Her suit asserts that the Internet Archive's programmatic visitation of her site constitutes acceptance of her terms, despite the obvious inability of a Web crawler to understand those terms and the absence of a robots.txt file to warn crawlers away.
The case should be thrown out, period. She should just have learned her lesson and used a proper robots.txt file next time. If you're going to post stuff on the Internet and don't want it to beb indexed or archived, you should know what you're doing. If you don't, it's your problem. The lawsuit is frivolous and inane.
Sure it was - it was on CSI: Duluth just the other day. Guess you only watch CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: Hoboken, CSI: Johnsburg...
Ubuntu has done a lot to make Linux mainstream, and I think it's the best distro out there for 'regular' people who have grown up on Windows and want to give Linux a try.
Frankly, I'm perplexed that anyone would pass on the opportunity to try out a free (as in beer) OS. Except gaming junkies, of course, but I think that with the maturing PC userbase they've become less relevant. Or maybe I'm just getting old...
I was on the same boat until a couple of weeks ago... anyway, Ruby is The Hottest Thing Since Sliced Bread (TM). It's a programming language that was created in Japan all the way back in 1995. However, it has only just recently garnered mainstream interest due to the emergence of a web application framework built on Ruby, which is called Ruby on Rails and is said to be an incredibly well-thought and efficient framework.
I personally have an enormous interest in Ruby on Rails, as it seems to be a very neat way of writing web applications, but I'm also a bit daunted; it's a new language and a whole new framework with different ways of doing things, so it's been slow going learning it. I just wish I knew where to get some extensive sample code to peruse - that's how I learn best. All I've seen are some very basic applications which don't really teach you the real tricks and show how it all comes together.
Yeah... seven's the key number here. Think about it. Seven-Elevens. Seven doors. Seven, man, that's the number. Seven chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea? It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.
I'm not surprised at all either. Vista offers nothing substantially new that justifies the price of an upgrade. Sure, it has a fancy new interface and supposedly better security, but at the end of the day it's just a little bit of more of the same. There's only so much you can squeeze out of a desktop system - after all, it's only the bones of the system. The meat is in the applications. If your OS is already quite good enough and does everything you need it to do, why shell out for an upgrade?
However, Office 2007 at least supposedly offers a revolutionary new way to use the application. It seems that this promise has enormous appeal for people. For instance, I'm having a harder time than ever debating the merits of OpenOffice. It seems Microsoft could have a winner there, loath as I am to admit it. Doesn't change the fact that I'm sticking with OO and Linux, but still...
Why this particular comment? What's so special about it? This is incredibly self-centered of you, to assume that your comment will be a major target for the trolls.
There's lots of good comments out there that would make better targets. This comment, for instance, is much more interesting. Not only is it longer, it's also a lot wittier and better thought out altogether. Oh, and did I mention that it's also self-referencing? Beat that!
The solution should be simple enough - don't accept OEM. It's a ridiculously restrictive license that Microsoft makes bucketloads from. If you continually replace your computer and pay for an OEM license every time, you're losing money big time compared with what you would spend on a copy of Windows that you can reuse on a new computer. And if the vendor gives you crap when you ask for a computer without Windows preinstalled, since you already have a copy, take your business elsewhere.
The problem is that there's just too many people. Trying to control or influence all of them is nigh on impossible, short of making the things you describe illegal, which would probably lead to a revolt.
A large segment of the population, any population, will always be stupid, thoughtless, and self-centered.
It doesn't help that the fastest growing and arguably the most powerful ideology in America today, evangelism, actively encourages bigotry, narrow-mindedness and a contempt for scientific principles that would be funny if it weren't so dangerous. And oh, the icing on the proverbial cake is that it doesn't matter what we do with the planet anyway, because it's all going to pass away any day now, and the faithful few will be taken to a paradise where they don't have to worry about anything at all, while the faithless multitudes will burn in hell forever.
... for all of us guys. The subject of how to measure with a with a tape measure has long been a controversial one, and thus the size debate has been marred by a lack of common consensus. This gadget will settle things once and for all!
However, what is implied from the facts, and the actions that are taken based on them, is what's under discussion. My main worry is that the statistics are being used to lump all illegal immigrants into the same category; potential violent criminals. They are definitely being targeted specifically. Okay, so racism is perhaps a bit harsh, but it certainly is discrimination.
