They can't, literally. But they can get the same effect. I'm not at a windows box now but I've done it. Find the right folder, and in properties set the file permissions to deny writes in that folder. No more flash cookies.
And no more features on lots of sites. I.E. from then on every youtube video you load will be set to eardrum-breaking volume, no matter how many times you turn it down. (Well, for me at least, all flash sound comes out way louder than anything else on my system.)
> Why did Google initially agree to censor search results in the first place if this was their philosophy
Straight from the horse's mouth: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-in-china.html "Obviously, the situation in China is far different than it is in those other countries; while China has made great strides in the past decades, it remains in many ways closed. We aren't happy about what we had to do this week, and we hope that over time everyone in the world will come to enjoy full access to information. But how is that full access most likely to be achieved? We are convinced that the Internet, and its continued development through the efforts of companies like Google, will effectively contribute to openness and prosperity in the world. Our continued engagement with China is the best (perhaps only) way for Google to help bring the tremendous benefits of universal information access to all our users there."
Google honestly thought that their presence might have a positive effect. It did not. They always knew they were compromising their morals/ethics/goals, in the hopes that they wouldn't have to forever. Unfortunately, it didn't play out that way.
I consider myself to be only mildly above average in regards to typing speed. A two minute test of "The Enchanted Typewriter" at typingtest.com, however shows:
Net Speed: 102 WPM Accuracy: 98% Gross Speed: 104 WPM
>... significant number of your web sites' visitors are still running Explorer or Netscape versions 3 or 4...
Bull plop.
On my site, with 7211530 "hits" as reported by AWStats:
6,096 (0.0845%) Used *any* version of IE before 6.0.
812 (0.0113%) Used any 3.x or 4.x version of IE. 5,721 (0.0793%) Used *any* version of Netscape. 2,588 (0.0359%) Used Netscape 3.x or 4.x.
You have to add together all of IE 6.0 and Netscape to even break one tenth of one percent.
In fact, only:
138,957 (1.9269%) Used any version of *Firefox* before 3.0.
I live in Brooklyn. Not exactly the most rural area;-)
I pay $99 and change for a combined cable TV and internet package. Works out to around a $55/$45 split, the latter being internet.
For that $45, I get what maxes out around (actual observed values) (on a very good day from a very good server) 15 mbit down, and something like 800 kbit up.
The only other potential competitor to that service would be something from Verizon (or a company reselling their lines), fastest being (advertised values) 3 Mbps / 768 Kbps, which comes to $30/mo, plus all the nasty installation charges and hidden fees that the telecom companies love so much. And probably a surcharge for not having a land line.
Or, compared to (rural!) Japan, pure crap.
P.S. Did you really mean MB for megabyte. 50 megabyte downlink? Averaging a real 2-12 megabyte? *cry* I really meant bit above.
> So I get the people writing back, asking why I am sending them spam
Much worse is the bounces. I've actually thrown together a filter now, that will scan a bounced message for a Received: line from my server, and just/dev/nulls any that don't have it. I'm || this close to writing the same sort of thing for ANY message with a.GIF attachment.
I currently own a portable computer. It's not a PDA. It's not a laptop. It's certainly not a cell phone. It's a "palmtop computer" made by Hewlett Packard, the 200LX. It hasn't been made for seven years.
By modern standards, it's slow. It's an 8MHz 80186 processor. It's got a grayscale screen. It has 2MB of built in memory (and a few MB of ROM). It's the best such device I've ever owned, or seen. It runs on double-a batteries, and it's dead easy to keep extras on hand, or buy some in a pinch. Which I barely have to do, it runs for many hours on a pair of rechargables (longer on alkalines, but why waste the money and the environment?). It's got a surprising wealth of built-in applications. Much better, it runs MS-DOS, and is fully PC compatible, so it can run most any DOS program, and there are still plenty good ones right now.
These days, a majority of people use their computers for nothing more than writing some email, browsing the web, and doing some word processing. Basic tasks. There's no reason that an old machine can't handle it.
Not having a valid windows system handy I was willing to run a somewhat questionable executable on,
That sentence alone is enough to get me riled up. Granted, I'm one of the people who stepped gracefully off the Microsoft Bus as... to not have the 'phone home' features)
You've completely missed the OP's point. He didn't want to run a "somewhat questionable executable" on a good machine, because it might be virus/worm/trojan/whatever infested.
Why have I not seen anyone else that pointed out the subject of this article?
Cameroon squats all of.com? No. All of.cm which they control. Slashdot has made the exact (opposite) mistake that the Cameroonians (?) are hoping for. Just proving how often that sort of idiotic mistake can be made.
Actually, after the spelling reform, it shall be a four letter word: "scul."
Thank you, you've prettily demonstrated exactly why this "spelling reform" is absolutely idiotic. Is it "scul" or "skool" or "skewel" or... the possible phonetic spellings for most any word can just go on. And for that matter, would a chest of "drawers" be a chest of "draws" in northern New Jersey, because people have a different accent, and thus a different pronunciation, there?
