Not all hits are equal, and if necessary robots.txt can be used to tell bots to stay away from processor-intensive dynamic pages. When my server load starts to shoot through the roof, it automatically switches to a more restictive robots.txt for a few minutes.
Google respects robots.txt, including the crawl-delay directive. AVG doesn't even try to access robots.txt.
This thing has taken my servers offline several times in the past month, something Google has never done. It is a hostile bot in my view, and is causing me more trouble than all the Russian and Chinese spam crawlers combined.
Yeah yeah, I've heard of them. They are the ones who set up research facilities on godforsaken islands where people live in underground hutches and have to enter a sequence of numbers into a computer every 108 minutes or else the world will end.
Another thought... Usenet allows the free exchange of commercially produced child porn. It's child porn piracy.
Now if music piracy is supposed to hurt the music industry, and movie piracy is supposed to hurt the movie industry, then shouldn't child porn piracy hurt the child porn industry? By shutting down child porn piracy, aren't the feds and the ISPs helping the commercial producers of child porn by protecting their business model and intellectual property rights?
(Hee hee, I figure a post that equates the RIAA/MPAA with pedophiles has to get a +5)
Ferrari brand or not, I think women in general are going to be put off if they see anything thumb sized.
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I know it has been said many times, but this is what makes slashdot great - the moderation system! When I first saw this video, I laughed. I enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and was glad that Slashdot had linked to it.
Then I read the comments and realized that the video wasn't funny or appropriate, and was in fact a harbinger of the Apocalypse. I shouldn't be smiling and happy - I should be ranting and outraged. I should be writing my elected officials and forming citizens action committees.
How dare slashdot trick people into a watching a silly youtube video buy disguising it as a story about a silly youtube video. Don't the slashdot editors realize that there is only a limited amount of webspace space on the internet, and they shouldn't be wasting it on stuff like this?
I am so glad I have seen the error of my ways. Now I just need to know where I can get one of these giant sticks to ram up my pigu, so I too can be a diligent defender of Slashdot integrity.
The idea that the Italian army had a propensity for retreat and surrender probably began in the WWII North Africa campaign. Italy had a huge numerical advantage when they invaded Egypt in 1940, but the much smaller British force beat them back across the desert, with over half the Italian army surrendering. Many gave up without a fight as soon as British forces approached. The British suddenly had so many Italian POWs, that it became a serious logistics problem.
The Italian army had notoriously poor morale and discipline in WWII. The lower ranks were given terrible rations and shoddy equipment, while the officers had it quite good.
Things were different in other branches of the Italian military however. The Italian navy had a decent reputation, while the air force was known for its bravery and fighting spirit.
If we knew the answers ahead of time, we wouldnt need to do science. The idea of science is that you come up with plausible theories of how things might be, and test the predictions made by those theories. The Fermi Paradox says that given plausible assumptions about the frequency of life and other factors (theory), galaxy-spanning civilisations should be out there (prediction). What is missing is the testing.
And SETI isnt it, because SETI is only looking for "Hello World" beacons from non-galaxy-spanning ETIs. If you span the galaxy, you don't need no stinking beacons.
You generally can't prove that something doesn't exist. However, if plausible scientific theory predicts that something may well exist, then scientists can conduct experiments to try and detect it. If they fail to detect it, then they can establish upper bounds on its probability or frequency of occurence.
Two examples are proton decay and magnetic monopoles which are predicted by various Grand Unified Theories. Scientists have spent decades conducting carefully run (and often expensive) experiments trying to find evidence of these things, and have found none. That doesn't prove they don't exists, but does demonstrate that if they do exist then they are very rare or difficult to detect.
Given the age of the universe, the frequency of planets, etc, plausible scientific theory predicts that the probability of alien visitation to Earth could be very high (see Fermi Paradox). Despite this though, I am aware of no legitimate scientific attempts to find evidence of visitation. That has been left to non-scientists. So it is hardly surprising that there is no credible scientific evidence of alien visitation when there have been no credible scientific efforts to find any. Consequently, the upper bounds on the possibilty of alien visitation is in the neighborhood of 100%.
