Sign the petition to stop UK ISPs from advertising unlimited packages when there are in fact hidden caps in their un-Fair Usage Policies http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Unlimited-ADSL/
Wouldn't it be more fun if the slashbots stopped trying to be the first to point out how smart and 1337 they are for spotting this as an april fools joke and instead posted real comments directly relating to the articles? Even try and improve on the joke. Post comments that would normally be expected from the slashdot crowd - outrage, humour, rebuttals, etc. We all know it's an april fools joke - instead of pointing it out, why not play along - it's a joke - i.e supposed to be fun. You're the boring one.
The best filter I have found so far is Filterset.G
First off, read the Instructions.
From the instructions: The guiding principle behind this filterset is efficiency.
Conservative domain blocking, careful use of Regular Expressions, and a strict stance against false positives
help to avoid the problems faced by other filtersets, from overspecificity to overgeneralization.
Why is using your address such a bad thing? It's not like they are advertising something you don't already know right? Chances are you were driving down Maples Drive past number 12 at the time...
And using your address does help if one of your neighbours wants to come round and ask if they can connect.
Get a clue Microsoft! The Google Toolbar supplements basic lack of features in IE (such as auto-complete, search box, and pop blocker). When it's your product, you don't need to add a toolbar extension, you just add the features to to the goddamn browser itself!
actually, MSN released a toolbar that added similar features to the Google toolbar. Microsoft, in XP SP2, did actually add the popup blocker to the browser itself. Although MSN is part of Microsoft, it acts much more like a seperate company, another example of this is MSN Messenger vs. Windows Messenger.
I have been watching a documentary series on BBC2 called The Power of Nightmares, which I would highly recommend watching as a much more credible and insightful documentary than Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. It goes into the ideology behind the Neo-Conservatives and the radical Islamists, showing how the neo-cons need terror or the perception of evil in order to control the American public through fear.
A friend of mine recently bought a projector, and we started playing XBOX games on it. Most are great and it's made a huge difference to the gaming experience. The only problem is that for people who have a tendency to experience motion sickness when playing FPS style games (like Halo) the effects become amplified. I can play Halo on a normal tv and only feel a little ill after, but after just a minute on the big screen I cannot play any more.
eWeek had an interesting article discussing this argument. IE vs. Mozilla on the Shell Hole--Whose Bug Is It? with the relevant quote: "the argument is that Windows should prevent the shell scheme from executing programs, but this isn't a job for Windows"
IMO this bug is in the applications that are allowing arbitrary execution of programs from the shell scheme and not in Windows.
The first time I went to Vegas I made a fatal mistake. When the cab driver asked if it was my first time I said yes. He then took me the looooong way to my hotel all the way around the airport which cost me $25 instead of the $8 I paid to get from my hotel back to the airport.
Lesson learnt. Never tell a cab driver you are new there.
I know this is offtopic too, but what's interesting is going back to one of your previously accepted stories, Google Eyes New Email Service, Expansion from January 19 (3 1/2 months before they launched gmail), and rereading the comments in light of the present situation.
How close was the slashdot communities predictions?
See the Sources critical of Michael Moore in the wiki for more links.
I saw the movie yesterday, and although I believe there are two sides to every story, and that Moore has twisted some of the facts, there are still some alarming truths within that should not be ignored.
Yes crime is still a major problem in South Africa, but this is one of the most effective measures found so far at combating it. It is not the sole cure however and there are many incidents like the one you describe above, but the country needs to reduce crime in the major business and tourist areas in order to encourage investment and tourism, which will then generate jobs. Jobs will reduce poverty, which in turn will further reduce crime. The problem is that the police forces are under staffed and over burdened, so need the help of technology to make them more efficient and effective.
Cape Town and Johannesburg have had this for a while and it has significantly had an impact on the crime rates in those cities. Cameras Reduce Johannesburg Crime.
A choice quote: "crime rates have dropped an astonishing 80 percent since Business Against Crime erected 200 surveillance cameras to assist an under-staffed police force monitor and track criminals"
This has had the benefit of making the streets safer and boosting tourism. As far as I know, noone has abused this system for their own purposes.
If the majority of web sites start adopting these standards first, the browsers will have to change to support them, not the other way around. Remember how IE got so prominent in the first place (apart from being integrated into the OS), is all those sites that had best viewed with Internet Explorer. So change the game on Microsoft and the mindset of the general public. If enough sites have Best Viewed with Firefox, Opera, etc. (and that is indeed true) then people will start realising that Internet Explorer has fallen behind the progress of the web and it is time to change to a browser that hasn't. It will also bring Firefox et al to the attention of the general public, most of whom haven't even heard of these other browsers. All they know as competition to IE is Netscape Navigator, again because of all those best viewed in Netscape Navigator.
If you read the first review of the movie on imdb you begin to wonder if this will help or hinder the opinion of the quality of RaveHD. Did they just use this to edit in the scenes from the previous movie?
P.S - I quite enjoyed the original movie, but mostly because of Paul Verhoeven's style. Without him the sequel wont have the same feel.
So, this piece of technology might be a great technical discovery, but it's got no use in the real world.
A real world use I would like to see is a service offered based on this technology, that will go through all the music on my harddrive and tag and rename it correctly. I have a lot of songs that unfortunately in the early days of ripping CDs I was very lax in naming. Now I don't have the time or the energy to go through them all to update them.
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Sign the petition to stop UK ISPs from advertising unlimited packages when there are in fact hidden caps in their un-Fair Usage Policies
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Unlimited-ADSL/
The register has an interesting analysis on what this actually means. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/01/dell_brain _one/
In summary, nothing, as Michael Dell has been actively involved in all decisions anyway, and is at least equally responsible for Dell's downfall.
