I'm currently using one of the popular blog hosting services, but find it lacking when it comes to handling source code snippets in posts.
I can see what you mean after swiftly browsing some of the other sites that came near the top of the above search... I would have thought WordPress would have a plugin though...
The B-52 was returning to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base at Goldsboro, North Carolina, after flying the southern route of the SAC air alert missions (code named "Chrome Dome"). It was attempting its third refueling of the mission with a KC-135 tanker from the American base at Moron, southwestern Spain, near Sevilla. Although the official report of the cause of the accident was not released to the public, it is believed that while attempting to dock at 30,000 ft above the Spanish coast, the nozzle of the tanker's boom, which was supposed to hook up with the B-52's orifice, struck the bomber, ripping open the B-52 along its spine and causing aerodynamic stress which snapped the bomber into pieces. Flames spurted through both planes and the KC-135s 40,000 gallons of jet fuel ignited, killing its four crew members almost immediately. Four of the seven crew members of the B-52 managed to eject and parachute to safety.
From the above source: "[the second most serious nuclear weapons accident on record - MILNET]" (it also goes on to describe a similar accident at Thule).
I thought the TFA might be talking about the crash of the B52 in Thule. This incident refers to a 1966 crash in Spain whereas the Thule incident happened in 1968.
The.mobi link Zonk provided is actually just a registar's cover page. The real (and much more web standards-based).mobi web site is at http://pc.mtld.mobi/ [mtld.mobi].
Actually the 'correct' site (see a post I made above) is http://mtld.mobi/. If you're using a PC it will take you to pc.mtld.mobi... but if you should go straight to that page using a mobile it doesn't perform any checks and gives you a 150K JPG to digest. Navigating to mtld.mobi should provide the optimal page.
I just set the user agent to that used by my phone and the address stayed at mtld.mobi and presented a simple yellowy/turquoise screen aimed at mobile devices. So that's kind of an inverse world that's been created. Instead of google.com, ibm.com serving up 'normal' pages at those addresses and special pages at mobi.google.com, mobi.ibm.com, we get the opposite side of the coin where mtld.mobi is serving up 'normal' pages... for mobiles... and 'special' pages for the bigger machines at domains like pc.mtld.mobi
(for anyone interested the mobile page is 2k and contains ten tiny images)
Why not just use "mobi.ibm.com", for example - why do we need a TLD for this?
Exactly. www.dotmobi.org tells us at the bottom that "the official site is available at MTLD.MOBI"... and when you go to mtld.mobi it takes you to... pc.mtld.mobi... I presume if you changed your user agent to something suitable it would take you to the subdomain for a pocketpc or palmos or whatever. Just like it should be done.
Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future?
Oh the irony...
BTW: Mods, try to be on the lookout for copy and paste karma whores (man, plagiarism annoys me). Unfortunately with 700+ comments on the last discussion, this may not be easy, haha.
On a sidenote, what seems odd to me is that not only is this a dupe that is currently visible on the index [slashdot.org] of slashdot, but that the article summary is almost identical to the earlier submission, and is even from the same submitter.
Yup:
500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge?
"In the wake of rising gasoline costs there have been plenty of alternatives seen on the horizon. Including Hybrids, Biofuels, fuel cells and battery powered all electric cars. CNN has recently posted a story about a company (EEStor) that plans on offering UltraCapacitor storage products. The claim being that you charge the ultracapacitor in 5 minutes, with approximately $9 of electricity and then drive 500 miles."
...
Does anyone know if those editors are paid or is it just a labour of love? They really do seem to labour...
I'd like to hear about memory management issues, frequent crashes and how Opera was there first - in that order. I need a refresher; it must be while since v1.5.0.3.
A complaint was made in person at a police station in Fulham a few days ago. I think this was reported in the Register and a few other (BBC? Daily Mail?) articles. Now I think we can assume it was the seller making the complaint - but he lives in Barnet - the fact that the complaint was made in Fulham seemed quite intereting but the info provided by the GP throws light on that. Possibly there's more to it as well, why he was relctant to deal with his local fuzz.
Something got me thinking about captchas... what was it?... oh yes it was that article on automated Spamcop submissions the other day.
No wonder they're a growing irritation. But websites need to know at least something about you. This site is letting me post now because: 1) I'm not going through a proxy 2) I've enabled cookies 3) I have a login. Now most sites I visit, I can't tick any of those boxes. And yes I'll venture over to bugmenot occasionally as well.
