You'd also need to come up with a way to uninstall applications that requires installation media (or files) to work and to prevent installation of new applications before said installed applications, for which you don't have installation media/files anymore, are removed. In my case, it's the glorious Microsoft Silverlight.
... GTFO of Afghanistan and Iraq, apologize to muslims for the witch hunt and perhaps fewer of those misguided few youngsters will get funny ideas about blowing up civilians (if you believe the official accounts anyway). It's not that hard to accomplish, except for the arms industry...
I normally don't reply to such incoherent drivel, but... robots.txt (possibly) excludes the crawler from indexing the site, not Google from quoting arbitrary (and arbitrarily sized) parts of it. Those who are so eager to claim "fair use" for any use of excerpts, should understand that what constitutes fair use and what is copyright infringement depends on local laws. It's no surprise Google has had problems in several countries, esp. with reproduced images.
You have to distinguish the Google functionality that provides search results and leads users to the content owner's website from the various Google projects that incorporate - in "corporate" terms you'd say "steal" - sufficient content for the user's needs and only provide a link to the owner for further information. For example, most users only read short summaries of news articles - so they never click on the link to the content owner's pages when they can read that on Google News. Or look at blatantly stolen user reviews from other shopping portals that appear on Google Products, where the originating website's owner can't even moderate them anymore in case of slander/false accusations but still has to deal with ramifications.
We all love Google Search, but could do without Google the content aggregator who monetizes everyone else's content. It's easy to mock the media moguls like Murdoch for taking such a defensive stance, but they have no means whatsoever to get people to pay for their content or even live from advertising as long as Google effectively keeps traffic off their websites by publishing big enough excerpts for most users.
As for the CPAN client that asks too many questions - that's a matter of pre-configuring it for a distribution or for the installation options you chose when installing the distribution (it's not CPAN.pm's problem really, although it could indeed ask fewer questions).
This is usually the point where marketing folk will want to convince you that they have "studies" showing that you can create demand out of thin air by just showing people completely inappropriate, boring, offensive, time-wasting ads that viewers will never see because theirs minds are blanking them out after enough exposure to similar crap in the past. This wouldn't be a problem and you could happily laugh in their faces and rightfully call them morons, if they weren't also feeding the same nonsense to marketing people working for big advertisers with a similar mindset and convincing them to only advertise in the most annoying matter possible. So website publishers can choose to put up those annoying and pointless ads or forfeit their chance to get any advertising money.
As for Google ads, they might be less intrusive and annoying, but they are far too often posted by fraudsters, pointing to websites with malware, or simply not appropriate for your audience. It would be much better if visitors could report ads as offensive/dangerous/inappropriate...
So how will users who have installed ad blocking software at some point realize that the ads they are no longer seeing aren't really that annoying anymore? I suppose what they actually meant to say was "buy text ads, ad blocking software will... perhaps... not block them" (sure it does).
But that has changed. The user base of the Internet in general has grown, become more diverse, and become more main-stream. Sites like 4chan are a part of this broader audience. And while Slashdot has also felt some of this broader influence, it still remains pretty firmly removed from the mainstream.
My impression is that slashdot has kept most of its older users from the early days, while the younger people from the "mainstream" era of the web never found it interesting enough to spend a lot of time on it. They frequent 4chan, digg, youtube etc. and have thus mostly spared slashdot from the onslaught of that kind of posts, except for a few years back (must have been around 2002-2004) when "meme" type posts were big on slashdot...
Yeah, as if a site like slashdot could have afforded to bet on relevant browsers becoming standards-compliant any time soon. Professional web development since the early days has always been a struggle to "make stuff work in bug-ridden browsers" and not to chase the rainbow of W3C standards compliancy. Only fools did the latter for their own projects, or those with vanity blogs noone cared about.
If I was going to change to something other than perl 5, I would need some motivation. The clearest motivation I can see is that OOP in perl 5 is ugly and bolted on.
