How about Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts in GPS coords or long/lat? The FBI's offering $25 millon. 32 bits each for longitude and latitude should narrow it down to a beard's length.
Passenger jet crashes in New York
An American Airlines flight on its way to John F Kennedy airport has crashed in New York.
At least four buildings in the Rockaway Beach area of the city's borough of Queens are on fire.
It is not known why the aircraft crashed or how many people were on board, or in the buildings now ablaze.
New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani is on his way to the crash site and has called a level one alert.
There is no indication at the moment that the crash is anything other than an accident.
The weather was crystal clear when the plane - thought to be a Boeing 767 - went down.
Both towers of the World Trade Center in New York were destroyed on 11 September after 767s were flown into them.
All three airports serving New York - JFK, Newark and La Guardia - are now closed.
The Dow index dropped 200 points on hearing the news.
I'm fed up of the press reporting on this. There has been no real blame pointed at microsoft in the UK national press. So to do my part towards redressing the balance I wrote to the good old BBC. If you're pissed off about this, then why not put some pressure on the media to point the finger of blame (which they usually love to do). Here's what I wrote:
There have been many news stories
recently about "e-mail viruses" and
the threat from the "code red" worm.
I am concerned that little or no
mention has been made of the fact
that most of these threats rely on
security holes in Microsoft software.
I am a programmer. I also have an
interest in security. Allowing
e-mail attachments to execute any
code is a ridiculous security threat
which was just begging to be
exploited (by, for example, the I
LOVE YOU virus). The enormous
threat of the code red worm has
been due to the astonishing lack of
security in IIS.
Please make it clear that these threats
are due to virus/worm writers, hackers
who break the law to disrupt our own
computers. But please also make it
clear that it is because of secutiry
problems in Microsoft software that
these people can threaten our
computer systems.
I personally use Linux, a far more
secure and stable operating system.
Please re-dress the balance of your
reporting. Hopefully the bad publicity
will encourage MS to sort themselves
out and that will promote a safer
internet for us all.
This was on the BBC last night (Tommorow's World - the showcase for lame new technologies). Some poor b*****d climbed 20m up a glass wall. It was such hard work he looked about to collapse at the top. It would've been easier to get to the top by stacking up G4's.
Hmm. I was reading a site the other day where the msg board showed the User-Agent header for all posts. What's the betting this lamer's would be some sucky browser on a sucky OS ?
I'm tempted to get a whole load of dead-tree pr0n and post it via Snail Mail to the backers of this bill. Do you reckon they'd try to close down post offices if they knew that the oh-so-innocent postal system was being used that way? Maybe they'd try and introduce a law to check all mail passing through SA.
Or maybe politicians should just let us get on with our lives without treating us like children who have to be protected from the big, bad world outside.
Maybe I just don't want the software I run to be dick-tated by assholes like you ?
> If you're business is institutionalized on Linux
> (which there is none of anyway), then you're
> shit out of luck asshole.
Yes, we're a Linux house. We don't pay for software when we can get perfectly good software for free. Only an asshole would do that.
>... or you're not doing bussiness with us
Why? Are you very bussy at the moment? LOL.
My reason for trying to persuade designers to write code to work cross-browser is to allow for diversity. More browsers, more competition, more choice. Better for us all.
Actually I've found that a lot of designers use NS or mozilla. I use a browser for almost all of my working week so I use whatever I think is best (currenty moz0.8)
Unfortunately cross-browser compatability can be a nightmare. Mosy companies can't be bothered to test across all browsers (even if such a thing were possible) so they try to target the 95% of the market who use NS or IE.
I try to educate assho^h^h^h^h^hnew designers that I meet to make their stuff work cross-browser. Some of them have even been convinced that everyone uses IE or that everyone should install Flash. I usually give up the advocacy at the point, knowledge is too good for them.
Holy shit batman! With this and the filtering of ad banners (I need that bandwidth for gnapster godammit!) the net doesn't look like a salesdroid's free-enterprise capitalist bastard-driven wet dream anymore.
This is such an improvement over previous versions. Well done to everyone involved. The lizard kicks ass!
> It's true that VR is not much use for
> able-bodied coders
I've yet to see VR deal with programming syntax properly. Sure would make my life easier. I've been coding for nearly 20 years and my hands can ache like a bastard some days.
