If TinyURL didnt like this, seems like they could trivially add a check to see if URL's they are given actually exist by accessing them. If they get a 404, dont accept. For those sites that give a redirect instead of a 404, follow the redirects until they get to a page that actually answers, and use its URL instead.
Two flaws. (1) It is possible to create a loop of redirects. Of course, the solution on TinyURL's end would be to follow an arbitrary number of redirects, and declare anything that redirects more than that an invalid URL
(2a) Barring that, why not just set up your own web server that returns a HTTP 200 for any URL? Hell, you don't even need to go that far, you could probably write a single line of perl that listens on port 80, and returns an HTTP 200 along with a small document in response to any HTTP request.
According to the article they are going to focus on the embedded market. I guess they mean the embedded market that need 2 GHZ embedded chips.
Yeah, who could ever use 2 GHZ processing power? It's not like Tivo's video encoding/decoding takes up any processing time. And lord knows I could never use that much processing power on any sort of mobile computing device, like a Palm Pilot, or Treo.
I mean, who wants to be able to process large amounts of data, fast?
...for Time Warner, which owns CNN, to charge a premium if I want to watch Fox News on my computer.
Utter BS. I live in Austin, TX whom TimeWarner is my ISP. As such, I watch streaming video on Fox News website all the time.
Way to go!!! Spread the FUD baby! *sigh*
Welcome to the wonderful world of analogy. TFS(ummary) is not claiming that TimeWarner is interfering with Fox News traffic. It is suggesting that such a scenario would be wrong, and anti-competative, just like foriegn telephone companies blocking VoIP traffic is.
Storms...At 24 kilometers in the air? Not going to happen. That's in the stratosphere, well above even commerical airline flightpaths.
The winds up there are more sedate, though they do exist, especially toward the tropics.
Sure, the baloons won't be taken out by lightning, but the question is, how will reception be affected? FM radio reception goes to shit every time it rains, and that's broadcast from the same side of the storm as the reciever -- with these baloons, we're talking about transmissions traveling *through* storms.
Re:Not gonna change a goddamned thing.
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Even worse, the Internet is international. A law deeming the installation of spyware illegal in the US has no effect on a company based in Tobego.
Yahoo has completely shut down its unmonitored user-created chat rooms, which reportedly were being used to promote sex with minors. The company did not say how long the chats would be closed, but will leave open company-created rooms.
Back in freshman year of highschool (mid-late 90's), a friend and I used to log in to yahoo chat at lunch time and did our best to abuse everyone until they all left the room.
The rest of the chat room was invariably spamming 'type 2222 if u wants 2 cybor wit i'
Netflix faces similar issues. The vast majority of 'rentals' for any given DVD occur in the weeks immediately following the DVD's release. So while 10,000 customers want to watch Harry Potter 12 the week after it comes out, a year from now, no more than, say, 100 customers will want to 'check it out' concurrently.
So, does netflix by 10,000 copies at full price, and keep them all in stock? Do they buy 1,000, and make most customers wait for weeks before shipping them the films?
I was told (second hand, and several years ago) that they purchase 10,000 copies at a greatly reduced rate, and then toss most of them out after a few weeks. Presumably, comcast would work out a similar deal. Also, at $17 a disk, there's probably some room for waste in their budget.
Actually, all the base versions of XP (AFAIK) are licensed for 1-2 processors. You can see it on the XP stick-on label. A 4-core machine might cost you more though.
Last I heard, the break-down goes something like this:
Home: 1 CPU
Pro: 2 CPUs
Windows 2k Server: 4 CPUs
2k Advanced server: 16 CPUs
2k Datacenter: 32 CPUs
I don't know the numbers for 2k3 server. And I might be off by about a factor of two.
I stumbled across an interesting article that indicated that windows 2k may, in some cases, count hyperthreaded processors as more than one processor for licensing purposes. Of course, hyperthreading isn't that useful for most applications anyway.
Vamp: (musical) To perform a cyclical musical sequence, allowing musicians to expand on the basic form.
At any rate, I'm impressed. I used to use Amazon to find similar music, but that doesn't really work. If you put in an MTV2 metal band, all the "People who bought this also bought..." links are to more MTV2 metal bands. It's hard to break out of the mainstream.
