After quickly looking through v9 I can't see how you can set the default lifetime for cookies to the current session. Sure, there's a nice interface for viewing current cookies, but for me this is a showstopper. Too many sites use cookies to operate, and I'm happy to have them track me for a few minutes, but not between sessions.
Still, competition is good, and this is certainly good competition.
A friend of a friend recently came up with the idea of promoting beer by giving away dolls of a cricket icon (think baseball but slower) with large purchases of their product.
The TV transmissions of certain games sent out signals the dolls responded to, saying various more-or-less appropriate comments.
While $2.50 doesn't look so good compared to iTunes, you can't do * vs . Many CDs have padding tracks which you'd never pay for. If you want 4 or 5 songs on a CD it's cheaper paying $2.50 for each than $15 for the CD, even factoring out the convenience of getting them instantly on your mobile.
That been said, it's great to get an album and 'discover' songs you'd never heard of, and would never have bought if you'd had to pay for each song in advance.
Ok, here is a progression of questions which require no special training. Make sure you only ROT13 one answer at a time if you're trying these yourself:
Assume Earth is a perfect sphere.
Q1) Where can you stand such that if you go 1km North, then 1km East, then 1km South, you're back where you started?
A1 rot13'ed) gur fbhgu cbyr. pregnvayl abg gur abegu cbyr, nf lbh pna'g tb abegu sebz gurer. naq vs lbh fnvq 1xz fbhgu bs gur abegu cbyr v'q fnl ab gbb, nf lbh pna'g tb rnfg sebz gur abegu cbyr, bayl fbhgu.
Q2) OK smarty. Where ELSE can you do it from, on the Earth's surface? No tricks are involved either, just a bit of thinking.
A2) n ovg bire bar xz fbhgu bs gur abegu cbyr: nsgre jnyxvat gur 1xz abegu, n 1xz jnyx rnfg pbzcyrgryl pvepyrf gur abegu cbyr, zrnavat lbh'ir qbar n ebhaq gevc. 1xz fbhgu gura ergheaf lbh gb gur vavgvny cbfvgvba. n srj crbcyr pbzcynva nobhg guvf bar, nf lbh nera'g jnyxvat va n fgenvtug yvar, rira gubhtu lbh'er nyjnlf urnqvat rnfg. lbh pna erzvaq gurz gung gurl jrera'g tbvat va n fgenvtug yvar va n1 rvgure. naq nfx gurz gb qrsvar 'rnfg' vs gurl fgvyy nera'g unccl.
Q3) You really think you're good don't you? OK, I want to know where ELSE!
(read this when you think you have it, before you read the real answer: gur nafjre vf abg nabgure cbfvgvba ba gur rnegu'f fhesnpr qhr rnfg (be jrfg) bs gur nafjre gb d2. jryy vg vf, ohg vg'f abg tbbq rabhtu, gurer'f fbzrjurer ryfr.)
A3) guvf nafjre vf nyzbfg gur fnzr nf gur ynfg, ohg vafgrnq bs cynpvat lbhefrys fb gung gur bar xz rnfgreyl jnyx vf n pbzcyrgr ybbc, lbh'er rira pybfre gb gur abegu cbyr, naq znantr gjb ybbcf! be, sbe gung znggre, lbh pna zbir rira pybfre, naq nf lbh nccebnpu gur '1xz fbhgu' cbvag sebz gur abegu cbyr lbh jvyy svaq zber naq zber fbyhgvbaf.
This is a classic, demonstrating how humans can't cope with conditional logic.
Ripped straight from Wikipedia:
The Monty Hall problem is a puzzle in game theory involving probability that is loosely based on the American game show Let's Make a Deal. The name comes from the show's host, Monty Hall. In this puzzle a player is shown three closed doors; behind one is a car, and behind each of the other two is a goat. The player is allowed to open one door, and will win whatever is behind the door. However, after the player selects a door but before opening it, the game host (who knows what's behind the doors) must open another door, revealing a goat. The host then must offer the player an option to switch to the other closed door. Does switching improve the player's chance of winning the car?
Why can't the editors do something about the grammatical and spelling mistakes of the articles they deem fit to publish? The more errors slashdot publishes, the more it'll get, as the geeks will think it's correct usage. Admittedly, if the editors can't even manage to prevent dupes every few days, I don't have high hopes of them being on top of this.
It's particularly sad when you see all the effort being put into getting the HTML semi-compliant. If only they could do a few more things about the content.
If they really HAVE to leave the original contributers' words verbatim, at least highlight or otherwise indicate the words which are wrong. We can laugh when you read 'site' and know it should be 'cite', but I'm sure there are times when we don't even realise the error is there until we've RTFA. And only rarely (and too late) will an update be posted to the original story.
Modern handwritten German is just as bad. it's particularly annoying when you're trying to decipher love letters - and unlike scientific papers, you can't bluff your way through and pretend you read it all.
so every program running on the OS has to have the decryption key? I think not. Encrypted partitions are usually decrypted at bootup, and don't expect 'unauthorised' access to occur until it's shutdown again. It's about as good a safeguard against this attack vector as RAID is useful to protect data against software-level data corruption.