How about multithreading then? It's not only ugly and bolted on, it incurs so much overhead that it's basically useless wherever performance matters at all. I use Gearman now (rationale: might as well take something with the ability to use multiple systems / load balance / redundancy if you are taking such a performance hit), but it would be so much better if we could just have acceptable multithreading like a bunch of other languages (Java family incl. Scala, C/C++ if you are a masochist etc.).
I laughed the other day when a (much younger) workmate complained about automatically generated mails he had to handle: Thunderbird was very unresponsive when he opened those 100KB (~1700 lines) pure ASCII e-mails. The reason was apparently some badly installed/configured "Internet security" app, but it was hilarious to see him not find it unusual that his modern PC could not handle such text files and asking not have to work with them, when our 50-100 times slower PCs were handling them fine ~15 years ago. Perhaps the sluggishness of the Web in general has lowered people's expectations regarding the performance of PCs (esp. with web-based AJAX apps that try to provide faster deskop apps' functionality).
scraping other websites' content over http is generally a huge waste of resources (and money) for that websites' operator, so unless you can give him something of considerable value in return (like Google does - I'll gladly serve 4 million pages/day to their bots if I get 200k visitors through Google in the same time, visiting my website and not just looking at my content somewhere else), be prepared to get locked out. Naturally, something you consider "a cool feature" isn't necessarily the sites' owner's idea of sufficient compensation. Perhaps some day ISPs will pay websites for the traffic and bill their clients for it, then websites might react differently.
So that's what happens when you always vote for one of the 2 parties that represent the Establishment... I bet the sheep will run back to the Republicans in droves.
Bills aren't drafted in public and debated on the floor -- they are written behind closed doors by the Congressional leadership
Are you sure about that? It would surprise me if the situation was that much better in the US than in Europe, where bills are usually written by lobbyists or hired lawyers and often not even read by legistlators.
Like they are going to take a chance on getting caught doing something untoward in an open source application, where all eyes in the world are watching what they do.
That is the theory, which is - sadly - wrong, because people just don't bother looking at the code as they hope someone else is going to do it eventually. The Linux kernel is an exception - it is very secure, not because of thousands of developers screening the code for security problems, but because of a dozen nasty people lurking on lkml whose only raison d'être is to flame people to death over any minor buglet they can find in the patches. My sincerest thanks to them!
... it takes most web sites more than $1m (development costs, advertising etc.) to enter the top-1000 and stay there. Also, for every web site that is successfully bribed out of the Google index, the value of staying there increases for the other web sites (while Google still has the current market share).
I'm sorry guys, better spend that $1b on copying Google's technology and then keep it running without Google's Achilles tendon: just say no to collecting personal information and you'll win in the long run.
Modern RAID arrays show no dramatic performance degradation while rebuilding, also with RAID-50/RAID-60 arrays, only a fraction of the disk accesses is slower than usually when a single drive is replaced.
For enterprise level storage systems, this is also a non-issue because of thin provisioning.
I doubt that the precedents set in the mentioned cases can be applied to this case. After all, Sony did not only copy the songs for personal use, they strived to sell them for a profit. In all "copyright piracy" cases I've read about, professional copyright violators were punished in a harshlier way (which seems appropriate).
Also, let's not forget how bad commercial piracy is:
Criminal IPR Infringement
Commercial scale infringement is the crime
of choice for many criminal syndicates,
gangs, and organizations, including those
in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia,
Nigeria, Thailand, Philippines, South Korea
and the USA.
Commercial copyright piracy/trademark
counterfeiting is a funding source for
terrorist groups, like the IRA, Hezbollah,
GIA Islamic Network, and Al Qaeda.
(from: http://www.aseansec.org/21385-9.pdf)
... when the IT industry has learned to sell products that *are* fit for a particular purpose and come with at least a rudimentary form of warranty, then it can try to lecture other industries. Until then, please keep quiet and enjoy the easy life.
I don't understand why the hell this is so difficult.
Young padawan, there's about 30-40 years' worth of computer literature / documentation / discussions(Usenet) out there with no mention of Mibigibitibibytes anywhere, as well as thousands of applications that use the traditional MB/GB/TB interpretation.