Another frightening stereotype that's drawn up to justify these measures seems to be the idea that illegal immigrants are generally sexual predators:
The 2006 amendment was sponsored by two border state Republicans, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona and Senator John Cornyn of Texas. In an interview, Mr. Kyl said the measure was broadly drawn to encompass illegal immigrants as well as Americans arrested for federal crimes. He said that 13 percent of illegal immigrants detained in Arizona last year had criminal records.
"Some of these are very bad people," Mr. Kyl said. "The number of sexual assaults committed by illegal immigrants is astonishing. Right now there is a fingerprint system in use, but it is not as thorough as it could be."
Now, in my book this is just plain racism. Scary shit alright.
See, what happens is that a 'cop' terrorist will ask the 'computer geek' terrorist if he can 'zoom in on that'. The geek terrorist will then tap furiously at his keyboard, and the image will get 'enhanced' in an extremly animated manner.
An exploit is, by definition, a successful manipulation of a bug/omission/hole/whatever in a computer system to make it perform something that it was not designed to do. Usually this term is only applied when said action is harmful or potentially harmful.
What is being described here is the possibility of controlling the voice recognition system in Vista remotely to make it perform potentially harmful tasks. Furthermore, this functionality is not something that said system was designed to do; it was only designed to accept commands via microphone.
Therefore, what is being described here is an exploit.
Except most of the time the US soldiers don't even know who the bad guys are until they strike. It's not like you have the bad guys standing in a crowd of people shouting: 'Ha ha! You can't shoot me because I'm using human shields!'.
No, the insurgents in Iraq are very much like the ones in Vietnam of old. Just a part of the crowd until they decide to strike.
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I see not a single reference to Mel Gibson in the article. I call shenanigans!
I thought this guy owned the Internet.
Yeah, it's not like MySQL or Apache are used by anyone. Or PHP, Perl, Java, Firefox ...
No, she didn't post the notice properly:
The case should be thrown out, period. She should just have learned her lesson and used a proper robots.txt file next time. If you're going to post stuff on the Internet and don't want it to beb indexed or archived, you should know what you're doing. If you don't, it's your problem. The lawsuit is frivolous and inane.
Sure it was - it was on CSI: Duluth just the other day. Guess you only watch CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: Hoboken, CSI: Johnsburg ...
I, for one, welcome our new Linux-using recruits.
Ubuntu has done a lot to make Linux mainstream, and I think it's the best distro out there for 'regular' people who have grown up on Windows and want to give Linux a try.
Frankly, I'm perplexed that anyone would pass on the opportunity to try out a free (as in beer) OS. Except gaming junkies, of course, but I think that with the maturing PC userbase they've become less relevant. Or maybe I'm just getting old ...
Even if this were true, how does proliferating malware on Windows hurt Google?
I was on the same boat until a couple of weeks ago ... anyway, Ruby is The Hottest Thing Since Sliced Bread (TM). It's a programming language that was created in Japan all the way back in 1995. However, it has only just recently garnered mainstream interest due to the emergence of a web application framework built on Ruby, which is called Ruby on Rails and is said to be an incredibly well-thought and efficient framework.
More on Ruby here.
And more on Ruby on Rails here.
I personally have an enormous interest in Ruby on Rails, as it seems to be a very neat way of writing web applications, but I'm also a bit daunted; it's a new language and a whole new framework with different ways of doing things, so it's been slow going learning it. I just wish I knew where to get some extensive sample code to peruse - that's how I learn best. All I've seen are some very basic applications which don't really teach you the real tricks and show how it all comes together.
Yeah ... seven's the key number here. Think about it. Seven-Elevens. Seven doors. Seven, man, that's the number. Seven chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea? It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.
I'm not surprised at all either. Vista offers nothing substantially new that justifies the price of an upgrade. Sure, it has a fancy new interface and supposedly better security, but at the end of the day it's just a little bit of more of the same. There's only so much you can squeeze out of a desktop system - after all, it's only the bones of the system. The meat is in the applications. If your OS is already quite good enough and does everything you need it to do, why shell out for an upgrade?
However, Office 2007 at least supposedly offers a revolutionary new way to use the application. It seems that this promise has enormous appeal for people. For instance, I'm having a harder time than ever debating the merits of OpenOffice. It seems Microsoft could have a winner there, loath as I am to admit it. Doesn't change the fact that I'm sticking with OO and Linux, but still ...
