Not only didn't she post a proper notice (a simple robots.txt would have sufficed for archive.org), but once it was archived, she could have just contacted archive.org. I am fairly certain they have a process by which the author or owner of a domain can request that their already-archived content be removed.
Archive.org goes out of their way to be as helpful and proper about the whole thing as possible, while this woman was lazy and uninterested in doing even the most basic of things to help her end of it.
Yes, exactly. Contributing taxes to the government to pay for other people's snot-nosed kids (while the ungrateful parents act like they're doing society a favor by foisting their little shits on us) is EXACTLY like subsidizing the movie and music industries by giving into them and letting them tax us on everything that could possibly store data.
I'm sure life will be much more enjoyable without good money, a career and healthcare. Why, some of the happiest people I know are either bums living in the overhang entrances to muffin shops or slackers still living with mom and dad into their 20s.
Women love a man who is happy and can't provide and there's nothing like paying your expenses with happiness. Why, just the other day I paid my $150 electricity bill with three smiles and traded a hearty handshake for a four star dinner and a pepsi.
I should totally be taxed on something I intend to store family photos on or backup my legally purchased digital downloads on and that profit should go right to the RIAA and MPAA and BSA who have nothing to do with the medium and content I'm placing on it.
This wouldn't matter to me if the data was anonymized so that it was impossible to correlate the data beyond "all of these are by the same individual", but no way to identify by IP address or anything else.
The problem, as we saw with the data AOL released last year, is that there is most certainly identifiable data in the clicks, such as phone numbers, credit card numbers, usernames, passwords, real names, social security numbers, medical information and other private data.
Also, I have no idea what they are talking about with regarding to having to divert production lines. I can order a cheeseburger minus the tomato and they don't have to make it on a separate production line. They just... don't put that on it.
The guy probably fondly misses the days (prior to about 1970) when all movies were in black and white and had TERRIBLE acting. Seriously, the acting in today's videogame cutscenes and soap operas is less hammed-up, over-dramatic and ridiculous than almost every movie prior to the 1970s. It was like they told the actors "Okay, you just found out the mailman didn't deliver your tax refund. So complain and cry like your mother just got shot in the face!"
Yeah, but I found that my enormous heatsink didn't want to fit into the ones I tried. In fact, the only way it fits in this VERY WIDE coolermaster is by taking out the side fan in the upper-left of the panel!
Sure would like a place that will build high-end pre-built gaming rigs with quality parts of my choosing for about the same I could build it manually... and without all the idiotic crap like a laser-etched anime character on it or something. I mean, I'm a gamer -- I'm not a retarded four year old.
Actually, I take that back. I post on Slashdot... so I'm not entirely unlike retarded four year old, either.:)
Sure, they may be required to archive information forever. I don't think that includes personal emails and personal phone calls. And if you work somewhere that you can't send a note to your wife or make a phone call to say you're going to be home late or ask how your spouse's doctor visit went, then it's time to get out. And I don't see how any private communications need to be archived.
That said, there are simple workarounds. If your employer has some sort of SOCKS proxy, that's very simple to SSH through. One connect.c file and a line in a config file will get you working on OSX for example. Then you can use SSH, IMAP, HTTP and whatever else you want.
Or you could just have a Treo with unlimited internet service and do whatever you want.
That they have to archive communications or control business communications does not seem relevant. Simply have a policy that states "email services outside of the control of this company are not to be used for business correspondence". Seems simple enough.
Also, I know that at my company there have been times when the email has gone down and I've needed to send a small file to a client or request some information and I've had to do so through a non-business webmail account. Has saved much hassle and additional time that simply waiting around for email to return would have caused.
I think I would go insane if I had to work in the environment a lot of you describe being stuck in.:(
Not to mention, who cares what the webmail services allow? Just because they allow a user to receive - say - a VBS file doesn't mean that you have to allow that onto your network or that you can't block such an attachment and allow the webmail.
Because, Jack Thompson is thinking of the children and baby jebus.
Seriously, there are a lot of people in this world that need to die. Hopefully the universe has Jack Thompson pretty high up on that list and will take care of him karmicly sooner rather than later.
I'd love to buy a high-end Commodore gaming rig, presuming it is about as cheap as building it myself. I have never bought a pre-built machine in my life (except for laptops, of course). I would not mind letting someone else handle the trouble and hassle of the process of putting the components together for me, but I have yet to find thoroughly high-end and high-quality gaming rigs that are not significantly cheaper to build on my own. If they charged within about $100 of what I would pay for the parts via Newegg and Pricewatch, I might seriously consider them. Otherwise, I'll just continue to do it the old fashioned way.
