Mozilla Weave is doing this. I'm not sure of when details will be released on the server software, but I believe that is the idea: that if you want to, you can run your own server and point the extension at it. This sounds awesome, as I would be able to continue using Weave while Mozilla are screwing around with their servers during the development process. I can't tell you how many times Weave has refused to sync due to some "server lock error" and other crap like that. I even tried clearing out the server data and resetting the locks using the debug menu provided. Weave just has a lot of major development issues that need to be worked out, but when it actually works, it works pretty well. Having some level of control over my own data storage is definitely a step in the right direction, and I didn't even know they were planning this. Weave may turn out to be better than GBS after all!
On another note, they also NEED to allow us to change the synchronization interval. Auto-syncing only upon closing firefox is a horrible idea. What happens when Firefox crashes (a common occurence even with release versions, unfortunately). I'd sync every hour, if not every five minutes. Sure, that may adversely affect mozilla's servers, but my own server would be able to handle my needs just fine.
I strongly disagree with turning them into garbage prematurely. Sell or give away on ebay/craigslist/freecycle/whatever instead. There are lots of people who can make good use of a few end-of-life-but-still-working medium capacity drives. First reasonable comment I've seen here yet... WTF is wrong with you people, thinking that these drives are useless and "the magnets are worth more than the drives" ????? I still have abundant uses for any drive 40GB and above. Several of my systems run their OS on a 40GB drive. Hell, that's even enough for Vista! And 300GB is nothing to sneeze at! I run my RAID array of pr0n on 2x300GB Maxtor PATA drives. I first started to use Linux seriously on a computer that was pulled out of a dumpster (P4 1.7Ghz Prescott, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD, crappy POS Albatron motherboard). By all means, sell them on eBay and if they are cheap enough I will snap many of them up. So will many other people. Just because you are 'privileged' enough to have modern hardware doesn't mean people can't appreciate the stuff you treat as 'garbage'.
I love it when stupid people believe their hardware is "bricked" and throw it away. It really sucks for the environment, though; I can't get to every old PC before it ends up in the local landfill. It *is* a serious problem, but that doesn't mean I can't benefit from it occasionally. It's a guilty pleasure.
I scour the local dumpsters for computers (college dorm room dumpsters on move-out day are a freakin' gold mine), reinstall the OS, and do some good with them. Or just fix them and sell them back to the idiots who threw them away in the first place. LMAO.
Or how about Cingular's Smartphone Connect Unlimited data plan for $20/month with 3G speed. (Possibly $40/month if you can't convince the salesman that your phone is a "smartphone").
That's quite comparable to broadband (edge is more akin to dialup, IMO) and its available right here in Beaumont! Seriously, TWC is shooting themselves in both feet with this metering crap.
No, if you already have service, you are not subject to these terms. If you are in the market for internet service, AT&T DSL is available pretty much anywhere you can get Cable, although for a comparable speed on DSL you will pay more and receive less (not to mention having to deal with AT&T). My advice is to jump in RIGHT NOW and buy cable, and MAKE SURE you get your hands on a cable modem from TWC before they implement the caps on Thursday. You will be grandfathered in. Hurry, you only have about 24 hours. Then, download to your heart's content and cancel the service immediately if they try to change the TOS. That's my plan, anyway.
Actually, in this area if you can get Roadrunner you can most likely get DSL. It's all or nothing; I have rarely seen an area where you can get one but not the other. I think these caps are just an exercise to see how rapidly TWC will lose customers to AT&T if they try to cut corners and screw their customers.
40GB is unacceptable. If you are a Beaumont resident and don't have cable yet, sign up NOW! If you don't have the cable modem in your hot little hands before Thursday, you are SOL. If they decide to push this crap on everybody in the entire country, you need to vehemently cancel your service, tearing everyone a new asshole in the process, followed by switching to DSL. If you can't get DSL in your area, then you might be SOL until enough complaints pile up that corporate pulls their head out of their collective asses.
