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If you want this, be sure to sign the here

Make your voice heard about this issue.

Slashdot them to oblivion!

Slashdot them to oblivion!

Someone still hasa sense of humor.... hey SCO: Sue me!

petitiononline.com/scosueme/petition.html

"Scornful members of the Linux community are signing an online petition to 'highlight the pomposity' of SCO's claim to ownership of intellectual property in Linux."

"The creator of an online petition is inviting users to sign up to challenge SCO to sue them..."

Article at vnunet.

Petition at petitiononline.com

The "Oust Rick Berman from Star Trek!" Petition

IE still does not fully support PNG graphics, specifically, it does not support alpha blending, one of the major features of PNG.

True, but JPEG and GIF don't support alpha blending on any browser, so it's not as if the lack of alpha support in IE is holding people to those older formats.

Still, alpha transparency is a Good Thing, that many web artists would use to good effect if Microsoft would let them. There is a petition to get MS to fix IE.

If you truly do want to help...

For those who preffer complaining over sending cash (chuckle)...

You can sign the American Greetings Petition which is currently over 17500 signatures, or you can complain directly to American Greetings Corporate.

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Am I the only one dismayed this is a U.S. only feature?

First iPhoto prints and hardback book ordering is U.S. only.

Then Sherlock is practically useless in non-U.S. countries.

Now this service IS useless. And there is no promise to bring it to international customers.

International users pay the same amount for our product, why do we lose out on some functionality? If you are an International (non-U.S.) Apple customer, then I invite you to sign the petition to promote more international-mindedness at Apple, which can be found here

Apple Features for International users petition

Please sign it if you are an international user frustrated by non being able to use this new service. (Moderators, if you have a mod or two to spare, I'm not below asking to mod this up if you feel Apple needs to spend more attention to the international community :) -Nex

Yes, that's right, 8 years later, Internet Explorer still doesn't support PNG properly!

Why haven't I see us taking over this? It allows page widening if you use a '_' character.

"An industrious reader already has a petition up and ready for you to sign. If you would like to voice your support you can find the petition here.

I know it has some spelling mistakes but hey, I didn't write it. The kid who did is trying to get it fixed. I guess you can't just change the text of a petition after a couple thousand people have signed it."

The boys have started a petition stating that the signers will boycott American Greetings until the comic is allowed to be shown.

Let's show 'em what happens when slashdot readers get wind of something like this.

TiVi just simply frees you from your TV while letting you watch more of what you want to watch. It is a Zen thing. And with the Gen 2 Home Media Option which allows sharing program conent from room to room and playing Mac or PC hosted photo and MP3 content over the TiVo it just keeps getting better. (BTW DirectTv has declined to offer the HMO upgrade even though they'd make $99 for the first receiver and $49 for each addition upgraded receiver in the same household. A petition is available online to allow one to voice their wish for DirectTv to reconsider. It is available here.

TiVi just simply frees you from your TV while letting you watch more of what you want to watch. It is a Zen thing. And with the Gen 2 Home Media Option which allows sharing program conent from room to room and playing Mac or PC hosted photo and MP3 content over the TiVo it just keeps getting better. (BTW DirectTv has declined to offer the HMO upgrade even though they'd make $99 for the first receiver and $49 for each addition upgraded receiver in the same household. A petition is available online to allow one to voice their wish for DirectTv to reconsider. It is available here.

I'm not entirely sure, but some companies, such as id with Quake III, have released SDK (Software Development Kit) in order to help players create their own maps and stuff (see e.g. this Linux Quake III SDK). But other companies, such as EA with Battlefield 1942, haven't released any SDK for their game engine. But many mods have been created for BF1942 without an SDK: Desert Combat, Black Hawk Down, Soldier9's Realism Mod, and others.

If you do a search on Google for 'battlefield 1942 mod', the first thing that appears is this petition :-)

The wlan-ng project has early stage support for the wusb12 card.
More details available @ the Linux-USB device site.

Luckily they don't use the hideous Broadcom chipset, which still does not have Linux support, even though it's sold in Dell, Linksys, Belkin and Apple (new Powerbooks, anyone?) wireless products, to name but a few. *grr*

Every once in a while, I'm really motivated by a Slashdot post, and explore the problem further with some quick and light research and writing. By the time I've finished, most readers and moderators have long since left the post for fresher news and I'm left with a relatively small audience. In the spirit of Slashback I thought I could reincarnate those old posts for a second viewing.

