More importantly, most free porn is not easily linked to from sites like google. If you do an image search on google you might find one 1000th of the amount of porn content that you would if you were to find a TPG site and then use an incremental URL to get to the rest.
Many free porn sites are now going to URLs that are not easy to guess and thus you cannot get to their content unless you know the specific URLs (linked by TPG listing sites like thehun, elephantlist, sublimedirectory, etc).
So while they might be using google and MSFT data, they aren't going to find shit which is a good thing.
I don't use captcha on one of my forms for a website that I'm in the interim webmaster for because I already have to deal with numerous e-mails from users that have difficulty filling out the form in its current setup.
I don't have time to explain to them how to decipher the image and I don't want to field the questions as to why we are using it.
Be careful what you name your field names, though, as there are spam bots that can target web forms.
All it takes is one of the dickwads to manually figure out your form and then they all do it. In addition to whatever you have as your form, make certain you disallow HTML in any of the fields or they will own you.
I have one set to show that it all went through just fine but it really just ignores their entry. It has worked so far.
Even if nobody was trying to manipulate the vote, that should scare the hell out of you.
Even if the fucking machines *do* count votes correctly in this and future elections, the fact that certain people *can* and *will* manipulate votes without anyone ever being able to tell otherwise is what scares the hell out of me.
Why the fuck can we not have E-Voting machines for those people that want to use the pieces of shit and then the same old paper ballots that we have used for thousands of years for the people that know they are pointless and crooked?
While Wikipedia is great and all I really don't think it should be ranked so highly in the results each and every time. If I want to search wikipedia I will either go to wikipedia myself and search for a topic or do a google site search for wikipedia.
My suggestion is that they allow you to remove wikipedia entries from your searches all together but I guess that's just as likely to happen as people wanting them to filter blog entries.
I know I can't play hot new video games on a 133 MHz pentium, but it does run windows 2000 just fine. I reckon it would run XP a bit slowly.
First off, most computers from the p-133 days do not have a BIOS that's compatible with Win2k and they aren't generally flashable. If Win2k won't install on a p-133 it certainly isn't going to run XP, nevermind "a bit slowly". In addition, Win98 is *barely* usable on the P-133 with 40MB of RAM and Win2k is *barely* usable on a P2-233 with 64MB.
While you are right that 2001 is not old, I can't agree that modern OSs for the "masses" should be designed to run on hardware from 1995.
I want my mobile devices to get competing GPS data for averaging. It's like having two or three eyes in the land of the blind.
In the US, with WAAS (in areas that it works well, not northern states), you can get down to 7 or 8 feet (on Interstates or areas with little to no tree cover). With a decent GPS unit (and WAAS) even under heavy tree cover you can get an average of 18 to 25 feet.
For most people that's fine. What are you looking to do that you need something more accurate than that and thus requiring a speedy CPU and large antenna?
The Chinese are taking away power from the people and giving it to the Communist leadership, and thus making their people nearly prisoners/slaves. That is almost the opposite of what happens in the West.
For example, most conservatives I know could care less about gay marriage. It is not a huge issue for me, I find myself being for it. I have no reason to oppose it so it just seems fair.
Seems fair? It is fucking fair. The gay marriage issue and the fucking "terrorists" are nothing more than excuses to be fucking racist and give a scape goat to detract attention from everything else.
"Oooh look, these people want to marry! We need a Constitutional Amendment to stop this for good!" Fucking waste your time on more important shit like a Constitutional Amendment to not spend so much fucking money that we are billions and billions in the hole and that our precious fucking children won't have the "safe future" you fuckers keep talking about.
It sucks being a true Republican while the "New Aged GOP" drag the good name of the Republican Party through their sand.
I used to call myself a Republican, and if the party ever comes back from the fiscally irresponsible, gay marriage obsessed, party with their heads in the sand over Iraq party they have turned into, I'll come back.
I still call myself a Republican because I am. It's Bush's "New Aged GOP" that should stop calling themselves Republicans because they aren't.
When is Slashdot going to drag itself into the 21st century, out of interest? It's not that hard. And you can use a tunnel broker if your ISP don't supply native v6.
