With your ID number, this can not be surprising to you. More than half of my rejected stories (is that redundant?) spring to life a few days later, often with less research.
It does have a chilling effect on story submission, but I suspect that is the primary reason for it.
You young punks, don't you know that Kirk and Spock did this to the androids that Harry Mudd had?
That was not as good as when they had the computer calculate pi. Of course, after the US boards of education get through with their school systems, that won't work anymore, 'cause how hard is it to calculate "3"?
Episode "Wolf in the Fold" second season - look it up.
I don't care for TFA calling Mars the 4th rock from Sol, considering that Luna is (depending on its phase) either the 3rd or 4th large terrestrial body from Sol. (Others than parent poster can read "the Sun" for "Sol" and "the Moon" for "Luna".)
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if one of your citizens does not break your laws, you're not generally concerned about where they go. You may be concerned if they do break laws elsewhere, but typically, you are expected to provide assistance to your citizens who run into trouble abroad. (This is why citizens should notify their embassy / consulate / whatever if they run afoul of the law abroad.)
if a known criminal comes into your country from (say) the US, you're concerned about what they may do in your country. There is also the consideration of extradition, if you have signed treaties with the country of origin.
They're no better than second class. Good first class cranks would don aluminum foil hats (or other protective garment) as soon as the weather changed. It's the PTBs using their weather machines to remotely control them.
Opera lets users set the user agent string to spoof various browsers,
Not perfectly;-) User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50
Okay, it's the current version that produces the above, but as far back as I recall, Opera always appended the "Opera" string at the end. The better log analysers aren't fooled by this.
If you are talking about the modifications to the ua.ini file for types 4 and 5, I don't think there's a lot of people doing that.
If you use Opera I suggest to check that it sends the "correct" Opera UA string: the sky will (mostly) not fall down.
Mostly. There are still websites out there which need to see MS IE coming in, even if there is nothing else wrong with them and they will work okay in a reasonable browser. (Proxomitron comes in handy for lying more convincingly for those sites.)
I agree that Opera users should use the correct UA. (And complain when sites refuse them access.)
To the original question, most web hit counters are knowledgeable enough to figure out "Hey this is really Opera!" The BBC reviewer in particular seems competent, knowing about both Opera and Proxomitron (which is interesting). I would feel confident that he got the count right.
It is a page you hit only if you miss a link on a navigation menu after an overdose of ethanol solutions on a Friday night.
Wow, and it got 32 million requests in a week (one Friday/Saturday?). Do the BBC web viewers have a bit of problem with ethanol?;-)
Would this problem be reflected in the proportions of web browsers recorded? (Oh hell, mark me as a troll - is this why there are so many IE users and almost no Opera users?;^)
Most universities don't put all kinds of money into network security. Perhaps they could just disable some of what they have and leave the network open to tapping by whomever wants to?
Not being familiar with Alfvén waves, I am not sure how the velocity of the exhaust is increased. Could these waves be forced via magnets to form a constriction in the flow, forcing the vented material through a smaller "exhaust port"? (This would be in keeping with the separation of combustion from the nozzles.)
Yeah... someone should have disambiguity turned on for headline generation.
I thought that Google had purchased one of those "get in touch with those people with whom you graduated from high school, didn't like then, probably won't like even more now, and mutually insult other people you graduated with" web sites.
BTW, if you did graduate with me - you still owe me that $50, and when Google gets its act together, I'm going to IM you and ask for it back! It'll track you, too.
While the parent notes the release of the best web browser as a no-charge, no-ad browser, it misses the point that it was also a security patch. (For a fairly minor problem, but still.)
The problem is not that security is being handled by obscurity in some browsers. The problem is that somebrowser vendors are not as aggressive in patching security problems as othervendors are.
While the global Martian warming theory is nice, there are other explanations for the shrinking (dry) ice caps.
CO2 could be being chemically bound by other actions to soil materials. It could be preferentially out-gassed from the atmosphere.
I'm not saying that these are the cases that are happening, but without a second information source, it would be speculative to say that global warming is the only cause.
That and three years doesn't indicate a long term trend... now, if we had been on Mars for the past century or so, that would be a different case - we would have air temperature readings going back a ways, and I would waiting a long time for my "preview" button to work;-)
I agree with this, but it could even be that the prominence is due to differences in lighting. The gully closer to the top appears to be in both pictures.
