Before anyone who just joined this story bothers reading through all the other posts, heres a conclusion:
- The page is a gif (fair enough) - Its covered with a transparent gif - The actual page gif is a css background image - Whatever other javascript (i didnt check) doesnt matter - Its easy to bypass, nothing to see here, move along
google pleeeeeease launch an actual sms sending service! most services out there are absolutely crap, o2's paid service for example (consider that they are a pretty large phone company) is so shockingly bad that i just smashed my house phone to bits in absolute rage after trying to use it - its almost like they designed it just to piss people off! Tiscali has a free service but they can't even manage the most basic interface design. Others are so bloated and adverty that it takes several minutes to send a message that would have taken several seconds on an instant messenger. Google could wipe the market clean all around the world. Text messaging is a really pathetically crap restricted format but sometimes you have to use it and have no choice, google please make my life easier, i'll pay you.
Yeah our dick-wad government decided it would be a good idea to sign a deal with the US that basically let them arrest anyone here for any reason without a judge checking it out, i'm guessing that also applies to raids and im almost certain it doesnt work the other way around. Hey you guys want our oil while you're at it?
I saw them at the Linux expo at Olympia yesterday, it looked pretty decent and its still alpha, they said they sometimes get people helping and pointing out bugs, its pretty rockin that they're getting funding considering the direction the BBC is going, definately better than suns java desktop, but damnit they wernt giving away any penguins or anything >:(
"So Mr and Mrs Smith, you want to have kids? Mrs Smith you were born from a Monsanto engineered egg in fertility treatment? ah, in that case they'll require a license fee for reproduction."
"Sir, im closing your hot dog stand down, you don't have a license to publicly serve that mustard, only a home license!"
"Police today raided the home of a 68 year old woman involved in illigal cookie piracy. She is currently being charged with distribution to a number of local children."
"License to grow apples, thats $40,000 per tree or you can get a site license for $1,200,000?"
I used to get it bad but now a new game will keep me for about 3 days usually. You gotta get out of that cycle where you're always looking for your next fix, it helps to break CD's in half and delete things (delete and over-write, recovery tools will be the first thing your doped up brain will try). Instead try getting addicted to things like learning flash and c#, as much as we hate it, they're fun to play with and you might be able to get a job whoring yourself out for dot NET services.
anyone who doesn't bother designing redundancy/backup/fall-back measures in a system like that is an incompetent engineer, period. Reminds me of the worst film ever made - Atomic Train, or the stupid Delorians that you could lock yourself in, im just glad the people who design planes understand this, because car manufacturers certainly don't. Also car interfaces have to be one of the worst in the world, clutches are a stupid awkward in-efficient system (grinding plates together might be what you'd expect 100 years ago but come on this is 2004!), controlling low speeds is just not good enough (we have the fucking shift key to let you finely adjust controls in some programs, where is it in cars?).
Wernt they supposed to separate it as part of a court decision? I've yet to find a way to actually separate it - they should release a utility to let you remove all IE components and drop-in replace it with anything that can render html, that means all other applications that call IE (eg WinAmp) would work the same except with a new browser.
So wait, the war on terrorism is being won, Iraq was a success, big-budget Homeland Security is doing its job, No-fly lists are so strict even innocent people can't fly, air marshals are always alert, intelligence agencies both in the US and around the world are working 24/7 to make sure they stay on top of the game, there hasn't been an attack on the US since 9/11 and barely any before that with the reduced security, but yet the threat level is constantly at what? and everything is a matter of national security.. I think its about time you guys got some of your freedom back, baring arms style.
Damnit, Apple should so release a new PDA - they'd have instant fame with anyone who liked the newton and if they actually did it right they would be able to sell to all newton lovers, all iPod lovers and all Apple lovers in general, not to mention *nix geeks. Plus they already have the supply of mini hard-drives.
As much as Ballmer is talking totally irellivent BS and dancing around like a Chimpy McFlightsuit (not realising which OS in the world is used to download and play the most 'stolen' music and who's products also play mp3s) Atleast one part of his comment was roughly right in the implication: Most music players are full of mp3s downloaded for free. Shall we have a poll?
