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You're mixing truth, that the SV economy is _finally_ starting to add jobs, with a big generalization, that the NYT is the publisher of half-truths.

I'm not fan of the NYT either, but I could easily state the same of our state-controlled/influenced news channel: Fox News!!!

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In fact, if open source started doing implants, it's more likely that the authors will be testing the devices out. Therefore, there will be more on the line for open source authors.

They could write software on emulated body parts, (well, it is a computer) and then once it works pefect there, they can try it on the real thing.
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That 'secure browsing' feature sounds like a great potential firefox extension.

a bit like the X (paranoia) extension which puts a little lock-icon on your toolbar which erases your cookies, history, stored formdata, etc. in a simple click.

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info.php/x

There's a bugmenot extension for Mozilla that will save you the hassle. :) Do give it a try, it's nice.

I agree I myself am in that 18-24 demographic and more and more I'm seeing people just being kinda tired of the same old same old. Only so many ways you can your gaming experience better with today's controls. The DS was exciting because it tried something new. It wasn't well used at first, but I have been hearing good things about many games that have yet to be released in the US. I am watching the big N closely. I really hope whatever their crazy plan is, works.
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If you didn't notice, he said in the article he had a job, and he obviously has friends (or at least had them, a few killed each other).
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What if you want to know the 5 day forcast for this week? You could launch up firefox and go to an easily memorizable website like weather.com, [...]

Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculator, press F12 and out of nowhere pops up a calculator instantly.

In class and listening to a boring lecture? Press F12 and quickly play a few games like Pacman, chess, and Snake, right in the dashboard - no internet connection required!

What if you want to know the 5 day forcast for this week? You could launch up firefox and go to an easily memorizable website like weather.com, [...]

Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculator, press F12 and out of nowhere pops up a calculator instantly.

In class and listening to a boring lecture? Press F12 and quickly play a few games like Pacman, chess, and Snake, right in the dashboard - no internet connection required!

What if you want to know the 5 day forcast for this week? You could launch up firefox and go to an easily memorizable website like weather.com, [...]

Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculator, press F12 and out of nowhere pops up a calculator instantly.

In class and listening to a boring lecture? Press F12 and quickly play a few games like Pacman, chess, and Snake, right in the dashboard - no internet connection required!

From Andrew in Alaska: "To be honest, I sympathized much more with the shooters than the shootees. I am them. They are me. This is not to say I will end the lives of my classmates in a hail of bullets, but that their former situation bears a striking resemblance to my own. For the most part, the media are clueless. They're never experienced social rejection, or chosen non-conformity'Also, I would like to postulate that the kind of measures taken by school administration have a direct effect on school violence. School is generally an oppressive place; the parallels to fascist society are tantalizing. Following a school shooting, a week or two-week crackdown ensues, where students? constitutional rights are violated with impunity, at a greater rate than previous."

Amazingly, we (yes, I am including myself) are the kind people that get ignored. People don't realize that in some schools, it's like Lord of the Flies. There are the "normal" people, and then the geeks, nerds, goths, dorks, weirdos, metalheads, skaters, and punks who get tramped on. And when we say stop, nobody listens - so some of us break. It's not that hard to see, but nobody's looking.
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Get a copy of the Book Burro Greasemonkey script for Firefox.

What does it do? All those Amazon links people put on their web pages still work, and you can still use Amazon product search. But it will give you a price comparison right in the browser (a little floating window on top of the Amazon page), together with links to order from other on-line book sellers.

There are other Greasemonkey user scripts that look up the book in your local library and do all sorts of other nice price comparison things for you.

Pfft. Power cables are for the weak. I use solid blocks of gold.
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1. You think of this awesome idea.
2. NO PATENTS.
3. Some big mega-corporation comes and takes your idea, and makes their own software that implements it.

Modded Troll? Come on, someone with some mod points come over here and fix this.
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I wish the Lameness Filter would filter out all posts that contain numbered lists, '???' and 'profit'.

Perhaps this is a job for Greasemonkey.

Maybe we should just make everything we want to give away for free as Public Domain and not fret about all these complexities anymore.

Bad idea. If you make your source code public domain, then people can do *anything* with it - like modify it slightly and then sell it as their own. They don't have to distribute the source code, they don't have to give you credit, they don't have to do anything they don't feel like doing. For all practical intents and purposes, your saying, "Here. I did all this work. Now go make money off of it, and keep every penny."
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Oh, then you absolutely should give AdBlock (the Mozilla extension) a try. It doesn't block anything by default; it merely allows you to do so yourself by specifying patterns against which objects (images, scripts, iframes etc.) are matched to determine whether they should be blocked or not.

