You simply don't win an argument with a group of trolls by feeding them.
But, in all who fairness, which side is 'not' a troll in this story??? There is no way Gene is not milking this for all the publicity he can get. The guy licenses KISS coffee houses and coffins for crying out loud!!
After all, what is his loss? Would his website really have generated more revenue during the DDoS'ing than what this much publicity would have cost?
I'm just waiting for him to post a Google image-searched picture of a bloodied kid with a caption saying "We got one" like that white supremacist web radio host did a few years back.
I totally respect personal preference and opinion, so I see your point. In my (humble) opinion, the latest build of Opera rocks on my HTC Kaiser. With a full screen I can totally manipulate by finger, a keyboard I can slide out if I want to actually "type", and the ability to force the headers to emulate most any broswer, mobile or desktop. Personally, I cannot stand the way some sites dumb themselves down for mobile browsers. Opera lets me decide or myself.
I was certainly never an Apple "FanBoi"....but I did like some of the graphics editing software/capabilities some of my "Apple friends" were using. However, OSX is pretty sweet. I think the move to Intel chips and the Linux based os was a very smart move. And integrating the "same" (I think you understand the need for quotes, at least for now) OS into the iPhone and iPod was ingenious. But it's fristrating to see so much capability restricted by the manufacturer for questionable reasons.
Sure, ATT locked down the HTC Kaiser (Tilt) I use. But they also made it very easy for me to completely overwrite their ROM with a completely custom version, and, not only have they not made an attempt to prevent it or kick me off the network, they didn't even ask me to take it off when I had to send the phone in for repair/swap (physcical damage by me, not a defect in the phone). I even run a modified version of the radio software- sure, the brain tumor will take a few years off my life, but now I can surf the net or putyy into remote machines while using the "good" bathroom at work that used to be a dead spot:P
just between you and me, saying something like "I know this will kill my karma" or "I know this will be modded down", expecially on a slow news weekend, is the the best way to karma whore there is. I think it's becuase those with mod points about to run out are in a hurry to use them before they expire, and are willing to waste them on a crappy post even if its just to prove the poster wrong.
And just so you know, I actually docked points on three interview candidates this week because, not only did they not name "Slashdot" when I asked them where they go to keep up with tech trends, but they didn't know what Slashdot was in the follow-up question. I'd love to say that was sarcasm (as most of my posts are), but that is actually true. And to prove I really am a true Slashdotter...if they answer the above question with "Dvorak", the interview is going to end quickly. If they are able to spell "Dvorak" correctly, the interview ends immediately and I call security.:P
My personal theory is this....Girl's on Slashdot are like Bigfoot. We know they exist, it's just that no ever has a camera around for proof when they find one.
I just didn't want to scare any of the new kids away, so I built them up with false hope.
(and I didn't mean to post anon the first time....odd)
I know this will be moderated down into oblivion, but it's true...
Article- "Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won't let the company release it because it competes with Apple's own Safari browser"
Slashdot- "So what. It's their phone, they can do whatever they want. No one ever said the iPhone would run every app. Uncle Steve is just acting in our best interests"
But what if......
Article- "Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Windows Mobile, but Microsoft won't let the company release it because it competes with Microsoft's own IE browser"
Slashdot- "Christ on a cracker! Is there no end to their greed? Apple would never do anything like this! It's my phone! I bought it! I should be able to do whatever I want with it! Information wants to be free! "
That's why I just come here for the girlies....the discussion has just become way too predictable:)
So, there's nothing like this going on in the UK? I'm hoping you meant the university of Kentucky, because another place with the same initials has quite a different opinion on the matter.....
From news.bbc.co.uk....
"Britain is 'surveillance society'"
"There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people - making it one of the most watched places on earth."
"CCTV in Britain's streets can trace its genesis back to a limited system set up for the Queen's coronation in 1953. By the 1960s there was permanent CCTV in some London streets. Now there are an estimated four million cameras in the country, viewing us as many as 300 times a day."
"Digital CCTV systems can be configured to use face-recognition and look for criminal suspects."
"An estimated £500m of public money has been spent on installing CCTV in the last decade."
"Cameras that could recognises the registration plates on suspect vehicles were first used to track IRA suspects in London. Now the technology is used for speed cameras, traffic enforcement cameras and in London's congestion charging zone."
"A massively growing area of surveillance technology is radio frequency ID tags...Perhaps the most controversial use of RFID to date in the UK was in 2003 when an RFID tracking system was used in the packaging of Gillette Mach3 razor blades to stop shoplifting at one of Tesco's Cambridge branches. Anyone picking up a packet of the blades triggered CCTV surveillance of themselves in the store."