So sites need them. Especially for those functions where they're at risk of DDoSing someone or some such nefarious misuse.
"The rest of the crap in the story is unverifiable from the information provided. It is just here-say.
There's a wealth of supporting information. Start your quest here: http://tofangsazan-the.blogspot.com/... seems like the papers caught up with him and he admits that the laptop passed through his hands. It had scan of his passport and his CV on it. If the paper had talked to him (granted I can't see any wording that suggests any interview was face-to-face) and the pictures of Amir [i]were not[/i] a likeness of the crook they spoke to then we'd know about it. The police complaint ties it up. Would there have been a complaint if the subject featured in the pics [i]was not[/i] the scammer?
Passport scans, name, pics, place of work, ebay logins, transactions (2+)... and some old-fashioned journalism... how [i]verifiable[/i] does your average Slashdot dilettante need it?
As the webmaster for a small but growing e-commerce site...
You say *small* so I say do your own. My code that collects and saves the actual data is less than a hundred lines of very simple PHP.
When you're just beginning you want to follow each individual session. Most of the packages just aggregate data; they don't give info on a session level. You want info on *pages* viewed; not gifs and css and what-not
Other advantages:
* Send yourself a jabber message every time special things happen. Just a case of slotting in a class and adding five lines of code.
* Log which countries they're coming from. Install a couple of files and add five lines of code.
* Do things based on user-agent, country, whatever.
* In future you might like to block or redirect users... well this is harder but you've got the foundations there.
The code for actuly presenting the data you collect is actually a lot more involved, if you want it to be versatile. But you're free to download the data and write that part in the language of your choice... at your leisure.
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Top result: http://www.google.com/search?q=coding+blog is powered by something I'd never heard of called Community Server http://communityserver.org/.
I'm currently using one of the popular blog hosting services, but find it lacking when it comes to handling source code snippets in posts.
I can see what you mean after swiftly browsing some of the other sites that came near the top of the above search... I would have thought WordPress would have a plugin though...
"How the fuck do you lose a goddamn hydrogen bomb?"
"Uh, you crash a plane containing hydrogen bombs."
More here: http://www.milnet.com/cdiart.htm
From the above source: "[the second most serious nuclear weapons accident on record - MILNET]" (it also goes on to describe a similar accident at Thule).
I thought the TFA might be talking about the crash of the B52 in Thule. This incident refers to a 1966 crash in Spain whereas the Thule incident happened in 1968.
Perhaps scientists should check out the Thule site for similar happenings? More here: http://www.semp.us/biots/biot.php?biotID=5 and http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/dates/stories/ january/28/newsid_2506000/2506207.stm
I can now have sharks with frikkin' laser beams!
Redundant? Warning: grouchy mods at work...
This raises an ethical concern for me. I think we should be asking ourselves "Is it really ok to subvert lifeforms like this for our own use?"
Most would consider a virus to be non-living. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
Maybe it was news when it was submitted. You don't expect a /. editor to check for updates and adjust accordingly now do you???
Dirac is out there and has been for a long time
Oh yes indeed. There's even a video to watch while you're waiting...
BTW, more info on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec).
It is unclear how this impacts on existing BBC research projects such as Dirac...
Is this the Dirac project that's being run by the Duke Nukem team?
The .mobi link Zonk provided is actually just a registar's cover page. The real (and much more web standards-based) .mobi web site is at http://pc.mtld.mobi/ [mtld.mobi].
Actually the 'correct' site (see a post I made above) is http://mtld.mobi/. If you're using a PC it will take you to pc.mtld.mobi ... but if you should go straight to that page using a mobile it doesn't perform any checks and gives you a 150K JPG to digest. Navigating to mtld.mobi should provide the optimal page.
Clarifying my own post...
I just set the user agent to that used by my phone and the address stayed at mtld.mobi and presented a simple yellowy/turquoise screen aimed at mobile devices. So that's kind of an inverse world that's been created. Instead of google.com, ibm.com serving up 'normal' pages at those addresses and special pages at mobi.google.com, mobi.ibm.com, we get the opposite side of the coin where mtld.mobi is serving up 'normal' pages ... for mobiles ... and 'special' pages for the bigger machines at domains like pc.mtld.mobi
(for anyone interested the mobile page is 2k and contains ten tiny images)
Why not just use "mobi.ibm.com", for example - why do we need a TLD for this?
