I've now seen this a few times. If I come into a site linked off a popular site, like slashdot with referrer logging on, I get blocked, but if I come in without a referrer, the resource (page/image/whatever) is available.
tricky tricky. this will stop referrer logging right quick -- people will turn it off, and then lots of sites will be SOL on tracking where people are coming to them from, if you can follow that.
I have an MS in medical physics from MDACC in diagnostic radiology.
of all the lame comments here -- no one seems to have made some of the most important points:
reading x-rays from a film and from a screen are completely different. radiologists still primarily read from film for very good reasons. (mostly contrast depth on film is 14 orders, where screens are at best 8 or 9 orders).
do not screw with the originals. the more you move and play with them without expereince,the higher the chance you'll scratch and damage the films. damaged films make bad diagnostic tools.
copying film is easy. you take the film in the dark room, open a new film, place them next to each other (flat agaist one another) and place them both on a bright lightbox, with original close to the light. cover and flash the light for about 15 seconds. the shadow goes through old film onto the new one. the copy is noticably lower quality, yet still better than reasing from a screen. radiology groups do this all the time.
scanning techs have come a long way since my degree. no comment there.
people and machines people are (biological) machines machines emulating people machines competing with people
within the next few years, computer interaction online and human interaction online will INCREASINGLY pass the sniff test as undifferentiable. a few years after that, there will clearly be no way to tell if online text is human or computer generated.
what I say is -- why stop it? why give moral preference to human thoughts vs. computer output? frankly, in most interactions, my expereince tells me to trust the silicon machines over the carbon ones.
not only is "property" a social construct (I like the term Myth) -- but it's one myth that a growing number of people are starting to question (again).
global, instant, amortized-zero-cost communication will make this a reality.
the world COULD exist without the concept of property. just not with these people... it would take about 6+ generations (best case) to change our society enough to eliminate property.
companies do NOT want products on the market that are cheap and meet a simple need. such products will cut DIRECTLY into their bottom line - competing with their (much higher margin) bleeding edge offerings.
Unfortunately capitalism is NOT set up to offer the best value to the consumer, it is set up to push the market to the lowest value still acceptable by consumers. if you doubt this, go walk around Wal-Mart, check out the wall boards in the corner of the room you're sitting in, or try finding a printed book today that will last more than 5 years before it falls apart.
then I could get an SMS message on my cell phone when a sex offender was near.
wait wait -- even better. let's put GPS tracking on all the KIDS, then we can check every ten seconds or so if the location of the sex offender is too close to some group of kids, and notify all the people in the area with an SMS message
wait wait -- even betterer let's put GPS tracking devices on everyone and let the governement make some big heuristic rule set for who is supposed to be where at certain times and put shock collars on people that create taser-like debilitation if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time
employers wouldn't have to use punch cards any more!
you'd never have any ambiguity in crimes, like "where were you on the night of May 5?" -- 'cause we'd already know!
no one would ever get lost ever again... etc etc etc
We should integrate spam filtering and public key signatures in both email clients and in the mailing list servers.
Make the sign up for a list part of the client's actions -- and include information about your public key -- and put a header on "verified" mailing list subscriptions that your mail client will recognize and keep (some cross of email content / hash/ and signature).
The process should all be done under some RFC so that it's TRANSPARENT to the user.
The assumption that my ISP can decide for me what I want to see is rather absurd.
since when was it assumed a website would provide the some content to all viewers?
most sties do -- static pages.
however we do get some very basic changes -- like flash animation or not depending on if you can see it
however, there is no reason at all to assume that the information a site provides one vistor (the googlebot) will be the same content they serve other visitors.
as we (humans) get more savvy about IT, it will be commonplace for information sources to provide completely different information from an assumed (or explicit) model of the viewer. think: financial status, role in society, known needs of the viewer, history of ad clicks, installed software, etc. etc. etc.
if you have a phd in engineering... stop. relax, take 6 months and THINK about what you want to do with the next 30 years of your life. Think really big. Got that? OK next take another 6 months and create a 5-year plan to make the first step of the 30-year plan work. then go do it. When it's done, repeat (but this time use 25, not 30)
Trust yourself. your ideas will be just as good as anyone else's, probably better. DO NOT go look for a job. you will be very disappointed.
in my case I worked 2 years, then 1 more, then started the above plan and I've never had a "job" since.
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It's really not a question of reality. It is a lie. Fun, not fun -- it is a lie at the expense of small children who believe it.
