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The video shows something being thrown at the incoming RPG (seems an explosive).

The video requires the swf plug-in which does not work on Linux (macromedia, foxnews, anyone?):
http://media2.foxnews.com/040606/040606_fr_tobin_3 00.swf

Here's the original discussion from 2 days ago:
http://digg.com/technology/Direct_Link%3A_Video_of _Israeli_Made_Forcefield_

I am totaly convinced now that articles are only printed if they are submitted by ScuttleMonkey, CmdrTaco, or Cliff or, in the direct interest of one of these. /. is going downhill and will be replaced, probably by digg.com. I am going over there to read something that I am actually interested in reading.

*is* a government-granted entity.

When is Slashdot going to allow users to edit their posts, if even for a limited time period as on digg?

You really can't debate your way out of a paper bag, and you keep dropping touch-downs for me! I think you should head over to digg where you will be more welcome and have more of a chance of impressing 12 year-old boys with your "math skillz"...

I had it enabled (without the enhanced functionality mind you) and my firefox memory usage jumped to 120MB+ on startup, on a blank page! and then Firefox proceeded to consume 100% CPU and slow things down to the point where I had to use the Task Manager to kill it. I found the cause by removing one extension after another. The moment the Google Safe Browsing extension was uninstalled, things went back to normal and Firefox was not using more than 27MB of RAM.
After some googling, I found a thread about this memory leak I also came across this - a thread detailing which combinations of extensions result in memory leaks.

I wonder how long will it pass until this video is on all this video sharing services :-).

http://digg.com/science/Scientists_Discover_Blue_R ing_Around_Uranus?cshow=1402721#c1402721

Yes, you must hide your shame. Not mentioning the website was the right thing to do.

this will help i'm sure: http://www.digg.com/hardware/Open_Letter_to_D-Link _about_their_NTP_vandalism

Phew - that's all right then, because we all know that Microsoft would never do anything illegal.

you can find it here:

digg.com.

There was talk of the good Doctor in the study answering questions in the comments.

Microsoft USED to have a 30-day unconditional money back guarantee but now they engage in fraud by claiming it is still in effect. See http://www.digg.com/software/College_Student_Beats _Microsoft_in_$143.50_Legal_Battle

This is about a day old. The exact same thing was on the front page of digg yesterday. Here's the link to their comments:

http://www.digg.com/hardware/Top_Ten_Coolest_Lapto p_Cases

1. Submit story to Slashdot, wait for it to get rejected
2. Submit story to That Other Site, wait for it to take off
3. Wait for another Slashdot user to submit story to Slashdot.
4. Profit?

There are a lot of cool next gen web 2.0 websites. As technies we shouldnt bash them.. well not too much Here are my favorites: Entertainment Better than ebaumsworld and Fark http://www.phoonso.com/ Tech News http://www.digg.com/ Torrents With news http://www.torrentspy.com/ Parenting http://www.fircle.com/ Gadgetry Be a Ninja. http://www.ninjaremote.com/

I don't know what's more pathetic...the fact that Slashdot keeps running these lame April Fool's stories or the fact that this one was actually grabbed from Digg.

This got dugg ten minutes before this story was posted.

Crazy.

you dont get it .. they are patenting overbroad generalizations. I can sit here and spout out hundreds of combinations of things without any knowledge of science whatsoever and patent them all, and hope one or two of them get a hit. This is especially true with medicines. Patent entire classes of chemicals, as well as "cause and effects" and then when someone does research and finds that a specific one in that is useful .. you get paid.

Sounds nice ... but what will actually happen is that nobody will do the research because the classes of chemicals are already patented .. and who's going to pay massive amounts of money just for the right to look into something?

See more in this comment on digg

http://digg.com/software/One_of_the_most_important _patent_decisions_ever_reaches_Supreme_Court#c1271 375

> Why Everyone Loves Apple

Really? Macintosh market share has plummeted over 50% during Jobs' current tenure

Commodity hardware + Free software = you win!

I mean, look at what they've been up to:

http://digg.com/technology/_Help_me_Obi_Wan_Kenobi _Rocket_Boosters_Batman-esque_armor_plating_

At best they've been spying on Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, and Obi-Wan. Down with the bastahds. :P

My note:

To the Honorable Lonnie Paxton and members of the Town Council of the City of Tuttle,

You may want to consider hiring a new town manager, replacing Mr. Jerry A. Taylor who recently earned the City of Tuttle worldwide embarrassment with his legal threats against Centos.

Mr. Taylor claims to have been a "Computer Systems Engineer" with 22 years of experience. However, upon discovering an extremely simple problem with the City of Tuttle web site, rather than proceeding to work with the hosting company responsible for the management of the City of Tuttle web site, Mr. Taylor chose to publicly harass and attempt to intimidate the developers responsible for designing a free operating system called CentOS.

