Looks like your right. Oddly enough, though, while doing a Google search for "xenu.net" doesn't pull up anything, a search for "operation clambake" will still pull up a couple of archive links on the xenu.net domain.
Your right though, getting Google to block pretty much the entire xenu.net domain is obviously something to be very very worried about.
Sure it affects me, but what am I going to do, boycott Scientology? Been doing that for 29 years already. Boycott Google? Not their fault they have to obey some shitbox law.
If your talking about civil disobeying the DMCA, I'm all for that, though I'd be interested to hear how. Mirrors of the "forbidden" information perhaps?
Individuals can participate in civil disobedience, companies cannot. If they'd try, it would be called "failure to comply" and the company would be fined, or perhaps even dissolved should they take it that far.
As I understand it, Google is only required to remove refrences to certain pages on the site, not the whole site entirely?
How effective is this going to be? Even if the pages to "Operation Clambake" or whatever are removed from Google, xenu.net is probably still going to show up (depending on the search criteria used, I suppose). Once you're at the xenu.net home page, it's a trivial matter to find the other pages in question that Scientology has a problem with.
Yeah, I forgot about her. Well hell, might as well do a ranking since it's gone this far:
1. Angie Harmon (it's the voice)
2. Jill Hennessey (not so much now, but she was the bomb back in the day)
3. The current Blonde (don't know her name offhand, but she's magma-hot. Got that whole Scandinavian elf-thing going).
4. Carey Lowell
Just my opinion, feel free to disagree. All I know is that this is one Playboy pictorial spread that is long overdue.
I would imagine the rule was probably originally put in place to save the game/console companies from having to run people off their consoles all the time. Go into a Best Buy and watch some of those dinguses play the demo PS2's and XBoxes for hours on end and you'll see what I mean. If you're demoing your products, you're basically kissing customer ass for 10 hours a day, and you don't really want to be bothered with trying to get some jerk to share with the rest of Cebit.
Now clearly at some point Sony figured it was worth the trouble to let people play with their toys, and that's fine, but it also puts all the other game companies at a disadvantage. Which booth are you going to go to: the one with Halo on demo loop, or the one where you can play GTA3? Microsoft maybe didn't have the facilities or manpower to let people play hands on, so they complained to make sure their booth wasn't a graveyard.
Now, maybe next year Cebit decides to change it's rules and allow hands-on play, which would be fine, as all companies can come prepared. But as for this year, I think asking Sony to stop the hands-on was the right call.
Not at all, considering gravity hasn't significantly changed on this planet for probably the past 4 billion years or so, or at the very least in the lifetime of man and all his ancestors. It's only us silly hairless monkeys who insist on leaving this Earthly paradise and venturing into inhospitable territory such as the moon, other planets, or open space that fucks things up.
Sure it is. When you place blind faith in science, they give you this way cool membership card, and you get to choose an item from the Level 2 Prize Plateau.
Sounds like a good idea, but I'm worried about the "Newsbots" objectivity. If I wanted to read a bunch of stories about the latest NVidia GeForce 4 release, 10 reasons more RAM is better, and why you should upgrade your hard drive, I'd just watch TechTV.
Ghost in the Shell is probably what the author was referring to. The heroine in the flick has some sort of funky overcoat that turns her invisible, but for some unknown reason she only wears it when naked.
Well, OK, we know what the real reason is (fanboys), but just try to go with the whole suspension of disbelief thing.
It still pisses me off they made Guile the hero of that picture, rather than Ryu. I realize this was a Van Damme flick, and Van Damme as Ryu just doesn't work, but come on. Ryu is the king of Street Fighter.
I mean, you could make the argument that Guile's Flash Kick has slightly better Anti-Air than Ryu's Shoryuken, but there's no way that Sonic Boom is a better projectile than Hadoken. And that's not even counting Hurrican Kick, for which Guile has no answer.
Start out with the basics, Homer Marge Bart Lisa Maggie, and expand as needed (Skinner Grandpa Selma Patty Lovejoy Flanders etc). There's a ton of them, and they're easy to remember, if you know the Simpsons.
Bonus: Good excuse to have marathon Simpson watch parties (the Season DVD's are in the process of coming out) for "training purposes" when you hire someone new.
Oh, I see what they're saying now, read it wrong. Missed the point that it wasn't necessarily inputing words a user was saying, just random words (from random noise). My bad.