Personally I don't know what Microsofts beef with DRM is - as we know they are about making money, which would lead me to think that they plan to knock out some basic DRM and sell licenses for billions, im absolutely fine with that, just as long as they don't try too hard to ruin the computing industry for F/OSS and everyone else. Video players arn't really the way forward - PDA's with hard-drives and decent battaries are the way forward, I reckon Apple could win here, they've got the experience with the Newton and an OS that normal people and geeks alike will love and you just know its going to look fucking hot! Microsoft are just crapping their pants because they know everyone and their dog wants an iPod, they can't compete with fashion.
...and what do we do to people who endanger national security? we arrest them without charge and dump them in cuba. Go on, someone make my day! please be sure the media get a good position to catch him being taken away in a police cruiser. Bush is certainly up there as one of Americas worst presidents, I really want to see him loose badly, it would definately boost respect for America.
Oh shit, that described me to a tee. I sometimes get headaches and a coffee gets rid of them! I only drink 1 or 2 a day but occaisionally upto 4 or 5. But then there are times when i feel like a boost so i grab the big 4-person coffee pot and stuff it! Im just glad im so obsessed with making it right, i like to grind it on the spot and run the pot through empty to clean it every time which means i offen just can't be bothered to make a coffee, good thing i cant drink instant or i'd be OD'd by now! Oh fuck, thank you very much slashdot, now i need another!
I was watchin newsnight a week or two ago and the interviewer was giving an Iraqi government spokesman (i think?) stick and saying things like "isnt your government just a puppet for America?" and this guy was defending himself "oh no no we are independent" etc.. the deal was that they were planning to release some women over the hostage crisis - next day, i turn on the news and the fucking US government says "no we don't want to release them"! So the Iraqi government says "we're going to do this" and the US says "nope, sorry".
even if the figure was more like 90%, who cares? it doesn't change the fact that forcing Windows to be bundled and not giving the customer or the seller the choice is anti-competitive and monopolistic. Microsoft simply has to deal with software piracy like _every_ other commercial software company. Why should they get special treatment? If they didn't have this monopoly in the first place they might not have reached the same position. It just doesn't work when corporations are allowed to abuse market power and use bully tactics, that's not what capitalism is about. I think..
- 93% of parents support automatic filtering of net access.
- Uptake of ISP parental control features has been low.
Solution: Because people want censorship but can't be assed to pick up the phone and ask their ISP to enable it on their account, the entire country must be censored and everyone must pay a fee.
Lets see..
- 93% of people aged 18 - 25 would like to have pizza delivered on a thursday night.
- The uptake of pizza delivery on a thursday night has been low.
Solution: Because people can't be assed to order the pizza, everyone will have mandatory pizza on thursday nights (you don't have to eat it but all other restaurants and supermarkets will be closed) and everyone will pay for it.
Mobile net is all very good, but will this actually be affordable by the average person? Most households are fine with paying a monthly fee in the region of around 10 - 25 quid for either unlimited adsl or old dial-up but mobile phone companies seem to think that they have to rip us off or else they don't get to eat! GPRS is still charged in cave-man prices, If anyone is prepaired to offer a proper mobile internet service, flat-rate at the same monthly fee as adsl then i reckon most people would drop their home connections and switch to this - even if it was only 256k/s!
I think with the RNC-NY disaster is obvious that most Americans have forgotten about their right to protest. Protesters we arrested even when not blocking traffic or pedestrians and even when they did what they were told and followed the police! The attitude was that they 'shouldn't have been protesting if they didn't want to get arrested' and that they would be 'kept until it was over so they couldn't make any more trouble'!
The whole Prince William thing is surely bullshit, if i was a teenage girl and I saw him, why the fuck would I want 200 bitchy girls getting in my way? and as for celebrities - pop stars etc. they live for attention, you don't think they have a 1,000,000 record sales deal for the 'art' do you? As for getting people out of office, if they deserve protests then you have every right to protest, there's no debate on this issue. ok so there's people on trial, and yes sometimes idiots decide that if you're on trial it means you're guilty so they want to go and kill you, it could be a problem, especially with the growing number of total fucking shit-for-brain people who confuse 'paediatricians' with 'paedophiles' and go smash up their homes.