What idiocy. How about you pay someone, then be critical about what it is you're getting. You contacted someone that makes a wonderful product available for free, and they weren't nice to you? Boo-hoo.
Who cares? If google manages to gather a bunch of data about me, and as a result present me with such targeted ads that I actually find new things that are worth spending the money it costs to buy them....
GOOD FOR GOOGLE!!! That way I don't have to do the work.
I strongly disgree. Animals/are/ often given a bad rap, but.. no! Koko the monkey knows sign language, she's so smart, right? No! She only knows it because humans taught it to her. This parrot only knows about zero because humans taught it the concept.
Animals are a lot, but smart in the way (sigh, some) human beings are they are not.
So what do you want, kids to get a degree in ColdFusion programming? No, they get a degree in CS, and with the array of skills and theories they have learned (Hopefully!), apply them to performing a particular task. I guarantee 9 of 10 times, anyone who earnestly completed a CS degree is better at programming than someone who hasn't.
Computer science is not programming, but programming is computer science.
Let's say there's a really big, really bad exploit. It takes two lines of code and gives anyone who wants it 100% control of your computer. It's gonna take a week to fix. How about we give the developers a week to fix it before we just go shouting out to the world "Hey big massive security hole here!"
Confidential is not purely bad. Leaving a bug confidential for years..... very bad.
But the original statement said "I decided to pay the extra money to have email for the domain I registered" WFT?! Go to something like directnic.com, get your domain for $15/yr and get mail forwarding included (including wildcard)!
Not an endorsement, just happen to be a happy customer so far, and it's somewhat related. I just registered my domain with GoDaddy for $8/year and I get catch all email forwarding.
I'd say no. In this case, it's quite the opposite. Everyone can get exactly the set of features they want from their browser, and not load anything else.
Start with lightweight Firefox, add only the extensions you want. You choose balance of speed and features. If it loads too slow for you (though I've noticed no load time impact from over a dozen extensions) then uninstall some.
The thing I hate is installing all the various extensions I prefer to use again and again as new versions come out and I have to clear my profile to get things to work properly, etc. How come I can't doubleclick (in windows) or run a simple CLI app (in linux) to install a.XPI on my hard drive?
Slashdot Mirror
They can't, literally. But they can get the same effect. I'm not at a windows box now but I've done it. Find the right folder, and in properties set the file permissions to deny writes in that folder. No more flash cookies.
And no more features on lots of sites. I.E. from then on every youtube video you load will be set to eardrum-breaking volume, no matter how many times you turn it down. (Well, for me at least, all flash sound comes out way louder than anything else on my system.)
> Why did Google initially agree to censor search results in the first place if this was their philosophy
Straight from the horse's mouth:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-in-china.html
"Obviously, the situation in China is far different than it is in those other countries; while China has made great strides in the past decades, it remains in many ways closed. We aren't happy about what we had to do this week, and we hope that over time everyone in the world will come to enjoy full access to information. But how is that full access most likely to be achieved? We are convinced that the Internet, and its continued development through the efforts of companies like Google, will effectively contribute to openness and prosperity in the world. Our continued engagement with China is the best (perhaps only) way for Google to help bring the tremendous benefits of universal information access to all our users there."
Google honestly thought that their presence might have a positive effect. It did not. They always knew they were compromising their morals/ethics/goals, in the hopes that they wouldn't have to forever. Unfortunately, it didn't play out that way.
I consider myself to be only mildly above average in regards to typing speed. A two minute test of "The Enchanted Typewriter" at typingtest.com, however shows:
Net Speed: 102 WPM
Accuracy: 98%
Gross Speed: 104 WPM
I suspect we need a better sample.
eBooks should cost far, far less than print books, not merely because their marginal cost of production is tiny...
Not at all true. almost everything that has to be done to produce a print book needs to be done to produce an e-book.
Did you read what was written, and you quoted?
Editing, typesetting, formatting, proofing, marketing, artwork, etc all still needs to be done.
These are NOT marginal costs.
> ... significant number of your web sites' visitors are still running Explorer or Netscape versions 3 or 4 ...
Bull plop.
On my site, with 7211530 "hits" as reported by AWStats:
6,096 (0.0845%) Used *any* version of IE before 6.0.
812 (0.0113%) Used any 3.x or 4.x version of IE.
5,721 (0.0793%) Used *any* version of Netscape.
2,588 (0.0359%) Used Netscape 3.x or 4.x.
You have to add together all of IE 6.0 and Netscape to even break one tenth of one percent.
In fact, only:
138,957 (1.9269%) Used any version of *Firefox* before 3.0.
What does $50 get in the US these days?
;-)
I live in Brooklyn. Not exactly the most rural area
I pay $99 and change for a combined cable TV and internet package. Works out to around a $55/$45 split, the latter being internet.
