I mean, if you're searching for something specific, how is Google suggest going to help you?
IDNRTFA (I Did Not Read The F**king Article), but a few examples:
Joe User needs a device driver for his sound card. He isn't an 18th-level Googlesearcher*, so he types "sound card driver".
A typical search engine would give him 2^Onebignumber results, all of which look pretty foreign to him.
Google Suggest, on the other hand, intelligently points out the Windows Update** website, where he sees that he can update his device drivers from a recognized source. He does so, and all of his world's problems disappear for about 2^1 nanoseconds.
At least, that's the way I think Google wants to make Suggest work...
The thing that will sink this is when Google starts offering advertisers the ability to be suggested.
*Acquired by spending long years under the apprenticeship of a slave-driving task master.
**Joe User is not a free software user. Yet.
Fuck your nasty parasitic self all you like. If you find a species that exists in harmony with its surroundings, it's a sure bet that species doesn't live on earth. EVERYTHING that lives is intertwined in the fates of the other living things around it. Get over it, ya matrix fanboy wannabe.
Hey, that would be totally fuckin' awesome, you radical environmental dude...I applaud your sense of long term responsibility. But what happens when the Great Big Rock drops from the sky and smashes us all flat?
The $Deity-given purpose of ALL species is to survive and procreate. Even if you don't have a $deity, every fiber of your being is wired to survive and ensure a future generation.
It's no coincidence this guy's work is entitled the "Big Picture". This is us humans deciding that we're gonna survive a little meteor, a little atomic war, maybe even a little supernova. See, that this thing called the Big Picture. We decide that our race will survive anything, and put our best minds and hands to work.
When the bidding to run.net is complete a few months from now, the winning bidder is expected to come up with an annual per-domain charge that's under $6. Even with the additional 75-cent fee imposed, ICANN estimates, consumers will pay less than they do today--though critics argue that domain name owners would save even more money if ICANN didn't levy a new tax.
When Microsoft requires 100 dollars or more per seat, and starts forcing you to let them validate your licences, people will just move to something without those controls.
Someone help me out here: is this 2004?? I ask because this guy seems to be stuck in 1991.
So, where's the profit? Is this whole thing reliant on building a large enough user base where the 'float' on all that virtual money can sustain the enterprise on interest payments?
Theatre, Centre, and a hundred (or more) other spellings changed thanks to usage. Need more examples? Or were you content to toss flame indiscriminately?
If a spammer puts my URL in millions of spam messages, I'm gonna have to pay the bill for each and every retard that clicks the link to me. If the link is hidden, doesn't work, or otherwise wouldn't route back to me, I have no worries. It should also prove trivial to determine which links contain referrer-style information, and just blast those. It's also clear you did not RTFP. I would do this only to messages the user explicitly tags as junk, and maybe go a step beyond that. I would love to see a button that I could click for a given piece of mail that says "Exact Retribution?".
Or maybe I right-click the link I want to target.
Repeat after me: I will not strike back at someone who is punching me in the face. Doesn't sound so hot, now, does it?
Noooooo... I think the point is being missed. I think the best attack is one that totally ignores the origin point of the spam, and instead slams the shit out of the intended 'beneficiary' of the spam traffic. This would be like forcing a Slashdot Effect on anyone using spam to promote their websites.
My vision: an extension in Thunderbird (or plug-in for any other mail client) automatically looks for URLs in spam *that you have marked as trash*. It then attempts to load those URLs 60 times per hour for the next three hours...never filling out forms or looking at banners, simply hogging bandwidth.
If 10 Million** people did this to a single spamvertised site, that would be 60 million hits per hour for a three hour period. All resulting in a 0.0000000000% sales rate. 180 Million page requests in 3 hours would saturate just about anyone's pipe. Watch 'em choke on the bandwidth bill.
Even better would be a utility that helps clients coordinate these attacks, so that DOS countermeasures can be countered. Say, my client starts getting 503's, so it passes the rest of its workload to my friend's pc (which he authorized by adding me as a 'friend'), and that new pc happily pings away until it is banned, etc etc.
Until we treat the war against spam like a war, we will not win. Once we start playing serious ball, it is highly likely that a lot of websites would get their shit together and stop the Referral Madness, and maybe our spam problem would come a little more under our control.
**This number was chosen arbitrarily, but it is a small coincidence that the number of FireFox 1.0 downloads in its first month of release is roughly 10 Million.;)
So, what you're saying is that 90 minutes of HD video will take up roughly 4.6 GB*, or the amount of space on a traditional single-layer DVD. Hell, make it double layer and include the special features!**
*=Are we talking in terms of Hard Drive gigabytes, or Operating System gigabytes??;)
1...this is not mutual to English...
