so i think that this theory about SEO seeking types indicative of worse behavior is actually quite true.
Well, I wouldn't equate the two quite so strongly. Gaming a system is one thing, violent crimes are another.
However, there are reasons why people game the system. In a search engine like google, new web sites are at a distinct disadvantage to older, more established web sites. Olde web sites have longer histories, have more links back to them, are more "poplar", etc than newer sites. The barrier to entry on a search engine is not money but links. Lots of them.
Add in the fact that the search engines generally don't give much indication about how the systems work other than vaguely worded descriptions, that determining what is relevant what what is detrimental is impossible. For example, search out the value of using meta-tags and keywords headings in the HTML HEAD, and you will see plenty of results saying you should or should not use them. Well, what I want to know in the keyword instance is if I use what I think are relevant keywords and meta-tags, 1) how does the search engine view them and 2) how does the search engine detect keyword spam?
For every problem, there is a reason. Figure out the reason and you can do something about it.
The last time I used Word Perfect was maybe three years ago. I had to give it up because of the work I do (formatting issues, etc). But on the placement of images and page layout, Word Perfect is a word processor with decent layout capabilities. You want a pic right there -->, just put it there, the text moves around it. Best part, it stays there when you scroll the page. Amazing.
Best part, if your formatting got really horked, you could "View Codes" and remove the firking tags. It would even remove the other side of balanced tags for you.
Brother, you can run Linux on just about anything now a days. FWIW, I installed Fedora 8 on a T-Pad R60E. Not your high end machine, to be sure, but it just worked. Unless Lenovo is doing something wonky with hardware, yes, Linux will run.
As a long time Thinkpad user, I was glad when my T60 arrived with the fingerprint reader and then loved/hated it everyday since (little more than a year). There are days when I still have to run my finger across it multiple times (and rather an just entering my password, I continue the mad swiping until it works). The face scan just ain't consumer friendly at all.
The competitors lack true compatibility with all MS generated files,
I am glad you said this AND that you got modded up. Office is the app to kill. Make one that is better, works seamlessly with Office docs and you've got a chance. I use Office because I don't have the time or the desire to dick around with formatting issues and alot of companies are on the same playing field.
But let me also add, making an Office killer is not as simple as making a word processor, spread sheet, and presentation app. Office is a *development environment* and many, many companies use the programatic capabilities of Office to build apps that cal pull on different parts of the office suite. Those programmatic features are used by companies, not necessarily consumers and I will posit that company sales drive Office profits more than consumer sales. so I think to reall make a dent, any competing office suite has to either run Office apps/macros/scripts or interpret/convert existing office apps/macros/scripts as well.
Even after AltaVista, there were a ton of search agents that you could download that claimed to do just that. Search out information you were interested in based on what you had looked for/read before. None of them worked well. Has anything changed?
I worked for 3 years in a data center with about 100 servers, network gear, and an ancient environmental unit. Very noisy environment. If you get to design your workplace, then you want sound proofing like described here.
I now work in a place with a separate data center. It's so nice to talk on the phone and not have to explain to others that I am not, in fact, in an airplane back by the engines.
I hadn't previously heard of most of the artists/songs that were recovered.
What would help music sales, cd or otherwise, is a decent way to find the music people wants to hear. I like classical and spanish guitar. Just the guitar with minimal back round instruments. Try to find that! I was in a borders and a woman asked the sales girl for classical guitar. She pointed the hapless woman over to the classical section. I knew she would find what she was looking for (I was just there and there is not "classical guitar section"). I suggested she tell the customer to pick up some John Williams or Segovia, and the sales girl looked at me confused, and said they were over in classical. NO shit! I know that but the customer doesn't.
Look, it's the digital age. If perhaps record companies spent some money employing people to music knowledge to classify music in a variety of ways, the less musically educated like myself, might actually find what I am looking for and, *gasp*, purchase it.
How exactly is this strategy going to protect you from a keylogger?
This is not insightful. It shows the PP didn't bother to spend 5 minutes to read the article or the fricking summary.
