That's not true. He could have gotten an std from a ladyboy companion.
That's bullshit. I've had my fair share of ladyboy fun and generally it's almost impossible to get serious STD like HIV on the receiving end of a blowjob. Of course it's a good idea to have a condom when having intercourse, but if you're just looking for a blowjob then there's no problem. The change of getting serious STD is 0.0000001%.
It actually changed with the latest algorithm update, they're using it now. You're correct about stack exchange like sites actually, they have a huge bounce rate and it's causing trouble for them. It's being discussed on their webmaster forums too, this case is about similar site DaniWeb.
...and is read primarily by people in IT (whereas most major newspapers have a diverse readership)...
... it has a level of focus that mainstream media can't.
That's not a good thing, it's a bad thing. Mainstream publicity is what matters. People don't care about what some unknown niche or specific target group says, they care about what the most popular and mainstream opinion is.
That's true, but Spamhaus lists are used in so many places that it can easily cause severe damage to hosting companies or ISP's when their customers are suddenly blocked or even cause direct damage to the customers as they're now listed in Spamhaus. They may hurt their own reputation (depending on how media spins the story), but along the way they can easily bring down a few innocent ISP's and their business. That's why it's stupid to put such a trust for single service. This isn't the first time Spamhaus has blackmailed companies either, in 2007 they blacklisted whole Austrian domain registry nic.at because by Austrian law they couldn't remove certain domains for other reasons than fake whois info. In the end Spamhaus went and blacklisted for nic.at for "Knowingly Providing a Spam Support Service for Profit", which seems like bullshit too.
A2B DID block the spammer, they blocked his ip. What Spamhaus wanted was stop routing traffic for the whole CyberBunker (who route traffic for The Pirate Bay etc) who are not spammers. They had a single customer that spammed, and A2B as upstream provider blocked that ip instead. What they didn't do was block the innocent CyberBunker completely, and after that Spamhaus added A2B - completely third party - to their blacklist. That's complete bullshit and blackmail.
So then just suck it up and do it regardless. That's the only way to get out of that awkwardness and anti-sociality. Actually you improve quite fast if it just happens. I used to be kind of socially awkward while teen, but then some girl got a crush on me and hanged on even though it was awkward at times. It's the only way you learn, and robot isn't going to help you with that, but only a real person.
Seriously, what's the fun with seeking love in an robot.. It's not like finding a lovely girl/guy is that hard. Much of the love comes from the fact he or she is a thinking person with own thoughts, and doesn't always just do or say what you want to. And if you're just looking for sex, just get an one night stand or a paid girl.
What's our trick? There is no trick. We have a short list of relevant keywords (and no irrelevant keywords) and a bunch of static pages that reference each other as appropriate.
SEO mostly isn't about tricks either, and you having those keywords and they referencing each other is SEO already.
And no, Wikipedia isn't always first. With many competitive keywords it can actually get quite far from first result. If you concentrated more on SEO, you would outrank it.
And contrary to popular belief here, SEO isn't about spammy hidden links (those actually get you ranking LOWER pretty fast), it's also putting your site out there. On social networks, on bookmarking sites (and sites like reddit) and so on, in growing manner now. It helps both users and search engines find and rank your site. It also includes common good practices like having a good stucture on your site, using friendly urls (like slashdot has titles in url), and having an site that people actually like (Google measures the bounce rate - too many users come back to search results quickly and the site will drop in ranks). However, most businesses have no idea about this, and it's fine - they have a business to run and not everyone can know or have time to learn about everything. Generally, then, you ask other people to do those things while you concentrate on your main business.
This goes well with the improving general user experience, and Google itself promotes using these SEO methods. Of course, Slashdot is now a days filled with people who seem to hate everything (apart from piracy and Apple/Linux) and who seem necessary to comment and hate on everything they know absolutely nothing about.
Oh and just want to point out this too - even Googlers think Google again failed with their social networking launch.
The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call. One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: "So is it the Stalker API?" She got all glum and said "Yeah." I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream. So I guess the joke was on me.
Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone.
Facebook gets it. That's what really worries me. That's what got me off my lazy butt to write this thing. I hate blogging. I hate... plussing, or whatever it's called when you do a massive rant in Google+ even though it's a terrible venue for it but you do it anyway because in the end you really do want Google to be successful. And I do! I mean, Facebook wants me there, and it'd be pretty easy to just go. But Google is home, so I'm insisting that we have this little family intervention, uncomfortable as it might be.
It's just much harder to back out of it now as it's integrated to Google search.. Google really shot itself to foot here.
Not in some sort of ad-hoc, half-assed way, but in more or less the same way Amazon did it: all at once, for real, no cheating, and treating it as our top priority from now on.
Apart from the core services, Google is doing everything in an half-assed way. They discontinue A LOT of their products too and since they're fully hosted on Google's servers, it means users just can't use them anymore. It's different from desktop software, as desktop software you can practically always still use. Using Google's services is pretty much like using DRM, except that there's no cracks, no way to make things work again after Google shuts down their half-assed services.
