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But what about the nude Russian girls who apparently need me? happyclam writes: "The text of the "hidden camera" bill has been posted at politechbot.com. Although we have already beat this one to death, I found the actual bill worth reading. One thing that had not been mentioned is that it allows for civil and criminal liability for spammers who email sexual advertisements without proper markings. Although I still prefer positive labeling (e.g. "kid-safe(tm)") to negative labeling (e.g. "socially questionable"), this bill does, I think, have a few good points to it. Read it."
DVDs want to be free. An Anonymous Coward writes: "According to this email and the latest news the mplayer source code is finally 100% GPL compliant. Maybe an official Debian package will finally be released as well instead of the marillat release. Work on integrating the open source Xvid MPEG4 codec is coming along nicely as well."
Gravity always wins, but likes to play. mzdial writes: "On March 14 you did a piece on this Southern Indiana's man love of roller coasters and how he created his own in his backyard! The Indianapolis Star has done a wonderful story with video and photos about this wonderful contraption. You can find the article here."
They're greedy for hits. ruvreve writes "A follow-up to the recent article about Google's release of an API. This article talks about the apparent success of releasing the API. It mentions that about 10,000 people have signed up and they have received 25 implementations in the first week. It goes on to talk about how Google needs to capitalize on the ability to provide a 'profitable' web service and maintain its position as the number-one search engine."
Chasing green, wet shadows. young-earth writes "In a disappointing followup to this story, an article on astronomy.com shows that what was thought to be chlorophyll on Mars found in the Pathfinder expedition was most probably artifacts of the processing model used. However future missions will profit from the work being done now: "...developing new methods to enable future rovers to select appropriate targets on the martian surface for further spectroscopic or close-up microscopic examination". So maybe in another mission..."
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Attack of the Clones: Less Plastic Crap, More Story?
Star Wars PrequelsPosted by chrisd on Tuesday April 23, @05:58PM
from the jar-jar-is-raj-raj-spelled-backwards dept.
Newsweek has an article in which George Lucas states that there were parts of Episode One that were damaging to the Star Wars franchise. (shocker, I know) "The last movie did not live up to expectations." They'll cut the merchandise by two thirds, as they still have tons of unsold Episode One merchandise. Yahoo is also running an AOTC story. Mild spoilers in the linked stories, by the way.
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Can Technology Make The Money For You?
TechnologyPosted by timothy on Tuesday April 23, @04:59PM
from the carnegie-would-nod dept.
Crais writes: "Using JetBlue, the Mens' Wearhouse, and others as examples, this article out of Newsweek shows how tossing money into new technology, and giving employees nice benefits/perks can actually make your business profitable, and pleasurable to work for. Sheesh, I just want my company to buy some real networking equipment..."
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Your Rights Online: 321 Studios Plays It Safe Against the DMCA
The CourtsPosted by timothy on Tuesday April 23, @03:53PM
from the dispensation-nation dept.
mblase writes: "CNet reports on a request by 321 Studios to have it legally declared that their DVD Copy
"Mars must be green because we found what we THINK is chlorophyll!" *sigh* What ever happened to science.
-- Note: I'm aware of all the flaws in my argument. Yes, I know that theories are constantly being disproven and that science has and always will be based upon assumptions. But please let me rant. It's all I have.
Why must we exploit our Comrades so...
That is disappointing about mars... I was really hoping to take my naked russian girls there with my dvd's and ride my rollercoaster.. oh.. I need some coffee....
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
No matter what, google rocks.
hrrm.
rocks ass.
but your mom, she's a filthy slut.
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pants ahoy
New Order - Bizzare Love Triangle
every time i think of you
i get a shot right through into a bolt of blue
it's no problem of mine but it's a problem i find
living a life that i can't leave behind
there's no sense in telling me
the wisdom of a fool won't set you free
but that's the way that it goes
and it's what nobody knows
and every day my confusion grows
every time i see you falling
i get down on my knees and pray
i'm waiting for that final moment
you'll say the words that i can't say
i feel fine and i feel good
i feel like i never should
whenever i get this way, i just don't know what to say
why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday
i'm not sure what this could mean
i don't think you're what you seem
i do admit to myself
that if i hurt someone else
then we'd never see just what we're meant to be
every time i see you falling
i get down on my knees and pray
i'm waiting for that final moment
you'll say the words that i can't say
While reading CNN.com I was brainwashed by all the small graphics featuring Paula Zahn. I can't stand it anymore, I have to see her nude. A google search for Paula Zahn nude returned nothing. Am I the only one obsessed with her? I need to see her nude now.