For that $45, I get what maxes out around (actual observed values) (on a very good day from a very good server) 15 mbit down, and something like 800 kbit up.
The only other potential competitor to that service would be something from Verizon (or a company reselling their lines), fastest being (advertised values) 3 Mbps / 768 Kbps, which comes to $30/mo, plus all the nasty installation charges and hidden fees that the telecom companies love so much. And probably a surcharge for not having a land line.
Or, compared to (rural!) Japan, pure crap.
P.S. Did you really mean MB for megabyte. 50 megabyte downlink? Averaging a real 2-12 megabyte? *cry* I really meant bit above.
Who's modding this post up? If you actually (gasp!) read the link, it just says that you can't do exactly what the OP said Firefox can't do.
> Our government needs to realize that high-speed data service now is as important as electricity or running water.
You are kidding, right? That's quite the hyperbole.
Refrigeration of food is important. Clean water is important. Slashdot, digg, and porn is a luxury.
No.
> So I get the people writing back, asking why I am sending them spam
/dev/nulls any that don't have it. I'm || this close to writing the same sort of thing for ANY message with a .GIF attachment.
Much worse is the bounces. I've actually thrown together a filter now, that will scan a bounced message for a Received: line from my server, and just
And new is not necessarily good.
I currently own a portable computer. It's not a PDA. It's not a laptop. It's certainly not a cell phone. It's a "palmtop computer" made by Hewlett Packard, the 200LX. It hasn't been made for seven years.
By modern standards, it's slow. It's an 8MHz 80186 processor. It's got a grayscale screen. It has 2MB of built in memory (and a few MB of ROM). It's the best such device I've ever owned, or seen. It runs on double-a batteries, and it's dead easy to keep extras on hand, or buy some in a pinch. Which I barely have to do, it runs for many hours on a pair of rechargables (longer on alkalines, but why waste the money and the environment?). It's got a surprising wealth of built-in applications. Much better, it runs MS-DOS, and is fully PC compatible, so it can run most any DOS program, and there are still plenty good ones right now.
These days, a majority of people use their computers for nothing more than writing some email, browsing the web, and doing some word processing. Basic tasks. There's no reason that an old machine can't handle it.
Why have I not seen anyone else that pointed out the subject of this article?
Cameroon squats all of .com? No. All of .cm which they control. Slashdot has made the exact (opposite) mistake that the Cameroonians (?) are hoping for. Just proving how often that sort of idiotic mistake can be made.
What idiocy. How about you pay someone, then be critical about what it is you're getting. You contacted someone that makes a wonderful product available for free, and they weren't nice to you? Boo-hoo.
This page: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html
Says: ©1996-2005 Canadian Mind Products
Not to mention being much more comprehensive.
Who cares? If google manages to gather a bunch of data about me, and as a result present me with such targeted ads that I actually find new things that are worth spending the money it costs to buy them....
GOOD FOR GOOGLE!!! That way I don't have to do the work.
Because they, by giving money for hosting advertimsements, have paid for the site you are gleaning information from. Would you rather pay for it?
I strongly disgree. Animals /are/ often given a bad rap, but .. no!
Koko the monkey knows sign language, she's so smart, right? No! She only knows it because humans taught it to her. This parrot only knows about zero because humans taught it the concept.
Animals are a lot, but smart in the way (sigh, some) human beings are they are not.
Just email her a link to a file on http://www.dropload.com/
Email is a shitty way to transfer files anyway. It's a mail protocol, not a file transfer protocol.
So what do you want, kids to get a degree in ColdFusion programming?
No, they get a degree in CS, and with the array of skills and theories they have learned (Hopefully!), apply them to performing a particular task. I guarantee 9 of 10 times, anyone who earnestly completed a CS degree is better at programming than someone who hasn't.
Computer science is not programming, but programming is computer science.
Let's say there's a really big, really bad exploit. It takes two lines of code and gives anyone who wants it 100% control of your computer.
..... very bad.
It's gonna take a week to fix. How about we give the developers a week to fix it before we just go shouting out to the world "Hey big massive security hole here!"
Confidential is not purely bad. Leaving a bug confidential for years
But the original statement said "I decided to pay the extra money to have email for the domain I registered" WFT?! Go to something like directnic.com, get your domain for $15/yr and get mail forwarding included (including wildcard)!
Not an endorsement, just happen to be a happy customer so far, and it's somewhat related. I just registered my domain with GoDaddy for $8/year and I get catch all email forwarding.
I'd say no. In this case, it's quite the opposite. Everyone can get exactly the set of features they want from their browser, and not load anything else.
.XPI on my hard drive?
Start with lightweight Firefox, add only the extensions you want. You choose balance of speed and features. If it loads too slow for you (though I've noticed no load time impact from over a dozen extensions) then uninstall some.
The thing I hate is installing all the various extensions I prefer to use again and again as new versions come out and I have to clear my profile to get things to work properly, etc. How come I can't doubleclick (in windows) or run a simple CLI app (in linux) to install a