As for how the machines look. Well, I really don't care. I didn't really get into the habit of bothering putting the sides on my cases until the last few years. It's a computer; not some lame honda accura that I have to give a fast-looking paintjob to so it doesn't look like it's a lame honda accura. The case you linked to is... ugh. I don't even know what the hell that is supposed to be. It looks like a retarded lego from a Ritalin-high toddler's bedroom. Eeew!
I prefer my machines to look... um... well, like machines. My newest case is the Cooler Master 832 and that is pretty damn close to the most appealing case I've ever had (even if it is $250). It's not as square and boxy as I'd prefer, but at least it's just a plain aluminum box.
I still have no idea what OneCare is and I'm not going to bother finding out, but it sure sounds like some sort of outsourcing telephone support contractor company rather than an application or whatever.
I'm not sure how anything there contradicts what I just said. Why is Wikipedia not the place for videogame information, concerning it already has an enormous amount of video game related content and dedicated portals for this? Having a separate encyclopedia, quotes database and dictionary makes sense. Breaking the encyclopedia off into separate categories outside of the encyclopedia itself seems counter-intuitive.
The only exception I can see is if we were talking about gaming reviews. But really, do we need yet more pointless videogame reviews? Especially one in a publicly editable venue like an "open magazine" that will just turn into a bunch of driveling dorks flaming each other on what color cape the guy from Castlevania wears for ten pages?!
Using your discription of going into space, no one can relate to that, and it sounds really, really stupid/suicidical.
And, yet, we piss all over ourselves in our attempts to praise and deify low-income highschool kids who don't have a future and decide to ship off to Iraq and defend... whatever the hell they're defending over there. No, that's not insane or suicidal at all.
Further, the whole point of heroes are that they are not common. As someone who has met Buzz Aldrin many years ago, I can say that I don't need to identify with him to find what he did to be an absolutely amazing thing. Going into space and the moon and eventually to mars and perhaps colonizing other planets are the most astonishing achievements mankind can make. Yet here we are debating whether they're heroes compared to highschool dropouts that smack a leather ball around on television or anorexic socialite parasites.
I'm not necessarily arguing the merits of heroics. I'm arguing the pathetic loss of our ambition, imagination and national interests in achieving amazing things.
I don't see that there is a need for this. Wikipedia already has plenty of game-related portals and information. Isn't the whole point of Wikipedia to have the data available in a single source? What's next, breaking it off into a medical wiki, a technical wiki, a geography wiki, a math wiki, a political wiki, a literature wiki and so on?
Also, I thought Wikia had nothing to do with Wikipedia?
I'd love to listen to NPR more often, but it really just makes me want to take a nap. Too much new-age crap. And, really, I feel about the same listening to NPR as I feel when I'm forced to watch Bill O'Reilly. Perhaps not quite that bad. But they do replay the same content countless times until you've nearly memorized every word. And as worldly as I would like to be, I really don't care about organic wall-paper makers in a remote Irish village that are saving their money to refurbish the town well. Or, on the flip side, twenty-five minute audio interviews with some British guy that dresses like Captain Picard and built his house to look like the Enterprise from Next Generation.
I know a lot of people claim to listen to NPR, but I think the number that claim to far outweighs the number who actually do. The only time I've actually heard someone listening to it was in the occasional taxi cab.
On the other hand public radio broadcasting is far superior to public television broadcasting. I haven't watched PBS in a very long time, but all they ever had were pledge drives, documentaries about lesbians who swear a lot, hunting shows and round tables of women talking about current events. Oh, and of course all of the outdated BBC content that was three decades old (except for good stuff like Doctor Who, which they stopped broadcasting).
Really, I think public broadcasting in all manner has outlived its purpose. Especially with the internet. Hell, I can get the BBC content directly. Why do I need to get it filtered through a poorly-structured PBS broadcast at additional expense?
The only truly great thing I can say about NPR is that they present their content without the brain-numbing, stupifying, insultingly ADHD-oriented flash-bang, shock-and-awe presentation of other news outlets.
Here in the UK, the winner gets their legal fees reimbursed. And that's all that matters - that you were proven right in a court of law. That is absolutely frightening. That means that if I have a legitimate legal beef with a government or commercial entity that spends tens of thousands of dollars per day on an army of powerful lawyers for months on end and the judge or jury eventually rules in their favor that I'm going to be bankrupt and my entire life will be ruined from that point forward.