"It is illegal not to register to vote in this country, although many people choose not to for various reasons and avoid punishment.
The result of registration is the electoral roll - a public record of where each voter lives that has proved a goldmine to junk-mail firms, marketing people and journalists over the years...The electoral roll provides a history of every place you have ever lived. Choose not to register and you will struggle to get even the smallest amount of credit."
Wow! Sign me up for life in this privacy utopia you call the UK.:)
That was just the BBC....don't even get me started on this documentary I saw called "V for Vendetta".....
I hate to use all facts from an article, this being Slashdot and all, but I just didn't feel like doing the heavy lifting tonight.
Well...the most infamous example of those who thought they were "one step ahead"....
"Game Over"
They appeared right before the Super Bowl a few years ago...
Christ on a cracker. Every where you go. a tourist. Just head down ulista aTrucka until you come down to old broken down building, make right. Pass statue of great leader Stalin an make left. If you see line for toilet wiper paper, you go to far. Pick up front of Trabaunt and turn around. Look for bear on unicycle but don't stare at the bandages on his feet. Should be right across from old woman who sells the egg people with smaller egg people inside them and yet smaller egg people inside them- I never understood these things.
If you still don't see, got to McDonalds where they are giving free tickets and Coke fries to peoples who wear their logo but not steal the salt shakers.
Dude, this is Slashdot. If you want anyone here to attend, you better change that....
"You're all invited to my end of the world LANparty tonight. Mt Dew and pr0n will be served."
Not to doubt this study, but I think it must depend heavily on the technology of the reader itself. As a diabetic that pricks their finger often, I can tell you that the "dots" that appear on the fingerprint image (more on the electronic ones than the ink ones) have messed up my acces at more than one client. This includes a good deal of banking and Federal clients. My FBI background check has been rejected electronically at multiple clients and they requested ink prints because of the "dots" left by my finger "pricks".
There's a new one for anyone thinking of a life of crime...don't painfully shave off your fingerprints (doesn't always work anyway), just get a job with an expense account, travel frequently, and gain 50 lbs in a year. Sure, you risk blindness, but you get new fingerprints every day:P
(sure, or you could just wear gloves)
Quick piece of advice. FIOS availability can differ by neighborhood. Just because they are rolling it our in your city or neighborhood, you may not be able to get it. I know that's not the future state plan, but right now, both my neighboring divisions can get it while we cannot (even though they dug up our yards with no notice and planted weed filled grass seeds of all varieties in its place). Even though we have the equipment and the others have availability, we are being told "maybe December". Also, the services offered are varied as well.
Not to digress, but they also cut our communities sprinkler systems (and refused to fix or pay to fix even though it was clearly marked), cut our Time-Warner and copper (ATT/Bell South) feeds (ok, maybe that was on purpose,)killed multiple trees, etc. And not to diss trailer parks, but this is no trailer park. The average house goes for 600-800k (not high in NYC or Boston proper, but down south here that buys a pretty nice place). We have had a pretty big fight with them over the past few months over just who's responsible for what.
The "coolest" gadget on the list (also basically the one thats not a phone) isn't "available" in Asia either- unless you work for the lab that is working on it.
The IR learning robot "is nesting in Toshiba's research labs, awaiting its first solo flight".
Heck, I bet we have some cool stuff nesting in our labs here that you can't buy in Asia yet either.
We have researched this here in Charlotte, NC. I don't think its opting-out by IP address- I think it's going by the cable modem MAC. The reason is, users we checked with are only able to opt out if they have a TW/road Runner cable modem (rented from TW/RR). Those who own their own modem and placed it on the TW/RR network can opt-out, but the re-directing still occurs. Seems to be specific with either a config file placed on the TW/RR modem or the MAC address of the modem itself.
We are still doing tests (it just started here in Charlotte yesterday).
Another change over the past few days is that newsgroup access has been halved (connections) from 8 to 4.
Don't worry, I bought one too. And I will call it an "Upconverting DVD" player when people ask. And it really does help the picture of native DVD (not as much as a processor/scaler I use in the media room, but it does great directly tied to the LR TV).
I really thought it was the superior format. And that the general public (the non-tech general public) would see two terms they know, "HD" and "DVD" and think it was a natural progression.
