Since this came from a google search, there is a pretty simple way to prevent this from happening, without having Google do anything - use your robots.txt to stop google from indexing your site.
Google is opt-in. If you don't want to be indexed, don't be.
Ew... that's spammer talk. Google complies with robots.txt, but that's an opt-out signal. Those with no robots.txt are presumed to want to be listed. A true opt-in system would require an affirmative robots.txt before Google spiders a site... which isn't the reality.
Yes, but Google gave no warning that the number of searches on the term "juila fractal" was about to suddenly spike because of a hyperlink placed on a Google Doodle. People who wanted a trickle of traffic from Google got a flood.
The Google Cache doesn't contain any images. If you look at the cached version of a page, you get the cached HTML supplying the text, and either the images pulled from the server, or missing image icons in their place.
Google clearly has an international network of highly powered servers that have the ability to send out content via HTTP. Maybe Google could open up a side business for those who need a lot of web capacity fast for a short duration, for those who want to keep their websites up despite a major media mention that will quickly subside.
The server in question, by domain name at least, seems to indicate that Google's USA homepage was directing viewers on a path that led to a server in Australia. Just wondering... did any of the trans-oceanic network links show any visible spikes in traffic as a result of this event?
Imagine just how much money could Google make if they sold just a small ad on their home page on a 24-hour basis occasionally, maybe even limited to modifying the Google logo in an agreed upon way linked to a page on the sponsoring site. http://www.google.com has to be the most hit page on the planet right now, so such an ad would have awesome power and be able to command top dollar.
Google's clearly taking the high road by making their home page an ad-page zone. I wonder how long that's going to last after the IPO and by definition, profit-hungry interests (such as your 401k plan) get control of the company.
Google just proved that they aren't in the content business, just the search business. When Google made a rare and somewhat nonsensical editorial comment in the form of their modified logo, many people clicked the logo to see where it lead, and where it lead to was a Google image search that yeilded interesting results, so people clicked the images in the hope for information about Gaston Julia...
Google should have written their own article explaining why they decided that Gaston Julia was worthy of being honored. Instead, they simply supplied a suggested search query and passed the curious users to sites who weren't expecting the rush... if Google had asked, I'm sure they would have been able to get an academic to write a decent page to satisfy the curious users, but Google seems to have underestimated the power they have...
if everybody shares the same connection, online gaming will suck, unless you have an OC3
That really depends on what they do. If it's all traffic within the building, then the ping times should be pretty sweet... LAN Party!
The backbone of a wireless network is wired. Let's get that point out first in the discussion.
We don't want the wireless access points speaking to each other by wireless... that's simply going to be too much use of the limited RF space, and we have to assume that people are going to want to use 2.4 GHz phones so we won't have all that RF to ourselves...
My best bet would be a wireless access point on each of the four floors as close to the center of the building as you can place it, and then have those four access points have a wire all leading to a central 100mps switch that's placed wherever you can put it.
The access points should be configured to not to speak directly to each other over RF, that's what the wires are for. Therefore, all the RF bandwidth is reserved for users, and hopefully they'll be running on the lowest power settings possible to speak to the AP on their floor and therefore with the lowest RF noise...
No. "Network Everywhere" devices have little to no firmware, because by definition they're either a simple 10/100 NIC card or a dumb hub... they are what they are in hardware. If it's smart enough to have firmware that can be changed, it has the "Linksys" label... "Network Everywhere" stuff really is that cheap.
Cisco now has three very distinct product lines...
- "Network Everywhere" which is now being called "Network Everywhere by Linksys"... which is for generic-level parts such as basic NIC cards and dumb hubs. You'll find this line at Wal*Mart, and it's Cisco's entry into the low-end market. - "Linksys" is aimed at the advanced home consumer. The trademark here is the "blue box" which is stackable, but not directly rackable. (There are a few rack-mount Linksys products, those are exceptions to the rule because they're too cheap to be Cisco.) Some pretty advanced hardware with easy to use software is found here. - "Cisco" is the business line, for those looking for full control and full support contracts. This is the top of the line stuff.
