The Rowling novels are great. I enjoyed escaping away to Hogwarts for the duration that it took for me to read each one. Besides, the Hugo awards have to maintain our British heritage and what better way then to award the Hugo to a British author?
Anyways, Harry Potter is very entertaining, despite its main-stream nature. One can hardly argue that the books are for childeren due to the use of Magic and Witchcraft. These are clearly meant for adults, although i would let, and I understand why childeren love them so much.
Hmmm. Let's see if the irony nazi can understand this...
Sensitive private characteristics: Sexual Preference: Heterosexual Medical History: Pretty healthy, alcoholism runs in family. Crinimal record: One speeding ticket, not much else.
Yeah, those are pretty private
Non-sensitive private information: Buying habits: Alcohol, Straight Pr0n, exercise stuff & vitamins, no medicine Web browsing habits:/., weightlifting websites, finance, and geeky websites. straight pr0n.
Whoa. My non-sensitive information is extremely suggestive of my sensitive information, wouldn't you think? What gives? Is it more complicated to make all privacy information opt-in? It seems like it would be less complicated to the irony nazi.
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Well, that is the way to detect Vulcan cloaking, but in order to detect website cloaking, try some variation of the following:
Ingredients: Computer Perl Internet Connection LibWWW, UserAgent, and all the dependencies, I forgot which Optional: Perl Cookbook, by Christianson and Torkingham.
Directions: Start with the Perl Cookbook to give you a quick background of how to design an autonomous www agent that will crawl around gathering webpages. You can have them visit links or read from a list of links or whatever you want.
Read the documentation from the Perl UserAgent libs and figure out how to change the http headers to spoof various browsers. I've done this before. I think that I ended up going into the UserAgent code and doing this manually. I don't remember exactly how I accomplished this, I just remember that it was easy.
Now have to agents to crawl websites and compare output from one website using the "Spider" http headers with the output from spoofing the "IE" http headers. Websites would sometimes still think the IE headers were a robot. The key is to pause the request so that it is as though a human is reading the page/clicking the links/etc.
Keep track of the sites that are different or keep track of whatever stats that you need.
Mix, Stir, Burn, Enjoy.
I've actually done this type of thing before in order to test various IE only websites on non-IE browsers (non-MS computers). My results were that all of the pages the *require* IE render perfectly in Mozilla and most render fine in Opera. I still don't understand why businesses would *turn-away* potential customers only for having different http headers!
I'm a materials science engineer (MS and a few years of experience with plastics & ceramics). Please allow me to state that, my TiBook 667 has been left with the lid down, but for some reason, not in sleep mode for more than 24 hours. The entire time the fan was blowing, because the processor must have been doing something (probably running Mozilla or something).
When I came back and realized that the fan had been on for this amount of time, I opened up the lid, but the TiBook wouldn't wake up. It was very hot to the touch, but no warped keys, damaged LCD, whatever.
Anyways, this happened again, later.
Moral of the story? I don't know. Probably that you should always select "Sleep" from the menu before you close your TiBooks flap.
The kiosks are unmanned and, therefore, require means for the safe-keeping of all the expensive hardware. The Hole-In-The-Wall kiosks have in-built security system the details of which cannot be divulged for obvious reasons.
What obvious reasons, like it is inhumane? I've heard of various car-jacking-preventative devices in Africa that involve mounting a flame thrower below the driver's side door. Maybe I'm just a narrow-minded Brit, but doesn't India have pretty much the same crime and government as South Africa? The company probably mounted a flame thrower below the kiosk just in case little Apu tries to steal the touchpad/keyboard or if Apu tries to search for Porn. It probably even scorches him if he views images on women without Burkas. Haha.
As you might imagine, deploying Internet kiosks in economically backward parts of India
is not quite simple. Besides the lack of infrastructure, the other challenges include providing a low-cost solution that can withstand harsh conditions like dust and extreme temperatures, and a kiosk that can be remotely administered. These and other similar requirements have led to the design for a Cognitive Kiosk for Rural, Outdoor, Tropical Environment (patent pending).
