You're modded +4 insightful (but oddly enough, your question is mentioned in the Slashdot FAQ, RTFM)
It's a very complicated problem. For instance, I have a few 'small' sites for customers, but they share a pool of 100GB bandwidth a month, of which usually only 20BG usually used. There isn't any way to know ahead of time what will happen when the Slashdot hits the fan.
As for the staff, Slashdot people could email web site admins and ask about their bandwidth/web server. But what if the site owner doesn't read email on the weekends? (that isn't uncommon) What is to be done in that case? Go ahead and cache the site or wait until every other news site has published the link? What if they have banners they rely on for $$$? What if their site is based on php and some of the important information is pulled from a database? How will a web site admin know if his server can handle X amount of requests per second? What if blah blah blah
If you add to those situations dozens of other scenarios, you can see that there isn't a simple solution to the slashdot effect.
right, I think it's more the publishing what they found that was the issue (something the cops don't do).
Sure they do. Court records such as transcripts and search warrants for example. Another example, this quote from the article
Searching through her trash back at Central Precinct, they found traces of cocaine and methamphetamine, as well as drug paraphernalia. They also found a bloody tampon. They sent a piece of the tampon to the state crime lab, where forensics experts tested it for drugs, DNA and, for reasons that remain unclear, semen. The results of those tests have not been released.
Someone told the reporters. You are correct in that the police didn't publish, they used a third party to accomplish the same result.
Not to mention, any notes made by trash picking detectives could easily show up on the The Smoking Gun
Cell providers could easily fix that problem by having their network ignore all non 911 requests by cell users who are hitting a lot of locations at one time.
Law enforcement here in the USA pretty much equates action like that the same as a person who discovers an unlocked back door on a house, enters and then writes 'your house is not secure' in lipstick on a bathroom mirror
Whether they are ready or not really doesn't matter.
Most retailers have items with their own company's bar code attached and use that instead of the original bar code.
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I suspect that a large number of "harvested" email addresses are @hotmail, @yahoo, etc. And since those guys apparently have at least slightly effective spam filters....
A hotmail user who gets 10 emails a day would have 8 spam and 2 wanted emails. If 4/5 of spammer mail is rejected as said above, then without filtering, hotmail users would get 40 spams per day vs 2 good emails.
Now, even though Balan keeps a database with 240 million e-mail addresses, only a fifth or fewer get through the filters. An average mailing earns him a paltry $250.
Um, right. 80% of internet users have good email blocking applications on their boxes and know how to write good filters.
I was handed a Bacardi[tm] miniature bottle keychain that also doubled as a bottle opener a few nights ago by 'BUD' girls that were hired off the street locally.
My questions:
a) Why give me a liquor advertisement keychain whoozits that has a bottle opener for beer?
b) What kind of dumbass wants a liquor bottle dangling out of his car ignition when he gets pulled over by an officer?
...A. Procedure having adverse impact constitutes discrimination unless
justified. The use of any selection procedure which has an adverse
impact on the hiring, promotion, or other employment or membership
opportunities of members of any race, sex, or ethnic group will be
considered to be discriminatory and inconsistent with these guidelines...
US law prohibits any testing which doesn't a) directly apply to the job the applicant is applying for and b) have equivalent (percentage) scoring outcomes regardless of gender or race.
For example, if a higher proportion of females pass a given pre-employment test than men, the business is automatically wide-open to discrimination lawsuits. The business is guilty of discriminating against men in that example.
Any company that develops and markets any technology without first doing due diligence to determine if they're infringing an issued patent is acting recklessly and deserves what they get.
It's not as easy as it might seem.
Also, let's say I have an obscure patent on the roundness of yellow beach balls. I have several options including these 2:
a) I can manufacture lots and lots of those beach balls and defend my patent constantly.
or
b) I can manufacture a few beach balls, let people run all over my patent, and wait for a few companies to (hopefully) make a lot of cash. At that point, I could make a LOT more money by suing & making deals than I probably would have by going with option 'a'. (YMMV!)
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You're modded +4 insightful (but oddly enough, your question is mentioned in the Slashdot FAQ, RTFM)
It's a very complicated problem. For instance, I have a few 'small' sites for customers, but they share a pool of 100GB bandwidth a month, of which usually only 20BG usually used. There isn't any way to know ahead of time what will happen when the Slashdot hits the fan. As for the staff, Slashdot people could email web site admins and ask about their bandwidth/web server. But what if the site owner doesn't read email on the weekends? (that isn't uncommon) What is to be done in that case? Go ahead and cache the site or wait until every other news site has published the link? What if they have banners they rely on for $$$? What if their site is based on php and some of the important information is pulled from a database? How will a web site admin know if his server can handle X amount of requests per second? What if blah blah blah
If you add to those situations dozens of other scenarios, you can see that there isn't a simple solution to the slashdot effect.
Half-Life is an EXCELLENT example. It's not new or visually up to date.
The dynamic statistics page below shows how new Quake & Unreal type graphical eye-candy isn't the most important thing about having a successful game.
