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The exploit is that people, especially in the U.K., will tend to trust results of a search that appear to be emanating from the MI5 website, and hence, with a well-formed set of "search results," a site could be setup that mimicks MI5's, thus tricking people into revealing passwords, credit card numbers, etc.

Yeah, it's the work 4m4t3ure p0s3rz, but hey, what did you do last week?

I'd like a citation for this, because I'm extremely skeptical that executive pay would be able to skew the statistics so heavily. There just aren't that many super-highly compensated executives out there to make a difference.

You're right to be suspicious, as the "76 cents on the dollar" canard is based on straight up sophistry. It ignores the issue of experience (number of years worked) and, most importantly, completely ignores the issue of overtime. In the U.S., men worked 72,174 hours per week to 61,597 for women. (Stats are from the International of Labor Organization)

But even those stats don't tell the whole story. Women outnumber men in part time jobs, but men take the lead when it comes to full time employment. And when it comes to overtime, it's no contest whatsoever. More than 3x as many men put in 60+ hour weeks than women.

If Mary has three years more experience than Ann, puts in an average of 10 hours more per week than Ann, and is 9 times as likely to be killed or injured on the job as Ann - of course Mary would expect to paid more than Ann. Except when I say "Ann" I mean the average woman and by "Mary" I mean the average man.

Men get paid more...because men work more. It's that simple.

So to stop a DDoS attack on a server, they remove any and all access to that server? Am I the only one seeing the irony here?

The post you responded to is misleading. According to this: http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2523/1248672053880.png, this was an ACK attack, which causes problems not only for the directly attacked host, but for other users as well.

Ordinarily, a TCP connection is set up when you send a SYN packet to a website, such as 4chan, and then 4chan responds with a ACK, and then you respond again with a SYN-ACK.

Here is how an ACK attack works. I, the attacker, will send a SYN packet to 4chan, but I am pretending to be you, or your IP address. 4chan then sends an ACK packet to you, excepting a SYN-ACK in response. However, you did not initiate the connection, so you send a RST back to 4chan (or nothing at all, depending on your firewall settings).

Then I do it again. And again. I effectively flood both you and 4chan with meaningless traffic. Your traffic problems are even worse, because if you have a firewall blocking the RST packets, then 4chan will send you 4 ACK packets (depending on configuration) for every SYN packet I send them.

In this case, AT&T and other ISPs decided that the simplest solution to ending this DOS against their users was to block packets to and from 4chan (or a specific part of 4chan).

I don't know how credible this is http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2523/1248672053880.png But the IP specified there is the same for http://img.4chan.org/

Need I say more?

You can't joke your way out lying about GISTEMP being closed source. Or ignoring the fact that the CRN123 stations don't look different than the full time series. Or the simple observation that GISTEMP and UAH aren't all that different, even for 2009.

Um.

You can download the source to NASA's "closed source, closed algorithm" right here.

And yeah, switching to the UAH time series doesn't make global warming go away either (and this while you're at it).

Maybe you should try reading something about the climate other than what skeptic blogs tell you to believe.

How Not To Fail At Life:

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6827/howtonotfailatlifepn3he9.png

(The best advice you will ever get from 4Chan)

Typefaces can define things in a story that mere words sometimes can't. Comic books prove to be an excellent example of this. Take this page from the (admittedly now insane but once genius) Dave Sim's Cerebus- http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5641/cerebusbiweekly13155gu.jpg

As you can see, the way the text looks is as important to understanding what the character is trying to say as what that character is saying.

To be fair, this is not something that works with every single document on the planet, but it can prove very useful.

Here's an example. It's the OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 win32 torrent taken from the OO.o site.

Right here:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2015/youtubeie6.png

Word has had a style inspector since Office 2003 (or possibly Office XP). It'll tell you exactly what formatting has been applied to the text, and it's pretty easy to reset it. Screenshot: http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/9540/o2007.png

Full disclosure is not the solution for security vulnerabilities like this one, oh wait...

the office computer has been around barely more than 20 years, desks have been designed for a lot longer than that around traditional "office desk" values. I'm sure it'd make an excellent paperwork shuffling and writing desk but that doesn't make it a good COMPUTER desk any more than the previously mentioned banana crate makes a good computer desk using chair, although it makes a fine and very stable step stool type platform.

