Yeah, but there's enough room in those 96 bits that a single "customer" with a/48 could be a large company, school, or even a small country that would otherwise be using a/16 or/8.
Which raises the question, do I want to pay $700 for something with such a tiny screen? A nice complete home theater system is less than that, or if you want to go portable, so is an entry level laptop that has all the same capabilities plus more. I'm skeptical about this thing...
Google does already filter out "similar" pages -- if you ever get to the bottom of a short list of results, you see that link to include the duplicate pages. It's obviously not perfect though, but IMHO it's better that they're conservative about it to avoid filtering possibly significant information.
Too bad spaceflightnow's been slacking off lately. Seems their reports these past two weeks are always a day or two later than everyone else, not to mention they're not even reporting all of the major milestones before. A far cry from landing where we got a new report every 5 minutes.
But, a one megapixal "real" color camera only gets 1/2 or 1/3 the data that the rovers' cameras do. This is because three separate black-and-white photos combined is effectively 3 megapixels, whereas a "real" camera really only is one megapixel, and the adjacent pixels actually overlap so that it can interpolate the color data. Not good at all for anything scientific.
My brand new Powerbook G4 12" had its hard drive fail with the "click of death" exactly 31 days after I bought it. Obviously that's on the short side of the "mean time between failure", and fortunately it was covered under warranty (no questions asked), but... it sucked, and that's my story.
Are you daft? That unemployment benefits are a good indicator of the actual unemployment rate is a terrible myth.
Did your stats say how many hapless people have been unemployed for so long that they don't even qualify for benefits anymore? Or how many people never qualified in the first place? All your stats mean is that the rate at which jobs are being cut is falling, but it doesn't mean that new jobs are being created any faster in replacement. That 105,000 drop is most telling of the truth, and is least supportive to your argument.
There's a very important difference, especially when considering the poorest of the poor, those who don't have any income now that they've lost both their jobs and thier benefits.
... or when Peter banged his shin and sat for a good thirty seconds going "ssstt, aaahhhh, ssstt, aaahhhh". Except, I disagree with you -- moments like that are hilarious! It just shows how much balls the producers had that they would allow 30 seconds of what was essentially dead air.
Supposing online shopping were to completely replace malls, there's no way those jobs would be replaced. Think of all the salespeople, managers, custodians, security, and everyone else that works at a mall.
Just considering the salespeople, consider how long it takes to help a customer find what they're looking for, ring them up, chit-chat with them, etc. How long does it take a delivery guy to deliver a package?
Also, even if delivery jobs can't be outsourced, (1) neither can jobs in malls, and (2) the people owning, running, and espeicially building online stores can be outsourced.
Good point, I think you might be right. If so, I hope AT&T knows that, or else their interpretation of the results will give us more crappy javascript websites for years to come!
No, because even though lynx doesn't do javascript, it wouldn't download the image either, so the server would assume you're using a javascript-enabled browser. Sorry.
Because... AT&T built and hosts the website. It's probably going to the same server farm anyway, as evidenced by a traceroute somebody else posted here. AT&T (at least the web-hosting department, within legal limits) already has access to all the server logs and data, so what's the difference?
As other people have mentioned, the image is inside a tag, which means it's very simply a tracker to see how many people surf with Javascript disabled. Server logs won't tell you that.
In a year of working retail, I've (1) never had a customer ask me to do that, and (2) my store doesn't even have such a procedure -- at least not something we're trained in. Isn't a photocopy good enough?
Exactly. Even if the power is out, my store has to do voice authorizations before taking the imprint and completing the sale -- meaning there is a special telephone number directly to the credit card company that we call, enter the account number, and the amount of the purchase, and it tells us whether it's authorized.
Yeah, and the experts in this case are the mass media pundits. This is the American public buying these futures, after all.
The Pentagon already has access to "real" experts, spies, intelligence, etc., and the media can only speculate on what info the Pentagon gives them. So if the Pentagon can control or influence the media's attention to a potential attack or issue, and the media's attention will influence people's betting in this market, then what good does any of this do? It certainly wouldn't predict attacks.
As you say, it could be a better method of measuring public opinion. We have polls for that, and polls don't suffer from the fact that this idea is idiotic, repugnant, and expensive.
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OS-X. Go figure.
PING 127.12.34.65 (127.12.34.65): 56 data bytes
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--- 127.12.34.65 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
Yeah, but there's enough room in those 96 bits that a single "customer" with a /48 could be a large company, school, or even a small country that would otherwise be using a /16 or /8.
Which raises the question, do I want to pay $700 for something with such a tiny screen? A nice complete home theater system is less than that, or if you want to go portable, so is an entry level laptop that has all the same capabilities plus more. I'm skeptical about this thing...
