I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned that the XSL issue was reported 5 months ago, and it had a patch ready to go 4 months ago. Why was a critical issue with a two-line patch not fixed immediately? A better question - if the "bad guys" searched bugzilla for unfixed critical issues, how long would it take them to strike gold?
That's a great question. We know exactly what domains will be used. I don't see why ICANN wouldn't be able to make these domains unregisterable or disable them at the root nameservers.
Censorship is one area where the behavior of Wikipedia as a whole is very predictable. Virgin Killer, AACS encryption key, Jyllands-Posten, etc... If you try to remove something controversial from Wikipedia and it gets publicized, it will get added back, usually with administrator support. If you make a really big fuss, the censorship effort will get its own article and it'll probably get mentioned in one of the articles about Wikipedia itself. WP:V + pro-free-speech admins = you're screwed.
The music industry should start selling flowers - you can't download those for free! Of course, they'll have to make sure the flowers can't produce any seeds.
Students shouldn't be texting in class. If a student refuses to follow the rules, you have to do something. In our lawsuit-happy culture, calling the police is pretty much the only option. If you were being insubordinate at work, you would be fired and they'd have security escort you from the building. If you refused, you would be arrested.
I guess it's plausible that some people on Wikipedia saw the TechFragments article, went back in time more than 5 months ago, and changed the Wikipedia article. We all know how much liberals love time travel.
But seriously, this is really unfortunate for TechFragments. They had a single link on Wikipedia before I made this post, and afterwards, they'll have none.
The change that originally introduced "Wilhelm" to the German Wikipedia article was approved by the user "Gamma9" about 12 minutes after the edit was made. As you may know, the German Wikipedia has a "sighted revisions" system that requires registered users to approve edits made by anonymous users. This is the system that has been proposed for the English Wikipedia that is supposed to stop this shit. I find this to be hilarious.
Let me correct myself. A lot of these are available for free. It seems the rest are available for purchase from Penny Hill Press. From my calculations, it would only cost $50,000 for someone to buy all of these. Is that what is going on here?
I've been googling titles of random reports and have yet to find anything that wasn't already available to the public. Has anyone found one that is new?
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't it be easier to just remove the Z and R buttons?
Sounds like bug 477564. Try the workaround in the first comment.
Yes, they catch shampoo smugglers all the time.
If I was a publisher, I would sue the ad networks that make this all possible, rather than cooperate with them.
Apparently Amazon is calling it a "glitch".
They should have linked to goatse instead of a rickroll for Redmond.
That's exactly what I'd expect to hear from someone without the Comedian achievement.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned that the XSL issue was reported 5 months ago, and it had a patch ready to go 4 months ago. Why was a critical issue with a two-line patch not fixed immediately? A better question - if the "bad guys" searched bugzilla for unfixed critical issues, how long would it take them to strike gold?
You shouldn't even let the Boy Scouts of America into the building. Only let girl scouts in, and that's only if they bring Samoas.
That's a great question. We know exactly what domains will be used. I don't see why ICANN wouldn't be able to make these domains unregisterable or disable them at the root nameservers.
KEI: Knowledge Ecology International
USTR: Office of the United States Trade Representative
Censorship is one area where the behavior of Wikipedia as a whole is very predictable. Virgin Killer, AACS encryption key, Jyllands-Posten, etc... If you try to remove something controversial from Wikipedia and it gets publicized, it will get added back, usually with administrator support. If you make a really big fuss, the censorship effort will get its own article and it'll probably get mentioned in one of the articles about Wikipedia itself. WP:V + pro-free-speech admins = you're screwed.
The music industry should start selling flowers - you can't download those for free! Of course, they'll have to make sure the flowers can't produce any seeds.
Islam? Atheism? Dark skin? Sounds like Microsoft needs to get their heads out of their asses.
What are you, an editor? Slashdot has no place for your kind.
litigious bastards
m i doin' this rite
I mentioned this during the discussion about the Microsoft add-on three weeks ago. How is this news now?
Students shouldn't be texting in class. If a student refuses to follow the rules, you have to do something. In our lawsuit-happy culture, calling the police is pretty much the only option. If you were being insubordinate at work, you would be fired and they'd have security escort you from the building. If you refused, you would be arrested.
I guess it's plausible that some people on Wikipedia saw the TechFragments article, went back in time more than 5 months ago, and changed the Wikipedia article. We all know how much liberals love time travel.
But seriously, this is really unfortunate for TechFragments. They had a single link on Wikipedia before I made this post, and afterwards, they'll have none.
The change that originally introduced "Wilhelm" to the German Wikipedia article was approved by the user "Gamma9" about 12 minutes after the edit was made. As you may know, the German Wikipedia has a "sighted revisions" system that requires registered users to approve edits made by anonymous users. This is the system that has been proposed for the English Wikipedia that is supposed to stop this shit. I find this to be hilarious.
How many cyber/cyborg tsars/chiefs/secretaries do we have now?
Let me correct myself. A lot of these are available for free. It seems the rest are available for purchase from Penny Hill Press. From my calculations, it would only cost $50,000 for someone to buy all of these. Is that what is going on here?
I've been googling titles of random reports and have yet to find anything that wasn't already available to the public. Has anyone found one that is new?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/jan/27/biomethane-energy
For now on, every time a Slashdot editor posts a link that isn't the original source of the story, I'll be posting the original link.
Trials for Gitmo prisoners delayed until they are no longer a threat to the United States.
Paying back the national debt delayed until someone can force us to do so.
Fixing social security delayed until Baby Boomers die.
Puppy for Obama children delayed until after the next election.