It makes no attempt to filter spam, which like email will soon account for about 80% of content.
Try this search for Tartfuel http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tartfuel once a local band. When Google claims to have 28,600 results, in fact there are only 36. Now that's a con. When I give search advice look through all the results and they look me to say "but there's millions". Never, if you're doing a specific search, Google won't even display a tenth page (which is the max).
So, of the 36 results, how many are real? There are 10 relating to the band, one about alcopops, and the other 20+ are spam. Their old website and every subdomain is of the generic spam-generated marketing page this is about 10, and theothers are spammed guestbooks linking to them.
I'm not interested in Google until it can search through time. Damn, I wish the net archive had done a better job. Most of the content is of popular, mainstream commercial sites, which are so unoriginal, it's off little interest. And how many images did it save? Not enough.
Mod (-5) Google bashing. No. This applies to all the search engines.
I managed something similar a year or so back, in an attempt to create a 'babelfish'. Of course the input/output had to be specified, and it had a very limited range of languages - certainly no universal translator but it did use all free software (as that's all I have). 0) Input recording of English languagge 1) Voice recognition software (Sphinx) pipes output to 2) Script using online translator to convert between language 3) Festival stumbles out an imhuman gramatically-wrong rendition of the input.
It wasn't exactly in realtime, I just fed it recordings, for which it would then output an audio file in the other language. The worst step was the voice recognition, which didn't work great even when given the output of the voice syntethisier.
Lucky you. When the first version of 1.5 came out, after trying it on Linux that was an infinitely quicker and smoother browser, I installed on my parents computer. About a week a later I found out one of them had managed to 'upgrade' back to version 1.0 and it's buggy slowness.
Today I read (UK newspaper) that Sony are going to increase the price at which they sell products to online retailers supposedly so their high-street stores can compete.
My one gripe with blogs is how identical they all are, despite differences in software. Everyone' s doing the same thing. Sure they may be themed differently, but they are all the same. In less than half a second after you take the link, you *know* that site's a blog. You know *exactly* what to expect. What's to make it stand out? You need to be unique. Sure they may "theme" them differently, but they all fit the same box. And however magic the software may be, you're just another blogger.
Write your own software. On my site I had a blog, a wiki, some photo galleries, a few games and other bits of interactive content. Sure, it was a bit hackish, but it was unique. It was true to me. People enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed coding it. They were such impressed. New features would be celebrated. You won't get hacked. You won't get spammed. Both problems with Wordpress and Kwiki. Kwiki especially, and Wordpress were both much slower, bloated (despite any try at modularity), and an absolute mission to theme - i spent oh so long trying to get them to match the existing design of my site. Wordpress - wordpress wanted to infringe on me with its static pages and modules, rather than let itself be part of my site.
You don't need all those features to have fun. The worst thing is having to a make a user, a password, fill in all your details, confirm your address and login just to comment on a blog. If I can't post pseudo-anonymously, I don't on blogs. They don't care for my opinion. I was spammed on both Kwiki and Wordpress. My softwares been fine. The wiki code was ridiculously simple. Just a few lines. But it worked such a treat.
Hence why the oil industry are patenting all the clean and useful methods of energy production they can. That way they get the positive press, but never have to develop them as it'll mean they keep themselves as the status quo for 50 years. Yay for them.
"The response of anti-virus firms, some of which have only promised to flag up rather than block system changes made by Sony-BMG's rootkit, remains unclear. " Ooh fun to be had here. Sony are gonig to love this publicity.
Ha ha. I have little respect for these companies who I see to be the same as those who four hundred years ago sold "herbs" to protect you from the plague. These ppl still profit from ppl's lack of knowledge.
>Just like there are acceptable uses for weapons, wars, Windows, and alliterations To quote Micheal Franti "they can bomb the world into pieces, but they can't bomb it into peace". Some rearrange this for something about windows and puns.
