That is an outragous claim! No company would stoop so low. Why, that would be like claiming that Microsoft configured its servers to give broken HTML to browsers other than Internet Explorer. That would be like saying that Apple gave away free MP3s that work in the Ipod but that crash other music players. That would be like saying that Adobe publishes pdfs that b0rk XPDF.
Anybody can see that this claim is ludicrous and that things like this just don't happen. (but I hope I'm not giving anybody any ideas.)
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Torrents are far harder to set up than HTTP downloads though. To set up HTTP downloads, there are many hosts out there that start at as little as $5 a month. You can just throw files on the host.
For torrent, the host setup is going to be much more involved. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you need:
A torrent file on your web server.
A tracker server.
A seed server or servers.
Can the tracker run as a cgi script in apache? If not, you'll have to get a host that allows you to run programs.
Do the tracker work with virtual hosts? If not, you'll be paying extra for that IP address.
I can imagine that bit torrent would work great for a bunch of small and medium sized businesses that have a few hundred files available on their web sites. However, bit torrent just isn't all that easy to set up for them.
Having a finite size list of top level domains makes the problem of domain search much easier from a technical perspective. I believe that you could have tens of thousands of top level domains and still be able to manage it from a technical perspective.
I propose the following:
Every domain name registered must have a single period (.) in it somwhere (ie be a second level domain name
When you register a domain name you choose your second level domain and up to ten top level domains
One of the top level domains must be an existing top level domain
The other 9 may be existing or non-existing top level domains.
The domain registration fee that you pay is split between the registrars for all the top level domains that you picked that actually exist.
The top level domains that you picked go into holding after recording the fact that somebody was interested in that top level domain.
Registrars may bid on sponsoring dns servers for the most popular top level domains that do not yet exist.
When a new top level domain gets a sponsor, it becomes active for those who registered it.
Courts say that local governments can use eminent domain to seize virtual property in computer games such as Everquest
Internet news sources report that your offline property rights are being revoked.
Editors at the website Slashdot are confused about the meanings of "your rights" and "online"
Why doesn't the "your rights online" section have an article about the Adult entertainment law that went into effect today?
The law requires websites with adult content to keep documentation that all nekkid people are above the age of 18. While it may take down pictures of what may be 17 year olds from the internet, the law effectivly shuts down many adult sites that have no child pornography but don't have records.
Doubleclick relies on the technical ability of the web browser to fetch ad content (scripts, iframes, and images) in separate request. Furthermore, those requests are for content on central servers managed by doubleclick.
Doubleclick may die because it is so easy to shut down the browsers ability to request content specific external sites.
Sites that ad content from urls on their own server (rather than external doubleclick urls) need to have site specific rules added to adblock (as long don't use obvious words like 'ad' in the url).
Sites that embed text ads directly into their html source code (without external javascript) are not effected by adblock at all. To block those sorts of ads you need to install grease monkey and write scripts. The average user can't do that, and even when a script is available it is almost always site specific.
To survive, doubleclick should:
Offer a simple perl proxy server script to all sites that have double click ads. The webmaster would rename the proxy script to something unique and ads would get served through their servers. For examlpe the ads on example.com might come from the url http://example.com/box.pl
Research server side technology that will make it super easy for webmasters to embed text ads directly in their pages
Otherwise doubleclick will be replaced by much more tech-savvy ad companies. There is no way that online advertising is going to die tohugh.
Having never developed sites for IE, I'm not sure what active X can do. What features can you implement using active X that are so much harder, or impossible to implement using javascript?
I still don't see a person with just a few used items to sell, being able to do well on Froogle or Amazon. Its quite a bit harder to get a listing there than on Ebay.
I would be interested in what percentage of ebay auctions are from full-time sellers. It seems that these folks probably drive a sizable percentage of Ebay's revenue. Losing them could hurt the bottom line of the company very badly.
Amazon and Google still have a ways to go to become all that popular with full time sellers. There are a ton of guides for becoming a full time Ebay seller. But I find very few for Amazon and Google.
It is standard behaviour in Firefox but its not as bad as the article suggests.
Firefox only prefetches links when the links are marked on the previous site as "hey you might want to prefetch this".
Specifically on Google, only the top result is marked as prefetch. And even then, only when Google has determined that most visitors would choose it. Google has said that they mark it for things such as prefetching cnn.com when somebody searches for "CNN".