First off, I totally agree that Comcast is dishonest and horrible. But actually, even though Comcast doesn't TELL you the cap, you are capped at a fairly reasonable ~250 GB/month. Anything over that and you receive a warning, followed by disconnection if you do not comply. Also, I don't think they actually come after you if you find a way to defeat their BT throttling. It only stops the people who give up easily. TWC's hard cap of 40GB per month for the highest tier is totally unreasonable and is the most limited of all USA cable providers by far. Some other ISPs are worse (like DirecPC satellite, blech!), but people only go to them out of absolute necessity (i.e. no DSL or Cable available).
Well, I certainly planned for this, As a Beaumont resident, I knew that I would be moving to a new apartment this month, and I also read this new press release (just in time). Today, TWO DAYS before they implemented this bullshit, I managed to purchase another Roadrunner account that is grandfathered into the old unlimited plan. I will not tolerate bandwidth caps and overage fees. My cellular phone minutes are bad enough to manage.
I am keeping this account and this cable modem indefinitely, or until they decide to screw EVERYONE over, which I doubt will happen due to customer backlash. Until now, I have always thought of Roadrunner as one of the best ISPs in the USA because of their reliability, unlimited bandwidth, and lack of protocol-specific throttling.
I have become wary of TWC, and I will never create another account with them again unless they get rid of the caps. If they do push these ridiculous 40GB caps onto my grandfathered accounts, then FUCK YOU TIME WARNER, you have lost me as a customer permanently.
This is true as long as the electronic copy isn't able to be altered (ie. PDF, picture format, etc). A Word document or editable file can't be used. Where did you get this insane idea that a PDF or JPG cannot be altered? Ever heard of photoshop? How about Adobe Acrobat, or even Foxit PDF editor? Conversion to.doc isn't even necessary. ANY electronic document can be altered, unless it is digitally encrypted and cryptographically signed. If crypto is indeed the policy of your government, kudos to them. Otherwise, WTF?!
no, actually that's how the old par system worked. In the newer, more advanced.par2 system, the individual.rar files are divided into "blocks" and each par file can recover a certain number of "blocks". It's much more advanced than the old par files that you are referring to, and it's similar to the hashing mechanism in bittorrent. I haven't seen any of the old-style pars in a long time.
For example, if you are missing a total of 3 blocks (one block from 3 different files) you only need to download a very small par2 file that says "+3 blocks" and it will repair the three missing blocks. Of course, if you are missing a lot more data, even entire files, you can get several of the larger "+128" par files and it'll repair everything (assuming there is enough parity data). Often you can even request additional parity blocks, but that's only necessary if you have a *really* crappy nntp provider.
What is it in Ubuntu that you want more up to date?
I find it a very up-to-date distro, but maybe I am missing something.
Basically, everything. If Pidgin 2.5.0 comes out tomorrow with new features, I want it by the day after tomorrow. If a totally new and interesting app comes out then I want it to appear in the respository in a reasonable timeframe. When KDE 4.0.0 came out, I could have emerged it from Portage less than a week later (I chose not to, though).
With Ubuntu, I would either have to compile it myself outside of Synaptic or wait six months for the next Ubuntu release. They enact a "feature freeze" at each release, so that *only* security updates come out through Synaptic and *no* new features or non-security bugfixes may be added. There is an Ubuntu repository called "backports" where they release newer apps, but in my experience this isn't very up-to-date either compared to Gentoo/Sabayon's Portage tree.
For most people, upgrading every six months is often enough. I'm not running a critical production server and I'm also a techie, so a 6-month release cycle is unacceptable to me (let alone 3+ yrs for something like Debian). I like having the ability to install a new and untested piece of software without giving up the benefits of package management. I've heard that there are other distros out there that offer this with a binary package system, but I've not tried one yet. The Sabayon devs are working on a binary project called Entropy and it's supposed to be compatible with Portage as well. People are already saying it works great, but I don't quite trust it yet. Looks promising though.
