The most difficult part of boxing is not getting punched in the face -- that's pretty easy. The most difficult part about boxing is holding your hands up for an hour.
Anyone remember the old primary school punishment: the teacher ordered you to stand with your arms horizontal, holding a book.
A joke for the first 3 minutes. Agony after 10. You'd much rather get "the cuts" on your hand from a belt than this.
This was over 40 years ago for those of you unfamiliar with the concept of "corporal punishment".
That's bloody-stupid. Quotation marks imply quotation, and punctuation shows the grammar and syntax of the sentence. If the quoted sentence doesn't have a damned period at the end, put the damned period outside the quotes.
Yes, it is stupid. Nevertheless, it's the rule in American text, both in academia and literary works. Britain and most Commonwealth countries follow the "logical" rule or quote placement rather than this "aesthetic" rule.
Yes, I know, quoting code is different. But that's not prose, it's more like formulae.
I do DTP, and one thing I have to get straight at the beginning of a job is whether it's following American or UK rules, which affects this as well as spelling, capitalisation, etc.
The only facts given are the guy picked up a girl (or vice versa) at a disco, and the next morning his Blackberry was gone.
"Honeytrap"? Bullshit. What leads anyone to think it was anymore than the guy lost in in a taxi, or if the girl did take it, she sold it on to a second hand phone dealer for a few dollars.
I think if it was really a "vast Communist conspiracy" as the article implies, the agents would have copied the data from the phone and returned it later in the evening, leaving him none the wiser.
Much more important to consider is if the guy used the phone while he was in Beijing, there is an excellent chance that every keystroke, including passwords, was captured en route.
Well, amazing. But that is not a site, but a trojan.
And if you look at the linked statistics page:
Computers infected since October 26, 2007: Total 14
It's a curiosity, and obviously unless you have a fairly high traffic site you would never be able to crack captchas on demand. 14 infections in a year is not going to do that.
So call it a proof of cocnept. Still, it is an idea never really put into practice, because, basically, it's silly and inefficient. It's not 1985, porn is so ubiquitous that the idea of making people work to view it is absurd. Google can find you all the free porn you could desire.
usually it is spelled out very clearly and expensively what the client wants in features and ability
Exactly. It's the CLIENTS, not the USERS who demand features. And some of them don't give a shit about what a mess they leave our machines in as long as their application is installed and prominent. This story demonstrates that. A sequence of poor choices in the name of "usability" created a big problem.
I doubt anyone here would even consider going back to MS-DOS...
Please don't give me that false dichotomy. It is possible to be user friendly, and yet not leave a system wide open to hackers. I think most people here know they have to change many MS defaults in order to get a safe and usable system, and never to take on trust that software will install itself without creating collateral damage.
You expect USA Today and Slashdot to have lame Batman tie-ins when the new movie is released. It's pretty sad that the Scientifc American is whoring itself out too.
THe music of "House of Cards" was not open sourced, just the visual data. according to a story in the UK Guardian, people are beginning to play around with the data.
I suppose the double capitalisation in the first sentence balances the lack of initial caps in the second.
I am not so sure it is a MS issue, they are developing "by popular demand". Computer users (yourself included, me too!) have demanded more automation
Perhaps you can substantiate how this "popular demand" was determined? By who? When? Where?
Application writers, advertisers and other assholes have wanted to make it easier, and preferably, automatic, for users to install their software. I don't know of any surveys of users on this subject.
(alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.child? Gee, I wonder what that could contain?)
Mostly spam. And maybe pictures of cheerleaders, child models (fully dressed). In answer to your implication, what kind of idiot would post real child porn on a public server?
The Internet is FULL of sites promising things and giving you something else. And usenet is full of fossil groups with provocative names created as jokes and full of spam.
Anyway, I would not care if all *.pictures.* was lost, they have been redundant for a decade with all the image hosts.
How does "demand" make sense on usenet, which is free? If anything, it undercuts those who are selling kiddie porn by devaluing their product.
And in years on usenet, I've very rarely seen kiddie porn. When it does appear the posts are usually erased from the servers pretty quickly, and it seems likely to have been posted by trolls trying to disrupt groups. The same thing happens on many rowdy forums. Some asshole with a grievance posts loads of kiddie porn and then reports the site, maybe gets the ISP to shut it down.