It's quite handy - you can either block lots of advertising in one sweep by using patterns such as "*/ads/*", or you can be very specific by only blocking - say - "http://www.example.com/ads/*". The granularity really is up to you.

I've found it quite invaluable myself; I let Google's page ads through, for example, as they're unobtrusive and often interesting, but block flashy, annoying, or otherwise in-your-face advertising.

"Though the case did not directly address consumer frustration over adware, which often gets onto computers without their owners' full knowledge, the court said it viewed WhenU's ads as authorized."

This ruling supports the principle that people can do what they want with their own desktop, even if it covers up someone's advertising.

Today it's an evil adware company. But tomorrow, it could be the AdBlock project.

Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees.

The trademark issue is significant. But my freedom to do what I want with my computer is more important.

Unless you get a BSOD instead. I'd take a popup over a forced reboot any day.
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1. Start a company that distributes spyware.
2. Get bought out by Microsoft.
3. Profit!!!

Oh, nevermind. Sorry. I hadn't even glanced at the posts yet.
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...read the title as "Microsoft In Talks To Buy China"?
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Why don't they just *start the bidding* at their reserve price?
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Eh, same thing. All controller shoulder buttons are also trigger buttons, because that's the motion you have to make to press them.

If you can give me an example where this is not the case, go ahead.
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Morse Code in FireFox - install, right click on any text input field, select leetkey->Morse Decode (SPCBAR for typing,) and just use the space bar for typing Morse code as if it was a Morse code pad.

Then you can check what you typed by selecting the typed text, right clicking on it, selecting leetkey->Morse Decode (SPCBAR for typing,) and you will see what you typed in English.

In other News, the mathematical operations known as division and fractions has been outlawed due to the use of the "/" character. A Spokesperson for one of the corporations wthat pushed for this restriction says "Sure, there are other operators for division, and the forward slash is used in other places, but we don't care, it is infringing upon our desire for revenue."
Casio, Texas Instrument, and a number of other manufacturers of pocket calculation devices are planning to appeal.
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Don't only IE users get to do that?



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And of course for shooters it feels more realistic too.

...You're comparing a controller shoulder button to firing a gun?

I would type my laugh out as a bunch of HAs, but the Lameness Filter would give me trouble.
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With one of those robot-voice-soundey thingies, like Stephen Hawking!
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Poo. My sig broke. It's supposed to say:
What subliminal message?

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traditional 3D gaming not an option [for blind people]

Actually, you're wrong.
Okay, it's not traditional. But it's freaking awesome.
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Bias IS a filter. Bias is a lessened ability to see both sides

It doesn't necessarily mean they don't see all sides, they might just not like one (or more) of them.
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You can't do that, my brother uses the name "Carr" for his D&D characters!!! It would be embarassing for people to think he's named after something like that!
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Fusion plants didn't melt down, that was the Nuclear plants. The Fusion plants were stable.

Of course, we all know the tornadoes were the best.
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better solution:
0) Get Firefox
1) Install Greasemonkey
2) get this extension
--> Every /. (story)link has a cached link attached.

not for phone, but for Firefox when used with this extension (shameless plug). Once the extension is installed, type about:config in the URL address bar, press Enter and you will see properties screen. Find leetkey.KeyboardMap

paste this as value:
65=4,66=8,67=(,68=|),69=3,70=F,71=6,72=|-| ,73=1,74 =J,75=|{,76=L,77=|\\/|,78=|\\|,79=(),80=P,81=a/s/l ,82=R,83=5,84=7,85=|_|,86=\\/,87=\\/\\/,88=X,89=Y, 90=Z,97=4,98=8,99=(,100=d,101=3,102=f,103=6,104=h, 105=1,106=j,107=k,108=|,109=m,110=n,111=0,112=p,11 3=q,114=r,115=5,116=7,117=u,118=v,119=w,120=x,121= y,122=z

restart the browser.

Now every time you use Leet Key to type and press upper letter Q, you will have a/s/l typed instead.

i just like that the news story has a link to go get "adblock" :D
kinda says how they really feel about the whole thing doesn't it. AdBlock

To that end: My iPod has replaced my radio, my homebrew PVR automatically strips out all commercials from my few favorite TV programs, and when web-browsing at home, I block all internet ads using Firefox and Adblock.

