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  1. Google phoning home... on Search Engine Learns From User Feedback · · Score: 4, Informative
    Could improved interactivity be the next big search engine advancement after Pagerank?"


    Well, actually, Google does receive feedback. Once in I while, google changes its result page in a way alexa is doing every time:

    You don't get a url to the result back but rather a pointer in a way like www.google.com/result?target=realurl.

    I'm sorry that I can't provide you a real url but I'm confident that someone in this /.-crowd can help me out. Thank you in advance.
  2. One word about the google cache... on Googling Your Way Into Hacking · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Some people think that the google cache does not reveal the host name to the http-server.

    The result looks like this:
    proxy1.health.magwien.gv.at - - [29/Jul/2003:22:27:14 +0200] "GET /hfaq/icons/linki.png HTTP/1.0" 200 278 "http://www.google.at/search?q=cache:QIq92lU3jkUJ: www.presroi.de/hfaq/+heroin&hl=de&lr=lang_de&ie=UT F-8" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; ENR 2.0 emb)"
    proxy1.health.magwien.gv.at - - [29/Jul/2003:22:27:14 +0200] "GET /hfaq/icons/bt3.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 3170 "http://www.google.at/search?q=cache:QIq92lU3jkUJ: www.presroi.de/hfaq/+heroin&hl=de&lr=lang_de&ie=UT F-8" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; ENR 2.0 emb)"
    proxy3.health.magwien.gv.at - - [29/Jul/2003:22:27:43 +0200] "GET /hfaq/stats.html HTTP/1.0" 200 5231 "http://www.google.at/search?q=cache:QIq92lU3jkUJ: www.presroi.de/hfaq/+heroin&hl=de&lr=lang_de&ie=UT F-8" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; ENR 2.0 emb)"
  3. 2 years ago on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    heise.de

    08/01/2001:
    NTT to install 100 Mbit lines in the living room

    So, this is not really new news. Besids the fee.

    There must have been a /.-Story as well

    German headline follows:

    NTT legt 100-MBit-Leitungen bis ins Wohnzimmer

    NTT will heute einen Glasfaser-Breitbanddienst starten, der Übertragungsraten von bis zu 100 MBit/s schaffen soll. Nach einem Bericht von EETimes will die japanische Telefongesellschaft diesen Service den Endkunden für einen Grundpreis von deutlich unter 200 Mark pro Monat anbieten.

  4. More Recursive s-word on Yahoo Buys Overture for $1.63 Billion · · Score: 1

    Well, actually, I hope to spin another layer of recursion to this.

    I placed small text and some screenshots of this occurences on my web page.

  5. news.google.com on Yahoo Buys Overture for $1.63 Billion · · Score: 5, Funny
    I just checked news.google.com and it says:
    Your search - Overture Yahoo - did not match any documents.
    No pages were found containing "Overture".

    Suggestions:
    - Make sure all words fit our corporate standards.
    - Try different companies.
    - Try more general keywords.
    - Try fewer annoyance.
    Also, you can browse today's headlines on the Google News homepage. There never was a company called Overture. Go away.
  6. Too bad on Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues · · Score: 4, Informative

    I really miss the "Software war" map which used to be at atai.org

    The last update has been 2002 and it never got updated since.

  7. Re:Sorry on Linux v2.6 Begins Testing · · Score: 4, Funny
    There isn't an ebuild yet, and I'm too lazy to do it the old way...


    Just double-click on the kernel.msi button right next to the Explorer.
  8. Re:Free registration on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 0

    The way the editors *finally* dealt with this scandal is just a sign of professionalism.

  9. Re:Free registration on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe we can agree that the NYT is a well-written, serious and interesting newspaper. Not just for New Yorkers but also for people from Sweden, Japan or New Jersey.

    Where would the the limit? How would you feel if you had to register for every web page which is linked to at /. (I confess, I usually click on every /.-story link)?

    hmm, to answer your question:
    maybe the point in registration is the signing of a contract how to use this contact. Dunno.

  10. Worst result on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The worst outcome would be a google-database which is not representative for the general web. I simply ecspect all results in google to be accessible without registering, paying or doing anything similar.

