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I cannot crash Opera 9.10 on Windows XP SP2 by opening this image: http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5597/img000211u q0.jpg .

I went to that url immediately before posting this.

What is supposed to happen?

You can still crash Opera 9.1 simply by opening this image:

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5597/img000211u q0.jpg

Perhaps it is even possible to exploit the problem in one way or another. I've sent that info to Operas bug-tracking system about a week ago.

Opera-side discussion for this bug is here:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id= 172354&t=1168112391&page=1

Inversing the colors provides a more lifelike image. For the lazy.

Ebay announced a signifigant price increase. Since online auctions are a natural monopoly, I guess we will continue to see these types of price increases until people finally get fed up enough to start listing items elsewhere.

The only thing more pathetic than a PC user is a PC user trying to be a Mac user. We have a name for you people: switcheurs.

There's a good reason for your vexation at the Mac's user interface: You don't speak its language. Remember that the Mac was designed by artists, for artists, be they poets, musicians, or avant-garde mathematicians. A shiny new Mac can introduce your frathouse hovel to a modicum of good taste, but it can't make Mac users out of dweebs and squares like you.

So don't force what doesn't come naturally. You'll be much happier if you stick to an OS that suits your personality. And you'll be doing the rest of us a favor, too; you leave Macs to Mac users, and we'll leave beige to you.

I still have a hard time getting over the quality of their photos...

Just one picture I cropped from one of their ridiculously large ~3000x4000 pixel photos for display on a 24" Widescreen LCD. :-)

Here's what happens when I right-click on a .deb in Kubuntu Edgy:

http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=installde bxj7.png

I am so fucking sick of people complaining about how difficult things are to install in Linux. It always starts with something like:

"Well my friend said Slackware was good, but when I tried to install Apache..."
"Have you even TRIED to install something on Red Hat 6?"
"I downloaded this thing called a 'source tarball' and it couldn't even install it!"
"'Console'? Why do I have to speak computer-language? I thought you said Gentoo was new!"

For Christ's sake people, choose the distribution that is appropriate for your uses, and start sentences with "How do I" instead of "Linux needs to learn". If you're an idiot migrating from Windows, you should use Kubuntu, and not jump the bridge like Parent here when something isn't exactly the same.

OK, do not ask why I am posting AC, but here is a screen shot of the add when I went into this post to read comments and, ah, hhhm, lets leave it there.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8830/hddvdcrack andaddfv3.jpg

A visual depiction of a mashup.

If it seems to you like discussions here on Slashdot aren't as active as they used to be, that's because they're not. If Google Trends is a reliable indicator, and there's no good reason to believe otherwise, Slashdot currently attracts less than half the traffic it did at its peak in 2005.

Will the last one out please turn off the lights?

The third WTC building on 911 collapsed without ANYTHING touching it. It just collapsed straight down as if it had been demolished. They even abandoned it first. It was UNDAMAGED until it collapsed.

The HOLE in the pentagon was not large enough for the plane that struck.

The jet fuel of an airliner doesn't burn hot enough to melt the structural steel that was used in the WTC buildings. Yet they found molten steel in the wreckage.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7842741 50 9736411725&q=wtc+3
That was not an airplane strike, it was demolition.

Well, I don't deny that yahoo has some good services, but I just got this logging out from yahoo mail with Firefox 2:
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/3834/stupidyahoop p9.jpg

Dear Slashdot,

Don't hate us because we're more attractive than you. Hate us because we're better.

Sincerely,
Mac users

Dear Slashdot,

Don't hate us because we're more attractive than you. Hate us because we're better.

Sincerely,
Mac users

One of my gripes about NTFS is the fragmentation is often ridiculously out of control.

I have several server volumes that look like this for example.

I spend most of my time in small towns and small cities so I haven't seen a lot of playground structures, but the one I had in elementary school (gr. 3 to 7) was the best I have seen. The metal ones are usually low, fairly disconnected platforms, slides, poles, and monkey-bars.

I have very little to do so here's a diagram as close as I remember: E-shaped wooden playground structure (with heights).

Legend:
A— plastic tube tunnel with static properties.
B— swinging plank obstacle.
C— swinging tires obstacle.
D— high catwalk with little nubs to trip over.
E— raising catwalk with wavy bridge.
F— bridge to the platform, with a dip in the centre.
G— platform with walled room underneath; poles to slide down on two sides.
H— half-tube slide to the ground; in retrospect it was plastic like at A.

I think a section like B might be around 14-feet long.