"The (British) police are cracking down on activists who come equipped with mobiles - and are apparently empowered to do so" I haven't heard of that and I've been to a few, it kinda makes us sound like the ultimate big-brother but generally the police are ok, i even burnt the flag - no problem (ok so it was the US flag but hey) The anti-terrorism laws are just like Americas - they give the police power to do just about anything and really, if they did want to stop phones they could _easily_ demand the local cell towers are turned off or set to emergency calls only, that goes for any country and you can pretty much expect the government to have an agreement to be able to do that anywhere at any time.
Generally mobiles are going to make it easier for police if they have access to the phone companies. While i would totally not tolerate letting them have access to the locations of specific people, it might (with careful thought) be ok for them to know how many phones are logged into a certain cell purely for safety, as long as everyone remembers that a: the police work for you, not the other way around, b: you have the right to protest, and c: crowds can be dangerous, sometimes erupt into violence and may be a terrorist target so its in everyone's interests to just be careful and sensible and leave lots of space and exits and cooperate with each other etc. Generally i think the sort of people that flash-mob or protest are sensible people that actually think and care about things so its not like they are going to go toss Bush's limo over, drag him out and beat him to the ground while security try to shoot them off one by one with pistols.
Sounds like it could just be some LCDs, but either way they are far from perfect, useless for any graphics work because you cant tell what colour/shade you're looking at and the price makes them only for people not still on student loans (percentage of slashdot?). Its a good point though and if i ever get one ill be sure to check it out first.
Wow you guys are so easy to please, i think im gonna release my own DVD box-set with 8 extra hours of Bilbo scratching his ass between takes, i wonder how much i can sell it for!? Seriously did they suddenly just find all this extra footage and think "oh, whoops, we're gonna have to re-release RoTK" why not just sell it separately? well really i don't blame them, i only hope one day i too can be such a masterful business man.
Its these damn 'activist' judges again!! who do they think they are conforming to some 'bill of rights' when they damn well should be conforming to the laws politicians have been busting their asses getting passed! Its almost as if they are actually judging things instead of doing what they're told! tsk
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Before anyone who just joined this story bothers reading through all the other posts, heres a conclusion:
- The page is a gif (fair enough)
- Its covered with a transparent gif
- The actual page gif is a css background image
- Whatever other javascript (i didnt check) doesnt matter
- Its easy to bypass, nothing to see here, move along
google pleeeeeease launch an actual sms sending service! most services out there are absolutely crap, o2's paid service for example (consider that they are a pretty large phone company) is so shockingly bad that i just smashed my house phone to bits in absolute rage after trying to use it - its almost like they designed it just to piss people off! Tiscali has a free service but they can't even manage the most basic interface design. Others are so bloated and adverty that it takes several minutes to send a message that would have taken several seconds on an instant messenger. Google could wipe the market clean all around the world. Text messaging is a really pathetically crap restricted format but sometimes you have to use it and have no choice, google please make my life easier, i'll pay you.
Yeah our dick-wad government decided it would be a good idea to sign a deal with the US that basically let them arrest anyone here for any reason without a judge checking it out, i'm guessing that also applies to raids and im almost certain it doesnt work the other way around. Hey you guys want our oil while you're at it?
I saw them at the Linux expo at Olympia yesterday, it looked pretty decent and its still alpha, they said they sometimes get people helping and pointing out bugs, its pretty rockin that they're getting funding considering the direction the BBC is going, definately better than suns java desktop, but damnit they wernt giving away any penguins or anything >:(
Thats kind of the same way racism works.
"So Mr and Mrs Smith, you want to have kids? Mrs Smith you were born from a Monsanto engineered egg in fertility treatment? ah, in that case they'll require a license fee for reproduction."
"Sir, im closing your hot dog stand down, you don't have a license to publicly serve that mustard, only a home license!"
"Police today raided the home of a 68 year old woman involved in illigal cookie piracy. She is currently being charged with distribution to a number of local children."
"License to grow apples, thats $40,000 per tree or you can get a site license for $1,200,000?"