But to answer your question, ensure that you surf the web in such a way that you don't install a key logger!
I have been in the Internet for years, as I am sure mot ppl on/. have been, and I have yet to catch a virus, worm, or keylogger. Nor have I ever been phished or conned out of money. Why? Because I keep my AV upto date. I don't download shit off the Internet higgeldy-piggeldy. I don't click on links in emails from anyone (I type them into the browser or cut and paste).
I explained to my wife these same rules and she has never caught a piece of malware.
I don't know how using a special p browser would help fend off XSS attacks and would like to know more, but Igiven Grossman' creds, he may be onto something.
More importantly: if the fundamental laws of the universe are changing (as some posit), how would we know? Can we separate natural laws from the universe that they are derived from/created in?
Apparently this is a useless question since it is the philosophy of science. I have to wonder why smart people think they are smart about everything. Isn't science supposed to have rigor and thorough analysis, and if so, wouldn't that mean rigor and analysis about itself? Theories of metaphysics (not the new age shit that word is associated with, but about fundamental stuff about physics or science), epistemology (what we know and how we know it), and language all inform our science and scientific thought. Failing to understand that is a failure to understand the very activity a scientist is engaged in.
I dunno. Mazes can be fun to play. I loved Descent and Descent II, both of which are mazes. I used to play until vertigo would set-in and I would have to put my head between my knees to avoid puking (usually 3-4 hours of gameplay).
Mazes have to be done well. In HL2 EP2, the mazes generally suck where you are just running and running. That's boring. But in HL1, there were a few maze-like structures that would fun to run through. It all depends.
What I hate are boss levels where you have to expend all your ammo, or at least I do, in the hope that you can kill the boss. Nothing will get me to search out cheat codes faster. I was surprised to see them in HL2 EP2 (I forget the map, but it the one with the two ant-lion guards and there was another).
Then they should put their content behind a subscription wall. If their content is worth anything, then people will pay to see it. If their content isn't distinguishable from what any other site offers, then they'll go out of business.
That is one model, but for consumer-ish stuff like news, folks have grown used to getting it free from TV, radio, and even on-line. Peeps just aren't that interested in paying for it, so the OTHER model is to make money from advertising. So the theory is if a user reads a cached copy or a summary elsewhere, they the content provider doesn't get the ad impression.
I agree w/you that if a content producer has good content, people will read it, return to the site, and heck, may even sign-up, BUT that is beside the point.
I too would like to stop my nosy neighbors from peering at me out of their window
I wish I had thought of this. We used to have these crazy neighbors across the street who would come out on their porch whenever my wife and I would go out our front door. They would just watch. Fucking neighbor TV. When I was bored, I'd walk in and out 10-15 times a day. At least we were both getting our exercise.
I know my position is very un-slashdotish, but there is nothing wrong with content producers wanting to control how their content, in particular, the stuff they paid to generate, from being indexed. It's not that they don't want you to see the content, it's that they want to control how you see that content. They want it wrapped in their page, with ads, and not summarized on a search page. Egads, what if you read the summary and decided not to visit the site after all?
Fine. But as we all know, we probably have a few sites that we book mark and visit often. We probably get alot of news from RSS. But alot of people are directed to sites via search engines. So if a content producer, say a news paper, doesn't want it's content indexed, then fine. It will only result in a LOSS of traffic to their site.
Look, content producers have to make money. They have people to pay, stuff to print, etc. They have expenses. It is truly sad that rather than trying to figure out how to make content relevant and useful, some content producers simply want to continue analog methods in a digital world.
Gee, just a thought, but what about a way to display a summary and an ad chosen by the content producer along with the summary? Advertisers would spend lots for that kind of exposure.
You think you pay that much just for privacy? Hell, pay me $350/hr and I will keep your secrets. Nah brother, what we need are techs who are honest and ethics because that is right.
I run a mail system for a small, but highly publicized group of emails. For the last few years, spam has been pretty steady: ~25k spam emails daily, maybe 50 quarantines, and about 1000 valid messages.
