A filter that slaps you in the face if you start typing in IM-speak.
"u" for "you", "4" for "for", etc. More than one instance of "lol" per minute More than two exclamation points (possibly mixed with ones) in a row Smileys on more than one quarter of your messages And so on.
Having had a big swath of my forehead flesh disconnected from its nerves in a car accident, I can tell you that you get used to it. And, no, you don't want to pull it off. When it first happens, it's an injury and you do all you can to avoid touching it altogether. After it heals, you're used to not messing with it. By that point, you're accustomed to the way it feels anyway.
I'd like to know is why no one has written a Ghostzilla extension for Firefox. That is, something that makes Firefox do what Ghostzilla does, except without the bugs and old rendering engine and separate installation and stuff.
Wow. Lotta naive people and/or antisemites floating around Slashdot, judging by these replies and mods. I hope at least they're mostly naive.
To the naive ones:
See, there are code words all around you, people. Jews have the honor (?) of having several assigned to them. "New York bankers", "northeastern intellectuals", "international finance/financiers", etc. "Urban/inner-city"? Minority, especially black. "Illegal immigrant"? Mexicans. (This is the meaning in the US, anyway.) At one time, "sectarian" was a code word for "Catholic". Most groups involved in long-term tensions have code words like this -- e.g., Arabs use "Zionist" for "Jews". And so on and so on. They're used to disguise one's alliance with the worst factions that agree with you on some publicly distasteful stance.
Don't believe me? Think I'm just making shit up? Tell you what. Try a little experiment. Go to someone you know for a fact to be antisemitic and who talks to other antisemites on a regular basis. Use a throwaway email account to talk to your local KKK branch, if need be. Ask what him what he thinks of, quote, "New York bankers". Watch him go on a diatribe against Jews. If he's really careful, he'll avoid using the actual word Jew at all.
Now, as with all words, they can be used for different purposes. I'm not saying every single time you encounter "urban", it means "black". But you've got to keep your ears up for these things. In the case of the original message I replied to, it was pretty obvious. "Bankers, especially 'New York' bankers". Even without the scare quotes, it would be suspicious. With them, it fairly slaps you in the face.
On the other hand, it would seem this is the perfect chance to submit a lot of crap stories and pad your accepted story count.
Anyway, I've gotta go now...I have to get over to Google to search for...uh...porn. Yeah, that's it. Innocent, non-Slashdot-related porn. Later, suckers!
Without the lactone structure (a phrase Kehoe had never heard before Sabnis presented it), Kehoe might have toiled in his basement for many more years and never made the dye he needed. Yet without Kehoe's obsessive dedication and belief in the idea, the project never would have been funded. And without his years of experimentation, Sabnis's dyes would have slipped straight down the walls of the bubbles.
There's your justification for the "wacky inventor" being necessary in this case.
Each action (selling non-popup ads and making a popup blocker) helps reduce popup ads. Each action is a good, fighting against an evil. The fact that they make money in the process seems irrelevant to me.
If I were to, say, invent a device that prevents people from killing other people while at the same time running a mediation service that targeted people who feel like killing each other, would that make me evil?
Contact had possibly the worst ending in cinematic history. No, I don't mean how the alien was her father.
As long as you're touching on that misconception, the alien was not her father. It took on the appearance of her father. They even say so in the damn movie.
I mean the "eighteen hours of static line." I don't doubt it is the worst line an any movie anywhere. It isn't that it's stupid, but rather if you accept that that line is part of the movie, then the whole movie is meaningless, no more profound than Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (and arguably a bigger waste of time).
What the hell? How does that line make the movie meaningless? The line is intended to tell you, the viewer, that, yes, it really did happen. She really did go through a wormhole, she really did meet an alien, she really did come back to the same space/time coordinates as when she left. What is the problem?
Just a bunch of sound of images committed to film for no particular reason.
The reason is the same as with any other story ever told: to tell an entertaining story. The rest (making you think) is gravy.
why shit on Sagan's grave by making people who did get it hate it
If you hated it because you are left in no doubt as to whether she really made the journey, then, no, you didn't get it.
I don't normally have this sort of attitude about movies
Riiight.
I'd really like to meet whoever added that line and punch him in the face.
