That page belongs to Geocities, as the worm author had violated the TOS by performing illegal activities with their account. Geocities thus can give out the old account to whoever they want.
Go to your "Homepage" section of the preference page and check the box for "Collapse Sections (show stories from all sections, unless specifically excluded)". Then, in the table below marked "Exclude Stories from the Homepage", check all the boxes in the "Sections" column EXCEPT for Games (and any other section you want to see on the home page).
From your comments, you haven't played the beta in some time - so saying "Still too buggy" is hardly fair.
The 964 patch was pretty horrendous, but 965 seems quite stable and playable. Despite all the naysayers, I'm starting to believe it might be ready for the May 6 release date.
I'm waiting a while to purchase, just in case... but if they keep ironing out bugs, I'll be buying.
You've posted a couple obscure servers with Microsoft.com hostnames - I fail to see what that proves? The big sites are all still run on Windows (including IIS6/Win2003 on Microsoft.com).
Has anyone solved the "lethal radiation that will kill everyone aboard long before they get there" problem yet?
Yep - a radiation shelter (probably using the water stored onboard as shielding) for solar flares. Normal radiation levels aren't enough to kill - they'll only raise the cancer potential 1% over the course of the trip (~50 rems).
Or the problems with the human body breaking down after extended weighlessness?
Longest stay on MIR was 438 days - and the guy walked off the Soyuz capsule. That's plenty for a trip to Mars.
Or of simply putting any more than 1 person in the same place for more than a month or two and not kill each other?
Reference the 438 days above. See also previous comments in this thread regarding small ships, isolated groups, etc. Also, Russia is doing an experiment in which a Mars crew is isolated in a "ship" for 500 days - no outside help. Should be a nice proof of concept.
Furthermore, has anyone explained to us WHY we're going to Mars? Look what the Moon got us. Zippo. Zilch. Nada.
Because a shortsighted Congress yanked the funding. We would have had a useful Moon base in another 10 years, had NASA been allowed to do it.
Next to no gravity(making landing pretty easy), pretty close.
Landing on Earth is plenty easy, and gravity here is far higher than on Mars. Very very silly objection. As for being pretty close, you don't need all that much more fuel - after all, you coast at a constant speed for most of the trip. Just requires more time.
Lastly, couldn't help but notice that all the comments questioning the mission and/or space exploration got modded to "Flamebait"
That's because most of them are as obviously inaccurate as yours.
Trip to mars doesn't feed, clothe, and house the guy on 32nd and Main under a box.)
Actually, trips to Mars provide jobs and thus an economic boost.
You can see the lights from space, but you can't see the starving children.
The US lets enough food rot each year to feed all the "starving children" of this world. Why? Well, for one, every time we send food aid it gets used as a tool by the two bit dictators controlling distribution (ref: Somalia, Iraq, etc.). Throwing more money at it won't solve the problem.
Having used various Linux distros, BeOS, and OSX, I'd say you've got it backwards - OSX is the best (and by "best" I mean useable for average users) OS of the three.
If my apps ran on OSX, I'd switch instantly... but at the moment I'm stuck on Windows.
AOL doesn't get slashdotted. They have far more traffic at any one time than Slashdot ever does - sending/.ers over to AOL is like adding a couple hundred rain drops to a thunderstorm.
Well, how does a law to jail war protesters who are interfering with public services have anything to do with "Your Rights Online" or "News for Nerds"?
A Google search on "silicon based bacteria" showed only info on speculation of the possibility of silicon based life. If they do exist, they've been harmless to humans thus far.
seriously now, ppl. is M$ software reliable enough to such operation ?
On standardized hardware, sure - it's the same reason Apple software only runs on their own hardware.
Even on non-standard hardware, WMP is plenty stable - my XP box hasn't crashed in months, and I watch DivX movies quite often in WMP.
