Archive.org has always had a good policy to removing data on request.
They have an automatic version that allows use of robots.txt, when forbidden to crawl they go back and make the other, older versions unavailable as well. (It only works when the re-crawl happens, though I think you can initate it by going to the site.)
Furthermore, additional requests can be made via email to remove content. The only "damage" here is that the wrong (in their opinion) law firm got ahold of the data before they could do that.
The company suing, broke the law, got sued, got fucked, and now wants to sue to recover money due to them breaking the law and getting busted for it by going after archive.org that provided evidence in the original lawsuit. Sorry guys, you got fucked when you first stole trademarked stuff of someone elses web site. The rest of it is just sour apples. They should be charged with intimidating a witness and put in pound me in the ass federal prison for it. It's racketteering like that that gives lawyers such a bad name.
Had they any brains, they would have employed a geek to go seek out these cached sources and remove them the first time around.
AND the company suing the original offending company, should have used a simple entry in their HOSTS file to keep from accidentally causing requests to go to the original web server, that's simple data forensics.
Let me tell you a story about my week in mid September, 2001. After wasting tons of time reading news I got a desparate call from a certain client (soon to be rather). Their web host was in the towers, and both server farms were demolished, along with all the backup tapes. Their site was gone. AND due to other complications they were losing customers left and right.
I used Archive.org, Google cache and a few bits they had to reassemble the web site and get it back on line. In this case, un-pre-approved caching was critical in keeping this company from going out of business.
There 1,000s of other systems that cache data and make it available later, Inktomi, Akami, corporate networks, those "high speed dial-up" things, my friggin open source firewall does that (Squid?). It's simply stupid to sue archive.org for that. Caching is part of the web, get fucking used to it.
It's the webmasters damn job to know or learn all about this stuff (including caching). Slapping HTML up on some server is not the end of web managment. There's a whole lot more to it.
"Paradigm" is a real word used to describe chains of scientific theories strung together with dependancies.
For example, geologic dating relies on rock layers, known rates of chemical/radiological change, tree rings, magnetic pole reversals, etc.
The paradigm is the understanding of how it all fits together to give a picture of the history of some place.
Screw up a couple of those dating techniques (chemical rates for example) and the whole thing colapses becase lots of stuff depended on that being right. The new construct of theories comes out of it (after a while and all the wrangling among professors is over) and the transition is called "paradigm shift".
Heliocentric vs Earth-centric ideas of the solar system is a classic example of a paradigm shift. Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion was the part that kicked in the change.
Lumbard-esque business weasels stole and corrupted the word. They DID NOT make it up. They mis-understood and perverted it.
Damn, I am a geek.
My favorite term is;
- "Controlled Flight into Terrain" used to describe an aircraft plowing into a hillside. Not a crash, "flight into terrain". (Admittedly, describing a certain type of accident. But funny nonetheless.)
Google is great, but is not "the innernets" as you AOLers have come to believe.
Google regularly removes stuff that isn't relevant, or when the web page changes, or imagine... stuff that was around and removed BEFORE GOOGLE WAS INVENTED tends not to be in there.
AFIK the only evidence is the fact that regular "light" matter seems to circulate around in galaxies faster than it should. (Implying there is more matter or gravitational pull there than can be accounted for by looking at the light emitted from stars.)
The rest of it is poking around trying to find someplace to start a coherent theory about the stuff.
A LOT of work has been done on it, but so far there isn't a "we think this is it" theory.
Your ideas about eyes are old though, there's been some new stuff (either fossil evidence or genetic, I forgot which) that has filled in some of the gaps on eyes. You should look it up...
BTW, you DO sound like a bible thumper or a 'intelligent design' person. I'll take your word for it that you are not...
The day I can sue Russian pop-up spam web sites for farking up my family's computer and get paid $100 per hour (my going rate) in compensation... they can have their day in court about NASA hitting comets.
That would be stupid without other checks and balances.
Gee, now the little guy can't sue the big guy for legit reasons because if he loses the big guy has spent 500 times his net worth on lawyers (deliberately) and takes his home, buisness and first born.
