I'm something of an artist. When I write programs, I try to make the code beautiful, clean, functional, and even visually organized, because that is artistic to me.
I'm an accountant and i feel the exact same way about my spreadsheets.
Can someone tell me what's up with these west african countries? Nigeria for example, it's all over the scam radar, their area code is synonymous with scam.
How come we don't hear of scammers from Cuba, Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, or any of america's historical and/or current enemies? Is it a media thing to drop west african country names when they refer to these kinds of scam?
Does Nigeria really have a monopoly on scamming stupid americans? Are their organized crime mobs this pathetic that the best they can come up with is phone and email scams? Why can't they go into drug trade or union corruption like a *real* mafia would?
No screen shots on the linked page, but i work as personel in the michigan militia
and have
set up some servers to show you what the armor in action looks like.
Liquid
armor on half a face
We do half the face in case the armor blinds the test subject, at least
he'll have one good eye left. (Lessons learned from the "heat" test, we apply the same principal for the genitals as well.)
On one hand, as a coder, sitting in front of the computer for hours on end I can attest to the meditative state the computer puts me in. I'm not a practicing catholic, but was raised one. Church never really had me contemplating as much as the cathode ray bombarding my brain with it's "green soothing light does". Of course i was a child.
On the other, if this virtual church has "pop up ads" and a whole other pile of garbage, what would jesus do? I mean in the bible he got angry because the holy place was being disrespected, because the spiritual was being commercialized, because the Temple was being desecrated by those who kill the holy and sell it...
Question: Is this an "Ask Slashdot" or an advertisement for Krispy Cream and Apple?
Also, since the editorial already starts us off with an "OS X vs Linux" flamewar, let me add to the discussion... Windows and Linux admins in the same organization? What organization is this?!
Why do people think that the command line is *not* "user friendly"? Do we write books by pointing and clicking at icons, avatars, and pictures? Except under amazing cirumcstances (Steven Hawking, the blind, etc) would you hire an author that did? Then why a system administrator?
As a small business, i use a Linksys wireless router. Cisco now owns Linksys. Can anyone alleviate my "phears" and tell me that this vulnerability is more for the hardware found in big companies like Bell Canada, and not my WEP 64 wireless? I'd really appreciate a summary of what all the fuss is about and how it affects people who don't run mega corps. Thanks.
1) Pain in the ass. Asks me to submit my Full Name, Organization, and email. Along with an Opt-Out in check mark for a newsletters and licence agrement.
2) You may not download this Software if you are located in any country (or are a national of a country) subject to a general U.S. or U.N. embargo or are deemed to be a terrorist country (i.e., Cuba,Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria). Ouch! Why the patriotic license clause?
3) A quick glance at the source code seems to indicate that it's cygwin dependent C++. Not really the best platform to open your source code on since the windows world encourages closed development.
Also, who's to say that this is the source code that will be compiled on the voting terminals? What prevents any e-voting company to build binaries that have "secret conspiracy back doors" in them? Are voting polls expected to compile their own code? And if so, why chose windows when there is no built in compiler available by default on that platform?
1) My computer, my data, my choice. DRM snake oil providers can deal with it. The future won't tolerate the crap these copywrite perverters are trying to enforce, may as well wake up now before it's too late.
2) Downloading music does not affect sales. DRM is only there to appease the record industry, still scared shitless that artists can have direct contact with their fans who still provide them with income. This cuts them out as the middleman. Like the landlord of times before us, they will be replaced or burnt to the ground. Again, deal with it.
3) The previous two paragraphs are both 'revolutionary' premises. Vandals these coders are not.
It is a totally legit fear. But they make our lives unbelievably easier as well, in terms of commercial transactions, credit, you name it [...] Rodger Cosgrove, president of Entremedia, a direct marketing firm and a member of Reason's board, assisted in coming up with a program that allows the subscriber list to be integrated with satellite photographs.
Direct Marketers thinking this is a good idea, nice one. Conveniently enough, they are *gasp* direct marketers!
