I can not understand why your "friend" would think this (and I put friend in quotes because I don't think any real friend would make such a suggestion - either he is trying to sabotage your computing experience or he is extremely stupid and thinks you are someone else). Limiting your connection in such a way does nothing to keep you safe from attacks when you are connected - an IP address is an IP address as far as a worm is concerned. All this will do is decrease the speed in which you can infect other machines while sucking up what little bandwidth you have.
And this "always on" fear is also ridiculous. Let's say you and I were to compare our online time. I've got a cable modem and you're using dialup. I'm connected right when Windows boots up - just shy of a minute after pressing the power button. You're connected about three minutes later. We both go about our internet business, blogging here and posting there, IMing mundane details about our cats, and whatever other stupid things people do online. Oh, and we also both download some reasonably sized media files. When we're done and ready to interact with the real world, we shut down and head out the door. But wait, I was done twenty minutes before you! That's right, my "always on" connection was fast, so I could shut down the computer much sooner. So, there's a big chunk of time you could be getting infected, while I'm already at the bar taking names and badmouthing you so that you're stuck trying to score with the ugly women.
And of course, what argument against this ridiculous theory would be complete without an analogy to illustrate the poor use of logic? Let's compare your dialup-suggesting friend to a man who refuses to get a telephone because he doesn't want to be bothered by telemarketers. Not clear enough? How about the person who walks everywhere because people can die in car accidents?
I could go on and on about this, but you probably don't have the bandwidth to read it all.
You two moderators are idiot wankers. Go do us a favor and turn off that "willing to moderate" flag. Or do humanity a service and drink a Drano Daiquiri.
Now, I'm not an expert on the matter, but I'm pretty sure that your insurance rates don't go up when you get modded down on slashdot. In fact, the insurance company doesn't even have to know!
So I don't think you need to ask people to commit suicide just because they don't want you to turn this conversation into an "I hate the government" rant. If you hate the government and you want us to hear why, join the way-too-large-already pool of armchair internet political gurus and get yourself a blog. Hell, even start a podcast and pretend to be afraid you'll use up all your bandwidth. But don't turn other people's conversations into your own soapbox, like I'm sorta doing (except I really don't care if I get modded down).
I'd better finish filing out my patent application for "Is" before MS finds out. It's pretty brilliant, if I do say so. "Is" compares two pointers and returns "true" if they contain the same value.
only if you're stupid enough to shut the thing down every night like most ms-windows users do...
So the problem is that home users are turning off things which they aren't using? Your solution to slow startup times is to avoid starting up the computer? Your attitude is a good example why Linux has playing catch-up to other OS's with regard to user interfaces.
TheSun is what i call a newspaper for Ken and Barby, reflecting the depth of the souls reading it. Some say TheSun is more for smarter ppl these days. I guess they might have a point here as in these times its wise to be rather superficial.
Your award-winning spelling and grammar are evidence enough that you belong in the Sun's reader pool. And, hopefully, your baseless "I'm smarter than you" attitude will keep you out of the gene pool.
Shouldn't that file be called robots.txt? Google might honor norobots.txt in the same manner that IE quietly deals with missing table tags - in other words, enough people improperly named the file norobots.txt that Google decided it would be better to look for that file as well as the standard robots.txt file.
I have found one case where they are not honoring robots.txt. Ok it's a preview, but it's bothersome nonetheless.
Sorry, I am not posting the link, you just have to trust me or test some other site.
Is it possible you have an error in your syntax, and other spiders may be lenient on that particular error?
Without any sort of details, I think you'll find that most people will not believe you. My first impression is that you simply have an error in the file.
Microsoft plans for the next version of Windows to have a slightly different twist on the same idea.
So, version one in 2-3 more years, version 2 which deletes all the original widgets in 7 years, and version 8, which is completely incompatible with previous versions and now integrates with MSN and WMP 11, will debut in 13 years.
Seriously, if they make the sidebar anything like the toolbars that sometimes adhere to the always-on-top and auto-hide settings, Konfabulator has nothing to worry about.
And to threadjack ever-so-slightly, I'd have rather heard that sprint's new network would be based on the 900 or 1800 frequencies, so that American and Europeans could start using the same frequencies, and therefore the same phones. Is there a particular technical reason why the US uses 1900? Or is it just a way to force international travelers to have multiple phones?
Yes, it's horrible that I had 12 hours to waste yesterday.
Evidently, yes. I had twelve hours to waste on Saturday, and I spent it with friends, eating, drinking, and generally having fun. Best of all, I didn't put any advertisements around the bonfire.
I don't know if you created this plugin as a joke or some sort of sarcastic statement, but when you spend 12 hours making something that gives mozilla users more ads, that is typically defined as a waste of time. You should have been grilling delicious foods instead.
Yes, passwords will become a thing of the past - in the future. Until that happens, I think we needn't worry, panic, and speculate.