In high school, I debated IT and engineering (you know, the mechanical-aerospace kind), and figured I could get into engineering and program on the side.
That is where I'm headed. I'm about to graduate with a chemical engineering degree and my biggest hobby is tinkering with computers. As a co-op at a chemical plant I was OK with the chemical process stuff but people also seemed to respect me a lot for my m4d exc3l sk1llz and all-around computer knowledge. At first I felt like I was just dicking around to waste time but people really used the stuff I was creating. It's kind of amusing (and satisfying) to me when the department calls a meeting to figure out how they are going to replace the skills of an intern when he leaves.
Now I am headed back there, ready to earn a bigger paycheck to work with bigger machines. I'm pretty sure I'll get to tinker with some nice computers, as well. All in all, I'm glad I didn't (officially) make my hobby into my career.
Red Hat's version of ReiserFS 3.6 is corrupted and Red Hat lies by saying it's unmaintained. As for Reiser4, certain kernel hackers keep inserting bombs in it to cause corruption, like they did in 3.6.
I am not a kernel hacker or a dev by any means, but I've heard this argument before. It seems very strange that such a thing might occur in an open-source community. Would others not have pointed it out already using concrete examples? Could you please provide some source code with an explanation of the "bomb" that was inserted? Or why don't you diff Redhat's reiserfs against the 'real thing' and show us the corruption that Redhat refuses to fix.
Seriously, if there is any truth to this, then it must be broken wide open.
Strangely enough, I've actually had decent luck with ext4dev. For sure, I know it was a mistake to use it in the first place. I didn't know any better at the time and my stupid distro defaulted to it as the root FS (it was also improperly named "ext4" and not "ext4dev").
However, with that said, my system has been running great for over a year now. That includes millions of files, big and small, with total recompiles of every package every so often (it's a source-based distro). I have taken absolutely no precautions against power failure, and I have even allowed the entire volume to fill up more than once during a compile (causing a hard freeze of the system). It has never *once* failed to boot for me yet after that kind of failure. On a side note, I tested ext4 on my laptop and installing a new version of e2fsprogs caused failure (which was recovered by a lengthy e2fsck run from the livecd).
The most I can lose now is all of the compiling I have done, which is not that big of a deal since I'm getting tired of it anyway. All of my data is stored relatively safely within two ext3 volumes and one reiserfs volume on separate physical drives.
ReiserFS hasn't been bad in my experience either. I haven't experienced any data loss (that I know of) in any of the above-mentioned power failures. It just needs to do it's thing and run fsck for several minutes on boot in those situations. The only big problem I see with Reiser is that it has crappier support than ext3 or NTFS for data recovery in the bad situations. That in combination with the lack of development will be the reason I stop using ReiserFS. I've totally fucked over entire NTFS volumes and managed to recover every kilobyte of data that I cared about using off-the-shelf consumer software.
I'm looking for a nice binary-packaged distro to try out next, as long as it's more up-to-date than Ubuntu (maybe archlinux). But on my Sabayon system with ext4dev FS, as long as I don't screw with e2fsprogs again for a while, I think I'll be fine.
So there you have it. Please don't ridicule me too much for my crazy filesystem experience. If I had more valuable data than music and pr0nz then I might not be so careless with it.
I built my GF a computer with nearly the same specifications (GA-P35-DS3L, EVGA 8800GT SC, 2 gigs of ram, C2D E6550 OC'ed to 3.5 Ghz)
Since she's a music professional who uses Macs everyday at college, she might really like dual-booting OSX at home. With OSx86, is it really a workable machine that she could use everyday or is it just a hacky experimental thing? Points 3, 4, and 5 are kind of worrysome but it looks promising.