Nice idea, but it's sort of a short-sighted solution, with some very slippery-slope possible repurcussions.
Assume that such a feature would be a success. The initial user base that had this feature would start out small, but would grow as more people caught on. At first it's great: paying users get to see the site before it get's crushed, cuts down on a lot of the common trolls and crapflooders. At some point, though, the user base grows to where the 30 minute "buffer" is indistinguishable from a normal post. Then what? "Premium" service, where you can pay an extra $5 to get an extra 10 minute warning? What happens when that gets filled up? Eventually you've got a system where articles don't reach "the masses" for perhaps hours.
What does this do to anonymous posting? It kills it dead, that's what. Only the most exciting or inflamatory of articles are able to maintain critical mass past about 150 posts. If AC's aren't able to see stories for hours before paying registered users, they're effectively silenced, as no one (or at least a very small portion) of readers won't be paying attention anymore. Anonymous posting has long been one of the staples of Slashdot: I don't think you can just throw it by the wayside like that.
Also consider how other sites might "abuse" this feature. If I'm a web-site operator with some content, and I see it's up in "pay for play" Slashdot, I might be tempted to shut down my server after 30 minutes just to save the inevitable crush when it hits the rest of Slashdot. Sites might abuse this in other ways as well, by "planting" stories. You've effectively got a group of people willing to pay for otherwise free content, that would be a very attractive set of eyes to a marketer. Companies send in these "plant" stories right now, true, but knowing you've got an audience who has already shown a willingness to pay for a service would undoubtedly increase this practice greatly, and editors are only human. In other words, we'd be getting spam on the Slashdot front page.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like your right. Oddly enough, though, while doing a Google search for "xenu.net" doesn't pull up anything, a search for "operation clambake" will still pull up a couple of archive links on the xenu.net domain.
Your right though, getting Google to block pretty much the entire xenu.net domain is obviously something to be very very worried about.
Sure it affects me, but what am I going to do, boycott Scientology? Been doing that for 29 years already. Boycott Google? Not their fault they have to obey some shitbox law.
If your talking about civil disobeying the DMCA, I'm all for that, though I'd be interested to hear how. Mirrors of the "forbidden" information perhaps?
Individuals can participate in civil disobedience, companies cannot. If they'd try, it would be called "failure to comply" and the company would be fined, or perhaps even dissolved should they take it that far.
As I understand it, Google is only required to remove refrences to certain pages on the site, not the whole site entirely?
How effective is this going to be? Even if the pages to "Operation Clambake" or whatever are removed from Google, xenu.net is probably still going to show up (depending on the search criteria used, I suppose). Once you're at the xenu.net home page, it's a trivial matter to find the other pages in question that Scientology has a problem with.
They experiment on bunnies rather than 'peeps', but this page is a lot better.
Yeah, I forgot about her. Well hell, might as well do a ranking since it's gone this far:
1. Angie Harmon (it's the voice)
2. Jill Hennessey (not so much now, but she was the bomb back in the day)
3. The current Blonde (don't know her name offhand, but she's magma-hot. Got that whole Scandinavian elf-thing going).
4. Carey Lowell
Just my opinion, feel free to disagree. All I know is that this is one Playboy pictorial spread that is long overdue.
Nice to see someone got that.
Did she spill into the Watterson era? I was thinking more of Angie Harmon, and that cute little Scandinavian blonde they've got on now.
Note that I base all court proceedings on the wisdom of Sam Watterson.
Heathen. Michael Moriarty would lawyer the fuck out of Sam Watterson. All Watterson has going for him is hotter assistants.
I would imagine the rule was probably originally put in place to save the game/console companies from having to run people off their consoles all the time. Go into a Best Buy and watch some of those dinguses play the demo PS2's and XBoxes for hours on end and you'll see what I mean. If you're demoing your products, you're basically kissing customer ass for 10 hours a day, and you don't really want to be bothered with trying to get some jerk to share with the rest of Cebit.
Now clearly at some point Sony figured it was worth the trouble to let people play with their toys, and that's fine, but it also puts all the other game companies at a disadvantage. Which booth are you going to go to: the one with Halo on demo loop, or the one where you can play GTA3? Microsoft maybe didn't have the facilities or manpower to let people play hands on, so they complained to make sure their booth wasn't a graveyard.
