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Proxies have been forever, and have been the problem forever. But mass access to the Internet and real problems resulting from it happen now. Proxies and blocking access are just a small countermeasure...

A story of yesterday night:
- anonymous at /b/[NSFW] finds a way to find separate private user profiles on Photobucket in the recent[possible NSFW] directory.
- more /b/tards embark on a quest for more amateur porn by watching this page.
- they find about 80 pics of a girl naked, masturbating.
- they find out more about that girl, including her myspace and Xanga profiles.
- They find out she's 15. Making essentially the pics of her very illegal.
- They post the pics wherever they can, her school, her friends.
- She deletes the pics and the profiles, but the profiles are in caches, the pics already packed on Rapidshare[NSFW, NSFH, and highly illegal!]
- They contact her, fill her up on the story with lots of lies including that her boyfriend was the one who published the pics.
- Her profile on myspace gets ".-*forever loved*-." header. Rumors of her suicide start popping up. Quite likely she's dead by now.

Now of course a proxy-blocking firewall wouldn't help here.
But let's see: web 2.0 sites made this possible - forum, photo sharing, file sharing, profile site.
Unlimited access to the net for the kid and for reckles teens from /b/. Wouldn't happen if not that.
Think of your own reflections. It's not about proxies. It's about kids with access to what they shouldn't be able to access.

I win. (taken in a mirror with a really crappy camera ^^;)

Jobs at AOL? CD-packagers?

Wait, I guess AOL does it because intellectual property protection is too weak in the US. Another DMCA++ is needed. Net neutrality is to be blamed for the lay-offs. Legislators have to combat net neutrality to secure jobs...

They will have to move jobs abroad. AOL CD will get distributed to new emerging markets such as Iraq or the Democratic Republic of Congo. New markets such as home decorating...

If only there were a girl that was like this OS....

I'm trying to decide, small penis, or hangover, small penis or hangover... Lets go with small penis AND a hangover! Congratulations, you win an entire internet!

And that you turned my point that your family failed to train you properly into a strawman about "willpower classes". The kind of government replacement for parenting you've demanded in every post in this thread.

Actually I had a bet with a co worker here that if I mentioned classes with your willpower shit, you'd say I was crying for more nanny government. Cheers, you just bought my lunch.

As to the rest of it, thanks for the education. I have gotten a great deal of insight into the lives of lonely survivalists squatting in their basements, more, indeed, than I ever really wanted to know. If you ever manage to wipe the foam off your chin and focus an original thought in that low sloping forehead, try to make it one about santa claus. HAPPY NEW YEAR!1!

Please note that Horar (the submitter) is the one who effectivly let freedb.org die.
By refusing to become involved in the infighting of others who caused it's demise.

He worked with them for two years but didn't release any useful code.
How dare he contribute years of unpaid work and not release code that you deem useful.

Now he is activly promoting his own project freedb2.org,..
He is promoting it because he believes it is better, there is nothing wrong with that.

..promising to release the source but it is still not available.
Some of his code is already available and the rest he is working on. I personally know Horar to be a firm beliver in OSS but he needs some time to organise and document the code. Have a little patience.

I wonder why he should care about the data not being public domain, if his software is to be supposed GPL licensed? Unless well... think for your self.
I can't belive he just got more advertising on slashdot.

Horar is a nice guy. As well as running a small business and hosting freedb2 for your convenience he builds robots and helps out other robotics geeks like myself. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v414/beccasfotos /robotics/

yes, i like bold :)

Not only did the RIAA lose that case, but comically enough, there was a Free Music add placed in this story :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/consoneo/RI AAFreeMusicSlashdot.jpg

Very interesting that everyone comments the colors of the actors in the ads, but noone mind what they are doing. In the white dominates black ad, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/adampeepers /sony_whiteiscoming_web_2.jpg, it looks like one dominating person is about to beat up a frightened woman. To me, a very open-minded Europeian (have to point that out, otherwise people would assume I'm a moralistic American) that is a very disturbing image. I do not like that the ads basically glorify violence. The negative image, a frighetend woman about to be beaten up, is enough to convince me that I really don't want a PSP.

After all, if a console advertises itself like that, can you expect the games to contain anything other than gore and violence? What's the fun in that? Gaming is supposed to be fun, but beating scared people up? WTF?