And just what are you going to use the PCIe x16 slot for? I'm pretty sure that you can't put a standard NVIDIA 8800 card in it, cause it's a Mac. You need to have a special graphics card with Apple BIOS flashed to it to make it work on a REAL Mac (the kind with EFI instead of legacy BIOS). I don't think that's going to change, so you would still have to h4x0r the card to make it work, or buy your card from Apple at a premium price.
(Does anyone know if this is still accurate?)
It's these kinds of things that make me stay very far away from Apple hardware. People who are looking for expandable or upgradeable hardware would do best to avoid Apple entirely.
Mozilla Weave (it isn't as smooth, but it works) I tried Weave, and I can attest to the fact that it most certainly DOES NOT work. I run FF3B5 as well as Minefield, and Weave is just plain BROKEN. BADLY BROKEN.
It does not seem to upload anything to the server anymore, ever. Half the time it fails to connect, giving some generic error. I actually think it can't handle the excessive amount of bookmarks I have.
It's not anywhere near ready. Don't tell people to use it yet.
Where I work flash is blocked from installing Solution: Buy a USB flash drive, install Firefox Portable from portableapps.com, and install flash into that browser. Works wonders for libraries, work, etc. and it technically doesn't break any rules (depending on how draconian your IT dept. wants to be). It's also great for privacy by keeping your browser cache/history sandboxed to the USB stick. I never leave home without mine.
Granted, flash SUCKS when it is used for anything where it is unnecessary such as freaking DILBERT. But it's still nice to have around when you want it.
You say there's no NEED to push content onto laptops and iphones? That's like saying theres no need to have a laptop or an iphone at all because you have a landline and a PC at home! People have televisions and cable but can't bring it with them for entertainment on-the-go, hence the need for youtube, netflix VOD, etc.
Getting rid of those services would be a huge step backwards. As computers become smaller and more ubiquitous, IMO it would make more sense to eliminate traditional cable and satellite entertainment in favor of increased internet bandwidth. Why not have everything be accessible to every device over the same link? That way, I'm not paying twice for the same service on two different devices. We just need the internet services to become as user-friendly as traditional TV. It's getting there..
Besides, if these services suddenly stopped being pushed to consumers legitimately then we would simply see an increase in p2p traffic. EVERYTHING will end up on the internet one way or another, so why not encourage it (and potentially profit from it) instead of pushing it further underground? The market has spoken; we won't see internet-based entertainment services going away anytime soon.
Like who in their right mind would have thought they would charge a 15 year old and 16 year old for taking pics of THEIR OWN BODIES and sending it to each other? That is truly f*cking insane. Yes, it is criminally insane. I'm not familiar with the case, but I assume these teens are labelled as sex offenders now? This needs to go to the supreme court, srsly. It is the people who arrested/harassed these teens that need to be punished.
Brought to you by Windows Vista,now with SP1 -We're sorry.But hey,Win 7 will rock! We promise!Please don't buy an Apple! Why would Microsoft care if you bought an Apple? More than likely you would still purchase MS Office and even Windows XP/Vista to run in bootcamp. It'd even benefit them since you would pay retail instead of OEM prebuilt-system price.
+1 hell yes. Sure, indexing may be abused at the expense of clueless web developers, but they'll clean up their act very rapidly in the wake of all the security breaches.
Non-indexing may be abused as well. As someone said in an earlier comment,.gov sites like to disallow indexing. What possible purpose could this serve other than to make people's lives miserable when dealing with the government?
IANA(web developer), but I never understood the point of robots.txt crap. Why put the site up if you don't want people to find it?
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As far as I can tell, our US government aggressively marks websites not to be indexed, even when they contain information that is posted there to be public record.
I'd mod you up if I had some points. I'm sure there are ethical implications or something when it comes to respecting the website owner's wishes not to index, but it's all public information anyway. If it's on the web and I can look at it, then Google should be able to look at it and index it.