Now, maybe next year Cebit decides to change it's rules and allow hands-on play, which would be fine, as all companies can come prepared. But as for this year, I think asking Sony to stop the hands-on was the right call.
Not at all, considering gravity hasn't significantly changed on this planet for probably the past 4 billion years or so, or at the very least in the lifetime of man and all his ancestors. It's only us silly hairless monkeys who insist on leaving this Earthly paradise and venturing into inhospitable territory such as the moon, other planets, or open space that fucks things up.
Sure it is. When you place blind faith in science, they give you this way cool membership card, and you get to choose an item from the Level 2 Prize Plateau.
Oh wait, that's Scientology. Never mind.
Sounds like a good idea, but I'm worried about the "Newsbots" objectivity. If I wanted to read a bunch of stories about the latest NVidia GeForce 4 release, 10 reasons more RAM is better, and why you should upgrade your hard drive, I'd just watch TechTV.
Christ my monitor doesn't weigh 50 pounds. How's the gravity up there at the Geek Compound anyway?
Suprisingly, infiltrating enemy strongholds using cigarettes and a cardboard box seldom works in real life.
Ghost in the Shell is probably what the author was referring to. The heroine in the flick has some sort of funky overcoat that turns her invisible, but for some unknown reason she only wears it when naked.
Well, OK, we know what the real reason is (fanboys), but just try to go with the whole suspension of disbelief thing.
Because some people have $1500 but not the skills to assemble, configure, and install their own components, OS, and software?
Good thing it was reviewed on Slashdot then.
It still pisses me off they made Guile the hero of that picture, rather than Ryu. I realize this was a Van Damme flick, and Van Damme as Ryu just doesn't work, but come on. Ryu is the king of Street Fighter.
I mean, you could make the argument that Guile's Flash Kick has slightly better Anti-Air than Ryu's Shoryuken, but there's no way that Sonic Boom is a better projectile than Hadoken. And that's not even counting Hurrican Kick, for which Guile has no answer.
Wasn't that what Oog the Open Source Caveman kept telling us about the wheel?
If "That" ever does become a sport, I'll be like a superstar and shit.
Start out with the basics, Homer Marge Bart Lisa Maggie, and expand as needed (Skinner Grandpa Selma Patty Lovejoy Flanders etc). There's a ton of them, and they're easy to remember, if you know the Simpsons.
Bonus: Good excuse to have marathon Simpson watch parties (the Season DVD's are in the process of coming out) for "training purposes" when you hire someone new.
Oh, I see what they're saying now, read it wrong. Missed the point that it wasn't necessarily inputing words a user was saying, just random words (from random noise). My bad.
"It happens even when the mic is disconneted..."
Please stop and think about the physics involved behind that statement just for a bit.
Quite right. Clearly, religion is the only answer.
After all, if you can't test or measure something, then clearly you just have to believe in it.
Nice idea, but it's sort of a short-sighted solution, with some very slippery-slope possible repurcussions.
Assume that such a feature would be a success. The initial user base that had this feature would start out small, but would grow as more people caught on. At first it's great: paying users get to see the site before it get's crushed, cuts down on a lot of the common trolls and crapflooders. At some point, though, the user base grows to where the 30 minute "buffer" is indistinguishable from a normal post. Then what? "Premium" service, where you can pay an extra $5 to get an extra 10 minute warning? What happens when that gets filled up? Eventually you've got a system where articles don't reach "the masses" for perhaps hours.
What does this do to anonymous posting? It kills it dead, that's what. Only the most exciting or inflamatory of articles are able to maintain critical mass past about 150 posts. If AC's aren't able to see stories for hours before paying registered users, they're effectively silenced, as no one (or at least a very small portion) of readers won't be paying attention anymore. Anonymous posting has long been one of the staples of Slashdot: I don't think you can just throw it by the wayside like that.
Also consider how other sites might "abuse" this feature. If I'm a web-site operator with some content, and I see it's up in "pay for play" Slashdot, I might be tempted to shut down my server after 30 minutes just to save the inevitable crush when it hits the rest of Slashdot. Sites might abuse this in other ways as well, by "planting" stories. You've effectively got a group of people willing to pay for otherwise free content, that would be a very attractive set of eyes to a marketer. Companies send in these "plant" stories right now, true, but knowing you've got an audience who has already shown a willingness to pay for a service would undoubtedly increase this practice greatly, and editors are only human. In other words, we'd be getting spam on the Slashdot front page.