If you are a windows user I reccommend getting Cookie Pal which gives you filtering control over your cookies. You can get it at Tucows.
If you are running linux, you might want to switch to Mozilla. While it is still a bit buggy, it has a new cookie feature that I like. You can tell it to warn you before accepting cookies, and it has a "remember this desicion" checkbox that works on a domain by domain basis. It then stores that info in cookieperm.txt in your user profile.
Somebody yesterday suggested that we start some chain emails warning people about this and giving the opt out link. I suggest we also start them on ICQ and other instant messanger programs.
From what I have read, if a cookie is set by somerandomsite.com then www.somerandomsite.com, and adserver.somerandomsite.com can also read that cookie. Cookies can not be set for top level domains like com or org.
That doesn't address the problem of some domain putting ad banners on tons of sites and getting to read their cookie whenever you visit just about anything.
My font sizes in Mozilla are small enough to be almost unreadable. (I'm using it under linux). Changing the default fonts does nothing., Selecting "bigger font" does nothing, and selecting the "readable" stylesheet does nothing.
I won't be able to use it until I can make the fonts a bit bigger, but other than that I really like it.
Despite what others say about the side toolbar, I find it quite useful. It's a nice place for bookmarks, since on a large monitor, you get a lot more real estate in the sideways directory. I am always wishing that I could see more verticle web space but I have room to spare on the edges.
I would recomend getting a program that works with your browser to filter cookies. If you are a windows user, Cookie Pal is by far my favorite choice. You tell you web browser to tell you about cookies and cookie pal finds that window, intercepts it and handles it according to the filter options you set.
I don't know what options are out there for linux but I will probably check them out now since I'm using linux more.
Tucows has a nice list of cookie programs. I'd check it out if I were you.
Flames creating a "chilling effect" on people speaking online (esp women) was the point of an article last week on slashdot: Gender in the Internet Age
This seems to be a Katz style rehash sensational rehash of what was said there. It may be good to go through this again, because I think a lot of readers didn't click through to read the article last week. And we all know that nobody can generate flames like Katz!
so the NASDAQ is down... hell, it DOUBLED in two years!!! of course it was going to correct... any economist worth his/her salt could have told you there was going to be a correction.
That is absolutely untrue. The stock market is simply not that predictable. Anybody that was that sure the market would go down would have sold short and made lots of money. Anybody who didn't sell short but now says that it is "obvious" that it was going to go down, is only using hindsight and is full of shit.
I saw this posted on some news site this morning and turned my head in disgust. Do you know how many museums there are that could use something like this? I've seen only a couple T-Rex's in my life, one in Pittsburgh and one in Washington (I think.)
They don't just grow on trees, and I remember what I thrill it was as a kid to look up and see one. Everybody should have a chance to see our natural heritage.
I just hope that whoever buys this has the sense to put it on public display, and that money made on this auction goes toward paleontology and natural history research.
I lived in the dorm for the full 4 years I was in college to stay connected. My senior year, you could get a cable modem off campus, and a lot of people moved off.
Now that I'm out in the real world, I have a cable modem, and it sucks. But I don't think I will ever have it as good as in college. The biggest problem we had were people who ran servers for *huge* amount of warez and pron. I new people that served 10 or 20 gigs a day. Any service I pay for in the real world, isn't going to allow such huge serevers (and they shouldn't). But my cable modem connection upload is capped to a point to make it unusable for anything other than requesting web pages.
If you can't tell, I'm in severe withdrawl right now.
I hate to nitpick, but given what Jon says, it really seems like a child would be much more likly to be victimized online than to have an airplane fall on his/her head.
Think about it. Maybe 100 kids hurt on the internet in a year and maybe one airlane falling out of the sky and killing a kid. Especially when you consider that all kids always risk falling airplanes, but only some percentage of kids go on the internet.
Why is the media exponential? If you have a slime mold and it has a million little slime molds, each of which have a million little slime molds, that is exponential. A single piece of media may be passed around like a chain letter and become exponential but the number of pundits is not and cannot be exponential.
Its a good thing because if the size of Katz's articles got exponentially big, they would now be in the Terrabyte range....
I have to admit I wish I had a few artsy friends. Yesterday at work they were throwing away faceplates from an old pbx that each had 48 rj-11 jacks. I stole one and I really want to turn it into something I could put in a frame. Problem is I don't think I could make it look all that good myself.
There is a lot of potential in tech art. I really wish I knew where to get more of it. I have some in my house, but not nearly enough. I nail all the AOL CDs and failed burns up on the top of my walls (label side to the wall) and they make an awesome border.
I'm interested in what other people have for tech art. What is your favorite piece? Where is the best place you know of to find the stuff?
