Slashdot Mirror


User: SaberTaylor

SaberTaylor's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
151
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 151

  1. Gmail has free POP3 on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 3, Informative

    It makes sense to have the option of removing your email from online storage.
    Yahoo has that option but it costs money. Possibly that has changed.

    Another of Gmail's "only advantage" [sic] is that you can change the "From:" header to other email addresses after authentication. Yahoo only offers "Reply-to:" modification. (Unfortunately, Microsoft Outlook uses the "Sender:" header in email display.)

  2. oh I thought you meant sieze the momentum on How Old is Too Old? · · Score: 1

    since I'm used to seeing carpe diem. As in seize the momentum that you've built up.

    did not read article / skimmed post...

  3. ha ha funny de-sensitizes on Stephen Colbert vs The Hungarian Government · · Score: 1

    I watched a few of his shows, and laughed laughed.
    Then I didn't care about evil doing politicians so I quit watching the show.

  4. http://www.metaspy.com/ on The Face of One AOL Searcher Exposed · · Score: 1

    Without cookieIDs but you still get to see web searches.

    I used to see tons of URLs in the web search. Enough so, that it was clear to me that people were confusing a search entry box for the URL entry box.

  5. no you ~ Re:divide page hits by 12 on MySpace's Trip to The Top · · Score: 1

    It wasn't immediately obvious how to make a global group versus a school group to me.

    Please to be making a global group and I will link to it from mine.

    I don't use Facebook very often.

  6. divide page hits by 12 on MySpace's Trip to The Top · · Score: 1

    I have a blog on Livejournal and I might hit the site 15 times for posting 1 entry and 1 comment with all the previews and re-edits.

    Join my Facebook group: "MYSPACE is a Time Machine that takes you back to 1996."
    Description: MYSPACE.COM is a Time Machine that takes you back to the Internet in 1996 in terms of web design (awful) and user gullibility (awful) and the mindless forwarding of unfounded nonsense.

  7. different crack software on FBI Password Database Compromised by Consultant · · Score: 1

    All an attacker needs is different password generation. For example, you use crack, and the attacker uses John the Ripper with -rules turned on and a bunch of dictionaries you don't bother to collect (such as sports and words from fiction). Indicating that allowing users to gather hashes is the problem, and a more generic analysis of password weakness may be better.

  8. V. S. Ramachandran. Phantoms in the Brain (1998). on Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain · · Score: 1

    Corresponds to the book I am reading, the chapter about phantom limbs. Neat stuff.

    After losing a limb, within 24 hours the old brain area controlling the limb may be taken over by the near-by brain. The short times strongly suggests that the re-wiring is using existing connections rather than growing new pathways. Puts a new spin on the old folklore that we only use 10% of the brain.

    The cross-wiring creates strange results, such as some people hearing a ringing in their ear when their brain sends the signal to their eyes to look left (or right). In this book is the first time I've seen the phrase "literal hallucination."

    In the Penfield brain map, the feet controls are next to the genital controls. Explains a bit right there. Earlobes, similar.

    In the most scientifically exciting event to the author, a droplet of water trickled down the face of an owner of a phantom limb. He described the track of sensation down the flesh where the unused brain control had been remapped.

  9. goodbye banning ip addresses on U.S. Government to Adopt IPv6 in 2008 · · Score: 1

    We're going to less than 1 i.p. address per human to 50 octillion i.p. addresses per human.

    Since it will no longer be practical to ban by i.p. addresses other measures will be required.
    Perhaps some investment of difficulty per granting of anonymous account equivalent to the old i.p. addresses can be imagined by someone brighter than myself. (My best idea so far is the silly notion to have the account granter watch the new account doing something strenuous over videophone.)

    Given example like Wikipedia trying to ban 1 persistent disinformation defacer being impossible due to AOL i.p. rotation, this obsolesence of i.p. banning may come as a good thing. Can somebody imagine something like an anonymous free certificate scheme for pseudo-identities? Maybe $10 donation to charity gets you 1 "passport" account..

  10. vague call for Religion by non-subscriber on Mob Rule on China's Internet · · Score: 1

    Here's from my last response to an atheist thinking Religion was the solution for mores:

    I'm sure the last thing you want to do is sit in a cafe and read, but here's a couple more links: http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/executedoffenders .htm
    (got remorse? nope. one of the final statements is from somebody who can't wait to meet his victims in heaven. word. I can actually admire that level of forgiveness but what does it do for bad people?)
    W's gov't funded intensive Christianity prison program increased recidivism. ("Faith-Based Fudging" via http://www.annotatedrant.com/)

    And more if you're into this whole partisan thing. . .
    Not sure what Christianity is supposed to do. It's not exactly rational. In the Congo: A journey into the most savage war in the world (child witches! bulletproof soldiers! religion gone wild)

  11. that's fu not foo on Sendmail Removed From NetBSD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sorry guys.