I hate this idea. If you subscribe to a service that quotes bandwidth, you should be able to consume that bandwidth, 24x7x365. Period. All the ISP's are marketing unlimted, highspeed access. The fact is, they over subscribe the pipes on purpose and some users, like file sharers, consume more of the aggregate pipe degrading the performance of others and forcing the ISP to deal with complaints or upgrade capacity.
I have a FiOS 20MB down/5MB up pipe. If I and my neighbors started consuming all that bandwdith 24x7x365, we would easily over run the uplink capacity and you can bet VZ would come knocking. ISP's will continue to punish bandwidth hogs until the ISP are sued for unfair business practices or the press gets bad enough. For example, Verizon Wireless just recently started telling their EVDO customers that there was a 5GB/mo limit where they used to market unlimited access. My original contract said nohting out a bandwidth limit.
If they are going to limit bandwidth usage, they should state such up front and in no uncertain terms. But they don't.
Your post demonstrates unequivocally that you did not read the article or if you did, you didn't understand it.
Take two packet traces, one from you your computer one from a friend while your two computers are talking. Then compare the TCP sessions captured by each for differences. Differences that don't matter are fragmentation and re-ordering, for example. Difference that do matter are TCP resets, ICMP unreachables, TCP FIN's that are received by one side and not sent by the other.
Sheesh, I can forgive not knowing how networking works, but to post inflammatory comments when you are obviously ignorant is, well, ignorant.
I'm actually surprised someone hasn't used techniques similiar to what the photographers of the Planet Earth series did to get some of their exceptional time-series shots. Plant a camera out there for a year, take a snapshot every minute (or use motion detection), collect weather data (humidity, dew point, temperature, evaportion rates, wind speed/dir) and corrolate that to the time-series snap shots.
It's a national park or preservation or something like that. Basically, you can't (legally) put anything permanent out there.
Would they mind defining what "without full service" means?
Very likely it means that if you call up with a problem and they decide it's your phone and not their network causing the issue, support ends. Just like when you get cable or DSL, they will set-it up to work in their stock config and provide support, but if you change anything, you are on your own.
That is a reasonable response for any business. It just means the handset vendors will have to have a crack support team to support their phones.
Mod parent up. Between lossy compression, generally crappy audio quality, latency and jitter, todays modems just can't handle it. If they could, they would most likely rate down to a speed so slow, you wouldn't use it anyway. Sorry dude. POTS with a guaranteed spectrum is what you need for modems.
Until TLD's start signing zones, DNSSEC won't see the light of day.
Until registrars figure out how to securely regsister and manage keys, DNSSEC is DoA
Until zone managers start signing zones, DNSSEC won't achieve critical mass
Without critical mass, uneven DNSSEC deployment has no value
Without stub resolver support, DNSSEC is meaningless
Until all the above happen, there is no business case for DNSSEC and TLD owners won't deploy it.
Why not just dump Windows and go for either emulating XP on a Virtual Machine or run OS-X, Linux or BSD? Seriously, if your worried about your employees downloading a "screensaver" for Windows and infecting the network, just run Linux and I bet you over 80% of the time thats what it is.
Because that is not how the world works. Companies have a huge investment in Windows and all the apps that run on it. A rip and replace is simply not a viable option.
You know, there are ways that companies can lock down Windows using the GPO, proberly configuring applications, and a bunch of other things without even having to buy more products. But that training is expensive and once you get some peopple properly trained, it's expensive to keep them.
And let's not forget the social aspect either. Employees, rightly or wrongly I am not debating the point, have come to expect the right to download stuff onto their computers, surf the Internet at will, and do other things that are dangerous. IT helps perpetuate this by keeping the myth alive that Winodws can't be locked down and protected from end-users.
Exploits, remote or local, are another issue that can't be ignored and that is something Microsoft is dealng with.
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so i think that this theory about SEO seeking types indicative of worse behavior is actually quite true.