Now, what's basically being discovered is that it's possible to get Cisco-level features out of the Linksys hardware by hacking the software. However, if you mess with the software, you've just voided the warranty. So, Cisco doesn't really need to be scared of businesses using hacked Linksys equipment in place of full-fare Cisco-branded equipment... businesses are going to want warranty-backed hardware. But, for a home user, this is perfect... it costs Linksys nothing, and in fact just might drive more home sales.
Yeah, but the definition of a compliation isn't going to cover facts about one person. The only compliations that are going to ever get protection are those about multiple people or multiple thing... think 2 or more database records in a table. If it can be properly expressed in one record, it's not going to make it.
Remember, it's the people who compile lists of data who are behind the effort to make sure copyright protection extends to what they do. They're not gonna be dumb enough to propose a law that puts themselves out of business.:)
Your address alone is worthless. Unless they're specifically looking for you... a marketer doesn't need your address. If they've already got your name, then the address is free with the bargan.
Your name and your address, associated with some random fact about you... you like golf, you TiVo "Friends" every week, you read Slashdot, you hate marketers, or you are 23 years old... starts to be come of value, particularly if presented in the form of a list of people who share the same attribute. That's where the direct marketer can come in, match that group up with a product that people who have that attribute would possibly buy, and send junk mail to that group. The more refined the profile, the better the ad is going to be targeted... and therefore the more sales that are likely to result per person bothered.
Addresses alone are pretty worthless, but grouped together and with other information, that's where the value kicks in.
And you can't copyright a fact. A copyright on a 9, 10, or 11 digit number just isn't going to stand, and neither is a copyright on an address. It is your address or number, it already appears on plenty of public records, and thereofore uncopyrightable documents. You can copyright an expression of a fact, so maybe a copyright of your address in your handwighting will stand... but you're not going to ever get copyright protection on your personal info, reporters can use your name all they want while talking about you, and the same goes for basic facts about you.
Most barcode readers / magnetic swipe readers work with drivers that simulate keystrokes... and that's why the point at which you're allowed to scan the card just happens to be same screen at which you can type the number in manually. The device just needs to be configured for what sequence of enters/tabs/etc. to enter after a scanned number.
For example, a credit card reader at a POS unit would be set to output the first 16 characters on the card, and then maybe [tab] to exit the entry box and [enter] to clear the "Are you sure? Y" prompt. Hook the same reader up to any free-text entry screen, and the number ends up in plain view.
Remove any channels you don't subscribe to from "Channels I Receive" list, and that'll stop happening. BTW, don't worry... the log will reflect the failed to tune error too.
Yes, but the "bring over and bring back home" story would have an accounting for that in the logs... and remember any log older than 48 hours has likely already been purged if the daily call succeeds...
There is a legit reason why the government might want to know the names of as many Ba Ba Blacksheep viewers as possible... if they were to discover that Ba Ba Blacksheep (or more likely to imagine Al Jazerra) was broadcasting coded messages to terror groups based on some background element being there or not being there.
Of course, why they want to skip going through the already time-tested warrant process is beyond me...
Miss one pre-checked "Share my e-mail address with your partners!" link on any website you give your e-mail address to, and it's game over for that account. You've explicitly requested to be spammed and put onto so many lists you'll never get off of them all...
Most spammers run and hide from their reputation, but the even scummier version is proud of what they've done, and seek the publicity of being the most known spammer of the time... figuring that'll be good for their business, those who want ads by spam but don't know how to do it will turn to him.
The entire "sports copyright notice" required by the league is unneeded.... current copyright law doesn't even require "Copyright 2004" to be displayed. Everything gets full copyright protection the moment it is created by default, no action is needed.
The copyright notice video is basically a communication of "We are the NFL. We have laywers." aimed at putting a little fear into bar owners who subscribe to Sunday Ticket on a residential account when really they need to be paying the higher commercial rate and such.
TiVo sells their "TiVomatic" service to NBC, which offers the ability to schedule a recording of an NBC show being promoted just by pressing the green thumbs up button while a properly encoded promo is being watched, either live or on a recording if the show time being promoted hasn't yet passed. It's not a far leap to assume that NBC is getting a stat on how many users actually click-through, and from that NBC can get an idea about how many people actually watched the break.
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Since this came from a google search, there is a pretty simple way to prevent this from happening, without having Google do anything - use your robots.txt to stop google from indexing your site.
