Shitty website requires you to register dumb account you'll only use once Website wants your e-mail address, and requires verifying it by activation link Tell it your e-mail address is nobody@mailinator.com Go to mailinator.com and enter "nobody" as username Click activation in e-mail
Then websites started banning @mailinator.com addresses, so mailinator tells you an alternate domain that you can use which also points to mailinator. Then websites started loading that same page and banning the alternate domains. Then mailinator (if it wanted to) could start putting stuff like "google.com" in its list of alternate domains for anyone who was repeatedly reloading that page...
Double-click speed just depends on the OS setting. If you don't click fast enough, it registers two independent click events. If you do, it's a double-click. It has nothing to do with the browser, and if you click fast enough for the OS to register a double-click, it only takes 2 clicks.
Coming from a pool owner: most of those chemicals are all actually legit in the maintenance of a pool.
No doubt. I was just pointing out that not only are they not hazardous to humans in levels found in swimming pools, but the last one at least is so non-hazardous (ok, nothing is 100% non-hazardous) that it's added to our food - it's basically about as hazardous as baking soda.
(And if ramen noodles have a toxic, deadly chemical in them, I'm in a heap of trouble. Though some would claim that MSG is pretty bad, so it's not like I eat them all the time.)
Swimming pools are a toxic soup of deadly chemicals like Chlorine, Bromine, Cyanuric Acid, Sodium Bisulphate and Sodium Carbonate.
Straight from Wikipedia:
Sodium carbonate is a food additive (E500) used as an acidity regulator, anti-caking agent, raising agent and stabilizer. It is one of the components of kansui, a solution of alkaline salts used to give ramen noodles their characteristic flavor and texture.[5][6] Sodium carbonate is also used in the production of sherbet powder. The cooling and fizzing sensation results from the endothermic reaction between sodium carbonate and a weak acid, commonly citric acid, releasing carbon dioxide gas, which occurs when the sherbet is moistened by saliva.
You know what? I'm not even going to bother looking up the rest of those chemical compounds.
Well, that was sort of the point - the GPS isn't really that expensive (and buying a few thousand at a time would be cheaper still), relatively speaking. Most of the expense will actually be the rest of what's necessary... the power supply will probably be the most costly, followed by the radio equipment that's intended to transmit the location. The GPS itself is just a radio receiver, which will be low-power and relatively inexpensive.
Actual GPS is actually pretty cheap, but knowing where you are isn't very helpful unless you also have a way of telling someone where that is so that they can come pick you up. You need a radio or satellite transmitter that's capable of relaying your coordinates to someone who's on land, or at least a few hundred miles off. That's what makes it expensive, not so much the GPS portion of the device.
Physics FAIL. The magnetic fields in a CRT monitor changes the direction of beams of electrons, not beams of photons. The inside of the CRT display is coated with materials which fluoresce (i.e. release photons) when the electron beam strikes it.
Spider breathes oxygen-rich air. Spider exhales air with low oxygen content. Air with lower oxygen content than the water pulls oxygen from the water. Isn't that amazing?!
Neither. They are doing it only because they are legally obligated to at least make an attempt to notify the defendants that they're being sued.
They need to attempt to notify the defendants because then the defendants are legally obligated to show up on the court date. If they don't show, they'll automatically lose the lawsuit.
I sent several polite emails tongue school explaining there error when I got a reply that stated "the address was right, xxx.yyy at gmail is different from xxxyyy at gmail( it isn't as gmail ignores dots)
I'd add "xxx.yyy@gmail.com" as an alternate e-mail address and then reply from it saying "no it isn't".
Also - how the heck do you get "tongue" there? Auto-correct?
Yeah, I probably should have said "HTML and CSS". Although that "Working" thing is just always there on Firefox (right from when the page first loads), so I assumed it was a CSS glitch with its display or visibility not getting set correctly. Its classname is currently "busy genericspinner hide", but it's visible.
The comment-opening... I think it's due to the comments nesting inside the parent comments, which are supposed to be clickable, but since the children comments are inside it they're clickable too and the parent gets the click event. So I don't know whether to call that CSS or HTML brokenness. It's a nesting error.
The real reason Unicode isn't supported is because we'd have too much Zalgo spam on Slashdot if it was. (Well, that, and the control characters problem that Mike mentioned. The real Mike, not the fake one.)
Nah, to qualify for a "Christ Award" he'd have to do something incredibly stupid, die as a result, and then have a bunch of followers who claim he miraculously came back to life.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailinator
Long story short:
Shitty website requires you to register dumb account you'll only use once
Website wants your e-mail address, and requires verifying it by activation link
Tell it your e-mail address is nobody@mailinator.com
Go to mailinator.com and enter "nobody" as username
Click activation in e-mail
Then websites started banning @mailinator.com addresses, so mailinator tells you an alternate domain that you can use which also points to mailinator. Then websites started loading that same page and banning the alternate domains. Then mailinator (if it wanted to) could start putting stuff like "google.com" in its list of alternate domains for anyone who was repeatedly reloading that page...
