I really don't think you can compare The Andromeda Strain et al to scientific papers. Chrichton wrote the book to be entertaining. Keeping it believable was one of his goals, but I doubt he was trying to be completely scientifically accurate.
That is a really good idea. Better yet, have a browser component that tells users, on the fly, what previous attempts at scanning the site have revealed (as they would have to be cached in order to have any sort of performance server-side). If a user notices that a site now offers spyware downloads, they could request that it get reexamined, and popular sites would get automatically reexamined often. This could be done using a cheap subscription model.
Has someone done this? It seems so obvious now that I've thought about it.
That's too evil and I would never do that to an employee. Forcing them to train their replacement? I'd be worried about a violent outburst, let alone a security breach.
I'd rather pay them the two weeks in off time in order to be sure that the system was safe.
Perhaps you could use a query that searches stories for a link to the same article that that story links to -- I would think that that would be a good way to detect dupes. (I don't know if you already do this or not.)
I had the same sort of experience, only mine was only about eleven or twelve years ago. A friend and myself scored highly on some standardized tests in grade three and were subsequently "identified" as being (and I hate to use this term because it makes me look like I'm bragging) gifted, or exceptional. We were then moved to another school in the city (quite a ways away from where we lived, mind you) where they offered the sorts of classes that you're talking about. Through grades five and six, we basically read a lot, had several class debates, and pretty much learned at our own pace. For me, it worked a lot better than having to stay at the same pace as everyone else and work at the same rate, because we all were interested in different things and were at different levels (there was this one kid who pretty much already knew calculus if I remember correctly).
I also learned programming during that time (C64 BASIC:^D), as did a lot of students in that class. Unfortunately, our grade 7-8 teacher (in the same program) was nowhere near as good as our grade 5-6 teacher, but I still am glad I had that experience.
While this could be used against "evil-doers" and in some cases might, this is an excuse for companies to say that someone is annoying or harrassing them online, and to be able to put said person in jail. It will have an incredibly chilling effect on online free speech when these sorts of attacks are made by companies against people who simply dislike the way they do business and want people to know.
I suspect it will also serve as a sort of catch-all threat by anyone powerful enough to have their own legal team: cross me and you'll go to jail, period.
Makes sense. My family acquired some low-end laptops (lowest was I think a 233 with 64MB RAM) when a company went out of business, and I was able to run XP on them just fine, without any major hitches. Just have to make sure you don't run more than a few apps at once.
The thing with +1, Funny is that, when someone posts a funny comment (especially near the top of a post), they'll often be modded down Overrated by mods who don't think the joke is particularly funny, or who just would rather have more serious discussion. If +1, Funny actually meant that, they would balance out, but from a user's karma perspective, it's actually +0, Funny, which means that the user suffers a net loss of karma due to the downmods. If the joke keeps being modded up and down, they could potentially lose even ten karma points, maybe more.
This could be corrected in code by making them not lose karma on a downmod if one of the previous upmods was a +1, Funny, but I really think that just making +1, Funny karma-worthy and letting users adjust as necessary in their user preferences is the best solution.
That's what +1, Underrated and -1, Overrated are for, except that a lot of moderators (myself included) won't use them because they short-circuit the metamod system by never appearing there. Overrated is often used by mods who don't agree with a post that is otherwise Interesting or Insightful, but don't want to be metamodded negatively.
These two things, plus making +1, Funny karma-worthy, would do a lot toward making the moderation system better.
You guys need to vote out the Republicans and replace them with someone who cares about your civil liberties. Seriously, I only see this getting worse if you still have Republicans in office in 2008 (not to mention the fact that they still have another two years to destroy your rights).
Why wouldn't you just run Apache as well on the Slackware comp? I assume this is a high school or elementary setup judging by the low end machines, so I doubt the email volume could be so much that sendmail could be taking up a lot of CPU.