Give me a break. PR Stunt to get on the front page of slashdot maybe. This is only a good idea for those who plague humanity with the title of marketer.
Had the person been concerned with privacy, the guy should have used PGP/GPG. Since he was more concerned with exploiting an internet cafe for purposes of sending unsolicited and unencrypted mail to potential victims, fuck him.
All those poor sites being slashdotted would surely benefit from the principles of this technology, would they not?
Does such a technology already exist?
PS: I have just demonstrated a sig troll (guerrilla marketing). A hardcoded FP shameless plug right in the middle of some half coherent content that will be 1) clicked by you and 2) spidered by search engines. Be aware slashdotters, your site is plagued with this crap. Use your mod points for awesome. I have karma to burn so mod me down, but this needed to be said.
Of course Canada, a socialist country harboring terrorists, would have a judge corrupt enough to *not* allow the law to break down the doors (and backs) of pirates. The whole country is a cesspool of leftist anti-american pot smoking jocks. Half their salaries taxed and for what? Medicare, Infrastructure, Social Programs, and Freedom? Give me some good old fashioned blatant class differences based on race any day of the week. We need to buckle down and attack these northern communists ASAP. Axis of evil anyone? Downloading music is the first step to the downfall of America, we must stop them at all costs. I have a gun and i'm on my way!
A better CAPTCHA solution? Sunday March 14, @02:10PM Pending
To CAPTCHA or not to CAPTCHA?
Saturday March 13, @06:12PM
Pending
Why Don't I Have a Girlfriend?
Saturday February 07, @10:22PM
Pending
What's up with everyone wanting to put their linux stuff in walmart? Does it actually amount to sales? My guess is that having something to sell in Wallmart is more about PR than sales.
To CAPTCHA or not to CAPTCHA? Saturday March 13, @06:12PM Pending
Why Don't I Have a Girlfriend? Saturday February 07, @10:22PM Pending
" After browsing for pr0n I like to clear my browser's history and cache so that the girlfriend doesn't stumble upon something. This idea bascially let's anyone search for what pr0n websites my "cat" has been looking at over the last year."
Ideally, you'd be able to turn the indexing off and on at will. When you are about to cheat on your girlfriend with "Palmela", click on the "If the trailor is a rocking" button to turn off indexing. Turn it on when your 15 minutes is up.
The next level of entertainment has always been content. "The medium is the message." If what you deliver on the new medium is content meant for an older one, your device won't survive.
Convenience only goes so far. Specific content that exploits the medium is what drives an entertainment device into mass consciousness.
Film technology spawned the art of film, TV spawned the art of television, consoles and computers spawned the art of video games.
What can any of these new devices offer us in terms of cultural identity? Not much.
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We need the wisdom of Herman's Head now, more than ever.
Wow, my challenge has been answered. Seeing is believing. For the record, someone else beat it using JAVA. Here's the email i got:
Hi Simon, I just accepted the challenge that (presumably) you laid on a recent Slashdot thread to create an automatic registration agent for (again, presumably) your Spam Interceptor software.
This is the result. If you can see the log of registered email addresses you will note that some few hundreds of addresses have been added for of the form
"AutoGenerated_@i.am.spamming.you.com".
You are welcome to review the code that I used, although there really isn't much to it... some 300 lines of java. The approach that I used should be adequate simple variations of your defence, but would be readily defeated by simply improving the algorithm that you use to generate the random background noise in your image.
Feel free to email me at: [removed]@recalldesign.com
As a user, here's hoping a fix to make the image more complex is on the way. Thanks for the insight.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey phucko, the parent says "I agree with the author's premise that video games is art"
Just because something is art doesn't mean that someone writing something about something being art doesn't suck.
Anything can be art, sure, but not any peiece of garbage typed on a keyboard can be a critique of art.
Real men don't install programs, they write them.
-1 : TACO! WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?
I'm something of an artist. When I write programs, I try to make the code beautiful, clean, functional, and even visually organized, because that is artistic to me.