2...things like pronunciation evolves and changes...
3...Of course it is easy for an invented and not evolved language...
4...this is part of the reason why written Greek is so phonetic and written English is so not...
1. Perhaps you were trying to come up with "exclusive"?
2. Things evolve. Thing evolves.
3. Not evolved, huh? This is awkward.
4. That is SO valley girl.
Hope that clears up your confusion, you pinko-commie, Godless word nazi.;)
Languages grow and evolve on a daily basis, and so for purposes of word variety, a descriptive approach works best; that is to say, a dictionary should reflect actual usage over time.
A grammar book should use the same rules over time, without flexibility, so as to assure us that "John kicked Mike in the leg" does not one day become "In the leg, Mike kicked John."
When a word is born (or evolves), and usage is broad enough to ensure understanding, that word should be considered acceptable.
In this case, it is clear that you are feigning ignorance in order to point out faults in another's writing. This is neither polite nor intelligent behavior.
This would hold if the courts hadn't already established a way to attack those who intentionally seek ignorance. For you to reasonably believe that you would be assisting in the commission of a crime, and to intentionally choose ignorance, makes you as guilty as if you made the choice to assist. Or, at least, so I'm told.
This just in! Scientists* have determined that the average age of a slashdot poster is inverse to the number of slashdot readers, with a bottoming-out effect when the age approaches 3.
I just posted an idea regarding P2P clients checking tracker status before forwarding a torrent file to you... and you just gave me an inspiration. What if that same P2P system would search for multiple trackers for the same file (checksummed), and *merge* the torrents into this multi-tracker extensible format (as an option)?
I think the real point is to avoid having a single point of contact - like a website - feeding you torrent links. This is a defensive evolution, meant to keep the network going should it be attacked via any means, legal or otherwise.
The other P2P apps out there could beat them to the punch by adding a simple 'search for live torrent(s)' feature... ie, a client does a search, and before any other clients respond, they check tracker status. If it is up, they shoot the torrent file to the searcher. If not, they don't. Wouldn't THAT be cool?
hhahah... on another note, I always take great joy in my xxxxxxx.no-ip.com dynamic address... it makes me warm and fuzzy inside to be using a legit service, but sending a fun message at the same time.
Better yet, write a program that does this, and then specifically deny everyone the right to download it, but leave the link open on your site. After the network hits 10 million users, start suing whoever you like that uses it, and retire on a fat pile of settlement checks.
(Or, more likely, watch your attorney retire on a fat pile of settlement checks). Hey, it was just an idea.
No, as has been stated time and time again, they would just connect to the network and sue the nodes that passed the file on to them... do they care if you actually had the file, or were just proxying? no. They would have a log that showed you passing on bits of the file... exactly what happens with any multi-source downloading now. The origin doesn't matter, the fact that they got bits from you, does.
Parent post has an excellent point. I think this is along the lines of "the antivirus industry (or some parts thereof) could be releasing virii simply to keep sales up." Could it be that an OS vendor would introduce deliberate bugs, expose them through a back channel, and then start pushing people to the next great upgrade?
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Hey, the big guy in tie-dye looks like Leo Laporte on his day off!
IDNRTFA (I Did Not Read The F**king Article), but a few examples:
Joe User needs a device driver for his sound card. He isn't an 18th-level Googlesearcher*, so he types "sound card driver".
A typical search engine would give him 2^Onebignumber results, all of which look pretty foreign to him.
Google Suggest, on the other hand, intelligently points out the Windows Update** website, where he sees that he can update his device drivers from a recognized source. He does so, and all of his world's problems disappear for about 2^1 nanoseconds.
At least, that's the way I think Google wants to make Suggest work...
The thing that will sink this is when Google starts offering advertisers the ability to be suggested.
*Acquired by spending long years under the apprenticeship of a slave-driving task master. **Joe User is not a free software user. Yet.
That didn't stop us from developing nuclear weapons, nerve agents, or other weapons of destruction. Why should it slow us down now? ;)
Fuck your nasty parasitic self all you like. If you find a species that exists in harmony with its surroundings, it's a sure bet that species doesn't live on earth. EVERYTHING that lives is intertwined in the fates of the other living things around it. Get over it, ya matrix fanboy wannabe.
The $Deity-given purpose of ALL species is to survive and procreate. Even if you don't have a $deity, every fiber of your being is wired to survive and ensure a future generation.
It's no coincidence this guy's work is entitled the "Big Picture". This is us humans deciding that we're gonna survive a little meteor, a little atomic war, maybe even a little supernova. See, that this thing called the Big Picture. We decide that our race will survive anything, and put our best minds and hands to work.
So how exactly does this cause anyone real grief?
