...that a site for (presumably by) nerds has so little hair on its chest that it's slashdotted within 30 seconds after posting. Wannabe nerds, methinks.
This is the United States of America. The OSCE can thank me and my ancestors for saving their asses in WWII and throughout the cold war, then kiss mine while saluting.
As though their opinion matters...Jeez!
Heirs to the copyright of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" sued publisher Houghton Mifflin to stop publication of a parody novel, Alice Randall's "The Wind Done Gone." HM won in an out-of-court settlement and published the parody. See http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp ?documentID=16230
"From porn to religion... from the left to the right... many groups have figured out how to manipulate search results. It's life or death in the web world to optimize, It's google's responsibility if they are going to deliver news that they deliver both sides of a story."
Google is in the search/information business, not the news business. Note it is *business*, not journalism. As such, it is incumbent upon them and their shareholders to "optimize" (i.e. bias searches toward what they believe is the best/most profitable user base) because it can sepell the difference between "life or death in the web world." If you want journalistic integrity, I suggest CBS/Dan Rather.
Unfortunately, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon. Many (most?) ISP admins/abuse departments are either too clueless or too overworked to bother with infected clients.
I have been receiving the same virus (Beagle variant) from the same IP and reporting same for months (including at least two phone calls to the abuse department), and it just keeps on coming.
Perhaps they see "virus" infection as some sort of social stigma and therefore hands-off in the name of political correctness.
A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with my son-in-law (IBM engineer) about the next quantum leap in computer technology. I said it would be in the area of speech recognition.
...no matter what forums I vist, the ratio of head-in-sand vs. don't-confuse-me-with-facts types remains fairly constant.
Is it possible that that/. really is representative of a real cross section of real people?
...it is 90 precent isopropyl. Back in the day when I did engineering consulting for systems powered by Data General Nova 4 mini-computers, we used 90 persent isopropyl for everything from cleaning disk heads to deodorizing. The 70 percent stuff (rubbing alcohol) leaves redisdues the effects of which I'd rather not remember.
"Do they just want us to see a wider array of their ads?"
Of course it is about ads.
Website content is there for no reason other than to get you to visit the site. The site exists solely as a venue for ads, period. The ads pay the costs associated with operating the site, and make the owners sufficient profit to make it worthwhile to keep the site up.
In short, capitalism at work. Gotta love it.
> I would say that if most people are too ignorant or don't have the right values to make a sane decision voting-wise, then what is needed is a better education system, not a better voting system.
You can send a collie to school every day for 10 years, and it will still never learn to read or reduce fractions. Education is not cure-all, which is demonstrated in the cliche "ignorance is cureable, stupid is forever."
> We refer to it as the Internet. Corporations have intranets. The capitalization conveys meaning. Wired's usage is wrong.
We refer to it as the ocean, the "world wide interconnected waterway." Wired is correct to de-cap internet.
Politicians do not read their own email, aids do and vet the contents before the politicos ever see it.
Ergo, politicians do not even understand what spam is.
Ergo, politicians do not know what to do about spam.
To most politicians, spam is a canned meat product.
DZ
A few years ago, I could not access a website and when I checked with my ISP, they said they had blocked the entire domain that hosted the website for hosting spammers.
Assuming that can still be done, wouldn't it make sense for reputable ISPs to simply block all traffic from/to domains or networks that host spammers or the websites of spamvertizing advertisers?
Slashdot Mirror
...that a site for (presumably by) nerds has so little hair on its chest that it's slashdotted within 30 seconds after posting. Wannabe nerds, methinks.
This is the United States of America. The OSCE can thank me and my ancestors for saving their asses in WWII and throughout the cold war, then kiss mine while saluting. As though their opinion matters...Jeez!
Heirs to the copyright of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" sued publisher Houghton Mifflin to stop publication of a parody novel, Alice Randall's "The Wind Done Gone." HM won in an out-of-court settlement and published the parody. See http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp ?documentID=16230
"From porn to religion... from the left to the right... many groups have figured out how to manipulate search results. It's life or death in the web world to optimize, It's google's responsibility if they are going to deliver news that they deliver both sides of a story."
Google is in the search/information business, not the news business. Note it is *business*, not journalism. As such, it is incumbent upon them and their shareholders to "optimize" (i.e. bias searches toward what they believe is the best/most profitable user base) because it can sepell the difference between "life or death in the web world." If you want journalistic integrity, I suggest CBS/Dan Rather.
Unfortunately, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon. Many (most?) ISP admins/abuse departments are either too clueless or too overworked to bother with infected clients.
I have been receiving the same virus (Beagle variant) from the same IP and reporting same for months (including at least two phone calls to the abuse department), and it just keeps on coming.
Perhaps they see "virus" infection as some sort of social stigma and therefore hands-off in the name of political correctness.
What? You post to /. and have never flagellated a moribund equine?
Yeah, well, when you are an oudated nerd you have to get your kicks somewhere.
Funnier still...
A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with my son-in-law (IBM engineer) about the next quantum leap in computer technology. I said it would be in the area of speech recognition.
I love it when I am right.
...no matter what forums I vist, the ratio of head-in-sand vs. don't-confuse-me-with-facts types remains fairly constant. Is it possible that that /. really is representative of a real cross section of real people?
...it is 90 precent isopropyl. Back in the day when I did engineering consulting for systems powered by Data General Nova 4 mini-computers, we used 90 persent isopropyl for everything from cleaning disk heads to deodorizing. The 70 percent stuff (rubbing alcohol) leaves redisdues the effects of which I'd rather not remember.
"Do they just want us to see a wider array of their ads?" Of course it is about ads. Website content is there for no reason other than to get you to visit the site. The site exists solely as a venue for ads, period. The ads pay the costs associated with operating the site, and make the owners sufficient profit to make it worthwhile to keep the site up. In short, capitalism at work. Gotta love it.
> I would say that if most people are too ignorant or don't have the right values to make a sane decision voting-wise, then what is needed is a better education system, not a better voting system. You can send a collie to school every day for 10 years, and it will still never learn to read or reduce fractions. Education is not cure-all, which is demonstrated in the cliche "ignorance is cureable, stupid is forever."
> We refer to it as the Internet. Corporations have intranets. The capitalization conveys meaning. Wired's usage is wrong. We refer to it as the ocean, the "world wide interconnected waterway." Wired is correct to de-cap internet.
Politicians do not read their own email, aids do and vet the contents before the politicos ever see it. Ergo, politicians do not even understand what spam is. Ergo, politicians do not know what to do about spam. To most politicians, spam is a canned meat product. DZ
A few years ago, I could not access a website and when I checked with my ISP, they said they had blocked the entire domain that hosted the website for hosting spammers. Assuming that can still be done, wouldn't it make sense for reputable ISPs to simply block all traffic from/to domains or networks that host spammers or the websites of spamvertizing advertisers?