People give all sorts of rationale. People can explain it away -- but in the end the practice is horrific. Lie to your kids. Be judged by everyone else if you speak the truth. I wonder what other societies had these values?
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what shcool[sic] did you attend? typos aside, you are buying the lies hook, line, and sinker. how's that going for ya?
Let me back up. Maybe, the US should be working to build a world where people don't WANT to kill each other. Don't have to. Don't.
Maybe the US should be leading the world so that we don't have Geneva-style differentiations separating parts of our society as the warring part (the non-civilians) and the peaceful part (the civilians). This artificial separation is only a justification for sanctioned violence.
There are no real civilians. This whole concept buys the assumption that if you are not in the military, you are not part of the acts and horrors purveyed by your kin. Wrong. War and violence create more, and lawless behavior is always part of war. Just because some post-WW2 treaty tries to makes rules for fighting so that the strong economic powers win does not mean people will follow it. The "terrorists" on both sides, the US and the so-call media "terrorists" know this.
It is only for propaganda and mind control of gullable people like YOU that we even have the concept of a civilian. Where do you think your taxes go? How many bombs did you pay for? $450 Billion and counting.
Be careful what you wish for. When you do get to see everything, your world will come tumbling down.
Slashdot Mirror
and another example of referrer blocking:
a r.jpg you can get to without a referrer, but not if you get there from slashdot.
this link http://photos1.blogger.com/img/151/1595/1024/ackb
I've now seen this a few times. If I come into a site linked off a popular site, like slashdot with referrer logging on, I get blocked, but if I come in without a referrer, the resource (page/image/whatever) is available.
tricky tricky. this will stop referrer logging right quick -- people will turn it off, and then lots of sites will be SOL on tracking where people are coming to them from, if you can follow that.
the original designation of corporate entity was very very limited (by the English king).
your post highlights a significant problem in our society today -- that corporations have have far too much power
If someone really did develop anti-gravity systems, I'd have to say that the US PTO wouldn't have much to do with what would happen next.
and they are rioting in France...
the United States are not any more
I have an MS in medical physics from MDACC in diagnostic radiology.
of all the lame comments here -- no one seems to have made some of the most important points:
reading x-rays from a film and from a screen are completely different. radiologists still primarily read from film for very good reasons. (mostly contrast depth on film is 14 orders, where screens are at best 8 or 9 orders).
do not screw with the originals. the more you move and play with them without expereince,the higher the chance you'll scratch and damage the films. damaged films make bad diagnostic tools.
copying film is easy. you take the film in the dark room, open a new film, place them next to each other (flat agaist one another) and place them both on a bright lightbox, with original close to the light. cover and flash the light for about 15 seconds. the shadow goes through old film onto the new one. the copy is noticably lower quality, yet still better than reasing from a screen. radiology groups do this all the time.
scanning techs have come a long way since my degree. no comment there.
people and machines
people are (biological) machines
machines emulating people
machines competing with people
within the next few years, computer interaction online and human interaction online will INCREASINGLY pass the sniff test as undifferentiable. a few years after that, there will clearly be no way to tell if online text is human or computer generated.
what I say is -- why stop it? why give moral preference to human thoughts vs. computer output? frankly, in most interactions, my expereince tells me to trust the silicon machines over the carbon ones.
Stanford just got it's 2nd NIH super-center for biomedical comptuing -- this one on Ontologies
e r/computation.html
see
http://mednews.stanford.edu/releases/2005/septemb
soon ontologies will be to computing what politics is to governemnt
This is the reality folks.
which will likely bankrupt SCO.
about time.
DAVID S. LIPSON
... possibly a few more -- dig and call.
Carl Witonsky
St. Paul Venture Capital
Stuart Samuels
John Martinson
Edison Venture Fund, Managing Partner
and
I'll leave it to the rest of us geeks out there to figure out why and how. These are the ones who stand to lose from stupid management decisions.
not only is "property" a social construct (I like the term Myth) -- but it's one myth that a growing number of people are starting to question (again).
global, instant, amortized-zero-cost communication will make this a reality.
the world COULD exist without the concept of property. just not with these people... it would take about 6+ generations (best case) to change our society enough to eliminate property.
companies do NOT want products on the market that are cheap and meet a simple need. such products will cut DIRECTLY into their bottom line - competing with their (much higher margin) bleeding edge offerings.