Please tell me how this will prevent someone from re-recording a transmission in a quite (or better yet sound proof) room?
Better, just a line from the headphone socket to the AUX input of your stereo. You can get a cable, with the minimal circuitry in it to match the impedance, for about $1.
1> If every 2nd word (in this example) is "Apple Pies" then the problem is keyword stuffing, not excessive internal links
2> Why would we want to? That's the whole point: It boots your organic rank on Google.
if you're somebody who thinks that websites should be developed as if search engines don't exist, then I can see why that's a problem.
If you want to write your pages to appeal to Google's robot, rather than a human being, good luck, I'll leave it to the bot.
The huge number of useless (to a human) links in SEO'd web pages is just painful to read. Like those magazines that split their stories into a couple of paragraphs a page so they can serve more ads. I am not going to put any of those on my favorites list.
You have a perfect right to do so, of course. I'm just telling you I hate it.
And ethically -- I don't see how you can argue that it's OK for a company to be on the top of the search results page if they pay Google $200k a month, but dammit, if they create a lot of internal links on their site they're doing something wrong.
I don't care what their pagerank is or how much it cost them. I only care about the page they ask me to read (of course, they only care about the ads they're serving in the process, a similar but related issue).
Consider, that CAPTCHAs can be broken by redirecting the question and picture to a pr0n site, where people will gladly enter the answer for you.
Urban legend, never put into practice. (If you say otherwise, URL?)
But it IS easy and cheap to pay people in a thrid world computer seatshop to do that kind of thng. A forum I'm on occasionally gets spammers from India and Russia, who can answer the questions to get an account. We shut them down quickly, so it's not a big deal.
But if I have a website selling Apple Pies and I link every instance of the word "Apple Pie" to the front page of the site, how, really, can you have an issue with that?
Try reading page where every second word is a link and tell me how pleasant it is. And why, for God's sake, would you want to? You just need ONE link to the front page at the top.
It makes the site stink of SEO and I'm likely to give up on it immediately.
The best way I've seen that captcha's got broken are by "free porn sites". The web site is what is cracking another captcha. When it gets a captcha to solve, it passes it to one if it's "porn viewers"
Have you REALLY, PERSONALLY seen this? Or is it just an urban legend?
People have been talking about this for years, but I've never yet heard of anyone actually used in practice.
It's a lot simpler to get some computer sweatshop in India, say to solve them for a few cents each. Any cracker using this touted porn method would expose exactly what he was doing, which sites he was targetting, and allow opponents to track him down, or just DDOS his site, or poison it with bad results.
There are untold gigabytes of quality free porn free for the download, no captchas, who would bother to work for it.
Try installing a firewall, connecting a computer directly to the Internet (don't -do- anything, just connect it) and then Wireshark to look at your Network Interface.
You'll be surprised at the stuff you get without asking.
Before I got a router, I did have the ZoneAlarm firewall. Just looking at its logs showed probeson various odd ports every few seconds. After getting a router, hardly anything gets through to be even logged.
"Sometimes I forget things and have to go back to get them. Now I leave my work laptop at home, and people laugh at me when I have to go back home to retrieve it."
OK. Has anyone wondered why these guys can't do any work without their laptops? They don't have PCs on their desks? Or a spare laptop? Surely they can't have the ONLY copy of any important files ON THEIR LAPTOP? If so, their shame is not funny, they should be heavily penalised for such idiocy.
Here, in tropical Hong Kong, it's stinking hot and extremely humid in summer. So when I leave my home in the morning (on a rural island) I pack my shirt in my bag, otherwise it will be soaked in sweat by the time I get to the ferry pier, 10 minutes walk away. Of course, one day I forgot the shirt, had to catch the ferry and go into the city (the next ferry would have made me an hour late), then find a street stall selling T-shirts before I could go to the office.
Has anyone noticed that the continents are all still connected? If you take the water out of the oceans, there is dirt there. It's not like continents are big rafts or something, when they hit each other, mountains or trenches form, they don't just float around...
Actually, the continents are different from the sea floors, and not just because of the water. They do in fact "float around like rafts" over the sea floors, creating new sea floor behind them and pushing it down below them in front into trenches. The sea floors are much younger than land surfaces for that reason.
