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They assumed you would know to use super soaker outside, and they were just pointing out that with indoor lazer tag, you can pretty much just shoot into a doorway and hit everyone in the room.
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Computers connected to the internet are "protected computers" under the statute. Crippling the software under the guise of an "update" is illegal.

Guess it can't access "all" the files on my system then, can it?

And then they'll get hold of the contents of your home directory!
blah markov_chain other users spiff
And then your directory!
.bash_login .bash_logout .gaim .gnucash .kde .kde2 .mozilla bin doc
What next? Your buddy list from Gaim? Your bank account from GnuCash? Your address book from Thunderbird? What other security holes you have in Firefox, from extensions? Something you wanted to keep secret in your documents?

Linux is not always safe.
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From http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/changes/0.3.5.html:

"Note that this Greasemonkey disables all GM* APIs, which means that it will break many user scripts. This is a temporary measure for people who want to continue using Greasemonkey without those features. A future version will re-enable the APIs."

The point of my instructions were so that right after you allow that site (I assumed you did it by clicking the button on the little bar that pops up) you could go and disable it.

You're right, it would be infinitely better if we could do a one-time allow, but that functionality isn't currently there. There might be an extension, though :)
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Running a Greasemonkey script with "@include *" (which, BTW, is the default if no parameter is specified) can expose the contents of every file on your local hard drive to every site you visit.

Open up the options/preferences menu. Windows, I think it's Tools - Options, for Linux, I think it's Edit - Preferences. Click on the "Web Features" icon on the left. There'll be a line that says "Allow sites to install software" or something similar. Click the "Allowed Sites" button on the right to access the whitelist. You can add/remove sites from there.
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Uninstall Greasemonkey altogether. At this point, I don't trust having it on my computer at all. I would think that whoever is in charge of addons.mozilla.org should immediately remove the Greasemonkey XPI and post a large warning in its place advising people to uninstall it.

Uninstall Greasemonkey altogether. At this point, I don't trust having it on my computer at all. I would think that whoever is in charge of addons.mozilla.org should immediately remove the Greasemonkey XPI and post a large warning in its place advising people to uninstall it.

Here are some more details from the posting thread, which explains why the exploit is so bad...

This particular exploit is much, much worse than I thought. GM_xmlhttpRequest can successfully "GET" any world-readable file on your local computer.

http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/experiments/localf ile-leak.html returns the contents of c:\boot.ini, which exists on most modern Windows systems.

But wait, it gets worse. An attacker doesn't even need to know the exact filename, since "GET"ting a URL like "file:///c:/" will return a parseable directory listing. (And Mac users don't get to gloat either; you're just as vulnerable, starting with a different root URL.)

In other words, running a Greasemonkey script on a site can expose the contents of every file on your local hard drive to that site. Running a Greasemonkey script with "@include *" (which, BTW, is the default if no parameter is specified) can expose the contents of every file on your local hard drive to every site you visit. And, because GM_xmlhttpRequest can use POST as well as GET, an attacker can quietly send this information anywhere in the world.

The above information posted originally by Mark Pilgrim

Would be funny if it was applicable in this case, in which it is most surely not. The guy breathes javascript.

I use Sage for my reader, so I really don't care what format feeds are in.
Actually, I never researched the differences, so every time I had a choice between Atom and RSS feeds from the same source, I always chose RSS, because I thought Atom was an older style, and also thought that if I ever switched to another reader, it'd be easier to move my feeds if they were all RSS.

It's annoying to have to move both hands to the keys just to fill in a form or something.

Well, they're halfway there.
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you must be new around here

...said the person with the higher UID.

Yes, I know. ;)
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This is definitely a bad idea, for a whole lot of reasons.

Firstly, as other posters have mentioned, this is illegal in most nations. Let's not stoop down to the criminal level.

Secondly, in conjunction with the first point, why should we all collectively bend down to play dirty to beat the spammers? Shouldn't we spend our energy and effort on something less destructive and low-brow? I honestly believe that someone (or someones) will eventually come up with a system to more or less replace the current email standard with equal user-friendliness (at least to the end-user, which ends up being the driving force, but user-friendly at the admin level would be great too) but also with built-in security mechanisms that make spamming unprofitable while keeping regular usage cheap.

Whether this system emerges from the current examples of hash-cash or somewhere else, I would say it is our best chance to stop the problem without stooping to criminality with what is basically a path-work solution.

