I might have been able to guess what GnomeMeeting did. I would have guessed that it was perhaps a collaborative whiteboard tool, perhaps with a dose of voice-chat built in. I'd bet it worked in Gnome.
I would have no bloody clue what a Skype is if the article hadn't mentioned it was VOIP. I'm sure it means something really appropriate in Sanskrit or something. How very clever.
And so, another project winds up with a useless name and they get to wonder why nobody uses their product, because folks see "Skype" and have no idea that it does exactly what they need, where GnomeMeeting might've hinted that at leas
I have a brother who is marred and has 2 kids between the ages of 12 and 15. Those kids killed his last computer, unwittingly installing all sorts of nonsense when they downloaded games and graphics. That was on a Windows 98 machine which, as hard as I tried, simply could not secure or revive from all of the trojan horses and malware that had infected it.
Wayne_Knight (958917)
this sounds familiar... from here: I have a brother who is marred and has 2 kids between the ages of 12-15. Those kids killed his last computer, unwittingly installing all sorts of nonsense when they downloaded games and graphics. That was on a Win98 SP2 machine which, as hard as I tried, I simply could not secure or revive from all of the trojans and malware that had infected it. tokengeekgrrl (105602)
I am calling astroturf on these shens.
1. Get story posted on slashdot 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!
step 2? Its actually post a dupe of the story and astroturf the comments section.
I expect this extension will also improve my research efforts, as I wont spend as much time vetting through useless sites.
with siteadvisor my son now has a 4.0 grade point average!
with siteadvisor nobody went to disreputable* sites, so only major commercial sites and personal blogs exist now!!!
(*sites that did not pay for a good rating)
with siteadvisor, millions of puppies were saved!
You can have ALL this for only $49.99! Operators are waiting to take YOUR CALL right now!
Oh wait! this is NOT going to fix the problems with malware. Seriously, this just sends every URL you go to to the siteadvisor servers, and checks to see if they are "okay" as dictated by a specific corporation with no accountability. it wouldn't surprise me if this WAS the next generation of malware. Hidden right in plain sight.
Wow, wouldn't it be great if some OS allowed people to give their kids accounts with limited rights? You know so they couldn't screw up an entire install? I don't mean like what BSD, Linux or Mac can do.
Oh wait, yes I do.
Yes, and how does one "kill" a computer? The worst that you can do is corrupt your OS and force a reinstall. The grandparent post sounds like blatant astroturfing for SiteAdvisor.
In fact, the whole story does.
Are they hoping to make money off of hyping "unsafe websites" like Norton and McAfee have with "unsafe programs"?
So what? you're mormon and brainwashed and don't want people knowing about the seekrit parts of your religion?
My post was truthful, and i don't really care what you think. Shouldn't you be singing songs about a 14 year old con man who ended up marrying 33 women (most of which were underage when he started having sex with them, not to mention the fact that he secretly married them, and then "revealed" the "doctrine" of polygamy after he had been found out... even this godbabbling doesn't explain why he was marrying the wives of men who were "patriarchs")
The entire religion is based on a work of bible fanfiction written by this "holy man" who died in a gun battle.
I bet you're thinking, "oh! what a terrible person! why is he anti-mormon." You'll reject what I write because it contradicts what you have been force-fed all your life. Like the cartoons of the ostrich, you find it much easier to stick your head in the sand and ignore things that contradict your worldview.
follow my example, please, question your beliefs. If it was truth, it would stand up to scrutiny - instead you're told to have faith, dont question it... or you may end up... LIKE ME OMG
a guy on slashdot spouting mormon apologia does not exonerate the religion.
They think that Native Americans are jews who were evil, so god made them darkies, for fucks sakes.
I know, I was dragged to their church as a teenager, when I started to question things they responded with "have faith!" to which I eventually realized everyone in that church is full of shit.
They brainwash their children into thinking that anything that opposes their twisted worldview is "antimormon", so they develop a defense against even THINKING about questioning their beliefs.
Then they tell everyone to pay 10% of their gross income to the church, or else they will "burn" when Jesus comes back (to save Mormons and burn sinners (aka anyone not mormon/paying ransom from the burning, you dig?). They funnel this money, tax free to Utah, where they spend it on a bunch of rich white men to jet around the world proclaiming that "you need to be saved , send us money!".
Frankly, they're one run above scientology in the sleaze-o-meter.
It seems that the only secure mannner to communicate is whispering so that no one can hear what is being said.... very low tech!
As usual, there is a high tech solution for this, and it has been around for some time, but this solution is really only popular amongst secret agents. I like to keep secrets safe from prying ears, that is why i refuse to speak to anyone about anything important unless we are under a cone of silence.