I noticed several anoying bugs, one of them the shor lived battery
How's a short-lived battery Microsoft's fault? They didn't make that color LCD suck power like a vacuum cleaner, HP did.
owners of top-of-the-line BMWs also are being annoyed by bugs in the M$ software that runs on the car
Last I heard about it, those bugs were caused by BMW's software, not the underlying OS. If you write a buggy program, it's going to have bugs whether you run it in Linux or Windows.
Microsoft has had some buggy software, but I'm rather convinced that everyone whining about how horrendously unstable it is hasn't used it since Win 95 (or is using Win ME). Win 2000 and XP have been quite stable, in my experience.
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Ah, but this clothing isn't chemically antibiotic, it's physically antibiotic. Using it won't create resitstant germs.
Perl-like? It's C-like, if anything, which makes it easy for someone who has experience in C or Java to pick up.
or rather, I should say the plethora of built-in functions
What's wrong with lots of built-in functions?
so many PHP purists these days insist that you can't use PHP for templating any more (thus running contrary to the original purpose of the language) and that you have to print all your html with print statments inside a single tag.
I've never come across a competent PHP developer who has said that. Hell, the official PHP site has Smarty, a template engine.
Come on... there are some valid gripes about PHP, no need to go make up some.
But why do you need it to be HTTPS? That merely means no one can intercept your data between you and the server - hardly an issue when you're downloading freely available, open source code.
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That page belongs to Geocities, as the worm author had violated the TOS by performing illegal activities with their account. Geocities thus can give out the old account to whoever they want.
They most likely contacted Geocities and asked for access to the account so they could stop the worm.
I mainly visit MSNBC.com - with IE there's usually at least one popup/popunder per session. (Hooray for Firebird!)
What is stopping Microsoft from putting out a version or patch of/to IE that has this feature?
The fact that many of their MSN.com sites use 'em?
That, or they're trying to get something fixed before it goes alpha, beta, or retail.
He doesn't have any of those superpowers in the "real" world, remember?
Maybe the Matrix programmers have done a little bug fixing, too. Like setting $maxHumanVelocity = 20;, perhaps?
If they're going to market to businesses, they really should be more mature than this...
Yep, you can.
Go to your "Homepage" section of the preference page and check the box for "Collapse Sections (show stories from all sections, unless specifically excluded)". Then, in the table below marked "Exclude Stories from the Homepage", check all the boxes in the "Sections" column EXCEPT for Games (and any other section you want to see on the home page).
From your comments, you haven't played the beta in some time - so saying "Still too buggy" is hardly fair.
The 964 patch was pretty horrendous, but 965 seems quite stable and playable. Despite all the naysayers, I'm starting to believe it might be ready for the May 6 release date.
I'm waiting a while to purchase, just in case... but if they keep ironing out bugs, I'll be buying.
How's that cynical? Isn't that a good thing?
What incentive would Microsoft have to block e-mails coming from their own e-mail program?!?!
Your proposed solution would be like making Microsoft Office stop working with Microsoft Windows... hardly good for business!
You've posted a couple obscure servers with Microsoft.com hostnames - I fail to see what that proves? The big sites are all still run on Windows (including IIS6/Win2003 on Microsoft.com).
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=msn.com
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=hotmail.com
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=microsoft.com
Has anyone solved the "lethal radiation that will kill everyone aboard long before they get there" problem yet?
Yep - a radiation shelter (probably using the water stored onboard as shielding) for solar flares. Normal radiation levels aren't enough to kill - they'll only raise the cancer potential 1% over the course of the trip (~50 rems).
Or the problems with the human body breaking down after extended weighlessness?
Longest stay on MIR was 438 days - and the guy walked off the Soyuz capsule. That's plenty for a trip to Mars.
Or of simply putting any more than 1 person in the same place for more than a month or two and not kill each other?
Reference the 438 days above. See also previous comments in this thread regarding small ships, isolated groups, etc. Also, Russia is doing an experiment in which a Mars crew is isolated in a "ship" for 500 days - no outside help. Should be a nice proof of concept.
Furthermore, has anyone explained to us WHY we're going to Mars? Look what the Moon got us. Zippo. Zilch. Nada.