Google is opt-in. If you don't want to be indexed, don't be.
Ew... that's spammer talk. Google complies with robots.txt, but that's an opt-out signal. Those with no robots.txt are presumed to want to be listed. A true opt-in system would require an affirmative robots.txt before Google spiders a site... which isn't the reality.
Yes, but Google gave no warning that the number of searches on the term "juila fractal" was about to suddenly spike because of a hyperlink placed on a Google Doodle. People who wanted a trickle of traffic from Google got a flood.
The Google Cache doesn't contain any images. If you look at the cached version of a page, you get the cached HTML supplying the text, and either the images pulled from the server, or missing image icons in their place.
Google clearly has an international network of highly powered servers that have the ability to send out content via HTTP. Maybe Google could open up a side business for those who need a lot of web capacity fast for a short duration, for those who want to keep their websites up despite a major media mention that will quickly subside.
The server in question, by domain name at least, seems to indicate that Google's USA homepage was directing viewers on a path that led to a server in Australia. Just wondering... did any of the trans-oceanic network links show any visible spikes in traffic as a result of this event?
Imagine just how much money could Google make if they sold just a small ad on their home page on a 24-hour basis occasionally, maybe even limited to modifying the Google logo in an agreed upon way linked to a page on the sponsoring site. http://www.google.com has to be the most hit page on the planet right now, so such an ad would have awesome power and be able to command top dollar.
Google's clearly taking the high road by making their home page an ad-page zone. I wonder how long that's going to last after the IPO and by definition, profit-hungry interests (such as your 401k plan) get control of the company.
Google just proved that they aren't in the content business, just the search business. When Google made a rare and somewhat nonsensical editorial comment in the form of their modified logo, many people clicked the logo to see where it lead, and where it lead to was a Google image search that yeilded interesting results, so people clicked the images in the hope for information about Gaston Julia...
Google should have written their own article explaining why they decided that Gaston Julia was worthy of being honored. Instead, they simply supplied a suggested search query and passed the curious users to sites who weren't expecting the rush... if Google had asked, I'm sure they would have been able to get an academic to write a decent page to satisfy the curious users, but Google seems to have underestimated the power they have...
if everybody shares the same connection, online gaming will suck, unless you have an OC3 That really depends on what they do. If it's all traffic within the building, then the ping times should be pretty sweet... LAN Party!
The backbone of a wireless network is wired. Let's get that point out first in the discussion.
We don't want the wireless access points speaking to each other by wireless... that's simply going to be too much use of the limited RF space, and we have to assume that people are going to want to use 2.4 GHz phones so we won't have all that RF to ourselves...
My best bet would be a wireless access point on each of the four floors as close to the center of the building as you can place it, and then have those four access points have a wire all leading to a central 100mps switch that's placed wherever you can put it.
The access points should be configured to not to speak directly to each other over RF, that's what the wires are for. Therefore, all the RF bandwidth is reserved for users, and hopefully they'll be running on the lowest power settings possible to speak to the AP on their floor and therefore with the lowest RF noise...
No. "Network Everywhere" devices have little to no firmware, because by definition they're either a simple 10/100 NIC card or a dumb hub... they are what they are in hardware. If it's smart enough to have firmware that can be changed, it has the "Linksys" label... "Network Everywhere" stuff really is that cheap.
Cisco now has three very distinct product lines...
- "Network Everywhere" which is now being called "Network Everywhere by Linksys"... which is for generic-level parts such as basic NIC cards and dumb hubs. You'll find this line at Wal*Mart, and it's Cisco's entry into the low-end market.
- "Linksys" is aimed at the advanced home consumer. The trademark here is the "blue box" which is stackable, but not directly rackable. (There are a few rack-mount Linksys products, those are exceptions to the rule because they're too cheap to be Cisco.) Some pretty advanced hardware with easy to use software is found here.
- "Cisco" is the business line, for those looking for full control and full support contracts. This is the top of the line stuff.
Now, what's basically being discovered is that it's possible to get Cisco-level features out of the Linksys hardware by hacking the software. However, if you mess with the software, you've just voided the warranty. So, Cisco doesn't really need to be scared of businesses using hacked Linksys equipment in place of full-fare Cisco-branded equipment... businesses are going to want warranty-backed hardware. But, for a home user, this is perfect... it costs Linksys nothing, and in fact just might drive more home sales.