I haven't got specifics for you but I have encountered segments of 15+ minutes of trailors and anti-piracy commercials where the root key and all navigation keys are locked out on my DVD player. Luckily, I don't think they included the fast-forward keys in the prohibited actions spec, so those always seem to work. Very annoying and anti-customer though.
Read the talk given to Microsoft Research by Cory Doctorow, specifically, the section on why DRM doesn't work. To summarize, any provider who uses DRM is, essentially, giving you the encrypted content, the code to how the decryption works, and the actual key used to decrypt the content. And believe me, no matter how much they goop up the logic board with epoxy, DVD Jon will still be able to get that key, and when all three are combined, you've got your DeCSS, or PlayFair, or whatever DRM-stripping technology you want.
IMHO that should be countered by a public service announcement-type campaign (if it did indeed become a problem, which here, it never really was) to teens of legal drinking age that their ability to buy alcohol came with responsibilities, one of which was not to purchase for a minor.
I don't think the laws should be based on the assumption that people are going to break them.
Wait, wait, wait. You don't mean DIVX, do you? Cause umm... yeah.
But I know what you mean with the whole digital renting thing. If that allowed for the same sorts of extras that DVDs have (and with modern digital boxes, such a thing is certainly not out of the realm of possibility, just needs a bit of programming), my family and I would probably be just as into them as you are. Right now, though, we're still renting quite a few DVDs from the local video store.
It's 21 to drink in Texas, and I have to say, I was shocked it was that high when I went over there. It's 19 here in Ontario, which I consider a fair age (though 18 would be better). I think at 18, nobody's going to be able to stop you if you want to drink anyway (you'll get the alcohol through an older friend or something).
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Strange, that wasn't what I got when I searched for "animal"...
Why would a web developer use the ping attribute now? AFAIK only Firefox supports it.
I'm pretty sure storing humans on your hard drive is illegal.
The internet will treat this as damage and route around it if they throttle down people.
I really don't think you can compare The Andromeda Strain et al to scientific papers. Chrichton wrote the book to be entertaining. Keeping it believable was one of his goals, but I doubt he was trying to be completely scientifically accurate.
Sorry, didn't realize that the company named was doing this as I couldn't access their Slashdotted server.
That is a really good idea. Better yet, have a browser component that tells users, on the fly, what previous attempts at scanning the site have revealed (as they would have to be cached in order to have any sort of performance server-side). If a user notices that a site now offers spyware downloads, they could request that it get reexamined, and popular sites would get automatically reexamined often. This could be done using a cheap subscription model.
Has someone done this? It seems so obvious now that I've thought about it.
Firefox has blocking for this, in Adblock. Block www.google-analytics.com and you won't be bothered again.
That's too evil and I would never do that to an employee. Forcing them to train their replacement? I'd be worried about a violent outburst, let alone a security breach.
I'd rather pay them the two weeks in off time in order to be sure that the system was safe.
I, for one, welcome our Dolphin Overlords.
HA! It's actually relevant this time!
What if I'm greedy and take all the insurance payments for anyone sending me any email?
Could add up to at least a morning coffee, y'know.
Hehe, exactly what I was thinking.
Metamodded: +1, Funny
Perhaps you could use a query that searches stories for a link to the same article that that story links to -- I would think that that would be a good way to detect dupes. (I don't know if you already do this or not.)
I had the same sort of experience, only mine was only about eleven or twelve years ago. A friend and myself scored highly on some standardized tests in grade three and were subsequently "identified" as being (and I hate to use this term because it makes me look like I'm bragging) gifted, or exceptional. We were then moved to another school in the city (quite a ways away from where we lived, mind you) where they offered the sorts of classes that you're talking about. Through grades five and six, we basically read a lot, had several class debates, and pretty much learned at our own pace. For me, it worked a lot better than having to stay at the same pace as everyone else and work at the same rate, because we all were interested in different things and were at different levels (there was this one kid who pretty much already knew calculus if I remember correctly).