Mmm, using IPv6 via a broker to read Slashdot which will be linking to hosts on IPv4 anyway. Nothing like waiting even longer than normal (300+ ms ping times) to realize that a page is Slashdotted.
I used IPv6 years ago to do the only thing it was useful for: make vanity hostnames on IRC. Other than that there was absolutely no reason to use IPv6.
Currently, I still don't see any reason to switch either. Like Slashdot will make a huge difference?
I *never* received spam (not even to SpamAssassin). Then, within the last 8 days I have seen it go through the fucking roof. Not only is SpamAssassin ignoring these e-mails (they are registering 1.0 and 2.0) but many of them seem like worthless spam to me.
If you're going to spam me at least try to sell me something.
The best is that I'm getting the exact same spams, within seconds, on several mailboxes on different domains at once (work, GMail, and home).
I can't ban their IP ranges fast enough and when I do I end up blocking stuff like my wife's work IPs.
negative advertising (including "smear messages") is the most useful information to have.
You would not believe how difficult it is to effectively judge a candidate unless you hear them speak live. I spent quite a bit of time perusing newspapers, candidate websites, and Google trying to find information to base my determinations for voting this election.
I am getting so much negative campaigning but not enough real facts from the candidates themselves. I really wish that someone would stop the fucking smear campaigns and instead clearly list what they intend to do. If they ran before, I want someone (obviously the campaigns website won't) to list exactly what they said they were going to do and exactly what they did do so I can compare.
If this information is easily accessible in the State of Minnesota, please let me know where it is. My current vote is based on what I have gleamed from the newspapers and the campaign websites. Bleh.
I suppose my methodology is better than my co-workers who are "voting Union line" or someone who is "voting Party line."
That's because very few devices allow you to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the new bandwidth of these services.
Contrary to popular marketing, people don't routinely download music and video on their phones via their phone's Internet connection. Why? Because the screens are too small, it's too expensive to do (because they charge you per song in addition to the Internet usage fees), and the devices themselves are poorly constructed for mobile Internet usage (for the specific reason of not wanting you to regularly use the services they offer).
If everyone had a full QWERTY with decent sized screen and the ability to tether their devices without extra cost (minus a cable if you're anti-bluetooth like you should be) then people would care more about these services.
Until then, it's just another shrug and "I don't need a phone to do anything other than make calls."
Go to college, take neat classes, be well rounded.
Start early. See if your high school offers programs for high-school students to take post-secondary courses (in Minnesota we call it PSEO - Post Secondary Enrollment Option). You get to take college credit for free. You should be able to get a couple classes in for the second semester.
When you actually go to college, visit your advisor and meet with professors, frequently. While the advisor could be worthless (mine were) there are some exceptions. There are faculty members that are *very* interested in the success of their students and they are willing to discuss your future with you and point you in directions you may not have thought to explore.
As the parent poster said, read and read a lot. The Internet is an excellent source to expand your horizons in addition to what professors, advisors, and others have turned you on to. Who knows, after a lot of reading and others pointing you in some direction, you might find completely knew and uncharted directions to learn.
When someone tells you to be "well rounded" they don't mean in the number of computer languages you know. They mean in coursework. Don't take the belief that "I don't need to know that -- I just want to code." I went to college thinking I wanted to be a code monkey. I realized that History was far more interesting for me. If I hadn't wasted two years working to be a code monkey I might have had a better time learning in college. And now, with skills in both computer science, writing, and research I have a far more interesting and rewarding job than I would have if I had just been codebanging for 80 hours a week on a salary.
In the end, YMMV but at least take the time to explore every avenue. You'll be glad you did.
On Sept. 26, Byrd wrote to Jann Wenner, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, saying a story written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "Will the Next Election Be Hacked?" was "error-riddled" and that readers "deserve a better researched and reported article."
And the People deserve better researched voting methods and ones that aren't error riddled as the Diebold machines have proven to be. Diebold should be required to have warnings on their machines and paper ballot stations nearby.
Given that YouTube is unregulated, I bet we start seeing fake videos hit the networks.
