Why would I use another search engine when I can use Google?
Maybe because Google doesn't list some URLs that another search engines list?
If you're looking for something rather obscure, or even just unpopular, chances are that Google's PR algorithm would consider it irrelevant (not enough inbound links), while it won't be penalized the same way by other search engines.
Having said this, Google's results are usually excellent. Google could get better though if they allowed users to tweak their algorithms for each query (e.g. an "ignore PR" flag could be useful), while keeping the current settings the default.
If I were him, I would leave that paywall idea go and think of alternatives.
He could have people pay (a little) to get a "premium" ad-free version of his sites... Not relevant to us ABP users, but I can imagine that a lot of IE or Chrome users may care.
Huh? Doesn't Emacs honor --prefix or a similar flag consistently? I can't tell, because on my FreeBSD box, Emacs installs itself in/usr/local (including/usr/local/share/emacs) just like any other third party application from the ports system would. Perhaps Debian Emacs port/package maintainers didn't set some configure flags consistently with Linux FTS (or was it Debian FTS)? This is something that really should be customizable.
A party needs a certain number of supporters before it is allowed to participate in an election. All parties where aware of that fact, all parties hat time to collect signatures from supporters.
Absolutely! Actually, due to lack of experience, many new parties are not really aware of all regulations.
For example, the Pirate Party in Northrhine-Westfalia had over 1,000 support signatures invalidated by the elections official (Wahlleiterin) because they modified the official PDF to include machine-fillable textfields, and many people downloaded and used those modified PDFs. Now, because support signatures are registered at the city hall of every supporter so a single individual doesn't support more than one party (don't worry: they don't register WHICH party you support, only THAT you support one), those signatures were effectively void, and the Pirates had to collect 1,000+ NEW signatures (i.e. from additional supporters) within 3-4 days after being notified by the Wahlleiterin.
Well, they made it of course, even though it was hard to get those city-hall confirmed signatures in time. That's a typical example of what can get wrong when you're a rookie party.
Let's hope the Pirates will make enough noise in the upcoming elections. Even if they won't reach the necessary 5% to get into the Bundestag (Parliament), if the press starts talking about them, that's already a good thing.
It's still ultimately his own fault for relying on an electronic device, if it crashed and he lost his data he wouldn't have a right to sue then and he'd be in the same boat.
There's a big difference between electronic devices failing because nothing -- including technology -- is perfect, and intentionally and willfully destroying content, as Amazon did in this case.
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Breaking RSA means to to break the problem of factoring a bignum into its prime factors. Since this is essentially a pure mathematical problem, I expect the first one to solve it to be a mathematician, using old fashioned pen and paper (and not a quantum computer).
The fundamental property of spam is that it involves many similar messages going to a large number of destinations.
It won't be long until the zombies create individual spams for each recipient. Just scramble the catch words, add some random stuff to the gifs so they message-digest differently etc..., and there's not enough similarity in the messages anymore to be statistically detectable.
If at all, traffic analysis would help, but here too, botnets are extremely flexible and could spread batch runs in IP-space and time domain quite effectively, if need be.
It's a never ending arms' race.
Granted, bubble sort is slower in C/C++ than Quicksort in Java. Then again, we do have qsort(3) in C and std::sort() in C++/STL, and slow C++ code is usually the result of developer newbies misunderstanding the copy semantics of parameter passing.
Maybe he's living behind a Great National Firewall that blocks port 80 to some sites?
Actually, it makes a whole lot of sense, to fetch web pages remotely via e-mail. When that smtp-http gateway even PGP encrypts/signs the pages, it would be pretty cool.
The thing to do, IMNSHO, is continue working to change the spirit of the law.
The idealist in me agrees. The cynic in me asks where the deep pockets to do that are. And the realist in me says that people will simply ignore an unpopular law.
$199 + ~$20 shipping + 17-23% VAT - a single imported windows seven pro would be no more than $270, or 192 euro. You save 97 euro or $135 PER licence.
But what about customs fees? They usually exceed VAT a lot, due to protectionism. And will a US copy of Windows activate from a European IP address / European phone call?
