If your subscribed to c't, chances are you already know what Linux is (hell, you've probably already had a patch or two rejected.)
I'm mainly talking about people who think the word Windows equals computer. People who won't have a clue what to expect when they boot from that CD, and will go WOW! when they see what comes up on the screen.
People who, despite their very best efforts, will never be able to screw up the environment the Live CD gives them, unless of course they break the CD.
The reason people get pissed off by AOL is because a) AOL is crap, and b) they've already received at least a dozen AOL CD's (and they figured out AOL was crap back at CD #1.)
Most people don't even understand what Linux is. I helped one person with her computer and she kept calling the thing Windows, as in "I checked to see if the keyboard was connected to Windows and it was." The apartment where I live makes available to its tenants a computer station and the manager gets pissed off at all the work he has to do to keep the thing working... he asks me what he can do about it and I tell him to make people boot from a Live CD running Linux and he looks at me as if I were speaking Swahili.
Boot his computer from a CD -- without changing a thing on his existing installation -- and he understands immediately. Explain how a million people can use that CD and he'll never have to worry about thirteen-year-olds planting viruses or sweet-little-old-ladies who decide to save each and every single picture from Sears' website to the desktop and he gets it, immediately.
Just put the word "Games" on the CD, and you'll have half of America running Linux tomorrow.
My bad, re: ISO's. They should still litter the landscape with these things though. Really, what would be the cost? Then consider the benefit. The live CD's seem to be the best-held secret in the Linux community. Yeah, they're useful for figuring out if a distro runs on your hardware and so on, but their utility in evangelizing for Linux has gong nearly untapped as far as I can tell.
They should also resurrect SuSE's previous efforts in supporting the Power architecture, which more and more appears to be what will be competing with AMD64 (or vice versa.)
And not only should they keep the desktop distro free, they should create a Live Distro on CD and print up a few hundred million of them and make sure that everybody and their cat has a copy, a la AOL.
The hope was not to turn this into a forum on the Israeli occupation of Palestine, something your sig clearly tries to do.
If you are so desperate to defend the indefensible, perhaps you should take it to a forum that wants to talk about that subject.
There are any number of "facts" about this conflict, not the least of which is that the number of Palestinian dead exceeds the number of Israeli dead by a factor of three.
I am quite sure if I were to put that in my sig that I would be modded off-topic or troll here, as I should, since this is/., and not a forum for Jewish Supremacists like yourself.
BookmarkSync, which has recently gone open source. This does exactly what they're talking about in the patent, the preferences here being bookmarks, of course, and this was being done well before the 2001 application date of the patent.
Unless you can explain why they would remove a page already archived. That is, after all, the whole point of the WayBackMachine, yes? Keeping web pages around for posterity?
The U.S. virtually dictates drug policy throughout the world, owing to our military and economic might.
All you have to do is look at our present efforts at deterring Canada and England from pursuing medical marijuana to understand this.
Moreover, most of the research being done worldwide is at the behest of pharmaceutical companies, who have no interest in seeing a plant that can be easily grown by anyone forming the basis of any kind of treatment regimen.
There's too much money involved here to let that happen.
So the scenario is this... my hosting provider once upon a time returns a 404 on robots.txt, Google says "OK, I can index the site", and so it does. And I see that it's indexed it, and all is right in the world.
Then my piece-of-shit hosting provider decides to redirect everything that doesn't exist to their piece-of-shit "page not found" page, and Google says "fuck this."
But because I'm a dumbass and I don't know what's going on, and because this happens at almost the same time as the WayBackMachine cancels their archive of my site, I instantly go into conspiracy mode, which, as you might be able to tell, I can do really well.
This makes a lot of sense. I could kick myself, I spent so much time investigating the virtual hosting angle, it never occurred to me to check out robots.txt. I didn't want to restrict access, so I didn't think I needed it.
I am putting a robots.txt file up there now, and resubmitting the site.
Thank you.
(and finally NOW I understand why my piece-of-shit hosting provider is offering a package for only $29.95 a year that promises to optimize my site for search engines. What they mean is that for $29.95 a year they will cease doing redirects on robots.txt. And I've just searched their entire site (using Google, HAH!) and they don't say word one about the problem.)