It was built with 4x4s iirc so there were 4-inch gaps in the walls which many climbed up; the wood mostly wasn't broken such that you could get a splinter. The floor of the playground was mostly bark wood chips that gave one tonnes of little splinters if touched, so everyone avoided touching it; it was a poor choice for sure. Nobody that I know of sprained or broke anything while I was there, but a few people ended up crying; I never heard of any injuries after that so presumably nothing serious happened. Eventually the playground was destroyed due to weakening wood. It was replaced with a few low metal structures that looked lousy—liability-free and cheap to put together I guess.

The only problem with sand is that you can get sand in your shoes fairly easily. I'd guess decent wood chips are ideal but I haven't tested any. The bark shards were actually somewhat soft but otherwise sucked.

I'd say though that a good design would be better in metal than wood for the most part, although I wonder about the slipperiness of the bars.

Damn, now what am I going to do...

Maybe it's just me, but I seem to find the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park a little less believable than a kid getting root.

What, cold blooded animals with scales, teeth and claws are unbelievable? It's the hot little furry ones that seem out of place to me, kind of like a run away finger snack. The world is full of big bad beasts.

• Sea Monster! ancient.
• 450 Million year old monster.
• A toothy Noob.
• A cute little monster in your backyard.

Given recent findings of soft tissue in fossils and the fiendish pace of cloning research, you might live to see dinosaurs of an earlier vintage than these. Just think of it as the biological equivalent of running Windows 3.1 in dosbox.

Nah.

Is it only my webbrowser or is the SS website really broken? http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/4679/screenshot 1sa8.png

1. Who's going to keep videos seeded? On Youtube, if the video is available, the video is viewable. Not so for Azureus! The video could be only partially intact (no seeders with not enough downloaders) or it could just be gone. The Bittorrent network has already lost several fan films due to this issue. Will Zudeo keep a seed of every video they've ever carried? Will they be able to afford the bandwidth when the viewers start trickling to videos rather than assisting each other with their downloads?

2. Like it or not, Youtube is often used in workplace camaraderie. Many corporate firewalls whitelist business appropriate ports rather than blacklisting P2P clients. Youtube uses regular HTTP, so it works. Azureus uses the Bittorrent protocol which requires more esoteric ports.

3. Will the bandwidth usage be acceptable for the average user? When you view a Youtube video, you use only the bandwidth necessary to download the video. This active form of downloading means that bandwidth usage stops as soon as the video is completely downloaded. With Bittorrent, users will both upload and download while waiting for the video to complete. They also are recommeneded to leave the client open while going about other tasks. Which can have a negative impact on their other Internet activities.

4. Zudeo breaks up your workflow by launching an external program. This not only breaks up the user's workflow, but it also presents a more confusing interface. If the user wants to view the video, he has to open the torrent tab, click on "Files", then double click the correct file. This action is non-obvious to someone who simply wants to view the show. In addition, Azureus may not even launch when the Zudeo link is clicked! Magnet links are intended as a generic P2P descriptor, and are often claimed by programs other than Azureus.

5. Perhaps the most important point of all: Bittorrent cannot stream files. The viewer must wait until the file is completely downloaded. With Youtube, they can simply watch their show with no intermediary steps

IMHO, the best bet for Zudeo is to reinvent themselves as an iTunes competitor. If they created a frontend program to Azureus that did all the dirty work, they could at least compete in an arena where they're more likely to succeed. Streaming will still be an issue, but consumers may be willing to wait for High Def content.

(Can you imagine IE 7 and IE6 as standalone programs on a KDE desktop?!)

Who was being pushed? Does a sign push? I thought words and actions were two separate things.

Anyways, it looks like more than a few people joined in holding up his sign. What of their punishment?

If the logo and the title are any indication however, I have a bad feeling about where they're drawing their inspiration from...

And in my case, the collectors edition actualy came in a box that has nothing to do with collectors.
That box is simple crap!

Sure they are ruining their image.

Look how crap they game boxes are in Brazil:

BF2 cds came in a plastic bag, and need for speed carbon (collectors edition) came in a cardboard with glued fubber pin.

• Overview of the boxes
• See how thin the cardboard for NFS Carbon is
• Have a closer look a the rubber pin that came of the cardboard!

Sure they are ruining their image.

Look how crap they game boxes are in Brazil:

BF2 cds came in a plastic bag, and need for speed carbon (collectors edition) came in a cardboard with glued fubber pin.

• Overview of the boxes
• See how thin the cardboard for NFS Carbon is
• Have a closer look a the rubber pin that came of the cardboard!

Sure they are ruining their image.

Look how crap they game boxes are in Brazil:

BF2 cds came in a plastic bag, and need for speed carbon (collectors edition) came in a cardboard with glued fubber pin.

• Overview of the boxes
• See how thin the cardboard for NFS Carbon is
• Have a closer look a the rubber pin that came of the cardboard!