I didn't add that last part. Please allow the irony nazi to point out that, by filing for a patent, NIIT has made deploying kiosks in third world countries even less simple. </irony nazi sighs>
Because of the magnitude of some of these changes, eWEEK Labs recommends that any site planning a move to Apache 2.0 first set up a system on which it can test all its Web applications and specific setups to make sure they work well on the new server.
Come on! It doesn't take an 'expensive expert' to know that *whenever* you upgrade a runtime server, you first set up a sandbox where you can test it... or does it? Did they even need to mention this in the article? Maybe they thought that some MSCE would instantly bring down a corporate website and attempt to install Apache, only to find that it doesn't run ASP.
I've always hated how the menu's change positions of items depending on what the mouse is hovering over. I'd rather have grayed out options than have moving options. It makes for a guessing game.
On pr0n sites, sometimes I don't even know if I'm over an image or not and having to read and think about the right click menu is pretty annoying.
Also, what's with the menu popping out at a different corner of the mouse cursor depending upon which side of the screen I am on? Do I really need to stop, wait, and think for the damn thing to unfold before I start moving the mouse towards whichever option I want to choose? Wouldn't it be better if the menu always unfurolled in the same direction so that I could always move the mouse down the same fixed distance that I trained myself to do. I don't care if the cursor jumps up or over or wherever in order to accomplish this, let's just keep the menu the same (Apple has a okay solution to this, but IMO it's still wrong).
Speaking of unfurolling, should the menu come out from the center around the mouse? That minimizes the distance all of the options and they can put the most common options smack dab in the middle--- never move the mouse.
You have never mentioned OmniWeb. I'm convinced that this is the best web browser. Small... light... Integrates smoothly with desktop. What more do you want? All of my Internet Explorer plugins even work with it, by default (even quicktime). In contrast, I'm still trying to figure out how to get flash to work with Mozilla. I'll be a little honest, JavaScript isn't perfect in OmniWeb, but it is there, and it mostly works. The Javascript debug window is much more advanced in OmniWeb than it is in Mozilla.
OmniWeb isn't free (as in speech), but it's darn good, and using the browser of the underdog is a small step towards restoring competition to the marketplace, which is morally good (just like using OSS).
I recommend going to omni's website and trying it out.
Slashdot Community, this is not sweet sweet irony. What QualityWithAKei said was not sweet irony, or even irony.
Please, irony is something that is different or the opposite of the literal meaning. It can even be something incongruent with what is expected.
From dictionary.com, we have
Usage Note: The words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply "coincidental" or "improbable," in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly. Thus 78 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the use of ironically in the sentence In 1969 Susie moved from Ithaca to California where she met her husband-to-be, who, ironically, also came from upstate New York. Some Panelists noted that this particular usage might be acceptable if Susie had in fact moved to California in order to find a husband, in which case the story could be taken as exemplifying the folly of supposing that we can know what fate has in store for us. By contrast, 73 percent accepted the sentence Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market, where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.
Please, for the love of humanity, start using the word irony properly!!
I don't see anybody mentioning it here, but I use a disk-on-key to manage my passwords. The password files are stored in an encrypted format, and I have OS-X, Linux, and Win32 binaries stored on the key that will decrypt whichever file I choose based on some passphrase. The passphrase is the same for all password files.
The most common passwords, you will constantly use and not need the key for. The less common passwords, however will always be in your pocket, one USB connection and decryption away.
I didn't see any other mention of hardware implemented solutions so I figured I would throw this one out.
Have you given much thought to the Great Slashdot Blackout? You have completed 2 semesters of Spanish and you appear well read (Orson Scott Card), so why don't you think about the Blackout and whether it is something that you really support.
I supported it for a while, but it was mainly just cause I thought that it would be neat to see how much of an effect it would really have, not because I believed what I read in the Journal.
Give it some thought... and then decide if it's right for you.
