They've added some of the debt to their Easy Hacks page ; I had a crack at some of the more mundane tasks like removing defunct macros with shell scripts.
Thanks for the link! I have been meaning to get involved into Open Source in my spare time, this looks like a good way to make an initial start without risking getting in over my head. One of the first one seems to be related to removing unnececary comments, which is probably what I would start doing anyway if I were to get involved in something (I think code is easier to develop if it is documented well, mainly through comments)
I'd like to remove entire classes of websites from my search results: by country, for starters.
I thought you could limit a search to a country? For example, going to google.co.uk there used to be a radio button to 'search pages from the UK' as opposed to the whole internet.
So you want google to edit the html of the sites you visit to include a button?
You mean get Google to edit the google.com results page? I don't see why not.
This adds a block link next to the cached link on the results page.
You would have to go to the site first before deciding it was useless. Then you'd have to go back and click on the block link on the search result page, and remember which one you clicked on.
Searching for "black dresses" now relegates J.C. Penny to the sixth page of results,
But how many people would actually search for "black dresses" on Google as a way of buying a black dress?
I have seen someone type 'facebook' into a Google search toolbar to get to the facebook home page to log in. It is surprising (to me, as someone who works in IT anyway) what people search for sometimes.
Guess what, this might even bring in more sales, as someone would be required to make a purchase every 15 minutes during busy times to get more Internet access - or they might just leave and open up room for more customers - but either way it would be customers who had paid in the past 15 minutes who you'd give Internet access to.
I would predict that a large portion of 'new' sales becuase of this would be a single item of the cheapest thing avaliable to buy. Still, better than nothing I guess.
Or get a large newspaper, open it up and put it inside there. I think I saw Bart Simpson doing that with a comic and an excercise book on the Simpsons once.
I thought when they noticed the Tunisian government were doing bad things with their website they pushed HTTPS on all Tunisian users, which would have slightly hampered the governments attempt to control communications.
To come up with a bulletproof study on how misinformed news viewers are, you need to be asking them questions which are free from any confirmation bias. Stuff like "the Prime Minister of the U.K. is...?" or "The African nation which recently voted to split is...?" Questions which favor or disfavor one political or social group's viewpoint won't work, and is more indicative of the researchers' bias rather than the viewers'. (Ideally you'd also control for socio-economic factors like education level, available time to watch the news, etc.)
That sounds like a pretty awesome study, I must say! Whether anyone would actually run it is another question. I mean, you could try an online questionnaire, but people could just Google the questions to find the answers, and any news agency that might have the resources to get it out to many people, would suffer from being mostly limited to whatever their main audience is.
There's a Census coming around the UK soon this year, which would be a good way to get a lot of coverage, however I suspect its already been printed, or the questions have been finalised so adding more wouldn't work. The next one is in a decade which doesn't help now. And I don't know how people would react to being part of a huge psychology experiment like that.
I don't know how fast, if at all, the BBC will resort to legal action over this. I have heard there is an unofficial not-spoken-about semi-agreement that people who share old Doctor Who episodes (that they destroyed and fans have reconstructed) are allowed to carry on their business, so long as they don't try to make any money out of it. If they're not going to do anything about these websites anymore apart from delete them, this seems like it could be a similar situation.
Theres a very noticable left wing bias at the BBC, especially on Radio 4. We need right wingers like murdoch to provide balance.
You mean like the "balance" you can get from Fox "news" in the USA? Wasn't there reports on this site that Fox news viewers are the most misinformed, and the company won a court battle that meant they were an enternainment channel and didn't have to worry about facts. I'd rather news be accurate, not half made up. It's not what I'd call balance; lies would be a more descriptive term.
According to the MS article thing on it, that won't happen anymore. Autorun only happens for CD/DVD discs now. In fact this update SPECIFICALLY targets thumb drives for disabling autorun (though it affects all non-disc drives).
So if someone wants to start spreading malware and can't use USB drives, they need to start sending out CD/DVD disks to every house hold possible, potentially with some offer to the reciever of getting something for free if they put the disk in their drive.
"these notices are nothing simply warnings, and typically do not lead to legal action."
Eh? I'm having trouble understand this sentence, is the summary nothing simply written bad?
I read about this a few days ago, I seem to remember its pretty much a standard template of a letter automatically sent out, so I don't know how much should be read into it.
Google's actions as a misguided response to a real threat from a competitor in its core search business.
