuff is because I am active in the drug law reform movement.
You are wrong about pseudoephedrine and ephedrine not being closly chemically related. They are nearly identical.
m ical.htm
For example:
http://www.ephedra.demon.nl/stories/che
On heating ephedrine hydrochloride with 5% hydrochloric acid, under pressure, at 170-180C (248) or with 25% acid, at 100C, the compound is partially converted to pseudo-ephedrine (20, 32, 40).
but had to re-purchase nearly the SAME DISC because of the special release that came out not long ago, and for _40_ dollars!
OK, let me get this straight. You HAD to repurchase the same movie you already owned. Did they disable your old one?
People like you is why the MPAA can get away with the stuff they do.