People died because madmen hijacked two jetliners and deliberately slammed them into skyscrapers full of thousands of innocent human beings. Corporate greed and stockholders had nothing to do with it, and it is callous, irresponsible, and shallow of you to even suggest such a thing to further your obvious hatred of corporate America.
Although I mostly agree with you, you have to admit, that at a overall, philosophical level, Corporate greed and stockholders have a lot to do with reasoning for madmen hating the USA and capitalism... and for the impovershment that keeps 3rd world countries poor so that they will be cheap sources of labor, exploited by capitalism, local governments and terrorist organizations.
Also from Hitchhiker's Guide: DeepThought Max headroom, from Max headroom Characters from the Hitchiker's guide make grand names: Marvin, Deepthought, Ford, Arthur, Trillian, etc.
I am going to pay for a/. subscription when I actually get around to it or the ads get annoying enough. These big ads aren't annoying at all. I've been noticing them in some of the stories, but I can't recall what a single one of them was advertising.
Heh. Pretty effective advertising.
Come on Taco, give me real benefits for subscribing and then I'll do it. I'll even use Paypal if I have to.
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Sorry forged, that would not be irony. That would be a coincidence (and a minor one, at that). Take it from the irony nazi.
I still hum Castlevania 1, 2, & 3 music every now and then.
I never cared for the SMB music after I watched the SMB television show and they ruined the music for me.
Megaman had some good music IIRC. When I was a kid, I would hook the VCR up to my games so that I could record the endings of them. I still have 3 VHS tapes somewhere with videogame endings on them. I was devestated when I had to tape over the cartoon Ducktales in order to get Megaman 2. I would also make cassettes of the video game music. I listened to rap and video game music.
This is my second "Me too!!" post for this story. Sorry, but... Me too!
I convinced a coworker to order one of the sexy new iMacs rather than an intel box. She's still waiting for it to be deliveried, but I feel that she made a wise decisions.
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Screw everything I said about Rowling, GO BUFFY!!
Sarah Michelle Gellar deserves an emmy or a Hugo, or my hugo... if you know what I mean.
Anyways, Harry Potter is very entertaining, despite its main-stream nature. One can hardly argue that the books are for childeren due to the use of Magic and Witchcraft. These are clearly meant for adults, although i would let, and I understand why childeren love them so much.
Sensitive private characteristics:
Sexual Preference: Heterosexual
Medical History: Pretty healthy, alcoholism runs in family.
Crinimal record: One speeding ticket, not much else.
Yeah, those are pretty private
Non-sensitive private information: /., weightlifting websites, finance, and geeky websites. straight pr0n.
Buying habits: Alcohol, Straight Pr0n, exercise stuff & vitamins, no medicine
Web browsing habits:
Whoa. My non-sensitive information is extremely suggestive of my sensitive information, wouldn't you think? What gives? Is it more complicated to make all privacy information opt-in? It seems like it would be less complicated to the irony nazi.
Ingredients:
Computer
Perl
Internet Connection
LibWWW, UserAgent, and all the dependencies, I forgot which
Optional: Perl Cookbook, by Christianson and Torkingham.
Directions:
Start with the Perl Cookbook to give you a quick background of how to design an autonomous www agent that will crawl around gathering webpages. You can have them visit links or read from a list of links or whatever you want.
Read the documentation from the Perl UserAgent libs and figure out how to change the http headers to spoof various browsers. I've done this before. I think that I ended up going into the UserAgent code and doing this manually. I don't remember exactly how I accomplished this, I just remember that it was easy.
Now have to agents to crawl websites and compare output from one website using the "Spider" http headers with the output from spoofing the "IE" http headers. Websites would sometimes still think the IE headers were a robot. The key is to pause the request so that it is as though a human is reading the page/clicking the links/etc.
Keep track of the sites that are different or keep track of whatever stats that you need.
Mix, Stir, Burn, Enjoy.