Maybe if the jury had the power to do that or something... but the loser should not pay the winner automatically.
Christians, Muslums and the rest of you lot are going to be held responsible for the crud your fanatics do, reguardless of how you wish it would be. That's the future.
From the looks of things, you have only slightly less work to do than your friends in Islam.
True. However if you can tolerate some down time, a Smoothwall box once set up can back up configuration to floppy, where it's easy to port onto another crappy computer lying around.
Or, do what I did, take THREE crappy computers, put Smoothwall on all of them and back up the config about 5 times.
If one dies, just swap out the cables, pop in the floppy, boot and it's done.
Where one cruddy old box will work, three will make it redundant!
(as long as someone doesnt use them for something else... bunch of damn machine canibals around here...)
1) Windows XP has a crap default setup for user preferences; candy apple theme, "hide known file extensions", icons view, hide "my computer" etc.
Once the admin account is set, it is a PITA to do the same stuff for other accounts. XP needs a button that says "make ALL accounts use this as default" button on those settings.
2) No damn rhyme or reason behind what requires admin access and what doesn't. Sure, adding Office or Baldurs Gate should require admin, changing screen resolution? Hell no. Half the spyware normal users get uses privledge escalation holes anyway so it does not keep that crap down.
Make the stuff make sense.
Anyway, I have been told (but have not tried) that making the "temp" folder trees "Everyone" read/write explicitly, and adding each account explicitly fixes most of the "run as admin" problems. Most programs dont do much registry editing, but a lot need scratch space and if they use the temp folders, they need access to them.
Que some guy from Texas with a much bigger list....
You forgot;
- largest radio trivia contest in the world - Mimi (Drew Carey show) - Bratfest - Milwaukee Mile - Horicon Marsh - Willam Defoe - John McArthy - John Birch Society - More lakes than Minnesota
You can take the Halloween Party off the list. Its not the UW that bears the brunt its the City of Madison, and the mayor has a personal ventetta against it after all the damage. State street is likely to be fenced off and closed this year.
Heavy yes, but not as hard to make small as one might think. Certainly small enough to lug around in a car trunk.
Here's a link to the Davy Crockett recoilless rocket launched artillery, at 0.01 kilotons it's not a big nuke. But sure as hell would raise the hackles of the US Govt. and scare the crud out of whole states full of people (aside from the ones killed outright).
This was back in 1961. Since then, there is probably little point in making it much smaller, rather making it have a higher yield. I wouldn't be suprised if there were warheads this size with 10 times the yield of this one available now.
Slashdot Mirror
Clever tool.
Too bad the webmaster is a tool too.
Seriously, sounds and flashy stuff on a web page designed to help you goof off? That's really not very noticable....
Another season I can only see half of.
Come on, finish the DVD set already will ya! Its the only way I will end up seeing all of it.
Friday nights are just not a slot I can reliably have in front of the TV. Miss one episode and I am screwed for the season.
That bird thing was completely debunked here on Slashdot last year.
Stop spouting it, it's wrong.
Archive.org has always had a good policy to removing data on request.
They have an automatic version that allows use of robots.txt, when forbidden to crawl they go back and make the other, older versions unavailable as well. (It only works when the re-crawl happens, though I think you can initate it by going to the site.)
Furthermore, additional requests can be made via email to remove content. The only "damage" here is that the wrong (in their opinion) law firm got ahold of the data before they could do that.
The company suing, broke the law, got sued, got fucked, and now wants to sue to recover money due to them breaking the law and getting busted for it by going after archive.org that provided evidence in the original lawsuit. Sorry guys, you got fucked when you first stole trademarked stuff of someone elses web site. The rest of it is just sour apples. They should be charged with intimidating a witness and put in pound me in the ass federal prison for it. It's racketteering like that that gives lawyers such a bad name.
Had they any brains, they would have employed a geek to go seek out these cached sources and remove them the first time around.
AND the company suing the original offending company, should have used a simple entry in their HOSTS file to keep from accidentally causing requests to go to the original web server, that's simple data forensics.