  11. Re:Institutionalized lawlessness? on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 1
    In the United States, Jones will probably go free, because he will only be convicted if the jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he murdered his wife and children. Given that Jones apparently has no history of violence, had nothing to gain from killing his wife, apparently had nothing against his children, and made no attempt to flee, the jury will probably have some doubt that he did it, and he'll be acquitted. Jones can rely upon the judicial system to set him free.


    In the US, Jones might 'survive' a criminal court but this 'beyond reasonable doubt' does not apply to a civil case when relatives of the victim sue you for experienced horror and for some million quids compensation.
  12. This is a dupe on Software Code Quality Of Apache Analyzed · · Score: 2, Informative

    This Slashdot-Posting was featuring the same PR from Reasoning.

  13. Re:Nobody used OS/2? on Bill Gates On Linux · · Score: 1

    My private bank (Deutsche Bank) was running OS/2 on their service terminals / ATM machines until last fall.

    When they switches to Win2K, they had to upgrade to some PIII-600mhz and the machines were out of order for 2 weeks. Every time I passed some technician.

  14. MS does not have to port Software at all on Bill Gates On Linux · · Score: 1

    It has to realize that "most" win32-Software already runs under wine - somehow.

    When Microsoft starts to support this already running software, no one can call Bill a lier. Well, no problem with that.

  15. Re:Software quality on Opensource Code More Refined Than Closed? · · Score: 1

    These are the days I wish I could pull back /. statements.

    I just did a "hello world" include on google / "I'm feeling lucky" and copied this code.

  16. Re:Software quality on Opensource Code More Refined Than Closed? · · Score: 1
    Errors during runtime do not count in this automated software examination, as far as I can read. This study war apparently only about error such as missing ; or memory leaks.

    Dave Cherry does this with the Linux kernel every day.
    Daily build results of Linus' linux-2.5 bitkeeper tree

    defconfig allmodconfig Makefile
    bzImage modules bzimage modules version

    Date: 2003-06-30 (18:30): 0w,0e 0w,0e 8w,9e 1335w,39e (2.5.73)
    Date: 2003-06-29 (18:30): 0w,0e 0w,0e 8w,9e 1335w,39e (2.5.73)
    Date: 2003-06-28 (18:30): 0w,0e 0w,0e 8w,9e 1338w,39e (2.5.73)
    Date: 2003-06-27 (18:30): 0w,0e 0w,0e 8w,9e 1338w,39e (2.5.73)
    Date: 2003-06-26 (18:30): 1w,0e 0w,0e 8w,9e 1341w,39e (2.5.73)
  17. Software quality on Opensource Code More Refined Than Closed? · · Score: 1, Insightful
    so
    #include <stdio.h>

    void main(void)
    {
    char *message[] = {"Hello ", "World"};
    int i;
    for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
    printf("%s", message[i]);
    printf("\n");
    }
    is free from errors. The Ratio of errors / lines is 0.

    Am I now a zillion times better than Apache with those lousy 0,5 errors per demimillion lines?
  18. Apache 2.1 is still in development on Opensource Code More Refined Than Closed? · · Score: 1

    Remember 2.0? It became "stable" in 2.0.twentysomething, iirc.

    So this company is competing a development state open source software against "stabele" commercial software - and it's almost the same (did they ever hear about "Standardfehler" - how do you call them: Standard deviation?)

    Actually, this "result" is an advertisement for Apache, if any.

    P.S.
    One http-server I'd trust is fnord. Last time it was featured on /., it didn't get slashdotted..

  19. Re:Google IS God on Does Google = God? · · Score: 1
    I just thought it was interesting that google is tracking slashdot articles in the same way as cnn and nyt.


    Well, not quite the same way. I experienced several times that comments from users got integrated into the "article" as well. Google does (of course) not differenciate between article, advertisement and user comments.
  20. My first thoughts [German, English Translation] on Does Google = God? · · Score: 2, Funny

    the original post can be found here.

    I hope the English translation is precise enough to preserve my argument.

    cnn.com: Is Google God?
    Slashdot|Does Google = God?

    In a nice column in the New York Times (article at the same time taken over of CNN ) the question is set up whether google God is.