If only slashcode supported moderating articles, and not just responses, we might increase the calibre of 'news'.
Slashdotting any site is just plain fun, but who wants to hit an advertising page?
I don't know about others, but I always try to RTFM before reading the comments, meaning others' warnings about the site not being all it seems is wasted....
Just an idea, if we want slashdot's bottom line to see the effect of dupes: use firefox's adblock to block all the ads until a dupe checker is running (whether via a software module, or just competent editors).
If adblock isn't enough, perhaps someone could mangle the ads so they show ads for other new sites instead, giving them revenue slashdot would otherwise be getting.
"5 of 14 posts" for this story according to the main page, but all other posts are gone! Slashcode is feeling sick today, or editors busy culling out all the OT comments?
IANAGerman but I can beat google on this one. Doing this quickly but I'm happy the content is right:
"accordinng to british media sources the british firm 't-mobile uk' plans to test this between london and brighton on the Southern Express in march and april. To allow data in and out of the trains they're setting up a wimax network along that stretch of track that should provide up to 32mbps."
It gets my vote as the best Sci-Fi series of all time. Real characters, unstereotyped. You don't know who's "good" and who's "bad". Special effects show their age, but a lot less than other programs.
While special effects costs coming down will make it easier to fund new series, we really need to get over the obsession with "realistic" effects and pay more attention to the realism of the story.
Is there an analogy between this and meteors? We keep not seeing little ones until they're on us or even past us - is it the same with icebergs?
If a big section of ice were to break up, would it affect sealevel in a significant way? Even if we know these bergs won't, how much warning will we get before a a big one happens?
In Green mars a large portion of antarctica breaks up, raising Earth's sealevel by around 8 metres. Though it's not due to happen 'til 2127.
Has anyone else thought about how hard it must be to look for someone after a disaster such as this? There are many blogs and other sites where people have posted messages, but AFAIK no attempt has been made to centralise and co-ordinate this.
I can see one very good value-for-money project being to establish a universal people registry, using various characteristics (location, physical features, photo, DNA, itinery, etc.). There are lots of extensions to this people could think up, but the most important thing is to centralise it. I can only imagine the anguish, expense, and inconveniencing of others that goes on as people go from one hospital to another, one website to another, posting so much that no-one will see even a fraction of it all.
Yes there are privacy issues which tend to get lost in this confusion, but if the database is run by a reputable organisation (UN?) this may not be so much of an issue.
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After quickly looking through v9 I can't see how you can set the default lifetime for cookies to the current session. Sure, there's a nice interface for viewing current cookies, but for me this is a showstopper. Too many sites use cookies to operate, and I'm happy to have them track me for a few minutes, but not between sessions.
Still, competition is good, and this is certainly good competition.
A friend of a friend recently came up with the idea of promoting beer by giving away dolls of a cricket icon (think baseball but slower) with large purchases of their product.
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The TV transmissions of certain games sent out signals the dolls responded to, saying various more-or-less appropriate comments.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/boonanza-for-the
Assuming you live on a clifftop, yes. Though good luck driving down it.
While $2.50 doesn't look so good compared to iTunes, you can't do * vs . Many CDs have padding tracks which you'd never pay for. If you want 4 or 5 songs on a CD it's cheaper paying $2.50 for each than $15 for the CD, even factoring out the convenience of getting them instantly on your mobile.
That been said, it's great to get an album and 'discover' songs you'd never heard of, and would never have bought if you'd had to pay for each song in advance.
Ok, here is a progression of questions which require no special training. Make sure you only ROT13 one answer at a time if you're trying these yourself:
Assume Earth is a perfect sphere.
Q1) Where can you stand such that if you go 1km North, then 1km East, then 1km South, you're back where you started?
A1 rot13'ed) gur fbhgu cbyr. pregnvayl abg gur abegu cbyr, nf lbh pna'g tb abegu sebz gurer. naq vs lbh fnvq 1xz fbhgu bs gur abegu cbyr v'q fnl ab gbb, nf lbh pna'g tb rnfg sebz gur abegu cbyr, bayl fbhgu.
Q2) OK smarty. Where ELSE can you do it from, on the Earth's surface? No tricks are involved either, just a bit of thinking.
A2) n ovg bire bar xz fbhgu bs gur abegu cbyr: nsgre jnyxvat gur 1xz abegu, n 1xz jnyx rnfg pbzcyrgryl pvepyrf gur abegu cbyr, zrnavat lbh'ir qbar n ebhaq gevc. 1xz fbhgu gura ergheaf lbh gb gur vavgvny cbfvgvba. n srj crbcyr pbzcynva nobhg guvf bar, nf lbh nera'g jnyxvat va n fgenvtug yvar, rira gubhtu lbh'er nyjnlf urnqvat rnfg. lbh pna erzvaq gurz gung gurl jrera'g tbvat va n fgenvtug yvar va n1 rvgure. naq nfx gurz gb qrsvar 'rnfg' vs gurl fgvyy nera'g unccl.