Uhh, they already do this on network television. They are constantly showing video clips that are specifically to bolster election campaigns and give better attention to the desires of specific campaigns.
If anything YouTube users would end up figuring this shit out and mod the stuff down to infinity. You can't exactly do that with network TV.
if this has anything to do with Steven Colbert's veiled attack against Viacom on his show last night?
"veiled attacks" on The Report mean great things for everyone who's being attacked. If anything, the major media outlets are beginning to realize that Internet content distribution is nothing but great for all parties involved.
I'm sure it has something to do w/the money that they see with Google floating in the background but that's for another story...
Will today's release as a high-priority, force-fed update fix this issue?
Yes of course it will. Why would the majority of Windows users go out and manually download a web browser? For most of them IE works just fine. When IE7 comes in they will just consider it another one of Windows quirks and happily chug along with it.
You still have the right to bear arms. Or were yours forcefully amputated already?
That *only* works when the government and the people have equal footing when armed. Unfortunately, their guns are much bigger and much more powerful than the ones we are permitted to own.
I wish people would stop with the "right to bear arms" comments when talking about topics like this.
Alarms, motion sensors, and locks are irrelevant to this discussion as they don't record your movements. CCTV is the same thing but requires human interaction to determine what happened. It doesn't have a computer system running behind it to create false positives of "inappropriate" behavior.
Having humans dedicated to watching for crime posted everywhere is very expensive. Having lots of cameras posted places that flag suspicious activity to a human monitor can probably cover a lot more territory a lot more cost effectively, and still leaves the ultimate decision on action to human judgement.
My point exactly. If a human cannot be in a position to spot the activity, tough. We don't need to begin to rely on this system "for our safety".
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Of course he spends all of his time online, it's not like he has any comfy chairs left to sit down and watch TV or read a good book...
More importantly, most free porn is not easily linked to from sites like google. If you do an image search on google you might find one 1000th of the amount of porn content that you would if you were to find a TPG site and then use an incremental URL to get to the rest.
Many free porn sites are now going to URLs that are not easy to guess and thus you cannot get to their content unless you know the specific URLs (linked by TPG listing sites like thehun, elephantlist, sublimedirectory, etc).
So while they might be using google and MSFT data, they aren't going to find shit which is a good thing.
I don't use captcha on one of my forms for a website that I'm in the interim webmaster for because I already have to deal with numerous e-mails from users that have difficulty filling out the form in its current setup.
I don't have time to explain to them how to decipher the image and I don't want to field the questions as to why we are using it.
Won't someone thing of the admins?
Be careful what you name your field names, though, as there are spam bots that can target web forms.
All it takes is one of the dickwads to manually figure out your form and then they all do it. In addition to whatever you have as your form, make certain you disallow HTML in any of the fields or they will own you.
I have one set to show that it all went through just fine but it really just ignores their entry. It has worked so far.
Even if nobody was trying to manipulate the vote, that should scare the hell out of you.
Even if the fucking machines *do* count votes correctly in this and future elections, the fact that certain people *can* and *will* manipulate votes without anyone ever being able to tell otherwise is what scares the hell out of me.
Why the fuck can we not have E-Voting machines for those people that want to use the pieces of shit and then the same old paper ballots that we have used for thousands of years for the people that know they are pointless and crooked?
While Wikipedia is great and all I really don't think it should be ranked so highly in the results each and every time. If I want to search wikipedia I will either go to wikipedia myself and search for a topic or do a google site search for wikipedia.
My suggestion is that they allow you to remove wikipedia entries from your searches all together but I guess that's just as likely to happen as people wanting them to filter blog entries.
I know I can't play hot new video games on a 133 MHz pentium, but it does run windows 2000 just fine. I reckon it would run XP a bit slowly.
First off, most computers from the p-133 days do not have a BIOS that's compatible with Win2k and they aren't generally flashable. If Win2k won't install on a p-133 it certainly isn't going to run XP, nevermind "a bit slowly". In addition, Win98 is *barely* usable on the P-133 with 40MB of RAM and Win2k is *barely* usable on a P2-233 with 64MB.