While risking my Karma for something that could be seen as off topic, I do think it adds value to Slashdot and really doesn't fit anywhere else.

Ecosystem and Economy: In response to the standard environmentalist-versus-economist arguments that were flying about in a previous Slashdot post in reference to a Daily Telegraph article, I sought out a fresh viewpoint based on reductionism and the conservation of energy.

Social Network Theory: A Slashdot post led to a Register article, which was steeped in an unusual amount conspiracy theory. Suggesting that Google was gamed by a group of A-list bloggers, perhaps it is all simply just a result of social networks. This is a new topic to me, so if you know anything about social network theory, I'd love it if someone could take me to school.

First-Generation TiVo: In a discussion concerning second-generation TiVos I thought I'd whip up a quick script that would allow people to see what I'm currently watching as proof that my house wields the mighty sword of TiVo modding.

Mystery Treasure: I also put a not-so-well hidden page on my site to see if anyone would gravitate towards it, but it as of yet remains undiscovered. Hint: MSIE users will not get far. Consider it pay back for not doing PNG transparency. :P

Michael.

Yeah this really pissed me off. I bought a DirecTiVo Series 2 box in anticipation of the new HMO features. Now my roommate is going to have a better TiVo than me! (Damn him!)

I can't really blame TiVo, though, it was DirecTV's decision not to offer the feature. TiVo gave complete control of the DirecTiVo featureset to DirecTV some time back.

If you're in the same boat as me, there's an online petition here. From the tone of the DirecTV VP that made the announcement, it looks like if there's enough demand, they might change thier minds and release it anyway. So please do us all a favor and slashdot the petition!

I love my DirecTiVo too. But did you know that DirecTV is totally screwing their DirecTiVo customers by deciding not to offer the TiVo Home Media Option? Sign the petition here.

Send back the Statue of Liberty. We don't need it anymore.

Sign the petition and Visit the website

Step # 4678533: swing a chicken over your head for confirming that Windows is ready for step # 4678534.

With any version of MacOS, one just drags the icon for the application to the Trash and delete it. This works because of the MacOS stores data on HFS (Hierarchical File-System), HFS+ (Hierarchical File-System Plus), and HFS+J (Hierarchical File-System Plus Journaled):

Classic MacOS puts all of the data for an application into two forks:

1. Datafork
2. Resourcefork

What these forks do does not matter for our purposes. All we need to know is that the two forks are tarred together. One simply throws away the application-file.

In System Ten, for reasons of compatiblity, with other Unices, Applications are folders, which, in standard view, look like files. One simply puts the object into the trash and empty it.

The only remains of an application are in:

• /Users/~/Library/Caches/Application-Name/
• /Users/~/Library/Application Support/Application-Name
• /Users/~/Library/Preferences/Application-Name.plis t

Preferences are always small files in an XML-language called PLIST. Application support is full of usually small files such as MBOX, Bookmarks, er cetera. The only folder which might fold large ammounts of data is Caches; but luckily however, that gets dumped weekly anyway. Drag-deleting an Application in MacOS only leave a single-digit number of kilobyes of data in Preferences and Application Support.

The reverse of uninstalling in MacOS is just as easy:

For installing, one simply drops the application into:

/Users/~/Applications/

If one is an Administrative User, one can alternatively drop them into:

/Application/

It is that simple.

Please support our troops by impeaching Bush before he gets more of our brave soldiers killed.

About the lighthouse design applications, please sign the petition !

Petition

various screenshots of theses applications could be see here : Screenshots of NeXT apps

in particular, take a look on Quantrix (a multidimensional spreadsheet), Concurrence (a presentation program), TaskMaster (a task manager), etc.

Screenshots :

Quantrix
Concurrence
TaskMaster
Diagram
OpenWrite
ParaSheet
VarioBuilder
WetPaint

Sun DON'T use thoses applications, why not simply release them as open source ? They could be ported on GNUstep (and thus, on linux, freebsd, solaris and even windows ..), and on Mac OS X ...

You mean my petition to get updated 3dfx drivers
is not going to work? Damnit!

It doesn't hurt that Jake Gyllenhaal is currently Kirsten Dunst's boyfriend. :)

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Seeing various petitions and protests, I get the impression that gamers (who are the ones paying for the fest) are more often getting treated badly by the current game publishers today than before. Perhaps gamers have become more demanding as well.

