Slashdot Mirror

Your "littleurl" link points to http://youngfoxredux.blogspot.com/2009/01/take-walk-through-gaza.html - although I don't understand why you felt the need to hide that with a contrived url. I'm not saying your cause is unjust, or even that you'll ever see this now that you've drive-by spammed a forum with it (congrats, by the way, you gained a pageview due to my curiosity).

For those who are curious but don't want to reward AC link spam with page hits, the referenced page talks about the atrocities in gaza, and calls for some political action amidst the finger-pointing propaganda.

Come to think of it, we should all be this conscientious, and just have *one* page hit generated by random AC link spam, by someone who then reports what it is - that way, the spammer doesn't get a reward, and those of us with a curiosity bordering on OCD can be satisfied without having to click an "unknown" link.

Please, don't let this post threadjack anything, I just wanted to point it out for what it was.

I find these pictures amazing and think this should be the future of businesses:

http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-offices.html

I wouldn't be surprised if Google doesn't add a wedding chapel to their offices.

Google security researcher Chris Evans has a very informative blog post which notes that to avoid attacks like this one you must set your http proxy to localhost:1 thus killing all http traffic and only letting https (to your bank) go through.

-Malloc

1. Install the OS as default-ly as possible. Scan it with nmap and Nessus during the installation. (for the chart, he ignored this) 2. At completion of installation, scan again. 3. Install relatively common listening services and scan again. 4. Install the latest 'major patch', and scan again. 5. Finally install all 'minor patches' published prior to Jan 1 2007, and scan again.

The chart is quite interesting. FreeBSD, as the popular wisdom says, shows 0 vulnerabilities. All Linux default installs show zero vulns as well. When some services are activated, they tend to show less vulnerabilities.

Sure, here are a couple of problematic examples:

http://mobile-tagging.blogspot.com/2008/11/code-entdeckt-7-firmendbde.html

http://mobile-tagging.blogspot.com/2008/10/qr-code-webimage-analyse.html

Those both worked flawlessly on my Japanese cellphone from a few years ago.

Being artificially limited to one vendor is more or less the definition of vendor lock-in.

Right -- but you're not limited to one vendor. There's no reason we can't have QR codes, Datamatrix codes, MS Tags, and more co-existing peacefully. There's no reason scanning apps can't recognize multiple tag formats and know what to do with them. Most already recognize all key formats, and will probably add MS tags if they catch on. MS's own apps only recognize MS tags right now, but they've stated that they're adding formats..

There's also no real good reason for the creation of new formats when existing formats do work well beyond NIH syndrom.

Sure, here are a couple of problematic examples:

http://mobile-tagging.blogspot.com/2008/11/code-entdeckt-7-firmendbde.html

http://mobile-tagging.blogspot.com/2008/10/qr-code-webimage-analyse.html

Those both worked flawlessly on my Japanese cellphone from a few years ago.

Being artificially limited to one vendor is more or less the definition of vendor lock-in.

Right -- but you're not limited to one vendor. There's no reason we can't have QR codes, Datamatrix codes, MS Tags, and more co-existing peacefully. There's no reason scanning apps can't recognize multiple tag formats and know what to do with them. Most already recognize all key formats, and will probably add MS tags if they catch on. MS's own apps only recognize MS tags right now, but they've stated that they're adding formats..

There's also no real good reason for the creation of new formats when existing formats do work well beyond NIH syndrom.

Hrm... Apparently he hasn't lost anything really important! Woz hanging with self-proclaimed D-Lister Kathy Griffin

The woman is an airhead.

OK, let's stop right there. This is a classic advocate (should I say "fanboy") argument: Blame the victim for usability problems with {software advocated}.

If someone says they're having problems using a piece of software, telling them they're an idiot may make you feel nice and smug and keep you in your pattern of denial that {software being advocated} doesn't have any problems, but doesn't do anything to encourage other people to use {software advocated}.

Linux has serious desktop usability problems. This is why almost no one buys Dells with Linux pre-installed. These issues will not get resolved by telling people who have issues with Linux that they are airheads.

Oh wait, is that the same state that makes it illegal for people to publish their laws?

http://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2007/05/intelligence-in-sc.html

The president does not need Congressional authorization to launch an attack. In the event of a nuclear strike, the president can (and presumably will) authorize a retaliatory strike without waiting for Congress to say "OK".

