I only block ads on sites with animated GIFs, Flash or Java ads.
I understand and appreciate advertising. It leads me to a lot of cool stuff, and I like that it supports many kinds of sites that couldn't otherwise operate for free. What I don't like is when advertising pretentiously competes for my ability to use the site it's supporting. One animated or noise-producing ad, and a site loses all ad revenue from me -- click, off. I'm sure that these are the last straw that leads others to install global advertising blockers as well.
HP systems also come with Sun's Java virtual machine and a Sun JVM updater installed, which is a pleasant surprise as compared to the nonsense software you usually see bundled with PCs.
"Hey, whoah. You're creating a magnet to draw a ton more six-digit income workers and Google stock millionaires into our tax base. What's in it for us?"
Google obeys robots.txt completely. Yahoo too. Some other spiders seem to treat anything listed in a robots.txt as a "start here first!" guide. Yes, the appropriate answer is to put it behind passwords if it's sensitive data. But for something you want available to any visitor without a login, but which you don't want indexed and rechecked completely - say a web-based dictionary with 100,000 words - it can be frustrating when bots don't respect robots.txt.
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Any webmaster who's watched his logs spike from ten megs to one hundred can tell you that, much like ants: Once Google finds something on your site it likes, you'll come back to find it's all over everything.
We're not the best democracy. We're not a democracy at all. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting over what's for dinner.
We're the best constitutional republic. Our republic comes with principles attached that will continue to make it superior to any democracy for as long as the individual remains the primary.
I wish I could find it. Cox and Forkum had a wonderful depiction of the UN rolling up to a skyline of skyscrapers in a firewagon, finally here to help us with the Chicago fire.
I could have added "when or if it acts" to my original post, but didn't as I wanted to focus on the main point instead of attaching a UN-bashing/defending troll fest.
People laud the internet for its freedom. But the only reason the Internet is free is because the companies controlling its infrastructure are not only in a free country, but in the only country founded on individual rights.
To hand the Internet over to the UN is to hand control to a body based on the interests of free and non-free countries alike. The UN has no principals placing individual rights above consensus and political expediency. And wherever the UN cannot find consensus, it defaults to inaction, even where inaction allows continuous decline.
This is not a critique of the UN. The above works fairly well for mobilizing to help small countries in crisis. It works well when trying to avoid provoking a war, which is usually appropriate. The above does not work however, for furthering the spread of free* access to - and dissemination of - information.
I've been evaluating Microsoft Office and KOffice for some time now, and I have to say I'm impressed -- for software largely developed by European youth, the KOffice suite is really something amazing.
I've found just a few bugs, for example German documents often spill into neighboring French documents, and the Italian and Spanish support needs a lot of cleaning up (especially the Spanish support: it really stinks). But I'm a believer. French software runs much faster!
"Don't let your fear of these massive companies allow you to deny your belief in your own innocence."
I will not let my fear of the moderators allow me to deny my belief in my own innocence. This is not a troll, moderate according to my belief system, you fascists. Reality be damned.
Now excuse me I get back to watching my son steal music, which I believe not to be stolen.
"despite Reuters being a very reputable source of news"
We're talking about the only news bureau that requires a creative writing degree. We're talking about the news bureau that sends economic reporting back to rewrite when it lacks sufficient emotional content. We're talking about the "I don't care if it's slanted left or slanted right, just so long as it's slanted!" bureau. We're talking al-Reuters.
Stick all you can in the storage locker. Anything you haven't gone and retrieved in a year's time goes on the push cart whenever the Salvation Army is ready for you.
Get cranking on a project and time and bodily comfort cease being issues. If you even notice any of that stuff, I'd be surprised. emacs/vi, gcc, and a cheap laptop wherever the temperature's right do it for me.
When you encrypt files with Windows, a copy of the file's key is encrypted against the key of each user with access to the file. With Windows, there are several additional keys that all keys are encrypted against, reputedly for law enforcement activities. (I can't find anything backing up the law enforcement claim apart from conspiracy nutcake sites, but the fact remains that the unexplained extra keys do exist.)
Anyone know if filevault's key is encrypted against anything apart from the user's key and the optional recovery key?
As an aside -- My favorite environmentalists are the ones obsessed with keeping the world safe from man, as opposed to keeping it safe for man. Because at least that set is forthright and honest about its religion.
Then, all this paleoclimate data is fed into the existing computer climate models that other scientists have brewed up. If they can then successfully generate the climate of the last 20,000 years given the initial data (and successfully predict all kinds of information about today's world that we can verify such as oceanic circulation and CO2 levels), we can - presumably - be fairly confident they are giving us good data for the next 1,000 years.
This is where I start to have problems. To pick a different type of software model, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of stock market modeling packages that can take any span of past stock data and predict the majority of the following year's highs and lows. And yet none of these are good enough to trade on, once you ask it to produce results for the real future.
Finding and justifying models to replicate existing data is trivial. The ability to do that doesn't lend additional credibility to man-made climate change arguments until all the major contributing factors are known and accounted for in the model.
Everybody assumes that global warming means a uniform rise in temperature and sea levels.
Global warming caused by greenhouse gasses would actually result in colder daytime temperatures and warmer nights, with the day's overall average trending higher.