    Naturally polemiken have again and again economic situation, if the reality is too contradictory or the purse calls thereafter, to fast still press a few lines into the next expenditure.

    Why should Google be God?

    Google supplies as well as all answers, if one knows the question. Here is the first thought error, because Google can only strengthen, which eh is already present. I have each day in my log file hit of retrieval queries, which are completely sense-free.

    Google steers nothing to this pool however at 1986 a google on the existing techniques - Usenet, Gopher, ftp - jokeless would have been and a completely grotesque view into the world would have revealed. The way, as google will possibly determine the everyday life in the future, should be reason of enough to up-save the picture of the all-powerful Google still another little.
    Google does not verify information. A little HTML Bastlerei is sufficient, in order to place * its * to view of the things in the net. The democratic beginning of google, through PAGE-climb the linking foot people on it co-ordinate to let, which sides are read worthy now, nothing changes in the fact that one makes oneself dependent on the majority and not by the truth.
    If I would ascend over night at place 1 of any search words, then nothing would change in the coming day. Neither I nor my tools google have here the breath of a power.

    Is a book God?
    Who writes, remains (closely: publish or perish) is the antiquity variant of "google is God". Only indirect power each writing (googlebaren) person lies in the chance to change the collective memory little. Possibly and perhaps only for short time. Also over the thought of the eternity the connection God and Google could not be designed.

    What is power?
    Friedman sees a power in the connection of up-to-date available technologies (google via WAP or other wireless DEVICES). It does not create it to bind the actual time of the exercise of power to google. It would be already for it power (power in the sense of goettlicher power?), if I can in a 5-Millionen-Dollar-Quiz Show with google find out, which request was the last one of our dear Wolfgang Goethe?

    If I chatte, besides always the google runs toolbar. It is an indication of attention opposite other persons, if one reads oneself in into its Hobbies and can them the feeling give to be interested in their requests. It is also fraud or espionage on my account, depends on circumstances. This is not divine action, this is also not striving for such a status.

    Is Larry PAGE God?
    If I look for in Google for President United States trust I to Dubya to be led and not too whitehouse.com or to Osama are Ladin. That I owe to the integrity of the people of Google Inc., which often gave reason in the past already to criticism. Keyword xenu.net. If in this whole Konstrukt someone makes has, then it is the administrator of the Google data base, which could return as desired search results. That is power, if at all.

  21. Re:Google IS God on Does Google = God? · · Score: 3, Informative

    the same article can be found here

    the broken link ware useless, anyway, so try here

    sorry for any confusion caused.

  22. Google IS God on Does Google = God? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    since google news does not need to register

    you can be god, too:

    [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/opinion/2 9F RIE.html?ex=1057464000&en=5a99f13790700f88&ei=5062 &partner=GOOGLE[/url]

  23. German version from MS on Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Spam Efforts · · Score: 0, Troll

    bitte beachten Sie folgende Pressemitteilung der Microsoft Deutschland
    GmbH:

    Der neue MSN Spam Buster wird kuenftig in ganz Europa eingesetzt Microsoft startet Anti-Spam-Initiative

    Jean-Phillipe Courtois, President und CEO von Microsoft EMEA (Europa, Naher Osten und Afrika), hat eine umfassende Initiative vorgestellt, um Kunden vor unverlangten E-Mails zu schuetzen. Damit sollen auch die durch Spam verursachten Produktivitaetseinbussen von geschaetzten 2,5 Milliarden Euro im Jahr reduziert werden. Neben der Entwicklung von Anti-Spam-Technologien sieht die Initiative eine Selbstregulierung der Branche, Anti-Spam-Gesetze sowie die Aufklaerung der Anwender vor.

    Im Schulterschluss mit der Wirtschaft und Behoerden will Microsoft mit diesen vier Bereichen dazu beitragen, die Flut an illegalen und
    unerwuenschten
    E-Mails einzudaemmen. Darueber hinaus will Microsoft die digitale
    Integritaet
    foerdern, um das Internet sowohl fuer End-Nutzer als auch fuer Unternehmen sicher zu machen.