I used to get it bad but now a new game will keep me for about 3 days usually. You gotta get out of that cycle where you're always looking for your next fix, it helps to break CD's in half and delete things (delete and over-write, recovery tools will be the first thing your doped up brain will try). Instead try getting addicted to things like learning flash and c#, as much as we hate it, they're fun to play with and you might be able to get a job whoring yourself out for dot NET services.
anyone who doesn't bother designing redundancy/backup/fall-back measures in a system like that is an incompetent engineer, period. Reminds me of the worst film ever made - Atomic Train, or the stupid Delorians that you could lock yourself in, im just glad the people who design planes understand this, because car manufacturers certainly don't. Also car interfaces have to be one of the worst in the world, clutches are a stupid awkward in-efficient system (grinding plates together might be what you'd expect 100 years ago but come on this is 2004!), controlling low speeds is just not good enough (we have the fucking shift key to let you finely adjust controls in some programs, where is it in cars?).
Wernt they supposed to separate it as part of a court decision? I've yet to find a way to actually separate it - they should release a utility to let you remove all IE components and drop-in replace it with anything that can render html, that means all other applications that call IE (eg WinAmp) would work the same except with a new browser.
So wait, the war on terrorism is being won, Iraq was a success, big-budget Homeland Security is doing its job, No-fly lists are so strict even innocent people can't fly, air marshals are always alert, intelligence agencies both in the US and around the world are working 24/7 to make sure they stay on top of the game, there hasn't been an attack on the US since 9/11 and barely any before that with the reduced security, but yet the threat level is constantly at what? and everything is a matter of national security.. I think its about time you guys got some of your freedom back, baring arms style.
Damnit, Apple should so release a new PDA - they'd have instant fame with anyone who liked the newton and if they actually did it right they would be able to sell to all newton lovers, all iPod lovers and all Apple lovers in general, not to mention *nix geeks. Plus they already have the supply of mini hard-drives.
As much as Ballmer is talking totally irellivent BS and dancing around like a Chimpy McFlightsuit (not realising which OS in the world is used to download and play the most 'stolen' music and who's products also play mp3s) Atleast one part of his comment was roughly right in the implication: Most music players are full of mp3s downloaded for free. Shall we have a poll?
Personally I don't know what Microsofts beef with DRM is - as we know they are about making money, which would lead me to think that they plan to knock out some basic DRM and sell licenses for billions, im absolutely fine with that, just as long as they don't try too hard to ruin the computing industry for F/OSS and everyone else. Video players arn't really the way forward - PDA's with hard-drives and decent battaries are the way forward, I reckon Apple could win here, they've got the experience with the Newton and an OS that normal people and geeks alike will love and you just know its going to look fucking hot! Microsoft are just crapping their pants because they know everyone and their dog wants an iPod, they can't compete with fashion.
...and what do we do to people who endanger national security? we arrest them without charge and dump them in cuba. Go on, someone make my day! please be sure the media get a good position to catch him being taken away in a police cruiser. Bush is certainly up there as one of Americas worst presidents, I really want to see him loose badly, it would definately boost respect for America.
Oh shit, that described me to a tee. I sometimes get headaches and a coffee gets rid of them! I only drink 1 or 2 a day but occaisionally upto 4 or 5. But then there are times when i feel like a boost so i grab the big 4-person coffee pot and stuff it! Im just glad im so obsessed with making it right, i like to grind it on the spot and run the pot through empty to clean it every time which means i offen just can't be bothered to make a coffee, good thing i cant drink instant or i'd be OD'd by now! Oh fuck, thank you very much slashdot, now i need another!
I have a patent that asks Eastman Kodak to suck my balls. Does that help?
I was watchin newsnight a week or two ago and the interviewer was giving an Iraqi government spokesman (i think?) stick and saying things like "isnt your government just a puppet for America?" and this guy was defending himself "oh no no we are independent" etc.. the deal was that they were planning to release some women over the hostage crisis - next day, i turn on the news and the fucking US government says "no we don't want to release them"! So the Iraqi government says "we're going to do this" and the US says "nope, sorry".
even if the figure was more like 90%, who cares? it doesn't change the fact that forcing Windows to be bundled and not giving the customer or the seller the choice is anti-competitive and monopolistic. Microsoft simply has to deal with software piracy like _every_ other commercial software company. Why should they get special treatment? If they didn't have this monopoly in the first place they might not have reached the same position. It just doesn't work when corporations are allowed to abuse market power and use bully tactics, that's not what capitalism is about. I think..