Exactly this, there are many reputable SEO companies and individuals. Just like with everything else, some people misuse things for their own gain. SEO is not about spamming search engines, it's improving the site in question, both to search engines and users. This results in better experience to everyone.
Frankly, quite many people will co-op games highly entertaining. It's a lot more fun to play with other people. Dead Island is a great example of that, and I had really fun moments playing it with my friend. All from the driving accidents to helping out the other one get up again, or use strategies together. Left4Dead is another great example, and so is many other games. Playing with other people just is a lot more fun.
I actually think there are too few games that support co-op, and hope that game developers start move more into such designs. Apart from older gamers, it's also what most people want, because it's just more fun.
Note that they aren't proposing replacing scroll bars, they're proposing adding "pages" as CSS element. They also say this lets user decide if they want to have pages (great for tablets) or the old style scroll bars.
Frankly, I think their idea is great, especially considering how many news sites have switched to using pages made with actual different pages. What Opera is proposing would fix that and would let you choose what style you want, directly in your browser. Personally I enjoy pages if the content is long, but I know many here on Slashdot like to read the print version just because it doesn't have paging.
As Opera's focus with this seems to be tablets, it also makes lots of sense. It actually sucks trying to scroll the web browser with your finger. It works better with a mouse and mousewheel, but tablets would be greatly improved if the browser could do the paging itself and show exactly the amount of content that fits the screen. With a single tap you could go to next "page".
This way everyone would be happy, but with tablets and computers, because it actually allows the user choose their preferred way.
And abstinence provides better protection than condoms.
Yet, abstinence probably leads to much more serious things than possibility of some minor STD, including depression, anti-social behavior and stress. It's good to let go every once in a while.
Of course, there is a good middle ground too. Serious STD's like HIV/AIDS generally do not spread orally. If you're on the receiving end of a blowjob, you have almost 0% change of catching HIV. Even with prostitutes. I learned this thing and have had sex with many ladyboys and never had any STD. Of course, while having intercourse it's a good idea to use condom, but as a receiving end of a blowjob, you cannot get AIDS.
No one talked about complexity, but just being pain in the ass to use. You always have to keep reloading sites, allowing scripts and so on when you go new sites. And if you just allow most, then there's no point anyway. Most of the internet now relies on JavaScript and it really does make things easier, allows AJAX and so on. You break a lot of functionality without JavaScript. Yes, most good sites allow non-javascript fallback, but it's not as nice as with JavaScript enabled.
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That's not true. He could have gotten an std from a ladyboy companion.
That's bullshit. I've had my fair share of ladyboy fun and generally it's almost impossible to get serious STD like HIV on the receiving end of a blowjob. Of course it's a good idea to have a condom when having intercourse, but if you're just looking for a blowjob then there's no problem. The change of getting serious STD is 0.0000001%.
It actually changed with the latest algorithm update, they're using it now. You're correct about stack exchange like sites actually, they have a huge bounce rate and it's causing trouble for them. It's being discussed on their webmaster forums too, this case is about similar site DaniWeb.
You don't hold a copyright to that image. The person who took the photograph does.
...and is read primarily by people in IT (whereas most major newspapers have a diverse readership)...
... it has a level of focus that mainstream media can't.
That's not a good thing, it's a bad thing. Mainstream publicity is what matters. People don't care about what some unknown niche or specific target group says, they care about what the most popular and mainstream opinion is.
By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement.
Yeah, doesn't help you much.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/12/226257/facebook-your-personal-data-is-a-trade-secret
That's true, but Spamhaus lists are used in so many places that it can easily cause severe damage to hosting companies or ISP's when their customers are suddenly blocked or even cause direct damage to the customers as they're now listed in Spamhaus. They may hurt their own reputation (depending on how media spins the story), but along the way they can easily bring down a few innocent ISP's and their business. That's why it's stupid to put such a trust for single service. This isn't the first time Spamhaus has blackmailed companies either, in 2007 they blacklisted whole Austrian domain registry nic.at because by Austrian law they couldn't remove certain domains for other reasons than fake whois info. In the end Spamhaus went and blacklisted for nic.at for "Knowingly Providing a Spam Support Service for Profit", which seems like bullshit too.
A2B DID block the spammer, they blocked his ip. What Spamhaus wanted was stop routing traffic for the whole CyberBunker (who route traffic for The Pirate Bay etc) who are not spammers. They had a single customer that spammed, and A2B as upstream provider blocked that ip instead. What they didn't do was block the innocent CyberBunker completely, and after that Spamhaus added A2B - completely third party - to their blacklist. That's complete bullshit and blackmail.
Who talked about morals? I just consider them to be more real than humping robots.
So then just suck it up and do it regardless. That's the only way to get out of that awkwardness and anti-sociality. Actually you improve quite fast if it just happens. I used to be kind of socially awkward while teen, but then some girl got a crush on me and hanged on even though it was awkward at times. It's the only way you learn, and robot isn't going to help you with that, but only a real person.
Seriously, what's the fun with seeking love in an robot.. It's not like finding a lovely girl/guy is that hard. Much of the love comes from the fact he or she is a thinking person with own thoughts, and doesn't always just do or say what you want to. And if you're just looking for sex, just get an one night stand or a paid girl.
