It would be nice if AIM made their encryption scheme usable by other clients...
Well, maybe not other AIM clients (eg trillian), but remember that the deal with MS will allow the IMs to interact? It's a reasonably safe bet that MSN messenger will be able to exchange secure messages with AIM.
A round table discussion: Is email now Nigeria's top export?
I couldn't imagine a better way to start my sunday! What a hearty laugh!
In all seriousness, does anyone know of any action taken by a real nigerian to protest/combat this kind of scams? Myself, I'd be pretty pissed to see my country's reputation dragged on the mud by oportunistic creeps.
And even cooler would be if the could manage to keep the offenders playing, forever doomed to pay $12 monthly and not being able to leave the city or say more than "Ooooooooh".
She got famous from showing her tits, and now all of the sudden we're supposed to be interested in her message ?
Dude, I was correct. Slashdot *is* sinking to Fark levels. Only they forgot to add the boobies tag and "SFW" and somehow work "Duke sucks" or "France surrenders" to the title.
The funniest part in the article was the "Tatu pics of nude teens" link midway down the page.
Quick question... Is there a corporation rich enough to become a "super power"? Say, incorporate itself in a remote island and "buy" the goverment and develop nuclear capabilities, etc? This is the stuff cyberpunk novels are often made of.
I guess money is the only obstacle, after all, Disney managed to loophole its way into having its own goverment in Reedy Creek.
Meh... I'm sure they have lawyers whose mind are far more convoluted and tourtuos (sp) than those of the "slashdot collective". So I'll just learn to love the bomb, so to speak.
The article doesn't detail what the other two patents
One of the others is the "Buy Now" button. How can this be pattented is beyond me, tho (i guess some brick-a-brack behind the scenes (I always wanted to use the "brick-a-brack" expression)).
Forged headers not only is an annoyance for the target of the spam, but the admin of the domain that was (falsely) used as a return address will not have to contend with thousands of bounced notices/abuse complaints.
Sometimes the transition to a new production form (not just the interface) has a lot to do with previous experiences in the genre.
Case in point: A lot of people felt confortable with Grim Fandango's interface, but when Monkey Island adopted it, people were up in arms.
Of course, gamers are particularly jealous of the Monkey Island series. When #3 came out, people complained about the artwork (and the way Stan waved his arms).
Already many people jumped at you for expressing that opinion. I'd like to agree with you but only if we are talking about "mainstream hollywood vehicles" such as they are (not limited to USA production).
There are many movies that are "for thinking" (and some of them quite enjoyable, too). Don't limit yourself to summer blockbusters. And even among those, there are exceptions. Remember Schindler List? Granted, that was a historical docu-drama.
Of course, there are movies that try to disguise themselves as "for thinking". How many of the people you know ended spewing Tyler Durden crap after watching Fight Club? (... flaaame awaayy...)
Uru has no economy, no swords or laser blasters, no knights in shining armor and absolutely no killing.
[...]
There's no game-over screen. Rather, the player's goal is to explore the vast worlds left behind by the now-extinct D'ni civilization and share what they've uncovered with others.
Lots of people complained that Myst was a slide show disguised as a game. Looks like they should steer clear of this one.
Also...
"In some ways the title itself -- 'u' 'r' 'u' -- we're trying to let you be yourself or anyone. You act as if what you would do if you were there," he said. "What would you be interested in exploring, what role, would kind of be the essence of things."
No swords, no economy, no killing... what's left? Looks like choice of roles will be rather limited. Wether this is better or worse that the everquest clones (Camelot, Asheron, Anarchy, etc) remains to be seen.
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a tool to download very big files like iso's
Indeed. It's more of a mirroring tool than a "file sharing" tool. Wanna download the latest Madonna mp3? Use kazaa/gnutella/whatever. With bit torrent you'll have a hard time finding the seed file. If you want to download a distro iso and the mirror sites are full, bit torrent is the better choice.
What people fail to realize is that car free cities might soon have a serious violence problem.