I had no idea that government sites don't allow themselves to be indexed. That is BULLSHIT. People often NEED information from.gov sites and ALL of it should be made easy to find. Refusing to allow indexing such information is akin to hiding or obfuscating it: you don't actually want anyone to read it or anything, but you can say it's available on the web so your ass is covered. IMO there should be a law stating that all of.gov MUST be indexed by search engines.
Is there a law saying that search engines MUST follow these robots.txt, nofollow, etc? If it's not breaking the law, then Google should have some serious competition. A new search engine that indexes ALL VIEWABLE SITES regardless of the owner's wishes would be fucking great.
I agree with you in theory, but in practice...um...not so much. You're going to skimp on the most important component of your system? A counterfeit motherboard might look the same but you have no way of knowing if it REALLY IS the same. Also, you would get no warranty from the manufacturer unless you lied and defrauded them yourself. How much are you really saving?
You may want to risk frying your new shiny 9800GX2 and your 4GB of DDR3, but not I, sir.
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On another note, they also NEED to allow us to change the synchronization interval. Auto-syncing only upon closing firefox is a horrible idea. What happens when Firefox crashes (a common occurence even with release versions, unfortunately). I'd sync every hour, if not every five minutes. Sure, that may adversely affect mozilla's servers, but my own server would be able to handle my needs just fine.
I scour the local dumpsters for computers (college dorm room dumpsters on move-out day are a freakin' gold mine), reinstall the OS, and do some good with them. Or just fix them and sell them back to the idiots who threw them away in the first place. LMAO.
That's quite comparable to broadband (edge is more akin to dialup, IMO) and its available right here in Beaumont! Seriously, TWC is shooting themselves in both feet with this metering crap.
No, if you already have service, you are not subject to these terms. If you are in the market for internet service, AT&T DSL is available pretty much anywhere you can get Cable, although for a comparable speed on DSL you will pay more and receive less (not to mention having to deal with AT&T). My advice is to jump in RIGHT NOW and buy cable, and MAKE SURE you get your hands on a cable modem from TWC before they implement the caps on Thursday. You will be grandfathered in. Hurry, you only have about 24 hours. Then, download to your heart's content and cancel the service immediately if they try to change the TOS. That's my plan, anyway.
Actually, in this area if you can get Roadrunner you can most likely get DSL. It's all or nothing; I have rarely seen an area where you can get one but not the other. I think these caps are just an exercise to see how rapidly TWC will lose customers to AT&T if they try to cut corners and screw their customers.
40GB is unacceptable. If you are a Beaumont resident and don't have cable yet, sign up NOW! If you don't have the cable modem in your hot little hands before Thursday, you are SOL. If they decide to push this crap on everybody in the entire country, you need to vehemently cancel your service, tearing everyone a new asshole in the process, followed by switching to DSL. If you can't get DSL in your area, then you might be SOL until enough complaints pile up that corporate pulls their head out of their collective asses.
First off, I totally agree that Comcast is dishonest and horrible. But actually, even though Comcast doesn't TELL you the cap, you are capped at a fairly reasonable ~250 GB/month. Anything over that and you receive a warning, followed by disconnection if you do not comply. Also, I don't think they actually come after you if you find a way to defeat their BT throttling. It only stops the people who give up easily. TWC's hard cap of 40GB per month for the highest tier is totally unreasonable and is the most limited of all USA cable providers by far. Some other ISPs are worse (like DirecPC satellite, blech!), but people only go to them out of absolute necessity (i.e. no DSL or Cable available).
I am keeping this account and this cable modem indefinitely, or until they decide to screw EVERYONE over, which I doubt will happen due to customer backlash. Until now, I have always thought of Roadrunner as one of the best ISPs in the USA because of their reliability, unlimited bandwidth, and lack of protocol-specific throttling.
I have become wary of TWC, and I will never create another account with them again unless they get rid of the caps. If they do push these ridiculous 40GB caps onto my grandfathered accounts, then FUCK YOU TIME WARNER, you have lost me as a customer permanently.
