Bloggers are just information aggregators. They cull from their sources and post the interesting stuff. Slashdot's been doing it for years. There's too much on the web, and Bloggers act as (real, not top 40) DJs by selecting the best of what's out there and giving it a better. No one seems to complain that DJs don't end every song with "I heard that album from my friend Ted."
The service they provide is going through hundreds of bad links to find the interesting ones to recommend to their readers. I think this report is simply stating the obvious.
Also, if this is a big deal, why doesn't Slashdot include a "via" field for submissions to give credit to where the poster found the link? Personally, I always give credit for links when the site I found the link from supports TrackBack, any other times it's a crapshoot.
I just got my new phone from T-Mobile (via Amazon) today and called around 1:00pm to get the number portability in. The total call lasted 11 minutes, including a phonetree misstep and a service addition. They said that it would take up to 14 business days for the transfer to happen, during which I couldn't use my old number. As luck would have it, my number transferred 6 hours later and I'm up and running!
It wasn't instantanious, but I couldn't imagine things going more smoothly.
I'm planning on building one of these computers over the summer (what? A slashdot poster with grand plans in a nebulous phase of completion? Never have I heard of such a thing!) based on information over at the mp3car.com forums. You should especially check out the OBD-II forum, which is addressing your specific question.
Personally, I'm going to just buy (now a slashdotter is going to buy software? A sign of the apocolypse!) Delta Dash because it is supposedly great with my WRX.
The EFF provides an easy way to tell your representatives what you think on this. Just go to action.eff.org and it will let you send comments to the government. Be sure to put your personal thoughts in the comments because they give more weight to non-form letters.
If you're interested in the types of content that are available in RSS check out scripting.com's Top 100 RSS Feeds. They generate their statistics from the users who upload their RSS feed list (called an OPML file) to the site.
It could be your RSS aggregator and I know wired.com doesn't put the full text of their stories in the feeds. A lot of sites do, however. If you want an idea of the kind of sites that are using RSS check out my Bloglines subscriptions or this list of the top 100 feeds.
Uhhh, don't those sites just use RSS? How are they an alternative to RSS, aside from limiting which feeds you read? If you like them because they're web based, there are plenty of web based RSS readers like Bloglines. As for the whole "ad-free" thing, you're right people will find a way to make money on RSS. But at the same time, there will always be ad-free sites out there, and I suspect a lot of the sites using RSS right now without ads will continue to do so.
This is already the case. Consider yourself corrected. Well-behaved clients support 304 Modified headers, ETags and other caching mechanisms. Also, as for the dynamically produced feeds (how do you know most are?) they can impliment 304 headers et all, if they don't they can't really complain, can they?
You must be reading the wrong stories about RSS. It doesn't basically serve up headlines, it basically serves up a diff of the web since you last looked at it. That's probably the best way of describing just how powerful it really is.
Take my Bloglines feeds for example. There's no way I could keep track of 100+ sites continuously without RSS. It gives me full text of updates for most sites (Slashdot, of course, is broken) that I read when I want to know what's new.
And most RSS readers support HTML/CSS. Images too. Just so you know, so the next time you bash RSS you can do it with a little information behind you.
Also, the bandwidth concerns are minimal for RSS aggregators that support 304 Modified headers, ETags, and If-Modified-Since headers. And I predict that by the end of the year the community will make a common practice of banning those aggregators that don't support them.
As for the Spam angle, I think you mis-read the article. RSS won't end Spam, it will provide people who use email for legitimate broadcast reasons (email newsletters, etc) to get around Spam blockers. And people will prefer this method because they know they can unsubscribe at any time.
Seriously though, RSS is like TiVo for the web. You hear a lot of zealots talk about how cool it is, when it's obvious from their description that it's nothing special. Then, when you try it (like with Bloglines, the free aggregator I use) you realize just how powerful and revolutionary it is.
FOAF is an open XML/RDF standard for describing these social networks, it seems like that would be a good way to implement this. Plus, since it uses SHA1 sums of email addresses it would be possible to check addresses without giving them up to spammers.
