There are also some general guidelines to follow for writing interoperable webpages.
Someone recently commented in my livejournal that my layout needed some work and she'd do a new one for me. I agreed, but I said that if she were to do a new one...
i don't want my frontpage changed. actually, i'd love for my other pages to kinda match it, both in theme and in ascetics. also, the HTML better be layed out nicely (i.e. readable in a text editor), better comply with W3C standards, and not be designed for any specific browser, resolution, platform, graphics capabilities, or fonts. of course, if you use proper CSS, you can still encourage the browser to display things in certain styles of fonts (with keywords like serif, sans-serif, monospaced, emphasized, slanted) etc., and you can put low-importance tags to give a prioritized list of specific typefaces to use. also, HTML must use CSS dynamic placement and not tables or frames for layout (and if iframes are used, they must be used in such a way that browsers that don't support iframes can still access all the content) and CSS has to be organized with identifiers, classes, and such used as appropriately oooohh and the pages better be split up using HTML structure codes (H1,H2,H3,P,HR, etc.) which have appropriate anchors and references. also, all images must have ALT tags and must look respectable in a web-safe palette... no GIFs (PNGs and/or MNGs only) no browser-specific features, javascript, DHTML, ActiveX, Shockwave, or Java and all pages must properly use META tags. no EMBED tags, and all MIME types must be correct.
for an example of a page that follows all these guidelines, see the page i'm designing for my sister's harping career at BlueHarpDiva.com
In all seriousness, I'm curious to see the source. If someone has a copy, could they post it somewhere downloadable, maybe with the nibbles swapped so that script kiddies can't figure out how to read it?
Oh, it's just that... Humans are just notorious for causing a LOT of radical change very quickly. Native Americans are typically considered to have lived in harmony with the planet. Does that mean they never killed anything?
What, are you kidding? A man's gotta eat, and you can't just walk around letting whomever and whatever take advantage of you and/or get in your way.
Consider this analysis of the Wiccan Rede. You can't get too much accomplished if you never break any rules (like the Prime Directive, or the local ordinances of your town, or social mores), but minimizing any "harm" that is done is always wise. (written in quotes because what is "harmful" is very subject to interpretation!)
The point is, it's never good to set in stone what you should or should not do. Many have tried to write a "complete code of ethics" that covers every situation, but such a thing will never exist, because there are new twists to every situation, and nobody can think of every possibility.
Should we interfere with developing life in the Universe? Well, quite possibly, yes! Wouldn't you be disappointed if the SETI project failed for no other reason than all the other life out there had decided not to fuck with us because, well, maybe we were still "developing?"
But then again, nobody should go aronud stomping blindly where they might be important developments occuring underfoot.
Humans are powerful creatures, in the sense that we have the capability to do an awful lot of change very quickly, if we so desire. With great power comes great responsibility, to quote a recent blockbuster release...
As long as your ISP won't mind forwarding mail from me to you if I need to get in touch with you regarding your site (this would only be if webmaster@ bounced and no contact info was listed, which is pretty rare and kind of silly... *at least* webmaster@ ought to go somewhere, I say!), that's fine by me.
I've snatched people's personal info (or ISP info after tracerouting) from whois and ARIN:whois databases before a few times, when I've encountered defaced sites, been attacked by malicious traffic, or have tracked down someone spamming against their ISP's TOS.
I think the analogy is still flawed, even with your correction.
Google is a service company. It sells advertising space and premium services. It offers (free as in beer) other services in exchange for brand recognition and advertisements.
A machine gun company sells machine guns. End of story.
It will all come down to the contracts Orkut signed. Most companies make their employees sign contracts like: Don't steal code from us (we might sue), don't steal code from former employers and use it in our products/services (we will hold you responsible for damages). If the second clause was present in Orkut's contract at Google, then, sure, Google may be viewed as responsible and possibly also negligent by the other company, but they'll just forward all their bills to Orkut, and be done with it.
Joke's on you! The villain _meant_ "You will lose your penis!" But, no losing happened. Instead, the only outcome was loosing, because Bond's penis was still hanging out in the open, unharmed and ready for action. Wait, OK. Maybe let's not go there. Yeah, after some re-thinking, I think I'll stick with the spelling Nazi. =)
This is a really long line of unnecessary text to get around slashdot's average-characters-per-line-excluding-whitespace-m ust-exceed-defined-minimum filter.