Another related story has a line relevant to this discussion...
"Since Microsoft is pretty much the largest source of vulnerabilities on desktop PCs,"
I find it difficult to see how anyone can claim IE is more secure than any other browser, unless there is one that purposely downloads malware, of which I am unaware. I'm not going to dupe all of the other comments about the design issues in IE, but it will be a frosty day on the sun when I browse with IE without some protection.
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It does have a chilling effect on story submission, but I suspect that is the primary reason for it.
That was not as good as when they had the computer calculate pi. Of course, after the US boards of education get through with their school systems, that won't work anymore, 'cause how hard is it to calculate "3"?
Episode "Wolf in the Fold" second season - look it up.
I don't care for TFA calling Mars the 4th rock from Sol, considering that Luna is (depending on its phase) either the 3rd or 4th large terrestrial body from Sol. (Others than parent poster can read "the Sun" for "Sol" and "the Moon" for "Luna".)
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They're no better than second class. Good first class cranks would don aluminum foil hats (or other protective garment) as soon as the weather changed. It's the PTBs using their weather machines to remotely control them.
Well then, get in line.
Well, okay, but how much is necessary?
Not perfectly ;-)
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50
Okay, it's the current version that produces the above, but as far back as I recall, Opera always appended the "Opera" string at the end. The better log analysers aren't fooled by this.
If you are talking about the modifications to the ua.ini file for types 4 and 5, I don't think there's a lot of people doing that.
Ooops - did I post that?
Mostly. There are still websites out there which need to see MS IE coming in, even if there is nothing else wrong with them and they will work okay in a reasonable browser. (Proxomitron comes in handy for lying more convincingly for those sites.)
I agree that Opera users should use the correct UA. (And complain when sites refuse them access.)
To the original question, most web hit counters are knowledgeable enough to figure out "Hey this is really Opera!" The BBC reviewer in particular seems competent, knowing about both Opera and Proxomitron (which is interesting). I would feel confident that he got the count right.
Wow, and it got 32 million requests in a week (one Friday/Saturday?). Do the BBC web viewers have a bit of problem with ethanol? ;-)
Would this problem be reflected in the proportions of web browsers recorded? (Oh hell, mark me as a troll - is this why there are so many IE users and almost no Opera users? ;^)
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Some browsers will let you just pick up where you left off. I've found it handy when working under Windows.
Not being familiar with Alfvén waves, I am not sure how the velocity of the exhaust is increased. Could these waves be forced via magnets to form a constriction in the flow, forcing the vented material through a smaller "exhaust port"? (This would be in keeping with the separation of combustion from the nozzles.)
Dang! And here I am, reading it for the pictures.
Ever think that if there really were an alien invasion that /. would /. itself with everyone wanting to welcome them?
Why would you think such things?
MIT perhaps?
I thought that Google had purchased one of those "get in touch with those people with whom you graduated from high school, didn't like then, probably won't like even more now, and mutually insult other people you graduated with" web sites.
BTW, if you did graduate with me - you still owe me that $50, and when Google gets its act together, I'm going to IM you and ask for it back! It'll track you, too.
RTFA? What FA?
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our new Google overlords and welcome their money ... unh support.
I believe you meant "Airstrip One".
The problem is not that security is being handled by obscurity in some browsers. The problem is that some browser vendors are not as aggressive in patching security problems as other vendors are.
CO2 could be being chemically bound by other actions to soil materials. It could be preferentially out-gassed from the atmosphere.
I'm not saying that these are the cases that are happening, but without a second information source, it would be speculative to say that global warming is the only cause.
That and three years doesn't indicate a long term trend ... now, if we had been on Mars for the past century or so, that would be a different case - we would have air temperature readings going back a ways, and I would waiting a long time for my "preview" button to work ;-)
I agree with this, but it could even be that the prominence is due to differences in lighting. The gully closer to the top appears to be in both pictures.
"Since Microsoft is pretty much the largest source of vulnerabilities on desktop PCs,"
I find it difficult to see how anyone can claim IE is more secure than any other browser, unless there is one that purposely downloads malware, of which I am unaware. I'm not going to dupe all of the other comments about the design issues in IE, but it will be a frosty day on the sun when I browse with IE without some protection.