You jest but this already happens in the UK with the English Premier League Football (soccer -yuk-). Only one live game at time is shown on English TV. Even though it is our league, we cannot see all the games live. Other countries show all the games, so helpful internet users stream the games for us.
During half time, we are often treated to YouTube videos, copyrighted music and other pieces of comedy gold.
I every interest in sport. I love the cheer my team. I love to shout at the players when they make mistakes.
I also have a fasination with gambling on sports. The odds the bookies advertise are a tease and I do very well when the bookies tout the wrong odds. The mathmatition in me pulls the numbers apart for an hour a week. I am a nerd!
I have a real problem talking to foreigners on a social level because of my slang. I try hard to tone it down but fail every time, innit?
I can't help the slang, or the local way of speaking, you. (UK, west country with a hint of mockney, some west midlands thrown in for good measure, and some Geordie because of the railways workers who came to my town many years ago, like). I finish sentences with "innit you" or "ah boy" or "like" and people struggle - ju know what I'm sayin' like?
And then there's the accent that I try and hide. No "T" and no "R" sounds. Butter does not sound like butter when I say it. Bu'aa.
When the mockney creeps out, there are no "Th" sounds. They are hard "F" sounds. Fink them foreigners cope well, you?
So, all the people suggesting these sites where you have 1-to-1 sessions with foreigners, just make sure you don't find someone like me to teach you English. You'll end up sounding like a street wise farmer.
I already have to wear glasses to see the TV. Am I expected to wear a second pair because the ones I've seen wont exactly fit over the glasses I'm wearing now? No one seems to be answering this question.
Will I have to buy yet another pair of prescription glasses? I already own an indoor pair and pair of tinted outdoor glasses. Prescription glasses aren't cheap.
Or, as I suspect, people without 20:20 vision will be discriminated against, forced to wear contact lenses, forced to have laser eye treatment, or forced to give up the TV. Three people in my house wear glasses, 50% of the people at work wear glasses, figures on the internet talk about millions of people having less than perfect eyesight.
Firstly, I hate it and I hate everything it does and doesn't do. It is pointless.
But it's not meant for you or I, nor anyone else who reads Slashdot.
It's meant for my wife. My wife who runs Firefox, types "facebook" into Firefox's default Google homepage, clicks the first result and then spends the next three hours talking bollocks to her friends.
Except that Java is used by Facebook for their photo uploader so any Facebook user that uploads photos from in their browser needs Java.
Not strictly true. I don't use that POS Facebook but the family does, but I've seen that photo uploader because it needed a higher version of Java than I had installed and the family don't have admin permissions...
There is an alternative plain HTML photo uploader.
I have never understood the long hours, big pay deal. Tomorrow, why don't you work a third less hours for a third less pay?
Like a lot of people, I didn't get a pay rise this year. I told my boss it was OK as I didn't want a pay rise. Puzzled, my boss asked why and I said I had enough money to do the things I wanted to do, but not enough time to do them all. However sincere I sounded, I didn't get an hour less a week and my boss still looks puzzled.
Not just the hills, my friend. Around here we a prone to shallow flooding, so we stick sheep on the land. They're fed in the winter though; when the ground in frozen, there's not much to eat.
And I love, love, love the smell of slurry. Muck spreadin' fills the air with the smell of cow shit and I have a long, deep breath of it. There's something nostalgic about it. The townies think I'm weird, but I like the smell of fresh tarmac too...
This month my company password is January2010. Notice how it respects company policy by containing a mix of upper and lower case, plus two or more digits?
"L33ting" your words is poor and should not be given as good advice. All the brute-force password crackers I've played with have the option to substitute normal letters for "l33ted" letters.
Why is everyone surprised at this? When I worked at Land Rover's design centre in Gaydon, England, there were always two cars from rivals, stripped down, Faro arms in each corner,... You could borrow the parts just like a lending library. Everyone does it. It's good to share.
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kdawson's racism is getting tiresome. I assume it's him who posted this story? I don't even feel the need to go back and check.
As I said earlier, I wish he'd just come out and call them all slanty eyed nips.
Why is it that some people always need an enemy?
I just wish he'd go the full hog and call them slanty eyed nips.
It's disgusting.
Throw your phone away when you switch carriers? What sort of backward country does that?
Next you'll be saying you have to change your phone number each time you buy a new phone or switch service providers!
You jest but this already happens in the UK with the English Premier League Football (soccer -yuk-). Only one live game at time is shown on English TV. Even though it is our league, we cannot see all the games live. Other countries show all the games, so helpful internet users stream the games for us.
During half time, we are often treated to YouTube videos, copyrighted music and other pieces of comedy gold.
You lie.
I every interest in sport. I love the cheer my team. I love to shout at the players when they make mistakes.
I also have a fasination with gambling on sports. The odds the bookies advertise are a tease and I do very well when the bookies tout the wrong odds. The mathmatition in me pulls the numbers apart for an hour a week. I am a nerd!