Likewise, my single lawyer that I could barely afford to keep onboard long enough to lose the case would be an insignificant and irrelevant cost to the government or commercial entity should they lose. Not to mention, their army of expensive lawyers are more likely to beat me in almost all circumstances, since I'm going to be stuck paying for the average joe-blow attorney.
People can't say that money is not relevant to winning a case. Of course it's incredibly relevant - otherwise you wouldn't have state provided attorneys, $100/hr attorneys and $10,000/hr attorneys!
In fact, how many people can name even one astronaut that is currently active in the space program?
Well, if you had asked a week ago, I'm sure most people could have named Lisa Nowak...;-)
But seriously, why would it have to be an astronaut "currently active" in the space program? Surely you could still have Neil Armstrong or John Glenn be your astronaut hero. I'm sure a lot of people still hold up Michael Jordan as their sports hero, even though he's been retired for years. That illustrates my point precisely. First, on the sports angle - it's sad that we would even compare some guy who scored lots of points in a game where you throw a ball in a hole and who could jump high to a guy who straps himself into skyscraper sized machine with enough fuel to incinerate Florida, escapes the atmosphere, throws on a suit and leaves the shuttle to walk around in the empty vacuum of space, tethered by a little stringy rope and risking his life every second of the way in a manner that no other man or woman on the planet could even comprehend.
Second, on the Neil Armstrong angle. That the only space heroes we could conjure up are those that were around when most of our parents were still watching Saturday morning cartoons is the perfect illustration of how pathetic our desire for exploration has become. Astronauts today are doing far more heroic things every time they step into that suit above and beyond most other human beings. Unfortunately, they are not big, bold, earth-shattering things leading to immense progress. Again, that illustrates the entire problem at hand. We don't have any Buzz Aldrins or Neil Armstrongs at the moment, because we are too busy cutting their budgets, reducing the grandness of their adventures and explaining away the loss of our societal fascination with and dedication to advancement.
There's nothing wrong with admiring sports figures, but neither Kobe Bryant nor Paris Hilton are ever going to discover anything great. Lead man to a new world. Or save man from himself by finding "new lands".
I envy that my parents were a live in a time when a president put an impossible challenge in front of a nation and then they watched nervously as it culminated in potentially the greatest achievement in the whole of history. I envy that the memories my parents and generations before them have are not limited to two space shuttles exploding and screwing up a little robot rover launch, because we used imperial instead of metric measurements.
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Not only didn't she post a proper notice (a simple robots.txt would have sufficed for archive.org), but once it was archived, she could have just contacted archive.org. I am fairly certain they have a process by which the author or owner of a domain can request that their already-archived content be removed.
Archive.org goes out of their way to be as helpful and proper about the whole thing as possible, while this woman was lazy and uninterested in doing even the most basic of things to help her end of it.
Yes, exactly. Contributing taxes to the government to pay for other people's snot-nosed kids (while the ungrateful parents act like they're doing society a favor by foisting their little shits on us) is EXACTLY like subsidizing the movie and music industries by giving into them and letting them tax us on everything that could possibly store data.
I'm sure life will be much more enjoyable without good money, a career and healthcare. Why, some of the happiest people I know are either bums living in the overhang entrances to muffin shops or slackers still living with mom and dad into their 20s.
Women love a man who is happy and can't provide and there's nothing like paying your expenses with happiness. Why, just the other day I paid my $150 electricity bill with three smiles and traded a hearty handshake for a four star dinner and a pepsi.
I should totally be taxed on something I intend to store family photos on or backup my legally purchased digital downloads on and that profit should go right to the RIAA and MPAA and BSA who have nothing to do with the medium and content I'm placing on it.
He suffered from the stroke ? Shouldn't he be suing the RIAA and Billy Squier?
This wouldn't matter to me if the data was anonymized so that it was impossible to correlate the data beyond "all of these are by the same individual", but no way to identify by IP address or anything else.
The problem, as we saw with the data AOL released last year, is that there is most certainly identifiable data in the clicks, such as phone numbers, credit card numbers, usernames, passwords, real names, social security numbers, medical information and other private data.
You are PAYING for that copy of Windows.
Also, I have no idea what they are talking about with regarding to having to divert production lines. I can order a cheeseburger minus the tomato and they don't have to make it on a separate production line. They just... don't put that on it.
Yeah, unless you're one of the sixty.
The guy probably fondly misses the days (prior to about 1970) when all movies were in black and white and had TERRIBLE acting. Seriously, the acting in today's videogame cutscenes and soap operas is less hammed-up, over-dramatic and ridiculous than almost every movie prior to the 1970s. It was like they told the actors "Okay, you just found out the mailman didn't deliver your tax refund. So complain and cry like your mother just got shot in the face!"
