You can do this in google:
searchterm1 searchterm2 ~bogus
The tilde will look for synonyms. You can see which ones hit back by reading the bold results which are neither searchterm1 or searchterm2. I use ~howto and ~cheats often.
The iPod doubles as a firewire/USB 2 hard drive, making it the thumbdrive equivilent for graphics types who need to tote large files around all the time. Plus it can hold a lot of pirated music too:-)
What about conventional power, but at night? Conventional power plants waste energy at night since not all gets used, there is less call for it with most people sleeping / factories dormant. By cracking H2O at night, we would draw more power, but at less peak hours, which in essence would increase productivity at the power plant.
I believe in Michigan there is a power plant that fills a man-made lake from Lake Michigan durring the night with an electric pump, then empties their lake through the day over a hydroelectric turbine. Inefficient? You bet, but it reclaims otherwise wasted energy.
This still does not answer the "batteries and electric motors are more efficient" threads above, but is food for thought.
In reply: By listing the blocked results, Chinese people will have a better idea of how oppressive their government is.
I actually agree with you, I think Google should do something to try to spread the word inside China itself. What, I do not know. Keep a few loopholes open every so often, OOOPS, programmer error.
However, your "You have 4 results" example is moot if China firewalls out Google, as they have done in the past. If Google fails to ever make it in, the Chinese get nothing, including the non-dissedent type. It is a slippery slope that Google treads, but if Google fails to get a foothold, would you rather see only a communist-run search engine? Google is not in a strong bargaining position here.
In reply to your "take a stand, Google" issue. I think it may be more moot than we realize. If Google is blocking results that are behind the Great Firewall, how is this affecting the end-user? They can't see the site anyway. And, if you should happen to be tech-saavy enough to break through the firewall, you would be able to use the USA uncensored version of Google, and would be able to see the actual pages linked. What would worry me greatly is if Google filtered out dissedent sites from the worldwide Google results.
Plus, what if you knew that the Chinese were torturing people who visit questionable sites, even non-political ones? I am not saying I know this is occurring, but with Communism having such a bright past, this fails to seem far-fetched. Is a porn link listing worth getting someone put in a gulag?
Most Chinese just likely want what we do out of the web, answers to questions about our health, business hours, and to e-mail family and friends. To get firewalled for questionable material would close off a major resource to a resource-poor portion of the world.
I have no VOIP experience, but do have this to add. Find out if your POTS line will do 911 without a calling plan. I had a line that I was appling for a plan, and the "this line is not in service" message pointed out that I could do 911 and toll-free calls only. This was for an apartment in Louisville, KY. YMMV, but it might be worth looking into. You could ask local phone company about this, it can't hurt you.
I have managed a catch-all address a few years back, and found it to contain almost no spam, but our whole domain was rarely attacked back in those wild and woolly days. Catch-all + admin = forward to the right person in a timely manner.
As for today's spam, what about a heuristic (sp?) based filter on the catch-all with a bounce message generator? If it is spam, the message is sent to/null and a bounce is generated back to the sender. Something more inteligent gets sent for human review.
If that is impractical, what about this for a method to kill dictionary attacks: Check for matching message portions. Couldn't you just check if the xth through nth characters of body are the same (where x is a few lines in, to prevent DEAR {NAME-MAILMERGE} from spoiling a match), then the mail is a repeat, send to/null and bounced back. Seeing as most spam is sent to a single e-mail, not multiple TO addresses, this would keep human-sent messages safe, but pick on spam mostly.
Then again, these could be the ramblings of a madman with little programming experience. YMMV.
True story: Guy I work with loves Ween, brings in a CD from home. It happens to be a bit scratched. Now, the work 150 disc CD changer has an annoying habit with scratched CDs, which is to back up 5 seconds and try the scratched area again. Well, normally this is easy to detect, unless the CD happens to be from Ween. After two songs, the office is begging to hit "Next Disc", but not until the disc had sat for over a minute on the repeating section due to a scratch did he give in on the requests. Yes, Ween is so bad that you can't tell if the CD is skipping.
