The only time most of us have to actually sit and think is the weekend. Personally, I think that should be encouraged.
So long as you're not thinking about work, you are correct. But when you end up spending your off hours thinking about a problem at work, you might as well go to work.
Personally, I think about my personal stuff on weekends. I can brainstorm on work projects at the office, where I'm paid to do that.
I don't think so, I've only been able to produce four or five non-functioning lines of code so far today. Of course, I worked on my personal site and drank beer all weekend, so that's probably where my inspiration went.
So, from this developer's anecdotal experience, Monday mornings are not peak productivity hours. I did get my POP3 server working (again) this morning, but that can't be considered productive from the boss's point of view.
Whoah, I guess we can chalk this one up to 'missing the point'.
I wasn't being elistist. I never said I agree with or support using underpriviledged americans as 'cannon fodder', merely that the military does. And they clearly do, as evidenced by the large proportion of African Americans in the infantry divisions. This problem may not be as rampant today as it was years ago, but it still exists.
FYI, I grew up poor. At least I was poor in relation to all of the other kids around me. I didn't get my first car until the 12th grade. And it was a 20 yr. old junker my uncle gave to me. I affectionately called it the Rust Monster due to it's propensity to deposit large clouds of rust behind itself whenever I hit anything taller than a very small rock - like speed bumps. I routinely had to put as little as 35 or 40 CENTS worth of gas in the tank so that I could make it to school. Of course, getting back from school would be the next challenge. Ten or twenty bucks for a weekend was more than I could ask of my parents most of the time. And no, I'm not that old. All of that happenened in the late eighties.
So don't lecture me about elitism. I'm quite sure you haven't the moral ground to stand on.
I would guess that Geocities is able to control bandwidth on a per-url basis. Hell, they could even dedicate and entire server with a fat pipe to that one url. Not that hard really, just a rule in their load balancers.
But they don't want geeks on the front lines. They want them programming software for their war machines. Or something. There's plenty of stronger, less intelligent poor folks to use as cannon fodder.
It's a bit misleading to say that the U.K. government runs the BBC.
The BBC is a not-for-profit trust corporation set up and funded by the U.K. government to run broadcasting stations (radio and TV) for the benifit of the British people. Since the BBC is set up this way, they have quite a bit of leeway when reporting the news. Especially news concerning the government. This is the main reason the BBC is thought to be a reliable, independant news source and not a government mouthpiece.
So, in one sense, the U.K. government does not control the BBC in that they cannot simply coopt the programming to support their propaganda. On the other hand, they can yank funding or shut the BBC down if they become too unmanageable.
Pay phones are still viable, but maybe not in your neighborhood. Go down to the barrio and see how many pay phones there are. Lots of people still can't afford cell phones and therefore still use pay phones. That's not going to change anytime soon.
The decline you see in pay phones in your neighborhood is certainly due to increased cell phone usage, but that is because you probably live in a relatively affluent neighborhood (ie: people there don't rely on welfare).
The interstitial ads in question do require javascript because the windows are resized. Without javascript you can call new windows, but you can't change their size - that's set by the window manager.
I'm not sure what you mean by a symbol only the server can understand. The browser must receive a url for a redirect - by definition, the redirect won't work without it. However, the url does not need to be human readable. There are many ways of obsfucating urls.
Although you can do many of the things these interstitials can without javascript, you would not get the same immersive effect, which is their whole point.
These interstitials are not the death-toll of the web. They're not even new or unusual. The only thing new about them is that some company has packaged them up nice and is trying to sell them as more effective marketing. How effective that strategy is remains to be seen.
Tobacco pipes are totally legitimate in the U.S. Water pipes are also, but only if they are at least nominally marketed as tobacco pipes. Head shop owners are quite insistant about this and will ask you to leave if you so much as mention illegal activities in their store.
So I looked it up, and whacha know, you're right. Womb is number two in the list. Mathematical arrays are number 8a. It's actually quite an informative entry, especially the first definition, which ties the rest together.