No. Back in the age of core memory, it was very common to diagnose system crashes by dumping core before re-initializing the system. When PCs crash, the information is gone because of the DRAM. This can help operating system development.
You think 1G is an ample cap, until you go to download the latest upgrade to Irix for the SGI box you have in your dorm (shhh, c'mon, this is _slashdot_), and it's a 1400meg file.
Of course, there's always rate-limiting, or using a shell elsewhere to download the file and break it up into chunks.
As for comcast blocking port 25, anyone know if this is all residential customers? If so, boy, I'm glad I just left them for speakeasy, because, damn, I like running my own mailserver.
Also, is that port 25 incoming? That would do very little to stop spam... spammers just need port 25 outgoing, but, is it really fair to block outgoing ports like that? What if someone, just to be stealthy, runs sshd on some bizarre port, like 25? Or, to be more realistic, what if they start blocking other port ranges they deem unnecessary for normal users, and then you can't access a few of the websites that run on unusual ports, or can't connect to game servers, or connect to servers behind firewalls that have their ports tunnelled through? Also, is comcast blocking cheesecake?
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If they didn't have gourmet coffee and sell CDs and DVDs, do you think they'd still be as popular?
There are also some general guidelines to follow for writing interoperable webpages.
;)
Someone recently commented in my livejournal that my layout needed some work and she'd do a new one for me. I agreed, but I said that if she were to do a new one...
i don't want my frontpage changed. actually, i'd love for my other pages to kinda match it, both in theme and in ascetics.
also, the HTML better be layed out nicely (i.e. readable in a text editor), better comply with W3C standards, and not be designed for any specific browser, resolution, platform, graphics capabilities, or fonts.
of course, if you use proper CSS, you can still encourage the browser to display things in certain styles of fonts (with keywords like serif, sans-serif, monospaced, emphasized, slanted) etc., and you can put low-importance tags to give a prioritized list of specific typefaces to use.
also, HTML must use CSS dynamic placement and not tables or frames for layout (and if iframes are used, they must be used in such a way that browsers that don't support iframes can still access all the content)
and CSS has to be organized with identifiers, classes, and such used as appropriately
oooohh and the pages better be split up using HTML structure codes (H1,H2,H3,P,HR, etc.) which have appropriate anchors and references.
also, all images must have ALT tags and must look respectable in a web-safe palette... no GIFs (PNGs and/or MNGs only)
no browser-specific features, javascript, DHTML, ActiveX, Shockwave, or Java
and all pages must properly use META tags. no EMBED tags, and all MIME types must be correct.
for an example of a page that follows all these guidelines, see the page i'm designing for my sister's harping career at BlueHarpDiva.com
still interested?
yes, i know, i'm an ultra-anal bitch.
Understandable, and fair enough.
So I'll leave the wedding photography artists to the millionaires.
Now where's our damn wedding photographers?
http://www.cmsproducts.com/detail.aspx?ID=318
Does that look like a standard hard drive? I can't really tell.
I know some older ThinkPads require special drives. Perhaps this is one of them?
Of course, this might just be a special caddy, in which case, if his old caddy is undamaged, it is probably possible to transfer it to a new drive.
In all seriousness, I'm curious to see the source. If someone has a copy, could they post it somewhere downloadable, maybe with the nibbles swapped so that script kiddies can't figure out how to read it?
Oh, it's just that... Humans are just notorious for causing a LOT of radical change very quickly. Native Americans are typically considered to have lived in harmony with the planet. Does that mean they never killed anything?
What, are you kidding? A man's gotta eat, and you can't just walk around letting whomever and whatever take advantage of you and/or get in your way.
Consider this analysis of the Wiccan Rede. You can't get too much accomplished if you never break any rules (like the Prime Directive, or the local ordinances of your town, or social mores), but minimizing any "harm" that is done is always wise. (written in quotes because what is "harmful" is very subject to interpretation!)
The point is, it's never good to set in stone what you should or should not do. Many have tried to write a "complete code of ethics" that covers every situation, but such a thing will never exist, because there are new twists to every situation, and nobody can think of every possibility.
Should we interfere with developing life in the Universe? Well, quite possibly, yes! Wouldn't you be disappointed if the SETI project failed for no other reason than all the other life out there had decided not to fuck with us because, well, maybe we were still "developing?"
But then again, nobody should go aronud stomping blindly where they might be important developments occuring underfoot.