This is why we have the GNU to uphold the fundamental ideals of our movement, but to whom we strike a spake in the heart everytime we say 'open-source', betraying our truths for a term that is merely a buzzword to industry, who have little concept of what it means.
To quote "Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES and Novell Linux Desktop line - "The entire KDE graphical interface and product family will continue to be supported and delivered on OpenSuSE.""
Just thought should port some accurate reporting over to Slashdot.
This is another in a chain of announcements this year that show how much in the world of Linux. Today's is a final good riddance to the days when *the* choice was Red Hat vs SUSE, America vs Europe, GNOME vs KDE. I guess this is a move to make SUSE more comfortable for Ubuntu users, the product which I bet (open)Suse and Red hat (Fedora) see as their biggest threats right now. Windows users are difficult to pull. But to make users switch distros is easy (I'm in Fedora, but very much attracted to Ubuntu right now). I think we'll be seeing more user-pulling moves from distros soon. shipit is only a start.
Ok, lets put the fall of Microsoft in line with world events.
Peeps returning to the moon - before. The US pulling out of Iraq - after. The Hitch-Hiker's guide is edited to read 'a species so primitive they still think iPods are a pretty neat idea' - before. Wikipedia acquires the majority of human knowledge, only to be wholy corrupted by mass spamming (like our current web) - after. The collapse/reformation of the record industry - around the same time, I reckon. Possibly related. It's a similar idea.
(Ok I have a screwed concept of world events. Real suggestions?)
I saw this toolbar once at a friend's, and they only used it to search Google without having to get themselves to google.com and for its popup blocker. But Firefox itself does both of these better - popup blocking is supreme now and the mycroft search takes up less space and can search hundreds of sites.
There's no case for prosecuting children for a minor one-time assualt, when every minute the organised crime syndicate of marketeers known as spammers continue their mass harrassment of the entire population to a far worse extent.
Slashdot had better hope so or else they could be eligible for DoS prosecution.
I can claim prior art. I'm sure I did this once when drunk. I may even have the photos. Although I bet they're all blurry. It tasted good at the time, although the next morning when I reheated it... Ugh.
I am the public, I thought. I found about Linux (ha ha see we all do it) by myself, read a bit about it, and then decided to what the hey and install it, to see what it was really about, after hearing so much. I'm still using it. Moving to Linux from Windows was no more of a jump than switching from IE to Firefox as I did previously. There were some new concepts, lessons to be learnt, but it benefited me in the long run.
The correct term is GNU/Linux. Linux is the kernel, GNU is the unix-cloned operating system, which originally ran just on the unix kernel, and after the GNU foundation 's own kernel Hurd was unnsuccessful, GNU was ported to Linux to bring GNU/Linux that we all use today.
But a lot of companies don't say GNU/Linux because they want to push their product with the buzzword 'open-source' without commiting to freedom. (cough) Mandrake, Suse, Novell, etc providing only the source-code freely and charging for installers etc (until recently). Should openSUSE be freeSUSE?
Though I personally believe what Google are doing is not ethically/morally wrong, they are most probably 'breaking' our unjust (injust?) copyright laws. The only reason they are 'getting away' with it is because they are the most powerful domain on the net. No-one dares mess with Google.
A law suit against Google is very bad publicity, and they could subtly drop your page rank and you'd never notice until the visitors stopped coming.. or even remove you completely.
Slashdot Mirror
It makes no attempt to filter spam, which like email will soon account for about 80% of content.
Try this search for Tartfuel http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tartfuel once a local band. When Google claims to have 28,600 results, in fact there are only 36. Now that's a con. When I give search advice look through all the results and they look me to say "but there's millions". Never, if you're doing a specific search, Google won't even display a tenth page (which is the max).