If a 'real threat' to Google's search business has to use Google to improve their results, I don't think Google will have anything to worry about from a competitor that will always be a few steps behind.
Red headings are "mysterious future" articles - the brief preview that subscribers get before they're posted publicly. I've been seeing them occasionally, too, so it's either a glitch with the new design or somehow related to the "Ads Disabled. Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!" box that you get for spending far to much time here without subscribing.
I am not a subscriber, but have seen it happen before the new design. It may be related to the Ads Disabled checkbox, I can't remember if I've seen it before without being logged in (I may have done, it was a long time ago if I did).
If the Universe is expanding, by the time a planet has formed and sentient life has evolved on it to look for an edge, the edge probabaly would have moved quite a bit.
They already have a few jokes interspersed, like "anagram" and "french military victories". I wonder if Bing shows unexpected results for those.
The "french military victories" one was from another site mimicking the Google layout, although it was popular so displayed if you clicked on "I'm feeling lucky", so people thought it actually was from Google.
Every appropriate police force contacted by ComputerworldUK denied any knowledge of an investigation or of having been contacted by the Exchange.
This sort of blanket denial usually only happens if the authorities believe there may be some terrorist aspect to the incident.
It could also mean that they weren't contacted at all, and that there actually is no investigation going on.
It wouldn't be the first time someone has publicly announced they are going to contact the police about something but actually don't; I remember a few years back reading a story about that Jack Thompson fellow (the one who didn't like video games) publishing a letter he was going to send to a police department somewhere, and forwarded it to many news agencies and people to show what he had said. But he didn't actually send it to where he was going to send it, so it was more for show than anything else.
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In Chrome, Ctrl + Tab cycles between the tabs as usual in full screen mode, just means you can't click on them.
They've added some of the debt to their Easy Hacks page ; I had a crack at some of the more mundane tasks like removing defunct macros with shell scripts.
Thanks for the link! I have been meaning to get involved into Open Source in my spare time, this looks like a good way to make an initial start without risking getting in over my head. One of the first one seems to be related to removing unnececary comments, which is probably what I would start doing anyway if I were to get involved in something (I think code is easier to develop if it is documented well, mainly through comments)
I'd like to remove entire classes of websites from my search results: by country, for starters.
I thought you could limit a search to a country? For example, going to google.co.uk there used to be a radio button to 'search pages from the UK' as opposed to the whole internet.
So you want google to edit the html of the sites you visit to include a button?
You mean get Google to edit the google.com results page? I don't see why not.
This adds a block link next to the cached link on the results page.
You would have to go to the site first before deciding it was useless. Then you'd have to go back and click on the block link on the search result page, and remember which one you clicked on.
Searching for "black dresses" now relegates J.C. Penny to the sixth page of results,
But how many people would actually search for "black dresses" on Google as a way of buying a black dress?
I have seen someone type 'facebook' into a Google search toolbar to get to the facebook home page to log in. It is surprising (to me, as someone who works in IT anyway) what people search for sometimes.
Guess what, this might even bring in more sales, as someone would be required to make a purchase every 15 minutes during busy times to get more Internet access - or they might just leave and open up room for more customers - but either way it would be customers who had paid in the past 15 minutes who you'd give Internet access to.
I would predict that a large portion of 'new' sales becuase of this would be a single item of the cheapest thing avaliable to buy. Still, better than nothing I guess.
Or get a large newspaper, open it up and put it inside there. I think I saw Bart Simpson doing that with a comic and an excercise book on the Simpsons once.
Msoft is desperate
There, fixed that for you.
There, fixed that for you.
What's that? You still make money hand over fist so you can't justify pulling out to your shareholders? Well fuck me, how unexpected.
You might even say it is astonishingly unexpected.
(That bit of the summary made me smile.)
I thought when they noticed the Tunisian government were doing bad things with their website they pushed HTTPS on all Tunisian users, which would have slightly hampered the governments attempt to control communications.
To come up with a bulletproof study on how misinformed news viewers are, you need to be asking them questions which are free from any confirmation bias. Stuff like "the Prime Minister of the U.K. is...?" or "The African nation which recently voted to split is...?" Questions which favor or disfavor one political or social group's viewpoint won't work, and is more indicative of the researchers' bias rather than the viewers'. (Ideally you'd also control for socio-economic factors like education level, available time to watch the news, etc.)