What is CentOS? Like the well-known Microsoft Windows, it is an operating system. More specifically, CentOS is a FREE operating system built by volunteers, largely based on the also-free GNU and Linux projects.

Transcripts of the Mr. Taylor's juvenile threats toward CentOS are posted publicly on the Internet, and those transcripts underscore Mr. Taylor's utter incompetence, unwillingness to accept FREE help from folks who provided a FREE operating system, even though the CentOS developers have NO responsibility whatsoever to clean up Mr. Taylor's mess.

When Mr. Taylor FINALLY agreed that the Centos folks had nothing to do with the misconfiguration problem (the problem is actually due to two parties: the company hosting the City of Tuttle web site, and Mr. Jerry A. Taylor himself) he not only was not apologetic, but downright insulting in his response.

The City of Tuttle has earned worldwide ridicule in the face of this issue, and the dated and sophomoric appearance of Tuttle's now-well-publicized web site has earned widespread harsh criticism and ridicule as well.

Please consider replacing Mr. Jerry A. Taylor. Many of us feel sorry for the City of Tuttle as we believe that there are many people more deserving of his salary and who can perform a much better job were they given the opportunity to fill his position. Jerry A. Taylor's salary is money wasted right now.

Here are some of the web pages covering this story that you may wish to check out:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_cen tos/
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/27/ 135221&tid=133
http://www.digg.com/security/Why_every_city_counci l_needs_at_least_one_geek_=%5D
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/27/tuttle_ema il/

Mr. Taylor's outbursts and threats toward the generous CentOS folks may be seen here:

http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?sto ryid=127

As you will note, Mr. Taylor's outbursts are unbecoming of a city official and earn little respect for the City of Tuttle. Even after realizing that the CentOS representatives were not to blame, but he and his web hosts are, and even after having received hundreds of emails from kind folks all over the world who are attempting to explain to him that the CentOS developers are not to blame, he is insisting that the CentOS folks would only help him after he threatened to contact the FBI. This is not only patently false, but downright slanderous and such statements could earn a defamation of character suit from CentOS. I know if I were that developer I would consider filing suit against Tuttle over such false statements made to the media.

...over 7 hours ago, too!

http://digg.com/technology/%C2%BB_DRM_and_the_myth _of_the_analog_hole_|_George_Ou_|_ZDNet.com

Nice review. You probably submitted your story to the wrong address. This is the correct address to submit a slashdot story.

There are greasemonkey scripts to allow collapsing threads. And scripts to collapse stories and remove sidebars and figure out how much time you waste on /. and add mirrors and whatever else you want on slashdot.

I'd give them a look before I demanded the slashcode writers add features you want (or write the code yourself and submit it to slashcode), unlike other news sites this is an OSS project.

I still prefer stand alone Coral Cache extension for all Web sites links, not just /. Very useful on Digg too.

This was the first I had heard about this exstension. I've been using it for the last half hour or so and I'm very pleased. It really does make browsing /. here a more enjoyable experience.

I find some of the additions of the extension to be things that really should have be built into /. anyways, such as things that you find at Digg like AJAX comment retrieval - things that are not at all hard to implement that can dramatically increase the user experience. Nevertheless, I'm not really too surprised by /.'s apparent slowness in embracing new web technologies considering how long it took them to simply make this site fully standardized in CSS

One negative aspect of the extension, however, is that it seems to me that, depending on the feature set you have enabled, /. pages in general now take a bit longer to load, but not so long that it makes the plug-in not worthwhile, especially since it facilitates the speed of navigation in other ways.

All of you should check this out for sure!

The FCC has not thrown their weight behind the extortion experts at ATT. See this article.

38 hour scoop.

http://digg.com/technology/New_data_transmission_r ecord_-_60_DVDs_per_second_2

digg > /.

Read Slashdot articles the day before on digg. What is needed now is a RSS reader that will weed out duplicate stories from the feeds I subscribe to.

The Digg of this, with a similar summary, has already been marked as inaccurate. Besides on top of the article, no where does it cite the 60% code rewrite.

However, if you want the "truth" about Vista, I suggest this: http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fi re-leadership-now.html

On this article, many anon MS coders comment on Vista and the management shakeup. Some are fake, but there are many legitimate posters, including the blogger himself. The comments paint quite a bleak picture for MS and Vista.

http://digg.com/software/60_Of_Windows_Vista_Code_ To_Be_Rewritten

Are you cracked

We don't want you to just post your briskly jotted down thoughts and abysmal sentence fragments.

Unless by "we" you mean "me and my multiple personalities", you're being a bit bold to speak for the entire games.slashdot.org audience. Indeed, Zonk's posting these things as he's dashing from talk to talk. He's trying to post timely content because of an endless stream of complaints that Slashdot is constantly getting scooped by other sites. Many Slashdot readers are very vocally saying that they prefer the "jotted down thoughts and abysmal sentence fragments" of say, digg, and want Slashdot to be more timely. They may be wrong, but it's hardly Zonk making this decision totally divorced from what his readers want.

