I saw this on Digg about 2 days ago. Even the title is a direct ripoff. I see so many ripoffs from Digg on/. every single day (except a few days later).
I read Slashdot about once every 2 days now, instead of my normal all throughout the day that I used to. My surfing time is now devoted to digg and Engadget(and other Weblogs Inc Blogs). You get better quality news with less dupes, better quality writeups, often humor, and just a better web experience in general.
But I do like the CSS on/. now. It makes it easier to do Greasemonkey scripts, and I'm running a couple of Slashdot user scripts now.
I hate to troll, but this is more of an open letter to/. editors. Just look at the Alexa numbers. There's a disturbance in the force. Here's a link to my digg news.
My American Express doesn't have one time use CC-numbers.
My MBNA Visa does, and it uses Flash. You can use a flash app via their webpage that runs fine under linux as a javascript popup with flash inside it, or you can download a standalone executable(still flash based) that runs in your system tray on Win32.
I don't think the OP was talking about MBNA; either that, or they haven't screwed me yet. Honestly, I have gotten tons of offers with a lower interest rate, but the one time use CC #s keeps me with MBNA. If anyone knows another bank that has them (visa or MC), please let me know.
I'll help. Here's a link to the actual proof of concept in an html file. They seem to have disabled it on the serverside at MozFo, but you can see how it was performed.
As usual, my company already has this. We can play some stupid card games via the remote on a special digital "channel".
I find it incredibly boring, and have no desire to play these crappy games, since I have consoles. It's totally a gimmick, and I don't see it appealing to anyone.
With that said, my coworkers wife loves it. (She's around 28, 2 kids[twins] just born, not the over 40 demographic).
No, you need flash installed, and you need to _NOT_ have an extension that blocks it from loading when the page loads. Most people meet this criteria if you ever view flash content, which again, is most people.
Time Warner seems to be a pretty good company all around. My internet access is awesome, the dvr is awesome, and they haven't ever gone up on my rates.
Flash really is evil. Using a 3rd party advertising flash, I was able to create a proof of concept for pop-ups in firefox, even with pop up blocking(Default) enabled. As long as you have flash, and it runs automatically(default), it will pop up.
This is why the CableCard is so important, so that multiple devices can operate like the company provided boxes. I have a cable company dvr, and it is really awesome, but if I wanted to use a brand name TiVo, I would be pissed at having to use IR blasters.
As far as I know, there's no cablecard equivalent for satellite boxes, but there should be. Ahh, the incredible balance between freedom and regulation.
XNA Studio will speed development time and decrease development costs by delivering an advanced build framework and a suite on integrated tools to solve common production challenges.
...and allows programmers to leverage the skills...
...development processes and will ship with process support for Agile Software Development.
Our focus with XNA studio is to deliver the incredible productivity and collaboration services...
...integrated pipeline to streamline data and content
Peter in family guy already proved that can't work for everyone. He hit the record jukebox and said "AYYYYYYYYY", and ended up bleeding almost to death since the glass broke when he struck it. I hope this technology is more robust, for Peter's sake.
He's going to treat his wife like the piece of Schmidt she is. "That's PEWTERSCHMIDT!"
We already have electronic document retention policies, and we do get rid of things on a regular basis. I don't really understand what this rule would be for, except to validate practices already in place at almost every major company.
The submitter makes it sound like it's horrible for the plaintiff, but would we really want to live in a world where we have to keep every single file forever? I think not.
I know that some day the paid editors will edit, but until then: "the Japanese cell-phone is more then just a phone" -- should be than
In any case, that's lame that it runs as a J2ME app. I read stuff right now on my phone, and it's straight html and you can actually work with it, where the Jap J2ME apps are probably drm'ed to hell and back.
I'll stick with my html, and there are plenty of PDF to html converters.
I don't mind a few April Fool's jokes, but an entire day of BS posted to the front page sucks. They should tag them or something so I can filter them out. It shows up in my rss aggregator and everything too.
Please stop posting all these stupid stories in between the real stories.
You should really RTFA in the future. Jesus Christ, is it that hard. The very first sentence is:
Microsoft has granted clemency to the 19 year-old author of the Blaster worm. Rather than pay $500,000 in restitution, the youth will be sentenced to 225 hours of community service,
which may not involve computers.
Actually, the return of the fishing mini-game. Those of you who loved the supremely addictive fishing game in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time certainly missed its presence in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Considering the aquatic nature of the game, it struck many as odd that Nintendo chose not to include it.
The fishing game was in it since I can remember. I remember specifically playing on Legend of Zelda on my ORIGINAL gameboy. I guess you can't be a real fan if you can only remember back two iterations.
The only problem is that it's hard to notice all but the most egregious offenders.
Except when it's posted on Ars Technica for all the geeks in the world, including Google employees, to see.
I've love Google to add a link to the standard search results. Something like "Report Spam." If enough (100k, a million, whatever) unique people/IPs reported a site or result, it would be flagged for human review.
That has to be the most insightful thing I have EVER read in a slashdot comment. You should suggest it via the google suggest page. It sounds like a great idea to use the most awesome pattern matching machine(the human mind). I'm sure there are more than enough people like you and I that can tell just from the description it's a google-attacking spam page that would flag it.
Paul, just replace the subdomain in the url, and you can access it. I change it all the time so I don't have to see that godawful "It is what IT is" theme on it.slashdot.org. I just change it to hireadesigner.slashdot.org.
