Most URLs these days end up looking like that. All it takes is a moment of distraction to not notice a malicious URL. It's the downside of only being human.
"And for those of us too cheap to buy a new browser, Mozilla or Firebird will have to do. "
Opera handles this issue much better than Mozilla does. With Mozilla, you still get a URL that starts with the false domain. With Opera, you get an actual warning saying "This site has a username embedded in it, it is trying to send you to this other domain instead. Do you want to do it?"
"Moz and all the others had it patched the same very day it was posted on bugtraq."
Moz doesn't exactly fix it. Granted, it's better than what IE does as you can see where it is really headed. However, it still sends you a misleading URL.
It works as expected, but it is still not fixed. Opera, however, does actually address this issue. If you attempt to go to a URL that is formed like that, an error window appears. It says that you are trying to go to a site that has a Username in it, and it tells you specfically which domain you are trying to enter. Without this warning, Mozilla is only a little better off than IE.
"Last time I checked you had to pay for it or it would use a large chunk of precious pixel estate for blinky banners."
So, in other words, yes you don't have to pay a dime for it. There's a banner that sits up there. The thing is, if you pay for it, that space isn't reclaimed for anything particularly useful. I suppose you could add a bunch more buttons up at the top, but you'd be hard press to fill it.
I paid for Opera, and had the banner removed, and went back to using it with ads because there wasn't any other real use for it. Now Opera uses 'Google Text ads', and once in a while something interesting comes along. It's not the most frequent thing in the world, but I did find out about a couple of Lightwave books that I never knew existed.
"It was their staunch refusal to touch CDs (because they were easily copied)"
That particular detail is not entirely true. (Though what I'm about to say does not, in any way, defeat your point about Square.)
Nintendo was quite happy to go to CD, see the Super NES CD that didn't quite make it. But that was a peripheral. With a mainstream system, like the N64, CD-ROMs were not so interesting to Nintendo.
* The drive mechanisms were expensive. The money saved by using cartridges went towards more powerful processing. (note: The N64 came out for $200 instead of $300 like the PS launch.)
* The media is easily damaged. Cartridges are much harder for kids to break.
* Nintendo would have a hard time controlling who made what for the system. (Look up Nintendo's tiffles with Tengen and Atari for more info on that.)
* Access times are slow causing interruptions in any given game. Above all else, it's a game machine, not a wait machine.
* Cartridges make a lot more money for Nintendo.
As I mentioned before, this does not interfere with your point about Square. However, arguably, Square was being rather whiney about it. The reason why they wanted CD media was so they could use CG rendered full motion video in places. Really, it wasn't that necessary. (Yes, I've played the game.) It was a luxury they demanded, instead of a limitation they could have overcomed. As a result, Square made their decision, and found themselves crawling back in Nintendo's direction.
I will say this, though: Square made the right choice. I don't like Sony, I wasn't a fan of the PS, but I do think Square did the right thing. Sadly, they severely damaged their relations with Nintendo. They're slowly patching it up, but we as gamers have been hurt by it.
"Basically, Nintendo has this illusionary image that they are a good, consumer-friendly company."
Believe it or not, they are. Sadly, a company their size often finds themselves in a position where they have to make tough decisions. Everybody has their opinion, that's something Nintendo has no control over.
"if you get in their way, they will not hesistate for a second before coming down on you like a ton of bricks."
I don't think that's a fair statement. In a sense, it's true. However, there are a few missing words in that phrase. Believe it or not, they do think before they act. They do act swiftly, though.
" But with the ability to send IMs to your watch, I'll have my linux machine at home spitting out messages via MSN for everything- emails with a certain topic, other alerts. mmm, a lot of fun to be had!"
Boy I've found that tempting myself. I volunteer at a couple of art forums, helping people improve their skills. Sometimes I find ICQ messages to be mildly on the urgent side. If I could, at a glance of my watch, read an incoming message, I would probably find myself orbiting my computer less at home. I recently got my PocketPC on the wireless network to experiment with ICQ on it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how useful it was. I expected to HATE using ICQ on it, but it's really not all that bad. It's certainly nice to have it near by while I'm sitting at the drawing desk.
The submitter of this story mentioned having a camera watch. I just wanted to ask, what did he find himself using it for? (That question is aimed at anybody with one?) I'm not asking "What's the point", but rather, "gimme inspiration!" I have a cell phone with a built in camera, and have found it to be enormously useful. Just curious if the watch camera is useful in more ways because of it's 'always on your wrist' property?