As another respondent has ably pointed out, the use of torture by Bush and company is not in violation of the 8th amendment. That amendment applies to criminals. Waterboarding and other methods were applied to so-called "enemy combatants". Such individuals are not protected under the 8th amendment. Please see this. (Note that Posner believes torture should remain illegal, but also says that any president who flatly refuses to consider torture in an emergency situation is not qualified to hold the office. I personally oppose torture simply because it's not a reliable method for information extraction, at least in the way the US or its proxies have practiced it. If torture worked, though, I would be all for it--please see next paragraph.)

Finally, "good" is a subjective concept. History is written by the victors, be they "good" or "bad". As a nation, we should strive for victory, not for being "good". The concern for being "good" is a legitimate only for public relations and should not be an overriding philosophy in achieving objectives.

The underlying question here is, I think, whether Braid was Important. Games are rarely seen that way - most of them are debated on the basis of whether or not they are "fun", but not on whether or not they somehow embody something larger and more fundamental than just being entertainment.

One possible approach (quoting from The Hip Gamer) is to distinguish between the game's implementation (the "system") and it's ambition (the "game world"). I find that game systems are usually best evaluated formally, where one can look to a review to comment on things such as depth, elegance, and replayability; game worlds are more subjective, where one reads reviews for more information on a world's theme, concepts, and morality when considering them.

What Braid does well is the latter; the world is clearly well thought out and considered, and the non-gameplay pieces (the story books between levels, the artwork, the music, etc.) all advance that world's realization. The game system is solid if not astounding: it's a platformer with a time-control element, with some clever puzzles. Does that make Braid "Important"? Perhaps -- there are a dearth of so-called casual games that meet those criteria. However, in the larger scope of gaming, I don't know that I'd put Braid on the same level as, say, the original Half Life, or Space Invaders, or Planescape: Torment. Gaming itself is unlikely to be altered by Braid's existence, even if playing through it is enjoyable.

Hyperbolic, for intended effect.

http://sparkbox.blogspot.com/2009/01/lick-my-stinking-asshole-sc-senator.html

Go ahead.

Arrest me.

I dare you, you motherfucking assholes, you cocksucking alterboy abusing shit-eaters!.

At least according to this helpful chart... Military Language Conversion Chart

Hilarious to watch. Seriously, you can't come up with anything better than the guy whose catchphrases are "God hates fags", "God hates America", and "Priests rape boys"?

I thought Christianity was about love. This guy is all about hate.

The saddest part of this is that it's not even about Ricardo Montalban, It's about George Carlin. Montalban was a devout Roman catholic.

There was quite a lot of politics and govt regulation *directly* feeding the problem over the years:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307061229501695

Tragi-comical version:

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/03/subprime-mortgage-blues.html

The infrastructure developed from the New Deal provided a tangible product which could be openly used by other segments of the economy and benefited far more. Roads affected the Automotive Industry and eventually the suburban sprawl and housing.

It should be noted that the Interstate Highway System was not started until 1956.

The CCC improved roads in public parks. The WPA did pave or repair 300,000 miles of road, but keep in mind the US currently has 3.9 million miles of highway.

New Deal spending is actually a lot less than people generally think. Federal spending peaked at 8% of GDP during 1933-1941, whereas today it is over double that number (20%) while both state and local spending are both themselves are today over 8% of GDP.

The New Deal was more about dollar devaluation and regulation rather than spending.

Why let something as silly as a little TOS stop you, when it's so utterly pointless and stupid given the ease of acquiring a copy of the video. No one is going to begrudge you for trying to be a better citizen. Except for the politicians perhaps.

For those curious about how to download videos from youtube, this site will give you an easy method of doing so.

Yep, I spent a few months using wxWidgets a couple years ago. I just didn't like it. Obtuse MFC style message maps just screamed ugly at me.

Strange things is that people still don't realize, even after many years spent explaining this -- and not only on Slashdot, mind you -- that MFC-style message maps are just one way of connecting events in wxWidgets and that there exists a superior and more flexible, but somewhat more verbose, way to do it with Connect(). In my biased-but-still-struggling-to-be-objective opinion Connect() beats the horror that is moc hands down.