To all you ween fans -- I got karma to burn /me dons asbestos suit
No, they are using a new server system that uses a tachyon beam emmiter to transmit signal that travels backwards in time, making it possible to know what the site is about BEFORE you click.
Duh, don't you know that tachyons are the answer to any unknown Star Trek problem!
I had my apartment building catch on fire, but it was the floor above me. I thought things would be mostly fine, since the floors are fireproof. Well, a ladder truck was stationed outside my apartment, and if the newspapers are right, that truck shot about 1-3 million gallons of water that night (6 hrs to get fire under control). Well, that much water had a poor effect on my floor, and well, I was second floor. My living room fell into my downstairs neighbor from it. Not one lick of flame hit my stuff, but builing condition left my area condemned.
Moral of this story? Buy renter's insurance. It would have cost me $6-7 a month to get $5000 or more, and if I had started the fire, I would have been footing the bill for the whole building. I have a house now, and even if my mortgage didn't require it, I would have insurance.
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The mail server knows the answer in advance
Fourty-two!
To send this e-mail, I will be asked to design a computer whose basic procedures I am unworthy to calculate...
I work at a unversity which has very few tenured profs, mostly it is frowned upon.
The "Assistant" could be due to his educational level. Here we get titles based on degree. Instructor=batchelors, Assistant Prof=Masters, Full prof=PhD. He's too busy being famous/running supercluster to take time out for a silly, worthless PhD:)
I would like to say that both posters above hold truth. Addiction is two-pronged: Physical and mental. Caffeine is a bad one physically (headaches, shakes, loss of concentration) but also mental (melodramatic: I need my cup of joe, I am too tired to even function, and the whole Freudian oral fixation).
My approach: Cut back slowly (1-2 months) to reduce physical dependence, but then go cold turkey. This then makes it a mostly mental break, with less severe phyical withdrawal.
The parent mentioned Penguins, which I like, but some people can't stand the taste. 3 penguins = 1 can cola. Also think No-Doz or generic equiv., very cheap aternative. One pill = 2 cups coffee, and 1 12 oz Dew can = aprox 1/2 cup coffee. You can cut them in half for the end phase. I like pills since you can be certain of dosage, unlike coffee which tends to go up and down, especially if you are not the coffee brewer for the office. Plus, a pill popped first thing in the morning breaks the mental addiction to the cup in your hand ritual, but leave out the shakes.
Just remember, the mental side is what makes you slip up when you hit the cold turkey phase, and good luck!
I am an American who is going to cry that Slashdot is too U.S.-centric.
Does the rest of the world get this same treatment on inkjets? Or is it a special treat for us yankee doodle dandies?
This has me about ready to start an import business. Somebody somewhere makes workhorse printers which have ink selling for less than the price of caviar. Or would I already have competition in this field?
I have had the same urge, also the "empty intersection but it's red" syndrome.
But what really made me back off was an incident involving a cop car. I was returning a video to the store, and the cop car is outside, running to keep it warm in the January cold. First bad thought: Does the cop have two sets of keys? Second bad thought: If he has only one set, the door is unlocked, and he can't see the car from his angle inside. Third bad thought: Hit Triangle button in real life.
I could deal with the red light running instinct, the pedestrian hitting fantasies, but cop-car jacking was a bit much to handle. I play Vice City in small bursts now, but no marathon sessions.
Slashdot Mirror
Could you hand me my rubber ducky. Gin and tonics, anyone?
You can do this in google: searchterm1 searchterm2 ~bogus The tilde will look for synonyms. You can see which ones hit back by reading the bold results which are neither searchterm1 or searchterm2. I use ~howto and ~cheats often.
I resemble that comment!!!
/looks away from Mac at beer belly, gets depressed.
I just got the exploit to work on 10.3.5 and Safari 1.2.5
I have no access to Konquerer, is this a KHTML engine problem, or a Safari-only one?
The iPod doubles as a firewire/USB 2 hard drive, making it the thumbdrive equivilent for graphics types who need to tote large files around all the time. Plus it can hold a lot of pirated music too :-)
I, for one, welcome our new web searching OS integrated overlords!
Moderate: -1, meme overused months ago, no longer funny.
