For some reason, I believe the show they pick are suppose to "shield" the children away from the "harsh truth of reality".
Shows like CSI and Cold Case depicts the darker side of humanity. Granted there are blood and decaying corpses, but those are reality, people who died in difficult circumstances doesn't have a clean body to show off to the world.
I agree with you on the parenting part, for one no one should comment on parenting unless they're parents themselves.
But on your statement regarding the slashdot crowd is being "religiously godless and radically liberal" and that slashdot should be more balanced. I feel I must speak out against that. Slashdot, being a forum and site for technology related subjects (hence, for the nerds), it will inherently be biased towards one side. And of course the said modding will be radical, since the only people that bothers to mod are those with radical opinions. Secondly, you could also argue the same regarding many other online groups, including the PTA. Which consists of members who, pardon my language, are a bunch of "ultra conservertists and hard-core fundamentalists" (maybe a bit extreme, but just to make a point.
Huh, technically those things are already illegal, which means FCC would crack down on them anyway. Unless, of course, they're on cable and satellite, which is exempt for the simple reason that its easy for parents to control whether those shows came on or not.
It's the first time that it actually works. Note that they're not just weakening viruses, they're actually putting marker on viruses that basically screams to the immune system "Yo! This is bad guy! Come and get it!" Without that, past HIV vaccine don't promote sufficient response from the immune system to be effective. So the virus generally kills off the immune system before they could respond.
It will back-fire on them and force them into a downward spiral. Once they decide to hire only fresh out of college students (who don't know better, like me), they'll find that their development cycle lengthen due to software bugs. Which would force them to try to extend weekly hours, which leads to more experience to quit, which shift the general programming experience in the company to the low-end. Soon, they'll be able to only produce low quality softwares (think about their GBA/PC games that came out, low quality or just redoing the old thing OVER and OVER and OVER again).
The idea of this is that workers, when signing a contract, can automatically assume that the normal working hour is 40hrs/week by mandate of law. The law also specifies that any hrs in excess of 40 in a week must be given an overtime pay (I think it was 1.5 times the normal pay). An exemption to this is IT workers with annual pay above $90,000 (I think it 90,000).
Of course. No search engine look kindly upon automated bombing of their engine. If an IP behaves like it's bombing their site maliciously (a few hundred searches per minute maybe), then its fully their right to ban that IP.
Yes, you're correct. However, all crawlers are obligated (not legally, but as a courtesy) to obey the robots.txt which indicate which robots you're willing to allow on your site.
As a link pointed out by another poster... http://www.google.com/robots.txt
Google specifically stated that robots cannot crawl its site.
Before you start slamming google. Almost all search engine contain said robots.txt to prevent other crawlers from overloading their server.
Said website (say www.abc.com) once had a page (say www.abc.com/foobar/index.html) that got removed, and was no longer linked.
Said link was remove only recently.
Google's SiteFind (site: command) is the one that can find the link www.abc.com/foobar/index.html (Google cache).
Searching for www.abc.com returns nothing on MSN search.
An IP registered to Microsoft suddenly starts accessing said website. And attempts to retrieve the URL www.abc.com/foobar/index.html that only exist on Google (or maybe Yahoo) in a fashion that indicates a crawler.
After the IP disconnects, MSN Search now contains the fully indexed www.abc.com that wasn't there before the crawler activity.
I say its a pretty good assumption to make that MSN Search might have used Google to crawl other website.
Keyword: Assumption and Might, he's merely forming a theory base on the behaviors of a crawler he observed. It's a good case since it is NOT possible for a crawler to try to access an unlinked page (but previously linked) unless it acquire the specific URL from other source. In this case, the logic is since Google is the only search engine that still contains said URL, MSN bots might be using Google.
Historically (that is, until greed distort them), the roll of scientists and journalists ARE what jamie states.
Also I oppose your view that 'good' science is what educated and intellectual demand and pay, which is utterly BS. Good science is science that can be repeated with consistency, that can stand under the scrutiny of its peer.
There was never a "split". It just that in the past, softwares and HAM radio didn't have much in common. Only until recently the HAM operators and software engineers began to find ways to combine the two. Several combination I've seen are.
1. Automated Morse-code sender and decoder. 2. Antenna control (used when doing a HAM satellite bounce) 3. Picture transmission (different color use different band, so you hear this odd static. Since by law you can't encrypt it, no porn). 4. Radio mail (like e-mail, except with much more error tolerance capability.) 5. Radio chat (think chatroom). 6. Short telephone call (by law, you can't hog the band space, forgot what the definitions are).