This, on the other hand, pulled up a bunch of bands that I'm pretty sure don't get commercial *radio play*, much less MTV exposure. Unforetunately, I don't have audio here at work, so I can't speak to the quality of the matches just yet, but I'm sure I'll find something I like that I've never heard of.
Last time I posted one of those "What does slashdot want me to think? I'm so confused!" posts, it spent about 30 minutes modded +5, and recieved 12 replies before being modded back down to 0, Troll.
Google Print's goal is to allow people to search book content, WITHOUT giving them the content of the book.
For example, searching "Zoroastrianism" would return a list of book titles on the subject, and links to purchase the books in question. You CANNOT download the content of the book!
The OCA (The group Yahoo just joined) is an opt-in, full content hosting project.
Searching "Zoroastrianism" would return a (much smaller) list of books, with the *full* content of the book available for download with the explicit consent of the publisher/author!
Because paying a high price for a car that gets poorer highway millage than compact commuter cars, while simultaneously using highly toxic battery technologies is a "social statement"?
Don't get me wrong, I think type 2 hybrids are a great idea, but the current generation is shit.
How come nobody's thought of using FREON as the coolant, like in air conditioning units?
I thought we use freon in AC and fridges because they're compressor-based cooling systems? Not becuase it's got some magical better-than-water specific heat...
Water cooling is completely different from compression cooling. One uses a pump, and keeps the coolant at a constant pressure, one uses a compressor and varies the presure of the coolant. I think freon would be a shitty coolant at room temperature, used in a water cooling-style aparatus.
I mean, yeah, if you're gonna install a compressor in your PC, then freon makes sense...
My last motherboard, an ASUS, had an in-BIOS MP3 player
That's in there for people trying to build their own MP3 jukeboxes. You throw together a baseline PC with a really big harddrive, and shove it under your tape deck, CD player, and use it like a big, cheap, stationary iPod. There's no reason to install and launch a whole OS if that's your goal.
Now, if *all* their motherboards included the BIOS MP3 player, that would indeed be excessive.
I'd like this if they sold $20 dumb terminals to use it, but I paid a lot of money for a computer that can run applications locally without constantly going to the network.
You'd be amazed how much processing power an AJAX application actually uses! A web browser running an AJAX app in a windows environment is typically going to run poorly on a machine with a processor much slower than about 500mhz. Why? AJAX apps are extremely high level -- interpreted Java script manipulates HTML, which itself is interpreted.
On top of that, an instance of firefox with multiple tabs open can easily take hundreds of megs of ram on its own.
The "$20 dumb terminal" is probably a good decade off, at least.
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"the first 3 digits aren't related to where you were born. they're related to where you were living when received your SSN"
Interesting.
As far as I know, most americans born natively in the last decade or so get SSNs at birth.
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Just use your Social Security number... Good idea?
No.
That's about as secure as your mother's maiden name, or your dog's name.
Which is to say, it's the worst password imaginable.
Do you want your father/mother to have access to all your accounts?
Hell, for wellsfargo.com, your SSN is your username!
Not to mention there are under 10^9 possible SSNs, and the first 3 (5?) digits can be calculated based on your place and date of birth! That reduces your number space to 10^6 or less, which, at one request/second, could be cracked in 11 days -- And 1/second is a very slow rate!
I'd think bmp would be preferable to jpg. bmp is to images what.txt is to text (and while ASCII is arbitrary, it's a single substitution cypher, and therefore easily crackable) -- the simplest, uncompressed format. I've written 1-bit (black and white) bitmaps by hand. I couldn't ever hope to do the same in jpeg.
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...as long as it's easier than MythTV to set up and cheaper than Tivo over 5-10 years, I'll do it.
Decent Tivo box: $200
Lifetime Subscription: $300
If you can get a windows media center box for $500, lifetime service included, then by all means...
Even with a 5 year lifetime, Tivo ends up costing you under $10/month.
If TinyURL didnt like this, seems like they could trivially add a check to see if URL's they are given actually exist by accessing them. If they get a 404, dont accept. For those sites that give a redirect instead of a 404, follow the redirects until they get to a page that actually answers, and use its URL instead.