I have a real problem talking to foreigners on a social level because of my slang. I try hard to tone it down but fail every time, innit?
I can't help the slang, or the local way of speaking, you. (UK, west country with a hint of mockney, some west midlands thrown in for good measure, and some Geordie because of the railways workers who came to my town many years ago, like). I finish sentences with "innit you" or "ah boy" or "like" and people struggle - ju know what I'm sayin' like?
And then there's the accent that I try and hide. No "T" and no "R" sounds. Butter does not sound like butter when I say it. Bu'aa.
When the mockney creeps out, there are no "Th" sounds. They are hard "F" sounds. Fink them foreigners cope well, you?
So, all the people suggesting these sites where you have 1-to-1 sessions with foreigners, just make sure you don't find someone like me to teach you English. You'll end up sounding like a street wise farmer.
Try reading some Irvine Welsh books. The thick Leith (Edinburgh) accent is almost incomprehensible, hard to read but strangely addictive.
I already have to wear glasses to see the TV. Am I expected to wear a second pair because the ones I've seen wont exactly fit over the glasses I'm wearing now? No one seems to be answering this question.
Will I have to buy yet another pair of prescription glasses? I already own an indoor pair and pair of tinted outdoor glasses. Prescription glasses aren't cheap.
Or, as I suspect, people without 20:20 vision will be discriminated against, forced to wear contact lenses, forced to have laser eye treatment, or forced to give up the TV. Three people in my house wear glasses, 50% of the people at work wear glasses, figures on the internet talk about millions of people having less than perfect eyesight.
Meh indeed.
Why? Why bother?
How about spending the money on something better? Or do you have the best edjucation, healthcare, housing and schooling already?
Yep, for all the good they'll do, you may as well stick 'um up your arse.
Firstly, I hate it and I hate everything it does and doesn't do. It is pointless.
But it's not meant for you or I, nor anyone else who reads Slashdot.
It's meant for my wife. My wife who runs Firefox, types "facebook" into Firefox's default Google homepage, clicks the first result and then spends the next three hours talking bollocks to her friends.
If the iPad runs Facebook, it's a winning.
I browse with MS Word and the site says I'm unique. Who'd of thunk it? //no JS
:(
http://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?action=log
Seems to identify itself as IE
We've all played games the day after they've gone gold.
I did a comparison on here a little while ago between MS, eBay and Amazon.
No one in their right mind would use anything other than eBay in the UK to buy points.
Except that Java is used by Facebook for their photo uploader so any Facebook user that uploads photos from in their browser needs Java.
Not strictly true. I don't use that POS Facebook but the family does, but I've seen that photo uploader because it needed a higher version of Java than I had installed and the family don't have admin permissions...
There is an alternative plain HTML photo uploader.
That sounds sarcastic in a British accent...
I have never understood the long hours, big pay deal. Tomorrow, why don't you work a third less hours for a third less pay?
Like a lot of people, I didn't get a pay rise this year. I told my boss it was OK as I didn't want a pay rise. Puzzled, my boss asked why and I said I had enough money to do the things I wanted to do, but not enough time to do them all. However sincere I sounded, I didn't get an hour less a week and my boss still looks puzzled.
Too. Many. Steps.
Or doesn't "SHIFT + CTRL + Drag folder to desktop" work?
We had 10 minutes of sunshine last year.
What's the problem? I had no problems with WGA on my pirated copy of XP and I was able to get the Windows updates just fine. :p
Not just the hills, my friend. Around here we a prone to shallow flooding, so we stick sheep on the land. They're fed in the winter though; when the ground in frozen, there's not much to eat.
And I love, love, love the smell of slurry. Muck spreadin' fills the air with the smell of cow shit and I have a long, deep breath of it. There's something nostalgic about it. The townies think I'm weird, but I like the smell of fresh tarmac too...
So, so easy.
This month my company password is January2010. Notice how it respects company policy by containing a mix of upper and lower case, plus two or more digits?
Next month my password will be February2010.
I jest but I know people who use this method.
Number 7 makes me giggle. When I ran a site of 3,000 members, the name of the site also ranked 7th in the list of passwords.
"L33ting" your words is poor and should not be given as good advice. All the brute-force password crackers I've played with have the option to substitute normal letters for "l33ted" letters.
You ain't fooling no one.
Some of us still enjoy buying a paper paper.
1. The internet is too slow at lunchtimes, what with everyone and their dog buying package holidays at the moment.
2. I can't take this PC to Trap 1, but the paper opens nicely.
3. I sit staring at this bloody LCD all day, getting away from it for 30 minutes is bliss.
4. I'd get the sack for look at Page 3 tits on the internet.
5. People borrow my paper and chat about the content afterwards. It's nice. Nicer than a link in an email.
Why is everyone surprised at this? When I worked at Land Rover's design centre in Gaydon, England, there were always two cars from rivals, stripped down, Faro arms in each corner,... You could borrow the parts just like a lending library. Everyone does it. It's good to share.