Without the most popular mean of overcompensation for, ahem, insufficiencies, more and more people will turn to what were until now secondary means: guns and wife beatings.
We need to figure out a solution to this problem before we take this big step. Perhaps padded shoes or somesuch.
Now I pay $8/month for a virtual Red Hat server in Canada some place.
Now, that sounds like a good deal. Would you mind sharing the name of your provider?
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Somebody who once worked as a cashier told me that the 99 cents thing were to keep them honest.
Usually, the customer does not have exact change to pay the $x.99 (or can't be bothered to look for pennies) and it would force the cashier to open the cash machine to give change. Upon doing this, the sale is registered and the owner will know if you pocketed the money.
An architect friend tells me that email has become the biggest productivity drain in his organization: not just the quantity of attachments, but the mindless round-robin communications, requesting comments that get ignored. Email has become a corporate displacement activity
Psh... this is hardly an Internet issue. It's more of a corporate-mail mentality. Spam is *the* internet-email problem.
Basic web surfing means navigating through web sites whose inspiration for their baroque overdesign seems to have been Donald Trump's wedding cake, all the while requiring the user to close down dozens of unrequested pop-up advertisements.
I believe this is only the case when you want to visit the page of the Smith Family from Anytown, USA, so you can see pics of their kids playing with the family dog.
Self-Respecting sites that want to keep their audience/customers will have a sensible interface or lose to the competition.
Slashdot Mirror
It would be nice if AIM made their encryption scheme usable by other clients...
Well, maybe not other AIM clients (eg trillian), but remember that the deal with MS will allow the IMs to interact? It's a reasonably safe bet that MSN messenger will be able to exchange secure messages with AIM.
i Seriously don't see how this made the front page
I guess we could use a "farmhands.slashdot.org"
What? Never heard a woman complain of "feeling bloated" because she is "retaining water"?
For some reason I get shivers down my spine every time I hear that line.
(and no, I never conspired to kill my brother).
Also, I know non lethal Kung Fu
Show me...
From the article:
A round table discussion: Is email now Nigeria's top export?
I couldn't imagine a better way to start my sunday! What a hearty laugh!
In all seriousness, does anyone know of any action taken by a real nigerian to protest/combat this kind of scams? Myself, I'd be pretty pissed to see my country's reputation dragged on the mud by oportunistic creeps.
And even cooler would be if the could manage to keep the offenders playing, forever doomed to pay $12 monthly and not being able to leave the city or say more than "Ooooooooh".
She got famous from showing her tits, and now all of the sudden we're supposed to be interested in her message ?
Dude, I was correct. Slashdot *is* sinking to Fark levels. Only they forgot to add the boobies tag and "SFW" and somehow work "Duke sucks" or "France surrenders" to the title.
The funniest part in the article was the "Tatu pics of nude teens" link midway down the page.
Oh yeah, "worst.slashdot-article.ever".
Quick question... Is there a corporation rich enough to become a "super power"? Say, incorporate itself in a remote island and "buy" the goverment and develop nuclear capabilities, etc? This is the stuff cyberpunk novels are often made of.
I guess money is the only obstacle, after all, Disney managed to loophole its way into having its own goverment in Reedy Creek.
We really should not give them i-deas
Meh... I'm sure they have lawyers whose mind are far more convoluted and tourtuos (sp) than those of the "slashdot collective". So I'll just learn to love the bomb, so to speak.
The article doesn't detail what the other two patents
One of the others is the "Buy Now" button. How can this be pattented is beyond me, tho (i guess some brick-a-brack behind the scenes (I always wanted to use the "brick-a-brack" expression)).
and a big plus: no more innocent third parties.
Forged headers not only is an annoyance for the target of the spam, but the admin of the domain that was (falsely) used as a return address will not have to contend with thousands of bounced notices/abuse complaints.
This is where SMTP Auth comes in handy. Have your smtp server authenticate you and allow you to send e-mail from wherever.
What about N.U.D.E@ for XBox?
That has got to be the most misleading link I've ever followed.
