Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/12/2013 9:56 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: */Absolutely. You can always tell the 'bots from the humans because they're the ones who keep replying to posts from people who don't reply to them. What would do that *but* a 'bot? :-)/* So, I don't know how you'd know this, since on your own testimony,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread emilymaenot
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: That's what I was afraid you meant. Share explained: > Judy and noozguru, I simply meant what percentage of time on Internet is > that of humans and that of robots. Share, lets you and I try this that yifu posted. Maybe after

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread authfriend
That's what I was afraid you meant. Share explained: > Judy and noozguru, I simply meant what percentage of time on Internet is > that of humans and that of robots. On Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:21 PM, "authfriend@..." wrote: What's "Internet time"? Share wondered:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread Share Long
Judy and noozguru, I simply meant what percentage of time on Internet is that of humans and that of robots. On Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:21 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wrote:   What's "Internet time"? Share wondered: > Similiarly, Judy, what I'd really like to know is what percenta

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread authfriend
Um, thanks, but I don't think that's what Share had in mind, Bhairitu. Bhairitu wrote: An 10 base time idea by Swatch that never caught on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time Supposedly it would make it easier to calculate th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread Bhairitu
An 10 base time idea by Swatch that never caught on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time Supposedly it would make it easier to calculate the time in other countries. However these days the move because of the Internet is to drop time zones altogether and just use UTC for the enti

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread authfriend
What's "Internet time"? Share wondered: > Similiarly, Judy, what I'd really like to know is what percentage of > Internet time is from the 'bots and and what percentage from us humans. On Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:40 PM, "authfriend@..." wrote: What you want to ask, Share,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread Share Long
Similiarly, Judy, what I'd really like to know is what percentage of Internet time is from the 'bots and and what percentage from us humans. On Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:40 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wrote:   What you want to ask, Share, is not whether "942 members of FFL are bots"

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread authfriend
What you want to ask, Share, is not whether "942 members of FFL are bots" (or whether any members of FFL are bots, for that matter) but whether 61.5 percent of visits to FFL are made by bots. There's no way for us to know that (although the answer is almost certainly not, given what bots are for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread Bhairitu
When one authors a web site you put in a robots.txt file which supposed to keep bots out of areas of your board which are not relevant or you don't want snooping around in. On 12/12/2013 08:24 AM, Share Long wrote: Judy and turq, I'm still amazed by that 61.5 statistic. And it was interesting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > turq, does this mean that 942 members of FFL are bots?! Absolutely. You can always tell the 'bots from the humans because they're the ones who keep replying to posts from people who

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread Share Long
Judy and turq, I'm still amazed by that 61.5 statistic. And it was interesting to me to translate that into the everyday context of FFL. I wonder if there are any real 'bots who at least visit here. On Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:18 AM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wrote:   You see, accord

[FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread authfriend
You see, according to Barry, no post commenting on something he has said has any meaning unless he validates it by responding to it. IOW, it's entirely up to Barry whether one is a bot or not. ;-) Barry bites: > turq, does this mean that 942 members of FFL are bots?! < < Absolutely. You can

[FairfieldLife] Re: Over half of all Internet users are not human

2013-12-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > turq, does this mean that 942 members of FFL are bots?! Absolutely. You can always tell the 'bots from the humans because they're the ones who keep replying to posts from people who don't reply to them. What would do that *but* a 'bot?