How to fix twitter: increase maximum characters
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Twitter only allows you to post short terse messages. To fix twitter one has to increase (double) the size of the allowed message you can post.
There we fixed it!
Oops, the internet just doubled in size with twice as much useless information. Moore's law applies to hard drives too, no? Every 18 months, the amount of useless data on a hardrive doubles. The distinction between corrupted data and useful data is murky. Is twitter corrupted?
Oh, brilliant idea: a P2P twitter. All the data is distributed across personal computers of individuals instead of stored on twitters servers.
That would mean storing all other people's useful twitter posts in your uTorrent client, or something, and the more popular the twitter post, the more people share it. Strange.
Now, if robots can be more emotionally responsive than men, will men do something drastic to compete with robots?
Robots don't make money. Women need money. Men don't. 'Nuff said.
(I realize men need money too.. but take for example all the free software founders... most are men).
I think it will be better than the "Google Answers" service, since knol gives more people a chance to make money and become famous. It will be more community driven than Google Answers and more popular, I'm guessing. It has a smaller entry point than Google Answers.. i.e. I don't even know how I'd sign up for Google Answers to become an expert.. but then I've never looked. In other words, not too many people know about google answers, but I think people will know about knol, for some reason. Probably the reason being that it will be like a wikipedia but more incentive is there.. money for writing.
According to current page rank of the main wikipedia site, wikipedia has a pagerank of nine. Answers.com site has a page rank of seven. Both 7 and 9 are very good page ranks. Answers.com also has an advantage: it has ads on it. If these ads have text on them, and they are product ads, then people searching for products will land on answers.com more than wikipedia.com. People searching for information only without any specific product keywords in their searches will probably land on wikipedia. Just a silly theory - could be wrong. Not an exact science. But if the product keywords are on the page, it makes sense that answers.com will pop up if someone is looking for a product and information on that product. Well, I just gave away a good business plan. Nothing to see here, move along now.
Well that's a good question, there are lots of people that link to answers.com, but not as many link to answers.com as wikipedia is my guess. I see answers.com at the top too once in a while. Maybe google is detecting duplicates or maybe google has skipped a few wikipedia pages (it can't get them all) so it pops up answers.com since it has it in the database. I've also seen about.com's mirror wikipedia come up in the search results (and even my own mirror).
I have some pages that I've never ever ever linked to (zero back links) which have come up as top positions on google. Well it isn't an exact science. The other point I wanted to make was that wikipedia is convenient to edit.. much more convenient to edit than a fixed/close encyclopedia in the library.
Also there could be some weight given to websites that are huge. Since answers.com is huge, google may treat it nicer and give it higher page ranks. Ever since my website has gotten larger I have had better search positions. However, again, not exact science. Never trust SEO advice. For example, one of my web pages has zero links pointing to it.. and I mean zero.. and it is in the top 5 positions on google - so my "linking" theory is not perfect.
Sometimes, just having a website that already has a page rank of 4 or higher (and if it is large) can help make ANY page on the domain have the potential to be a top position on google, even if that single individual page has a low page rank or no links pointing to it (searching for "ebay scraper" today brings up my site in the top five, even though I have never had anyone link to the page that mentions ebay scraper, as far as I know). So definitely not an exact science.
Using the link: tool in google doesn't help us, it is broken, so I use a different technique and negative out the wikpedia site. The wikipedia mirrors like answers.com also help boost wikipedia's rank too, and google's own define:term tool probably has a page rank of 10 linking right in to wikipedia.
One of the reasons people reference Wikipedia a lot, and one of the reasons it is so popular, is that it has a very high page rank on google and other search engines. People are lazy, and whatever information pops up first after typing something into google will be what is clicked on, and of course referenced. Wikipedia is clicked on more so than other sources simply because Wikipedia has a higher page rank and is more conveniently available.
Since wikipedia creates a community for users, it means people will link in to wikipedia more than any other encyclopedia (communities create links.. and links create higher page ranks).
If some other encyclopedia wants to be king, then they have to increase their page rank. The other encyclopedias will have to create communities and create reasons for people to link to them, in order for them to increase their popularity on google.
Since people usually choose the most convenient option, and since wikipedia is the most convenient option available on google for our mice to clicky dicky, the convenient option will win. It's not the fittest or the strongest that survive, but rather the most convenient solutions that survive.
Note: I like some of the ideas behind Minux, I'm not making fun of Minux software, I'm just disappointed in Andy's choice for a cuddly animal that represents Minux.. I don't think Raccoon's are all that cuddly, nor are they great looking, nor are they interesting, nor are they special in any way. Plus, it reminds me of someone who eats trash and lives in garbage cans. Why would this be a good choice for a mascot?
Well in my opinion, both Lindows and Windux are silly names, because people want the real thing. They don't like copy cats, they don't like names that try to pretend to be something. They don't want to sniff Windux, they want to sniff Windex. They don't want Lindows, they want the real Windows. My Windux comment was a mock on them choosing Lindows. I dont' actually believe that they should have called in Windux.. I think Debian is a better name than Windux. You have been had.