A lot of sites like Tribe.net and my own project SongBuddy are working on integrating FOAF into the site, so that you won't have to worry about the mechanics of it unless you want to. Seems like an easy way to build these kind of white lists.
Spam is a social problem, similar to STDs. It takes just a few dumb people for the problem to get out of hand. Part of the solution is security - killing off open relays, stuff like that.
The other part of the solution is education. Teach people the world over that they should never ever ever ever buy anything from spam. Teach them that spammers do some pretty scummy things, so you shouldn't trust them with your credit card. Teach them that by giving spammers money they're making the problem worse.
Basically make it unprofitable to spam. Take away that 0.00001% response rate and that will go a long way to solving the problem. And it's better than money spent on increasingly hostile spam solutions like whitelists and capchas.
Area code 212 is coveted by New Yorkers because it's the original NPA for NYC, before 646 and 917. It's kind of a status symbol there, and I'm sure that has something to do with the price going so high. The New York Post has more information on the desire for 212.
They're not doing anything illegal? Can you explain how what trackers (that have infringing material) are legal when they are participating in contributory infringement as defined by the DMCA? The only way that they can be legal is to if they fall under the safe harbor provisions, but I couldn't find their DMCA agent listed on their site.
Pretty hard if you get it from an official torrent site run by a distribution. As for a BitTorrent peer, they would have to come up with a block that not only had that "something extra" but also matched the cryptographic hash of the block.
From mezzoblue's css crib sheet:
Build and test your CSS in the most advanced browser available before testing in others, not after.
If you build a site testing in a broken browser, your code begins relying on the broken rendering of that browser. When it comes time to test in a more standards-compliant browser, you will be frustrated when that browser renders it improperly. Instead, start from perfection and then hack for the less able browsers. Your code will be more standards-compliant from the start, and you won't have to hack as much to support other browsers. Today, this means Mozilla, Safari, or Opera.
The fact of the matter is that you will need to do browser workarounds, even if you only design for IE. The IE 5 box model is wrong and there are a lot of people using that browser. So just get the standard right and then go back and compensate for broken browsers.
And yes, I know that I'm not stnading on very solid ground with the way SongBuddy looks in IE. I'm more interested in getting the features going than in supporting a browser I haven't used in quite some time.
If this were a reoccurring fee with TiVo or Apple or a Linux company, I'd say that you had fair warning and it's your fault for not protecting your money. I'd say that these things happen from time to time and the best thing to do is to suck it up and learn from the experience.
But since this is Microsoft they have maliciously cheated you out of your money and you should do everything you can do to get it back. Call your credit card company and accuse them of fraud. Do it so that they don't extend their IE monopoly into the game console arena and so they'll give away all their source code under the GPL!
If this were some company that Slashdot wasn't predisposed to I'd probably have advice somewhere in the middle of those two answers.
If you want to use that metaphor, why not think of it as an interrogation. I don't condone spamming, but I think that we could learn a lot about it (and how to stop it) by listening.
For example, by reading this guy's words I realized that spam is a social problem and could be stopped if we educated people that spammers are amoral and shouldn't be trusted with your money. If people stopped buying from spammers the problem would go away. Admittedly, that's about as likely as STDs going away but it could put a dent in the problem.
Also, I thought we did negotiate with terrorists. Take a look at Saudi Arabia some time... or even just look at that picture of Donald Rumsfield and Sadam Hussein and think really hard about what's going on.
How about a Slashdot Interview with this guy (or another spammer)? I think it would be really interesting to see what (civilized) questions we could ask him and what his answers would be. He says that he puts himself in front of the media so it shouldn't be too hard to get in touch with him.
How about it editors? (I tried suggesting an interview with a spammer before, but since I didn't have a name or contact information the editors didn't want to hear it. I wonder why I should do their job for them when they're the ones getting paid...)
Slashdot Mirror
FYI, Alton Brown did a Slashdot Interview in September of 2002.
