You tag the useragent as "Opera" without ruining the MSIE spoofing by simply adding "Opera; " or "OWB; " after the OS string.
In fact, that's exactly what Opera does. Version 8 has three possible user agents that can be switched from the Tools menu, the F12 Quick Prefs, or a customized toolbar widget:
- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; en) Opera 8.0
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en) Opera 8.0
- Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en)
As long as you know that Opera exists, it's not hard to detect at all.
Our results show a very significant liberal bias. All of the news outlets except Fox News Special Report received a score to the left of the average member of Congress.
So? The average member of Congress is Republican right now. In fact, I suspect that there's also "a surprising liberal bias" among the general populace relative to the average member of Congress too.
There's supposed to be opinion drift in the media, and it's not supposed to be towards the pablum-like average. New directions and radical ideas have to be pursued. Progress beckons.
Most slashdotters have never had their beds shaken, so you might want to explain what it's like.
I'll have you know that I am wild enough to have bounced on my bed once or twice as if it were a trampoline. I am perfectly aware of what a shaking bed feels like.
Of course, the last time around the wooden centre support gave way, and I had to pull it off the floor, lift up the mattresses, and reinsert it correctly.:)
Speaking of Civ2 and FreeCiv, try C-Evo. It is a very refined and interesting alternative to the two. The gameplay is superior in several ways, though you have to get used to a few of the changes such as custom unit design.
If you don't mind Free-as-in-Beer, try izArc. It's free, it has a comparable interface to WinZip/Rar/Ace, and it supports almost every format under the sun including 7zip, bzip2, and iso.
Are you the "Soviet Russia" that we've heard so much about? Could I have an autograph... or, better yet, imagine an Beowulf cluster of said autographs...
The Crusades came into being because the Byzantine Emperor called for help against the Seljuk Turks' depredations, and he had nothing to call with except an appeal to shared Christian heritage against the Muslim invasions.
Yes, but the Byzantine Empire had ceded Jerusalem and Damascus four hundred years before the crusades. Four-hundred-year-old claims aren't worth the perfumed courtly paper they are pain-stakingly inscribed on.
Constantinople yelped for help because the Seljuks (who are quite different from, say, Saladin's Egypt-based Ayyubids) were threatening Anatolia, not Levant. The Crusaders, OTOH, bee-lined for Jerusalem instead. And slaughtered all of its Jewish inhabitants. Jeez.
One of the most absurdly fun first-person-shooters to come out in recent years is Serious Sam. Instead of tacking on more and more boring realism, it takes the opposite approach and follows the bubble gum arcade logic.
The weapons are all supercool, especially in Second Encounter. The chainsaw chews through tens of melee enemies, the flamethrower fries hordes of ranged attackers, and nothing can beat the bowling-esque cannonball launcher for taking down giant mechs, herds of bulls, and machine-gun-toting scorpions.
And when I say "hordes of enemies", I do mean "hordes of enemies". You often find yourself facing upwards of 200 attackers at the same time. It is an absolutely incredible headrush.
Trillian is with Arthur so will not be depressed with Zaphod;
Sure she will. Arthur will phlerk things up and they'll get separated after the Restaurant and won't meet again for two million years. At which points they'll be just very good friends.
I was going to say 'Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word "historical" that I wasn't previously aware of.' but then realized that you did actually use the word "historical" to describe Sauron. Ooops.:P
Third book, actually
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Iron Council
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· Score: 2, Informative
Iron Council is Mieville's third book in the world of Bas Lag. The second -- The Scar -- is the best of the bunch. Mieville let the plot get away from him in Iron Council and he didn't flesh things out enough.
If the law isn't taking assault seriously enough, then we should change that - not cook up extra "thought crime" statutes to tack on. And the use of the phrase "thought crime" here is completely apt - we're talking about a law that criminalises the thought behind the crime, rather than the act itself. This is a very very very bad precedent, regardless of any other aspects of it - thought crimes are a category of laws that should never be made, for any purpose whatsoever, period.
Laws based on intent are part of our legal heritage. The differences among First Degree Murder, Second Degree Murder, and Manslaughter are based on the thoughts of the murderer. If you killed by accident, it's manslaughter. If you spontaneously decided to kill someone, it's Second Degree Murder. If you decided to kill someone, made a plan, and then went out to kill them, it's First Degree Murder.
Your state of mind is already debated in court. It's called mens rea. That's why we treat the sane and the insane differently. That's why we treat accidents differently from premeditated acts.