And yes, I am aware that all systems have vulnerabilities, but to just throw up our hands in despair and say, "But the spammers will get into the new system eventually!" is to give up. We shouldn't just sit idly by and collectively play poor-me; we should be thinking of some new system and how to seamlessly get it into place (yes, Virginia, there'll be a time lag, it took about 25 years for email to become mainstream). Then, whenever the spammers figure out a way in (I'm hoping for never), we'll already have had time to think about, research, and develop a further system.

Let's apply a little brain-power to the problem instead of using what is essentially crude and criminalistic tactics. I, for one, am fully willing to devote my time and knowledge to solving the problem.
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This sounds very very similiar to this. http://www.aeonflux.com/

Charlize Theron is the new Natalie Portman.
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pay a consultant for 3 moneys to improve the UI for their most visited page

If Slackware and Gentoo combined, I wouldn't feel guilty about wanting to move away from Slackware to Gentoo after using Slack since I was about three.
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...then YOUUUU might be a green-neck!
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Apparently, you miss all of the Firefox articles and don't look in the Linux section.
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As my sig (sometimes) says, "It's not illegal if nobody notices."
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how many people run computer kit from 1995 now?

No, man. You totally missed the reference. He was talking (singing?) about The Who, not Twisted Sister.
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The WHO!!! The WHO!!!
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I thought MD5 was irreversible?
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just tired of this. Is it possible to somehow shut SCO up for good? I think I express the feelings of most of the readers of this forum, when I say: Enough. I would like to see SCO disappear, gone from the face of the earth.

Naq vg jbhyq ernyyl tvir zr terng cyrnfher gb frr Qney unatvat sebz n gerr bs fbzr fbeg. Ol uvf qvpx.

QW5kIGl0IHdvdWxkIHJlYWxseSBnaXZlIG1lIGdyZWF0IHBs ZW FzdXJlIHRvIHNlZSBEYXJsIGhh
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(use this FF extension to read the rest of the comment ;)

Actually, aalib is pretty good. http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/gallery/ I remember seeing a demo video from them. And it was an actual video, their renderer displayed it in ASCII art. With sound.
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The problem with IGN/GameSpy sites is that there is too little content for too much advertisements (I'd say the content to advertisement ratio would be about 1:2, without hesitating). They force a full-screen advertisement down your throat, often several times per day, and once you have bypassed that, you still have advertisement banners of considerable size (thank God for Adblock!).

I much prefer sites such as Eurogamer and its sister site GamesIndustry.biz which don't attempt to have you eat their advertisements, yet provide satisfactory content nevertheless.

That being said, I don't know what the OP was planning to do with a compass for mapping villages anyway: a compass doesn't tell you where you are, it only tells you what direction you're facing.

Isn't there a Firefox extension that lets you disable Flash ads?

I use the Flashblock extension. It substitutes any Flash object for a button you can press if you want to see it. You can also whitelist sites. I highly recommend it.

Considering that other great jokes that anybody could recognize get modded down, I'm surprised that this is already +5 Funny. Good job, mods!
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Nazis for teh boom.
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True, it sounds like I am saying that. But, what I am really saying is that there are millions of people in the United States that can't even afford the lousy $50 that it will take to purchase an analog-to-digital converter (remember, there are millions of people that can barely afford to make it to the next paycheck). And, there are tens of millions of TVs that will require that converter.

What I am really saying is that government is dictating the change to us. And, to "help out", they are giving additional tax breaks to help pay for the $50 converters. I don't think the taxpayer cost is worth the conversion effort. Maybe if the FCC simply forced Best Buy to stop selling Analog TV's, then, over the course of a decade or so, the switch would occur naturally. If the FCC had forced the Analog TV issue four years ago, then the 2009 conversion would be less costly today.

And what is that justification? To allow the FCC to open up the bidding for the spectrum? If some of that money went to pay for the $50 converter tax break I discussed above, it would make some sense. Otherwise, there is no point that I have heard that makes sense.

Yeah, that was a bit obtuse. I was wasting work time with my postings yesterday, and I was in a bit of a hurry. I should have waited until last night. The point of the Windows Analogy is that Microsoft is a private company. They own their software. They can force users to upgrade whenever they feel the need to increase profits. The FCC is NOT a private company. You and I "Own" the radio spectrum. But, in this case, the FCC is acting like a private company and forcing us to make a change.
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True, it sounds like I am saying that. But, what I am really saying is that there are millions of people in the United States that can't even afford the lousy $50 that it will take to purchase an analog-to-digital converter (remember, there are millions of people that can barely afford to make it to the next paycheck). And, there are tens of millions of TVs that will require that converter.