Looks like it is for real
See CmdrTaco's journal
And how are you supposed to buy a dvd as a gift for someone?
Uh.. Here's a great dvd for your birthday - Just give me a call everytime you want to watch it and I'll be right over.
I don't think so!!
Wouldn't it be more fun if the slashbots stopped trying to be the first to point out how smart and 1337 they are for spotting this as an april fools joke and instead posted real comments directly relating to the articles? Even try and improve on the joke. Post comments that would normally be expected from the slashdot crowd - outrage, humour, rebuttals, etc. We all know it's an april fools joke - instead of pointing it out, why not play along - it's a joke - i.e supposed to be fun. You're the boring one.
The best filter I have found so far is Filterset.G
First off, read the Instructions.
From the instructions:
The guiding principle behind this filterset is efficiency. Conservative domain blocking, careful use of Regular Expressions, and a strict stance against false positives help to avoid the problems faced by other filtersets, from overspecificity to overgeneralization.
Why is using your address such a bad thing? It's not like they are advertising something you don't already know right? Chances are you were driving down Maples Drive past number 12 at the time...
And using your address does help if one of your neighbours wants to come round and ask if they can connect.
For advanced filtering use the Filterset from G
Read instructions.txt first.
Get a clue Microsoft! The Google Toolbar supplements basic lack of features in IE (such as auto-complete, search box, and pop blocker). When it's your product, you don't need to add a toolbar extension, you just add the features to to the goddamn browser itself!
actually, MSN released a toolbar that added similar features to the Google toolbar. Microsoft, in XP SP2, did actually add the popup blocker to the browser itself. Although MSN is part of Microsoft, it acts much more like a seperate company, another example of this is MSN Messenger vs. Windows Messenger.
I have been watching a documentary series on BBC2 called The Power of Nightmares, which I would highly recommend watching as a much more credible and insightful documentary than Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. It goes into the ideology behind the Neo-Conservatives and the radical Islamists, showing how the neo-cons need terror or the perception of evil in order to control the American public through fear.
A friend of mine recently bought a projector, and we started playing XBOX games on it. Most are great and it's made a huge difference to the gaming experience. The only problem is that for people who have a tendency to experience motion sickness when playing FPS style games (like Halo) the effects become amplified. I can play Halo on a normal tv and only feel a little ill after, but after just a minute on the big screen I cannot play any more.
Use something like simp to encrypt your messages before they are even sent over the IM network.
IMO this bug is in the applications that are allowing arbitrary execution of programs from the shell scheme and not in Windows.
Which raises an interesting question. Could this be classified as a stimulant used to enhance performance?
The first time I went to Vegas I made a fatal mistake. When the cab driver asked if it was my first time I said yes. He then took me the looooong way to my hotel all the way around the airport which cost me $25 instead of the $8 I paid to get from my hotel back to the airport.
Lesson learnt. Never tell a cab driver you are new there.
I know this is offtopic too, but what's interesting is going back to one of your previously accepted stories, Google Eyes New Email Service, Expansion from January 19 (3 1/2 months before they launched gmail), and rereading the comments in light of the present situation.
How close was the slashdot communities predictions?
Another excellent tool to do this is EphPod
Michael Moore wiki, exposed, and analysed.
See the Sources critical of Michael Moore in the wiki for more links. I saw the movie yesterday, and although I believe there are two sides to every story, and that Moore has twisted some of the facts, there are still some alarming truths within that should not be ignored.
Will the source do? The article I used before was the independent third party. CCTV Surveillance Project
or Google Search if you are really interested.
Yes crime is still a major problem in South Africa, but this is one of the most effective measures found so far at combating it. It is not the sole cure however and there are many incidents like the one you describe above, but the country needs to reduce crime in the major business and tourist areas in order to encourage investment and tourism, which will then generate jobs. Jobs will reduce poverty, which in turn will further reduce crime. The problem is that the police forces are under staffed and over burdened, so need the help of technology to make them more efficient and effective.
Cape Town and Johannesburg have had this for a while and it has significantly had an impact on the crime rates in those cities. Cameras Reduce Johannesburg Crime.
A choice quote:
"crime rates have dropped an astonishing 80 percent since Business Against Crime erected 200 surveillance cameras to assist an under-staffed police force monitor and track criminals"
This has had the benefit of making the streets safer and boosting tourism. As far as I know, noone has abused this system for their own purposes.
If the majority of web sites start adopting these standards first, the browsers will have to change to support them, not the other way around. Remember how IE got so prominent in the first place (apart from being integrated into the OS), is all those sites that had best viewed with Internet Explorer. So change the game on Microsoft and the mindset of the general public. If enough sites have Best Viewed with Firefox, Opera, etc. (and that is indeed true) then people will start realising that Internet Explorer has fallen behind the progress of the web and it is time to change to a browser that hasn't. It will also bring Firefox et al to the attention of the general public, most of whom haven't even heard of these other browsers. All they know as competition to IE is Netscape Navigator, again because of all those best viewed in Netscape Navigator.
Study: 2 in 5 Web users now have broadband at home
If you read the first review of the movie on imdb you begin to wonder if this will help or hinder the opinion of the quality of RaveHD. Did they just use this to edit in the scenes from the previous movie?
P.S - I quite enjoyed the original movie, but mostly because of Paul Verhoeven's style. Without him the sequel wont have the same feel.
The point of April Fools is not to tell an amusing story, but rather to tell a story that makes a joke out of you, the fool, for believing it.
So, this piece of technology might be a great technical discovery, but it's got no use in the real world.
A real world use I would like to see is a service offered based on this technology, that will go through all the music on my harddrive and tag and rename it correctly. I have a lot of songs that unfortunately in the early days of ripping CDs I was very lax in naming. Now I don't have the time or the energy to go through them all to update them.