T AGOESHERE
Rather than a 404
Two flaws. (1) It is possible to create a loop of redirects. Of course, the solution on TinyURL's end would be to follow an arbitrary number of redirects, and declare anything that redirects more than that an invalid URL
(2) There are probably thousands of webapps that will give a valid response to URLs like the following: http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/script?ARBITRARYDA
(2a) Barring that, why not just set up your own web server that returns a HTTP 200 for any URL? Hell, you don't even need to go that far, you could probably write a single line of perl that listens on port 80, and returns an HTTP 200 along with a small document in response to any HTTP request.
According to the article they are going to focus on the embedded market. I guess they mean the embedded market that need 2 GHZ embedded chips.
Yeah, who could ever use 2 GHZ processing power? It's not like Tivo's video encoding/decoding takes up any processing time. And lord knows I could never use that much processing power on any sort of mobile computing device, like a Palm Pilot, or Treo.
I mean, who wants to be able to process large amounts of data, fast?
"Bread and Circus"
Worked for the Holy Roman empire, and it's working for the Holy American empire too.
...for Time Warner, which owns CNN, to charge a premium if I want to watch Fox News on my computer. Utter BS. I live in Austin, TX whom TimeWarner is my ISP. As such, I watch streaming video on Fox News website all the time. Way to go!!! Spread the FUD baby! *sigh*
Welcome to the wonderful world of analogy. TFS(ummary) is not claiming that TimeWarner is interfering with Fox News traffic. It is suggesting that such a scenario would be wrong, and anti-competative, just like foriegn telephone companies blocking VoIP traffic is.
Storms...At 24 kilometers in the air? Not going to happen. That's in the stratosphere, well above even commerical airline flightpaths. The winds up there are more sedate, though they do exist, especially toward the tropics.
Sure, the baloons won't be taken out by lightning, but the question is, how will reception be affected? FM radio reception goes to shit every time it rains, and that's broadcast from the same side of the storm as the reciever -- with these baloons, we're talking about transmissions traveling *through* storms.
Even worse, the Internet is international. A law deeming the installation of spyware illegal in the US has no effect on a company based in Tobego.
we're close to the point where we don't need satellites
That idea falls apart when you're in, say, the alps. Or the sahara. Or most of the planet.
I might be prone to believing that if it'd been posted anywhere other than slashdot.
At any rate, my point was:
Betanews has a story from June:
Yahoo has completely shut down its unmonitored user-created chat rooms, which reportedly were being used to promote sex with minors. The company did not say how long the chats would be closed, but will leave open company-created rooms.
Yahoo chat has been a cesspool for over a decade.
Back in freshman year of highschool (mid-late 90's), a friend and I used to log in to yahoo chat at lunch time and did our best to abuse everyone until they all left the room.
The rest of the chat room was invariably spamming 'type 2222 if u wants 2 cybor wit i'
Netflix faces similar issues. The vast majority of 'rentals' for any given DVD occur in the weeks immediately following the DVD's release. So while 10,000 customers want to watch Harry Potter 12 the week after it comes out, a year from now, no more than, say, 100 customers will want to 'check it out' concurrently.
So, does netflix by 10,000 copies at full price, and keep them all in stock? Do they buy 1,000, and make most customers wait for weeks before shipping them the films?
I was told (second hand, and several years ago) that they purchase 10,000 copies at a greatly reduced rate, and then toss most of them out after a few weeks. Presumably, comcast would work out a similar deal. Also, at $17 a disk, there's probably some room for waste in their budget.
Actually, all the base versions of XP (AFAIK) are licensed for 1-2 processors. You can see it on the XP stick-on label. A 4-core machine might cost you more though.
Last I heard, the break-down goes something like this:
Home: 1 CPU Pro: 2 CPUs Windows 2k Server: 4 CPUs 2k Advanced server: 16 CPUs 2k Datacenter: 32 CPUs
I don't know the numbers for 2k3 server. And I might be off by about a factor of two.
I stumbled across an interesting article that indicated that windows 2k may, in some cases, count hyperthreaded processors as more than one processor for licensing purposes. Of course, hyperthreading isn't that useful for most applications anyway.
