This actually isn't Googles fault. Check the servers robots.txt and you'll notice that it's disallowing all search engines from indexing the/help/ folder.
Well, it seems that this is a tool for AdWords users. The demo says "Google AdWords Website Optimization" and the sign-up thing reads:
We're currently accepting sign-ups from AdWords Advertisers who are interested in participating in this beta test. We may not be able to guarantee invitations to everyone, but will be working hard to make this tool generally available to all AdWords customers in the near future.
The front-page is misleading though, as it doesn't state anything about AdWords.
I thought that most bloggers were high schoolers? Don't believe me, check out livejournal. The literary talent is so good, it's slashing. But don't fall into despair, there's always some hope.
Take the Basenji for example. It's hypoallergenic, doesn't bark, grooms itself like a cat, and dislikes water like most cats.
Okay, what? I own two "hypo-allergenic" dogs (which by no means are really not hypoallergenic, just don't cause everybody symptoms the same), and know a lot of people who also own similar breeds and have allergies. And this is the first time that I've heard that the Basenji would be hypoallergenic and knowning the breed and the type of fur it has, I have a hard time of believing it.
The things in dogs that cause allergies are:
Dandruff (ok, there's propably some official term for that but don't know it in English)
Saliva
Urine
AFAIK, the Basenji has normal fur, therefore dandruff. It salivates and it damn well needs to pee just like any other dog. And when the dog's a puppy, it's going to pee on your floor, and a lot.
You're right that it doesn't bark, though. It doesn't make it a quiet dog still, far from it. Those suckers can really cause a racket.
I know. What I stated are the default settings of sudo / su. Hopefully these easy-to-use distributions have the default settings changed or the user is smart enough to change them.
Using sudo, you have to give your own password. Using su, you need to give the superuser password which in most cases is different and therefore gaining access to a normal account wouldn't make a difference as they couldn't breach root (at least not immediately).
And you can actually run the command sudo su if you are in the sudoers list. Guess what this does?
I have to disagree with you on this one. I'm not convinced that transmitting the output of, say, phpBB2 is the same as distributing the source of phpBB2. If I install it and modify a page, should I be obligated to make my patch available to anyone who views that page? That's not a rhetorical question, by the way, but a real issue that the GPLv3 introduces.
What makes it even more interesting is that many open-source web-apps keep their configuration in a PHP-script, for example with phpMyAdmin where in some cases it is necessary to write in the mysql username/password combination in the script itself for configuration. Now, if a PHP-application like this, would be distributed under GPLv3, would it's users be required by the license to give any modified source files if someone so requested, even the configuration files? Of course no-one in their right mind would provide some arbitrary third party with their passwords, but this might be a point where the GPLv3 needs some re-thinking or clarification.
There is actually a good reason for limiting access to a bug report: security issues with the browser.
To fix a security issue, it is really useful for the developer to have material that can be used to exploit the issue to verify if it's fixed or not. And would you like this information to be publicly available? Propably not. Doesn't matter if it's fixed, because there will be people running versions of the software which are still vulnerable.
Then, obviously, ad revenue is not the solution to their problem.
So if you want to provide a service that is free to the users, you're fucked? If the service is free, you have to make some compromises as to what it provides from the user's standpoint. Ads are an easy way to be able to provide a free service to users. The value of some of the free services to the users isn't that great that the users would pay money for it, but if suddenly it would be taken away, the users would be pissed. TANSTAAFL.
Of course there are ads and then there are ads. I run a free blogging service in Finland and all the revenue I get is from ads. But I use Google Adsense which allows me to show small, non-annoying ads but due to the number of visitors to the site, it's enough money for me to pay for the server/bandwith bill and then some (beer money, mostly). If I would change these ads to some flashing banners, the users would hate me after that. But without the bandwith revenue, there would be no site and no service (my site was the first Finland-based blogging site targeted only to the Finnish-speaking population), and that would be annoying. There isn't an alternative to ads for me.
I'm going to make a wild guess that Intel is not thinking about ye olde PCs, but devices. VoIP is the next thing, and they want to make sure all those appliances are running Intel chipsets.
Nope. From the press release on Skype.com:
The new feature is available exclusively for home and business users with Intel Centrino® Duo mobile technology-based laptop PCs, and desktop PCs based on Intel® Pentium® D processors, Pentium Extreme Edition processors, and the recently introduced Intel Viiv(TM) technology.
First of all, I think the link to the article is misleading. Okay, I didn't read all ten pages but did it actually discuss whether or not we can trust Google with our secrets? Or did it actually talk about Google's current trend and their "Do no evil"-vision.
