I've never heard that applying to Google for anything regarding search has worked.
Discussion on the various webmaster formums and my own experience show that submitting your site to Google using their form (http://www.google.com/addurl/) is pointless. The way they add sites to their index is through links from other sites -- almost never by using their own form.
I've pointed out cases of completely obvious cloaking and spamming to them, and never received a reply. The spam sites I reported were not removed for over a year, and then most probably due to algorithm changes, not because anyone paid attention to my reports.
Has anyone ever applied for reinstatement and had Google do anything at all? Based on the above, I tend to doubt it.
If a normal site was caught using cloaking or other tricks they would be not only dropped from the Google index but would be "banned".
ie: They would be given a PageRank of 0 and their pages would not show up in searches for 6 months to 2 years.
If Google was really playing by the same rules they apply to everyone else, they'd ban these pages too. Instead, I bet the pages show up in a couple of days.
If so, this is really just a PR move on their part. Nothing to do with how they really treat other sites.
We are discussing techniques that can overcome the popup blockers currently in use.
Of course adding sites one by one to your block list, either using adblock or hosts will work, but the point of popup blockers is that they are supposed to allow you to view sites which otherwise would display popups.
Sites who serve their own ads could use this technique and if your popup blocker doesn't work you'd have to block the whole site.
Which would kind of miss the point if that site has some content that you were going there for in the first place.
Viruses replicate by taking over the mechanisms of a host cell. They have no ability to replicate on their own.
What these researches have created are "digital organisms" which are intended to emluate cells. They don't need to invade other systems to replicate, but do it on their own within the runtime enviroment the researches set up.
For them to enjoy something they'd have to experience it and therefore have a consciousness.
This professor is very mistaken when he says they will experience lust. Unless you define "lust" as "programmed tendency to move towards another robot and interface to it" or something.
The most that this can do is to program sets of behavior probabilities. It won't by any means cause robots to suddenly become conscious beings.
I love the new MSN search. It's great! So much better than Google.
Mainly because for my business's main keyword, with MSN search we are in the top 10 results. With Google we are apparently permanently at position 353.
Seriously though, many of the top sites on Google for the keyword in question are spam sites, and in the top 10 on MSN search none of them are.
Here's an article that goes into some detail on the cell architecture and why it may not actually be as fast in practice it is in the glowing predictions made by Sony executives.
The essential quote:
UNC's Zimmons has his doubts. "I believe that while theoretically having a large number of transistors enables teraflops-class performance, the PS3 [Playstation 3] will not be able to deliver this kind of power to the consumer," he wrote in response to an e-mail query from EE Times. "The PS3 memory is rumored to be able to transfer around 100 Gbytes/second, which would mean it could process new data at roughly 25 Gflops (at 32 bits) -- far from the 1-Tflops number."
I hope for great things, but will believe them when I see 'em.
Actually, all you have to do is to call Nextel and say you want international accesss, and your Nextel phone will work fine in Canada. I just got back from Vancouver/Victoria and everything worked fine, even the internet!
It will also work in various parts of Latin America and a few other places.
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Try typing any sex related word.
None of them are there.
Not even anatomical terms such as "penis" and "vagina".
They do have "penile cancer" and "vaginitis" though.
According to them, if successful this would be the second successful manned flight of an ornithopter, the first having taken place in 1995 in Russia in Vladimir Toporov's ornithopter, Giordano.
Bill Gate's critical point in this interview, and how he intends to compete against Linux in the server market is actually something to be concerned about.
From the OSNews article:
As to how Microsoft is going to beat Linux according to Gates, it seems to be via its software's value, rather than the price. Bill Gates is trying to create software that needs little maintainance and little support. By doing so, he hopes to cut down the number of IT administrators needed on companies (a good admin costs overall up to $200,000 per year for a given company here in the Bay Area, for example). On the other hand, Linux rivals (e.g. Red Hat) are making money primarily by support calls and require capable administrators. Gates hopes to elliminate this need.
This is a real issue. Red Hat and the Linux companies have little incentive to make products which require less support, because this could cut into their support contracts.
Microsoft then can show a lower TCO by putting lots of resources into making management easier and do-able by lower level cheaper employees.
They could win (at least temporarily) with this strategy if we aren't careful (and don't get administration on Linux to be as easy and automated as possible).
New rockets need at several launches before they fly successfully and more before they are known to fly consistently without failures.
Making your first test flight a manned prize attempt is at best crazy and at worst suicidal.
It is clear that this would not be happening if the X-Prize deadline weren't fast approaching.
Ansari may have blood on their hands soon. I hope it doesn't happen, but if it does I hope that at least it will convince other prize organizations to alter their rules and get rid of these unnecessary deadlines.
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The problem I have with prizes like the X-Prize and like this one, which have deadlines, is that they encourage people to take risks which they might not otherwise take, in order to hit the deadline.
This is exactly the kind of thinking which caused the Challenger disaster.
Deadlines like those of the X-Prize and this new one create an incentive for unsafe behavior, as is being seen by the Da Vinci Project's insane plan to have their first test flight be a manned prize attempt.