Well, I wouldn't equate the two quite so strongly. Gaming a system is one thing, violent crimes are another.
However, there are reasons why people game the system. In a search engine like google, new web sites are at a distinct disadvantage to older, more established web sites. Olde web sites have longer histories, have more links back to them, are more "poplar", etc than newer sites. The barrier to entry on a search engine is not money but links. Lots of them.
Add in the fact that the search engines generally don't give much indication about how the systems work other than vaguely worded descriptions, that determining what is relevant what what is detrimental is impossible. For example, search out the value of using meta-tags and keywords headings in the HTML HEAD, and you will see plenty of results saying you should or should not use them. Well, what I want to know in the keyword instance is if I use what I think are relevant keywords and meta-tags, 1) how does the search engine view them and 2) how does the search engine detect keyword spam?
For every problem, there is a reason. Figure out the reason and you can do something about it.
The last time I used Word Perfect was maybe three years ago. I had to give it up because of the work I do (formatting issues, etc). But on the placement of images and page layout, Word Perfect is a word processor with decent layout capabilities. You want a pic right there -->, just put it there, the text moves around it. Best part, it stays there when you scroll the page. Amazing.
Best part, if your formatting got really horked, you could "View Codes" and remove the firking tags. It would even remove the other side of balanced tags for you.
Brother, you can run Linux on just about anything now a days. FWIW, I installed Fedora 8 on a T-Pad R60E. Not your high end machine, to be sure, but it just worked. Unless Lenovo is doing something wonky with hardware, yes, Linux will run.
As a long time Thinkpad user, I was glad when my T60 arrived with the fingerprint reader and then loved/hated it everyday since (little more than a year). There are days when I still have to run my finger across it multiple times (and rather an just entering my password, I continue the mad swiping until it works). The face scan just ain't consumer friendly at all.
The competitors lack true compatibility with all MS generated files,
I am glad you said this AND that you got modded up. Office is the app to kill. Make one that is better, works seamlessly with Office docs and you've got a chance. I use Office because I don't have the time or the desire to dick around with formatting issues and alot of companies are on the same playing field.
But let me also add, making an Office killer is not as simple as making a word processor, spread sheet, and presentation app. Office is a *development environment* and many, many companies use the programatic capabilities of Office to build apps that cal pull on different parts of the office suite. Those programmatic features are used by companies, not necessarily consumers and I will posit that company sales drive Office profits more than consumer sales. so I think to reall make a dent, any competing office suite has to either run Office apps/macros/scripts or interpret/convert existing office apps/macros/scripts as well.
Even after AltaVista, there were a ton of search agents that you could download that claimed to do just that. Search out information you were interested in based on what you had looked for/read before. None of them worked well. Has anything changed?
I worked for 3 years in a data center with about 100 servers, network gear, and an ancient environmental unit. Very noisy environment. If you get to design your workplace, then you want sound proofing like described here.
I now work in a place with a separate data center. It's so nice to talk on the phone and not have to explain to others that I am not, in fact, in an airplane back by the engines.
I hadn't previously heard of most of the artists/songs that were recovered.
What would help music sales, cd or otherwise, is a decent way to find the music people wants to hear. I like classical and spanish guitar. Just the guitar with minimal back round instruments. Try to find that! I was in a borders and a woman asked the sales girl for classical guitar. She pointed the hapless woman over to the classical section. I knew she would find what she was looking for (I was just there and there is not "classical guitar section"). I suggested she tell the customer to pick up some John Williams or Segovia, and the sales girl looked at me confused, and said they were over in classical. NO shit! I know that but the customer doesn't.
Look, it's the digital age. If perhaps record companies spent some money employing people to music knowledge to classify music in a variety of ways, the less musically educated like myself, might actually find what I am looking for and, *gasp*, purchase it.
How exactly is this strategy going to protect you from a keylogger?
/. have been, and I have yet to catch a virus, worm, or keylogger. Nor have I ever been phished or conned out of money. Why? Because I keep my AV upto date. I don't download shit off the Internet higgeldy-piggeldy. I don't click on links in emails from anyone (I type them into the browser or cut and paste).