Someone help me out here: is this 2004?? I ask because this guy seems to be stuck in 1991.
So, where's the profit? Is this whole thing reliant on building a large enough user base where the 'float' on all that virtual money can sustain the enterprise on interest payments?
Theatre, Centre, and a hundred (or more) other spellings changed thanks to usage. Need more examples? Or were you content to toss flame indiscriminately?
Or maybe I right-click the link I want to target.
Repeat after me: I will not strike back at someone who is punching me in the face. Doesn't sound so hot, now, does it?
My vision: an extension in Thunderbird (or plug-in for any other mail client) automatically looks for URLs in spam *that you have marked as trash*. It then attempts to load those URLs 60 times per hour for the next three hours...never filling out forms or looking at banners, simply hogging bandwidth.
If 10 Million** people did this to a single spamvertised site, that would be 60 million hits per hour for a three hour period. All resulting in a 0.0000000000% sales rate. 180 Million page requests in 3 hours would saturate just about anyone's pipe. Watch 'em choke on the bandwidth bill.
Even better would be a utility that helps clients coordinate these attacks, so that DOS countermeasures can be countered. Say, my client starts getting 503's, so it passes the rest of its workload to my friend's pc (which he authorized by adding me as a 'friend'), and that new pc happily pings away until it is banned, etc etc.
Until we treat the war against spam like a war, we will not win. Once we start playing serious ball, it is highly likely that a lot of websites would get their shit together and stop the Referral Madness, and maybe our spam problem would come a little more under our control.
**This number was chosen arbitrarily, but it is a small coincidence that the number of FireFox 1.0 downloads in its first month of release is roughly 10 Million. ;)
So, what you're saying is that 90 minutes of HD video will take up roughly 4.6 GB*, or the amount of space on a traditional single-layer DVD. Hell, make it double layer and include the special features!**
*=Are we talking in terms of Hard Drive gigabytes, or Operating System gigabytes??
**=Up to 90 minutes of High Definition extras.
2...things like pronunciation evolves and changes...
3...Of course it is easy for an invented and not evolved language...
4...this is part of the reason why written Greek is so phonetic and written English is so not...
1. Perhaps you were trying to come up with "exclusive"?
2. Things evolve. Thing evolves.
3. Not evolved, huh? This is awkward.
4. That is SO valley girl.
Since when did the planet mars eject enough matter to create a meteorite that would survive entry into our atmosphere?
Hope that clears up your confusion, you pinko-commie, Godless word nazi. ;)
Languages grow and evolve on a daily basis, and so for purposes of word variety, a descriptive approach works best; that is to say, a dictionary should reflect actual usage over time.
A grammar book should use the same rules over time, without flexibility, so as to assure us that "John kicked Mike in the leg" does not one day become "In the leg, Mike kicked John."
When a word is born (or evolves), and usage is broad enough to ensure understanding, that word should be considered acceptable. In this case, it is clear that you are feigning ignorance in order to point out faults in another's writing. This is neither polite nor intelligent behavior.
This would hold if the courts hadn't already established a way to attack those who intentionally seek ignorance. For you to reasonably believe that you would be assisting in the commission of a crime, and to intentionally choose ignorance, makes you as guilty as if you made the choice to assist. Or, at least, so I'm told.
*Well, me for starters.
I just posted an idea regarding P2P clients checking tracker status before forwarding a torrent file to you... and you just gave me an inspiration. What if that same P2P system would search for multiple trackers for the same file (checksummed), and *merge* the torrents into this multi-tracker extensible format (as an option)?
The other P2P apps out there could beat them to the punch by adding a simple 'search for live torrent(s)' feature... ie, a client does a search, and before any other clients respond, they check tracker status. If it is up, they shoot the torrent file to the searcher. If not, they don't. Wouldn't THAT be cool?
hhahah... on another note, I always take great joy in my xxxxxxx.no-ip.com dynamic address... it makes me warm and fuzzy inside to be using a legit service, but sending a fun message at the same time.
(Or, more likely, watch your attorney retire on a fat pile of settlement checks). Hey, it was just an idea.
A lot of things have changed at Slashdot in the last four years. I suspect that this change in viewpoint is among the least of them.
No, as has been stated time and time again, they would just connect to the network and sue the nodes that passed the file on to them... do they care if you actually had the file, or were just proxying? no. They would have a log that showed you passing on bits of the file... exactly what happens with any multi-source downloading now. The origin doesn't matter, the fact that they got bits from you, does.
Parent post has an excellent point. I think this is along the lines of "the antivirus industry (or some parts thereof) could be releasing virii simply to keep sales up." Could it be that an OS vendor would introduce deliberate bugs, expose them through a back channel, and then start pushing people to the next great upgrade?