Secondly, why would you trust a third party with your secrets? "Hey John, I got this really secret business plan that must not under any circumstances fall in to the wrong hands. I'll use my web-based free e-mail address to mail it to the necessary people and not use our secure corporate network instead." "Yeah, good idea."
Stupid, I say. If it's a secret, keep it a secret.
Actually, yes. We schould teach our children to doubt and question absolutely everything. To me, the need for a continuous search for answers is one of the greatest attributes a person can have.
But the real question is (in the spirit of the off-spun discussion): Is our children learning?
No way! That's where you're wrong, I've met a lot of nice women on the internet whose name didn't end in.jpg. Let's see, there was Ms. Mpg, Ms. Png, Ms. Avi and so forth.
They must've been poor though, all wanted my credit card number, but of course I feel bad for them since they apparently couldn't even afford clothes...
"Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document"
*blink*
I think my buzzword radar just broke. Kudos on using the word "hypermedia" in the patent application title twice.
So what's the point? The main thing of Napster is that you can legally download songs off the internet. Circumventing copyright protection schemes is illegal, at least here in Finland. So why not download the songs illegally in the first place? Of course there's the RIAA-factor but if you don't share, is there a problem as getting caught propably isn't that likely.
It's also common for police to "find" something to cite you for to justify pulling you over and searching you.
"Sir, you seem to have a broken taillight on your TCP packet, please step out of your application layer."
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I guess it's better than the html, which seems broken with my firefox setup.
Yep, it's broken on firefox with me too, running default setup on WinXP.
Given the fact that they can't make a simple webpage work with more than one browser makes me wonder how the hell did they manage to put two rovers on an another planet for a year...
This doesn't sound like anything really new to me, I remember logging on to my W2K workstation with a smart card in 2001 if I remember correctly, what's new here (the techworld article didn't want to respond to me so I can't RTFA)?
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This actually isn't Googles fault. Check the servers robots.txt and you'll notice that it's disallowing all search engines from indexing the /help/ folder.
Well, it seems that this is a tool for AdWords users. The demo says "Google AdWords Website Optimization" and the sign-up thing reads:
We're currently accepting sign-ups from AdWords Advertisers who are interested in participating in this beta test. We may not be able to guarantee invitations to everyone, but will be working hard to make this tool generally available to all AdWords customers in the near future.
The front-page is misleading though, as it doesn't state anything about AdWords.
I thought that most bloggers were high schoolers? Don't believe me, check out livejournal. The literary talent is so good, it's slashing. But don't fall into despair, there's always some hope.
I'll get my coat...
Take the Basenji for example. It's hypoallergenic, doesn't bark, grooms itself like a cat, and dislikes water like most cats.
Okay, what? I own two "hypo-allergenic" dogs (which by no means are really not hypoallergenic, just don't cause everybody symptoms the same), and know a lot of people who also own similar breeds and have allergies. And this is the first time that I've heard that the Basenji would be hypoallergenic and knowning the breed and the type of fur it has, I have a hard time of believing it.
The things in dogs that cause allergies are:
AFAIK, the Basenji has normal fur, therefore dandruff. It salivates and it damn well needs to pee just like any other dog. And when the dog's a puppy, it's going to pee on your floor, and a lot.
You're right that it doesn't bark, though. It doesn't make it a quiet dog still, far from it. Those suckers can really cause a racket.
Wait, what?
Who can honestly say that they did not immediately think of VR pr0n and ... well ... ahem ... you know...
I know. What I stated are the default settings of sudo / su. Hopefully these easy-to-use distributions have the default settings changed or the user is smart enough to change them.
Using sudo, you have to give your own password. Using su, you need to give the superuser password which in most cases is different and therefore gaining access to a normal account wouldn't make a difference as they couldn't breach root (at least not immediately).
And you can actually run the command sudo su if you are in the sudoers list. Guess what this does?
I have to disagree with you on this one. I'm not convinced that transmitting the output of, say, phpBB2 is the same as distributing the source of phpBB2. If I install it and modify a page, should I be obligated to make my patch available to anyone who views that page? That's not a rhetorical question, by the way, but a real issue that the GPLv3 introduces.
What makes it even more interesting is that many open-source web-apps keep their configuration in a PHP-script, for example with phpMyAdmin where in some cases it is necessary to write in the mysql username/password combination in the script itself for configuration. Now, if a PHP-application like this, would be distributed under GPLv3, would it's users be required by the license to give any modified source files if someone so requested, even the configuration files? Of course no-one in their right mind would provide some arbitrary third party with their passwords, but this might be a point where the GPLv3 needs some re-thinking or clarification.
This tax is one step further *away* from loosing your right to copy audio files. A step away from legally protected DRM.
... or not. Finland has had this tax for quite some time, and just at the start of this year, we got fucked with a new copyright law.