So, of the 36 results, how many are real? There are 10 relating to the band, one about alcopops, and the other 20+ are spam. Their old website and every subdomain is of the generic spam-generated marketing page this is about 10, and theothers are spammed guestbooks linking to them.
http://classic-motor-bikes.tartfuel.co.uk/
I'm not interested in Google until it can search through time. Damn, I wish the net archive had done a better job. Most of the content is of popular, mainstream commercial sites, which are so unoriginal, it's off little interest. And how many images did it save? Not enough.
Mod (-5) Google bashing. No. This applies to all the search engines.
I managed something similar a year or so back, in an attempt to create a 'babelfish'. Of course the input/output had to be specified, and it had a very limited range of languages - certainly no universal translator but it did use all free software (as that's all I have).
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0) Input recording of English languagge
1) Voice recognition software (Sphinx) pipes output to
2) Script using online translator to convert between language
3) Festival stumbles out an imhuman gramatically-wrong rendition of the input.
It wasn't exactly in realtime, I just fed it recordings, for which it would then output an audio file in the other language. The worst step was the voice recognition, which didn't work great even when given the output of the voice syntethisier.
Sphinx http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.p
Lucky you. When the first version of 1.5 came out, after trying it on Linux that was an infinitely quicker and smoother browser, I installed on my parents computer. About a week a later I found out one of them had managed to 'upgrade' back to version 1.0 and it's buggy slowness.
IT Workers Most Depressed Employees.
I wonder if that is true too.
Today I read (UK newspaper) that Sony are going to increase the price at which they sell products to online retailers supposedly so their high-street stores can compete.
*.sys.*.admin Damn. I can't remember the sony rootkit joke. And is taht old now?
My one gripe with blogs is how identical they all are, despite differences in software. Everyone' s doing the same thing. Sure they may be themed differently, but they are all the same. In less than half a second after you take the link, you *know* that site's a blog. You know *exactly* what to expect. What's to make it stand out? You need to be unique. Sure they may "theme" them differently, but they all fit the same box. And however magic the software may be, you're just another blogger.
Write your own software. On my site I had a blog, a wiki, some photo galleries, a few games and other bits of interactive content. Sure, it was a bit hackish, but it was unique. It was true to me. People enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed coding it. They were such impressed. New features would be celebrated. You won't get hacked. You won't get spammed. Both problems with Wordpress and Kwiki. Kwiki especially, and Wordpress were both much slower, bloated (despite any try at modularity), and an absolute mission to theme - i spent oh so long trying to get them to match the existing design of my site. Wordpress - wordpress wanted to infringe on me with its static pages and modules, rather than let itself be part of my site.
You don't need all those features to have fun. The worst thing is having to a make a user, a password, fill in all your details, confirm your address and login just to comment on a blog. If I can't post pseudo-anonymously, I don't on blogs. They don't care for my opinion. I was spammed on both Kwiki and Wordpress. My softwares been fine. The wiki code was ridiculously simple. Just a few lines. But it worked such a treat.
Hence why the oil industry are patenting all the clean and useful methods of energy production they can. That way they get the positive press, but never have to develop them as it'll mean they keep themselves as the status quo for 50 years. Yay for them.
Unlucky.I posted the exact same comment last year. Which I own. Now pay out.
Also: My fave ad from Private Eye: Received bad legal advice? Sue your solicitor.
This comment is copyright me, 2005-2016 (I'm going to die young)
"The response of anti-virus firms, some of which have only promised to flag up rather than block system changes made by Sony-BMG's rootkit, remains unclear. "
Ooh fun to be had here. Sony are gonig to love this publicity.
Ha ha. I have little respect for these companies who I see to be the same as those who four hundred years ago sold "herbs" to protect you from the plague. These ppl still profit from ppl's lack of knowledge.
>Just like there are acceptable uses for weapons, wars, Windows, and alliterations
To quote Micheal Franti "they can bomb the world into pieces, but they can't bomb it into peace". Some rearrange this for something about windows and puns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franti
This is why we have the GNU to uphold the fundamental ideals of our movement, but to whom we strike a spake in the heart everytime we say 'open-source', betraying our truths for a term that is merely a buzzword to industry, who have little concept of what it means.
r eedom.html article is a good one explaining why we shouldn't use "open-source" in stubborness, but appreciate our freedoms 0 through 3.
