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Slashback: Stapler, Interface, Gaming
You've got to admit it's getting better all the time. Gentu writes: "In parallel to the KDE 3.1-alpha release today, OSNews published an interesting article discussing a number of User Interface issues found on KDE 3. The article suggests a number of changes, some small, some pretty drastic. Towards the end of the two-part article, the author discusses the 'integration' problem found in today's X11 desktop environments, and how fixing this issue would bring Unix closer to average Joe's desktop."
Yes, you're allowed to have more than one friend. A NuKeFaN writes: "Following the article titled Are you a Friend of GNOME I wanted to point you out that the most used GPL'd software for the Web, PHP-Nuke, also has a similar page/system for their friends. It's a Club (MandrakeClub like) where you can be a member for a little monthly fee and you can get some extra benefits. You can access the Club area to know more about it. This can be, maybe, another example of how to get some money to fund a free software project, the matter is if we, as users, will support those project's developers this way? I think we can."
Wait, the scam was to take just a few pennies from everyone! MrBlue VT writes "In reference to the previous Slashdot article about the red Swingline Staplers, I click on the add to cart button on the Swingline website, and it pops open an ordering window with a 4 staplers added to the shopping cart. Ok, I think it's a little strange, but change the quantity back to 1, and hit continue to checkout. Next thing I know, I'm looking at an order form with all the text boxes filled out with somebody else's personal information. He's from Bellvue, WA apparently (I'm in Virginia). It also has his credit card number and expiration date!
This has to be the worst security I've ever seen in an online shopping site. The company who apparently provides the online shopping service for Swingline appears to be an outfit called SureSource.
I just wanted to let anyone who happened to order from them know about this. Your credit card info could very well be compromised."
Please fasten your belts. hondo77 submitted this follow-up to this article about next-generation aircraft, writing "Boeing says that their blended-wing aircraft will be ready for test flights in 2006. The article also has a picture of a 3% scale model. See, it doesn't look like the B-2 at all."
But thanks anyhow. flonker writes "Smartfilter no longer lists sourceforge.net! Link for those who want to see for themselves."
Great at stealing them, too. MrDingusMcGee writes "After the recent posting about a study suggesting that video games decrease brain activity, I thought it would be interesting to read the results of another study which has shown that video game players score better on a range of attention tasks (mirror here)done by Shawn Green at the University of Rochester Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, and that this could possibly rate video game players as better drivers. Worth seeing the other side of the argument and having some validation for those hours of gaming."
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My dick is ENORMOUS.
Thank you.
you are not the first, check posts below your threshhold dork!
It frightens me that we allow these sort of games to be played by our youth, one of the things that the show focused on. With all of the hate and violence we already have in our society, games like this, Postal, and Doom may be all it takes to trigger a mass murderer. One fellow had a great point: why take the chance when there are already so many great games out there that don't involve going on a killing spree?
I'm not normally one to advocate the government intervening in our lives, but the fact that there were four thirteen year olds on the show playing the game and describing how fun it was to kill the prostitute after her 'sex act' to regain their money frightened me, and makes me think that even though we live in a free society sometimes we need to curb our liberties to guard our safety.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
people like you should be permanently banned from the internet. what a jerk. you think you're so clever, but all you are is a stupid little child, crying out for attention, because you are scared, alone, and have a tiny penis.
you know, some of us in the real world have to work. we don't have time to deal with little children playing clever tricks. why don't you just fscking grow up and contribute to society instead of being a childish little moron. that, or jump off a fscking bridge. you are a pollutant in the gene pool.
when i kill you, it will be ruled a justifiable homicide.
-ac
What an (obvious) trolling on your part. If there is one person whining, is you, not the article.
his could possibly rate video game players as better drivers.
Then I can say for a fact that hardly ANYONE in Memphis plays video games!
Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
Don't forget to click here and select "Extreme"!
I've got a better idea.
Go here and change the category from "Sex, Extreme" to "Art and Culture".
We must preserve The Goatse for future generations. I'm positive it will go down as the internet equivalent of the Mona Lisa. We cannot allow a few conservatives and their offended sensibilities to block this True Piece of Art and Culture.
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