Yeah... if XM has a feedback capability I'd sure like to know how that works....
Yeah, but the definition of a compliation isn't going to cover facts about one person. The only compliations that are going to ever get protection are those about multiple people or multiple thing... think 2 or more database records in a table. If it can be properly expressed in one record, it's not going to make it.
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Remember, it's the people who compile lists of data who are behind the effort to make sure copyright protection extends to what they do. They're not gonna be dumb enough to propose a law that puts themselves out of business.
Your address alone is worthless. Unless they're specifically looking for you... a marketer doesn't need your address. If they've already got your name, then the address is free with the bargan. Your name and your address, associated with some random fact about you... you like golf, you TiVo "Friends" every week, you read Slashdot, you hate marketers, or you are 23 years old... starts to be come of value, particularly if presented in the form of a list of people who share the same attribute. That's where the direct marketer can come in, match that group up with a product that people who have that attribute would possibly buy, and send junk mail to that group. The more refined the profile, the better the ad is going to be targeted... and therefore the more sales that are likely to result per person bothered. Addresses alone are pretty worthless, but grouped together and with other information, that's where the value kicks in.
IANAL, but I'm a news writer at times...
And you can't copyright a fact. A copyright on a 9, 10, or 11 digit number just isn't going to stand, and neither is a copyright on an address. It is your address or number, it already appears on plenty of public records, and thereofore uncopyrightable documents. You can copyright an expression of a fact, so maybe a copyright of your address in your handwighting will stand... but you're not going to ever get copyright protection on your personal info, reporters can use your name all they want while talking about you, and the same goes for basic facts about you.
Most barcode readers / magnetic swipe readers work with drivers that simulate keystrokes... and that's why the point at which you're allowed to scan the card just happens to be same screen at which you can type the number in manually. The device just needs to be configured for what sequence of enters/tabs/etc. to enter after a scanned number.
For example, a credit card reader at a POS unit would be set to output the first 16 characters on the card, and then maybe [tab] to exit the entry box and [enter] to clear the "Are you sure? Y" prompt. Hook the same reader up to any free-text entry screen, and the number ends up in plain view.
Remove any channels you don't subscribe to from "Channels I Receive" list, and that'll stop happening. BTW, don't worry... the log will reflect the failed to tune error too.
Yes, but the "bring over and bring back home" story would have an accounting for that in the logs... and remember any log older than 48 hours has likely already been purged if the daily call succeeds...
There is a legit reason why the government might want to know the names of as many Ba Ba Blacksheep viewers as possible... if they were to discover that Ba Ba Blacksheep (or more likely to imagine Al Jazerra) was broadcasting coded messages to terror groups based on some background element being there or not being there.
Of course, why they want to skip going through the already time-tested warrant process is beyond me...
since there's no descrambler built into the box There are several models of TiVo units that have two DirecTV descramblers on board...
Miss one pre-checked "Share my e-mail address with your partners!" link on any website you give your e-mail address to, and it's game over for that account. You've explicitly requested to be spammed and put onto so many lists you'll never get off of them all...
Most spammers run and hide from their reputation, but the even scummier version is proud of what they've done, and seek the publicity of being the most known spammer of the time... figuring that'll be good for their business, those who want ads by spam but don't know how to do it will turn to him.
If channel 725 is HBO and you don't subscribe to HBO, it's a pretty big "gotcha!"
The entire "sports copyright notice" required by the league is unneeded.... current copyright law doesn't even require "Copyright 2004" to be displayed. Everything gets full copyright protection the moment it is created by default, no action is needed.
The copyright notice video is basically a communication of "We are the NFL. We have laywers." aimed at putting a little fear into bar owners who subscribe to Sunday Ticket on a residential account when really they need to be paying the higher commercial rate and such.
TiVo sells their "TiVomatic" service to NBC, which offers the ability to schedule a recording of an NBC show being promoted just by pressing the green thumbs up button while a properly encoded promo is being watched, either live or on a recording if the show time being promoted hasn't yet passed. It's not a far leap to assume that NBC is getting a stat on how many users actually click-through, and from that NBC can get an idea about how many people actually watched the break.