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http://www.ladidapeople.com/wp-content/uploads/musicmattersportrait.jpg (exercise caution, badware reported)
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9193/musicmattersportrait.jpg (mirror)
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7156/ladida.gif (logo closeup)

Their 'viral' marketing campaign includes vandalism -- paste-ups or posters all over Melbourne. They look shit, it's obviously derivative, they're begging for some Streisand action, why not deliver them some. Leave the graf and posters to people with talent

... or perhaps that's what they want

Take that, Apple!!! http://img40.imageshack.us/i/applemarmalade.jpg/

I noticed this too, so I instinctively took a screenshot of my RSS reader to prove it did actually exist.

Anyone from Slashdot care to explain what the hell happened?

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I noticed this too, so I instinctively took a screenshot of my RSS reader to prove it did actually exist.

Anyone from Slashdot care to explain what the hell happened?

Sigh. It seems that no matter what happens here there is always and appropriate Dilbert strip.

There are always relevant Dilbert strips.

There is always a relevant Dilbert strip.

I rarely use Firefox's actual menus for anything. I have an addon to hide the entire menu bar to one button. It saves on viewable browser space. I know the hotkey for history and I have my top bookmarks available as icons on the hotbar any rarer bookmarks i access through the awesomebar. I doubt I'll be needing more than this so I will hide the ribbon layout as well which takes even more space than a menu bar.

Pic of my menu bar

That is a change of process from the previous way pictures were staged

Note that I would love to know how that picture have been taken !

[Apologies in advance to console fans]
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8127/consolechartyr2dd9.jpg

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Here's one scumbag's capture

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1334140&postcount=6

(removed by xda since they like the guy and what he does, I leave the link for the hell of it)

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=241557&cid=19649963

Saw this on pocketinformat.com and slashdot

http://www.pocketinformant.com/Forums/index.php?s=7c5317a05ae84814ac6bb4ab9a83e2ea&showtopic=11368&s t=0&p=61900&#entry619003

cracker iFalleni
aka Fallen
aka F/\LLEN
aka Syrkine, Vladimir
aka Vladimir Syrkine
russian living in australia, undergrad at university of sydney (honor roll according to univ.)

vsyr4253@it.usyd.edu.au

vsyr4253@mono.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au

As of 27-Jun-2007 (one day after this first posted) Vladimir Syrkine
has gone into hiding. Vladimir Syrkine had cracked and distributed 100s of software titles before being caught.

pirate mmtorrent
formerly pirate aBroad
formerly pirate bathrinath
formerly pirate sertoli
aka Anderson Barbosa de Oliveira
aka Anderson Barbosa
aka Anderson B Oliveira
aka Andros
aka androabo
aka mike terr
aka Barbol
aka tttsmith
aka bathrinath

As of July 2008 Anderson Barbosa de Oliveira is using the alias mmtorrent. He may also still be using the alias aBroad, which he has for more than a year, but only sporadically as that alias is mainly used by him as he tries to cover his tracks: all bathrinath warez uploads he's done the past year (1000s) were changed to the alias aBroad, though board software being what it is, he's not been successful in doing much covering up.

As of 27-Jul-2007 (one month after this first posted) Anderson Barbosa de Oliveira (androabo) uses bathrinath as his alias/aka. androabo has pirated more than 1000 software titles in the last year. He continues distributing warez to this very day, as he has every day for many years.

living in brazil

andersonbarbosa@cardiol.br

Know them? They have pirated your stuff. Google them to see what it is these two hoods do.

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Re:Symantec closes in on Vladimir Syrkine, cracker (Score:1, Offtopic)
by negRo_slim (636783) on Saturday September 05, @03:50AM (#29321575) Homepage
I thought the Fallout3 immersion factor was quite hi due to it's sound and lighting.Reply to This
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Mugshot

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9808/crackerifallenivladimir.jpg

As I am not a developer, it seemed very easy to me sorry for that.

Considering Firefox is a massively multi platform browser, number 1 concern would be how would that work on all platforms Firefox support. That baffles me since Operais massively multi platform too and somehow they do these things. For example, I see that window popup under OS X, it has nothing to do with Windows at all and Linux people see the same Window.

