Flash has been searchable for years. Google Can Now Index Flash (2004 article).
Interesting. But the fact remains the site I mentioned could not be found by searching for the name of the company or other text which appears on the Flash page.
I spent about half an hour looking for a company's site last week. I knew the company name, but couldn't guess the URL. I'd tried a dozen searches till finally I found a forum post that linked to it. Of course, the entire front page and all navigation was in Flash, so it was totally invisible to Google's searchbot. And it didn't do anything that couldn't have been done just as easily in vanilla HTML
A common spam filtering technique (which I employ myself) is to do a lookup of the domain in the From address. If it doesn't exist, the email is bounced.
Yes, but that method isn't much use anyway, they often spoof the From with a real address. I get lots of bounces from idiots who bounce junk when some spammer has used my address as the "From". I hope you're not really "bouncing" rather than deleting. If you do bounce, you're part of the problem and harassing some other innocent person.
Wouldn't a better solution be to redirect *.om and *.cm to the.com equivalent?
Even worse. That would have the effect of blocking all the legitimate.cm amd.om (Oman) sites. Why worry at all? If someone makes a typo and gets a generic ad page it's hardly a disaster.
Yeah, as usual, the Slashdot headline is bullshit. Cameroon has typosquatted all of ".cm", as is their right; not ".com". I find it hard to get excited about this.
I concluded long ago that most "Ask Slashdot" articles were as credible as "Letters to Penthouse". Mix up a bunch of issues in a "movie of the week" style and ask a leading question.
These are the ones that will respond with "what do you want me to do, tape his mouth shut?" or the one they always come up with, "a dog's gonna bark.",
Around here if someone's dog annoys a neighbour, he's likely to feed it some chicken laced with pesticide.
Maybe you can tell me WTF this "Apple ][" symbology is. It was the second Apple model, right? Isn't it a Roman 2, i.e. II? So is this just a silly word game to show who are the true Illuminati, like "unixen", etc?
Maybe I was unfair to him. But it's still a loaded question. If you look at, e.g., the amount of rat shit or preservatives legally permitted in food, who would agree to that if you asked them? There is no choice for "pure" food and drink, everything is polluted to an extent. And I had a look at your link; "Citizens Against Drinking Sewage". What a bunch of loonies, the same kind of idiots who opposed fluoridation and gave me a mouthful of fillings in my teens.
Heavens, do I have to think of everything? Episode one: a gigantic spaceship laden with unbelievable technology comes backwards in time from the near-utopian distant future we are all familiar with. The timeline is irretrievably skewed off its expected tracks by this incursion and it rapidly becomes clear that the future remains still to be written. Was that so hard?
Here's an idea: what if the Federation sucked? What if it became an oppressive regime that crushed dissent, and the heroes were among the last holdouts who lived life at its fringes, trying to eke out a living as best they can without arousing the attention of the beast? Oh, wait - they did that series.
Aye, TNG also had a good amount of character development, especially once the movies came around. They explored the pasts of most of the characters, and developed relationships between many of the crew memebers (such as Geordie and Data's friendship, Riker and Troi's romance, and Picard and Crusher's past linked by Beverly's husband).
That may well be good drama (or soap opera), but it's not SCIENCE fiction. If you could change the costumes and set in on modern-day earth (or a past era), it's not an SF story. Stories need to have character development, but SF stories need that as well as a scientific concept.
Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" and many more. We have the technology to make a coherent near future SF TV series, using the actual properties of our planets, with Lagrange colonies, pioneer colonies, mining operations on Mercury, slow freighters and liners using economy orbits and fast (expensively anti-matter powered) "Federation" ships busy about the system.
Yes. Give me a Heinlein "Future History" series. He's got a dozen novels set in a coherent future. Or Larry Niven's "Known Space". Or, a little more out there, John Varley's "Eight Worlds". NO FTL. Give Einstein some respect and no more bumpy-forehead aliens.
A new sc-fi series, with new characters and new stories and it is not based on a universe that lasted for 40 years.
That'd be great, but it's a crap shoot for the networks. Look at Firefly. Even Enterprise lasted 4 years, which it wouldn't have with a different name and no pointy-eared science officer.
Roddenberry's original pitch was "Wagon Train to the stars"; he had to position it in a way familiar to the suits. And really, the format is very open, new planets and civilisations whenever you want. TOS used a lot of real SF writers. Later it was just TV hacks, who recycled old stories and made it into a soap opera. Get real writers and it could work again. No more fucking holodeck or decon fanservice stories.
I can think of one question that would be highly applicable to all Australians:
Would you support recycled sewerage being pumped back to the potable water supply?
How about "Have you stopped beating your wife?".