I have a picture of My Desk too. It doesn't take an absurd amount of space and can easily accomodate a third CRT. You can't see it but all my network's crap is just behind the primary monitor where I can see it by leaning to the left a little and can pull it right out to the front of the desk. The other side's mostly empty space I haven't used, and underneath are a midtower and a fulltower with more room for filing cabinets on the right side.

My bedroom though has a similar setup to yours. That is, one with a good desk but not a good COMPUTER desk.

Yes, graphics are important, but they will never fix bad gameplay.

Crysis had perfect graphics, and not that bad gameplay. Still, it scores low on my list, because it's to short in my opinion. They sacrificed game length for graphics, they shouldn't have.
Braid is a perfect combination of gameplay and graphics, the whole environment blended nicely with the game, and the gameplay was a wonderful experience. It's not that long, but also not that expensive to buy.
The new resident evil on the Wii is a perfect example of fail in my opinion. The graphics show horrible aliasing and the controls work frustrating making for a bad experience.

Now, as a hobby game builder, you don't always have access to perfect graphics. So you'll have to make up with gameplay for that. But still work on the graphics, they are very important. A screenshot can 'sell' your game, if your game looks like an old 8bit nintendo game, it's harder to get people to try it. But not impossible (see 'Cave Story')

Graphics are also an important gameplay element. I'm working on a GuitarHero clone which plays FretsOnFire songs for the Wii. And I noticed the game became much more enjoyable AND playable with a few very simple effects. As they provided more visual feedback on your actions. See how the dark grey area and small gauge on the left and right don't seem to fit that well. A few simple things can make a whole lot of difference. The gray star provides feedback that you hit a note, and the rest just makes it more pleasant to look at. While you are playing you don't even notice the backdrops that much, but notice how they caught your attention just now ;)

Yes, graphics are important, but they will never fix bad gameplay.

Crysis had perfect graphics, and not that bad gameplay. Still, it scores low on my list, because it's to short in my opinion. They sacrificed game length for graphics, they shouldn't have.
Braid is a perfect combination of gameplay and graphics, the whole environment blended nicely with the game, and the gameplay was a wonderful experience. It's not that long, but also not that expensive to buy.
The new resident evil on the Wii is a perfect example of fail in my opinion. The graphics show horrible aliasing and the controls work frustrating making for a bad experience.

Now, as a hobby game builder, you don't always have access to perfect graphics. So you'll have to make up with gameplay for that. But still work on the graphics, they are very important. A screenshot can 'sell' your game, if your game looks like an old 8bit nintendo game, it's harder to get people to try it. But not impossible (see 'Cave Story')

Graphics are also an important gameplay element. I'm working on a GuitarHero clone which plays FretsOnFire songs for the Wii. And I noticed the game became much more enjoyable AND playable with a few very simple effects. As they provided more visual feedback on your actions. See how the dark grey area and small gauge on the left and right don't seem to fit that well. A few simple things can make a whole lot of difference. The gray star provides feedback that you hit a note, and the rest just makes it more pleasant to look at. While you are playing you don't even notice the backdrops that much, but notice how they caught your attention just now ;)

Happy 4th of July, assholes!

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/921/proudamerican.jpg

well I'm in the US but I connected to a Canadian proxy to access it

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3149/pandoram.png
there ya go

Aardvark is strongly connected to Facebook as far as I can see. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Screenshot

I don't watch in fullscreen. Here I'll make a screenshot. I'm on windows right now, shame.
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/2609/hulu.png
Yes the ad is there the entire time. Unless you're really absorbed in what you're watching you can't help but notice it at least every few minutes, which makes it valuable space.

Anything mass-produced will drop in price - but yes, it'll still be ludicrously high.

Turbines

What can I say? I just don't find white wind turbines at all ugly. I have the same thing with Solar Panels - they look better than most roofs.

Descriptive sentence about how this image is a .jpg of Slashdot 'sucking.'

That's actually just an effect of using the efficient JPEG compression.

It looks fine for me using PNG.

Try it for yourself

Or, as mentioned, we might be concerned that in the US we have a higher infant mortality rate than Cuba or Hungary, the worst in the developed world.