Actually, the higher price is probably also due to I18N translation costs, though that is certainly not the only reason. The main reason is IMHO simply higher purchasing power in the EU, compared to the US. Even within the EU, consumer prices are usually higher in Germany than in Spain. But compared to the purchasing power in those countries, it is more or less the same.
Wherever you emigrate to, you'll enjoy less freedom that the locals, because as a (legal) alien, you usually don't enjoy all Citizen's rights. Effectively, you'll be at the mercy of the foreign government even more than at home. But if you're willing to accept that risk, there are plenty of countries outside the US/EU sphere that you can feel comfortable in... as long as you don't collide with their local taboos and social rules.
people come up with even new technology to avoid such scenarios.
That's exactly what is already happening with distributed hash tables and other trackerless torrents. TPB belongs to the dinosaurs of P2P: they are a single point of failure and it was quite obvious that the powers that be would throw all their weight in to strangle them to death. If at all, this spectrial should be a waking call to all P2P users to seriously move more towards decentralized torrenting. A swarm shouldn't have a vulnerable center point.
She's stupid and/or malicious, and very likely both. She should be forced to resign, and stripped of her pension.
IMHO, she's just a straw-woman for people pushing a totally different agenda. Like, say, establishing the filtering infrastructure that will ultimately be used to lock out file sharers and to silence dissidents' websites. Give the matter some years (pessimistically, 10 to 15 yrs?), and most countries in the world will have reached China or Iran standards w.r.t. attempted Internet censorship.
But the flux capacitor has been patented by a patent troll who's been constantly refusing to sell it to the starving car industry. We'll need to wait 20 years until that patent expires (make that 50, 70, 95, 120+ years if lobbying is successful to extend the length of patents just like copyrights). But then, way ahead in the future, we could travel back in time and use those flying cars right away.
Wouldn't that be a typical intelligent use for stimulus packages? A complete overhaul is needed anyway. So instead of spending gazillions of dollars to rescue non-working companies and their dinosaur business models, wouldn't this public money be better spent in repairing public infrastructure (i.e. where it belongs)?
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Maybe because Google doesn't list some URLs that another search engines list?
If you're looking for something rather obscure, or even just unpopular, chances are that Google's PR algorithm would consider it irrelevant (not enough inbound links), while it won't be penalized the same way by other search engines.
Having said this, Google's results are usually excellent. Google could get better though if they allowed users to tweak their algorithms for each query (e.g. an "ignore PR" flag could be useful), while keeping the current settings the default.
He could have people pay (a little) to get a "premium" ad-free version of his sites... Not relevant to us ABP users, but I can imagine that a lot of IE or Chrome users may care.
Huh? Doesn't Emacs honor --prefix or a similar flag consistently? I can't tell, because on my FreeBSD box, Emacs installs itself in /usr/local (including /usr/local/share/emacs) just like any other third party application from the ports system would. Perhaps Debian Emacs port/package maintainers didn't set some configure flags consistently with Linux FTS (or was it Debian FTS)? This is something that really should be customizable.
Absolutely! Actually, due to lack of experience, many new parties are not really aware of all regulations. For example, the Pirate Party in Northrhine-Westfalia had over 1,000 support signatures invalidated by the elections official (Wahlleiterin) because they modified the official PDF to include machine-fillable textfields, and many people downloaded and used those modified PDFs. Now, because support signatures are registered at the city hall of every supporter so a single individual doesn't support more than one party (don't worry: they don't register WHICH party you support, only THAT you support one), those signatures were effectively void, and the Pirates had to collect 1,000+ NEW signatures (i.e. from additional supporters) within 3-4 days after being notified by the Wahlleiterin. Well, they made it of course, even though it was hard to get those city-hall confirmed signatures in time. That's a typical example of what can get wrong when you're a rookie party. Let's hope the Pirates will make enough noise in the upcoming elections. Even if they won't reach the necessary 5% to get into the Bundestag (Parliament), if the press starts talking about them, that's already a good thing.
There's a big difference between electronic devices failing because nothing -- including technology -- is perfect, and intentionally and willfully destroying content, as Amazon did in this case.