This photo could be better if we could see his balls. I'm just sayin'.

http://brassxcityxstatic.blogspot.com/troncostume.jpg

It would be funny if it weren't so sad. I guess most people remember the history of the Vista shutdown button. I wonder what Windows would look like today if they stopped designing things by committee back in Redmond.

The submitter is a real 1337 Hax0r. Ever hear of strings? Vi? I know the Apple apologists are out on full force on this thread (as usual -- 'omg Steve Jobs is personalizing my tracks for me, how thoughtful!'), but I have to disagree with them -- http://bulletinthehead-wakeup.blogspot.com/2007/05/apple-turning-into-law-enforcement-one.html And yes, this is an old story.

Oddly enough, the students' could be heard chanting "Zune for the Moon!" over and over.

I really can't figure out why, though.

I got some crashes too!

Windows 7 is seriously bugged...

Look at those crashes!

That's not a physics problem.

That's for a group like, the IEEE to figure out. But considering they're still making sense of the groundbreaking paper "Towards the simulation of e-Commerce" by the great mathematician and programmer H. Schlangemann, it might be some time.

Imagine being a woman where obtaining a model's body requires starvation and atrophy.

From one model: http://nikihuey.blogspot.com/

Obviously a long way from use in humans. But I am impressed with the out of the box thinking in this approach. It seems dramatic changes in health care are coming in then next decade.

http://pbrewer.blogspot.com/2008/12/dec-18th-lunch.html

While the Google Docs suite is pretty limited, I managed to stay on it and a few other odd web services exclusively for thirty days without many problems. It just takes some (pretty serious) change in your work-flow. There are also some real advantages over local work. The OS is Dead.

Google replied to this story on its blog
In terms of greenhouse gases, one Google search is equivalent to about 0.2 grams of CO2. /quote/

It probably pays better than blog comments for Microsoft. Gotta make sure yer not in the 10%!

Israel has killed more civilians than hamas.

http://www.israelforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=5255

To date, I would say the numbers are about the same, difference being in intent - hamas is proud of targeting civilians (http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/pij_e_spokesmen.htm), Israel trying to avoid it (http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2009/01/israel-tries-to-minimize-civilian.html)

Shitty situation, but not as one sided as portrayed by you

At least for Linux I wrote up a bunch it two months ago here: http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/11/status-of-chromium-on-linux.html Summary: It didn't even compile on anything but a very specific windows compiler when it was launched in September. Chrome was done by a Visual Studio team entirely on Windows. Now they are discovering all the fun of not planing ahead for cross platform.

Yes, and if the management there knew what they were doing they could have used BCC instead of threatening their employees with repercussions for touching the Reply-All button. Full rant here

Amen to that, I'm getting ready to buy a Q9000-based laptop. Of all companies Acer is first to market (Assuming you can actually get them) and I am NEVER. BUYING. ANOTHER. FUCKING. HP/COMPAQ. I have never had service this bad. Anyway, it's a more budget/mobile version, which is fine with me, lower power FTW. 45W for a Core 2 Quad at 2 GHz? Sign me up. Anyway, the machine is like $1700 with the Q9000, 4GB, BD-ROM/DVD-RW, and an 18 inch LCD. ANYTHING to get away from this stupid Quadro (and my T2600 is showing its age a bit.)

I've taken the time to benchmark Chrome 2.0's javascript performance against bleeding edge versions of FireFox, Webkit and Opera. Also compared Chrome 1.0 against FireFox 3.0.5, Safari 3.2.1 and Opera 9.6.3. Enjoy.

Steve Yegge (Google employee) hinted about this in June 2007. (He said he had to write a new parser for it.) Look at point number 5 here: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html

I've been reading these stories for years and wanted to thank you for the good work you have all done. It's changed my perspective and my families purchasing habits with music. Everyone I speak with knows I don't purchase music when the RIAA will benefit from it. I go to sites such as secondspin.com, gametz.com or amazon.com marketplace and purchase second hand music if I must have that song. Also I've been using google to find independents to purchase directly online. The internet is a liberating tool. Another reason I'm hoping it becomes like public roads. Everyone should have it available and fast. This way we can punish organizations such as these guys by taking our money elsewhere. Over the last few years I've also switched my home computers to Ubuntu Linux (kicking Microsoft out) and replaced Concast Internet with a local provider. Similar reasons. I don't like their poor attitude and won't do business with them. This is the only way everyday people will get these companies attention. Perhaps they will figure it out. Then again, perhaps they will be the ones asking for a bail out as well. Thanks again and keep up the great work!