"Like, did you even go to journalism school?"

Did any of the Slashdot editors and writers go to journalism school? If you're looking for some sort of credential that the writers are good enough to bother spending your time reading, you're at the wrong web site. Come of to think of it, I doubt you'll find any site or magazine that focuses on covering the game industry (as games.slashdot.org does) that is entirely or even mostly j-school graduates.

Your might also consider how you phrase your feedback. "Do you get paid for this shit? Can you give us more than this half-assed effort next time?" is not a good way to provide feedback. It makes the recipient more likely to brush you off as a troll. I suggest something like, "This was rushed and low quality. It harms Slashdot's reputation as a polished news organization when drafts are posted as final articles. I'd really prefer more polished articles, even if it means waiting longer to get them." Obviously that's just a hypothetical example, as no one who has read Slashdot for more than a day or two would confuse it with a "polished news organization."

...and strike a deal with Google. New releases of OpenBSD will feature a scrolling text ticker at the bottom of the console :-\

More seriously, if Firefox can earn $72 Million a year from Google referrals, perhaps Google/Yahoo can help out with the $20k or so it takes to keep OpenBSD alive?

And do OpenBSD take Paypal/Amazon Honors/something?

Quite frankly, I'm not sure why VA Linux bothers paying the slashdot "janitors". They could be replaced with a 10 line perl script that monitors digg stories (and posts them 2 days later) and roland piquiepealle's blog.

Port 8080 can go wherever the hell you want it to.

http://www.digg.com/links/Coral_Cache_(.nyud.net)_ Now_Uses_Port_8080
http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/

etc.

wow slashdot really is dying. Digg is where it's at.

structure is necessary for any OS project to be successful and effective. however, whether it is 72 or 50, there seems to be a serious problem with the mozilla foundation when looking at the generous alienware that the developer of the best firefox extension gets. imho, there needs to be more transparency because firefox is to a large extent a community projet - yet, the money that the foundation generates does not go to the people who deserve it. there is not not even clarity on the absolute amount that the - open (yeah right) source - project generates. critising is always easy, so here are our thoughts.

"See, it turns out that it's just the usual sloppy work by bureaucrats who confused similar-sounding Arabic names. Joe Caucasian Liberal has nothing to fear"

No, but Babies do...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/ a/2005/08/15/national/w115806D06.DTL
http://www.digg.com/links/9-month-old_baby_on_US_N o_Fly_list

And so do canadians...

http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_779. html

sounds like knee-jearking, overrasting politics to me.

Greets! I ran a panel on this in 2003 at the Hyertext conference [http://www.ht03.org/panels.html#panel1 ] I think Pete came closest to getting it right - predicting a 'hot or not' for the general web - now see Digg [http://www.digg.com/ ]. We also ran a special issue linked to the panel in JoDI [http://jodi.tamu.edu/?vol=5&iss=1 ]

http://www.digg.com/

Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!

No Karma Bonus Post Anonymously

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References -- "If you're interested in video games and computer games, as well as usability and user experience (UX), this is exactly the list of references for you."

uhh, you're kind of in the wrong place. Here, let me redirect you.

I'm not going to say one is better than the other but this was logged yesterday on Digg and today they are logging Dell's denial on Digg.

http://www.digg.com/hardware/Dell_denies_Alienware _acquisition

Hey editors do you want to be different than Digg? Don't jump on the speculation "news" like the Digg submitters. Do some reseach first. You might even want to check Digg. I like Slashdot and Digg but I expect better quality headlines and discussions from Slashdot. Digg can be the place for the rest.

Dude, I believe you are on the wrong site, you must have lost your way, the site you are looking for is here. Go make those kind of comments there. This is slashdot.

Please digg this: http://digg.com/technology/One_login_to_control_th em_all

I hope more sites are going to use this! Very handy.

People, try http://digg.com/
You'll get the articles before they appear on Slashdot

Slashdot: you were cool when you started, but now it's been years, time to evolve or suck

I don't think so, we have a dedicated server, and this is not the first time we appear in big-traffic sites, like digg. Just remember this: http://digg.com/science/The_most_famous_picture_in _the_history_of_science Our machine is ready for the "slashdot effect" ;-)

This one's definitely going to need caching by CoralCache and MirrorDot: it got dugg as well.

Again, maybe they could spend some of that money refactoring their modular implementation to allow disable-output-escaping in XSLT when the output method isn't xhtml... (even if it causes a second pass when disable-output-escaping is set to true)..

http://digg.com/technology/Mozilla_refuses_to_full y_implement_XSLT_in_Firefox