Here's a constructive suggestion on my way out, since I don't think I have seen it addressed. If you insist on redirecting visitors to the Beta site, please provide a link to "classic" Slashdot that does not depend on JavaScript. If they got redirected in the first place because they don't have JavaScript on and therefore are not logged in, there is no way to escape the Beta except the back button.
Slashdot has been an almost-daily habit for me since 1997 or 1998. I come here for the conversation on topics of interest. I don't know what Dice is thinking. Alienate your regulars, and you're throwing away the brand too. See you after the boycott.
Please use real dates and times, not this "Two days ago" stuff.
I block slashdot's style sheets because I do not like the current layout. Fixed widths are evil. I set my browser window at a width that is comfortable for me to read. In the new layout, the right-hand column takes up too much room if viewing full-screen.
I agree with earlier observations about the new comments page: it is difficult to determine the level of indentation.
The version of the home page with big pictures is disastrous, IMO. The graphics take up more room than the stories!
Sorry, spoke too soon. No other site is reporting such an agreement, and Psystar seemed to still be selling this system, albeit under a different name.
Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?
McBride is a piece of work. So rather than improve his company's offerings, he sues competitors and customers alike, and then is surprised when they won't be victimized.
Pardon me; I didn't know you were such an expert. Therefore I mentioned both images and web pages.
pine does not have an internal web browser. Recent versions can render HTML messages in a simplified way. I.e., there is no bolding or italics, no change in font, etc. And there are no images. pine does not run scripts.
It seems logical to me that pine is not vulnerable to iframe exploits because:
It does not display images.
It does not run scripts.
It is not a web browser, and does not have an internal web browser.
pine is an email program and NNTP newsreader. To get content from the web, the user must deliberately use a link to open a web browser. Therefore, planting a web bug of some sort in an iframe in an e-mail message will not work in pine. pine only renders what is in the message. It does not automatically connect to the web. I invite correction from someone more knowledgeable.
No, e-mail is not the web. pine does not fetch images. Even if the message is presented as formatted HTML, to get a web page you'd have to follow a link to an external web browser like lynx or ELinks.
deque_alpha wrote: It works fine down to 800x600...
Not in Opera, it doesn't. "Read More..." overlaps "ask.slashdot.org" or whatever section if there are more than 99 comments.
I can't imagine doing a general desgin for a site like slashdot for a resolution smaller than that.
And here CSS evangelists claim that CSS is better than table-based HTML hacks. If the designer insists on a minimum width, the only saving grace of CSS is that the user can disable the author's stylesheet.
I don't let the browser window (or other applications, if I can help it) occupy the entire screen. It is more difficult to read lines of type that long.
The actual news item got someone else to host the images, so it has a decent chance of surviving/. But maybe that was the point of all those decoy links.
It's not only wikis that are appropriated by these spammers. I had to shut down a discussion board I ran because the spam got to be too much. I was logging on several times every day to delete the junk.
The point of the article, I think, is that wikis are the new frontier for slimy spamming SEOs. The weasels have used "comment spam" on regular blogs. They have spammed referer logs. Now they are giggling over how they can defecate on wikis.
This company's analysis of e-mail spam in the month of April found that most e-mail spams have one or more URLs in the message, sites they are trying to advertise. Although most of the junk e-mail in their survey came from IP addresses in the United States, most of the advertised sites are hosted on web servers in China.
The same guy, John Guagliardo, World eBook Library, also runs NetLibrary.NET. There is a netLibrary.COM, owned by OCLC, not Guagliardo, which sells access to online books, including framed HTML versions of Project Gutenberg texts, to libraries.
The search at Project Gutenberg 2 takes you off-site to the same search used by NetLibrary.NET.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a constructive suggestion on my way out, since I don't think I have seen it addressed. If you insist on redirecting visitors to the Beta site, please provide a link to "classic" Slashdot that does not depend on JavaScript. If they got redirected in the first place because they don't have JavaScript on and therefore are not logged in, there is no way to escape the Beta except the back button.
Slashdot has been an almost-daily habit for me since 1997 or 1998. I come here for the conversation on topics of interest. I don't know what Dice is thinking. Alienate your regulars, and you're throwing away the brand too. See you after the boycott.
Please use real dates and times, not this "Two days ago" stuff.
I block slashdot's style sheets because I do not like the current layout. Fixed widths are evil. I set my browser window at a width that is comfortable for me to read. In the new layout, the right-hand column takes up too much room if viewing full-screen.
I agree with earlier observations about the new comments page: it is difficult to determine the level of indentation.