I wish the deadlines would be reconsidered -- competition between teams should be enough to insure urgency.
This is extremely risky, and perhaps suicidal. Rockets do, as we've seen, notoriously tend to blow up and otherwise malfunction in their initial testing.
NASA got it right because they tested over and over again and had a big budget to do so.
With the deadline fast approaching, it seems that some teams, like Feeney's, will be tempted to cut corners in order to have a chance of winning the X Prize.
Cutting corners and sticking to a timetable is what caused the Challenger disaster. I hope we don't see other lives lost as a result of this X Prize deadline.
How is it possible after the near disaster of Apollo 13 (if you recall, the LEM and Command Module took different sized and incompatable C02 scrub cartridges) that we are still putting people into space with incompatable systems?
The crew will, as they did on Thursday, exit from the Russian end of the space station. After that, they will work their way over to the U.S. segment, a border crossing that requires mission control centers from both nations to be involved.
The crew will, as they did on Thursday, exit from the Russian end of the space station. After that, they will work their way over to the U.S. segment, a border crossing that requires mission control centers from both nations to be involved.
Because they will be beyond the reliable range of Russian antennas, they may be forced to communicate with one another using hand signals.
So the spacesuits use different radio systems which are incompatable with each other, and in the Russian suits are incompatable with the American airlocks?
Why are people so happy and excited about a tactical mobile robot?
The packbot is actually just a scout robot that can maybe retrieve something in a pinch, and its very old news (in use in Afghanistan 2 years ago). But military robots that can kill people are NOT a good thing.
A scenario where robots decide to revolt against people is much further removed than a scenario where governments use robots to oppress their own or other people.
I just finally got around to watching the Teaser, and pee-yew, that acting sucks. It's so bad, it's really painful to watch.
It's not hard to get reasonable actors to work for free. There are thousands of 'em out there begging to do something like this just to put it in their resume-reels.
Technically, it looks great. The Bridge looks pretty much like the original Bridge of the Enterprise, and the exteriors look fine too.
The sound recording is bad though -- echoey and amateurish.
I hate complaining about something that's free and was obviously done out of lots o' love, but... if you're gonna put that much effort into something, please get some actors who are not embarrasing to watch.
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I've never heard that applying to Google for anything regarding search has worked.
Discussion on the various webmaster formums and my own experience show that submitting your site to Google using their form (http://www.google.com/addurl/) is pointless. The way they add sites to their index is through links from other sites -- almost never by using their own form.
I've pointed out cases of completely obvious cloaking and spamming to them, and never received a reply. The spam sites I reported were not removed for over a year, and then most probably due to algorithm changes, not because anyone paid attention to my reports.
Has anyone ever applied for reinstatement and had Google do anything at all? Based on the above, I tend to doubt it.
If a normal site was caught using cloaking or other tricks they would be not only dropped from the Google index but would be "banned".
ie: They would be given a PageRank of 0 and their pages would not show up in searches for 6 months to 2 years.
If Google was really playing by the same rules they apply to everyone else, they'd ban these pages too. Instead, I bet the pages show up in a couple of days.
If so, this is really just a PR move on their part. Nothing to do with how they really treat other sites.
You may be right.
Google weather said the temperature in San Francisco was 57 degrees at 2:25pm.
Yahoo said 65 degrees, which is correct.
Google wants it to be colder in San Francisco!
That's nice, but completely not germane.
We are discussing techniques that can overcome the popup blockers currently in use.
Of course adding sites one by one to your block list, either using adblock or hosts will work, but the point of popup blockers is that they are supposed to allow you to view sites which otherwise would display popups.
Sites who serve their own ads could use this technique and if your popup blocker doesn't work you'd have to block the whole site.
Which would kind of miss the point if that site has some content that you were going there for in the first place.
Nice try, but it doesn't defeat the new techniques.
Here's their demo page. With Firefox set up as you describe, their alternative layer ad shows up (wait about 10 seconds for it).
And its worse than the popup because the dismiss box in the upper right doesn't work.
Viruses replicate by taking over the mechanisms of a host cell. They have no ability to replicate on their own.
What these researches have created are "digital organisms" which are intended to emluate cells. They don't need to invade other systems to replicate, but do it on their own within the runtime enviroment the researches set up.
Actually, they won't enjoy anything.
For them to enjoy something they'd have to experience it and therefore have a consciousness.
This professor is very mistaken when he says they will experience lust. Unless you define "lust" as "programmed tendency to move towards another robot and interface to it" or something.
The most that this can do is to program sets of behavior probabilities. It won't by any means cause robots to suddenly become conscious beings.
I love the new MSN search. It's great! So much better than Google.
Mainly because for my business's main keyword, with MSN search we are in the top 10 results. With Google we are apparently permanently at position 353.
Seriously though, many of the top sites on Google for the keyword in question are spam sites, and in the top 10 on MSN search none of them are.
The essential quote:I hope for great things, but will believe them when I see 'em.
I had the same problem once, but I came up with another solution.
It's called "memorize the cue cards".
I bet I did that in a lot less time than he took to build a teleprompter.