That's a fair point. However, how much do we *really* need new movies? A couple of months ago, I set up my mythtv box to record any movie with a rating of at least 3.5 out of 4. These are all movies that are widely regarded as being good to excellent, and while some may be dated, and some aren't to my taste, on balance I think they are a hell of a lot better than your average multiplex flick. I'm recording far more movies than I can possibly find time to watch, 3-4 a day, burning the extras to DVD.
I do something kind of similar with music. So even if the entire movie and music industry were to fall into a black hole, I already have what amounts to a life-time supply. And if I do somehow live long enough to run out, by then I figure AI and VR will have made conventional entertainment obsolete.
Now if you'll excuse me, Doctor Zhivago is calling.
The comma provides a pause, for drammatic effect and emphasis. An ellipses would accomplish much the same thing, but can connote the idea that the writer is searching for words, which isn't the case here.
When speaking the sentence out loud, you would pause to draw in your audience, and then punch the word "lasers".
Not necessarily. Some kind of localised microtremor could cause the ground to jolt quickly beneath the rock by a small amount. The rock would stay more or less motionless in the Earth's reference frame, while the ground moves quickly beneath it, its frictional forces unable to overcome the rock's inertia. The ground could then settle back to its original place more slowly, this time taking the rock with it.
This is a work laptop, why is it configured to use the users "home" SMTP address?
Umm, because they primarily work from home.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that I work three different jobs with three different companies in three different industries, and 90% of the problems I see people having with work laptops is being unable to send email from alternate locations. Granted, VPN has helped quite a bit in the last couple of years.
I see this problem come up all the time. Laptops which are configured to connect to the SMTP server of the user's home ISP, and then can't send mail at other locations. Or are set up to use a mail server on the office LAN, and can't send when off the LAN. People on Macs or linux laptops running their own mail server, not having it configured correctly, with the result that they land an entire office in one of the spam blacklists (happened to my company twice).
And if an admin or ISP goes to the trouble of offering some flavour of authenticated SMTP, most of the time the client software isn't set up correctly and you end up with a support nightmare the first time they take the laptop on the road. And while, yes, there are other solutions in client software, 95% of users aren't savvy enough to use them, or even understand what the issues are.
Maybe SMTP settings should have been part of the DHCP standard. Connect to a network, and it automagically tells you what your SMTP server is, just like it does with nameservers.
I google things on my phone many times every day. In social settings, I am frequently asked by friends and family to google things on my phone (to settle an argument, what was the name of that movie, etc).
I agree that the interface can be a problem. My current device, a Blackberry-like Nokia E62, is painful to use for most things, and googling from scratch takes far far far too many clicks and keystrokes. However my old device, a Hiptop2 (no longer available in Canada - damn you to hell Fido/Rogers!), is absolutely brilliant for googling (and with only one little tweak, would be perfect).
That's funny, because as a human, with close to 40 years experience working with other humans, all *I* can say is "PLEASE DON'T KEEP GIVING *THEM* GUNS!!!"
I would never want to be around a human with a gun, just too big of a chance for something to go wrong.
I hate crows. Whenever I see crows dropping nuts onto the street, I run in and steal the nuts. Then I wave my fists at the stupid crows, shout insults, and cackle hysterically. Ah, good times.
Yeah, I totally flashed on Pat Benatar and Olivia Newton-John when I saw this headline. The headband may give the wearer a sixth sense, but it sure as heck isn't fashion sense. Where's Clinton and Stacey when we need them?
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We know for a fact there are weapons of mass destruction in space. Doesn't cutting funding to space research mean that the asteroids have won?
Not all hits are equal, and if necessary robots.txt can be used to tell bots to stay away from processor-intensive dynamic pages. When my server load starts to shoot through the roof, it automatically switches to a more restictive robots.txt for a few minutes.
