I run a website in Pennsylvania that sells stuff on eBay. We ship worldwide. A quick query shows roughly 15% of our YTD sales this year are to California. Yikes, that's a lot of sales tax we'll have to start collecting, if this ruling were to be generally enforced.
Big states get to dictate the rules. If this were Alabama or Wyoming, I'd just take their state abbreviation out of the dropdown selector. Simple and effective:)
No, the main reason sea levels will rise as a result of global warming is due to thermal expansion of the ocean itself. Water expands when it gets warmer. This is not as obvious as the melting of ice that is not already floating, but it will contribute more overall to rising sea levels.
Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Any terrorist worth his salt is already walking without rhythm, to avoid attracting the worm (or CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.)
In other words, surveillance strategies (especially those that get publicly discussed such as this one) will only catch the dumb terrorists. We won't find out about the smart ones until they WANT to be noticed. And any real search/surveillance breakthrough that actually works is not going to be announced by the FAA like this; it will be neither confirmed nor denied (sorta like Echelon).
Human sense augmentation has come quite a long way when we can identify a millisecond event in a gigayear process within a gigaparsec radius.
Not just identify and detect, but predict. This is just another nail in the coffin of Intelligent Design "theory" and similar nonscientific drivel. This whole science business we modern humans have been working on, and all the theories that are widely accepted today, are all interconnected, with layers upon layers of interdependency, which provides a sort of check-and-balance on the whole mess. One cannot accept that modern scientific theory predicted this black-hole event, which observers around the world could see and record with (technologically augmented) senses, while completely denying the validity of interdependent theories like electromagentism, gravity, relativity, quantum physics, etc. It's important to make this clear to those who would pick and choose which theories they happen to like or which support their own offbeat schemes for how the world works. It's all connected, and you can either take it all (with a grain of salt and a good measure of critical rationalism, of course, because nothing is beyond all doubt and one should always be open to new evidence that contradicts an accepted theory) or chuck it all and go read your horoscope.
I did some calculations, and I have determined that your frugality should save you approximately $0.86 in popcorn raw material (over 10 years). However, the extra electricity used by the air popper is more than enough to nullify any actual financial gain.
I have an aging West Bend Poppery and it makes fantastic popcorn. However, mine does not have a BBQ thermometer case mod like the one in the linked image.
Forward function is totally broken for some hotmail users I know. No matter what plain text format or attachments the original message has, forwarding just forwards a blank message. The users in question are not totally blind nor idiots. There is a Forward button, it just doesn't work.
Forwarding used to work in Hotmail, just not anymore.
One major problem with Gmail Search: NO WILDCARDS. This is a serious problem, IMO.
BTW, Don't try to use your regular mailbox to store important documents. I tried this recently, and some jerk in a uniform comes along, and stuffs in more SPAM and BILLS which causes my important documents to become disorganized. Every single day except Sunday.
replace the keyboards when a new patient is brought into a room
What a great idea, especially given today's abundant supply of cheap petroleum.
they are constantly exposed to cleaning and sterilizing solutions and antibiotics
When bacteria begin to resist dying when exposed to things like Triclosan, sodium hypochlorite, then we should start to worry. In the meantime, the real problem is frequent overprescription and patient misuse of antibiotics.
We will never eradicate bacteria and viruses because, whoops, I just inhaled some while typing this. Whoops, another one just got into my bloodstream, through that tiny cut on my finger. They are our ancestors, after all, and they have demonstrated some skill at adapting and not becoming extinct. For the past 3-4 billion years, on this planet, anyway.
Our immune systems are pretty good at preventing catastrophic infections as a result of exposure, at least to common pathogens. We (humans) need to get better fast at developing vaccines and understanding our own immune systems, in general. We need to work on ways to strengthen and optimize our own internal defenses rather than constantly trying to eliminate something as tenacious and ubiquitous as germs from our environment.
Just get an Atari 400. They have membrane keyboards that you can clean off with Clorox wipes. They're immune to all the latest Internet viruses/worms too!
Alright, I have to get back to playing Star Raiders...
Last week I recommended Firefox to one of my clients. He Googled for "firefox". First actual result would have correctly taken him to getfirefox.com, but he chose to click on the Sponsored Ad, which takes you to www.freedownloadhq.com - who offers "free Firefox downloads" for $19.95.
He said "Hey, I thought it was supposed to be free, but they're asking me for my credit card number!" He quickly realized it was a scam site, but many others will not.
