That news site pretends to be down when you click a link to a page on it from Google?
I was unclear. It pretends to be down when you tried to access a story that has been pulled and re-edited. No 404, just played dead when that particular page was accessed. Attempts to access without a Referer had the same result. But I could access other stories on the same site.
I've also found that some Google News links can't be found on Google proper. I discovered that when trying to follow a news link where the site pretended to be down when you tried to access that particular story directly (other accesses to the same site went through fine). Later a different version of the story was up that didn't match Google News' blurb.
They probably think they can gather enough traffic just on their names and from advertising in other media (television, radio, other print media).
But really, they'd rather control what stories their readers see and protect against their opinions being listed against opinions of competing publications. They feel they aggregate stories just fine and Google is undermining their wor and discouraging readers from being brand-aware.
When was the last time you visited a site's article on Google News and wanted to visit the home page of the site? A site's front-page cover story means nothing.
Perhaps they recognize that search engine results are effectively free targeted advertising for them. They just see the loss of control over what is and isn't news, and with that a loss of identity in the on-line news business.
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There's an easily implementable solution, repeal the murder laws.
AJLOJYQY (or BGLUAWML).
Murder is no longer a crime.
AEZAKMI
If you really want to have some fun mandate that everybody must carry a serviceable firearm at all times.
FOOOXFT
Have fun playing out your scenario.
Pretty site...
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Pretty site, but also annoying. I had to maximize the browser window because some of the content was inaccessible off the left side of the window. I suspect it is this rule that is the cause:
It positions at the center, then adjusts margins to be half the fixed content dimensions, effecting centered content with a disregard for windows smaller than the content. 1000px wide is not good for XGA or WXGA tablet PCs in portrait orientation.
There's another way sites center their content in a way that puts content off-left that can be fixed by setting borders on divs in mozilla (some apple.com pages) but I haven't investigated it yet.
It's not obvious enough that your information is available to someone when you yourself can see what others are doing?
You presume that people bother to look to at such profiles, happened to do so when the other person wasn't off-line or playing a game, or made the connection that others can see what they're doing, until called to their attention.
They shouldn't have to bite the apple to realize they are starkers.
This is insane, I don't see anybody complaining that countless forums have this EXACT SAME feature!
What forums that do track you only track your activities through the forums, not also your local activities like going through your iPhoto album for an image or that you're listening to a CD or scanning through a DVD for a bit of dialogue to quote.
And forums that do track my activity and report it to other users do not compel me to use them in order to use my computer on-line. To play games over broadband with an XBOX 360, XBOX Live! is the only game in town. Or is there a supported broadband WAN peer-to-peer option of which I'm not currently aware?
And of those forums that I use that have the feature to report whether I am on the forum and what section of the forum I'm in offered a way to not disclose this information up front. From the article's surprise about it, apparently XBOX Live! does not.
My ISP may be logging everything I do on-line, but they do not publish logs of everything I do on my home computer on their website to all comers.
This is not yet the brave new world where everyone is monitored and anyone can monitor anyone else and know it. Until every speck of dust is potentially a camera monitoring everything, where everyone lives in the panopticon where everything is recorded (and hopefully every playback is publically logged with no exceptions), I'm holding on to what privacy I still can, and I will be upset whenever I discover someone else has been violating it to the world without my knowledge or consent.
Other more mundane issues are losing friends and relationships because you told them you were visiting a sick relative but XBOX Live tells them you were at home playing Forza Motorsport.
What does the world think when your XBOX Live says you're looking at pictures when everyone knows you don't own a digital camera?
The article still has the point that this should not be shared with others by default, or a clear choice should have been prompted at initial setup. Why no up-front choice? Because the profiles aren't as useful unless people let this information be shared. There should at least be some parity, informing you in real time when someone else is watching you in real time.
You can be sure someone out there is working on how to use this to market-target or spear-phish you.
And when such contracts tend to come up after you've been employed for awhile and the company adopts this new policy, you either sign or you're fired. Continuing under your old employment contract is not an option.
And people don't ask to be stalked, but that doesn't mean you need to make a stalker's job easier.
Why is it a problem that other users can see what you do on Live?
It's a problem when those other users are in your locality, looking for the right time to break into your home while you're distracted, maybe to inflict some non-virtual fragging on your camping ass.
