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With the ease of setting up Wordpress/<insert favourite blogging script here> with just any old host anyone who really cared about their blog content would be doing so (and making regular database dumps).
Theres loads and loads of choice for webhosting out there, I don't see what Blogger etc offer over these for anyone but newbies. Maybe i'm wrong, I don't blog.
Spreading the blogger load across a thousand different webhosting companies would make sense, and hey it'd give them something else to blog about: 'Firefox 1.5 released! get it now!'...'My host is awesome!' etc.
If you want to center a block level element horizontally use "margin: 0px auto", where 0px is your top & bottom margin. I think this works in all browsers.
I can't be arsed to check but I suspect 's are required in HTML 4.0. If that is the case maybe decent browsers default to HTML 4.0 rulesets when there is no DOCTYPE to be found and IE just makes some proprietary rendering decisions.
The solution to this of course is "display: table-cell" and the like...if only it was supported well by all browsers...darn it, i guess you're right.
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Once you're into adult hood, being a puppet master online starts to lose it's charm and you want more bragging rights - which is one of the thing that drives some h4x0rs back into the straight and narrow path of goodness.
So the Sober worm author's destiny is to become a mild mannered hard working citizen in the IT work place. Who'd have thunk it.
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Actually i've noticed this heap transformation too. Set to 'Plain old text' paragraph formatting should be maintained, but a few of my posts recently have seen the whitespace 'nihilated'
This is where Nominet, the.UK domain name authority, triumphs IMHO. They send you a letter (yes a real letter via snailmail) containing a PIN number for login at their site, effectively bypassing your registrar, to keep your data upto date. As far as I can tell this information is completely seperate from the WHOIS records or the records that your registrar keep.
Mostly, 'save' just pushes things from fast but volatile memory onto safer but slower disk storage. IMO, the bigger and more interesting question is why we haven't yet got a single storage solution that can be used both as efficient temporary non-volatile swap space, making RAM obsolete, and still be used for permanent storage, replacing hard drives.
Stability.
Going off on a tangent a little, I've often wondered why executable code and data are still put in the same memory address space. We seem to be monkeying around trying separate them, what with NX flags and new safer programming languages and plugging the holes with buffer overflow patches, yet programmers, at the application level, are always shouting about abstraction and modularity and keeping your logic separate from your data etcetera. Isn't it time we ported some of the application level methods down to a lower level? Databases for example.
Some fundamental advancements in computing need to occur before i'll feel comfortable enough to let my machine decide when to commit my work to storage.
That's a great idea, but there are issues. What will stop anonymous ballot stuffing? It could just cloud one problem and introduce an additional one. Ratings would need to be based on a large set of opinion, which time between versions might not allow. Why would I rate something as bad if I could, ideally, fix the problem instead (because i've obviously identified some flaws)? Visitors could rate an article bad and then never produce any useful feedback, so it'd need to be accompanied by some text (which is pretty much what the discussion pages are there for now).
It's the same problem as creating a 'decentralised' and 'fair' P2P network, none of which can be, or none of which are currently, truly untethered from someones ability to take control, impose restrictions on others, or cheat sharing systems.
Ultimately I think the 'best apporach', along the same lines as the suggested rating system, is just to make much better use of the versioning system and make it's interface with everyday non-technically minded/lazy surfers much simpler and quicker to deal with. Make the discussion pages more noticeable for one. Make the version seeking easier for another.
People deal with ad's on webpages, and spam in their email right now. I'm sure they can deal with wiki-trolls once warned that certain/recent wiki article versions are not 'verified' or 'well reviewed'. People already accept that it's better to have to filter or just ignore spam in their mailbox than it is to have their email policed and restricted (i.e. whitelisted).
So IMO, better user interaction (not contribution as you cannot force that) is what's needed, not policing. Hopefully we aren't seeing the start of Wikipedia being sucked into a load of annoying anti-spam procedures.
Good idea, or more precisely prevent anonymous visitors from adding or editing external links (not just editing articles containing them). Or even better keep these additions off the main article page and into subsequent edits, but still viewable to the public.
IMO, the main purpose of membership/registration is to get kudos and recognition for all your contributions. Obviously most people care more about imaginery l33t rankings than getting information out there in the public domain. Or maybe i'm overlooking another benefit.
Hiding the IP for members or showing for anonymous users is another issue. What good is revealing the IP's of wiki-trolls to the world when only an elite few have the power to block these IP's from the system?
What sort of signal's are you recording exactly? Will they survive a long cable jaunt?
Move box away from experiment. Problem solved.
Are you worried about noise once the signals reach the machine internals (if they do)? If so, why would there be a internal data logger that can't log data correctly even on the market?
Why.asia and yet no.europe? We have.eu on the way, are we limiting TLD's to 4 characters? What about the existing.museum?
Where are.africa,.australasia and.america?
Why do we have.com,.co.uk and.com.us?
How will we/everyday Joe make a reasonably clear distinction between the multi-TLD part in a domain, which are under the control of various DNS authorities, and the 'actual domain bit' under the control of the domain owner?