For example, if you are missing a total of 3 blocks (one block from 3 different files) you only need to download a very small par2 file that says "+3 blocks" and it will repair the three missing blocks. Of course, if you are missing a lot more data, even entire files, you can get several of the larger "+128" par files and it'll repair everything (assuming there is enough parity data). Often you can even request additional parity blocks, but that's only necessary if you have a *really* crappy nntp provider.
Basically, everything. If Pidgin 2.5.0 comes out tomorrow with new features, I want it by the day after tomorrow. If a totally new and interesting app comes out then I want it to appear in the respository in a reasonable timeframe. When KDE 4.0.0 came out, I could have emerged it from Portage less than a week later (I chose not to, though).
With Ubuntu, I would either have to compile it myself outside of Synaptic or wait six months for the next Ubuntu release. They enact a "feature freeze" at each release, so that *only* security updates come out through Synaptic and *no* new features or non-security bugfixes may be added. There is an Ubuntu repository called "backports" where they release newer apps, but in my experience this isn't very up-to-date either compared to Gentoo/Sabayon's Portage tree.
For most people, upgrading every six months is often enough. I'm not running a critical production server and I'm also a techie, so a 6-month release cycle is unacceptable to me (let alone 3+ yrs for something like Debian). I like having the ability to install a new and untested piece of software without giving up the benefits of package management. I've heard that there are other distros out there that offer this with a binary package system, but I've not tried one yet. The Sabayon devs are working on a binary project called Entropy and it's supposed to be compatible with Portage as well. People are already saying it works great, but I don't quite trust it yet. Looks promising though.
In high school, I debated IT and engineering (you know, the mechanical-aerospace kind), and figured I could get into engineering and program on the side.
That is where I'm headed. I'm about to graduate with a chemical engineering degree and my biggest hobby is tinkering with computers. As a co-op at a chemical plant I was OK with the chemical process stuff but people also seemed to respect me a lot for my m4d exc3l sk1llz and all-around computer knowledge. At first I felt like I was just dicking around to waste time but people really used the stuff I was creating. It's kind of amusing (and satisfying) to me when the department calls a meeting to figure out how they are going to replace the skills of an intern when he leaves.
Now I am headed back there, ready to earn a bigger paycheck to work with bigger machines. I'm pretty sure I'll get to tinker with some nice computers, as well. All in all, I'm glad I didn't (officially) make my hobby into my career.
Red Hat's version of ReiserFS 3.6 is corrupted and Red Hat lies by saying it's unmaintained. As for Reiser4, certain kernel hackers keep inserting bombs in it to cause corruption, like they did in 3.6.
I am not a kernel hacker or a dev by any means, but I've heard this argument before. It seems very strange that such a thing might occur in an open-source community. Would others not have pointed it out already using concrete examples? Could you please provide some source code with an explanation of the "bomb" that was inserted? Or why don't you diff Redhat's reiserfs against the 'real thing' and show us the corruption that Redhat refuses to fix.
Seriously, if there is any truth to this, then it must be broken wide open.
Strangely enough, I've actually had decent luck with ext4dev. For sure, I know it was a mistake to use it in the first place. I didn't know any better at the time and my stupid distro defaulted to it as the root FS (it was also improperly named "ext4" and not "ext4dev").
However, with that said, my system has been running great for over a year now. That includes millions of files, big and small, with total recompiles of every package every so often (it's a source-based distro). I have taken absolutely no precautions against power failure, and I have even allowed the entire volume to fill up more than once during a compile (causing a hard freeze of the system). It has never *once* failed to boot for me yet after that kind of failure. On a side note, I tested ext4 on my laptop and installing a new version of e2fsprogs caused failure (which was recovered by a lengthy e2fsck run from the livecd).
The most I can lose now is all of the compiling I have done, which is not that big of a deal since I'm getting tired of it anyway. All of my data is stored relatively safely within two ext3 volumes and one reiserfs volume on separate physical drives.