What about conventional power, but at night? Conventional power plants waste energy at night since not all gets used, there is less call for it with most people sleeping / factories dormant. By cracking H2O at night, we would draw more power, but at less peak hours, which in essence would increase productivity at the power plant.
I believe in Michigan there is a power plant that fills a man-made lake from Lake Michigan durring the night with an electric pump, then empties their lake through the day over a hydroelectric turbine. Inefficient? You bet, but it reclaims otherwise wasted energy.
This still does not answer the "batteries and electric motors are more efficient" threads above, but is food for thought.
In reply:
By listing the blocked results, Chinese people will have a better idea of how oppressive their government is.
I actually agree with you, I think Google should do something to try to spread the word inside China itself. What, I do not know. Keep a few loopholes open every so often, OOOPS, programmer error.
However, your "You have 4 results" example is moot if China firewalls out Google, as they have done in the past. If Google fails to ever make it in, the Chinese get nothing, including the non-dissedent type. It is a slippery slope that Google treads, but if Google fails to get a foothold, would you rather see only a communist-run search engine? Google is not in a strong bargaining position here.
In reply to your "take a stand, Google" issue. I think it may be more moot than we realize. If Google is blocking results that are behind the Great Firewall, how is this affecting the end-user? They can't see the site anyway. And, if you should happen to be tech-saavy enough to break through the firewall, you would be able to use the USA uncensored version of Google, and would be able to see the actual pages linked. What would worry me greatly is if Google filtered out dissedent sites from the worldwide Google results.
Plus, what if you knew that the Chinese were torturing people who visit questionable sites, even non-political ones? I am not saying I know this is occurring, but with Communism having such a bright past, this fails to seem far-fetched. Is a porn link listing worth getting someone put in a gulag?
Most Chinese just likely want what we do out of the web, answers to questions about our health, business hours, and to e-mail family and friends. To get firewalled for questionable material would close off a major resource to a resource-poor portion of the world.
I have no VOIP experience, but do have this to add. Find out if your POTS line will do 911 without a calling plan. I had a line that I was appling for a plan, and the "this line is not in service" message pointed out that I could do 911 and toll-free calls only. This was for an apartment in Louisville, KY. YMMV, but it might be worth looking into. You could ask local phone company about this, it can't hurt you.
As Neal says, you shall know the truth, and it will make you mad! :)
Another blog in a similar mindset:
http://instapundit.com/
Right-leaning blogs
http://rightwingnews.com/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
http://nicedoggie.net/
Humor - to balance out the bitterness of the last two
http://www.coxandforkum.com/ - Editorial cartoons
http://www.scrappleface.com/ - News satire
I think Jeff Foxworthy covered this:
"Number one thing women look for: A dangerous man."
"...you do that and pretty soon you're wearing a tank top, leaning out a trailer window, telling the cops, 'Lock his ass up! Lock his ass up!'."
Addendum-
(optional) For added flavor, sprinkle with chopped nuts, such as peanuts.
I have managed a catch-all address a few years back, and found it to contain almost no spam, but our whole domain was rarely attacked back in those wild and woolly days. Catch-all + admin = forward to the right person in a timely manner.
/null and a bounce is generated back to the sender. Something more inteligent gets sent for human review.
/null and bounced back. Seeing as most spam is sent to a single e-mail, not multiple TO addresses, this would keep human-sent messages safe, but pick on spam mostly.
As for today's spam, what about a heuristic (sp?) based filter on the catch-all with a bounce message generator? If it is spam, the message is sent to
If that is impractical, what about this for a method to kill dictionary attacks: Check for matching message portions. Couldn't you just check if the xth through nth characters of body are the same (where x is a few lines in, to prevent DEAR {NAME-MAILMERGE} from spoiling a match), then the mail is a repeat, send to
Then again, these could be the ramblings of a madman with little programming experience. YMMV.
I think this has already been done by Ween.