Why this particular comment? What's so special about it? This is incredibly self-centered of you, to assume that your comment will be a major target for the trolls.
There's lots of good comments out there that would make better targets. This comment, for instance, is much more interesting. Not only is it longer, it's also a lot wittier and better thought out altogether. Oh, and did I mention that it's also self-referencing? Beat that!
A statistician can have his head in an oven and his feet in ice, and he will say that on the average he feels fine.
How many statisticians does it take to change a lightbulb? 1-3, alpha = .05
Did you hear about the statistician who was thrown in jail? He now has zero degrees of freedom.
In earlier times, they had no statistics, and so they had to fall back on lies.
Smoking is a leading cause of statistics.
Statistics are like a bikini - what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Statistics in the hands of an engineer are like a lamppost to a drunk--they're used more for support than illumination.
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All jokes borrowed from here.
Or things could go in the opposite direction. Just wait 'till they hear about one-time pads!
Of course, that would mean that no one could watch their stuff, period, but hey - at least no one could pirate it either!
The solution should be simple enough - don't accept OEM. It's a ridiculously restrictive license that Microsoft makes bucketloads from. If you continually replace your computer and pay for an OEM license every time, you're losing money big time compared with what you would spend on a copy of Windows that you can reuse on a new computer. And if the vendor gives you crap when you ask for a computer without Windows preinstalled, since you already have a copy, take your business elsewhere.
OEM is stupid and needs to die, IMHO.
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The problem is that there's just too many people. Trying to control or influence all of them is nigh on impossible, short of making the things you describe illegal, which would probably lead to a revolt.
A large segment of the population, any population, will always be stupid, thoughtless, and self-centered.
It doesn't help that the fastest growing and arguably the most powerful ideology in America today, evangelism, actively encourages bigotry, narrow-mindedness and a contempt for scientific principles that would be funny if it weren't so dangerous. And oh, the icing on the proverbial cake is that it doesn't matter what we do with the planet anyway, because it's all going to pass away any day now, and the faithful few will be taken to a paradise where they don't have to worry about anything at all, while the faithless multitudes will burn in hell forever.
... for all of us guys. The subject of how to measure with a with a tape measure has long been a controversial one, and thus the size debate has been marred by a lack of common consensus. This gadget will settle things once and for all!
You have a valid point there ... facts are facts.
However, what is implied from the facts, and the actions that are taken based on them, is what's under discussion. My main worry is that the statistics are being used to lump all illegal immigrants into the same category; potential violent criminals. They are definitely being targeted specifically. Okay, so racism is perhaps a bit harsh, but it certainly is discrimination.
Another frightening stereotype that's drawn up to justify these measures seems to be the idea that illegal immigrants are generally sexual predators:
Now, in my book this is just plain racism. Scary shit alright.
In America; screw missing papers.
In Soviet Russia, missing papers screw YOU!
No, no, that's not the way it works.
See, what happens is that a 'cop' terrorist will ask the 'computer geek' terrorist if he can 'zoom in on that'. The geek terrorist will then tap furiously at his keyboard, and the image will get 'enhanced' in an extremly animated manner.
No, you really don't. You really, really, really don't. We got your point; there's no need to make evil threats like that.
Yes, it's kind of hard to reconcile.
An exploit is, by definition, a successful manipulation of a bug/omission/hole/whatever in a computer system to make it perform something that it was not designed to do. Usually this term is only applied when said action is harmful or potentially harmful.
What is being described here is the possibility of controlling the voice recognition system in Vista remotely to make it perform potentially harmful tasks. Furthermore, this functionality is not something that said system was designed to do; it was only designed to accept commands via microphone.
Therefore, what is being described here is an exploit.
Q.E.D.
The lesson: Don't f*ck with someone who has a four-digit userid on slashdot.
Yeah, it's a good idea in principle.
Except most of the time the US soldiers don't even know who the bad guys are until they strike. It's not like you have the bad guys standing in a crowd of people shouting: 'Ha ha! You can't shoot me because I'm using human shields!'.
No, the insurgents in Iraq are very much like the ones in Vietnam of old. Just a part of the crowd until they decide to strike.