Definition of an Arcsecond: "Quit portscanning me."
I guess they don't slike being slashdotted?
Google does already filter out "similar" pages -- if you ever get to the bottom of a short list of results, you see that link to include the duplicate pages. It's obviously not perfect though, but IMHO it's better that they're conservative about it to avoid filtering possibly significant information.
Too bad spaceflightnow's been slacking off lately. Seems their reports these past two weeks are always a day or two later than everyone else, not to mention they're not even reporting all of the major milestones before. A far cry from landing where we got a new report every 5 minutes.
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But, a one megapixal "real" color camera only gets 1/2 or 1/3 the data that the rovers' cameras do. This is because three separate black-and-white photos combined is effectively 3 megapixels, whereas a "real" camera really only is one megapixel, and the adjacent pixels actually overlap so that it can interpolate the color data. Not good at all for anything scientific.
"This morning"... what time is it where you are?
My brand new Powerbook G4 12" had its hard drive fail with the "click of death" exactly 31 days after I bought it. Obviously that's on the short side of the "mean time between failure", and fortunately it was covered under warranty (no questions asked), but... it sucked, and that's my story.
Are you daft? That unemployment benefits are a good indicator of the actual unemployment rate is a terrible myth.
Did your stats say how many hapless people have been unemployed for so long that they don't even qualify for benefits anymore? Or how many people never qualified in the first place? All your stats mean is that the rate at which jobs are being cut is falling, but it doesn't mean that new jobs are being created any faster in replacement. That 105,000 drop is most telling of the truth, and is least supportive to your argument.
There's a very important difference, especially when considering the poorest of the poor, those who don't have any income now that they've lost both their jobs and thier benefits.
As opposed to a wood desk or the rest of your house?
Exaggerating? Never on Slashdot...
How many flights of concrete stairs was that again?
At that resolution, we could probably see your penis!
... or when Peter banged his shin and sat for a good thirty seconds going "ssstt, aaahhhh, ssstt, aaahhhh". Except, I disagree with you -- moments like that are hilarious! It just shows how much balls the producers had that they would allow 30 seconds of what was essentially dead air.
Have you ever listened to wireless speakers? Why the heck would you want to use bluetooth for your stereo stuff?
Wireless speakers are analog, hence the nasty static and hiss.
Recordings cannot reproduce the nuances of a live performance. Go with concert tickets.
Amplifiers cannot reproduce the nuances of accoustic instruments. Learn to play piano.
Supposing online shopping were to completely replace malls, there's no way those jobs would be replaced. Think of all the salespeople, managers, custodians, security, and everyone else that works at a mall.
Just considering the salespeople, consider how long it takes to help a customer find what they're looking for, ring them up, chit-chat with them, etc. How long does it take a delivery guy to deliver a package?
Also, even if delivery jobs can't be outsourced, (1) neither can jobs in malls, and (2) the people owning, running, and espeicially building online stores can be outsourced.
In short, you're on crack.
Good point, I think you might be right. If so, I hope AT&T knows that, or else their interpretation of the results will give us more crappy javascript websites for years to come!
No, because even though lynx doesn't do javascript, it wouldn't download the image either, so the server would assume you're using a javascript-enabled browser. Sorry.
Because... AT&T built and hosts the website. It's probably going to the same server farm anyway, as evidenced by a traceroute somebody else posted here. AT&T (at least the web-hosting department, within legal limits) already has access to all the server logs and data, so what's the difference?
As other people have mentioned, the image is inside a tag, which means it's very simply a tracker to see how many people surf with Javascript disabled. Server logs won't tell you that.
In a year of working retail, I've (1) never had a customer ask me to do that, and (2) my store doesn't even have such a procedure -- at least not something we're trained in. Isn't a photocopy good enough?
Exactly. Even if the power is out, my store has to do voice authorizations before taking the imprint and completing the sale -- meaning there is a special telephone number directly to the credit card company that we call, enter the account number, and the amount of the purchase, and it tells us whether it's authorized.
Yeah, and the experts in this case are the mass media pundits. This is the American public buying these futures, after all.
The Pentagon already has access to "real" experts, spies, intelligence, etc., and the media can only speculate on what info the Pentagon gives them. So if the Pentagon can control or influence the media's attention to a potential attack or issue, and the media's attention will influence people's betting in this market, then what good does any of this do? It certainly wouldn't predict attacks.
As you say, it could be a better method of measuring public opinion. We have polls for that, and polls don't suffer from the fact that this idea is idiotic, repugnant, and expensive.