Gotta disagree with you here. If you blow the whistle after being laid off, you should get preferential treatment by the courts. That guarantee is often the only thing that gets people to blow the whistle in the first place. Obviously, if you had some direct involvement in the alleged crime, you should still be subject to prosecution in most cases, but with the understanding that plea bargains or light sentencing should be considered.
Any other way of dealing with whistleblowers will cause them to be silent. Sometimes it's worth it to let a few people go if it gets the problem out into the open where it can be dealt with.
First he says "As I was pondering the review results I wondered what a completely unbiased observer would think of my security." Then, he Asks Slashdot.
Some german going by the name Tels has made an in-depth study of his spam levels going back to Oct. 1998. The daily graph is most interesting. In the last six months his daily total has been growing faster than his average total, indicating that he is receiving spam at an increasingly faster rate. Of course, his experience is completely anecdotal, but it does jibe nicely with what the MS-AOL-Disney folks are saying, and it provides a nice visual. If their word is to be believed, and I think it is in this case, then the problem is getting worse faster and faster. Tels' data certainly suggests that it is.
I also found a good study by the Center for Democrocy & Technology. They created several hundred email accounts and used them in ways that would reveal how spammers discover them. They found that the most common method spammers used to discover valid email addresses is eploying spiders to crawl the web for them.
This suggests a simple measure that could be immediately effective in the short run if it were widely implemented. The CDT suggests that when you would like to post your email address to a website you should post it using HTML numeric entities. Webmasters can go even further. Encode the email addresses for your users before saving them to the database or a file. This is easy to do and will, in some small part, save your patrons from email hell.
Apparently, the vast majority of email harvesters use a plain text search for parsing web pages and do not evaluate html entities. This is why the above method can only work in the short term. If websites start implementing the above method en masse, the spiders will start parsing for HTML entities and the method will no longer work. Same with human readable forms that the study mentioned.
This is why we must have legislation to deal with spam. Technical solutions just won't work effectively in an environment as open as the Internet. It will inevitably be an arms race between the spammers and the spam fighters, resulting in an internet that may be more secure, but less usable. Therefore, we must look in another direction. If our nation were to legislate effective deterrents for spammers operating in the U.S., other countries would follow suit. As it becomes increasingly difficult for spammers to hide overseas, it becomes increasingly viable to sanction governments that allow spammers to operate within their borders. Cutting them off at the net-block level also becomes increasingly viable as the number of net blocks that harbor spammers decreases.
I know you're being facetious, but your quip actually has merit. As the saying goes "Power corrupts...", so it's not at all unreasonable to question the agenda of anyone that has a lot of power. Evil is a strong word, but it may apply to many of the power elites - even here in the good old U.S. of A.
I'm all for OSS tools, but VNC is to *&&#$ slow over my VPN.
The problem with VNC on windows is that Windows doesn't have a true "window server" (an X server in the *nix world) to hook into, and so must use the current desktop. Including all the 32x32 icons, animated toolbars, what have you. Terminal services works better because it is able to layer a window server on top of the operating system. It does this using proprietary and undocumented features within windows. There is no way for VNC to compete with that. I think that if Windows were more open in that respect then you would see VNC (or VNC type programs) operating in the same way that Terminal Services does.
To illustrate, when I access VNC on my server from the internet, I access a port that has Blackbox running instead of KDE, and I make sure that all backgrounds are a single color and that there are no menu animations. That helps speed things greatly. When I access the same server while on my LAN, I access a port that has KDE running because speed is not such an issue and I like the features KDE has to offer. If VNC could do that in Windows, it would compete much more effectively with Terminal Services.
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The only time most of us have to actually sit and think is the weekend. Personally, I think that should be encouraged.
So long as you're not thinking about work, you are correct. But when you end up spending your off hours thinking about a problem at work, you might as well go to work.
Personally, I think about my personal stuff on weekends. I can brainstorm on work projects at the office, where I'm paid to do that.
I don't think so, I've only been able to produce four or five non-functioning lines of code so far today. Of course, I worked on my personal site and drank beer all weekend, so that's probably where my inspiration went.