On behalf of the folks who have suffered so much from this long RIAA nightmare, thank YOU for being so conscientious about being sure not to do business with the bad guys. I keep a list of independent music sources for consumers such as yourself.

Oh... don't you worry.

Movie industry is hoping that 3-D will be the "new colour".
So, more and more movies are getting a 3D treatment.
As for games... they are already 3D - just add a function that will render everything for both eyes and start creating games that rely on the actual 3-D content and immersion.

And then, there is all that old stuff out there.

What the RIAA has realized is that the lawsuits are ineffective (duh, big surprise, dumbasses)

Digital music guy Steve Meyer just came out with a good article on that subject.

Lets not forget which age group is more likely to vote.

If more young people voted politicians (and the country as a whole) might not be held hostage by the AARP.

Every year I pay $6324 into our Social Security system. I don't have much confidence that I will ever see a cent of that money back.

And don't even get me started on Medicare...

I just hope my brain will not end like this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzqmUTTjhgY/RoLDOb8CSWI/AAAAAAAAAiU/MYyX63ACIzM/s1600-h/abbynormal.jpg

These tools don't help if you can't plug the drive into a computer. I had a bunch of hard drives to get rid of, mostly P-ATA, some SCSI-LVD. I only have one computer left with P-ATA, and since it's my main computer and I really have better things to do than dismantle my main computer and plug in ten drives, waiting hours each time, I used a drill to destroy them in about 10 minutes. I haven't seen a SCSI-LVD connector on a computer for at least eight years.

Rich.

Or this case, which might possibly result in a SCOTUS ruling requiring cops to use their brains before using their cuffs.

WTF. Yeah, this sure makes it less cheesy lookin.

Even though I thought it was a stupid idea, it did have one redeeming point. It would have turned a small segment of the population in those countries into producers instead of keeping them as consumers.

When they decided to support Windows, that killed the only positive point I could see in it. They would be kept as consumers.

That's nonsense. As the inimitable Linux Hater put it

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/05/olpc-sees-light.html
Hmm, so some governments looked at the problem and thought: "Well we'd like to give computers to our children, so lets go with a solution that teaches them a platform that nobody else uses, and one that teaches them skills that they can use to produce volunteer software projects for free. Being able to participate in open software projects on their spare time will make their other problems like hunger, poverty, and disease seem insignificant. That sounds like a great idea!"

A few minutes later, after that good African Ganja wore off.. "Wait. What the fuck. This is a terrible idea! Of the small percentage of children who will even learn to turn these things on, we want them to learn Windows, and make us the CA$H MONEY."

You can't blame them. Look how much the money the Microsoft ecosystem makes. Not just for MS, but for all the other companies involved. The Linux ecosystem? Please. If you're going for your first piece of the pie, you're gonna go for the bigger pie.

Besides how many of these kids are going to become programmers anyway? Probably like 0.0001%. But you know, Ubuntu needs another person to work on their shit for free, so it's worth it right? Nevermind teaching the 99.9999% of the other kids about computer skills that matter.

Of course the best way to turn people from consumers into producers would have been to actually set up a laptop factory in the third world. Look at how the Taiwanese have been turned from consumers into producers by churning out laptops.

Face it a bunch of nerds in the first world built a laptop with no clue about what kids in the third world want or need. That's the real problem with socialized programs - they give too much power to the people that run them and none to the people that are supposed to benefit.

Given the amount of links you posted from that website, you should probably mention that you are quite the star over there, complete with things like these:

Appended below is the IRC log from just minutes ago. As regular readers are probably aware, our reader "twitter" has abusive stalkers ('witch hunters') in this Web site. They followed his footsteps all the way from Slashdot just to discredit him personally wherever he goes, whatever he does. Speaking from experience, "twitter" is intimately aware of Microsoft's dirty secrets and he talks about it in public.

Aw, shucks. This is also where you confessed to your massive sockpuppetry of Slashdot:

They also identify my accounts on the first few posts. They got my GNUChop today and replied to it by cut and pasting a brlug comment.

I understand your activities here are quite the topic of conversation over there.

Worthy of mention also is the fact that you have done nothing but paste links to the Schiestowitz blog for the past year or so. Anyone looking at your comments and journals can attest to that. That blog is of course what some people call a den of paranoia, and other choice things. As for the operator, this is one of the better summaries I've read.