So you say that will lead to the end of "free" content on the internet? Good, I say. I would rather pay outright for information and entertainment I consider valuable, rather than rely on some dodgy click-for-profit advertising scheme that is quickly proving itself intractable anyway.

And to Doubleclick and all those who make a living from advertising: I won't go as far as Bill Hicks, who semi-seriously suggested such people shoot themselves, but I will urge you to reconsider your career choice. Make something or do something that contributes to society, rather than trying to sell us crap we don't need, can't afford, or probably aren't interested in anyway.

The BBC has recently altered very badly, with rare exceptions, much of its news coverage is just government mouthpiece level. Note, for US citizens you may think the UK goverment is "liberal" but to anyone in the UK who may fit the "liberal" description it perceived as right wing. It should be noted that those at the top have far more of an effect on bias than individual presenters, journalists. Look at the pattern with R Murdoch various media interests - they all show a distinct (in UK eyes) right wing bias. Which is why non mainstream news information is so useful, be it blogs (e.g. those with an interest in the Iraq conflict will recognise "Riverbend") to individuals / small groups acting as independent journalists but via collating portals that allow them to reach a large audience (e.g. indymedia about the only way to get uncensored footage of police violence / provocation in anti government protests). Accept all reports have a bias, be aware of the bias, read / see a few different reporte of the same situation and then you are in a better position to make your own conclusions.
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It's a bit convoluted, but here's how to play these videos on Linux without having to delve into HTML and JS, and without having to use an embedded video plugin (lots of which seem to lock up and crash frequently):

- Install the GreaseMonkey extension to Firefox: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
- Install the Unembed script for GreaseMonkey: http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts
- Install xine and the Windows codecs: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
- Go to http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html in Firefox (the links on each story don't work, they check to see if WMP9 is installed, and then they fail)
- Click on the story you want.
- Right-click on the title above the embedded video (it's the name of the video in blue text, and it's in the same frame as the embedded video). Select "This Frame->Show only this frame" from the context menu.
- There should now be a link next to the video that says "[download]".
- Shift-click on the "[download]" link to open it in a new tab (right-click doesn't work, so you can't copy the link destination).
- Switch to the new tab, and press Ctrl-L Ctrl-C to copy the URL.
- Open a terminal, and type "xine " then Ctrl-Shift-V to paste the URL. Press enter and the movie should play!

Phew!

Granted, I assume that this is informative and accurate, but for God's sake, its 2005. Aside from Microsoft's DRM junk in WMV9 formats, is it still that difficult to view a movie from the web?

The first time I viewed an MPEG that I got off the internet was something like 1994, and the directions were something like 1) download MPEG from FTP site and 2) start whatever Sun called their media player at the time and open the file in it.

It's a bit convoluted, but here's how to play these videos on Linux without having to delve into HTML and JS, and without having to use an embedded video plugin (lots of which seem to lock up and crash frequently):

- Install the GreaseMonkey extension to Firefox: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
- Install the Unembed script for GreaseMonkey: http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts
- Install xine and the Windows codecs: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
- Go to http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html in Firefox (the links on each story don't work, they check to see if WMP9 is installed, and then they fail)
- Click on the story you want.
- Right-click on the title above the embedded video (it's the name of the video in blue text, and it's in the same frame as the embedded video). Select "This Frame->Show only this frame" from the context menu.
- There should now be a link next to the video that says "[download]".
- Shift-click on the "[download]" link to open it in a new tab (right-click doesn't work, so you can't copy the link destination).
- Switch to the new tab, and press Ctrl-L Ctrl-C to copy the URL.
- Open a terminal, and type "xine " then Ctrl-Shift-V to paste the URL. Press enter and the movie should play!

Phew!

It's called flashblock
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Very handy program for Firefox

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Heck, if the parent post is moded 'Funny', then this post must be freaking HILARIOUS: this ff extension now supports DVORAK layout as well as Morse Code.

What are these ads you speak of?

"Mozilla Thunderbird and Sunbird, which I always hope they can, do not support Palm yet."

They don't? You might want to check to make sure. ;)

Perhaps you've never heard of GreaseMonkey.

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

see, and if you used my extension you wouldn't have the problem of /. eating half of your 'k' character.

|337 h4x0r 5k1||z

you could even setup and use your own l337 character set. :)