Under #2 above, does that mean that I can get etoyssucks.com from etoys? The only reason that they registered it was to keep anybody else from using it.
I grew up near Pittsburgh and I now work near Boston. I really doubt that there are many jobs in Pittsburgh. I left the area for college, but I have nothing against coming back.
As for jobs though, no Pittsburgh companies tried to recruit me after college. I went to college in NY and its not like PA is that far away. All my High School friends who are now looking for geek jobs in Pittsburgh are having a tough time. I believe I am making easily double the salary I could in Pittsburgh. Even a much better standard of living doesn't make up for that.
How clever. When somebody on that site requests robots.txt, it adds the IP to a robots list and the next time that you get the home page, it returns it to you without a session ID. In robots.txt there is a link that you can go to to remove yourself from this list.
I think that would qualify for a patent. Go for it. Its a great idea.
I just made the entire site unusuable by my entire company by viewing the robots.txt. How proxy server friendly. I hope nobody tries to look at the robots.txt file through an AOL connection.
Everybody has some sort of diagnosable mental disorder. Any psychologist could lend their interpretation to your story to make you fit one of the DSM categories.
Furthermore, there are some conflicting disorders of which you probably have one or the other, especially when it comes to sexuality. (Doesn't like sex enough, likes sex too much.)
It also doesn't address the degree of the mental disorder. A mild form of a disorder, may actually be benificial sometimes. Just look at the amount of art that comes out of people we would probly slap a disorder on today. (Take Van Goegh for instance).
And yes, I know which two disorders I would be most likely to be diagnosed with.
I would just like to put in a word from my own personal experience. I have played almost every violent computer game out there and I really enjoy a lot of them. There was one time, that I really thought a game went over the edge.
After playing Carmagedon, I really shouldn't be driving. Carmagedon is a 3-D style racing game in which one of the main objects is to run over pedestrians. Running them down makes a nice splat and you get points and more time to continue the race. Without running anybody down, you only start with like 30 seconds to finish the race, just not possible.
I had played this game in college when I didn't have a car, so I didn't notice anything for a while. But as soon as I got home and got behind the wheel, I found myself looking for pedestrians! It was really more of an uncontious thing. I'd be driving and I'd see a group of people and I'd really have to activly tell that this is reality and its not right to drive my car into a crowd.
The only upshot to this, is that when I realized I was thinking like this, I quit playing the game and the feelings wore off in a couple weeks.
Given this, I'm not sure that shoot 'em up games are the best thing for anybody that has access to guns. Given my experience with cars, I'd imagine that playing shoot 'em ups makes you look at the gun in your hands a litte bit differently. Especially, if the gun belongs to somebody else and you have not really been trained to use it.
Obviously, computer games aren't the only factor here, in fact probably not even the main one, but I think that most of us here are too quick to say, "I play them and nothing bad happens to me, so it must be alright."
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If you are running linux, you might want to switch to Mozilla. While it is still a bit buggy, it has a new cookie feature that I like. You can tell it to warn you before accepting cookies, and it has a "remember this desicion" checkbox that works on a domain by domain basis. It then stores that info in cookieperm.txt in your user profile.
Somebody yesterday suggested that we start some chain emails warning people about this and giving the opt out link. I suggest we also start them on ICQ and other instant messanger programs.
From what I have read, if a cookie is set by somerandomsite.com then www.somerandomsite.com, and adserver.somerandomsite.com can also read that cookie. Cookies can not be set for top level domains like com or org.
That doesn't address the problem of some domain putting ad banners on tons of sites and getting to read their cookie whenever you visit just about anything.
How to use TLAs to legitimize something.
Isn't OSS about less obscurity? Does this kind of article mean that I'm wrong and SOL?
TLA - Three Letter Acronym
OSS - Open Source Software
SOL - Shit Out of Luck
I just discovered that changing the character set helps a lot. Either unicode or windows character sets seem to work just fine.
My font sizes in Mozilla are small enough to be almost unreadable. (I'm using it under linux). Changing the default fonts does nothing., Selecting "bigger font" does nothing, and selecting the "readable" stylesheet does nothing.
I won't be able to use it until I can make the fonts a bit bigger, but other than that I really like it.
Despite what others say about the side toolbar, I find it quite useful. It's a nice place for bookmarks, since on a large monitor, you get a lot more real estate in the sideways directory. I am always wishing that I could see more verticle web space but I have room to spare on the edges.
Aggggg.... My eyes now though.
I don't know what is available for linux. You can get the program at Tucows. They also have several other cookie management tools available.
I don't know what options are out there for linux but I will probably check them out now since I'm using linux more.