As a followup, here are some links taken from the Fark discussion yesterday:

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As a followup, here are some links taken from the Fark discussion yesterday:

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As a followup, here are some links taken from the Fark discussion yesterday:

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WebOS is the future ... but not for the reasons listed here. Portability, i.e. being able to access your files and programs from any computer, is nice, but not a killer feature. It's ridiculous to claim that most people's computers are too slow, when in fact they are more than adequate. That's why PC sales stopped seeing such growth after 2000. Most people who could afford a computer had one that could do everything they needed. Hence prices have dropped while computing power has continued to increase.

No, the reason a WebOS (err WebOSses hopefully) will come about is because computing needs have changed. Look at today's teenagers. Most of what they do with a computer is online. If you took their computer, and disconnected it from the internet, it would be practically useless to them.

There are a few exceptions. They still use the computer to transfer pictures from their digital camera to an online service, like Photobucket or Flickr. They still use the computer to transfer music to their iPods. The computer is just an intermediary in these cases, and it's not hard to imagine these things being done without it -- just add WiFi. Then their camera could upload their photos directly to Photobucket, and their iPod could download songs and videos from iTunes and YouTube.

Of course there is the need for office type apps, like word processing and spreadsheets. These things can also be handled online pretty easily. In the future they will be handled online not because it's better, but just because everything else is online. Right now these things listed so far: photo managment, music management, word processing, are small things to most young people. The big things are instant messaging, email, social networking, etc. The big things are online. The small things will follow.

And that's why WebOS will come about. It will not be an OS in the traditional sense. Traditional OSses were about providing the infrastructure for applications to run on a computer. The point of the computer was the applications, but you needed an OS to make the applications possible. Thus the OS had to manage memory allocation, device management, user input/output, etc. The point was still the apps. The apps are online now, and new infrastructure is needed for them. That's where WebOS comes in. That's what WebOS must be. It must provide the infrastructure for applications and allow these applications to interoperate.

Right now if I'm a developer writing a Windows-based application, I don't have to worry about low level machine code for writing bits to disk, but if I'm writing an application for the web, chances are that I have to worry about creating database connections and issuing SQL in some form to read/write data. A WebOS will eliminate the need for this. If I'm writing a Windows app, I don't have to worry about peeking and poking pixels to draw things on the screen. However, if I'm writing a web app, I have to not only know about HTML and JavaScript, but the quirks of how different browsers render different things (CSS box model for example.) A WebOS should eliminate the need for such arcane knowledge.

maybe do a quick mock-up themselves, so that we could improve it.

The mockups doesn't look too good, and I don't think they will be used either. Here are a few more mockups, at least better than the first try: OpenOffice-curves.jpg and OpenOffice-line.jpg are nice, IMHO. Or at least good starting points.

The mockups doesn't look too good, and I don't think they will be used either. Here are a few more mockups, at least better than the first try: OpenOffice-curves.jpg and OpenOffice-line.jpg are nice, IMHO. Or at least good starting points.

My own OpenOffice.org mockup ads , see if you like them.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time -- To let the punishment fit the crime!

Compatable, Very Compatable...(see bsod)

Screenshot

One of my friends' xbox exploded last year, turned out to be the fault of a capacitor.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox008.jpg
In this case only one small cap blew, but it still filled the whole room with smoke, made fire visible though the vents, burned a hole in the bottom of the xbox, and set off the fire alarm :-/ .

One of my friends' xbox exploded last year, turned out to be the fault of a capacitor.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox008.jpg
In this case only one small cap blew, but it still filled the whole room with smoke, made fire visible though the vents, burned a hole in the bottom of the xbox, and set off the fire alarm :-/ .

One of my friends' xbox exploded last year, turned out to be the fault of a capacitor.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox008.jpg
In this case only one small cap blew, but it still filled the whole room with smoke, made fire visible though the vents, burned a hole in the bottom of the xbox, and set off the fire alarm :-/ .

One of my friends' xbox exploded last year, turned out to be the fault of a capacitor.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/sillygates/ xbox/dereksbox008.jpg
In this case only one small cap blew, but it still filled the whole room with smoke, made fire visible though the vents, burned a hole in the bottom of the xbox, and set off the fire alarm :-/ .

