For three years, my company's vertical search and price-comparison site, Foundem, was effectively "disappeared" from the Internet in this way.
What are the options?
1. His site just never had enough incoming links to raise it in the rankings.
2. His site employed tricks to artificially raise its ranking and was penalized for this.
3. Google marked down his site for other reasons (competitive?)
Really, what is the most likely answer? For yet another price comparison website?
I don't really see an ethical issue. If someone stole your car, would you be upset if an anonymous stranger stole it back without your permission and delivered it to your door?
What if they got into an accident and wrecked your car on the way to your house? The risk is that any bot removal might have side effects.
more than 130,000 people have registered to observe the streams, from as far afield as "Australia, Mexico, Colombia, Israel, New Zealand and the UK."
Could it be that Mexicans have registered for the purpose of locating the cameras?
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Does Santa Hate Linux?
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You don't have to believe in God or Jesus Christ to appreciate the magic of Santa Claus, and what it means to millions of people with purer hearts than you or I possess. So lighten up.
That's so wrong, I don't know where to begin, but here goes:
1. Santa Claus is unrelated to Christianity.
2. Christmas is really a pagan festival that in relatively recent times was adopted by the Christian church and later by business people who wanted to sell more goods. The conversion into the event of mass consumption of goods that we have today was done very deliberately.
why can't I get a static IP for my home internet connection? In order to get a static IP, I have to upgrade to a "business" account which costs $200/month more and doesn't really offer any improvements other than a static IP. Yup. $200/month for a static IP.
just because your isp wants $200 for a business connection does not mean that static ip addresses actually cost $200. for example, linode charges somwhat less
I live in Berkeley so I know about the Bart and broken glass situation. Bart cop had a concussion and needed sto itches. The drunk asshole just had some minor cuts.
Yeah, right. The cop "had concussion".
If you watch the video it's clear that the cop's head hit nothing. The cop claimed that he "had concussion" to justify a bogus claim that the victim of the cop's violence assaulted him.
Everyone who gets into an altercation with any
sort of law enforcement officer always claims
"I was like so totalllly innocent, dude!"
apparently you haven't seen the video of a bart police officer shooting in the back a man who was being held face down on the ground by other officers, or the more recent case where a bart police officer grabbed someone [who did need to be taken off the train], walked the poor guy across the platform and smashed a glass barrier with the guy's face.
it is incidents like these that make me less likely to believe the law enforcement officer's side of the story.
All I have to do is pop the Micro SD card into my adapter and plug it into my laptop and I can copy all the music onto it I want. I don't even need to plug my phone in to my computer to do so.
All I have to do is connect to my phone via bluetooth and copy the files off the phone. I don't need to move or even touch my phone -- and its an older 2-3 years old) cheap Nokia phone.
Well new major versions of software like Firefox and Open Office aren't backported to LTS releases. Meanwhile the latest versions of those programs continue to work on almost 10 year old, succeeded by 3 OS versions, Windows2000. Which still receives security updates from Microsoft.
There is nothing stopping you downloading the latest Linux installer for these packages and installing them on your Linux machine. That way you can have the very latest Firefox or Openoffice irrespective of what the distribution provides. How is that any different to Windows?
I'm a Linux user myself, but I just installed XP on a common desktop box tonight and it was painful.
I totally agree with this. I have done a number of installations on hardware that pre-dated XP-SP3 using an XP disk with SP3 streamed in. Lots of hardware is not supported. I have even come across a laptop where the standard sound driver from the chipset manufacturer will work -- as long as you don't want to use the built-in speakers. The last install I did left me with a system with no working NICs. I ended up booting into Linux so that I could download the Windows network drivers onto the system.
After installing XP, you then have to install some applications, update it multiple times to get all the updates. Most Linux installs are way easier.
most of the copyrights are owned by the labels rather than the artists, and they are unlikely to press charges against each other. what this is really about is royalties that should have been paid to the artists for the use of the works [created by the artists but now owned by the labels] -- in other words contract violations.
The US is the only country I am aware of with a phone-tied-to-carrier system.
Even in the US, as long as you use GSM pones, they are not tied to the network. T-Mobile will provide unlock codes for phones they sell, so you can unlock your phone and take it to AT&T. I know this works because I have done it. I have also used phones bought in Europe on T-Mobile's network.
One comment on tfa raised an obvious question: Why deploy an advanced and experimental stealth aircraft in Kandahar against an enemy that doesn't have radar (nor any capability to threaten aircraft)? One clue may be that the closest international border to Kandahar is Pakistan's,
There are other borders nearby, such as China, Iran, etc.
I find all kinds of times IE should be hardcoded to open, and it never is. It's an accident.
