Create a module that will insert this meta tag in every page sent out from the server. People who don't want their pages screwed with, put them on a website run by Apache. Then you don't have to worry about forgetting that stupid meta tag, it will be inserted on all your pages.
Something doesn't make sense. Maybe someone with a better grasp of physics can comment, but isn't there a maximum rate of gravitational pull? In other words, once a falling object reaches that rate, further acceleration ceases. Or in still other words, there reaches a point where hauling something higher up won't make any difference. The speed of impact would be the same. (And all this is discounting atmospheric drag, and remember the physics that, absent that drag, a hammer and a feather fall at the same rate).
So if this is true, why drop crowbars from outerspace? Why not just drop them from high in the atmosphere if that point where one could achieve maximum descent is at a point above the earth's surface but is still within the atmosphere.
Thank you. I see I got modded down. Typical. You can't state an opinion on slashdot without being modded down and being modded up is damn simple to do by stating something that appeals to your typical clueless moderator.
Besides, making comparisions using current exchange rates is ridiculous. The pound is doing horrible against the dollar currently, which makes all the difference in the world. How about quoting how many hours an average worker in each country has to work to pay for a typical DVD. That would make far more sense...
What I don't understand is why there aren't more outcries about stuff that is far more substantial, like why computers in the U.K. are priced about on parity with U.S. computer prices where a buck and a quid are equal. That's gotta hurt a lot more than paying an extra bob or two on a DVD...
There's a difference. In the U.S. prices are quoted exclusive of sales tax. In Europe, prices are almost always quoted inclusive of VAT. Also, not all of us live in a state with a sales tax. I certainly don't (Delaware).... It's a joy, let me tell you. Being able to go buy something for $9.99 and actually being able to pay for it with just a ten dollar bill.
A shitload of bandwidth won't do you any good if the provider it connects to doesn't have decent lines to their interconnect/peering partners. That's expensive as hell and hard to support on just $40ish/month.
The cable net service I got is capable of 38mbps down and 10mbps up which is a shitload of bandwidth without the need for running fiber, plus it supports a hundred or so of digital tv signals...
Do I get all that bandwidth? Hell no, cause they can't support it all further upstream. Instead I get to deal with....
1.5mbps capped downstream
128kbps capped upstream
Running servers is prohibited, including game servers (uses bandwidth when you're not around I guess)
They are planning on putting caps on usenet downloads of about 1GB/day.
Now, trust me, as someone stuck in modem hell until this became available this month, I am one happy muthafucker and am not complaining. My point is, what good is fiber into the house? If you get it, it'll probably be TOSed, QOSed, and capped until it's not that big of a deal...
Must have been after the fact. I was pretty heavily involved in the entire spam fiasco from the beginning (although not as rabid as some were). I've never heard that term. I do remember reading the post where someone compared what massive crossposting of ads to usenet as similar to the monty python spam sketch. It took off right away. Shame I never archived that stuff...:(
I spent a lot of time on various newsgroups when the term spam was originally coined. It was around April '94 when the two scumbag lawyers from Phoenix spammed the world over usenet regarding green card lotteries (I even have an infamous "Joel Furr" T-shirt about it!). I was (and still are) a news administrator so spam really worried me (and still does).
Anyway, the term was coined from the Monty Python sketch. Shortly after that, most media outlets that ran a story on spam for some reason said the term came from the idea of "when spam hits the fan" and the resultant crap that flies everywhere.
I don't know where that came from, but it wasn't accurate, but was quoted as authoritave all over the news at the time.
At least I'm glad that pretty much everyone knows the true reason the word was coined in the first place. Small thing, but historical accuracy should always be maintained when possible.
Shame there are no archives from around that time...
I have never "stepped foot" into Amazon.com because of their reputation as "spamazon" from the early days. Maybe they are not like this anymore but too bad, the reputation with me was scarred from the beginning.
I wonder how many other geeks are like this. If it's a large number, it must hurt them since geeks tend to buy a helluva lot of tech books...
It's gotta be prone to crashing. That way in two years they can do a big advertising blitz for "X-BOX 2004, better stability than the original X-BOX, upgrade today."
If GM were the ones suing then speech aspects like this would certainly be involved; however its Ford suing, on the really quite reasonable grounds that to the average person the site would appear to be owned by them, and therefore imply that Ford had that opinion of their competitors.
