MSN and Yahoo are easier to use than google? Huh? He goes on and on about how all of yahoo's options are right out there in the open - which is the ENTIRE FUCKING PROBLEM. Too many options is overwhelming and confusing. Plus, he makes ridiculous factually incorrect bullshit statements, like implying yahoo's front page is customizable, while google's isn't. This is just some jackass trolling for page hits by taking up the contrary view.
In your haste to get a first post, you forgot to read the second half of the slashdot article summary, where they MENTIONED the dram price fixing fiasco. Way to be insightful there, bucko.
I've got karma out the ass. Any one retard mod isn't going to change that. I regularly get modded up for actually contributing something to conversations, and have no doubt I will continue to do so. In fact, that's why I'm willing to burn karma on genuinely offtopic rants such as this one.
None of that, however, changes the fact that slashdot has a fuckload of mods who are complete and utter morons, and who grossly misuse the moderation system. But please, don't let that stop you from hiding behind your anonymous computer screen and spouting off the word "fucktard" until you feel better about yourself.
How the fuck is this offtopic? The editors linked to a non-article. It's utter bullshit to link to an article and have people unable to read it without forking out the cash. You mods are smoking some serious crack.
Why, exactly, would the slashdot editors post an article that links to a PAY website, where you can't actually, you know, RTFA without forking over cash. I mean, they post some shitty non-articles around here, but at least we can READ them.
uh, huh? Since when to accelerometers only detect movement relative to gravity? Here, all along i've been thinking they sense... oh, I don't know... ACCELERATION?
The real reason it doesn't detect anything when rotated is because the you're spinning about the axis of the sensor. If you rotate it instead about one end of the wiimote, it will detect the motion. Gravity has nothing to do with it.
If the message comes from a home ISP block, but not from that ISP's mail server(s), and contains a *.gif, then drop it.
How, exactly does logging in with a password change that? The only way this MIGHT be circumvented is if you force all your users to use something like webmail (blech), or a VPN, as another poster suggested - which is extreme overkill and one more thing to go wrong in the myriad of connection problems that already plague people traveling with a laptop.
Some exceptions? I know TONS of people who use their work laptops at home - most of these are using the work SMTP server. Automatically dropping all emails based on some arbitrary criteria is almost always a bad idea.
Thanks for taking the effort to point out in detail why the link in question is utter horseshit... I really didn't want to waste that much time with it.
The really mind-boggling thought is the fact that this "article" got modded informative, while I'm "flamebait" for pointing how that it's a load of crap.
Notice i requested a fucking PEER REVIEWED journal - just because you want to believe one side so you ignore the lack of credibility of their "sources" doesn't mean everyone does. Here's a novel idea - it's possible to actually take in the evidence and weigh its value based on the source. The information I trust comes from climatologists, not lobbyists on EITHER side of the debate.
Ahhh, slashdotters and their desperate need to point out "logical fallacies" they learned about on wikipedia... I swear this concept will become a slashdot meme at some point.
No, I didn't commit some logical fallacy - if a convicted child molester tells you "hey, sodomizing little boys improves their self esteem" you wouldn't believe him, and if a goverment lobbying group tells me ANYTHING, I'm not going to believe them. This isn't some unrelated connection - its a statement put out by a group that BY ITS VERY NATURE exists to push an agenda.
Right... because physical evidence is so trustworthy, coming from a lobbyist group conveniently located blocks from the white house. Give me something in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, or shut up.
Actually, with modern multi-core processors and oodles of RAM, virtualization kicks pretty much ass. When I run parallels in fullscreen mode on my macbook, you pretty much can't tell it's virtualized. It's more responsive than the dell desktop sitting in my office at work. The only thing you really notice is that the video card doesn't support hardware acceleration, so stuff like games suck. Then again, the video card in my macbook is pretty crappy, so even with 3d support they would suck =/
Wine is not the same thing as parallels - parallels is a virtualization environment that runs the full windows xp operating system concurrently with mac os x. Wine is a from-scratch implementation of the windows API. There is a wine-derivative package for mac (crossover from codeweavers), so people can pick-and-choose the best solution for them.
And unlike e.g. guns, polonium 210 has other uses than to kill people.
Ugh. The vast majority of guns in the US have never, nor will they ever, be used for killing people. Seeing as how we have so few natural predators left, hunting is an absolutely vital element of the wildlife conservation effort in many countries. Hunting provides healthy, lean meat, untreated by growth hormones and antibiotics, it controls populations, reducing disease and famine, it provides funding for programs that preserve wildlife habitats....
Guns can be used for a lot more than shooting people.
simple - the slashdot mod system is broken, funny posts get no positive karma. Thus, kind moderators will often mod a funny post as informative or insightful, so that the poster gets the karma.
this can really fuck you over, by the way, if you tell a controversial joke... get modded +5 funny, then get a -1, troll, and another funny, and another troll. When a moderation war kicks in, you keep losing karma from the -1 troll's and gain no positive karma from the +1 funny's. Eventually you could end up with a +5 post that cost you an assload of karma.
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no it isn't!
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition... not just saying 'No it isn't.'
MSN and Yahoo are easier to use than google? Huh? He goes on and on about how all of yahoo's options are right out there in the open - which is the ENTIRE FUCKING PROBLEM. Too many options is overwhelming and confusing. Plus, he makes ridiculous factually incorrect bullshit statements, like implying yahoo's front page is customizable, while google's isn't. This is just some jackass trolling for page hits by taking up the contrary view.