"You could just wait until someone hacks this to run their own code."
Why even bother hacking it? It's useful to start with. At least I think it is. I often use my cell phone oto get the latest news etc. Supposedly these watches have a similar service.
I wanted that Fossil PDA watch. I would love to synch it with my computer and have a bunch of information ready to see at a glance. (Such as, my businesss trip itinerary..)
Oh well. I guess I'll go back to my Casio Databank Watch. At least those let me set alarms for any day within the next year.
"Not looking to start any kind of argument or anything; I'm just curious as to your motivation. Thanks for your time."
Thank you for taking the time to ask, I appreciate it. I doubt I'll impress you a wohle lot, but at least know that I have a lot of respect for you for asking instead of judging right away.
"Would you, for example, M2 "unfair" a "Flamebait" or "Troll" moderation on a Goatse, ASCII art penis, or other trite?"
Heh, not really, it depends. I'm just going to be up-front. I'm mad at how dumb some of the moderators and moderations are. Here is an example. I was modded as flamebait for asking why a post was flame bait, coming from the point of view of somebody who isn't knowledgeable in that field.
There are bad-apple moderators out there using negative moderations for exactly the wrong reason. Question a moderation? Off-topic. Express that you're angry with somebody? Off-topic. Don't get a joke? Off-topic. Praise Windows? Overrated. Criticize Linux? Overrated. The results? A.) A lot of people feel the need to post anonymously. B.) Unpopular opinions are modded down. C.) Too much time is spent desaturating controversialness of a post. Discussion is discouraged while one-offs are encouraged.
Please consider that I have been arouond Slashdot for years. I've made over 5,000 posts in that time, and my karma is excellent. If you look at my user details now, you'll find a lot of positively modded posts. So I hope you'll understand that it took a LOT of these abuses for me to arrive at such a ridiculous extreme.
To answer your question about the ascii art, I actually am somewhat discriminant about what I mod down. I've been asked if GNAA posts, for example, are M2'd unfair. The answer is no. Not because of the fairness of it, but because my principles will not allow me to reward use of the n-word. Ascii art? Well, nah, I don't M2 those as unfair either. (I did the first couple of times, but I've calmed down a lot since I entered that sig.) The stuff that is without-a-doubt-obviously-recognizable GNAA or Ascii stuff, I metamod negative mods there as fair. I have 0 problem with going after those dudes.
Sorry, I'm in a rush while writing this, so I don't know how clear I'm being. I hope some of your questions here are answered. In short, I'm pissed off at the abuse of mods, and I'm hoping that they're being weeded out by others meda-modding unfair as well. I'm certainly open to alternative suggestions. Oh, and to answer your question about thresholds, it's not my end I'm worried about. I'm worried that the negative moderations are forcing people to either not post, or post anonymously so it takes a while to be noticed. Worse, it makes trolling rather popular. "Let's make the mods waste their mod points..."
" but I was under the impression that you were metamodding *all* negative mods"
That is exactly what my sig says and implies, and you were right to think that. Unfortunately, I am limited on sig length, plus it doesn't sound so threatening when I clarify hehe.
For the record, I actually do read what I'm modding as unfair. But, for the most part, they're nearly all modded as unfair.
"When you metamod GNAA posts, do you metamod their troll moderation as "unfair" because of principle?"
No. Nothing with the n-word gets meta modded as unfair, assuming it's modded negatively.
"You may not like the fact that some posts get negative mods, but it's for the greater good. If we didn't have neg mods and metamods, the whole place would be overrun by trolls."
No. The trolls use anonymous posting. They're not going to get modded up, so if they stay at 0, all's good. The place will not be overrun by trolls.
As for the greater good, the greater good is to encourage good posts. Unfortunately, there are too many mods modding badly, and metamoderation as it is today isn't doing its job to keep these guys out. They don't get your joke? -1 Off topic. Argue about the off-topic mod? -1 Off topic. Legitimately criticize Mozilla? -1 Troll. Spout off ignorant stereotypes about IE? +1 Insightful.
The greater good is for moderation to be done to encourage more intelligent posts. Wanna get rid of the 'overrun by trolls' factor? Disable AC posting.
You had to press a button in order to se ethe time on those ancient LED watches. (The LED's burned too much power to run constantly, and battery friendly LCDs weren't around yet...) So, it required interaction to view the time vs. the traditional analog watch, you could see the time at a glance.