All of this of course pales in comparison to your nymshifting, sockpuppetry, trolling and massively obnoxious behavior that has made you the joke of the day around here. All of that is documented here.

So please, don't pretend that you're some FOSS hero on a mission bringing enlightenment down from the Schestowitz heaven for us poor Slashdotters to gape at in awe. You are a troll, an extremist, just like your friends, and I wish that none of you were involved with free software in any way. You are the worst of the worst. If I need references on OLPC or anything else, I'm sure there are more dependable sources for them than your best friend's "I hate everything" blog. Seriously, this is a man that insults and questions Linus Torvalds' way of life and the amount of children he has because he didn't march to step on a software license. What the fuck. You all should be put in a mental institution. You are worse than the worst shit you've ever tried to make up about Microsoft, as if they didn't do enough actual bad things.

Go away.

In Galloway in Scotland, the local tourist board is trying to set up a dark sky park. The area that they're planning to open it is apparently the darkest place in Europe.

There are already two in the US, in Utah (http://www.nps.gov/nabr/parknews/news040507.htm) and Northern Pennsylvania (http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/cherrysprings.aspx). This BLDGBLOG article mentions suggests World Heritage sites for experiencing darkness, set up to protect dark areas: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/dark-sky-park.html

I recently visited Poland (Krakow) and there the level of street lighting was a lot lower, resulting in reduced light pollution. Streets were mostly lit with light reflected from buildings. It's surprising to be able to see the night sky from the middle of a city of 1 million. It's not comparable to countryside darkness by any means, but it really changes the character of a city.

Yep. The problem is that the government is (with a few exceptions) extremely bad at producing anything other than paperwork and hindrances.

Why oh why oh why do people keep modding thus utter bullshit as insightful. It isn't it's an ignorant meme repeatedly spread by people with a bizarre faith in business.

http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/

I for one welcome a little color to my server room. See their search appliance, and wtf does hassellhoff have to do with one? http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/HoffGSA-767114.jpg Anyway, server equipment has been traditionally shades of grey for too long now. http://www.itmweb.com/bimages/lonestarsc01.jpg I'm sick of it. I want to see some SGI purple

Actually, I get a fair amount of my news from NPR and the FT, but accusing me of having limited sources of news is preposterous. Dude, I'm a /.'r. I get INUNDATED with news, MOST of it NOT from the 'Jewish-controlled media'. As if the Jews control the media in any significant way. CBS, ABC, and NBC prove that daily, and more.

But more to your point, that it is the Zionists that violated the truce by halting supplies to Gaza and hunting Mamas militants with commandos, consider this:

The Wikipedia page on the Qassam rocket has a cute chart on what Israeli Intelligence counts as the number of rockets fired into Israel. from 2006 to 2008, I see no month where they claim there were zero rockets fired into Israel. do you have information to the contrary?

According to the BBC, A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas began on or about June 18, 2008. I say 'on or about', because I cannot find any reports that Hamas stopped launching rockets against Israel at that time.

This report, from a Chinese news agency, seems to point out that Hamas continued to lauch rockets against Israel.

This link, sadly, is from a thoroughly Zionist site, but offers a calendar of rocket attacks, with distinctions between the Qassam rockets and Katyusha rockets usually launched from Lebanon. You have many months of data here.

My first point is that Hamas seems to have violated the truce continuously. They have their explanations, of course.

My second point is deeper.

Israel should not be expected to tolerate the rocket attacks from Hamas, not to mention those from Lebanon, nor suicide attacks by various aggressors. Neither should Israel indiscriminately kill civilians in reprisals. However, Hamas and others hide amongst the civilian population, on purpose. This must also stop.

Probably, there is no option for peaceful co-existence between Israel and any form of Palestinian state. This must change, and the Palestinian people must decide if they will live alongside Israel or not. Do they really have any choice?

If you would like to continue this discussion and delve into the legitimacy of the Jewish state of Israel, just let me know how far back in history you want to go. The premise that the Jewish people have no place in their ancestral homelands does not hold, in my opinion. If you want to blame someone for this trouble, I propose either the Roman Empire, or the UN. Both took their turns at crafting a Middle East. The British sure didn't help, but their contribution was less.