Perhaps this is also what you friend did. I just googled for Spybot Search and Destroy, and the first sponsored ad is for noAdware.net which itself is spyware.
There's no incentive for Google to prevent this because they're making money. I wonder if slashdotters could nickel-and-dime the scammers to death. Firefox costs ~ $0.10, Spybot ~ $0.20. Let's try, firefox
and spybot
- click all the scam Sponsored Ads you see. Repeatedly if desired.
you've submitted your search to the search engine known as "/. readership". It's not terribly reliable but it is good at fuzzy searches like yours.
Good point; however, each query made to the/. readership search engine is quite expensive in terms of all the employer-funded man-hours it consumes. If we all stopped wasting so much time reading/posting here, the world economy would surely take off like a bat out of hell.
I agree, integrating feedback from real humans is badly needed to improve search results. For instance, we know Google can't tell if you clicked a link in the search result page directly, but it can learn from how people behave as they hit the cache for different resulting links. If you hit the cache for result #1, and then quickly back out of that page and hit result #3, and then your session ends, or you revise your query, Google (and the other search engines) need to be able to learn from your behavior, and similar behavior exhibited by other humans.
They're probably working on that. And they, unlike microsoft, have the software to run the massive computations required to implement this type of machine learning. That would be my 20% project, anyway.
Predicting future scenarios is extremely inaccurate because people tend to focus exclusively on one area and extrapolate it too far into the future without considering the inevitable interactions with other co-evolving technologies, cultural trends, and economic factors.
In a way, we do have our flying cars. It just turns out that most of us don't want/need/afford one parked in our driveway. A helicopter is essentially a flying car, but it's noisy, difficult to operate safely, and expensive to operate and maintain. Likewise, a jetliner is just a flying passenger train.
Nobody, including John Smart or Vernor Vinge, can make meaningful predictions any significant distance into the future. I think things are changing so fast now, that even 10-15 years into the future is almost inscrutable unless you're making very broad generalizations. You can say for sure: We'll have computers. They'll be real fast. But who knows what all we'll be doing with them.
Now with some good Intelligence Amplification, giving you the ability to consider the myriad variables and chart out many possibilities in future space, like a decision tree or a chess-playing program, and prune the unlikely ones, you can maybe construct a fuzzy map of the different courses the future will take. But you'll have to wait and see which one actually happens, just like everybody else.
Alright, I have to get back to brainwashing Jabberwacky...
IE is getting about 81% of my site's 2005 hits; the rest is firefox (7.3%), safari, netscape/mozilla, and opera, in that order.
We host images for items that are on ebay, so the vast majority of the traffic is JPGs being downloaded by Joe Q. Public. There is definitely not a techie/geek bias to our traffic.
Any statistics of Firefox usage based on http log analysis will have to be adjusted upwards by some unknown factor based on how many people surf as MSIE using the User Agent Switcher Extension.
Slashdot Mirror
I *knew* we shouldn't have used Room 101 for the server room!
How early they will be "accidentally" leaked?
Big states get to dictate the rules. If this were Alabama or Wyoming, I'd just take their state abbreviation out of the dropdown selector. Simple and effective :)
Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Nice idea for a CAPTCHA tho...
Besides, there are plenty of good independent op-ed news sources out there that will remain free.
Roland Piquepaille, for instance.
Any terrorist worth his salt is already walking without rhythm, to avoid attracting the worm (or CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.)
In other words, surveillance strategies (especially those that get publicly discussed such as this one) will only catch the dumb terrorists. We won't find out about the smart ones until they WANT to be noticed. And any real search/surveillance breakthrough that actually works is not going to be announced by the FAA like this; it will be neither confirmed nor denied (sorta like Echelon).
Or just http://www.rot13.com/, if you don't mind sending your cleartext via HTTP.
Not just identify and detect, but predict. This is just another nail in the coffin of Intelligent Design "theory" and similar nonscientific drivel. This whole science business we modern humans have been working on, and all the theories that are widely accepted today, are all interconnected, with layers upon layers of interdependency, which provides a sort of check-and-balance on the whole mess. One cannot accept that modern scientific theory predicted this black-hole event, which observers around the world could see and record with (technologically augmented) senses, while completely denying the validity of interdependent theories like electromagentism, gravity, relativity, quantum physics, etc. It's important to make this clear to those who would pick and choose which theories they happen to like or which support their own offbeat schemes for how the world works. It's all connected, and you can either take it all (with a grain of salt and a good measure of critical rationalism, of course, because nothing is beyond all doubt and one should always be open to new evidence that contradicts an accepted theory) or chuck it all and go read your horoscope.
