Hard to tell, but a nipple, or a cartoon's behind, is definitely too explicit, regardless if it's in an erotic context or not, at least in US television. If anything, I think that shows how far the morale panic has been allowed to spread in some countries.
If this is so bad, why not go after a major indexer of lyrics: Google. It doesn't provide lyrics, but as we've heard before, indexing is almost as bad, with e.g. BitTorrent.com's search engine "supporting" BT piracy by indexing that unless actively taking actions to counter it, and they've indeed been contacted too.
You can find basically any lyrics there, and Google even makes a profit from your searches as opposed to this tool and BitTorrent.com, by using AdWords.
That they're bullying the weak just shows how pathetic they are... Or maybe their case isn't strong enough to hold up when attacking a company that actually have a fair amount of paid lawyers on standby? But on the other hand, their sales would skyrocket if they did, using their logic.
Just have your site be focused for the readers, so a good algorithm will then not punish your site for artifical rank pumping. Doh!
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Thanks! I recall seeing the Counter Vandalism Unit, and although I recall they only worked with established practices rather than discussing new ones, I'll take another look there anyway.
I know there use to be behind the scenes discussions on Wikipedia.org itself, but was wondering if someone knew off the top of their head a place where such discussions take place there? That is, about this issue with vandalisms and thoughts on how to counter it, assume there is such a discussion there ?
I often feel it's a sort of a maze to find stuff among all the meta-Wiki and special pages there, but I'm also interested in following this discussion if there is one, as I hope Wikipedia can continue to exist, but hopefully in a better shape with improved mechanisms against vandalism in general.
I'm not sure this specific action will help much, so I hope Jimbo is intending to proceed trying to drive a discussion about this, as the most important thing for an encyclopedia is credibility, really.
I'm aware of the "Wikipedia 1.0" initiative with only screened articles, but I'm more wondering along the lines of Wikipedia rights and policy changes on the site itself.
The average user will install software only if it involves clicking "Next" "Ok" or "Finish".... or the infamous "yes, yes, move on" button. But then I guess we know different people.;-)
Yah.. BUT even with existing Windows (Windows 2000 and XP), running as an underprivileged user does have many issues. There are still many applications on Windows that do not follow the security policy and attempt to write user data outside of their profile. ie -- try installing an app sometime as a regular user on Windows...
Yep, I agree this is clearly a problem on Windows, and probably a big reason things look like they do today with spyware. However, one has to wonder whether it's Microsoft's fault or not. There are the "current user" registry hive, there are the user profile (a la *nix "home directory") directory... It's maybe mostly because of Windows' poor heritage with lousy security mechanisms that have made developers sloppy. I.e. "we develop like for Windows 95 and it has worked for Admins for a decade, so lets ignore those 'other' accounts".
Well, I tried to do this -- and I am back to being an admin 100% of the time. The problem is stupid applications that REQUIRE admin access in order to work. Specifically, I had a problem with Winamp. It crashed unless ran as admin.
Yes, this is a stupid problem with current versions of Windows, I agree about that.
It's mostly the app developers' fault -- usually you get ignored on support forums if you bring it up... I've done it myself. It's often due to assumptions made and storing e.g. application data in the Program directory instead of in the user profile, etc.
Of course, that explanation doesn't help the matter, but it seems the upcoming version will, as it will allow things Winamp stupidly assumes, but behind a permission box. Current restricted accounts simply don't use those, and this account type "incompatibility" occurs.
To answer your topic question, it's necessary because Windows users usually run with administrator rights and don't care much for what an installer may do. Think doing the same but in Linux as root.
And then few OS'es out there will help if the user choose to install a spyware infested program and click "Yes" to install the whole thing. I mean, once a user run executable code with admin rights, what can the OS do?
One solution is of course to run in a more protected user mode where you're requested of admin rights when it has to do something to the system, and the upcoming version of Windows will do exactly this, and what *nix desktop managers have had for years.
However, when the user see "This application requires administrator rights", will he/she still just blindly fill in the requested info, click "yes", and get the spyware?
Why change this into a system which could encourage bureaucracy?
Well, the opinion was mostly that keeping it under US control could cause problems by not giving foreign countries a voice in how its governed, and since Internet is nowadays global, this could become a problem, especially if it would in the future take on a too US centric governing.
Personally, I don't really care if it's kept running like this though, but I find it very easy to see why some would like to take this risk. It's simply out of fearing bad things coming out of a global medium being governed by a single state in many aspects.
* Winning the "PC World World Class Award" for being #2 on the list of The 100 Best Products of 2005. (We don't mind being #2, especially to Firefox. Plus, it gives us more to work for.)
Based on opinions and webmail competition in July 2004.