Or if the company you work for decides playing violent video games violates some morals clause, finds out your Live ID, and decides to fire you for playing Quake 4 at home.*
* Companies are firing people for smoking at home (and failing a drug test for tobacco); with all the hype about violent games making people violent, there is a change to make such a policy stick under the guise of maintaining workplace safety.
I know I wish my Usenet feed carried alt.binaries.multimedia.commercials. If there's any content on TV that one should have an unlimited right to redistribute for free in perfect digital lossless reproduction, it's commercials.
Too bad adcritic.com decided to price themselves for the advertiser market. I guess they couldn't afford the bandwidth for their content with a general audience popularity. Though you'd think if they'd adopt bittorrent they could open their library to the public again. (I want the long version of the XBOX 360 ad with the water balloons at at least 720x480. The war-torn setting is surreal.)
The name change is from a deadly predator to something more akin to a drug, a wonderful, glorious drug designed to relieve you of your burdensome privacy:
Claria. Ask your IT department. It's time to ask your IT department. Ask about Claria.
Claria side effects include bandwidth loss increased advertisement and loss of privacy if they continue or are bothersome check with your IT department contact your IT department immediately if your develop rapid or pounding disk access OS instability or unusual sluggishness while using this software.
I've never lost the ability to enable 30-second skip (Select Play Select 3 0 Select), though I have yet to set up my new Humax DVD Recorder with TiVo Service. What model of TiVo were you using?
Actually, it has vanished from some of my TiVos' menus at times. It also becomes inaccessible without service (I have an unsubscribed 20-hour unit in my guest room).
Lately it has been trying to record its "Teleworld Paid Programming" content from ISATE (i (Independent TV) Satellite Feed East), but when I've seen it do it, other PAX programming is there instead.
Unfortunately I've found that TVs tend to not be able to handle closed captioning at 3x speed. It tends to overrun their buffer. (So, when will the first buffer overflow exploit for closed-caption-capable TVs come out to defeat DRM?)
It works better with the tivovbi patch applied outputting text, and you could even feed it into a text-to-speech program set to read it fast enough to nearly keep up. (I still wish it included timecodes for remastering for DVD as subtitles and/or line21 data.)
Some cable boxes can be set to open closed captions which will be recorded with the video signal. Then they'll be visible at any speed as long as it isn't so fast as to skip them entirely.
I was told that TiVo tried to support audio during fast play, but that it came out unacceptably "bursty".
However, ignorance seems to get you a pass if it involves technology, since no-one can possably understand that stuff anyway, except for the hackers that exploit it
Especially when combined with a non-dairy powdered creamer.
I guess it's time to point out again that Myth TV is no TiVo. And TiVo is no DVD library manager. I'm about to get my seventh TiVo, so I'm no stranger to TiVos.
Only two of the ones I have now use external tuners, but they work reliably. For reliable control, two things must be true: (1) you must have proper alignment between the IR emitters and the external tuner's IR receiver and (2) you must not have any other IR signaling device operating at the same time that TiVo wants to change channels. TiVo cannot transmit IR at the same time it is receiving it. Direct sunlight can also saturate the TiVo's IR signaling bus.
Most IR repeaters that allow you to control devices from another room are susceptable to RF interference causing them to continuously emit garbage IR signals. This interferes with the TiVo's ability to transmit IR to the external tuner. If you need to control devices from another room, use a wired repeater system.
Well, there's another issue: you must have a reliable external tuner. I recently had experience with a Motorola DCT-2224 which would act like it was receiving the signals, change its ad-banner to report the new channel, but it would stay tuned to the original channel. I terminated a free 3-month trial with two premium movie networks prematurely over the issue.
And then there's the cable company pushing updates to boxes that turn them off and leave them off. It isn't TiVo's fault the boxes don't have an ON remote signal, only a Power toggle signal.
Man, I was just about to build one of those out of MythTV:
Scripts. Scripts allow users to create and play any sequence of DVD discs, movies, trailers, episodes, favorite scenes, home videos, cover art, and other Scripts. This makes it easy to incorporate customized movie openings and intermissions for a truly personalized theatrical experience.
I'd give their system a try, but "How much does it cost" is not in their FAQ, and I'm in one of the 14 states that doesn't have a dealer. I guess I'll forge ahead with tuning MythTV to my needs
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That news site pretends to be down when you click a link to a page on it from Google?