Shame on me for clicking it even tho *I knew* it was not what I expected to be.
Great, gotta open a new window to get a quick skin fix.
removed some glitches but added others
The classic one was the patch that invalidated your save games forcing you to start over. Thank god I was only a couple of towns into the game.
Sometimes the transition to a new production form (not just the interface) has a lot to do with previous experiences in the genre.
Case in point: A lot of people felt confortable with Grim Fandango's interface, but when Monkey Island adopted it, people were up in arms.
Of course, gamers are particularly jealous of the Monkey Island series. When #3 came out, people complained about the artwork (and the way Stan waved his arms).
Ewwww...
Have you ever considered putting a dollar bill in your mouth? Those wonka dollars better be fresh from the mint.
Pretty soon somebody will set up a finger server that will simply respond to every query with a "valid user" response.
Then you'll have to blackhole those servers.
Already many people jumped at you for expressing that opinion. I'd like to agree with you but only if we are talking about "mainstream hollywood vehicles" such as they are (not limited to USA production).
There are many movies that are "for thinking" (and some of them quite enjoyable, too). Don't limit yourself to summer blockbusters. And even among those, there are exceptions. Remember Schindler List? Granted, that was a historical docu-drama.
Of course, there are movies that try to disguise themselves as "for thinking". How many of the people you know ended spewing Tyler Durden crap after watching Fight Club? (... flaaame awaayy...)
From the article:
Uru has no economy, no swords or laser blasters, no knights in shining armor and absolutely no killing.
[...]
There's no game-over screen. Rather, the player's goal is to explore the vast worlds left behind by the now-extinct D'ni civilization and share what they've uncovered with others.
Lots of people complained that Myst was a slide show disguised as a game. Looks like they should steer clear of this one.
Also...
"In some ways the title itself -- 'u' 'r' 'u' -- we're trying to let you be yourself or anyone. You act as if what you would do if you were there," he said. "What would you be interested in exploring, what role, would kind of be the essence of things."
No swords, no economy, no killing... what's left? Looks like choice of roles will be rather limited. Wether this is better or worse that the everquest clones (Camelot, Asheron, Anarchy, etc) remains to be seen.
a tool to download very big files like iso's
Indeed. It's more of a mirroring tool than a "file sharing" tool. Wanna download the latest Madonna mp3? Use kazaa/gnutella/whatever. With bit torrent you'll have a hard time finding the seed file. If you want to download a distro iso and the mirror sites are full, bit torrent is the better choice.
What people fail to realize is that car free cities might soon have a serious violence problem.
Without the most popular mean of overcompensation for, ahem, insufficiencies, more and more people will turn to what were until now secondary means: guns and wife beatings.
We need to figure out a solution to this problem before we take this big step. Perhaps padded shoes or somesuch.
Now I pay $8/month for a virtual Red Hat server in Canada some place.
Now, that sounds like a good deal. Would you mind sharing the name of your provider?
Somebody who once worked as a cashier told me that the 99 cents thing were to keep them honest.
Usually, the customer does not have exact change to pay the $x.99 (or can't be bothered to look for pennies) and it would force the cashier to open the cash machine to give change. Upon doing this, the sale is registered and the owner will know if you pocketed the money.
From the article:
An architect friend tells me that email has become the biggest productivity drain in his organization: not just the quantity of attachments, but the mindless round-robin communications, requesting comments that get ignored. Email has become a corporate displacement activity
Psh... this is hardly an Internet issue. It's more of a corporate-mail mentality. Spam is *the* internet-email problem.
Basic web surfing means navigating through web sites whose inspiration for their baroque overdesign seems to have been Donald Trump's wedding cake, all the while requiring the user to close down dozens of unrequested pop-up advertisements.
I believe this is only the case when you want to visit the page of the Smith Family from Anytown, USA, so you can see pics of their kids playing with the family dog.
Self-Respecting sites that want to keep their audience/customers will have a sensible interface or lose to the competition.
Users are not stupid.
This is where I agree. See comment above.