Oh BTW, here is the window I talk about for people won't install Opera just to see it.
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8444/jstemp.png

One of the first multiplayer games we played was 'grid' by Peter S. Langston - it came with a USENIX archive tape. The game itself was an ASCII rendering of 'grid war' in first person perspective, but it supported inter-player communication. Other mainframe multi-user-dungeon games were also popular as they also had the multi-player capability.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5798/screenshotcompizconfigs.png

Install the Compiz effects thing and mess with that plug-in highlighted.

This example, while funny, perfectly demonstrates that marketing just doesn't have a fucking clue...

* And Yahoo wonders how Google beat them

* History of Yahoo Home Page
History of Google Home Page

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Quantity != Quality. Proof: McDonalds ®, WoW ®, TV

Before you get your hopes up, I would like to direct your attention to what is called the Sonic Cycle.

For those of you who are curious and have never seen the phishing warning, here it is (two images were combined to show the full height of the message).

Picture available

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9808/crackerifallenivladimir.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2043/angrypixelmicrosoftmono.jpg

Not to mention Internet Explorer.

Hot Coffee was easy to access in every version of the game. It was not a third party mod or a patch in any ordinary meaning of the word.

Other than the fact that you had to patch the game, using a hack that did not come from Rockstar, of course.

That can't be allowed to happen.

Yawn. I suppose you wanted a recall of the Quake games when people started releasing nude skins for the game? We'll call you a whaaambulance, stat.

Even if it's just an artist's conception, there's always a picture. No exceptions.

(If there isn't, make one)

Um, not to beat a dead horse into the ground, but Windows XP Explorer and Firefox 3 did this well. I don't know why Microsoft removed that ability. You could drag your buttons into the file menu and have the file menu + all the navigation buttons in Windows Explorer. Why is this so hard for MS/Mozilla to do again?

image

So basically you want my customizations.

The menu bar is gone, and the things I use most from it are placed into a button next to the address bar. To the left of that is a bookmarks button, which I usually don't have, but I put it there so you could see it. I use a mouse gestures addon for stop and reload, so those buttons are gone. The only things on the screen are things that I use frequently, and I have minimal wasted space.

Also, the combination go/stop/reload button is a horrible idea from a useability perspective. What if I want to stop a page loading, and right when I go to click the button, the page finishes and the button changes to reload right when I click it? The page reloads when you thought you told it to stop. What if while a page is still loading, I type something in the address bar? Should the button be go or stop?

You don't need it when you have mouse gestures anyway. And mouse gestures are great since you just move the mouse in a direction from your current position. You don't have to move it to a specific position like a button on a toolbar.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7051/tabui.png

These tabs appear when you move the mouse to the screen edge.

I know I posted that earlier but I'm mentioning it again just for you =p the add-on is tree style tab by the way.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7051/tabui.png

Tabs on side, appears on hover of firefox edge. I use the add-on tree style tab. Ignore the colors, I have my theme dark on purpose.

Mine looks like: http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8872/slashdot.png

Which is damn annoying since my browser window is already set to use half the screen horizontally (the other half is two xterms one above the other) so it's already not very wide...

You put up with all that shit on the page? My front page looks like this.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7308/microsoftlocalisation.jpg

So they replaced the black guy with Michelle 0bama...what's the difference? :-)

Luckily I use Gmail, sent it to a friend when I saw it, and thus still have it:

Here.

Very simple: for each cathode you will need a MPSA42 transistor and a 1K resistor. Connect the collector of the transistor to the cathode of the nixie, emitter to ground and base through the 1K resistor to your control logic.

Here's the schematic: http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9999/nixie.gif

P.S. Liskula Cohen is fugly (see bottom of the page)

Pic related.

Mr. Aleynikov waived his rights against self-incrimination, and agreed to allow agents to search his house.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2889/konatav.jpg

Me too ;-)

You might be OK with the concept and execution of Google Street View. However, a lot of people most certainly are not happy. We don't want our houses plastered up on an easily indexed, location linked, photography database.

And it's going to happen anyway, with or without Google. I've posted hundreds of geolocated photos in Earthscape and Picasa. More will come. In 5 or 10 years, perhaps every photographable thing on earth will have at least one geolocated, maps-searchable photo pointing at it.

You're worried about photos of your house. Have you bothered to check Picasa, Flickr, Imageshack, Photobucket, Bayimg? TerraServer? Real estate comparison sites? What of the hundreds of other image and geographic services I have not named?