Hope that helps you get your games.slashdot.org fix at work.
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I saw this on Digg about 2 days ago. Even the title is a direct ripoff. I see so many ripoffs from Digg on /. every single day (except a few days later).
/. now. It makes it easier to do Greasemonkey scripts, and I'm running a couple of Slashdot user scripts now.
/. editors. Just look at the Alexa numbers. There's a disturbance in the force. Here's a link to my digg news.
I read Slashdot about once every 2 days now, instead of my normal all throughout the day that I used to. My surfing time is now devoted to digg and Engadget(and other Weblogs Inc Blogs). You get better quality news with less dupes, better quality writeups, often humor, and just a better web experience in general.
But I do like the CSS on
I hate to troll, but this is more of an open letter to
Dude, I totally wish I could mod you up right now for that totally subtle Office Space reference. That made my morning.
+5, Awesome
My American Express doesn't have one time use CC-numbers.
My MBNA Visa does, and it uses Flash. You can use a flash app via their webpage that runs fine under linux as a javascript popup with flash inside it, or you can download a standalone executable(still flash based) that runs in your system tray on Win32.
I don't think the OP was talking about MBNA; either that, or they haven't screwed me yet. Honestly, I have gotten tons of offers with a lower interest rate, but the one time use CC #s keeps me with MBNA. If anyone knows another bank that has them (visa or MC), please let me know.
Wow! Could that ever happen? Well, ok, it already has. And of course, here's Dvorak's thoughts on it.
I'll help. Here's a link to the actual proof of concept in an html file. They seem to have disabled it on the serverside at MozFo, but you can see how it was performed.
You mean Googledot?
That's almost as cool as the day you could already get it from Adobe's FTP.
As usual, my company already has this. We can play some stupid card games via the remote on a special digital "channel".
I find it incredibly boring, and have no desire to play these crappy games, since I have consoles. It's totally a gimmick, and I don't see it appealing to anyone.
With that said, my coworkers wife loves it. (She's around 28, 2 kids[twins] just born, not the over 40 demographic).
Here's a test popup/popunder link for Firefox using flash.
No, you need flash installed, and you need to _NOT_ have an extension that blocks it from loading when the page loads. Most people meet this criteria if you ever view flash content, which again, is most people.
My company already offers the cable card.
Time Warner seems to be a pretty good company all around. My internet access is awesome, the dvr is awesome, and they haven't ever gone up on my rates.
Flash really is evil. Using a 3rd party advertising flash, I was able to create a proof of concept for pop-ups in firefox, even with pop up blocking(Default) enabled. As long as you have flash, and it runs automatically(default), it will pop up.
Here is the firefox popup proof of concept.
Flash is evil.
This is why the CableCard is so important, so that multiple devices can operate like the company provided boxes. I have a cable company dvr, and it is really awesome, but if I wanted to use a brand name TiVo, I would be pissed at having to use IR blasters.
As far as I know, there's no cablecard equivalent for satellite boxes, but there should be. Ahh, the incredible balance between freedom and regulation.
I hate marketing jackasses. A few choice quotes:
...and allows programmers to leverage the skills...
...development processes and will ship with process support for Agile Software Development.
...integrated pipeline to streamline data and content
XNA Studio will speed development time and decrease development costs by delivering an advanced build framework and a suite on integrated tools to solve common production challenges.
Our focus with XNA studio is to deliver the incredible productivity and collaboration services...
What a jackass.
Peter in family guy already proved that can't work for everyone. He hit the record jukebox and said "AYYYYYYYYY", and ended up bleeding almost to death since the glass broke when he struck it. I hope this technology is more robust, for Peter's sake.
He's going to treat his wife like the piece of Schmidt she is. "That's PEWTERSCHMIDT!"
We already have electronic document retention policies, and we do get rid of things on a regular basis. I don't really understand what this rule would be for, except to validate practices already in place at almost every major company.
The submitter makes it sound like it's horrible for the plaintiff, but would we really want to live in a world where we have to keep every single file forever? I think not.
A really cool tool for small businesses is SSL Explorer. It's a free SSL VPN.
A member of our LUG wrote an article on SSL Explorer that I contributed to about how to set it up.
What he said and what you said are at different levels. IP is network, level 3, TCP and UDP are transport, level 4.
Of course, we all know he meant "Intellectual Property", but it's still fun to out-geek each other.
I know that some day the paid editors will edit, but until then:
"the Japanese cell-phone is more then just a phone" -- should be than
In any case, that's lame that it runs as a J2ME app. I read stuff right now on my phone, and it's straight html and you can actually work with it, where the Jap J2ME apps are probably drm'ed to hell and back.
I'll stick with my html, and there are plenty of PDF to html converters.
I don't mind a few April Fool's jokes, but an entire day of BS posted to the front page sucks. They should tag them or something so I can filter them out. It shows up in my rss aggregator and everything too.
Please stop posting all these stupid stories in between the real stories.
That has to be the most insightful thing I have EVER read in a slashdot comment. You should suggest it via the google suggest page. It sounds like a great idea to use the most awesome pattern matching machine(the human mind). I'm sure there are more than enough people like you and I that can tell just from the description it's a google-attacking spam page that would flag it.
In short, mod parent up.
Paul, just replace the subdomain in the url, and you can access it. I change it all the time so I don't have to see that godawful "It is what IT is" theme on it.slashdot.org. I just change it to hireadesigner.slashdot.org.
Hope that helps you get your games.slashdot.org fix at work.