>>you have to be a giant fucktard newbie to actually ever be affected by them.
>>the number of people who understand how to secure a windows environment are few and far between.
Microsoft's gross failure is not that the OS cannot be made secure (it can), it's that they haven't tried to educate the average mom and pop user (via initial setup) on how to do it.
For example, I'd say about 90% of the average XP user's problems could be avoided if people used Limited accounts in XP for day-to-day needs, and only used Admin accounts when they needed to install something. Why doesn't Microsoft include/train people on this as an integrated part of XP setup?
On the positive side, you can applaud MS for turning on the firewall by default in XP SP2, automatic updates, and for the integrated Giant spyware stuff coming out.
Interesting point. Excluding blogs would actually be a pretty tight search option. I imagine I would use that every now and then.
Taking it a step further: Given the problem of blog spam, would it be realistic for engines to give searchers the option to exclude blogs from SE ranking criteria?
Anybody actually been in a Blockbuster since they instituted the No Late Fees? The only thing this promotion did was make it so there are no movies in stock.
As it seems Metallica is pretty ignorant of how the Napster software works (Q: Has Metallica ever used or seen the Napster program? Lars: I've never been on any of these internet sites.), or even how the legal design of Napster works, it may be a good idea to actually teach them this beforehand so they can understand the issues and offer intelligent, informed answers this time rather than propaganda. Otherwise, why even partake in such an interview if they are not even playing by the same rules of the game??
I tried to ask them a strategic question: When an individual joins the Napster community, that person agrees to hold the sole legal responsibility for trading mp3 files. This is all very straight-forward. Isn't your lawsuit akin to suing Eudora for allowing individuals to send copyrighted material, or suing Hewlett Packard for allowing individuals to print out copyrighted images? Why don't you bite the bullet and sue each of your 335,435 fans who are trading the files?
I got the follwing response from Lars: We're suing Napster for one reason and one reason because they exist to pirate music, nothing more, nothing less.
Hmmm... I wonder if they'll sue Slashdot now for reprinting a portion of the interview...
Php/dynamic pages may be indexed by search engines, but do they show up well in the search results? After all, it doesn't matter if your page is indexed or not when the listing is buried thirty pages deep.
I think it a distinct possibility that php/dynamic pages may be penalized in relevance scoring. Does anybody know of a php page that is indexed in the top 10 results for any search term? (Yahoo doesn't count - that's a directory.)
Almost all search engines will reject dynamically generated pages if they have extended characters in the URL (except for Lycos and Inktomi). This is primarily due to the fact they are worried of getting into what they call "robot traps" where there may be no end to the number of links that a script or program generates. If the URL contains a "?", "%" or other similar characters, they will probably not index your site. A work around is to build "Pointer Pages" using regular static html with links to the target page. If you attempt to use the refresh tag within the "pointer" pages, be aware that Infoseek will try to index your targeted page, not the page that you submit. There are ways around this problem...
(From The Unfair Advantage Book on Winning The Search Engine Wars)
Suicide is just another one of those conventions, where people always say "how sad" or "how unfortunate".
The joy of South Park is that it points out the absurdity of many of our social conventions. In that spirit, if this lady was so unhappy and confused in life, I'm glad she's dead now. I feel empathy not for her, but for those who loved her.
Reading the call for donations to pay for the DNA testing at the end of that article, you have to know this is a scam.
I can't help but thinking what I would do if I found such a skull. I think the first thing I would do is contact that rich "friend of the family" to pay for the testing... why solicit the general public?
Yeah, they're going to go the advertising route. It's a great idea if they can get the word out to colleges aroung the globe. Who would use encyclopedias more, eh?
It reminds me of buying college textbooks: whenever you do, they put your books in a plastic bag full of promotions for credit cards and other stuff. They couldreally focus the advertising with this model to only pull up, for instance, National Geographic subscription banners whenever any kind of animal search comes up. This looks really good for all parties.
First off, the person or company that wrote that note to him was completely clueless and unprofessional.
I work at a job site for developers. We actually have a mission to help with this situation by bringing employers and candidates closer with less work for both. The main aspect on our site is the job search engine for developers, which queries company employment pages on the web. There's no intervention.
I want to thank Joseph and everyone who commented for making their voices heard here. I've passed this article and the comments to everyone in our company.
We will always be a job site focused on developers, and as such, we want to make it as developer friendly as possible.