Greenhouse gasses not only reflect heat back at us from earth, but deflect heat from the sun. A given section of the planet loses less heat at night as it's reflected back at us, but also picks up less heat during the day as heat is reflected away.
But NOW would be a Real Good Time for researchers to begin bioengineering trees that produce carbon nanotube-laden bark, and grow at incredibly rapid rates.
A web-based survey on how people fritter time away at work? Hands up if you think the results are going to be just a hint biased toward a certain group.
FDR did attempt to expand the court to 15 justices to pack the courts when he expected grief from sitting judges over the New Deal. Congress voted the expansion down, however.
Whether you agreed with his decisions or not, he was a man who was dedicated to his work.
What I liked most was that he was a true federalist. Even if I didn't always like his decisions, he understood that the US government is a limited government. Many things simply don't belong any higher than the state courts, but many justices never saw a single case they didn't want their hands in.
Seriously though. When can we get someone who wasn't in line to buy grandkids Pong when it first came out? I'm not concerned about the political leanings so much as I am about getting someone who doesn't think "The Internet" is a feature of premium adult diapers.
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I understand and appreciate advertising. It leads me to a lot of cool stuff, and I like that it supports many kinds of sites that couldn't otherwise operate for free. What I don't like is when advertising pretentiously competes for my ability to use the site it's supporting. One animated or noise-producing ad, and a site loses all ad revenue from me -- click, off. I'm sure that these are the last straw that leads others to install global advertising blockers as well.
HP systems also come with Sun's Java virtual machine and a Sun JVM updater installed, which is a pleasant surprise as compared to the nonsense software you usually see bundled with PCs.
"Hey, whoah. You're creating a magnet to draw a ton more six-digit income workers and Google stock millionaires into our tax base. What's in it for us?"
Google obeys robots.txt completely. Yahoo too. Some other spiders seem to treat anything listed in a robots.txt as a "start here first!" guide. Yes, the appropriate answer is to put it behind passwords if it's sensitive data. But for something you want available to any visitor without a login, but which you don't want indexed and rechecked completely - say a web-based dictionary with 100,000 words - it can be frustrating when bots don't respect robots.txt.
Any webmaster who's watched his logs spike from ten megs to one hundred can tell you that, much like ants: Once Google finds something on your site it likes, you'll come back to find it's all over everything.
We're the best constitutional republic. Our republic comes with principles attached that will continue to make it superior to any democracy for as long as the individual remains the primary.
I could have added "when or if it acts" to my original post, but didn't as I wanted to focus on the main point instead of attaching a UN-bashing/defending troll fest.
I am my own grammar nazi.
To hand the Internet over to the UN is to hand control to a body based on the interests of free and non-free countries alike. The UN has no principals placing individual rights above consensus and political expediency. And wherever the UN cannot find consensus, it defaults to inaction, even where inaction allows continuous decline.
This is not a critique of the UN. The above works fairly well for mobilizing to help small countries in crisis. It works well when trying to avoid provoking a war, which is usually appropriate. The above does not work however, for furthering the spread of free* access to - and dissemination of - information.
Speech, not beer.
I've found just a few bugs, for example German documents often spill into neighboring French documents, and the Italian and Spanish support needs a lot of cleaning up (especially the Spanish support: it really stinks). But I'm a believer. French software runs much faster!
I will not let my fear of the moderators allow me to deny my belief in my own innocence. This is not a troll, moderate according to my belief system, you fascists. Reality be damned.
Now excuse me I get back to watching my son steal music, which I believe not to be stolen.
We're talking about the only news bureau that requires a creative writing degree. We're talking about the news bureau that sends economic reporting back to rewrite when it lacks sufficient emotional content. We're talking about the "I don't care if it's slanted left or slanted right, just so long as it's slanted!" bureau. We're talking al-Reuters.
A $30/mo storage locker and a push cart.
Stick all you can in the storage locker. Anything you haven't gone and retrieved in a year's time goes on the push cart whenever the Salvation Army is ready for you.
Get cranking on a project and time and bodily comfort cease being issues. If you even notice any of that stuff, I'd be surprised. emacs/vi, gcc, and a cheap laptop wherever the temperature's right do it for me.
Anyone know if filevault's key is encrypted against anything apart from the user's key and the optional recovery key?
Mod parent (-1, Doesn't Reaffirm World View) !
Finding and justifying models to replicate existing data is trivial. The ability to do that doesn't lend additional credibility to man-made climate change arguments until all the major contributing factors are known and accounted for in the model.
Greenhouse gasses not only reflect heat back at us from earth, but deflect heat from the sun. A given section of the planet loses less heat at night as it's reflected back at us, but also picks up less heat during the day as heat is reflected away.
ESR's only valid response should have been to accept an interview and show up roaring drunk.
A web-based survey on how people fritter time away at work? Hands up if you think the results are going to be just a hint biased toward a certain group.
FDR did attempt to expand the court to 15 justices to pack the courts when he expected grief from sitting judges over the New Deal. Congress voted the expansion down, however.
Seriously though. When can we get someone who wasn't in line to buy grandkids Pong when it first came out? I'm not concerned about the political leanings so much as I am about getting someone who doesn't think "The Internet" is a feature of premium adult diapers.