For the record, I'm here to fix a false statement. I don't care if this was posted yesterday, and I don't care what this argument is about--the parent is modded 5, and a statement this misleading about something so ethically charged I just have to fix it. I also really hate when numbers are skewed.

When I saw this quote, I absolutely had to see this for myself. One part of the statement is true, and even then, the point of the comment is splitting statistical hairs to prop up an argument. If there are lies, damned lies, and statistics, this is certainly a "statistic." Quick breakdown for perspective, and I'll even use the UN's numbers:

The UN says that 6.3 is the infant mortality rate in the United States. That's not a percentage, though.
The US rate is 6.3 deaths per 1,000 (.0063%).
Cuba? 5.1 deaths per 1,000 (.0051%).
Hungary is 6.8 deaths per 1,000 (you guessed it: .0068%), making it 'worse.'

Let's put this into perspective. This is the chart the CDC provides. That looks ugly, doesn't it? That's "statistics" for you. Let's look at the real picture. (Don't mind my notes.)

As a final note, even though the differences are equally minimal as the ones stated above, Greece (.0067%), Russia (.0167%), and Kuwait (.0081%) will be surprised to learn that though the UN considers them to be on the short list of part of the developed world, they are apparently ommited from the quoted 'fact' above.


This myth is BUSTED. (Always wanted to have a good reason to say that.)

Here's mine. Given that I have 35 tabs open (TabGroups Manager is a godsend!) and Firefox has been running for about two days since the last restart I think that's fairly okay; it comes out to about 34 megs per tab.

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7330/picture1uo4.png

Firefox is still my browser of choice, due to the plug-ins I use daily. I have to wonder how Flash intensive the sites loaded were.

Not many:

4. Alexa sites

Because every user has a different selection of sites he uses, the sites tested programmatically in this examination were taken directly from the Alexa top sites CSV file at http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip. This list is the property of the Alexa service and will not be made available on dotnetperls.com. The CSV used was downloaded on June 19, 2009.

I'm more appalled at the size of this spread sheet file listing. What an abortion. Could they have just skimmed it down to the top 150?

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7330/picture1uo4.png

Firefox is still my browser of choice, due to the plug-ins I use daily. I have to wonder how Flash intensive the sites loaded were.

Was that 3.5 or 3.0? 3.0 has a terrible memory footprint...

Firefox is still my browser of choice, due to the plug-ins I use daily. I have to wonder how Flash intensive the sites loaded were.

Can anyone explain what the FUCK happened to slashdot to make comments unreadable, and how to fix it? There are unremovable grey horizontal and vertical bars and pill icons everywhere. OMGPONIES was supposed to be a joke, and now they've made it reality.

Viz: http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9974/wtfiswrongwithslashdot.png

...the evidence: http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1696/bing2.jpg

Unfortunately, no.

... as the Earth falls down a giant black hole.

Light had nothing to do with this. She's just another New York Jew using a smelloscope in conjunction with her hornbill.

I am reminded of this.

I'm sure Daniella Westbrook's boyfriend tried it, at least once

Here you can see the last automatically transmitted ACARS messages of AF447:
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7547/acarsaf447d.png

Personally, I think this incident was caused by a combination of factors.
ALL speculations tread on thin air before the CVR and FDR are recovered, but based on current data I would QUESS:
-it is a dark, stormy night with no horizon or any landmarks visible
-160km/h updraft brings moist air to a much higher flight level than usual
-this causes sudden icing of the pitot tubes
-this causes the flight computer to think that the plane is in danger of stalling, and it lowers the nose automatically
-the crew switches auto-pilot and flight envelope protection partially off, or a (positive) lightning strike disables them
-the crew has no good idea about the true speed and orientation of the plane
-inside the cumulonimbus' horrible gusts the crew over-stresses the composite flight controls while fighting turbulence
-the place exceeds it's maximum speed and/or structural load (G-) limits
-two-three minutes later the agony of the 228 souls on board finally ends as the slowly disintegrating plane hits the sea near the speed of sound, instantly ripping them to stamp-sized bits

Here's more detailed speculation about possible causes and a crude analysis, taken from Usenet:

1. Terrorism or other malicious use of explosives

A bomb explodes in the cargo hold, crippling the aircraft's control systems or starting a structural break-up that eventually leads to loss of control.

