I agree with you. I would add that money is just a bookkeeping tool, and not an actual resource. As long as we have rocket fuel and rocket scientists to spare, we have enough resources for space exploration. Money is no object.
HTML is not a complete subset of XML. There are a few disjoint parts. That's why they had to come up with XHTML - to correct these small differences. Some examples I can think of:
In terms of tag names, HTML is not case sensitive, but XML is.
XML requires all tags opened to have a closing tag. HTML has some cases where this is not required, such as with the <p> tag. <img> never has a closing tag.
I think HTML allowed overlapping tags, which XML also forbids. For example, <b>bold<i>BOTH</b>italic</i>, but maybe it was just sloppy browser implimentations that allowed it.
AFAIK, all valid XHTML 1.0 is also valid HTML. But newer, not-widely-used revisions of XHTML are starting to make incompatible changes.
The thing is, Google used to be able to do more with less. Often times, just, "dumping a word into the tiny box," was all you needed to do. Like many people, I switched to Google from AltaVista a few years ago because, with Google, I could find things with fewer search iterations and after looking at fewer result pages.
Lately, I've found that I've had to revert to the searching as a skill mode of thinking, even with Google. I have to constantly refine my searches, exclude certain terms, cross-reference sites myself, etc. Maybe I'm just searching for more esoteric things, but it seems to me that it's still mostly the link farms that are inferering with my results.
Also, I think Google collects some feedback from users to see what links they click in the search results. Presumably, the use this to tell which links are more likely to be relevent to a given search. Fewer people using the search engine will mean less of this kind of feedback.
It's true though, that this doesn't really affect the spidering aspect of Google's knowledge.
Who knows? Maybe only one spammer has your address and he isn't the kind of guy who will give/sell that address to others.
I was in your situation for a long time. After a few years of only getting a slow trickle of spam, it grew to a torret over the course of 2003. It's not quite 100 messages per day, but there's definitely more spam than legitimate mail.
Inevitably, I'm afraid it will happen to you too.
Filtering it by hand is getting harder. Until this year, all my spam had obviously fake sending addresses and obviously spammish looking subject lines:
The spammers must've had a conference about this, though. Now more of the From and Subject lines are plausable. So I have to read the message just to be sure it's spam.
SQL statements are code, just at a higher level than you're thinking of. Think of putting function calls in SQL as similar to embedding some assembly code into C source.
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That definition is about four decades out-of-date. The official SI definition is currently this:
The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
if i were in a place as inhospitable as the antartic i would make sure i have enough fuel to last without receiving the next several shipments just in case they don't ever arrive. and i would make this a priority even at the expense of some science if i had to.
Perhaps a good way to do that would be to refrain from selling the fuel to tourists! More reserve is better than less reserve. In any case, who are we to second-guess these guys? Does anyone here have experience in Antarctica??
That depends what aspects of the book you liked. If you liked the medieval story in the book, then the movie was OK. Forget about the movie if you are looking for anything else from the book: the mystery and slow buildup at the begining, the detailed descriptions of what life was like back then, the jousting (I just realized they removed that completely), the quantum phyiscs mini-lessons, and lots of other things I can't think of right now. Hardly any of that is there at all. They even managed to take all the wonder out of the prospect of time travel. It's not like, say, Jurassic Park, where at least they were able to awe us with the dinosaurs.
It's entirely possible that some spammer just decided to try sending messages to "dell" at a whole bunch of domain names (dell@...). You aren't the only one to use such an anti-spam scheme, the spammers are certainly wise to the scheme, and they'll do anything to get a message through.
If you must partition in DOS, try using Free FDISK. As the name indicates, it's free, and supports more than the fdisk from MS. (The UI is pretty much the same, though.)
Yeah, but the notes immediately below that are more assuring. It says that if it can't handle your NTFS partition, it will tell you (with an error message) during the backup process. Thus, you shouldn't be stuck later with an image you can't restore.
Well start thinking about things anonymous phonecalls are used for...
If I were collecting anonymous tips or whatnot, I would set up a webform and encourage people to submit their tips from public access terminals (say, at a library). No need to rely on anonymous email. Most people probably don't know how to send a truly anonymous email anyway.
No, you pay a few hundred dollars, and send it to professionals, who will recover every last bit of data for you.
Are you kidding? This strikes me as a last resort rather than the first step of a recovery plan. Is the data on a hard drive platter really safe enough that we can be sure it can be recovered after a drive failure?
I think people started referring to the attacks using "9/11" because they were not limited to one place, unlike, say, Pearl Harbor [Day]. It was too hard to refer to the events themselves, so they refer to the day.
