Well, the NFL DCMA Hotline operator could take your name and address, and post out the consent to you. It would just be ridiculous for the to expect everybody to send in written requests for consent, this is the NFL we're talking about, not some backwards sports league...
I'll bite. Why pay? Well, if you're one of the smelly's then obviously all software should be free.
However if you want to know why some people feel it worthwhile to pay a company for their product, then I have two reasons:
First, Opera has given me years of painless browsing on FreeBSD since back in the days when the only alternative was the hideously unstable Netscape 4. Gone were the days of "rm -f ~/.netscape/lock && netscape" and in were the days of saved sessions, mouse gestures, and tabbed browsing, not to mention blistering speed. Firefox has only been as usable for a relatively short time. Yes java was a pain, but that was as much FreeBSD related as it was Opera related.
Second, I wept tears of laughter when they released the "Bork" edition of Opera.
For either reason, I would have happily paid for it; except I don't have a credit card and so they've collected ad revenue instead.
I can understand people who switched from IE when Firefox not seeing the point. I suspect however that the number of people who switched from Opera to Firefox is much lower.
The reasons sites still use it is that there is a difference between theory and practice. While it is true that bots could be programmed to crack them, few actually implement it, and they seem to be targetted at specific sites.
I've seen bots that look for guestbooks and try spamming them, parsing the input names to guess where they can insert URLs. If you have a CAPTCHA and they can't post, they just move on to the next site.
If somebody really wants to script up something to use your public forms, they will. It's a case of making it difficult enough that they just don't bother in the first place, and go pester somebody else.
The first method I heard of for bypassing CAPTCHAs was to host free porn sites and present the image from the tarto a real human signing up to free
Heh, I'm Irish, so I only put one colour in there. I think the other answers include "Table" and "Fish". I'll have no truck with surrealists on my clients forums, thank you very much.
And of course, I didn't give the pedant's option involving wavelengths, defraction, and the sky in fact being black.
Nor did I include the other pedant's answer that the sky is really just looking out on the universe and so, obviously, is beige.
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The problem with blending images and so on is that blind people still cannot see them. This slide demonstrates the problem beautifully, I think.
With regard to the simple questions, that is indeed what I do, some simple trivia, and some basic maths, and the library is called SimpleQuestions.
"What colour is the sky?" is actually one of the questions, and the maths question do indeed vary in form, from expression to natural language.
The problem with the drawing requirement is that you're now blocking people who cannot draw.
Best not keep the Tellytubby site and the homoerotica on the same IP address then - don't want the gay mafia fussing due to being inadvertently blocked.
Well, speaking as a carnivore, I'd have problems with it. I tend not to actually cook very much meat on account of the difficulty in buying good quality meat in the immediate area; I avoid the frozen and shrink-wrapped crap they promulgate.
Under the current rules, an e-mail from a superior carries the force of an order... Most military e-mail servers don't perform any sort of authentication
You have got to be shitting me!
Please tell me there are at least exceptions to this for any orders involving munitions.
It's not that they should be questioning the superior's orders, just that they be sure the orders are in fact coming from the superior. In the heat of battle, I imagine the last thing one would want to do would be to follow orders issued by your foe.
I'm not familiar with filtering software, but I imagine it filters based on hostname, not IP address. Otherwise it would be much too easy to shift the site to a different IP address.
Usually each domain name gets it's own IP, hence the redirect.
Not to be rude, but you're an idiot.
Back in the days of HTTP/1.0 this was true, but since HTTP/1.1 became the norm, lots of sites share IP addresses. I've one server serving over 400 domains off the one IP address.
If you're from say, California, and you move to another country while retaining your US citizenship, do you not also retain your citizenship of California?
Are there lower standards of citizenship that the states may apply? Can an immigrant be a state citizen, prior to attaining US citizenship?
Related trivia question for Americans: Can you name the other three (without googling for it;-)?
I know they are all in that general part of the US so I'll take a guess at New Jersey, Virginia, and either Delaware or West Virginia... let's say Delaware.
Also, some American citizens aren't citizens of any state (or commonwealth). Why not, and where do they live?
Well, if you mean none of the "50" states (or commonwealths), I'll go for Puerto Ricans: they are citizens of the US, but Puerto Rica is not a state. There are debates every few year as to whether it should be granted representation in the Senate and House. I think Puerto Rica is (or was) a commonwealth however, so I'm not sure if that's the answer you're looking for.
Also, as nairnr correctly points out, the District of Columbia isn't a state or commonwealth, it is considered a district of Washington state.
Yes, EU privacy rules lean towards the private citizen, not the corporate world. Having said that, there is an EU directive being negotiated to require ISPs to retain communications meta-data for one year; there had been efforts to make it a three or four year period, but there were shut down.
Google does operate in the EU, so it would have to play ball. The question is, has anybody actually asked Google to delete their personal data? If they did, how would they obtain proof that Google had in fact deleted the data?
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No I'm not, and no I didn't. The only reason Microsoft hasn't bought out Slashdot is because the quality of the software is too poor.)
To put things in perspective, the current funds of $126k work out to about 5,250 man hours of work at ~$24/hr (~$50,000/yr).
Christ, have you people learned anything? Out-source to India, Russia, or China; you should be able to get at least three times as many man-hours out of it.
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Perhaps the BBC should introduce a "donation" mechanism for those who like to use it's online services but don't have a UK T.V. licence. Of course, that would probably have to be given legislative footing, but if they did, it would be interesting how many people would contribute.