Actually no. Federal/International law has a VERY strict regulation on spamming on HAM radio. Generally any type of radio transmission (a general agreement between nations) requires that the radio operators to state his/her callsign at a time interval (forgot if it was every 15 minutes or 30 minutes). So if someone spams, you can either track him down easy using his callsign. Or if he's not using one or fake another callsign, he could get into a shitload of trouble with the FCC. And tracking down someone abusing radio is easy once you got two or more people.
The reason that the government crack down on this is because HAM radio is considered as an emergency communication channel. A very good example is that on 9/11, all communications from NYC (internet, cellphone, phone, and etc) failed because of over-congestion or physical destruction to the infrastructure, except for HAM radio, which helped coordinate the rescue effort and aides from other states.
Glad to see people of like mind. I wish to extend your argument by including a few great explorers/scientists in the past that are under-estimated.
1. Christopher Columbus 2. Marco Polo 3. Albert Einstein 4. Nikolas Tesla These are a few right off the top of my head.
Yes, I've seen the National Geographic's "Black Sky: The Race for Space". I'm especially impressed with his dream of having a functional, residential space station and a cheap transport (relatively) for people.
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For some reason, I believe the show they pick are suppose to "shield" the children away from the "harsh truth of reality".
Shows like CSI and Cold Case depicts the darker side of humanity. Granted there are blood and decaying corpses, but those are reality, people who died in difficult circumstances doesn't have a clean body to show off to the world.
Pray tell, to which government agency is Cowboy Neal submitting said complaint to?
Also please note, it was andywebz who submitted the article. CowboyNeal merely pass it along. So please, leave the editor out of this.
I agree with you on the parenting part, for one no one should comment on parenting unless they're parents themselves.
But on your statement regarding the slashdot crowd is being "religiously godless and radically liberal" and that slashdot should be more balanced. I feel I must speak out against that. Slashdot, being a forum and site for technology related subjects (hence, for the nerds), it will inherently be biased towards one side. And of course the said modding will be radical, since the only people that bothers to mod are those with radical opinions. Secondly, you could also argue the same regarding many other online groups, including the PTA. Which consists of members who, pardon my language, are a bunch of "ultra conservertists and hard-core fundamentalists" (maybe a bit extreme, but just to make a point.
They're fighting TV, which is under FCC.
Which regulatory agency handles stuff that matters to Slashdotter (like OS)?
The reason we're here is because government is also powerless to stop it. That and Bush is in charge.
They're marking CSI and Cold Case as bad?
And their 10 best show listing, I hate most of them (except for one or two that I find acceptable.
Of course, except for CSI and Cold Case, I say their pick of the remaining 8 worst show is okay.
Huh, technically those things are already illegal, which means FCC would crack down on them anyway. Unless, of course, they're on cable and satellite, which is exempt for the simple reason that its easy for parents to control whether those shows came on or not.
Um... airwave isn't public. Airwave are owned by the government (technically FCC owns them) and are licensed out to tele-broadcaster.
It's the first time that it actually works. Note that they're not just weakening viruses, they're actually putting marker on viruses that basically screams to the immune system "Yo! This is bad guy! Come and get it!" Without that, past HIV vaccine don't promote sufficient response from the immune system to be effective. So the virus generally kills off the immune system before they could respond.
It will back-fire on them and force them into a downward spiral. Once they decide to hire only fresh out of college students (who don't know better, like me), they'll find that their development cycle lengthen due to software bugs. Which would force them to try to extend weekly hours, which leads to more experience to quit, which shift the general programming experience in the company to the low-end. Soon, they'll be able to only produce low quality softwares (think about their GBA/PC games that came out, low quality or just redoing the old thing OVER and OVER and OVER again).
Actually, California is heavily in debt because of their shoddy accounting practice and spending WAY more then they could get through tax.
I would consider ceasing all that person's asset plus a few year jail sentence on 1st offence and a lifelong ban on use of computer.
Just as a joke... don't take this seriously...
If there are many murderers in Texas, it just mean we haven't round them all up and put them down yet.
I believe they kind of have to. You don't want an employee who's disgruntled take it out on the customers. PR nightmare my friend.
Go for service industries, their customers is your hostages.
Hey, I don't mind delaying. But I'll be pissed if after delaying the game still turn out to be shitty.
One other thing, it's one of those Murphy Law in software development.
"Always report twice the amount of time needed to finish a code. Since your boss will slice that time in half for you."
So if you say you can finish in one year, your boss/PR will announce that the game will be finished in half a year.