Supportive evidence: According to Wikipedia, a bomb threat had been made on an earlier flight. Lack of communications from the flight crew indicates either a sudden event or something which lead to significant problems that the crew had to focus on. This would be consistent with the effects of a bomb. The automatic messages about computer system failures sent by the aircraft could be interpreted either as indications that the aircraft's movements have exceeded the limits that the systems can handle, or as indications about direct damage to the systems. A flash of light has been seen by other aircraft in the area.

Evidence against: While terrorist organizations exist both in France and Brazil, there has been no recent activity. No organization has claimed responsibility for the act. There is no specific evidence about a bomb. Nothing is known about any individuals or organizations who would have non-terrorism related reasons for malicious acts. It seems too big of a coincidence that a bomb would go off at the same time as the aircraft flies through very rough weather. Finally, what we know about the sequence of ACARS messages indicates that loss of cabin pressure was the last message in the sequence. This appears to rule out an explosion, unless it was contained in the hull and only damaged internal structures and components. This seems unlikely. The flash of light was apparently seen from too far to be caused by AF 447 related problems.

Open questions: Where are the cargo holds that are used to carry the passengers' luggage? Are they physically close to the computer and navigation systems that ACARS messages reported as failing? And obviously, physical evidence would be useful.

Verdict: Can most likely be ruled out

2. Explosion or other rapid, harmful reaction from the cargo

The sequence of events is as in the terrorism theory.

Supportive evidence: The sequence of events fits this theory, as it does the terrorism theory. The cargo might have shifted at the time of turbulence, initiating the reaction.

Evidence against: See the evidence regarding the malicious use of explosives. In addition, there is no information that the cargo could have contained something harmful.

Open questions: More information is needed about what was in the cargo, and who cargo was taken from.

Verdict: Can most likely be ruled out

3. Fire

Fire starts in cargo hold, in sys

SlashFail!

Firefox 3.5b4

Obviously that's because you're searching for the wrong things. It simply can't be bothered to gather good information for such trivial matters. If you search for something worthwhile, the superiority of Google Squared quickly becomes apparent.

Search for "list of pokemon" on Wolfram Alpha, and you get this pathetic sight. On the other hand, if you put the same query into Google Squared, add a couple of suggested columns, and maybe a Pokemon or two you want specific information on, and it gives you something that's actually useful .

Obviously that's because you're searching for the wrong things. It simply can't be bothered to gather good information for such trivial matters. If you search for something worthwhile, the superiority of Google Squared quickly becomes apparent.

Search for "list of pokemon" on Wolfram Alpha, and you get this pathetic sight. On the other hand, if you put the same query into Google Squared, add a couple of suggested columns, and maybe a Pokemon or two you want specific information on, and it gives you something that's actually useful .

how about you post a screenie how you think /. should look like? it looks like this :
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9100/clipboard01sjl.jpg
under Opera.

BS
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9100/clipboard01sjl.jpg

I'm using 9.64 and can't see comment titles wihtout highlighting them.

http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whitewhite.png

And http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=redecrescendo0gihm5.jpg ...

Like an uglier version of google with over 1/3 of the top of the page (all you see before scrolling) dedicated to advertisements

In addition to that, imagine that you are navigating such page in a Netbook (with a vertical resolution of 600 pixels) using Internet Explorer (look at the navigation bar).

I kinda liked the Microsoft maps version... however, I wonder if it is "too late" in the sense that, after playing with the maps interface (and thinking that it feels cool) I know I would just go to maps.google.com when I need something because my fingers know how to use it.

~xtracto
[anon. for I have modded in this thread]

Like it's really that hard to find it, or something?

Modded off-topic, sure, but Slashdot is a broken mess. Wish they'd stop trying to be cute with their useless ajax bullshit and just fix their fucking code. An ideal non-broken Slashdot should look and behave like this.

again: http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4962/linuxaudio.png

do you think linux audio is complicated? really?

you have no idea. http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4962/linuxaudio.png

It doesn't beat this beast tho. http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5844/bfastu7abtz8.jpg

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1687/vistasp2g.jpg

LIARS!!!!