I submitted this story (with download links in it) and more information about the widgets, but it got rejected (Monday February 06, @11:46PM, and again Tuesday February 07, @01:34PM). I wonder why this one got accepted, I was beginning to think that because it didn't mention Firefox or Google it was never going to get published. PR1 of Opera 9.0 was rejected in a similar fashion when that was released.
Here was the text, with bonus download links!
Opera Software has released the second preview edition of their next generation browser, codenamed Merlin. Some of the highlights include Widgets (including ones that let you read the latest Slashdot stories, or the lastest Bash.org quotes, calculator, etc), integrated Bittorrent, thumbnail preview for tabs, and the ability to "Block Content", which lets you remove items from a website. Download for Windows, Mac, and Unix.
AOL on the Mac uses Mozilla to render pages. AOL on Windows uses IE to do the same thing.
if you want to see AOLfox, look at Netscape 8. *shudder*
The only good thing that AOL has done is to open source the Mozilla codebase. The hands off approach is the only thing that saved Mozilla.
Does anyone know if they fixed the chatzilla bug?
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SeaMonkey 1.0 Released
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I keep running into a chatzilla bug where it uses up 100% CPU until you quit the chat portion of the browser, and it gets you disconnected due to "Excess Flood" from servers, even if you dont type anything in. It got me banned from an IRC server a couple days ago... but I was running 1.0B, any word as to if that is fixed?
IMHO, their response should not have been "No, we will not give you that information." it should have been, "No, we do not record that information." I've been using Yahoo's streamlined search at http://search.yahoo.com/ now for the last two months, but this alone would be enough to make me switch if I hadn't already. I loathe MSN's search, but I've found Yahoo's to be nice enough that I just never enable cookies.
so your search results were probably already given to the feds, as yahoo and MSN and aol complied with the fed's request to them.
Dont enable cookies on google, and noone will have a record of your searches, not google, not the feds. With yahoo... you can't be too sure.
but hey! Yahoo isn't getting any press about compromising your privacy, so they must not be doing anything wrong, compared to that EVIL GOOGLE FOR STANDING UP TO AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL ORDER. Those bastards! If you excuse me, I am going to use search.gov.cn from now on.
it has been widely speculated that Nintendo would release an upgraded version in the future with an analog stick.
Yeah because nothing makes your fanbase happier than forcing them not only to upgrade, but to BUY A WHOLE NEW CONSOLE. Not to mention it would be useless in the games that were released BEFORE the analog stick model came out. Either way, you're not going to be playing Mario64 any differently on the new machine.
It does NOT make sense to include an analog stick. It is nothing like including a backlit screen. It is more like when Sega released an upgrade that hooked into the Genesis.
Hey guys the 32x was awesome! How many people had one hooked into their Genesis? None? Oh.
Dont copy and paste a link to a site after every post you make. Use the signature function of slashdot. That way people who dont want to see your spam can turn signatures off.
pasting it in there merely pisses people off who turn off signatures.
Certainly so, if it was big enough to carry the kid off -- we're talking about a 2-4 year old toddler -- it would have to be a LOTR-size eagle. Maybe Gandalf called in an airstrike?
You are ignoring an important possibility: Supposing two birds carried the kid off, together? They could just use a strand of creeper to do that!
What about the emperor of the Moon?!
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Return to the Moon
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I think I speak for all Slashdotters when I say:
I have ridden the mighty moon worm!
I think we should let the Moon people self govern.
Anti-Spyware Coalition, whose members include Microsoft, Symantec...
This is a joke, right?
Now if Sony and Claria were involved, then we would have a REAL anti-spyware coalition. You should write them a letter, as the people who know most about spyware should be involved in defining it. Well, you can probably leave Sony out, as they already have Symantec, which is also a company that installs rootkits on people's computer.
Norton Antivirus 2006: Pay for malware that you can get it for free!
If you're going to put a link to your website on every post, put it in your signature. That is what they are for. That way people like me can filter out your spam by disabling sigs.
If you are pasting it on the end of every post, I will consider it as spam, and kindly tell you to fuck off.
Hey now. As a fan of Christian rock you really shouldn't shortchange by lumping it all with Stryper, Petra and Creed. blah blah blah If you are a fan of music at all, do yourself a favor and find these bands' works
Hey now, As a fan of music, you really shouldnt shortchange it by lumping it in with Christian rock.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I agree that just repeating what the parent said merits a +3 Funny...
Look before you mod, people.
I'm on Ubuntu right now, and when I right-click the GNOME menu and click "edit menus", it brings up a "Menu Editor", which is... ba dum! SMEG.