Not that it may have changed for Gmail in particular, but with the quickly evolving web service market, this article should be taken with a huge grain of salt. There are even factual inaccuracies in the list due to how some products have evolved, and their ratings have been made by taking these inaccuracies into account... Ouch
Opera: Best for power users who keep many pages open at once and perform frequent downloads. There's an e-mail program included, but banner ads on the free version of the browser are annoying.
This was a mighty confusing (and simply incorrect) thing to say to me, until I noticed it was said a year ago.
Ummm...
So this is rather "Predictions of Best Products of 2005"?
Not being able to kill services in not a limitation of windows, it's a limitation of the task manager. Use Sysinternal's Process Explorer - it will let you kill any process, even if doing so will crash windows.
Or just open "Administrative Tools -> Services" in the Windows Control Panel...
I see your point, but what does computer components have to do with Internet control?
I can give you that DARPA could be seen as a "defense" for having US to retain a large control over things, but bringing up "essential peripherals" doesn't give much weight to the argument IMHO. They're different things, and using that logic, wouldn't it have been hard to develop it without CRT screens originally invented by Ferdinand Braun, etc, or what about electricity theory from people like Georg Ohm, Alessandro Volta, and André-Marie Ampère. Major foundations laid and necessary to even start thinking of transistors.
But I agree with invention pride probably being a large contributor for defending Internet control. That along with trust, or rather the lack thereof, in others.
Yeah, what I dislike most about ICANN is their inconsistency.
They're now opening for.eu -- European Union, in other words. Not the continent, the organization. Countries belong to Europe may not be able to register under.eu if they aren't members of the EU. There's no.euro. There may be a.asia according to these news. There are no plans for a.africa, despite the entire Africa is far from "deserts and poor people". There's nothing for North America or South America. There are for museums and airports.
What's next, a domain for.nato instead of having nato.int for NATO member countries, along with a domain for restaurants?
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Hard to tell, but a nipple, or a cartoon's behind, is definitely too explicit, regardless if it's in an erotic context or not, at least in US television.
If anything, I think that shows how far the morale panic has been allowed to spread in some countries.
If this is so bad, why not go after a major indexer of lyrics: Google. It doesn't provide lyrics, but as we've heard before, indexing is almost as bad, with e.g. BitTorrent.com's search engine "supporting" BT piracy by indexing that unless actively taking actions to counter it, and they've indeed been contacted too.
You can find basically any lyrics there, and Google even makes a profit from your searches as opposed to this tool and BitTorrent.com, by using AdWords.
That they're bullying the weak just shows how pathetic they are...
Or maybe their case isn't strong enough to hold up when attacking a company that actually have a fair amount of paid lawyers on standby?
But on the other hand, their sales would skyrocket if they did, using their logic.
Sorry about the site's slowness. We've fixed that and everyone should be able to browse it, no problem now.
:-)
O_o
You... you make it sound so easy...
Any upcoming guide for that?
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Thanks! I recall seeing the Counter Vandalism Unit, and although I recall they only worked with established practices rather than discussing new ones, I'll take another look there anyway.
The TLD is restricted for EU members only.
So in Sweden, schoolchildren can legitimately go around saying "fart" and "sex" all day.
Well, I pity the countries where this is illegal.
In which civilized country can't you even utter these words legitimately?
I know there use to be behind the scenes discussions on Wikipedia.org itself, but was wondering if someone knew off the top of their head a place where such discussions take place there? That is, about this issue with vandalisms and thoughts on how to counter it, assume there is such a discussion there ?
I often feel it's a sort of a maze to find stuff among all the meta-Wiki and special pages there, but I'm also interested in following this discussion if there is one, as I hope Wikipedia can continue to exist, but hopefully in a better shape with improved mechanisms against vandalism in general.
I'm not sure this specific action will help much, so I hope Jimbo is intending to proceed trying to drive a discussion about this, as the most important thing for an encyclopedia is credibility, really.
I'm aware of the "Wikipedia 1.0" initiative with only screened articles, but I'm more wondering along the lines of Wikipedia rights and policy changes on the site itself.
There's "Java" and "speed" in the same sentence again!
No.
;-)
... or the infamous "yes, yes, move on" button. But then I guess we know different people. ;-)
No? Well, I wish I lived in your world.
The average user will install software only if it involves clicking "Next" "Ok" or "Finish".
Yah.. BUT even with existing Windows (Windows 2000 and XP), running as an underprivileged user does have many issues. There are still many applications on Windows that do not follow the security policy and attempt to write user data outside of their profile. ie -- try installing an app sometime as a regular user on Windows...
Yep, I agree this is clearly a problem on Windows, and probably a big reason things look like they do today with spyware. However, one has to wonder whether it's Microsoft's fault or not. There are the "current user" registry hive, there are the user profile (a la *nix "home directory") directory... It's maybe mostly because of Windows' poor heritage with lousy security mechanisms that have made developers sloppy. I.e. "we develop like for Windows 95 and it has worked for Admins for a decade, so lets ignore those 'other' accounts".