Let's see some better cooling. Personally, I think a laptop with one big (4 to 6 inches), slowly rotating fan in the middle of the bottom, plus exhaust vents on the sides and back, would actually look nice, keep the laptop much cooler (no more "hot spots" on the keyboard), and run quietly.

There aren't many sizable landmasses at antipodal points, but NZ has a good overlap with Spain, as shown in this map of NZ superimposed on Spain.

No, the Wii will play Gamecube games in hardware because it is a smaller version of the gamecube with a different controller. It is how nintendo is going to get you to spend $250 on something you already own, add a nifty (external hardware required ((IE, its not built into the console))) controller.

I'm just kidding after all, Nintendo has never tried to sell you something, slightly repackaged, over again, and again, and again

I'm not weird, am I? Other people DO read quoted text to mental pseudo-sonic narration (I can't think of a better term for it)?

http://www.photobucket.com/ is pretty good too.

So why don't people use Photobucket or Snapfish or Snapzilla or VillagePhotos or Zoto or TinyPic or SmugMug or Greatest Journal or...

My personal favorite DeviantArt?

There's not much of a story here except that if you commit to one hosting service, you run the risk of them being complete jerks with your content choice.

Is it just me or does that blood look like it's been very amateurly Photoshopped in with the default brush? Eternal Forces has a reasonable 3D engine, so I can't imagine why they'd render blood in 2D.

Amazingly, there's another picture on the same website with exactly the same pose, zoomed out to show the controls, and not a drop of blood. As Ricky Ricardo would say, you've got some 'splainin' to do.

I wonder whether or not the Christian fundamentalist unbeliever-killing Left Behind: Eternal Forces game is "appropriate" violence. Does this look any better than GTA? At least Doom and Quake are about fighting demons and mutants. This "convert or kill" game is a far cry from Veggie Tales, and very telling of the state of some religions in the US that churches refuse to denounce it.

Unless it is out of a Dell Optiplex! Very short shelf life http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/whurd/Bad.j pg and http://japan.cnet.com/media/2005/news/11/051128_ca pacitors_apple2.jpg and I quit taking pics

Perhaps he will next go in and create new patterns and quilting for all of the bedding in the game. :::yikes::: Glad I'm not stuck next to him during a long flight.

She, actually.

And she's really quite cool about it. She didn't think she had the talent to come up with some huge level quest mod, so she picked a small thing that bugged her and is going to fix it. Here are pictures of the books so far.

Also, she's got a couple guys to help her incorporate grammer and spelling fixes for the books. If only the original designers would put so much thought into the little details...

Check out the new ad campaign!

First of all, WT7 DID NOT have a plane crash into it, and yet still fell (symetrically and into its own footprint), next:

the empire state building had a plane crash into it: At 9:49 a.m. on Saturday July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashed into the north side between the 79th and 80th floors, where the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council were located. The fire was extinguished in 40 minutes. 14 people were killed in the accident[3].(wikipedia)

Regardless of this, the building was designed to withstand impacts by aircraft of this size, so it shouldn't (and indeed thats not the official explanation) have been the impact that caused the problem. if you think it was the fire, then compare this picture of the WTC fire towers where you can see a small area on one tower and a larger but still relatively small section on the other smoking (black indicating low oxygen therefore cooler fires) with a few visible flames, with this and thisimage of the windsor building in madrid, that was totally engulfed in flames from about halfway up the building to the top, and burned for 10 hours, yet didn't collapse, with only parts not including the inner support section collapsing after burning for hours, as you might expect. Note that the tower, while smaller, had a similar construction to the wtc, being a central support column and perimeter supports, and that the tower was "built using normal strength concrete and before modern fire proofing standards, without any sprinkler system. It was undergoing a complete refurbishment, including the installation of various active fire prevention and resistance measures, when the fire began at around 11pm on 14 February 2005." (see here and here for more pictures and (you may say biased) info and here for a case study of the construction and result of the huge fire. Many other buildings have burned for similar or longer, and not collapsed. If you still think it's reasonable to accept three world first events on the same day at face value, in your words "then you are, frankly, a fucking moron.""(in a less offensive way, if it was conspiracy theorists saying that al queda did it with planes, and the government saying that they demolished it to make room for new towers or something, then would you still think it was rediculous?)

also if you think it was "not an ordinary fire" and that the addition of the jet fuel caused the extra heat that differentiated them from every other fire in history, then, from the debunking 911 myths on popular mechanics:

"The jet fuel was the ignition source," Williams tells PM. "It burned for maybe 10 minutes, and [the towers] were still standing in 10 minutes. It was the rest of the stuff burning afterward that was responsiblefor the heat transfer that eventually brought them down."

therefore apart from a hot start and some mild damage to the outer structure (which was not intended for holding up the bulk of the weight of the building but rather to resist torsional forces from wind etc, and therfore if that had failed would be much more likely to have caused an assymetrical toppling, rather than a symetrical fall), it was no different to any other fire in the history of steel/concrete buildings. So I ask again, why did three buildings fall on the same day from fire, and never before or since in history?

straw man. The steel didn't melt. It was hot enough to significantly weaken it (ask a blacksmith), but not to melt it.

"Peter Tully, presid

Agree (I'm a big fan of Media Player Classic too). However if you're stuck with Windows Media Player then you can choose to apply the 'Corporate' skin -- it makes the UI quite compact. There's also the mini mode.

Agree (I'm a big fan of Media Player Classic too). However if you're stuck with Windows Media Player then you can choose to apply the 'Corporate' skin -- it makes the UI quite compact. There's also the mini mode.

This Pic says that thee will be a chance for PC gaming with the PS3 Controller. I'll pe happily playing Quake 4 and UT2007 on my PC while the rest of you are out waging console wars or working your assess off for some $ to buy into one Big, Expensive, non-upgradable, doomed-to-fail rootkit.

For the Price of a PS3, I could get a Decent Graphics card and a RAM upgrade.

although you will loose a lot of efficiency Careful!

• was built with off-the-shelf, re-usable components
• was assembled in minutes and required no debugging
• has a scalable architecture
• uses well-defined interfaces to separate objects
• is inherently cross-browser compatible
• runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X

Paramount should really consider putting this idea direct to video!

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b177/troyzilla/w henkirkmetspock.jpg

I made this the week after the tokyo game show: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/thewayistao /untitled.jpg It'd allow you to customize for (lightgun) action where you turn by pointing off to the side of the tv, or locking the crosshair to the center of the screen so you can look to aim(like with a mouse). :)

I tend to discount consipracy theories, but I have to say I find that particular photo very unconvincing, as with meagre skills and a few minutes of time I was able to find that the exact same flight also crashed just short of the pyramids

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatGiza.jpg

and caused major damage at the collesium

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatCollesium.jpg

fortunately the tower at pisa was made of sterner stuff

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatpisa.jpg

I tend to discount consipracy theories, but I have to say I find that particular photo very unconvincing, as with meagre skills and a few minutes of time I was able to find that the exact same flight also crashed just short of the pyramids

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatGiza.jpg

and caused major damage at the collesium

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatCollesium.jpg

fortunately the tower at pisa was made of sterner stuff

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatpisa.jpg

I tend to discount consipracy theories, but I have to say I find that particular photo very unconvincing, as with meagre skills and a few minutes of time I was able to find that the exact same flight also crashed just short of the pyramids

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatGiza.jpg

and caused major damage at the collesium

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatCollesium.jpg

fortunately the tower at pisa was made of sterner stuff

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/sirikus/wre ckatpisa.jpg

My theory is that Bill Gates doesn't actually exist. He is just a mythical manifestation of R.E.M. guitarist Mike Mills. Kind of like there is no such person as David Hasselhoff. That name is just a manifestation of Dan Marino when he's not playing the part of Loverboy lead vocalist Mike Reno.

Personally, I just have a pair of ROFL Waffles.

Funny and tasty.

I eat them at my desk with no fuss.
Yea for waffles.

This is a really poor move on marketing's part, as many of the user made mods already created and being distributed are far, far more useful or attractive than the barding. For example, the BT mod, which revamps the interface to display more information, provides a far bigger impact on gameplay than a reskinned horse.

Bethesda gave the PC users the same tool they used to make the game. What happens when the modders hit their stride and start putting out content that really puts Bethesda to shame? Who's going to go buy a new house add on for mages when one can grab a new set of textures far better than Oblivion's absolutely free?

O RLY?

no. i swear, the only other gael on the internet! haha okok. i took a pic of myself in a mirror as a joke to mock all of those myspace people who do it, but here. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/mariegael/h 1.jpg

These are spread throughout the city. SFW