Luckily, I had accidentally hedged my bets by purchasing a PS3. And if/when the masses catch up to BR (like they have a choice now?), I'll get a stand alone player as the prices come down.
"So far this year, Ford's North American business has lost more than $1.4 billion and the cash reserves dwindled to $19.6 billion from $21.8 billion in the third quarter, according to the company's financial report."
"The red ink in the third quarter included a $1.2 billion loss by the company's North American operations, the company reported. So far this year U.S. sales of Ford vehicles are down 1.3 percent, despite a massive discount program that helped clear inventory of unsold vehicles."
Hmmm...
1. Make cars deemed as inferior to their import counterparts 2. Use unions that add about $1500.00 overhead to each car in pensions and health care 3. ?????? 4. Profit!
I am guessing number 3 should be "piss off those who actually bought our cars by refusing to let them take pictures of them".
Then again, I majored in engineering, not business.
Well, surfing through archive.org shows that IFPI.com has been home to not only the real IFPI (briefly), but also to several cybersquatters and a few bloggers. They (the real IFPI) didn't do much about it then. Of course they may make a little more noise about TPB hosting pro-piracy material on it.
Honestly, I don't see the big deal about this...several other similar sites come to mind...whitehouse.com for example. I understood when this story hit the front page of Digg, but Slashdot?
What about ThePirateBay off-shoot Kopime (pardon if that is misspelled, it's blocked here at work and I can't check)? Doesn't their site feature a nude boy dancing on the front page? It's rather harmless but it is a fully exposed male child in many "scenes" of the animated picture.
Also, when the submission/article mentions filtering, I took it as ISP level network filtering sanctioned by the police/government- is that incorrect?
Slashdot Mirror
You simply don't win an argument with a group of trolls by feeding them.
But, in all who fairness, which side is 'not' a troll in this story??? There is no way Gene is not milking this for all the publicity he can get. The guy licenses KISS coffee houses and coffins for crying out loud!!
After all, what is his loss? Would his website really have generated more revenue during the DDoS'ing than what this much publicity would have cost?
I'm just waiting for him to post a Google image-searched picture of a bloodied kid with a caption saying "We got one" like that white supremacist web radio host did a few years back.
We are talking about Grand Theft Auto, right? The series with goals centered around stealing? (as well as murder, etc...)
I totally respect personal preference and opinion, so I see your point. In my (humble) opinion, the latest build of Opera rocks on my HTC Kaiser. With a full screen I can totally manipulate by finger, a keyboard I can slide out if I want to actually "type", and the ability to force the headers to emulate most any broswer, mobile or desktop. Personally, I cannot stand the way some sites dumb themselves down for mobile browsers. Opera lets me decide or myself.
I was certainly never an Apple "FanBoi"....but I did like some of the graphics editing software/capabilities some of my "Apple friends" were using. However, OSX is pretty sweet. I think the move to Intel chips and the Linux based os was a very smart move. And integrating the "same" (I think you understand the need for quotes, at least for now) OS into the iPhone and iPod was ingenious. But it's fristrating to see so much capability restricted by the manufacturer for questionable reasons.
Sure, ATT locked down the HTC Kaiser (Tilt) I use. But they also made it very easy for me to completely overwrite their ROM with a completely custom version, and, not only have they not made an attempt to prevent it or kick me off the network, they didn't even ask me to take it off when I had to send the phone in for repair/swap (physcical damage by me, not a defect in the phone). I even run a modified version of the radio software- sure, the brain tumor will take a few years off my life, but now I can surf the net or putyy into remote machines while using the "good" bathroom at work that used to be a dead spot :P
I guess there's good and bad in both methods....
just between you and me, saying something like "I know this will kill my karma" or "I know this will be modded down", expecially on a slow news weekend, is the the best way to karma whore there is. I think it's becuase those with mod points about to run out are in a hurry to use them before they expire, and are willing to waste them on a crappy post even if its just to prove the poster wrong.
And just so you know, I actually docked points on three interview candidates this week because, not only did they not name "Slashdot" when I asked them where they go to keep up with tech trends, but they didn't know what Slashdot was in the follow-up question. I'd love to say that was sarcasm (as most of my posts are), but that is actually true. And to prove I really am a true Slashdotter...if they answer the above question with "Dvorak", the interview is going to end quickly. If they are able to spell "Dvorak" correctly, the interview ends immediately and I call security. :P
My personal theory is this....Girl's on Slashdot are like Bigfoot. We know they exist, it's just that no ever has a camera around for proof when they find one.