There is a difference between spray-painting "Nirvana rocks" on the back of your school and spray-painting "DIE JEWS DIE" on a synagogue. The former makes people roll their eyes; the latter terrorizes people, makes them fear every stranger, makes them always look over their shoulder expecting some their, makes them hide.
A hate crime takes an awful toll on a community. It stifles discourse, innovation, and creativity. It traumatizes and it spreads fear.
Wear of yellow tshirts is not a historical cause of hate crimes. If it were, it would be on the legal list of aggravating circumstances just as committing a crime due to the race, gender, sex, sexual orientation, creed, or disability of the victim is.
Trillian is a minor character until Life, the Universe, and Everything. She doesn't get a great deal of screentime before her chance to smash the Krikkit war machine and to bring peace to the galaxy.
We have been observing your earthworld with moonminds vast and merry for many moonyears. You earthtechnological earthachievements are moonimpressive to our moonminds.
Unfortunately, we mooninites are fighting a civil moonwar. Moonsibling is killing moonsibling. As Moonheir to the Moonthrone, I am trusted with protecting the ample Moontreasury.
Fellow sapients, the Moon needs your earthhelp. I need to transfer the equivalent of $50,000 USD to two thousand and one Earth banking accounts. In order to do so, my moonsubterfuge moonskills will have to deceive the earthbankers.
I plead with you on my moonknees.
Please let me transfer $50,000 USD to your earthaccount. The moonmoney will have to stay earthhidden for at least pi earthdecades. I trust you will earthsafeguard it from the moonpretenders to the Moonthrone.
We will moonreward all earthhumans moongenerously.
In order for me to transfer $50,000 to you, I need an initial earthmoney fund to earthbribe the earthbankers. Please send me $500 now, and I will moonreimburse you in the transfer.
The Moon cries out for your earthhelp as the moonpretenders moonrape, moonravage, and moonraze their way to my moonpalace. Please take my $50,000.
Slashdot Mirror
I am not sure why people think Microsoft should support a competitor. Do you see McDonalds supporting Burger King?
Do you see McDonalds buying out disposable coffee cup manufacturers and then discontinuing their Burger King lines?
Destroying your competitor's infrastructure damages the marketplace. It is not an ethical business practice.
You tag the useragent as "Opera" without ruining the MSIE spoofing by simply adding "Opera; " or "OWB; " after the OS string.
In fact, that's exactly what Opera does. Version 8 has three possible user agents that can be switched from the Tools menu, the F12 Quick Prefs, or a customized toolbar widget:
- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; en) Opera 8.0
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en) Opera 8.0
- Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en)
As long as you know that Opera exists, it's not hard to detect at all.
Oy. Enough with the friggin' thought police.
Our results show a very significant liberal bias. All of the news outlets except Fox News Special Report received a score to the left of the average member of Congress.
So? The average member of Congress is Republican right now. In fact, I suspect that there's also "a surprising liberal bias" among the general populace relative to the average member of Congress too.
There's supposed to be opinion drift in the media, and it's not supposed to be towards the pablum-like average. New directions and radical ideas have to be pursued. Progress beckons.
If it's a bad thing, you should be complaining equally about all situations where people are dicks to each other in real life.
We do complain about those situations. People shouldn't be (non-consensual) dicks to each other in real life. It ruins the fun of living.
Most slashdotters have never had their beds shaken, so you might want to explain what it's like.
I'll have you know that I am wild enough to have bounced on my bed once or twice as if it were a trampoline. I am perfectly aware of what a shaking bed feels like.
Of course, the last time around the wooden centre support gave way, and I had to pull it off the floor, lift up the mattresses, and reinsert it correctly.:)
Blogs serve an interesting and occasionally useful purpose, but will probably always lack the relative objectivity of good news sources such as NPR.
Bad news, comrade: Washington Post | Congress seeks to end funding for PBS and NPR within two years
My mind is part of my body. It is a holistic unit of one.;)
Revel in it, my friend. Revel.:)
Lisa has always reminded me of myself. She's the Simpsons character to whom I related the most.:)
Who is gonna play the part of OJ?
How about Leslie Nielsen? I hear he's available, and he was tutored by the real OJ way back during the Naked Gun movies.
...Netscape ain't done until IE won't run.;)
I believe the real irony hear[sic] is in the notion of a Slashdot editor trying to correct someone else's grammar usage.
Ahem. *cough* *cough*
Speaking of Civ2 and FreeCiv, try C-Evo. It is a very refined and interesting alternative to the two. The gameplay is superior in several ways, though you have to get used to a few of the changes such as custom unit design.
