Wouldn't an effective way to complain about poor journalism be to complain directly to the advertisers whose ads appear in association with the matierial?
A simple statement of "As long as you continue to support the publication of (insert description here) such as in/at (insert example here) I will aviod the purchase of your products, and encourage my friends and workplace to do the same."
So, he burns all his clothes, wanders out of his house wearing his grandfathers antique garb, and starts wandering around town, laughing manicially to himself.
People who see him call the Police to report a crazy man. But the police detection systems don't see any radio tags there, so they assume it's a mass hallucination.
Other people start blogging having seen him, and the connection between the police proving that noone was really there, and so many people having seen him, turns it into a ghost story.
If websites stopped serving pages to Internet Explorer, users would be forced to install another browser. Or, for example, if IE is detected add an extra large banner promoting a Mozilla based browser. Instead of 'Best Viewed with Internet Explorer', it would be 'Worst Viewed'
that reminds me of something else I was thinking of...
Websites and other internet services should start denying services to 'bad' net citizens, a sort of global blacklist.
Say everytime a monitor machine recieves a spam email, a ddos attack, worm propageation attept, etc; it sends a note to one of the blacklist servers. The blacklist server won't instantly list for one bad action, but would require multiple monitors to report a problem with an IP address.
every once in a while ISPs, Servers, Service Providers (think perhaps Battle.net, Steam, web-comics, free e-mail providers, along with free/cheap hosting providers) would download the current list, and start providing blank/warning pages to any requests from those addresses. Corporate internet connections could just outright block any packets at the firewall.
8 bad IP adresses in a C block, blocks the whole c block.
The Monitor servers would have to be authenticated and somewhat secret, otherwise false reports could be used to deny service to a target or the IP addresses excluded from future worm versions and the Blacklist distribution security would still be an issue (if served normally, it would be a DDOS target, if 'push' delivered, it could be spoofed without good authentication.) I'm thinking of a USENET style list distribution method. a listing would also expire fairly quickly.
The distiction with this being, that it's cross service. You send bad e-mails, your web browsing is blocked. You run an open proxy, you can't send e-mail. You have a worm?, you can't play Counterstrike. You run a Starcraft cheat? you can't instant message.
The exclusions would have to be customizable, you wouldn't want to block someone with a worm from downloading a virus remover, or otherwise seeking assistance, but they don't need to play an online game before fixing it.
However, without the early adoptors, a technology requires a very large marketing expense.
Think about the DIVX players/discs.
There has to be an advantage aside from 'Quality' for american comsumers as well. with DVD's non-quality advantages include random access, interactive content, and compact storage.
Consumers will happily chow down on McDonalds burgers by the billion, and noone I know owns an HDTV yet.
First they came for the Telemarketers, but I was not a Telemarketer, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Spammers, but I'm not a Spammer, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Script Kiddies, but I'm not a Script Kiddie, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Pedophiles...
It the 'edge of humanity'.
'Multiple Murderers' are described as 'animals', 'inhuman' etc, so what society can justify killing them. Just like many claimed that Blacks were less than human, to justify slavery.
Actally, y2k was a problem back in 1970, many Mortages are 30 year duration, so financial applications had to cope with it back then.
And the money saved back then by using 2 digit years plus interest, is greater than the cost of fixing the 'y2k bug'; it was a valid engineering decision.
The 'Start' Menu for example, is often cached as a non-functional bitmap, then invisibly redrawn after Windows builds the structures needed to make it function (mouse over/click bounderies, tooltips, fly-outs, etc.)
"I moved our entire company off Windows to SuSE Linux after one of our primary public facing servers became infected with a worm which enterprising hackers used to store (and later serve) German porn movies. This despite our sysadmin religiously installing patches."
heh, that excuse works SO well on ignorant bosses...