While you are right that 2001 is not old, I can't agree that modern OSs for the "masses" should be designed to run on hardware from 1995.
Why is Slashdot so damn US-centric? Are does anyone else outside the USA really care for the political propaganda crap on Slashdot?
I suppose we'd have to take a peek at the number of Slashdot subscribers and their webserver stats to see why the "editors" choose to be "US-Centric".
In addition to that, you have to look at the fact that Slashdot itself is based in the US and has American "editors".
NTP, as far as I can tell, is simply "NTP, Inc" it is not an acronym like RIM (research In Motion).
Need Those Patents (to sue for). That's what it means.
I want my mobile devices to get competing GPS data for averaging. It's like having two or three eyes in the land of the blind.
In the US, with WAAS (in areas that it works well, not northern states), you can get down to 7 or 8 feet (on Interstates or areas with little to no tree cover). With a decent GPS unit (and WAAS) even under heavy tree cover you can get an average of 18 to 25 feet.
For most people that's fine. What are you looking to do that you need something more accurate than that and thus requiring a speedy CPU and large antenna?
The Chinese are taking away power from the people and giving it to the Communist leadership, and thus making their people nearly prisoners/slaves. That is almost the opposite of what happens in the West.
For example, most conservatives I know could care less about gay marriage. It is not a huge issue for me, I find myself being for it. I have no reason to oppose it so it just seems fair.
Seems fair? It is fucking fair. The gay marriage issue and the fucking "terrorists" are nothing more than excuses to be fucking racist and give a scape goat to detract attention from everything else.
"Oooh look, these people want to marry! We need a Constitutional Amendment to stop this for good!" Fucking waste your time on more important shit like a Constitutional Amendment to not spend so much fucking money that we are billions and billions in the hole and that our precious fucking children won't have the "safe future" you fuckers keep talking about.
It sucks being a true Republican while the "New Aged GOP" drag the good name of the Republican Party through their sand.
I used to call myself a Republican, and if the party ever comes back from the fiscally irresponsible, gay marriage obsessed, party with their heads in the sand over Iraq party they have turned into, I'll come back.
I still call myself a Republican because I am. It's Bush's "New Aged GOP" that should stop calling themselves Republicans because they aren't.
When is Slashdot going to drag itself into the 21st century, out of interest? It's not that hard. And you can use a tunnel broker if your ISP don't supply native v6.
Mmm, using IPv6 via a broker to read Slashdot which will be linking to hosts on IPv4 anyway. Nothing like waiting even longer than normal (300+ ms ping times) to realize that a page is Slashdotted.
I used IPv6 years ago to do the only thing it was useful for: make vanity hostnames on IRC. Other than that there was absolutely no reason to use IPv6.
Currently, I still don't see any reason to switch either. Like Slashdot will make a huge difference?
I *never* received spam (not even to SpamAssassin). Then, within the last 8 days I have seen it go through the fucking roof. Not only is SpamAssassin ignoring these e-mails (they are registering 1.0 and 2.0) but many of them seem like worthless spam to me.
If you're going to spam me at least try to sell me something.
The best is that I'm getting the exact same spams, within seconds, on several mailboxes on different domains at once (work, GMail, and home).
I can't ban their IP ranges fast enough and when I do I end up blocking stuff like my wife's work IPs.
negative advertising (including "smear messages") is the most useful information to have.
You would not believe how difficult it is to effectively judge a candidate unless you hear them speak live. I spent quite a bit of time perusing newspapers, candidate websites, and Google trying to find information to base my determinations for voting this election.
I am getting so much negative campaigning but not enough real facts from the candidates themselves. I really wish that someone would stop the fucking smear campaigns and instead clearly list what they intend to do. If they ran before, I want someone (obviously the campaigns website won't) to list exactly what they said they were going to do and exactly what they did do so I can compare.
If this information is easily accessible in the State of Minnesota, please let me know where it is. My current vote is based on what I have gleamed from the newspapers and the campaign websites. Bleh.
I suppose my methodology is better than my co-workers who are "voting Union line" or someone who is "voting Party line."
