This got modded as "Informative"? "Troll" would be more like it. Completely made up. Funny, though. Note the clever use of the "I'm not doing anything bad, so I have nothing to worry about" cliche defense of these types of identity systems.
I'm not much at reading patents but this looks like the usual silly IT patent that could apply to just about anything. Can't see this as a good thing at all.
Wikipedia does not "outsource" content and functionality to Google. Sure, searching Wikipedia is probably easier with Google than with its search engine, but there's a lot of sites in that boat. As for the content, many public domain articles are found via Google and incorporated within Wikipedia. Sure, people use the Internet as a research tool, they also use printed works, their own knowledge and contribute photos or diagrams.
I have found Wikipedia and the NPOV (neutral point of view) principle to work very well in practice. I think you may be missing the point of Wikipedia, which is to create a collection of generally accepted knowledge, not to publish "new or contraversial" material.
I just ran into a problem today on one of our development web servers, trying to get an ASP to run a windows shell script with particular permissions. Anyway, executing arbitrary code in the Local System Context -- this is just the feature that I've been looking for!
The Internet is full of opinions and sucky ones at that...
So you don't like HHGG, LOTR. That's no big deal. But the neat thing is that if large numbers of people start rating and reviewing things, these opinions can be used collectively to suggest works that you might like. Both positive and negative opinions of works are useful. Ever checked out the IMDB recommendations page, or Amazon recommendations? I find them frighteningly accurate.
The man that almost destroyed the Grand MAster's Association after resigning to compete in tournaments he had previously denied to people?
True, it's hard to defend Kasparov on this account. Then again, he looks pretty good compared to Fischer who, let's see, won the World Championship in 1972 and then basically never played another tournament game (minus the unofficial Spassky games).
Kasparov is the most arrogant chess player since Fischer but not nearly as talented.
I think Fischer's probably the greatest chess player ever, but to say Kasparov is not nearly as talented is kind of ridiculous. Kasparov has had the highest ELO rating ever and has had a pretty remarkable tournament record (so did Fischer, of course). In any case, the chess world is definitely poorer for not having seen a Kasparov-Fischer match, circa, say, 1985.
Would this not be reasonably secure if SSL was enabled? It's not like you are getting any extra functionality. If you have CGI access you can always upload a perl script or whatever and run arbitrary system commands.
Is this a bug in slashcode? When I copy and paste the link in, it shows up with a space between the final / and HIER. That space is not in my submission, and it was presumably not in the original poster's submission...
Anyone can find my address from my domain name registration, therefore I'm not going to be extra-paranoid about giving the latitude and longitude (which I've already given out for the Perl MonksMonk Map).
Have you read any of Fine's stuff, such as "The Psychology of the Chess Player"? He's a real wacko too. He has all these Freudian "theories" that defy description, e.g.
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification for the homosexual, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
This isn't to say that he got the Fischer diagnosis wrong but he had has own issues, to say the least.
If you somehow get *caught* using this, you're gonna be in huge trouble cause it's obvious that you've gone to some length to conceal your activity. I'd think that looks worse than being "caught" visiting cnn or slashdot every so often.
And at my work, like most other workplaces no doubt, they check the proxy logs anyways, so it wouldn't be much of a gain. It would be very easy to write a little script to go through and identify the "top" web surfers and to see who's surfing sites with pr0n-related terms, or anonymizing sites.
<hypocrite>Anyway, you should do your web surfing from home!</hypocrite>
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This got modded as "Informative"? "Troll" would be more like it. Completely made up. Funny, though. Note the clever use of the "I'm not doing anything bad, so I have nothing to worry about" cliche defense of these types of identity systems.
I call dibs on the pr0n:// namespace!
I, for one, welcome our new all-hearing, , all-seeing and definitely not anti-social video game playing overlords.
It is funny, but there aren't enough spelling mistakes!
Link to the actual patent.
I'm not much at reading patents but this looks like the usual silly IT patent that could apply to just about anything. Can't see this as a good thing at all.
So who was this "famous Afgani Scientist"?
Wikipedia does not "outsource" content and functionality to Google. Sure, searching Wikipedia is probably easier with Google than with its search engine, but there's a lot of sites in that boat. As for the content, many public domain articles are found via Google and incorporated within Wikipedia. Sure, people use the Internet as a research tool, they also use printed works, their own knowledge and contribute photos or diagrams.
I have found Wikipedia and the NPOV (neutral point of view) principle to work very well in practice. I think you may be missing the point of Wikipedia, which is to create a collection of generally accepted knowledge, not to publish "new or contraversial" material.
What are your favorite smaller open-source projects that not everyone may have heard of, that you feel should be better known?
Not that this is big news, but apparently you can't access Windows Update if you're using Mozilla Firebird like me... Back to IE...
Been playing a bit too much Civ 3 lately? :)
It's sort of like the way Betamax has fallen second to VHS...
(Using Mozilla Firebird right now)
And how is that any different than other articles?!
I just ran into a problem today on one of our development web servers, trying to get an ASP to run a windows shell script with particular permissions. Anyway, executing arbitrary code in the Local System Context -- this is just the feature that I've been looking for!
So you don't like HHGG, LOTR. That's no big deal. But the neat thing is that if large numbers of people start rating and reviewing things, these opinions can be used collectively to suggest works that you might like. Both positive and negative opinions of works are useful. Ever checked out the IMDB recommendations page, or Amazon recommendations? I find them frighteningly accurate.
Never a truer word was written...
True, it's hard to defend Kasparov on this account. Then again, he looks pretty good compared to Fischer who, let's see, won the World Championship in 1972 and then basically never played another tournament game (minus the unofficial Spassky games).
I think Fischer's probably the greatest chess player ever, but to say Kasparov is not nearly as talented is kind of ridiculous. Kasparov has had the highest ELO rating ever and has had a pretty remarkable tournament record (so did Fischer, of course). In any case, the chess world is definitely poorer for not having seen a Kasparov-Fischer match, circa, say, 1985.
Would this not be reasonably secure if SSL was enabled? It's not like you are getting any extra functionality. If you have CGI access you can always upload a perl script or whatever and run arbitrary system commands.
Drink lots and lots of coffee until you start liking black coffee and hating the taste of sugar in your coffee.
Cool technology... but still no proverbial cure for cancer.
ok thx. a necessary evil i guess, but bad for copying and pasting.
Not to karma whore, just to get the link right to a good paper: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/hier/2003papers/ HIER1996.pdf
Is this a bug in slashcode? When I copy and paste the link in, it shows up with a space between the final / and HIER. That space is not in my submission, and it was presumably not in the original poster's submission...
Anyone can find my address from my domain name registration, therefore I'm not going to be extra-paranoid about giving the latitude and longitude (which I've already given out for the Perl Monks Monk Map).
Then he'll probably start up a new spam list advertising cheap used books!
I've got a little unsolicited message for Ms. Betterly, if that's her real name: FUCK YOU. That is all.
And at my work, like most other workplaces no doubt, they check the proxy logs anyways, so it wouldn't be much of a gain. It would be very easy to write a little script to go through and identify the "top" web surfers and to see who's surfing sites with pr0n-related terms, or anonymizing sites.
<hypocrite>Anyway, you should do your web surfing from home!</hypocrite>
That's one way of guaranteeing bug-free code...