Well, I tried to do this -- and I am back to being an admin 100% of the time. The problem is stupid applications that REQUIRE admin access in order to work. Specifically, I had a problem with Winamp. It crashed unless ran as admin.
Yes, this is a stupid problem with current versions of Windows, I agree about that.
It's mostly the app developers' fault -- usually you get ignored on support forums if you bring it up... I've done it myself. It's often due to assumptions made and storing e.g. application data in the Program directory instead of in the user profile, etc.
Of course, that explanation doesn't help the matter, but it seems the upcoming version will, as it will allow things Winamp stupidly assumes, but behind a permission box. Current restricted accounts simply don't use those, and this account type "incompatibility" occurs.
To answer your topic question, it's necessary because Windows users usually run with administrator rights and don't care much for what an installer may do. Think doing the same but in Linux as root.
And then few OS'es out there will help if the user choose to install a spyware infested program and click "Yes" to install the whole thing. I mean, once a user run executable code with admin rights, what can the OS do?
One solution is of course to run in a more protected user mode where you're requested of admin rights when it has to do something to the system, and the upcoming version of Windows will do exactly this, and what *nix desktop managers have had for years.
However, when the user see "This application requires administrator rights", will he/she still just blindly fill in the requested info, click "yes", and get the spyware?
She's black, but why wasn't it mentioned how tall she was, or how much she weigh?
What does skin color have to do with anything exactly?
Why change this into a system which could encourage bureaucracy?
Well, the opinion was mostly that keeping it under US control could cause problems by not giving foreign countries a voice in how its governed, and since Internet is nowadays global, this could become a problem, especially if it would in the future take on a too US centric governing.
Personally, I don't really care if it's kept running like this though, but I find it very easy to see why some would like to take this risk. It's simply out of fearing bad things coming out of a global medium being governed by a single state in many aspects.
Great, now your cool lava fountain will be vandalized with a fountain of shit. :-/
I guess it depends on your definition of "nerd".
Does it require a huge interest in technology, or in science in general?
Geology is most definitely a science anyway.
* Winning the "PC World World Class Award" for being #2 on the list of The 100 Best Products of 2005. (We don't mind being #2, especially to Firefox. Plus, it gives us more to work for.)
Based on opinions and webmail competition in July 2004.
Not that it may have changed for Gmail in particular, but with the quickly evolving web service market, this article should be taken with a huge grain of salt. There are even factual inaccuracies in the list due to how some products have evolved, and their ratings have been made by taking these inaccuracies into account... Ouch
Opera: Best for power users who keep many pages open at once and perform frequent downloads. There's an e-mail program included, but banner ads on the free version of the browser are annoying.
This was a mighty confusing (and simply incorrect) thing to say to me, until I noticed it was said a year ago.
Ummm...
So this is rather "Predictions of Best Products of 2005"?
What about a normal remote control isn't usable?
Not being able to kill services in not a limitation of windows, it's a limitation of the task manager. Use Sysinternal's Process Explorer - it will let you kill any process, even if doing so will crash windows.
Or just open "Administrative Tools -> Services" in the Windows Control Panel...
The only new thing I see here is a stylish remote control.
Media center simplicity?
There are more than one media center out there today that's configurable to be very bare bones and accessible. Just check MythTV and Meedio?
I'm just playing around with a November build (5259) of Vista, and I just had to reboot VMWare for installing a mouse driver. :)
:)
Well maybe things will improve then, heh
It could be a beta 2 / post-beta 2 feature that's not checked in here yet, but I thought it was funny because I don't recall even XP doing that.
I see your point, but what does computer components have to do with Internet control?
I can give you that DARPA could be seen as a "defense" for having US to retain a large control over things, but bringing up "essential peripherals" doesn't give much weight to the argument IMHO. They're different things, and using that logic, wouldn't it have been hard to develop it without CRT screens originally invented by Ferdinand Braun, etc, or what about electricity theory from people like Georg Ohm, Alessandro Volta, and André-Marie Ampère. Major foundations laid and necessary to even start thinking of transistors.
But I agree with invention pride probably being a large contributor for defending Internet control. That along with trust, or rather the lack thereof, in others.
Yeah, what I dislike most about ICANN is their inconsistency.
.eu -- European Union, in other words. Not the continent, the organization. Countries belong to Europe may not be able to register under .eu if they aren't members of the EU. There's no .euro. There may be a .asia according to these news. There are no plans for a .africa, despite the entire Africa is far from "deserts and poor people". There's nothing for North America or South America. There are for museums and airports.
.nato instead of having nato.int for NATO member countries, along with a domain for restaurants?
They're now opening for
What's next, a domain for