If not, can you claim with a straight face that this issue is important enough to warrant government involvement in private photography? It is unclear to me that there should be an a priori restraint on publication simply because "a lot of people are not happy". If that's a problem, toddle on down your Congressman's office and see if you can get enough people interested to pass a law. If you don't care enough to bother, fine, but don't tell me it's important to you.

I'm a veteran of these wars. I fought Lotus Marketplace, I wrote letters to my legislators and to Lotus and to Mitch Kapor. That success was utterly irrelevant. What I have learned is that you need to pick your battles, and pick them only when there is real harm being done. Otherwise you risk creating an unwieldly, overbearing enforcement environment that hurts everybody.

this is very true.. here's my TV about a month after getting a wii:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3567/img0542vb2.jpg
Normally that glass panel is $265 but I just made my own for about $40. The reason there are 2 impacts is because I left the battery cover off, and I had the wrist strap on.. lost my grip and slung the batteries right out of the thing.

What games do you play? I try to stick to the 'standard' layout, since some of the things I play would be a royal pain in the ass to adjust.

I ask, also, since your scheme requires you to use your fingers to crouch and/or jump, limiting your fluidity (ie, strafing while changing stance) - also, you leave no way to lean.

My current favorite game - ARMA2 - has a hellish set of commands. Looking at the list, a given key has up to 5 different uses, depending on context! Hell, the game recognizes combinations AND the difference between hold, tap, and double-tap... but, it's fun as hell, and worth the challenge.

Examples:
W-hold - forward
W,W-hold - sprint
Shift-hold: walk/run (not same as sprint)
Shift,Shift (taps): toggle walk/run
Right Mouse tap: optics toggle
Right Mouse hold: zoom
Right Mouse hold (longer): hold breath

Giant impacts are thought to have stripped Mercury of its outer crust, tipped Uranus on its side and spun Venus backward, to name a few examples

Is it just me or is that coolest thing ever? Forget massive trains.. the male mind cannot help but drool at the idea of planets colliding.

Venus is awesome; I can't even imagine what that would look like. The impactor rapidly accelerating the rock around it while the rock on the other side of the planet crumples and deforms under titanic pressure. Maybe the crust would be rigid enough to accelerate rapidly in big chunks while the big oceans of rock in the mantle churn and slowly come up to speed.. or maybe it would just blast most of the mass spaceward, leaving the planet to be pelted by continent-sized rocks for the next thousand years..

But undoubtedly Uranus is the coolest collision. Gas giants are already terrifying (imagine falling straight down into the north pole of Jupiter, falling straight into the bullseye of roaring winds and bottomless stormclouds).. but a mass large enough to alter its inclination exploding through the upper atmosphere as a fireball, and slowly ablating as it buries itself deeper into progressively denser gases, and plunging deeper and deeper into the unplumbed depths of unimaginably violent, raging, endless storms, and finally sinking to the crushing depths of the great core furnace.. come on Hollywood, put your obscene special effects budget to use doing something like this.

> World of Warcraft players sometimes hang out in front of Ironforge and dance.

This isn't metagaming. Remember that MMORPGs derived from MUDs, which in turn derived from being a fancy chat program where someone gave the chatters something else to do besides just blabbing.

No, the WoW metagamers found fun when they, say, "contracted a highly fatal and fast-acting disease", then teleported to Ironforge and infected the bankers and auction house barkers before they died, and those in turn, with hellacious heal rates, survived but passed on the infections, killing thousands of playres.

Or standing on a roof in EverQuest and casting down on monsters to kill them. This is called "strategy" in most games or the real world, but is called "a bannable exploit" by that now-FAIL company that does little more than host a stable of also-ran MMORPGs for one low monthly price that almost nobody wants to pay for.

City of Heroes has one hell of a metagame, if you want to call it that, in the base editor system, where you can now stack all the stupid pre-made base items, to construct vastly cooler things like entire buildings from desks and decorative storage footlockers.

Cool items

Like a DJ booth

A missile array

And a gun requisition crib with chain-link fence

Whole buildings are constructed inside bases (a series of giant, bare rooms) now, where as previously you just dumped pre-designed decorations ala The Sims.

Attention MMORPGs: The next MMORPGs should allow base construction, but in addition to pre-made goodies, add bricks and other tiny building blocks that people can use to make their own stuff.

If you're triple trolling off the GP and GGP, then a new comic needs to be drawn. Also message me your steam name because you're brilliant and I want to buy you a game.