/me dons asbestos suit
True story: Guy I work with loves Ween, brings in a CD from home. It happens to be a bit scratched. Now, the work 150 disc CD changer has an annoying habit with scratched CDs, which is to back up 5 seconds and try the scratched area again. Well, normally this is easy to detect, unless the CD happens to be from Ween. After two songs, the office is begging to hit "Next Disc", but not until the disc had sat for over a minute on the repeating section due to a scratch did he give in on the requests. Yes, Ween is so bad that you can't tell if the CD is skipping.
To all you ween fans -- I got karma to burn
No, they are using a new server system that uses a tachyon beam emmiter to transmit signal that travels backwards in time, making it possible to know what the site is about BEFORE you click.
Duh, don't you know that tachyons are the answer to any unknown Star Trek problem!
1. Get sued for profits
2. Declare a negative profit
3. Real Profit!!!
No pesky ??? for the Gimp!
Water is a danger. Personal story:
I had my apartment building catch on fire, but it was the floor above me. I thought things would be mostly fine, since the floors are fireproof. Well, a ladder truck was stationed outside my apartment, and if the newspapers are right, that truck shot about 1-3 million gallons of water that night (6 hrs to get fire under control). Well, that much water had a poor effect on my floor, and well, I was second floor. My living room fell into my downstairs neighbor from it. Not one lick of flame hit my stuff, but builing condition left my area condemned.
Moral of this story? Buy renter's insurance. It would have cost me $6-7 a month to get $5000 or more, and if I had started the fire, I would have been footing the bill for the whole building. I have a house now, and even if my mortgage didn't require it, I would have insurance.
The mail server knows the answer in advance
Fourty-two!
To send this e-mail, I will be asked to design a computer whose basic procedures I am unworthy to calculate...
I work at a unversity which has very few tenured profs, mostly it is frowned upon. :)
The "Assistant" could be due to his educational level. Here we get titles based on degree. Instructor=batchelors, Assistant Prof=Masters, Full prof=PhD. He's too busy being famous/running supercluster to take time out for a silly, worthless PhD
I would like to say that both posters above hold truth. Addiction is two-pronged: Physical and mental. Caffeine is a bad one physically (headaches, shakes, loss of concentration) but also mental (melodramatic: I need my cup of joe, I am too tired to even function, and the whole Freudian oral fixation).
My approach: Cut back slowly (1-2 months) to reduce physical dependence, but then go cold turkey. This then makes it a mostly mental break, with less severe phyical withdrawal.
The parent mentioned Penguins, which I like, but some people can't stand the taste. 3 penguins = 1 can cola. Also think No-Doz or generic equiv., very cheap aternative. One pill = 2 cups coffee, and 1 12 oz Dew can = aprox 1/2 cup coffee. You can cut them in half for the end phase. I like pills since you can be certain of dosage, unlike coffee which tends to go up and down, especially if you are not the coffee brewer for the office. Plus, a pill popped first thing in the morning breaks the mental addiction to the cup in your hand ritual, but leave out the shakes.
Just remember, the mental side is what makes you slip up when you hit the cold turkey phase, and good luck!
I am an American who is going to cry that Slashdot is too U.S.-centric.
Does the rest of the world get this same treatment on inkjets? Or is it a special treat for us yankee doodle dandies?
This has me about ready to start an import business. Somebody somewhere makes workhorse printers which have ink selling for less than the price of caviar. Or would I already have competition in this field?
"I like to believe that bacon comes from some magical happy place"
Fox said it on John Doe, so it must be true!
Google may be broken.
My personal experience is that Google is adding new pages currently, but the pagerank is not being raised by incoming links to a site.
A fresh database is good, but irrelvant results will kill Google if this keeps up. I am worried in the short term for Google.
I have had the same urge, also the "empty intersection but it's red" syndrome.
But what really made me back off was an incident involving a cop car. I was returning a video to the store, and the cop car is outside, running to keep it warm in the January cold. First bad thought: Does the cop have two sets of keys? Second bad thought: If he has only one set, the door is unlocked, and he can't see the car from his angle inside. Third bad thought: Hit Triangle button in real life.
I could deal with the red light running instinct, the pedestrian hitting fantasies, but cop-car jacking was a bit much to handle. I play Vice City in small bursts now, but no marathon sessions.