I was unclear. It pretends to be down when you tried to access a story that has been pulled and re-edited. No 404, just played dead when that particular page was accessed. Attempts to access without a Referer had the same result. But I could access other stories on the same site.
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In other news, Frank Burns Eats Worms.
Google is undermining their wor
For they are the Wizards of Wor, ha, ha, ha, hey, insert coin?
No, that should have been "undermining their work".
have you ever seen a new york times article appear in google?
Often. I followed two today. Google as a referrer also gets you past the user registration.
Google News links don't provide cache links.
I've also found that some Google News links can't be found on Google proper. I discovered that when trying to follow a news link where the site pretended to be down when you tried to access that particular story directly (other accesses to the same site went through fine). Later a different version of the story was up that didn't match Google News' blurb.
They probably think they can gather enough traffic just on their names and from advertising in other media (television, radio, other print media).
But really, they'd rather control what stories their readers see and protect against their opinions being listed against opinions of competing publications. They feel they aggregate stories just fine and Google is undermining their wor and discouraging readers from being brand-aware.
When was the last time you visited a site's article on Google News and wanted to visit the home page of the site? A site's front-page cover story means nothing.
Perhaps they recognize that search engine results are effectively free targeted advertising for them. They just see the loss of control over what is and isn't news, and with that a loss of identity in the on-line news business.
There's an easily implementable solution, repeal the murder laws.
AJLOJYQY (or BGLUAWML).
Murder is no longer a crime.
AEZAKMI
If you really want to have some fun mandate that everybody must carry a serviceable firearm at all times.
FOOOXFT
Have fun playing out your scenario.
There's another way sites center their content in a way that puts content off-left that can be fixed by setting borders on divs in mozilla (some apple.com pages) but I haven't investigated it yet.
It's not obvious enough that your information is available to someone when you yourself can see what others are doing?
You presume that people bother to look to at such profiles, happened to do so when the other person wasn't off-line or playing a game, or made the connection that others can see what they're doing, until called to their attention.
They shouldn't have to bite the apple to realize they are starkers.
This is insane, I don't see anybody complaining that countless forums have this EXACT SAME feature!
What forums that do track you only track your activities through the forums, not also your local activities like going through your iPhoto album for an image or that you're listening to a CD or scanning through a DVD for a bit of dialogue to quote.
And forums that do track my activity and report it to other users do not compel me to use them in order to use my computer on-line. To play games over broadband with an XBOX 360, XBOX Live! is the only game in town. Or is there a supported broadband WAN peer-to-peer option of which I'm not currently aware?
And of those forums that I use that have the feature to report whether I am on the forum and what section of the forum I'm in offered a way to not disclose this information up front. From the article's surprise about it, apparently XBOX Live! does not.
My ISP may be logging everything I do on-line, but they do not publish logs of everything I do on my home computer on their website to all comers.
This is not yet the brave new world where everyone is monitored and anyone can monitor anyone else and know it. Until every speck of dust is potentially a camera monitoring everything, where everyone lives in the panopticon where everything is recorded (and hopefully every playback is publically logged with no exceptions), I'm holding on to what privacy I still can, and I will be upset whenever I discover someone else has been violating it to the world without my knowledge or consent.
Other more mundane issues are losing friends and relationships because you told them you were visiting a sick relative but XBOX Live tells them you were at home playing Forza Motorsport.
What does the world think when your XBOX Live says you're looking at pictures when everyone knows you don't own a digital camera?
The article still has the point that this should not be shared with others by default, or a clear choice should have been prompted at initial setup. Why no up-front choice? Because the profiles aren't as useful unless people let this information be shared. There should at least be some parity, informing you in real time when someone else is watching you in real time.
You can be sure someone out there is working on how to use this to market-target or spear-phish you.
And when such contracts tend to come up after you've been employed for awhile and the company adopts this new policy, you either sign or you're fired. Continuing under your old employment contract is not an option.
And people don't ask to be stalked, but that doesn't mean you need to make a stalker's job easier.
Why is it a problem that other users can see what you do on Live?
It's a problem when those other users are in your locality, looking for the right time to break into your home while you're distracted, maybe to inflict some non-virtual fragging on your camping ass.