The idea of this is that workers, when signing a contract, can automatically assume that the normal working hour is 40hrs/week by mandate of law. The law also specifies that any hrs in excess of 40 in a week must be given an overtime pay (I think it was 1.5 times the normal pay). An exemption to this is IT workers with annual pay above $90,000 (I think it 90,000).
Of course. No search engine look kindly upon automated bombing of their engine. If an IP behaves like it's bombing their site maliciously (a few hundred searches per minute maybe), then its fully their right to ban that IP.
Yes, you're correct. However, all crawlers are obligated (not legally, but as a courtesy) to obey the robots.txt which indicate which robots you're willing to allow on your site.
As a link pointed out by another poster...
http://www.google.com/robots.txt
Google specifically stated that robots cannot crawl its site.
Before you start slamming google. Almost all search engine contain said robots.txt to prevent other crawlers from overloading their server.
Disobeying the robots.txt is not illegal, you're correct.
However, among tech communities... it is an invitation to get SERIOUSLY hacked.
Actually the logic is this.
Said website (say www.abc.com) once had a page (say www.abc.com/foobar/index.html) that got removed, and was no longer linked.
Said link was remove only recently.
Google's SiteFind (site: command) is the one that can find the link www.abc.com/foobar/index.html (Google cache).
Searching for www.abc.com returns nothing on MSN search.
An IP registered to Microsoft suddenly starts accessing said website. And attempts to retrieve the URL www.abc.com/foobar/index.html that only exist on Google (or maybe Yahoo) in a fashion that indicates a crawler.
After the IP disconnects, MSN Search now contains the fully indexed www.abc.com that wasn't there before the crawler activity.
I say its a pretty good assumption to make that MSN Search might have used Google to crawl other website.
Keyword: Assumption and Might, he's merely forming a theory base on the behaviors of a crawler he observed. It's a good case since it is NOT possible for a crawler to try to access an unlinked page (but previously linked) unless it acquire the specific URL from other source. In this case, the logic is since Google is the only search engine that still contains said URL, MSN bots might be using Google.
True != truth.
Fact is something that can be supported by evidence and such, fact is objective.
Truth on the other hand is a philosophical question, which ultimately means its subjective.
I would have to disagree with you Sai Babu.
Historically (that is, until greed distort them), the roll of scientists and journalists ARE what jamie states.
Also I oppose your view that 'good' science is what educated and intellectual demand and pay, which is utterly BS.
Good science is science that can be repeated with consistency, that can stand under the scrutiny of its peer.
There was never a "split". It just that in the past, softwares and HAM radio didn't have much in common. Only until recently the HAM operators and software engineers began to find ways to combine the two. Several combination I've seen are.
1. Automated Morse-code sender and decoder.
2. Antenna control (used when doing a HAM satellite bounce)
3. Picture transmission (different color use different band, so you hear this odd static. Since by law you can't encrypt it, no porn).
4. Radio mail (like e-mail, except with much more error tolerance capability.)
5. Radio chat (think chatroom).
6. Short telephone call (by law, you can't hog the band space, forgot what the definitions are).
Actually no. Federal/International law has a VERY strict regulation on spamming on HAM radio. Generally any type of radio transmission (a general agreement between nations) requires that the radio operators to state his/her callsign at a time interval (forgot if it was every 15 minutes or 30 minutes). So if someone spams, you can either track him down easy using his callsign. Or if he's not using one or fake another callsign, he could get into a shitload of trouble with the FCC. And tracking down someone abusing radio is easy once you got two or more people.
The reason that the government crack down on this is because HAM radio is considered as an emergency communication channel. A very good example is that on 9/11, all communications from NYC (internet, cellphone, phone, and etc) failed because of over-congestion or physical destruction to the infrastructure, except for HAM radio, which helped coordinate the rescue effort and aides from other states.
Thie whitelist here is for a different idea.
Whitelist merely means that the sender could send message WITHOUT having to calculate the Hash value.
Basically, senders falls under two category.
Whitelisted - Receives without having to require a calculated hash.
Non-whitelisted - Need to have a hash on header to be accepted.
Glad to see people of like mind. I wish to extend your argument by including a few great explorers/scientists in the past that are under-estimated.
1. Christopher Columbus
2. Marco Polo
3. Albert Einstein
4. Nikolas Tesla
These are a few right off the top of my head.
Yes, I've seen the National Geographic's "Black Sky: The Race for Space". I'm especially impressed with his dream of having a functional, residential space station and a cheap transport (relatively) for people.
Burt Rutan: He really kicks the critics' ass.