Don't buy crap like this.

This type "research" is frequently sponsored by corporations with an interest in attempting to sway public opinion by footing the bill for "scientific studies."

Instead, call them out on it.

PS: we've seen this stuff before

Don't be a sucker.

There are tons of petitions on a wide array of subjects. The problem is that nobody pays any attention to them.

I still think that most of us want the real tabs into Safari. To make it happen you should consider signing this petition.

Offtopic, but there's an online peition for Palladium or whatever they're caling it now, here

sigh .. You ask Microsoft and they'll say yes. Meanwhile in the real world, no they don't.

It can handle gif-like transparency (single colour transparency) normally. But to support 8 bit alpha level transparency, you have to use a script to 'make it' do it. Here's some example links:

Discussion and howto from evolt.org

WebFX's script

Petition to Make IE support PNG properly (as if MS would ever listen .. grumble

It's in the name. G(NU)IF.
It would be very nice to openly use Gifs, especially considering the known issues when using transparent PNGs in IE.

One of the dirty secrets of Slashdot is the editor's abuse of the moderation system. They mass-moderate comments in threads that they don't like, and sometimes even mod down all the comments of users they don't like. Even malicious users who don't like you for whatever reason can abuse certain moderations and not be penalized for it. Some misdirected noble users have tried coming up with ways not to play this moderation game, which is useless because Slashdot track karma by IP address. But, why should we inconvienence ourselves in order to suit the abuse of despots?

I would like to take this opportunity to declare the opening of a petition for the Slashdot editors to fit the moderation system of Slashdot to the people. It is located here, and I estimate at least 1000 signatures are needed in order for the powers that be to take it seriously.

If you still need convincing of the impurities of the moderation system, look at my exhaustive research here.

Obviously, I think most of us with a reasonable schooling in software would agree that applications written in C++ are the biggest security threat for PCs today. This is why you've been seeing more and more Java based applications on the PC lately. Most of the C++ vulnerability comes from a single, well known, and often exploited bug in the Windows C++ virtual machine. This bug allows C++ programmers to access protected and private data that is SUPPOSED to be secured by the C++ virtual machine. Here's a simple example of a crack that would allow a C++ programmer to access improperly secured data:

Let's say we have this class called PersonalFinances:
Class PersonalFinances
{
private:
char creditCardNumber[16];
};

To bypass the Windows C++ security manager, all we need to do is write some code like this:
Main( )
{
Finances finances; // Forge a pointer to peek inside the class
char *cardno = (char*)
printf("Stolen credit card number = %s\n", cardno);
}

Simple as that... we have stolen "secure" data. Curiously enough, this code sample came from O'Reilly's "Learning Java" book. This book was first printed in 2000, which means that this critical security bug has been known for over 3 years! I find it quite unbelievable that this lack of response (from Microsoft) is tolerated in the software community. Why haven't they responded? Simple... MONEY. Rather than maintain old code, Microsoft would rather push their new .Net framework as a new standard and make big cash off of its widespread adoption. Another way that MS will profit from this security hole is by pushing their dreaded Palladium scheme on us. Palladium, put simply, is just a hardware solution for this exact sort of security issue. Meanwhile, we consumers sacrifice our privacy through insecure software so Microsoft, Intel, and AMD can reap big profits sometime in the future.

If you are fed up with these monopolistic profit schemes, this is what you do. Start or support an open source Windows C++ virtual machine project. A port from the Linux VM should be possible.

A second parallel approach should be to put political pressure on Microsoft to fix this issue. I've started this petition to get things started. Please sign and forward the link to everyone!

We DEMAND better protection of our privacy!!!

Bout time someone found a new page widening post, isn't it?

There's an online petition to try to convince Tivo to release it's products/service in Canada. http://www.petitiononline.com/t1v0cnda/petition.ht ml

The past few weeks, I have been looking into how Slashdot has changed over the past few years and I have come to a very disturbing conclusion.

Remember how CmdrTaco implemented the friend and foe system? Well, as you probably know, he has created an account
called No More Trolls and as indicated by this journal entry, CmdrTaco is out to censor Slashdot through proxy-like means.