This is not insightful. It shows the PP didn't bother to spend 5 minutes to read the article or the fricking summary.
But to answer your question, ensure that you surf the web in such a way that you don't install a key logger!
I have been in the Internet for years, as I am sure mot ppl on
I explained to my wife these same rules and she has never caught a piece of malware.
I don't know how using a special p browser would help fend off XSS attacks and would like to know more, but Igiven Grossman' creds, he may be onto something.
More importantly: if the fundamental laws of the universe are changing (as some posit), how would we know? Can we separate natural laws from the universe that they are derived from/created in?
Apparently this is a useless question since it is the philosophy of science. I have to wonder why smart people think they are smart about everything. Isn't science supposed to have rigor and thorough analysis, and if so, wouldn't that mean rigor and analysis about itself? Theories of metaphysics (not the new age shit that word is associated with, but about fundamental stuff about physics or science), epistemology (what we know and how we know it), and language all inform our science and scientific thought. Failing to understand that is a failure to understand the very activity a scientist is engaged in.
I dunno. Mazes can be fun to play. I loved Descent and Descent II, both of which are mazes. I used to play until vertigo would set-in and I would have to put my head between my knees to avoid puking (usually 3-4 hours of gameplay).
Mazes have to be done well. In HL2 EP2, the mazes generally suck where you are just running and running. That's boring. But in HL1, there were a few maze-like structures that would fun to run through. It all depends.
What I hate are boss levels where you have to expend all your ammo, or at least I do, in the hope that you can kill the boss. Nothing will get me to search out cheat codes faster. I was surprised to see them in HL2 EP2 (I forget the map, but it the one with the two ant-lion guards and there was another).
Yes, Safari is still going.
eBooks are also a benefit of membership to the ACM.
Then they should put their content behind a subscription wall. If their content is worth anything, then people will pay to see it. If their content isn't distinguishable from what any other site offers, then they'll go out of business.
That is one model, but for consumer-ish stuff like news, folks have grown used to getting it free from TV, radio, and even on-line. Peeps just aren't that interested in paying for it, so the OTHER model is to make money from advertising. So the theory is if a user reads a cached copy or a summary elsewhere, they the content provider doesn't get the ad impression.
I agree w/you that if a content producer has good content, people will read it, return to the site, and heck, may even sign-up, BUT that is beside the point.
I too would like to stop my nosy neighbors from peering at me out of their window
I wish I had thought of this. We used to have these crazy neighbors across the street who would come out on their porch whenever my wife and I would go out our front door. They would just watch. Fucking neighbor TV. When I was bored, I'd walk in and out 10-15 times a day. At least we were both getting our exercise.
I know my position is very un-slashdotish, but there is nothing wrong with content producers wanting to control how their content, in particular, the stuff they paid to generate, from being indexed. It's not that they don't want you to see the content, it's that they want to control how you see that content. They want it wrapped in their page, with ads, and not summarized on a search page. Egads, what if you read the summary and decided not to visit the site after all?
Fine. But as we all know, we probably have a few sites that we book mark and visit often. We probably get alot of news from RSS. But alot of people are directed to sites via search engines. So if a content producer, say a news paper, doesn't want it's content indexed, then fine. It will only result in a LOSS of traffic to their site.
Look, content producers have to make money. They have people to pay, stuff to print, etc. They have expenses. It is truly sad that rather than trying to figure out how to make content relevant and useful, some content producers simply want to continue analog methods in a digital world.
Gee, just a thought, but what about a way to display a summary and an ad chosen by the content producer along with the summary? Advertisers would spend lots for that kind of exposure.
Insightful? You have got to be kidding!
You think you pay that much just for privacy? Hell, pay me $350/hr and I will keep your secrets. Nah brother, what we need are techs who are honest and ethics because that is right.
I run a mail system for a small, but highly publicized group of emails. For the last few years, spam has been pretty steady: ~25k spam emails daily, maybe 50 quarantines, and about 1000 valid messages.