Ugh. Sorry. Just a damn pet peeve I have.
Yeah, but I found that my enormous heatsink didn't want to fit into the ones I tried. In fact, the only way it fits in this VERY WIDE coolermaster is by taking out the side fan in the upper-left of the panel!
:)
Sure would like a place that will build high-end pre-built gaming rigs with quality parts of my choosing for about the same I could build it manually... and without all the idiotic crap like a laser-etched anime character on it or something. I mean, I'm a gamer -- I'm not a retarded four year old.
Actually, I take that back. I post on Slashdot... so I'm not entirely unlike retarded four year old, either.
Sure, they may be required to archive information forever. I don't think that includes personal emails and personal phone calls. And if you work somewhere that you can't send a note to your wife or make a phone call to say you're going to be home late or ask how your spouse's doctor visit went, then it's time to get out. And I don't see how any private communications need to be archived.
:(
That said, there are simple workarounds. If your employer has some sort of SOCKS proxy, that's very simple to SSH through. One connect.c file and a line in a config file will get you working on OSX for example. Then you can use SSH, IMAP, HTTP and whatever else you want.
Or you could just have a Treo with unlimited internet service and do whatever you want.
That they have to archive communications or control business communications does not seem relevant. Simply have a policy that states "email services outside of the control of this company are not to be used for business correspondence". Seems simple enough.
Also, I know that at my company there have been times when the email has gone down and I've needed to send a small file to a client or request some information and I've had to do so through a non-business webmail account. Has saved much hassle and additional time that simply waiting around for email to return would have caused.
I think I would go insane if I had to work in the environment a lot of you describe being stuck in.
Not to mention, who cares what the webmail services allow? Just because they allow a user to receive - say - a VBS file doesn't mean that you have to allow that onto your network or that you can't block such an attachment and allow the webmail.
I thought paedophiles do think of the children? Isn't that the whole problem?!
Because, Jack Thompson is thinking of the children and baby jebus.
Seriously, there are a lot of people in this world that need to die. Hopefully the universe has Jack Thompson pretty high up on that list and will take care of him karmicly sooner rather than later.
I'd love to buy a high-end Commodore gaming rig, presuming it is about as cheap as building it myself. I have never bought a pre-built machine in my life (except for laptops, of course). I would not mind letting someone else handle the trouble and hassle of the process of putting the components together for me, but I have yet to find thoroughly high-end and high-quality gaming rigs that are not significantly cheaper to build on my own. If they charged within about $100 of what I would pay for the parts via Newegg and Pricewatch, I might seriously consider them. Otherwise, I'll just continue to do it the old fashioned way.
As for how the machines look. Well, I really don't care. I didn't really get into the habit of bothering putting the sides on my cases until the last few years. It's a computer; not some lame honda accura that I have to give a fast-looking paintjob to so it doesn't look like it's a lame honda accura. The case you linked to is... ugh. I don't even know what the hell that is supposed to be. It looks like a retarded lego from a Ritalin-high toddler's bedroom. Eeew!
I prefer my machines to look... um... well, like machines. My newest case is the Cooler Master 832 and that is pretty damn close to the most appealing case I've ever had (even if it is $250). It's not as square and boxy as I'd prefer, but at least it's just a plain aluminum box.
I still have no idea what OneCare is and I'm not going to bother finding out, but it sure sounds like some sort of outsourcing telephone support contractor company rather than an application or whatever.
Because, human brain power and muscle power isn't going to save you from the zergling rush! :P
Is this all just a gimmick for the new video game Solider Snake and Solider, With A Vengeance?
Shouldn't it be more solid?
I'm not sure how anything there contradicts what I just said. Why is Wikipedia not the place for videogame information, concerning it already has an enormous amount of video game related content and dedicated portals for this? Having a separate encyclopedia, quotes database and dictionary makes sense. Breaking the encyclopedia off into separate categories outside of the encyclopedia itself seems counter-intuitive.
The only exception I can see is if we were talking about gaming reviews. But really, do we need yet more pointless videogame reviews? Especially one in a publicly editable venue like an "open magazine" that will just turn into a bunch of driveling dorks flaming each other on what color cape the guy from Castlevania wears for ten pages?!
Using your discription of going into space, no one can relate to that, and it sounds really, really stupid/suicidical.
And, yet, we piss all over ourselves in our attempts to praise and deify low-income highschool kids who don't have a future and decide to ship off to Iraq and defend... whatever the hell they're defending over there. No, that's not insane or suicidal at all.