So Ubuntu is using GNOME's menu editor, and it is fine. I just wish I could select it from anywhere in the menu, not just the menu button. Oh well.
Look, the name does not matter as much as the Branding.
Firefox, or even Opera. Much less descriptive than INTERNET EXPLORER (something you use to explore the internets).
GNOME. KDE. Linux. What the hell are these things? Do they display windows on a computer????
Google? What does that do? Yahoo? What ?
Skype was chosen because the domain was available, as long as the software is solid you shouldn't have a problem with the name.
I might have been able to guess what GnomeMeeting did. I would have guessed that it was perhaps a collaborative whiteboard tool, perhaps with a dose of voice-chat built in. I'd bet it worked in Gnome.
I would have no bloody clue what a Skype is if the article hadn't mentioned it was VOIP. I'm sure it means something really appropriate in Sanskrit or something. How very clever.
And so, another project winds up with a useless name and they get to wonder why nobody uses their product, because folks see "Skype" and have no idea that it does exactly what they need, where GnomeMeeting might've hinted that at leas
Claws. Hair on your claws.
Also, people who are talking about eating this thing, do you really want to have death of such a beautiful creature on your claws?
Man, I am really loving KDE 3.5 and cant wait for KDE4 to show up.
Love it or hate it, you have to be impressed with what they're doing.
I have a brother who is marred and has 2 kids between the ages of 12 and 15. Those kids killed his last computer, unwittingly installing all sorts of nonsense when they downloaded games and graphics. That was on a Windows 98 machine which, as hard as I tried, simply could not secure or revive from all of the trojan horses and malware that had infected it.
Wayne_Knight (958917)
this sounds familiar...
from here:
I have a brother who is marred and has 2 kids between the ages of 12-15. Those kids killed his last computer, unwittingly installing all sorts of nonsense when they downloaded games and graphics. That was on a Win98 SP2 machine which, as hard as I tried, I simply could not secure or revive from all of the trojans and malware that had infected it.
tokengeekgrrl (105602)
I am calling astroturf on these shens.
1. Get story posted on slashdot
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
step 2? Its actually post a dupe of the story and astroturf the comments section.
I expect this extension will also improve my research efforts, as I wont spend as much time vetting through useless sites.
with siteadvisor my son now has a 4.0 grade point average!
with siteadvisor nobody went to disreputable* sites, so only major commercial sites and personal blogs exist now!!!
(*sites that did not pay for a good rating)
with siteadvisor, millions of puppies were saved!
You can have ALL this for only $49.99! Operators are waiting to take YOUR CALL right now!
Oh wait! this is NOT going to fix the problems with malware. Seriously, this just sends every URL you go to to the siteadvisor servers, and checks to see if they are "okay" as dictated by a specific corporation with no accountability. it wouldn't surprise me if this WAS the next generation of malware. Hidden right in plain sight.
Wow, wouldn't it be great if some OS allowed people to give their kids accounts with limited rights? You know so they couldn't screw up an entire install? I don't mean like what BSD, Linux or Mac can do.
Oh wait, yes I do.
Yes, and how does one "kill" a computer? The worst that you can do is corrupt your OS and force a reinstall. The grandparent post sounds like blatant astroturfing for SiteAdvisor.
In fact, the whole story does.
Are they hoping to make money off of hyping "unsafe websites" like Norton and McAfee have with "unsafe programs"?
So what? you're mormon and brainwashed and don't want people knowing about the seekrit parts of your religion?
My post was truthful, and i don't really care what you think. Shouldn't you be singing songs about a 14 year old con man who ended up marrying 33 women (most of which were underage when he started having sex with them, not to mention the fact that he secretly married them, and then "revealed" the "doctrine" of polygamy after he had been found out... even this godbabbling doesn't explain why he was marrying the wives of men who were "patriarchs")
The entire religion is based on a work of bible fanfiction written by this "holy man" who died in a gun battle.
I bet you're thinking, "oh! what a terrible person! why is he anti-mormon." You'll reject what I write because it contradicts what you have been force-fed all your life. Like the cartoons of the ostrich, you find it much easier to stick your head in the sand and ignore things that contradict your worldview.
follow my example, please, question your beliefs. If it was truth, it would stand up to scrutiny - instead you're told to have faith, dont question it... or you may end up... LIKE ME OMG
a guy on slashdot spouting mormon apologia does not exonerate the religion.
They think that Native Americans are jews who were evil, so god made them darkies, for fucks sakes.
I know, I was dragged to their church as a teenager, when I started to question things they responded with "have faith!" to which I eventually realized everyone in that church is full of shit.