A few numbers from the link below:
113,856 Half-Life players
5091 Unreal Tournament players
6171 Quake3 players
Online Half-Life players outnumber Quake3 / MOHAA / Unreal / etc... COMBINED
A classic (lighthearted) timeline for a game:
Ion Storm Announces "Daikatana Year" For Final Twelve Months Of Development
Long-awaited game to reach store shelves soon
right, I think it's more the publishing what they found that was the issue (something the cops don't do).
Sure they do. Court records such as transcripts and search warrants for example. Another example, this quote from the article
Searching through her trash back at Central Precinct, they found traces of cocaine and methamphetamine, as well as drug paraphernalia. They also found a bloody tampon. They sent a piece of the tampon to the state crime lab, where forensics experts tested it for drugs, DNA and, for reasons that remain unclear, semen. The results of those tests have not been released.
Someone told the reporters. You are correct in that the police didn't publish, they used a third party to accomplish the same result.
Not to mention, any notes made by trash picking detectives could easily show up on the The Smoking Gun
SO I would recommened them to buy a USR hardware based modem, for some reason the ISP I worked for didnt like this so I would always get in trouble
Probably bean counters were the problem. After all, you were increasing customer's bandwidth use by x%.
Until someone finds his PO BOX where the important mail goes, he'll just torch his street address mail and go on about his business.
OTOH, at least all of his neighbors will now know that he's a complete slimeball and responsible for much of the spam email they receive.
and last but not least
e) To use Betamax, consumers had to understand fractions. OTOH, VHS had 2,4, and 6-hour recording times.
Yes, but their history will hold people back.
If they can keep up with good driver releases for a while, I might of switching from NVIDIA
Cell providers could easily fix that problem by having their network ignore all non 911 requests by cell users who are hitting a lot of locations at one time.
Law enforcement here in the USA pretty much equates action like that the same as a person who discovers an unlocked back door on a house, enters and then writes 'your house is not secure' in lipstick on a bathroom mirror
Thank goodness it's not the number 42...I'd be on my way to the local pub, towel in hand, if it was!
Yes, I've done that quite a bit with Apache.
OTOH, easy removes itself from the equation.
1) Look at the top scoring pages.
2) Look at the source of those pages.
3) Create your own pages patterned on the above.
4) lather, rinse, repeat...it's never hard to figure out what a search engine is looking for. (the hard part is how to not piss it off)
Whether they are ready or not really doesn't matter.
Most retailers have items with their own company's bar code attached and use that instead of the original bar code.
I suspect that a large number of "harvested" email addresses are @hotmail, @yahoo, etc. And since those guys apparently have at least slightly effective spam filters....
Well, it's possible.
That could well be true. If so, then I could use the statistic from topic 80% of Incoming email at Hotmail is spam (3 days ago).
A hotmail user who gets 10 emails a day would have 8 spam and 2 wanted emails. If 4/5 of spammer mail is rejected as said above, then without filtering, hotmail users would get 40 spams per day vs 2 good emails.
Ouch, 80% spam turns into 95% spam.
[BS DETECTED]
Now, even though Balan keeps a database with 240 million e-mail addresses, only a fifth or fewer get through the filters. An average mailing earns him a paltry $250.
Um, right. 80% of internet users have good email blocking applications on their boxes and know how to write good filters.
I was handed a Bacardi[tm] miniature bottle keychain that also doubled as a bottle opener a few nights ago by 'BUD' girls that were hired off the street locally.
My questions:
a) Why give me a liquor advertisement keychain whoozits that has a bottle opener for beer?
b) What kind of dumbass wants a liquor bottle dangling out of his car ignition when he gets pulled over by an officer?
An 'eye for an eye' or ' a taste of their own medicine '?
IMO, it's the latter.
Here is a better one.
...A. Procedure having adverse impact constitutes discrimination unless
justified. The use of any selection procedure which has an adverse
impact on the hiring, promotion, or other employment or membership
opportunities of members of any race, sex, or ethnic group will be
considered to be discriminatory and inconsistent with these guidelines...
Employment Discrimination
Here are some uslaw.com references for example.
General hiring guidelines
Testing guidelines
Exactly.
US law prohibits any testing which doesn't a) directly apply to the job the applicant is applying for and b) have equivalent (percentage) scoring outcomes regardless of gender or race.
For example, if a higher proportion of females pass a given pre-employment test than men, the business is automatically wide-open to discrimination lawsuits. The business is guilty of discriminating against men in that example.
Anyhow, I wonder what would happen if an organization hired only people with top grades and/or scored well on such puzzles?
That one's easy. The business would be knee-deep in discrimination lawsuits.
"Judge, I did not know she was 14 years old. I'm pleading innocent by reason of randomized, aggregate data!"
Not to mention that a very large portion of the 99% people who HATE lawyers suddenly LOVE lawyers when those lawyers are working for them.
Any company that develops and markets any technology without first doing due diligence to determine if they're infringing an issued patent is acting recklessly and deserves what they get.
It's not as easy as it might seem.
Also, let's say I have an obscure patent on the roundness of yellow beach balls. I have several options including these 2:
a) I can manufacture lots and lots of those beach balls and defend my patent constantly.
or
b) I can manufacture a few beach balls, let people run all over my patent, and wait for a few companies to (hopefully) make a lot of cash. At that point, I could make a LOT more money by suing & making deals than I probably would have by going with option 'a'. (YMMV!)