"It musta been hackers storing the porn on the server!"
if the major ISP's each hosted a mirror that can only be read by their clients, if would save everyone a lot of bandwidth, wouldn't it?
or how about Multicasting?
the server could send the file in a paced loop, so if you start reciving at 50%, you get the end of the file, then catch the first half on the next cycle...
with Peer to Peer, you're clogging the pipes in two directions.
The hard drives in many 60 hour ReplayTV's are actually 80 gigabytes (approx 1gig/hr), and can be reformatted as such. The formatting was reduced for marketing reasons.
Long text files often consist of many subsections that can be considered to be separate documents. For example, some email programs keep messages in a single long text file, with a marker such as "Date:" or a line of dashes separating the messages. Also, XML files with data converted from a database table will typically contain a series of records. The File Segmentation Rules feature in dtSearch provides a way to tell dtSearch to index each message or record as a separate document, without breaking up the original text file into numerous tiny files.
File Segmentation Rules work with Ansi text files, HTML, and XML. Word processor files such as Word or WordPerfect documents cannot be segmented using this method.
Creating File Segmentation Rules
To set up a file segmentation rule, click Options, Preferences in dtSearch and select the "File Segmentation Rules" tab. Each rule has the following parts:
Name
The name of a rule is used only to identify it in the File Segmentation Rules dialog box.
New document starts at
This is a marker that indicates when a new document begins. For email message files, this is often part of a message header such as "Date:" or "From:". To avoid incorrectly splitting a message, this marker should be as unique as possible.
How to check for document boundaries in text
Each line of the files a rule applies to will be compared against the marker under New document starts at. Three types of comparison are available:
Require exact match The entire line must exactly match the marker.
Match start of line The start of the line must match the marker.
Match regular expression The marker is interpreted as a regular expression. A document boundary occurs when the marker is found anywhere in a line. To require a marker to begin at the start of a line, precede it with the ^ character.
Ignore case
Match a document boundary even if the capitalization does not match.
First segment in a file is header for other segments
Check this box to have dtSearch insert the first segment in a file in every following segment. This option is useful when segmenting XML or HTML files, because it allows the HTML or XML header to be repeated for each segment.
Filename filters
For each rule, a filename filter determines which files the rule applies to. If more than one rule could apply to a particular file, the first one to match the filename is the one applied. A rule that does not have have a filter will be ignored.
Segmenting XML and HTML
If you use File Segmentation Rule with XML or HTML files, use the First segment in a file is header for other segments checkbox to make sure that the XML or HTML header is repeated for each segment. Otherwise, each segment will lack the or header that is necessary for correct identification of the file type.
Segment markers for XML and HTML are based on the raw text in the file, including tags and comments. For example, suppose you have an HTML file that looks like this:
Sample File
This is the first segment
This is the second segment
This is the third segment
You could use "" the marker separating segments, even though these comments are not visible when you open an HTML file in dtSearch. Using this marker, and setting the option to make the first segment a header for the other segments, dtSearch would index the HTML file as three separate HTML documents:
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't an effective way to complain about poor journalism be to complain directly to the advertisers whose ads appear in association with the matierial?
A simple statement of "As long as you continue to support the publication of (insert description here) such as in/at (insert example here) I will aviod the purchase of your products, and encourage my friends and workplace to do the same."
Story title: The Modern Invisible Man
One day, Joe snaps. thats It, he's had It.
So, he burns all his clothes, wanders out of his house wearing his grandfathers antique garb, and starts wandering around town, laughing manicially to himself.
People who see him call the Police to report a crazy man. But the police detection systems don't see any radio tags there, so they assume it's a mass hallucination.
Other people start blogging having seen him, and the connection between the police proving that noone was really there, and so many people having seen him, turns it into a ghost story.
Such wallets will be soon be illegal to own, sell, or manufacture, as an access control device.
If websites stopped serving pages to Internet Explorer, users would be forced to install another browser. Or, for example, if IE is detected add an extra large banner promoting a Mozilla based browser. Instead of 'Best Viewed with Internet Explorer', it would be 'Worst Viewed'
that reminds me of something else I was thinking of...