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/08/stories/2006100800 021100.htm ("last modified" seems correct)
"I have achieved storage densities of about 2.7 gigabytes per square inch," Mr. Abideen told The Hindu over phone from Kottakkal in Kerala.

And sooner, in September :
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep62006/ cyberspace163748200695.asp (but "last modified" is november 26...)
(But has been linked by some blogs the 19 September)
http://www.stingygaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p= 165
( the photo was on imageshack ... http://img319.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainbowte chzz4.jpg )

I never think to this technology but the better way to discredit it is this kind of re-publication of an imprecise article.
Concepts stay very exiting even if storage place is in the order of the hundred of MB.

About the dot precision, laser printers (Xer.. ?) do some miracles :
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/inde x.php

Could you believe that ?! :)

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I'm not sure if he realized that sufficiently ignorant humans would essentially view it that way.

Or to put it visually:
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1679/ironicvi9v y3sb.jpg

100% Packet Loss.

In a nutshell:

• The global population, in absolute numbers, was relatively small untill the last few hundred years, since when it's been growning exponentially
• Global CO2 levels follow a natural cycle, but are recently WAY above the natural cycle level due to industialization caused by population growth
• Global temperature naturally tracks CO2 levels (greenhouse gas effect), but lags it. Global temperatures are currently close to the natural cycle level, but we only need to look at the CO2 and population curve to see where they are headed - into disasterous territory

The natural cycle timeline here (per Gore's graph) is very long - these are the last few ice ages we're looking at, with data derived from artic ice cores etc.

The inevitable conclusion is that global temperature follows CO2 level and CO2 level is already way above normal due to industrialization. The vertical/horizontal axis here are about in correct ration (showing how far above the normal range the CO2 level is).

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/8480/globalwarmin gua0.jpg

(d) Slashdotters are probably keen to get their 3D accelerated graphics and multi-monitor setups going, and this is one area where Linux really does suck bigtime. Probably not a big deal in a library or office setting though. The 3D bit may be down to proprietary driver issues but the multi-monitor issue does seem like a Linux weakness (it IS possible with manual xorg.conf-editing hell). Doesn't look to be a problem for me :) Though I'll let you know when I get a second monitor setup.

You can see here a couple answered: http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6555/fcscreensh ottr2.png

There's no need to get biological about this. They have disposable cones that do the dickmulation for you: http://img126.imageshack.us/full.php?image=magicco ne7wv.swf ;)

Can't you see it's just mud huts

(Thats the skyline of Lagos, Nigeria)

More mud huts... or not

Of course there are lots of people living in appalling conditions in countries like these, but you are absolutely right. Nigeria is one of the countries interested in the OLPC, and as the pictures should show, Lagos, their largest city, isn't exactly the small mud-hut village with starving people waiting for aid that some people apparently expect "those poor Africans" to live in.

(Thats the skyline of Lagos, Nigeria)

More mud huts... or not

Of course there are lots of people living in appalling conditions in countries like these, but you are absolutely right. Nigeria is one of the countries interested in the OLPC, and as the pictures should show, Lagos, their largest city, isn't exactly the small mud-hut village with starving people waiting for aid that some people apparently expect "those poor Africans" to live in.

But does it support Windows XP?

YES.
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/7831/earthzp8.j pg
Thank you, please drive through.

The revision date says 1/16/2001. Here's a screen shot.

You sound very much like the schizophrenic I observed the other day in court who had violated a restraining order against his mother after laying off his lithium for too long.

You started on topic, then rambled into a speech about . . . I'm not sure . . .

. . . who is trying to hurt this young girl?

I longer see any point in responding to your posts, as you either don't grasp what I'm saying... ...
Because this response made no sense whatsoever.

Because this response made no sense whatsoever.

What really happened is that a cornetto flew against the lens. The picture that was made just a second before those pictures were taken proves it : see for yourself

Actually, you're both right. While SoM is the second game in the series, towards the end of the SNES's life here in the states SquareSoft was going to release Seiken Densetsu 3 as SoM2. Lots of fans still consider it to be SoM2 til this day. Unfortunately it was dropped just before release and North America got Secret of Evermore instead. Definitely not a fair trade in my books.

But really, I could care less... especially when I've got this and a modified SNES!

Now if we can only get more breasts into the stories we can take over from Fark. http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/8932/satrapvr2. jpg

Lovely.

Interesting graphic showing Presidential Party and spending.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5907/1485lk6.jp g

Heard about it on KCBS this morning. About half(??) of California voters are using absentee, too.

Remember to vote early and often

Saw this on google news last night.
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7573/doppelgang erjq1.jpg

i kno rite? I think I found em actually: First Post Bitches!