Or if the company you work for decides playing violent video games violates some morals clause, finds out your Live ID, and decides to fire you for playing Quake 4 at home.*
* Companies are firing people for smoking at home (and failing a drug test for tobacco); with all the hype about violent games making people violent, there is a change to make such a policy stick under the guise of maintaining workplace safety.
Les personnes appelées French, ils vont à la maison.
I know I wish my Usenet feed carried alt.binaries.multimedia.commercials. If there's any content on TV that one should have an unlimited right to redistribute for free in perfect digital lossless reproduction, it's commercials.
Too bad adcritic.com decided to price themselves for the advertiser market. I guess they couldn't afford the bandwidth for their content with a general audience popularity. Though you'd think if they'd adopt bittorrent they could open their library to the public again. (I want the long version of the XBOX 360 ad with the water balloons at at least 720x480. The war-torn setting is surreal.)
The name change is from a deadly predator to something more akin to a drug, a wonderful, glorious drug designed to relieve you of your burdensome privacy:
Claria. Ask your IT department. It's time to ask your IT department. Ask about Claria.
Claria side effects include bandwidth loss increased advertisement and loss of privacy if they continue or are bothersome check with your IT department contact your IT department immediately if your develop rapid or pounding disk access OS instability or unusual sluggishness while using this software.
Claria. It's right for you.
I honestly don't understand why ReplayTV units haven't dominated the planet by now. Poor marketing, maybe?
Maybe because they were sued into someone else's hands.
I've never lost the ability to enable 30-second skip (Select Play Select 3 0 Select), though I have yet to set up my new Humax DVD Recorder with TiVo Service. What model of TiVo were you using?
TiVo has always had the Showcases menu
Actually, it has vanished from some of my TiVos' menus at times. It also becomes inaccessible without service (I have an unsubscribed 20-hour unit in my guest room).
Lately it has been trying to record its "Teleworld Paid Programming" content from ISATE (i (Independent TV) Satellite Feed East), but when I've seen it do it, other PAX programming is there instead.
Unfortunately I've found that TVs tend to not be able to handle closed captioning at 3x speed. It tends to overrun their buffer. (So, when will the first buffer overflow exploit for closed-caption-capable TVs come out to defeat DRM?)
It works better with the tivovbi patch applied outputting text, and you could even feed it into a text-to-speech program set to read it fast enough to nearly keep up. (I still wish it included timecodes for remastering for DVD as subtitles and/or line21 data.)
Some cable boxes can be set to open closed captions which will be recorded with the video signal. Then they'll be visible at any speed as long as it isn't so fast as to skip them entirely.
I was told that TiVo tried to support audio during fast play, but that it came out unacceptably "bursty".
I prefer the unconventional comedy stylings of "Bars & Tone".
What would make someone who subscribes to such a service want to search for ads?
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Own a pre-Series2 unit. No-updates comes standard with its service these days.
However, ignorance seems to get you a pass if it involves technology, since no-one can possably understand that stuff anyway, except for the hackers that exploit it
Especially when combined with a non-dairy powdered creamer.
I guess it's time to point out again that Myth TV is no TiVo. And TiVo is no DVD library manager. I'm about to get my seventh TiVo, so I'm no stranger to TiVos.
Only two of the ones I have now use external tuners, but they work reliably. For reliable control, two things must be true: (1) you must have proper alignment between the IR emitters and the external tuner's IR receiver and (2) you must not have any other IR signaling device operating at the same time that TiVo wants to change channels. TiVo cannot transmit IR at the same time it is receiving it. Direct sunlight can also saturate the TiVo's IR signaling bus.
Most IR repeaters that allow you to control devices from another room are susceptable to RF interference causing them to continuously emit garbage IR signals. This interferes with the TiVo's ability to transmit IR to the external tuner. If you need to control devices from another room, use a wired repeater system.
Well, there's another issue: you must have a reliable external tuner. I recently had experience with a Motorola DCT-2224 which would act like it was receiving the signals, change its ad-banner to report the new channel, but it would stay tuned to the original channel. I terminated a free 3-month trial with two premium movie networks prematurely over the issue.
And then there's the cable company pushing updates to boxes that turn them off and leave them off. It isn't TiVo's fault the boxes don't have an ON remote signal, only a Power toggle signal.