Would it be possible to get VR to work for something like:
for (int n=0; n < count; n++) {
I'm not sure that you could come up with a way of even saying that easily (I don't think I've every really read code out loud)
Slashdot Mirror
We have one sat in our office... it's amazing. Really, really quite. Can't give any opinions on performance, but it's beautiful and nearly silent.
How about Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts in GPS coords or long/lat? The FBI's offering $25 millon. 32 bits each for longitude and latitude should narrow it down to a beard's length.
Is that something to do with dalmations ?
CNN now reporting:
DEVELOPING STORY
U.S. Air Force officials tell CNN that fighter jets were airborne over New York at time of crash.
BBC news site report doesn't add much:
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
:-)
This was on the BBC last night (Tommorow's World - the showcase for lame new technologies). Some poor b*****d climbed 20m up a glass wall. It was such hard work he looked about to collapse at the top. It would've been easier to get to the top by stacking up G4's.
Hmm. I was reading a site the other day where the msg board showed the User-Agent header for all posts. What's the betting this lamer's would be some sucky browser on a sucky OS ?
Any chance of a slashcode mod to do this?
So which fully-tested bug-free OS would you recommend ?
All software sucks. Some sucks more than others.
Er, that's referring to a problem with this beta recognising WD HDDs of > 8.4GB
AFAIK there are no capacity limits. Besides, it's an OS without so much bloat, you only need the space for MP3s. So go and slag off someone else's OS.
(did I just feed the troll?)
Uploading your own ad. What a cool idea. Picture the scene:
Boss: james, you're reading slashdot too much in work time
Me: Yep, but look who's advertising banner is at the top, thank to me.
One thing that really pisses me off is car drivers sharing their pollution with the rest of the world.
I'm tempted to get a whole load of dead-tree pr0n and post it via Snail Mail to the backers of this bill. Do you reckon they'd try to close down post offices if they knew that the oh-so-innocent postal system was being used that way? Maybe they'd try and introduce a law to check all mail passing through SA.
Or maybe politicians should just let us get on with our lives without treating us like children who have to be protected from the big, bad world outside.
Maybe I just don't want the software I run to be dick-tated by assholes like you ?
> If you're business is institutionalized on Linux
> (which there is none of anyway), then you're
> shit out of luck asshole.
Yes, we're a Linux house. We don't pay for software when we can get perfectly good software for free. Only an asshole would do that.
> ... or you're not doing bussiness with us
Why? Are you very bussy at the moment? LOL.
My reason for trying to persuade designers to write code to work cross-browser is to allow for diversity. More browsers, more competition, more choice. Better for us all.
bj
Actually I've found that a lot of designers use NS or mozilla. I use a browser for almost all of my working week so I use whatever I think is best (currenty moz0.8)
Unfortunately cross-browser compatability can be a nightmare. Mosy companies can't be bothered to test across all browsers (even if such a thing were possible) so they try to target the 95% of the market who use NS or IE.
I try to educate assho^h^h^h^h^hnew designers that I meet to make their stuff work cross-browser. Some of them have even been convinced that everyone uses IE or that everyone should install Flash. I usually give up the advocacy at the point, knowledge is too good for them.
bj
Hacking java, XML and cross-browser HTML daily
Holy shit batman! With this and the filtering of ad banners (I need that bandwidth for gnapster godammit!) the net doesn't look like a salesdroid's free-enterprise capitalist bastard-driven wet dream anymore.
This is such an improvement over previous versions. Well done to everyone involved. The lizard kicks ass!
The only factor that M$ have on the PC price is whether you have Windoze on it.[0]
PC with M$ costs more than PC without M$.
Besides, I (like some of the others who've responded to your ill-informed comment) have used Sun servers and have seen how powerfull they are.
[0] OK, OK, you might have an MS rodent
Oh man! Do you reckon they could get it to produce those curly blue trails a la Q2 ?
> able-bodied coders
I've yet to see VR deal with programming syntax properly. Sure would make my life easier. I've been coding for nearly 20 years and my hands can ache like a bastard some days.
Would it be possible to get VR to work for something like:
I'm not sure that you could come up with a way of even saying that easily (I don't think I've every really read code out loud)Imaginative solutions anyone?
"1. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch."
Eric S Raymond - Cathedral and the Bazaar
Woah, dude. You just found yourself an open source project.