"Do they enter random text or put in URLs where they shouldn't?"
A (somewhat) common thing to do is have a form field hidden with CSS. Spam bots rarely, if ever, parse CSS... so you hide a "Website" or "ICQ" form field (who uses ICQ anymore, anyway?) and if it's filled in you ignore the submission entirely.
Or, you have a form field labeled "Leave this field blank." Spam bots will usually fill in all available fields so, again, if it's got a value you just ignore it.
I'd mod you up, but I feel compelled to reply... since I'm amazed nobody has mentioned this.
I just signed up for Time Warner 'net myself, and when the dude was checking the signal he mentioned something about how there's a 25Mbit "boost" that people get at random. I didn't get a chance to ask many questions about it, but he said that it wasn't just an ISP-level cache... you're actually given 25Mbit of bandwidth for a breif amount of time. That could very well be what we're seeing here, as the numbers seem to align.
You're modded funny, but I would honestly pay MS a nice chunk of money for a "Windows XP 2" that's better/faster/stronger. It was released in the earlier part of the decade, and we now have computers with new CPU instruction sets, many times more RAM available, faster and bigger HDD's... take advantage of this stuff to give me a faster, more stable experience. I have no desire to "upgrade" to an OS that is going to make my day-to-day tasks *run slower on my existing hardware* than they do now.
The sad thing is that this whole discussion is just going to spiral into a flamewar about how people with fancy stereos are idiots and how Anonymous Coward #1 can't tell the difference between a CD and a 256kbps MP3, while the people with fancy stereos defend themselves saying they just want a good setup and aren't out buying $500 CAT5 cables.
And it's unfortunate that people who are really into the sound system stuff and who like having well-tuned systems/rooms/whatever get lumped into the schmucks who would drop $500 cables and crap like cable elevators.
If you SHIFT+Enter in the address bar it'll tack a http://www on the front and a.net on the end. It has happened to me accidentally before, but nothing consistent or even remotely frequent...
Just because you shouldn't have any *expectations* of privacy in public doesn't mean you shouldn't *deserve* any should someone choose to provide it to you.
Sounds like you want something like Firefox 3's address bar. When you start typing in the address bar it basically searches your history and bookmarks. So I can type "dot" and it'll still bring up "slashdot" since that's the most relevant result for me.
Read the link: "At the moment, Bonds' apparatus enjoys "grandfathered" status. Similar devices are presently denied to average major leaguers, who must present evidence of injury before receiving an exemption."
I've never used TrueCrypt, but... how do you keep traces of the existence of a nested volume out of your primary volume? How can you be sure there's not something in an odd log or history file somewhere?
"Aren't the guys making Skype the same guys that put the malware in Kazaa?"
No. The guys who make Skype are the same ones who created Kazaa, but it was Sharman Networks (or whatever it was called) that acquired it and put malware in it.
Well... the ones downloading it are probably also the ones sitting there thinking "Hmm, my computer is slow lately" because of all the malware they've already been infested with.
If you look at the number of reviews, though, compared to something like a more modest 500W PS it would seem that not too many people really use/need a 1KW PS.
In fact, those high-end 1KW supplies might even be better for power consumption since they tend to have higher efficiencies than the cheapo options.
The 'em' unit is equal to the computed value of the 'font-size' property of the element on which it is used. The exception is when 'em' occurs in the value of the 'font-size' property itself, in which case it refers to the font size of the parent element.
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"Do they enter random text or put in URLs where they shouldn't?"
A (somewhat) common thing to do is have a form field hidden with CSS. Spam bots rarely, if ever, parse CSS ... so you hide a "Website" or "ICQ" form field (who uses ICQ anymore, anyway?) and if it's filled in you ignore the submission entirely.
Or, you have a form field labeled "Leave this field blank." Spam bots will usually fill in all available fields so, again, if it's got a value you just ignore it.
I'd mod you up, but I feel compelled to reply ... since I'm amazed nobody has mentioned this.