Wow, I didn't even realize that. One thing we've seem to lost focus on with the recent Supreme Court ruling negating the recent law banning virtual child pornography. The reason child pornography is banned is because it exploits children, and if it is virtual, no exploitation of children occurs. So the law against the virtual images was struck down. But, in the same affect, if a child is sent pornographic spam through email, it is potentially damaging, and I would argue that it is even more damaging than a piece of virtual child porn. So, why not create the same sort of punishments for people who purposefully expose children to pornographic material as there is for people who exploit children to make pornogaphic images? I think being labelled as someone convincted of a sex crime could be a real deterrent for spammers who would otherwise shoot a million pieces of spam shotgun-style to every email address at a particular domain.
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Almost as good as the real thing! Check it out!
One of the huge wins of Google in my mind is its roundtrip speed for returning search results.
Google Releases an API for Their Database Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 15, @11:02AM from the now-thats-a-good-idea dept. Ben Wills writes "Yahoo! announced that Google Released an API last Thursday. "The service, launched Thursday, is called Google Web APIs, for application programming interfaces. The tools let noncommercial software developers "query more than 2 billion Web documents directly from their own computer programs," according to Google's Web site. For now, the service is free." Google just keeps pushing the limits."
One thing that had not been mentioned is that it allows for civil and criminal liability for spammers who email sexual advertisements without proper markings. Although I still prefer positive labeling (e.g. "kid-safe(tm)") to negative labeling (e.g. "socially questionable"), this bill does, I think, have a few good points to it.
Oh sure, let's give up our freedoms in exchange for tougher penalties for spammers.
... about "burn the GPL" posted on the MPlayer website previously?
:)
I see they've changed the layout of their site now, but previously there was an anti-GPL logo with a spiel about why the developers hated it so much.
I guess a change of heart, or perhaps a change of developers?
In either case: good on you MPlayer developers, for a truly excellent piece of software.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
It's Real, so the 'video quality' sucks, but it's a really nicely done piece - well worth tracking down a Win or Mac box to see. As you see the builder creeping to the top of the hill on his little 'car' I was totally psyched to see the drop! While they tease you for a while, you do get to see the loop in action - it's real!
Talking of hidden cameras a great big post appeared outside our house today (which we assume is going to have a CCTV camera stuck on the top). Does anyone know if these need planning permission in the UK?
Video Game cheats, hints a
Here's another DYI project that might be of interest to some people. A true 6.0 Litre, tuned exhaust, pimped out Rice Toilet . Some people really have too much time.
Tcl my Pico! There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
On March 14 you did a piece on this Southern Indiana's man love of roller coasters
There's a Freudian slip if there ever was one.
As written, this is laughably vague. Clearly, no company's primary business would be distributing harmful material to minors. For one thing, the lil' buggers don't have credit cards, so profits might be somewhat hard to come by at first. (Dang, there goes the IPO, Chester. Did you save the receipts on that new office furniture?) More appropriate would be to call it "material intended for adults but which may be judged to have a harmful effect on minors".
Here's something even more troubling. In the section where they attempt to define what's "harmful to minors", here's one of the acceptable standards:
Again, incredibly vague and open to abuse. Under this definition, material which does have scientific, etc. value for adults but doesn't for minors would be fair game, right?
Shit! Time to pull down that AARP website fellers!
Is the roller coaster video on the geocities site? i dont see it on the main page with the story.
Things to do list:
1. Rent movie about mean headmaster spanking bare bottoms of naughty boys at private Britain school.
2. See doctor. Get arm up ass surgically removed.
We have reason to believe that the act was the work of terrorists, NOT the Russians!
he is the one credited with that statement i believe, and i thought it was more like "He who is willing to sacrifice freedoms for security deserves neither." or somesuch
I thought the new ip ban was 4 nominal negatives from your normal post score and then you got banned for 72 hours. Are there new rules?
I think thats how it goes. We should at least get something back for all that hard work we did saving the free world
come on... I just saw a flash banner (ibm microworks live something)... come on... banners are ok but FLASH banners?
The Supreme Court did not rule that since its virtual its ok. They ruled that the definition of child pornography, as defined in the statute was too broad. For example, they were concerned that your typical Hollywood summer teen flick arguably fell under the statute's definition -- adults with make-up so that they appear to be younger than 18, pretending to have sex -- in other words virtual sex with minors. The Supreme Court ruled First Amendment protections for these types of films were important and that the statute was too vague.
