According to Wikinews, searching from within China on any non-Chinese search engine (including the English-language Google, Yahoo, and MSN you know and/or love) for the string "zh.wikipedia.org" will apparently get you banned from viewing that search engine for several minutes. I imagine this is to stop people finding references to the blocked site and discussions of its' blocking (like we are now) just as much as it is to discourage people using things like Google's cache to see the blocked material.
As if the world's oppressed peoples didn't have enough to deal with, now they've got to look over their shoulders for paparazzi hornet-bots and Lee Majors in a Nintendo Power Glove as well? What next, motherfXckin' snakes?
This is the basic problem with any single antispam measure, or really any single computer security measure.
1. Someone comes up with a defense mechanism that works well.
2. It works so well that more people use it.
3. It becomes popular enough for the bad guys to beat, so they do.
4. The defense becomes useless, forcing someone to come up with a new defense.
5. Goto 1.
No kidding! I'd usually post a joke here, but I really can't think of anything that makes me laugh anywhere near as much as TFA does. Good thing I'm wearing snug pants today.
an HD download of The Matrix, were it even available, could take all day over the average broadband connection.
Doesn't anyone else remember marking a slew of downloads from a BBS, FTP, Usenet, or even the old Napster back in the day? You'd start your dialup modem chugging away and go off to school, work, or sleep while it ran. Same crap, different scale.
What is the real purpose of this collaboration? To me it looks like an attempt for the search engines to get content providers to make the search engine's job that much easier.
That makes sense, though. The whole reason for the web is the content provided by content providers, and they need the search engines to know what they have to offer just as badly as the search engines need the content to search for. It's all symbiotic, and it is just logical that one side is willing to help the other do something that ultimately helps both sides.
Funny you should mention that. I'd almost never pay money for a paper gaming magazine in this day and age, least of all the thinly veiled ad that is the "official" mag.. but I happen to be a "Metal Gear Solid" fanboy. As such, I've actually bought the Official Playstation Mag a few times, just because they were the first with an MGS demo disc. The MGS discs were played through, put into a proper case, and added to my MGS collectibles shelf, while the magazine would get tossed into my bathroom to suffer the fate of all mildly interesting disposable reading material. (Insert your own jokes here, allowing for indoor plumbing.)
Actually this is interesting.. do we know anything about the Chinese factory that's making these things? It'd be supremely ironic if we were bringing laptops to poor hopeless children that were made by other poor hopeless children, or something.
The other system developed by Nuance is a mobile speech platform that turns speech into text and replaces the keypad altogether.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
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This has got me wondering about Ghostbuster-style backpacks with attached rifles. If you wore either a massive battery or some sort of generator on your back, things could get portable and interesting. If nothing else, you could go after some big cockroaches...
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According to Wikinews, searching from within China on any non-Chinese search engine (including the English-language Google, Yahoo, and MSN you know and/or love) for the string "zh.wikipedia.org" will apparently get you banned from viewing that search engine for several minutes. I imagine this is to stop people finding references to the blocked site and discussions of its' blocking (like we are now) just as much as it is to discourage people using things like Google's cache to see the blocked material.
Here is the Wikinews link I referred to in the submission. I hadn't found the AP article yet.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Bwahahaha! You win.
As if the world's oppressed peoples didn't have enough to deal with, now they've got to look over their shoulders for paparazzi hornet-bots and Lee Majors in a Nintendo Power Glove as well? What next, motherfXckin' snakes?
This is the basic problem with any single antispam measure, or really any single computer security measure.
1. Someone comes up with a defense mechanism that works well.
2. It works so well that more people use it.
3. It becomes popular enough for the bad guys to beat, so they do.
4. The defense becomes useless, forcing someone to come up with a new defense.
5. Goto 1.
I'm still waiting for robots that can criticise b-movies.
No kidding! I'd usually post a joke here, but I really can't think of anything that makes me laugh anywhere near as much as TFA does. Good thing I'm wearing snug pants today.
Hmm? Oh, pardom me guys, it's a mesasge on my phone...
ted from acctg is shaggin ur gf lol
Thanks, Sprint!
Called it!
I for one can think of many, many celebrities I'd like to fire at asteroids and then forget about. Finally, a use for Tyra Banks!
Excuse me, ve are lookink for nuclear wessels.
Give them fake info when you sign up to college. As an added bonus, you'll never have to pay off that student loan.
Only downside is eventually having to explain the diploma in the name of "Nospamplease Fuckoff" proudly displayed on your wall.
This is a cool idea and all, but the crabby old Linux box I run would probably come out sounding like the Tonto, Tarzan, and Frankenstein chorus.
Did you know that the number of Tiannenmen Squares has tripled in the past six months?
...to skew the odds back where they belong. --------> (_Y_)
Funny you should mention that. I'd almost never pay money for a paper gaming magazine in this day and age, least of all the thinly veiled ad that is the "official" mag.. but I happen to be a "Metal Gear Solid" fanboy. As such, I've actually bought the Official Playstation Mag a few times, just because they were the first with an MGS demo disc. The MGS discs were played through, put into a proper case, and added to my MGS collectibles shelf, while the magazine would get tossed into my bathroom to suffer the fate of all mildly interesting disposable reading material. (Insert your own jokes here, allowing for indoor plumbing.)
Those fields are obviously pollution left behind by some fool leaving his Cavorite sphere idling in park. Will someone please think of the Selenites?
Actually this is interesting.. do we know anything about the Chinese factory that's making these things? It'd be supremely ironic if we were bringing laptops to poor hopeless children that were made by other poor hopeless children, or something.
This has got me wondering about Ghostbuster-style backpacks with attached rifles. If you wore either a massive battery or some sort of generator on your back, things could get portable and interesting. If nothing else, you could go after some big cockroaches...
Heh.. good or bad, though, devices introduced in 2001 don't really fit on "best of 2006" lists.