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Well, the NFL DCMA Hotline operator could take your name and address, and post out the consent to you. It would just be ridiculous for the to expect everybody to send in written requests for consent, this is the NFL we're talking about, not some backwards sports league...
coup, not ku.
After eight years, this news website has finally gotten around to using proper HTML.
So, will it be another eight years before this news website gets around to using some proper editors?
I'll bite. Why pay? Well, if you're one of the smelly's then obviously all software should be free.
However if you want to know why some people feel it worthwhile to pay a company for their product, then I have two reasons:
First, Opera has given me years of painless browsing on FreeBSD since back in the days when the only alternative was the hideously unstable Netscape 4. Gone were the days of "rm -f ~/.netscape/lock && netscape" and in were the days of saved sessions, mouse gestures, and tabbed browsing, not to mention blistering speed. Firefox has only been as usable for a relatively short time. Yes java was a pain, but that was as much FreeBSD related as it was Opera related.
Second, I wept tears of laughter when they released the "Bork" edition of Opera.
For either reason, I would have happily paid for it; except I don't have a credit card and so they've collected ad revenue instead.
I can understand people who switched from IE when Firefox not seeing the point. I suspect however that the number of people who switched from Opera to Firefox is much lower.
The reasons sites still use it is that there is a difference between theory and practice. While it is true that bots could be programmed to crack them, few actually implement it, and they seem to be targetted at specific sites.
I've seen bots that look for guestbooks and try spamming them, parsing the input names to guess where they can insert URLs. If you have a CAPTCHA and they can't post, they just move on to the next site.
If somebody really wants to script up something to use your public forms, they will. It's a case of making it difficult enough that they just don't bother in the first place, and go pester somebody else.
The first method I heard of for bypassing CAPTCHAs was to host free porn sites and present the image from the tarto a real human signing up to free
Image-based captchas, yes.
Actually, they had to retract that after it was found that there was a mistake in the calculations.
The new colour was actually give the name "Cosmic latte", APOD had an entry about it.
Heh, I'm Irish, so I only put one colour in there. I think the other answers include "Table" and "Fish". I'll have no truck with surrealists on my clients forums, thank you very much.
And of course, I didn't give the pedant's option involving wavelengths, defraction, and the sky in fact being black.
Nor did I include the other pedant's answer that the sky is really just looking out on the universe and so, obviously, is beige.
The problem with blending images and so on is that blind people still cannot see them.
This slide demonstrates the problem beautifully, I think.
With regard to the simple questions, that is indeed what I do, some simple trivia, and some basic maths, and the library is called SimpleQuestions.
"What colour is the sky?" is actually one of the questions, and the maths question do indeed vary in form, from expression to natural language.
The problem with the drawing requirement is that you're now blocking people who cannot draw.
Wait, is this water as in water, or water as in beer?
With the Australians, it's hard to tell the difference...
Ah, fair enough then.
Best not keep the Tellytubby site and the homoerotica on the same IP address then - don't want the gay mafia fussing due to being inadvertently blocked.
Well, speaking as a carnivore, I'd have problems with it. I tend not to actually cook very much meat on account of the difficulty in buying good quality meat in the immediate area; I avoid the frozen and shrink-wrapped crap they promulgate.
You have got to be shitting me!
Please tell me there are at least exceptions to this for any orders involving munitions.
It's not that they should be questioning the superior's orders, just that they be sure the orders are in fact coming from the superior. In the heat of battle, I imagine the last thing one would want to do would be to follow orders issued by your foe.
I know where they are, it's funny how many don't though. I was being too loose in my language though, I'll grant you that.
I'm not familiar with filtering software, but I imagine it filters based on hostname, not IP address. Otherwise it would be much too easy to shift the site to a different IP address.
Not to be rude, but you're an idiot.
Back in the days of HTTP/1.0 this was true, but since HTTP/1.1 became the norm, lots of sites share IP addresses. I've one server serving over 400 domains off the one IP address.
If you're from say, California, and you move to another country while retaining your US citizenship, do you not also retain your citizenship of California?
Are there lower standards of citizenship that the states may apply? Can an immigrant be a state citizen, prior to attaining US citizenship?
I know they are all in that general part of the US so I'll take a guess at New Jersey, Virginia, and either Delaware or West Virginia... let's say Delaware.
Well, if you mean none of the "50" states (or commonwealths), I'll go for Puerto Ricans: they are citizens of the US, but Puerto Rica is not a state. There are debates every few year as to whether it should be granted representation in the Senate and House. I think Puerto Rica is (or was) a commonwealth however, so I'm not sure if that's the answer you're looking for.
Also, as nairnr correctly points out, the District of Columbia isn't a state or commonwealth, it is considered a district of Washington state.
How's that for an Irishman?
P.S. Is "commonwealths" a correct plural form?
They didn't. It just happens that, when you do 'x' to delete a char and then 'p', to put the contents of the buffer in, the end result it a 'twiddle'.
Of course, wouldn't it be ironic if ankura was also being ironic?
Google does operate in the EU, so it would have to play ball. The question is, has anybody actually asked Google to delete their personal data? If they did, how would they obtain proof that Google had in fact deleted the data?
(No I'm not, and no I didn't. The only reason Microsoft hasn't bought out Slashdot is because the quality of the software is too poor.)
Christ, have you people learned anything? Out-source to India, Russia, or China; you should be able to get at least three times as many man-hours out of it.
Perhaps the BBC should introduce a "donation" mechanism for those who like to use it's online services but don't have a UK T.V. licence. Of course, that would probably have to be given legislative footing, but if they did, it would be interesting how many people would contribute.