All water is "recycled sewage". Every drop you drink has been pissed out of billions of creatures. Back to the question: You have to give alternatives, obviously no one will choose to drink "recycled sewage" whewn you ask that question. What is the alternative "fresh, clean, distilled water at zero cost"? (I think not.) Paying more for desalinated water? Paying more to pipe it in from thousands of miles away? Singapore has been drinking "recycled sewage" for decades, and a more antiseptic place you've never seen.
i got one around a year ago at my local computer recycling center for around $100. i still haven't changed the toner! watch out though... the lights dim when i turn it on...
Go for an LJ5 (or 5P if you like the smaller size); a little more than an LJ4, but many parts are compatible and has a low power mode.
I've got an LJ4 with PS and networking, only problem is that the humidity here messes up the toner, unless I leave it powered on all the time in Summer, which is a drag as it draws about 50W when idle, still cheaper than getting a "new" printer though.
I had an HP4LM fopr several years, small, light, 4 ppm, PostScript, but only 50 pages in the tray and sometimes I had to yank out jammed pages. But was at 40,000 pages and still fine when I left it.
One great advantage of older HPs is that you can get very cheap, quality toner refills or compatible cartridges.
Whats surprising is, while Bayesian spam filters work well in his tests, the one that performs the best was never really heard of before
Well, the spammers have heard of the other methods too and try to subvert them. So give them time and see how it performs if and when it becomes more commonly used and the spammers are trying to beat it.
I doubt that the US will ever move away from feet/inces/miles. Feet and inches are just easier than metric units for the construction industry.
Australia switched in the 70s. In construction you just spec everything in mm. Much simpler and more precise. Though you might still talk about a "two by four" (inches) plank.
I spent many hours in primary school doing calculations with inches, feet, yards, chains, furlongs, miles and really you can't be serious if you think that was easier. Traditionalists bitched about it of course, but in a year or two it was all over.
A bit more seriously (but only a bit): There are many cultures who don't use the Gregorian system of months and years
Thailand uses a Buddhist calendar, where it's 2549. In Taiwan they date from the (1911) Revolution, so it's year 95; you see these dates on coins, documents, etc, but increasingly also the AD year is used. Both however use the same Gregorian months, with different names. And there are several lunar calendars in use, the Chinese mostly for religious festivals, (this is year 4704) the Muslim, (now year 1427). Lunar calendars use 12 or 13 lunar months per "year", neither of which add up to a solar year, so have various ways to compensate for that. The Muslim calendar just ignores it and shifts 11 days a solar year.
In my experience (and I suppose, opinion), "twenty past three" is a colloquialism.
"Colloquialism" implies slang or informality, and I assure you that "twenty past three" is quite formal, in Australia and most Commonwealth countries at least.
The vast, vast, vast majority of people will simply say "three twenty," certainly anyone my age (20s).
Quite likely. But still, in this discussion you need to distinguish between "people", and "people in my country". I wore a digital watch for about 20 years and that does influence how you refer to time. But a couple of years ago I got an analog watch as a gift, and now I think in a more analog fashion....
If you want a formattable date function, you can write it your damn self!
It's not a "date function" that's the problems, it's closed source accounting programs that have no options to change their input or output formats; for which I DID write little scripts to connect and convert things, all by my own damn self; and had to remember to revise them every time we needed to do something new. Admittedly, this was more a problem with DOS apps than modern apps, but there are still a lot of DOS accounting apps running in the background. I'm sure there are lots of mainframe apps running that are just as inflexible -- remember the billions spent updating code to deal with Y2K?
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting. But the fact remains the site I mentioned could not be found by searching for the name of the company or other text which appears on the Flash page.
I spent about half an hour looking for a company's site last week. I knew the company name, but couldn't guess the URL. I'd tried a dozen searches till finally I found a forum post that linked to it. Of course, the entire front page and all navigation was in Flash, so it was totally invisible to Google's searchbot. And it didn't do anything that couldn't have been done just as easily in vanilla HTML
Yes, but that method isn't much use anyway, they often spoof the From with a real address. I get lots of bounces from idiots who bounce junk when some spammer has used my address as the "From". I hope you're not really "bouncing" rather than deleting. If you do bounce, you're part of the problem and harassing some other innocent person.
Even worse. That would have the effect of blocking all the legitimate .cm amd .om (Oman) sites. Why worry at all? If someone makes a typo and gets a generic ad page it's hardly a disaster.
Yeah, as usual, the Slashdot headline is bullshit. Cameroon has typosquatted all of ".cm", as is their right; not ".com". I find it hard to get excited about this.
I concluded long ago that most "Ask Slashdot" articles were as credible as "Letters to Penthouse". Mix up a bunch of issues in a "movie of the week" style and ask a leading question.
Around here if someone's dog annoys a neighbour, he's likely to feed it some chicken laced with pesticide.
Maybe you can tell me WTF this "Apple ][" symbology is. It was the second Apple model, right? Isn't it a Roman 2, i.e. II? So is this just a silly word game to show who are the true Illuminati, like "unixen", etc?