What's the saying? Once is an accident, twice is coincidence and three times is enemy action.
Remember the posting about how some poor developer spent months on Vista's shutdown button? Things like this get a lot of scrutiny at MS and don't happen by accident.
IE8, on the other hand, chose to show the additional search engines by some unknown process, and put Google (the engine that most people would want to add) on the second page of choices,
I am not sure if it was IE7 or IE8, but I found that installing an additional search provider in IE after making Firefox the default browser was impossible. Instead of opening an IE window to download and install the search provider, it opened the default browser (now FF). The one time that IE should have been hardcoded as the browser to open, the default browser is opened instead. Accidental?
>blockquote>Ok, I want to burn a CD, what "man command" should I use?
You don't need a "man" command for this with most distributions. The CD burning software is available through the Nautilus file manager. Put in an unburned CD and it pops up a CD burner window.
No documentation is required! However, if I open up the "Help / Contents" window for the file manager, there it is: "Writing CDs or DVDs"
The heat issue goes both ways, too. Portland, OR recently started using LEDs in all of the street lamps, slowly fazing them in as the old incandescent bulbs fail and need to be replaced
I doubt they use incandescent bulbs. High-pressure discharge lamps such as mercury vapor or metal halide bulbs perhaps. These are far more efficient that incandescent bulbs, although not as efficient as LEDs. If they have a yellow color, they will be low-pressure sodium or high-pressure sodium.
That's not quite right. It's important that your results are reproducible. That requires a full description of how the data was gathered and how it was analysed.
So all the adjustments to the data and the algorithms used to analyse it are fully documented and available to any researcher.... oh wait!
Requiring citations is great, but if I'm making edits related to a fairly small European language only spoken in one country, what can I show? I can cite books or online resources written in that very language
No, you never cite online resources -- you cite books that you know other editors will never be able to read, then you can make whatever claims you want about the citation. That's my experience of how content disputes work.
Next step -- wiki admins with mod points are going to mod this as "troll"!
One further note: I did attempt to contact the admin who blocked me to ask him to reconsider -- his talk page suggested this action. He did not have the courtesy to reply or rescind the block (which was an indef block on my username).
The problem is that those who should be blocked will not be discouraged by the block -- those who are knowingly trolling will continue to troll, while those who are wrongly blocked are likely to react by either withdrawing or turning into a troll.
The government said the decision was already chilling at least one rape case in Washington State.
"Federal agents received information from their counterparts in San Diego that two individuals had filmed themselves raping a 4-year-old girl and traded the images via the internet," the government wrote. "The agents did not obtain a warrant to search the suspects' computers, however, because of concerns that any evidence discovered about other potential victims could not be disclosed by the filter team. The agents therefore referred the case to state authorities."
So, because a warrant won't let them go on a fishing expedition for other crimes, they don't pursue the crimes that they do know about? That's like a kid saying: "If you don't play by my rules, I'll take my ball away".
Link, please. My experience has been that users who are griping about having been blocked usually deserved it, and the facts of the case are typically not as they present.
I keep my/. and Wiki identities separate, so you are not going to get a link.
Probably most people who get blocked deserve it -- but the exceptions result in alienating people from Wikipedia. In my case, I can assure you that the facts were exactly as I presented them, had the admin that blocked me taken 5 minutes to look at my editing history, he would have seen that.
Wikipedia also has a problem with site admins who do things like block people first and ask questions later. I myself was blocked for merely reporting (in the proper venue) that another user was editing in violation of his community ban.
There are admins who it appears can violate every community rule yet won't receive any sanctions. Of course people are leaving - the admins have driven them away.
Then there are the cases where people have been hounded off Wikipedia and later it has been shown that they were correct and their antagonist was the one who should have been banned.
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What are the options?
1. His site just never had enough incoming links to raise it in the rankings.
2. His site employed tricks to artificially raise its ranking and was penalized for this.
3. Google marked down his site for other reasons (competitive?)
Really, what is the most likely answer? For yet another price comparison website?
What if they got into an accident and wrecked your car on the way to your house? The risk is that any bot removal might have side effects.
Could it be that Mexicans have registered for the purpose of locating the cameras?
That's so wrong, I don't know where to begin, but here goes:
1. Santa Claus is unrelated to Christianity.
2. Christmas is really a pagan festival that in relatively recent times was adopted by the Christian church and later by business people who wanted to sell more goods. The conversion into the event of mass consumption of goods that we have today was done very deliberately.
just because your isp wants $200 for a business connection does not mean that static ip addresses actually cost $200. for example, linode charges somwhat less
combined with this product, what's the problem?
or --
Cellmate: "What are you in for?"