Tucows has a nice list of cookie programs. I'd check it out if I were you.
The link that you posted above goes to the linux one story.
Whoever moderated it up must not have followed the link either....
I think what is flat, is the percentage of people on the internet using usenet.
I know I don't use it anymore.
This seems to be a Katz style rehash sensational rehash of what was said there. It may be good to go through this again, because I think a lot of readers didn't click through to read the article last week. And we all know that nobody can generate flames like Katz!
That is absolutely untrue. The stock market is simply not that predictable. Anybody that was that sure the market would go down would have sold short and made lots of money. Anybody who didn't sell short but now says that it is "obvious" that it was going to go down, is only using hindsight and is full of shit.
For example, if they embedded synchronized lyrics in each mp3. Or they made sure that each mp3's ID3 tag was filled in completely and correctly.
I really like having the lyrics scrolling by as I listen to music, and adding them myself works, but its slow, to say the least.
They don't just grow on trees, and I remember what I thrill it was as a kid to look up and see one. Everybody should have a chance to see our natural heritage.
I just hope that whoever buys this has the sense to put it on public display, and that money made on this auction goes toward paleontology and natural history research.
How about some insider tips. Is now a good time to buy Corel stock?
;-)
Now that I'm out in the real world, I have a cable modem, and it sucks. But I don't think I will ever have it as good as in college. The biggest problem we had were people who ran servers for *huge* amount of warez and pron. I new people that served 10 or 20 gigs a day. Any service I pay for in the real world, isn't going to allow such huge serevers (and they shouldn't). But my cable modem connection upload is capped to a point to make it unusable for anything other than requesting web pages.
If you can't tell, I'm in severe withdrawl right now.
Think about it. Maybe 100 kids hurt on the internet in a year and maybe one airlane falling out of the sky and killing a kid. Especially when you consider that all kids always risk falling airplanes, but only some percentage of kids go on the internet.
hmmmm....
Its a good thing because if the size of Katz's articles got exponentially big, they would now be in the Terrabyte range....
There is a lot of potential in tech art. I really wish I knew where to get more of it. I have some in my house, but not nearly enough. I nail all the AOL CDs and failed burns up on the top of my walls (label side to the wall) and they make an awesome border.
I'm interested in what other people have for tech art. What is your favorite piece? Where is the best place you know of to find the stuff?
Under #2 above, does that mean that I can get etoyssucks.com from etoys? The only reason that they registered it was to keep anybody else from using it.
I have to admit that I laughed pretty hard when I saw this. :->
As for jobs though, no Pittsburgh companies tried to recruit me after college. I went to college in NY and its not like PA is that far away. All my High School friends who are now looking for geek jobs in Pittsburgh are having a tough time. I believe I am making easily double the salary I could in Pittsburgh. Even a much better standard of living doesn't make up for that.
I'm curious as to the reasons for the uneeded, yet deliberate gender stereotyping used in this post.
I think that would qualify for a patent. Go for it. Its a great idea.
I just made the entire site unusuable by my entire company by viewing the robots.txt. How proxy server friendly. I hope nobody tries to look at the robots.txt file through an AOL connection.
Furthermore, there are some conflicting disorders of which you probably have one or the other, especially when it comes to sexuality. (Doesn't like sex enough, likes sex too much.)
It also doesn't address the degree of the mental disorder. A mild form of a disorder, may actually be benificial sometimes. Just look at the amount of art that comes out of people we would probly slap a disorder on today. (Take Van Goegh for instance).
And yes, I know which two disorders I would be most likely to be diagnosed with.
After playing Carmagedon, I really shouldn't be driving. Carmagedon is a 3-D style racing game in which one of the main objects is to run over pedestrians. Running them down makes a nice splat and you get points and more time to continue the race. Without running anybody down, you only start with like 30 seconds to finish the race, just not possible.
I had played this game in college when I didn't have a car, so I didn't notice anything for a while. But as soon as I got home and got behind the wheel, I found myself looking for pedestrians! It was really more of an uncontious thing. I'd be driving and I'd see a group of people and I'd really have to activly tell that this is reality and its not right to drive my car into a crowd.
The only upshot to this, is that when I realized I was thinking like this, I quit playing the game and the feelings wore off in a couple weeks.
Given this, I'm not sure that shoot 'em up games are the best thing for anybody that has access to guns. Given my experience with cars, I'd imagine that playing shoot 'em ups makes you look at the gun in your hands a litte bit differently. Especially, if the gun belongs to somebody else and you have not really been trained to use it.
Obviously, computer games aren't the only factor here, in fact probably not even the main one, but I think that most of us here are too quick to say, "I play them and nothing bad happens to me, so it must be alright."