Some people buy COLA drinks... but they don't buy Loke or Poke copycat drinks.
And if anyone calls their consulting company X505 or A505 then I'm going to hit them with a stick.
what does 'bay' and 'e' have to do with 'auctions'. I guess it is a 'bay' where people come 'electronically'. Sounds pretty vague to me.
Windux, on the other hand, is a perfect way of saying we've cleaned up the bugs on the Windows with Windex, and if you want, sue us and we'll clean your real glass windows on the Microsoft campus for you instead of going to jail for infringement.
I think they should have called Lindows a better name.. Windux.
On second thought, the judge probably would have ruled that they have to wash all the windows at microsoft campus for infringing on trademarks twice.
In other news, MINUX developers have recently announced that MINUX has been rewritten to now focus on having all the device drivers in Kernel Land. Andy Tanenbaum made the decision to make MINUX become LINUX when he was bitten by a raccoon in his garbage can that he was sleeping in outside.
C'mon -- give up two bytes at the front of the string to tell how long the damned thing is. It's not fucking 1974 where the loss of a couple of bytes is gonna crap out the system. Prepend the length...
I'm not sure if you know about Ansistrings... but they are similar to what you describe. They still have a null terminator so you can cast to a *char (pchar) without problems. They are smart strings which contain the length at beginning, but are not of a fixed length throughout the life of the program.
Just that many languages have not implemented a STANDARD ansistring refcounting system yet, so it isn't compatible between languages when creating DSO/DLL's.
Todo: implement a STANDARD and SPECIFICATION for reference counting ansistrings that all languages can implement follow.
Using special characters not available on the keyboard is another strong security measure..
Many people know how to generate these special characters but I'll mention anyway: using the ALT/META key and the NUMPAD keys. Having a character map printout handy so you know the DEC (decimal) values of these special characters is a good idea if you decide to implement one of these passwords. Punch in ALT-DecimalValue with number lock on.
They may not work in some situations if special characters and not allowed, but you'd be surprised that they do work most often.
I bet most dictionary attacks don't run through many special characters. The cracker is lazy too and will probably not even consider that you chose a funny character which does not even exist on the keyboard.
Remember not to use NULL (#0) though, for crying out loud.
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Twitter only allows you to post short terse messages. To fix twitter one has to increase (double) the size of the allowed message you can post.
There we fixed it!
Oops, the internet just doubled in size with twice as much useless information. Moore's law applies to hard drives too, no? Every 18 months, the amount of useless data on a hardrive doubles. The distinction between corrupted data and useful data is murky. Is twitter corrupted?
Oh, brilliant idea: a P2P twitter. All the data is distributed across personal computers of individuals instead of stored on twitters servers.
That would mean storing all other people's useful twitter posts in your uTorrent client, or something, and the more popular the twitter post, the more people share it. Strange.
Fundamentally it's a chicken and egg issue. GNG is Not GNU, but GNG is not GNG.
https://www.google.com/search?...
'The nice thing about GNG is that it's completely GNUtard-free, GNG said.
Now, if robots can be more emotionally responsive than men, will men do something drastic to compete with robots?
Robots don't make money. Women need money. Men don't. 'Nuff said. (I realize men need money too.. but take for example all the free software founders... most are men).
Go canada! http://knol.ca/
I think it will be better than the "Google Answers" service, since knol gives more people a chance to make money and become famous. It will be more community driven than Google Answers and more popular, I'm guessing. It has a smaller entry point than Google Answers.. i.e. I don't even know how I'd sign up for Google Answers to become an expert.. but then I've never looked. In other words, not too many people know about google answers, but I think people will know about knol, for some reason. Probably the reason being that it will be like a wikipedia but more incentive is there.. money for writing.
Quick, someone register knol.org, knol.net, knol.info.. bwaaah why am I posting this message.. off to domain name services!
ohp does not pwn
The grunts behind freepascal decided to release freepascal under the GNU license. Irony?
According to current page rank of the main wikipedia site, wikipedia has a pagerank of nine. Answers.com site has a page rank of seven. Both 7 and 9 are very good page ranks. Answers.com also has an advantage: it has ads on it. If these ads have text on them, and they are product ads, then people searching for products will land on answers.com more than wikipedia.com. People searching for information only without any specific product keywords in their searches will probably land on wikipedia. Just a silly theory - could be wrong. Not an exact science. But if the product keywords are on the page, it makes sense that answers.com will pop up if someone is looking for a product and information on that product. Well, I just gave away a good business plan. Nothing to see here, move along now.
Well that's a good question, there are lots of people that link to answers.com, but not as many link to answers.com as wikipedia is my guess. I see answers.com at the top too once in a while. Maybe google is detecting duplicates or maybe google has skipped a few wikipedia pages (it can't get them all) so it pops up answers.com since it has it in the database. I've also seen about.com's mirror wikipedia come up in the search results (and even my own mirror).
I have some pages that I've never ever ever linked to (zero back links) which have come up as top positions on google. Well it isn't an exact science. The other point I wanted to make was that wikipedia is convenient to edit.. much more convenient to edit than a fixed/close encyclopedia in the library.