I think this is a valid concern. I'm wondering if Ford even tried to voice this concern to Corley and ask him to cease the redirect.
"Had Ford come to us and asked us not to point to them, in all likelihood we would have pointed it someplace else out of courtesy. But when demands and accusations are made without any attempt at communication, we have to object."
This kid obviously believed he was at a great risk for going to jail. He was 13 for God' sake. How did he get that idea?
Someone at that school probably tried a "scared straight" routine on him. You're going to go to jail son. Do you want that? Do you want to share a cell with Bruno?
He was 13. Probably wasn't even to the age where he learns to distrust a lot of adult claims as bullshit. Now he's dead and it's a dead boy's word against a school official.
I hope the principal or whoever uttered that false threat understands what they did...
I think you have a good point here. Most of the time I open Office is to read someone else's stuff. For times I need to create a doc, a simple editor like WordPad would be fine. If I was paying a per-bang rate, I'd always be conscious of what I was spending and seek out free alternatives and think about the cost each time I open the app.
Americans, at least, have shown a large hatred of per-use charging. For most of us, our local telco calls are free, cell phones are priced with large bundled minute plans which cost us more than a per-use plan because we hate to watch the clock,
we pay $14.95/month for HBO even though we may only watch a movie or two and Dennis Miller, but resist dropping a dime on pay-per-view movies,
etc, etc...
Then there's employers. Lots of them also loathe pay-per-use scenarios. Makes budgeting harder. What's the penalty at your company for dialing "411" information instead of using a directory? In many, including mine, it's death by lethal injection.
The only way I can see Microsoft making a go of a subscription model is to charge by the month or year instead of by use, which they already do in their upgrade advantage program.
Most students come into colleges now with e-mail accounts somewhere. And they'll get a plethora of them throughout their life. So what? Well, my prediction is that the vast majority, maybe even like 90% or more, of these lifetime e-mail accounts will just remain dormant spam collectors. Now you have some poor under-budgeted and under-staffed college IT staff (oh oh, that's me) having to provide disk, redundancy, backups, etc, etc...
Then what about policies for dormant accounts? Do they get deleted after a while? Do you expire messages not read for x number of years?
It's a fairly good idea, but how's this? Give them a choice. Provide an actual INBOX for life or give them an easy way to forward that e-mail to their preferred mail address. But in either case, it should be something the student chooses. Let them know the service exists, but if they don't sign up for it, can it.
"Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year-old children confirm that they contain a small quantity of additional genes not inherited from either parent."
The truth (tm):
Baby is genetically tested. Genes exist that don't match either parent. Wife, afraid of admitting that she was fucking the plumber, tries to explain it "Our child was genetically manipulated by them scientists."
Way back in the early days (c. 1994) I paid 4.95/mo for access to sjmercury.com. There were no other decent news sites out there at the time. It was also nice cause it gave you search-capability to old news stories. They dropped it cause I guess too many people started finding other news sites for free (as did I).
My god, 8,000 servers. How much is 8000 windows NT or 2000 server licenses under the Microsoft Select program for large business? Anyone know? And I assume each server would have to spend the extra $2,000 for the unlimited internet access pack to avoid paying per-use Client Access Licenses... Then there's the cost for SQL Server if they used that in any capacity....
All good points, but the return in satisfaction of busting some punk-ass mofo scumbag is worth a ton o' cash.
Consider an employment situation. Some employee steals a $15 mouse, is it worth it to use a $500 camera system to nail them? Not considering that alone. But that same dishonest petty thief is probably ripping you off other places and it is better off for the employer if they are caught and dealt with sooner rather than later (or at all).
Now consider home security. Someone busts your mailbox. More than likely, it's some neighbor's kid a few doors down from you. Next time they flatten your car tires, and you're late for work and have to deal with the hassle of getting new tires. Now you can't relax, wondering who it is, and what will be next. Finding out who it is, having them busted, sending a message to the other yobs in the neighborhood, it's all worth far more than the value of the property damage and cost of security to bust them.
Several months ago, connecting to slashdot.org from a WAP device (like a mobile phone) produced a simple menu of stories, obviously served just for wap devices.
Several years ago, pay phones were deregulated and the curse of COCOTS (customer owned coin-operated telephones) appeared.
They generally took advantage of unsuspecting users who ended up with huge charges when making calling card calls.