:^D), as did a lot of students in that class. Unfortunately, our grade 7-8 teacher (in the same program) was nowhere near as good as our grade 5-6 teacher, but I still am glad I had that experience.
I also learned programming during that time (C64 BASIC
While this could be used against "evil-doers" and in some cases might, this is an excuse for companies to say that someone is annoying or harrassing them online, and to be able to put said person in jail. It will have an incredibly chilling effect on online free speech when these sorts of attacks are made by companies against people who simply dislike the way they do business and want people to know.
I suspect it will also serve as a sort of catch-all threat by anyone powerful enough to have their own legal team: cross me and you'll go to jail, period.
Makes sense. My family acquired some low-end laptops (lowest was I think a 233 with 64MB RAM) when a company went out of business, and I was able to run XP on them just fine, without any major hitches. Just have to make sure you don't run more than a few apps at once.
The thing with +1, Funny is that, when someone posts a funny comment (especially near the top of a post), they'll often be modded down Overrated by mods who don't think the joke is particularly funny, or who just would rather have more serious discussion. If +1, Funny actually meant that, they would balance out, but from a user's karma perspective, it's actually +0, Funny, which means that the user suffers a net loss of karma due to the downmods. If the joke keeps being modded up and down, they could potentially lose even ten karma points, maybe more.
This could be corrected in code by making them not lose karma on a downmod if one of the previous upmods was a +1, Funny, but I really think that just making +1, Funny karma-worthy and letting users adjust as necessary in their user preferences is the best solution.
That's what +1, Underrated and -1, Overrated are for, except that a lot of moderators (myself included) won't use them because they short-circuit the metamod system by never appearing there. Overrated is often used by mods who don't agree with a post that is otherwise Interesting or Insightful, but don't want to be metamodded negatively.
These two things, plus making +1, Funny karma-worthy, would do a lot toward making the moderation system better.
You guys need to vote out the Republicans and replace them with someone who cares about your civil liberties. Seriously, I only see this getting worse if you still have Republicans in office in 2008 (not to mention the fact that they still have another two years to destroy your rights).
Why wouldn't you just run Apache as well on the Slackware comp? I assume this is a high school or elementary setup judging by the low end machines, so I doubt the email volume could be so much that sendmail could be taking up a lot of CPU.
I haven't got specifics for you but I have encountered segments of 15+ minutes of trailors and anti-piracy commercials where the root key and all navigation keys are locked out on my DVD player. Luckily, I don't think they included the fast-forward keys in the prohibited actions spec, so those always seem to work. Very annoying and anti-customer though.
Read the talk given to Microsoft Research by Cory Doctorow, specifically, the section on why DRM doesn't work. To summarize, any provider who uses DRM is, essentially, giving you the encrypted content, the code to how the decryption works, and the actual key used to decrypt the content. And believe me, no matter how much they goop up the logic board with epoxy, DVD Jon will still be able to get that key, and when all three are combined, you've got your DeCSS, or PlayFair, or whatever DRM-stripping technology you want.
IMHO that should be countered by a public service announcement-type campaign (if it did indeed become a problem, which here, it never really was) to teens of legal drinking age that their ability to buy alcohol came with responsibilities, one of which was not to purchase for a minor.
I don't think the laws should be based on the assumption that people are going to break them.
Wait, wait, wait. You don't mean DIVX, do you? Cause umm... yeah.
But I know what you mean with the whole digital renting thing. If that allowed for the same sorts of extras that DVDs have (and with modern digital boxes, such a thing is certainly not out of the realm of possibility, just needs a bit of programming), my family and I would probably be just as into them as you are. Right now, though, we're still renting quite a few DVDs from the local video store.
It's 21 to drink in Texas, and I have to say, I was shocked it was that high when I went over there. It's 19 here in Ontario, which I consider a fair age (though 18 would be better). I think at 18, nobody's going to be able to stop you if you want to drink anyway (you'll get the alcohol through an older friend or something).