Isn't there a risk that more depth in TLD's means more authorities between the owner and the root, potentially more control points and therefore potentially more political points of failure in the chain?
Will there be proper country/purpose/target based sub-TLD's of.asia, like.jp.asia?.biz.asia,.com.asia?
Wouldn't this make the.jp TLD redundant?
Maybe 'slightly more global' companies/organisations/websites be able to have "companyA.jp.asia" and smaller localised ones "companyA.jp"? Oh sorry, thats "companyA.com.jp.asia", and "companyA.com.jp" Or is it "companyA.jp.com.asia"?
What's the bloody point of this faux-heirarchial structure if they don't keep it clean and logical anyway?
Is ICANN just trying to turn the DNS system into something that gives people a nice aesthetic choice but renders it totally unstructured and illogical? Won't this increase dependence on search engines, or alternatively make Google's site: operator, for example, LESS powerful?
What about educating the masses on how to use a a heirarchially structured domain name system?
Try Miranda IM for Windows, it's a great little free resource light and open source client with a simple dll drop in folder for protocols and other plugins, of which there are plenty.
There are plugins for MSN, Jabber, ICQ, IRC (which is actually reasonably well done IMO), Yahoo, AIM, Gadu-Gadu and Skype (it's just an API wrapper, so you need the official client installed still). It comes with some of these by default, but you can simply unload and delete the dll's of the protocols you don't use.
It makes GAIM look like bloatware. I'm still looking for a *nix equivalent:(
Can you seriously expect me to believe that if one of your children grows up, finds Jesus, and becomes a conservative idealogue you won't say a word because you'll be a parent of understanding without bias or judgement?
I couldn't give a toss, because I would know I hadn't pushed my children either toward or away from such a path. I may not agree with their views, but hopefully I would have still taught them well enough to be able to have insteresting conversation and debate with them.
I still don't unserdtand how you think you or anyone else has the right to prevent or discourage people from becoming addicted to porn. Sure you can do whatever you want with YOUR kids if you have any. But why must something be done about it amongst adults?
Are you addicted to porn? No? Is person X? Maybe. Who's judgement of how person X should live is 'moral' or right? How is person X's porn addiction damaging to the quality of YOUR life? Please explain, really.
I could list a load of opinions or even some reasoning as to why I think some of the things you mention are wrong. But instead i'll just leave these two thoughts.
Who are parents to decide if or what matters a kid can fantasise about, and who gave parents the right to do that? In my interpretation of an ideal free society, parenting would focus on teaching of knowledge and understanding without bias or judgement. In this case the absolute limit of parental power is to prevent their children, while in their care, from breaching the rights of others (including those of the parents themselves). When kid's are viewing porn I don't just see this breach happening. The problem is alot of parents, in fact just about anyone in a influential role (religious leaders, politicians etc) try to force their own morals on others. What is this belief that all humans must be able to agree on something as personal and private as sex based on anyway?
In my experience (a personal one), no matter how much porn you watch as a teen or how much you brag as a young teen to all your mates (not me personally) about all the women you've 'had it off' with, your first sexual experience is going to be awkward and amateurish, but for the most of us still somewhat pleasant. Previous expectations and illusions all soon crash and burn.
IP -> Domain requires reverse DNS, which isn't setup properly for many HTTP servers.
Domain -> IP and then blocking said IP (solving your memorising of IP's problem) can result in blocked webites on shared hosting servers that aren't pornographic. Giving all porn sites their own IP, or option to get one, only fills up IPv4 address space more rapidly and leaves less for the rest of us (IPv6 is still a way off for the majority).
People are too damn lazy to fix the above properly even if a.xxx TLD was introduced, and it's too difficult to enforce and manage
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As much as I hate to encourage similie on Slashdot, one of the key methods in compression, lossy or otherwise, is to remove/reduce redundancy.
With the ease of setting up Wordpress/<insert favourite blogging script here> with just any old host anyone who really cared about their blog content would be doing so (and making regular database dumps).
...'My host is awesome!' etc.
Theres loads and loads of choice for webhosting out there, I don't see what Blogger etc offer over these for anyone but newbies. Maybe i'm wrong, I don't blog.
Spreading the blogger load across a thousand different webhosting companies would make sense, and hey it'd give them something else to blog about: 'Firefox 1.5 released! get it now!'
If you want to center a block level element horizontally use "margin: 0px auto", where 0px is your top & bottom margin. I think this works in all browsers.
I can't be arsed to check but I suspect 's are required in HTML 4.0. If that is the case maybe decent browsers default to HTML 4.0 rulesets when there is no DOCTYPE to be found and IE just makes some proprietary rendering decisions.
The solution to this of course is "display: table-cell" and the like...if only it was supported well by all browsers...darn it, i guess you're right.
Once you're into adult hood, being a puppet master online starts to lose it's charm and you want more bragging rights - which is one of the thing that drives some h4x0rs back into the straight and narrow path of goodness.
So the Sober worm author's destiny is to become a mild mannered hard working citizen in the IT work place. Who'd have thunk it.