ReiserFS hasn't been bad in my experience either. I haven't experienced any data loss (that I know of) in any of the above-mentioned power failures. It just needs to do it's thing and run fsck for several minutes on boot in those situations. The only big problem I see with Reiser is that it has crappier support than ext3 or NTFS for data recovery in the bad situations. That in combination with the lack of development will be the reason I stop using ReiserFS. I've totally fucked over entire NTFS volumes and managed to recover every kilobyte of data that I cared about using off-the-shelf consumer software.
I'm looking for a nice binary-packaged distro to try out next, as long as it's more up-to-date than Ubuntu (maybe archlinux). But on my Sabayon system with ext4dev FS, as long as I don't screw with e2fsprogs again for a while, I think I'll be fine.
So there you have it. Please don't ridicule me too much for my crazy filesystem experience. If I had more valuable data than music and pr0nz then I might not be so careless with it.
I built my GF a computer with nearly the same specifications (GA-P35-DS3L, EVGA 8800GT SC, 2 gigs of ram, C2D E6550 OC'ed to 3.5 Ghz)
Since she's a music professional who uses Macs everyday at college, she might really like dual-booting OSX at home. With OSx86, is it really a workable machine that she could use everyday or is it just a hacky experimental thing? Points 3, 4, and 5 are kind of worrysome but it looks promising.
And just what are you going to use the PCIe x16 slot for? I'm pretty sure that you can't put a standard NVIDIA 8800 card in it, cause it's a Mac. You need to have a special graphics card with Apple BIOS flashed to it to make it work on a REAL Mac (the kind with EFI instead of legacy BIOS). I don't think that's going to change, so you would still have to h4x0r the card to make it work, or buy your card from Apple at a premium price.
(Does anyone know if this is still accurate?)
It's these kinds of things that make me stay very far away from Apple hardware. People who are looking for expandable or upgradeable hardware would do best to avoid Apple entirely.
Granted, flash SUCKS when it is used for anything where it is unnecessary such as freaking DILBERT. But it's still nice to have around when you want it.
Getting rid of those services would be a huge step backwards. As computers become smaller and more ubiquitous, IMO it would make more sense to eliminate traditional cable and satellite entertainment in favor of increased internet bandwidth. Why not have everything be accessible to every device over the same link? That way, I'm not paying twice for the same service on two different devices. We just need the internet services to become as user-friendly as traditional TV. It's getting there..
Besides, if these services suddenly stopped being pushed to consumers legitimately then we would simply see an increase in p2p traffic. EVERYTHING will end up on the internet one way or another, so why not encourage it (and potentially profit from it) instead of pushing it further underground? The market has spoken; we won't see internet-based entertainment services going away anytime soon.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/10/2/103735/275
Non-indexing may be abused as well. As someone said in an earlier comment, .gov sites like to disallow indexing. What possible purpose could this serve other than to make people's lives miserable when dealing with the government?
IANA(web developer), but I never understood the point of robots.txt crap. Why put the site up if you don't want people to find it?
I'd mod you up if I had some points. I'm sure there are ethical implications or something when it comes to respecting the website owner's wishes not to index, but it's all public information anyway. If it's on the web and I can look at it, then Google should be able to look at it and index it.
I had no idea that government sites don't allow themselves to be indexed. That is BULLSHIT. People often NEED information from .gov sites and ALL of it should be made easy to find. Refusing to allow indexing such information is akin to hiding or obfuscating it: you don't actually want anyone to read it or anything, but you can say it's available on the web so your ass is covered. IMO there should be a law stating that all of .gov MUST be indexed by search engines.
Is there a law saying that search engines MUST follow these robots.txt, nofollow, etc? If it's not breaking the law, then Google should have some serious competition. A new search engine that indexes ALL VIEWABLE SITES regardless of the owner's wishes would be fucking great.
You may want to risk frying your new shiny 9800GX2 and your 4GB of DDR3, but not I, sir.