When I was in 9th grade (I guess about 10 years ago!), there were five "kingdoms": bacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia. Three years later, there were six: archaea, monera, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia.
Now there are branches? And four of them? On a tree? That's news to me. But it's all a matter of naming and grouping, so I guess you say potato, I say tomato.
I spent a minute trying to find out what this was all about, and came upon this from Tim Berners-Lee:
The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.
Like the web of hypertext, the web of data is constructed with documents on the web. However, unlike the web of hypertext, where links are relationships anchors in hypertext documents written in HTML, for data they links between arbitrary things described by RDF,. The URIs identify any kind of object or concept. But for HTML or RDF, the same expectations apply to make the web grow:
1. Use URIs as names for things
2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.
4. Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.
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You say that your copy of Mechwarrior II crashed Windows 95 faster than El Nino crashed into the eastern seaboard. Well, ha! You're out of luck. What are you going to do, get an iMac? Like anyone's going to buy a computer without a floppy disk. That company -- whoever makes it -- is going to be out of business in a year.
Now I'm going to stockpile Pogs, make a lot of money from them, and buy some land in Afghanistan, while you deal with your own issues.
Win+R: Run File or Folder -- easily the most useful key combination of all.
Win+D: Minimize all
These keys actually keep me on Windows: I couldn't figure out how to program these actions in Linux to any command using less than three keys. And I was too lazy to figure out how to get Linux to recognize the Windows key.
It was noted in one of the linked articles that the opt-out action sets a cookie on your machine. If you delete this cookie, you have just opted back in.
So let me get this straight. In order to tell Omniture not to do anything on my machine, I have to give Omniture access to my machine. What sort of half-assed policy is this?
How else would Omniture tell who the opt-outs are?
The only other alternative would make tracking opt-in -- but who would opt into tracking? Who would hire Omniture if they'd just be giving glorified Alexa statistics? Instead of seeing an Omniture domain here, we'd be seeing a Coremetrics domain.
I think privacy advocates are making mountains out of a molehill. This doesn't seem like an underhanded attempt at tricking users. After all, the ".net" at the end gives it away as a URL pretty quickly.
Omniture has used the 2o7.net domain for a long time. It's been registered since 2000.
http://whois.domaintools.com/2o7.net
One could argue that Omniture is just boneheaded in general for using domain for so long that doesn't mean anything, but I wouldn't think of this as directed toward Adobe users.
Plus, you have to realize that Omniture is just a web analytics package. It just shows things like page views, clicks, and possibly behavioral data in aggregate. There's no "Spy on Users" or "What's John Doe at 11 Main Street Buying?"
That's it! I can't take it any more! Every second Slashdot story tries to make something seem more evil and mysterious by saying it's been done "quietly." Now you can be quiet even when you make an announcement?/blockquote
In other news, Microsoft announced a patch to Outlook 2007 with their eyes darting back and forth and scary music playing in the background.
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Go to this page and put "07-52" into the "Proceeding" field.
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When I was in 9th grade (I guess about 10 years ago!), there were five "kingdoms": bacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia. Three years later, there were six: archaea, monera, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia.
Now there are branches? And four of them? On a tree? That's news to me. But it's all a matter of naming and grouping, so I guess you say potato, I say tomato.
I spent a minute trying to find out what this was all about, and came upon this from Tim Berners-Lee:
So, uh, yeah. I'm just as stumped as you are.
Hello Valued Microsoft Customer,
Thank you for contacting technical support. We value your business and are dedicated to resolving your issue as quickly as possible.
You say that your copy of Mechwarrior II crashed Windows 95 faster than El Nino crashed into the eastern seaboard. Well, ha! You're out of luck. What are you going to do, get an iMac? Like anyone's going to buy a computer without a floppy disk. That company -- whoever makes it -- is going to be out of business in a year.
Now I'm going to stockpile Pogs, make a lot of money from them, and buy some land in Afghanistan, while you deal with your own issues.
Signed,
Microsoft Technical Support
I live and die by the Windows key.
Win+R: Run File or Folder -- easily the most useful key combination of all. Win+D: Minimize all
These keys actually keep me on Windows: I couldn't figure out how to program these actions in Linux to any command using less than three keys. And I was too lazy to figure out how to get Linux to recognize the Windows key.
How else would Omniture tell who the opt-outs are?
The only other alternative would make tracking opt-in -- but who would opt into tracking? Who would hire Omniture if they'd just be giving glorified Alexa statistics? Instead of seeing an Omniture domain here, we'd be seeing a Coremetrics domain.
I think privacy advocates are making mountains out of a molehill. This doesn't seem like an underhanded attempt at tricking users. After all, the ".net" at the end gives it away as a URL pretty quickly. Omniture has used the 2o7.net domain for a long time. It's been registered since 2000. http://whois.domaintools.com/2o7.net One could argue that Omniture is just boneheaded in general for using domain for so long that doesn't mean anything, but I wouldn't think of this as directed toward Adobe users. Plus, you have to realize that Omniture is just a web analytics package. It just shows things like page views, clicks, and possibly behavioral data in aggregate. There's no "Spy on Users" or "What's John Doe at 11 Main Street Buying?"
like ignore experts-exchange.com/*? Should I continue praying?