I've actually done this type of thing before in order to test various IE only websites on non-IE browsers (non-MS computers). My results were that all of the pages the *require* IE render perfectly in Mozilla and most render fine in Opera. I still don't understand why businesses would *turn-away* potential customers only for having different http headers!
When I came back and realized that the fan had been on for this amount of time, I opened up the lid, but the TiBook wouldn't wake up. It was very hot to the touch, but no warped keys, damaged LCD, whatever.
Anyways, this happened again, later.
Moral of the story? I don't know. Probably that you should always select "Sleep" from the menu before you close your TiBooks flap.
</irony nazi sighs>
Come on! It doesn't take an 'expensive expert' to know that *whenever* you upgrade a runtime server, you first set up a sandbox where you can test it... or does it? Did they even need to mention this in the article? Maybe they thought that some MSCE would instantly bring down a corporate website and attempt to install Apache, only to find that it doesn't run ASP.
On pr0n sites, sometimes I don't even know if I'm over an image or not and having to read and think about the right click menu is pretty annoying.
Also, what's with the menu popping out at a different corner of the mouse cursor depending upon which side of the screen I am on? Do I really need to stop, wait, and think for the damn thing to unfold before I start moving the mouse towards whichever option I want to choose? Wouldn't it be better if the menu always unfurolled in the same direction so that I could always move the mouse down the same fixed distance that I trained myself to do. I don't care if the cursor jumps up or over or wherever in order to accomplish this, let's just keep the menu the same (Apple has a okay solution to this, but IMO it's still wrong).
Speaking of unfurolling, should the menu come out from the center around the mouse? That minimizes the distance all of the options and they can put the most common options smack dab in the middle--- never move the mouse.
OmniWeb isn't free (as in speech), but it's darn good, and using the browser of the underdog is a small step towards restoring competition to the marketplace, which is morally good (just like using OSS).
I recommend going to omni's website and trying it out.
Slashdot Community, this is not sweet sweet irony. What QualityWithAKei said was not sweet irony, or even irony.
Please, irony is something that is different or the opposite of the literal meaning. It can even be something incongruent with what is expected.
From dictionary.com, we have
Please, for the love of humanity, start using the word irony properly!!
I'm glad to see people boycotting the blackout.
The most common passwords, you will constantly use and not need the key for. The less common passwords, however will always be in your pocket, one USB connection and decryption away.
I didn't see any other mention of hardware implemented solutions so I figured I would throw this one out.
-irony nazi
I supported it for a while, but it was mainly just cause I thought that it would be neat to see how much of an effect it would really have, not because I believed what I read in the Journal.
Give it some thought... and then decide if it's right for you.
I say this,yet I also work in finance on Wall St.
Why are you supporting the Great /. blackout? Have you really thought it through???
The epoxy does look bad at the edges of the case, so I covered the edges with aluminum angle bracket. It gave the entire case a industrial look.
Also from Hitchhiker's Guide: DeepThought
Max headroom, from Max headroom
Characters from the Hitchiker's guide make grand names:
Marvin, Deepthought, Ford, Arthur, Trillian, etc.
Heh. Pretty effective advertising.
Come on Taco, give me real benefits for subscribing and then I'll do it. I'll even use Paypal if I have to.
Sorry forged, that would not be irony. That would be a coincidence (and a minor one, at that). Take it from the irony nazi.
Does this laptop make espresso?
Wow! Do I even need to insert the CD into a machine or can I just set it within range of my Airport hub and then reboot.
I never cared for the SMB music after I watched the SMB television show and they ruined the music for me.
Megaman had some good music IIRC. When I was a kid, I would hook the VCR up to my games so that I could record the endings of them. I still have 3 VHS tapes somewhere with videogame endings on them. I was devestated when I had to tape over the cartoon Ducktales in order to get Megaman 2. I would also make cassettes of the video game music. I listened to rap and video game music.
Those were the days.
I convinced a coworker to order one of the sexy new iMacs rather than an intel box. She's still waiting for it to be deliveried, but I feel that she made a wise decisions.