The article states: "...which means that Firefox will pre-load the top search results into its cache." which is innacurate. It should say "...which means that Firefox will pre-load the top search result into its cache when Google thinks there is a very high probability you will visit the first result."
it's - contraction of it is. The apostophe replaces the dropped i in is.
its - possesive form of it. Since it is a prounoun, the possesive does not have an apostrophe.
Normally the rule for possesives is "add 's to make a word possesive." The exeception to pay attention to is that for all pronouns, the possesive never has an apostrophe. Rather the possesive form of a pronoun is a whole new dictionary word. Take for example: his, hers, yours, theirs, and its. None of the possesive pronouns have an apostrophe. Nobody tries to add an apostrophe and make it hi's because he changes so dramatically when you make it possesive and it is easy to realize that it is a new word. A few people add an apostophe to hers, yours, or theirs because it is almost like following the "add 's to make a word possesive" rule. Its is the most confusing because it is so similar to the normal possesive rule and the contraction it's exists so that when you add an apostophe it looks right because you have seen it somewhere before.
So when I want to write its or it's I think that possesive pronoun usage is like his and I drop the apostrophe because possesive pronouns never have one.
A couple years ago we used to tease all the Canadians about how little their money was worth. I guess I can't really do too much of that anymore. If the Canadian dollar surpasses the American dollar in value, I may never hear the end of it.
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On the other hand, wouldn't you like to know if google found any NEW information about certain topics.
Get an alert when google bot runs across a new page that mentions your name.
Be notified when the when the search engine results page changes for a query that brings your site a lot of traffic.
Have news results that match your query pop up on your RSS reader.
Some of these things are already available. For example pubsub.com will tell you about new pages for your ego surf. CNN has email alerts that it can send you when stories match keywords and topics.
You might actually like MSN search. They seem to heavily favor the home page of sites. So much so that MSN will often send a bunch of traffic to the front page, but virtually none directly into sub pages.
I find this behaviour annoying because I tend to search for more obscure stuff. But if you search for company names, this does have the nice effect of almost always getting the companies home page.
That and "www.google.com" is the only page on the internet that gets a perfect 10/10 page rank. That could be by definition, or it could be that it actually has enough incoming links to deserve it.
That is, javascript from one site can't access anything from another.
That is blatently untrue. You can fetch images from another server with whatever arguments you want in the url. This makes it possible for you to send information gathered from the current page anywhere the user script desires. Hence my worry about tracking and spyware.
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That is an outragous claim! No company would stoop so low. Why, that would be like claiming that Microsoft configured its servers to give broken HTML to browsers other than Internet Explorer. That would be like saying that Apple gave away free MP3s that work in the Ipod but that crash other music players. That would be like saying that Adobe publishes pdfs that b0rk XPDF.
Anybody can see that this claim is ludicrous and that things like this just don't happen. (but I hope I'm not giving anybody any ideas.)
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For torrent, the host setup is going to be much more involved. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you need:
- A torrent file on your web server.
- A tracker server.
- A seed server or servers.
Can the tracker run as a cgi script in apache? If not, you'll have to get a host that allows you to run programs.Do the tracker work with virtual hosts? If not, you'll be paying extra for that IP address.
I can imagine that bit torrent would work great for a bunch of small and medium sized businesses that have a few hundred files available on their web sites. However, bit torrent just isn't all that easy to set up for them.
I propose the following:
Slashdot: the best source of beta testing trolls.
(Thanks for the bug report)
Truly, I bow to you. You upstanding character is one better than mine.
A real hacker would do something like this:
(3 added characters)or at the very least:
(4 added characters)Currency converter with free form text entry of conversion amounts and currencies
Now those I would buy as presents.
Why doesn't the "your rights online" section have an article about the Adult entertainment law that went into effect today? The law requires websites with adult content to keep documentation that all nekkid people are above the age of 18. While it may take down pictures of what may be 17 year olds from the internet, the law effectivly shuts down many adult sites that have no child pornography but don't have records.
Doubleclick may die because it is so easy to shut down the browsers ability to request content specific external sites.
Sites that ad content from urls on their own server (rather than external doubleclick urls) need to have site specific rules added to adblock (as long don't use obvious words like 'ad' in the url).
Sites that embed text ads directly into their html source code (without external javascript) are not effected by adblock at all. To block those sorts of ads you need to install grease monkey and write scripts. The average user can't do that, and even when a script is available it is almost always site specific.
To survive, doubleclick should:
Otherwise doubleclick will be replaced by much more tech-savvy ad companies. There is no way that online advertising is going to die tohugh.