Bloggers are just information aggregators. They cull from their sources and post the interesting stuff. Slashdot's been doing it for years. There's too much on the web, and Bloggers act as (real, not top 40) DJs by selecting the best of what's out there and giving it a better. No one seems to complain that DJs don't end every song with "I heard that album from my friend Ted."
The service they provide is going through hundreds of bad links to find the interesting ones to recommend to their readers. I think this report is simply stating the obvious.
Also, if this is a big deal, why doesn't Slashdot include a "via" field for submissions to give credit to where the poster found the link? Personally, I always give credit for links when the site I found the link from supports TrackBack, any other times it's a crapshoot.
I just got my new phone from T-Mobile (via Amazon) today and called around 1:00pm to get the number portability in. The total call lasted 11 minutes, including a phonetree misstep and a service addition. They said that it would take up to 14 business days for the transfer to happen, during which I couldn't use my old number. As luck would have it, my number transferred 6 hours later and I'm up and running!
It wasn't instantanious, but I couldn't imagine things going more smoothly.
I'm planning on building one of these computers over the summer (what? A slashdot poster with grand plans in a nebulous phase of completion? Never have I heard of such a thing!) based on information over at the mp3car.com forums. You should especially check out the OBD-II forum, which is addressing your specific question.
Personally, I'm going to just buy (now a slashdotter is going to buy software? A sign of the apocolypse!) Delta Dash because it is supposedly great with my WRX.
The EFF provides an easy way to tell your representatives what you think on this. Just go to action.eff.org and it will let you send comments to the government. Be sure to put your personal thoughts in the comments because they give more weight to non-form letters.
If you're interested in the types of content that are available in RSS check out scripting.com's Top 100 RSS Feeds. They generate their statistics from the users who upload their RSS feed list (called an OPML file) to the site.
It could be your RSS aggregator and I know wired.com doesn't put the full text of their stories in the feeds. A lot of sites do, however. If you want an idea of the kind of sites that are using RSS check out my Bloglines subscriptions or this list of the top 100 feeds.
Uhhh, don't those sites just use RSS? How are they an alternative to RSS, aside from limiting which feeds you read? If you like them because they're web based, there are plenty of web based RSS readers like Bloglines. As for the whole "ad-free" thing, you're right people will find a way to make money on RSS. But at the same time, there will always be ad-free sites out there, and I suspect a lot of the sites using RSS right now without ads will continue to do so.
This is already the case. Consider yourself corrected. Well-behaved clients support 304 Modified headers, ETags and other caching mechanisms. Also, as for the dynamically produced feeds (how do you know most are?) they can impliment 304 headers et all, if they don't they can't really complain, can they?
Right, but RSS is a good way of knowing when there's a new discussion to read. Like this one, which I spotted in my RSS aggregator.
You must be reading the wrong stories about RSS. It doesn't basically serve up headlines, it basically serves up a diff of the web since you last looked at it. That's probably the best way of describing just how powerful it really is.
Take my Bloglines feeds for example. There's no way I could keep track of 100+ sites continuously without RSS. It gives me full text of updates for most sites (Slashdot, of course, is broken) that I read when I want to know what's new.
And most RSS readers support HTML/CSS. Images too. Just so you know, so the next time you bash RSS you can do it with a little information behind you.
Also, the bandwidth concerns are minimal for RSS aggregators that support 304 Modified headers, ETags, and If-Modified-Since headers. And I predict that by the end of the year the community will make a common practice of banning those aggregators that don't support them.
As for the Spam angle, I think you mis-read the article. RSS won't end Spam, it will provide people who use email for legitimate broadcast reasons (email newsletters, etc) to get around Spam blockers. And people will prefer this method because they know they can unsubscribe at any time.
Seriously though, RSS is like TiVo for the web. You hear a lot of zealots talk about how cool it is, when it's obvious from their description that it's nothing special. Then, when you try it (like with Bloglines, the free aggregator I use) you realize just how powerful and revolutionary it is.