If you don't mind Free-as-in-Beer, try izArc. It's free, it has a comparable interface to WinZip/Rar/Ace, and it supports almost every format under the sun including 7zip, bzip2, and iso.
I've got 19 inches that could hold it!
Are you the "Soviet Russia" that we've heard so much about? Could I have an autograph... or, better yet, imagine an Beowulf cluster of said autographs...
The Crusades came into being because the Byzantine Emperor called for help against the Seljuk Turks' depredations, and he had nothing to call with except an appeal to shared Christian heritage against the Muslim invasions.
Yes, but the Byzantine Empire had ceded Jerusalem and Damascus four hundred years before the crusades. Four-hundred-year-old claims aren't worth the perfumed courtly paper they are pain-stakingly inscribed on.
Constantinople yelped for help because the Seljuks (who are quite different from, say, Saladin's Egypt-based Ayyubids) were threatening Anatolia, not Levant. The Crusaders, OTOH, bee-lined for Jerusalem instead. And slaughtered all of its Jewish inhabitants. Jeez.
One of the most absurdly fun first-person-shooters to come out in recent years is Serious Sam. Instead of tacking on more and more boring realism, it takes the opposite approach and follows the bubble gum arcade logic.
The weapons are all supercool, especially in Second Encounter. The chainsaw chews through tens of melee enemies, the flamethrower fries hordes of ranged attackers, and nothing can beat the bowling-esque cannonball launcher for taking down giant mechs, herds of bulls, and machine-gun-toting scorpions.
And when I say "hordes of enemies", I do mean "hordes of enemies". You often find yourself facing upwards of 200 attackers at the same time. It is an absolutely incredible headrush.
Trillian is with Arthur so will not be depressed with Zaphod;
Sure she will. Arthur will phlerk things up and they'll get separated after the Restaurant and won't meet again for two million years. At which points they'll be just very good friends.
Arthur won't end up with Fenchurch...
Why the heck not? Love isn't forever.;)
I was going to say 'Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word "historical" that I wasn't previously aware of.' but then realized that you did actually use the word "historical" to describe Sauron. Ooops.:P
Iron Council is Mieville's third book in the world of Bas Lag. The second -- The Scar -- is the best of the bunch. Mieville let the plot get away from him in Iron Council and he didn't flesh things out enough.
Your state of mind is already debated in court. It's called mens rea. That's why we treat the sane and the insane differently. That's why we treat accidents differently from premeditated acts.
There is a difference between spray-painting "Nirvana rocks" on the back of your school and spray-painting "DIE JEWS DIE" on a synagogue. The former makes people roll their eyes; the latter terrorizes people, makes them fear every stranger, makes them always look over their shoulder expecting some their, makes them hide.
A hate crime takes an awful toll on a community. It stifles discourse, innovation, and creativity. It traumatizes and it spreads fear.
Wear of yellow tshirts is not a historical cause of hate crimes. If it were, it would be on the legal list of aggravating circumstances just as committing a crime due to the race, gender, sex, sexual orientation, creed, or disability of the victim is.
There are no streets at all in Cuba and Mexico.^-^
Slashdot's not dying until Netcraft reports Slashdot is dying.
Trillian is a minor character until Life, the Universe, and Everything. She doesn't get a great deal of screentime before her chance to smash the Krikkit war machine and to bring peace to the galaxy.
Hello, beloved earthlings.
We have been observing your earthworld with moonminds vast and merry for many moonyears. You earthtechnological earthachievements are moonimpressive to our moonminds.
Unfortunately, we mooninites are fighting a civil moonwar. Moonsibling is killing moonsibling. As Moonheir to the Moonthrone, I am trusted with protecting the ample Moontreasury.
Fellow sapients, the Moon needs your earthhelp. I need to transfer the equivalent of $50,000 USD to two thousand and one Earth banking accounts. In order to do so, my moonsubterfuge moonskills will have to deceive the earthbankers.
I plead with you on my moonknees.
Please let me transfer $50,000 USD to your earthaccount. The moonmoney will have to stay earthhidden for at least pi earthdecades. I trust you will earthsafeguard it from the moonpretenders to the Moonthrone.
We will moonreward all earthhumans moongenerously.
In order for me to transfer $50,000 to you, I need an initial earthmoney fund to earthbribe the earthbankers. Please send me $500 now, and I will moonreimburse you in the transfer.
The Moon cries out for your earthhelp as the moonpretenders moonrape, moonravage, and moonraze their way to my moonpalace. Please take my $50,000.