I just didn't want to scare any of the new kids away, so I built them up with false hope.
(and I didn't mean to post anon the first time....odd)
Article- "Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won't let the company release it because it competes with Apple's own Safari browser"
Slashdot- "So what. It's their phone, they can do whatever they want. No one ever said the iPhone would run every app. Uncle Steve is just acting in our best interests"
But what if......
Article- "Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Windows Mobile, but Microsoft won't let the company release it because it competes with Microsoft's own IE browser"
Slashdot- "Christ on a cracker! Is there no end to their greed? Apple would never do anything like this! It's my phone! I bought it! I should be able to do whatever I want with it! Information wants to be free! "
That's why I just come here for the girlies....the discussion has just become way too predictable :)
Crikey Moses!
Don't bite your arm off, I was just trying to pinch up some easy peasy karma. No need to throw a wobbly.
I was just trying to take the piss, no need to throw a spanner in the works.
(Glad I didn't make the "obviously a greatly disproportional CCTV camera to dentist ratio" joke I was considering)
I'll give the 'ol research a welly next time so as to not appear such a wanker and we can all stay mates.
Cheers!
So, there's nothing like this going on in the UK? I'm hoping you meant the university of Kentucky, because another place with the same initials has quite a different opinion on the matter.....
From news.bbc.co.uk....
"Britain is 'surveillance society'"
"There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people - making it one of the most watched places on earth."
"CCTV in Britain's streets can trace its genesis back to a limited system set up for the Queen's coronation in 1953. By the 1960s there was permanent CCTV in some London streets. Now there are an estimated four million cameras in the country, viewing us as many as 300 times a day."
"Digital CCTV systems can be configured to use face-recognition and look for criminal suspects."
"An estimated £500m of public money has been spent on installing CCTV in the last decade."
"Cameras that could recognises the registration plates on suspect vehicles were first used to track IRA suspects in London. Now the technology is used for speed cameras, traffic enforcement cameras and in London's congestion charging zone."
"A massively growing area of surveillance technology is radio frequency ID tags...Perhaps the most controversial use of RFID to date in the UK was in 2003 when an RFID tracking system was used in the packaging of Gillette Mach3 razor blades to stop shoplifting at one of Tesco's Cambridge branches. Anyone picking up a packet of the blades triggered CCTV surveillance of themselves in the store."
"It is illegal not to register to vote in this country, although many people choose not to for various reasons and avoid punishment.
The result of registration is the electoral roll - a public record of where each voter lives that has proved a goldmine to junk-mail firms, marketing people and journalists over the years...The electoral roll provides a history of every place you have ever lived. Choose not to register and you will struggle to get even the smallest amount of credit."
Wow! Sign me up for life in this privacy utopia you call the UK. :)
That was just the BBC....don't even get me started on this documentary I saw called "V for Vendetta".....
I hate to use all facts from an article, this being Slashdot and all, but I just didn't feel like doing the heavy lifting tonight.
NOW do you see why we call everything we do a "beta"? Sheesh! Your Friend, Google
Well...the most infamous example of those who thought they were "one step ahead".... "Game Over" They appeared right before the Super Bowl a few years ago...
Christ on a cracker. Every where you go. a tourist. Just head down ulista aTrucka until you come down to old broken down building, make right. Pass statue of great leader Stalin an make left. If you see line for toilet wiper paper, you go to far. Pick up front of Trabaunt and turn around. Look for bear on unicycle but don't stare at the bandages on his feet. Should be right across from old woman who sells the egg people with smaller egg people inside them and yet smaller egg people inside them- I never understood these things. If you still don't see, got to McDonalds where they are giving free tickets and Coke fries to peoples who wear their logo but not steal the salt shakers.
Dude, this is Slashdot. If you want anyone here to attend, you better change that.... "You're all invited to my end of the world LANparty tonight. Mt Dew and pr0n will be served."
depends... Does person 1 say "SYN" before each statement and person 2 say "ACK" before their response?