Let me just clarify their logic:
- 93% of parents support automatic filtering of net access.
- Uptake of ISP parental control features has been low.
Solution: Because people want censorship but can't be assed to pick up the phone and ask their ISP to enable it on their account, the entire country must be censored and everyone must pay a fee.
Lets see..
- 93% of people aged 18 - 25 would like to have pizza delivered on a thursday night.
- The uptake of pizza delivery on a thursday night has been low.
Solution:
Because people can't be assed to order the pizza, everyone will have mandatory pizza on thursday nights (you don't have to eat it but all other restaurants and supermarkets will be closed) and everyone will pay for it.
Mobile net is all very good, but will this actually be affordable by the average person? Most households are fine with paying a monthly fee in the region of around 10 - 25 quid for either unlimited adsl or old dial-up but mobile phone companies seem to think that they have to rip us off or else they don't get to eat! GPRS is still charged in cave-man prices, If anyone is prepaired to offer a proper mobile internet service, flat-rate at the same monthly fee as adsl then i reckon most people would drop their home connections and switch to this - even if it was only 256k/s!
I think with the RNC-NY disaster is obvious that most Americans have forgotten about their right to protest. Protesters we arrested even when not blocking traffic or pedestrians and even when they did what they were told and followed the police! The attitude was that they 'shouldn't have been protesting if they didn't want to get arrested' and that they would be 'kept until it was over so they couldn't make any more trouble'!
The whole Prince William thing is surely bullshit, if i was a teenage girl and I saw him, why the fuck would I want 200 bitchy girls getting in my way? and as for celebrities - pop stars etc. they live for attention, you don't think they have a 1,000,000 record sales deal for the 'art' do you? As for getting people out of office, if they deserve protests then you have every right to protest, there's no debate on this issue. ok so there's people on trial, and yes sometimes idiots decide that if you're on trial it means you're guilty so they want to go and kill you, it could be a problem, especially with the growing number of total fucking shit-for-brain people who confuse 'paediatricians' with 'paedophiles' and go smash up their homes.
"The (British) police are cracking down on activists who come equipped with mobiles - and are apparently empowered to do so" I haven't heard of that and I've been to a few, it kinda makes us sound like the ultimate big-brother but generally the police are ok, i even burnt the flag - no problem (ok so it was the US flag but hey) The anti-terrorism laws are just like Americas - they give the police power to do just about anything and really, if they did want to stop phones they could _easily_ demand the local cell towers are turned off or set to emergency calls only, that goes for any country and you can pretty much expect the government to have an agreement to be able to do that anywhere at any time.
Generally mobiles are going to make it easier for police if they have access to the phone companies. While i would totally not tolerate letting them have access to the locations of specific people, it might (with careful thought) be ok for them to know how many phones are logged into a certain cell purely for safety, as long as everyone remembers that a: the police work for you, not the other way around, b: you have the right to protest, and c: crowds can be dangerous, sometimes erupt into violence and may be a terrorist target so its in everyone's interests to just be careful and sensible and leave lots of space and exits and cooperate with each other etc. Generally i think the sort of people that flash-mob or protest are sensible people that actually think and care about things so its not like they are going to go toss Bush's limo over, drag him out and beat him to the ground while security try to shoot them off one by one with pistols.
Atleast he makes condoms too..
Sounds like it could just be some LCDs, but either way they are far from perfect, useless for any graphics work because you cant tell what colour/shade you're looking at and the price makes them only for people not still on student loans (percentage of slashdot?). Its a good point though and if i ever get one ill be sure to check it out first.
You should laugh at them - they could have got it for free on Kazaa! dumbasses.
Wow you guys are so easy to please, i think im gonna release my own DVD box-set with 8 extra hours of Bilbo scratching his ass between takes, i wonder how much i can sell it for!? Seriously did they suddenly just find all this extra footage and think "oh, whoops, we're gonna have to re-release RoTK" why not just sell it separately? well really i don't blame them, i only hope one day i too can be such a masterful business man.
Its these damn 'activist' judges again!! who do they think they are conforming to some 'bill of rights' when they damn well should be conforming to the laws politicians have been busting their asses getting passed! Its almost as if they are actually judging things instead of doing what they're told! tsk