So, from this developer's anecdotal experience, Monday mornings are not peak productivity hours. I did get my POP3 server working (again) this morning, but that can't be considered productive from the boss's point of view.
Whoah, I guess we can chalk this one up to 'missing the point'.
I wasn't being elistist. I never said I agree with or support using underpriviledged americans as 'cannon fodder', merely that the military does. And they clearly do, as evidenced by the large proportion of African Americans in the infantry divisions. This problem may not be as rampant today as it was years ago, but it still exists.
FYI, I grew up poor. At least I was poor in relation to all of the other kids around me. I didn't get my first car until the 12th grade. And it was a 20 yr. old junker my uncle gave to me. I affectionately called it the Rust Monster due to it's propensity to deposit large clouds of rust behind itself whenever I hit anything taller than a very small rock - like speed bumps. I routinely had to put as little as 35 or 40 CENTS worth of gas in the tank so that I could make it to school. Of course, getting back from school would be the next challenge. Ten or twenty bucks for a weekend was more than I could ask of my parents most of the time. And no, I'm not that old. All of that happenened in the late eighties.
So don't lecture me about elitism. I'm quite sure you haven't the moral ground to stand on.
Yeah, looks like we found this year's Ig Nobel award.
Titty bars... arrive rich and horny, leave poor and hornier. Yeah, that's for me.
I like dollar coins because bills get stuck in the toll booth, and then it jams.
wtf is a orker? And why on earth would you do that to a cow?
I would guess that Geocities is able to control bandwidth on a per-url basis. Hell, they could even dedicate and entire server with a fat pipe to that one url. Not that hard really, just a rule in their load balancers.
Got my own oops...
please read "less intelligent poor folks" as "less educated poor folks."
But they don't want geeks on the front lines. They want them programming software for their war machines. Or something. There's plenty of stronger, less intelligent poor folks to use as cannon fodder.
They complain about it being "slow", which tells me that they have nothing better to do than play video games.
That tells me your priorities are whacked.
It's a bit misleading to say that the U.K. government runs the BBC.
The BBC is a not-for-profit trust corporation set up and funded by the U.K. government to run broadcasting stations (radio and TV) for the benifit of the British people. Since the BBC is set up this way, they have quite a bit of leeway when reporting the news. Especially news concerning the government. This is the main reason the BBC is thought to be a reliable, independant news source and not a government mouthpiece.
So, in one sense, the U.K. government does not control the BBC in that they cannot simply coopt the programming to support their propaganda. On the other hand, they can yank funding or shut the BBC down if they become too unmanageable.
Pay phones are still viable, but maybe not in your neighborhood. Go down to the barrio and see how many pay phones there are. Lots of people still can't afford cell phones and therefore still use pay phones. That's not going to change anytime soon.
The decline you see in pay phones in your neighborhood is certainly due to increased cell phone usage, but that is because you probably live in a relatively affluent neighborhood (ie: people there don't rely on welfare).
O.67% ?
Those stats are low. I play way more than that.
The interstitial ads in question do require javascript because the windows are resized. Without javascript you can call new windows, but you can't change their size - that's set by the window manager.
I'm not sure what you mean by a symbol only the server can understand. The browser must receive a url for a redirect - by definition, the redirect won't work without it. However, the url does not need to be human readable. There are many ways of obsfucating urls.
Although you can do many of the things these interstitials can without javascript, you would not get the same immersive effect, which is their whole point.
These interstitials are not the death-toll of the web. They're not even new or unusual. The only thing new about them is that some company has packaged them up nice and is trying to sell them as more effective marketing. How effective that strategy is remains to be seen.
Tobacco pipes are totally legitimate in the U.S. Water pipes are also, but only if they are at least nominally marketed as tobacco pipes. Head shop owners are quite insistant about this and will ask you to leave if you so much as mention illegal activities in their store.
I thought a matrix was just a mathematical array.
So I looked it up, and whacha know, you're right. Womb is number two in the list. Mathematical arrays are number 8a. It's actually quite an informative entry, especially the first definition, which ties the rest together.
You can also get acetone at any hardware store. And it's cheaper than nail polish remover.