Exactly. www.dotmobi.org tells us at the bottom that "the official site is available at MTLD.MOBI" ... and when you go to mtld.mobi it takes you to ... pc.mtld.mobi ... I presume if you changed your user agent to something suitable it would take you to the subdomain for a pocketpc or palmos or whatever. Just like it should be done.
At the top of the page now it's showing:
Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future?
Oh the irony...
BTW: Mods, try to be on the lookout for copy and paste karma whores (man, plagiarism annoys me). Unfortunately with 700+ comments on the last discussion, this may not be easy, haha.
On a sidenote, what seems odd to me is that not only is this a dupe that is currently visible on the index [slashdot.org] of slashdot, but that the article summary is almost identical to the earlier submission, and is even from the same submitter.
Yup:
500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge?
"In the wake of rising gasoline costs there have been plenty of alternatives seen on the horizon. Including Hybrids, Biofuels, fuel cells and battery powered all electric cars. CNN has recently posted a story about a company (EEStor) that plans on offering UltraCapacitor storage products. The claim being that you charge the ultracapacitor in 5 minutes, with approximately $9 of electricity and then drive 500 miles."
...
Does anyone know if those editors are paid or is it just a labour of love? They really do seem to labour...
I was reading this story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/517225 4.stm on the BBC earlier. That report is based on a survey by someone called the "New Economics Foundation" - plenty more : http://www.google.com/search?q=happiest+countries
I'd like to hear about memory management issues, frequent crashes and how Opera was there first - in that order. I need a refresher; it must be while since v1.5.0.3.
A complaint was made in person at a police station in Fulham a few days ago. I think this was reported in the Register and a few other (BBC? Daily Mail?) articles. Now I think we can assume it was the seller making the complaint - but he lives in Barnet - the fact that the complaint was made in Fulham seemed quite intereting but the info provided by the GP throws light on that. Possibly there's more to it as well, why he was relctant to deal with his local fuzz.
Something got me thinking about captchas ... what was it? ... oh yes it was that article on automated Spamcop submissions the other day.
No wonder they're a growing irritation. But websites need to know at least something about you. This site is letting me post now because: 1) I'm not going through a proxy 2) I've enabled cookies 3) I have a login. Now most sites I visit, I can't tick any of those boxes. And yes I'll venture over to bugmenot occasionally as well.
So sites need them. Especially for those functions where they're at risk of DDoSing someone or some such nefarious misuse.
"The rest of the crap in the story is unverifiable from the information provided. It is just here-say.
There's a wealth of supporting information. Start your quest here: http://tofangsazan-the.blogspot.com/ ... seems like the papers caught up with him and he admits that the laptop passed through his hands. It had scan of his passport and his CV on it. If the paper had talked to him (granted I can't see any wording that suggests any interview was face-to-face) and the pictures of Amir [i]were not[/i] a likeness of the crook they spoke to then we'd know about it. The police complaint ties it up. Would there have been a complaint if the subject featured in the pics [i]was not[/i] the scammer?
Passport scans, name, pics, place of work, ebay logins, transactions (2+) ... and some old-fashioned journalism ... how [i]verifiable[/i] does your average Slashdot dilettante need it?
Makes sense. He popped into the cop shop in Fulham to report this - just before his shift started probably?
If I could mod you up or transfer all my karma points to you I would. Thanks.
... the scroll wheel won't work in the IDE.
Ah, you'll be referring to this map: http://opennet.net/map/ right? (Sorry, Flash required)
...because I would like to find out who the experts are and then DDoS them. I'm tired of people knowing more than me...
It's lifted from the TFA but I guess this is supposed to mean 'instant messaging correspondence' (...in addition to logging the correspondents)?
You say *small* so I say do your own. My code that collects and saves the actual data is less than a hundred lines of very simple PHP.
When you're just beginning you want to follow each individual session. Most of the packages just aggregate data; they don't give info on a session level. You want info on *pages* viewed; not gifs and css and what-not
Other advantages:
... well this is harder but you've got the foundations there.
* Send yourself a jabber message every time special things happen. Just a case of slotting in a class and adding five lines of code.
* Log which countries they're coming from. Install a couple of files and add five lines of code.
* Do things based on user-agent, country, whatever.
* In future you might like to block or redirect users
The code for actuly presenting the data you collect is actually a lot more involved, if you want it to be versatile. But you're free to download the data and write that part in the language of your choice ... at your leisure.