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." People soon learned to defend themselves by dialing 800 #s and using their own carrier calling cards to make calls. COCOT owners cried the blues and got the current 35/cent reimbursement for toll free calls. Many of them resorted to dirty tricks, like blocking 800-CALL-ATT for example.
I remember about 5 years ago thinking "Soon, everyone will be carrying a cell phone and these scum will all go broke and I'll be jumping for joy."
So, now I'm jumping for joy.
I do realize some people rely on pay phones on the corner since they can't afford their own, but I think those numbers are pretty slim. Cell phones are getting pretty cheap now. All pay phones have to do is charge reasonable prices and they'll be fine. I've seen one near here that advertises 25 cents local calls (cheaper than RBOCs) and 25 cents/min anywhere in U.S. via coins. That's a good thing. I know what the charge is ahead of time, I pay as I go, and I can evaluate whether or not it's cheaper than my cell phone easily.
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Create a module that will insert this meta tag in every page sent out from the server. People who don't want their pages screwed with, put them on a website run by Apache. Then you don't have to worry about forgetting that stupid meta tag, it will be inserted on all your pages.
So if this is true, why drop crowbars from outerspace? Why not just drop them from high in the atmosphere if that point where one could achieve maximum descent is at a point above the earth's surface but is still within the atmosphere.
Besides, making comparisions using current exchange rates is ridiculous. The pound is doing horrible against the dollar currently, which makes all the difference in the world. How about quoting how many hours an average worker in each country has to work to pay for a typical DVD. That would make far more sense...
What I don't understand is why there aren't more outcries about stuff that is far more substantial, like why computers in the U.K. are priced about on parity with U.S. computer prices where a buck and a quid are equal. That's gotta hurt a lot more than paying an extra bob or two on a DVD...
There's a difference. In the U.S. prices are quoted exclusive of sales tax. In Europe, prices are almost always quoted inclusive of VAT. Also, not all of us live in a state with a sales tax. I certainly don't (Delaware).... It's a joy, let me tell you. Being able to go buy something for $9.99 and actually being able to pay for it with just a ten dollar bill.
What about your damn VAT? It's 17.5% in U.K. for example. Maybe that has something to do with it....
Original BBC story: (Score -1: clueless idiots)
The cable net service I got is capable of 38mbps down and 10mbps up which is a shitload of bandwidth without the need for running fiber, plus it supports a hundred or so of digital tv signals...
Do I get all that bandwidth? Hell no, cause they can't support it all further upstream. Instead I get to deal with....
Now, trust me, as someone stuck in modem hell until this became available this month, I am one happy muthafucker and am not complaining. My point is, what good is fiber into the house? If you get it, it'll probably be TOSed, QOSed, and capped until it's not that big of a deal...
Must have been after the fact. I was pretty heavily involved in the entire spam fiasco from the beginning (although not as rabid as some were). I've never heard that term. I do remember reading the post where someone compared what massive crossposting of ads to usenet as similar to the monty python spam sketch. It took off right away. Shame I never archived that stuff... :(
Anyway, the term was coined from the Monty Python sketch. Shortly after that, most media outlets that ran a story on spam for some reason said the term came from the idea of "when spam hits the fan" and the resultant crap that flies everywhere.
I don't know where that came from, but it wasn't accurate, but was quoted as authoritave all over the news at the time.
At least I'm glad that pretty much everyone knows the true reason the word was coined in the first place. Small thing, but historical accuracy should always be maintained when possible.
Shame there are no archives from around that time...
I wonder how many other geeks are like this. If it's a large number, it must hurt them since geeks tend to buy a helluva lot of tech books...
It's gotta be prone to crashing. That way in two years they can do a big advertising blitz for "X-BOX 2004, better stability than the original X-BOX, upgrade today."
I think this is a valid concern. I'm wondering if Ford even tried to voice this concern to Corley and ask him to cease the redirect.
Hmm, a quick check to 2600.com gets the answer.
"Had Ford come to us and asked us not to point to them, in all likelihood we would have pointed it someplace else out of courtesy. But when demands and accusations are made without any attempt at communication, we have to object."
I don't know for sure, but the thought is a bit scarey so it would pay to be sure. Find out this answer first, obviously.
Would becoming a citizen also make you eligible to be drafted into that country's military service?
Someone at that school probably tried a "scared straight" routine on him. You're going to go to jail son. Do you want that? Do you want to share a cell with Bruno?