Not to doubt this study, but I think it must depend heavily on the technology of the reader itself. As a diabetic that pricks their finger often, I can tell you that the "dots" that appear on the fingerprint image (more on the electronic ones than the ink ones) have messed up my acces at more than one client. This includes a good deal of banking and Federal clients. My FBI background check has been rejected electronically at multiple clients and they requested ink prints because of the "dots" left by my finger "pricks". There's a new one for anyone thinking of a life of crime...don't painfully shave off your fingerprints (doesn't always work anyway), just get a job with an expense account, travel frequently, and gain 50 lbs in a year. Sure, you risk blindness, but you get new fingerprints every day :P
(sure, or you could just wear gloves)
Quick piece of advice. FIOS availability can differ by neighborhood. Just because they are rolling it our in your city or neighborhood, you may not be able to get it. I know that's not the future state plan, but right now, both my neighboring divisions can get it while we cannot (even though they dug up our yards with no notice and planted weed filled grass seeds of all varieties in its place). Even though we have the equipment and the others have availability, we are being told "maybe December". Also, the services offered are varied as well. Not to digress, but they also cut our communities sprinkler systems (and refused to fix or pay to fix even though it was clearly marked), cut our Time-Warner and copper (ATT/Bell South) feeds (ok, maybe that was on purpose,)killed multiple trees, etc. And not to diss trailer parks, but this is no trailer park. The average house goes for 600-800k (not high in NYC or Boston proper, but down south here that buys a pretty nice place). We have had a pretty big fight with them over the past few months over just who's responsible for what.
The "coolest" gadget on the list (also basically the one thats not a phone) isn't "available" in Asia either- unless you work for the lab that is working on it. The IR learning robot "is nesting in Toshiba's research labs, awaiting its first solo flight". Heck, I bet we have some cool stuff nesting in our labs here that you can't buy in Asia yet either.
We aren't testing OpenDNS, we are testing TW's DNS "typo service". Didn't mean to imply that we were testing OpenDNS.
We have researched this here in Charlotte, NC. I don't think its opting-out by IP address- I think it's going by the cable modem MAC. The reason is, users we checked with are only able to opt out if they have a TW/road Runner cable modem (rented from TW/RR). Those who own their own modem and placed it on the TW/RR network can opt-out, but the re-directing still occurs. Seems to be specific with either a config file placed on the TW/RR modem or the MAC address of the modem itself.
We are still doing tests (it just started here in Charlotte yesterday).
Another change over the past few days is that newsgroup access has been halved (connections) from 8 to 4.
Don't worry, I bought one too. And I will call it an "Upconverting DVD" player when people ask. And it really does help the picture of native DVD (not as much as a processor/scaler I use in the media room, but it does great directly tied to the LR TV).
I really thought it was the superior format. And that the general public (the non-tech general public) would see two terms they know, "HD" and "DVD" and think it was a natural progression.
Luckily, I had accidentally hedged my bets by purchasing a PS3. And if/when the masses catch up to BR (like they have a choice now?), I'll get a stand alone player as the prices come down.
They are now called "Upconverting DVD players". And I hear they are all the rage these days. Didn't you read the fliers in todays paper?
From Motley Fool and other select websites...
"So far this year, Ford's North American business has lost more than $1.4 billion and the cash reserves dwindled to $19.6 billion from $21.8 billion in the third quarter, according to the company's financial report."
"The red ink in the third quarter included a $1.2 billion loss by the company's North American operations, the company reported. So far this year U.S. sales of Ford vehicles are down 1.3 percent, despite a massive discount program that helped clear inventory of unsold vehicles."
Hmmm...
1. Make cars deemed as inferior to their import counterparts
2. Use unions that add about $1500.00 overhead to each car in pensions and health care
3. ??????
4. Profit!
I am guessing number 3 should be "piss off those who actually bought our cars by refusing to let them take pictures of them".
Then again, I majored in engineering, not business.
Well, surfing through archive.org shows that IFPI.com has been home to not only the real IFPI (briefly), but also to several cybersquatters and a few bloggers. They (the real IFPI) didn't do much about it then. Of course they may make a little more noise about TPB hosting pro-piracy material on it.
Honestly, I don't see the big deal about this...several other similar sites come to mind...whitehouse.com for example. I understood when this story hit the front page of Digg, but Slashdot?
What about ThePirateBay off-shoot Kopime (pardon if that is misspelled, it's blocked here at work and I can't check)? Doesn't their site feature a nude boy dancing on the front page? It's rather harmless but it is a fully exposed male child in many "scenes" of the animated picture.
Also, when the submission/article mentions filtering, I took it as ISP level network filtering sanctioned by the police/government- is that incorrect?
All the "+1's" I have let go in waste over the years and whenever there is a good post, I have no props to give.
How about a "bravo" for now and a "IOU"?
True. But at least the author of the article checked those two links first!
Launcy.net, not Launchy.com. Launchy.com is a domain parker.
(just teasing...I's as simple misktake. You have a very informative list)