The reason the 14 big sites have captured such a big percentage of an audience is that the audience has grown much larger. There is also a much larger percentage of Joe Schmoes. In 1994, most of the Internet's users were nerds of some sort (whether computer geeks or university staff/students) who would not care for AOL.com anyway.
Even though MSYAHOL has captured 60% of the Web's audience, this doesn't mean that the audience of the "weird" sites has grown smaller. I'm quite sure that while their "market share" has decreased, the actual numbers have increased.
Just scroll up to the top of the page, leave all the select boxes the same, and just click Change. Voila! The same comments, but the story is not displayed.
I remember playing their arcade games a few years ago. Though most of the games were pretty crappy, IMHO, I really liked the idea of having several different games in one machine. Anyone know if these multi-game arcades caught on with any other companies?
This is a nice little demonstration that could be used to show people just how easy it is to monitor someone else's computer usage. Anyone out there working for a company that sells Faraday cages?:)
And since we're on the topic of Tempest, does anyone know how well PGP's "Tempest-proof" Secure Viewer works?
Does it seem weird to anyone else that MS would have a limited number of licenses on an OS? Isn't this just a serial number generated by a script/program within a few seconds?
"Wow, Windows XP is so popular, Microsoft ran out of licenses!"
If I'm searching for something and the wrong sites come up, I simply look for a keyword that is present on most of the sites I don't need that wouldn't be present on the sites I do need, and then add it to the exclusion list.
For example, if I'm looking for info on a Toyota Supra and too many Celica-related pages come up, I'll type:
toyota supra -celica
On a related note, does anyone feel that Google's built-in exclusion list of universal keywords (a,1,of) is really aggravating when Google excludes those words in phrases?
I can't see any reason to store IP addresses this way, though. Maybe someone from the Slash development team could elaborate on this.
Since I also run a submission-based website, I would imagine that the IP addresses are stored to make it easy to clean up after a spam flood. My site, however, deletes the IP address from the database as soon as the submission is approved or rejected. I agree, however, that hashing the IP address is a waste of time, for the reasons already stated by another poster (easy to reverse).
While CompuServe didn't have much luck with their numerical e-mail addresses, ICQ seems to work quite well. IMHO, it is much easier to give someone a 6-9 digit number for ICQ than spell out a screen name for AIM. It is certainly within human ability to remember one 11-digit number.
Well, if the sandpaper company recommended that you copy its sandpaper with your photocopier, then, yeah, you would sue them and probably win. CD players are meant for playing CD disks. Photocopiers are not meant for copying sandpaper.
(This post is, obviously, entirely objective. I'm sure that someone will reply and say that in their city/country it is, in fact, commonplace to photocopy sandpaper, that photocopiers come with special provisions for this, and so on.)
You're paying for someone to spend their time to educate your children, the materials the books are printed on, the desks, the chairs, the building maintenance, and so on. It isn't free beer, in other words.;)
A company has a neat product that makes life easier and everyone who uses it loves it. Then, the idea is copied by Microsoft, and everyone automatically thinks that it is the devil, and that Microsoft will use it to take over the world.
I am not Microsoft's biggest fan. I use very few of their products. But please, let's at least look at what we're talking about.
Flyswat has a pretty much identical add-on for IE5+. If you use IE, give it a try.
The question is, what if I don't need that extra step of protection, since I don't find TV shows that important? Maybe I don't think I have to safeguard against that.
If you don't want to take part in the Tivo process, don't plug it into the phone jack -- Tivo doesn't owe you a free clock sync if you're not paying them to use their network.
The posts on the linked BBS seems to imply that TiVo units' clocks lose a minute a month if they are not synchronized with the NTP servers. I highly doubt the possibility of this just being a bug that escaped TiVo's QA testing, especially given what they just did with the 2.0 upgrades. It all seems very underhanded.
I used mine for taking off the cap off a hot radiator. Would've gotten shot in the head with the cap otherwise. Lots of pressure in that sucker. I still got sprayed with the hot radiator water though.
Why should IT reinvent the wheel? If the employees will let themselves be fucked out of money because they like their jobs, why not fuck them out of the money? (This isn't a troll. It's happened to me, and it took me a while to realize it.)
I'm sorry -- I didn't mean it that way. I liked your post, and I'm sorry if it seemed like I just wanted to nitpick.
Again, I liked the post, but your use of "u-kernel" made it seem less knowledgeable, sort of like when you read an otherwise informative post about computer security and then the person uses "virii"[?] three times in a row.
You really shouldn't substitute a u for a mu. If you're so special that writing microkernel is too hard for you, then perhaps you should at least use the right symbol. A (mu) is not the same as a u.
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Even though MSYAHOL has captured 60% of the Web's audience, this doesn't mean that the audience of the "weird" sites has grown smaller. I'm quite sure that while their "market share" has decreased, the actual numbers have increased.
Just scroll up to the top of the page, leave all the select boxes the same, and just click Change. Voila! The same comments, but the story is not displayed.
Is anyone else getting broken images on Slashdot? None of them are loading, and the server seems to be returning a 403. Is it just me?
I remember playing their arcade games a few years ago. Though most of the games were pretty crappy, IMHO, I really liked the idea of having several different games in one machine. Anyone know if these multi-game arcades caught on with any other companies?
And since we're on the topic of Tempest, does anyone know how well PGP's "Tempest-proof" Secure Viewer works?
"Wow, Windows XP is so popular, Microsoft ran out of licenses!"
my site gets at least 50 hits a month from searches for "swedish porn". also, "amputated penis", "charcoal underwear", and "president bush daughter".
For example, if I'm looking for info on a Toyota Supra and too many Celica-related pages come up, I'll type:
toyota supra -celica
On a related note, does anyone feel that Google's built-in exclusion list of universal keywords (a,1,of) is really aggravating when Google excludes those words in phrases?
Since I also run a submission-based website, I would imagine that the IP addresses are stored to make it easy to clean up after a spam flood. My site, however, deletes the IP address from the database as soon as the submission is approved or rejected. I agree, however, that hashing the IP address is a waste of time, for the reasons already stated by another poster (easy to reverse).
http://ps6mirror.hypermart.net/www.carrionsound.co m/
While CompuServe didn't have much luck with their numerical e-mail addresses, ICQ seems to work quite well. IMHO, it is much easier to give someone a 6-9 digit number for ICQ than spell out a screen name for AIM. It is certainly within human ability to remember one 11-digit number.
(This post is, obviously, entirely objective. I'm sure that someone will reply and say that in their city/country it is, in fact, commonplace to photocopy sandpaper, that photocopiers come with special provisions for this, and so on.)
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I am not Microsoft's biggest fan. I use very few of their products. But please, let's at least look at what we're talking about.
Flyswat has a pretty much identical add-on for IE5+. If you use IE, give it a try.
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The posts on the linked BBS seems to imply that TiVo units' clocks lose a minute a month if they are not synchronized with the NTP servers. I highly doubt the possibility of this just being a bug that escaped TiVo's QA testing, especially given what they just did with the 2.0 upgrades. It all seems very underhanded.
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Again, I liked the post, but your use of "u-kernel" made it seem less knowledgeable, sort of like when you read an otherwise informative post about computer security and then the person uses "virii"[?] three times in a row.
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