Gotta disagree with you here. If you blow the whistle after being laid off, you should get preferential treatment by the courts. That guarantee is often the only thing that gets people to blow the whistle in the first place. Obviously, if you had some direct involvement in the alleged crime, you should still be subject to prosecution in most cases, but with the understanding that plea bargains or light sentencing should be considered.
Any other way of dealing with whistleblowers will cause them to be silent. Sometimes it's worth it to let a few people go if it gets the problem out into the open where it can be dealt with.
First he says "As I was pondering the review results I wondered what a completely unbiased observer would think of my security." Then, he Asks Slashdot.
Oh, the irony.
Some german going by the name Tels has made an in-depth study of his spam levels going back to Oct. 1998. The daily graph is most interesting. In the last six months his daily total has been growing faster than his average total, indicating that he is receiving spam at an increasingly faster rate. Of course, his experience is completely anecdotal, but it does jibe nicely with what the MS-AOL-Disney folks are saying, and it provides a nice visual. If their word is to be believed, and I think it is in this case, then the problem is getting worse faster and faster. Tels' data certainly suggests that it is.
I also found a good study by the Center for Democrocy & Technology. They created several hundred email accounts and used them in ways that would reveal how spammers discover them. They found that the most common method spammers used to discover valid email addresses is eploying spiders to crawl the web for them.
This suggests a simple measure that could be immediately effective in the short run if it were widely implemented. The CDT suggests that when you would like to post your email address to a website you should post it using HTML numeric entities. Webmasters can go even further. Encode the email addresses for your users before saving them to the database or a file. This is easy to do and will, in some small part, save your patrons from email hell.
Apparently, the vast majority of email harvesters use a plain text search for parsing web pages and do not evaluate html entities. This is why the above method can only work in the short term. If websites start implementing the above method en masse, the spiders will start parsing for HTML entities and the method will no longer work. Same with human readable forms that the study mentioned.
This is why we must have legislation to deal with spam. Technical solutions just won't work effectively in an environment as open as the Internet. It will inevitably be an arms race between the spammers and the spam fighters, resulting in an internet that may be more secure, but less usable. Therefore, we must look in another direction. If our nation were to legislate effective deterrents for spammers operating in the U.S., other countries would follow suit. As it becomes increasingly difficult for spammers to hide overseas, it becomes increasingly viable to sanction governments that allow spammers to operate within their borders. Cutting them off at the net-block level also becomes increasingly viable as the number of net blocks that harbor spammers decreases.
When will computers that run MS-Windows be ordered to be put down?
Probably when the gov't finally orders enforced euthanasia for all of those damn rat-dogs.
Come to think of it words empower terrorists. Ban 'em.
Yes! And we'll replace them with a new language, which we'll call...Newspeak.
And instead of simple words, we'll use clever phrases out of context. We could call them sound bites.
I know you're being facetious, but your quip actually has merit. As the saying goes "Power corrupts...", so it's not at all unreasonable to question the agenda of anyone that has a lot of power. Evil is a strong word, but it may apply to many of the power elites - even here in the good old U.S. of A.
And the speed holes. Gotta have speed holes. Makes it go faster.
I'm all for OSS tools, but VNC is to *&&#$ slow over my VPN.
The problem with VNC on windows is that Windows doesn't have a true "window server" (an X server in the *nix world) to hook into, and so must use the current desktop. Including all the 32x32 icons, animated toolbars, what have you. Terminal services works better because it is able to layer a window server on top of the operating system. It does this using proprietary and undocumented features within windows. There is no way for VNC to compete with that. I think that if Windows were more open in that respect then you would see VNC (or VNC type programs) operating in the same way that Terminal Services does.
To illustrate, when I access VNC on my server from the internet, I access a port that has Blackbox running instead of KDE, and I make sure that all backgrounds are a single color and that there are no menu animations. That helps speed things greatly. When I access the same server while on my LAN, I access a port that has KDE running because speed is not such an issue and I like the features KDE has to offer. If VNC could do that in Windows, it would compete much more effectively with Terminal Services.
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