What I am really saying is that government is dictating the change to us. And, to "help out", they are giving additional tax breaks to help pay for the $50 converters. I don't think the taxpayer cost is worth the conversion effort. Maybe if the FCC simply forced Best Buy to stop selling Analog TV's, then, over the course of a decade or so, the switch would occur naturally. If the FCC had forced the Analog TV issue four years ago, then the 2009 conversion would be less costly today.

And what is that justification? To allow the FCC to open up the bidding for the spectrum? If some of that money went to pay for the $50 converter tax break I discussed above, it would make some sense. Otherwise, there is no point that I have heard that makes sense.

Yeah, that was a bit obtuse. I was wasting work time with my postings yesterday, and I was in a bit of a hurry. I should have waited until last night. The point of the Windows Analogy is that Microsoft is a private company. They own their software. They can force users to upgrade whenever they feel the need to increase profits. The FCC is NOT a private company. You and I "Own" the radio spectrum. But, in this case, the FCC is acting like a private company and forcing us to make a change.
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A bit of light comedy hurts the government how? Look at the dearth of critical news / documentaries. Hutton had the bonus of the public seeing "evidence" published online, as such we could see that the judgement made was dubious, given that although there might have been a few errors, general thrust of Gilligans accusation was correct. Total capitulation of BBC news afterwards, and subsequent steering away from contentious issues is striking. For recent evidence, compare minimal and biased G8 protest coverage with what actually happened (speak to someone who was there, or look at the likes of indymedia for reports from observers).
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Piggy Bank promises to turn Firefox into a semantic web browser by providing a means to mine data from web sites and then use that data on other web sites. It's like Greasemonkey for data on the web.

Sorry the server is slashdotted already. For people who asked "what's the point", it was to add maps to the many pages which contain addresses and/or Lat+Long geocoded coordinates but which don't yet have maps.

And you need a whole new extension for this? Sounds like something the Greasemonkey could do with relative ease and a little bit of javascript munging.

Not all computers can to boot off CD, some only boot off the floppy. Like ones at my school.
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I've got an old laptop that doesn't have a USB port, and a few of my other computers don't have them either, some of the computers at my school either don't have ports or (for the newer ones) can't recognize USB drives correctly without a few reboots, and if there's no convenient USB port on the front you have to turn it around and look at the ports on the back to find it. Anyways, floppys are great for "rescue" disks if you can't get into the BIOS (passworded, can't flash it, whatever). I don't think you can boot off USB. There are so many things you can't do with USB, especially if you work with older computers or organizations that refuse to upgrade (It was good in 1995, it's good now!)
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I highly recommend Greasemonkey and the Slashdot: Add Cache Links script to add Coral Cache and MirrorDot links at the end each slashdot linked page.

Of course, it might lower the flow of karma to those who merely post Coral Cache links. Might slashdot a few less servers though.

You over rate the public... as long as theres a strong diet of soaps and similar dross lots of people are happy. Millions on the streets on stop the war protests a couple of years ago had zero effect on the govt stance on Iraq. As a UK citizen I can say that, in recent years, the influence of govt on the BBC appears to have increased. Effect does not have to be direct, quite easy to envisage a line of least resistance culture developing in the BBC where its easiest not to strongly push stuff that may get a frosty response from govt and effect future funding.
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Oooops?
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Wow. The only things not linked in that post are the hyphen and the period.
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Conquery didn't match any documents. Modified the search to [ "filtered future" site:slate.com ]. Still nothing on Google.

Hmmm. Have they just not crawled it yet, or are they avoiding an unpleasant truth? Ah. There's exactly 1 link from the search on Google News; but its not back to the Slate site. Again, hmmm. - InfoGeek

How much does a good healthy meal with vegetables cost vs. McDonald's. You do the math.

1.) Use Firefox
2.) Install GreaseMonkey
3.) Install the "Add Cache Links" user script from here. You now have links to Mirrordot and the Coral cache in every /. story
4.) Stop worrying about slashdotted sites.

You can use Leet Key FireFox extension to type in DVORAK.

It'd be like trying to sell a tamagotchi or some pogs.

Those were so fun. I wish I hadn't given mine away.
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