But back to your point about how they knew what it was called, I have a related question. How do they know that Eastern Laurentia had crinkle cut coastlines like Canada? Weren't they formed by glacial activity? How does that happen at the equator?
The coastlines on the maps are the more or less modern coastlines, superimposed on the ancient plates, purely to help orient us. I think they assume we don't take the coastlines literally.
There are lots of interesting sites with graphics of continental drift in that period.
I looked at some of the stories. Most of the photos used were actually of different parties, and none of the photos "corroborate" the events recounted: theft, sex, vandalism. Despite the breathless prose of the house being wrecked, I did't see one picture of that. Maybe you have a link that actually does "corroborate" the story?
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And fuck you too.
Anyone remember the old primary school punishment: the teacher ordered you to stand with your arms horizontal, holding a book.
A joke for the first 3 minutes. Agony after 10. You'd much rather get "the cuts" on your hand from a belt than this.
This was over 40 years ago for those of you unfamiliar with the concept of "corporal punishment".
Yes, it is stupid. Nevertheless, it's the rule in American text, both in academia and literary works. Britain and most Commonwealth countries follow the "logical" rule or quote placement rather than this "aesthetic" rule.
Yes, I know, quoting code is different. But that's not prose, it's more like formulae.
I do DTP, and one thing I have to get straight at the beginning of a job is whether it's following American or UK rules, which affects this as well as spelling, capitalisation, etc.
"Honeytrap"? Bullshit. What leads anyone to think it was anymore than the guy lost in in a taxi, or if the girl did take it, she sold it on to a second hand phone dealer for a few dollars.
I think if it was really a "vast Communist conspiracy" as the article implies, the agents would have copied the data from the phone and returned it later in the evening, leaving him none the wiser.
Much more important to consider is if the guy used the phone while he was in Beijing, there is an excellent chance that every keystroke, including passwords, was captured en route.
Well, amazing. But that is not a site, but a trojan. And if you look at the linked statistics page:
Computers infected since October 26, 2007: Total 14
It's a curiosity, and obviously unless you have a fairly high traffic site you would never be able to crack captchas on demand. 14 infections in a year is not going to do that.
So call it a proof of cocnept. Still, it is an idea never really put into practice, because, basically, it's silly and inefficient. It's not 1985, porn is so ubiquitous that the idea of making people work to view it is absurd. Google can find you all the free porn you could desire.
Exactly. It's the CLIENTS, not the USERS who demand features. And some of them don't give a shit about what a mess they leave our machines in as long as their application is installed and prominent. This story demonstrates that. A sequence of poor choices in the name of "usability" created a big problem.
I doubt anyone here would even consider going back to MS-DOS ...
Please don't give me that false dichotomy. It is possible to be user friendly, and yet not leave a system wide open to hackers. I think most people here know they have to change many MS defaults in order to get a safe and usable system, and never to take on trust that software will install itself without creating collateral damage.
You expect USA Today and Slashdot to have lame Batman tie-ins when the new movie is released. It's pretty sad that the Scientifc American is whoring itself out too.
I suppose the double capitalisation in the first sentence balances the lack of initial caps in the second.
Perhaps you can substantiate how this "popular demand" was determined? By who? When? Where?
Application writers, advertisers and other assholes have wanted to make it easier, and preferably, automatic, for users to install their software. I don't know of any surveys of users on this subject.
Mostly spam. And maybe pictures of cheerleaders, child models (fully dressed). In answer to your implication, what kind of idiot would post real child porn on a public server?
The Internet is FULL of sites promising things and giving you something else. And usenet is full of fossil groups with provocative names created as jokes and full of spam.
Anyway, I would not care if all *.pictures.* was lost, they have been redundant for a decade with all the image hosts.
How does "demand" make sense on usenet, which is free? If anything, it undercuts those who are selling kiddie porn by devaluing their product.
And in years on usenet, I've very rarely seen kiddie porn. When it does appear the posts are usually erased from the servers pretty quickly, and it seems likely to have been posted by trolls trying to disrupt groups. The same thing happens on many rowdy forums. Some asshole with a grievance posts loads of kiddie porn and then reports the site, maybe gets the ISP to shut it down.