Vamp: (musical) To perform a cyclical musical sequence, allowing musicians to expand on the basic form.
At any rate, I'm impressed. I used to use Amazon to find similar music, but that doesn't really work. If you put in an MTV2 metal band, all the "People who bought this also bought..." links are to more MTV2 metal bands. It's hard to break out of the mainstream.
This, on the other hand, pulled up a bunch of bands that I'm pretty sure don't get commercial *radio play*, much less MTV exposure. Unforetunately, I don't have audio here at work, so I can't speak to the quality of the matches just yet, but I'm sure I'll find something I like that I've never heard of.
Last time I posted one of those "What does slashdot want me to think? I'm so confused!" posts, it spent about 30 minutes modded +5, and recieved 12 replies before being modded back down to 0, Troll.
What a wild ride that was.
Google Print's goal is to allow people to search book content, WITHOUT giving them the content of the book.
For example, searching "Zoroastrianism" would return a list of book titles on the subject, and links to purchase the books in question. You CANNOT download the content of the book!
The OCA (The group Yahoo just joined) is an opt-in, full content hosting project.
Searching "Zoroastrianism" would return a (much smaller) list of books, with the *full* content of the book available for download with the explicit consent of the publisher/author!
Because paying a high price for a car that gets poorer highway millage than compact commuter cars, while simultaneously using highly toxic battery technologies is a "social statement"?
Don't get me wrong, I think type 2 hybrids are a great idea, but the current generation is shit.
Not to get all Treky or anything.
Huh? What is this "Trek" you speak of?
How come nobody's thought of using FREON as the coolant, like in air conditioning units?
I thought we use freon in AC and fridges because they're compressor-based cooling systems? Not becuase it's got some magical better-than-water specific heat...
Water cooling is completely different from compression cooling. One uses a pump, and keeps the coolant at a constant pressure, one uses a compressor and varies the presure of the coolant. I think freon would be a shitty coolant at room temperature, used in a water cooling-style aparatus.
I mean, yeah, if you're gonna install a compressor in your PC, then freon makes sense...
My last motherboard, an ASUS, had an in-BIOS MP3 player
That's in there for people trying to build their own MP3 jukeboxes. You throw together a baseline PC with a really big harddrive, and shove it under your tape deck, CD player, and use it like a big, cheap, stationary iPod. There's no reason to install and launch a whole OS if that's your goal.
Now, if *all* their motherboards included the BIOS MP3 player, that would indeed be excessive.
I'd like this if they sold $20 dumb terminals to use it, but I paid a lot of money for a computer that can run applications locally without constantly going to the network.
You'd be amazed how much processing power an AJAX application actually uses! A web browser running an AJAX app in a windows environment is typically going to run poorly on a machine with a processor much slower than about 500mhz. Why? AJAX apps are extremely high level -- interpreted Java script manipulates HTML, which itself is interpreted.
On top of that, an instance of firefox with multiple tabs open can easily take hundreds of megs of ram on its own.
The "$20 dumb terminal" is probably a good decade off, at least.
"the first 3 digits aren't related to where you were born. they're related to where you were living when received your SSN" Interesting. As far as I know, most americans born natively in the last decade or so get SSNs at birth.
Just use your Social Security number... Good idea?
No.
That's about as secure as your mother's maiden name, or your dog's name.
Which is to say, it's the worst password imaginable.
Do you want your father/mother to have access to all your accounts?
Hell, for wellsfargo.com, your SSN is your username!
Not to mention there are under 10^9 possible SSNs, and the first 3 (5?) digits can be calculated based on your place and date of birth! That reduces your number space to 10^6 or less, which, at one request/second, could be cracked in 11 days -- And 1/second is a very slow rate!
Nice job slipping the referal link in there.
Commission junction, eh?
I'd think bmp would be preferable to jpg. bmp is to images what .txt is to text (and while ASCII is arbitrary, it's a single substitution cypher, and therefore easily crackable) -- the simplest, uncompressed format. I've written 1-bit (black and white) bitmaps by hand. I couldn't ever hope to do the same in jpeg.