He made a good point. The time you saved doing the analog to digital conversion was lost in pressing the button.
- The hint of backlighting (as opposed to front lighting) and their suggestion of it being in-between portable and console tells me that it'll be handheld, but still require AC.
- They intend for new media to go into it, but could potentially play GBA games, as evidenced by their choice of processors. However, it stands to reason that they will do what they can to encourage new games to be delivered to it.
- The two screens may not exactly be 'seperate', but rather two individual screens with maybe a thin line between them.
- We'll see it at E3, but probably won't be able to buy it until fall 05.
- It'll be a 3rd system in the market, with continuing games being developed on the other two systems. My guess is this is a 'test the waters' system, but not a full fledged effort.
Eh I think that's it for my assumptions here. Go ahead, discuss away.
"Being the CEO of SCO, a Holy Company on a Holy Crusade against the Evil forces of Linux and the GPL can you please ask God to strike them down."
Dear Darl,
Your letter was forwarded to me by the Pope. In response, I have rendered all users of Linux and GPL incapable of reproduction. Soon they will die of extinction.
"The big problem with JPEG2000, as I see it, is a lack of a free, open-source implementation that is compatible with closed-source, proprietary software."
As a content developer/artist, I'm finding the big problem with JPG2k to be lack of solid Photoshop and IE support. Bummer, too, because I want to use it.
(Note: It's been almost a year since I looked into it, so clarification would be much appreeciated.)
Slashdot Mirror
Anybody can make mistakes. URLs can be quite complicated. Check out the URL in my window just for posting this reply:
l y&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=172&mode=nested&pi d=8078184"
"http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=94152&op=Rep
Most URLs these days end up looking like that. All it takes is a moment of distraction to not notice a malicious URL. It's the downside of only being human.
"And for those of us too cheap to buy a new browser, Mozilla or Firebird will have to do. "
Opera handles this issue much better than Mozilla does. With Mozilla, you still get a URL that starts with the false domain. With Opera, you get an actual warning saying "This site has a username embedded in it, it is trying to send you to this other domain instead. Do you want to do it?"
"Moz and all the others had it patched the same very day it was posted on bugtraq."
c urity/ex01/vun2.htm"
Moz doesn't exactly fix it. Granted, it's better than what IE does as you can see where it is really headed. However, it still sends you a misleading URL.
"http://www.microsoft.com%01@zapthedingbat.com/se
It works as expected, but it is still not fixed. Opera, however, does actually address this issue. If you attempt to go to a URL that is formed like that, an error window appears. It says that you are trying to go to a site that has a Username in it, and it tells you specfically which domain you are trying to enter. Without this warning, Mozilla is only a little better off than IE.
"Last time I checked you had to pay for it or it would use a large chunk of precious pixel estate for blinky banners."
So, in other words, yes you don't have to pay a dime for it. There's a banner that sits up there. The thing is, if you pay for it, that space isn't reclaimed for anything particularly useful. I suppose you could add a bunch more buttons up at the top, but you'd be hard press to fill it.
I paid for Opera, and had the banner removed, and went back to using it with ads because there wasn't any other real use for it. Now Opera uses 'Google Text ads', and once in a while something interesting comes along. It's not the most frequent thing in the world, but I did find out about a couple of Lightwave books that I never knew existed.
Ads != evil.
"It was their staunch refusal to touch CDs (because they were easily copied)"
That particular detail is not entirely true. (Though what I'm about to say does not, in any way, defeat your point about Square.)
Nintendo was quite happy to go to CD, see the Super NES CD that didn't quite make it. But that was a peripheral. With a mainstream system, like the N64, CD-ROMs were not so interesting to Nintendo.
* The drive mechanisms were expensive. The money saved by using cartridges went towards more powerful processing. (note: The N64 came out for $200 instead of $300 like the PS launch.)
* The media is easily damaged. Cartridges are much harder for kids to break.
* Nintendo would have a hard time controlling who made what for the system. (Look up Nintendo's tiffles with Tengen and Atari for more info on that.)
* Access times are slow causing interruptions in any given game. Above all else, it's a game machine, not a wait machine.
* Cartridges make a lot more money for Nintendo.
As I mentioned before, this does not interfere with your point about Square. However, arguably, Square was being rather whiney about it. The reason why they wanted CD media was so they could use CG rendered full motion video in places. Really, it wasn't that necessary. (Yes, I've played the game.) It was a luxury they demanded, instead of a limitation they could have overcomed. As a result, Square made their decision, and found themselves crawling back in Nintendo's direction.