He was 13. Probably wasn't even to the age where he learns to distrust a lot of adult claims as bullshit. Now he's dead and it's a dead boy's word against a school official.
I hope the principal or whoever uttered that false threat understands what they did...
True, it is pretty weak and ineffective attempt to damange their reputation Roxio does a far better job damaging their own reputation...
Americans, at least, have shown a large hatred of per-use charging. For most of us, our local telco calls are free, cell phones are priced with large bundled minute plans which cost us more than a per-use plan because we hate to watch the clock, we pay $14.95/month for HBO even though we may only watch a movie or two and Dennis Miller, but resist dropping a dime on pay-per-view movies, etc, etc...
Then there's employers. Lots of them also loathe pay-per-use scenarios. Makes budgeting harder. What's the penalty at your company for dialing "411" information instead of using a directory? In many, including mine, it's death by lethal injection.
The only way I can see Microsoft making a go of a subscription model is to charge by the month or year instead of by use, which they already do in their upgrade advantage program.
Then what about policies for dormant accounts? Do they get deleted after a while? Do you expire messages not read for x number of years?
It's a fairly good idea, but how's this? Give them a choice. Provide an actual INBOX for life or give them an easy way to forward that e-mail to their preferred mail address. But in either case, it should be something the student chooses. Let them know the service exists, but if they don't sign up for it, can it.
Don't be so sure... :-(
I got a .org name. Now there is talk -- and yes I know it's a remote possibility but still -- of restricting .org's to registered non-profits.
"Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year-old children confirm that they contain a small quantity of additional genes not inherited from either parent."
The truth (tm):
Baby is genetically tested. Genes exist that don't match either parent. Wife, afraid of admitting that she was fucking the plumber, tries to explain it "Our child was genetically manipulated by them scientists."
Way back in the early days (c. 1994) I paid 4.95/mo for access to sjmercury.com. There were no other decent news sites out there at the time. It was also nice cause it gave you search-capability to old news stories. They dropped it cause I guess too many people started finding other news sites for free (as did I).
Browser: mozilla 0.8.1
Video card: Matrox G450 dual-head
Doesn't work. I loaded up trusty IE 5.5 and it worked fine. Also worked in Opera 5.
So I don't think the site was slashdotted cause it ran in two of my three browsers. So much for run everywhere... :-(
Dude, that's so cool. Now I can kill time better when stuck in some gawd-awful boring place! Thanks!
My god, 8,000 servers. How much is 8000 windows NT or 2000 server licenses under the Microsoft Select program for large business? Anyone know? And I assume each server would have to spend the extra $2,000 for the unlimited internet access pack to avoid paying per-use Client Access Licenses... Then there's the cost for SQL Server if they used that in any capacity....
Consider an employment situation. Some employee steals a $15 mouse, is it worth it to use a $500 camera system to nail them? Not considering that alone. But that same dishonest petty thief is probably ripping you off other places and it is better off for the employer if they are caught and dealt with sooner rather than later (or at all).
Now consider home security. Someone busts your mailbox. More than likely, it's some neighbor's kid a few doors down from you. Next time they flatten your car tires, and you're late for work and have to deal with the hassle of getting new tires. Now you can't relax, wondering who it is, and what will be next. Finding out who it is, having them busted, sending a message to the other yobs in the neighborhood, it's all worth far more than the value of the property damage and cost of security to bust them.
Now that hasn't worked for months. What happened?
They generally took advantage of unsuspecting users who ended up with huge charges when making calling card calls.
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." People soon learned to defend themselves by dialing 800 #s and using their own carrier calling cards to make calls. COCOT owners cried the blues and got the current 35/cent reimbursement for toll free calls. Many of them resorted to dirty tricks, like blocking 800-CALL-ATT for example.
I remember about 5 years ago thinking "Soon, everyone will be carrying a cell phone and these scum will all go broke and I'll be jumping for joy."
So, now I'm jumping for joy.
I do realize some people rely on pay phones on the corner since they can't afford their own, but I think those numbers are pretty slim. Cell phones are getting pretty cheap now. All pay phones have to do is charge reasonable prices and they'll be fine. I've seen one near here that advertises 25 cents local calls (cheaper than RBOCs) and 25 cents/min anywhere in U.S. via coins. That's a good thing. I know what the charge is ahead of time, I pay as I go, and I can evaluate whether or not it's cheaper than my cell phone easily.