That sounds like a pretty awesome study, I must say! Whether anyone would actually run it is another question. I mean, you could try an online questionnaire, but people could just Google the questions to find the answers, and any news agency that might have the resources to get it out to many people, would suffer from being mostly limited to whatever their main audience is.
There's a Census coming around the UK soon this year, which would be a good way to get a lot of coverage, however I suspect its already been printed, or the questions have been finalised so adding more wouldn't work. The next one is in a decade which doesn't help now. And I don't know how people would react to being part of a huge psychology experiment like that.
I don't know how fast, if at all, the BBC will resort to legal action over this. I have heard there is an unofficial not-spoken-about semi-agreement that people who share old Doctor Who episodes (that they destroyed and fans have reconstructed) are allowed to carry on their business, so long as they don't try to make any money out of it. If they're not going to do anything about these websites anymore apart from delete them, this seems like it could be a similar situation.
Theres a very noticable left wing bias at the BBC, especially on Radio 4. We need right wingers like murdoch to provide balance.
You mean like the "balance" you can get from Fox "news" in the USA? Wasn't there reports on this site that Fox news viewers are the most misinformed, and the company won a court battle that meant they were an enternainment channel and didn't have to worry about facts. I'd rather news be accurate, not half made up. It's not what I'd call balance; lies would be a more descriptive term.
The SMS part is only for activation. The app itself doesn't require a network connection.
But it would be a bit futule to try and log into your webmail account without a network connection.
According to the MS article thing on it, that won't happen anymore. Autorun only happens for CD/DVD discs now. In fact this update SPECIFICALLY targets thumb drives for disabling autorun (though it affects all non-disc drives).
So if someone wants to start spreading malware and can't use USB drives, they need to start sending out CD/DVD disks to every house hold possible, potentially with some offer to the reciever of getting something for free if they put the disk in their drive.
Oh hang on, I think AOL did that a few years ago.
I've got a nice tract of land down in Florida that I'm sure you'd be interested in.
That'd be great! I'm sick of continualy rebuilding this castle in this swamp!
"these notices are nothing simply warnings, and typically do not lead to legal action."
Eh? I'm having trouble understand this sentence, is the summary nothing simply written bad?
I read about this a few days ago, I seem to remember its pretty much a standard template of a letter automatically sent out, so I don't know how much should be read into it.
I wasn't aware that it was O.K. for US companies to be involved in bribery locally.
I thought that was called a "campaign contribution" in the USA (or at least thats the gist I get from reading this site).
Google's actions as a misguided response to a real threat from a competitor in its core search business.
If a 'real threat' to Google's search business has to use Google to improve their results, I don't think Google will have anything to worry about from a competitor that will always be a few steps behind.
If you watch the video carefully, you will see they invented time travel as well!
Why, can you see a blue police box somewhere? ;)
Red headings are "mysterious future" articles - the brief preview that subscribers get before they're posted publicly. I've been seeing them occasionally, too, so it's either a glitch with the new design or somehow related to the "Ads Disabled. Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!" box that you get for spending far to much time here without subscribing.
I am not a subscriber, but have seen it happen before the new design. It may be related to the Ads Disabled checkbox, I can't remember if I've seen it before without being logged in (I may have done, it was a long time ago if I did).
If the Universe is expanding, by the time a planet has formed and sentient life has evolved on it to look for an edge, the edge probabaly would have moved quite a bit.
They already have a few jokes interspersed, like "anagram" and "french military victories". I wonder if Bing shows unexpected results for those.
The "french military victories" one was from another site mimicking the Google layout, although it was popular so displayed if you clicked on "I'm feeling lucky", so people thought it actually was from Google.
Every appropriate police force contacted by ComputerworldUK denied any knowledge of an investigation or of having been contacted by the Exchange. This sort of blanket denial usually only happens if the authorities believe there may be some terrorist aspect to the incident.
It could also mean that they weren't contacted at all, and that there actually is no investigation going on.
It wouldn't be the first time someone has publicly announced they are going to contact the police about something but actually don't; I remember a few years back reading a story about that Jack Thompson fellow (the one who didn't like video games) publishing a letter he was going to send to a police department somewhere, and forwarded it to many news agencies and people to show what he had said. But he didn't actually send it to where he was going to send it, so it was more for show than anything else.
Sure, so help me out - what's the nifty new term for non-cash value trades?
Bartering? Well, I wouldn't call it new...