Actually i've noticed this heap transformation too. Set to 'Plain old text' paragraph formatting should be maintained, but a few of my posts recently have seen the whitespace 'nihilated'
Modern drives seem to have a crapper life expectancy. I had a 4 GB'er working for 8 years, on nearly every day.
This is where Nominet, the .UK domain name authority, triumphs IMHO. They send you a letter (yes a real letter via snailmail) containing a PIN number for login at their site, effectively bypassing your registrar, to keep your data upto date. As far as I can tell this information is completely seperate from the WHOIS records or the records that your registrar keep.
Go Nominet? o_O
Storage efficiency.
Mostly, 'save' just pushes things from fast but volatile memory onto safer but slower disk storage. IMO, the bigger and more interesting question is why we haven't yet got a single storage solution that can be used both as efficient temporary non-volatile swap space, making RAM obsolete, and still be used for permanent storage, replacing hard drives.
Stability.
Going off on a tangent a little, I've often wondered why executable code and data are still put in the same memory address space. We seem to be monkeying around trying separate them, what with NX flags and new safer programming languages and plugging the holes with buffer overflow patches, yet programmers, at the application level, are always shouting about abstraction and modularity and keeping your logic separate from your data etcetera. Isn't it time we ported some of the application level methods down to a lower level? Databases for example.
Some fundamental advancements in computing need to occur before i'll feel comfortable enough to let my machine decide when to commit my work to storage.
How much hard checking do these CA's really do? The user won't notice if it's a smaller CA as long as the root cert is in their trusted list.
That's a great idea, but there are issues. What will stop anonymous ballot stuffing? It could just cloud one problem and introduce an additional one. Ratings would need to be based on a large set of opinion, which time between versions might not allow. Why would I rate something as bad if I could, ideally, fix the problem instead (because i've obviously identified some flaws)? Visitors could rate an article bad and then never produce any useful feedback, so it'd need to be accompanied by some text (which is pretty much what the discussion pages are there for now).
It's the same problem as creating a 'decentralised' and 'fair' P2P network, none of which can be, or none of which are currently, truly untethered from someones ability to take control, impose restrictions on others, or cheat sharing systems.
Ultimately I think the 'best apporach', along the same lines as the suggested rating system, is just to make much better use of the versioning system and make it's interface with everyday non-technically minded/lazy surfers much simpler and quicker to deal with. Make the discussion pages more noticeable for one. Make the version seeking easier for another.
People deal with ad's on webpages, and spam in their email right now. I'm sure they can deal with wiki-trolls once warned that certain/recent wiki article versions are not 'verified' or 'well reviewed'. People already accept that it's better to have to filter or just ignore spam in their mailbox than it is to have their email policed and restricted (i.e. whitelisted).
So IMO, better user interaction (not contribution as you cannot force that) is what's needed, not policing. Hopefully we aren't seeing the start of Wikipedia being sucked into a load of annoying anti-spam procedures.
Good idea, or more precisely prevent anonymous visitors from adding or editing external links (not just editing articles containing them). Or even better keep these additions off the main article page and into subsequent edits, but still viewable to the public.
IMO, the main purpose of membership/registration is to get kudos and recognition for all your contributions. Obviously most people care more about imaginery l33t rankings than getting information out there in the public domain. Or maybe i'm overlooking another benefit.
Hiding the IP for members or showing for anonymous users is another issue. What good is revealing the IP's of wiki-trolls to the world when only an elite few have the power to block these IP's from the system?
etc
What sort of signal's are you recording exactly? Will they survive a long cable jaunt?
Move box away from experiment. Problem solved.
Are you worried about noise once the signals reach the machine internals (if they do)? If so, why would there be a internal data logger that can't log data correctly even on the market?
Try Miranda IM for Windows, it's a great little free resource light and open source client with a simple dll drop in folder for protocols and other plugins, of which there are plenty.
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There are plugins for MSN, Jabber, ICQ, IRC (which is actually reasonably well done IMO), Yahoo, AIM, Gadu-Gadu and Skype (it's just an API wrapper, so you need the official client installed still). It comes with some of these by default, but you can simply unload and delete the dll's of the protocols you don't use.
It makes GAIM look like bloatware. I'm still looking for a *nix equivalent
Here in the UK you can get on all the major mobile networks without telling them who you are.
and don't forget Opera...
Try Googling for: opml opera
Is that so hard?
Can you seriously expect me to believe that if one of your children grows up, finds Jesus, and becomes a conservative idealogue you won't say a word because you'll be a parent of understanding without bias or judgement?
I couldn't give a toss, because I would know I hadn't pushed my children either toward or away from such a path. I may not agree with their views, but hopefully I would have still taught them well enough to be able to have insteresting conversation and debate with them.
I still don't unserdtand how you think you or anyone else has the right to prevent or discourage people from becoming addicted to porn. Sure you can do whatever you want with YOUR kids if you have any. But why must something be done about it amongst adults?
Are you addicted to porn? No? Is person X? Maybe. Who's judgement of how person X should live is 'moral' or right? How is person X's porn addiction damaging to the quality of YOUR life? Please explain, really.