I will say this, though: Square made the right choice. I don't like Sony, I wasn't a fan of the PS, but I do think Square did the right thing. Sadly, they severely damaged their relations with Nintendo. They're slowly patching it up, but we as gamers have been hurt by it.
"Basically, Nintendo has this illusionary image that they are a good, consumer-friendly company."
Believe it or not, they are. Sadly, a company their size often finds themselves in a position where they have to make tough decisions. Everybody has their opinion, that's something Nintendo has no control over.
"if you get in their way, they will not hesistate for a second before coming down on you like a ton of bricks."
I don't think that's a fair statement. In a sense, it's true. However, there are a few missing words in that phrase. Believe it or not, they do think before they act. They do act swiftly, though.
"And for those of us too cheap to buy a new browser..."
And for those of us who are ill-informed, Opera doesn't cost a dime.
Well I don't have anything interesting to say, but I wanted to let ya know I read it and found it interesting. :)
"How do you guys keep this mess under control?"
I don't. I keep my gf under control. My TV has DVDs of DS9 constantly running on it, she stays out when it's on.
" But with the ability to send IMs to your watch, I'll have my linux machine at home spitting out messages via MSN for everything- emails with a certain topic, other alerts. mmm, a lot of fun to be had!"
Boy I've found that tempting myself. I volunteer at a couple of art forums, helping people improve their skills. Sometimes I find ICQ messages to be mildly on the urgent side. If I could, at a glance of my watch, read an incoming message, I would probably find myself orbiting my computer less at home. I recently got my PocketPC on the wireless network to experiment with ICQ on it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how useful it was. I expected to HATE using ICQ on it, but it's really not all that bad. It's certainly nice to have it near by while I'm sitting at the drawing desk.
The submitter of this story mentioned having a camera watch. I just wanted to ask, what did he find himself using it for? (That question is aimed at anybody with one?) I'm not asking "What's the point", but rather, "gimme inspiration!" I have a cell phone with a built in camera, and have found it to be enormously useful. Just curious if the watch camera is useful in more ways because of it's 'always on your wrist' property?
"You could just wait until someone hacks this to run their own code."
Why even bother hacking it? It's useful to start with. At least I think it is. I often use my cell phone oto get the latest news etc. Supposedly these watches have a similar service.
I wanted that Fossil PDA watch. I would love to synch it with my computer and have a bunch of information ready to see at a glance. (Such as, my businesss trip itinerary..)
Oh well. I guess I'll go back to my Casio Databank Watch. At least those let me set alarms for any day within the next year.
"Not looking to start any kind of argument or anything; I'm just curious as to your motivation. Thanks for your time."
Thank you for taking the time to ask, I appreciate it. I doubt I'll impress you a wohle lot, but at least know that I have a lot of respect for you for asking instead of judging right away.
"Would you, for example, M2 "unfair" a "Flamebait" or "Troll" moderation on a Goatse, ASCII art penis, or other trite?"
Heh, not really, it depends. I'm just going to be up-front. I'm mad at how dumb some of the moderators and moderations are. Here is an example. I was modded as flamebait for asking why a post was flame bait, coming from the point of view of somebody who isn't knowledgeable in that field.
There are bad-apple moderators out there using negative moderations for exactly the wrong reason. Question a moderation? Off-topic. Express that you're angry with somebody? Off-topic. Don't get a joke? Off-topic. Praise Windows? Overrated. Criticize Linux? Overrated. The results? A.) A lot of people feel the need to post anonymously. B.) Unpopular opinions are modded down. C.) Too much time is spent desaturating controversialness of a post. Discussion is discouraged while one-offs are encouraged.
Please consider that I have been arouond Slashdot for years. I've made over 5,000 posts in that time, and my karma is excellent. If you look at my user details now, you'll find a lot of positively modded posts. So I hope you'll understand that it took a LOT of these abuses for me to arrive at such a ridiculous extreme.
To answer your question about the ascii art, I actually am somewhat discriminant about what I mod down. I've been asked if GNAA posts, for example, are M2'd unfair. The answer is no. Not because of the fairness of it, but because my principles will not allow me to reward use of the n-word. Ascii art? Well, nah, I don't M2 those as unfair either. (I did the first couple of times, but I've calmed down a lot since I entered that sig.) The stuff that is without-a-doubt-obviously-recognizable GNAA or Ascii stuff, I metamod negative mods there as fair. I have 0 problem with going after those dudes.
