#23 - Matthew Walker Ph.D - Author of "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
A lack of sleep is associated with all types of diseases, including Alzheimer's and cancer. Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to fight disease and change our lives for the better.
Yes it does, which is unfortunate. In the past I've noticed this when domain squatters acquire an expired domain and the Web Archive begins denying access to archived pages from the original site.
This appears to be a misread of the robots.txt intent.
Apparently, the "Robot Exclusion Protocol" was intended to prevent unattended crawlers. However, the Internet Archive also prevents human initiated crawls, and retroactively removes access to previous crawls.
Here is a quote from the FAQ of Archive.is, an internet archival service similar to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:
> Why does archive.is not obey robots.txt?
> Because it is not a free-walking crawler, it saves only one page acting as a direct agent of the human user. Such services don't obey robots.txt (e.g. Google Feedfetcher, screenshot- or pdf-making services, isup.me, )
> Why isn't Feedfetcher obeying my robots.txt file?
> Feedfetcher retrieves feeds only after users have explicitly started a service or app that requests data from the feed. Feedfetcher behaves as a direct agent of the human user, not as a robot, so it ignores robots.txt entries. Feedfetcher does have one special advantage, though: because it's acting as the agent of multiple users, it conserves bandwidth by making requests for common feeds only once for all users.
> the guy who recently admitted that the standard password policy recommendations (expire after 3 months and all that) were something he pulled out of his ass...
paywalled article...
The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d! Bill Burr’s 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly—he regrets the error By Robert McMillan Aug. 7, 2017 12:41 p.m. ET https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...
The source code appears to be available for older versions, but I'm unclear if they are contributing back to the master repository anymore, or just a fork.
I bought it to support development, but I rarely use a client nowadays other than email provider's web client.
NYT's correction appears to be at odds with ProPublica's correction.
NYT: "While Ms. Haspel oversaw the site during the torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at the site" via https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
ProPublica: "It is now clear that Haspel did not take charge of the base until after the interrogation of Zubaydah ended." via https://www.propublica.org/art...
> I encourage you to actually research the history of all of this.
Got any good sources?
I've been reading articles here and there ever since I first heard about net neutrality, and the vast majority of sources don't appear to address the arguments from the other side.
Also, most articles don't mention peering, or history.
Historical context is welcomed. e.g. why didn't we need net neutrality before and what changed so that now we do? Why didn't it change sooner?
> go over to Adafruit and you will find many more women, because those forums are much friendlier to them.
Interesting idea that internet forums are too caustic for some, and that it might affect women more than men.
I thought I read a while back (google fu fails me) about how the C usenet group started out friendly and helpful and devolved until spinoff groups needed to be made to be helpful and friendly, and then those groups devolved. Seems like the way of the internet, unfortunately.
I have no idea how much a delivery subscription cost at that time.
That's $0.50 * 52 weeks * 6 days = $156.
Add Sunday for $1.50 * 52 weeks * 1 day = $78.
Add those and you get $234.
A $15/mo subscription is $180.
I am not sure how much of the NYT's costs come from the printing and distribution of phyisical newspapers, but I would have expected the prices to go down as a result of the digital editions.
Then again, as someone else said, their costs are subsidized by advertising, so they aren't really passing the straight costs onto their users anyway. That's why many sites still have advertising even for their paying subscribers, which is a deal breaker for me.
> The increase in the need for student loans is because of the reduction in state support for public universities and colleges and a concomitant increase in the tuition necessary to pay for the education.
That's certainly a part of it. But haven't costs risen dramatically?
If government support had stayed the same, would costs NOT have risen dramatically?
> Back in the early '70s and before, state government support paid for 70 to 75% of the cost of the education of in-state students with the remaining coming from tuition.
I can imagine that funding may have been adequate before the boom in college attendance.
But when everyone and their dog thinks they need to go to college, the funding need to cover increased headcount.
I wonder how increased headcount has impacted the adequacy of funding levels.
Slashdot Mirror
https://www.kevinrose.com/sing...
https://player.fm/series/the-k...
mp3
Yes it does, which is unfortunate. In the past I've noticed this when domain squatters acquire an expired domain and the Web Archive begins denying access to archived pages from the original site.
This appears to be a misread of the robots.txt intent.
Apparently, the "Robot Exclusion Protocol" was intended to prevent unattended crawlers.
However, the Internet Archive also prevents human initiated crawls, and retroactively removes access to previous crawls.
Here is a quote from the FAQ of Archive.is, an internet archival service similar to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:
> Why does archive.is not obey robots.txt?
> Because it is not a free-walking crawler, it saves only one page acting as a direct agent of the human user. Such services don't obey robots.txt (e.g. Google Feedfetcher, screenshot- or pdf-making services, isup.me, )
which links to Google Feedfetcher's FAQ:
> Why isn't Feedfetcher obeying my robots.txt file?
> Feedfetcher retrieves feeds only after users have explicitly started a service or app that requests data from the feed. Feedfetcher behaves as a direct agent of the human user, not as a robot, so it ignores robots.txt entries. Feedfetcher does have one special advantage, though: because it's acting as the agent of multiple users, it conserves bandwidth by making requests for common feeds only once for all users.
> the guy who recently admitted that the standard password policy recommendations (expire after 3 months and all that) were something he pulled out of his ass...
paywalled article...