Websites and other internet services should start denying services to 'bad' net citizens, a sort of global blacklist.
Say everytime a monitor machine recieves a spam email, a ddos attack, worm propageation attept, etc; it sends a note to one of the blacklist servers. The blacklist server won't instantly list for one bad action, but would require multiple monitors to report a problem with an IP address.
every once in a while ISPs, Servers, Service Providers (think perhaps Battle.net, Steam, web-comics, free e-mail providers, along with free/cheap hosting providers) would download the current list, and start providing blank/warning pages to any requests from those addresses. Corporate internet connections could just outright block any packets at the firewall.
8 bad IP adresses in a C block, blocks the whole c block.
The Monitor servers would have to be authenticated and somewhat secret, otherwise false reports could be used to deny service to a target or the IP addresses excluded from future worm versions and the Blacklist distribution security would still be an issue (if served normally, it would be a DDOS target, if 'push' delivered, it could be spoofed without good authentication.) I'm thinking of a USENET style list distribution method. a listing would also expire fairly quickly.
The distiction with this being, that it's cross service. You send bad e-mails, your web browsing is blocked. You run an open proxy, you can't send e-mail. You have a worm?, you can't play Counterstrike. You run a Starcraft cheat? you can't instant message.
The exclusions would have to be customizable, you wouldn't want to block someone with a worm from downloading a virus remover, or otherwise seeking assistance, but they don't need to play an online game before fixing it.
Whats the point of Proving they are underage?
Shouldn't the reverse be required MUCH more frequently?, proof of adulthood?
unless this is just a hopefully harmless test before the start selling the things in adult bookstores.
dang, got distracted in the middle of typing, ADHD meds not kicked in yet...
I mean "MHR05G5A7S6"
Without context.
"Microsoft Rated Gamer 5"
or
"Microsoft Rated Server 6"
or
"Microsoft Rated Applications 7"...
but then you need a year in that, so maybe something labeled like:
"Microsofot Hardward Rating:"... or
"MRHG5A7S6"
MUCH less confusing.
Don't tell SCO, but I suspect some lines of Halflife 2 code may match theirs.
I saw an endif and a return near each other in the leaked version.
Couldn't a Virus/Trojan Spoof the authentication?
Maybe they should rename DirectX
Windows Media Direct.
However, without the early adoptors, a technology requires a very large marketing expense.
Think about the DIVX players/discs.
There has to be an advantage aside from 'Quality' for american comsumers as well. with DVD's non-quality advantages include random access, interactive content, and compact storage.
Consumers will happily chow down on McDonalds burgers by the billion, and noone I know owns an HDTV yet.
Hmmm Blu-Ray sounds Catchy...
but it's also Bluray-> Blurry...
Blurry Video is not good.
Could be the next 'Gremlin'
Actually, the higher the risk the higher the percentage the laywers demand.
it's like Lotto tickets, bigger odds, bigger winnings.
that's why legal fees need caps.
But where does that slope begin?
First they came for the Telemarketers, but I was not a Telemarketer, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Spammers, but I'm not a Spammer, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Script Kiddies, but I'm not a Script Kiddie, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Pedophiles...
It the 'edge of humanity'.
'Multiple Murderers' are described as 'animals', 'inhuman' etc, so what society can justify killing them. Just like many claimed that Blacks were less than human, to justify slavery.
"They ain't like us, let's kill 'em."
Actally, y2k was a problem back in 1970, many Mortages are 30 year duration, so financial applications had to cope with it back then.
And the money saved back then by using 2 digit years plus interest, is greater than the cost of fixing the 'y2k bug'; it was a valid engineering decision.
This is true.
The 'Start' Menu for example, is often cached as a non-functional bitmap, then invisibly redrawn after Windows builds the structures needed to make it function (mouse over/click bounderies, tooltips, fly-outs, etc.)
I wonder how long until the FBI is linked to this system?