Haering: 'i made the earth move in thousands of houses'
Yeah, right. The cop "had concussion".
If you watch the video it's clear that the cop's head hit nothing. The cop claimed that he "had concussion" to justify a bogus claim that the victim of the cop's violence assaulted him.
Everyone who gets into an altercation with any
sort of law enforcement officer always claims
"I was like so totalllly innocent, dude!"
apparently you haven't seen the video of a bart police officer shooting in the back a man who was being held face down on the ground by other officers, or the more recent case where a bart police officer grabbed someone [who did need to be taken off the train], walked the poor guy across the platform and smashed a glass barrier with the guy's face.
it is incidents like these that make me less likely to believe the law enforcement officer's side of the story.
All I have to do is connect to my phone via bluetooth and copy the files off the phone. I don't need to move or even touch my phone -- and its an older 2-3 years old) cheap Nokia phone.
There is nothing stopping you downloading the latest Linux installer for these packages and installing them on your Linux machine. That way you can have the very latest Firefox or Openoffice irrespective of what the distribution provides. How is that any different to Windows?
I totally agree with this. I have done a number of installations on hardware that pre-dated XP-SP3 using an XP disk with SP3 streamed in. Lots of hardware is not supported. I have even come across a laptop where the standard sound driver from the chipset manufacturer will work -- as long as you don't want to use the built-in speakers. The last install I did left me with a system with no working NICs. I ended up booting into Linux so that I could download the Windows network drivers onto the system.
After installing XP, you then have to install some applications, update it multiple times to get all the updates. Most Linux installs are way easier.
most of the copyrights are owned by the labels rather than the artists, and they are unlikely to press charges against each other. what this is really about is royalties that should have been paid to the artists for the use of the works [created by the artists but now owned by the labels] -- in other words contract violations.
Even in the US, as long as you use GSM pones, they are not tied to the network. T-Mobile will provide unlock codes for phones they sell, so you can unlock your phone and take it to AT&T. I know this works because I have done it. I have also used phones bought in Europe on T-Mobile's network.
There are other borders nearby, such as China, Iran, etc.
What's the saying? Once is an accident, twice is coincidence and three times is enemy action.
Remember the posting about how some poor developer spent months on Vista's shutdown button? Things like this get a lot of scrutiny at MS and don't happen by accident.
I am not sure if it was IE7 or IE8, but I found that installing an additional search provider in IE after making Firefox the default browser was impossible. Instead of opening an IE window to download and install the search provider, it opened the default browser (now FF). The one time that IE should have been hardcoded as the browser to open, the default browser is opened instead. Accidental?
You don't need a "man" command for this with most distributions. The CD burning software is available through the Nautilus file manager. Put in an unburned CD and it pops up a CD burner window.
No documentation is required! However, if I open up the "Help / Contents" window for the file manager, there it is: "Writing CDs or DVDs"
I doubt they use incandescent bulbs. High-pressure discharge lamps such as mercury vapor or metal halide bulbs perhaps. These are far more efficient that incandescent bulbs, although not as efficient as LEDs. If they have a yellow color, they will be low-pressure sodium or high-pressure sodium.
So all the adjustments to the data and the algorithms used to analyse it are fully documented and available to any researcher.... oh wait!
No, you never cite online resources -- you cite books that you know other editors will never be able to read, then you can make whatever claims you want about the citation. That's my experience of how content disputes work.
Next step -- wiki admins with mod points are going to mod this as "troll"!
One further note: I did attempt to contact the admin who blocked me to ask him to reconsider -- his talk page suggested this action. He did not have the courtesy to reply or rescind the block (which was an indef block on my username).
The problem is that those who should be blocked will not be discouraged by the block -- those who are knowingly trolling will continue to troll, while those who are wrongly blocked are likely to react by either withdrawing or turning into a troll.
So, because a warrant won't let them go on a fishing expedition for other crimes, they don't pursue the crimes that they do know about? That's like a kid saying: "If you don't play by my rules, I'll take my ball away".
I keep my /. and Wiki identities separate, so you are not going to get a link.
Probably most people who get blocked deserve it -- but the exceptions result in alienating people from Wikipedia. In my case, I can assure you that the facts were exactly as I presented them, had the admin that blocked me taken 5 minutes to look at my editing history, he would have seen that.
Wikipedia also has a problem with site admins who do things like block people first and ask questions later. I myself was blocked for merely reporting (in the proper venue) that another user was editing in violation of his community ban.
There are admins who it appears can violate every community rule yet won't receive any sanctions. Of course people are leaving - the admins have driven them away.
Then there are the cases where people have been hounded off Wikipedia and later it has been shown that they were correct and their antagonist was the one who should have been banned.