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You'd also need to come up with a way to uninstall applications that requires installation media (or files) to work and to prevent installation of new applications before said installed applications, for which you don't have installation media/files anymore, are removed. In my case, it's the glorious Microsoft Silverlight.
... GTFO of Afghanistan and Iraq, apologize to muslims for the witch hunt and perhaps fewer of those misguided few youngsters will get funny ideas about blowing up civilians (if you believe the official accounts anyway). It's not that hard to accomplish, except for the arms industry...
I normally don't reply to such incoherent drivel, but ... robots.txt (possibly) excludes the crawler from indexing the site, not Google from quoting arbitrary (and arbitrarily sized) parts of it. Those who are so eager to claim "fair use" for any use of excerpts, should understand that what constitutes fair use and what is copyright infringement depends on local laws. It's no surprise Google has had problems in several countries, esp. with reproduced images.
You have to distinguish the Google functionality that provides search results and leads users to the content owner's website from the various Google projects that incorporate - in "corporate" terms you'd say "steal" - sufficient content for the user's needs and only provide a link to the owner for further information. For example, most users only read short summaries of news articles - so they never click on the link to the content owner's pages when they can read that on Google News. Or look at blatantly stolen user reviews from other shopping portals that appear on Google Products, where the originating website's owner can't even moderate them anymore in case of slander/false accusations but still has to deal with ramifications.
We all love Google Search, but could do without Google the content aggregator who monetizes everyone else's content. It's easy to mock the media moguls like Murdoch for taking such a defensive stance, but they have no means whatsoever to get people to pay for their content or even live from advertising as long as Google effectively keeps traffic off their websites by publishing big enough excerpts for most users.
apt-get install dh-make-perl ; dh-make-perl --cpan Your::CPAN::Package --install
As for the CPAN client that asks too many questions - that's a matter of pre-configuring it for a distribution or for the installation options you chose when installing the distribution (it's not CPAN.pm's problem really, although it could indeed ask fewer questions).
... the last 3 times we attempted to, we had too many recipients rejecting our e-mails due to broken forwards.
This is usually the point where marketing folk will want to convince you that they have "studies" showing that you can create demand out of thin air by just showing people completely inappropriate, boring, offensive, time-wasting ads that viewers will never see because theirs minds are blanking them out after enough exposure to similar crap in the past. This wouldn't be a problem and you could happily laugh in their faces and rightfully call them morons, if they weren't also feeding the same nonsense to marketing people working for big advertisers with a similar mindset and convincing them to only advertise in the most annoying matter possible. So website publishers can choose to put up those annoying and pointless ads or forfeit their chance to get any advertising money.
As for Google ads, they might be less intrusive and annoying, but they are far too often posted by fraudsters, pointing to websites with malware, or simply not appropriate for your audience. It would be much better if visitors could report ads as offensive/dangerous/inappropriate...
So how will users who have installed ad blocking software at some point realize that the ads they are no longer seeing aren't really that annoying anymore? I suppose what they actually meant to say was "buy text ads, ad blocking software will ... perhaps ... not block them" (sure it does).
But that has changed. The user base of the Internet in general has grown, become more diverse, and become more main-stream. Sites like 4chan are a part of this broader audience. And while Slashdot has also felt some of this broader influence, it still remains pretty firmly removed from the mainstream.
My impression is that slashdot has kept most of its older users from the early days, while the younger people from the "mainstream" era of the web never found it interesting enough to spend a lot of time on it. They frequent 4chan, digg, youtube etc. and have thus mostly spared slashdot from the onslaught of that kind of posts, except for a few years back (must have been around 2002-2004) when "meme" type posts were big on slashdot...
or at least among standards-compliant browsers ...
Yeah, as if a site like slashdot could have afforded to bet on relevant browsers becoming standards-compliant any time soon. Professional web development since the early days has always been a struggle to "make stuff work in bug-ridden browsers" and not to chase the rainbow of W3C standards compliancy. Only fools did the latter for their own projects, or those with vanity blogs noone cared about.