Also there could be some weight given to websites that are huge. Since answers.com is huge, google may treat it nicer and give it higher page ranks. Ever since my website has gotten larger I have had better search positions. However, again, not exact science. Never trust SEO advice. For example, one of my web pages has zero links pointing to it.. and I mean zero.. and it is in the top 5 positions on google - so my "linking" theory is not perfect.
Sometimes, just having a website that already has a page rank of 4 or higher (and if it is large) can help make ANY page on the domain have the potential to be a top position on google, even if that single individual page has a low page rank or no links pointing to it (searching for "ebay scraper" today brings up my site in the top five, even though I have never had anyone link to the page that mentions ebay scraper, as far as I know). So definitely not an exact science.
This unscientific study http://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia.org+-site %3Awikipedia.org shows that 11,800,000 websites mention or link to wikipedia.org in some way or another.
% 3Aslashdot.org
Using the link: tool in google doesn't help us, it is broken, so I use a different technique and negative out the wikpedia site. The wikipedia mirrors like answers.com also help boost wikipedia's rank too, and google's own define:term tool probably has a page rank of 10 linking right in to wikipedia.
http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot.org+-site
Slashdot is less linked in, according to my unscientific study.
One of the reasons people reference Wikipedia a lot, and one of the reasons it is so popular, is that it has a very high page rank on google and other search engines. People are lazy, and whatever information pops up first after typing something into google will be what is clicked on, and of course referenced. Wikipedia is clicked on more so than other sources simply because Wikipedia has a higher page rank and is more conveniently available.
Since wikipedia creates a community for users, it means people will link in to wikipedia more than any other encyclopedia (communities create links.. and links create higher page ranks).
If some other encyclopedia wants to be king, then they have to increase their page rank. The other encyclopedias will have to create communities and create reasons for people to link to them, in order for them to increase their popularity on google.
Since people usually choose the most convenient option, and since wikipedia is the most convenient option available on google for our mice to clicky dicky, the convenient option will win. It's not the fittest or the strongest that survive, but rather the most convenient solutions that survive.
Bill's real name was Willy Willy?
This is the close up shot of the raccoon that represents Minux.
Note: I like some of the ideas behind Minux, I'm not making fun of Minux software, I'm just disappointed in Andy's choice for a cuddly animal that represents Minux.. I don't think Raccoon's are all that cuddly, nor are they great looking, nor are they interesting, nor are they special in any way. Plus, it reminds me of someone who eats trash and lives in garbage cans. Why would this be a good choice for a mascot?
Well in my opinion, both Lindows and Windux are silly names, because people want the real thing. They don't like copy cats, they don't like names that try to pretend to be something. They don't want to sniff Windux, they want to sniff Windex. They don't want Lindows, they want the real Windows. My Windux comment was a mock on them choosing Lindows. I dont' actually believe that they should have called in Windux.. I think Debian is a better name than Windux. You have been had. Some people buy COLA drinks ... but they don't buy Loke or Poke copycat drinks.
And if anyone calls their consulting company X505 or A505 then I'm going to hit them with a stick.
typo: it's late and I meant winfux not windux
what does 'bay' and 'e' have to do with 'auctions'. I guess it is a 'bay' where people come 'electronically'. Sounds pretty vague to me. Windux, on the other hand, is a perfect way of saying we've cleaned up the bugs on the Windows with Windex, and if you want, sue us and we'll clean your real glass windows on the Microsoft campus for you instead of going to jail for infringement.
I think they should have called Lindows a better name.. Windux. On second thought, the judge probably would have ruled that they have to wash all the windows at microsoft campus for infringing on trademarks twice.
In other news, MINUX developers have recently announced that MINUX has been rewritten to now focus on having all the device drivers in Kernel Land. Andy Tanenbaum made the decision to make MINUX become LINUX when he was bitten by a raccoon in his garbage can that he was sleeping in outside.
Another úse for these fúnny characters is so yoú can mock (read steal) other slashdotters' úsernames which are already taken.
I'm not sure if you know about Ansistrings... but they are similar to what you describe. They still have a null terminator so you can cast to a *char (pchar) without problems. They are smart strings which contain the length at beginning, but are not of a fixed length throughout the life of the program.
Just that many languages have not implemented a STANDARD ansistring refcounting system yet, so it isn't compatible between languages when creating DSO/DLL's.
Todo: implement a STANDARD and SPECIFICATION for reference counting ansistrings that all languages can implement follow.
GNL is NOT linux.
Click? Since when did UNIX have mice.
Many people know how to generate these special characters but I'll mention anyway: using the ALT/META key and the NUMPAD keys. Having a character map printout handy so you know the DEC (decimal) values of these special characters is a good idea if you decide to implement one of these passwords. Punch in ALT-DecimalValue with number lock on.
They may not work in some situations if special characters and not allowed, but you'd be surprised that they do work most often.
I bet most dictionary attacks don't run through many special characters. The cracker is lazy too and will probably not even consider that you chose a funny character which does not even exist on the keyboard.
Remember not to use NULL (#0) though, for crying out loud.
What's the problem? Open source passwords make it more secure.