At least six separate studies performed to date disagree with you, and suggest in fact that THC does play a role in preventing and even reversing tumor growth.
And outside of an article the Washington Post published on the subject thirty years ago there has been almost no media coverage of this whatsoever.
Then consider that the ability to censor results is but one aspect of the power they wield. As has been reported here before, Google has all kinds of opportunities to exploit their very unique position, and to our detriment.
I have next to none. I have firsthand experience with how they treat objectionable content... they simply refuse to index it.
I have a site that I haven't even bothered working on anymore because of this: holocaustnow.org. Shortly after it was first created, I was both indexed on Google and archived in the WayBackMachine.
Then, about three months later, I was dropped from both sites. Queries to both organizations went unanswered. Subsequent attempts to have the site re-indexed proved futile.
It can't be an issue with the virtual hosting my service provider uses since Google had indexed it in the past.
And why the WayBackMachine would ever deign to remove something it has already archived makes no sense to me whatsoever.
So I am eagerly awaiting the day when Google falls. I see now that altavista is willing to index the site; this is giving me the incentive to come out with the badly needed version 2. The more diversity there is, the less likely the new Google's will try pulling shit like this.
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I happen to know that the deal was for real, but that the contract was stored on an external FireWire drive that was connected to a iBook running Panther, which is the same thing as saying it was deleted.
(or was it lost when saved using Panther's new FileVault feature, which acts as an auxiliary trash can? To be honest, I forget now.)
Or are retarded.
You get to pick which one.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Why should I run this? So that RedHat doesn't feel guilty over killing their desktop?
If your subscribed to c't, chances are you already know what Linux is (hell, you've probably already had a patch or two rejected.)
I'm mainly talking about people who think the word Windows equals computer. People who won't have a clue what to expect when they boot from that CD, and will go WOW! when they see what comes up on the screen.
People who, despite their very best efforts, will never be able to screw up the environment the Live CD gives them, unless of course they break the CD.
No that'll piss people off.
The reason people get pissed off by AOL is because a) AOL is crap, and b) they've already received at least a dozen AOL CD's (and they figured out AOL was crap back at CD #1.)
Most people don't even understand what Linux is. I helped one person with her computer and she kept calling the thing Windows, as in "I checked to see if the keyboard was connected to Windows and it was." The apartment where I live makes available to its tenants a computer station and the manager gets pissed off at all the work he has to do to keep the thing working... he asks me what he can do about it and I tell him to make people boot from a Live CD running Linux and he looks at me as if I were speaking Swahili.
Boot his computer from a CD -- without changing a thing on his existing installation -- and he understands immediately. Explain how a million people can use that CD and he'll never have to worry about thirteen-year-olds planting viruses or sweet-little-old-ladies who decide to save each and every single picture from Sears' website to the desktop and he gets it, immediately.
Just put the word "Games" on the CD, and you'll have half of America running Linux tomorrow.
My bad, re: ISO's. They should still litter the landscape with these things though. Really, what would be the cost? Then consider the benefit. The live CD's seem to be the best-held secret in the Linux community. Yeah, they're useful for figuring out if a distro runs on your hardware and so on, but their utility in evangelizing for Linux has gong nearly untapped as far as I can tell.
Novell sucks at client software, though.
On Windows perhaps, but I remember using their stuff on Mac and it was actually pretty sweet.
This is like a decade ago or so though.
They should also resurrect SuSE's previous efforts in supporting the Power architecture, which more and more appears to be what will be competing with AMD64 (or vice versa.)
And not only should they keep the desktop distro free, they should create a Live Distro on CD and print up a few hundred million of them and make sure that everybody and their cat has a copy, a la AOL.
Thank you!!!
It's ironic that right after the story Technology Spending On The Rise, we get a story about how to run Apple software under a free OS.
Or is that, iconic?
...but not parent's parent?
(Oh, that's right, one post glorifies the genocide on an entire people, whereas the other does not. How silly of me.)
The hope was not to turn this into a forum on the Israeli occupation of Palestine, something your sig clearly tries to do.
/., and not a forum for Jewish Supremacists like yourself.
If you are so desperate to defend the indefensible, perhaps you should take it to a forum that wants to talk about that subject.
There are any number of "facts" about this conflict, not the least of which is that the number of Palestinian dead exceeds the number of Israeli dead by a factor of three.