I hate this idea. If you subscribe to a service that quotes bandwidth, you should be able to consume that bandwidth, 24x7x365. Period. All the ISP's are marketing unlimted, highspeed access. The fact is, they over subscribe the pipes on purpose and some users, like file sharers, consume more of the aggregate pipe degrading the performance of others and forcing the ISP to deal with complaints or upgrade capacity.
I have a FiOS 20MB down/5MB up pipe. If I and my neighbors started consuming all that bandwdith 24x7x365, we would easily over run the uplink capacity and you can bet VZ would come knocking. ISP's will continue to punish bandwidth hogs until the ISP are sued for unfair business practices or the press gets bad enough. For example, Verizon Wireless just recently started telling their EVDO customers that there was a 5GB/mo limit where they used to market unlimited access. My original contract said nohting out a bandwidth limit.
If they are going to limit bandwidth usage, they should state such up front and in no uncertain terms. But they don't.
Your post demonstrates unequivocally that you did not read the article or if you did, you didn't understand it.
Take two packet traces, one from you your computer one from a friend while your two computers are talking. Then compare the TCP sessions captured by each for differences. Differences that don't matter are fragmentation and re-ordering, for example. Difference that do matter are TCP resets, ICMP unreachables, TCP FIN's that are received by one side and not sent by the other.
Sheesh, I can forgive not knowing how networking works, but to post inflammatory comments when you are obviously ignorant is, well, ignorant.
I'm actually surprised someone hasn't used techniques similiar to what the photographers of the Planet Earth series did to get some of their exceptional time-series shots. Plant a camera out there for a year, take a snapshot every minute (or use motion detection), collect weather data (humidity, dew point, temperature, evaportion rates, wind speed/dir) and corrolate that to the time-series snap shots.
It's a national park or preservation or something like that. Basically, you can't (legally) put anything permanent out there.
Would they mind defining what "without full service" means?
Very likely it means that if you call up with a problem and they decide it's your phone and not their network causing the issue, support ends. Just like when you get cable or DSL, they will set-it up to work in their stock config and provide support, but if you change anything, you are on your own.
That is a reasonable response for any business. It just means the handset vendors will have to have a crack support team to support their phones.
Mod parent up. Between lossy compression, generally crappy audio quality, latency and jitter, todays modems just can't handle it. If they could, they would most likely rate down to a speed so slow, you wouldn't use it anyway. Sorry dude. POTS with a guaranteed spectrum is what you need for modems.
If the gov't could only clean up that cesspool know as wanadoo.fr, haven to script kiddies and warez, that would be a good start.
Until TLD's start signing zones, DNSSEC won't see the light of day.
Until registrars figure out how to securely regsister and manage keys, DNSSEC is DoA
Until zone managers start signing zones, DNSSEC won't achieve critical mass
Without critical mass, uneven DNSSEC deployment has no value
Without stub resolver support, DNSSEC is meaningless
Until all the above happen, there is no business case for DNSSEC and TLD owners won't deploy it.
Why not just dump Windows and go for either emulating XP on a Virtual Machine or run OS-X, Linux or BSD? Seriously, if your worried about your employees downloading a "screensaver" for Windows and infecting the network, just run Linux and I bet you over 80% of the time thats what it is.
Because that is not how the world works. Companies have a huge investment in Windows and all the apps that run on it. A rip and replace is simply not a viable option.
You know, there are ways that companies can lock down Windows using the GPO, proberly configuring applications, and a bunch of other things without even having to buy more products. But that training is expensive and once you get some peopple properly trained, it's expensive to keep them.
And let's not forget the social aspect either. Employees, rightly or wrongly I am not debating the point, have come to expect the right to download stuff onto their computers, surf the Internet at will, and do other things that are dangerous. IT helps perpetuate this by keeping the myth alive that Winodws can't be locked down and protected from end-users.
Exploits, remote or local, are another issue that can't be ignored and that is something Microsoft is dealng with.