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You do realise that all our carefully constructed witty 'stating-the-bloody-obvious' karma-whorage is going to be marked down as 'Offtopic' now, don't you?
Shouldn't worry too much about the 2004 election. If we're _really_ lucky they'll have finished the final recount of all the Florida votes from THIS one!
Last time it was out was in November 1999. I think Slashdot have got to put all the icons on the front page every 12 months or the Icons Union comes knocking...
D'you know there's an Internet Explorer icon as well? Makes a change from all the Borg ones.
If the school really doesn't want kids getting into stuff, then why not make the passwords harder? I know where I went to college a while ago, and had access to some system administration things, the passwords were very eays. Why do school's not choose harder passwords? Do they not care about security?
I know that in my experience, Libraries care more about freedom issues than you'd give them credit for. Although they're mandated by federal / council law to provide proxying and filtering software, you'll find that most of them will be set up so that they're trivial to circumvent in the right hands.
This is a good thing, as it encourages open-minded use of computer facilities, as well as providing the library with a suitable fallback should such browsing be reported.
Of course, it'll take one spoo-brain to leave a publicly accessible browser open at goatse.cx to ruin it for everyone.
You know, this Stoner dude might be a sly manipulative genius.
Assume he's a big Napster / music sharing fan, and wants to help Napster out. All he has to do is bring up a 'novelty' lawsuit against ANOTHER online service. This will gets resolved sensibly, and he appears to have lost...
However, the Napster lawyers NOW have a legal precedent to take to court with them that basically covers (from a non technical P.O.V. of course) the same thing they do but all legal like. Nice one, Randall!
The database seems to have got corrupted, and various articles are only appearing in the sections, rather than as part of the main story flow. You can't even get to this one (or the NT Hosting Trollfest) via the Previous and Next article links below the articles.
At least wait until we get them over in Europe as well! We've already got no chance of seeing the CueCat over here, and I doubt the iOpener's going to be released either.
Us smelly Metric-using Euros WANT these cool toys!
When they bend down their part their front legs which squeezes the main artery to the brain to stop it blowing up.
How the HELL does something evolve like that? Like, does one giraffe look at another giraffe exploding and thinks "Hmm, maybe if I wibbled my legs apart a bit further I might be able to get away with it?" Are animals THAT self aware?
Not only that, but it's clear they've been holding their heads low for a long time now. Take a look at the latest article posted to Mozillazine. Pathetic, childish drivel that'll put the average Slashdot Troll to shame.
And THESE are the people we'd trust with the future of online communications?
Anyway, to bring things back on topic. It's a wonder how much we know about dinosaurs to be exact fact? Who knows what future Earth-dwelling races will extrapolate from our remains?
Spammers hail from the same lack of moral decency as Pedophiles, and should be treated as such. They will NOT THINK TWICE about bombarding our children with advertisements for sick, perverted filth. In the course of a few years online, I've received _unsolicited_ links and images which have totally disgusted me.
Imagine what this unstopped torrent of filth will do to a child's state of mind! I don't think any parent wants their young child to turn round and ask them what words like "Anal", "Fisting", and "Cum filled whore" mean.
What price innocence? In older times, peverts and hucksters like these spammers would have been hounded out of their community by decent folk. Instead, it seems that they would rather bring in legal measures to sue anyone who cares about what filth their children receive through email.
They are NOT legitimate businessmen. They are violators of a parent's right to bring a child up as they see fit! You wouldn't want to invite a child molestor into your home, so what gives them a right to molest your children via email?
Yes, I know that eventually a child will grow up and become an adult, entering the cynical, embittered world we all live in. But surely their innocence, and joy of discovery should be treasured, at least for a few brief years?
We should have seen this coming. Ever since the "Green Card" spam, things have been getting worse as these gutter-snipes consider themselves legitimate businessmen.
Now if someone had walked up to Canter and/or Siegel in the street and just shot the fuckers in the face, the net wouldn't be in such a sorry state as it is now? The warning would have been heard and this pissants would have moved on to a less dangerous profession like running a crack house.
Or maybe little 8 year old Timmy REALLY enjoys receiving emails advertising "XXX RED HOT FISTING NECROSLUTS" Do you want your kids getting such filth? Of course you don't. So take action!
Protect our children - Shoot a spammer in the face with a high calibre handgun!
Does anyone have any details on why Blackstar should feel so endebted to Conway? I feel I must be missing something...
It's all about the hits. Just think of the amount of people reading this on Slashdot who'd be tempted to click on the link to find out who they are. Even if 1% of the Slashdotters bought something there, it's a sizeable income.
But in the non-Slashdot-centric world view, it's good publicity, really. Consider the number of open source geeks now thinking "Hey, these Blackstar d00dz are cool!"
Here's the reason why I'm gonna be holding out for an Indrema:
MAME - you can bet that as soon as the SDK's are released some bright spark will decide to port the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator to it. Then all they'll need to do is package it up onto a CD that's jam-packed full of ROM images and it'll sell like hotcakes!