Google respects robots.txt, including the crawl-delay directive. AVG doesn't even try to access robots.txt.
This thing has taken my servers offline several times in the past month, something Google has never done. It is a hostile bot in my view, and is causing me more trouble than all the Russian and Chinese spam crawlers combined.
And if illegal amphetamines or hallucinegenics don't do it for you, then you could always try something really crazy, like eye drops.
And it's 1.22 radians, for anyone who thought "a cool 70 degrees" meant a rakish angle.
Yeah yeah, I've heard of them. They are the ones who set up research facilities on godforsaken islands where people live in underground hutches and have to enter a sequence of numbers into a computer every 108 minutes or else the world will end.
No wonder they have recruitment problems.
Another thought... Usenet allows the free exchange of commercially produced child porn. It's child porn piracy.
Now if music piracy is supposed to hurt the music industry, and movie piracy is supposed to hurt the movie industry, then shouldn't child porn piracy hurt the child porn industry? By shutting down child porn piracy, aren't the feds and the ISPs helping the commercial producers of child porn by protecting their business model and intellectual property rights?
(Hee hee, I figure a post that equates the RIAA/MPAA with pedophiles has to get a +5)
Ferrari brand or not, I think women in general are going to be put off if they see anything thumb sized.
I know it has been said many times, but this is what makes slashdot great - the moderation system! When I first saw this video, I laughed. I enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and was glad that Slashdot had linked to it.
Then I read the comments and realized that the video wasn't funny or appropriate, and was in fact a harbinger of the Apocalypse. I shouldn't be smiling and happy - I should be ranting and outraged. I should be writing my elected officials and forming citizens action committees.
How dare slashdot trick people into a watching a silly youtube video buy disguising it as a story about a silly youtube video. Don't the slashdot editors realize that there is only a limited amount of webspace space on the internet, and they shouldn't be wasting it on stuff like this?
I am so glad I have seen the error of my ways. Now I just need to know where I can get one of these giant sticks to ram up my pigu, so I too can be a diligent defender of Slashdot integrity.
The person who has to do user studies on a urinal-based video game.
The idea that the Italian army had a propensity for retreat and surrender probably began in the WWII North Africa campaign. Italy had a huge numerical advantage when they invaded Egypt in 1940, but the much smaller British force beat them back across the desert, with over half the Italian army surrendering. Many gave up without a fight as soon as British forces approached. The British suddenly had so many Italian POWs, that it became a serious logistics problem.
The Italian army had notoriously poor morale and discipline in WWII. The lower ranks were given terrible rations and shoddy equipment, while the officers had it quite good.
Things were different in other branches of the Italian military however. The Italian navy had a decent reputation, while the air force was known for its bravery and fighting spirit.
If we knew the answers ahead of time, we wouldnt need to do science. The idea of science is that you come up with plausible theories of how things might be, and test the predictions made by those theories. The Fermi Paradox says that given plausible assumptions about the frequency of life and other factors (theory), galaxy-spanning civilisations should be out there (prediction). What is missing is the testing. And SETI isnt it, because SETI is only looking for "Hello World" beacons from non-galaxy-spanning ETIs. If you span the galaxy, you don't need no stinking beacons.
You generally can't prove that something doesn't exist. However, if plausible scientific theory predicts that something may well exist, then scientists can conduct experiments to try and detect it. If they fail to detect it, then they can establish upper bounds on its probability or frequency of occurence.
Two examples are proton decay and magnetic monopoles which are predicted by various Grand Unified Theories. Scientists have spent decades conducting carefully run (and often expensive) experiments trying to find evidence of these things, and have found none. That doesn't prove they don't exists, but does demonstrate that if they do exist then they are very rare or difficult to detect.