The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d!
Bill Burr’s 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly—he regrets the error
By Robert McMillan
Aug. 7, 2017 12:41 p.m. ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...
via
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
some other coverage from the time:
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/p...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
Mozilla Corporation cut Thunderbird loose ~ 2007, and the primary developer started his own commercial version called PostBox.
In their most recent version they added support for maildir in addition to mbox (a long requested feature on bugzilla).
The source code appears to be available for older versions, but I'm unclear if they are contributing back to the master repository anymore, or just a fork.
I bought it to support development, but I rarely use a client nowadays other than email provider's web client.
I wonder if anyone else has tried it?
Agreed. People hate phone trees as well.
https://gethuman.com/
Here is a search result for "python" from March 2017:
https://i.imgur.com/cykiLOi.pn...
One of these things is not like the others.
Do they get to keep the money from those fines?
Hey, thanks for the reply..
Looks like I got my quotes crossed while trying to quickly compare corrections.
NYT's correction appears to be at odds with ProPublica's correction.
NYT: "While Ms. Haspel oversaw the site during the torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at the site"
via https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
ProPublica: "It is now clear that Haspel did not take charge of the base until after the interrogation of Zubaydah ended."
via https://www.propublica.org/art...
If it's not on Netflix or Amazon Prime Streaming, it doesn't exist.
Almost no one is going to discover it by accident and pay for it on a per-episode basis.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/t...
I have no idea if it is available easily via kodi 3rd party sources or not.
> robots.txt is only a suggestion. Nobody is obligated to obey it.
However, https://web.archive.org/ does honor it. (If you know of a bigger public archive, please let me know.)
That poor decision to honor robots.txt even when the crawl is instigated by a human is one of the reasons https://archive.is/ was created.
https://archive.is/faq#Why_doe...
For those dying to know, it looks like imgur is #47 on the alexa ranking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...
Thanks! You are correct. My mistake for mixing up the origin of the 3rd link more.
An arstechnica commenter mentioned NoCoin which is a standalone extension.
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://github.com/keraf/NoCoi...
You can also take the URL they curate and then import it into your adblocker of choice.
https://raw.githubusercontent....
> I encourage you to actually research the history of all of this.
Got any good sources?
I've been reading articles here and there ever since I first heard about net neutrality, and the vast majority of sources don't appear to address the arguments from the other side.
Also, most articles don't mention peering, or history.
Historical context is welcomed. e.g. why didn't we need net neutrality before and what changed so that now we do? Why didn't it change sooner?
> go over to Adafruit and you will find many more women, because those forums are much friendlier to them.
Interesting idea that internet forums are too caustic for some, and that it might affect women more than men.
I thought I read a while back (google fu fails me) about how the C usenet group started out friendly and helpful and devolved until spinoff groups needed to be made to be helpful and friendly, and then those groups devolved. Seems like the way of the internet, unfortunately.
Thanks for the links. Never would have stumbled across those links otherwise. Good demos.
In 2001, NYTimes increased newsstand prices in southern california to $0.50 with $1.50 for sunday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02...
I have no idea how much a delivery subscription cost at that time.
That's $0.50 * 52 weeks * 6 days = $156.
Add Sunday for $1.50 * 52 weeks * 1 day = $78.
Add those and you get $234.
A $15/mo subscription is $180.
I am not sure how much of the NYT's costs come from the printing and distribution of phyisical newspapers, but I would have expected the prices to go down as a result of the digital editions.
Then again, as someone else said, their costs are subsidized by advertising, so they aren't really passing the straight costs onto their users anyway. That's why many sites still have advertising even for their paying subscribers, which is a deal breaker for me.
You are right.
I was mostly riffing on the irony of having the directory and cast from Alien in the movie version of a game that ripped off Alien.
http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/...
Groundwater Sustainability Agencies ?
That's the first result for
https://www.google.com/search?...
https://archive.is/eU90k
https://www.google.com/search?...
https://archive.is/TstDK
I don't see anything about useless people being sent there though.
Got a link?
> If you take the ethical and legal theories under which underpin intellectual property seriously
I take the doctrine of first sale seriously.
> The only director I could see doing this well is Ridley Scott.
>...
> As for as actresses playing Samus, the actress that first pops into my my head is Scarlett Johansson.
I was thinking Sigourney Weaver.
Whoops, forgot to throw this link in there.
https://blog.chromium.org/2017...
Chrome has been talking about a solution, but they aren't there yet.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/ch...
In the meanwhile, I use a Google Chrome extension that is growing more out of date since the author moved on to other things.
https://chrome.google.com/webs...
https://github.com/Eloston/dis...
I use ublock and umatrix too, so I basically just use the extension to prevent autoplay on sites I actually want to view content on.
> The increase in the need for student loans is because of the reduction in state support for public universities and colleges and a concomitant increase in the tuition necessary to pay for the education.
That's certainly a part of it. But haven't costs risen dramatically?
If government support had stayed the same, would costs NOT have risen dramatically?
> Back in the early '70s and before, state government support paid for 70 to 75% of the cost of the education of in-state students with the remaining coming from tuition.
I can imagine that funding may have been adequate before the boom in college attendance.
But when everyone and their dog thinks they need to go to college, the funding need to cover increased headcount.
I wonder how increased headcount has impacted the adequacy of funding levels.