Thanks for the link.

I was appalled to see this prominently shown on the page you linked to. One of the adults (can you guess which one?) probably dosen't even know how to use a computer, and the other one obviously chooses her life partners like she chooses her operating systems.

Sorry, wrong link.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7183/fontu.png

I did a little comparison between Mac OS X and Ubuntu.

Both machines have the default settings for fonts. I have just enabled subpixel smoothing in Ubuntu, no tweaking whatsoever.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7023/fontx.png

My thoughts about the results:

Spacing: The spacing on OS X is obviously tighter than on the Ubuntu machine. I think that the Ubuntu font is too wide, but I also think that the OS X font is too narrow.

Kerning: Both fonts seem evenly spaced and do a pretty good job in this area.

Subpixel smoothing: Here I think that the default ubuntu settings outperform the OS X settings. The OS X renders the font way to blurry for my taste. Ubuntu utilizes the subpixels heavily to create really crisp-looking text.

As a side note I must say that OS X has a lot more of the "durp, fuzz some gray in there!"-tendencies you mentioned in your previous post.

I can also mention that I think Ubuntu usually does a better job with serif fonts than sans serif. I haven't tried this on OS X.

All this is of course highly subjective.

You're absolutely right. You know all these years of adblock usage has made me completely unaware of how much it actually filters.

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You're absolutely right. You know all these years of adblock usage has made me completely unaware of how much it actually filters.

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Adblock on

This post, any many other replies to the original question, stink of one thing-- sexism.

Too bad it's reality.

Many geeks end up in extremely male dominated professions and inadvertently it becomes difficult to view women as equals in the workplace for the one reason that there aren't very many of them and the ones that are there are not peers.

Because women just don't work as hard as men. More than 3 times as many men put in 60+ hour weeks as women. Men make up over 90% of workplace fatalaties. Funny how you never see feminists demanding that those statistics be evened out.

Equal respect for equal work.

I think, unfortunately, that many guys want to be looked up to, not the other way around and have trouble accepting that their SOs are making more money than them or generally more successful... and society reinforces this stereotype.

As opposed to all the high powered female lawyers/doctors/businesswomen who are married to the assistant manager of a Burger King. You're right that there's an acceptance problem - you just have it completely backwards.

This post, any many other replies to the original question, stink of one thing-- sexism.

Too bad it's reality.

Many geeks end up in extremely male dominated professions and inadvertently it becomes difficult to view women as equals in the workplace for the one reason that there aren't very many of them and the ones that are there are not peers.

Because women just don't work as hard as men. More than 3 times as many men put in 60+ hour weeks as women. Men make up over 90% of workplace fatalaties. Funny how you never see feminists demanding that those statistics be evened out.

Equal respect for equal work.

I think, unfortunately, that many guys want to be looked up to, not the other way around and have trouble accepting that their SOs are making more money than them or generally more successful... and society reinforces this stereotype.

As opposed to all the high powered female lawyers/doctors/businesswomen who are married to the assistant manager of a Burger King. You're right that there's an acceptance problem - you just have it completely backwards.

posted here :P http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/572/betljgoatse.jpg [imageshack.us]

I can't see the MS blog page, it's /.ed, but from the summary I felt that this solution seems to imply that browsers are mutually exclusive?

I'd hope that MS would not even go that far but you can never rule anything out with them.

For your viewing pleasure:
Google Cached version.
Yahoo Cached version.
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For those that just want to see the mockup vote screen, here you go..

Vehicle height: less than or equal to 13 feet
Vehicle length: less than or equal to 23 feet from main landing gear to tip of tail
Landing gear footprint must fit onto CAFE Scales (See CFTC floor plan, below)
Gross weight: less than or equal to 6500 pounds on main landing gear and less than or equal to 2000 lb on nose or tail wheel
Wingspan (as projected onto a level surface), if less than or equal to 44 feet, must be capable of being shortened to less than or equal to 44 feet by wing-folding or tip removal that can be easily accomplished in 20 minutes or less by no more than 4 adult persons of average size and strength. This is necessary to fit typical tie-downs, hangar rows and the width of the CAFE Flight Test Center's hangar. Any small additional projected span of winglets, tip tanks or other wing tip device, as vertically projected onto a level surface, will be included as wingspan.

--sabre86