Unfortunately capitalism is NOT set up to offer the best value to the consumer, it is set up to push the market to the lowest value still acceptable by consumers. if you doubt this, go walk around Wal-Mart, check out the wall boards in the corner of the room you're sitting in, or try finding a printed book today that will last more than 5 years before it falls apart.
I think we should combine GPS tracking of criminals with services like this one
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http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=148095&cid
mentioned earlier today on
then I could get an SMS message on my cell phone when a sex offender was near.
wait wait -- even better. let's put GPS tracking on all the KIDS, then we can check every ten seconds or so if the location of the sex offender is too close to some group of kids, and notify all the people in the area with an SMS message
wait wait -- even betterer let's put GPS tracking devices on everyone and let the governement make some big heuristic rule set for who is supposed to be where at certain times and put shock collars on people that create taser-like debilitation if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time
employers wouldn't have to use punch cards any more!
you'd never have any ambiguity in crimes, like "where were you on the night of May 5?" -- 'cause we'd already know!
no one would ever get lost ever again...
etc etc etc
it would be swell...
I've been saying this now for years.
We should integrate spam filtering and public key signatures in both email clients and in the mailing list servers.
Make the sign up for a list part of the client's actions -- and include information about your public key -- and put a header on "verified" mailing list subscriptions that your mail client will recognize and keep (some cross of email content / hash/ and signature).
The process should all be done under some RFC so that it's TRANSPARENT to the user.
The assumption that my ISP can decide for me what I want to see is rather absurd.
make a post:
1 19 47566
/. the next day!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=142544&cid=
and see a story appear on
since when was it assumed a website would provide the some content to all viewers?
most sties do -- static pages.
however we do get some very basic changes -- like flash animation or not depending on if you can see it
however, there is no reason at all to assume that the information a site provides one vistor (the googlebot) will be the same content they serve other visitors.
as we (humans) get more savvy about IT, it will be commonplace for information sources to provide completely different information from an assumed (or explicit) model of the viewer. think: financial status, role in society, known needs of the viewer, history of ad clicks, installed software, etc. etc. etc.
it's coming
see the data in a graph form and firefox looks like it's increasing well
As usual, the problem does not affect Opera.
If you want the fastest, best browser... (in my opinion) Opera is the hands-down winner.
because we start to really depend on it.
can these things survive a Tsunami?
...there are others simply grabbing your data and SPEWING out on the web for all to take.
check out http://www.eliyon.com/.
Not ssn and mother's maiden name, but equally as disturbing to me.
do not sell your mind. go do your own thing.
if you have a phd in engineering... stop. relax, take 6 months and THINK about what you want to do with the next 30 years of your life. Think really big. Got that? OK next take another 6 months and create a 5-year plan to make the first step of the 30-year plan work. then go do it. When it's done, repeat (but this time use 25, not 30)
Trust yourself. your ideas will be just as good as anyone else's, probably better. DO NOT go look for a job. you will be very disappointed.
in my case I worked 2 years, then 1 more, then started the above plan and I've never had a "job" since.
It's really not a question of reality. It is a lie. Fun, not fun -- it is a lie at the expense of small children who believe it.
People give all sorts of rationale. People can explain it away -- but in the end the practice is horrific. Lie to your kids. Be judged by everyone else if you speak the truth. I wonder what other societies had these values?
Santa is a lie. Why are you lying to yourself?
what shcool[sic] did you attend? typos aside, you are buying the lies hook, line, and sinker. how's that going for ya?
Let me back up. Maybe, the US should be working to build a world where people don't WANT to kill each other. Don't have to. Don't.
Maybe the US should be leading the world so that we don't have Geneva-style differentiations separating parts of our society as the warring part (the non-civilians) and the peaceful part (the civilians). This artificial separation is only a justification for sanctioned violence.
There are no real civilians. This whole concept buys the assumption that if you are not in the military, you are not part of the acts and horrors purveyed by your kin. Wrong. War and violence create more, and lawless behavior is always part of war. Just because some post-WW2 treaty tries to makes rules for fighting so that the strong economic powers win does not mean people will follow it. The "terrorists" on both sides, the US and the so-call media "terrorists" know this.
It is only for propaganda and mind control of gullable people like YOU that we even have the concept of a civilian. Where do you think your taxes go? How many bombs did you pay for? $450 Billion and counting.
Be careful what you wish for. When you do get to see everything, your world will come tumbling down.
I think you just called the US political leaders wackos... :)