I just signed up for Time Warner 'net myself, and when the dude was checking the signal he mentioned something about how there's a 25Mbit "boost" that people get at random. I didn't get a chance to ask many questions about it, but he said that it wasn't just an ISP-level cache ... you're actually given 25Mbit of bandwidth for a breif amount of time. That could very well be what we're seeing here, as the numbers seem to align.
http://www.sciencenews.org/sounds/files/bryan_guarantee_of_deposits.mp3
http://www.sciencenews.org/sounds/files/taft_rights_and_progress_of_the_negro.mp3
Enjoy!
A "modern Christian" walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and even floats . . .
Does that mean they're made of wood?
You're modded funny, but I would honestly pay MS a nice chunk of money for a "Windows XP 2" that's better/faster/stronger. It was released in the earlier part of the decade, and we now have computers with new CPU instruction sets, many times more RAM available, faster and bigger HDD's ... take advantage of this stuff to give me a faster, more stable experience. I have no desire to "upgrade" to an OS that is going to make my day-to-day tasks *run slower on my existing hardware* than they do now.
The sad thing is that this whole discussion is just going to spiral into a flamewar about how people with fancy stereos are idiots and how Anonymous Coward #1 can't tell the difference between a CD and a 256kbps MP3, while the people with fancy stereos defend themselves saying they just want a good setup and aren't out buying $500 CAT5 cables.
And it's unfortunate that people who are really into the sound system stuff and who like having well-tuned systems/rooms/whatever get lumped into the schmucks who would drop $500 cables and crap like cable elevators.
If you SHIFT+Enter in the address bar it'll tack a http://www on the front and a .net on the end. It has happened to me accidentally before, but nothing consistent or even remotely frequent...
Just because you shouldn't have any *expectations* of privacy in public doesn't mean you shouldn't *deserve* any should someone choose to provide it to you.
I know you're trying to be funny, but there is such a thing. :)
I highly doubt it was "tested" or "debugged" much beyond "Hey look, it actually works!" ...
Sounds like you want something like Firefox 3's address bar. When you start typing in the address bar it basically searches your history and bookmarks. So I can type "dot" and it'll still bring up "slashdot" since that's the most relevant result for me.
There's a reference rendering. I guess they calculated how it should look based on the specs they used in the test.
I'd ask to a link to said tool, as it sounds rather useful ... but given the topic at hand I'm not sure I want it. ;)
XP has done that for a while, at least for the machines I've used.
Noooo, dey be sharin' mah electrons!
They'll probably be about as pissed as all the Catholics who can conceive but use contraceptives.
Read the link: "At the moment, Bonds' apparatus enjoys "grandfathered" status. Similar devices are presently denied to average major leaguers, who must present evidence of injury before receiving an exemption."
I've never used TrueCrypt, but ... how do you keep traces of the existence of a nested volume out of your primary volume? How can you be sure there's not something in an odd log or history file somewhere?
"Aren't the guys making Skype the same guys that put the malware in Kazaa?"
No. The guys who make Skype are the same ones who created Kazaa, but it was Sharman Networks (or whatever it was called) that acquired it and put malware in it.
"Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?!"
Put as many spaces as you want. They're ignored unless they're either 1) formatted as or 2) wrapped in a <pre> element.
Web 0.1, perhaps? ;)
Well... the ones downloading it are probably also the ones sitting there thinking "Hmm, my computer is slow lately" because of all the malware they've already been infested with.
If you look at the number of reviews, though, compared to something like a more modest 500W PS it would seem that not too many people really use/need a 1KW PS.
In fact, those high-end 1KW supplies might even be better for power consumption since they tend to have higher efficiencies than the cheapo options.
You're confusing em with ex, whereby 1ex == 1 x-height of the current font size at its current size.
I used YODM for a bit, but I was more impressed with TaskSwitchXP. It's not perfect, but it beats the hell out of the default ALT+TAB.
There's also WinExposé, but it's buggy and slow if you have more than a few windows open.