    ?Spam ist eines der groessten Probleme, dem der Nutzer heute gegenueber steht. Als einer der grossen Anbieter der Branche fuehlen wir uns
    verpflichtet,
    eine Loesung dieses Problems herbeizufuehren und dadurch das Vertrauen in das Kommunikationsmittel E-Mail wieder zu staerken?, erklaert
    Jean-Phillipe
    Courtois, President und CEO von Microsoft EMEA. ?Wir sind ueberzeugt, dass wir dieses Problem nur mit einem koordinierten Ansatz loesen koennen, bei dem Technologie, Selbstbeschraenkung der Branche, starke Gesetzgebung und gezielte Verfolgung illegaler Spammer ineinander greifen.?

    Experten schaetzen, dass mehr als die Haelfte des gesamten
    E-Mail-Aufkommens
    mittlerweile Spam ist. Die dadurch entstehenden Produktivitaetseinbussen in europaeischen Unternehmen verursachen Kosten in Hoehe von mehr als 2,5 Milliarden Euro. ?Mit dieser Initiative und unserer Zusage, den Kampf gegen dieses Problem in den naechsten Jahren fortzufuehren, moechten wir unseren Beitrag dazu leisten, das Internet sicherer und anwenderfreundlicher zu machen?, fuehrt Courtois weiter aus.

    Der Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft, eco, begruesst die Initiative von Microsoft. Prof. Michael Rotert, Vorstandsvorsitzender des eco
    erklaert:
    ?Spam stellt nicht nur eine ernsthafte Bedrohung fuer die ?Killer-
    Application?
    E-Mail dar, sondern auch zunehmend fuer andere Dienste, beispielsweise im Bereich des Mobilfunks,.. Der ueberwiegende Anteil der Spammails kommt jedoch von ausserhalb Europas. Von wirtschaftlichen Initiativen, wie der von Microsoft, erhoffen wir uns eine starke Signalwirkung auch fuer
    nichteuropaeische
    Staaten, Spam zu aechten.?, erklaert Prof. Michael Rotert. Der umfassende Ansatz Microsofts koenne als Vorbild fuer weitere wirtschaftliche
    Initiativen
    dienen.

    Technologische Loesungen

    Im Bereich Technologie verfolgt Microsoft das Ziel, seinen Kunden die
    besten
    derzeit verfuegbaren Loesungen zu bieten, und engagiert sich auf allen Ebenen dafuer, neue und bessere technische Mittel gegen Spam zu finden. Fuer Unternehmen und Kunden hat es sich bereits ausgezahlt, dass Microsoft laufend in Anti-Spam-Technologien investiert: Sie profitieren von den
    Innovationen,
    die in die neuen Versionen von MSN, MSN Hotmail, Exchange und Outlook
    eingegangen
    sind.

    MSN blockiert zum Beispiel 2,4 Milliarden Spam-Mails pro Tag. Mit
    verschiedenen
    neuen Technologien sorgt MSN dafuer, dass die E-Mail-Adressen der User nicht in die Haende von Spammern geraten und dass die Menge an
    E-Mail-Accounts
    reduziert wird, die fuer die Verteilung von Spam genutzt werden koennen:

    ? Spezielle Technologien unterbinden das Einrichten von Spam-Listen. Ein
    Beispiel dafuer ist die Human Interactive Proof (HIP)-Technologie. HIP verhindert die automatische Registrierung neuer E-Mail-Accounts. Seit der Einfuehrung von HIP konnte hier ein Rueckgang von 20 Prozent erzielt werden.

    ? Leistungsstarke Spam-Filter schuetzen die weltweit 120 Millionen M

  24. "Don't buy GPL" on UK Govt Warned: Don't Buy GPL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    * Don't sponsor RMS
    * Don't send a gift to Linus
    * Never buy a beer from the OSI guys
    * [your 'I misunderstood the topic,too'-line here]

  25. "O'Reilly's worst dud: MySQL & mSQL" on Linux Clustering · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The topic reads: "O'Reilly's worst dud: MySQL & mSQL"

    MySQL&mSQL was my first O'Reilly book, back in my old days in school. I spend many nights reading it and many classes trying out the things I read.

    I still like it although it has become completely outdated now (at least my edition).

    Maybe I should have a look at the /. archive. What was so bad about this book?