If you mean whoever wanted to make sure you know she really did make the journey, then you're going to have to dig up Sagan and punch his corpse in the face. Considerably worse than shitting on the grave without otherwise disturbing it, I'd think.
It is just a movie, but isn't film supposed to be art?
I did read the book. When it first came out. In 1985. And I like the movie.
I learned a long time ago that translating a book to a movie inevitably involves a lot of compromises -- at least with any book over a hundred pages. In the case of Contact, I think they made them admirably.
There is this awesome site called Slashdot, http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org] - I think you'll like it. Check it out sometime before posting news to your site.
"Being a geek", to me at any rate, is more than reading a certain set of books or watching a certain set of movies or checking Slashdot or any such fashion-type consideration. It specifically means putting forth an abnormal amount of effort in pursuit of a thing, be that computers or music or comic books or hydrology or frogs or whatever. It means being so into a thing that you pour an amount of work and attention into it that most people would find formidable.
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You run a car lot, don't you.
Well, obviously, you need to use "kΩ" and "µF".
Heh.
Breaking your contract with the company is a felony? Should be a civil matter, not criminal.
Yet another example of the government being in the pockets of corporations.
A filter that slaps you in the face if you start typing in IM-speak.
"u" for "you", "4" for "for", etc.
More than one instance of "lol" per minute
More than two exclamation points (possibly mixed with ones) in a row
Smileys on more than one quarter of your messages
And so on.
Having had a big swath of my forehead flesh disconnected from its nerves in a car accident, I can tell you that you get used to it. And, no, you don't want to pull it off. When it first happens, it's an injury and you do all you can to avoid touching it altogether. After it heals, you're used to not messing with it. By that point, you're accustomed to the way it feels anyway.
Not for stability, or security, or pricing, or modifiability, or all the great things that come to us from Unixland.
It's because we're all so cool.
Who could have guessed it?
...without lots of annoying .WAV files.
I'd like to know is why no one has written a Ghostzilla extension for Firefox. That is, something that makes Firefox do what Ghostzilla does, except without the bugs and old rendering engine and separate installation and stuff.
Please? Someone?
Look, if you want to ignore the signs that someone is a racist, that's your call. But don't tell me there's no such thing, Sunshine.
Not to mention you can actually commit cybercrime with a crowbar. Laptop in car + crowbar = bye-bye customer data!
Attach a lot of heat-pipes and fins to yourself? Maybe with blood as the coolant fluid?
Would look cool as hell, if a bit impractical.
On the other hand (heh), you could crank up the cooling for energy dissipation as a path to body fat reduction.
To the naive ones:To the antisemites:
It's not about "running the show" or "being better than". It's about letting the people with the knowledge, who produce, in on the control.
I believe the idea is that the tech people have a certain veto power over the suits. How this can be a bad thing, I'll never know.
I'd be completely behind your comment except for the code words "New York" bankers -- meaning Jews.
Ruined it for me.
On the other hand, it would seem this is the perfect chance to submit a lot of crap stories and pad your accepted story count.
Anyway, I've gotta go now...I have to get over to Google to search for...uh...porn. Yeah, that's it. Innocent, non-Slashdot-related porn. Later, suckers!
Each action (selling non-popup ads and making a popup blocker) helps reduce popup ads. Each action is a good, fighting against an evil. The fact that they make money in the process seems irrelevant to me.
If I were to, say, invent a device that prevents people from killing other people while at the same time running a mediation service that targeted people who feel like killing each other, would that make me evil?
Core dumped
I did read the book. When it first came out. In 1985. And I like the movie.
I learned a long time ago that translating a book to a movie inevitably involves a lot of compromises -- at least with any book over a hundred pages. In the case of Contact, I think they made them admirably.
There is this awesome site called Slashdot, http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org] - I think you'll like it. Check it out sometime before posting news to your site.
Ah. I see what your confusion is.
"Being a geek", to me at any rate, is more than reading a certain set of books or watching a certain set of movies or checking Slashdot or any such fashion-type consideration. It specifically means putting forth an abnormal amount of effort in pursuit of a thing, be that computers or music or comic books or hydrology or frogs or whatever. It means being so into a thing that you pour an amount of work and attention into it that most people would find formidable.