Oh, I think we should at least worry and speculate. When something new comes out in the future, it will only be because someone worried and/or speculated about how the current system can be changed or replaced.
Who do you think will be behind that change? At some point, someone will come up with an idea that will be the start of this new system. It could be a slashdot reader. The idea could come today. The people behind Google must have come up with an idea one day a few years ago, and at the time it was probably nothing more than an idea that started with, "what if there was a search engine that could..."
Slashdot might be the kind of environment where a new idea for the future of authentication could be born. So go ahead and panic, spleculate, and worry. If that leads to a new idea, do something with it. That is how we come up with new stuff.
Oh, and do something with it that protects yourself from lawsuits from the big companies in the future, while still allowing open source software to someday implement it.
Wonderful. Polo used to be snooty sport that only the wealthy could play (or even watch), but hey, now this "elite" sport has been opened to the masses! Anyone with a personal transport machine thing can now be part of this exclusive world!
Sarcasm aside, I swore off polo forever when I was working at a college, for very low pay, and paying high tuition, and I realized how much my college was spending on fundraising events (including a polo match featured in the school's high-gloss alumni magazine), and they gave the students and staff next to nothing. I've mentally associated polo with the type of people at that school who only cared about the donors, not the students.
Seeing segway owners play polo doesn't really conflict with the association, either.
They basically said that they would be fined if they were playing music if they did not have a subscription to digital radio.
It's actually very common. A friend of mine in upstate NY had been visited by reps from a member of the RIAA a few years ago when they learned that his art gallery had the occasional live music performance. If you have musicians performing copyrighted music, you generally have to pay a royalty fee to the record labels. It is usually a flat monthly fee, though, and since venues don't keep a list of what songs are performed, there doesn't seem to be a system in place to get that money to the artists. Surprise, surprise.
You can tell which venues don't pay that fee, though, as they only book musicians that play their own work, nothing copyrighted by major labels. Either that, or they haven't been visited by the RIAA yet.
I had a song a few years ago that was in rotation at American Eagle. I never got a penny for it. And I don't care. How many of those people would have heard my song otherwise? Probably none of them - the band wasn't even together anymore.
I suppose we could have put up a fuss about royalties, and perhaps gotten $30-$40 per band member. Then we would have been pulled out of rotation, I'm sure.
And for all of you keeping notes, the song was Sure Shot, by the Mixers, released by Moon Records on a compilation in 1995. I think Moon just gave Am. Eagle the disc, and let them pick some songs for really cheap.
So even though this post is days behind the rest of the party, I feel I can relate to the "odd names" posts I've seen here.
My name is Joe Stoner. You don't know how many times I had trouble getting pizza delivered in college. On the plus side, I get remembered a lot more because of the name. And as a musician, people in the audience usually think it's some sort of stage name. But I don't need one, baby! I'm a rock star! w00t!
Well, I'm not a rock star yet, but give me a few more years. It's still an ongoing quest.
I play (or played, as I am out of pratices) Sax and Piano.
I always got the impression that musicians in IT were a bit of a rarity... I also play sax and piano (plug and plug) and I haven't met too many musicians in IT or IT people who play music. It's a good combination though, since you get a decent balance between the technical and the artistic.
And after a long week at work, it's nice to get up on a stage and drink free beer and be a rockstar for a few hours. I have to recommend that anybody who doesn't play music pick up some instrument and learn to play!
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I'm waiting for AT&T to allow regular calls on iPhone!
I can not understand why your "friend" would think this (and I put friend in quotes because I don't think any real friend would make such a suggestion - either he is trying to sabotage your computing experience or he is extremely stupid and thinks you are someone else). Limiting your connection in such a way does nothing to keep you safe from attacks when you are connected - an IP address is an IP address as far as a worm is concerned. All this will do is decrease the speed in which you can infect other machines while sucking up what little bandwidth you have.
And this "always on" fear is also ridiculous. Let's say you and I were to compare our online time. I've got a cable modem and you're using dialup. I'm connected right when Windows boots up - just shy of a minute after pressing the power button. You're connected about three minutes later. We both go about our internet business, blogging here and posting there, IMing mundane details about our cats, and whatever other stupid things people do online. Oh, and we also both download some reasonably sized media files. When we're done and ready to interact with the real world, we shut down and head out the door. But wait, I was done twenty minutes before you! That's right, my "always on" connection was fast, so I could shut down the computer much sooner. So, there's a big chunk of time you could be getting infected, while I'm already at the bar taking names and badmouthing you so that you're stuck trying to score with the ugly women.
And of course, what argument against this ridiculous theory would be complete without an analogy to illustrate the poor use of logic? Let's compare your dialup-suggesting friend to a man who refuses to get a telephone because he doesn't want to be bothered by telemarketers. Not clear enough? How about the person who walks everywhere because people can die in car accidents?