Yes, a lot of people got a lot of play out of them, but more and more developers are finding that they aren't that great. Dave Winer has found that they were great... for about a week and then just tinkered with other things. Yes, we do care about search, but we all no the url google.com. How can the APIs help out that much?
"on this Southern Indiana's man love of roller coasters"
Southern Indiana has "man love" for roller coasters? mmmmmmmm, man love.
I hate you all. Eat a dick. Drop dead. Suck a cock. Felch a fucking rhino, you god damn hookers!
MPlayer is a sweet multiplayer network for WINDOWS games like Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Descent Freespace, and Shadow Warrior. I hate you name stealing motherfuckers, every last one of you sucks a male zebra's horse-cock.
Will show what the future of the internet we want to live in will look like. Our internet, not Jeff Bezos or the RIAA's.
Perltop - GTK/Perl desktop environment.
Funny you should mention gravity.. i somehow remember a user's plan file that i got to read when i ran finger on our company mail server. It went,
There's no such thing as gravity... the Earth sucks!
Oh okay.. i admit it was funny at first.. but, oh nevermind..
They pulled into Ivers' driveway, knocked on the door and asked to take some pictures, which they posted on a Web site that subsequently crashed because it attracted so many hits.
Yep, that was us, all right.
I wonder if this bill comes into effect if it will make filtering out spam a lot easier. I use the very basic elm filter, which can be used to filter mail according to words in the headers, and despite it's simplicity it can be quite effective at targetting spam. Just looking for the keywords of mortgage, insurance, stocks etc it reduces my spam quite signifiantly.
Yet it's hard to catch spam of a sexual nature because that sort of mail is often quite deceptive in use of the subject headings. Quite often I open a message with innocous the subject of "Hey there" only to discover it's either some girl who likes to 'ride' horses or wants to me pay her college fees via her private webcam.
Whether this bill comes into effect, and they actually manage to enforce is a whole other issue.
aus.music.scrapbook
And now your Slashdot front-page summary.
Charmed Announces Crusoe-based Linux Wearable: Never seen a more poorly designed thing
Lunar Power: What about environment destablilisation?
Faster, Stronger 802.11b: Slashdot is going downhill
Neutrino Oscillations Confirmed: Acutely interesting, but where's the
detail???
Ask Slashdot: Comparative Laptop Reviews? Beware of Sony! plus a plug for Gateway
GarageGames Torque Engine Linux Beta Client Out: Anyone notice the LGPL/GPL violations with this?
SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping: Been Shipping for a couple of weeks already!
Dog Bites Website: I think we fail to see Katz's point.
Q&A With Vivendi Rep About Bnetd: sorry above post turned out bad
Interviews: Nat Friedman talks of Ximian, Gnome, and Red Carpet: TROLLING AND CRAPFLOODING FAQ VERSION 2.1
Web Services: How long can this go on...
The Culture of CD Burning: Give me a viable alternative!
Transforming Orbit Into A Wasteland: Terrorism and the End of Space
321 Studios Plays It Safe Against the DMCA: I thought Slashdot was supposed to filter out the garbage...
Can Technology Make The Money For You? note the "sponsored by Microsoft" image
Attack of the Clones: Less Plastic Crap, More Story? The wideness is strong in this one
ATi's New All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB: doody list
And as for the current topic, Slashback: Porntrusion, Greenness, Rollercoaster: Holy Shit! We're In The News!
Greedy green, wet martians googling over nude russian girls while throwing DVDs at a roller coaster
...why aliens are green themselves!
You'd sort-of think that it is weird that the aliens that visit us are green instead of some other colour if they come from Mars.
Forgive my ignorance on the subject, but will the GLPing of mplayer improve the chances of default DVD support in any of the Linux distros? Or does the problem in regards to the legality of compiled DeCSS libraries/code still stop this from happening? This is not a troll by any means, I just don't fully understand the situation.
aus.music.scrapbook
I don't know about you, but I would have thought that selling, say, darkroom chemicals counts as making available material which is harmful to minors.
After going to such detail in explaining what they mean by porn later (and doesn't it make for fascinating reading), you'd think they'd be a bit more explicit here.
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
I just saw on the news that former porn star Linda Lovelace passed away this morning at the age of 53, due to injuries from a car accident she was in a couple weeks ago. As a person whose image inspired countless geeks to masturbation, she will be missed. Truly an American icon.