GSM is fine by me.
That's because very few devices allow you to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the new bandwidth of these services.
Contrary to popular marketing, people don't routinely download music and video on their phones via their phone's Internet connection. Why? Because the screens are too small, it's too expensive to do (because they charge you per song in addition to the Internet usage fees), and the devices themselves are poorly constructed for mobile Internet usage (for the specific reason of not wanting you to regularly use the services they offer).
If everyone had a full QWERTY with decent sized screen and the ability to tether their devices without extra cost (minus a cable if you're anti-bluetooth like you should be) then people would care more about these services.
Until then, it's just another shrug and "I don't need a phone to do anything other than make calls."
Go to college, take neat classes, be well rounded.
Start early. See if your high school offers programs for high-school students to take post-secondary courses (in Minnesota we call it PSEO - Post Secondary Enrollment Option). You get to take college credit for free. You should be able to get a couple classes in for the second semester.
When you actually go to college, visit your advisor and meet with professors, frequently. While the advisor could be worthless (mine were) there are some exceptions. There are faculty members that are *very* interested in the success of their students and they are willing to discuss your future with you and point you in directions you may not have thought to explore.
As the parent poster said, read and read a lot. The Internet is an excellent source to expand your horizons in addition to what professors, advisors, and others have turned you on to. Who knows, after a lot of reading and others pointing you in some direction, you might find completely knew and uncharted directions to learn.
When someone tells you to be "well rounded" they don't mean in the number of computer languages you know. They mean in coursework. Don't take the belief that "I don't need to know that -- I just want to code." I went to college thinking I wanted to be a code monkey. I realized that History was far more interesting for me. If I hadn't wasted two years working to be a code monkey I might have had a better time learning in college. And now, with skills in both computer science, writing, and research I have a far more interesting and rewarding job than I would have if I had just been codebanging for 80 hours a week on a salary.
In the end, YMMV but at least take the time to explore every avenue. You'll be glad you did.
On Sept. 26, Byrd wrote to Jann Wenner, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, saying a story written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "Will the Next Election Be Hacked?" was "error-riddled" and that readers "deserve a better researched and reported article."
And the People deserve better researched voting methods and ones that aren't error riddled as the Diebold machines have proven to be. Diebold should be required to have warnings on their machines and paper ballot stations nearby.
Let the people decide which is better.
Given that YouTube is unregulated, I bet we start seeing fake videos hit the networks.
Uhh, they already do this on network television. They are constantly showing video clips that are specifically to bolster election campaigns and give better attention to the desires of specific campaigns.
If anything YouTube users would end up figuring this shit out and mod the stuff down to infinity. You can't exactly do that with network TV.
if this has anything to do with Steven Colbert's veiled attack against Viacom on his show last night?
"veiled attacks" on The Report mean great things for everyone who's being attacked. If anything, the major media outlets are beginning to realize that Internet content distribution is nothing but great for all parties involved.
I'm sure it has something to do w/the money that they see with Google floating in the background but that's for another story...
Will today's release as a high-priority, force-fed update fix this issue?
Yes of course it will. Why would the majority of Windows users go out and manually download a web browser? For most of them IE works just fine. When IE7 comes in they will just consider it another one of Windows quirks and happily chug along with it.
You still have the right to bear arms. Or were yours forcefully amputated already?
That *only* works when the government and the people have equal footing when armed. Unfortunately, their guns are much bigger and much more powerful than the ones we are permitted to own.
I wish people would stop with the "right to bear arms" comments when talking about topics like this.
Alarms, motion sensors, and locks are irrelevant to this discussion as they don't record your movements. CCTV is the same thing but requires human interaction to determine what happened. It doesn't have a computer system running behind it to create false positives of "inappropriate" behavior.
Having humans dedicated to watching for crime posted everywhere is very expensive. Having lots of cameras posted places that flag suspicious activity to a human monitor can probably cover a lot more territory a lot more cost effectively, and still leaves the ultimate decision on action to human judgement.
My point exactly. If a human cannot be in a position to spot the activity, tough. We don't need to begin to rely on this system "for our safety".