Humans are powerful creatures, in the sense that we have the capability to do an awful lot of change very quickly, if we so desire. With great power comes great responsibility, to quote a recent blockbuster release...
Me neither! Monochrome text all the way, baby!
I even filter the emphasized text out of manpages!
[ :) Whoever you are, I'm friending you. Also, if that A.C. manages to show up as a user, I'll friend him, too. ]
If I want to shove a tuna fish sandwich through port 25, then, dammit, I will.
Uhh.. how is this flamebait?
Comcast != ISP
:== Internet Filter Provider
Comcast == IFP
Why? What the hell good is "2lv creme" without a "2lv" ?
Does he know that that's not really how Barry Bonds acts out on the field? Does he know that Nomar [Garciaparra] can't punch somebody?
Tell that to my black eye!!! Damn that Garciaparra...
Oh, and, how does Barry Bonds act out on the field, if you would be kind enough to explain?
All I can think of is bars labelled things like CLEARANCE 9'10"
As long as your ISP won't mind forwarding mail from me to you if I need to get in touch with you regarding your site (this would only be if webmaster@ bounced and no contact info was listed, which is pretty rare and kind of silly... *at least* webmaster@ ought to go somewhere, I say!), that's fine by me.
I've snatched people's personal info (or ISP info after tracerouting) from whois and ARIN:whois databases before a few times, when I've encountered defaced sites, been attacked by malicious traffic, or have tracked down someone spamming against their ISP's TOS.
I think the analogy is still flawed, even with your correction.
Google is a service company. It sells advertising space and premium services. It offers (free as in beer) other services in exchange for brand recognition and advertisements.
A machine gun company sells machine guns. End of story.
It will all come down to the contracts Orkut signed. Most companies make their employees sign contracts like: Don't steal code from us (we might sue), don't steal code from former employers and use it in our products/services (we will hold you responsible for damages). If the second clause was present in Orkut's contract at Google, then, sure, Google may be viewed as responsible and possibly also negligent by the other company, but they'll just forward all their bills to Orkut, and be done with it.
I wouldn't want to be Orkut right now.
Can they install this amputation-prevention device in sociopaths, too?
Joke's on you!
The villain _meant_ "You will lose your penis!"
But, no losing happened. Instead, the only outcome was loosing, because Bond's penis was still hanging out in the open, unharmed and ready for action.
Wait, OK. Maybe let's not go there.
Yeah, after some re-thinking, I think I'll stick with the spelling Nazi. =)
It isn't any of
- spamhaus
- dnsrbl
- ordb
- opm
- njabl
- maps
- 5/10
- spamcop
This is a really long line of unnecessary text to get around slashdot's average-characters-per-line-excluding-whitespace-ugh!!!
No. Back in the age of core memory, it was very common to diagnose system crashes by dumping core before re-initializing the system. When PCs crash, the information is gone because of the DRAM. This can help operating system development.
Yay for core memory coming back! (sort of) *wink*
it won't be a killer app until you can download porn with it.
*wink*
Povray, like circleMUD, is one of those software packages whose releases seem to come few and far-between, but are often worth it...
;)
I, for one, welcome our new chrome-sphere-over-checkboard overlords.
You know, a friend of mine, after I installed povray on his machine, asked me, "So, where's the GUI...?"
You think 1G is an ample cap, until you go to download the latest upgrade to Irix for the SGI box you have in your dorm (shhh, c'mon, this is _slashdot_), and it's a 1400meg file.
Of course, there's always rate-limiting, or using a shell elsewhere to download the file and break it up into chunks.
As for comcast blocking port 25, anyone know if this is all residential customers? If so, boy, I'm glad I just left them for speakeasy, because, damn, I like running my own mailserver.
Also, is that port 25 incoming? That would do very little to stop spam... spammers just need port 25 outgoing, but, is it really fair to block outgoing ports like that? What if someone, just to be stealthy, runs sshd on some bizarre port, like 25? Or, to be more realistic, what if they start blocking other port ranges they deem unnecessary for normal users, and then you can't access a few of the websites that run on unusual ports, or can't connect to game servers, or connect to servers behind firewalls that have their ports tunnelled through? Also, is comcast blocking cheesecake?
Just my 25,000 pesos.
Good point. They could label the front the "back," thought, and then it would just be a derivative idea, so it would probably be OK.
1. Sell these
2. Profit
No ??? needed!
Seriously...