How the hell can anyone make a sensible suggestion when we have no idea what the hardware is or what the applications are they're supposed to run?
Or in tehr words, groundless speculation and fear mongering.
Oh really? And you can cite cases of people this has happened to? Or are you just speculating?
Better, just a line from the headphone socket to the AUX input of your stereo. You can get a cable, with the minimal circuitry in it to match the impedance, for about $1.
I do that just to use the stereo speakers.
1> If every 2nd word (in this example) is "Apple Pies" then the problem is keyword stuffing, not excessive internal links
2> Why would we want to? That's the whole point: It boots your organic rank on Google.
if you're somebody who thinks that websites should be developed as if search engines don't exist, then I can see why that's a problem.
If you want to write your pages to appeal to Google's robot, rather than a human being, good luck, I'll leave it to the bot.
The huge number of useless (to a human) links in SEO'd web pages is just painful to read. Like those magazines that split their stories into a couple of paragraphs a page so they can serve more ads. I am not going to put any of those on my favorites list.
You have a perfect right to do so, of course. I'm just telling you I hate it.
And ethically -- I don't see how you can argue that it's OK for a company to be on the top of the search results page if they pay Google $200k a month, but dammit, if they create a lot of internal links on their site they're doing something wrong.
I don't care what their pagerank is or how much it cost them. I only care about the page they ask me to read (of course, they only care about the ads they're serving in the process, a similar but related issue).
Urban legend, never put into practice. (If you say otherwise, URL?)
But it IS easy and cheap to pay people in a thrid world computer seatshop to do that kind of thng. A forum I'm on occasionally gets spammers from India and Russia, who can answer the questions to get an account. We shut them down quickly, so it's not a big deal.
Try reading page where every second word is a link and tell me how pleasant it is. And why, for God's sake, would you want to? You just need ONE link to the front page at the top.
It makes the site stink of SEO and I'm likely to give up on it immediately.
Have you REALLY, PERSONALLY seen this? Or is it just an urban legend?
People have been talking about this for years, but I've never yet heard of anyone actually used in practice.
It's a lot simpler to get some computer sweatshop in India, say to solve them for a few cents each. Any cracker using this touted porn method would expose exactly what he was doing, which sites he was targetting, and allow opponents to track him down, or just DDOS his site, or poison it with bad results.
There are untold gigabytes of quality free porn free for the download, no captchas, who would bother to work for it.
Before I got a router, I did have the ZoneAlarm firewall. Just looking at its logs showed probeson various odd ports every few seconds. After getting a router, hardly anything gets through to be even logged.
OK. Has anyone wondered why these guys can't do any work without their laptops? They don't have PCs on their desks? Or a spare laptop? Surely they can't have the ONLY copy of any important files ON THEIR LAPTOP? If so, their shame is not funny, they should be heavily penalised for such idiocy.
Here, in tropical Hong Kong, it's stinking hot and extremely humid in summer. So when I leave my home in the morning (on a rural island) I pack my shirt in my bag, otherwise it will be soaked in sweat by the time I get to the ferry pier, 10 minutes walk away. Of course, one day I forgot the shirt, had to catch the ferry and go into the city (the next ferry would have made me an hour late), then find a street stall selling T-shirts before I could go to the office.
Actually, the continents are different from the sea floors, and not just because of the water. They do in fact "float around like rafts" over the sea floors, creating new sea floor behind them and pushing it down below them in front into trenches. The sea floors are much younger than land surfaces for that reason.
The coastlines on the maps are the more or less modern coastlines, superimposed on the ancient plates, purely to help orient us. I think they assume we don't take the coastlines literally.
There are lots of interesting sites with graphics of continental drift in that period.
This one: http://www.scotese.com/Rodinia3.htm shows both what the coastlines might have been like, as well as having a key map of the modern shapes. And http://www.palaeo.de/edu/scotese and http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html have some animations showing the continents moving through the period. Really awe-inspiring (in the meaning, not the quality of the graphics).
I looked at some of the stories. Most of the photos used were actually of different parties, and none of the photos "corroborate" the events recounted: theft, sex, vandalism. Despite the breathless prose of the house being wrecked, I did't see one picture of that. Maybe you have a link that actually does "corroborate" the story?