I am quite sure if I were to put that in my sig that I would be modded off-topic or troll here, as I should, since this is
Poll: 75% of Palestinians support Haifa restaurant attack:
Sig-lines like this should warrant posts automatically being modded down as off-topic or troll.
BookmarkSync, which has recently gone open source. This does exactly what they're talking about in the patent, the preferences here being bookmarks, of course, and this was being done well before the 2001 application date of the patent.
He's right.
That said, who can blame anyone for assuming the worst-case here?
Hey, I bought one too, and it was this game that made it worth it.
An absolutely terrifying and wonderous game. Possibly the most brilliant game I've ever played.
FWIW
No, it's not.
Unless you can explain why they would remove a page already archived. That is, after all, the whole point of the WayBackMachine, yes? Keeping web pages around for posterity?
The U.S. virtually dictates drug policy throughout the world, owing to our military and economic might.
All you have to do is look at our present efforts at deterring Canada and England from pursuing medical marijuana to understand this.
Moreover, most of the research being done worldwide is at the behest of pharmaceutical companies, who have no interest in seeing a plant that can be easily grown by anyone forming the basis of any kind of treatment regimen.
There's too much money involved here to let that happen.
The crime isn't that they ignored these treatments.
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The crime is that the federal government banned research into marijuana for this purpose back in the 70's.
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2001/
Damn.
So the scenario is this... my hosting provider once upon a time returns a 404 on robots.txt, Google says "OK, I can index the site", and so it does. And I see that it's indexed it, and all is right in the world.
Then my piece-of-shit hosting provider decides to redirect everything that doesn't exist to their piece-of-shit "page not found" page, and Google says "fuck this."
But because I'm a dumbass and I don't know what's going on, and because this happens at almost the same time as the WayBackMachine cancels their archive of my site, I instantly go into conspiracy mode, which, as you might be able to tell, I can do really well.
This makes a lot of sense. I could kick myself, I spent so much time investigating the virtual hosting angle, it never occurred to me to check out robots.txt. I didn't want to restrict access, so I didn't think I needed it.
I am putting a robots.txt file up there now, and resubmitting the site.
Thank you.
(and finally NOW I understand why my piece-of-shit hosting provider is offering a package for only $29.95 a year that promises to optimize my site for search engines. What they mean is that for $29.95 a year they will cease doing redirects on robots.txt. And I've just searched their entire site (using Google, HAH!) and they don't say word one about the problem.)
That's like saying The New York Times or Fox News holds no power because we can go elsewhere for our news.
Of course they hold power. They can control what millions of people read and see.
Just like Google.
Maybe you were referring to absolute power?
Erm, yes we can.
Um, no, we can't.
At least six separate studies performed to date disagree with you, and suggest in fact that THC does play a role in preventing and even reversing tumor growth.
And outside of an article the Washington Post published on the subject thirty years ago there has been almost no media coverage of this whatsoever.
I agree, MS buying Google would enhance MS's power.
The enormous power wielded by the search engine makes me willing to make that trade though, if it sees Google become weaker as a result.
You have to read reply posted earlier to see where I'm coming from.
Then consider that the ability to censor results is but one aspect of the power they wield. As has been reported here before, Google has all kinds of opportunities to exploit their very unique position, and to our detriment.
The robots.txt file has to be located in the root directory, yes? I never created such a file, and re-checking now I see no such file exists.
Can a hosting provider create a robots.txt file outside of my control?
I personally have trust in Google for right now.
I have next to none. I have firsthand experience with how they treat objectionable content... they simply refuse to index it.
I have a site that I haven't even bothered working on anymore because of this: holocaustnow.org. Shortly after it was first created, I was both indexed on Google and archived in the WayBackMachine.
Then, about three months later, I was dropped from both sites. Queries to both organizations went unanswered. Subsequent attempts to have the site re-indexed proved futile.
It can't be an issue with the virtual hosting my service provider uses since Google had indexed it in the past.
And why the WayBackMachine would ever deign to remove something it has already archived makes no sense to me whatsoever.
So I am eagerly awaiting the day when Google falls. I see now that altavista is willing to index the site; this is giving me the incentive to come out with the badly needed version 2. The more diversity there is, the less likely the new Google's will try pulling shit like this.