They brainwash their children into thinking that anything that opposes their twisted worldview is "antimormon", so they develop a defense against even THINKING about questioning their beliefs.
Then they tell everyone to pay 10% of their gross income to the church, or else they will "burn" when Jesus comes back (to save Mormons and burn sinners (aka anyone not mormon/paying ransom from the burning, you dig?). They funnel this money, tax free to Utah, where they spend it on a bunch of rich white men to jet around the world proclaiming that "you need to be saved , send us money!".
Frankly, they're one run above scientology in the sleaze-o-meter.
In short! Fuck mormons.
As usual, there is a high tech solution for this, and it has been around for some time, but this solution is really only popular amongst secret agents. I like to keep secrets safe from prying ears, that is why i refuse to speak to anyone about anything important unless we are under a cone of silence.
Here was the text, with bonus download links!
AOL on the Mac uses Mozilla to render pages. AOL on Windows uses IE to do the same thing.
if you want to see AOLfox, look at Netscape 8. *shudder*
The only good thing that AOL has done is to open source the Mozilla codebase. The hands off approach is the only thing that saved Mozilla.
I keep running into a chatzilla bug where it uses up 100% CPU until you quit the chat portion of the browser, and it gets you disconnected due to "Excess Flood" from servers, even if you dont type anything in. It got me banned from an IRC server a couple days ago... but I was running 1.0B, any word as to if that is fixed?
IMHO, their response should not have been "No, we will not give you that information." it should have been, "No, we do not record that information." I've been using Yahoo's streamlined search at http://search.yahoo.com/ now for the last two months, but this alone would be enough to make me switch if I hadn't already. I loathe MSN's search, but I've found Yahoo's to be nice enough that I just never enable cookies.
so your search results were probably already given to the feds, as yahoo and MSN and aol complied with the fed's request to them.
Dont enable cookies on google, and noone will have a record of your searches, not google, not the feds. With yahoo... you can't be too sure.
but hey! Yahoo isn't getting any press about compromising your privacy, so they must not be doing anything wrong, compared to that EVIL GOOGLE FOR STANDING UP TO AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL ORDER. Those bastards! If you excuse me, I am going to use search.gov.cn from now on.
it has been widely speculated that Nintendo would release an upgraded version in the future with an analog stick.
Yeah because nothing makes your fanbase happier than forcing them not only to upgrade, but to BUY A WHOLE NEW CONSOLE. Not to mention it would be useless in the games that were released BEFORE the analog stick model came out. Either way, you're not going to be playing Mario64 any differently on the new machine.
It does NOT make sense to include an analog stick. It is nothing like including a backlit screen. It is more like when Sega released an upgrade that hooked into the Genesis.
Hey guys the 32x was awesome! How many people had one hooked into their Genesis? None? Oh.
Wow! People were right, they really changed the branding of IE6, and man is it full of bugs! Look at how much RAM it uses!
Maybe you should check out IE8.5, you can get it here.
Dont copy and paste a link to a site after every post you make. Use the signature function of slashdot. That way people who dont want to see your spam can turn signatures off.
pasting it in there merely pisses people off who turn off signatures.
Certainly so, if it was big enough to carry the kid off -- we're talking about a 2-4 year old toddler -- it would have to be a LOTR-size eagle. Maybe Gandalf called in an airstrike?
You are ignoring an important possibility: Supposing two birds carried the kid off, together? They could just use a strand of creeper to do that!
I think I speak for all Slashdotters when I say:
I have ridden the mighty moon worm!
I think we should let the Moon people self govern.
This is a joke, right?
Now if Sony and Claria were involved, then we would have a REAL anti-spyware coalition. You should write them a letter, as the people who know most about spyware should be involved in defining it. Well, you can probably leave Sony out, as they already have Symantec, which is also a company that installs rootkits on people's computer.
Norton Antivirus 2006: Pay for malware that you can get it for free!
If you're going to put a link to your website on every post, put it in your signature. That is what they are for. That way people like me can filter out your spam by disabling sigs.
If you are pasting it on the end of every post, I will consider it as spam, and kindly tell you to fuck off.
Hey now. As a fan of Christian rock you really shouldn't shortchange by lumping it all with Stryper, Petra and Creed. blah blah blah If you are a fan of music at all, do yourself a favor and find these bands' works
Hey now, As a fan of music, you really shouldnt shortchange it by lumping it in with Christian rock.
I'm sure they think that it will go down like this:
1. "ooh a Mac laptop reliability survey! *click*"
2. "what where did it go... *slashdot opens up* oooh shiny!"
3. BANDWIDTH IS SAVED / GO TO STEP 1