Sure, it might not be the most legally sound of releases, and will never get the offical stamp of approval, but it WILL be done. And us retro-gamers will lap it up!
"Nolan Bushnell invents Pong" That would be par for Slashdot, since Bushnell DIDN'T.
Well spotted!:)
The bloke to blame for our collective misspent youth is either Willy Higginbotham (Invented a 'bat and ball' analog computer demo in 1958) or Ralph Baer (Magnavox, et. al. in the 1970s.), depending on your p.o.v.
I'm not just a pretty face, y'know. Hell, I'm not even a pretty face!
This line was inexplicably removed from the final inteview:
Q: "Thirty Terabytes? That's a lot, isn't it?"
A: "Well, once we've taken out all the Spam, 'Make Money Fast' schemes, Pr0n, "w3 0\/\/N j00" homepages, Natalie Portman fansites, 'USS Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer' discussions, links to goatse.cx, and Jon Katz articles, we can fit it all onto a floppy."
One of the problems with being a Brit (well apart from us all having poor Dental Care and speaking like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, Guv'nor.) is that we never get to see half of these cool things over here.
Hell, we've only just started to get WebTV style boxes in the shops now. And don't even get me started about BT.
So, if anyone wants to send their used CueCats to good old Airstrip One, I'm sure we can find plenty of good homes for them! And it'll help drive Digital Con. off the face of the planet too!
Got one of those 7110's myself. As far as making it 'useful' goes, the only thing I can really think of is if you were too lazy to waddle over to the computer to check if anyone's sent you email...
The form factor's too crap to allow you to actually REPLY to your emails, and then you can only read them if you step through about half a paragraph at a time.
But it's a nice little toy, and it's moderately trivial to set up and test your own WAP site. (Provided you go through Breathe in the UK, rather than the abysmal Genie.) Plugged a WML convertor into my web templates in about 10 minutes! (Just trying to remember what the point was!)
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You do realise that all our carefully constructed witty 'stating-the-bloody-obvious' karma-whorage is going to be marked down as 'Offtopic' now, don't you?
Imagine how much [____] I can store on this!
Where you can fill in the gap with any or all of the following exciting words:
Pr0n, mp3s, Divx rips, Warez, Source code, Grits.
Thank you.
Oh yeah, and it'll work REALLY well in a fucking beowulf cluster too!
Shouldn't worry too much about the 2004 election. If we're _really_ lucky they'll have finished the final recount of all the Florida votes from THIS one!
Last time it was out was in November 1999. I think Slashdot have got to put all the icons on the front page every 12 months or the Icons Union comes knocking...
D'you know there's an Internet Explorer icon as well? Makes a change from all the Borg ones.
D.
So how many ways can we now register "sucky-sucky.com"?
If the school really doesn't want kids getting into stuff, then why not make the passwords harder? I know where I went to college a while ago, and had access to some system administration things, the passwords were very eays. Why do school's not choose harder passwords? Do they not care about security?
I know that in my experience, Libraries care more about freedom issues than you'd give them credit for. Although they're mandated by federal / council law to provide proxying and filtering software, you'll find that most of them will be set up so that they're trivial to circumvent in the right hands.
This is a good thing, as it encourages open-minded use of computer facilities, as well as providing the library with a suitable fallback should such browsing be reported.
Of course, it'll take one spoo-brain to leave a publicly accessible browser open at goatse.cx to ruin it for everyone.
You know, this Stoner dude might be a sly manipulative genius.
Assume he's a big Napster / music sharing fan, and wants to help Napster out. All he has to do is bring up a 'novelty' lawsuit against ANOTHER online service. This will gets resolved sensibly, and he appears to have lost...
However, the Napster lawyers NOW have a legal precedent to take to court with them that basically covers (from a non technical P.O.V. of course) the same thing they do but all legal like. Nice one, Randall!
When's 2.6 coming out?
The database seems to have got corrupted, and various articles are only appearing in the sections, rather than as part of the main story flow. You can't even get to this one (or the NT Hosting Trollfest) via the Previous and Next article links below the articles.
You're right though, this IS important news!
At least wait until we get them over in Europe as well! We've already got no chance of seeing the CueCat over here, and I doubt the iOpener's going to be released either.
Us smelly Metric-using Euros WANT these cool toys!
Why does that list remind me of the only good scene in the otherwise godawful film "Hackers"?
When they bend down their part their front legs which squeezes the main artery to the brain to stop it blowing up.
How the HELL does something evolve like that? Like, does one giraffe look at another giraffe exploding and thinks "Hmm, maybe if I wibbled my legs apart a bit further I might be able to get away with it?" Are animals THAT self aware?
Not only that, but it's clear they've been holding their heads low for a long time now. Take a look at the latest article posted to Mozillazine. Pathetic, childish drivel that'll put the average Slashdot Troll to shame.
And THESE are the people we'd trust with the future of online communications?
