I don't quite see what the problem is. This guy is submiting LEGITIMATE news. He is using this to get a small amount of traffic. Slashdot wouldn't have allowed links in the submission process if they thought it was unfair.
Please, someone explain what their problem is with this person... he's submitting legitimate news, and frequently. If you don't like it, make sure you send better news in. But please, stop complaining.
As it's a ball (the clue is in it's name), it could have a small weight at the bottom, or the logic would be placed all at the bottom, so it always would land bottom down. Well, this would be the cheap way of doing it:)
I'm sorry to say that Firefox isn't really all that good. I started using it years back (firebird 0.8), and thought it was great - much better than IE, and much better than Galeon at the time. Mozilla was too sluggish for me, so I thought Firefox was The Answer(tm).
Five years or so down the line, I've grown to almost hate it. It's still the memory hog it once was. It basically freezes up on pages that display lots of images/flash, which really is unacceptable.
So I've moved back to Opera (again!). My vote for best product of the year would have to be Opera. They've become free (as in beer, not speech), which I think is awesome. They've also gone to the effort of making things easy for most standard Linux distros.
So until I start hearing good news about Firefox speed and memory improvements, I'll be sticking with Opera thank you.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel it was necessary.</rant>
Hey, stop being a cock. This is a good thing not a bad thing. Any process with root/Administrator privelages can call shutdown, why would this be any different?
I'm not willing to pay a stupid amount of money for a certificate signed by a commercial company. Call me paranoid, but who knows if this "certified company" is really trustworthy. It's that "web of trust" thing again...
Not strictly true. If you hav a dynamic IP address (which many/most end users do), you need some sort of registration and look-up service, to match the current IP:port with a specific user. Whether this service is e.g. Vonage, or a dyndns service, you *do* need a provider of *something*.
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Well maybe Santa Claus will bring you a boxed Windows XP Home Edition, as you've been a very bad {boy, girl}.
I think it's more important to state why it's so important to "upgrade". Why they cannot live without it. Something along the lines of:
Firefox: Less viruses, Less popups, Faster porn, Free!
Point number 1 - Stop clicking these links, fool.
Point number 2 - As long as they post a decent article, I'd say it's fair game.
... how much that looks like a Microsoft web page.
Oh no... Microoooogle?!
Don't forget Mr Bob Selotape!
I don't quite see what the problem is. This guy is submiting LEGITIMATE news. He is using this to get a small amount of traffic. Slashdot wouldn't have allowed links in the submission process if they thought it was unfair.
Please, someone explain what their problem is with this person... he's submitting legitimate news, and frequently. If you don't like it, make sure you send better news in. But please, stop complaining.
As it's a ball (the clue is in it's name), it could have a small weight at the bottom, or the logic would be placed all at the bottom, so it always would land bottom down. Well, this would be the cheap way of doing it :)
This is an awesome idea! I hate people who can't type properly. Filter away!
I can imagine it now:
dingALing!
"lol no this is not a virus. but u gotta chown root:root notavirus; chmod o+xS notavirus to read it!"
New Microsoft Windows XP! Now $5 cheaper, and with ALL NEW EXPANSION PACK PLUS PRO XP!!!111
Wtf? your wife calls you "Fulcrum of Evil"?
I meant... wtf? you have a wife?
I'm sorry to say that Firefox isn't really all that good. I started using it years back (firebird 0.8), and thought it was great - much better than IE, and much better than Galeon at the time. Mozilla was too sluggish for me, so I thought Firefox was The Answer(tm).
Five years or so down the line, I've grown to almost hate it. It's still the memory hog it once was. It basically freezes up on pages that display lots of images/flash, which really is unacceptable.
So I've moved back to Opera (again!). My vote for best product of the year would have to be Opera. They've become free (as in beer, not speech), which I think is awesome. They've also gone to the effort of making things easy for most standard Linux distros.
So until I start hearing good news about Firefox speed and memory improvements, I'll be sticking with Opera thank you.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel it was necessary.</rant>
Hey, stop being a cock. This is a good thing not a bad thing. Any process with root/Administrator privelages can call shutdown, why would this be any different?
Do you know what I find hellish with my BlackBerry? Trying to use a qwerty keyboard with my thumbs!
No, 1+1='11'
It was the face of GOATSE.
Forgive me father, for I have sinned.
Just the question "is it possible?" is enough to drive the hacker mind into trying it.
Yeah, or "intranet".
This is a bad idea, especially for local hostnames (e.g. cvs-server, exchange, www-staging, etc. etc.).
Hey, you missed out Internet Explorer in your list of testing!
Ahh, thank you for volunteering. How soon are you going to start implementing this?
Yes, but they make it up in volume!
I'm not willing to pay a stupid amount of money for a certificate signed by a commercial company. Call me paranoid, but who knows if this "certified company" is really trustworthy. It's that "web of trust" thing again...
Funny. I thought the first rule of business was: Get a job.
That's no way to talk about KFC!
For pure VOIP calls, you don't need a provider.
Not strictly true. If you hav a dynamic IP address (which many/most end users do), you need some sort of registration and look-up service, to match the current IP:port with a specific user. Whether this service is e.g. Vonage, or a dyndns service, you *do* need a provider of *something*.