The issue here is someone else putting a frame around your page, e.g. to track traffic, or to add a toolbar at the top (e.g. "share this page with your contacts at Facebook/Digg/whatever"), or to clickjack (read that FA for an explanation), or probably other things.
Oh, and if you're just looking for a traditional Usenet server, you can still read and post to text newsgroups for free - I switched to these guys back when RoadRunner dropped Usenet, for instance.
GreatBunzinni's original problem with finding comp.lang.c++ occurred because he didn't escape the +'s as %2B in the URL, and by convention Google treats unescaped +'s as equivalent to spaces.
His complaints about searching for the "How to use maloc with strcut" thread (dated May 13, 2010) are legitimate. Here are some specific results, the last of which provides an effective workaround if that's all you care about:
I also tried appending "subject:" or "subj:", as well as searching for a distinctive phrase within the body ("Why i get warrning" [sic]) instead of the phrase from the subject, none of which seemed to improve things - I didn't test every single combination, though, and anyway we've already found an effective workaround at this point.
That's taken out of context. In context, it carries a clear implication of "manually examined for the specific purpose of confirming or denying plagiarism", on top of whatever manual examination takes place for the purpose of confirming or denying that the code is any good.
The movie studios had brought in expert witnesses stating that a statistical sampling of the content and server logs showed that nearly all of the content infringed copyrights, and about half of the downloads were made within the US. Fung dismissed this as "junk science" but did not present any sort of evidence showing that this wasn't a valid approach.
Fung previously tried to argue that his sites were just another search engine that just happened to pick up copyrighted content, but the studios countered with evidence that his search code was specifically tuned to find copyrighted material.
it would be nearly impossible for Fung to actively investigate every single file to see whether it's legal or not. Fung believes this goes outside of the DMCA and that the MPAA should provide a list of links to files that it wants taken down instead.
The scientists at Area 51 had spent half a century studying the same alien fighter that Goldblum rode to the mothership. Assume that he (a) stood on their metaphorical shoulders and (b) used the fighter's computer as a bridge to the mothership's, and suddenly it's rather less of a stretch.
I've had a Linux server here at the house for upwards of 6 years, using DynDNS for a free name and a couple paid ones. Obvious potential issues off the top of my head:
ISP TOS violation. I'm not using it to run a business so we're in the clear here.
Availability. If our ISP connection hiccups, the server gets cut off from the outside world. Usually only a couple minutes at a time.
Security. I have telnet turned off, SSH/FTP blocked except for some work clients whitelisted in/etc/hosts.allow, and run tripwire.
Bandwidth. The web server sends out about 2 to 10 GB/month due to a single 50 MB file with no apparent ill effects, but e.g. a sufficiently popular image board could dwarf that.
Yeah, the Pidgin plugin occasionally screws up which icons/names go with which entries, even switching it around on mouseover/mouseaway (whatever the proper term for the second one is). I'm keeping it around but disabled for a while, in case the new XMPP hotness turns out to have problems of its own over time.
How polarizing 3D does work (I got to see and hear about this at a conference last year):
You're shown two overlapping images. One, corresponding to what your left eye should see, is polarized (say) horizontally; the other, corresponding to what your right eye should see, is polarized vertically.
The lenses are oriented so that the left one only lets horizontally-polarized light through, and the right one only lets vertically-polarized light through. Thus, each eye sees what it should, and fails to see what the other eye should.
See, you think you're being funny, and then somebody goes and calls your bluff.
(The author was an old college buddy of mine. Had a server in his dorm room, so we had some fun one time redirecting stuff to its/dev/audio in the middle of the night...)
Also, more obvious on a resume, and not as neat as this trick, but easier if you dont have your own hosting, is to use the + sign on gmail.com, eg joeblow+google@gmail.com
Of course, someone could strip that down to joeblow@gmail.com - you could still consider it as less trusted, but you wouldn't know who did the stripping-down.
If you look at Aviran’s website, all of his articles are like this. It is a site like slashdot except he copies and pasts the articles instead of paraphrasing them. Also, they all do contain a link to their source somewhere in the article.
Slashdot Mirror
TFA mentions glider guns - they're indeed an old discovery, but they just create and shoot out gliders. This thing actually creates copies of itself.
For a bunch more positions, see "How is the Internet changing the way you think?" (edge.org's 2010 Annual Question - Pinker and Carr are both among the 172 essayists who responded).
The first link should go here or, for a printer-friendly version, here.
The issue here is someone else putting a frame around your page, e.g. to track traffic, or to add a toolbar at the top (e.g. "share this page with your contacts at Facebook/Digg/whatever"), or to clickjack (read that FA for an explanation), or probably other things.
Are you trolling? Twitter is not the government.
That, and Google respects robots.txt (or at least says they do, and I'm sure someone has been watchdogging them on it).
Oh, and if you're just looking for a traditional Usenet server, you can still read and post to text newsgroups for free - I switched to these guys back when RoadRunner dropped Usenet, for instance.
GreatBunzinni's original problem with finding comp.lang.c++ occurred because he didn't escape the +'s as %2B in the URL, and by convention Google treats unescaped +'s as equivalent to spaces.
His complaints about searching for the "How to use maloc with strcut" thread (dated May 13, 2010) are legitimate. Here are some specific results, the last of which provides an effective workaround if that's all you care about:
I also tried appending "subject:" or "subj:", as well as searching for a distinctive phrase within the body ("Why i get warrning" [sic]) instead of the phrase from the subject, none of which seemed to improve things - I didn't test every single combination, though, and anyway we've already found an effective workaround at this point.
Because various web sites that echo Usenet thereby become link farms?
That's taken out of context. In context, it carries a clear implication of "manually examined for the specific purpose of confirming or denying plagiarism", on top of whatever manual examination takes place for the purpose of confirming or denying that the code is any good.
The scientists at Area 51 had spent half a century studying the same alien fighter that Goldblum rode to the mothership. Assume that he (a) stood on their metaphorical shoulders and (b) used the fighter's computer as a bridge to the mothership's, and suddenly it's rather less of a stretch.
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I've had a Linux server here at the house for upwards of 6 years, using DynDNS for a free name and a couple paid ones. Obvious potential issues off the top of my head:
Old joke: Plumber charges $100, spends 5 minutes tapping at pipes, problem fixed. Customer demands itemized bill. Plumber provides the following:
This is so very, very true of my work as well, only instead of pipes I work with, er, tubes.
If you haven't picked a user name, can you log in using your FB-assigned user name (u987654321 or whatever)?
Yeah, the Pidgin plugin occasionally screws up which icons/names go with which entries, even switching it around on mouseover/mouseaway (whatever the proper term for the second one is). I'm keeping it around but disabled for a while, in case the new XMPP hotness turns out to have problems of its own over time.
That's because that page hasn't been updated for four years. *goes to suggest they do so*
IINM latency is how bad it starts out, throughput is how many simultaneous users it can handle before it gets worse.
As usual, Wikipedia has more on the techniques and options.
The man was Indian but the spacecraft was Soviet.
See, you think you're being funny, and then somebody goes and calls your bluff. (The author was an old college buddy of mine. Had a server in his dorm room, so we had some fun one time redirecting stuff to its /dev/audio in the middle of the night...)
He's riffing on this.
Of course, someone could strip that down to joeblow@gmail.com - you could still consider it as less trusted, but you wouldn't know who did the stripping-down.
He's the new Roland!
After that bit at the end, the lag is what creeps you out?
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!