The http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-f
>They forgot to mention in the header that the "killing someone" was RL, not in game.
Oh, it was outside the game? Then it's not a major offence.
Wouldn't the easiest, most suiting and certainly most interesting way to settle such mattles as these between players be in a duel?
I know nethack can get competitive, but isn't this taking things too far?
It's game! No-one ever got jailed for "tax evasion" in monopoly, the use of mortar in jenga or tights in truth or dare.
These people need to "get real". Urgently.
>Background of this article makes it really unreadable.
I found the as-to-be-expected text and near-duplicate screenshots really spoiled the whole background experience for me.
Just thought should port some accurate reporting over to Slashdot.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12551
This is another in a chain of announcements this year that show how much in the world of Linux. Today's is a final good riddance to the days when *the* choice was Red Hat vs SUSE, America vs Europe, GNOME vs KDE. I guess this is a move to make SUSE more comfortable for Ubuntu users, the product which I bet (open)Suse and Red hat (Fedora) see as their biggest threats right now. Windows users are difficult to pull. But to make users switch distros is easy (I'm in Fedora, but very much attracted to Ubuntu right now). I think we'll be seeing more user-pulling moves from distros soon. shipit is only a start.
Ok, lets put the fall of Microsoft in line with world events.
Peeps returning to the moon - before.
The US pulling out of Iraq - after.
The Hitch-Hiker's guide is edited to read 'a species so primitive they still think iPods are a pretty neat idea' - before.
Wikipedia acquires the majority of human knowledge, only to be wholy corrupted by mass spamming (like our current web) - after.
The collapse/reformation of the record industry - around the same time, I reckon. Possibly related. It's a similar idea.
(Ok I have a screwed concept of world events. Real suggestions?)
I saw this toolbar once at a friend's, and they only used it to search Google without having to get themselves to google.com and for its popup blocker. But Firefox itself does both of these better - popup blocking is supreme now and the mycroft search takes up less space and can search hundreds of sites.
There's no case for prosecuting children for a minor one-time assualt, when every minute the organised crime syndicate of marketeers known as spammers continue their mass harrassment of the entire population to a far worse extent.
Slashdot had better hope so or else they could be eligible for DoS prosecution.
I can claim prior art. I'm sure I did this once when drunk. I may even have the photos. Although I bet they're all blurry. It tasted good at the time, although the next morning when I reheated it... Ugh.
I am the public, I thought. I found about Linux (ha ha see we all do it) by myself, read a bit about it, and then decided to what the hey and install it, to see what it was really about, after hearing so much. I'm still using it. Moving to Linux from Windows was no more of a jump than switching from IE to Firefox as I did previously. There were some new concepts, lessons to be learnt, but it benefited me in the long run.
The correct term is GNU/Linux. Linux is the kernel, GNU is the unix-cloned operating system, which originally ran just on the unix kernel, and after the GNU foundation 's own kernel Hurd was unnsuccessful, GNU was ported to Linux to bring GNU/Linux that we all use today.
But a lot of companies don't say GNU/Linux because they want to push their product with the buzzword 'open-source' without commiting to freedom. (cough) Mandrake, Suse, Novell, etc providing only the source-code freely and charging for installers etc (until recently). Should openSUSE be freeSUSE?
Though I personally believe what Google are doing is not ethically/morally wrong, they are most probably 'breaking' our unjust (injust?) copyright laws. The only reason they are 'getting away' with it is because they are the most powerful domain on the net. No-one dares mess with Google.
A law suit against Google is very bad publicity, and they could subtly drop your page rank and you'd never notice until the visitors stopped coming.. or even remove you completely.