I'm an accountant and i feel the exact same way about my spreadsheets.
Can someone tell me what's up with these west african countries? Nigeria for example, it's all over the scam radar, their area code is synonymous with scam.
How come we don't hear of scammers from Cuba, Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, or any of america's historical and/or current enemies? Is it a media thing to drop west african country names when they refer to these kinds of scam?
Does Nigeria really have a monopoly on scamming stupid americans? Are their organized crime mobs this pathetic that the best they can come up with is phone and email scams? Why can't they go into drug trade or union corruption like a *real* mafia would?
- Man in liquid armor
walking down the lab hallway.
- Man
in liquid armor enduring heat.
- Liquid
armor on half a face
Your tax dollars at work.This is joey, the lab assistant, going on a coffee run.
This test killed a few of our volunteers, but after many tries we finally worked out all the kinks.
We do half the face in case the armor blinds the test subject, at least he'll have one good eye left. (Lessons learned from the "heat" test, we apply the same principal for the genitals as well.)
And out of the 14 that are reviewed ZERO play Ogg Vorbis.
Marketers, manufacturers, and capitalists: LISTEN UP!
* I'm 29, single, and work in the computer industry. Therefore, I like gadgets and have disposable income.
* I'm a hobbiest musician and I have been encoding everything, no exception, in OGG VORBIS since 2003. Like the teenagers say, so last year.
* It is feasible to port the Vorbis decoder/encoder to a platform without floating point support.
There's your demographic. Stop reaching for the teenagers and start making products for people who can afford them and desperately need them.
Your profit margins will thank you.
PS: I'm posting this from an iBook. I won't buy an iPod until it supports OGG!
Praying and masturbating at the same alter...
*shudder*
I'm torn.
On one hand, as a coder, sitting in front of the computer for hours on end I can attest to the meditative state the computer puts me in. I'm not a practicing catholic, but was raised one. Church never really had me contemplating as much as the cathode ray bombarding my brain with it's "green soothing light does". Of course i was a child.
On the other, if this virtual church has "pop up ads" and a whole other pile of garbage, what would jesus do? I mean in the bible he got angry because the holy place was being disrespected, because the spiritual was being commercialized, because the Temple was being desecrated by those who kill the holy and sell it...
Is this a joke?
Question: Is this an "Ask Slashdot" or an advertisement for Krispy Cream and Apple?
Also, since the editorial already starts us off with an "OS X vs Linux" flamewar, let me add to the discussion... Windows and Linux admins in the same organization? What organization is this?!
Why do people think that the command line is *not* "user friendly"? Do we write books by pointing and clicking at icons, avatars, and pictures? Except under amazing cirumcstances (Steven Hawking, the blind, etc) would you hire an author that did? Then why a system administrator?
As a small business, i use a Linksys wireless router. Cisco now owns Linksys. Can anyone alleviate my "phears" and tell me that this vulnerability is more for the hardware found in big companies like Bell Canada, and not my WEP 64 wireless? I'd really appreciate a summary of what all the fuss is about and how it affects people who don't run mega corps. Thanks.
Subscriber bonus. I see the future baby.
1) Pain in the ass. Asks me to submit my Full Name, Organization, and email. Along with an Opt-Out in check mark for a newsletters and licence agrement.
2) You may not download this Software if you are located in any country (or are a national of a country) subject to a general U.S. or U.N. embargo or are deemed to be a terrorist country (i.e., Cuba,Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria). Ouch! Why the patriotic license clause?
3) A quick glance at the source code seems to indicate that it's cygwin dependent C++. Not really the best platform to open your source code on since the windows world encourages closed development.
Also, who's to say that this is the source code that will be compiled on the voting terminals? What prevents any e-voting company to build binaries that have "secret conspiracy back doors" in them? Are voting polls expected to compile their own code? And if so, why chose windows when there is no built in compiler available by default on that platform?
1) My computer, my data, my choice. DRM snake oil providers can deal with it. The future won't tolerate the crap these copywrite perverters are trying to enforce, may as well wake up now before it's too late.