Q3) You really think you're good don't you? OK, I want to know where ELSE!
(read this when you think you have it, before you read the real answer: gur nafjre vf abg nabgure cbfvgvba ba gur rnegu'f fhesnpr qhr rnfg (be jrfg) bs gur nafjre gb d2. jryy vg vf, ohg vg'f abg tbbq rabhtu, gurer'f fbzrjurer ryfr.)
A3) guvf nafjre vf nyzbfg gur fnzr nf gur ynfg, ohg vafgrnq bs cynpvat lbhefrys fb gung gur bar xz rnfgreyl jnyx vf n pbzcyrgr ybbc, lbh'er rira pybfre gb gur abegu cbyr, naq znantr gjb ybbcf! be, sbe gung znggre, lbh pna zbir rira pybfre, naq nf lbh nccebnpu gur '1xz fbhgu' cbvag sebz gur abegu cbyr lbh jvyy svaq zber naq zber fbyhgvbaf.
Enjoy.
And thanks to Katrina and FEMA, there'll be a nice dead spot not far from New Orleans.
Why can't the editors do something about the grammatical and spelling mistakes of the articles they deem fit to publish? The more errors slashdot publishes, the more it'll get, as the geeks will think it's correct usage. Admittedly, if the editors can't even manage to prevent dupes every few days, I don't have high hopes of them being on top of this.
It's particularly sad when you see all the effort being put into getting the HTML semi-compliant. If only they could do a few more things about the content.
If they really HAVE to leave the original contributers' words verbatim, at least highlight or otherwise indicate the words which are wrong. We can laugh when you read 'site' and know it should be 'cite', but I'm sure there are times when we don't even realise the error is there until we've RTFA. And only rarely (and too late) will an update be posted to the original story.
If only we could moderate the editors...
Modern handwritten German is just as bad. it's particularly annoying when you're trying to decipher love letters - and unlike scientific papers, you can't bluff your way through and pretend you read it all.
so every program running on the OS has to have the decryption key? I think not. Encrypted partitions are usually decrypted at bootup, and don't expect 'unauthorised' access to occur until it's shutdown again. It's about as good a safeguard against this attack vector as RAID is useful to protect data against software-level data corruption.
If only slashcode supported moderating articles, and not just responses, we might increase the calibre of 'news'.
Slashdotting any site is just plain fun, but who wants to hit an advertising page?
I don't know about others, but I always try to RTFM before reading the comments, meaning others' warnings about the site not being all it seems is wasted....
Just an idea, if we want slashdot's bottom line to see the effect of dupes: use firefox's adblock to block all the ads until a dupe checker is running (whether via a software module, or just competent editors).
If adblock isn't enough, perhaps someone could mangle the ads so they show ads for other new sites instead, giving them revenue slashdot would otherwise be getting.
"5 of 14 posts" for this story according to the main page, but all other posts are gone! Slashcode is feeling sick today, or editors busy culling out all the OT comments?
If you're reading this, not the latter.
IANAGerman but I can beat google on this one. Doing this quickly but I'm happy the content is right:
"accordinng to british media sources the british firm 't-mobile uk' plans to test this between london and brighton on the Southern Express in march and april.
To allow data in and out of the trains they're setting up a wimax network along that stretch of track that should provide up to 32mbps."
Blake's 7?
It gets my vote as the best Sci-Fi series of all time. Real characters, unstereotyped. You don't know who's "good" and who's "bad". Special effects show their age, but a lot less than other programs.
While special effects costs coming down will make it easier to fund new series, we really need to get over the obsession with "realistic" effects and pay more attention to the realism of the story.
What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9?
(the scrabble bits didn't mention it had to be in base 13)
Is there an analogy between this and meteors? We keep not seeing little ones until they're on us or even past us - is it the same with icebergs?
If a big section of ice were to break up, would it affect sealevel in a significant way? Even if we know these bergs won't, how much warning will we get before a a big one happens?
In Green mars a large portion of antarctica breaks up, raising Earth's sealevel by around 8 metres. Though it's not due to happen 'til 2127.
Has anyone else thought about how hard it must be to look for someone after a disaster such as this? There are many blogs and other sites where people have posted messages, but AFAIK no attempt has been made to centralise and co-ordinate this.
I can see one very good value-for-money project being to establish a universal people registry, using various characteristics (location, physical features, photo, DNA, itinery, etc.). There are lots of extensions to this people could think up, but the most important thing is to centralise it. I can only imagine the anguish, expense, and inconveniencing of others that goes on as people go from one hospital to another, one website to another, posting so much that no-one will see even a fraction of it all.Yes there are privacy issues which tend to get lost in this confusion, but if the database is run by a reputable organisation (UN?) this may not be so much of an issue.
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