Let me tell you a story about my week in mid September, 2001. After wasting tons of time reading news I got a desparate call from a certain client (soon to be rather). Their web host was in the towers, and both server farms were demolished, along with all the backup tapes. Their site was gone. AND due to other complications they were losing customers left and right.
I used Archive.org, Google cache and a few bits they had to reassemble the web site and get it back on line. In this case, un-pre-approved caching was critical in keeping this company from going out of business.
There 1,000s of other systems that cache data and make it available later, Inktomi, Akami, corporate networks, those "high speed dial-up" things, my friggin open source firewall does that (Squid?). It's simply stupid to sue archive.org for that. Caching is part of the web, get fucking used to it.
It's the webmasters damn job to know or learn all about this stuff (including caching). Slapping HTML up on some server is not the end of web managment. There's a whole lot more to it.
So the guy that plays the lottery once and wins that one time had a life-long probablity of winning the lottery of 1?
The odds are what they are. Odds are that the probablity of the foam thing is LOWER than 1% are pretty high.
How much lower than 1% is a pure guess.
I agree though, they should stick the orbiter at the top like other vehicles do. Not on the side like it is.
Google: "paradygm" 680 hits
Google: "paradigm" 15 million hits
"Paradigm" is a real word used to describe chains of scientific theories strung together with dependancies.
For example, geologic dating relies on rock layers, known rates of chemical/radiological change, tree rings, magnetic pole reversals, etc.
The paradigm is the understanding of how it all fits together to give a picture of the history of some place.
Screw up a couple of those dating techniques (chemical rates for example) and the whole thing colapses becase lots of stuff depended on that being right. The new construct of theories comes out of it (after a while and all the wrangling among professors is over) and the transition is called "paradigm shift".
Heliocentric vs Earth-centric ideas of the solar system is a classic example of a paradigm shift. Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion was the part that kicked in the change.
Lumbard-esque business weasels stole and corrupted the word. They DID NOT make it up. They mis-understood and perverted it.
Damn, I am a geek.
My favorite term is;
- "Controlled Flight into Terrain" used to describe an aircraft plowing into a hillside. Not a crash, "flight into terrain". (Admittedly, describing a certain type of accident. But funny nonetheless.)
Just don't do it as "Chanandler Bong". That guy's credit is already so bad they won't honor the subscription.
Noob.
Google is great, but is not "the innernets" as you AOLers have come to believe.
Google regularly removes stuff that isn't relevant, or when the web page changes, or imagine... stuff that was around and removed BEFORE GOOGLE WAS INVENTED tends not to be in there.
AFIK the only evidence is the fact that regular "light" matter seems to circulate around in galaxies faster than it should. (Implying there is more matter or gravitational pull there than can be accounted for by looking at the light emitted from stars.)
The rest of it is poking around trying to find someplace to start a coherent theory about the stuff.
A LOT of work has been done on it, but so far there isn't a "we think this is it" theory.
Your ideas about eyes are old though, there's been some new stuff (either fossil evidence or genetic, I forgot which) that has filled in some of the gaps on eyes. You should look it up...
BTW, you DO sound like a bible thumper or a 'intelligent design' person. I'll take your word for it that you are not...
Russia can go to third world hell.
The day I can sue Russian pop-up spam web sites for farking up my family's computer and get paid $100 per hour (my going rate) in compensation... they can have their day in court about NASA hitting comets.
Until then, just ignore the bastards.
That would be stupid without other checks and balances.
Gee, now the little guy can't sue the big guy for legit reasons because if he loses the big guy has spent 500 times his net worth on lawyers (deliberately) and takes his home, buisness and first born.
Maybe if the jury had the power to do that or something... but the loser should not pay the winner automatically.
Clean your own house first.
Christians, Muslums and the rest of you lot are going to be held responsible for the crud your fanatics do, reguardless of how you wish it would be. That's the future.
From the looks of things, you have only slightly less work to do than your friends in Islam.