I could go on and on about this, but you probably don't have the bandwidth to read it all.
You two moderators are idiot wankers. Go do us a favor and turn off that "willing to moderate" flag. Or do humanity a service and drink a Drano Daiquiri.
Now, I'm not an expert on the matter, but I'm pretty sure that your insurance rates don't go up when you get modded down on slashdot. In fact, the insurance company doesn't even have to know!
So I don't think you need to ask people to commit suicide just because they don't want you to turn this conversation into an "I hate the government" rant. If you hate the government and you want us to hear why, join the way-too-large-already pool of armchair internet political gurus and get yourself a blog. Hell, even start a podcast and pretend to be afraid you'll use up all your bandwidth. But don't turn other people's conversations into your own soapbox, like I'm sorta doing (except I really don't care if I get modded down).
I'd better finish filing out my patent application for "Is" before MS finds out. It's pretty brilliant, if I do say so. "Is" compares two pointers and returns "true" if they contain the same value.
So the problem is that home users are turning off things which they aren't using? Your solution to slow startup times is to avoid starting up the computer? Your attitude is a good example why Linux has playing catch-up to other OS's with regard to user interfaces.
Shouldn't that file be called robots.txt? Google might honor norobots.txt in the same manner that IE quietly deals with missing table tags - in other words, enough people improperly named the file norobots.txt that Google decided it would be better to look for that file as well as the standard robots.txt file.
Without any sort of details, I think you'll find that most people will not believe you. My first impression is that you simply have an error in the file.
I hope you mean train and not subway...
And to threadjack ever-so-slightly, I'd have rather heard that sprint's new network would be based on the 900 or 1800 frequencies, so that American and Europeans could start using the same frequencies, and therefore the same phones. Is there a particular technical reason why the US uses 1900? Or is it just a way to force international travelers to have multiple phones?
I don't know if you created this plugin as a joke or some sort of sarcastic statement, but when you spend 12 hours making something that gives mozilla users more ads, that is typically defined as a waste of time. You should have been grilling delicious foods instead.
explorer.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
Who do you think will be behind that change? At some point, someone will come up with an idea that will be the start of this new system. It could be a slashdot reader. The idea could come today. The people behind Google must have come up with an idea one day a few years ago, and at the time it was probably nothing more than an idea that started with, "what if there was a search engine that could..."
Slashdot might be the kind of environment where a new idea for the future of authentication could be born. So go ahead and panic, spleculate, and worry. If that leads to a new idea, do something with it. That is how we come up with new stuff.
Oh, and do something with it that protects yourself from lawsuits from the big companies in the future, while still allowing open source software to someday implement it.
This just in, I-90 has been slashdotted!
Who would be typing comments on slashdot when Doom 3 is out? The only keys you should be using right now is W, A, S, and D.
And perhaps you should be typing your credit card number, too, to buy that new video card.
If you take out the punctuation, though, it's down to twelve lines of code.
Wonderful. Polo used to be snooty sport that only the wealthy could play (or even watch), but hey, now this "elite" sport has been opened to the masses! Anyone with a personal transport machine thing can now be part of this exclusive world!
Sarcasm aside, I swore off polo forever when I was working at a college, for very low pay, and paying high tuition, and I realized how much my college was spending on fundraising events (including a polo match featured in the school's high-gloss alumni magazine), and they gave the students and staff next to nothing. I've mentally associated polo with the type of people at that school who only cared about the donors, not the students.
Seeing segway owners play polo doesn't really conflict with the association, either.
Problem solved. Mod me up folks, we'll turn google against itself!
You can tell which venues don't pay that fee, though, as they only book musicians that play their own work, nothing copyrighted by major labels. Either that, or they haven't been visited by the RIAA yet.
I had a song a few years ago that was in rotation at American Eagle. I never got a penny for it. And I don't care. How many of those people would have heard my song otherwise? Probably none of them - the band wasn't even together anymore.
I suppose we could have put up a fuss about royalties, and perhaps gotten $30-$40 per band member. Then we would have been pulled out of rotation, I'm sure.
And for all of you keeping notes, the song was Sure Shot, by the Mixers, released by Moon Records on a compilation in 1995. I think Moon just gave Am. Eagle the disc, and let them pick some songs for really cheap.
So even though this post is days behind the rest of the party, I feel I can relate to the "odd names" posts I've seen here.
My name is Joe Stoner. You don't know how many times I had trouble getting pizza delivered in college. On the plus side, I get remembered a lot more because of the name. And as a musician, people in the audience usually think it's some sort of stage name. But I don't need one, baby! I'm a rock star! w00t!
Well, I'm not a rock star yet, but give me a few more years. It's still an ongoing quest.
And after a long week at work, it's nice to get up on a stage and drink free beer and be a rockstar for a few hours. I have to recommend that anybody who doesn't play music pick up some instrument and learn to play!