Because a shortsighted Congress yanked the funding. We would have had a useful Moon base in another 10 years, had NASA been allowed to do it.
Next to no gravity(making landing pretty easy), pretty close.
Landing on Earth is plenty easy, and gravity here is far higher than on Mars. Very very silly objection. As for being pretty close, you don't need all that much more fuel - after all, you coast at a constant speed for most of the trip. Just requires more time.
Lastly, couldn't help but notice that all the comments questioning the mission and/or space exploration got modded to "Flamebait"
That's because most of them are as obviously inaccurate as yours.
Trip to mars doesn't feed, clothe, and house the guy on 32nd and Main under a box.)
Actually, trips to Mars provide jobs and thus an economic boost.
You can see the lights from space, but you can't see the starving children.
The US lets enough food rot each year to feed all the "starving children" of this world. Why? Well, for one, every time we send food aid it gets used as a tool by the two bit dictators controlling distribution (ref: Somalia, Iraq, etc.). Throwing more money at it won't solve the problem.
Read the article (about the "one cheat") - it explains that they had to put in about 1 second of CGI at that point in the ad.
Having used various Linux distros, BeOS, and OSX, I'd say you've got it backwards - OSX is the best (and by "best" I mean useable for average users) OS of the three.
If my apps ran on OSX, I'd switch instantly... but at the moment I'm stuck on Windows.
AOL doesn't get slashdotted. They have far more traffic at any one time than Slashdot ever does - sending /.ers over to AOL is like adding a couple hundred rain drops to a thunderstorm.
Well, how does a law to jail war protesters who are interfering with public services have anything to do with "Your Rights Online" or "News for Nerds"?
Maybe that's why it got rejected, eh?
I wouldn't mind office at all if my wife didn't lose her powerpoints once a month destroying a days work
Office usability tip: File > Save will (*gasp*) save your work!
You're ignoring the words "full-featured" before "alternatives".
A Google search on "silicon based bacteria" showed only info on speculation of the possibility of silicon based life. If they do exist, they've been harmless to humans thus far.
seriously now, ppl. is M$ software reliable enough to such operation ?
On standardized hardware, sure - it's the same reason Apple software only runs on their own hardware.
Even on non-standard hardware, WMP is plenty stable - my XP box hasn't crashed in months, and I watch DivX movies quite often in WMP.
I noticed several anoying bugs, one of them the shor lived battery
How's a short-lived battery Microsoft's fault? They didn't make that color LCD suck power like a vacuum cleaner, HP did.
owners of top-of-the-line BMWs also are being annoyed by bugs in the M$ software that runs on the car
Last I heard about it, those bugs were caused by BMW's software, not the underlying OS. If you write a buggy program, it's going to have bugs whether you run it in Linux or Windows.
Microsoft has had some buggy software, but I'm rather convinced that everyone whining about how horrendously unstable it is hasn't used it since Win 95 (or is using Win ME). Win 2000 and XP have been quite stable, in my experience.
Ah, but this clothing isn't chemically antibiotic, it's physically antibiotic. Using it won't create resitstant germs.
perhaps it's the sucky perl-like syntax
Perl-like? It's C-like, if anything, which makes it easy for someone who has experience in C or Java to pick up.
or rather, I should say the plethora of built-in functions
What's wrong with lots of built-in functions?
so many PHP purists these days insist that you can't use PHP for templating any more (thus running contrary to the original purpose of the language) and that you have to print all your html with print statments inside a single tag.
I've never come across a competent PHP developer who has said that. Hell, the official PHP site has Smarty, a template engine.
Come on... there are some valid gripes about PHP, no need to go make up some.
The ones at the top are barely differentiated from the search results
Barely differentiated? They're very clearly labeled "Sponsored Link", and even have a purple/green/blue background to distinguish them.
Far better than other search engines, which put paid-for-placement ads in with the normal results, without any distinguishing marks.
But why do you need it to be HTTPS? That merely means no one can intercept your data between you and the server - hardly an issue when you're downloading freely available, open source code.