True. However if you can tolerate some down time, a Smoothwall box once set up can back up configuration to floppy, where it's easy to port onto another crappy computer lying around.
Or, do what I did, take THREE crappy computers, put Smoothwall on all of them and back up the config about 5 times.
If one dies, just swap out the cables, pop in the floppy, boot and it's done.
Where one cruddy old box will work, three will make it redundant!
(as long as someone doesnt use them for something else... bunch of damn machine canibals around here...)
1) Windows XP has a crap default setup for user preferences; candy apple theme, "hide known file extensions", icons view, hide "my computer" etc.
Once the admin account is set, it is a PITA to do the same stuff for other accounts. XP needs a button that says "make ALL accounts use this as default" button on those settings.
2) No damn rhyme or reason behind what requires admin access and what doesn't. Sure, adding Office or Baldurs Gate should require admin, changing screen resolution? Hell no. Half the spyware normal users get uses privledge escalation holes anyway so it does not keep that crap down.
Make the stuff make sense.
Anyway, I have been told (but have not tried) that making the "temp" folder trees "Everyone" read/write explicitly, and adding each account explicitly fixes most of the "run as admin" problems. Most programs dont do much registry editing, but a lot need scratch space and if they use the temp folders, they need access to them.
Corn is a new world food. (Mexico/Central America)
Any quote containing the word "corn" claiming to be from the bible is false.
Que some guy from Texas with a much bigger list....
You forgot;
- largest radio trivia contest in the world
- Mimi (Drew Carey show)
- Bratfest
- Milwaukee Mile
- Horicon Marsh
- Willam Defoe
- John McArthy
- John Birch Society
- More lakes than Minnesota
You can take the Halloween Party off the list. Its not the UW that bears the brunt its the City of Madison, and the mayor has a personal ventetta against it after all the damage. State street is likely to be fenced off and closed this year.
This particular flower bloomed last year too.
The guys they have running the gardens at the UW are some of the best in the world. That place is amazing.
Anyway, it was all over the news then too. Blah. Local news sucks.
Which horse? Did they confuse a horse with the camel Conan punched out when he got drunk?
Remember, the camel spit on him first so he sorta started it.
Your underlying assumption is the signals we may dectect are accidentally or incidentally broadcast into space.
Deliberate broadcasts suffer from none of the drawbacks you describe.
You also assume that our use of the EM spectrum is the same as some other civilization's use of the EM spectrum.
Also an assumption everyone agrees with.
So your conclusion SETI won't work does not follow from your argument.
True, it probably won't work, but not in the manner you describe.
So people need to stay silent about the wrong stuff until your idea of the police state is satisfied?
Moving to change things early is the way to AVOID a police state.
I hope you got lucky. :)
Seriously. I learned a long time ago to not use my position as IT guy to particpate in anything other than strictly business.
At first management might think it's useful, but the more clueful ones then figure out you could be a liability to them too...
Note;
This only works if you don't tell the cop how fast you were going.
When they say; "Do you know how fast you were going?"
You think; (if I reduce it by a few miles I can save some money) "85"
But, they are getting you to ADMIT how fast you were going, even if they clocked you at 90 they'll get you for 85 for sure.
So... say something else instead of naming your speed.
Very, very few online banking providers (most banks don't run or write their own online banking backend) have the security that you are looking for.
You might try one of the internet only banks for that type of stuff.
It just hasn't gotten a foothold in the USA like in Europe.
No kidding...
They should change the name back to "Department of War" to better reflect the current mission.
Or, maybe "Department of Lining Halliburton's Wallet" if they felt particularly candid....
Heavy yes, but not as hard to make small as one might think. Certainly small enough to lug around in a car trunk.
Here's a link to the Davy Crockett recoilless rocket launched artillery, at 0.01 kilotons it's not a big nuke. But sure as hell would raise the hackles of the US Govt. and scare the crud out of whole states full of people (aside from the ones killed outright).
This was back in 1961. Since then, there is probably little point in making it much smaller, rather making it have a higher yield. I wouldn't be suprised if there were warheads this size with 10 times the yield of this one available now.