Actually, all you have to do is to call Nextel and say you want international accesss, and your Nextel phone will work fine in Canada. I just got back from Vancouver/Victoria and everything worked fine, even the internet!
It will also work in various parts of Latin America and a few other places.
Try typing any sex related word.
None of them are there.
Not even anatomical terms such as "penis" and "vagina".
They do have "penile cancer" and "vaginitis" though.
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According to them, if successful this would be the second successful manned flight of an ornithopter, the first having taken place in 1995 in Russia in Vladimir Toporov's ornithopter, Giordano.
> This one works from outside.
And it goes to 11.
From the OSNews article:
This is a real issue. Red Hat and the Linux companies have little incentive to make products which require less support, because this could cut into their support contracts.Microsoft then can show a lower TCO by putting lots of resources into making management easier and do-able by lower level cheaper employees.
They could win (at least temporarily) with this strategy if we aren't careful (and don't get administration on Linux to be as easy and automated as possible).
New rockets need at several launches before they fly successfully and more before they are known to fly consistently without failures.
Making your first test flight a manned prize attempt is at best crazy and at worst suicidal.
It is clear that this would not be happening if the X-Prize deadline weren't fast approaching.
Ansari may have blood on their hands soon. I hope it doesn't happen, but if it does I hope that at least it will convince other prize organizations to alter their rules and get rid of these unnecessary deadlines.
The problem I have with prizes like the X-Prize and like this one, which have deadlines, is that they encourage people to take risks which they might not otherwise take, in order to hit the deadline.
This is exactly the kind of thinking which caused the Challenger disaster.
Deadlines like those of the X-Prize and this new one create an incentive for unsafe behavior, as is being seen by the Da Vinci Project's insane plan to have their first test flight be a manned prize attempt.
I wish the deadlines would be reconsidered -- competition between teams should be enough to insure urgency.
I'm concerned about Brian Feeney and his da Vinci Project. Apparently they may be planning to launch with no test flights in order to hit the deadline for the X Prize.
This is extremely risky, and perhaps suicidal. Rockets do, as we've seen, notoriously tend to blow up and otherwise malfunction in their initial testing.
NASA got it right because they tested over and over again and had a big budget to do so.
With the deadline fast approaching, it seems that some teams, like Feeney's, will be tempted to cut corners in order to have a chance of winning the X Prize.
Cutting corners and sticking to a timetable is what caused the Challenger disaster. I hope we don't see other lives lost as a result of this X Prize deadline.
The crew will, as they did on Thursday, exit from the Russian end of the space station. After that, they will work their way over to the U.S. segment, a border crossing that requires mission control centers from both nations to be involved.
From: Spacewalk Aborted by Stuck Switch - NASA
So the spacesuits use different radio systems which are incompatable with each other, and in the Russian suits are incompatable with the American airlocks?
When will they learn?
Why are people so happy and excited about a tactical mobile robot?
The packbot is actually just a scout robot that can maybe retrieve something in a pinch, and its very old news (in use in Afghanistan 2 years ago). But military robots that can kill people are NOT a good thing.
A scenario where robots decide to revolt against people is much further removed than a scenario where governments use robots to oppress their own or other people.
This is not "cool".
Wow that was bad.
I just finally got around to watching the Teaser, and pee-yew, that acting sucks. It's so bad, it's really painful to watch.
It's not hard to get reasonable actors to work for free. There are thousands of 'em out there begging to do something like this just to put it in their resume-reels.
Technically, it looks great. The Bridge looks pretty much like the original Bridge of the Enterprise, and the exteriors look fine too.
The sound recording is bad though -- echoey and amateurish.
I hate complaining about something that's free and was obviously done out of lots o' love, but... if you're gonna put that much effort into something, please get some actors who are not embarrasing to watch.
Yeah, for some reason /. replaced the | with 7C and got rid of the //.
0 90|4 6|a 1|0 5|5 a|3 7570006dd8|c 2f9e94578|
Here are the links (copy paste to your browser and they will trigger the d/l if you have the app installed and configured properly).
ed2k://|file|Star Trek New Voyages Teaser.zip|16636412|5efe45b60842aaa3f4f7538ed5b1e
ed2k://|file|Star Trek New Voyages act_1.zip|21745192|c6d53b71f5a2af3a4b13af8d2dee53
ed2k://|file|Star Trek New Voyages act_2.zip|20632051|03eaa80b912ed09dd08931ba9923c4
ed2k://|file|Star Trek New Voyages act_3.zip|16583160|28d32240a5eaf1e0e82c620481a49f
ed2k://|file|Star Trek New Voyages act_4.zip|25560599|7026a2d4a34510638debade9bad731
ed2k://|file|Star Trek New Voyages Episode_Trailer.zip|1942862|f8842c742ca65df24fbc1
ed2k://|file|Star Trek New Voyages Series_Trailer.zip|5361254|9d6eaa1f47a082374b528b
Overnet already does something kind of like this.
Here are links for the files in Overnet / Edonkey format:
Star Trek New Voyages Teaser.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_1.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_2.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_3.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_4.zip
Star Trek New Voyages Episode_Trailer.zip
Star Trek New Voyages Series_Trailer.zip
Someone post the Torrents pls!