The version of the home page with big pictures is disastrous, IMO. The graphics take up more room than the stories!
I have great expectations of you as a writer. How the dickens did you come up with that?
They should have called it Squirt Live.
Sorry, spoke too soon. No other site is reporting such an agreement, and Psystar seemed to still be selling this system, albeit under a different name.
Apple has already forced Psystar to stop selling Mac-compatibles. Apple cited the EULA, which licenses installation on one "Apple-labeled computer."
citilivin wrote:
Block images.slashdot.org/comments.css . Or use your own stylesheet.
She's not black.
She's Ojibwe (Chippewa). She's a member of the Mille Lacs Band.
Maybe they got confused and thought Canadians wre infiltrating the U.S. federal government. What if, horrors, they were separatist Freedom Canadians?
Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?
McBride is a piece of work. So rather than improve his company's offerings, he sues competitors and customers alike, and then is surprised when they won't be victimized.
Showing a pageful of ads is not a service.
Pardon me; I didn't know you were such an expert. Therefore I mentioned both images and web pages.
pine does not have an internal web browser. Recent versions can render HTML messages in a simplified way. I.e., there is no bolding or italics, no change in font, etc. And there are no images. pine does not run scripts.
It seems logical to me that pine is not vulnerable to iframe exploits because:
pine is an email program and NNTP newsreader. To get content from the web, the user must deliberately use a link to open a web browser. Therefore, planting a web bug of some sort in an iframe in an e-mail message will not work in pine. pine only renders what is in the message. It does not automatically connect to the web. I invite correction from someone more knowledgeable.
No, e-mail is not the web. pine does not fetch images. Even if the message is presented as formatted HTML, to get a web page you'd have to follow a link to an external web browser like lynx or ELinks.
deque_alpha wrote: It works fine down to 800x600...
Not in Opera, it doesn't. "Read More..." overlaps "ask.slashdot.org" or whatever section if there are more than 99 comments.
I can't imagine doing a general desgin for a site like slashdot for a resolution smaller than that.
And here CSS evangelists claim that CSS is better than table-based HTML hacks. If the designer insists on a minimum width, the only saving grace of CSS is that the user can disable the author's stylesheet.
I don't let the browser window (or other applications, if I can help it) occupy the entire screen. It is more difficult to read lines of type that long.
Here is the problem:
body {
min-width: 760px;
The actual news item got someone else to host the images, so it has a decent chance of surviving /. But maybe that was the point of all those decoy links.
The biography of Paul Marsh is currently Slashdotted.
It's not in the Wayback Machine, but Google has cached the article.
Cendant has been a client of Claria (formerly Gator). At one time, Cendant was one of Claria's top twenty advertisers.
It's not only wikis that are appropriated by these spammers. I had to shut down a discussion board I ran because the spam got to be too much. I was logging on several times every day to delete the junk.
The point of the article, I think, is that wikis are the new frontier for slimy spamming SEOs. The weasels have used "comment spam" on regular blogs. They have spammed referer logs. Now they are giggling over how they can defecate on wikis.
You didn't RTFA, did you?
This company's analysis of e-mail spam in the month of April found that most e-mail spams have one or more URLs in the message, sites they are trying to advertise. Although most of the junk e-mail in their survey came from IP addresses in the United States, most of the advertised sites are hosted on web servers in China.
Sure you can. RTFA, that is
Don't feel like subscribing.
The username and password at bugmenot.com work.
Anonymous coward asks,
www.projectgutenberg.org ( WTF? )
Disgruntled ex-volunteer.
And not the first time.
The same guy, John Guagliardo, World eBook Library, also runs NetLibrary.NET. There is a netLibrary.COM, owned by OCLC, not Guagliardo, which sells access to online books, including framed HTML versions of Project Gutenberg texts, to libraries.
The search at Project Gutenberg 2 takes you off-site to the same search used by NetLibrary.NET.
Do a search for:
yet again
Compare ***The Project Gutenberg Etext of Yet Again, by Max Beerbohm***, at World eBook Library
Yet Again, at World eBook Library, and
Yet Again, at Project Gutenberg. Basically World eBook Library strips out the Project Gutenberg license and slaps their own copyright on it.
You can still get there. Back up to the root, then look for General Forums, General Comments/Suggestions. The thread you're looking for is called Why did this company by a license from SCO? I was able to get to the General Comments/Suggestions forum directly.
Well, this guy used a computer, a VCR, an Eagles music video, a rigged power strip, telephone wire, and about half a mile of coaxial cable.