I have an aging West Bend Poppery and it makes fantastic popcorn. However, mine does not have a BBQ thermometer case mod like the one in the linked image.
Forwarding used to work in Hotmail, just not anymore.
BTW, Don't try to use your regular mailbox to store important documents. I tried this recently, and some jerk in a uniform comes along, and stuffs in more SPAM and BILLS which causes my important documents to become disorganized. Every single day except Sunday.
What a great idea, especially given today's abundant supply of cheap petroleum.
they are constantly exposed to cleaning and sterilizing solutions and antibiotics
When bacteria begin to resist dying when exposed to things like Triclosan, sodium hypochlorite, then we should start to worry. In the meantime, the real problem is frequent overprescription and patient misuse of antibiotics.
We will never eradicate bacteria and viruses because, whoops, I just inhaled some while typing this. Whoops, another one just got into my bloodstream, through that tiny cut on my finger. They are our ancestors, after all, and they have demonstrated some skill at adapting and not becoming extinct. For the past 3-4 billion years, on this planet, anyway.
Our immune systems are pretty good at preventing catastrophic infections as a result of exposure, at least to common pathogens. We (humans) need to get better fast at developing vaccines and understanding our own immune systems, in general. We need to work on ways to strengthen and optimize our own internal defenses rather than constantly trying to eliminate something as tenacious and ubiquitous as germs from our environment.
Just get an Atari 400. They have membrane keyboards that you can clean off with Clorox wipes. They're immune to all the latest Internet viruses/worms too!
Alright, I have to get back to playing Star Raiders...
FreeDownloadHq.com/Firefox
www.FreeDownloadZone.com/Firefox
www.MP3Advance.com
We are maybe just hitting different google datacenters which have slightly different configurations of which ads to serve.
I think people just have to learn that the sponsored links can be risky and are NOT necessarily relevant to their query.
He said "Hey, I thought it was supposed to be free, but they're asking me for my credit card number!" He quickly realized it was a scam site, but many others will not.
Perhaps this is also what you friend did. I just googled for Spybot Search and Destroy, and the first sponsored ad is for noAdware.net which itself is spyware.
There's no incentive for Google to prevent this because they're making money. I wonder if slashdotters could nickel-and-dime the scammers to death. Firefox costs ~ $0.10, Spybot ~ $0.20. Let's try, firefox and spybot - click all the scam Sponsored Ads you see. Repeatedly if desired.
Good point; however, each query made to the /. readership search engine is quite expensive in terms of all the employer-funded man-hours it consumes. If we all stopped wasting so much time reading/posting here, the world economy would surely take off like a bat out of hell.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
And there's more speculative future history by J.R. Mooneyham.
Coral cache
They're probably working on that. And they, unlike microsoft, have the software to run the massive computations required to implement this type of machine learning. That would be my 20% project, anyway.
In a way, we do have our flying cars. It just turns out that most of us don't want/need/afford one parked in our driveway. A helicopter is essentially a flying car, but it's noisy, difficult to operate safely, and expensive to operate and maintain. Likewise, a jetliner is just a flying passenger train.
Nobody, including John Smart or Vernor Vinge, can make meaningful predictions any significant distance into the future. I think things are changing so fast now, that even 10-15 years into the future is almost inscrutable unless you're making very broad generalizations. You can say for sure: We'll have computers. They'll be real fast. But who knows what all we'll be doing with them.
Now with some good Intelligence Amplification, giving you the ability to consider the myriad variables and chart out many possibilities in future space, like a decision tree or a chess-playing program, and prune the unlikely ones, you can maybe construct a fuzzy map of the different courses the future will take. But you'll have to wait and see which one actually happens, just like everybody else.
Alright, I have to get back to brainwashing Jabberwacky ...
Golly, what will they think of next, a case made out of LEGO bricks?
We host images for items that are on ebay, so the vast majority of the traffic is JPGs being downloaded by Joe Q. Public. There is definitely not a techie/geek bias to our traffic.
Any statistics of Firefox usage based on http log analysis will have to be adjusted upwards by some unknown factor based on how many people surf as MSIE using the User Agent Switcher Extension.