Grammar, 90%
Spelling, 95%
Patriotism, 80%
also:
I'd love to see famous writings graded by this system.
"I moved our entire company off Windows to SuSE Linux after one of our primary public facing servers became infected with a worm which enterprising hackers used to store (and later serve) German porn movies. This despite our sysadmin religiously installing patches."
heh, that excuse works SO well on ignorant bosses...
"It musta been hackers storing the porn on the server!"
can't count how many times that's saved my ass.
So, what's wrong with standard mirrors?
if the major ISP's each hosted a mirror that can only be read by their clients, if would save everyone a lot of bandwidth, wouldn't it?
or how about Multicasting?
the server could send the file in a paced loop, so if you start reciving at 50%, you get the end of the file, then catch the first half on the next cycle...
with Peer to Peer, you're clogging the pipes in two directions.
The hard drives in many 60 hour ReplayTV's are actually 80 gigabytes (approx 1gig/hr), and can be reformatted as such. The formatting was reduced for marketing reasons.
Gotta kill 20 seconds for
this otta do the trick...
Long text files often consist of many subsections that can be considered to be separate documents. For example, some email programs keep messages in a single long text file, with a marker such as "Date:" or a line of dashes separating the messages. Also, XML files with data converted from a database table will typically contain a series of records. The File Segmentation Rules feature in dtSearch provides a way to tell dtSearch to index each message or record as a separate document, without breaking up the original text file into numerous tiny files.
File Segmentation Rules work with Ansi text files, HTML, and XML. Word processor files such as Word or WordPerfect documents cannot be segmented using this method.
Creating File Segmentation Rules
To set up a file segmentation rule, click Options, Preferences in dtSearch and select the "File Segmentation Rules" tab. Each rule has the following parts:
Name
The name of a rule is used only to identify it in the File Segmentation Rules dialog box.
New document starts at
This is a marker that indicates when a new document begins. For email message files, this is often part of a message header such as "Date:" or "From:". To avoid incorrectly splitting a message, this marker should be as unique as possible.
How to check for document boundaries in text
Each line of the files a rule applies to will be compared against the marker under New document starts at. Three types of comparison are available:
Require exact match The entire line must exactly match the marker.
Match start of line The start of the line must match the marker.
Match regular expression The marker is interpreted as a regular expression. A document boundary occurs when the marker is found anywhere in a line. To require a marker to begin at the start of a line, precede it with the ^ character.
Ignore case
Match a document boundary even if the capitalization does not match.
First segment in a file is header for other segments
Check this box to have dtSearch insert the first segment in a file in every following segment. This option is useful when segmenting XML or HTML files, because it allows the HTML or XML header to be repeated for each segment.
Filename filters
For each rule, a filename filter determines which files the rule applies to. If more than one rule could apply to a particular file, the first one to match the filename is the one applied. A rule that does not have have a filter will be ignored.
Segmenting XML and HTML
If you use File Segmentation Rule with XML or HTML files, use the First segment in a file is header for other segments checkbox to make sure that the XML or HTML header is repeated for each segment. Otherwise, each segment will lack the or header that is necessary for correct identification of the file type.
Segment markers for XML and HTML are based on the raw text in the file, including tags and comments. For example, suppose you have an HTML file that looks like this:
Sample File
This is the first segment
This is the second segment
This is the third segment
You could use "" the marker separating segments, even though these comments are not visible when you open an HTML file in dtSearch. Using this marker, and setting the option to make the first segment a header for the other segments, dtSearch would index the HTML file as three separate HTML documents:
However, the article dosn't say how much energy is required to produce a gallon of usable Gasoline...
Refineries are HUGE electricity users.
Can anyone name bands/labels/whatever that are NOT part of the RIAA?
I wouldn't mind buying music, but I'm trying to boycott the RIAA until they stop these tactics.
It's getting close to useing God's cleaning solution...
FIRE.
Scoop?
ummm...
they advertized it this weekend...