Of course, if we want to go way back to the winter, I can refer to this comment where the Slashdot admins decided to "bitchslap" this post to the very ends of the Earth. Or I could refer to this petition asking Slashdot to stop what it is doing with moderator points and the two posts a day limit with -10 karma accounts. Of course, Jamie says otherwise.

Oh wait, censoring is bad according to Slashdot! Just look at all the articles that they post on major corporations trying to stop the flow of free speech. Oh wait, trolls are bad and aren't contributing to anything, lets make sure that they cannot be seen but still allow posting! Lets control how much they post in a day!

CmdrTaco, you state that you have an open and free enviroment here. Cut the crap and admit that you do not like the way the system is. If you at least admit it there is some decency in all of this but otherwise, I think you're being a twat over this and deserve nothing but shit from everybody. As stated in the first journal entry I posted, what will you do if this gets sold to a major corporation such as AOL/TW? Do you seriously think they'll allow free speech to continue on this website?

"News for nerds. Stuff that matters" is a farce as it should be "Linux rules. Microsoft drools."

Feel free to reply, moderate, whatever.

The past few weeks, I have been looking into how Slashdot has changed over the past few years and I have come to a very disturbing conclusion.

Remember how CmdrTaco implemented the friend and foe system? Well, as you probably know, he has created an account
called No More Trolls and as indicated by this journal entry, CmdrTaco is out to censor Slashdot through proxy-like means.

Of course, if we want to go way back to the winter, I can refer to this comment where the Slashdot admins decided to "bitchslap" this post to the very ends of the Earth. Or I could refer to this petition asking Slashdot to stop what it is doing with moderator points and the two posts a day limit with -10 karma accounts. Of course, Jamie says otherwise.

Oh wait, censoring is bad according to Slashdot! Just look at all the articles that they post on major corporations trying to stop the flow of free speech. Oh wait, trolls are bad and aren't contributing to anything, lets make sure that they cannot be seen but still allow posting! Lets control how much they post in a day!

CmdrTaco, you state that you have an open and free enviroment here. Cut the crap and admit that you do not like the way the system is. If you at least admit it there is some decency in all of this but otherwise, I think you're being a twat over this and deserve nothing but shit from everybody. As stated in the first journal entry I posted, what will you do if this gets sold to a major corporation such as AOL/TW? Do you seriously think they'll allow free speech to continue on this website?

"News for nerds. Stuff that matters" is a farce as it should be "Linux rules. Microsoft drools."

Feel free to reply, moderate, whatever.

There is a petition posted on Petition Online to have the Homeland Security bill amended to be less invasive of personal privacy, viz, disallowing the TIA initiative. Take a look at it.

Just trying to be fair...

Click here

Hmmmm - I think this is the original home of this link. The petition was authored by one Kevin Klerck. Wait a minute! Slashdotwidener@yahoo.com? It's the Goatse.cx troll!

speaking of the two towers, has anyone seen these sites?

Some guy wants to rename the movie because he says the movie is being named "The Two Towers" to mock the events of 9/11

Then he has support from this group who have a similar agenda.

Man, this is a screwed up world.

-EGP

...in a comment mentioning both penii and computers. Is your wang floppy?

Apologies to all concerned.

And please sign the petition

PayPal horror stories: PayPalsucks.com

Google search of "beware of paypal": Beware

PayPal Warning

Petition to shut down PayPal

PayPal horror stories: Boycott-PalPal.com

Google search of "beware of paypal": Beware

PayPal Warning

Petition to shut down PayPal My skin is crawling - really.

If, like me, you'd like to keep firefly on the air there's a lot of things you can do:

Check out Firefly Immediate Assistance

Sign the Online petition

Post on the show's bulletin board

Email Fox

Write to fox at:
FOX BROADCASTING CO
ATTN: SANDY GRUSHOW, CHAIRMAN, FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
10201 WEST PICO BLVD
LOS ANGELES CA 90035

Write to the sponsors

If you live in the UK email Sky (Fox UK) to pick up the show

More than anything if anyone you know is a "Neilsen Family" then please get them to what the pilot "Serenity" when it airs in December.

Fan campaigns do work and have in the past entended the runs of both Buffy and Roswell.

There is already a fan-contribution paid-for full-page advert going into the December 9th issue of L.A. Variety.

Don't give up hope yet! :-)

satelheavy.

sigh. Worth a shot here: Good Petition.