  12. s/out/aught/; or i mean ought on Intern? Bloggers Need Not Apply · · Score: 1

    just lifted weights. sorry. hopefully someday G-d will spellcheck the Internet and there will be many hymns of thanksgiving.

  13. you guys out to see on Intern? Bloggers Need Not Apply · · Score: 1

    the young punk rockers tattooed in all their glory at a show. Looks good in the mix, but

    I feel bad for them if anyone of them wakes up in 10 years and decides to be a square.

  14. ISPs should do egress filtering on BlueSecurity Fall-Out Reveals Larger Problem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't see 'egress' on this page, so I'll just throw the usual advice out there. ISPs should filter traffic coming out of customer computers to only allow i,p. addresses that the ISP has assigned. This is ok since if the customer computers are using other i.p. addresses, then they have no network functionality other than to do denial of service attacks.

  15. slashdot funny function on 42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta · · Score: 1

    Number of funny comments is proportional to the complexity of the story topic.

    trust me, i will write a greasemonkey script to censor the funny.

  16. employers shouldn't google on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 1
    I am of the minority that believes employers shouldn't google employees. Why? Well it is illegal for an employer to ask a candidate their religion or age etc. Some employers may do this by accident, but it is illegal. Of course there is no way to stop an employer from using an online search tool. And the psychological barrier is lower to using a search engine than doing other research that would find the same information. Rhetorically, I ask do employers really need to know what a candidate's favorite bands are? I think the following boilerplate header along with a statement from yourself about how you feel towards employer research should go on the myspace, facebook, livejournal etc when you're jobhunting:
    What Are the Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination?
    • Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;
    • the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination;
    • the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older;
    • Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments;
    • Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal government; and
    • the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.
    from http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html.
  17. spoilers in party mode on Dungeons and Dragons Online Impressions · · Score: 1

    > I am sure most players that had extended beta time like I did, knew every nook and cranny of the
    > WaterWorks dungeons.

    yeah, something I noticed in the forums was that in voice chat, other party members would describe every nook and cranny of the dungeons.

    not sure how you could prevent against that. something that i've been complaining about with crpg's (nwn, morrowind, etc) is the lack of secret doors, but repetition ruins the whole idea of secrets.

  18. Re:In summary... on Defending Against Harmful Nanotech and Biotech · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the most important part. "Nano" means "magic". "Grey goo" is "nano". "Grey goo" is magic. Grey goo in scifi did not even require particular elements (at least until The Diamond Age).

  19. I was wondering why on Mozilla Raking in Millions? · · Score: 1

    the crappy "Free Dictionary" became the highlighted extension instead of Dictionary.com.

  20. why does destruction of privacy on Cell Tracking on the Rise · · Score: 1

    always "raise concerns". Could any catchphrase be weaker or signal more inaction?

  21. you are being misleading on Bill Gates Defends Google's Censorship In China · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything to suggest Cryptome.cn did a bait and switch of their Tiananmen page. More likely China hasn't filtered those results yet or put the question to the Cryptome.cn server.

  22. Re:This should prove... on Bill Gates, Time Magazine "Person of the Year" · · Score: 1

    "when they commanded IBM to subcontract their Operating System provider to avoid anti-trust action." that so? i thought they did it for business reasons.

  23. The human "RNG" is flawed. on Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis · · Score: 1

    2 points:

    1.) The Noosphere (the glass machine of ideas) is finite, albeit in weird ways. This means that like the discussion about Knuth progresses, authors tend to be strange attractors within the glass spheres, with wow pretty colors, look!

    2.) In the Impire of Newtonian Reality, the flaws are what make the Imps fix what isn't broke. For example, if you have _ in a move-walk path, then an imp's algorithm will not make him avoid _.

    What's interesting in a steganographic sense, is that for best results, that modules within the imp are not allowed to know that his move-walk algorithm is broken. So he keeps stepping in _. Which matures the modules that are being kept information-scarce by the force of nature.

  24. vulnerabilization of the Wealth of Humans on Jeopardy! Whiz Becomes Encarta Spokesman · · Score: 1

    Our empire(s) are effectively only 300 years old, depending on how you look at them. Virtually all human art has been centralized in museums.

    +0 funny.

  25. lost in the 1010 replies sandpile on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 1

    Similar to other comment but more effective is to be more serious. Form a secret group of FCC complainers who complain about random controversies.

    That is, add noise to the laser focus of the miniscule minority, PTC.