What's our trick? There is no trick. We have a short list of relevant keywords (and no irrelevant keywords) and a bunch of static pages that reference each other as appropriate.
SEO mostly isn't about tricks either, and you having those keywords and they referencing each other is SEO already.
And no, Wikipedia isn't always first. With many competitive keywords it can actually get quite far from first result. If you concentrated more on SEO, you would outrank it.
And contrary to popular belief here, SEO isn't about spammy hidden links (those actually get you ranking LOWER pretty fast), it's also putting your site out there. On social networks, on bookmarking sites (and sites like reddit) and so on, in growing manner now. It helps both users and search engines find and rank your site. It also includes common good practices like having a good stucture on your site, using friendly urls (like slashdot has titles in url), and having an site that people actually like (Google measures the bounce rate - too many users come back to search results quickly and the site will drop in ranks). However, most businesses have no idea about this, and it's fine - they have a business to run and not everyone can know or have time to learn about everything. Generally, then, you ask other people to do those things while you concentrate on your main business.
This goes well with the improving general user experience, and Google itself promotes using these SEO methods. Of course, Slashdot is now a days filled with people who seem to hate everything (apart from piracy and Apple/Linux) and who seem necessary to comment and hate on everything they know absolutely nothing about.
The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call. One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: "So is it the Stalker API?" She got all glum and said "Yeah." I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream. So I guess the joke was on me.
Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone.
Facebook gets it. That's what really worries me. That's what got me off my lazy butt to write this thing. I hate blogging. I hate... plussing, or whatever it's called when you do a massive rant in Google+ even though it's a terrible venue for it but you do it anyway because in the end you really do want Google to be successful. And I do! I mean, Facebook wants me there, and it'd be pretty easy to just go. But Google is home, so I'm insisting that we have this little family intervention, uncomfortable as it might be.
It's just much harder to back out of it now as it's integrated to Google search.. Google really shot itself to foot here.
Not in some sort of ad-hoc, half-assed way, but in more or less the same way Amazon did it: all at once, for real, no cheating, and treating it as our top priority from now on.
Apart from the core services, Google is doing everything in an half-assed way. They discontinue A LOT of their products too and since they're fully hosted on Google's servers, it means users just can't use them anymore. It's different from desktop software, as desktop software you can practically always still use. Using Google's services is pretty much like using DRM, except that there's no cracks, no way to make things work again after Google shuts down their half-assed services.
Exactly this, there are many reputable SEO companies and individuals. Just like with everything else, some people misuse things for their own gain. SEO is not about spamming search engines, it's improving the site in question, both to search engines and users. This results in better experience to everyone.
Frankly, quite many people will co-op games highly entertaining. It's a lot more fun to play with other people. Dead Island is a great example of that, and I had really fun moments playing it with my friend. All from the driving accidents to helping out the other one get up again, or use strategies together. Left4Dead is another great example, and so is many other games. Playing with other people just is a lot more fun.
I actually think there are too few games that support co-op, and hope that game developers start move more into such designs. Apart from older gamers, it's also what most people want, because it's just more fun.
That's because it has. It's not the usual kind of pages - it's single page with different 'pages' defined by CSS elements.
Note that they aren't proposing replacing scroll bars, they're proposing adding "pages" as CSS element. They also say this lets user decide if they want to have pages (great for tablets) or the old style scroll bars.
Frankly, I think their idea is great, especially considering how many news sites have switched to using pages made with actual different pages. What Opera is proposing would fix that and would let you choose what style you want, directly in your browser. Personally I enjoy pages if the content is long, but I know many here on Slashdot like to read the print version just because it doesn't have paging.
As Opera's focus with this seems to be tablets, it also makes lots of sense. It actually sucks trying to scroll the web browser with your finger. It works better with a mouse and mousewheel, but tablets would be greatly improved if the browser could do the paging itself and show exactly the amount of content that fits the screen. With a single tap you could go to next "page".
This way everyone would be happy, but with tablets and computers, because it actually allows the user choose their preferred way.
It's not stealing since they still have the original data left. Hackers only made a copy of that. No harm was done.
... that is, according to the Pirate Party and pirates on /.
NoScript blocks more malware than either.
And abstinence provides better protection than condoms.
Yet, abstinence probably leads to much more serious things than possibility of some minor STD, including depression, anti-social behavior and stress. It's good to let go every once in a while.
Of course, there is a good middle ground too. Serious STD's like HIV/AIDS generally do not spread orally. If you're on the receiving end of a blowjob, you have almost 0% change of catching HIV. Even with prostitutes. I learned this thing and have had sex with many ladyboys and never had any STD. Of course, while having intercourse it's a good idea to use condom, but as a receiving end of a blowjob, you cannot get AIDS.
No one talked about complexity, but just being pain in the ass to use. You always have to keep reloading sites, allowing scripts and so on when you go new sites. And if you just allow most, then there's no point anyway. Most of the internet now relies on JavaScript and it really does make things easier, allows AJAX and so on. You break a lot of functionality without JavaScript. Yes, most good sites allow non-javascript fallback, but it's not as nice as with JavaScript enabled.