Sorry, I'm in a rush while writing this, so I don't know how clear I'm being. I hope some of your questions here are answered. In short, I'm pissed off at the abuse of mods, and I'm hoping that they're being weeded out by others meda-modding unfair as well. I'm certainly open to alternative suggestions. Oh, and to answer your question about thresholds, it's not my end I'm worried about. I'm worried that the negative moderations are forcing people to either not post, or post anonymously so it takes a while to be noticed. Worse, it makes trolling rather popular. "Let's make the mods waste their mod points..."
Gotta run,
thanks for taking the time to ask
" but I was under the impression that you were metamodding *all* negative mods"
That is exactly what my sig says and implies, and you were right to think that. Unfortunately, I am limited on sig length, plus it doesn't sound so threatening when I clarify hehe.
For the record, I actually do read what I'm modding as unfair. But, for the most part, they're nearly all modded as unfair.
"You may be joking but I think it's a good idea. I think the odds of finding life on mars is slim to nil."
Prime directive be damned!
"When you metamod GNAA posts, do you metamod their troll moderation as "unfair" because of principle?"
No. Nothing with the n-word gets meta modded as unfair, assuming it's modded negatively.
"You may not like the fact that some posts get negative mods, but it's for the greater good. If we didn't have neg mods and metamods, the whole place would be overrun by trolls."
No. The trolls use anonymous posting. They're not going to get modded up, so if they stay at 0, all's good. The place will not be overrun by trolls.
As for the greater good, the greater good is to encourage good posts. Unfortunately, there are too many mods modding badly, and metamoderation as it is today isn't doing its job to keep these guys out. They don't get your joke? -1 Off topic. Argue about the off-topic mod? -1 Off topic. Legitimately criticize Mozilla? -1 Troll. Spout off ignorant stereotypes about IE? +1 Insightful.
The greater good is for moderation to be done to encourage more intelligent posts. Wanna get rid of the 'overrun by trolls' factor? Disable AC posting.
"Who do all these people who are concerned about false labelling go to for enforcement? "
Dunno, they never come back.
"I also found the original SNOKUG library disks with it. ..... Crap I am a geek.."
Your pips and insignia are in the mail.
"I don't get it."
You had to press a button in order to se ethe time on those ancient LED watches. (The LED's burned too much power to run constantly, and battery friendly LCDs weren't around yet...) So, it required interaction to view the time vs. the traditional analog watch, you could see the time at a glance.
He made a good point. The time you saved doing the analog to digital conversion was lost in pressing the button.
"Hands up who went to this webpage and clicked first on the Sexum Adult Digital Watch?"
I did, but I'm not raising my hands.
"Since when is calling a spade a spade unprofessional?"
STFU, Spade.
"Retrofit the hubble with some rockets. And send the thing sailing out into space."
Wouldn't that really anger Dr. Forrester?
Well here's what I think:
- The hint of backlighting (as opposed to front lighting) and their suggestion of it being in-between portable and console tells me that it'll be handheld, but still require AC.
- They intend for new media to go into it, but could potentially play GBA games, as evidenced by their choice of processors. However, it stands to reason that they will do what they can to encourage new games to be delivered to it.
- The two screens may not exactly be 'seperate', but rather two individual screens with maybe a thin line between them.
- We'll see it at E3, but probably won't be able to buy it until fall 05.
- It'll be a 3rd system in the market, with continuing games being developed on the other two systems. My guess is this is a 'test the waters' system, but not a full fledged effort.
Eh I think that's it for my assumptions here. Go ahead, discuss away.
"Being the CEO of SCO, a Holy Company on a Holy Crusade against the Evil forces of Linux and the GPL can you please ask God to strike them down."
Dear Darl,
Your letter was forwarded to me by the Pope. In response, I have rendered all users of Linux and GPL incapable of reproduction. Soon they will die of extinction.
Yours,
Bruce Nolan
"The big problem with JPEG2000, as I see it, is a lack of a free, open-source implementation that is compatible with closed-source, proprietary software."
As a content developer/artist, I'm finding the big problem with JPG2k to be lack of solid Photoshop and IE support. Bummer, too, because I want to use it.
(Note: It's been almost a year since I looked into it, so clarification would be much appreeciated.)