If I was going to change to something other than perl 5, I would need some motivation. The clearest motivation I can see is that OOP in perl 5 is ugly and bolted on.
How about multithreading then? It's not only ugly and bolted on, it incurs so much overhead that it's basically useless wherever performance matters at all. I use Gearman now (rationale: might as well take something with the ability to use multiple systems / load balance / redundancy if you are taking such a performance hit), but it would be so much better if we could just have acceptable multithreading like a bunch of other languages (Java family incl. Scala, C/C++ if you are a masochist etc.).
I laughed the other day when a (much younger) workmate complained about automatically generated mails he had to handle: Thunderbird was very unresponsive when he opened those 100KB (~1700 lines) pure ASCII e-mails. The reason was apparently some badly installed/configured "Internet security" app, but it was hilarious to see him not find it unusual that his modern PC could not handle such text files and asking not have to work with them, when our 50-100 times slower PCs were handling them fine ~15 years ago. Perhaps the sluggishness of the Web in general has lowered people's expectations regarding the performance of PCs (esp. with web-based AJAX apps that try to provide faster deskop apps' functionality).
scraping other websites' content over http is generally a huge waste of resources (and money) for that websites' operator, so unless you can give him something of considerable value in return (like Google does - I'll gladly serve 4 million pages/day to their bots if I get 200k visitors through Google in the same time, visiting my website and not just looking at my content somewhere else), be prepared to get locked out. Naturally, something you consider "a cool feature" isn't necessarily the sites' owner's idea of sufficient compensation. Perhaps some day ISPs will pay websites for the traffic and bill their clients for it, then websites might react differently.
At least people can't complain now that Google isn't applying the same set of moral values to the US and China.
So that's what happens when you always vote for one of the 2 parties that represent the Establishment ... I bet the sheep will run back to the Republicans in droves.
Bills aren't drafted in public and debated on the floor -- they are written behind closed doors by the Congressional leadership
Are you sure about that? It would surprise me if the situation was that much better in the US than in Europe, where bills are usually written by lobbyists or hired lawyers and often not even read by legistlators.
Like they are going to take a chance on getting caught doing something untoward in an open source application, where all eyes in the world are watching what they do.
That is the theory, which is - sadly - wrong, because people just don't bother looking at the code as they hope someone else is going to do it eventually. The Linux kernel is an exception - it is very secure, not because of thousands of developers screening the code for security problems, but because of a dozen nasty people lurking on lkml whose only raison d'être is to flame people to death over any minor buglet they can find in the patches. My sincerest thanks to them!
I'm sorry guys, better spend that $1b on copying Google's technology and then keep it running without Google's Achilles tendon: just say no to collecting personal information and you'll win in the long run.
Nobody expected it, I guess.
I'll comment it in a similar tone: Miguel seems to have nothing better to do than writing childish rants. Why does slashdot even link to such crap?
For enterprise level storage systems, this is also a non-issue because of thin provisioning.
... including new colors, after a few injections into my eyes, in order to make the torturers stop ...
Also, let's not forget how bad commercial piracy is:
Criminal IPR Infringement Commercial scale infringement is the crime of choice for many criminal syndicates, gangs, and organizations, including those in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Philippines, South Korea and the USA. Commercial copyright piracy/trademark counterfeiting is a funding source for terrorist groups, like the IRA, Hezbollah, GIA Islamic Network, and Al Qaeda. (from: http://www.aseansec.org/21385-9.pdf)
... when the IT industry has learned to sell products that *are* fit for a particular purpose and come with at least a rudimentary form of warranty, then it can try to lecture other industries. Until then, please keep quiet and enjoy the easy life.
I don't understand why the hell this is so difficult.
Young padawan, there's about 30-40 years' worth of computer literature / documentation / discussions(Usenet) out there with no mention of Mibigibitibibytes anywhere, as well as thousands of applications that use the traditional MB/GB/TB interpretation.