Anyway, to bring things back on topic. It's a wonder how much we know about dinosaurs to be exact fact? Who knows what future Earth-dwelling races will extrapolate from our remains?
Really.
Spammers hail from the same lack of moral decency as Pedophiles, and should be treated as such. They will NOT THINK TWICE about bombarding our children with advertisements for sick, perverted filth. In the course of a few years online, I've received _unsolicited_ links and images which have totally disgusted me.
Imagine what this unstopped torrent of filth will do to a child's state of mind! I don't think any parent wants their young child to turn round and ask them what words like "Anal", "Fisting", and "Cum filled whore" mean.
What price innocence? In older times, peverts and hucksters like these spammers would have been hounded out of their community by decent folk. Instead, it seems that they would rather bring in legal measures to sue anyone who cares about what filth their children receive through email.
They are NOT legitimate businessmen. They are violators of a parent's right to bring a child up as they see fit! You wouldn't want to invite a child molestor into your home, so what gives them a right to molest your children via email?
Yes, I know that eventually a child will grow up and become an adult, entering the cynical, embittered world we all live in. But surely their innocence, and joy of discovery should be treasured, at least for a few brief years?
We should have seen this coming. Ever since the "Green Card" spam, things have been getting worse as these gutter-snipes consider themselves legitimate businessmen.
Now if someone had walked up to Canter and/or Siegel in the street and just shot the fuckers in the face, the net wouldn't be in such a sorry state as it is now? The warning would have been heard and this pissants would have moved on to a less dangerous profession like running a crack house.
Or maybe little 8 year old Timmy REALLY enjoys receiving emails advertising "XXX RED HOT FISTING NECROSLUTS" Do you want your kids getting such filth? Of course you don't. So take action!
Protect our children - Shoot a spammer in the face with a high calibre handgun!
Does anyone have any details on why Blackstar should feel so endebted to Conway? I feel I must be missing something...
It's all about the hits. Just think of the amount of people reading this on Slashdot who'd be tempted to click on the link to find out who they are. Even if 1% of the Slashdotters bought something there, it's a sizeable income.
But in the non-Slashdot-centric world view, it's good publicity, really. Consider the number of open source geeks now thinking "Hey, these Blackstar d00dz are cool!"
Here's the reason why I'm gonna be holding out for an Indrema:
MAME - you can bet that as soon as the SDK's are released some bright spark will decide to port the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator to it. Then all they'll need to do is package it up onto a CD that's jam-packed full of ROM images and it'll sell like hotcakes!
Sure, it might not be the most legally sound of releases, and will never get the offical stamp of approval, but it WILL be done. And us retro-gamers will lap it up!
Trust me on this one, you DON'T want to start pointing out the technical inaccuracies found in Star Trek V.
You'll be at it for months.
Looks like the only people who are going to profit from this are the lawyers.
"Nolan Bushnell invents Pong" That would be par for Slashdot, since Bushnell DIDN'T.
Well spotted! :)
The bloke to blame for our collective misspent youth is either Willy Higginbotham (Invented a 'bat and ball' analog computer demo in 1958) or Ralph Baer (Magnavox, et. al. in the 1970s.), depending on your p.o.v.
I'm not just a pretty face, y'know. Hell, I'm not even a pretty face!
Wow. "Old news for Nerds. Stuff that mattered". It's not as if we haven't heard this before or anything.
What next? Will we see "Nolan Bushnell invents Pong" up on the front page?
This line was inexplicably removed from the final inteview: Q: "Thirty Terabytes? That's a lot, isn't it?" A: "Well, once we've taken out all the Spam, 'Make Money Fast' schemes, Pr0n, "w3 0\/\/N j00" homepages, Natalie Portman fansites, 'USS Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer' discussions, links to goatse.cx, and Jon Katz articles, we can fit it all onto a floppy."
One of the problems with being a Brit (well apart from us all having poor Dental Care and speaking like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, Guv'nor.) is that we never get to see half of these cool things over here.
Hell, we've only just started to get WebTV style boxes in the shops now. And don't even get me started about BT.
So, if anyone wants to send their used CueCats to good old Airstrip One, I'm sure we can find plenty of good homes for them! And it'll help drive Digital Con. off the face of the planet too!
When is Slashdot going to get a new icon for these stories?
Maybe a generic one for "Nasty companies we're trying to hound to death."
Got one of those 7110's myself. As far as making it 'useful' goes, the only thing I can really think of is if you were too lazy to waddle over to the computer to check if anyone's sent you email...
The form factor's too crap to allow you to actually REPLY to your emails, and then you can only read them if you step through about half a paragraph at a time.
But it's a nice little toy, and it's moderately trivial to set up and test your own WAP site. (Provided you go through Breathe in the UK, rather than the abysmal Genie.) Plugged a WML convertor into my web templates in about 10 minutes! (Just trying to remember what the point was!)
And I'm surprised no-one's mentioned http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~erikkr i/slashdot.wml - A damn sight better than Slashdot's own WAP interface.