Double-click speed just depends on the OS setting. If you don't click fast enough, it registers two independent click events. If you do, it's a double-click. It has nothing to do with the browser, and if you click fast enough for the OS to register a double-click, it only takes 2 clicks.
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I know he's a troll. Sometimes it's just amusing to pretend he's serious and take pot shots at the ridiculous crap he posts, though.
And to be honest I'm not entirely convinced that he doesn't really believe the stuff he posts.
Coming from a pool owner: most of those chemicals are all actually legit in the maintenance of a pool.
No doubt. I was just pointing out that not only are they not hazardous to humans in levels found in swimming pools, but the last one at least is so non-hazardous (ok, nothing is 100% non-hazardous) that it's added to our food - it's basically about as hazardous as baking soda.
(And if ramen noodles have a toxic, deadly chemical in them, I'm in a heap of trouble. Though some would claim that MSG is pretty bad, so it's not like I eat them all the time.)
Swimming pools are a toxic soup of deadly chemicals like Chlorine, Bromine, Cyanuric Acid, Sodium Bisulphate and Sodium Carbonate.
Straight from Wikipedia:
Sodium carbonate is a food additive (E500) used as an acidity regulator, anti-caking agent, raising agent and stabilizer. It is one of the components of kansui, a solution of alkaline salts used to give ramen noodles their characteristic flavor and texture.[5][6] Sodium carbonate is also used in the production of sherbet powder. The cooling and fizzing sensation results from the endothermic reaction between sodium carbonate and a weak acid, commonly citric acid, releasing carbon dioxide gas, which occurs when the sherbet is moistened by saliva.
You know what? I'm not even going to bother looking up the rest of those chemical compounds.
"Girls," said Edmund. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.
Then again, maybe they're not losing users at all - maybe they're just cracking down on fake accounts.
Well, that was sort of the point - the GPS isn't really that expensive (and buying a few thousand at a time would be cheaper still), relatively speaking. Most of the expense will actually be the rest of what's necessary... the power supply will probably be the most costly, followed by the radio equipment that's intended to transmit the location. The GPS itself is just a radio receiver, which will be low-power and relatively inexpensive.
No problem, just pump it into the Grand Canyon.
Actual GPS is actually pretty cheap, but knowing where you are isn't very helpful unless you also have a way of telling someone where that is so that they can come pick you up. You need a radio or satellite transmitter that's capable of relaying your coordinates to someone who's on land, or at least a few hundred miles off. That's what makes it expensive, not so much the GPS portion of the device.
And rotational inertia.
Physics FAIL. The magnetic fields in a CRT monitor changes the direction of beams of electrons, not beams of photons. The inside of the CRT display is coated with materials which fluoresce (i.e. release photons) when the electron beam strikes it.
They've (re-)discovered osmosis.
Spider breathes oxygen-rich air. Spider exhales air with low oxygen content. Air with lower oxygen content than the water pulls oxygen from the water. Isn't that amazing?!
Neither. They are doing it only because they are legally obligated to at least make an attempt to notify the defendants that they're being sued.
They need to attempt to notify the defendants because then the defendants are legally obligated to show up on the court date. If they don't show, they'll automatically lose the lawsuit.
I sent several polite emails tongue school explaining there error when I got a reply that stated "the address was right, xxx.yyy at gmail is different from xxxyyy at gmail( it isn't as gmail ignores dots)
I'd add "xxx.yyy@gmail.com" as an alternate e-mail address and then reply from it saying "no it isn't".
Also - how the heck do you get "tongue" there? Auto-correct?
Yeah, I probably should have said "HTML and CSS". Although that "Working" thing is just always there on Firefox (right from when the page first loads), so I assumed it was a CSS glitch with its display or visibility not getting set correctly. Its classname is currently "busy genericspinner hide", but it's visible.
The comment-opening... I think it's due to the comments nesting inside the parent comments, which are supposed to be clickable, but since the children comments are inside it they're clickable too and the parent gets the click event. So I don't know whether to call that CSS or HTML brokenness. It's a nesting error.
The Ajax works just fine; it's the CSS that's always broken.
The real reason Unicode isn't supported is because we'd have too much Zalgo spam on Slashdot if it was. (Well, that, and the control characters problem that Mike mentioned. The real Mike, not the fake one.)
My 60hz display isn't black 50% of the time.
A strobe light with a 0.5 duty cycle isn't exactly the same thing as a light source that's half as bright but doesn't flicker on and off.
A detonator? What for? They can just use a candle on top as a fuse.
Nah, to qualify for a "Christ Award" he'd have to do something incredibly stupid, die as a result, and then have a bunch of followers who claim he miraculously came back to life.
Handy rule-of-thumb for would-be fraudsters: avoid using names of famous, infamous, or fictitious people. It makes you rather conspicuous.
Yes it does. A pseudo-random number generator is just a very large state machine.
On Windows PCs at least, the BIOS will perform a hard power-off if you hold down the "soft" off button for 5 seconds.