Black hats (and anyone else interested) can already download betas of Vista.
Maybe I was unfair to him. But it's still a loaded question. If you look at, e.g., the amount of rat shit or preservatives legally permitted in food, who would agree to that if you asked them? There is no choice for "pure" food and drink, everything is polluted to an extent. And I had a look at your link; "Citizens Against Drinking Sewage". What a bunch of loonies, the same kind of idiots who opposed fluoridation and gave me a mouthful of fillings in my teens.
Been there, done that.
Yes, they did.
That may well be good drama (or soap opera), but it's not SCIENCE fiction. If you could change the costumes and set in on modern-day earth (or a past era), it's not an SF story. Stories need to have character development, but SF stories need that as well as a scientific concept.
Yes. Give me a Heinlein "Future History" series. He's got a dozen novels set in a coherent future. Or Larry Niven's "Known Space". Or, a little more out there, John Varley's "Eight Worlds". NO FTL. Give Einstein some respect and no more bumpy-forehead aliens.
That'd be great, but it's a crap shoot for the networks. Look at Firefly. Even Enterprise lasted 4 years, which it wouldn't have with a different name and no pointy-eared science officer.
Roddenberry's original pitch was "Wagon Train to the stars"; he had to position it in a way familiar to the suits. And really, the format is very open, new planets and civilisations whenever you want. TOS used a lot of real SF writers. Later it was just TV hacks, who recycled old stories and made it into a soap opera. Get real writers and it could work again. No more fucking holodeck or decon fanservice stories.
How about "Have you stopped beating your wife?".
All water is "recycled sewage". Every drop you drink has been pissed out of billions of creatures. Back to the question: You have to give alternatives, obviously no one will choose to drink "recycled sewage" whewn you ask that question. What is the alternative "fresh, clean, distilled water at zero cost"? (I think not.) Paying more for desalinated water? Paying more to pipe it in from thousands of miles away? Singapore has been drinking "recycled sewage" for decades, and a more antiseptic place you've never seen.
I wonder how often thay get invited to share some liver with fava beans and a nice chianti. Probably after the first week their laughs are bit forced.
Go for an LJ5 (or 5P if you like the smaller size); a little more than an LJ4, but many parts are compatible and has a low power mode.
I've got an LJ4 with PS and networking, only problem is that the humidity here messes up the toner, unless I leave it powered on all the time in Summer, which is a drag as it draws about 50W when idle, still cheaper than getting a "new" printer though.
I had an HP4LM fopr several years, small, light, 4 ppm, PostScript, but only 50 pages in the tray and sometimes I had to yank out jammed pages. But was at 40,000 pages and still fine when I left it.
One great advantage of older HPs is that you can get very cheap, quality toner refills or compatible cartridges.
Well, the spammers have heard of the other methods too and try to subvert them. So give them time and see how it performs if and when it becomes more commonly used and the spammers are trying to beat it.
Australia switched in the 70s. In construction you just spec everything in mm. Much simpler and more precise. Though you might still talk about a "two by four" (inches) plank.
I spent many hours in primary school doing calculations with inches, feet, yards, chains, furlongs, miles and really you can't be serious if you think that was easier. Traditionalists bitched about it of course, but in a year or two it was all over.
Thailand uses a Buddhist calendar, where it's 2549. In Taiwan they date from the (1911) Revolution, so it's year 95; you see these dates on coins, documents, etc, but increasingly also the AD year is used. Both however use the same Gregorian months, with different names. And there are several lunar calendars in use, the Chinese mostly for religious festivals, (this is year 4704) the Muslim, (now year 1427). Lunar calendars use 12 or 13 lunar months per "year", neither of which add up to a solar year, so have various ways to compensate for that. The Muslim calendar just ignores it and shifts 11 days a solar year.
"Colloquialism" implies slang or informality, and I assure you that "twenty past three" is quite formal, in Australia and most Commonwealth countries at least.
The vast, vast, vast majority of people will simply say "three twenty," certainly anyone my age (20s).
Quite likely. But still, in this discussion you need to distinguish between "people", and "people in my country". I wore a digital watch for about 20 years and that does influence how you refer to time. But a couple of years ago I got an analog watch as a gift, and now I think in a more analog fashion....
It's not a "date function" that's the problems, it's closed source accounting programs that have no options to change their input or output formats; for which I DID write little scripts to connect and convert things, all by my own damn self; and had to remember to revise them every time we needed to do something new. Admittedly, this was more a problem with DOS apps than modern apps, but there are still a lot of DOS accounting apps running in the background. I'm sure there are lots of mainframe apps running that are just as inflexible -- remember the billions spent updating code to deal with Y2K?
Okay, how about "half/quarter past three". Not to mention "quarter to four"?