2) Downloading music does not affect sales. DRM is only there to appease the record industry, still scared shitless that artists can have direct contact with their fans who still provide them with income. This cuts them out as the middleman. Like the landlord of times before us, they will be replaced or burnt to the ground. Again, deal with it.
3) The previous two paragraphs are both 'revolutionary' premises. Vandals these coders are not.
It is a totally legit fear. But they make our lives unbelievably easier as well, in terms of commercial transactions, credit, you name it [...] Rodger Cosgrove, president of Entremedia, a direct marketing firm and a member of Reason's board, assisted in coming up with a program that allows the subscriber list to be integrated with satellite photographs.
Direct Marketers thinking this is a good idea, nice one. Conveniently enough, they are *gasp* direct marketers!
Give me a break. PR Stunt to get on the front page of slashdot maybe. This is only a good idea for those who plague humanity with the title of marketer.
Had the person been concerned with privacy, the guy should have used PGP/GPG. Since he was more concerned with exploiting an internet cafe for purposes of sending unsolicited and unencrypted mail to potential victims, fuck him.
Wow this gets me thinking, what about P_HTTP?
All those poor sites being slashdotted would surely benefit from the principles of this technology, would they not?
Does such a technology already exist?
PS: I have just demonstrated a sig troll (guerrilla marketing). A hardcoded FP shameless plug right in the middle of some half coherent content that will be 1) clicked by you and 2) spidered by search engines. Be aware slashdotters, your site is plagued with this crap. Use your mod points for awesome. I have karma to burn so mod me down, but this needed to be said.
Of course Canada, a socialist country harboring terrorists, would have a judge corrupt enough to *not* allow the law to break down the doors (and backs) of pirates. The whole country is a cesspool of leftist anti-american pot smoking jocks. Half their salaries taxed and for what? Medicare, Infrastructure, Social Programs, and Freedom? Give me some good old fashioned blatant class differences based on race any day of the week. We need to buckle down and attack these northern communists ASAP. Axis of evil anyone? Downloading music is the first step to the downfall of America, we must stop them at all costs. I have a gun and i'm on my way!
A better CAPTCHA solution?
Sunday March 14, @02:10PM
Pending
To CAPTCHA or not to CAPTCHA?
Saturday March 13, @06:12PM
Pending
Why Don't I Have a Girlfriend?
Saturday February 07, @10:22PM
Pending
What's up with everyone wanting to put their linux stuff in walmart? Does it actually amount to sales? My guess is that having something to sell in Wallmart is more about PR than sales.
To CAPTCHA or not to CAPTCHA?
Saturday March 13, @06:12PM
Pending
Why Don't I Have a Girlfriend?
Saturday February 07, @10:22PM
Pending
Grand children? I'm celibate by popular demand you insensitive clod!
" After browsing for pr0n I like to clear my browser's history and cache so that the girlfriend doesn't stumble upon something. This idea bascially let's anyone search for what pr0n websites my "cat" has been looking at over the last year."
Ideally, you'd be able to turn the indexing off and on at will. When you are about to cheat on your girlfriend with "Palmela", click on the "If the trailor is a rocking" button to turn off indexing. Turn it on when your 15 minutes is up.
You and your cat must be having some good times.
Have you seen Butler (aka Another Launcher). It's free.
The next level of entertainment has always been content. "The medium is the message." If what you deliver on the new medium is content meant for an older one, your device won't survive.
Convenience only goes so far. Specific content that exploits the medium is what drives an entertainment device into mass consciousness.
Film technology spawned the art of film, TV spawned the art of television, consoles and computers spawned the art of video games.
What can any of these new devices offer us in terms of cultural identity? Not much.
We need the wisdom of Herman's Head now, more than ever.
- Comic Book Guy.
Heh, it's not my system. It's this guy's, i just help out. The slashdotting from hell though...
Good work chrisbtoo, congrats.
FYI, someone else beat the system using Java.