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>>you have to be a giant fucktard newbie to actually ever be affected by them.
>>the number of people who understand how to secure a windows environment are few and far between.
Microsoft's gross failure is not that the OS cannot be made secure (it can), it's that they haven't tried to educate the average mom and pop user (via initial setup) on how to do it.
For example, I'd say about 90% of the average XP user's problems could be avoided if people used Limited accounts in XP for day-to-day needs, and only used Admin accounts when they needed to install something. Why doesn't Microsoft include/train people on this as an integrated part of XP setup?
On the positive side, you can applaud MS for turning on the firewall by default in XP SP2, automatic updates, and for the integrated Giant spyware stuff coming out.
Interesting point. Excluding blogs would actually be a pretty tight search option. I imagine I would use that every now and then.
Taking it a step further: Given the problem of blog spam, would it be realistic for engines to give searchers the option to exclude blogs from SE ranking criteria?
Anybody actually been in a Blockbuster since they instituted the No Late Fees? The only thing this promotion did was make it so there are no movies in stock.
I want one. This is a two-phase product for me and my cat.
Initially, it will scare the beejeezus out of my cat. Then, my cat will get used to it and use it as a scratching post.
I tried to ask them a strategic question:
When an individual joins the Napster community, that person agrees to hold the sole legal responsibility for trading mp3 files. This is all very straight-forward. Isn't your lawsuit akin to suing Eudora for allowing individuals to send copyrighted material, or suing Hewlett Packard for allowing individuals to print out copyrighted images? Why don't you bite the bullet and sue each of your 335,435 fans who are trading the files?
I got the follwing response from Lars:
We're suing Napster for one reason and one reason because they exist to pirate music, nothing more, nothing less.
Hmmm... I wonder if they'll sue Slashdot now for reprinting a portion of the interview...
Php/dynamic pages may be indexed by search engines, but do they show up well in the search results? After all, it doesn't matter if your page is indexed or not when the listing is buried thirty pages deep.
I think it a distinct possibility that php/dynamic pages may be penalized in relevance scoring. Does anybody know of a php page that is indexed in the top 10 results for any search term? (Yahoo doesn't count - that's a directory.)
Almost all search engines will reject dynamically generated pages if they have extended characters in the URL (except for Lycos and Inktomi). This is primarily due to the fact they are worried of getting into what they call "robot traps" where there may be no end to the number of links that a script or program generates. If the URL contains a "?", "%" or other similar characters, they will probably not index your site. A work around is to build "Pointer Pages" using regular static html with links to the target page. If you attempt to use the refresh tag within the "pointer" pages, be aware that Infoseek will try to index your targeted page, not the page that you submit. There are ways around this problem...
(From The Unfair Advantage Book on Winning The Search Engine Wars)
...is a laser pen with an explosive in it that can only be triggered if the pen is pointed at a movie screen.
Suicide is just another one of those conventions, where people always say "how sad" or "how unfortunate".
The joy of South Park is that it points out the absurdity of many of our social conventions. In that spirit, if this lady was so unhappy and confused in life, I'm glad she's dead now. I feel empathy not for her, but for those who loved her.
Reading the call for donations to pay for the DNA testing at the end of that article, you have to know this is a scam.
I can't help but thinking what I would do if I found such a skull. I think the first thing I would do is contact that rich "friend of the family" to pay for the testing... why solicit the general public?
Please.
Yeah, they're going to go the advertising route. It's a great idea if they can get the word out to colleges aroung the globe. Who would use encyclopedias more, eh?
It reminds me of buying college textbooks: whenever you do, they put your books in a plastic bag full of promotions for credit cards and other stuff. They couldreally focus the advertising with this model to only pull up, for instance, National Geographic subscription banners whenever any kind of animal search comes up.
This looks really good for all parties.
Then four different versions of Chewie appear and all claim to be the real Chewie.
It's all a very confusing (not to mention stupid) plot, but in the end, the real Chewie comes back from the dead and he has a sporty new hairstyle.
I work at a job site for developers. We actually have a mission to help with this situation by bringing employers and candidates closer with less work for both. The main aspect on our site is the job search engine for developers, which queries company employment pages on the web. There's no intervention.
I want to thank Joseph and everyone who commented for making their voices heard here. I've passed this article and the comments to everyone in our company.
We will always be a job site focused on developers, and as such, we want to make it as developer friendly as possible.
Thanks again. Developers.Net