Breaking RSA means to to break the problem of factoring a bignum into its prime factors. Since this is essentially a pure mathematical problem, I expect the first one to solve it to be a mathematician, using old fashioned pen and paper (and not a quantum computer).
It won't be long until the zombies create individual spams for each recipient. Just scramble the catch words, add some random stuff to the gifs so they message-digest differently etc..., and there's not enough similarity in the messages anymore to be statistically detectable. If at all, traffic analysis would help, but here too, botnets are extremely flexible and could spread batch runs in IP-space and time domain quite effectively, if need be. It's a never ending arms' race.
Have you actually factored in the interest rates on those $1.92M? Effectively, this sentence is equivalent to labor camp for life, not just 32 years.
Actually, the bigger risk for a hospital would be a lethal biological virus... that is immune to blue pills.
Well I hope the Indian government knows that the 32-bit ID space is probably a tad too cramped...
Eliza: Is it because you sound angry tell me how you feel about this that you came to me?
Granted, bubble sort is slower in C/C++ than Quicksort in Java. Then again, we do have qsort(3) in C and std::sort() in C++/STL, and slow C++ code is usually the result of developer newbies misunderstanding the copy semantics of parameter passing.
Maybe he's living behind a Great National Firewall that blocks port 80 to some sites?
Actually, it makes a whole lot of sense, to fetch web pages remotely via e-mail. When that smtp-http gateway even PGP encrypts/signs the pages, it would be pretty cool.
The idealist in me agrees. The cynic in me asks where the deep pockets to do that are. And the realist in me says that people will simply ignore an unpopular law.
Exactly. Windows should have been MUI for everyone from the start.
But what about customs fees? They usually exceed VAT a lot, due to protectionism. And will a US copy of Windows activate from a European IP address / European phone call?
Actually, the higher price is probably also due to I18N translation costs, though that is certainly not the only reason. The main reason is IMHO simply higher purchasing power in the EU, compared to the US. Even within the EU, consumer prices are usually higher in Germany than in Spain. But compared to the purchasing power in those countries, it is more or less the same.
What? I thought they'd speak PHP everywhere... Or was it Java?
Wherever you emigrate to, you'll enjoy less freedom that the locals, because as a (legal) alien, you usually don't enjoy all Citizen's rights. Effectively, you'll be at the mercy of the foreign government even more than at home. But if you're willing to accept that risk, there are plenty of countries outside the US/EU sphere that you can feel comfortable in... as long as you don't collide with their local taboos and social rules.
That's exactly what is already happening with distributed hash tables and other trackerless torrents. TPB belongs to the dinosaurs of P2P: they are a single point of failure and it was quite obvious that the powers that be would throw all their weight in to strangle them to death. If at all, this spectrial should be a waking call to all P2P users to seriously move more towards decentralized torrenting. A swarm shouldn't have a vulnerable center point.
She's stupid and/or malicious, and very likely both. She should be forced to resign, and stripped of her pension.
IMHO, she's just a straw-woman for people pushing a totally different agenda. Like, say, establishing the filtering infrastructure that will ultimately be used to lock out file sharers and to silence dissidents' websites. Give the matter some years (pessimistically, 10 to 15 yrs?), and most countries in the world will have reached China or Iran standards w.r.t. attempted Internet censorship.
But the flux capacitor has been patented by a patent troll who's been constantly refusing to sell it to the starving car industry. We'll need to wait 20 years until that patent expires (make that 50, 70, 95, 120+ years if lobbying is successful to extend the length of patents just like copyrights). But then, way ahead in the future, we could travel back in time and use those flying cars right away.
Wouldn't that be a typical intelligent use for stimulus packages? A complete overhaul is needed anyway. So instead of spending gazillions of dollars to rescue non-working companies and their dinosaur business models, wouldn't this public money be better spent in repairing public infrastructure (i.e. where it belongs)?
Wikileaks seems more appropriate here...
It's a pity that only UK citizens are allowed to petition, Alan Turing and BP being part of humanity's cultural heritage.
You mean something like portalfs, as implemented e.g. in FreeBSD?