Further, the whole point of heroes are that they are not common. As someone who has met Buzz Aldrin many years ago, I can say that I don't need to identify with him to find what he did to be an absolutely amazing thing. Going into space and the moon and eventually to mars and perhaps colonizing other planets are the most astonishing achievements mankind can make. Yet here we are debating whether they're heroes compared to highschool dropouts that smack a leather ball around on television or anorexic socialite parasites.
I'm not necessarily arguing the merits of heroics. I'm arguing the pathetic loss of our ambition, imagination and national interests in achieving amazing things.
I don't see that there is a need for this. Wikipedia already has plenty of game-related portals and information. Isn't the whole point of Wikipedia to have the data available in a single source? What's next, breaking it off into a medical wiki, a technical wiki, a geography wiki, a math wiki, a political wiki, a literature wiki and so on?
Also, I thought Wikia had nothing to do with Wikipedia?
I'd love to listen to NPR more often, but it really just makes me want to take a nap. Too much new-age crap. And, really, I feel about the same listening to NPR as I feel when I'm forced to watch Bill O'Reilly. Perhaps not quite that bad. But they do replay the same content countless times until you've nearly memorized every word. And as worldly as I would like to be, I really don't care about organic wall-paper makers in a remote Irish village that are saving their money to refurbish the town well. Or, on the flip side, twenty-five minute audio interviews with some British guy that dresses like Captain Picard and built his house to look like the Enterprise from Next Generation.
I know a lot of people claim to listen to NPR, but I think the number that claim to far outweighs the number who actually do. The only time I've actually heard someone listening to it was in the occasional taxi cab.
On the other hand public radio broadcasting is far superior to public television broadcasting. I haven't watched PBS in a very long time, but all they ever had were pledge drives, documentaries about lesbians who swear a lot, hunting shows and round tables of women talking about current events. Oh, and of course all of the outdated BBC content that was three decades old (except for good stuff like Doctor Who, which they stopped broadcasting).
Really, I think public broadcasting in all manner has outlived its purpose. Especially with the internet. Hell, I can get the BBC content directly. Why do I need to get it filtered through a poorly-structured PBS broadcast at additional expense?
The only truly great thing I can say about NPR is that they present their content without the brain-numbing, stupifying, insultingly ADHD-oriented flash-bang, shock-and-awe presentation of other news outlets.
Likewise, my single lawyer that I could barely afford to keep onboard long enough to lose the case would be an insignificant and irrelevant cost to the government or commercial entity should they lose. Not to mention, their army of expensive lawyers are more likely to beat me in almost all circumstances, since I'm going to be stuck paying for the average joe-blow attorney.
People can't say that money is not relevant to winning a case. Of course it's incredibly relevant - otherwise you wouldn't have state provided attorneys, $100/hr attorneys and $10,000/hr attorneys!
But seriously, why would it have to be an astronaut "currently active" in the space program? Surely you could still have Neil Armstrong or John Glenn be your astronaut hero. I'm sure a lot of people still hold up Michael Jordan as their sports hero, even though he's been retired for years. That illustrates my point precisely. First, on the sports angle - it's sad that we would even compare some guy who scored lots of points in a game where you throw a ball in a hole and who could jump high to a guy who straps himself into skyscraper sized machine with enough fuel to incinerate Florida, escapes the atmosphere, throws on a suit and leaves the shuttle to walk around in the empty vacuum of space, tethered by a little stringy rope and risking his life every second of the way in a manner that no other man or woman on the planet could even comprehend.
Second, on the Neil Armstrong angle. That the only space heroes we could conjure up are those that were around when most of our parents were still watching Saturday morning cartoons is the perfect illustration of how pathetic our desire for exploration has become. Astronauts today are doing far more heroic things every time they step into that suit above and beyond most other human beings. Unfortunately, they are not big, bold, earth-shattering things leading to immense progress. Again, that illustrates the entire problem at hand. We don't have any Buzz Aldrins or Neil Armstrongs at the moment, because we are too busy cutting their budgets, reducing the grandness of their adventures and explaining away the loss of our societal fascination with and dedication to advancement.
There's nothing wrong with admiring sports figures, but neither Kobe Bryant nor Paris Hilton are ever going to discover anything great. Lead man to a new world. Or save man from himself by finding "new lands".
I envy that my parents were a live in a time when a president put an impossible challenge in front of a nation and then they watched nervously as it culminated in potentially the greatest achievement in the whole of history. I envy that the memories my parents and generations before them have are not limited to two space shuttles exploding and screwing up a little robot rover launch, because we used imperial instead of metric measurements.