An example of this effects us can be found here.
You have realized that the automatic updates are not mandatory, right?
There is actually a good reason for limiting access to a bug report: security issues with the browser.
To fix a security issue, it is really useful for the developer to have material that can be used to exploit the issue to verify if it's fixed or not. And would you like this information to be publicly available? Propably not. Doesn't matter if it's fixed, because there will be people running versions of the software which are still vulnerable.
Then, obviously, ad revenue is not the solution to their problem.
So if you want to provide a service that is free to the users, you're fucked? If the service is free, you have to make some compromises as to what it provides from the user's standpoint. Ads are an easy way to be able to provide a free service to users. The value of some of the free services to the users isn't that great that the users would pay money for it, but if suddenly it would be taken away, the users would be pissed. TANSTAAFL.
Of course there are ads and then there are ads. I run a free blogging service in Finland and all the revenue I get is from ads. But I use Google Adsense which allows me to show small, non-annoying ads but due to the number of visitors to the site, it's enough money for me to pay for the server/bandwith bill and then some (beer money, mostly). If I would change these ads to some flashing banners, the users would hate me after that. But without the bandwith revenue, there would be no site and no service (my site was the first Finland-based blogging site targeted only to the Finnish-speaking population), and that would be annoying. There isn't an alternative to ads for me.
I'm going to make a wild guess that Intel is not thinking about ye olde PCs, but devices. VoIP is the next thing, and they want to make sure all those appliances are running Intel chipsets.
Nope. From the press release on Skype.com:
The new feature is available exclusively for home and business users with Intel Centrino® Duo mobile technology-based laptop PCs, and desktop PCs based on Intel® Pentium® D processors, Pentium Extreme Edition processors, and the recently introduced Intel Viiv(TM) technology.
First of all, I think the link to the article is misleading. Okay, I didn't read all ten pages but did it actually discuss whether or not we can trust Google with our secrets? Or did it actually talk about Google's current trend and their "Do no evil"-vision.
Secondly, why would you trust a third party with your secrets? "Hey John, I got this really secret business plan that must not under any circumstances fall in to the wrong hands. I'll use my web-based free e-mail address to mail it to the necessary people and not use our secure corporate network instead." "Yeah, good idea."
Stupid, I say. If it's a secret, keep it a secret.
Here's everything you can read. Unless you're a subscriber to TIME.
Or if you click through the ads, you can read the whole article. No subscription necessary.Actually, yes. We schould teach our children to doubt and question absolutely everything. To me, the need for a continuous search for answers is one of the greatest attributes a person can have.
But the real question is (in the spirit of the off-spun discussion): Is our children learning?
The catch is, their names all end in .jpg ...
No way! That's where you're wrong, I've met a lot of nice women on the internet whose name didn't end in .jpg. Let's see, there was Ms. Mpg, Ms. Png, Ms. Avi and so forth.
They must've been poor though, all wanted my credit card number, but of course I feel bad for them since they apparently couldn't even afford clothes...
"Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document"
*blink*
I think my buzzword radar just broke. Kudos on using the word "hypermedia" in the patent application title twice.
A news site in Copenhagen had this last year...
http://www.copcap.com/composite-8636.htm
Aww, crap, my bad. The legistlation was never indeed passed. And I'm really hoping that nothing of the like will ever be passed.
So what's the point? The main thing of Napster is that you can legally download songs off the internet. Circumventing copyright protection schemes is illegal, at least here in Finland. So why not download the songs illegally in the first place? Of course there's the RIAA-factor but if you don't share, is there a problem as getting caught propably isn't that likely.
It's also common for police to "find" something to cite you for to justify pulling you over and searching you.
"Sir, you seem to have a broken taillight on your TCP packet, please step out of your application layer."
I guess it's better than the html, which seems broken with my firefox setup.
Yep, it's broken on firefox with me too, running default setup on WinXP.
Given the fact that they can't make a simple webpage work with more than one browser makes me wonder how the hell did they manage to put two rovers on an another planet for a year...
-1, Idiot
Have any of you noticed how much of the Vioxx related ones are now for ambulance chasing lawyers? Or am I the only one so "fortunate"?
Yeah, I've been getting mostly those. Maybe I could combine these two:
1. Buy Vioxx through spam
2. Get a heart attack
3. Use "class-action suit against Vioxx" spams to file a lawsuit
4. Profit!!!
There are still some flaws in that plan, but hey, nothing worth having comes easy...
-1, Tasteless
This doesn't sound like anything really new to me, I remember logging on to my W2K workstation with a smart card in 2001 if I remember correctly, what's new here (the techworld article didn't want to respond to me so I can't RTFA)?