The billion dollar fund manager is surely educated, but not in the ways of the Internet. All he knows is that the Internet is an exciting new avenue for commerce. He doesn't know the difference (legitimacy-wise) between spam and a banner ad, and that's why he'll shop via both.
I think your results will be a little skewed, given that you posted this question to Slashdot, of all places. Did you also think to ask this question in non-Internet forums, perhaps among people not so Internet-dependent?
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I agree with you. I would add that money is just a bookkeeping tool, and not an actual resource. As long as we have rocket fuel and rocket scientists to spare, we have enough resources for space exploration. Money is no object.
Spammers probably read Slashdot. Don't give too much away on how you fight spam!
Also, the phrase is, "presumed innocent until proven guilty." A minor nitpick, but if he's guilty, he's guilty whether anyone can prove it or not.
AFAIK, all valid XHTML 1.0 is also valid HTML. But newer, not-widely-used revisions of XHTML are starting to make incompatible changes.
Who on earth needs a domain name working so quickly? Spammers, perhaps. Squatters. Anyone else?
Not only that, but doesn't this open up a security whole? Someone could setup a fake server at one of those internal addresses.
But isn't speed directly related to the size of the transistors?
Lately, I've found that I've had to revert to the searching as a skill mode of thinking, even with Google. I have to constantly refine my searches, exclude certain terms, cross-reference sites myself, etc. Maybe I'm just searching for more esoteric things, but it seems to me that it's still mostly the link farms that are inferering with my results.
It's true though, that this doesn't really affect the spidering aspect of Google's knowledge.
I was in your situation for a long time. After a few years of only getting a slow trickle of spam, it grew to a torret over the course of 2003. It's not quite 100 messages per day, but there's definitely more spam than legitimate mail.
Inevitably, I'm afraid it will happen to you too.
Filtering it by hand is getting harder. Until this year, all my spam had obviously fake sending addresses and obviously spammish looking subject lines:
The spammers must've had a conference about this, though. Now more of the From and Subject lines are plausable. So I have to read the message just to be sure it's spam.
SQL statements are code, just at a higher level than you're thinking of. Think of putting function calls in SQL as similar to embedding some assembly code into C source.
The reason for this definition is that the old one was too imprecise. See Base unit definitions: Second.
That depends what aspects of the book you liked. If you liked the medieval story in the book, then the movie was OK. Forget about the movie if you are looking for anything else from the book: the mystery and slow buildup at the begining, the detailed descriptions of what life was like back then, the jousting (I just realized they removed that completely), the quantum phyiscs mini-lessons, and lots of other things I can't think of right now. Hardly any of that is there at all. They even managed to take all the wonder out of the prospect of time travel. It's not like, say, Jurassic Park, where at least they were able to awe us with the dinosaurs.
It's entirely possible that some spammer just decided to try sending messages to "dell" at a whole bunch of domain names (dell@...). You aren't the only one to use such an anti-spam scheme, the spammers are certainly wise to the scheme, and they'll do anything to get a message through.
If you must partition in DOS, try using Free FDISK. As the name indicates, it's free, and supports more than the fdisk from MS. (The UI is pretty much the same, though.)
Yeah, but the notes immediately below that are more assuring. It says that if it can't handle your NTFS partition, it will tell you (with an error message) during the backup process. Thus, you shouldn't be stuck later with an image you can't restore.
If I were collecting anonymous tips or whatnot, I would set up a webform and encourage people to submit their tips from public access terminals (say, at a library). No need to rely on anonymous email. Most people probably don't know how to send a truly anonymous email anyway.
Wait, the Linksys router couldn't keep up with your connection, but the Pentium 200 can?
Are you kidding? This strikes me as a last resort rather than the first step of a recovery plan. Is the data on a hard drive platter really safe enough that we can be sure it can be recovered after a drive failure?
I think people started referring to the attacks using "9/11" because they were not limited to one place, unlike, say, Pearl Harbor [Day]. It was too hard to refer to the events themselves, so they refer to the day.
Someone would still have to maintain a system above these "root" domains.
The billion dollar fund manager is surely educated, but not in the ways of the Internet. All he knows is that the Internet is an exciting new avenue for commerce. He doesn't know the difference (legitimacy-wise) between spam and a banner ad, and that's why he'll shop via both.
I think your results will be a little skewed, given that you posted this question to Slashdot, of all places. Did you also think to ask this question in non-Internet forums, perhaps among people not so Internet-dependent?