In your haste to get a first post, you forgot to read the second half of the slashdot article summary, where they MENTIONED the dram price fixing fiasco. Way to be insightful there, bucko.
I hate to feed a troll, but...
I've got karma out the ass. Any one retard mod isn't going to change that. I regularly get modded up for actually contributing something to conversations, and have no doubt I will continue to do so. In fact, that's why I'm willing to burn karma on genuinely offtopic rants such as this one.
None of that, however, changes the fact that slashdot has a fuckload of mods who are complete and utter morons, and who grossly misuse the moderation system. But please, don't let that stop you from hiding behind your anonymous computer screen and spouting off the word "fucktard" until you feel better about yourself.
how did you get +5 insightful, and I got -1, offtopic, for saying the exact same thing? /. mods are, as they say, teh suck.
How the fuck is this offtopic? The editors linked to a non-article. It's utter bullshit to link to an article and have people unable to read it without forking out the cash. You mods are smoking some serious crack.
Why, exactly, would the slashdot editors post an article that links to a PAY website, where you can't actually, you know, RTFA without forking over cash. I mean, they post some shitty non-articles around here, but at least we can READ them.
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!
uh, huh? Since when to accelerometers only detect movement relative to gravity? Here, all along i've been thinking they sense... oh, I don't know... ACCELERATION?
The real reason it doesn't detect anything when rotated is because the you're spinning about the axis of the sensor. If you rotate it instead about one end of the wiimote, it will detect the motion. Gravity has nothing to do with it.
Actually, you're wrong - the "modified version" linked in TFA has support for the IR pointer.
If the message comes from a home ISP block, but not from that ISP's mail server(s), and contains a *.gif, then drop it.
How, exactly does logging in with a password change that? The only way this MIGHT be circumvented is if you force all your users to use something like webmail (blech), or a VPN, as another poster suggested - which is extreme overkill and one more thing to go wrong in the myriad of connection problems that already plague people traveling with a laptop.
Some exceptions? I know TONS of people who use their work laptops at home - most of these are using the work SMTP server. Automatically dropping all emails based on some arbitrary criteria is almost always a bad idea.
Thanks for taking the effort to point out in detail why the link in question is utter horseshit... I really didn't want to waste that much time with it.
The really mind-boggling thought is the fact that this "article" got modded informative, while I'm "flamebait" for pointing how that it's a load of crap.
Naturally.
Notice i requested a fucking PEER REVIEWED journal - just because you want to believe one side so you ignore the lack of credibility of their "sources" doesn't mean everyone does. Here's a novel idea - it's possible to actually take in the evidence and weigh its value based on the source. The information I trust comes from climatologists, not lobbyists on EITHER side of the debate.
Ahhh, slashdotters and their desperate need to point out "logical fallacies" they learned about on wikipedia... I swear this concept will become a slashdot meme at some point.
No, I didn't commit some logical fallacy - if a convicted child molester tells you "hey, sodomizing little boys improves their self esteem" you wouldn't believe him, and if a goverment lobbying group tells me ANYTHING, I'm not going to believe them. This isn't some unrelated connection - its a statement put out by a group that BY ITS VERY NATURE exists to push an agenda.
Right... because physical evidence is so trustworthy, coming from a lobbyist group conveniently located blocks from the white house. Give me something in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, or shut up.
Actually, with modern multi-core processors and oodles of RAM, virtualization kicks pretty much ass. When I run parallels in fullscreen mode on my macbook, you pretty much can't tell it's virtualized. It's more responsive than the dell desktop sitting in my office at work. The only thing you really notice is that the video card doesn't support hardware acceleration, so stuff like games suck. Then again, the video card in my macbook is pretty crappy, so even with 3d support they would suck =/
Wine is not the same thing as parallels - parallels is a virtualization environment that runs the full windows xp operating system concurrently with mac os x. Wine is a from-scratch implementation of the windows API. There is a wine-derivative package for mac (crossover from codeweavers), so people can pick-and-choose the best solution for them.
Holy ADD attack, batman! I guess Jack Thomson is right... playing too many video games really DOES rot your brain.
And unlike e.g. guns, polonium 210 has other uses than to kill people.
Ugh. The vast majority of guns in the US have never, nor will they ever, be used for killing people. Seeing as how we have so few natural predators left, hunting is an absolutely vital element of the wildlife conservation effort in many countries. Hunting provides healthy, lean meat, untreated by growth hormones and antibiotics, it controls populations, reducing disease and famine, it provides funding for programs that preserve wildlife habitats....
Guns can be used for a lot more than shooting people.
Kinda difficult to exercise when you're naked and petrified...
It's broken by design - people can and do make stupid shitty decisions. That doesn't make it any less broken.
simple - the slashdot mod system is broken, funny posts get no positive karma. Thus, kind moderators will often mod a funny post as informative or insightful, so that the poster gets the karma.
this can really fuck you over, by the way, if you tell a controversial joke... get modded +5 funny, then get a -1, troll, and another funny, and another troll. When a moderation war kicks in, you keep losing karma from the -1 troll's and gain no positive karma from the +1 funny's. Eventually you could end up with a +5 post that cost you an assload of karma.
uhh... no.
it's for the polish phase. As in, "we've created the images, now let's polish them up and really make them shine".