... has a professional version that costs more than the personal version, duh!
Compared to the 0k/s of an overloaded server refusing connections?
BitTorrent was in the New York Times for crying out loud, it's mainstream. Why wouldn't you use it? What possible drawback is there?
FOAF is an open XML/RDF standard for describing these social networks, it seems like that would be a good way to implement this. Plus, since it uses SHA1 sums of email addresses it would be possible to check addresses without giving them up to spammers.
A lot of sites like Tribe.net and my own project SongBuddy are working on integrating FOAF into the site, so that you won't have to worry about the mechanics of it unless you want to. Seems like an easy way to build these kind of white lists.
Spam is a social problem, similar to STDs. It takes just a few dumb people for the problem to get out of hand. Part of the solution is security - killing off open relays, stuff like that.
The other part of the solution is education. Teach people the world over that they should never ever ever ever buy anything from spam. Teach them that spammers do some pretty scummy things, so you shouldn't trust them with your credit card. Teach them that by giving spammers money they're making the problem worse.
Basically make it unprofitable to spam. Take away that 0.00001% response rate and that will go a long way to solving the problem. And it's better than money spent on increasingly hostile spam solutions like whitelists and capchas.
Area code 212 is coveted by New Yorkers because it's the original NPA for NYC, before 646 and 917. It's kind of a status symbol there, and I'm sure that has something to do with the price going so high. The New York Post has more information on the desire for 212.
They're not doing anything illegal? Can you explain how what trackers (that have infringing material) are legal when they are participating in contributory infringement as defined by the DMCA? The only way that they can be legal is to if they fall under the safe harbor provisions, but I couldn't find their DMCA agent listed on their site.
Pretty hard if you get it from an official torrent site run by a distribution. As for a BitTorrent peer, they would have to come up with a block that not only had that "something extra" but also matched the cryptographic hash of the block.
The fact of the matter is that you will need to do browser workarounds, even if you only design for IE. The IE 5 box model is wrong and there are a lot of people using that browser. So just get the standard right and then go back and compensate for broken browsers.
And yes, I know that I'm not stnading on very solid ground with the way SongBuddy looks in IE. I'm more interested in getting the features going than in supporting a browser I haven't used in quite some time.
If this were a reoccurring fee with TiVo or Apple or a Linux company, I'd say that you had fair warning and it's your fault for not protecting your money. I'd say that these things happen from time to time and the best thing to do is to suck it up and learn from the experience.
But since this is Microsoft they have maliciously cheated you out of your money and you should do everything you can do to get it back. Call your credit card company and accuse them of fraud. Do it so that they don't extend their IE monopoly into the game console arena and so they'll give away all their source code under the GPL!
If this were some company that Slashdot wasn't predisposed to I'd probably have advice somewhere in the middle of those two answers.
I think one or two people may have done something similar... Maybe Slashdot might be of assistance
If you want to use that metaphor, why not think of it as an interrogation. I don't condone spamming, but I think that we could learn a lot about it (and how to stop it) by listening.
For example, by reading this guy's words I realized that spam is a social problem and could be stopped if we educated people that spammers are amoral and shouldn't be trusted with your money. If people stopped buying from spammers the problem would go away. Admittedly, that's about as likely as STDs going away but it could put a dent in the problem.
Also, I thought we did negotiate with terrorists. Take a look at Saudi Arabia some time... or even just look at that picture of Donald Rumsfield and Sadam Hussein and think really hard about what's going on.
How about a Slashdot Interview with this guy (or another spammer)? I think it would be really interesting to see what (civilized) questions we could ask him and what his answers would be. He says that he puts himself in front of the media so it shouldn't be too hard to get in touch with him.
How about it editors? (I tried suggesting an interview with a spammer before, but since I didn't have a name or contact information the editors didn't want to hear it. I wonder why I should do their job for them when they're the ones getting paid...)
... is it going to come with your choice of 4 toppings? And freaky toppings at that, like corn!