Having never developed sites for IE, I'm not sure what active X can do. What features can you implement using active X that are so much harder, or impossible to implement using javascript?
In the later case, of developing in IE, and not checking with Firefox, does anybody know what the most common things that break are?
In the IE features category, I have seen one thing that IE does really well that Firefox does not do: Image transition filters such as the fade in/out effect when you switch photos. Are there other things the you as a developer want, but are only implemented in IE?
I know on the other side, that I want rounded corners on divs and alpha transparency in pngs to be properly implemented in IE.
I would be interested in what percentage of ebay auctions are from full-time sellers. It seems that these folks probably drive a sizable percentage of Ebay's revenue. Losing them could hurt the bottom line of the company very badly.
Amazon and Google still have a ways to go to become all that popular with full time sellers. There are a ton of guides for becoming a full time Ebay seller. But I find very few for Amazon and Google.
Firefox only prefetches links when the links are marked on the previous site as "hey you might want to prefetch this".
Specifically on Google, only the top result is marked as prefetch. And even then, only when Google has determined that most visitors would choose it. Google has said that they mark it for things such as prefetching cnn.com when somebody searches for "CNN".
The article states: "...which means that Firefox will pre-load the top search results into its cache." which is innacurate. It should say "...which means that Firefox will pre-load the top search result into its cache when Google thinks there is a very high probability you will visit the first result."
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Normally the rule for possesives is "add 's to make a word possesive." The exeception to pay attention to is that for all pronouns, the possesive never has an apostrophe. Rather the possesive form of a pronoun is a whole new dictionary word. Take for example: his, hers, yours, theirs, and its. None of the possesive pronouns have an apostrophe. Nobody tries to add an apostrophe and make it hi's because he changes so dramatically when you make it possesive and it is easy to realize that it is a new word. A few people add an apostophe to hers, yours, or theirs because it is almost like following the "add 's to make a word possesive" rule. Its is the most confusing because it is so similar to the normal possesive rule and the contraction it's exists so that when you add an apostophe it looks right because you have seen it somewhere before.
So when I want to write its or it's I think that possesive pronoun usage is like his and I drop the apostrophe because possesive pronouns never have one.
A couple years ago we used to tease all the Canadians about how little their money was worth. I guess I can't really do too much of that anymore. If the Canadian dollar surpasses the American dollar in value, I may never hear the end of it.
On the other hand, wouldn't you like to know if google found any NEW information about certain topics.
- Get an alert when google bot runs across a new page that mentions your name.
- Be notified when the when the search engine results page changes for a query that brings your site a lot of traffic.
- Have news results that match your query pop up on your RSS reader.
Some of these things are already available. For example pubsub.com will tell you about new pages for your ego surf. CNN has email alerts that it can send you when stories match keywords and topics.> Slashdot posts so many Google articles anyway, might as well drop the act and go all the way.
Why would google want to buy the cow when they are getting the milk for free?
Wouldn't it be better if you could carry your cuecat around and scan the bar code on grafiti?
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On the other hand full metal panic is more like:
True the formulas are different than American toons. But I get tired of the space themes, the battle themes, and the girl beats up boy themes.
I find this behaviour annoying because I tend to search for more obscure stuff. But if you search for company names, this does have the nice effect of almost always getting the companies home page.
I don't believe that this guy is the world's biggest hacker. Have you seen Cowboy Neal??? Now that's big!
This guy was looking for UFOs. In Soviet Russia, UFOs look for you!
We all know that if he was an uber-hacker he would have created a Beowulf cluster of all the computers he hacked.
One billion in damages? That number has to be inflated. (Actually the article says 570000 pounds which is only about 1 Million US dollars according to my currency calculator)
That and "www.google.com" is the only page on the internet that gets a perfect 10/10 page rank. That could be by definition, or it could be that it actually has enough incoming links to deserve it.
Two weeks ago if you searched for "google" on www.google.com, the first result that you got was https://desktop.google.com which redirects to the google home page. Google desktop seemed to have hijacked the google search homepage!
Of course, the slashdot editors rejected the story.
Google needs to adjust their canonicalization algorithm so that a page the redirects is not chosen as the canonical url.
I haven't seen any captchas. Have I just not posted recently enough? Are they turned off if karma is high enough? Are they only for anonymous cowards?
That is, javascript from one site can't access anything from another.
That is blatently untrue. You can fetch images from another server with whatever arguments you want in the url. This makes it possible for you to send information gathered from the current page anywhere the user script desires. Hence my worry about tracking and spyware.