Time to get out those copies of Deep Throat, your jars of Vaseline, and a box of Kleenex and wish her the best in the afterlife.
I don't believe that Google is greedy for hits... but I do believe in common sense. Three cheers for google and their wonderful API.
Move faster
The Xine video player has a feature set similar to MPlayer, but also comes with courteous developers and a ton of RPMs for easy installation on a variety of Linux distros. DEBs too.
My Greasemonkey scripts for Digg &
My friend's pc is identical to mine with two exceptions: his is all scsi and runs XP. Mine runs mandrake 8.2. When we download and watch movies at the office, he always wants me to launch it in Mplayer because the playback is much cleaner and reliable. Mediaplayer will puke on the codec from time to time and give a nice 'blork' in the audio stream to boot. Mplayer never does this and is easier to skip around in during playback.
Mplayer needs to get popular on windows, it's not like it has much competition anyway.
This means that it can now be integrated in all distributions without packagers worrying of legal problems (which obviously includes Debian). A side effect (and equally important, in my opinion) is that this move makes this player available to a larger audience (exposing its remaining bugs and lack of portability to more people) and, of course, benefiting a larger part of the people that install Linux.
So, please, if you can download it, compile it and report bugs that you find (including people using different architectures). This way, we can all have a first-class, flexible, free movie player for many Operating Systems.
And contrary to popular belief, if you make a good bugreport, the mplayer team is very friendly fixing the bugs you find.
Of course, nobody would see a Doctor saying only "Hey, Doc, I am sick." and expecting a complete diagnostic. The same applies, evidently, to software development.
While hard to find, the UNIX binaries for Real Player are still available (including Linux). If you want to contaminate your system with non-free software (like me) then use the link above.
As it doesn't support WMV files (Quicktime is already nice, though), its use is extremely limitted to me. Supporting de-facto standards like Windows Media Player simply cannot be avoided, like it or not.
Software is not supposed to be about how to work around a useability issue. - Ken Barber
As PD points out, "people who are busy fucking don't accidentally pick up a gun and shoot their neighbors in the process!" The main problem with pr0n is the potential for social isolation and commodification of humans.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
FROM WEDNESDAY'S STAR
Safety concerns prompt change for spur linking I-65 in Boone County to the Indianapolis bypass.
Microsoft - Where would you like to go today, Maybe Jail?
- the source code licenses prohibit it
- the binaries are compled for a specific arch (eg, k6 3dNOW v.s. MMX, v.s. MMX2, and SSE)
What changed?da w00t. mtfnpy?
Not to mention that *every* scientific discovery reported must fight bioterrorism. This is really starting to piss me off. Example: that mobile phone hack that uses the RF chip to detect a protein (IIRC). This has obvious medical applications, as well as tricorder-style remote sensing applications. But what does the media hype its use as? It can detect... anthrax!!! Yippee. How many people did the anthrax kill? Now, how many die from salmonella poisoning? This is something that this hack could help detect, assuming salmonella has at least one unique protein.
Note: I may be way off on it's detection abilities but you get the point. The media is obsessed with a high-profile, low-incidence disease. Hell, more people die from the flu.
So...
Does this mean that all religion and cult websites also have to register themselves under this domain? There is lots of evidence of the harmful effects of religious fervor, especially on impressionable children..(See 9/11, Jenin, etc.)
To protect our children, we must require that churches, too, must register under the new domain.
If so, why in gods own name would you want to see one nude? Big, hairy, burly women who drink and smoke too much and speak english like a vietnamese hooker. No thanks... only about 1 in 1000 russian women are worth looking at for more than 5 seconds. They are enough to make a blind man's fingers puke!
We've got things more interesting than that going on. How about the fact that due to jail overcrowding, we're letting prostitutes and pot smokers off with just a ticket?
I dont see why a eurocentric distro like suse couldn't include decss code since they dont have to worry about the dcma.
My girlfriend decided to dive head first into linux about two months ago, since Win98 had so many problems with installing on her computer.
Her first major project was to be able to watch all the movies available at consumptionjunction, including the wmv files. It took her all of one week with minimal help from me (teaching her the ./configure; make; make install method, as well as looking through INSTALL and README files) to get wmv files to play without sound.
Turns out they would play fine with sound once we disabled the crappy via onboard sound and used a real soundcard.
Now while it was a real pain in the ass for her to get it working, it does work.
trollnet died. We're in #trolltalk on slashnet now.