Given the age of the universe, the frequency of planets, etc, plausible scientific theory predicts that the probability of alien visitation to Earth could be very high (see Fermi Paradox). Despite this though, I am aware of no legitimate scientific attempts to find evidence of visitation. That has been left to non-scientists. So it is hardly surprising that there is no credible scientific evidence of alien visitation when there have been no credible scientific efforts to find any. Consequently, the upper bounds on the possibilty of alien visitation is in the neighborhood of 100%.
That's a fair point. However, how much do we *really* need new movies? A couple of months ago, I set up my mythtv box to record any movie with a rating of at least 3.5 out of 4. These are all movies that are widely regarded as being good to excellent, and while some may be dated, and some aren't to my taste, on balance I think they are a hell of a lot better than your average multiplex flick. I'm recording far more movies than I can possibly find time to watch, 3-4 a day, burning the extras to DVD.
I do something kind of similar with music. So even if the entire movie and music industry were to fall into a black hole, I already have what amounts to a life-time supply. And if I do somehow live long enough to run out, by then I figure AI and VR will have made conventional entertainment obsolete.
Now if you'll excuse me, Doctor Zhivago is calling.
The comma provides a pause, for drammatic effect and emphasis. An ellipses would accomplish much the same thing, but can connote the idea that the writer is searching for words, which isn't the case here.
When speaking the sentence out loud, you would pause to draw in your audience, and then punch the word "lasers".
Then it's doubly ironic, as there is indeed a Firefly MMORPG in the works.
Not necessarily. Some kind of localised microtremor could cause the ground to jolt quickly beneath the rock by a small amount. The rock would stay more or less motionless in the Earth's reference frame, while the ground moves quickly beneath it, its frictional forces unable to overcome the rock's inertia. The ground could then settle back to its original place more slowly, this time taking the rock with it.
Umm, because they primarily work from home.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that I work three different jobs with three different companies in three different industries, and 90% of the problems I see people having with work laptops is being unable to send email from alternate locations. Granted, VPN has helped quite a bit in the last couple of years.
I see this problem come up all the time. Laptops which are configured to connect to the SMTP server of the user's home ISP, and then can't send mail at other locations. Or are set up to use a mail server on the office LAN, and can't send when off the LAN. People on Macs or linux laptops running their own mail server, not having it configured correctly, with the result that they land an entire office in one of the spam blacklists (happened to my company twice).
And if an admin or ISP goes to the trouble of offering some flavour of authenticated SMTP, most of the time the client software isn't set up correctly and you end up with a support nightmare the first time they take the laptop on the road. And while, yes, there are other solutions in client software, 95% of users aren't savvy enough to use them, or even understand what the issues are.
Maybe SMTP settings should have been part of the DHCP standard. Connect to a network, and it automagically tells you what your SMTP server is, just like it does with nameservers.
I google things on my phone many times every day. In social settings, I am frequently asked by friends and family to google things on my phone (to settle an argument, what was the name of that movie, etc).
I agree that the interface can be a problem. My current device, a Blackberry-like Nokia E62, is painful to use for most things, and googling from scratch takes far far far too many clicks and keystrokes. However my old device, a Hiptop2 (no longer available in Canada - damn you to hell Fido/Rogers!), is absolutely brilliant for googling (and with only one little tweak, would be perfect).
Just because you can't prevent all shooting deaths doesn't mean you shouldn't try to prevent some shooting deaths.
That's funny, because as a human, with close to 40 years experience working with other humans, all *I* can say is "PLEASE DON'T KEEP GIVING *THEM* GUNS!!!"
I would never want to be around a human with a gun, just too big of a chance for something to go wrong.
I thought the camera added 20 pounds. I guess black really is slimming.
I hate crows. Whenever I see crows dropping nuts onto the street, I run in and steal the nuts. Then I wave my fists at the stupid crows, shout insults, and cackle hysterically. Ah, good times.
Yeah, I totally flashed on Pat Benatar and Olivia Newton-John when I saw this headline. The headband may give the wearer a sixth sense, but it sure as heck isn't fashion sense. Where's Clinton and Stacey when we need them?